- On the eve of Thanksgiving, DiNozzo and Bishop experience a weather delay at the D.C airport when Gibbs informs them of an elevated terror threat specific to area airports. An impostor posing as an air marshal leads them to the real threat.—Roger Campbell
- It's Thanksgiving. Bishop is going out of town with her husband. They go to the airport and wait for the plane to leave because of weather delay. They run into Tony who is waiting for his father to arrive. Bishop has a run in with a man who is rude. The guy seems familiar but she doesn't know from where. She follows him and when she sees he's armed, she pulls her gun and the man says he's an air Marshall. She still thinks something's off about him so she sends his photo to Abby and confirms he's an impostor. And McGee informs her that there's a report of a possible act of terrorism at an airport. So they wonder if that's what the guy is there for. They try to get him but they find him dead and the gun he was carrying gone.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
- Stormy weather keeps DiNozzo, Bishop and her husband, NSA Attorney Jake Malloy, down at D.C. airport. hey spot and confront a suspicious armed man, who identifies himself as US Air Marshal Mike Beers. ON high alert due to a terror threat, Tony duly suspects him, and indeed Tim finds the real Marshal's corpse. The hunt is on for face recognition software-identifiable impostor Norman Dopps, but who is his target?—KGF Vissers
- A massive snow storm is hitting DC when a business traveler answers his motel room door and is shot dead. The shooter puts on the dead man's glasses and jewelry and heads for the airport.
At NCIS, the team minus DiNozzo finally meets Jake Malloy (Jamie Bamber), Ellie Bishop's husband. They're flying to Turks and Caicos for Thanksgiving. Tony's already at the airport to meet his father, who is flying in from London.
At the airport, Ellie thinks her husband seems on edge, but he assures her he's fine. They run into Tony at the gate. An announcement is made that all flights are delayed. Ellie goes to the counter to change seats and the shooter bumps into her. Jake confronts him for an apology. Ellie is bothered by how familiar the man looks and can't place him.
Jake tells Tony that Ellie is more suspicious since she started at NCIS, but she argues that's only because they can't talk about his job anymore now that she doesn't work at NSA with him.
Back NCIS, McGee gets an alert through the National Terrorism Alert Network about a possible terrorist strike at a northeast airport.
At the airport, Ellie makes up a reason to talk to the shooter, asking if they know each other from somewhere. He's shifty and gets away from her as quickly as possible.
Gibbs calls Tony to mention the chatter, but Jake already knows about it. Ellie is upset he didn't tell her and realizes that's why he was on edge. Then she notices the shooter is wearing an ankle holster. She decides to go ask to see his ID.
Tony and Ellie flash their badges as an airport policeman comes up. He draws on them, then asks to see the shooter's badge after they show theirs. "You're making a big mistake," he says, then takes out a badge. He says he's an air marshal named Mike Beers and they just blew his cover.
In a police room, he says no one on his Paris flight saw him show his badge, so he's OK. Tony makes a joke about needing a "Beers" and is surprised when the man doesn't get the easy joke about his last name.
Gibbs calls to check in. The threat level has been raised and it now specifically mentions DC metro airports. Tony calls McGee privately to have him look into Beers.
Ellie takes a photo of him to send to Abby. She compares it to his ID photo and finds that the man in the airport is not Mike Beers. They also find he's got an open credit card charge at a local motel.
They update Tony and Ellie, who wait for DC airport police to meet them outside the bathroom Beers just went into.
They go in with Janet Lewis of the airport police and find not-Beers dead of a stab wound in a stall. His gun is gone. Lewis gives the OK to shut down the airport.
"Great, we're snowed in here with an airport full of cranky passengers, a dead fake air marshal, and his killer on the loose somewhere with a knife and a gun. Anybody else feel like they're playing Clue?" Tony says.
Ellie sends crime scene photos to Abby. Tony, Gibbs, Duckie and Palmer find the real Beers dead in his motel room.
Ellie MacGyvers a way to lift the dead man's prints. Jake is impressed by his wife in action.
Tony and Lewis go to look at surveillance footage of the people leaving the restroom before they went in, but there's a wad of gum on the camera. Angry passengers converge on the closed bathroom and Tony tries to calm them down. A dapper doctor offers help for the "medical emergency" excuse Tony gives, but Tony declines.
Abby IDs the dead man as Norman Dopps, a gun for hire who's on their most wanted every week. But he doesn't usually work for terrorists.
Homeland Security now thinks it's an assassination attempt, but they don't know of whom. Lewis won't give them access to their security cameras, per Homeland rules. But Jake thinks he can help.
In the morgue, Duckie and Palmer examine the crime scene photos emailed by Ellie. They think it could have been a stab from a nylon knife or something that could get through security.
At the airport, Jake rigs his product placement laptop webcam to send video of the crowd to NCIS.
Tony is annoyed to see Lewis bringing out a metal detector to start searching passengers, per Homeland's orders. He worries it'll spook the gunman. Then they hear that the snow is letting up and three flights are being cleared to land, including Tony's dad's from London.
At NCIS, they comb passenger manifests for possible targets. There's Joseph McBride, a lobbyist for a chemical company. Ruth Potts, a retired school teacher who's been mouthy all evening.
Passengers begin lining up to be screened again. Tony texts his dad to stay on the plane when it lands.
At NCIS, Abby finds two Colombian agents are escorting Hector Gomez, who's wanted for the murder of a cartel leader. They start searching for anyone who could be on their connecting flight to Bogota. Gibbs notices a man with a beard who looks familiar. It's the clean shaven dapper doctor.
They send his photo to Tony and Ellie, who wait outside the gate as Hector is escorted off. Tony spots the doctor just as the target is being led off the plane and draws before the killer can. Tony shoots him dead.
Back at the office, Duckie suggests cocktails, but Abby has a suggestion first: snow angels. Gibbs agrees to one.
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