- Special Agent Ned Dorneget from NCIS cyber operations assists the team when a Navy ensign who worked in the Office of Naval Intelligence is murdered. Also, the team discovers that Jake and Gibbs have become good friends.
- A Naval ensign crashes her car and dies from her throat being slashed. The team goes to investigate. When they check her out they discover her file is unattainable. It seems she works for Naval Intelligence because of her exceptional computer skills. When McGee gets her computer, it's hard to enter so Cyber crimes sends their best man, Dorneget to help. They eventually learn that the ensign logged on to the net using another man's computer. When they go to the man, he denies knowing the ensign and refuses to cooperate. When they try to get a warrant, it's denied because the NSA already has him under surveillance. Bishop asks her husband to help but he's reluctant to.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
- A couple gets a late night slice of pie and the man's in the middle of proposing way too soon -- their eleventh date -- when a woman crashes into the diner with a wound in her neck.
At the office in the morning, Jake drops after carpooling with Ellie. Tony and McGee are jealous to learn that Jake and Gibbs talk almost daily.
Gibbs comes in with the body of the week.
At the crime scene, the victim has a slit throat. She's Navy ensign Janine Wilt but her whole file is classified. They find a Gordon Poly high school shirt in her car and Ellie and Gibbs head there. She's a volunteer basketball coach who stayed after practice last night and left around 11 p.m.
She was a cyber warfare engineer with the office of naval intelligence. Her personnel file went dark two weeks ago.
At the office, Vance and Gibbs talk to her captain, who sings her praises. She was working on the Sword of Satan Colombian drug ring, she hacked their dark web and tapped their communications. The captain is sure they picked up every member of the cartel, but Gibbs isn't so sure.
Special Agent Ned Dornegut joins them from the cyber division to try to crack Wilt's laptop.
Down in the morgue, Duckie tells Gibbs that Wilt was cut with a wide blade and had the knife held to her throat before she was killed.
Ellie finds surveillance of Wilt's car running a red light at 11:42 p.m., before she was hurt.
Going through Wilt's emails, they find reference to Alfredo Montez, who did computer work for the cartel. They wonder if he went after Wilt when she made him look bad by cracking their network.
Tony and Ellie pick up Montez, who is surprised they didn't come to kill him. In interrogation, he's relieved they're legit. He clearly doesn't know who hacked his system.
Abby calls Gibbs down to the garage, where she found evidence someone was in Wilt's backseat, holding a knife to her throat.
In the office, Dornegut finds that Wilt accessed a computer belonging to someone named Adem Faruk Korkmaz from her laptop.
McGee and Ellie head to Adem's suburban home where his typical teenage daughter answers the door. Adem, who is in the import-export business, says he didn't know Wilt and there's no way she had access to his computer. He won't let them look at his computer without a warrant, which McGee later fails to get from a judge because another agency has jurisdiction.
Vance gets word it's the NSA, using a FISA warrant to monitor Adem's dealings with Turkey. Ellie goes to her husband for information.
He tells her NSA has been monitoring Adem for months but he gets angry that she's asking him to reveal classified information. He thinks she's acting differently and she confesses that she shot a man in Kabul last week.
He can't believe she didn't tell him, but she throws it back in his face, saying they don't talk anymore. She's pretending she's fine, but she's not. She tries to leverage his sympathy for help on the current case.
The next morning, Ellie is in a foul mood. Tony and McGee notice when Jake comes in and is cool to Ellie and gets a glare from Gibbs. Gibbs and Jake head up to Vance's office, but Gibbs won't let Ellie come.
Gibbs is annoyed at Jake, who quickly reverses course and hands over Adem's SST drive. Dornegut and McGee find Adem is shipping and receiving tons of designer clothes. They find files protected by the same firewall Wilt used.
The only thing left is a deleted email account and list of screen names from a chat room.
When they go to see Adem in interrogation, he thinks they're interested in the designer handbag knock-offs he was buying. He doesn't know anything about the email account or chat room, but recognizes a screen name as belonging to his daughter Layna. She goes to Gordon Poly and is on the basketball team.
She comes in to talk to Gibbs and Ellie and her father encourages her to tell them everything. She admits using his computer to visit chat rooms, but says it got weird when people started asking if she knew her true calling, so she quit. Then she started getting weird messages from "crazy people" saying she needed a purpose in life. She went to Wilt for help and Wilt accessed the computer remotely to delete the email and block everyone.
Layna points out the screen names of the people who harassed her.
After examining tissue samples from Wilt's neck, Abby reports the murder weapon was likely an old Vietnamese bayonet. She has a list of collectors in the area and they match the name Peter Simek to one of chat room aliases used by Bradley Simek.
Tony and McGee head to the Simek house. There's a display case missing a bayonet. Brad is a teenager and his late father, Peter, who was in the military. They find a 3D computer in Brad's room but he races off in his mom's minivan.
Brad also attends Gordon Poly, but Layna doesn't know him. Duckie offers a profile on Brad, saying he was susceptible to being lured into a terrorist cause. Brad's father died of a heart attack three years ago but Brad still emailed him every week.
Duckie suggests Brad went after Wilt because she could expose him, to prove himself.
In the lab, Abby finds traces of gun powder on Brad's computer and a blueprint for a plastic detonator on Brad's computer. He has a bomb. They trace his phone. His mom calls him and tries to convince him to come home, but he hangs up. They figure out he's on a bus and try to reach the driver to tell him to pull over.
There is a mother with a baby in the back and dozens of people.
NCIS catches up to the bus. Brad grabs his detonator but NCIS hustles all the passengers off the bus as Brad hesitates. Gibbs gets on and aims at him, but then sees that Brad isn't prepared to go through with it and lowers his weapon. Brad insists he didn't kill Wilt and Gibbs calmly talks him through putting down his bag.
Brad is almost to the steps of the bus and ready to surrender when local police pull up and Brad gets spooked. Gibbs tries to keep him calm, telling him he's a good kid.
Then Gibbs can see he's lost Brad as Brad says: "No, I'm not."
Brad turns and runs to the back of the empty bus and detonates his bomb, knocking Gibbs to the ground in a fireball as it explodes.
(To be continued....)
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