NCIS

Update.Same signatures, 100 days apart.

You sure it's my Jen?

McGEE: Here's our guy in Georgetown just an hour ago.

Name's Alden Parker,

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

And I hope that your team didn't blow my cover.

Gibbs stays in the loop,

Agent Parker.Put it down.

Gonna kill me twice?KNIGHT: No more fake names,

Paul LeMere, thanks to your

very real passport.

I'm just so relieved they caught the guy.

Every time LeMere killed one of his victims,

someone sent him a cool 50K.

So he wasn't killing for sport, he was killing for money.

Guy's not a serial killer.He's a contract killer.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Kasie!Back off!

BP's dropping. He's losing blood fast.

I'll need 1,000 cc's of plasma.

We got to stop this leak.Pupils are dilated.

He's going into shock.Gonna need a transfusion here!

Nurse, excuse me.You shouldn't be here.

That's my suspect. I need to know how he's doing.

Gibbs.

Come to finish the job?

Where is he?Dead, or will be.

And now we're never gonna find out who was paying him.

He's not gonna die.

How do you know that?

You pick up a medical degree on your way here?

It wasn't a kill shot.

And it wasn't your call to make.

The guy had a knife to Kasie's throat.

And you had a trained hostage negotiator standing

right there-- Agent Knight could've bought us some time.

I'm not gonna take that chance.Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'm sure the review board will agree

that it was a clean shot. I'm just telling you

it wasn't a smart move. Our only lead is gonna die.

Not gonna die.

Get your head out of the sand.

Okay? You screwed up.

You played mister tough-guy vigilante

and you screwed up, okay?

What you did was reckless and dangerous.

Sorry to interrupt.

We managed to stop the bleeding and stabilize Mr. LeMere.

He's going to live.

Live?

The bullet only nicked his subclavian artery.

Quite lucky, actually.

One millimeter higher, and he would've died for sure.

Nice shooting.

Well, glad you could join us.

Welcome.

Don't gloat.

No gloating here. Not gloating.

Mm-hmm. I'm only moving

because my desk is covered in blood.

Not because you want me to.

No, no, of course, of course.

Of course.

How's your head?

It's better than my pride.

Can't believe I didn't see that coming.

Well, LeMere went full Hulk on us.

I mean, no one saw that coming.

Well, he got the jump on me.

I got jumped.

Happens to the best of us, you know?

I've been jumped a few times myself.

Wow, a few times?

It's never happened to me.

So what's wrong with you that it keeps happening to you?

Yeah, funny.

Uh-uh.

Oh, hey, McGee.

Hey, morning. Ooh, nice desk.

Yeah, I liked it better when she was over there.

Uh, any updates on LeMere's condition?

Yeah, I spoke to the hospital. He's, uh, conscious,

and expected to make a full recovery.

The doctors are gonna let us know when we can talk to him.

Where's Gibbs?

He's at the cemetery where we picked up LeMere.

Looking to see if there's anything we might've missed.

Yeah, makes sense.

A lot of questions in this case.

Yeah, let's see if we can answer some.

What do we know?

Paul LeMere is not

a serial killer-- he was a contract killer paid to kill

these seven people.

Who paid him?TORRES: We don't know yet.

Kasie's still tracing the payments

that we found in his thumb drive.

Okay, so if LeMere was paid, then the victims...

Were being targeted.

Still can't find any connections between them.

We've combed the files, histories.

Nothing links them.

The link's got to be whoever hired LeMere.

We figure that out, we crack the case.

Well, then let's hope that Kasie works her magic.

Mm... Jimmy.

Ah, your blood pressure's still a little high.

Uh, your pulse is fine.

But let me check your pupils again.

Hey, hey, hey. I need to work.

Kasie, you were taken hostage, all right?

LeMere had a knife...Letter opener.

A letter opener to your throat, all right?

It was a traumatic situation.

You could still be suffering from-from shock, from PTSD...

Or from you annoying me.

Okay, I have told you a thousand times,

I will be fine. I have been through worse.

Wehave been through worse.

The diner two years ago? Oof.

Well, yeah, but we worked through that.

Uh, I don't know.

That was pretty traumatic.I mean,

yes, we were taken hostage,

and, sure, one of them died, and then they

forced me to cut open his stomach and retrieve

diamonds... from his intestines,

but, uh. I... Is it-is it hot in here?

No, I'm gonna, I'm gonna sit down.

Hey, Kase, Jimmy.

What's going on with him?

Uh, he's working through some things.

Oh. Any luck tracing LeMere's payments?

Whoever paid LeMere knew how to cover their tracks.

We know he was paid through a shell company, Navis Ventures.

But whenever I try to trace the money, it just leads

to another shell company. I've had

multiple computers working on this,

and I still can't found the source.

This could take days or weeks or...

Why does that happen every time I say something like that?

Hmm, let me guess-- another bogus shell company?

Uh, that depends on how

you feel about the U.S. government.

LeMere was paid by the Pentagon?

Yeah.

Thanks for seeing us, Lieutenant Falco.

Of course. Uh, please, have a seat.

Uh, excuse the mess.

You can just throw those anywhere. So...

what can I do for you?

So you are the, uh, senior accountant

to the defense finance?And accounting services.

Why?

We're investigating a payment to a suspect

that came from this department.

Wait, wait, wait.

So you're not here about the audit?

Audit?

: Oh, thank God.

Thank God.

Oh, you really had me going there.

The DoD is being audited again

for some discrepancies in their books.

Well, $35 trillion worth.

That's a lot of discrepancies.

I have been killing myself for weeks

trying to balance these books.

I haven't slept, I haven't seen my kids.

It's been a nightmare.

I hear that NCIS runs a pretty tight ship.

financially speaking.

Y-You know if they're hiring at all or...

You know, never mind.

So, this payment-- you said it came

from this department?That's right, but, uh,

we don't know who authorized it.

Well, my office is just a pass-through, basically.

We process thousands of payments a week from every department

in the military. Uh, can I see the account number?

Says here the money originated from one

of our contractor accounts, Sonova Industries.

The DoD uses their data-imaging machines.

So our suspect wasn't actually paid by the Pentagon.

He was paid by Sonova.

Mm-hmm.Can you tell us who from over there authorized it?

Huh, that's weird.

There's no authorizing name here.

It could be just a glitch.

Or...

Or what?

Or maybe someone at Sonova

is trying to hide something.

We're gonna need a copy of those files, please.

Sure.

How you feeling, LeMere?

Ready for another chat?

Round two?

Who hired you?

I don't know what you're talking about.