- A Saudi Arabian limo driver dies in an explosion of a car aboard NAS Patuxent River; Gibbs and company investigate; the apparent target is a Saudi prince present there for advanced training. The gang figure it out. Tony's father visits.
- A citizen of Saudi Arabia dies in an explosion of a car aboard the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, near Lexington Park, Maryland, between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River; the victim was the driver of a limo serving a Saudi prince, who was at Pax River for an advanced USN-USMC training program for pilots. Gibbs and company investigate; Gibbs assumes that someone had intended the bomb for the prince, so Gibbs also provides protection to the reluctant prince. Tony's father, Senior, arrives at the office to visit Junior; he promptly shows himself to be a ladies' man; he reveals that he has done business with the father of the subject prince. The prince's brother and their father also show up. After McGee and Abby find a key piece, the gang figure out the puzzle; Tony learns about his father, his history, and his situation.—DocRushing
- An Arab man in a suit watches a navy fighter plane land. The pilot is another Arab man that the first, Walid, calls "your highness." Walid is his driver. He's walking to the car when a jet flies low overhead and the car explodes into a fireball.
In the office, Tony angrily explains to someone on the phone that he's not his dad, Tony Sr. who lives in NYC. McGee explains that Tony needs the money for a cruise with some frat buddies this spring. Tony's dad isn't returning his calls.
Gibbs calls them to the scene of the car bomb. Prince Sayif Ibn Alwaan was renting the car. The driver Walid was killed.
Sayif's flight instructor is ready to be rid of the arrogant prince.
Gibbs tells the prince he's under their protective custody. When the prince objects, Gibbs threatens to have his flight instruction stopped. The prince relents, but only if they guard him at his ritzy hotel.
In MTAC, Director Vance gets the news that royal guards will be helping protect the prince. Al Jezeera is reporting it was a terrorist attack.
McGee comes to gleefully report that Tony has a visitor. It's Tony DiNozzo Sr. (Robert Wagner).
Tony Sr. is taken with Ziva and wants to know more. Pops recognizes the prince, he used to do business with his dad. Pops says whatever he came to talk about with Tony can wait.
The team goes to the prince's suite where Ziva listens to Sayif get chewed out by his older brother Abdalla in Arabic for his Western indulgences.
Vance visits Duckie in the morgue to tell him the Saudis want the body for quick burial.
Gibbs checks in with Abby, who's under the exploded car. She thinks the bomb was home made and wants to know all about Tony's dad. Gibbs gets called to MTAC.
An NSA dude tells them they've intercepted an email with key words relating to an assassination attempt on the prince. They trace the IP address and find it's in the business center of the hotel where the prince is staying.
Tony and Ziva race there, guns drawn, and come upon Tony Sr. typing away.
Pops gets to see the inside of an interrogation room, where Ziva and Duckie observe eagerly. Gibbs asks Tony Sr. about the email. He says he was emailing business contacts. He's quite entertained with the whole situation. He knows the prince's dad as Al and thought he might be a good source of financing for a project he's putting together.
Out in the hall, Gibbs warns Tony to keep his dad away from the royal family.
Gibbs thinks Tony Sr. has an agenda.
The Tonys sit down for a cocktail (Junior has non-alcoholic beer because he's working). Jr thinks Pops was disappointed he became a cop. Soon Jr. is criticizing his dad for his solitary childhood after his mom died when he was eight. He learns that dad has divorced and remarried and divorced since they last spoke. Jr. offers his condolences, his congratulations and his condolences.
Jr gets buzzed to relieve Ziva and warns his dad away from the royal family.
Back at the office, McGee watches surveillance from the car in the shop the day before and sees nothing unusual.
Ziva comes back from her shift, declaring Sayif a chauvinistic pig.
Vance joins the group and reports that MI 6 has a deep cover mole in the suspect terrorist group and he says they had nothing to do with it. It wasn't a terrorist attack. They're left with no leads.
The next morning, Gibbs and Ziva arrive at the hotel and find Tony Sr. in the lobby. He flirts shamelessly with Ziva.
In his suite they find Tony being held in a yoga position by a hot chick and two others lounging on the prince. Sayif's older brother Abdalla arrives and warns him their dad is on the way.
Down the hall they see Tony Sr. getting off the elevator with "Al," who says his good byes and says they'll talk soon.
Gibbs isn't pleased to see Sr. and takes it out on Jr.
In the lab, Abby tells McGee the bomb was very sloppily made. The timer didn't set it off, she thinks it could have been the vibration from a low flying jet.
McGee examines GPS that shows the car driving to a remote part of the base after the prince was dropped off. That's where the bomb had to have been planted.
Abdalla comes for Walid's body in the morgue where Duckie tells him he can't release the body yet -- he has one more test to perform. The older prince is peeved.
In the office, Jr waits anxiously while his dad works on his computer and answers his phone. He makes an appointment for a massage in his room.
The whole team is back in the office because Sayif is in the air for three hours doing his flight test. Tony struggles to keep his dad entertained and is horrified when he and Gibbs set off on a tour. He calls McGee frantic to find out what his dad was up to on his computer.
Gibbs takes Sr to a conference room, cutting short the tour. He tells Sr his son is the best young agent he's ever worked with. He asks when the last time they really talked was. He tells Sr about the plague Jr had four years ago. It's news to dad. Sr wants to tell him to buzz off but instead Gibbs tells Sr to get to know his son better.
In the lab, Abby confirms to McGee that Walid had traces of explosive on his hands, meaning he planted the bomb on the car.
Sr continues his tour with Abby, continuing to flirt shamelessly.
In MTAC, Gibbs tells Tony he understands he's distracted by his father. Tony says his dad isn't the man he thought he was. Tony says it turns out his dad is broke. McGee hacked his records. Tony thinks his dad came to 'fess up, but changed his mind when Al came to town. Tony says it's time to end the game. His dad's staying in a $1,000 a night suite he can't afford, Tony will get him when he checks out.
Ziva and McGee greet the prince after he passes his flight test. He says his brother was childhood friends with Walid, which is how he got the job. Sayif suspects he was there to keep and eye on him. They tell him Walid planted the bomb.
Back at the hotel, dad Al greets Gibbs and Tony and tells them Sayif called ahead and filled him in. Al says Abdalla did try to kill Sayif, thinking if he died as a martyr he'd be less of an embarrassment to the family, but he's boarding a royal jet for home now.
Abdalla has diplomatic immunity and his dad says he'll deal with his son himself. He tells Tony to say good bye to his dad for him and maybe they'll meet up in Monte Carlo next month.
Later in the lobby, Tony passes the news onto his dad, who is disappointed to have missed his window. He tries to get Tony to leave, but Jr follows his dad to check out. Sr does a tap dance about having problems with his credit card, but the desk man tells him his bill was paid in full. Al also left him an open-ended airline ticket to Monte Carlo.
Jr can only smile as his dad skates by. Neither of them says anything about what's really going on . Sr tells his son he loves him and leaves.
Later, Tony drops by Gibbs' place with a six-pack and finds him grilling a steak on his fireplace. Tony tells Gibbs about his dad's escape.
Gibbs pauses for a moment and asks Tony where he got the money. Tony says he didn't really need to go on a cruise with his fraternity brothers. He couldn't bust his dad, he is who he is.
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