NCIS

- Is that your former partner? - Yep.

DNA matched the tissue

- Jimmy found on the body. - Parker?

Deputy Director, are you accusing

one of my agents of murder?

Given Agent Parker's history with the victim,

he should be on the list of suspects.

- Cute couple there. - You don't think they're, uh...

- Nah. - Definitely not, no.

The Raven went to great lengths to poison half the city.

And now it appears he blames you

for stopping the attack.

Blames me for something.

Killing my ex-partner

and framing me for the murder.

The Department of Justice said you agreed

to hand over Agent Parker.

An extra go bag with a change of clothes

in case the FBI has your apartment staked out.

Everybody, this is my ex-wife Vivian.

You sure you want to do this?

This Raven came after me, too.

Whatever bigger plans he has, I'm already a part of it.

We're sure Parker's in there?

Both Parker and Kolchak, sir.

Dressed for stealth and sitting

in one of the booths on the left.

- Based on one anonymous tip? - More than one.

We had multiple calls reporting a male and female

matching our BOLO descriptions.

Amazing.

We spend two days scouring the entire eastern seaboard,

only to find them slumming in plain sight

at his local diner.

What do you call that, Agents? Huh?

Is Parker crazy? Ballsy? Stupid?

Or a genius.

Or a genius.

So, we going in?

This one's all mine.

You two cover the exits.

Of all the gin joints

in all the towns in all the world.

Hey, Sweeney.

Diner is a long way from Casablanca.

Yeah, and you'd make a terrible Bogart.

What you've done here is called aiding and abetting a fugitive.

Not to mention actively interfering with an investigation.

All right, all right. Tap the brakes, Sweeney.

Seriously, no one here is aiding and abetting anyone.

If anything, you're interfering with our investigation.

What are you talking about?

You just blew our cover, Sweeney.

We're here on a case of our own.

Well, at least we were.

So you sitting there has nothing to do with Parker?

Our convergence here is just an amazing coincidence.

Well, so much for Rule 39.

But since we are all here, and you're mentioning Parker...

Can we at least talk about the fact

that we all know that he's being set up?

By whom, exactly? This Raven character?

Give me a break.

Look, I admit it's a pretty lame nickname,

but whoever's behind it did try to poison half of D.C.

Not to mention nearly killing two of our own.

Which would make him far too busy

to waste time framing Parker.

But if Raven is framing Parker,

can't we just take a breath,

take some time to consider his motives?

Oh, is that what this is about?

Some shameless appeal to buy more time?

So where are they?

Leon. Tell me you're not part of this little charade, too.

Don't insult me, Wayne.

Our tip line apparently just received

the same anonymous phone calls

about Parker and Kolchak that you did.

How the hell can that be?

The calls must've come from a third party.

Like the Raven?

Which only proves that we need more time.

Enough!

You take all the time you need, Agents.

You may be blinded by loyalty,

but as far as the FBI is concerned,

Parker's time is up.

So our tip line didn't really get a call?

This is a very dangerous game that you're playing,

and that's the last time I'm going to bend the truth

to save your asses.

- Director, we can explain. - Save it.

Now, I appreciate you wanting to help Parker as much as I do,

but deliberately poking the FBI hornet's nest

is no way to do it.

Well, it's crazy to think that Sweeney might actually listen to reason.

Or that he would give us more time.

So what about Parker?

Do we in fact know where he is right now?

No, sir, he's been sticking to the game plan.

Not a word since he and Vivian drove off

with Kasie's list of accounting firms.

Trying to figure out who put his name

on the offshore account.

And you don't have any idea how to reach him?

Uh, don't answer. I don't want to know.

But in case any one of you do hear from him,

tell him to hurry.

So much for good intentions.

McGee.

I'm on it.

All right, thanks, McGee.

Well, that didn't sound good.

To put it mildly.

They tried to buy us some time with Sweeney,

but they just ended up pissing him off.

You're a lucky man, Park.

Really? That's your takeaway?

Yeah. That's a credit to you,

endearing yourself to a new team

that's willing to stick their necks out for you like this.

Well, that's not on me. That's just them.

They're a special group.

And you are lucky to have them.

Okay, fine, I'm lucky.

Not to mention grateful to have people around me

that I can trust.

Yeah.

Finally.

Please tell me we have a winner.

I wish I could.

But there is no link between this bogus offshore account in your name

and a Prudhomme Financial Group.

I need a shower.

Well, look on the bright side.

That's two firms off of Kasie's list

that we've been able to eliminate in two days.

With only nine firms to go.

We will get there.

What was that?

Oh, shoot, that's your laptop reminding me

to update your firewall.

And I need you on that wall.

Save me some hot water, Colonel.

No promises.

I may need to soak my head for a while.

What do we do when we hit a wall?

We go back to square one.

Well, we didn't hit a wall.

We kind of just scraped it.

Well, either way, let's put yesterday's bad idea behind us

and start reviewing every little thing

we've got on Raven from the first day

he reared his ugly little head.

Well, not for nothing, but Jimmy and I have been

- doing just that for the past two days. - Just that?

Searching for anything that we may have missed.

Mm-hmm. That's all you've been doing?

Yeah. I mean, I wish I could say

that we found something new, but...

- Really? - Okay, guys?

I think that maybe we are too focused

on who the Raven is

instead of why he is singling out Parker.

It can't just be about revenge.

I mean, he would have killed Parker by now.

Instead of setting him up just to destroy his good name.

That's the end result, isn't it?

Parker's reputation in the gutter.

Well, who would that help?

That's it. If we can figure out

who benefits from Parker's downfall...

It will lead us to finding the big, ugly bird.

Now we just need to figure out how to figure it out.

Oh, we'll figure it out.

Starting with Parker's FBI history?

Yeah.

So another new home for your pomato?

It wasn't exactly thriving in the evidence tray.

And if you ask me, poor Polly's still in shock

since you and Jess smashed her first home.

Yeah, again, Kase, it was such a freak thing.

I turned around really fast,

and then I didn't know that Agent Knight was passing by...

You know, to be honest, it's me who's in shock

and just keeping myself busy to avoid thinking about

the Raven still being out there.

Yeah, I've been somewhat of a quiet mess myself lately.

In my case, not so quiet.

You know, just the slightest ping or beep in here

brings back all kinds of bad memories of the lockdown.

Okay, we can't rehash that day too much, all right?

It's not quite PTSD, but still.

Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

- What-what is it? - What...

- Kasie, change your ringtone. - Yeah, no,

I-I have been meaning to.

No caller ID. What if it's him?

- What if it's who? - The Raven.