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Testament
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After calling it a day at NCIS, Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David had settled into a relatively quiet, even peaceful life. Tony heads a security company called Salus. Ziva runs a language school and attends therapy to overcome her PTSD. And despite the on-again, off-again nature of their relationship, Tony and Ziva successfully co-parent their daughter, Tali, in Paris.
But their life doesn’t stay peaceful for long.
On a mission with Salus, Tony and his colleague Claudette obtain a dangerous hacking device known as 9.4, which, according to Tony, “could crash national economies.” The device was already instrumental in stealing a large sum of money from the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), and Interpol entrusted 9.4 to Tony so he could discover who designed and deployed it.
Before he can investigate the device, a mysterious group infiltrates Salus, steals 9.4 and uses it to blackmail a hospital into transferring 115 million euros to them.
But as Tony and Ziva attempt to retrieve the device and bring the thieves to justice, Claudette informs them that the 115 million stolen euros are now in Tony’s bank account. With such incriminating evidence, Tony and Ziva must evade arrest from Interpol while searching for the people who framed them.
If they can clear their names and catch the culprits, perhaps Tony and Ziva will be able to return to their peaceful life in Paris with Tali.
Like the other NCIS iterations, NCIS: Tony & Ziva involves physical altercations, shootouts and car chases. Characters punch, kick and shoot their foes and get punched, kicked and shot in return, resulting in blood and bruising. Also, Ziva is recovering from PTSD, which occasionally causes her to remember traumatic incidents from the past.
While Tony and Ziva claim they’re not in any kind of romantic relationship, the two characters clearly have some sexual tension between them. And that may lead to sexual encounters in later episodes.
The show earns its TV-MA rating primarily due to its use of language—a result, presumably, of the show landing on the streaming service Paramount+, instead of the standard NCIS home of CBS. Throughout the series, characters occasionally employ harsh profanity including the f-word, s-word, “h—” and “b–ch.” Misuses of God’s name are also uttered.
Compared to the myriad of other crime shows out there, NCIS: Tony & Ziva is probably in the middle of the “concerning content spectrum”—if there were such a thing. The violence isn’t nearly as disturbing as shows like Criminal Minds. But it isn’t as tame as the original Law & Order, either.
Still, if you’re hungry for yet another iteration of NCIS and would love to hear more bad language, Paramount+’s NCIS: Tony & Ziva is likely exactly what you’d expect from the franchise.
(Editor’s Note: Plugged In is rarely able to watch every episode of a given series for review. As such, there’s always a chance that you might see a problem that we didn’t. If you notice content that you feel should be included in our review, send us an email at letters@pluggedin.com, or contact us via Facebook or Instagram, and be sure to let us know the episode number, title and season so that we can check it out.)
Tony and Ziva’s peaceful lives get thrown into chaos when a mysterious group threatens to harm their daughter and attempts to steal a hacking device known as 9.4.
A character runs from law enforcement agents in a car chase, and he nearly hits pedestrians. Someone pushes a table into a person, causing him to fall. An organization threatens to harm Tony’s 12-year-old daughter. A man and woman fight: The woman throws the man into a glass table, which shatters. The man punches the woman. Someone shoots a gun at a man and grazes his body with the bullet.
Characters use profanity including three uses of the f-word, one use of the s-word, two uses of “g–d–n,” one use of “b–ch,” three uses of “h—,” one use of “a–” and misuses of God’s name. A character speaks to a statue of Jesus saying, “You don’t count” because “you see everything.” Someone makes a slight reference to male anatomy.
Characters share a bottle of wine.
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