- When Gibbs meets with a Navy chief petty officer and his attorney (to make a deal), the CPO collapses and dies; while the gang investigate, they find a connection to an illicit arms dealer. The team figure it out, and everything works out.
- When Gibbs meets with a Navy chief petty officer and his attorney (to make a deal), the CPO collapses and dies; the gang investigate; Ducky feels confused about the cause of death; Abby finds the reason and explains it. The victim offered information about an illicit arms dealer, with whom Gibbs then talks, and whom McGee then tracks. McGee also finds a connection between the vic and the dealer. Gibbs and McGee take some flak from the Defense Intelligence Agency; McGee and the probie pick up a hot British chick, and Gibbs catches a smart kid. The more Gibbs learns, the more frustrated he feels. McGee and the probie run into trouble, but that works out. Gibbs finds out and figures out what happened, then he has an interesting chat with the dealer.—DocRushing
- Alan Katzenbach, a lawyer, waits for Gibbs with his client, a chief petty officer named Leland Wiley. Wiley was busted for drugs and wants to trade his info -- which he says is about national security. It concerns Agah Bayar, the arms dealer. Gibbs is interested. Wiley comes over to talk, but grabs his heart and drops to the ground.
Back at work, in the morgue, Palmer is missing because Breena summoned him to pick a wedding font for the invites. Wiley died of a heart attack from a rapid heartbeat. He had a pacemaker to correct his slow heartbeat. Duckie wonders if the pacemaker malfunctioned.
Tony comes to work and notices Ziva pacing. She's memorizing a speech for a high school career day she's speaking at. Probationary Agent Ned Dorneget comes up from evidence to get Tony's signature for their files. Tony hems and haws so McGee intercedes and artfully forges Tony's signature, which he's apparently been doing for years.
Gibbs comes for the update on the body of the week. Wiley had top security clearance and his workstation is now locked down. They haven't been able to connect him to Bayar yet.
Abby calls Gibbs to the lab. She tells him Wiley's pacemaker was linked into a computer to monitor it. Someone hacked in and jacked his heart rate up to 400 beats per minute. "Somebody murdered Wiley by remote control," she says.
Back in the office, Ziva recaps that Wiley used to be stationed on a nuclear submarine before he got his pacemaker and desk job. Tony comes from Wiley's cardiologist, who saw Wiley two weeks ago and said everything was fine. The monitor logs were normal.
Tony reads a copy of Ziva's speech and tries to mess with her.
Gibbs visits Vance. Vance checked with other agencies to see if they were looking into Bayar and got stonewalled. He mentions his wife is trying to get him to take a vacation, and Gibbs urges him to do it.
Abby and McGee track the hack in her lab. Dorneget drops by to pick up the gloves he left at Abby's house last night. She calls him "Dorny" and makes McGee jealous. Dorneget wants advice for getting on Gibbs' good side. McGee urges him to be a step ahead.
Tony and Ziva search Wiley's apartment and amid all the junk and trash they find a fancy watch. They also find an envelope full of cash.
Gibbs brings Wiley's lawyer Katzenbach up to Vance's office to try to get him to talk. Katzenbach claims not to know what info Wiley had. He met Wiley yesterday.
Dorneget brings a cup of coffee for Gibbs and signs for the 40 grand in cash in Wiley's apartment. Gibbs trashes the coffee when he sees it's not from the coffee cart. McGee pulls up footage of Agah Bayar passing through customs at Dulles three days ago from Zurich.
Vance reports that Wiley's team found that he'd accessed top secret stealth communications -- not something he was working on. He transferred it to a flash drive. In enemy hands, it would make all US stealth inventory worthless.
Ziva finds footage of Bayar checking into a hotel and leaving with a hot red head. Ziva is sure she's a call girl.
McGee reports the signal that screwed with Wiley's pacemaker was routed through a TV satellite and NASA ground antenna in the Mojave Desert. Abby has a NASA friend tracking it.
They get surveillance footage of Bayar recently going to the Turkish embassy.
Gibbs heads to tech services.
Cut to Gibbs waiting for Bayar outside of the embassy. Bayar assures Gibbs he's just a businessman, but Gibbs isn't buying it. He lets Bayar know they're watching him and are going to "take him down". They face off, squinty-eyed guy-style. Bayar gets into his Aston Martin and drives off.
Gibbs calls McGee, who watches the progress of the tracking device he just put on Bayar's car.
Abby finds the super hot girl is Ava Baransky, a fashion model who flew in from London two hours before Bayar. They're staying at the same hotel.
Dorneget runs into Gibbs in the elevator and forgets to push his floor button. Gibbs also points out his fly is open.
McGee shows Gibbs footage of Bayar leaving a restaurant recently with Ava, followed a short time later by Wiley.
Ziva reports Ava Baransky checked out of the hotel early. Tony fights for the chance to go through her left behind luggage.
Gibbs and McGee head to the tracking location for Bayar's car and are walking toward the restaurant when Defense Intelligence Agency George Roca intercepts them. Roca saw Gibbs talk to Bayar earlier. The DIA has him under surveillance and they tell Gibbs to back off, saying Gibbs doesn't have the need to know what they're working on.
Back in the office, Ziva reports Ava Baransky has been stopped at the Philly airport. Tony offers to go get her, but Gibbs tells Ziva to go. She tells him about her high school speaking engagement. Gibbs looks around and calls for Dorneget. He sends him with McGee.
Vance comes from speaking with Sec-Nav, who reports NCIS won't be let into the DIA operation.
On the ride, McGee tells Dorneget that Gibbs is testing him. He tells him about Gibbs' many rules. He tells Dorneget just to back him up when they get there. Dorneget realizes he forgot his gun.
Abby hears from her NASA friend, a 16 year old genius she met at a Mensa retreat last summer. Colin followed the signal that hacked Wiley's pacemaker and found it originated from a smart phone in DC belonging to Michael Reardon, a high school dropout who enlisted in the army, then got booted and went to work for a private military company, from which he got fired.
At the Philly airport, Dorneget flashes his badge upside down. Ava joins them. She tells them Bayar woke her up this morning and told her a business deal he'd been working on had gone bad and suggested she leave the country.
McGee signs for her stuff, including passport and wallet.
Gibbs, Ziva and Tony go to Reardon's house. Ziva says her speaking engagement went great. Reardon runs out the back door and Tony chases him, but Reardon is really fast. He hurdles construction blockades and does some almost parkour running away, until he runs into Gibbs' Dodge Charger.
McGee and Dorneget drive back to DC. Dorneget asks how she met Bayar, she says it was on a photo shoot in Vienna. When she got back to London he'd sent flowers and a ticket to DC. Dorneget asks if she knows what Bayar does for a living. McGee cuts her off, saying they'll get into it back at NCIS.
Ava flirts with Dorneget in the rearview mirror.
Back in the morgue, Duckie examines Reardon and announces he has a broken collar bone. Gibbs drags him over to see Wiley's dead body. Reardon claims he doesn't know who Agah Bayar is. Gibbs and Tony threaten him with morgue implements. He says some Russian chick hired him.
Baransky is a Russian name.
Dorneget stops at a gas station. They let Ava out and let her take her purse to the bathroom. Dorneget goes with her to check the bathroom.
In MTAC, Gibbs talks to Inspector Challis from MI5. They've been watching Ava for years. Her mother was English, her father was Russian and she visited him recently. Gibbs and Vance are surprised to hear that the DIA asked MI5 to unflag her passport and let her into the US. Challis warns them she's skilled in martial arts.
Agah Bayar is the middleman, Baranksy is the client.
Tony calls Gibbs and tells him Baransky is now the suspect and should be considered dangerous. McGee goes to look for Dorneget and finds him handcuffed in the women's room. Baranksy is gone. McGee blames Dorneget for being distracted by Baranksy's beauty, but Dorneget protests that he's gay.
Gibbs calls for McGee, who steels himself to fess up. But Gibbs tells McGee to apologize to her and let her go. McGee and Dorneget are off the hook.
Vance fills Gibbs in: the stealth technology stolen by Wiley and sold through Bayar was all part of a DIA sting of dis-information for the Russians. Baransky has the info on a flash drive disguised as a lipstick.
The DIA used Wiley because they knew about his habit and figured he'd bite on Bayar for the money, they didn't figure Wiley would get busted and cough up Bayar to NCIS, or that Baransky would have Reardon kill him.
Vance tells Gibbs he can't tell his team. It's still need to know. Vance wants to know how Wiley and Agah Bayar know each other.
McGee and Dorneget drive back to NCIS, feeling like they dodged a bullet. McGee says he won't tell anyone, but won't lie if he's asked.
Back in the office, Tony is bothered that they let Ava Baranksy go without him getting to meet her.
When Dorneget comes back, Tony peppers him for information on Ava. Tony is tantalized.
Later that night, Bayar is out to dinner by himself, finishing his wine when Gibbs joins him. Gibbs asks how Bayar knew Wiley could be bought. Bayar says he got lucky, he got paid from both sides. The Russians wanted the info and the US wanted to give them bad info so they needed Bayar to make it seem legit. "So we're playing for the same team," Bayar says. "This time," Gibbs says.
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