NCIS: New Orleans

What's the verdict, Rach?

The probability of a train derailing is too high.

1 in 432,000.

Well, that's not so bad.

Better than the chances of a car crash.How is that relevant?

We've already established we're not driving.

You know the agreement, three months to research

how we're traveling to Arizona,

not a day longer. We decide today.

There has to be some safer way.

The rehearsal dinner's in a week.

I just want to make sure we actually attend

Aunt Sheila's wedding, not die on the way.

Why don't we take a bus?

Huh? It's cheap, it's safe,

and you can let all this go and focus on having fun.

Most busses don't even have seatbelts.

N-N-No way.

Okay, sweetheart.

Take a deep breath.

You take your meds this morning?

I need you to focus on one thing.

You know what that is?

You're going to say breakfast.

Bingo.

Dad, wh-what's happening?

Upstairs, Rach, use the fire ladder like we practiced.

Upstairs! Go!

Find the girl.

What do you think, Mama?

Oh...

Same Trutone you remember?

It's like I stepped back in time.

I-I can't believe you own this bar now.

Yeah. It's a lot of work, but I love it.

Glad you made it. Yeah.

Expected y'all a couple hours ago.

Uh, Mena had a rough morning,

so we had a late start leaving the motel in Montgomery.

Well, it's a long trip from Virginia to New Orleans.

Yeah. Seems like she's doing okay now.

Let's just hope it lasts long enough

for her to have that tour at Vista Shores.

How's she feel about maybe moving back?

The jury's s-still out on that one.

Jimmy, want you to meet

my mother, Mena Cantrell. Mama,

this is Jimmy Boyd, the new bar manager.

Hi. Well, I see you got your looks

from Mena's side of the family, Dwayne.

You miss our chicory coffee?

Just made a fresh pot.

Figured you could use it after that long drive.

Cassius doesn't like me to drink coffee,

thinks it makes me too jittery.

The doctors said that her memory would continue to come and go.

Just hope being back actually helps.

She likes you, Jimmy.

We should tell her you're more than the bar manager.

Well, I appreciate that,

but she got a lot to take in right now.

Letting her know that Cassius was my daddy, too,

well, that can wait a while.

Lot of memories for her here,

not all of them good.

Hey, if it's too hard for her,

we'll just turn around and drive her back.

Whatever's best for your mom, that's what we'll do.Yeah, okay.

I always loved you in that dress.

Yeah.

You know, when you were a little boy,

you used to sneak in and watch me sing,

right over there.Right there, I know,

on a stool, hiding.

Loved the way you lit up the stage.

Good to have you back

where you belong, Mama.

But your dad was a three-star admiral,

why didn't you just go to the Naval Academy?

Is there something wrong with being a Marine grunt?

No, no, no, I have nothing but respect for enlistees.

I'm just pointing out that you had options.

Oh, you found me out, Agent Khoury.

I'm a chronic underachiever.

Hey, so the victim's a Seabee out of Belle Chasse

named Ben Kinnaman.

Yeah, we heard he's still alive.

Barely. Neighbor saw

two masked men leave the house,

called 911. They rushed in to take him to the hospital.

You think it was a robbery?

I don't know. He was shot twice in the chest.

Neighbors didn't hear any gunshots,

so we're thinking it was a silenced weapon.

Yeah, sounds like a professional hit.

You don't say?

Oh, aren't we just so lucky to have

such a brilliant agent on our team now?

So lucky.

Shooters weren't going for subtlety.

Kicked in the door, came in hot.

Seabee Kinnaman was trying to defend himself, but looks like

he didn't get a round off.

Anything in his file indicate

why he might be targeted?Nothing so far.

Sebastian's talking to his CO, but Kinnaman mostly worked

on facility upgrades at Belle Chasse.

Why put out a professional hit on a naval engineer?

Hey, Kinnaman has a daughter, right?

Teenage girl.

Where is she?

Cop told us he was calling the school

while they sent a unit over there. Why?

I think she was here. In fact, I think this all started here.

Shots fired from outside.

Someone tried to take Kinnaman out from a distance.

Looks like breakfast for two.

Well, when Covington PD cleared the house,

there was no sign of the daughter.BREAUX: Rachel!

Rachel? Hey, buddy, slow down.

Tim Breaux, Covington Police. Ben's a friend.

I just heard what happened. Is Rachel okay?

Rachel is Ben's daughter?

Cop I talked to said she was at school.

She's not. Rachel is homeschooled.

She should be here.Where's her room?

Upstairs. Okay, go

with Agent Gregorio, maybe she's just hiding. Check down there.

I'll coordinate a search of the surrounding area.

Rachel, you here?

It's Tim.

You can come out.

Did Rachel have medical issues?

She's on the autism spectrum, highly intelligent.

The meds are just for anxiety.

There's a fire ladder.

Yeah, Ben had them installed

in the bedrooms to make Rachel feel safer.

She found a way out, smart girl.

Is that her bike?

That's Ben's.

Rachel's is blue.

Where'd she go? Does she have any family close,

or friends? No, it's just Ben and Rachel.

I don't really know of any friends.

Think, she's scared, she's on the run. Where?

Treehouse.

They spent last summer building it together.

Rachel calls it her quiet place.

Is it a bike ride away?

It's on some land he owns out in Folsom.

They ride out there all the time.All right, show me.

I just don't know if now is the right time

to bring it up to her.

Well, will there ever be a right time?

You had a breakthrough at that clinic, Dwayne,

but your mom is probably the only person who can fill in

the missing pieces so you can put Red behind you for good.

I've been sleeping great.

You've also been beating yourself up

over what happened to him.

Because I told Cassius about the affair,

about Red and my mom.You were a child.

What your father did to Red isn't your fault.

Just wish I knew more about him.

Who his family was.

I mean, what if his family never even knew what happened to him?

So go ask Mena. Get the answers you need.

She's fragile.

She's also Dwayne Pride's mother.

You're a pretty tough bunch.

You're just as good on those keys as I remember.

I just wish I could

remember the words.

I've been thinking about the old days,

about you, this place.

Remember the man who taught me to play the piano?

Red?

Clarence.

Clarence. What was his last name?

Redding.

Clarence Redding. He was kind

and funny.

He used to make you laugh all the time. Yeah?

I don't really remember him all that well.

Well, you liked him.

You liked him a lot.

He was, uh...

What, Mama?

He... He was... What?

You know what, I-I just don't think

I want to talk about this anymore.That's okay.

It's okay.

We don't have to talk about anything you don't want to.

Play some more. I like hearing it.

Khoury, you, uh,

got something on our Navy engineer?

Kinnaman's in surgery now.

Sebastian talked to his CO,

but he didn't have any leads