This is a crossover story between NCIS and the movie Asteroid: Final Impact. I didn't find it on the movies list so this just goes into NCIS. The movie is available to watch on Tubi, Pluto and Prime Video. Maybe other places too. The videos referenced in this story start at about 1:14:00. A description of the movie and my opinions about it are at the end of this story.
Quick synopsis: a whistle-blower scientist discovers an asteroid threatening Earth and tries to convince people of its existence and then tries to do something to stop it. Bad government people including FBI agents are after him. Yes, for good reason because he's working in the shadows and doing things that aren't exactly legal but the dark asteroid is a planet killer and nobody will listen to him. Nobody except his brother and then a reporter and then a guy who gets fired for doing the right thing.
Tony, Tim and Ellie are in Abby's lab watching the videos on her big screen.
"Look, here's the one where the people are leaving the rocket science fair and those two FBI agents are chasing the son and his mom." The video showed them with their jackets and their earwigs, and their guns out, looking around like morons.
The video changed and Tony continued, laughing. "Look at those idiots, chasing the so-called bad guys while meteors are falling."
Abby added, "You gotta love the internet for stuff like this. I mean, we all would have died, all of us. That asteroid would have kicked up so much dust that it would have blocked out the sun and except for some stuff on social media nobody knew. Well, except those people in the areas getting hit but our own government kept us in the dark with a media blackout."
"I heard the FBI, DOJ and Homeland tried to have all the videos confiscated and those that leaked removed from the internet," Ellie contributed. "It's impossible but they tried and are probably still trying."
Tim agreed with everything they said but he also remembered that people died. Some of them were on the videos that were making their way around the planet. He was about to add his six cents when Gibbs and Fornell came into the forensics lab.
"What is this? Stop laughing!" Fornell looked and sounded angry and gave them his best glare. "FBI agents died and they're showing it happening on twitter, tiktok, youtube and instagram."
Gibbs was sympathetic and wouldn't like it if they were showing NCIS agents dying. There hadn't been anything too graphic and it was mostly videos showing FBI agents looking stupid for the world to see. The videos circulating were from the Wyman University security cameras and from cell phones after the scared people calmed down a little.
"They know, Tobias. Nobody's laughing about FBI agents dying."
His glare was more powerful than Fornell's and the four people looked a little bit chastised but the videos had been out in the world for nine days and lots of people died that day, not just FBI agents.
"My dad could have died, Fornell," Tony snapped. "The building next to his was hit."
Fornell actually looked a little concerned. "Where?"
"New York City. Thousands of casualties."
"Oh look, they're showing the best one again," Abby grinned, happy that senior was alive.
Tony chimed in, "This is where I expect one of the FBI agents to be my buddy, Ron Slacks." Everybody except Fornell either laughed or had big smiles. Nobody liked that guy. Ellie hadn't met him but she'd heard how he was with everyone especially Tony.
Tim or Abby put videos on split screen so they could see more than one at a time. FBI agents skulking sound buildings and down hallways with their guns drawn. Meteors causing explosions all around. Teachers, parents and students, hurt and some dead, and the FBI agents are chasing Steve Thomas because he hacked into a satellite to get information on the asteroid that was still coming. They're running, guns out, while people all around them were panicking because big rocks are hitting the buildings and the ground in front of them.
"They had an arrest warrant for Steve Thomas and he was considered a national security threat." Fornell would never admit it, but it was a little humorous and he was a little embarrassed for the way it showed his FBI. Why in the world they kept chasing the guy was beyond him and he knew the hearings happened he knew they would go really badly.
Abby gave him one of her disapproving looks. "And that's why FBI agents were there to arrest his wife and son too? They chased them with guns waving! They shot his brother."
Tim added, "He was not a threat to anyone when the meteors were falling and they didn't help anyone." The news was full of stories about people helping the wounded at the university. Applying pressure to bleeding wounds, applying tourniquets, covering the wounded with blankets to keep them from going into shock and three guys performed CPR on a person who had a heart attack in the middle of everything.
Everybody in the world now knew what some of the FBI agents had done and what they didn't do. And yes, three of those agents died from the meteor storm. And one had a concussion from being hit on the head by the reporter. Nobody was glad the agents died but it was sort of good to have the FBI on the ropes after the way they'd dealt with NCIS over the years but Gibbs decided they'd had their fun… for now.
"Wrap it up," he told them, expecting Abby or Tim to shut down the videos.
Instead, Abby started her own wrap-up." Where is Steve Thomas now?"
Tim was first to catch on. "He's free, all charges dropped or dismissed, and he's the President's pick to head the new Take Back the Skies Program."
Ellie added, "All charges dropped or dismissed against everybody, even the reporter who gave the agent a concussion. She has a new VLOG now. It's pretty good."
The video on the left was Steve, his wife, his son, his brother and the reporter in handcuffs right after they launched the rocket that destroyed the asteroid. The video on the right was the Director of the FBI at a news conference looking like he could throw up any second.
Tony finished the wrap-up. "Let's hear it for Casey Harris, who helped Steve and Steve's brother escape so they could be free to save us all. He was fired but now has a better job... working for who?"
Abby, Ellis and Tim all said, "Steve Thomas."
End
I watch a lot of science fiction movies. I like most of them, even ones that I think are one star flicks. This movie gets a two from me because of the actors trying to give good performances and because it's pretty fast paced so not a lot of time to get too bored and because parts of it are pretty funny or ridiculous so I laughed a lot. Bad movies that make me laugh always get more than one star from me.
This description was copied and pasted from IMDb.
Asteroid: Final Impact
A deadly meteor storm has been labeled a one-time celestial occurrence, but astrophysicist Steve Thomas believes something worse is yet to come. After discovering his asteroid tracking satellite is secretly being used for military surveillance, Steve leaks the truth to the press, and it costs him his reputation, his job, and his friends. With the backlash of being a whistle-blower, the pressure threatens to tear his family apart, just when Steve discovers a threat to the entire planet: a giant dark asteroid invisible to current detection systems will soon strike the Earth. Barred from using his own satellite to prove the asteroid's existence, Steve is forced to work in the shadows in a desperate attempt to save humanity.