1 00:00:04,677 --> 00:00:06,505 Previously on NCIS 2 00:00:06,549 --> 00:00:08,333 I have no choice but to suspend you. 3 00:00:08,377 --> 00:00:10,292 Indefinitely. 4 00:00:10,335 --> 00:00:11,336 You look like real people. 5 00:00:11,380 --> 00:00:12,946 I'm Marcie, by the way. 6 00:00:13,947 --> 00:00:16,167 -I don't like being ambushed. 7 00:00:16,211 --> 00:00:18,082 I come bearing gifts. A peace offering. 8 00:00:18,126 --> 00:00:19,866 -Why? -What I am most proud of 9 00:00:19,910 --> 00:00:20,998 is my investigative work, 10 00:00:21,042 --> 00:00:22,347 which is about exposing the truth. 11 00:00:22,391 --> 00:00:24,958 And I know you know something about the truth. 12 00:00:25,002 --> 00:00:26,917 And I want to be the one to write about it. 13 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,050 What a surprise. What are you doing here? 14 00:00:29,093 --> 00:00:30,703 I could ask you the same question. 15 00:00:30,747 --> 00:00:33,141 I'm working on a thing and I would really appreciate 16 00:00:33,184 --> 00:00:34,707 your opinion. 17 00:00:34,751 --> 00:00:37,841 Hoping you'll give it a read. 18 00:00:45,327 --> 00:00:46,893 I swear! I'll do it! 19 00:00:46,937 --> 00:00:50,201 No, you won't, Toby. 20 00:00:50,245 --> 00:00:51,898 You're gonna be cool. 21 00:00:51,942 --> 00:00:53,987 No one is getting hurt today, okay? 22 00:00:54,031 --> 00:00:56,381 Then tell your men outside -to leave! -Toby. 23 00:00:56,425 --> 00:00:57,904 I can't do that. 24 00:00:57,948 --> 00:00:59,645 Do I look like the boss? 25 00:00:59,689 --> 00:01:02,039 -Have you seen my paycheck? -I'm serious! 26 00:01:02,083 --> 00:01:04,346 It's been 47 and a half minutes. I say we bust in there already. 27 00:01:04,389 --> 00:01:06,174 -Of course you'd say that. -Cut the chatter. We don't 28 00:01:06,217 --> 00:01:07,566 move in till we hear from Knight. 29 00:01:07,610 --> 00:01:08,915 Look, Toby, Toby. 30 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,222 We've been at this for almost an hour. 31 00:01:11,266 --> 00:01:13,746 I'm tired, you're tired. 32 00:01:13,790 --> 00:01:16,445 I know poor Tina is tired, aren't you, babe? 33 00:01:16,488 --> 00:01:18,011 -Uh-huh. 34 00:01:18,055 --> 00:01:20,753 So why don't you just -put the gun down? Why? 35 00:01:20,797 --> 00:01:23,234 So you can trick me with your government lies?! 36 00:01:23,278 --> 00:01:25,236 Can I at least get Tina some water? 37 00:01:26,281 --> 00:01:29,936 Hell, I could use some water. I... Is that okay? 38 00:01:31,721 --> 00:01:33,723 Yeah? 39 00:01:50,218 --> 00:01:52,568 You do the grocery shopping, Tina? 40 00:01:52,611 --> 00:01:54,135 Uh-huh. 41 00:01:55,527 --> 00:01:56,789 Does he know? 42 00:01:56,833 --> 00:01:59,531 Know what? What are you two talking about? 43 00:01:59,575 --> 00:02:02,752 Because if it's good news... 44 00:02:02,795 --> 00:02:05,102 now might be the time to tell him. 45 00:02:06,930 --> 00:02:09,498 I was gonna tell him tonight... 46 00:02:09,541 --> 00:02:10,716 Tell me what?! 47 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,762 Toby! 48 00:02:12,805 --> 00:02:14,242 She's pregnant. 49 00:02:15,895 --> 00:02:20,161 You mean to tell me that I'm gonna be a dad? 50 00:02:25,644 --> 00:02:26,950 Get her out of here! 51 00:02:26,993 --> 00:02:28,821 Target secure. Sending out the hostage. 52 00:02:28,865 --> 00:02:30,519 Coming in from the back! 53 00:02:31,259 --> 00:02:33,696 -Go. -Toby didn't mean nothing. 54 00:02:38,222 --> 00:02:39,180 Don't hurt him! 55 00:03:22,048 --> 00:03:25,226 -Damn. -I know. 56 00:03:28,272 --> 00:03:31,580 Hey, Jimmy. How you holding up? 57 00:03:31,623 --> 00:03:33,016 You dread days like this. 58 00:03:33,059 --> 00:03:34,539 You know, when it's some of your own. 59 00:03:34,583 --> 00:03:37,238 So far they've recovered the bodies of Agents Vargas and Ono. 60 00:03:37,281 --> 00:03:39,283 And, of course, the-the suspect. 61 00:03:39,327 --> 00:03:43,287 Still looking for Agents Knight and, uh, Madden. 62 00:03:44,810 --> 00:03:46,334 Any chance...? 63 00:03:46,377 --> 00:03:49,511 Bishop, based on the condition of these bodies, I... 64 00:03:49,554 --> 00:03:51,252 No one could have survived that. 65 00:03:51,295 --> 00:03:52,905 Damn it, grab your gear and go in 66 00:03:52,949 --> 00:03:54,298 through the crawl space if you have to. 67 00:03:54,342 --> 00:03:56,735 I want the rest of my agents found. Go, go. 68 00:03:56,779 --> 00:03:58,650 Excuse us, Special Agent Dalton. 69 00:03:58,694 --> 00:04:01,044 Yeah? Agents McGee and Torres. 70 00:04:01,087 --> 00:04:02,611 Oh, uh, Gibbs's boys, right? 71 00:04:02,654 --> 00:04:05,091 Yeah, we're-we're sorry for your loss here. 72 00:04:05,135 --> 00:04:06,528 -Thank you. -Mind if we ask 73 00:04:06,571 --> 00:04:07,703 how all this started? 74 00:04:07,746 --> 00:04:10,009 NCIS was called to serve a warrant. 75 00:04:10,053 --> 00:04:13,404 The guy-- suspect was considered high-risk, 76 00:04:13,448 --> 00:04:15,363 so the job was assigned to my REACT team. 77 00:04:15,406 --> 00:04:18,714 We entered the house, but the guy took a hostage. 78 00:04:18,757 --> 00:04:20,193 Per protocol, we pulled back 79 00:04:20,237 --> 00:04:21,586 and one agent stayed inside. 80 00:04:21,630 --> 00:04:22,761 Your negotiator. 81 00:04:22,805 --> 00:04:24,415 -Agent Knight. -Yeah. 82 00:04:24,459 --> 00:04:27,244 She took a risk in there and it worked. 83 00:04:27,288 --> 00:04:30,508 The, uh, hostage was freed and the suspect surrendered. 84 00:04:30,552 --> 00:04:31,509 So what went wrong? 85 00:04:32,902 --> 00:04:34,338 That's what you need to find out. 86 00:04:34,382 --> 00:04:36,122 Excuse me. Hey! 87 00:04:36,166 --> 00:04:38,908 Hey, can I get some more guys in here? 88 00:04:47,395 --> 00:04:49,962 -Did you guys know the agents? I saw Madden 89 00:04:50,006 --> 00:04:52,748 and Vargas a-around a few times. 90 00:04:52,791 --> 00:04:54,576 Say "hi" to in the break room. 91 00:04:54,619 --> 00:04:56,317 You? 92 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,102 Yeah, same. What about you, Bishop? 93 00:04:59,145 --> 00:05:00,364 I didn't know any of them. 94 00:05:00,408 --> 00:05:02,975 Feel kind of badly about that now. 95 00:05:03,019 --> 00:05:04,890 Uniform blast radius. 96 00:05:04,934 --> 00:05:06,544 Definitely a lone device. 97 00:05:06,588 --> 00:05:07,980 But how did it go off? 98 00:05:08,024 --> 00:05:10,243 Well, no signs of the detonator. 99 00:05:10,287 --> 00:05:12,158 It must have been destroyed in the blast. 100 00:05:12,202 --> 00:05:14,030 Like everything else in this place. 101 00:05:14,073 --> 00:05:16,293 Gonna take forever to process. 102 00:05:20,863 --> 00:05:22,517 Do you hear that? 103 00:05:27,870 --> 00:05:30,089 What is that? 104 00:05:33,702 --> 00:05:36,357 That's Morse code. 105 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,359 It's SOS. 106 00:05:48,369 --> 00:05:51,067 Uh, guys, there's someone in here! 107 00:05:59,467 --> 00:06:01,251 It's Agent Knight. 108 00:06:05,081 --> 00:06:06,691 She's alive. 109 00:06:06,735 --> 00:06:08,737 -All right, let's get the paramedics in here now! 110 00:06:16,919 --> 00:06:18,703 Uh, yeah. I understand, sir. 111 00:06:18,747 --> 00:06:21,010 Yeah, thank you for keeping us posted. 112 00:06:21,053 --> 00:06:22,490 -Any update on Agent Knight? -Yeah. 113 00:06:22,533 --> 00:06:25,144 Uh, Vance said she suffered a severe concussion. 114 00:06:25,188 --> 00:06:27,538 But they expect her to make a full recovery. 115 00:06:27,582 --> 00:06:29,235 -Well, that's a miracle. Yeah. 116 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:30,498 Whatever it is, I'll take it. 117 00:06:30,541 --> 00:06:32,064 She say anything about what happened? 118 00:06:32,108 --> 00:06:34,415 No, not yet. And doctors are still running tests. 119 00:06:34,458 --> 00:06:36,068 So we don't know how the bomb went off. 120 00:06:36,112 --> 00:06:38,244 And we can't talk to the only person who can tell us. 121 00:06:38,288 --> 00:06:39,550 Well, let's start with what we do know. 122 00:06:39,594 --> 00:06:41,422 Petty Officer Second Class Toby Withers. 123 00:06:41,465 --> 00:06:43,815 Wanted for stealing weapons from Naval Station Norfolk. 124 00:06:43,859 --> 00:06:45,904 REACT agents went to serve the arrest warrant, 125 00:06:45,948 --> 00:06:47,428 and Withers took a hostage. 126 00:06:47,471 --> 00:06:49,386 But the hostage was released and Withers surrendered. 127 00:06:49,430 --> 00:06:51,083 Until 90 seconds later when the bomb went boom. 128 00:06:51,127 --> 00:06:52,476 Question is why. 129 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,739 Sure, this guy was facing prison time. 130 00:06:54,783 --> 00:06:57,046 Yeah, but enough to blow himself to kingdom come? 131 00:06:57,089 --> 00:06:59,527 Unless it wasn't about him. When I was working undercover, 132 00:06:59,570 --> 00:07:02,268 I saw this guy selling bootleg DVDs. 133 00:07:02,312 --> 00:07:04,401 Then he jumped off a ten-story building. 134 00:07:04,445 --> 00:07:05,750 It made absolutely no sense. 135 00:07:05,794 --> 00:07:07,970 But then we found heroin 136 00:07:08,013 --> 00:07:09,450 in the DVD cases. 137 00:07:09,493 --> 00:07:11,060 You think our bomber might be up to something bigger 138 00:07:11,103 --> 00:07:12,540 than stolen weapons. 139 00:07:12,583 --> 00:07:14,324 Yeah, we need to get the case notes and speak 140 00:07:14,367 --> 00:07:15,586 to the agent in charge. 141 00:07:15,630 --> 00:07:17,719 Dalton. The guy barking orders, uh, 142 00:07:17,762 --> 00:07:18,850 at the crime scene. 143 00:07:18,894 --> 00:07:20,461 Reminds me of someone. 144 00:07:25,030 --> 00:07:26,205 Hello? 145 00:07:26,249 --> 00:07:28,599 Hey! I'm down here. 146 00:07:28,643 --> 00:07:32,734 Oh. Thanks for agreeing to sit-- Whoa. 147 00:07:32,777 --> 00:07:34,387 That's a boat. 148 00:07:34,431 --> 00:07:37,086 You have a boat in your basement? 149 00:07:38,043 --> 00:07:39,784 Where else am I gonna put it? 150 00:07:42,657 --> 00:07:43,745 You wanted to meet? 151 00:07:43,788 --> 00:07:45,660 Yeah. Um... 152 00:07:46,661 --> 00:07:48,663 Oh, first, um, 153 00:07:48,706 --> 00:07:51,535 I read about the fallen NCIS agents. 154 00:07:51,579 --> 00:07:55,713 And I-I wanted to offer my sincere condolences. 155 00:07:55,757 --> 00:07:57,367 Thanks. 156 00:07:57,410 --> 00:07:59,064 Sure. 157 00:08:00,326 --> 00:08:03,678 I also, um, wanted to check on 158 00:08:03,721 --> 00:08:05,549 the file that I... 159 00:08:06,855 --> 00:08:08,944 ...that, um, I gave you. 160 00:08:08,987 --> 00:08:11,294 -Did you read it? -Yeah. 161 00:08:11,337 --> 00:08:12,730 Well, what did you think? 162 00:08:17,866 --> 00:08:19,911 Feel free to use words. 163 00:08:19,955 --> 00:08:24,133 This was a murder case that happened about a year ago. 164 00:08:24,176 --> 00:08:26,004 Any thoughts about that? 165 00:08:26,048 --> 00:08:28,877 I mean, you are a detective. 166 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:30,139 Suspended, but... 167 00:08:30,182 --> 00:08:31,183 Police got the guy. 168 00:08:31,227 --> 00:08:33,316 -What? -They got the guy. 169 00:08:33,359 --> 00:08:36,188 No. I think they got the wrong guy. 170 00:08:36,232 --> 00:08:38,408 Did you not-- did you... 171 00:08:38,451 --> 00:08:42,194 Did you not see this photograph? 172 00:08:42,238 --> 00:08:44,414 This is the guy they think did it. 173 00:08:44,457 --> 00:08:46,764 Except this guy was in Arlington 174 00:08:46,808 --> 00:08:50,028 when the murder was in Westlawn, four miles away. 175 00:08:50,072 --> 00:08:52,901 -Four and a half. -Okay. 176 00:08:52,944 --> 00:08:54,642 So how could this guy 177 00:08:54,685 --> 00:08:59,385 travel four and a half miles in 20 minutes, on foot, 178 00:08:59,429 --> 00:09:03,825 with 1.5 milligrams of methamphetamine in his system? 179 00:09:03,868 --> 00:09:06,175 It's not my case. 180 00:09:06,218 --> 00:09:08,873 It could be. 181 00:09:08,917 --> 00:09:12,224 The cops have put this thing to bed and moved on. 182 00:09:12,268 --> 00:09:15,227 So that means the killer is still out there. 183 00:09:15,271 --> 00:09:19,101 I want you to help me find him. 184 00:09:19,144 --> 00:09:20,581 Why? 185 00:09:23,453 --> 00:09:27,065 Well, I thought we established that truth and justice, 186 00:09:27,109 --> 00:09:29,590 uh, are how you roll. 187 00:09:29,633 --> 00:09:31,766 We're not talking about me. 188 00:09:31,809 --> 00:09:35,726 Oh. Okay. 189 00:09:35,770 --> 00:09:39,251 I knew the murder victim. Hannah. 190 00:09:40,426 --> 00:09:43,604 She was, she was my childhood best friend. 191 00:09:43,647 --> 00:09:47,172 We lived four houses away from each other. 192 00:09:47,216 --> 00:09:51,307 So, if you're wondering if this is personal for me, it is. 193 00:09:51,350 --> 00:09:52,613 But I know 194 00:09:52,656 --> 00:09:55,877 that there is more to this case. 195 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,401 And I'm pretty sure you do, too. 196 00:10:10,021 --> 00:10:11,980 Thanks for coming up here. 197 00:10:12,023 --> 00:10:14,678 It's the last place on the Navy Yard where I can smoke. 198 00:10:14,722 --> 00:10:16,027 Well, thanks for taking the time. 199 00:10:16,071 --> 00:10:17,463 Of course. You know, 200 00:10:17,507 --> 00:10:18,987 I'm going over and over it again in my head, 201 00:10:19,030 --> 00:10:22,338 trying to figure out how this happened to my team. 202 00:10:22,381 --> 00:10:23,600 Did you talk to Knight yet? 203 00:10:23,644 --> 00:10:25,602 They're not allowing visitors right now. 204 00:10:25,646 --> 00:10:28,126 They wouldn't let me see her, either. 205 00:10:28,170 --> 00:10:29,998 I recruited her, you know. 206 00:10:30,041 --> 00:10:31,521 Straight out of FLETC. 207 00:10:31,564 --> 00:10:34,002 Promised her the job would never get boring. 208 00:10:34,045 --> 00:10:36,091 What can you tell us about Petty Officer Withers? 209 00:10:36,134 --> 00:10:37,440 Real piece of work. 210 00:10:37,483 --> 00:10:39,137 The guy was bragging to his bunkmates 211 00:10:39,181 --> 00:10:43,098 about stealing weapons for some backwoods militia group. 212 00:10:43,141 --> 00:10:45,143 -Aka white supremacists. -Bingo. 213 00:10:45,187 --> 00:10:46,928 They encourage their members to enlist 214 00:10:46,971 --> 00:10:50,279 in order to gain tactical skills and experience. 215 00:10:50,322 --> 00:10:51,759 And stealing weapons. 216 00:10:51,802 --> 00:10:54,500 His CO confronted Withers, he went totally off grid. 217 00:10:54,544 --> 00:10:56,328 Took us three weeks to find him. 218 00:10:56,372 --> 00:10:57,808 -How did you find him? -Got a tip 219 00:10:57,852 --> 00:11:00,506 on the NCIS hotline saying he was shacked up 220 00:11:00,550 --> 00:11:02,204 with an old girlfriend. 221 00:11:02,247 --> 00:11:04,336 Does this tip have a, have a name? 222 00:11:04,380 --> 00:11:05,511 Anonymous. 223 00:11:05,555 --> 00:11:07,557 But agents surveilled the house 224 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,559 and verified it was legit. 225 00:11:09,602 --> 00:11:12,649 Was there anything to suggest that Withers or his group 226 00:11:12,693 --> 00:11:14,738 were maybe into something else? 227 00:11:14,782 --> 00:11:16,522 Yeah, like, something bigger than guns? 228 00:11:16,566 --> 00:11:19,743 Meaning did we know he was gonna set off a damn bomb? 229 00:11:20,831 --> 00:11:22,137 Of course we didn't. 230 00:11:22,180 --> 00:11:24,705 'Cause if we did, I never would've sent Knight, 231 00:11:24,748 --> 00:11:27,620 or any of my agents, into that house. 232 00:11:32,756 --> 00:11:35,019 Hey, Kase, I got your text. Why are we meeting down here? 233 00:11:35,063 --> 00:11:36,368 Bomb parts. 234 00:11:36,412 --> 00:11:37,935 Uh, wouldn't that be in your lab? 235 00:11:37,979 --> 00:11:39,720 If only wishing made it so. 236 00:11:39,763 --> 00:11:41,852 This is our bomber, Petty Officer Withers. 237 00:11:41,896 --> 00:11:44,681 And these are the bomb parts melted to his flesh. 238 00:11:44,725 --> 00:11:46,204 Oof. Uh, okay. 239 00:11:46,248 --> 00:11:49,860 What happened? Was he wearing the bomb when it went off? 240 00:11:49,904 --> 00:11:51,340 Mm, uh, no. 241 00:11:51,383 --> 00:11:54,430 If that were the case, his body would be in tiny pieces. 242 00:11:54,473 --> 00:11:56,432 Instead of tiny pieces being in his body. 243 00:11:56,475 --> 00:11:58,521 See, what happened was the bomb went off 244 00:11:58,564 --> 00:12:00,044 and sent white-hot bomb parts flying 245 00:12:00,088 --> 00:12:02,743 across the room and when they hit his body, 246 00:12:02,786 --> 00:12:05,093 they instantly fused with his dermis and his spine. 247 00:12:05,136 --> 00:12:06,659 So, how does it help our case? 248 00:12:06,703 --> 00:12:07,922 Well, it can help and hurt. 249 00:12:07,965 --> 00:12:09,271 Upon closer inspection-- 250 00:12:09,314 --> 00:12:10,751 mostly done by Jimmy-- 251 00:12:10,794 --> 00:12:13,754 I noticed the bomb parts -were made by a 3 -D printer. 252 00:12:13,797 --> 00:12:14,885 Clever. 253 00:12:14,929 --> 00:12:16,234 Ah, too clever. 254 00:12:16,278 --> 00:12:17,758 We're talking -about 3 -D printers 255 00:12:17,801 --> 00:12:20,238 on sale at Best Buy for $99. 256 00:12:20,282 --> 00:12:21,762 Anybody can make these parts. 257 00:12:21,805 --> 00:12:23,111 Mm, guessing that's the "hurt" part. 258 00:12:23,154 --> 00:12:24,939 Yeah. There's no way to track who made it. 259 00:12:24,982 --> 00:12:26,027 How was it detonated? 260 00:12:26,070 --> 00:12:27,506 That's the part that can help. 261 00:12:27,550 --> 00:12:31,075 This is what's left of a long-range RFID receiver. 262 00:12:31,119 --> 00:12:34,339 This bomb was detonated by a cell phone app. 263 00:12:34,383 --> 00:12:36,777 There is an app for everything. 264 00:12:40,737 --> 00:12:41,869 Hello? 265 00:12:45,176 --> 00:12:46,482 Where's Agent Knight? 266 00:12:46,525 --> 00:12:49,790 I don't know. They said she was here. 267 00:12:51,835 --> 00:12:53,402 Agent Knight? 268 00:12:53,445 --> 00:12:55,404 Need a little private time. Come back later. 269 00:12:55,447 --> 00:12:57,449 Oh, okay, uh, we'll just wait in the hall. 270 00:12:57,493 --> 00:12:59,016 Wait. 271 00:13:00,322 --> 00:13:01,671 NCIS? 272 00:13:01,714 --> 00:13:03,934 Uh, yeah, Agents Bishop and Torres. 273 00:13:03,978 --> 00:13:05,370 Is everything all right? 274 00:13:06,371 --> 00:13:07,546 Thank God. 275 00:13:07,590 --> 00:13:10,419 I thought you were the nurse. 276 00:13:11,463 --> 00:13:13,639 Have you been cleared to go home? 277 00:13:13,683 --> 00:13:16,947 Not going home. I'm going to NCIS. 278 00:13:16,991 --> 00:13:18,644 My team is dead and I need to know why. 279 00:13:18,688 --> 00:13:19,994 That's actually why we're here. 280 00:13:20,037 --> 00:13:21,299 We have a few questions about what happened. 281 00:13:21,343 --> 00:13:22,953 Cool. We can talk in the car. 282 00:13:22,997 --> 00:13:25,390 Kind of in the middle of a prison break here. 283 00:13:26,827 --> 00:13:28,959 H-- uh... 284 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:31,309 Nurse Janeway. 285 00:13:31,353 --> 00:13:33,224 This is not what you think. 286 00:13:33,268 --> 00:13:34,312 Mm-hmm. 287 00:13:34,356 --> 00:13:35,313 This time. 288 00:13:35,357 --> 00:13:36,662 Get back in bed. 289 00:13:36,706 --> 00:13:38,316 Don't make me say it twice. 290 00:13:39,752 --> 00:13:41,493 And you two are on my list now. 291 00:13:41,537 --> 00:13:42,668 Great. 292 00:13:45,062 --> 00:13:46,977 The doctor said you have five minutes. 293 00:13:47,021 --> 00:13:48,587 That's it. 294 00:13:50,372 --> 00:13:54,332 Well, Agents Bishop, Torres, 295 00:13:54,376 --> 00:13:56,465 looks like we're talking in here. 296 00:13:56,508 --> 00:13:59,033 We think we know how the explosive was detonated. 297 00:13:59,076 --> 00:14:00,861 Well, that was quick. 298 00:14:00,904 --> 00:14:03,298 Well, we need your confirmation. We think Petty Officer Withers 299 00:14:03,341 --> 00:14:04,647 used a cell phone app. 300 00:14:04,690 --> 00:14:06,344 Did you see him using a phone or... 301 00:14:06,388 --> 00:14:08,912 Wait. You think Toby set it off? 302 00:14:08,956 --> 00:14:10,392 Is that a problem? 303 00:14:10,435 --> 00:14:13,090 For a couple of reasons. 304 00:14:13,134 --> 00:14:15,527 First of all, Toby hated cell phones. 305 00:14:15,571 --> 00:14:17,138 He kept going on about how the government 306 00:14:17,181 --> 00:14:18,704 uses them to brainwash people. 307 00:14:18,748 --> 00:14:21,533 And second, he was handcuffed by three REACT agents 308 00:14:21,577 --> 00:14:23,013 when the bomb detonated. 309 00:14:23,057 --> 00:14:24,058 Are you sure about that? 310 00:14:24,928 --> 00:14:26,147 Look, I know I hit my head 311 00:14:26,190 --> 00:14:28,236 and things are still a little fuzzy. 312 00:14:28,279 --> 00:14:30,368 But I know what I saw. 313 00:14:30,412 --> 00:14:32,327 Toby didn't set off a damn thing. 314 00:14:32,370 --> 00:14:36,635 Well, if he didn't detonate that bomb, who did? 315 00:14:36,679 --> 00:14:37,898 I was hoping you'd tell me. 316 00:14:46,167 --> 00:14:48,386 So, Toby didn't detonate the bomb? 317 00:14:48,430 --> 00:14:49,953 Not according to Knight. 318 00:14:49,997 --> 00:14:52,825 She said he didn't have a phone or the opportunity to use one. 319 00:14:52,869 --> 00:14:54,436 I don't understand. Was someone else in the house? 320 00:14:54,479 --> 00:14:57,439 No, which is why Knight thinks it was triggered remotely. 321 00:14:57,482 --> 00:14:59,310 So if Toby wasn't the bomber... 322 00:14:59,354 --> 00:15:02,444 -He was the target. -So we're thinking the killer called the tip line 323 00:15:02,487 --> 00:15:04,185 to have REACT do the dirty work. 324 00:15:04,228 --> 00:15:07,188 But when they found out Toby was being taken alive, 325 00:15:07,231 --> 00:15:08,450 they went to plan B. 326 00:15:08,493 --> 00:15:10,582 Remote trigger, the place goes up. 327 00:15:10,626 --> 00:15:12,584 Whoever wanted Toby dead wanted it bad. 328 00:15:12,628 --> 00:15:14,978 Lot of work for one guy. 329 00:15:15,022 --> 00:15:16,197 Hey. 330 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:17,459 Hi. 331 00:15:19,243 --> 00:15:20,244 How's it going? 332 00:15:20,288 --> 00:15:21,854 Mm... 333 00:15:22,594 --> 00:15:24,205 Give me the rundown. 334 00:15:25,858 --> 00:15:29,601 Oh, I got cleared to leave the hospital. 335 00:15:31,299 --> 00:15:32,909 I swear. 336 00:15:35,433 --> 00:15:37,392 Can I use that desk? 337 00:15:37,435 --> 00:15:39,089 Ooh... Uh... 338 00:15:39,133 --> 00:15:40,612 Sorry, Agent Knight? 339 00:15:40,656 --> 00:15:42,092 Uh, just call me Jessica. 340 00:15:42,136 --> 00:15:44,138 Or Jess. Or Knight. Or whatever you want. 341 00:15:44,181 --> 00:15:46,879 Okay, I-I think there's been a mistake here. 342 00:15:46,923 --> 00:15:48,664 Oof. You ever get that thing where your sock 343 00:15:48,707 --> 00:15:50,535 is all weird inside of your shoe? 344 00:15:50,579 --> 00:15:51,972 I got dressedso quick 345 00:15:52,015 --> 00:15:53,669 -at the hospital. -I just spoke with the director. 346 00:15:53,712 --> 00:15:55,671 He said that you were taking time off. 347 00:15:55,714 --> 00:15:56,846 See, that's what he told me to do. 348 00:15:56,889 --> 00:15:58,369 That's not what I'm doing. 349 00:15:58,413 --> 00:15:59,980 Oh, come on. 350 00:16:00,023 --> 00:16:01,938 If any one of you lost any one of you, 351 00:16:01,982 --> 00:16:04,071 would you just go home and cry on your couch? 352 00:16:06,464 --> 00:16:07,509 I'm actually pretty good at this. 353 00:16:07,552 --> 00:16:09,467 And you have a spare desk here. 354 00:16:09,511 --> 00:16:11,469 Oh, yeah, so this is not a spare. 355 00:16:11,513 --> 00:16:13,732 This is, um... 356 00:16:16,170 --> 00:16:17,475 It's complicated. 357 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:19,042 Yeah, we appreciate the offer, 358 00:16:19,086 --> 00:16:22,524 but we really need to talk to Director Vance first. 359 00:16:26,180 --> 00:16:27,050 Uh, 360 00:16:27,094 --> 00:16:29,270 that bat, that's not for people. 361 00:16:29,313 --> 00:16:30,401 Uh, mm-mm. 362 00:16:30,445 --> 00:16:32,012 It's complicated. 363 00:16:35,493 --> 00:16:36,886 Okay. 364 00:16:39,323 --> 00:16:40,977 Give me 72 hours. 365 00:16:41,021 --> 00:16:43,719 If I don't help you produce results, 366 00:16:43,762 --> 00:16:45,503 I'll go cry on my couch. 367 00:16:46,591 --> 00:16:49,072 Tell you what, I'll give you 24 hours, but that's it. 368 00:16:49,116 --> 00:16:53,381 72 hours, the use of this desk and all your resources. 369 00:16:53,424 --> 00:16:54,686 24 hours, 370 00:16:54,730 --> 00:16:56,601 resources, no desk. 371 00:16:56,645 --> 00:16:58,560 48, resources, desk. 372 00:16:58,603 --> 00:17:00,475 48, resources, no desk. 373 00:17:00,518 --> 00:17:02,738 Done. 374 00:17:04,348 --> 00:17:05,828 Be right down, Kase. 375 00:17:05,871 --> 00:17:07,090 I will go with you, 376 00:17:07,134 --> 00:17:09,310 being how I have nowhere to sit. 377 00:17:09,353 --> 00:17:11,094 Uh, hey, the bat? 378 00:17:11,138 --> 00:17:13,662 Oh. 379 00:17:13,705 --> 00:17:17,492 Oh. Oh, that's Gibbs's desk 380 00:17:17,535 --> 00:17:19,407 Mm. 381 00:17:19,450 --> 00:17:20,625 I'm so sorry. 382 00:17:20,669 --> 00:17:22,758 It's all good. 383 00:17:25,456 --> 00:17:29,112 50 bucks says she wasn't cleared to leave the hospital. 384 00:17:30,026 --> 00:17:32,724 Hey, Kase. You know Agent Knight here. 385 00:17:32,768 --> 00:17:36,902 Jess. Oh, thank God you're okay. 386 00:17:36,946 --> 00:17:39,775 And I am so sorry for your loss. 387 00:17:39,818 --> 00:17:40,906 Thanks, Kase. 388 00:17:40,950 --> 00:17:42,299 Knight is going to be joining us 389 00:17:42,343 --> 00:17:43,735 on our investigation. 390 00:17:43,779 --> 00:17:44,910 Of course she is. What else would she do? 391 00:17:44,954 --> 00:17:46,825 Go home and cry on her couch? 392 00:17:46,869 --> 00:17:48,784 Yeah, uh, what-what do we got here? 393 00:17:48,827 --> 00:17:50,829 Well, I'm trying to figure out the cell app 394 00:17:50,873 --> 00:17:52,831 that set off the bomb. 395 00:17:52,875 --> 00:17:54,790 Using the REACT gear? 396 00:17:54,833 --> 00:17:57,358 Yep. REACT is part of a pilot program. 397 00:17:57,401 --> 00:17:59,664 They're testing a line of body armor. 398 00:17:59,708 --> 00:18:01,536 Using LED lights, 399 00:18:01,579 --> 00:18:03,581 -an X-2 -R solar charger, 400 00:18:03,625 --> 00:18:05,235 CO2 detectors. Nice. 401 00:18:05,279 --> 00:18:06,932 And a built-in receiver that detects 402 00:18:06,976 --> 00:18:08,586 nearby radio frequencies. 403 00:18:08,630 --> 00:18:10,110 -Any chance it can tell us what cellular signals 404 00:18:10,153 --> 00:18:12,155 were in the room when the bomb went off? 405 00:18:12,199 --> 00:18:14,723 It could, if the data wasn't encoded 406 00:18:14,766 --> 00:18:16,768 in a propriety software 407 00:18:16,812 --> 00:18:18,814 only accessible by the manufacturer. 408 00:18:18,857 --> 00:18:20,250 Kessler Gear Systems? 409 00:18:20,294 --> 00:18:21,991 Talk to them, get the tech manual for the device, 410 00:18:22,034 --> 00:18:23,775 maybe that'll get us somewhere. 411 00:18:23,819 --> 00:18:26,038 Nice. Thanks, Kase. 412 00:18:26,082 --> 00:18:27,866 Knight, you coming? 413 00:18:27,910 --> 00:18:29,303 I only have 48 hours. 414 00:18:29,346 --> 00:18:31,174 Reading manuals isn't my thing. 415 00:18:56,417 --> 00:18:58,549 Making new friends, huh? 416 00:18:58,593 --> 00:19:00,203 Old one. 417 00:19:00,247 --> 00:19:02,771 -MPD, retired. -Hmm. 418 00:19:02,814 --> 00:19:04,773 He brought you a present? 419 00:19:06,775 --> 00:19:08,211 So did you. 420 00:19:08,255 --> 00:19:11,780 Well, I thought you might be missing it. 421 00:19:11,823 --> 00:19:13,912 The bat, that is. 422 00:19:17,307 --> 00:19:19,091 What? 423 00:19:21,006 --> 00:19:23,792 You tell me, Bishop. 424 00:19:23,835 --> 00:19:26,229 You called for a meet. 425 00:19:26,273 --> 00:19:27,752 What's on your mind? 426 00:19:27,796 --> 00:19:30,494 Um... 427 00:19:30,538 --> 00:19:32,017 you heard about the REACT team. 428 00:19:32,061 --> 00:19:33,889 -Mm-hmm. -So what do you think? 429 00:19:33,932 --> 00:19:36,239 -I'm trying not to. -You know, Agent Knight, 430 00:19:36,283 --> 00:19:38,546 she, uh, she lost everyone, her whole team. 431 00:19:38,589 --> 00:19:39,721 Just like that, gone. 432 00:19:39,764 --> 00:19:42,114 Makes you think, 433 00:19:42,158 --> 00:19:43,812 was it worth it? 434 00:19:44,769 --> 00:19:46,293 Think you'd have to ask her. 435 00:19:47,642 --> 00:19:50,384 No, Gibbs, I'm... 436 00:19:50,427 --> 00:19:52,429 I'm asking you. 437 00:19:52,473 --> 00:19:55,084 Was it worth it? 438 00:19:55,867 --> 00:19:58,740 Doing what you did, 439 00:19:58,783 --> 00:20:01,351 getting suspended, was... 440 00:20:01,395 --> 00:20:03,397 was it worth it? 441 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,317 Some things, Bishop, they have a cost. 442 00:20:13,015 --> 00:20:15,931 You still got to get it done. 443 00:20:15,974 --> 00:20:21,328 Was it worth losing... us? 444 00:20:24,983 --> 00:20:26,898 I don't know. 445 00:20:30,337 --> 00:20:32,077 I don't know. 446 00:20:38,214 --> 00:20:40,521 I got to tell you, Mr. Kessler, when your company 447 00:20:40,564 --> 00:20:43,001 offered to send someone over to decode the smart armor, 448 00:20:43,045 --> 00:20:45,265 I was expecting one of your techies, not the CEO. 449 00:20:45,308 --> 00:20:48,442 I'm still a techie at heart, Agent McGee. 450 00:20:48,485 --> 00:20:53,490 I started Kessler Gear Systems on a workbench in my basement. 451 00:20:53,534 --> 00:20:54,970 It's my baby. 452 00:20:55,013 --> 00:20:57,842 Plus, I owe NCIS a lot. 453 00:20:57,886 --> 00:20:59,366 -Because of the pilot program? -Thanks to feedback 454 00:20:59,409 --> 00:21:01,803 from REACT, we're about to close a government contract 455 00:21:01,846 --> 00:21:04,196 on a whole new line of armor. 456 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:05,285 Congrats. 457 00:21:05,328 --> 00:21:07,112 And you're welcome. 458 00:21:07,156 --> 00:21:09,158 He, don't worry. Part of the deal is making sure 459 00:21:09,201 --> 00:21:11,465 that, from here on out, we provide NCIS 460 00:21:11,508 --> 00:21:14,598 with as much gear and tech support as they need. 461 00:21:14,642 --> 00:21:15,904 Nice. 462 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:20,212 It looks like the data packet is intact. 463 00:21:23,085 --> 00:21:25,217 Yep. Our body armor only picked up one RFID signal 464 00:21:25,261 --> 00:21:27,219 at the time of the explosion. 465 00:21:27,263 --> 00:21:30,092 Oh. Really? One, that's it? 466 00:21:31,398 --> 00:21:33,008 What else do you need? 467 00:21:33,051 --> 00:21:35,358 Well, it's not like you can tell me the device ID 468 00:21:35,402 --> 00:21:37,055 of the phone that sent the signal. 469 00:21:37,099 --> 00:21:39,144 -Want to bet? -Wait, seriously? 470 00:21:41,408 --> 00:21:42,931 Well, this is fantastic. Now we can now ping the phone 471 00:21:42,974 --> 00:21:44,411 to get the location. 472 00:21:46,456 --> 00:21:47,718 That's it? 473 00:21:47,762 --> 00:21:49,503 According to McGee's ping, 474 00:21:49,546 --> 00:21:52,897 the phone that set off the bomb is inside that RV. 475 00:21:54,551 --> 00:21:56,640 I'm only getting heat signatures from a microwave 476 00:21:56,684 --> 00:21:58,076 and mini-fridge. 477 00:21:58,120 --> 00:21:59,687 No explosive devices. 478 00:21:59,730 --> 00:22:01,689 What about people? 479 00:22:01,732 --> 00:22:04,779 Only one. Asleep on the couch. 480 00:22:04,822 --> 00:22:06,868 Yeah, well, backup should be here soon. 481 00:22:09,653 --> 00:22:12,264 It's funny. 482 00:22:12,308 --> 00:22:13,788 Huh? 483 00:22:13,831 --> 00:22:16,486 Well, I just thought that two trained agents 484 00:22:16,530 --> 00:22:20,229 against one sleeping RV owner were pretty good odds. 485 00:22:22,318 --> 00:22:23,711 They are. 486 00:22:23,754 --> 00:22:26,278 So.... let's move in. 487 00:22:26,322 --> 00:22:28,324 See? That's why we should never be partners. 488 00:22:28,368 --> 00:22:30,587 -Why not? -Because you can't have two attack dogs. 489 00:22:30,631 --> 00:22:33,024 Someone's got to hold the leash. 490 00:22:36,027 --> 00:22:38,595 But we do have the element of surprise. Mm-hmm. 491 00:22:38,639 --> 00:22:41,946 And if we wait, I mean, he could wake up and run. 492 00:22:41,990 --> 00:22:44,862 -Or worse. -Or worse. 493 00:22:48,823 --> 00:22:51,129 Oh, she's a bad influence. 494 00:22:51,173 --> 00:22:53,828 All right, you take the back, I'll take the front. 495 00:22:58,702 --> 00:23:00,965 Park ranger! 496 00:23:05,230 --> 00:23:07,450 We need you need to move your vehicle! 497 00:23:11,672 --> 00:23:14,631 -Back was all clear. -What about the guy on the couch? 498 00:23:14,675 --> 00:23:16,938 He wasn't sleeping. 499 00:23:20,985 --> 00:23:22,291 Saw him through the window. 500 00:23:22,334 --> 00:23:23,858 Same window I crawled through. 501 00:23:24,902 --> 00:23:27,470 His body was still warm enough to give us a thermal reading. 502 00:23:27,514 --> 00:23:28,993 Can't be dead long. 503 00:23:29,037 --> 00:23:31,039 Yeah, whoever did it was in a hurry. 504 00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:40,701 Hey, did you know this dead guy? 505 00:23:40,744 --> 00:23:42,485 His face doesn't ring a bell. 506 00:23:42,529 --> 00:23:44,182 Why? 507 00:23:44,226 --> 00:23:46,228 Because he knew you. 508 00:23:48,012 --> 00:23:50,188 This guy wasn't trying to blow Toby up. 509 00:23:50,232 --> 00:23:51,233 No. 510 00:23:51,276 --> 00:23:53,278 He was after your whole team. 511 00:24:02,113 --> 00:24:04,202 Petty Officer Withers' murder was a head-fake. 512 00:24:04,246 --> 00:24:05,856 He was never the target. 513 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:08,250 Somebody planted a bomb, then called in an anonymous tip. 514 00:24:08,293 --> 00:24:10,208 You know what happened next. 515 00:24:10,252 --> 00:24:12,515 My team was the real target all along. 516 00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:14,474 -Who did the aiming? -We know who planted the bomb. 517 00:24:14,517 --> 00:24:16,476 Richie Soren, ex-felon. 518 00:24:16,519 --> 00:24:18,434 Convicted for everything from check forging 519 00:24:18,478 --> 00:24:20,436 to armed robbery. Lovely guy. 520 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,525 We found a closet full of bomb-making materials. 521 00:24:22,569 --> 00:24:24,092 Also a wire transfer for 20 grand. 522 00:24:24,135 --> 00:24:25,485 Do the math. 523 00:24:25,528 --> 00:24:28,400 -He was a gun-for-hire. Hired, then fired. 524 00:24:28,444 --> 00:24:30,751 We're thinking the mad bomber's boss was cleaning up loose ends. 525 00:24:30,794 --> 00:24:32,753 Any idea who that boss might be? 526 00:24:32,796 --> 00:24:34,319 Kasie is, uh, back-tracing the transfer now. 527 00:24:34,363 --> 00:24:35,756 But it's gonna take some time. 528 00:24:35,799 --> 00:24:37,279 I've been racking my brain trying to figure out 529 00:24:37,322 --> 00:24:39,368 who REACT pissed off enough to want us dead. 530 00:24:39,411 --> 00:24:41,413 And? 531 00:24:41,457 --> 00:24:43,590 Long list. 532 00:24:43,633 --> 00:24:45,505 Agent Knight, I'm gonna recommend protective custody. 533 00:24:45,548 --> 00:24:48,246 If the killer's goal was to take out the REACT agents-- 534 00:24:48,290 --> 00:24:49,639 I'm not going into hiding. 535 00:24:50,727 --> 00:24:52,207 Agent Knight... 536 00:24:52,250 --> 00:24:54,122 Let's not do this. 537 00:24:56,298 --> 00:24:58,822 I can take care of myself. 538 00:24:58,866 --> 00:25:01,869 And I need to know what happened to my team. 539 00:25:09,267 --> 00:25:11,226 Or... 540 00:25:11,269 --> 00:25:14,229 we can argue about it for the next ten minutes? 541 00:25:17,014 --> 00:25:18,581 Okay. 542 00:25:18,625 --> 00:25:20,365 Just watch your back. 543 00:25:24,239 --> 00:25:26,371 I appreciate you coming to my side of town. 544 00:25:26,415 --> 00:25:29,374 I rent this space from the furniture store downstairs. 545 00:25:29,418 --> 00:25:31,986 But the best part is there is the greatest 546 00:25:32,029 --> 00:25:34,554 little café next door, and it's fantast-- 547 00:25:34,597 --> 00:25:35,729 Oh! Oh, no, no, no. 548 00:25:35,772 --> 00:25:37,208 No. Shoes off. 549 00:25:37,252 --> 00:25:38,427 What? 550 00:25:38,470 --> 00:25:40,777 Shoes off! I'm serious. 551 00:25:41,996 --> 00:25:43,345 I'm... 552 00:25:43,388 --> 00:25:45,042 Oh, God. 553 00:25:45,086 --> 00:25:48,002 This board is where, where I keep all 554 00:25:48,045 --> 00:25:50,265 of my information on Hannah's murder. 555 00:25:50,308 --> 00:25:52,702 I wasn't expecting to hear from you so soon 556 00:25:52,746 --> 00:25:55,313 after our conversation in the basement. 557 00:25:55,357 --> 00:25:56,880 On the phone you said 558 00:25:56,924 --> 00:25:59,013 you found something new? 559 00:26:01,102 --> 00:26:03,931 Red duct tape? What does this have to do with... 560 00:26:03,974 --> 00:26:06,629 It was on her mouth, her wrists and her ankles. 561 00:26:07,674 --> 00:26:09,371 She-she was bound? 562 00:26:12,722 --> 00:26:14,637 She was hog-tied. 563 00:26:16,334 --> 00:26:18,946 Sorry. 564 00:26:20,382 --> 00:26:21,949 Where did you get this? 565 00:26:21,992 --> 00:26:24,081 I mean, I-I haven't seen this. 566 00:26:24,125 --> 00:26:26,910 -The police. -It wasn't in their files. 567 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,740 They kept it out. 568 00:26:30,784 --> 00:26:33,308 Probably to throw off the press and... 569 00:26:33,351 --> 00:26:35,963 eliminate copycats. 570 00:26:36,006 --> 00:26:38,574 Um, was this, um... 571 00:26:38,618 --> 00:26:40,968 hog-tying done before... 572 00:26:41,011 --> 00:26:43,448 Beaten to death with a hammer? Oh. 573 00:26:43,492 --> 00:26:45,146 And her body was dumped? 574 00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:48,758 Yeah. 575 00:26:49,541 --> 00:26:50,586 You okay? 576 00:26:57,724 --> 00:26:59,943 Wait a minute. 577 00:26:59,987 --> 00:27:02,076 I've seen this before. 578 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,165 But not about Hannah. 579 00:27:04,208 --> 00:27:06,341 I did an article 580 00:27:06,384 --> 00:27:07,908 quite a while ago 581 00:27:07,951 --> 00:27:09,736 on the rising crime 582 00:27:09,779 --> 00:27:11,346 in the suburbs. I remember 583 00:27:11,389 --> 00:27:13,391 this red duct tape thing from another case. 584 00:27:16,656 --> 00:27:18,309 Make yourself useful. 585 00:27:27,884 --> 00:27:29,886 Ah, here it is! 586 00:27:29,930 --> 00:27:32,715 Here it is. I knew I was right about this tape. 587 00:27:33,498 --> 00:27:36,197 Brian Stafford. Found dead seven months ago 588 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,765 in a small town in upstate New York. 589 00:27:38,808 --> 00:27:40,854 Bound with red duct tape 590 00:27:40,897 --> 00:27:43,465 and bludgeoned to death. 591 00:27:43,508 --> 00:27:45,249 With a hammer? Yep. 592 00:27:46,773 --> 00:27:49,036 Huh. 593 00:27:51,821 --> 00:27:53,997 Would you maybe like a napkin? 594 00:27:55,564 --> 00:27:57,392 Uh... 595 00:27:57,435 --> 00:27:59,263 No. 596 00:27:59,307 --> 00:28:01,352 I'm good. 597 00:28:09,099 --> 00:28:12,929 So... we have my friend, Hannah, 598 00:28:12,973 --> 00:28:14,888 in Virginia. 599 00:28:14,931 --> 00:28:16,977 Brian Stafford from New York. 600 00:28:17,020 --> 00:28:18,979 Both bound in red tape. 601 00:28:19,022 --> 00:28:21,808 And both bludgeoned to death with a hammer. 602 00:28:21,851 --> 00:28:23,940 I don't think this is a coincidence. 603 00:28:23,984 --> 00:28:25,333 No such thing. 604 00:28:25,376 --> 00:28:27,683 What, did you find something else? 605 00:28:27,727 --> 00:28:29,467 Someone else. 606 00:28:29,511 --> 00:28:30,730 Laura Blankenship found 607 00:28:30,773 --> 00:28:32,296 dead in the Outer Banks. 608 00:28:32,340 --> 00:28:34,777 But this doesn't say anything about red tape. 609 00:28:34,821 --> 00:28:36,387 Yeah, but look at the wound pattern. 610 00:28:36,431 --> 00:28:37,432 That's a hammer. 611 00:28:37,475 --> 00:28:39,869 Yeah, would you look at that? 612 00:28:39,913 --> 00:28:42,785 So now there are three. 613 00:28:42,829 --> 00:28:46,571 Unless I'm mistaken, this is starting to look like a... 614 00:28:46,615 --> 00:28:49,792 -Serial killer. -Yeah. 615 00:28:57,844 --> 00:28:59,062 I'm sorry. 616 00:28:59,106 --> 00:29:00,803 I didn't realize. I-I can come back later. 617 00:29:00,847 --> 00:29:02,065 No... 618 00:29:02,109 --> 00:29:03,980 I've had my fill. 619 00:29:09,899 --> 00:29:12,032 Back in the box. 620 00:29:13,555 --> 00:29:15,818 I don't mean to pry. 621 00:29:15,862 --> 00:29:17,820 But, uh... 622 00:29:17,864 --> 00:29:19,779 "the box"? 623 00:29:19,822 --> 00:29:22,172 You know what I do, Jimmy. 624 00:29:22,216 --> 00:29:25,306 I do, yeah. I can't imagine how difficult it must be. 625 00:29:25,349 --> 00:29:28,657 Having so many lives depend on what you say next. 626 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:30,528 Which is why you need to find a way to manage it. 627 00:29:31,703 --> 00:29:33,314 How do you? 628 00:29:34,794 --> 00:29:38,014 I've walked into hell more times than you can count. 629 00:29:39,276 --> 00:29:42,323 A bomber about to blow up a preschool. 630 00:29:43,324 --> 00:29:46,327 A father threatening to slit his own kid's throat. 631 00:29:46,370 --> 00:29:48,329 And it is my job 632 00:29:48,372 --> 00:29:51,767 to imagine a happy ending and then to make it happen. 633 00:29:51,811 --> 00:29:54,509 And the only way that you can do that is to take 634 00:29:54,552 --> 00:29:56,598 every fear... 635 00:29:56,641 --> 00:29:58,165 every pain and just... 636 00:29:58,208 --> 00:29:59,862 Just put it in the box. 637 00:29:59,906 --> 00:30:01,211 And then when it's over, 638 00:30:01,255 --> 00:30:03,823 only then can you risk... 639 00:30:03,866 --> 00:30:05,781 feeling anything. 640 00:30:05,825 --> 00:30:08,784 I mean, that doesn't sound... 641 00:30:08,828 --> 00:30:10,699 healthy at all. 642 00:30:12,092 --> 00:30:13,615 Sorry, it-it doesn't. 643 00:30:13,658 --> 00:30:14,964 Never said it was healthy. 644 00:30:15,008 --> 00:30:17,401 Just... just necessary. 645 00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:21,884 And to be honest, I think that's 646 00:30:21,928 --> 00:30:24,060 why I'm still alive and they're not. 647 00:30:24,104 --> 00:30:26,236 What happened in that house? 648 00:30:29,065 --> 00:30:31,546 I-I might not have 649 00:30:31,589 --> 00:30:34,679 a-a knife or... 650 00:30:34,723 --> 00:30:38,074 a bomb, but... 651 00:30:38,118 --> 00:30:40,947 you can talk to me. 652 00:30:45,952 --> 00:30:48,519 I left them. 653 00:30:50,478 --> 00:30:53,655 When Petty Officer Withers surrendered 654 00:30:53,698 --> 00:30:56,049 and my team came in to make the arrest, 655 00:30:56,092 --> 00:30:58,094 I needed to get out of that room fast. 656 00:30:58,138 --> 00:31:01,532 You had to take a breath, right? 657 00:31:02,664 --> 00:31:04,579 And now... 658 00:31:04,622 --> 00:31:07,451 are you thinking you should've died with them? 659 00:31:12,979 --> 00:31:15,198 I left my team. 660 00:31:18,375 --> 00:31:21,161 I know a thing or two about survivor's guilt. 661 00:31:23,990 --> 00:31:27,515 And the question that I've learned to ask? 662 00:31:27,558 --> 00:31:29,952 How would he feel 663 00:31:29,996 --> 00:31:32,172 about you surviving? 664 00:31:35,001 --> 00:31:38,004 Wherever Agent Madden is right now, 665 00:31:38,047 --> 00:31:39,919 I think he'd be thrilled. 666 00:31:44,488 --> 00:31:46,969 He, of all people, knew how short life could be. 667 00:31:48,362 --> 00:31:50,625 Why "of all people"? 668 00:31:51,974 --> 00:31:53,845 His advanced lung disease. 669 00:31:54,890 --> 00:31:57,197 Are you telling me Eddie was sick? Yes. 670 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,894 Based on his current condition, 671 00:31:58,938 --> 00:32:01,114 he had less than a year to live. 672 00:32:03,768 --> 00:32:05,422 He never said anything. 673 00:32:05,466 --> 00:32:07,598 It would appear that you're not 674 00:32:07,642 --> 00:32:10,297 the only one who's good at compartmentalizing. 675 00:32:12,995 --> 00:32:15,128 Think I got a lead. 676 00:32:15,171 --> 00:32:17,478 Just came from Agent Madden's house, 677 00:32:17,521 --> 00:32:19,001 found something pretty interesting in his garage. 678 00:32:19,045 --> 00:32:20,307 Look at this. 679 00:32:20,350 --> 00:32:22,744 Uh, that's REACT's smart armor. 680 00:32:22,787 --> 00:32:23,745 That's not very interesting. 681 00:32:23,788 --> 00:32:25,007 How about now? 682 00:32:25,051 --> 00:32:26,835 A ton of it, stashed at his house. 683 00:32:26,878 --> 00:32:28,837 Okay, so what do you think he was doing with all that gear? 684 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,360 Worth a ton of money. 685 00:32:30,404 --> 00:32:31,971 You think he was doing some kind of side business? 686 00:32:32,014 --> 00:32:35,235 Like maybe selling, uh, stolen equipment on the DL? 687 00:32:36,192 --> 00:32:37,802 No way Eddie was dirty. 688 00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:40,153 It's just a theory. 689 00:32:40,196 --> 00:32:42,329 Well, your theory's wrong. 690 00:32:43,373 --> 00:32:44,374 Equipment's supposed to stay 691 00:32:44,418 --> 00:32:45,854 in the NCIS armory. 692 00:32:45,897 --> 00:32:48,248 And Eddie had authorization to take it out. 693 00:32:48,291 --> 00:32:50,337 He was the gear manager. 694 00:32:52,078 --> 00:32:55,211 I understand... 695 00:32:57,387 --> 00:33:00,173 Eddie was a good cop. 696 00:33:00,216 --> 00:33:01,522 I'd bet my life on it. 697 00:33:01,565 --> 00:33:04,612 In fact, I have, more than once. 698 00:33:06,527 --> 00:33:08,181 After you told me about 699 00:33:08,224 --> 00:33:10,487 all that missing gear, I took the liberty 700 00:33:10,531 --> 00:33:13,186 of tracking Agent Madden's movements in our building, 701 00:33:13,229 --> 00:33:16,015 to see if anything flagged my weirdometer. 702 00:33:16,058 --> 00:33:18,365 And it got flagged. 703 00:33:18,408 --> 00:33:21,150 According to the system logs, uh, Agent Madden swiped 704 00:33:21,194 --> 00:33:26,982 his REACT key card at the NCIS training facility four days ago. 705 00:33:27,026 --> 00:33:28,157 So? He is a gym rat. 706 00:33:28,201 --> 00:33:30,029 -11:00 p.m. at night? -Night owl. 707 00:33:30,072 --> 00:33:33,293 Take a look at the security footage from the gym 708 00:33:33,336 --> 00:33:35,164 at 11:00 p.m. 709 00:33:36,644 --> 00:33:37,732 He ain't there. 710 00:33:37,775 --> 00:33:40,082 Even though his key card said he was. 711 00:33:40,126 --> 00:33:41,344 That's weird. 712 00:33:41,388 --> 00:33:42,867 Try mildly irregular. 713 00:33:42,911 --> 00:33:44,739 Those card readers glitch all the time. 714 00:33:44,782 --> 00:33:46,088 Yeah, you're right. 715 00:33:46,132 --> 00:33:48,569 They glitch. They're glitchers. 716 00:33:48,612 --> 00:33:52,747 So to be sure, I checked the actual data logs 717 00:33:52,790 --> 00:33:55,097 to get secondary confirmation of the swipe, 718 00:33:55,141 --> 00:33:57,230 and according to the data logs, 719 00:33:57,273 --> 00:33:59,754 Madden was someplace else entirely 720 00:33:59,797 --> 00:34:02,104 when he swiped his card. 721 00:34:02,148 --> 00:34:04,150 Where was he? 722 00:34:04,193 --> 00:34:06,500 At the armory. 723 00:34:09,155 --> 00:34:11,157 -Walking out with a quarter-million dollars' 724 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,506 worth of equipment. 725 00:34:12,549 --> 00:34:15,639 Which he then tried to cover up afterwards. 726 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,207 Not a good look. 727 00:34:28,783 --> 00:34:30,654 She took that well. 728 00:34:38,532 --> 00:34:41,274 So if Madden was stealing gear from NCIS, 729 00:34:41,317 --> 00:34:43,276 how did he end up dead? 730 00:34:43,319 --> 00:34:44,625 Maybe he had a falling out with a buyer. 731 00:34:44,668 --> 00:34:46,235 Or a partner. 732 00:34:48,716 --> 00:34:51,414 Sorry about the lab. Won't happen again. 733 00:34:52,546 --> 00:34:56,376 If Madden was dirty, Madden was dirty. 734 00:34:57,812 --> 00:34:59,988 -I'm sorry, what did I miss? -I killed a stapler. 735 00:35:00,031 --> 00:35:01,642 Oh, you know, I've been there. 736 00:35:01,685 --> 00:35:03,557 So what makes you think that he had a partner? 737 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,341 He'd been taking calls on the job. 738 00:35:05,385 --> 00:35:06,995 Personal calls, in the middle of the day. 739 00:35:07,038 --> 00:35:09,563 At first I didn't think anything about it, but now... 740 00:35:09,606 --> 00:35:11,391 Maybe they were calls were to a partner about the stolen gear? 741 00:35:11,434 --> 00:35:13,175 And maybe that partner got tired of going halfsies 742 00:35:13,219 --> 00:35:14,394 and took Madden out. 743 00:35:14,437 --> 00:35:15,830 We got to find this partner. 744 00:35:15,873 --> 00:35:17,310 Yeah, which is why I've been pulling up 745 00:35:17,353 --> 00:35:19,616 GPS history from Madden's car. 746 00:35:19,660 --> 00:35:22,489 So this is from last week. 747 00:35:22,532 --> 00:35:24,360 Damn. He's been all over the place. 748 00:35:24,404 --> 00:35:27,189 -Yeah, Madden stopped at three law offices 749 00:35:27,233 --> 00:35:29,844 and two chemical laboratories. 750 00:35:29,887 --> 00:35:32,455 It's not the kind of people who usually buy stolen body armor. 751 00:35:32,499 --> 00:35:34,153 So what was he doing? 752 00:35:34,196 --> 00:35:36,981 He was trying to figure out why the armor was killing him. 753 00:35:39,549 --> 00:35:41,334 Madden had advanced lung disease. 754 00:35:41,377 --> 00:35:43,988 Turns out it was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 755 00:35:44,032 --> 00:35:45,338 Is that unusual? 756 00:35:45,381 --> 00:35:46,991 Not if you're over 65 and you're a heavy smoker, 757 00:35:47,035 --> 00:35:48,863 or if you happen to work around toxic fumes. 758 00:35:48,906 --> 00:35:52,345 I dove into his medical history. Madden was a health nut. 759 00:35:52,388 --> 00:35:54,216 His only issue was a minor 760 00:35:54,260 --> 00:35:55,739 asthma condition which he managed just fine 761 00:35:55,783 --> 00:35:58,220 up until about a year ago, when it got way worse. 762 00:35:58,264 --> 00:36:00,309 Now, that coincides with... 763 00:36:00,353 --> 00:36:02,355 The gear pilot program, 764 00:36:02,398 --> 00:36:04,879 which started exactly a year ago. 765 00:36:04,922 --> 00:36:07,534 So you're saying the armor made him sick? 766 00:36:07,577 --> 00:36:09,100 I had Kasie run an analysis on the materials. 767 00:36:09,144 --> 00:36:14,541 Turns out the outer materials had high levels of PBDE. 768 00:36:17,413 --> 00:36:19,154 Pretend like I'm not as smart as you. 769 00:36:19,198 --> 00:36:21,461 Sorry, right, uh, it-it's used in flame retardants, 770 00:36:21,504 --> 00:36:23,767 or at least it was, until 2004 when it was banned 771 00:36:23,811 --> 00:36:26,857 because the off-gassing was found to be so highly toxic. 772 00:36:26,901 --> 00:36:29,512 But I wore the armor, too. My entire team did. 773 00:36:29,556 --> 00:36:31,384 So how come Madden was the only one who got sick? 774 00:36:31,427 --> 00:36:34,169 For you and for others, it would take years 775 00:36:34,213 --> 00:36:36,040 of exposure to get sick. 776 00:36:36,084 --> 00:36:37,259 But for someone like Madden, 777 00:36:37,303 --> 00:36:39,392 with a preexisting asthma condition? 778 00:36:39,435 --> 00:36:43,874 Putting this armor on was like a ticking time bomb. 779 00:36:43,918 --> 00:36:47,313 So Madden wasn't stealing those boxes to sell them, 780 00:36:47,356 --> 00:36:48,923 he was gathering evidence. 781 00:36:48,966 --> 00:36:51,665 Which explains why he was visiting labs and law offices. 782 00:36:51,708 --> 00:36:53,232 He was building a case. 783 00:36:53,275 --> 00:36:54,537 Against who? 784 00:36:54,581 --> 00:36:56,583 Mr. Kessler, we appreciate you coming in again, 785 00:36:56,626 --> 00:36:59,107 We just have a, uh, few more questions about your gear. 786 00:36:59,150 --> 00:37:02,110 Of course. Like I said, anything you need. 787 00:37:02,153 --> 00:37:03,633 What do you want to know? 788 00:37:03,677 --> 00:37:06,506 Well, how long have you known that it could make you sick? 789 00:37:11,728 --> 00:37:13,252 Wait a minute, I'm confused. 790 00:37:13,295 --> 00:37:14,383 Really? 791 00:37:14,427 --> 00:37:16,080 Seems pretty clear to me. 792 00:37:16,124 --> 00:37:17,952 Your company manufactured body armor 793 00:37:17,995 --> 00:37:20,259 that contained an illegal toxic chemical. 794 00:37:20,302 --> 00:37:21,608 Cheaper to make. 795 00:37:21,651 --> 00:37:23,131 But if it kills people, so what, right? 796 00:37:23,174 --> 00:37:24,611 -Agent Madden found out about it. 797 00:37:24,654 --> 00:37:26,134 And when he threatened to expose you 798 00:37:26,177 --> 00:37:28,092 on the heels of your big government contract... 799 00:37:28,136 --> 00:37:29,137 You killed him. 800 00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:30,617 Oh, I'm sorry, no, you, 801 00:37:30,660 --> 00:37:32,923 you hired someone to kill him. 802 00:37:32,967 --> 00:37:34,708 And so that no one ever found out about the tainted gear, 803 00:37:34,751 --> 00:37:37,450 you fixed the problem in your new product line. 804 00:37:37,493 --> 00:37:38,799 No more icky stuff. 805 00:37:38,842 --> 00:37:41,671 Is this supposed to intimidate me? 806 00:37:41,715 --> 00:37:43,412 'Cause if you want to see intimidation, 807 00:37:43,456 --> 00:37:45,545 -wait until my lawyers get here. -Well, we'd like to meet them. 808 00:37:45,588 --> 00:37:46,850 We'll show them this. 809 00:37:46,894 --> 00:37:48,112 Am I supposed to know 810 00:37:48,156 --> 00:37:49,462 -what that is? -Well, you should. 811 00:37:49,505 --> 00:37:50,811 It's the wire transfer you paid 812 00:37:50,854 --> 00:37:52,465 to Richie Soren to blow up the house. 813 00:37:52,508 --> 00:37:54,162 You remember him? Ex-con, 814 00:37:54,205 --> 00:37:55,598 lived in an RV? 815 00:37:55,642 --> 00:37:56,947 It took us a little while, but we traced the payment 816 00:37:56,991 --> 00:37:59,907 back to an offshore account owned by you. 817 00:37:59,950 --> 00:38:03,171 See, you're not the only one with cool gadgets. 818 00:38:05,042 --> 00:38:07,306 Okay, yes, 819 00:38:07,349 --> 00:38:10,004 Madden was going to expose me and ruin everything, 820 00:38:10,047 --> 00:38:13,573 but hiring the bomber wasn't my idea. 821 00:38:13,616 --> 00:38:15,705 Then whose idea was it? 822 00:38:22,233 --> 00:38:23,365 Kessler? 823 00:38:23,409 --> 00:38:25,367 He gave you up. 824 00:38:25,411 --> 00:38:26,890 Told us everything. 825 00:38:26,934 --> 00:38:29,676 Well, I suppose if it had to end, 826 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,200 better it be with... with you. 827 00:38:32,243 --> 00:38:34,942 Tell me, when Madden first came to you with his concerns 828 00:38:34,985 --> 00:38:37,379 about the gear, did you even contemplate 829 00:38:37,423 --> 00:38:39,512 going to the higher-ups and doing the right thing? 830 00:38:39,555 --> 00:38:41,992 Or did you just go straight to Kessler and cut a deal? 831 00:38:42,036 --> 00:38:45,518 Keep Madden silent in exchange for a nice, hefty paycheck. 832 00:38:45,561 --> 00:38:47,520 No, Jess... The anonymous tip 833 00:38:47,563 --> 00:38:49,130 that sent us to that house. 834 00:38:49,173 --> 00:38:50,436 That was you, wasn't it? 835 00:38:50,479 --> 00:38:52,960 You sent us there to kill us. 836 00:38:53,003 --> 00:38:54,570 The bomb was only meant for Madden. 837 00:38:54,614 --> 00:38:56,224 It-it was supposed 838 00:38:56,267 --> 00:38:58,052 to go off when he was in the house alone 839 00:38:58,095 --> 00:38:59,401 going through final sweeps. 840 00:38:59,445 --> 00:39:01,403 It w-- it was Soren. 841 00:39:01,447 --> 00:39:03,362 Soren jumped the gun. 842 00:39:03,405 --> 00:39:05,102 I never intended 843 00:39:05,146 --> 00:39:07,888 to hurt you, ever, or the others. 844 00:39:07,931 --> 00:39:10,064 -And that makes it okay? -I figured, 845 00:39:10,107 --> 00:39:13,546 since Madden was dying anyway... 846 00:39:13,589 --> 00:39:15,896 Tom, he was family. 847 00:39:15,939 --> 00:39:19,073 They all were. Are you seriously trying to justify this? 848 00:39:19,116 --> 00:39:20,857 No. 849 00:39:25,035 --> 00:39:26,994 I'm just talking. 850 00:39:32,913 --> 00:39:35,132 Well, the time for that is over. 851 00:39:40,137 --> 00:39:41,269 Yeah. 852 00:39:41,312 --> 00:39:43,314 Let's go. 853 00:39:43,358 --> 00:39:44,925 Come on. 854 00:39:44,968 --> 00:39:48,624 I suppose you're right, Jess. 855 00:39:49,886 --> 00:39:50,931 What are you doing, Tom? 856 00:39:50,974 --> 00:39:52,585 I'm saving you from filling out 857 00:39:52,628 --> 00:39:54,587 a lot of paperwork. 858 00:39:54,630 --> 00:39:57,981 I remember how much you always hated that. 859 00:40:06,599 --> 00:40:09,297 Aren't you gonna try and stop me? 860 00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:13,823 Use your tricks to talk me out of it? 861 00:40:15,651 --> 00:40:17,914 No. 862 00:40:21,178 --> 00:40:23,354 I've already played my trick. 863 00:40:24,747 --> 00:40:25,966 What? 864 00:40:26,009 --> 00:40:28,621 Why do you think I'm on this side of you? 865 00:40:28,664 --> 00:40:30,361 I wanted the sun at your back so you wouldn't see 866 00:40:30,405 --> 00:40:32,842 the agent I have coming up on your right. 867 00:40:47,291 --> 00:40:51,557 And just as Agents Madden, Ono and Vargas 868 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:56,039 have given their lives in service to our country, 869 00:40:56,083 --> 00:40:58,694 they also serve as a reminder 870 00:40:58,738 --> 00:41:01,480 that wherever this life takes us, 871 00:41:01,523 --> 00:41:04,308 whether here or beyond, 872 00:41:04,352 --> 00:41:08,965 we will forever be brothers and sisters, 873 00:41:09,009 --> 00:41:13,404 bound by the duty and honor 874 00:41:13,448 --> 00:41:15,363 to which we are sworn. 875 00:41:24,198 --> 00:41:25,765 Agent Knight. 876 00:41:25,808 --> 00:41:28,811 McGee, I told you, call me Jessica. 877 00:41:28,855 --> 00:41:31,031 Or Jess. Or Knight or... 878 00:41:31,074 --> 00:41:32,989 Hey, um, listen, I just wanted to, 879 00:41:33,033 --> 00:41:34,948 I wanted to say thank you for your help on the case. 880 00:41:34,991 --> 00:41:37,037 Oh, no, I should be thanking you. 881 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:41,476 And hey, we did it in under 48 hours. 882 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,783 Well, technically, it was 49 and a half... 883 00:41:43,826 --> 00:41:45,611 Ugh. but who's counting? 884 00:41:45,654 --> 00:41:48,396 You, apparently. 885 00:41:48,439 --> 00:41:50,572 Well, 886 00:41:50,616 --> 00:41:52,835 maybe I'm losing my touch. 887 00:41:52,879 --> 00:41:54,924 May be a good time to take a step back. 888 00:41:54,968 --> 00:41:57,187 You? Slow down? 889 00:41:57,231 --> 00:42:00,539 More like decompress. 890 00:42:00,582 --> 00:42:02,410 Besides, going back to the office now, 891 00:42:02,453 --> 00:42:03,585 I'd feel like Annie. 892 00:42:03,629 --> 00:42:05,631 Or Harry Potter. 893 00:42:05,674 --> 00:42:07,110 How do you mean? 894 00:42:07,894 --> 00:42:09,765 An orphan. 895 00:42:14,291 --> 00:42:16,337 My family's gone. 896 00:42:18,948 --> 00:42:21,560 I'm not sure where I belong right now. 897 00:42:24,737 --> 00:42:26,826 Well, Jess... 898 00:42:27,827 --> 00:42:30,090 ...that's the thing about families. 899 00:42:30,873 --> 00:42:33,006 Sometimes they grow. 900 00:43:01,687 --> 00:43:03,645 Captioning sponsored by CBS 901 00:43:09,390 --> 00:43:11,392 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org