NCIS

Hard to believe it's been this long.

But I still miss you so much.

Happy birthday, baby.

Kayla sends her best from the south China sea.

She's agent afloat.

Still single, I think.

And Jared?

Well...

He's still afraid to commit.

To anything.

It's been that way since you left.

I could never understand him.

Not like you.

That goes both ways.

Jared.

Dad.

How are you?

Good.

How's the internship...? Dad.

I came to talk to her.

Well, then you're gonna have to wait your turn,

because I wasn't finished.

Only fair.

You had mom a lot longer than I did.

Sorry. Sorry, sorry.

That wasn't... I didn't mean it.

I think you did.

You blame me. You always have.

No. Not for mom.

It's everything afterward I don't get.

The job, dad.

You've already given it so much.

And yet you keep doing it.

Kayla, too. Why?

What-what's worth keeping this family at risk?

What makes NCIS so damn special?

- You know that. - Yeah?

- I told you. - When?

Well, if we both can't remember,

then I guess you didn't tell me enough.

Dad?

What's wrong?!

Dad! Dad!

It's okay.

My god.

I got you. It's okay.

Breathe.

I don't see the big deal.

Just another airplane.

Dude, no, it is not. The vc-25b is

the most technologically advanced airplane on the planet.

Look at this thing.

It looks like the old air force one,

McGee. What?

Well, okay, maybe-maybe on the outside.

But let me tell you something.

Eight years and a billion dollars later,

difference on the inside is like a...

Corvette built in 1975 and one built today.

Well, I'd take the '75.

Just unveiled as part of the white house tech summit.

Yo, so, since when are you a plane guy?

Well, since I was ten years old and I saw the vc-25a

land in my backyard at Alameda naval base.

There's something kind of romantic

about air force one, you know?

- Well, that's weird. - It's American history.

Not you, him.

Ooh.

Curtis, you okay?

I will be.

After three more minutes of vitamin d.

Cyber basement blues?

Working in a room with no windows

puts you in a dark place.

Even prison cells have windows.

You'd know, right?

Too soon?

Sorry if I'm a little edgier than usual.

Yeah, usually you're not edgy at all.

It's because I hate lying.

I didn't come up here for sun.

I'm up here because my annual review is next week,

and I want to expand my role at NCIS,

but in order to do that,

I need to log observation hours outside the cyber basement.

You want to become a probie.

By stalking us?

I believe the term is... Shadowing?

Yeah. I understand.

Thank you. Grab your gear now.

Why? What's going on? We didn't get a bandium alert.

Director's been shot.

What? Is-is he okay? Where is he?

He's at bluemont medical. No word on his condition.

Let's move.

Jared? Jared, you may not remember me.

I'm agent McGee, this is agent Parker.

Any word on your dad?

Yeah, the d... the doctor said he's in surgery.

- It's touch and go. - The man's a fighter.

One second, my dad and I were just talking,

the next he went down. I mean...

We didn't even hear a shot.

We've got agents at the scene now.

Tell 'em the bullet came from behind my dad.

He was on the right side of my mom's headstone

and facing due north.

I even wrote a diagram.

Just in case.

What?

Did I forget something?

The opposite.

Given the circumstances, most people

wouldn't remember their names.

Like father, like son?

I don't think so.

If I seem calm, it's only because

I've already lived this a thousand times in my head.

Hard not to after what happened with my mom.

Yeah, I remember that night.

Then tell me you'll get the bastard who did this.

I think NCIS owes me that.

We will.

Vance was a little more right of the headstone.

Wait, your right or my right?

Yeah, stop. Good.

The shot came, from directly behind.

From any one of a dozen potential hiding spots.

According to Jared, they never even heard the shot.

A silencer?

Hey, kase.

Hey... hey, Jess, did you find the shooter?

We're working on it, Jimmy, and trust us, we want to get

this guy as bad as you. I doubt it.

Did you just spend the last 20 minutes listening

to the doctors explain the damage that was done

to the director's left lung and heart ventricle?

No, but I'm hoping

that they gave you the bullet that did it?

- They did. - Is it traceable?

Hard to say until I get back to the lab.

But the caliber and groove patterns are unmistakable.

Maybe a silenced handgun?

Long-range rifle, and given this was a high-velocity round

and there was no exit wound...

It came from serious distance.

I'd say at least a thousand yards.

No wonder they didn't hear the shot.

We're looking for a sniper.

Sniper's nest.

It's a nice view from up here.

Yeah, they policed their brass.

But they left a shooting mat.

Well, they didn't have a choice.

It's stuck to the roofing tar.

Yeah, that stuff can get everywhere.

Including the shooter's boots.

They were waiting up here.

They knew Vance was coming.

Yeah, they knew we were coming, too.

Well, I don't like the sound of that.

What show?

Znn correspondents on the scene are reporting

three random explosions... it's a rough day.

Yeah, and it's still early.

Anything new on Vance?

No, I'm just headed back to the hospital now.

What about you? Any updates on the explosions?

The news keeps calling them "random."

Yeah, nothing random about this.

Whoever shot director Vance knew

we were on that rooftop and waited to give us

- front row seats. - What were the targets?

Well, the first target was the same cemetery

that Vance was shot.

A pipe bomb in the morrow family crypt.

Morrow, as in...?

The former NCIS director. He's buried there.

Was anyone hurt? No.

What about the second explosion? No injuries.

But that's a miracle, considering it was

a "gas leak" at a medical office complex.

I am sensing air quotes.

Metro pd found detonator parts.

Facility have any connection to NCIS?

Detonator was found outside the office of Dr. Rachel Cranston.

Whoa, talk about a blast from the past.

I don't get it.

Dr. Cranston's a psychologist

who worked with us here at NCIS before.

Also happens to be

the sister of my former partner.

Kate.

Well, I'm starting to see a pattern.

Whoever's behind these attacks knows our history.

Not just yours, Chucky.

Fornell, what are you doing here?

- It's a good damn question. - I'm not the one

who blew up your garage, Tobias.