NCIS

Force Protection alert.

Confirmed hostile target approaching inbound.

Initiate emergency evacuation procedures.

Move it! Move it!

Let's go! Let's go!

Safety perimeter has been breached.

60 seconds to impact.

All personnel to the lifeboat deck.

56, 57, 58...

Come on, Machaca. Come on.

30 seconds to impact.

59 souls accounted for. Stop the clock.

Three minutes, 40 seconds.

Copy that.

Drill complete.

That was pathetic, Machaca.

I could have crawled down here faster.

Lighten up, Ops. It's just a drill.

Are we done?

Chow's getting cold down there.

Explosion on the bridge. Explosion on the bridge.

This is not a drill. Repeat, this is not a drill.

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McGee, I thought we said

no mischief-night pranks this year!

Whoa!

Nice.

That kind of precision--

whoever did this has some serious skills.

I mean,

"Oh, no. Oh, God, it's awful. How dare they."

So, this wasn't your handiwork? No.

You're not the one that defiled my lab?

What? No. What did they do?

Someone moved my work table three inches to the right.

Oh, gee, how dare they. I know.

Whoever did it knows that I would notice

if there was even a hair out of place.

We're dealing with a sadistic evil genius.

I think you got half that equation right.

Oh!

What have we here?

I'm glad to see you took our little conversation

about safe agenting seriously,

but that's a little overboard, McRibbed.

You've had your fun, Tony; unwrap it.

Oh, gosh, I'm flattered,

but unfortunately, that prophylaxis

is not the work of yours truly.

Then whose work is it?

Who knows? The Great Pumpkin? Headless Horseman?

Perhaps the Ghost of Halloween Past?

Mike Franks?

The possibilities are endless.

Not for our dead Marine.

Grab your gear; we're going to Virginia Beach.

Got a new desk, McGee?

Not exactly, boss.

Sure looks new to me.

Let's go.

I was the first one in this morning,

so the prank was pulled sometime last night,

and you were at the office after I left.

I had dinner plans.

What time?

Uh, I don't recall.

I left at midnight, DiNozzo.

You were still at the office.

Area's on lockdown, sir.

Got a dead body in my jurisdiction, Petty Officer.

I'm following boss's orders, sir.

So if that's a problem, you can take it up with her.

What are you doing, boss?

You heard the man.

We wait.

Wait? Wait for what?

The person in charge, DiNozzo.

You're looking at her.

Agent Borin, I should've known.

Well, the coast guard presence was a pretty big clue.

What do you got, Borin? One explosion

on board an offshore oil platform

plus the body of one dead Marine

equals on big mess

for NCIS and CGIS.

What caused the blowout? No idea yet.

We can't get on board the platform

to process the scene until the fires are contained

and the platform's deemed structurally sound.

So all we've got is a body? And the statements

from the crew, all 59 of them.

So, might want to get started.

Yeah, go.

It's good to see the team hasn't changed too much, Gibbs.

I was sorry to hear about David.

I'm sure leaving couldn't have been an easy decision for her,

and we've all been there.

You got a body for me, Borin?

Yeah.

The victim is Marv Hebner.

He was on the bridge at the time of the explosion.

Divers pulled his body from the water this morning.

His upper torso

and face took the brunt of the damage.

Shrapnel damage is superficial.

Wouldn't be the cause of death.

Won't know that until Ducky examines him.

Trust me.

I've seen my share of blast-impact trauma up close.

But I'm sure Dr. Mallard

will be able to confirm our suspicions.

You were in communication

with Hebner during the drill?

Right up to the explosion.

And last he reported,

all systems were normal.

You know, I've spent years working on oil rigs.

I never seen anything like this happen before.

I mean, we have warning signs, alarms, fail-safes.

Well, if Hebner was the only one manning the controls,

is it possible he overlooked one of the warning signs?

Human error?

Marv's the most experienced man on the rig.

This guy wasn't the type

to make mistakes. I'm Paige Hebner.

I need to see... I'm looking for...

No, there he is. No, I got to see him. Jonah!

It's Marv's wife. Jonah.

Hey, Paige.

It's not him, right?

It is.

I'm so sorry, Paige.

Mrs. Hebner,

sorry for your loss.

I don't understand.

I just talked to Marv last night

on the phone, and everything was fine.

What happened?

We're trying to figure that out.

Where is he?

Please?

Hey, come on.

Come on.

No one on board recalls anything

out of the ordinary before the explosion.

Systems checked out normally.

Average day.

Didn't end that way.

Command Center got a call from the captain

of a cargo freighter.

He recalled passing a motorboat

with nonfunctioning running lights

near the platform last night.

Think this could be some kind of terrorist attack?

Certainly wasn't a booze cruise.

Excuse me, Agent Borin?

Thanks.

Homeland Security's put all U.S. oil installations

on heightened alert.

So this is either an isolated incident or...

It's the beginning of more to come.

Timmy,

you fell prey to one of the oldest pranks in the book.

I guess that's why the classics never go out of style.

Lack of imagination and individuality?

Sounds like your M.O.

Don't be mad at me.

I didn't do anything.

You know what it is?

You make yourself too easy of a target,

McBull's-eye.

You need to keep moving.

Now, me,

I like a challenge.

Pulling one over on Gibbs,

that would be a feat for the ages.

What do you have? A death wish?

I like to live dangerously.

Our dead Marine; let's go.

Marv Hebner,

45,

major in the Selected Marine Corps Reserve

with the combat engineer battalion.

Completed three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

His most recent deployment ended

eight months ago, when he returned

working for CityLine Oil.

It's a mid-level oil company

with an impeccable safety record.

Until now, of course. Updates from Homeland?

Well, they're keeping the threat level raised,

but there's no chatter, and no terrorist group

has claimed responsibility for the explosion.

The oil biz has Benham Parsa written all over it.

FBI?

They don't think there's a connection.

Intel shows that Parsa's still underground.

Navy and coast guard have air support out

searching for the rogue boat

reported by the cargo ship.