NCIS

Okay, Jake, let's, give it a little gas.

And that was the brake.

I know, dad, but you told me to be careful

- with your car. - On the road.

We haven't even left the driveway yet.

Now, come on. Show me what this baby can do.

- What are you doing? - This is pointless.

I don't need to learn to drive.

What are you talking about?

How are you gonna get to school?

I'll take the bus. I like the bus.

What about after school, meeting up with friends?

I hang out on discord.

Where?

It's onli... Look, forget it, dad.

Listen, Jake, I know the world is changing

and I don't always understand it,

but trust me, some things never change.

Sooner or later, you're gonna have to drive.

What the...

You've got to be kidding me.

You stay here.

Hey, man. You're gonna have to pay for any damage...

- Back off. - Whoa, man!

- Step away from the car. - It's cool. Forget I said anything.

Wait. What are you doing?

Don't hurt my son! Or my car!

Drive.

Wait. What the...

What are you doing?! Wait, wai-wait... Hey!

Jake! No!

Jake! Jake!

Jake!

And then if you read a little further down the page,

you can see where the coroner notes acute trauma

to the occipital bone.

In a front-on collision, why would there be an injury

to the back of her head?

I know, seat belts weren't exactly a thing back then,

but even that wouldn't account for an injury such as this.

So, I hope you can understand why I thought it was time

to show you this.

You think my mom was murdered.

This does bring up a lot of questions.

In order to get answers, we may need to move on

to the next step.

I would need to exhume your mother's body.

With your permission, of course.

I don't understand.

W-Well, I-I would need to see her body in order to verify

- these injuries, and then... - No, no, Jimmy.

What I don't understand is why we're even talking about this.

- Now I don't understand. - I asked you

to find my mother's grave, that's it.

Not track down the death certificate

or the coroner's report, and I certainly

didn't ask you to make a federal case out of it

and share it with the entire team.

Well, no, of course you didn't, but I... I-I just saw

all these discrepancies, and then I did

- what Dr. Mallard trained me to do... - No. No, no, no.

Don't blame ducky for this.

I told you I was looking for closure.

This is the opposite of that.

I wanted to close an old wound, not open a new one.

I am so sorry.

I-I did not mean to... I just thought

that you would want answers. This was your mother.

You didn't know my mother and if you had, you'd understand.

I don't want these kind of answers.

Nothing good can come from this.

All right, we've got a case.

- I'll grab my things. - Don't bother.

We don't need you on this one.

What the hell kind of operation

is the Navy running anyway?

You don't have enough wars to fight overseas,

so you got to launch an invasion on broad view terrace?

Mr. Larson, I understand that you are upset,

but we need your help finding your son.

Does Jacob have a phone that we can track?

Yeah, but I told him to leave it in the house

during the driving lesson.

What about his car... is there a GPS?

She's a '73 mustang.

Do you know anyone

that might have reason to kidnap your son?

What? No.

No, this wasn't a kidnapping, this was a carjacking.

You think this guy did all of this

just to get your mustang?

Look at her. She's a thing of beauty.

You know how many offers I've gotten to buy her off me?

I'd never sell her.

Charlene's like a daughter to me.

It's just a nickname.

You people name ships, right?

- Yeah. - You know, how about we

get back to your other child.

It's my wife.

Please... please, find my son.

- Hello? - Charlene?

We have state police Manning checkpoints

and every highway in a 20-mile radius.

- Everyone's looking for a paratrooper. - All right, well,

- what do you think? Who we looking at? - I don't know, if you ask me,

someone who's watched way too many Tom Cruise movies.

Except it's, not Maverick,

- it's kingfisher. - Paratrooper's

- call sign? - Ran it through our database,

real name came back.

Lieutenant Max winger. He's a leap frog.

- I thought he was a kingfisher. - Leap frogs are the Navy's

performance skydiving team.

They do shows for civilians.

You know, football games, air shows.

This guy was on the ground before 8:00 A.M.

Little early for a show.

I spoke with his co. Apparently,

leap frogs had a practice jump this morning out of trapnell.

She said that winger broke away from his team midair,

no warning, no explanation.

We don't really think

he did all of this just to steal a car, do we?

Well, if he did, he's really bad at stealing cars.

- Incoming. Incoming, incoming. - What the hell?

Stop!

- Stop! Stop! Hey! - Stop! Stop! Hey!

Federal agents!

Jake! My baby!

Step back.

Out of the car! Hands up!

It's just me. I'm alone.

Thank god. I was so worried.

Wait. Is that a scratch?

What the hell happened?

More importantly, where's the guy who kidnapped you?

I-I dropped him off.

I guess he just really needed a ride.

Come here.

So, you're telling me that this guy dropped 15,000 feet,

hijacked a car, just to get a ride to his own house?

What, did he leave the stove on?

Not exactly. When we got to the house, we found a body.

Navy captain David Cruz.

He was shot three times. We found three spent casings

and a gun at the scene.

Navy says it was issued to our leap frog.

So, you think lieutenant winger

- was the shooter. - Looks that way,

but he was long gone by the time we showed up.

We put out a bolo, but

winger is a highly trained Navy seal.

You know, I thought that name sounded familiar.

Wasn't winger captured by the Taliban

- during the withdrawal from Afghanistan? - That's right.

- They held him captive for over two years. - Right,

until the state department negotiated his return

last December.

This guy's a war hero.

Yeah. Now that hero looks like a murderer.

So, what do you think caused him to snap?

- Did winger serve with his victim? - No.

There's no indication they even know each other.

Then what the hell was Cruz doing at winger's house?

That might be a question for Mrs. Winger.

We found Cruz's body in the master bedroom,

shirt untucked.

Sheets were a mess.

Maybe Mrs. Winger got lonely, and...

- He finally found out. - Might explain why

he was in such a hurry to get home.

- My. - You think I'm cheating on my husband?

I wasn't even home when this happened.

I was at a pta meeting at my son's school.

There are dozens of witnesses.

Ms. Winger, we're not disputing your alibi for the murder.

We're trying to figure out why captain Cruz was

- in your home. - I've never seen this man before

in my life, let alone in my house.

He must have been trying to Rob us and Max stopped him.

There was no sign of forced entry.

I love my husband.

I took a sacred vow when I married him,

and I will never break it.

And Max would never kill anyone

unless they were a threat to him or to us.

He would do anything to protect his family.

Mrs. Winger, are you and your husband still living together?

When we were searching your house,

we noticed that all your husband's clothes were missing.

Like he moved out.

We've been...

struggling since he came back from Afghanistan.

You can't imagine what he went through over there.

The Taliban starved him,

beat him, made him sleep in filth.

So, when he came back, he was a different person.

Different husband.

We started counseling with the Navy chaplain.