NCIS: Hawai'i

Guys, we need to be in the car in five.

Uhp, two minutes.

Julie, your homework is in the den,

and Alex...

I'm not sure where your baseball bag got to.

I already put it by the door.

Okay.

Good.

So, um...

Tommy.

I'm thinking

maybe something's going on with him.

How come?

He missed school, and a bunch of baseball practices.

Even after Coach told him that he was about to lose

his starting spot.

Has he been sick?

I don't think so.

I asked him if everything was okay,

and he told me to mind my own business.

Have you spoken to him since then?

I texted.

I didn't hear back. I'm j-- I'm just...

Worried.

Well, his parents got divorced last year,

and his mom moved to Arizona for that new job.

It's a lot for a guy to deal with.

I know.

He ever talk about how things are at home?

No.

I was closer

to his mom Romi, but...

I should have called to checked in to see

how he and his dad were doing.

So I'll do that.

Okay?

That'd be great.

Thanks.

Andy.

It's Jane Tennant.

I was talking to Alex

and realized it's been a while since we've seen you and Tommy.

Love to have you guys over.

I tried to leave a message at your work,

but I must have the wrong number.

So please give me a call when you get this.

All right, let's set something up. Bye.

All right, keep me posted.

Hey, boss. Hey.

I'm gonna do a 360 around this container,

but Kai will fill you in, all right? Okay.

So, what do we know?

Someone saw blood dripping out of the container this morning,

they opened the door, found our victim

Port Inspector Russell Goodrick with three shots to the chest.

Very sad, but so far, all CGIS's business.

They were here first,

called us when they realized those crates

in the back are full of spare parts

for Navy M2 machine guns.

I assume they normally load these containers

with more than two crates?

Normally.

Hey, Boom-Boom.

Tennant.

CGIS scanned the container's labels.

It's supposed to be filled with tractor parts

bound for Myanmar.

No one knows why it was moved to this holding area.

How long has it been sitting here?

Two days.

Any idea what we're looking for?

Not unless Gates just figured it out.

Blood spatter has a void pattern.

Something was here when he was murdered.

Now, based on the void, it had sharp edges.

Was 12 inches longer and ten inches wider

than the spare parts crate.

Boom-Boom, let's assume

that they might also have been crates,

potentially weapon-related, what conclusions can we draw?

They'd be big enough for heavy guns.

Maybe even RPGs.

Navy would never ship commercially.

Which means we might be looking at an illegal arms shipment.

Hey, guys.

I noticed a weird shape

in the shadow of the top of the container.

Long shot, but I thought it might be

an errant bullet casing,

so I climbed up there and took a picture.

What is it?

It's a tracker.

Any idea who it belongs to?

No. I just know it's not RFID, which is passive.

It's GPS-based, though not routing

through the usual satellite constellation,

as far as I can tell.

Meaning?

It's fancy.

I'm limited in what I can figure out,

since we want to leave it in place so as to not alert

whoever put it there that we are on to them.

Our victim doesn't seem like a sophisticated tracker

kind of guy.

Port inspector for ten years,

solid performance reviews.

Divorced last year.

Fellow inspectors said he complained a lot about

being "divorce poor."

He have the kind of access that would have allowed him

to move the container to the holding area?

No, but CGIS is pulling a list

of employees with those credentials,

as well as info on who accessed the biometric scanners

at the port last night.

They're gonna share it when it's in hand.

Lot of reasons folks steal military weapons,

but Goodrick's dead.

So, if he was involved, he got double-crossed.

Maybe by whoever put the tracker on the container.

Ernie, you need to get a bead on who that was.

I will put on my aluminum hat.

Lucy, stay with Goodrick.

We need to know whether he's a victim or a perpetrator.

And in either case, who moved the container

to the holding area and what was inside when they did?

Check, check and check.

You know I don't have an aluminum hat.

I know.

I was going to track it using

triangulation software that I developed.

Because that's what I do.

I develop, uh, sophisticated technologies

in service of your crime-fighting.

You know that I think you're super smart

and amazing, right?

Hi, Tommy.

Hi, Ms. Tennant.

Your dad home?

No, he-he's at work.

He-He's been really busy.

He told me to clean up, I just haven't really gotten to it yet.

You're not at school. Are you sick?

Um, a little under the weather.

Can I get you anything? Some soup, aspirin?No, thank you.

I-I have everything I need.

Okay.

Hey, did your dad change his number, by chance?

I reached out a couple times and he hasn't called me back.

No, same number. Try the hospital.

Okay.

What did you want to talk to him about?

Just checking in. Making sure you guys are okay.

Tell your dad I want to have you guys

over for dinner sometime.

Absolutely.

Well, I'm gonna go lay on the couch.

Let me take the trash out for you,

so you don't have to go out.

Uh...

Thanks, Ms. T.

Get some rest, okay? Feel better.

I assume this isn't a social call.

Uh, no.

So it's really hard to track that signal.

Not only is it encrypted

and bouncing off satellites I don't have access to,

it's also in such a narrow band of oscillation that...

I love your passion for this.

I don't know who's tracking it, but I do know where they are.

NCIS!

Hands where we can see them.

DIA got wind of a large illicit arms shipment

on the Haven Grace,

a ship out of the Marshall Islands.

So the Navy did a positive control boarding

with a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment.

How big is a "large shipment"?

Ten containers' worth.

That's a lot of weapons.

Where did they come from?

We're not exactly sure,

but there are many legitimate arms sales from U.S. companies

to foreign governments, and they're all supervised

and regulated by the DoD.

And sometimes, you know,

these weapons fall into the wrong hands.

The arms trade is a $100 billion business.

That much money motivates people.

Were all the containers bound for Myanmar,

like the tractor parts?

No. Seven different destinations.

So your JIA task force put trackers on all the containers,

let them continue on their way,

thinking it might help you catch whoever's behind it all?

Yes.

What have the trackers told you?

Four containers

are still in route.