While speaking about the type of wounds in the autopsy room, they identify the wounds as being from frangible bullets. They also state they can only be fired from a special weapon specifically made for them. Frangible bullets are made to disintegrate when it strikes a body. This is to keep from over penetration and cause significant tissue damage. However, it does not take a special weapon to use them. They are made in a variety of calibers as well as for both handguns and rifles. They are used in law enforcement and for hunting.
Spoiler
Abby tells Gibbs that Agent Archer didn't fight back while being strangled because she was dosed with 'Sux' which is the nickname for succinylcholine. While she mentions the proper chemical name, she fails to mention that Sux is a paralytic.
Sux paralyzes the muscles and is used to aide in intubation of patients during laryngospasm, allowing the patient to be intubated in emergency care. One of the problems with using Sux is that you have to immediately begin breathing for the patient as the paralytic effect renders them unable to breathe on their own.
Any paramedic would know this.
Had Agent Archer been given Sux, by her husband, a paramedic; he would have known that she would have died from anoxia due to the inability to breathe and would have known that he didn't need to strangle her.
Abby tells Gibbs that Agent Archer didn't fight back while being strangled because she was dosed with 'Sux' which is the nickname for succinylcholine. While she mentions the proper chemical name, she fails to mention that Sux is a paralytic.
Sux paralyzes the muscles and is used to aide in intubation of patients during laryngospasm, allowing the patient to be intubated in emergency care. One of the problems with using Sux is that you have to immediately begin breathing for the patient as the paralytic effect renders them unable to breathe on their own.
Any paramedic would know this.
Had Agent Archer been given Sux, by her husband, a paramedic; he would have known that she would have died from anoxia due to the inability to breathe and would have known that he didn't need to strangle her.
Near the end of the episode, there is a shot of an ambulance. The writing is written so a person looking directly at the vehicle would be able to read it. However, all ambulances in the US are required to have the writing on the front hood be reversed so a vehicle in front is able to read it through the rear-view mirror.
In the beginning of the episode, a couple is traveling along a forest road and nearly hit a deer. When the lady exits the car to take a picture, she says, "Isn't she beautiful?" The camera then shows the deer, a black-tail doe. Blacktail Deer are native to the Pacific Northwest and are not found in the wild on the East Coast.
When McGee searches for "capitol crossroads press" using Google, the page displays their location as Los Angeles, CA. It should be Washington, D.C.
If any insurgents should want to "wipe out entire villages" in Afghanistan, why would they purchase exotic, unknown American gun prototypes on Cyprus and smuggle them across several international borders when they could just pick up any number of AK-47s and other old Soviet weapons that already are in Afghanistan? They'd kill the people just as dead and are available at every Afghan street corner for about $100 a pop. Also the ammo is much cheaper and certainly does not "under-penetrate".