- A Navy lieutenant, otherwise in perfect health, dies under mysterious circumstances; Gibbs and company investigate; the vic's sister disappears; a long-time friend of the siblings recently died. The gang figure it out and bust the killer.
- A Navy lieutenant, otherwise in perfect health, dies in his car while madly trying to reach an emergency room at a hospital; Gibbs and company investigate; Tony gladly volunteers to interview the victim's sister, who's an attractive reporter on a cable news network; when he and Ziva arrive, they find that someone has tossed her pad. The sister has disappeared. The vic worked on a classified program at the Navy Info-ops Center (NIOC); Tony has a contact at the NIOC, so Gibbs asks him to use it. A long-time friend of the siblings recently died, supposedly by accident; Gibbs comments on the "coincidences". Palmer finds a key piece of evidence with a sinister implication, and Ducky finds another one. Ziva says that Tony has become obsessed with the sister; he eventually finds her; with her help the gang put the puzzle together. Gibbs and Ziva bust the killer.—DocRushing
- A man is being taken out of an ambulance on a stretcher when a sedan crashes through the parking lot and into a parked car. The driver is dead.
McGee finds a Facebook posting from Brenda Bittner, a woman at Gibbs' coffee shop, saying she's in a committed relationship with Tony DiNozzo. He comes to work and is appalled to find that the woman he thought he had a one night stand with thinks they're dating.
Gibbs comes in to announce the body of the week. At the hospital, the victim is Lt. Jeffrey Hutton. McGee goes to find the victim's sister.
DiNozzo tells Ziva about his idea of the perfect woman: independent, intelligent, successful.
Duckie knows the car crash isn't what killed the lieutenant, but he doesn't know yet what did.
Tony learns that the victim's sister is Dana Hutton, a TV reporter that Tony is hot to interview.
He and Ziva go to her house. Tony dodges a call from his one night stand. He peers inside and sees the place has been ransacked. They go in.
Tony finds a picture of her on assignment overseas and is captivated. She's not there.
Back at the office we learn the victim and Dana were military brats, their father young in a training exercise. Their mom died five years ago.
Jeffrey worked at Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC), which Tony calls "secret stuff."
McGee goes to talk to Jeffrey's CO in MTAC.
Tony's enraptured by Dana's resume.
In the morgue, Duckie finds multiple organ failure but with no cause. The victim was in perfect health for his recent physical.
Gibbs and McGee talk to Hutton's CO in MTAC. He says Hutton was a politician who knew how to work the system and he was working on something so classified that Vance will have to call the secretary of the navy to get them filled in.
Tony and Ziva go to Dana's station where her producer tells them a friend and mentor of Dana's was killed in a car accident two weeks ago and she was the executor of his estate, including an old book store.
She was working on a piece on private military companies but lately had gotten interested in old Soviet spy stuff. He says she lost objectivity when she was passionate about something.
Tony asks if she had a boyfriend. The producer doesn't know.
In Vance's office, he introduces Gibbs to Alejandro Rivera with the Mexican justice department, who's in town to set up an international task force. In breezes M. Allison Hart, Gibbs' crush. She's been appointed Rivera's legal counsel for the task force. She tells Gibbs that Rivera helped her get Colonel Bell out of prison. She has temporary employee status.
Palmer checks with Abby, who has found nothing in Hutton's tox screen and is ornery about it. Tony calms her with a hug and asks about the prints in Dana's condo. She hasn't gotten to them yet and tosses them both out.
At the elevator, Palmer congratulates Tony for hooking up with Brenda Bittner and asks if they'd like to double date.
Gibbs comes for his update and is peeved Tony isn't around.
He's in the conference room watching Dana's reports, including a thoughtful one with an author in which she mentions her friend's bookstore and one in the middle east while taking fire.
The next morning, Gibbs asks Tony for the umpteenth time if he's talked to his friend at NIOC. Not yet. He asks McGee for her cell phone number and tells Gibbs he wants to check out the book store.
Duckie comes in to work to find Palmer already there and going back over Hutton. He found a dot on the x-ray on his shoulder and a mark on his shoulder.
Duckie lets Palmer cut him open. He finds a tiny sphere which goes to Abby in the lab.
Allison Hart and Rivera drop in on Abby. He calls her a legend in her field and she's flattered but shuts down Hart's suggestions of a tour, saying she doesn't have time.
Tony goes to the bookstore, which has a for sale sign in the window. A woman named Maggie Reed lets him in. She says the owner, Charley Baskum was like a father to Dana and the sale proceeds are going to charity.
Tony recognizes the couch that Dana said in her report she used to curl up on as a kid. He notices the wall safe is open.
Gibbs talks again to Hutton's CO in MTACT after gaining clearance. He was working on a report on private military companies and he suggested a stop to working with them.
In the lab, Abby announces that Hutton was murdered. The tiny dot is a spherical metal pellet that had traces of ricin in it, an old Cold War-era KGB weapon.
Duckie says Hutton was injected three or four days before without his knowledge and there was no antidote.
Gibbs tells Vance about the coincidence of both siblings working on stories about private military contractors.
Allison drops by Gibbs' basement at 1 a.m. She knows he isn't thrilled she's working at NCIS. She says Dana is a close friend and they last spoke a week ago. She had just broken up with her producer boyfriend. She tells him if he wants to know more, he's going to have to ply her with liquor.
The next day, Tony goes to see the producer in a huff. He gives him a shove and tells him there are consequences for lying to federal agents. He asks how serious they were the producer says she's not the angel she seems like on TV, she uses people.
McGee goes to the lab and finds Rivera saying good bye to Abby in full charm mode, telling her she can stay with him when she visits Mexico. He invited her to a symposium.
She tells McGee she got into Lt. Hutton's hard drive. He was accessing old FBI and CIA files, including transcripts with a KGB agent from 1985, which McGee explains was the "year of the spy" because more spies were arrested that year than any other.
Ziva shows Gibbs the accident report for Charley Bascum. He died in a head on collision with a car that blew a tire, definitely an accident. But they find his name was an alias.
Ziva tells Gibbs that Tony got physical with Danas producer. She thinks he might be obsessed.
From inside her dark apartment, Tony leaves Dana a message saying they can help her and he feels like he knows her. He hears a noise behind him and thinks it's her. It's Ziva, who opens with a movie reference to 1941's Laura, about a cop who falls for a missing woman.
She reminds him it's a murder investigation and Dana's not just going to walk into his life.
In the lab, Duckie tells Gibbs about Baskum's autopsy. He found a pink tooth indicating an old dental treatment used in the Soviet Union in the mid-1900s. He was Russian.
In MTAC, Vance tells the team about the legend of Yuri, the KGB banker operating in Washington during the Cold War. It fits Charley Baskum perfectly. He had a $10 million slush fund.
McGee and Ziva wonder if that means he was the Hutton's handler but Tony won't listen to any suggestions that Dana was a spy. They suggest Yuri's money could be at the center of things.
They head to the book store. Tony goes outside to take a call. Inside, Gibbs finds microfiche wedged in a book case.
Late at night, Tony waits alone across from the Washington Monument. Dana Hutton joins him. He was expecting her. She says she's been hiding since a panicked phone call from her brother. Tony tells her how her brother died and the method's origins with the KGB. She asks him what else he knows and he tells her about Yuri and his slush fund. But she knew. She opened the safe in the book store and found Russian documents and codes. She told her brother about it and he used his clearance to look into them.
She didn't want to expose Charley as Yuri until she was sure. She says there was no money in the safe, but she knows where it is.
Tony brings Dana to the team at the bookstore. She shows them a leather-bound first edition, collected works of Shakespeare, worth about $6 million. And a complete first edition Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum, stolen by the Nazi's in WWII. The book case is full of similar rare books.
They ask her who killed her brother. She doesn't know, but says it's probably the same person who killed her. She pulls back her sleeve to reveal a small red dot. Tony looks crestfallen.
Back at NCIS, Vance tells Gibbs the FBI is thrilled with the microfiche, which was Yuri's accounting ledger with names and dates. Gibbs recognizes a name.
Back at the bookstore they meet Maggie Reed. In Russian, Gibbs tells her she's under arrest for murder. She could have left after Charley died but she was greedy and wanted the KGB money.
Tony visits Gibbs in the basement for some mugs of Scotch. He says Dana went peacefully, but he broke rule No. 10, again: Never get personally involved in a case.
Gibbs admits that's the one he always had the most trouble with.
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