Episode Recaps
Season 7: Episode 10: Faith On a cold winter morning our team investigates the murder of First Lieutenant Thomas Ellis, when his frozen body is found kneeling in the woods after being shot in the back of the head. Having just returned from deployment, Ellis recently converted from Christianity to becoming a Muslim. He was praying when he was shot and killed. Things get even more complicated when we discover that our victim’s father is a retired Marine turned minister. Evidence also proves that men in Ellis’ unit tried to get rid of him as well. Was this a hate crime? It turns out dad was paying Ellis’ fellow Marines to try to get him to quit the Corps for good. In the end our killer turns out to be someone closer than we think. An unexpected holiday visit from Gibb’s father, Jackson, has Gibb’s concerned about what big secret he’s hiding. It turns out that Jackson shot and killed a robber who held up his store. With a little help from MTAC, McGee makes a young boy’s Christmas wish to see his mother come true. |   .jpg) |
Season 7: Episode 09: Child's Play A dead Marine’s day job at a government think tank lead’s Gibbs and the NCIS into the life of a 12 year old prodigy named Angela. After they meet Krista Dalton, the facilities coordinator at the Sattler Institute, the mutilated body of Lance Corporal Lozado leads them to a former acquaintance in a local street gang. McGee follows the paper trail to find out that Angela’s work could be worth thousands. Ultimately, they find that her artwork could conceal a secret worth killing over. They have to protect the girl and find out what ties her, a dead marine, and a plot to sell US military secrets before its too late. | .jpg) .jpg) |
Season 7: Episode 08: Power Down Our team investigates the death of Navy Lieutenant, Emma Paxton, when her body is found at Swiftcast, a major internet service provider, after an attempted robbery in the facility shuts down all the electricity in the greater DC area. With no electricity we watch our team solve the murder the old fashioned way. While the security guards who were part of the crossfire are questioned, our team realizes that nothing was stolen from SwiftCast. Tony and Ziva track down the house that they believe the suspects are hiding out in and discover two bodies, one of them being one of the security guards involved in the shootout. The plot thickens as this turns out to be more than just a robbery. Paxton position working in the entertainment division was just a cover for her highly classified position with the National Security Agency. Paxton’s iris was hard-coded to allow her access to all major security companies which would have given her free access to SwiftCast. We discover that Paxton was kidnapped for the access she was able to provide in order to break into Swiftcast to steal user data. While being held captive, Paxton poisoned herself with medication from her kidnapper’s medicine cabinet that affected the vessels in her eyes hoping to block the iris scanner from allowing her access. She wasn’t part of the robbery she was trying to stop it. |  .jpg) |
Season 7: Episode 07: Endgame A man is found in the woods with a gunshot wound to his head. The team’s director shows up on the crime scene, a rare occurrence – he has seen these crime scene details before. The director confirms that the murder must was committed by a female North Korean operative, Lee Wuan Kai, who most likely killed the doctor after forcing him to treat her. The director tells the team to be on high alert – the two have a history and she is very deadly. The team finds that Kai has left her DNA on the victim’s body for them. The director is completely shocked when Kai calls him at home and is sitting in his driveway. The team discovers that Kai is in town to kill a North Korean official. McGee’s new love interest turns out to be working for the North Korean government and gets killed by Kai in McGee’s arms. The team discovers that Kai is murdering all of the men who turned her into a killer. Vance returns to his home to find Kai pointing a gun at his wife. Kai reveals that she is there because she wants Vance to kill him in order to finally end her pain. Vance hesitates in killing Kai but his wife finishes the job. |  .jpg) |
Season 7: Episode 06: Out Laws and In-Laws When Gibb’s boat mysteriously shows up in the San Diego harbor with two dead men in it, Vance, Gibbs and Ducky travel to San Diego knowing this investigation needs to be handled with extreme sensitivity. It turns out Gibbs dropped his boat off to Franks in Mexico but Franks is no where to be found. Franks shows up at Gibb’s house with his daughter in law, Leyla (Frank’s deceased son’s wife) and granddaughter in tow. We learn our two dead guys worked for a private military company who was hired by Leyla’s mother, Shada, a powerful tribal leader in Iraq, to kidnap and bring back her daughter and granddaughter to Iraq. It was her way of trying to re-establish a relationship with her estranged daughter. Frank takes full responsibility for the shooting but further investigation reveals that it was Leyla who shot and killed the men when she saw them approaching Franks. In then end the private military company is also held responsible for bounty hunting in Mexico and Leyla and her mother come to terms. | .jpg) .jpg) |
Season 7: Episode 05: Code of Conduct On Halloween night our team investigates what looks to be the unfortunate suicide Lance Corporal James Korby who is found dead in his car. However, they soon discover that Korby was murdered as his organs are frozen with liquid nitrogen. Someone got Korby to drink the nitrogen and staged his death to look like a suicide. Tony can’t shake the hunch that the Sara, Korby’s wife and a three-time marine widower, is involved. Korby, known for being a prankster, wasn’t well liked amongst his unit. His autopsy also yields that was recently poisoned and beaten up while on his mission. We soon discover that Private Singer, who belonged to Korby’s unit, was having an affair with Korby’s wife Sara. Sara also confesses to coming home to confront Korby right around the time of the crime. Just as Tony is about to cuff Sara, Gibbs realizes that Sara had nothing to do with Korby’s death, there was someone else with a real motive. Rachel, Korby and Sara’s teenage stepdaughter, was about to cash in on a pretty hefty trust fund and inheritance and the only way she knew to do it was to kill Korby and frame Sara. | .jpg) .jpg) |
Season 7: Episode 04: Good Cop, Bad Cop When the remains of AWOL marine Daniel Cryer are found off the coast of Tanzania by a fishing boat, Ziva’s account of Mossad’s operation to take down Saleem Ulman is called in to question. It turns out that Cryer had deserted the Marines to become a soldier of fortune, and had been part of the team that Mossad had sent after Saleem. Ziva’s story that the ship they had been traveling on had gone down in a storm is proven false by the location of Cryers body, and the fact that he was shot to death confirms that something other than a storm had been responsible for the sinking of the ship. Using the location of Cryer’s body as a guide, the Navy is able to salvage the ship in question and discovers that the entire crew had been shot to death. Vance presses Ziva for more details, but her team leader, Malachi Ben-Gidon, shows up at NCIS and demands that Ziva return to Mossad’s control. Vance agrees on the condition that Malachi debriefs them on the rest of the mission. Malachi agrees and tells them that their cover had been blown and they were forced to kill everyone on the ship, and that Ziva had killed Cryer because he had been responsible for their discovery. However, when Ziva sets the record straight and tells them it was Malachi who had shot Cryer before asking questions, Vance sends him back to Israel. Through all of this Ziva was trying to get a permanent position on the NCIS team, and after proving her loyalty is accepted as an NCIS agent. |   |
Season 7: Episode 03: Inside Man When political blogger Matt Burns is found dead after being pushed off a bridge while following up on a tip, NCIS takes a special interest in his murder investigation. On his blog, Burns had accused NCIS of covering up the murder of a young Naval officer, Rod Arnett, who Burns suspected of insider trading. NCIS concluded that Arnett’s car accident was just that, an unfortunate car accident. However, unable to oversee jurisdiction over the Burns’ murder, NCIS reopens Arnett’s case. Things become even more complicated when they exhume Arnett’s body only to find that his body had been stolen. The team suspects that Burns stole Arnett’s body so that he could fuel the conspiracy that NCIS was covering up a murder. It’s discovered that Arnett gave insider information to an unassuming sandwich shop owner that he befriended while taking the train everyday. Hoping no one would ever suspect the two of them as conspiring together they agreed to split the $2 million earning. As it turns out, our sandwich shop owner, afraid his scheme with Arnett was about to be exposed, placed the tip to Burns and met him at the bridge to kill him. |   |
Season 7: Episode 02: Reunion The team investigates a bachelor party where all three guests are murdered and left in very mysterious circumstances. One of the victims is found hanging, another is found drowned in the toilet, the third suffered from alcohol poisoning and all three are found with their heads shaved, post mortem. After a thorough investigation the team zeros in on a suspect, a police officer that had been bullied by the three victims during high school. The way that all three victims were found corresponds with the way they had tormented the cop, right down to shaving his head. They also discover that the three victims had used their Navy connections to set up the illegal sale of a decommissioned aircraft, and that the bachelor party was actually a front for the deal to go down during. The team figures the police officer had finally taken his revenge and not only killed his tormentors, but also stole their profits from the aircraft heist. However, after the officer turns up dead, the team learns that the real culprit also attended the same high school as the original three victims, and had framed the cop so they could steal the money from the aircraft job. |   |
Season 7: Episode 01: Truth or Consequences Several months have passed since Gibbs left Ziva in Israel, and no one at NCIS has heard from her since. Concerned that something may be wrong, Tony, McGee and Abby track down her last known whereabouts, and discover that she was on a mission to take out terrorist Saleem Ulman in Northern Africa. Tony and McGee track him down to get answers about Ziva’s disappearance, but are quickly taken prisoner by Saleem. Unfamiliar with NCIS and Tony’s mission, Saleem administers a truth serum and questions Tony extensively about the inner workings of the agency, how he was able to find his base of operations and why he traveled so far in his quest. Unable to keep quiet because of the serum, Tony recaps the three months at NCIS since Ziva disappeared, and reveals that NCIS is under the impression that Ziva is dead. He tells Saleem that he traveled to Northern Africa to seek vengeance on the parties responsible. Saleem then demands that Tony reveal the identities of all NCIS agents in the region, and threatens to kill a hostage if he doesn’t speak. To Tony’s surprise, the hostage is Ziva. However, just as Saleem is about to execute Ziva, Tony tells Saleem one last thing: Gibbs is in Northern Africa too, and Saleem is about to die. Gibbs had been laying in wait the entire time, and just then takes a sniper shot and kills Saleem and the other guards watching over Ziva, Tony and McGee, allowing them to escape. |    |
