NCIS

You have to prepare yourself for the possibility

she won't survive the night.

Emily Fornell had counterfeit opioids in her blood.

McGee, you got point. For now, or...?

I got a lead on the errand boy

who supplied the poison that nearly killed my little girl.

The head of the snake.

- Perfect timing, Gibbs. - Tobias?

What'd you do?

Nothing.

Gonna need some time.

Check back with me in about two weeks.

Hey, McGee,

you guys still out for drinks?

Gibbs is coming, baby!

Matthew, breakfast.

Here, kitty, kitty.

Matthew?

Ooh, it's freezing out here.

Where are you, baby?

Sorry to disturb you, sir.

Matthew David McConaughey, you leave that man alone

and come home right now.

My God.

Welcome to Beltway Burgers,

where every day is a Beltway day.

May I please take your order?

Coffee, black.

Would you like to make that a Beltway breakfast combo

for three dollars more?

No.

Next window, please.

$1.59, please.

Thank you.

How's your morning so far, sir?

Fine. I'm glad to hear that.

Here's your coffee.

And you have a Beltway day.

What do you want?

I'm on a five minute smoke break.

They still have those? No.

And I don't smoke.

So, whatever it is you came to say, make it fast.

So, what are you doing...

Toby? Hey!

I earned that... they don't hire just anybody, you know.

You said you had a lead.

You're looking at it.

What's fast food got to do

with counterfeit opioids? Okay.

The pill pusher we were supposed to be following?

He worked here.

The pill pusher you were supposed

to be following, Tobias.

Not that againl didn't kill him!

Kimberly!

Good morning.

It wasn't my fault.

The pill pusher died of a drug overdose, okay?

I read the autopsy report.

Well, then let's focus on the real question here.

What was a drug dealer, who makes thousands of dollars

a week, doing flipping burgers for minimum wage?

That doesn't make sense.

Unless this place had something to do with the drugs.Exactly.

I just need more time to find out how.

How much more time?

Give me a few more days.

I'm this close to getting

freezer privileges.

It's one of the few places

I haven't been able to search yet.

That and the manager's office.

He's kind of a hard-ass.

Toby, five minutes are up.

And who you talking to?

Nobody.

Just trying to psych up for the next shift.

Attaboy, T.

Love the focus.

This is a rough morning.

Yeah, for all of us.

You know, my head is killing me. Yeah, tell me about it.

I haven't had a hangover this bad since Steve Jobs died.

McGee, this is all your fault.

You invited Gibbs to the bar. In a million years,

I didn't think he would actually show, okay? He showed up.

He showed up big-time and he set the pace.

The man can knock 'em back. What are you complaining about?

You didn't even drink. Yeah, but I ate.

I had those, fresh, tuna poppers.

And, they weren't so fresh.

Food poisoning?

How bad? I spent the whole night in the bathtub.

Sorry I asked.

Hey, how do you think Gibbs gets over his hangovers?

You don't.

What we got?

Our victim is Chief Petty Officer

Diego Barnes, 32 years old,

who lived in the next building over.

It looks like he was walking home

over there when he was initially attacked and then

fled up the fire escape, but, um,

it was too late.

We got a motive?

His wallet and money were still on him.

That's how the police were able to ID him before they called us.

There are these deep gashes all over his abdomen.

And his insides are now on the outside.

Gutted him like a fish.

Yeah, this is either personal or

we're looking for a total psycho.

I can't do this.

I'm gonna be sick.

Poor guy, I don't blame him.

Boss, I got something here you might want to see.

No, McGee, nobody wants to see that.

I didn't throw up; Someone else did.

I think I found our murder weapon.

Well, the lacerations on the body

match the double-sided knife found at the scene.

Killer dropped it?

While vomiting, it seems.

There's no bile on the victim's mouth,

so the mystery puke must have come

from whoever dropped that knife.

Kasie's running DNA right now.

Why carve him up like this, Palmer?

If you're asking for a motive, I can't say for sure.

What I can say is that all these cuts occurred postmortem.

So I would think that the killer must have

climbed the fire escape and done all of his

carving up there.

After the fact?

Gibbs, I know right now isn't the best time,

but, I just wanted to say that

last night was really special.

You joining us for drinks.

I've always thought of you as more than a coworker...

A mentor, a father figure of sorts.

I feel like now I can add "friend" to that list.

Call me when you get a motive.

Agent Gibbs?!

You told me to call you when I found a motive.

I think I just did.

I found this lodged

in the lower esophageal sphincter.

Must've swallowed it just before he died.

It looks like

a corner of some torn paper.

Where's the rest of it?

I'd say it was removed.

The hard way.

Thanks.

Yeah.

Okay, Chief Petty Officer Diego Barnes.

A Navy recruiter with a very clean record.

McGee, hangover, make it bigger.

Yes, right.

Commendation Medal for recruiting excellence.

Clearly our victim was a people person.

And a rock person, too.

Barnes was a climber.

Well, it explains why he tried

to get away up the fire escape.

It doesn't explain why the killer

followed him up there and then cut him open.

Well, according to the autopsy report, this

was the last thing Barnes swallowed before he died.

What is it? I have no idea.

No, don't look at me, the ibuprofen has

definitely not kicked in yet.

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.

It's the best cure for a hangover.

You'll feel better in no time.

Says the woman who left the bar early.

I had a thing. What did I miss?

Well, Gibbs ordered more tequila shots and Bishop and Kasie

decided to sing "Islands in the Stream."

I didn't know that bar had karaoke.

Yeah, they don't.

Wow, you guys really did drink.

It's kind of why we need a fresh set of eyes here.

You have any ideas what these lines could be?

Those

look like topographical markers.

Like from a map.

Why would this guy swallow a map?

Chief Barnes

didn't swallow just any map, Gibbs.

He swallowed a treasure map.

Yeah? I'm listening.

Topographical markings are kind of like fingerprints.

No two are exactly the same.

So I ran the paper from the body

against the USGS topo database

and got a match.

The victim swallowed a map of Whitestone Gap.

Virginia Mountains.