plot-bunny: NCIS/Highlander
May. 30th, 2009 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marblegloveI have recently become absolutely enthralled with the TV show NCIS. It's Naval Criminal Investigatory Service, so military police drama, and all the characters in it are real characters.
I have this image of Amanda, the immortal thief, somehow getting involved with them, sometime when Kate is working for NCIS. Kate would be all sympathetic with whatever story Amanda was telling and would warn Tony off from skirt-chasing the poor innocent Amanda. Tony would tease Kate about Amanda being just his type (lovely, long-legged, buxom, female...) until he got a good look at her face at which point he'd say, "never mind. I'm not going near her without a marine guard. And probably not then."
This is far enough out of character that everyone looks at him. "What? I spent two weeks under review in Philadelphia after an undercover op completely failed to catch her in the act. Don't you guys recognize her? That's Amanda. The Amanda. The current Amanda of the line of Amanda's that Interpol has been tracking since before they were Interpol."
Kate would be all, "but... she's all... innocent..."
Tony, "not in this universe."
And Gibbs would give that smile that he sometimes does and start walking off towards wherever Amanda is, "this I have to see."
At this point, I'm not sure if Ducky is an immortal himself or if he happens to know about immortals or if he's completely unaware of them, but I think he and Amanda get along beautifully together and trade stories and actually listen to each other's stories.
The more I think of the cross-over, though, the more complex the plot gets.
Becuase it could be an issue that simply has Amanda as a witness or bystander and that's that. But I am more inclined to the idea that Methos is trying to do something big (Possibly steal a nuclear submarine, he's not evil, he just likes to be prepared for all eventualities, and you never know when you might need a nuclear submarine or some other esoteric Navy item. Possibly infiltrate the military dna database so that immortals are harder to track down. Possibly some nameless task that is just really, really important and difficult.) Normally, he would do whatever it is that he needs to do and leave very little evidence behind, and that would be that. However, NCIS and Gibbs' team in particular has become very good at figuring things out on very little evidence.
So, rather than merely leave very little evidence, he decides that the best way to remain hidden is to bury what evidence is inevitable in a massive amount of other evidence. So he calls in some favors and grants some other favors and suddenly Ducky is distracted by the fact that his morgue has lost a body ("Bodies don't just walk out of my morgue, Jethro!"), there's a terrorist cell that makes an attack ("This doesn't make sense, Director. I would swear that I broke them in interogation, but the intel they had... it looks like they were set up, not us."), and evidence of a sailor was left behind at a major diamond heist ("the theif got in, without setting off any alarms, successfully avoids giving the camera any glimpse of her face, and yet wears a naval uniform? That's just weird.")
It would be an absolute mess, with everyone in NCIS working their tails off trying to figure out how and why all of these cases are hitting them at once and how and why they all seem to be interconnected.
Amanda has red hair at this point and gets away with lots of flirting with everyone and a fair number of diamonds into the bargain, Methos who never actually appears in person in the story gets whatever it was that he was actually trying to do, and the NCIS guys deal with various terrorists and bad guys. And are possibly mailed a diamond or two later letting them know that Amanda didn't die in her escape.
I have this image of Amanda, the immortal thief, somehow getting involved with them, sometime when Kate is working for NCIS. Kate would be all sympathetic with whatever story Amanda was telling and would warn Tony off from skirt-chasing the poor innocent Amanda. Tony would tease Kate about Amanda being just his type (lovely, long-legged, buxom, female...) until he got a good look at her face at which point he'd say, "never mind. I'm not going near her without a marine guard. And probably not then."
This is far enough out of character that everyone looks at him. "What? I spent two weeks under review in Philadelphia after an undercover op completely failed to catch her in the act. Don't you guys recognize her? That's Amanda. The Amanda. The current Amanda of the line of Amanda's that Interpol has been tracking since before they were Interpol."
Kate would be all, "but... she's all... innocent..."
Tony, "not in this universe."
And Gibbs would give that smile that he sometimes does and start walking off towards wherever Amanda is, "this I have to see."
At this point, I'm not sure if Ducky is an immortal himself or if he happens to know about immortals or if he's completely unaware of them, but I think he and Amanda get along beautifully together and trade stories and actually listen to each other's stories.
The more I think of the cross-over, though, the more complex the plot gets.
Becuase it could be an issue that simply has Amanda as a witness or bystander and that's that. But I am more inclined to the idea that Methos is trying to do something big (Possibly steal a nuclear submarine, he's not evil, he just likes to be prepared for all eventualities, and you never know when you might need a nuclear submarine or some other esoteric Navy item. Possibly infiltrate the military dna database so that immortals are harder to track down. Possibly some nameless task that is just really, really important and difficult.) Normally, he would do whatever it is that he needs to do and leave very little evidence behind, and that would be that. However, NCIS and Gibbs' team in particular has become very good at figuring things out on very little evidence.
So, rather than merely leave very little evidence, he decides that the best way to remain hidden is to bury what evidence is inevitable in a massive amount of other evidence. So he calls in some favors and grants some other favors and suddenly Ducky is distracted by the fact that his morgue has lost a body ("Bodies don't just walk out of my morgue, Jethro!"), there's a terrorist cell that makes an attack ("This doesn't make sense, Director. I would swear that I broke them in interogation, but the intel they had... it looks like they were set up, not us."), and evidence of a sailor was left behind at a major diamond heist ("the theif got in, without setting off any alarms, successfully avoids giving the camera any glimpse of her face, and yet wears a naval uniform? That's just weird.")
It would be an absolute mess, with everyone in NCIS working their tails off trying to figure out how and why all of these cases are hitting them at once and how and why they all seem to be interconnected.
Amanda has red hair at this point and gets away with lots of flirting with everyone and a fair number of diamonds into the bargain, Methos who never actually appears in person in the story gets whatever it was that he was actually trying to do, and the NCIS guys deal with various terrorists and bad guys. And are possibly mailed a diamond or two later letting them know that Amanda didn't die in her escape.
