NCIS

Rise and shine, gentlemen.

Let's go. You know the drill.

Lights out.

Rise and shine, gentlemen. Let's go.

Rise and shine, gentlemen.

Let's go. You know the drill.

Inmate 670. Step out.

Make a hole.

Damn it, mulligan. I ain't got time for this today.

I said move it.

No.

No! No!

Jess, I'm telling you, it is the way to go.

It's just so... blah.

- I think we can do better. - What?

What's going on?

We're discussing

what we should put into the time capsule.

The what now?

You didn't read the memo that p.R. Sent out yesterday?

Are we supposed to read those?

As part of the 250th anniversary for the Navy,

the department has decided to put together a time capsule

to be opened in 100 years.

And they have asked us

to contribute one item that best represents

who and what NCIS is, like a computer

- or hardware. - No, McGee. It's...

Just think about it, we use computers

and technology for everything we do.

We couldn't get work done without them.

I get that, but computers are just

so impersonal and boring,

- no offense. - Yeah, no, that's fine.

I mean, it's just my life's passion, but whatever.

I was thinking that we go more emotional.

Something that really details NCIS and the community,

like a, like a commemorative plaque.

That's super boring.

Nick, what about you? What do you think

should go into the capsule?

Look, I want to celebrate the Navy

just like anybody else, okay? But a time capsule?

Not your thing?

Well, I don't believe in thinking about the future

or the past. I live in the moment, baby.

So you don't care

what people 100 years from now will think of us?

No, because I won't even be here.

All right? And whoever opens

this time capsule might not even be human anyways.

That's right, could be talking apes.

If we're lucky.

Talking apes? Never gonna happen.

It's the insects we got to worry about,

especially roaches. They're gonna outlive us all.

This conversation got weird fast.

You two, gear up.

Torres, you're with me in MTAC. I just got a call

from the U.S. marshals' office.

An inmate escaped from Morris federal prison.

In Maryland? That's not a military prison.

Why are the marshals calling us?

Because the convict, Thomas mulligan,

killed a chief petty officer 30 years ago.

It was actually one of Gibbs' first cases.

First prison break in my 20 years here.

It's the day every warden fears.

Two of our agents are en route

to your facility now, warden Tully.

In the meantime, maybe you can fill us in on the details.

Well, wasn't easy.

They used some tools from the machine shop

and removed the toilet from the wall.

And then, they squeezed through the narrow hole behind it

and both stowed away on the outgoing laundry truck.

They? You mean two inmates escaped?

Unfortunately, yes.

The second wasn't flagged

until we did the final morning count.

Luther Stokes.

Former hit man for the Baltimore mob.

Serving life without parole.

He is real bad news.

Were he and mulligan tight?

Not that I know of. They ran in different circles.

Stokes was a hard case. He got into a lot of fights.

- And mulligan? - We never had any problem with him.

- He was a recent transfer from California. - All right, thank you.

He kept to himself.

He was reserved, quiet.

Not so quiet.

State police found Stokes' body in a ravine

ten miles from the prison.

My guess is mulligan thought he was

slowing him down, so he killed him.

Looks like Mr. Mulligan will do anything for his freedom.

Well, that's the funny thing.

Mulligan just had his parole commission review

a few weeks back.

It was approved. He was set to be released soon.

How soon?

Three weeks.

Why would you risk an escape when, three weeks later,

you can just walk out the front door?

No, I understand.

Yeah, please keep me in the loop.

All right, thank you, senator.

Problems up on the hill?

No, just more rumors

about budget cuts coming down the line.

The usual. Okay,

so, where are we at with our escaped inmate, mulligan?

One of the prison guards reported her cell phone missing,

so kasie is monitoring it now in the off chance

that mulligan took it.

McGee and I did find something interesting

when we were searching his cell.

Mulligan drew dozens of pictures, all of the same woman.

He wrote her name underneath.

Lainey sims.

She was from mulligan's hometown, Serenity, California.

Same place where he murdered that man 33 years ago.

Dispatch told us that the case was connected to Gibbs,

but we never got the details.

Chief petty officer Louis Burke was shot dead

and his body thrown in front of an oncoming train

to make it look like suicide.

The crime happened in broad daylight,

but when Gibbs and his team went to investigate,

no one said a thing.

Were they afraid? Were they protecting somebody?

Burke was a bad seed.

Nasty drinking habit, got into fights a lot,

- destroyed property. - Town bully.

The thinking was

the town was happy to see him go,

and they didn't want to turn in the person

that did them a favor, so they all clammed up,

until mulligan, who was the town sheriff at the time,

miraculously came forward and confessed to the killing.

But Gibbs didn't believe it?

No. Gibbs always thought that

the woman in those sketches,

Lainey sims, committed the murder,

and that mulligan took the fall for her.

The problem was,

Gibbs couldn't prove it, so the case was closed.

But it was Gibbs' boss, Mike Franks,

who took it the hardest.

He called it "the one that got away."

He never got over it.

Apparently, neither did mulligan.

So you think his breakout is connected to Lainey sims?

Doesn't explain why he escaped so soon before his release,

but it's a good place to start.

But we need to get to Lainey before mulligan does.

He already killed one man during his escape.

Who knows what he's capable of?

Multiple contusions all over his body,

defensive wounds suggest a struggle.

Cause of death was severe trauma to the cervical spine.

Mulligan broke his neck.

Yeah, snapped it like a twig.

Plus, mulligan's DNA was under his fingernails,

so it was definitely him.

Not bad for a man mulligan's age.

And Gibbs thought that mulligan wasn't capable of murder.

Maybe he wasn't back then, but 30 years in prison?

That much time can change a man.

Speaking of time, I came up with the perfect item

- for the Navy time capsule. - Okay, Jimmy,

you know, I'm not really into this thing.

Whoa. Okay, what the hell is that?

- Is that a toe? - This toe

belonged to one of the victims of the bone man.

Remember? The infamous serial killer

that we put away a few years ago?

Yeah, I remember.

At the start, this toe was the only clue we had.

This toe represents teamwork.

This toe is a symbol of what makes NCIS great.

It's also disgusting.

Have you thought this through, Jimmy?

Well, i-i...

Hey, do you want children, 100 years from now,

to open the time capsule and find a wrinkly, nasty-ass toe?

Yeah, no, no, I...

Y-You're right.

I guess I got carried away. I...

I guess I got excited when I saw the memo and...

It's Jess. I got to go.

We're gonna be late to the airport.

Where are you two going?

We're going to mulligan's hometown in California.

We're having problems tracking down his crush, Lainey.

Plus, Parker wants us there in case mulligan shows up.

Okay, well, travel safe.

And, you won't tell anybody about the toe thing, right?

Right?