NCIS

Stay out of your head.

Stay in the moment. You know what to do.

But you didn't do it.

And now you're on the mat.

Want to tell me why?

Because I was in my head?

Yes, you were.

Full disclosure, it's my favorite place to be.

Your technique is solid.

Your dedication,

unquestionable. But I hesitated.

Kasie, you're full of spirit,

but you lack self-confidence.

Is my joyous spirit enough to allow me to belt up?

Not until you get out of here

and trust here.

Oh, my stomach?

Your gut.

Trust your instincts.

"She who hesitates is lost."

Okay.

Elbows down.

Hands up.

Come on, Kasie.

Defend.

I see her.

Don't worry. It'll be quick.

Okay.

Okay.

Arm down. Now pull!

Watch the leg. Kasie.

Watch the leg.

Hey, move. Kasie.

Move!

*N C I S* Season 20 Episode 06

Episode Title: "The Good Fighter" Aired on: October 24, 2022.

All right, let's try this again.

You know at some point,

we are gonna have to stage an intervention.

Yeah, I don't think he can hear us.

Having some tech trouble, McGee?

Yes, everything in the building is running slow,

and it is driving me crazy.

My computer seems fine. Torres?

Running like a dream.

Nah, impossible.

It's affecting all my devices.

It's got to be a network-wide slowdown.

Look at this.

See that? That was slow?

Are you kidding?

It's lagging by at least a fourth of a second.

Here,

I'll load it again.

Ah, I see what the problem is.

It's a you thing, McGee.

A what?

You know, like when something stinks

but you're the only one that can smell it.

Or it's hot and you're the only one who's cold.

See, it's like a you thing. Not an us thing.

Anybody know why the computers are running slow?

I've been trying to send

a Bandium alert and it's taking forever.

You see that? Not just a me thing.

Finally.

Looks like we have a body, but...

All I'm getting is that annoying spinning beach ball.

Yeah. Me too. Yeah, it's 'cause the computers are running slow.

See? It's an us thing now.

Those fourths of a second add up fast.

This guy must really love his cat.

Not his cat.

The neighbor said, uh, this guy didn't live here.

The house is occupied by a Lieutenant Mary Laredo.

Well, then she must love her cat.

Prince Charming.

That's his name.

Just got off the phone with Base Operations.

They said Laredo is deployed to the USS Camden.

Headed towards the Gulf, currently on radio silence.

So, who is this guy? He kind of looks familiar.

No idea. They said Laredo lives alone.

Jimmy, you want to...

oh, yeah, fingerprints. Right, on it.

He seems pretty beat up. Like a prizefighter.

Yeah, but this wasn't a beating.

I mean, based on the location

of deep tissue swelling and the urticaria,

I'd said that we're looking at

an acute anaphylactic angioedema.

Jimmy?

Uh, it was a deadly allergic reaction.

Where's an EpiPen when you need one?

I say we blame the cat.

Well, I won't know the allergen trigger till I get him back

to autopsy, but I highly doubt that it was airborne.

Also, based on the amount of the swelling here,

I doubt that this was an accident.

Yeah, you're not kidding about that.

Why, what'd you find?

It's what I didn't find. Fingerprints. Anywhere.

The house was wiped?

Yeah, seems like somebody was covering their tracks.

Got something, guys. Check it out.

There was blood here.

And looks like somebody tried to clean it.

Not before the cat walked right through it.

Well, there's no cuts or abrasions

on our victim here, so it wasn't his blood.

It must belong to the killer.

Maybe Prince Charming

got a few good gouges in before he ran...

Jimmy, you okay?

Yeah, the, uh... fingerprint match

just came back. Guys...

This is Otis Khatri.

NCIS Agent Khatri?

Otis from downstairs?

Afraid so.

Well, with the swelling, I didn't recognize him.

I never met him.

What, uh, what can you tell me?

Oh, he was a good man.

Yeah, this is crazy.

Everyone loved Otis.

Yeah, well, apparently not everyone.

Hey, Kasie.

Sorry I'm late.

Took forever to get Otis processed.

I think we're all still in shock.

Uh, Kasie?

Hello? Hey, look, Kase,

if you're trying to prank me here,

all right, today is not the day.

Hey, this is Kasie. I'm not here right now,

but leave a message and I'll hit you back later.

Kase, I'm in your lab right now.

I even remembered to bring my controller, you know,

just like we planned.

Only thing missing is you.

Agent Otis Khatri worked on the contingency

response team. He oversaw

international humanitarian support operations.

I know.

I recommended him.

In that job,

you see people at their lowest,

after natural disasters, wars.

But Otis was a natural fixer.

He always knew how to help.

He was a good agent.

I presume you've notified his next of kin.

His sister is on her way in.

But she did tell us why

Otis was at Lieutenant Laredo's house.

Cat-sitting.

Turns out our best lead is that runaway cat.

Well, courts generally prefer

to have their witnesses be human.

Well, we have reason to believe that Prince Charming

may have the killer's DNA on his paws.

But you got to find him first.

I once tracked a caribou in the tundra for 11 miles.

How hard could it be to find a house cat?

You care to elaborate on why

you were in the tundra following a caribou?

Oh, how much time do you have?

But, uh, it'll have to wait. This is Jimmy.

Sounds like he's got something urgent.

Good, let's hope something more promising than a runaway cat.

Jimmy, what's the emergency?

Kasie's missing.

What? Her favorite video game,

Slayers, Spells and Star craft 4 dropped last night, and

we had planned for a month to play it at lunch, today's lunch,

and she never shows up. Okay, slow down. She's...

Kasie never flakes on people, all right?

And she never passes up an opportunity

to show off her badassery skills as Kana-Hune.

Kana-who?

Hune. It's, uh, Kasie's monster-slaying avatar,

it's this Kana-Hune.

Something bad has happened. I can feel it.

I-I keep calling her cell phone...

It keeps going straight to voice mail.

Jimmy, deep breath. Kasie's fine, okay?

You don't know that.

Actually, I do.

She requested a personal health day this morning.

But why? Kasie's perfectly healthy.

Not really our business, is it?

But she would've told me if... Why-why didn't she tell me?

That is a good question, but maybe the answer

isn't, uh... you know, our business either?

You're right. Yeah, sorry. Uh...

Having Otis on my table here is making me a bit paranoid.

I get it, I get it.

But, uh, let's just focus on the case

and keep your mind busy.