Though producers prefer you didn't call Tuesday's episode a finale, NCIS finished Season 17 with a powerfully poignant performance from Christopher Lloyd that honored war veterans' valor and sacrifice. "The Arizona," which had Lloyd playing World War II veteran Joe Smith, toyed with viewers' perception.
At the start of the episode, Joe had broken into a military family's home and stolen a Purple Heart. Ultimately, he wanted to have his remains on the U.S.S.
Arizona, as a means of honoring his service during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. But the key question Torres (Wilmer Valderrama), Vance (Rocky Carroll), and Gibbs (Mark Harmon) faced was: Is Joe telling the truth?
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