The way I understood it, Colby kind of guilted him into it. Their back-story, if you recall, is that Dwayne pulled Colby out of a fire once upon a time, and Colby has done a bunch since in order to pay him back, including covering for him, spying, etc. Then, in that episode, when Colby's cover is blown and their about to kill him, he says, "I wish someone else had pulled me out of that fire, because I hate owing you."
At that point, Dwayne (who *is* Colby's friend, no matter what he's done) already feels guilty, and feels even guiltier because of that comment, and he knows he a coward. At the end of the episode, then, he's left with either watching his innocent friend (who's only in the mess he's in because of that sense of debt) die, or killing a total creep, erasing a small portion of his guilt.
To say nothing of the fact that he's a total coward: at the moment he pulled the gun, there was a massive firefight going on. Casualties in such battles are often quite high, especially when it's a federal agency attempting to rescue their own, and you're not their own. If they walk in on the execution of Colby, they'll shoot everyone who even appears to be resisting, to try to save him. If Dwayne survives that (no guarantees, with bullets flying), he's promptly rearrested and ends up back on death row. If, however, he saves Colby's life and somehow manages to survive, then he's suddenly a good guy again, and his chances of sentence mitigation and possibly even clemency increase quite nicely (it's not entirely fair, but saving a federal agent's life looks really nice in terms of favors no matter what else you're guilty of, especially compared with being an accomplice to a federal agent's murder).
And someone *does* say something. Don and David walk in on the scene, and Don says, "Man, Colby just keeps owing this guy," and David (who's doing CPR) replies, "Only if he makes it."
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SceneByScene
13 years ago
Thanks j-wend.
Ah-ha! I did not hear any comment of Don/David (note to self: must get ears checked! LOL!)
I did not remember all that stuff re Colby & Dwayne. I think therefore that your theories make lots of sense.
Ah well, at least the team praised poor old Dwayne just a little bit!, for turning into a hero (of sorts) at the end.
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KDTfiles6
12 years ago
there would have been no way he'd get clemency (if he hadn't been shot), even if he saved Colby. He was still a known trator/spy, so the best he'd get would be life in a super-max federal prison, rather than getting death. there were just too many dead bodies caused from Dwayne's actions as a spy, too many US secrets handed over for money.
Sure for about 2 seconds he did the one good thing in his life by trying to save his friend, but too little too late. It was his (Dwayne's) fault Colby had to lie for all those years, lie to the team at the FBI, down to him being tortured and nearly killed.
DiNozzo: "Are we fighting?"
Ziva: "If we were. You'd be on the floor...Bleeding."
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