NCIS

Boss, I found some other shell casings.

Looks like the blood trail was...

washed away by the rain.

McGEE: Tony!

All right, Mr. Palmer, on "three."

One... two...

...three.

I'll secure and you drive. Yes, Doc.

Better catch me up, probie.

I'm lost.

So am I.

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I don't understand.

: Makes no sense.

Tell me.

Start at the beginning.

Yesterday was beautiful.

Were you preparing for a monsoon?

Forecast calls for rain.

Spring rain?

Heavy rain.

What's your source?

It's that weather app that you told me to download.

It's awesome.

Wait-- is that a trick? Did you put a fake app

on my phone? It is pretty clever.

It is. And I think a little too clever for you.

Then again, I do operate on a higher plane.

Well, you definitely operate with your head in the clouds.

Storm clouds?

We'll see.

Yes.

See? Are you going to believe what you read?

Or what's right in front of your eyes?

Morning, boss.

Yeah. Real good morning.

Gonna rain later.

No, it's not.

Well...

Ain't this usually when you tell 'em

where the body is and off you go?

No case?

No. There's a case.

Just not ours.

Gear up.

Damn! Where'd they come from?

Mmm, Spain, Australia.

Most recently, Hawaii.

Where we goin', E.J.? Virginia.

Body. Dead at least several weeks.

Who? Identified to be an NCIS agent.

You're not gonna just let that go, are you?

What are you waiting for? It's an NCIS Special Agent.

It's going to rain.

A white male, mid-30s, throat cleanly slashed.

No wallet, no keys,

nothing on the body.

Fingerprint scan confirms Virginia PD's I.D.

It is NCIS Special Agent Earl Stark.

On annual leave from Norfolk.

No plastic wrap? No ties?

No souvenir?

How can we help?

Canvass.

Got it.

Who's the chippy?

Vance's new golden girl.

Her and DiNozzo making sheet music?

Mm-hmm.

Please.

He's taking a page outta your songbook.

Like you'd pass up a duet with a lady like that.

Who outranks him, to boot.

Well, she outranks me, too.

Got lead in the hunt for a serial killer.

This body his?

Seems the Port-to-Port Killer's M.O.

has been evolving.

Based on what you found in Hawaii?

Think that was a miss.

Wow. You guys came up empty, huh?

No, he did.

We suspect his target was Sergeant Kevin Jericho.

We met him at the hospital.

A survivor.

Well, it's better than the morgue.

Jericho had just been transferred from Norfolk to Pearl Harbor.

So we tracked him down and failed to kill him?

Someone intervened.

Saved Sergeant Jericho's life,

but lost his own eyeball for the trouble.

Did you tell the good Samaritan

we're holding onto his eyeball for him?

Would if I could, but only Jericho

was there when we got to the hospital.

A failure for P2P.

First sign this guy's human.

He's not human, Tony.

Look at the blade work.

He may as well be signing his victims.

The Port-to-Port Killer is back in town.

And he's targeting our own.

What's on your mind?

You're awfully quiet over there, Duck.

A mute swan, actually...

believe it or not.

I believe it. Legend has it

that Cygnus olor is silent

for most of its life,

until the moment of its death, when it sings only once.

When's a swan know he's about to die?

Ooh, some animals just know.

When the end is near.

True.

This rangy mutt came by my shack several years ago.

Decided he was gonna live with me.

Barely a tooth left in his mug,

but he could still crunch a soup bone to nothing.

: Yeah.

One mornin'...

this plug-ugly beast

staggers onto the beach,

takes himself for a walk.

I could see him from the porch,

barking out at the ocean.

He turns around, digs a hole in the sand,

curls up in it and went off to meet his maker.

I know that you and Palmer gotta get to work.

We can wait.

When you're ready.

We're all animals, probie.

Where was I?

...so, you understand me?

You send everything you got, okay?

Special Agent Stark's supervisor in Norfolk.

E.J.'s team is trying to sort out

a discrepancy in the security logs.

Dr. Mallard estimates Stark's death

around 20 days ago.

That's during his annual leave. But our internals

show him accessing the building on multiple occasions

in the past couple of weeks.

This building.

Here.

His I.D., at least.

He's authorized because he was assigned here briefly last year.

Director Vance, I know that Special Agent Barrett

is leading this investigation...

I'd like you to support, Gibbs.

Of course.

Yes, sir, any way I can.

Barrett's report from the incident in Pearl.

Follow up.

Every single one of P2P's prior victims

were connected to the Navy. Until Stark.

The "N" in "NCIS" does stand for "Naval."

Maybe he's unaware that we're civilian.

No, if we assume he's stupid, makes us look like imbeciles.

If he killed Special Agent Stark for his I.D.,

he may be trying to get very familiar with us.

You're thinking the discrepancies

in the security log are P2P himself

accessing NCIS? Yeah.

Cade, pull up all security-camera footage

corresponding to Stark's postmortem access times.

Okay.

If that's true, I wanna know how he got through unnoticed.

Levin... I'm in the field interviewing friends

and associates.

They're reading.

Barrett's report.

You just wait for them to finish?

Yeah. Excruciating.

Skip this part.

Sergeant Kevin Jericho was walking to his quarters

at Pearl when a strange noise drew him to an alleyway.

It was a wind-up teddy bear playing a drum.

When Jericho examined it, he was attacked from behind.

He struggled, suffered lacerations

to his hands and neck.

As he lost consciousness, he saw a bald man drop into the alley.

Much better.

Crowd responded to the screams.

Must have scared off the attacker.

The bald man was admitted to the hospital minus an eyeball.

Admission forms give his name

as Gavin O'Ryan.

He disappeared without being discharged.

McGEE: There are no records

of a Gavin O'Ryan residing in Hawaii.

There are also no records of a Gavin O'Ryan

on any flight in or out of Hawaii,

surrounding the date in question.

I will go enlist Abby's help

to pursue this further.

I will pursue the same mystery

using "archaic" and "old school" techniques.

While pretending to have a question for Ducky,

I will follow Agent Barrett

and accidentally overhear