NCIS: Hawai'i

Hey.

Hey, Kai Holman.

Long time.

Yeah.

What you doing, bruh?

Ah, just here for the grindz, Tran.

Your pops know you come across the street for some food?

Yeah, it'll be our secret.

Hey, your loco moco's coming up.

All right.

Hey, I, uh... Man, I heard Margaux's closed up last week.

Yeah, it's a real shame.

It's hard to stay open these days, huh?

People got no money.

But ho'omau. We do what we got to.

Is that a new espresso machine?

Uh, yes, it is.

Ah. Are you selling a lot of lattes these days?

Uh, makes the tourists feel like it's "home."

Yeah, I tried to get Pop to install one.

Banned me from the restaurant for a week.

They're pricey.

Well, tell me about it.

But business is good, so...

Yep.

Is it?

Well, usually.

You know, I made some upgrades.

A brand-new kitchen.

Right on.

Oh. Thank you.

Oh.

I got to run.

Mahalo for the moco.

Yeah you.

Here you go.

Good boy.

Don't get many calls to the theater.

Well, there's not much of a drama scene on the island.

Unless you count school plays.

I don't.

Gracie was in a play in the fifth grade.

Man, it was brutal.

The elementary production not up to your standards?

You know, these kids,

they just refuse to live truthfully

under imaginary circumstances.

You don't say.

Who's our victim?

Petty Officer Second Class Kendall Wells.

Navy weatherman.

Who moonlights as a musketeer in the chorus?

Pirate King, actually.

Sorry, what's that now?

He's the Pirate King.

In the show? Second male lead?

Sorry, you just seem to know a lot about this.

Pirates of Penzance.

I should, I once played the Pirate King myself.

In high school?

No, dude, in college.

Oh.

Okay, Pirate King.

So, this guy was supposed

to make an entrance, right?

And then he falls during the finale?

Well, this happened early in the first act.

So, no, not the finale.

But, yeah, you got the rest right.

It appears he was strangled by one of the fly wires.

Which explains the ligature marks around his neck.

But not the defensive wounds on his hands.

He got into a confrontation.

Yeah.

Who was onstage when it happened?

The five sisters,

Frederic, and Emma Rose, who plays Mabel.

Pirate Queen?

No, just stop. You're embarrassing yourself.

It was opening weekend and everyone was so excited.

And then the dream turned into a nightmare.

You have any idea why Kendall was in the rafters?

No, he was supposed to be offstage for his entrance.

Nobody goes up there.

It's a safety hazard.

How well did you know Kendall?

We've done a couple shows together.

H.. he was pretty new to the acting thing,

being in the Navy and all.

But he was good.

Did you notice anything off about him lately?

Yeah, he was way off.

He started showing up late to rehearsals.

And then said he couldn't help it

because of a secret project he was working on.

Well, what kind of secret project?

A movie, I think. Something big.

Yeah? Like a movie movie?

He wouldn't say, but we all had our theories.

Why wouldn't he talk about a movie he's in?

Well, these big features, they make you sign

nondisclosure agreements.

Or so I hear.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I know what it was.

And what's that?

Three initials.

MCU.

Okay, so what does MCU stand for?

Marvel something something?

right, well, it's fair to say that Petty Officer Wells

wasn't killed over a superhero movie.

‘cos he wasn't in one.

I checked with his CO.

Wells was a low-level weatherman.

Performed minor maintenance, weather forecasts,

and the occasional light opera.

None of which lead to murder.

Except Wells did have a top secret clearance.

As a weather technician?

No. As something else.

But his CO was told it was a need-to-know only,

and he didn't need to know.

Okay, well, we need to know.

So I'll get us read in.

Yeah.

Uh, can I help you?

Special Agent Boone.

Dang. I was hoping to surprise you.

You did, Alan.

By messing with my stuff.

Sorry. I saw these files weren't alphabetized

or really organized in any conceivable way.

I have a system, okay?

Then again, no one really uses physical files anymore.

I can digitize them for you.

Or you can not do that, too.

Just want to make the most of my time on the team.

On the what now?

Alan is filling in for Lucy

while she is Agent Afloat.

Temporarily.

Really?

I know. I was shocked, too.

Being invited to the A-Team?

Yeah, okay, well, first rule of the A-Team…

we don't touch each other's stuff.

Copy.

Any other rules?

Yeah, there's a ton.

But I got to go see Commander Chase about an autopsy.

No, sir, you do not. I spoke with her.

Okay.

What'd she say?

Oh, she was very kind.

Could tell I was nervous about being around

a dead body for the first time.

She suggested celestite and amethyst.

About the victim, Alan.

Oh, right. The victim.

He had burn marks on his body

from a cattle prod or a stun gun.

Or some other electrical shocking instrument.

So he was tortured before he was murdered?

Ernie's got something on Petty Officer Wells.

I'll go.

No. I'll send Kai.

Let Alan talk you through

the rest of Commander Chase's observations.

Fun.

What do you got, Ernie?

Am I supposed to know what that means?

Come on. Really?

Pirates of Penzance.

Still nothing. What?

I'm a lifelong member of the Gilbert Sullivan Society.

Well, seems to be an epidemic.

But does any of this have to do

with Kendall Wells' murder?

Yes. I'm not sure what Wells was into,

but I know where he's been.

Well, sort of.

According to his cell phone GPS,

Wells made regular visits over the last few weeks

to a particular location on the island.

And where is that?

That's the paradox. It doesn't exist.

Just a big blank spot on the island.

Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center.

It's "The Hole."

So top secret it can't even be mapped.

But what business would our singing weatherman have there?

There's only one way to find out.

This is it?

Right coordinates.

Doesn't seem all that secure.

Gate's no longer locked,

old-school cameras with the wires hanging loose.

Yeah, if this was a military installation...

There should be more military.

Let's check it out.