NCIS

Nico.

Okay, Mira.

All right, go.

Hello?

Hey, boss.

How you doing, McGee?

I'm good. Hey, Lucy.

I hope you don't mind me, dropping by.

I was on the way to work. Thought I'd

drop off your mail.

You didn't have to make the trip.

It's on the way.

Hey, the-the boat's looking great.

Yeah. Finally starting to look like something.

Hey, so I, I talked to Vance about your suspension.

That article that was written about you?

Turns out it's gonna be a big help to us.

See, by coming clean about the suspension,

NCIS proved that they're not afraid

to clean their house a little bit, all right?

So... so Vance said once things calm down,

there's a chance you could come back soon.

Nah, that's not up to me.

Well, either way, I mean, it's a good thing, right?

You've been stuck at home for three weeks.

Must be climbing the walls by now.

I don't know.

Not really. Put off a lot of things.

Now I got time to get them done.

Boss, don't you miss it?

The job?

More to life than a job, McGee.

A body in Reston.

Normally this is when you'd say, "Grab your gear."

Yeah.

Not this time.

Good to see you, boss.

Yeah.

See you, McGee.

This is a disaster.

The house just went on the market.

And you found the body when?

I came at 8:00 this morning to prep for my open house.

I'm famous for my open houses.

I put on a cheese spread to die for.

Which is a terrible thing to say now,

given the circumstances.

And the house was locked when you arrived?

Of course. I always lock it when I leave.

Although, this is a great neighborhood.

No crime, fabulous schools.

Do you have any children, honey?

- Are you in the market? - Where we at?

In the bathroom with Bishop.

Such a shame.

Who's gonna buy this place now?

- Hi. - Hey.

- Morning, McGee. - Morning.

- That's, quite a mess. - Yeah.

There's, there's more of it out in the hallway.

Hey, how's Gibbs?

I'm not sure.

He said, "There's more to life than the job."

- Gibbs said that? - Yeah.

Like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Yeah. I can't remember the last time he took a vacation.

Or a sick day, for that matter. He can't not work.

You'd think.

So, who's our victim?

This is Marine Staff Sergeant Richard Larson.

Jimmy's, not here yet, but I'd say by the looks of him,

he has been stabbed multiple times.

Find a murder weapon?

No, but I did find this near the sink.

It's a hair... a little bit lighter than our victim's.

So, might have caught a break.

Hey, yo. Any of you have a hundred grand

I can borrow for a down payment?

Why, is Jeri Fleckman giving you the hard sell?

You have no idea.

I gave her your number. Expect a call.

Nick, any chance our victim

worked with your real estate agent?

No, no. She's never seen him before.

Then why does he have a key?

What's the word, Jimmy?

How about "impatient," Nick?

As in, "Stop being so impatient, I haven't finished yet."

I know, I know. I figured I'd come down and bug you anyways.

What's the cause of death?

Massive bleeding due to multiple stab wounds

here in his abdomen, his left lung,

carotid artery. I count seven in total.

Damn, that's a lot of stabbing.

Yeah, and based on the wounds,

I'd say the blade was about 15 inches long,

very thin, double-edged.

Could be a facon.

It's a South American knife, originally used by the gauchos.

It's long and thin and it can cause major damage.

Is-is it like, like that restaurant you took me to

where the waiters... they cut the meat with the swords?

No, Jimmy. It's nothing like those.

That was fun, though. We should do that again.

Hey, Kasie. Any luck

with that strand of hair we found?

That's actually why I came down here.

So, I ran the DNA and, unfortunately,

whoever the hair belongs to isn't in our database.

But someone else came up

as a close familial match.

You mean, like a, like a relative?

Well, that's great news, right?

We just track down the relative,

they take us to the murderer,

and then we can Golden State Killer this puppy.

Who's the relative?

You, Nick.

That hair from the crime scene

I ran the DNA, and it belongs to one of Torres' relatives.

What? Do we know which one?

The DNA is too corrupted.

All I can tell you is that it's a male.

This is crazy. It's got to be a mistake.

DNA don't lie.

I mean, I have black sheep in the family.

I mean, who doesn't? But a murderer?

Okay, well, no one is saying that, Nick.

Right now he's just a person of interest.

Could the hair belong to your father?

No, no. Last I heard, he was dead.

I'm sorry. I didn't know.

No, it's all good.

He was a deadbeat.

He walked out on me when I was five.

Other than,

Lucia and Amanda, do you have any other family in town?

I mean, I have tons of cousins I haven't spoken to in years.

I can track them down. It's gonna take a while.

All right, well, what do we know about the victim?

Let me put it up.

Okay, Marine Staff Sergeant Richard Larson, 36.

Married, two kids.

I spoke to the realty company, and it turns out

they did have a connection to Larson.

He was moonlighting as a mover

for the decorator that stages the homes.

Well, that explains why he had a key.

Look at Larson's bank records here.

An hour before he was killed, he withdrew

$5,000. He definitely didn't

have that money when we found him.

So what happened to it?

Ciao.

So, Javier, was on a trip to Miami on business.

All right, that is a "no" for Javier.

What about his brother, Gustavo?

Married with kids in Bogotá.

Hey. Any luck? No, none of my relatives

were in D.C. at the time of the murder.

But we still have your Aunt Isabella's

side of the family to cover. And don't forget Uncle Ramón's.

Honestly, I don't know how many more of these calls I can make.

- Draining? - Yeah, man, they're playing catch-up

over and over and over again, and the endless

guilt trips and "why am I not calling more?"

I actually think it's kind of fun, you know.

I really, really like tracing family histories.

Think I got something.

That, doorbell camera footage, taken from

the house across the street from the crime scene.

The same car drove past repeatedly

- the day of the murder. - Any plates?

Just got the last three digits.

But the windshield's got a crack in it,

so I put a BOLO out.

Good luck finding that car.

Needle, meet haystack.

They just found it, didn't they?

Yeah?

Great, thanks.

Jeep is parked outside a hotel in the city.

That's the car. Looks like a rental.

Talk to the manager. See if we can get

- a name and room number. - Yeah.

- Thank you. - Yep.

No problem.

Excuse me.

Sir!

S...

Nick! He's running!

Stop!

NCIS! Freeze!

Nicolito.

Hey.

How you holding up?

Well, he's taller than I remember.

Where's Nico?

I want to speak to my son.

Please sit down, Mr. Torres.