Original Airdate: December 6, 2021
NCIS investigates the death of a financial adviser, leading them to question a hologram of the victim.
Episode Recap
At Norfolk, two guards investigate a ringing phone and find a dead body.
McGee and Torres discuss the latter being targeted at a game of laser tag when Parker alerts them to the body found at Norfolk after struggling with the bandium app. Knight identifies her as Sandra Holdren, a hotshot financial adviser, while Palmer suggests she died twelve hours earlier. The team are mystified by Holdren’s opera glasses and the fact her body was found near a soccer field.
Knight traces the calls to Holdren’s phone to her own house. There, Torres and Knight meet Geoffrey, her personal assistant who called her. Although she had an adult daughter, Ruby, and a deceased son, Ben, he doubts they had any role in her death. He then introduces them to an interactive hologram of Sandra. Knight attempts to question the hologram, unnerving Torres.
At NCIS, Kasie explains the process to McGee and Torres, demonstrating her own personal hologram of a hamster in a wheel. McGee talks with Palmer about Holdren’s motives, whereupon Palmer reveals she was diagnosed with an untreatable melanoma months earlier. Parker and Knight talk with Ruby, who is aware and dismissive of the hologram. Knight shows a threatening letter sent to Holdren, leading Ruby to reveal Holdren embezzled money from her clients.
More research shows that Holdren was arrested for embezzlement but released on probation, although her lawyer, Albert Beck, forced her victims to sign NDAs. While Parker and McGee leave to question Beck, Knight goes to question the hologram again. Through the hologram, Holdren admits she regrets her actions, although Knight and Torres observe a discrepancy over Ben’s death. Meanwhile, Beck explains Holdren used money from her clients to settle her family’s debts, and that she paid restitution from those she stole from. He then suggests Geoffrey had been recently aggravated over Holdren’s decision to leave everything to her nephew and Ruby.
At NCIS, Knight admits to Torres she, like Ruby, is estranged from her own mother. Kasie shows evidence that Geoffrey wrote the threatening note to Holdren himself. Raiding her home, the team finds he has left and the hologram technology gone. McGee manages to obtain the backup files, enabling Kasie and Vance manage to rig a setup to run the hologram in MTAC. The hologram directs them to a camping site Holdren used to frequent with Ruby.
Torres and Knight enlist Ruby to help them search for the site. Although Knight tries to help Ruby reconcile, the latter pokes holes through Sandra’s version of the events that led to their estrangement. The three find Geoffrey at the site, where Torres arrests him. At NCIS, Parker and McGee confront him with the note. Although Geoffrey denies killing Holdren and stealing the hologram, he reveals he was paid $500,000 to write the note and provides an alibi for the night of her murder. Parker and McGee manage to trace the payment to an account named Jamie2Shoes. Although Torres struggles to question the hologram, Knight manages to get it to identify him as Albert Beck.
The team brings in Beck under the guise of requesting his help questioning the hologram. After hearing Holdren speak fondly about him, Beck confesses he convinced Ben to assist him in the embezzlement and framed him for it. Although Sandra took the blame, she continued investigating after Ben’s death, prompting Beck to kill her.
Knight and Torres talk with Ruby over the outcome. Ruby admits she suspected Holdren took the blame to avoid hurting her brother’s reputation. Having recovered the hologram from Beck’s office, Torres and Kasie start it for her, while Knight calls her mother.
Cut To The Chase
NCIS investigates the murder of Sandra Holdren, a financial adviser previously embroiled in an embezzlement scandal that left her estranged from her surviving daughter. The team enlists a hologram of Holdren for clues to her case. They eventually find that she was killed by her lawyer, who actually committed the embezzlement and framed her son, whom she took the blame for. The case inspires Knight to reconcile with her own estranged mother.
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