NCIS

Torres.

Sawyer? What are you doing here, man?

I thought you were supposed to be on an undercover op.

If anybody sees us... They won't.

I was too careful, okay? I just needed to talk to someone.

All right. What's going on? Talk to me.

This op... it's got my head all turned around.

Being two people, lying all the time,

constantly having to look over my shoulder.

Hey.

When was the last time you slept?

I don't know.

The place they got me holed up in...

the trains keep me up all night,

just coming and going.

Hey, Dale? Yeah.

Whose blood is that?

You go too far, you can still come back, right?

I'm calling Vance, all right?

We need to bring you in now.

It's nothing. We're good.

Sawyer? Sawyer.

What is the national animal of Scotland?

The unicorn. Correct.

What is the only edible food that never goes bad?

Honey. Correct.

What is on the top floor

of the U.S. Supreme Court building?

Ooh, ooh, wait, I know this one.

I got it. A basketball court.

Ah. Ding, ding, ding!

Correct. Damn it, I was gonna say it.

What's with the questions?

Well, our very own Timothy McGee just found out

that he is going to be a contestant on

Smart Alecks.

Smart Alecks?

Oh, I love that show.

Everybody loves that show.

Wow, what's...? How'd you score that?

Well, it was actually, uh, Delilah's idea.

Every time we watch at home,

I play along, usually win,

so she encouraged me to audition.

Took an online test, and, uh,

they picked me. When's the show?

Three days. They fly me out to Hollywood to tape it.

Whoa. I got to say, I'm impressed, McGee.

You nervous?

Ah, not particularly.

Good, ‘cos I'd be terrified.

Being in front of all those lights

and cameras, and not to mention,

Smart Alecks is watched

by eight million people?

Mm, I think it's more like ten.

Well, I could never do it, but

good for you for not being nervous.

Well, I'm nervous now.

Tell him it's Agent Torres from NCIS.

It's important. Thanks.

You okay, Nick?

I don't know, man. Sawyer came to see me last night.

He didn't look good.

Sawyer came to see you?

Aren't the two of you, like, the opposite of friends?

Well, we had our differences.

That's putting it mildly.

You nearly killed each other

when we busted that fight club last year.

Well, ever since he took this undercover assignment,

he's been coming to me for guidance.

But you should've seen him last night, man.

He was rambling, edgy, he had blood on his clothes.

I told him to come in, but he just took off.

Do you know anything

about this op that he's on? Can you call his handler?

All I know is that it's a joint op with the FBI.

They're taking lead.

I reached out to them twice, and

they haven't returned my calls.

Do you know where Sawyer's staying?

No, he's deep undercover.

Only his handler would know.

What's up? He said that

the trains were keeping him up at night.

Which maybe means that he's staying at...

Somewhere near the train tracks.

I got two motels here near Union Station.

Yeah, I got another two outside the city.

All right, what are we standing around here for?

Divide and conquer. Let's go.

Looks like we found the right place.

Excuse me, Officer.

NCIS. What's going on?

One of the guests called in a car fire not too long ago.

The firemen are putting it out right now.

What kind of car is it? Ford Taurus.

Hope nothing valuable's

in there because that thing is toast.

That's Sawyer's car.

Captain, was there anyone in the car?

No. You check the trunk?

We were just about to. Do it now, please.

Crowbar. Mm-hmm.

We're too late.

Can't come to the phone right now.

You know what to do.

Sawyer's still not answering.

I can think of one reason why.

Well, we don't know it's him.

And what about the car? You said it was his.

Well, lots of people have the same car.

Doesn't mean anything. What about his I.D.?

And his prints?

He had no prints. They were burnt off.

Well, then we don't know it's him.

I spoke with the motel manager.

He confirmed that Sawyer was a guest at the motel.

He was registered under the name Tommy Dugan.

Probably his undercover alias.

Yeah. You check his room?

Yeah. There were signs of a struggle.

Not looking good.

What about the surveillance cameras?

I haven't checked those yet, but...

Well, then let's check them out, right?

Why don't you guys, uh, go get some statements?

What's going on with you? They're just doing their jobs.

It was supposed to be me in that trunk. What?

I was supposed to go on the undercover op, not Sawyer.

The FBI came to me first.

But I was newly sober, and I was working on my recovery,

and I turned them down, all right?

I chose myself before the job.

And now you're thinking, what? This is somehow your fault?

Don't do that to yourself, Nick.

You were taking care of your mental health.

You couldn't have known that this was gonna happen.

Sawyer wasn't ready for this.

He worked undercover before. Yeah, but not long-term.

If I would have known the FBI was gonna ask him,

I would've not turned it down.

Now he's dead, and I have to live with that.

Our victim here

is not Agent Sawyer.

He's not? What do you mean?

Oh, I was able to extract some useable DNA and sent it up

to Kasie for analysis, but then I got to thinking.

I remember one time when I went out to dinner with Sawyer,

he told me that he'd lost one of his front teeth

in a fight in high school.

He had to replace it with an implant.

So, of course, I X-rayed our victim here,

and sure enough, no implant.

You guys, this isn't Sawyer.

Back up.

You went out to dinner with Sawyer?

Yeah, you guys are friends?

Well, sure. We've gone out several times.

I'm telling you, underneath all that cockiness

and bravado, he's actually a really sweet guy.

Well, either way,

Torres is gonna be relieved.

Yeah. Well, any idea who our victim might be?

No, like I said, we're still waiting on DNA analysis, but

I can tell you that he was shot to death before he was burned.

I was able to pull a bullet

out of his chest cavity. I sent it up

to Kasie for analysis.

So, hopefully, she can trace that back to our killer.

Well, if this isn't Sawyer,

that means that he's still missing.

We need to get a BOLO out immediately.

And reach out to his handler again.

The FBI still hasn't returned any of Torres's calls.

I'm guessing they will now.

DNA results just came back.

Our victim here... he's an FBI agent.

McCULLERS: Greg Parlamis was a good agent.

One of the best we've ever had.

Uh, we're sorry about your man, Agent McCullers.

Thank you, but I assume this isn't a condolence call.

You must have questions.

A few. Starting with, uh, what was Parlamis doing

in the trunk of one of our agents' cars?

Was he undercover with Sawyer?

Yeah. They'd been partnered up for the last few months.

What were they investigating?

Around six months ago, a trucker was found shot dead

off the I-95 in Philadelphia.

The contents of his truck were stolen.

We discovered it wasn't an isolated incident.

A burglary crew had been robbing delivery trucks

heading towards naval bases in the region.

What were they stealing? Guns? Missiles?

That's the thing.

The trucks were just carrying random, everyday supplies:

military boots, office chairs, toilet paper.

So you sent in Sawyer and Parlamis to check it out?