The case which caught my attention here was the comparison Tony drew between his position (as a prisoner, bound and dosed with truth serum) and the movie True Lies. It was a fairly typical Tony-style movie reference. The details didn't fit exactly, but certain important elements were there, enough to provide a way for him to view the situation (and, in this case, a way to distract his captor for those last few seconds Gibbs needed).
There was another philosophically interesting moment for me tonight. When Ziva was brought in, I was expecting to see a variation on the prisoner's dilemma. Of course, the variation I was expecting was a situation wherein the two prisoners were in love. The twist we actually got led to a much happier ending, and an ending that probably won't result in a disastrous loss of viewers.
It's clear from both these examples that the fictions we apply to reality are most useful if we don't use the entire story. Bits and pieces are the most revealing.
