PR is a US colony; to which “them” are you referring?

What language is this comment in? I have no idea what you’re saying.

Why is having a lot of Spanish indicative of an “us vs. them” world? I think that’s your framing there, bud.

Yes, it's so full of murderers here in the U.K. I'm thinking of moving to America. I hear a place called Cabot Cove is nice.

Ducky was obviously fleeing the murder rate in his native land. If television is to be believed, Britain’s dwindling population consists largely of murderers and detectives.

Seriously, even in his dotage the man just oozed charisma.

Yes, to give the movie credit, it try to justify his accent. Which is more than most movies featuring Connery which just rolled with it.

His character was an immigrant from Scotland.

With his two marriages as attestation.  Dude pulled down a couple of lookers.

Even better was when they’d bust into a room and yell “NCIS!!” yet no one was like “...who???  Is that supposed to mean something?”

I did the math once, and I can’t remember exactly but using a conservative estimate of the murder cases all the teams deal with, you would be 4-6 times more likely to be murdered just by joining the Navy.

(NCIS is a civilian agency)

I’m sure he was having a good time with the role, but once you got past the obvious “why is there a goth chick in the goddamned Navy” question, there was always the “why is a darling old Britisher who looks like he got sprung from a P.G. Wodehouse novel the M.E. on an American armed-forces cop show?” issue

Have you seen the Sean Connery film The Presidio (1988) in which Connery, accent and all, plays a US army Lt. Colonel? (Yes, I know he also played a Soviet sub captain in the better known The Hunt for Red October, but there at least you can argue that he wasn’t “really” speaking in his Scottish accent but rather in…

Now that is a possibility. And to be clear, they are Navy personnel, I was just drawing the distinction between sailors and regular Feds because “in the Navy” implies the former.

Dammit, YouTube.

The goth chick was not in the Navy. NCIS is part of the Department of the Navy, but its agents and civilian employees are not military personnel. Same goes for Dr. Mallard.

I enjoyed the moment in NCIS where somebody asked Gibbs what Ducky looked like when he was younger, and Gibbs replies “Ilya Kuryakin”. A subtle nod to the fact that McCallum was a much bigger sex symbol than Harmon ever was.

None of the obituaries are mentioning one of his first film roles - Violent Playground. Imagine if Blackboard Jungle had been set in pre-Beatles Liverpool and had starred James Dean.