NCIS

We've been hiking for miles.

Where are we going?

Hello? Earth to Derek.

Uh, sorry, honey. Uh...

I was just thinking.

What is going on with you today?

You've been a zombie.

You barely ate your breakfast.

You know, and you packed that thing like

you plan to move out here.

I hear the rent's cheaper.

Okay, look, I only packed the essentials. See?

Okay.

Wait a minute.

This is where...

I brought you for our first hike.

Where did you even find a white tulip?

- It's a little sad. - No, it's beautiful.

What else do you have in there?

Okay.

Oh, wow. Oh, yeah.

A little bit of this.

"You Are My Lady"?

Uh-huh-huh.

That's our song.

Blindfold.

Oh. Okay.

Promise you won't peek. Okay.

Otherwise you'll ruin the surprise.

I promise.

How many fingers am I holding up?

Eleven.

Derek?

Can I look now?

Derek, say something.

Okay, that's it.

I'm taking the blindfold off.

I'm sorry if this ruins your surprise.

Derek?

Derek?!

Derek. Derek!

Derek!

Remind me never to go on vacation with my sister again.

- Oh, that bad? - As soon as we landed,

she insisted that we try the mussels.

Ooh, don't tell me it was off a street cart.

It was off a street cart.

So we spent the whole week

in our itty-bitty hotel room

instead of sipping piña coladas on a beach.

Sounds like the vacay from hell.

Ooh!

But that looks like heaven in a box.

What do you think Parker got for us today?

Cherry Danish, cinnamon roll,

chur... Ah.

What is that?

That is Parker on a health kick,

courtesy of his new roommate.

Yeah, moan all you like, McGee,

but your liver's gonna thank me.

Uh, back up.

Roommate? Since when?

Since my landlord discovered mold in my building last week.

So why didn't you just check into a hotel room?

'Cause Parker's couch is free.

Plus, he practically begged me to move in.

Apparently Parker's been wanting to get in better shape.

Oh, not just, uh, better shape.

Okay? He wants to get into, uh,

- Torres shape. - Okay.

Figured Nick here could teach him

- a healthier lifestyle. - Hmm.

Seems like y'all could use a little bit of that

big Torres energy.

So Torres gets a place to stay,

Parker gets fit as a fiddle,

and we get...

the underachiever of the citrus family.

Grab that grapefruit to go.

We got a missing petty officer.

Derek Bailey. At work Friday,

but didn't report to duty yesterday.

Last person who saw him?

Uh, his girlfriend, Tanya Ellsworth.

They were hiking the Shenandoah.

That's where we're headed.

The girlfriend's gonna meet us

to retrace Bailey's last steps.

Three days without a word. She must be worried sick.

I am going

to skin him alive

and feed him to the bears.

So much for worried sick.

Yeah, are we sure she didn't kill him and bury him?

This is it.

He put that blindfold on me, and then, poof, he was gone.

Why did you wait three days to call us?

After what happened last time,

I don't even know why I bothered to call. Last time?

He's done this before?

Disappeared in the middle of a proposal?

Yeah. Not once, but twice.

Gee, talk about a bad case of the cold feet.

Uh, how did you know he was going to propose?

I'm a woman, Agent Parker. We always know.

Look, tell me about last time.

He took me to Golden Medina.

That place has a six-month long wait list.

Bailey takes big swings.

And misses every time.

He excused himself to go to the bathroom,

and he never came back.

Guess who got stuck with the bill.

And you didn't dump him?

I was terrified that something had happened to him.

I called the cops, but they wouldn't do anything

before 72 hours.

Anyway, he came crawling back the next week,

tail between his legs.

He begged me to take him back.

Fool that I am, I did.

Well, we've all been there.

I told him point blank,

"If you can't stick around long enough

to put a ring on it, we're done."

Dirt's too packed. There are no footprints.

You know, there's a road about a mile north of here.

- Bailey could have taken it. - And gone where?

There's nothing for miles.

Well, except the Beltway Burgers that we passed on the way in.

Oh, you think Bailey might've stopped for a bite?

I think it's possible. Mm.

And what kind of agents would we be if we didn't check?

Well, we'd be hungry agents.

Hey, yo, I got something.

Talk about a rom-com gone bad.

What does this thing say?

"Third time's a charm"?

Tanya said that Bailey

tried to propose twice before.

Oh, wow.

Two-hundred-dollar bottle of champagne.

Bailey may be a serial proposer,

but he's got good taste.

Yeah. He's not the only one.

Raccoons went crazy on this feast.

Bailey sure went to a lot of trouble

to set this up.

Too bad he bailed before he could seal the deal.

What if he didn't bail?

I mean, do we really think he disappeared

after he lit the candles.

Yes.

Derek is kind and generous,

but he is terrified of commitment.

All of the champagne and romantic picnics in the world

wouldn't change the fact that he didn't even have

the one thing you actually need for a proposal.

A ring? He had one.

Oh, my God, that's...

At least a carat and a half.

Look at this.

Princess cut. Flawless clarity.

Oh, my God, I can't believe he was actually

gonna propose this time.

So why didn't he?

Yes, I will update you as soon as I know more.

Thank you.

- Trouble? - That was Director Monroe

with the Naval Research Laboratory.

He wants to know

where we are with the investigation

into Bailey's disappearance.

We only got the case a few hours ago.

More than enough time to send the entire NRL

into a tailspin.

Petty Officer Bailey had access to blueprints

for their top secret stealth submersible.

The Azure?

Correct.

I heard through the grapevine that

they developed proprietary battery technology

to power it. Nanotech, right?

No, graphene. But there's no way to scale it up

to meet mass market demand.

So maybe that's what the top secret part is.

Whatever it is, Bailey was in charge

of copying and distributing Azure's blueprints.

So his disappearance could mean that

the blueprints were compromised.

Yeah, and I'm guessing you two aren't the only ones

who'd be interested in getting a look.

- Not by a long shot. - And new battery tech

will allow the Azure to stay underwater longer

without recharging.

That means less chance of radar detection.

So greater chance for our enemies

to penetrate our defenses.

Well, then, you know what I'm gonna say.