NCIS: Hawai'i

Special agent Lucy Tara.

Need you in this vehicle now. I-I'm gonna say no.

It's not a request, special agent. Well, I also don't get

in strange vans with overhyped ex-military types I don't know.

Look, I don't got time for this, okay?

Lucy.

Just get in already.

Jesse?

I, I thought he was reaching for a weapon.

I was reaching for my credentials.

Sorry, special agent thyme.

Hey.

What's going on, y'all?

Not much. Just,

hanging in the back of a secret agent Van.

Why are we doing that?

They won't say yet.

You'll find out soon.

If thyme would stop horsing around

- and get in. - Going as fast as I can.

I think she dislocated my shoulder.

Once again, I'm sorry.

You're gonna need to put those on.

Why?

Can't see anything anyway.

Because we're telling you to.

And who are you again?

Special agents Rosemary and thyme.

Seriously?

They're code names, okay?

Why do you need code names?

Elite.

Cool.

So, NCIS: Elite.

Is that, like, a nickname y'all gave yourselves?

You can't give yourself a nickname.

Yeah, especially not one like elite.

It's kind of braggy, right?

It's an acronym. Ooh, for what?

Can't say. 'Cause you don't know either?

Of course we know. It's classified.

Thyme, chill. They're messing with you.

Look, you don't want to be here,

we didn't want to bring you here,

but we were ordered to.

Where's here?

And ordered by who?

Ordered by me, luce.

Boss?

You can take those off.

Welcome elite secret holding facility.

You are now three of 30 people

who know it exists.

This entire facility

was being used to secure one man.

Alexi volkoff.

The chemist.

The fugitive you and Sam brought in

after the marshal plane went down?

He's been here ever since.

Feeding us intel on his bio weapons caches.

As far as dod is concerned,

Alexi volkoff is the most valuable

and sensitive asset that we have right now.

Elite's responsibility.

Okay, so why are we being read in?

Because at 8:00 A.M. this morning

Alexi volkoff was murdered.

What happened here?

He was in the middle of an interrogation.

One minute, he's chatty Cathy...

And the next, he's puking blood

all over the floor.

You process the scene?

No. Check the body?

- No. - Question the witnesses,

review the feed from the 20 surveillance cameras

you got mounted in there?

- No. - So what did you do?

Kai. They called you.

Not by choice.

Our island, our body.

Great.

Well, we'll need our gear.

It's already here.

We'll also need

- commander chase. - She just landed.

The hood's a little overkill.

Agreed, but she requested it.

I find sensory deprivation invigorating. Don't you?

Where's the patient?

Jesse, would you mind showing her?

You're Jesse, too?

That's confusing. What are we gonna call him?

- How about new Jesse? - Yeah.

Wait, that doesn't make me old Jesse.

No, you're still original Jesse.

This is the best team on the island?

Guys, focus.

Let's get to work.

Solitude, Jesse.

There's a lot of debate about whether its properties

are curative or harmful.

St. Anthony spent 30 years

completely removed from any human contact.

And he was the father of monks.

But then you look at Napoleon.

All by himself on elba.

He wasn't alone.

Pardon?

Napoleon.

There were 2,100 soldiers garrisoned with him on elba.

Jesse.

You're a student of history.

Not me. Heather. Specifically, French.

Well, either way. 2,100 soldiers and one dethroned emperor.

A different kind of solitude.

Yeah, fair enough, but it wasn't the solitude

that killed Napoleon.

It was chronic levels of arsenic in his bloodstream.

Well, that's another thing our chemist

and the corsican strongman had in common: Poison,

bloody vomit, signs of a tonic-clonic seizure.

His nervous system shut down.

Possibly from the tea he was drinking when he died.

I don't know about that, doc.

I mean, there's two teacups and there's only one body.

So far.

Contrary to popular belief,

poison can be an imprecise method of murder.

Managing dosage, understanding how the poison

will affect one victim versus another

Mr. Volkoff's interrogator may simply take

a longer time to die.

I assure you, his interrogator

is feeling just fine.

Aside from feeling very frustrated.

Are you sure, special agent swift?

Symptoms can come on quite suddenly.

One moment, you're fit as a fiddle,

the next, you're bleeding from the ears.

I'm sure. But thanks for the imagery.

Maybe the poison was only in the chemist's teacup.

Placed by whoever prepared the tea.

Not possible. I prepared the tea.

Poured the tea and shared the tea.

And I did for the last two weeks.

All right. Bag everything in this room

that volkoff came in contact with.

Bring it back to the lab. And, special agent swift,

I'm sure you'll let me know if you start feeling poison-y.

I have told you everything that I know.

Names of my employees, my contacts in organized crime.

The location of my labs.

Can you believe this guy has been on the island all year,

and none of us even knew?

The boss knew. Sam knew. Swift.

Plus all those elite agents.

Stupid elite.

With their stupid name and stupid secret headquarters.

Lucy.

Are you jealous of NCIS: Elite?

No.

Of course not.

Would have been nice to be asked to join, though.

I'm gonna miss these visits, Alexi.

I'm not going anywhere.

And neither are you.

Not until you tell me where the fourth lab is

and what exactly compound x is.

Now, I will agree

that you are the least tiresome federal agent

that I have spoken to in these past months.

And I must admit that I have not been completely truthful.

Alexi? Alexi?

Guard!

I've got one question.

Only one?

What the hell is compound x?

A biological weapon.

Unlike any we've ever seen.

Untraceable, airborne, nearly incurable.

Okay.

And this is, this is for real?

I don't know. Maybe.

Probably.

He was our last chance to stop it.

Everything's bagged and tagged.

Jesse's bringing it back to Pearl.

The witnesses?

Elite's gathering them,

bringing them all back to Pearl, too.

Almost all of them.

There's one missing. Tom kaliko.

Classification? Procurement.

He never entered the facility but provided all the supplies.

Any priors?

Nothing. Solid citizen.

But he didn't show up for work today

and he's not answering his cell.