- Gibbs and company capture the world's number-2 cyberterrorist; as Ducky suggests, the gang use an unconventional technique to gain evidence from the stubborn bad guy; Tony and Ziva find the body of an Ebola victim; the team come out ahead.
- Gibbs and the three musketeers capture the number-2 cyberterrorist in the world, who, in the previous month, hacked into the MTAC and thereby caused the death of an agent; Tony predicts that he will soon sing; however, he does not; instead he smugly taunts Gibbs, who allows him to think that he and the gang are dumb and old-school. McGoo and Abby work closely together; Duckman, with his psychologic insight, suggests an unconventional technique to Gibbs; Tony and Ziva find a body; Tony says to call the hazmat team; Ducky finds that the victim has indeed contracted the Ebola virus; Tony and Ziva escort the suspect on a special flight, which includes sleep time. Tony suddenly finds himself in a pickle, Ziva joins him, and Gibbs and McGee get into a pickle of their own. Tony and Ziva get some critical data from the prisoner, then McGee confirms it and traces the mastermind. Gibbs and the gang come out ahead.—DocRushing
- A guy on a bike wants to get in the front door of a building, but is stopped by McGee, who tells him to use the back. He goes in the back and gets whacked by a homeless man throwing trash out of a Dumpster -- it's Gibbs.
The man, who is Middle Eastern, keeps walking and passes Ziva all dolled up gabbing on her cell phone. The man gets suspicious and takes her hostage. Gibbs draws.
The man tries to lead Ziva out, but when he passes the Dumpster, Tony pops up and grabs him, Ziva decks him and NCIS gets their man and his laptop.
He's been on the Most Wanted list.
Back at NCIS, Tony enjoys the capture. They took down Ajay Khan, the guy who hacked into MTAC last month, the No. 2 cyber terrorist, who they hope can lead them to No. 1. But in the meantime, the network is down.
Tony complains to Kevin from IT about the delay. He explains there are new security measures in place. Kevin gives Ziva a flier about an improv comedy night to give to McGee. Because of his beard, he says, he usually ends up playing a bumbling terrorist.
In interrogation, Ajay calls his lawyer, who can't make it until tomorrow. Gibbs doesn't care and forces Ajay to look at photos of Agent James Hunt, who was undercover when Ajay's hack took down the system and exposed him.
All Ajay knows about his employer is that he goes by M.C., but he doesn't know where he is. Ajay is glib and dismissive of Gibbs' threats, calling him a technological dinosaur.
Out in the hall, Gibbs tells Tony he said "UP address" instead of "IP" so Ajay would think they're dumb.
In the lab, McGee takes Ajay's laptop apart as Abby supervises closely. McGee is impressed by Khan's credentials -- he also went to MIT and remembers a hack Ajay pulled there. With the laptop's power bypassed, McGee turns it on. The motherboard starts smoking, failure.
Down in the morgue, Duckie explains that Ajay is motivated only by money. He doesn't have any family or friends, he's the ultimate narcissist. Duckie thinks he would worry about losing it all or dying. Khan double crossed a terrorist group that's now being held in Guantanamo.
In MTAC, Gibbs conferences with Air Force Brigadier General Jack Mandrake to arrange a three hour intimidation trip for Khan to Gitmo. NCIS Deputy Director Jerome Craig joins Gibbs and balks at the idea of doing something off-book.
Gibbs visits Abby in the lab. She captured some of Khan's computer booting up on film before it fried. With screen capture of the video, she has an address of a warehouse in Anacostia.
Tony and Ziva check out the warehouse, which is big, dark and empty. Except for the dead body on the ground, covered in sores. Tony suggests the Hazmat team.
Back in interrogation, Gibbs Khan photos of the dead man, killed by ebola. He was the warehouse caretaker who doubled as a bomb maker.
Gibbs mocks the use of ebola as unoriginal. He mocks Khan, saying he bets he's not even the brains of the operation. Khan boasts that they should just wait a few days to find out. Gibbs has what he needed. Meanwhile, McGee waits in the hall with an orange jumpsuit.
Andrews Air Force Base Khan is shackled and strapped into a transport plane to Guantanamo. Ziva and Tony join him. Khan tells Gibbs he doesn't believe they're going to Guantanamo.
Gibbs gets off the plane as they close the doors and power up.
Gibbs visits Duckie in the locked-down morgue, where the ebola victim is on a slab. Duckie found a cut on his finger, which could be how he was given it. Duckie thinks he was given a weakened strain of the virus.
Craig comes to get Gibbs to go over the plan. He's not sure what to do if Khan doesn't start talking before the plane lands. Gibbs says it'll be up to Craig.
On the flight, Tony has to hold a barf bag for Khan. Ziva tells Khan that his former employers are at Guantanamo. Khan doesn't think they have the power to arrange to put him in holding with them.
Craig visits Abby in the lab. She found the ebola strain was developed as a vaccine by the CDC, but their system was hacked and the vaccine was shipped as a flu vaccine. Craig realizes this means that anyone who opens the boxes for the flu vaccines could unknowingly release ebola, putting hundreds or thousands of lives in danger.
Tony takes a call on the plane that it's time to change the game.
Khan still isn't taking them seriously as the crew tells Tony and Ziva to strap in for the descent into Gitmo. Tony takes out a syringe and injects Khan with something, knocking him out.
Back at NCIS, Kevin the IT guy nervously looks around for Gibbs with a replacement phone. Abby announces she has tracked the ebola shipment to the GPS-equipped delivery trucks.
Craig calls for Kevin.
Khan wakes up shackled in a cell with Tony and Ziva looking over him. He hears shouting in Arabic, Ziva translates: "Give him to me, you pig, you coward. Die!"
They leave Khan alone in his cell, surrounded by screaming terrorists.
Metro PD helps NCIS set up a DUI checkpoint to intercept the delivery van. Gibbs and McGee see it approaching.
Ziva and Tony bring Khan a tray of food, which he throws across his room. He still refuses to talk.
An army guard tells Tony and Ziva the base commander wants to see one of them, but because Khan isn't legally supposed to be there, one of them has to stay with him.
Khan enjoys seeing them busted. The guard leaves Tony a walkie talkie.
Back in DC, Gibbs and McGee pull the confused delivery driver out of the van.
In his cell, Khan waxes about grunge music. Tony tries to understand his motivation. Khan says it's about a steady paycheck and power. Tony compares Khan to Tony Curtis' character in "Spartacus," who just "minced around giving people sponge baths" and had no real power.
The cell door opens and Tony notices the guards are gone and the cameras are off. Khan thinks it's all part of the ruse until the lights go out, an alert comes over the loudspeakers and they hear gunfire in the distance.
Tony was required to check his gun at the gate per base protocol and he can't reach anyone on the radio. They hear shouting in the distance.
Ziva radios back, telling Tony the entire security system is down. It may have been hacked. Khan thinks his boss found out he was there and thinks he's going to flip.
Ziva radios Tony that other cell doors have opened. Tony goes to investigate, telling Khan to shut his cell door.
A guard walks into the cell block and starts to explains when another prisoner's door opens and he attacks the guard. Tony tries to help but is shot in the leg. Khan hides in his cell.
In DC, with the truck enclosed in a Hazmat tent, McGee and Gibbs don Hazmat suits and find the box with the ebola virus. It's rigged to blow.
Back in Gitmo, the prisoner throws Tony to the ground, gets the guard's gun and shoots him. Tony holds his wounded leg. The prisoner is about to shoot him when Ziva comes and shoots the prisoner in the back.
Tony and Ziva go for cover in Khan's cell as they hear more cell doors open. The only have eight bullets to fend off an angry mob.
Back in DC, everyone runs for cover from the ebola bomb. It explodes in the tent, but is contained.
Gibbs gets a call from Craig.
Back in Khan's cell, Tony uses his belt as a tourniquet for his leg. Ziva translates a terrorist banging on the other side of the door, saying he'll let Tony and Ziva go if they give him Khan. Tony thinks about it, then agrees as Ziva points out Khan has been of no use to them yet.
They're about to open the door and throw Khan out when he agrees to talk. Ziva holds the cell door shut as it's banged on from the outside as Khan tells McGee back in DC how he contacts "MC."
McGee doesn't believe Khan's first answer and cites an old hacking trick Khan used at MIT to make Khan tell the truth. He gives them MC's IP address so McGee can track him. They radio Gibbs the all clear.
The lights come on in the cell, Tony takes the tourniquet off his "hurt" leg and the cell door opens to reveal Gibbs in the hallway and an unhurt "guard" and "prisoner."
Kevin the improv terrorist comes out and practices screaming in Arabic.
The team leaves the holding facility at Andrews in the blowing snow -- they were never in Cuba.
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