NCIS

That's one, two, three solid leads.

Three.

We'd need 30 private contracts

to make up the kind of revenue we're out.

Hey, we're doing our best here.

You got 80% of the company

in bed with the Navy, and...

And what, Ron?

We need that military contract.

Not gonna happen.

Navy wants to go light.

Steel is out, poly fiber is in.

Dalton, did the contract expire,

or did it expire? Expired.

And are we gonna get it back?

Don't see it happening.

Legal doesn't see it happening, Ron.

Maybe we should stop yapping about

a Navy contract we don't have anymore

and figure out how to sell some damn steel!

I have to go.

Give our best to the Secretary of the Navy.

And good luck with the speech.

As President and CEO

of Wickes Steel & Shipbuilding,

I'm proud of the work my family has put

into building these great machines.

They're an unshakable foundation upon which the Navy

can take her fleet to new heights.

How was that?

That was perfect, sir. Thank you.

Was I loud enough?

Always are.

Mr. Secretary, I...

I feel sorry for you having to follow that.

Oh, I was going to have you take a look

at my speech, maybe do a little punch up.

Like old times, huh?

We made a great team.

I mean, older and wiser

shows me how to hit the books.

Younger and more handsome shows you

how to win the hearts.

Ah, That was a long time ago.

A less complicated time. Hm.

Um, you know...

we have business to talk about, Clayton.

Sure. Well, uh...

we'll do it privately. I'll come over to house.

Better hurry, I may not own the place much longer.

Get down! Falcon down!

He's been hit in the chest.

Stop him!

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Hey, McGee.

Vance is not here, either.

Doesn't his son have a soccer game in Alexandria?

No, that is next week.

Tony's ignoring my calls,

and it is very unlike Gibbs to just disappear like this.

Something is going on.

Actually, I think Tony said something about

being on SECNAV's PSD today.

That's probably a cover.

I think they must be at

some kind of man day.

You know, when

men take a day to do man things together.

Really? Yes.

And just because I am a woman, they do not have the courtesy

to tell me where they are going

or when they will be back.

I'm a man.

That's right!

Which makes this even worse.

I'm going to Tony again.

We're doing our best to keep the investigation closed.

Clayton?

Uh, no update yet, Mr. Wickes.

We're trying to keep this out of the press.

The less our shooter knows, the better off we are.

Okay, we're asking these people

to not say anything about what they saw.

I saw a man with a gun.

Right, I got that.

So you're going to be in this group.

You're going to answer their questions,

then you're going to go home.

Okay? You're going to lay low

and you're going to tell your people

that you need some personal time.

No, I don't want that.

I want him kept separate from the group.

He was standing next to Jarvis.

He had a better view than anybody.

The gunman, he was wearing a blue hat.

I saw him. Okay, okay.

We're going to put you with a sketch artist,

You write down everything you remember.

Of course, anything.

Gibbs.

Massive blood loss, doesn't look good.

His family's been notified.

Agent Gibbs, follow me to the hospital.

DiNozzo, you put him in a car back to headquarters.

I'll meet you there.

Gentlemen,

welcome to the party.

It's BYOS:

Bring Your Own Shooter.

I brought mine--

Tyler Elliott,

my lead investigator.

Gibbs, Vance, NCIS.

Agent Gibbs, bravo.

Big doubts about you going in,

but you were way better than expected.

Meryl Streep better. Ah.

Take that as a compliment.

This one tells it like it is, to a fault.

Been there for the real thing.

Are you confirming that all our marks were hit, Doctor?

On the money, Leon.

Break out the champagne.

Opening night was a success.

Well done.

Hey, where you been, we've been calling?

What's going on?

Man day is over, and he is still ignoring us.

I am not going to be ignored.

Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction.

Good one, Ziva.

Your impression of "hot lady with crazy eyes"

is dead on, by the way.

You are a, uh,

sphinx of a minx.

Game time fellas, just like we planned it.

Tony, do not try to talk your way

out of this by calling me hot.

He also called you crazy, Ziva.

Ooh, I will unleash crazy on him

if he does not apologize

for leaving me out of the loop.

That won't be necessary, Special Agent David.

Today was phase one of a joint PsyOps/NCIS directive--

a staged assassination attempt of yours truly.

So that's where you were.

Welcome to the need to know.

Target is Phillip J. Wickes of Wickes Steel & Shipbuilding.

I want it known that Phillip Wickes is a personal friend.

I signed off on this op under the condition that

we look just as hard for his innocence

as we do for his guilt. Understood?

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Director Vance.

One week ago, a page from a

highly classified file surfaced online.

That same day, SECNAV got a love letter

demanding that he put the brakes on the Navy's green initiative

which is to build all new subs and ships

with lighter, alternative materials.

If the SECNAV refuses to play,

the e-mail threatens to release more pages from the file.

It's straight-up blackmail.

What is in this document, Director?

The file was remotely lifted from a database at AUTEC.

That's the the Atlantic...

Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center.

It's a facility where they test military technology.

Unmanned submersible drones,

Mk-48 torpedo simulators...

Easy, McBradbury.

The file details a simulated warfare test

done at AUTEC.

First page, no context,

but you throw in a couple more, suddenly you're announcing

the weaknesses of every port on the Eastern seaboard.

Cyber division couldn't ID the source of the breach

in AUTEC's firewall, but they did tell us

the blackmail message was e-mailed from...

Wickes Steel.

Last month, the Navy said that they were done with Wickes.

Good-bye government contracts, hello bankruptcy.

So, the blackmailer is Phillip Wickes?

It's his company.

He's got a pretty good motive. But how is pretending

to shoot SECNAV going to lead us to our blackmailer?

Seeing his childhood friend shot,

Wickes is highly vulnerable.

The idea is to tell him that we've connected the shooting

to Wickes Steel and AUTEC.

If Wickes is part of this blackmail, then he's going

to want to know why his people pulled the trigger.

Eyes and ears on this guy 24/7.

Anyone he connects with is a suspect.

What if Wickes isn't involved?

Oh, he'll tell us something,

even if he doesn't intend to.

Got your earpiece.

No, I don't need you in my ear, Doc.