Original Airdate: May 2, 2022
A series of break-ins on a Navy base by partying teenagers culminates in an officer’s death. McGee takes an interest in one of the suspects, whose story becomes more suspicious as evidence reveals itself.
Episode Recap
A couple returning from a cancelled vacation returns to their home in Norfolk and finding it in a state of disrepair. Believing it to be a neighbor’s cat, they review security video and find a burglar broke in seconds before arrived and is still in the house.
At NCIS, Parker brings the team out to the complex, forcing them to cancel their evening plans. Discussing the incident with the couple, the team learns that the neighborhood has been subject to a series of break-ins. Alerted to another break-in as they are talking, Parker and Knight arrive at the house. Hearing what they believe to be silenced gunshots and screaming in the basement, they find a group of teenagers raving in the basement. With McGee’s help, they manage to disrupt the party and arrest the teenagers.
Processing the scene most of the evening, the team regroup the next morning, annoyed over missing their commitments. Parker reveals that one of the teenagers managed to hack into the base’s QR codes to break into the homes. Concerned with potential more serious security breaches in the future, Parker interrogates Noah Richter, who organized the break-ins and escaped the apartment.
Based on his mother’s reactions, McGee and Knight talk to Teagan and convince her to explain how she hacked into the base. Although she believes her hack is unique, Knight reveals the same method was used to break into another house after the partiers were arrested. While Knight is suspicious of Teagan, McGee is fascinated by her skills. Parker and Knight head to the house, discussing the situation when the house explodes.
Surveying the scene, they find a victim, Carl Tang and a bomb in his television. While McGee leaves to discuss more with Teagan, Parker and Knight leave to talk to Carl’s associates at a hobby club he attended. Parker talks with Claudia and Ramona, who tell him Tang had been stressed during his shore assignment while trying to flirt with him. Knight learns from another neighbor that Tang was experimenting with an A.I. system that would have observed and gathered data about his guests. Meanwhile, McGee confronts Teagan, who denies being involved while relating with McGee’s less than social past.
With any kind of evidence of a system missing, the team learn that Tang had a difficult time after returning from his most recent tour. Remembering Tang’s access to sensitive information and experimental weapons, Knight points them to the absence of a safe in Tang’s apartment. Kasie discovers Tang’s robot being sold online. Tracking the seller’s GPS, Torres and Knight discover the safe and robot being sold; Torres arrests the buyer, while Knight arrests the seller and discovers he is eighteen-year-old Zack.
Interrogating him, Zack denies bombing Tang’s house admits he intended to rob the safe while believing he was out and that Noah Richter, his half-brother, showed him how to hack into the base. He also reveals Teagan posted an invitation on her social media page to Tang’s house for a party. Knight discovers that Tang was in charge of deployments, including her mother and had recently assigned them to Latvia. Based on her displeasure with moving, they believe she bombed Tang’s home to avoid moving again, although McGee doubts the motive.
Meanwhile, Parker visits Palmer, who reveals the shrapnel that killed Tang is over one hundred years old. Based on his experience with metallurgy, Ernie Malik from the NCIS Hawai’i office reveals the shrapnel originated from a World War I artillery shell. Based on the fact that Teagan’s mother works on pre-1950’s ordinance disposal, Parker believes Teagan designed the bomb and calls McGee, who finds Teagan has fled. The team reaches out to her mother, Melissa, who reveals Teagan was offended after being blown off by her online crush, Jayden. Kasie determines Jayden is the fake identity of a forty-year-old man. They also determine “Jayden” was extremely interested in her mother’s EOD work and showed her the method to hack into the base codes.
Discovering a conversation between them, they track Teagan to a park. Finding her, McGee reveals the deception and Jayden’s effort to frame her for Tang’s murder, although she refuses to believe him. McGee confesses his fears as a father, eventually convincing her to help them. Struggling to find “Jayden,” they allow Teagan to hack into his phone, alerting Torres and Parker to his location. Arresting him, they find Jayden is Jason Samuels, who was imprisoned on a hit-and-run years early based on Tang’s testimony and killed him in revenge.
At NCIS, the team thanks Teagan for her help. She in turn acknowledges McGee’s parenting and believes his listening will make him a better father. They then watch as Melissa and Teagan reunite.
Cut To The Chase
NCIS investigates when a series of break-ins by partying teenagers results in a death. The primary suspect is a girl, Teagan, who McGee relates to from both his past and as a father. As evidence mounts against her, the team discovers she is a pawn in a scheme against the victim, exonerating her in the process.
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