NCIS: New Orleans

So what should we do?

There is no way...

Look, a few businesses

is nothing compared to...

Okay, all right.

Let's take it down a notch, everybody.

You're making an assumption.

The mayor thinks that she's...

A-All right, that-that's enough.

I didn't seek to be the foreman of this commission.

You all voted me in. Please let me do my job.

Deputy Mayor Reyes

is here to represent the mayor's office.

Mayor Taylor extends her appreciation

to each of you for joining this team,

especially those of you who were tested

and able to be here in person.

The mayor has full confidence in you.

We're expecting great results here.

But what do those results

look like?

Action plans

to put in front of the city council.

Mayor wants you to tackle the issues

that have been plaguing this town for decades.

Systemic inequality.

We all sadly know

that this town was born of it.

Educational racism. Rental and mortgage bias.

Racial and gender wage gap. Homelessness...

The list goes on and on.

That's why you're all here.

Leaders across a variety of city sectors.

Mayor's calling you

the Crescent City 2.0 Commission.

I'm all for a better future,

as long as we don't vilify everything

that's brought us this far.

The best thing to change this town quick

is to focus on the biggest problem in the room:

the New Orleans Police Department.

And how is the department a problem, Ms. Briggs?

Let me count the ways.

Discrimination, corruption, brutality...

You're talking about

the old police department.

When I was superintendent, I changed all that.

You put a Band-Aid on a gaping chest wound.

Retired with honors.

But your cops think they run this city.

They forget they're supposed to work for the people.

Allie.

Michael, we're all on the same side here.

Are we, Dwayne?

Really? You hear

how this radical is talking to me?

If this is gonna work, we need brutal honesty.

Tactful honesty would suffice.

I call out fascism when I see fascism.

You let the barbarians through the gate here.

What did you call me?

Enough with the name-calling.

All right?

You see problems?

This is where we find solutions.

But...

we got to work within the system.

I'm not here to work with the same old failed solutions

from a broken system. I'm here to change the game.

Grievances are easy.

Actions take resolve. Compromise.

People are dying in the streets

and you expect them to compromise?

So what should we do? Burn the city

to the ground and start fresh?

We don't have to burn down the city.

Just the establishment.

Now, listen here...

I think we need to be careful with the words that we use here.

We don't need to break down...

If you think you're gonna defund the police...

If we can't be civil together, then we cannot work together.

That girl is dangerous.

And this meeting

is a waste of time.

Michael.

Come on back and sit...

Michael!

Look,

the mayor chose us to work together

for a reason.

We must be civil.

Good. Now we can all get to work.

I think that's enough for today.

Well... I'll say that went better than expected.

I'm just saying

it'll feel weird not to see you tonight.

And tomorrow night. That freak you out?

Come on.

All right. I can't wait to see you, too. Bye.

What?

Don't "what" me. Give me the deets.

What's up with Kara?

She's doing well, thanks.

Oh? How well?

Quite well, Hannah.

Come on.

Welcome to

a curiously enigmatic crime scene, ladies.

Enigmatic? That's a 25-cent word.

Thank you. Our victim

is Todd VonRoenn, janitor at Stennis Space Center.

Oh? When does NCIS get called on an accidental death

of a civilian support staff?

Since NOPD

found this stashed in the victim's house.

What's this card gain access to?

Restricted labs at Stennis.

And our victim had no security clearance.

Yeah.

Okay, well, that is an enigma.

Now you're feeling my synonym-of-the-day vibe.

You think he was murdered?

Sebastian sure does.

Found some questionable marks on the victim's head.

Got the body loaded up now

to take back to Dr. Wade.

This all has the whiff of espionage.

Whatever VonRoenn was doing with this key card

could be what got him killed.

There's a few bags of size 4 diapers in here, Audra.

Baby Jack is shooting up like a weed.

He'll need 'em before I see you again.

Can't thank you enough, Ms. Devereaux.

And Mr. Dwayne.

Well, you just keep that baby fat and happy.

That's all the thanks we need.

Hey, Ms. D.

Hey.

Man,

you got this food pantry running like

a well-oiled machine thanks to you and Jimmy.

Well, just trying to do my part in these strange times.

Yeah, well,

I'm sure folks appreciate it more than you know.

I appreciate feeling like I'm a real part

of a neighborhood again.

Glad you're fighting

the good fight. It's why I came to see you.

Oh, what-what's up?

My friend Diana,

her son Erik was arrested last night--

robbing a couple at knifepoint.

Oh, yikes.

That's a ten-year minimum.

Except Erik didn't do it. He's a good kid.

Plus, he was blocks away from the robbery.

But he fits the victims' vague description,

so he was arrested on the spot.

I take it there was no other witnesses?

Their word against his.

Listen, Diana works three jobs just to make ends meet.

She's strapped for cash; she came to me for the bail money.

So I gave it to her, but she got to the jail,

Why?

they wouldn't release Erik.

Something about he had a fight in the holding cell.

Diana needs an attorney's help.

Your state license?

It still valid?

Good day, Loretta.

Not for this poor soul.

Nor the poor soul standing in front of me.

Zahra reached out. Said you were a lamb

led to the slaughter.

Well, I will admit that the first meeting

of the mayor's commission was less than ideal.

I was told you had a mutiny.

Well, I wasn't thrown overboard yet.

Who was leading the mutineers?

Michael Holland.

Former police superintendent.

He isn't exactly interested in working with tomorrow's leaders.

It seems to me someone should show them

that they share a common goal.

If only there was someone on the commission who knew

better than anyone about how to put the city first.

This meant to be a pep talk?

That's your challenge, Dwayne. Be the bridge.

We'll see if I'm up to the task.

Meantime,

Carter and Sebastian right to think

our janitor was murdered?

The weight of the car did crush his body,

but that's not what killed him.

He bled out first from this cranial fracture.

The depth of the wound had to be created by an external force.

Like someone slammed his head into something?

And then shoved him underneath the car

to make it look like an accident.