TL;DR – An incredibly contrived episode, but with some surprising moments of fun.

Disclosure – I paid for the Paramount+ service that viewed this series.

NCIS: Sydney Review –

While this season of NCIS Sydney has been chiefly okay so far, last week’s Doggieccino Day Afternoon was the first time I was very concerned that they might not be able to pull this off. Thus, it is with some trepidation that start this episode about gym-bros and the things they keep in their back rooms.

So to set the scene, we open as a dude (Michael Jupp) is skulking around taking photos of chemical labels when he gets spooked. He tried to play it cool as he walked through the gym to the outside world, but he got rumbled and had to run. A couple of hits by a car and a slide down a hill later, he had almost escaped onto a bus when he falls to the floor dead, and we discover that the dude has an American Naval jacket. But more than that, it might be that one of the team knows our John Doe. We will be looking at the episode as a whole from here, so there will be some [SPOILERS] ahead.    

This week, we get to delve into the ever-popular ‘undercover cop’ episode when we discover that Evie Cooper (Tuuli Narkle) had a past before joining the team. How we got the specific set of circumstances that would involve a long-out-of-the-game undercover officer being dragged back in might be some of the most contrived the show has gotten so far. It involves Cooper being negligent and acting suss, even though no one bought it and DeShawn (Sean Sagar) holding onto critical information well past even the unwritten partner code would have lapsed. But while getting us there was a bit of a slog, once we were there, it was pretty interesting.

Of course, for them to work out the answer in this episode, you need to ignore the fact that it makes Interpol, the US Justice Department, and multiple Australian Federal agencies negligent with their jobs, but that is the territory you need to go to in shows like this. For the Australian audience, they probably picked who the real double agent was from the second Matt Nable made an appearance. But if that meant we got to have him and Mackey (Olivia Swann) hand-to-hand brawling in a room because they can’t use their guns because of accelerant, well then who am I to complain?

In the end, do we recommend NCIS: Sydney – Extraction? Look, this was a very silly episode, but that silliness kind of worked in its favour. It helped you overlook some of the more painfully convenient moments of the episode because you are having a good time with it.    

By Brian MacNamara: You can follow Brian on Twitter Here, when he’s not chatting about Movies and TV, he’ll be talking about International Relations, or the Solar System.

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Credits – All images were created by the cast, crew, and production companies of NCIS: Sydney
Directed by – Catherine Millar
Written by – James Cripps & Clare Sladden
Created by – Morgan O’Neill
Based On – JAG created by Donald P. Bellisario & NCIS by Donald P. Bellisario & Don McGill
Production/Distribution Companies – EndemolShine Australia, CBS Studios & Paramount+
Starring – Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, Tuuli Narkle, Mavournee Hazel & William McInnes with Dustin Clare & Matt Nable and Michael Jupp, Arkia Ashraf, Nadim Accari, Brad McMurray, Aleks Mikic & Jairo Coelho Barbosa.