NCIS

Previously on NCIS

I have no choice but to suspend you.

Indefinitely.

You look like real people.

I'm Marcie, by the way.

I don't like being ambushed.

I come bearing gifts. A peace offering.

Why? What I am most proud of

is my investigative work,

which is about exposing the truth.

And I know you know something about the truth.

And I want to be the one to write about it.

What a surprise. What are you doing here?

I could ask you the same question.

I'm working on a thing and I would really appreciate

your opinion.

Hoping you'll give it a read.

I swear! I'll do it!

No, you won't, Toby.

You're gonna be cool.

No one is getting hurt today, okay?

Then tell your men outside to leave! Toby.

I can't do that.

Do I look like the boss?

Have you seen my paycheck? I'm serious!

It's been 47 and a half minutes. I say we bust in there already.

Of course you'd say that. Cut the chatter. We don't

move in till we hear from Knight.

Look, Toby, Toby.

We've been at this for almost an hour.

I'm tired, you're tired.

I know poor Tina is tired, aren't you, babe?

- So why don't you just put the gun down? - Why?

So you can trick me with your government lies?!

Can I at least get Tina some water?

Hell, I could use some water. I... Is that okay?

Yeah?

You do the grocery shopping, Tina?

Does he know?

Know what? What are you two talking about?

Because if it's good news

now might be the time to tell him.

I was gonna tell him tonight...

Tell me what?!

Toby!

She's pregnant.

You mean to tell me that I'm gonna be a dad?

Get her out of here!

Target secure. Sending out the hostage.

Coming in from the back!

Go. Toby didn't mean nothing.

Don't hurt him!

Damn. I know.

Hey, Jimmy. How you holding up?

You dread days like this.

You know, when it's some of your own.

So far they've recovered the bodies of Agents Vargas and Ono.

And, of course, the-the suspect.

Still looking for Agents Knight and, Madden.

Any chance...?

Bishop, based on the condition of these bodies, I...

No one could have survived that.

Damn it, grab your gear and go in

through the crawl space if you have to.

I want the rest of my agents found. Go, go.

Excuse us, Special Agent Dalton.

Yeah? Agents McGee and Torres.

Gibbs's boys, right?

Yeah, we're-we're sorry for your loss here.

Thank you. Mind if we ask

how all this started?

NCIS was called to serve a warrant.

The guy... suspect was considered high-risk,

so the job was assigned to my REACT team.

We entered the house, but the guy took a hostage.

Per protocol, we pulled back

and one agent stayed inside.

Your negotiator.

Agent Knight.Yeah.

She took a risk in there and it worked.

The, hostage was freed and the suspect surrendered.

So what went wrong?

That's what you need to find out.

Excuse me. Hey!

Hey, can I get some more guys in here?

- Did you guys know the agents? - I saw Madden

and Vargas a-around a few times.

Say "hi" to in the break room.

You?

Yeah, same. What about you, Bishop?

I didn't know any of them.

Feel kind of badly about that now.

Uniform blast radius.

Definitely a lone device.

But how did it go off?

Well, no signs of the detonator.

It must have been destroyed in the blast.

Like everything else in this place.

Gonna take forever to process.

Do you hear that?

What is that?

That's Morse code.

It's SOS.

Guys, there's someone in here!

It's Agent Knight.

She's alive.

All right, let's get the paramedics in here now!

Yeah. I understand, sir.

Yeah, thank you for keeping us posted.

Any update on Agent Knight? Yeah.

Vance said she suffered a severe concussion.

But they expect her to make a full recovery.

- Well, that's a miracle. - Yeah.

Whatever it is, I'll take it.

She say anything about what happened?

No, not yet. And doctors are still running tests.

So we don't know how the bomb went off.

And we can't talk to the only person who can tell us.

Well, let's start with what we do know.

Petty Officer Second Class Toby Withers.

Wanted for stealing weapons from Naval Station Norfolk.

REACT agents went to serve the arrest warrant,

and Withers took a hostage.

But the hostage was released and Withers surrendered.

Until 90 seconds later when the bomb went boom.

Question is why.

Sure, this guy was facing prison time.

Yeah, but enough to blow himself to kingdom come?

Unless it wasn't about him. When I was working undercover,

I saw this guy selling bootleg DVDs.

Then he jumped off a ten-story building.

It made absolutely no sense.

But then we found heroin

in the DVD cases.

You think our bomber might be up to something bigger

than stolen weapons.

Yeah, we need to get the case notes and speak

to the agent in charge.

Dalton. The guy barking orders,

at the crime scene.

Reminds me of someone.

Hello?

Hey! I'm down here.

Thanks for agreeing to sit... Whoa.

That's a boat.

You have a boat in your basement?

Where else am I gonna put it?

You wanted to meet?

Yeah. Um...

First, um,

I read about the fallen NCIS agents.

And I-I wanted to offer my sincere condolences.

Thanks.

Sure.

I also, um, wanted to check on

the file that I

that, um, I gave you.

Did you read it? Yeah.

Well, what did you think?

Feel free to use words.

This was a murder case that happened about a year ago.

Any thoughts about that?

I mean, you are a detective.

Suspended, but...

Police got the guy.

What? They got the guy.

No. I think they got the wrong guy.

Did you not... did you...

Did you not see this photograph?

This is the guy they think did it.

Except this guy was in Arlington

when the murder was in West lawn, four miles away.

Four and a half.Okay.

So how could this guy

travel four and a half miles in 20 minutes, on foot,

with 1.5 milligrams of methamphetamine in his system?

It's not my case.

It could be.

The cops have put this thing to bed and moved on.

So that means the killer is still out there.

I want you to help me find him.

Why?

Well, I thought we established that truth and justice,

are how you roll.

We're not talking about me.

Okay.

I knew the murder victim. Hannah.

She was, she was my childhood best friend.

We lived four houses away from each other.

So, if you're wondering if this is personal for me, it is.

But I know

that there is more to this case.

And I'm pretty sure you do, too.

Thanks for coming up here.

It's the last place on the Navy Yard where I can smoke.

Well, thanks for taking the time.

Of course. You know,

I'm going over and over it again in my head,

trying to figure out how this happened to my team.

Did you talk to Knight yet?