NCIS: Hawai'i

You've got to let go of me.MAN: What? Stop.

Will you just listen to me?If you don't let go of me...

Oh, what are you gonna do about it?

Hey! Sir.

Let go of the woman right now.

Why don't you back off, bro?

We all just need to take a breath, okay?

Cool down.

See, that's what a real man talks like.

That's how a real man...Oh, that's how...

Hey!

Oh, sign of a good date.

What?

No. The Great British Bake Off kept me up.

: You ditched the new girl

to watch polite people baking bread?

Tree cakes, actually.

You should've seen the chocolate conifer.

: Actually, I have seen that one.

That's 'cause I'm married and all we do is watch TV.

What's your excuse?

Just felt like staying in.

Victim is Marine Corporal Mason Cartwright.

Doing the tourist thing

and got caught up on a business end of a domestic dispute.

HPD thinks wrong place, wrong time.

Looks like a single stab wound.

Yeah, that's all it took.

Cartwright was dead

before the paramedics arrived.

What are you thinking?

Most sharp-force injuries take a long time to kill.

Our Good Samaritan died within moments of being stabbed.

So, where's our couple now?

They fled. HPD put out a BOLO,

but still no trace.

Dude comes to Hawai'i for some R & R

and never makes it back home.

Mason Cartwright

wasn't here for R & R.

He's billeted as embassy security

in Manila.

Why was he so far from his post?

According to his CO, he was on island

for Special Reaction Team training.

Had PT scheduled at 0500 this morning.

But he was out late last night. That doesn't seem smart.

Feels off to me.

Random acts of violence? See it all the time.

Yeah, but what if it wasn't so random?

You think Cartwright knew the couple?

Had a prior beef?

According to his record, he didn't have any beef.

According to witnesses, he was just trying

to be a nice guy.

Sure, but my Jesse sense is tingling.

Your Jesse sense?

Yeah, street sense. Cop sense.

You'll develop a Lucy sense one day.

Oh, I already got one.

Those shoes don't go with that shirt.

Ouch.

Agree to disagree.

It's the single stab wound that's got me thinking.

Most stab victims die from sepsis

or blood loss.JESSE: Exactly.

This guy was dead before he hit the ground.

Go to autopsy. Talk to Chase.

Lucy, Kai, check in with Ernie.

See if he can use any CCTV footage

to find out what happened to our missing couple.

Thank you.

Hey.Did you know

I shacked up with a shohet during med school?

A sha-what?

A shohet. Kosher butcher.

Leo.

Had hands smooth like a baby alpaca.

Okay.He could slaughter

and take a cow apart from hoof to snout in moments flat.

Not a wasted move.You know, Dr. Chase,

sometimes I'm not sure if you're kidding or not.

The morphology of the wound,

especially the Langer's lines and the distensibility

of the collagen fibers is far from normal.

Speak to me like I didn't go to med School.

And failed biology.

For inexperienced knifemen,

there's normally some rough cutting

during insertion and withdrawal.

The Langer's lines are how we determine that.

So, for an experienced knifemen like your Leo?

Not a wasted move.

This was a clean thrust

that severed the abdominal aorta.

One strike, one kill.

So what you're saying is whoever murdered Corporal Cartwright

knew what they were doing.

Suppose I could have led with that,

but it's nice to reminisce.

Yeah. Uh, thank you.

Hey, can I ask you a quick question?

Do you think these, uh, shoes go with this shirt?

The question is

do you?

I've got good news and I got bad news.

Good news is CCTV caught

the male suspect in the act of stabbing Cartwright.

Bad news is both suspects' faces are obscured.

One day, I'd like to come down here

and have you say, "I got good news

and I got better news."

And I want to go to one swing competition

where my dance partner actually knows how to do an anchor step

into a Lindy Hop swing out.

You know how to swing dance?

You don't?I don't like it.

Yeah, it's a little 1996, but these feet must fly.

Not the dancing.Oh.

The suspects. After Cartwright is stabbed,

they run in different directions.

Almost as if they knew where the cameras were.

Yep, rewinding.

So if this was a crime of passion,

they'd be frantic and sloppy, not...

Calculated and methodical.

Any way to track where they went?

There are over 800 CCTV cameras in Waikiki,

not to mention all the Ring, ATM and dashboard cams.

Is that a yes or a no?

That's a statement of fact. I have an algorithm

scrubbing the feeds as we banter.

It's designed to capture their unique images

and only pull footage of them.

But you just said we don't have their faces.

Faces?

Where we're going, we don't need faces.

The computer vision

that verifies the authenticity of my vintage Jordans

can also isolate the suspects by their clothing...

...with a few modifications by yours truly.

Sometimes even I'm impressed by me.

Wait. There. Zoom in on that piece.

That does not look like a couple in the middle of a huge fight.

No license plate, staged argument,

knowledge of CCTV cameras.

They planned this.

Hey. Looks like Cartwright's murder was an orchestrated hit.

Still don't know why.I spoke to the organizers

of the Special Reaction Team training.

Cartwright didn't attend any of the events.

Came all the way from the Philippines not to train?

Why?

According to his calendar, to attend a different meeting

this afternoon.

The Kekoa Conference Room is at the Kahua Koa Hotel.

That's pretty far from K-Bay. Any more details?

No, that's it.

All right, it's 1:30. If we leave now,

maybe we can find out.

According to hotel management,

it's supposed to be some kind of cultural seminar,

but they didn't have a list of attendees.

Let's see what there is to see.

Whoa, whoa, stop right there.

Whoa, whoa, what the hell?

We're federal agents.Just shut up, now.

I got the subjects. We're heading to alpha.

Look, if you just check our credentials...

Is this really happening?

Special Agent in Charge Tennant.

Joe?

What are you doing here?

I could ask you the same thing.

You want to explain yourself?I've been on the island for two days.

And I know I said I would call if I came back...

I was talking about the attempted kidnapping, but...

Yes.

Right.But yes, a call

would have been nice.

Maybe you want to have these guys

let us go now?Yeah.

Of course. They're okay.

Guns?

I'm assuming this is about

Corporal Cartwright.JOE: Yes.

And if you're here and he's not,

I'm assuming it all went sideways.

Let's take a walk.

So you don't think Cartwright's

stabbing was a coincidence?

Pretty damn convinced it wasn't.

Especially since you were supposed to meet

for a secret meeting.

You look good, by the way.

I...

You too. But let's try to stay on task.

What's going on here?

It's complicated, Jane.

What do you know about the situation in Southeast Asia?