- After a Vice Admirals aide is murdered, Gibbs and the NCIS team theorize that it was because of a valuable painting in her office. DiNozzo's father is more than happy to help with the investigation by sharing his knowledge of the artwork.
- When a Naval Lieutenant who's current assignment is being the aide of an Admiral is found killed in the Admiral's office. The team goes to investigate and wonders why was he killed. Gibbs tells Tony who's been working non-stop for a few days to go home to rest. When he goes home he finds his father there and he tells Tony that the woman he was going to marry decided not to. When Abby examines the crime scene she thinks something is wrong. It's the painting where the Lieutenant died in front of. The painting is a masterpiece on loan to the Admiral but what is on the wall now is a forgery. So they think the Lieutenat was killed to get the painting. Question is how do they find the killers. Tony's father upon seeing they are looking for the painting says he dealt with people who deal in gray art, so they ask him to help them find who has the painting.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
- At the Defense Logistics Agency late at night, a janitor shows his teen son the proper way to mop a floor and take pride in his work. They hear a crash. The dad sends his son to an office to lock himself in while he goes to investigate Lieutenant Dominic Pine's office. He finds Pine dead on the floor.
At NCIS, Tony is excited to leave work before midnight for the first time in two weeks. He had big bread making plans with Zoe. But Gibbs interrupts with the body of the week.
Pine was an aide to Vice Admiral Janet Kleibor and was killed in her office. Kleibor isn't answering calls. The janitor's son saw a blue sedan driving away.
Duckie arrives and announces that Pine was hit with something and then crashed through a coffee table. Ellie finds a gift wrapped fancy pen under a couch.
Gibbs takes pity on Tony and sends him home early. But his bread plans fail to rise when Tony returns home to find his dad, dejected, on his couch. His fiancée, Linda, left him.
Tony drags into work the next morning. His dad won't get out of his pjs. McGee suggests putting him to work to distract him.
Gibbs comes in for an update. The blue sedan had a key card to get out of the gate. Kleibor was at sea and will be calling soon.
Senior calls Tony, asking for nice paper to write a letter to Linda begging her to come back. Gibbs suggests giving him a project. Tony asks his dad to recaulk his tub.
Ellie and McGee talk to Pine's girlfriend Gloria Hernandez in the conference room. She and Pine had only been together four months, but she thought he was the one. She thinks there was something going on at his job.
In MTAC, Vice Admiral Kleibor tells Gibbs and Tony that she asked Pine to go to her office to pick up the pen as a gift for someone. She blames herself for his death.
Gibbs visits Abby in the lab, where she is sewing skull pajamas for Senior. She shows Gibbs that the "Chesapeake" painting of a ship on the wall was a fake and was hung after the murder -- because it wasn't covered in blood spatter.
They think Pine wasn't the target and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Senior wanders in, still in his pajamas. He hired someone from the hardware store to fix the tub, but now doesn't want to be alone. He recognizes the painting and offers his insight on the underground art world. Gibbs agrees.
Later, dressed in his suit again, Senior suggests they offer the thief a better deal than he already has. He's put out feelers to his contacts saying he's interested.
Gibbs visits Duckie in the morgue. Pine had two pins in his knees from a car accident as a child, in which he lost his family. The murder weapon had a rounded edge.
Senior and McGee pay a visit to Perry Swan, the art forger. Senior passes McGee off as his son, who he's told people is a catalog model.
Perry recognizes the gallery label on the back as one from a template he made. He agrees to track down the forger.
Palmer drops by the office and urges Tony to cut his dad some slack.
They get a hit on the alert for the car. A homeless man found the plates in a Dumpster. Ellie dives in and finds the painting frame and the murder weapon -- a flashlight.
Back in the lab, Abby finds Pine's blood on the frame and blood from Brian Khosa, an undercover CIA agent who was killed in Pakistan last year.
Back in the office, it's victim rundown time for Khosa. He was deep undercover with a tech savy terror cell called Al Zalim, which has programmed radio frequency key cards in the past. The "Chesakpeake" was in the embassy in Pakistan when Khosa was killed.
McGee brings Senior back to Tony's place. When Senior frets about Linda leaving, McGee gently suggests he stop conning people. Senior is aghast to learn that Tony is telling people he's a con artist.
Gibbs and Ellie meet with Khosa's boss, Agent Harris. He doesn't know much about the operation Khosa was working on, except that it was headed by Samir Aziz, who is still at large. They were breaking into the embassy to plant a device, but Khosa was made once he was is inside and killed. They never found anything planted inside.
In the lab, Abby finds the terrorists planted a voice activated recording device that has to be accessed directly. The bug was in the painting.
It was in the Secretary of Defense's office for two months after the embassy.
Gibbs sends McGee and Tony to follow up with Perry the forger. When McGee tells Tony he let slip that Tony calls his dad a con artist, Tony can't get past the fact that McGee had a nice chat with his dad.
Perry tells them he got nowhere on the forger, but Tony finds McGee's number in the trash and deduces that Perry already knows who the forger is. Once he announces they're federal agents, Perry says the fake Chesapeake was done by Gloria Hernandez -- Pine's girlfriend. Perry forwarded Senior's email to her.
Tony races home, but his dad is gone and there's a wine glass with lipstick on it. Gloria has Senior.
Back at the office, McGee goes through Hernandez's email. Abby matched Gloria's print to the murder weapon. McGee finds an email routed through Senegal inquiring about the painting from someone named "Smith". Abby recognizes that's where Al Zalim has their server farm. Abby finds that "Smith" is really the terrorist Aziz.
Tony gets a call from his dad at the Adams House, where Senior is carousing with Gloria. He doesn't believe Tony's warnings about Gloria until he sees the gun in her purse.
Senior smooth talks Gloria until Gibbs arrives, posing as Senior's accountant. Tony is urging Senior to get out of there, when Aziz walks in and joins Gloria. Gloria announces to Aziz and Senior that she's holding an auction for the painting. Aziz draws on Senior under the table and Gloria points out a man in the corner she says is covering her.
Gibbs tells a story about a friend (Tony) covering his dad's hotel bill out of love, as a set up to say the code word. Then the team springs into action, grabbing Aziz, disarming Gloria and determining the cover man is unarmed.
Later in the lab, Abby scans the painting looking for the recording device and finds it under a mound of paint. Gibbs turns it over to the CIA.
Later that night, Tony makes new plans for bread with Zoe. Senior announces he's off on another European art trip. Then he tells Tony that he's not a con artist, he's an entrepreneur, the different being that the latter believes in the dreams he's selling.
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