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NCIS: New Orleans Episode Guide
Episodes 001–026
Last episode aired Tuesday October 6, 2015
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Contents Season 1 1 1 Musician Heal Thyself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 Breaking Brig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 The Recruits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5 It Happened Last Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 6 Master of Horror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7 Watch Over Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 8 Love Hurts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 9 Chasing Ghosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 10 Stolen Valor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 11 Baitfish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 12 The Abyss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 13 The Walking Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 14 Careful What You Wish For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 15 Le Carnivale de la Mort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 16 My Brother’s Keeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 17 More Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 18 The List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 19 The Insider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 20 Rock-A-Bye Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 21 You’ll Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 22 How Much Pain Can You Take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 23 My City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Season 2 61 1 Sic Semper Tyranis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 2 Shadow Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 3 Touched by the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Actor Appearances 69
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II
Season One
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Musician Heal Thyself
Season 1
Episode Number: 1
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired: Tuesday September 23, 2014
Writer: Jeffrey Lieber
Director: Michael Zinberg
Show Stars: Scott Bakula (NCIS Special Agent Dwayne Pride), Lucas Black (NCIS
Special Agent Christopher LaSalle), Zoe McLellan (Special Agent
Meredith ”Merri” Brody), CCH Pounder (Dr. Loretta Wade), Rob
Kerkovich (Forensic Scientist Sebastian Lund)
Guest Stars: David McCallum (Dr. Donald ’Ducky’ Mallard), Steven Weber (Council-
man Douglas Hamilton), James McDaniel (Papa Parks), Matt Bushell
(Hunter Franz), Robert DoQui (Naval C.O. Captain Peter Lee), Frank
Lynch (II) (Tattoo Guy), Isaiah LaBorde (Mace), Tyler Kunkle (Jesse),
Henry Frost (Dale), Martin Bradford (Ross P), Stephen Sutton (II)
(Swag), Ariadne Joseph (Naomi), Tania Dall (Local News Reporter),
Paul Kevin Murphy (Local News Reporter 2)
Production Code: 101
Summary: A case turns personal for Pride when the body of a Petty Officer is
identified as a former gang member he once mentored. Meanwhile,
Brody continues her search for the perfect place to call home in New
Orleans.
Some guys are unloading the catch off
their boat. Jealous Macey tells one of the
guys to keep his eyes off his girl Amy.
He throws him against one of the shrimp
cages and knocks it over. His buddy
points and says ”leg.” Sure enough,
there’s a dismembered limb. Brody com-
plains to her boss about her loud neigh-
borhood. Chris calls her a lightweight
and Dwayne agrees. Chris says the leg
is likely Navy. Loretta says the DNA will
take time and no identifying marks but
the victim is likely African American.
Dwayne cracks some jokes about whether it might be a mutant starfish.
Loretta says likely a single blade. Dwayne tells Chris to take Brody and get with the Coast
Guard to find the rest of the guy. Captain Lee is waiting for Dwayne at the office. He tells him
Calvin Parks, his mentee, is AWOL. He asks if he’s heard from him. Dwayne hasn’t but says he’s
a good guy. The Captain says maybe he’s just found a nice girl and shacked up and asks him to
give a call if hears from him. He takes off.
Dwayne video calls Loretta and Sebastian rambles on to him. Dwayne interrupts and asks if
he could be 23, 6’3” about 220 pounds. Sebastian says that’s likely and Dwayne says he’ll send
a name and photo. He sends over a photo of him and Calvin. Dwayne waits while a trumpeter
finishes his set — it’s Calvin’s dad. He asks if he’s heard from his son and he says it’s been a
couple of weeks. Dwayne tells him something bad may have happened to him but he’s not sure.
He gets called for another set. Papa says he loves two things — Calvin and jazz. He head back
on stage but is noticeably sad. He plays a somber tune. Dwayne gets a text telling him the body
is a positive ID for Calvin. Dwayne drinks his coffee when Brody and Chris come in. He offers
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them breakfast and sausage and tells them to fill him in on the investigation. They searched his
rack and found his laptop but nothing else. Dwayne says he’ll check on forensics.
Chris asks for a moment and tells Dwayne he can take the morgue since Dwayne is personally
involved. He refuses. Brody listens in. Dwayne says we face what we have to face and tells him to
take Brody and go. Chris reminds him he promised breakfast but says they’ll take it to go. Thy
go talk to a civilian contractor that oversaw Calvin at the pier. He yells at a couple of slackers
then comes back to them and says he heard talk about Calvin hanging with some bangers.
Chris explains that means gang members and Brody tells him duh. Loretta tells Dwayne they
found the body wrapped in plastic in a shallow grave. She says the leg was taken while he was
still alive. His knuckles show signs of defensive wounds and she says he got some good licks in.
She runs a simulation Sebastian set up. She says he likely had some sort of ax that took the
limb and caused him to bleed out. They found a tooth in his clothing — not Calvin’s — from the
right side of the mouth. They’re waiting on DNA.
She shows him a fresh gang tat on Calvin’s arm — Delta crew. Chris says that he’s seen
gangs make former members recommit then kill them. Chris explains the local gangs to Brody
and she sasses him and plays dumb. Chris says he knows Delta Crew and Dwayne takes the
113. Brody tells Dwayne about an apartment she’s considering and he gives her the low-down
on each neighborhood. He tells her where you live says everything.
He tells her Chris lives in the Quarter and he lives in the lower Garden. She says it looks like
he’s living in the office. She asks where she can live and get a full night’s sleep. A Delta Crew guy
tells Chris that he hasn’t seen Calvin since he joined the Navy. The guy says the 113s are the
prime suspects and tells Chris to go. Chris says he’ll leave when he’s ready. The guy calls over
the bartender and asks for a diet orange.
Dwayne and Brody ask the 113s why Calvin might be dead. The head guy tries to flirt with
Brody then says Delta Crew has been known to kill their own. Dwayne asks to see his teeth and
he smiles and shows that he has them all. Then an SUV rolls up for a drive by. It’s Naomi the
bartender and the Delta Crew guy. He drives, she shoots and Dwayne and Brody barely make it
behind a car and avoid being shot.
Dwayne and Chris watch a news story about the prior days’ drive-by gang shooting. Chris says
each gang is blaming the other and Dwayne wonders who’s setting the other up. Councilman
Hamilton shows up and says he heard he stirred the pot that caused the gang war to erupt. He
asks if NCIS wants to join the task force. Dwayne says he’ll help any way he can. Hamilton asks
for names but Dwayne says he has no proof yet they were involved in Calvin’s murder.
Hamilton says appearances matter and Dwayne says justice matter. He leaves. Dwayne tells
Chris to never go into politics. Chris wonders about why he thinks gangs weren’t involved.
Dwayne says if the 113 did it, they would have been expecting retaliation and weren’t and if
the Deltas did it, wouldn’t have retaliated. Dwayne goes to the morgue and asks to see Calvin’s
body. Loretta asks how he met Calvin. He says he met him when he tried to rob his house.
He says he saw something in him and helped him and it kills him now to think he went back
to that world. Loretta says Calvin was trying to change. Loretta says she’ll leave him with Calvin
and goes but tells him where his body is stored. Brody comes to see Chris and he tells her what’s
on the laptop. He says there was nothing much on gang involvement but there was an email sent
to himself with a bunch of numbers. Brody says she recognizes one of the numbers.
She can’t remember the number. Chris tells her she’s an odd bird. Sebastian comes down
to see Loretta. He looks at a rainstorm she’s got playing on her screen and then she asks what
can make a tattoo disappear. She says Calvin’s tattoo is disappearing. She says she remembers
a case where a tattoo fading determined cause of death. She says Dr Mallard (Duckie) was the
coroner. She calls him.
Dwayne gets a call and heads to see Papa. He says Walter told him he wasn’t going to play. He
says he took his trumpet apart to clean but just couldn’t put it back together. He says it’s just
in pieces. He asks if he’s found who killed Calvin. Dwayne says he will. Papa says if Calvin went
back to the gang, it’s his fault. He tells him he just can’t play and says it doesn’t feel like he ever
will without knowing what happened. Dwayne tells him to come take a walk with him. Papa says
he has nothing more to say.
Dwayne calls his daughter and she tells him she’s in class. He says he just wanted to hear
her voice. Chris asks Brody why she doesn’t just let him help her find a place. She says she likes
to keep her work and personal life separate. He says that’s now how it works around here. He
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points out items on a menu. She says pineapple and then repeats the number. She says 3493 is
the NIIN for a pineapple. She says Calvin worked at the wharf and it was pallets of pineapples.
The big numbers must have been weights. That tells them what to start looking for. They order
dessert.
Duckie and Loretta are on a video call reminiscing. Dwayne steps into the call and Loretta
tells him about the tattoo that’s fading. Duckie says the tattoo was applied just a few hours prior
to death and that’s why it’s not sticking. Duckie says in this case it was applied after death and
it wouldn’t hold because the body was dead and the tattoo couldn’t take. Dwayne tells them good
work.
Dwayne wakes and wanders into the office to find Brodyand Chris working. He asks if they
worked all night and they tell him that he snores — loud. He says he doesn’t. They tell him to
take a look. They tell him they think the murder had to do with his job. The numbers are all NIIN
for items at the docks — coffee, pineapples and bananas. They all came from the same ship from
Guatemala and the weight was different from when it hit the docks versus when it was loaded
on the Navy ship.
They tell Dwayne he could have been killed because he found out about it or was in on it.
There’s a news story on about Hamilton hosting a news conference about the gang violence and
how he’s going to be a law and order candidate in the upcoming Mayoral race. Sebastian has
something for them to see. Dwayne goes to see Hamilton and tells him to stop grandstanding.
Hamilton asks why Dwayne and he can’t get along.
Dwayne says he has no issue arresting people for things they’ve actually done and no cameras.
Hamilton asks why he cares about a loser gang banger. Dwayne gets angry. Sebastian tells Chris
and Brody that tattoo inks aren’t regulated and there are unique mixes that almost operate like
fingerprints. He says he narrowed it to a shop on Magazine Street. He asks them to take him
along to get him out of the lab so he can see something alive.
They take him along and Sebastian wonders what future civilizations will think about our ink
fetishes. Chris reveals he has an Alabama tattoo and Sebastian says he’d like a Lord of the Rings
one. Brody refuses to share. Chris flashes his ID and then they ask the tattoo artist about Calvin.
Sebastian says the ink belongs to him. The guy says a guy gave him $500 for a needle and a vial
of ink.
He has no name and Chris says he needs them to give his description to a sketch artist. The
guy says he went to the Rhode Island School of Design and offers a sketch. It matches Harold
Werner — a guy from the wharfs. They head to Werner’s trailer and tell him to open up. They
bust in and find blood leaking and him shoved in a compartment. He’s dead.
Chris says they know Harold was in on it and didn’t kill and stuff himself in the closet and
he had a full set of teeth so he didn’t kill Calvin. They head back to the wharfs. They talk to the
boss and he says that Harold had been flashing some cash in the last few months. They notice
that the guy seems to be too quick to offer to head to the office to check files. He turns the corner
and takes off and they all give chase. Dwayne catches him and punches him in his sore mouth.
Chris shows them the mother lode of heroin they found from the key in his office. They also
found the murder weapon that killed Calvin. They take the guy to interrogation. Dwayne asks
if his toothache is feeling better. He says they know he killed Calvin because he caught him
smuggling and then put the gang tattoo on him to throw them off. Dwayne says he knows he’s
only been in New Orleans for two years and couldn’t have known about Calvin’s gang past. They
ask who told him.
He doesn’t answer and Brody draws a target on his hand in permanent marker. She says that
will let the gang guys in prison know he was the one that caused the drive by shooting. He says if
he tells what he knows, the gangs will be the least of his worries. Dwayne heads to see Hamilton
and confronts him about having the ports in his district and knowing enough about Calvin to
tell his guy to put a tattoo on him to cover it up then start a gang war. Hamilton asks if he can
prove it and Dwayne says not yet.
Brody says she’s buying the first round because she found a great new guest house. She says
Chris helped her find it — she doesn’t know her new landlord is Loretta. She says she won’t tell
Brody until she has to raise the rent. Papa comes out and Dwayne goes over and tells him that
he should be awfully proud of Calvin. He asks Dwayne to sit in on the first number. Dwayne
plays piano as Papa trumpets for all he’s worth.
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Carrier
Season 1
Episode Number: 2
Season Episode: 2
Originally aired: Tuesday September 30, 2014
Writer: Gary Glasberg
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Show Stars: Scott Bakula (NCIS Special Agent Dwayne Pride), Lucas Black (NCIS
Special Agent Christopher LaSalle), Zoe McLellan (Special Agent
Meredith ”Merri” Brody), CCH Pounder (Dr. Loretta Wade), Rob
Kerkovich (Forensic Scientist Sebastian Lund)
Guest Stars: Michael Weatherly (NCIS Special Agent Tony DiNozzo), Rocky Car-
roll (NCIS Director Leon Vance), Pauley Perrette (Abby Sciuto), Mered-
ith Eaton-Gilden (Carol Wilson), Erika Alexander (Navy Commander
Louanne Bates), Annika Marks (Lara Harding), James Eckhouse (Dr.
Michael Hufcutt), Nicholas James (Navy Lieutenant Lewis Collier),
Nicole Barre (Doctor Melora Haley), Dacia Fernandez (Katie the Bar-
tender), Andre De’Sean Shanks (Linus Warren), Jimmy Gonzales (Lieu-
tenant Lewis Lang), Lance Tafelski (Dealer), Ross Britz (Ensign Diggs)
Production Code: 102
Summary: A Navy lieutenant on liberty dies from the bubonic plague. Special
agent DiNozzo is sent from Washington, D.C., to help the New Orleans
team locate all additional sailors on liberty, prevent a potential out-
break and determine the source of the highly infectious disease.
A navy man on leave was relishing his
time off at one of the many parties go-
ing on in New Orleans when suddenly he
began feeling sick right in the middle of
it. So, assuming whatever he had wasn’t
that bad, he just thought he needed some
air and yet after he got some he still
wasn’t feeling better. His symptoms un-
fortunately grew so bad he accidentally
stumbled in front of a taxi and was hit
head on.
Navy Lieutenant Lewis Collier died
that night and according to initial find-
ings from Loretta — his death was
deemed suspicious. As matter of fact it’s
the only red flag about him. He was literally a boys’ scout his entire life. Straight A’s all through
college and not one infraction against him both before and after joining the Navy.
Even the party he stumbled out of wasn’t his typical scene. He only went there as a favor to
his friends. And so his fiancée asked Pride to personally find out what really happened to Lewis.
Pride felt so bad for her he actually went down to the ME’s office in order to personally oversee
the rush on the autopsy and luckily he never got the chance to do so. He got caught up in talking
to Sebastian and by time the alarm went up — he was a go distance away from the contamination
site. Loretta on the other hand needed to be cleared before she could Lewis’s body.
Lewis was neither drunk or on drugs the night he died. It seems his erratic behavior came
about after he was exposed to the bubonic plague in possibly the worst case Loretta had seen
in years. Now everyone that was on the ship with Lewis has to be tested to see if they were also
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exposed. They don’t know when or where ground zero happened so it’s in the public best interest
to treat everyone they know was around Lewis.
[11:04:56 PM] Kristine Francis: Sounds easy but most of the crew members that were with
Lewis are on leave as well so they’re not all in one place to just round up. So to catch one navy
man they had to break up a card game and fight a hillbilly from the bayou.
Then there was the hard part. NCIS needed to question members still on the ship and that
meant Pride has to risk exposure in order to climb aboard. Although he wasn’t the only one
putting himself at risk. Agent DiNozzo joined him. He’s taken to calling himself the plague whis-
perer and together they found a dead serviceman onboard.
The man had claimed he needed rest and had died without anyone noticing. Yet it’s what else
that was in his room that interested the agents. The guys found a rat so of course they assumed
it was the ugly little beast’s fault.
But they were wrong. The rat wasn’t the start of the plague at least not this time. The bacteria
found inside of both victims came from a pure strain. Something they would normally see if the
plague had been manufactured in lab. And what do you know a lab recently reported a break in.
So this outbreak wasn’t an accident. It was an act of terrorism.
However the terrorist behind it didn’t necessarily want to want to hurt Americans. The guys
simply wanted to make a quick buck.
Pride had found out that the doctor that has been helping them also joined the ship while it
was out in the ocean. Hence there was a reason he was never on any official logs. That doctor
has been going through the motions of bankruptcy and was about to lose everything he had in
his name. And this included his pharmaceutical company that was miraculously began working
on a cure prior to the outbreak.
Though the doctor didn’t want to stop there. The team found him traveling to a convention
where he would have gone on to infect a group of doctors from all around the world. When they
caught him — all he could say was that he made a mistake. As if that could everything better
again.
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Breaking Brig
Season 1
Episode Number: 3
Season Episode: 3
Originally aired: Tuesday October 7, 2014
Writer: Laurie Arent
Director: Tony Wharmby
Show Stars: Scott Bakula (NCIS Special Agent Dwayne Pride), Lucas Black (NCIS
Special Agent Christopher LaSalle), Zoe McLellan (Special Agent
Meredith ”Merri” Brody), CCH Pounder (Dr. Loretta Wade), Rob
Kerkovich (Forensic Scientist Sebastian Lund)
Guest Stars: Mark Harmon (NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs), Rocky Car-
roll (NCIS Director Leon Vance), Felisha Terrell (Navy Lieutenant Adele
’Addie’ Watkins), Joe Massingill (Navy Seaman Recruit Levon Dalton),
Evan Gamble (Navy Lieutenant Ted Nash), Charlene Amoia (Carly
Dawson), Cliff M. Simon (Dmitry Babakov), Stacie Davis (Petty Of-
ficer Sheila Garland), Mandisa Reed (Perri), Karen Gonzalez (Patti),
Aidan Langford (Remy), Carlos Antonio (Paramedic), Jennifer Lutheran
(Remy’s Mother), Sharon E. Smith (Levon’s Mother), Lauren Graham
(Jill)
Production Code: 103
Summary: An armored transport bus carrying Naval brig detainees crashes and
four prisoners escape, including a black market broker who is one of
the country’s biggest national security threats. Pride turns to Gibbs
for assistance when a case file needed for the investigation is full of
redactions.
The crew rolls into the crime scene and
Addie introduces herself to Brody. She
says an armored bus with detainees
crossed the double yellow, rolled once
and landed here. They have three dead,
three missing and are waiting on names
from the prison. The prisoners carjacked
these girls after the bus almost ran the
women off the road.
Dwayne tells them to get statements
and Chris goes to talk to the girls. Loretta
tells them how the guards were killed
and Dwayne says the escapees are likely
armed. Addie hands over the prison man-
ifest. Dwayne says Ted Nash, Lavon Dal-
ton and Matt S O’Feeney are their three guys. Brody asks why he’s so interested in the last name.
He says it’s an anagram for enemy of state. He’s on a call with Gibbs and his boss. He’s really
Dmitry Babokov, a drug dealer, arms dealer and a ton of other bad stuff.
He was on the USS Birmingham for transport to New Orleans then a bus to Charleston for
sentencing. Vance says Babokov has intel they need and Gibbs says the message is to bring him
in alive. Dwayne fills in the team including Addie and says Gibbs is coordinating. Addie tells
them about Dimitry — concierge to the scum of the earth.
Weapons, drugs, information and people including the country’s biggest enemies. Lavon Dal-
ton was in the brig for striking a CO. Ted Nash was a naval architect in a shipyard but then
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took liberty, had a bar fight and landed in the brig. Chris wonders why Nash ran since he wasn’t
facing a big punishment. Dwayne sends Chris and Brody off to check on the first two and Addie
on Nash.
They head to the ship and the warden shows them the cells and says Babokov was in inter-
rogation every day and then sent back to his cell. Brody asks if he could have talked to other
prisoners and she says no. He climbs under the guy’s bunk and they find a link to Dalton where
they could have talked to plot escape.
Dwayne comes to the morgue and Loretta says the driver and guard were shot point back with
the guard’s M11. The other prisoner was strangled. The only one strong enough to do this was
Dalton. Sebastian says he’ll know more once he creates the virtual crash representation. Brody
talks to Nash’s fiancee and she says they broke it off last month.
She says they took a crazy trip to Europe when they were first dating and shows her some
snaps. She says after they got back, things fell apart. She says he had major trust issues and she
thinks it came from being an Arm brat. Brody says to call if she hears from him and the woman
agrees. Sebastian welcomes the four investigators to show them the crash reconstruction.
He plays the video. It’s driving North, goes into the other lane — he has the girls in the other
car in bikinis. Sebastian shows them Dalton strangling the other prisoner to lure the guard in
who was ambushed by Babokov. Dwayne gets a call and says they got the convertible on a BOLO
in Pearl River. They thank Sebastian and head out.
They pull up to find the convertible on the side of the road. Addie says they killed a trooper
and a farm hand heard gunshots. They creep up on a farm house and Dwayne calls out NCIS.
They rush in and look around. They see prison garb on the ground. Then they hear a thump.
Dwayne heads towards the noise. Chris shines a light and they open a door.
They see a little kid crying in a closet. Dwayne kneels and tells the boy it’s all right and tells
the others to stand down. He tells him he’s safe and takes the boy in his arms. The child cries
and cries. They sit on the porch with the boy — Remy — and ask how he’s doing. Dwayne says
his mom is on the way. Remy says he heard the shots and then voices so he hid. He says he
heard voices and one sounded funny. Dwayne asks if he can remember what he heard and says
he knows it’s hard to talk about scary stuff. He says once you talk about, you feel better. Remy
says they were talking about a grave. He asks if he’s sure and he says they were wondering how
long it would take to make it.
Dwayne tells him the men will never hurt him and says what he told him will make sure they
can’t hurt anyone else ever again. He slips Remy a Navy medallion and says he’s one of them
now. His mom shows up and says she was worried sick. Brody says they can’t find a grave —
she wonders if he heard a foreign word. He tells her to check Babokov’s known languages.
Addie says time of death of the trooper puts them about four miles away. Chris says one of
the guys is shot and Dwayne says that should slow them. They figure out how to tighten the
circle. Dalton’s sister got a text from the trooper’s phone saying he was on his way. They decide
the three are headed to Alabama. Sebastian stops by and tells Loretta he’s headed out for a drink
with a girl and it has a statistical probability of expanding to a real date.
Loretta says the dead prisoner has large intestine damage but no priors of stomach issues.
She says the trooper had the same symptoms. She asks how that can happen. She encourages
Sebastian to ditch his maybe date and play hard to get. He stays to help. Chris sticks his head
out the window and asks the others if they smell it as they cross the border into Alabama.
Brody says he’s got a Sweet Home Alabama romanticism and Chris says she moves too much
to develop an appreciation for anywhere. Dwayne says home is people not a place. They get
another text saying Dalton’s sister is headed to a local hospital. We see Dalton looking around as
he walks up to the ER. He comes in and looks around then Brody and the others surround him.
He tries to run but they have him. Chris tells him welcome home. Dwayne asks where Babokov
is and Dalton asks who the hell that is.
Brody has Dalton in interrogation. She says they were in adjoining cells and knows they
talked. He says he was just a voice with an accent and says he didn’t plan the escape. He says
he was sleeping and woke up when the bus went off the road. He says he knows he’s going away
for a long time. He says he has no incentive to tell her about it even if he knows anything.
Abbie finds Chris running language programs trying to figure out what Grave might mean.
She’s shoving chips in her mouth and he asks if she worries about cholesterol. She says life is
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too short and she doesn’t worry about anything. Dwayne says Dalton’s mom is in the hospital
with stage four cancer. The facial recognition software picks up Babokov at a train depot.
Abbie points out a symbol the guy has drawn on his arm. She says it’s a Marryat — a signal
to anyone that it’s danger or distress. Dwayne says he’s got Nash along as a human shield. Chris
comes to interrogation to talk to Dalton. He says he’s Bama born and raised too. He says he
knows his mama is real sick.
He asks how long she has and Dalton says the doctors says she was supposed to be gone
a month ago. Chris says she would appreciate the peace of mind knowing he’s okay before she
goes. Dalton is hooked and asks what they want to know. Chris tells Dwayne that Dalton doesn’t
know about the human shield thing but bragged about cutting a deal to get out of jail.
They pull his interrogation notes and see that they are heavily redacted. Dwayne says to text
him and says he’s going to find out why they’re being kept in the dark. Dwayne heads out to the
Birmingham and Gibbs is there. They embrace and smile at each other. Dwayne says he needs
to know what was redacted. Gibbs says he got it declassified and hands him a paper copy. He
tells him to read it and burn it then heads out.
Sebastian watches a Kung Fu movie and says this is Dim Mak warfare — pressure points are
used to cause damage and can damage the large intestine. It was used for smaller combatants to
take down larger opponents. Sebastian says Dim Mak isn’t a skill Babokov has but Brody says
Nash could know this skill since he was raised in Asia. They wonder how Nash and Babokov
were connected.
Dwayne comes in and says the big secret was a leak that gave Babokov information to sell.
Looks like he was going to turn Nash over and Nash got himself into the brig before his cover
was blown. Dwayne gets a text that the duo just got off the train in Mississippi. We see them
tramping through the woods. Nash asks again if he told them his name. Babokov says he never
told them who.
Nash seems satisfied and puts a bullet in his Russian buddy. The dogs sniff out his body a
little later. Dwayne checks his pulse and says he’s dead. Now they’re down to just one prisoner.
Brody wonders why Nash waited so long to kill Babokov and she thinks he wanted info on him.
She also says Nash may know Cantonese and they check the language program for grave.
Then Chris gets an inspired thought and asks where ships go to die. There is a ship graveyard.
Vance says they have to get Nash since he’s the only source of info about the leak. He tells Dwayne
to capture him alive and bring him in before he can escape to international waters. They speed
to the ship graveyard. A uni says they cut off all other paths and this is the only way to get there.
Brody spots him. He takes off and they give chase. They are in an old warehouse. Nash keep
scrambling and Chris says it’s on like Donkey Kong. He creeps around and then Nash jumps him
and busts out his super karate ninja skills. He knocks him down good then takes off. Chris calls
out to the other two. Nash grabs Brody in a choke hold. Dwayne has a gun on him and Nash
says he can have her dead before he can get to him.
Dwayne tells him to let her go and Dwayne puts one in his head when the guy refuses to let
her go. Brody is in shock but tells her boss she’s all right. Later Vance chews him for not following
orders. He says there will be fallout. He says the CIA and SECNAV want an investigation. Dwayne
says if it’s a choice between a traitor and one of his own, he’ll take the shot every time.
He tells Vance he can have his badge if he wants it. Abbie is there. Chris asks why they never
dated and she says they would have broken up and it would have made work uncomfortable.
He says they have something to look forward to. She heads out and they take Dalton to see his
dying mother. He sits at her bedside and kisses her head. She wakes and he tells his mama that
he’s by her side. She smiles.
He holds her hand and Chris and Brody give them some privacy to reconnect. Outside, Chris
tells Brody they should go shoot pool and have a beer. She says she had something else in mind.
Dwayne calls Linda and leaves a message asking if she remembers their first house with the
leaky fridge. He says he’s willing to go see a therapist if she just names the time and place. He
says he doesn’t want any more time to slip by and asks her to call him.
He hears voices and goes down. Brody and Chris are making a boil. He asks what they’re
doing and Chris says it’s Brody’s idea. She says she’s making him a shrimp boil for saving his
butt today. Chris coaches her on the recipe and she says she got a recipe online. They argue over
how to spice it and Dwayne hands out beers and says to call a truce for the evening.
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The Recruits
Season 1
Episode Number: 4
Season Episode: 4
Originally aired: Tuesday October 14, 2014
Writer: Sam Humphrey
Director: Oz Scott
Show Stars: Scott Bakula (NCIS Special Agent Dwayne Pride), Lucas Black (NCIS
Special Agent Christopher LaSalle), Zoe McLellan (Special Agent
Meredith ”Merri” Brody), CCH Pounder (Dr. Loretta Wade), Rob
Kerkovich (Forensic Scientist Sebastian Lund)
Guest Stars: Daryl ”Chill” Mitchell (NCIS Special Agent Patton Plame), Shanley
Caswell (Laurel Pride), Vanessa Marano (Natalie Lane), Dora Madison
Burge (Tilda), Gino Anthony Pesi (Max Wolf), Alexander DiPersia (Vlad
Stahl), Hunter Burke (Officer Mike Banton), Martin Bradford (Ross
P.), Terence Rosemore (Master Chief Erik T. Benson), Jackie Tuttle
(Heather), Caleb J. Thaggard (Digby), Brett Lapeyrouse (John)
Production Code: 104
Summary: The death of a Navy SEAL at a sorority house has the NCIS team
searching a long list of motives and suspects. Pride’s daughter, Laurel,
drops by for a visit.
It’s a campus party in New Orleans. Two
frat guys think a girl is dead but she
gasps back to consciousness and goes
looking for another drink. She staggers
through the room, grabs a bottle, swigs
and then steps in blood. She bangs on the
door and calls out for her friend Natalie,
but the door is locked We see her friend
sitting crying and shaking with blood on
her. A dead guy is on Natalie’s bed. Chris
hassles Laurel, Dwayne’s kid, about foot-
ball when Brody comes in. They ask what
college team she roots for and it turns
out she doesn’t subjecting her to further
mockery.
Dwayne comes in, hugs her dad, and then tells Chris and Brody about the murder on campus.
They head over and find Petty Officer TJ Blake dead. Campus officer Mike is there and says he
found the door locked. He had been dealing with a feral cat crisis when he got the call. Loretta
says it was a small caliber hand gun that killed Blake. Loretta says stippling on the wound
indicates it was up close and personal. Natalie tells them she met TJ at the party and they were
drinking then went up to her room. She says she passed out and woke up to him dead. She says
she saw nothing.
Brody checks her for gun shot residue. Dwayne asks her friend Tilda if she saw anything but
she says she was really out of it. Dwayne tells them to stay put in case they have questions. Tilda
says it’s gross that he was bleeding out on her Zini — a designer rug. Natalie is negative for GSR
but Brody says she’s still a suspect. But Chris comes up with a bobby pin and says the ancient
buildings means the locks are easy to pick and he demonstrates with the pin. Dwayne says that
anyone at the party — about 200 people — could be the suspect.
Brody says she snuck in the side doors to college parties. Dwayne spots dirt on the floor and
finds a secret door. Dwayne tells Chris to dust it for prints and takes Brody with him to search
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the tunnel. She’s surprised that there are secret tunnels. He says they were used for trysts back
in the day. They find a likely egress — a ladder that puts you out in the middle of NO. Brody says
that means they now have a million more suspects. Neither is happy about this new development.
Chris and Brody head to the lab to talk to Sebastian and Loretta. Sebastian stitches up
Loretta’s finger — she cut it on the bullet. It was a special kind of bullet — called a black talon
— it has spikes that open up on impact making the injury worse. She says ER docs have been
trying to get them banned for years. Sebastian rants about conspiracy theories then they move
on to the body. They think the killer had an improvised silencer and showed signs of struggle
about five hours before his death. He died at about nine and showed up to the party about 730.
Dwayne comes in with beignets and asks what they know. Chris is running prints from the
door through AFIS. She teases him and he tells her he was magna cum laude and didn’t even
have to go to class. Brody says Blake was a Navy SEAL whose missions were classified so his
background is as well. Natalie is from Seattle and is the only one anyone saw him with. Chris
wonders if Natalie shot him when he tried to take advantage. Brody says her contact at SOCOM
said Blake’s team had an issue in Somalia. Dwayne says another SEAL would be well equipped
to sneak in undetected and kill Blake with a black talon bullet.
Dwayne says he’s going to talk to the SEAL commander and Chris reminds him they don’t
like NCIS too much. He talks to his training leader and the man says Blake’s death is a blow to
the team. He says Blake had no other family — his parents died on 9/11. He also says there was
no reason for Blake to be at the party — says he was good at setting an example. Dwayne asks
him to be read into the Somalia issues but the guy says no SEAL did this. He tells him to talk
to Max Wolf. Dwayne says the guy is a mercenary that worked with them that Blake reported for
stealing jewelry from a terrorist causing him to lose his job.
Laurel comes in and tastes her dad cooking and he complains that she has no taste buds
inherited from her. She tells him she has to move her piano out of the dorm and he says it’s been
in the family for years. She says she needs to send it back to him and asks to send it to his office.
He says this is where he works and she tells him she knows it’s where he lives for now as well.
Brody and Chris come into a bar looking for Wolf. Chris says it’s a mercenary hang out and
he got a tip that Wolf is selling para-military gear on the side. The bartender calls out to Chris
— calls him Chrissy — and gives him a big hug. They went to school at Bama — she was a
cheerleader and he was the team mascot — Big Al, an elephant. Brody says she’s shocked at his
GPA and the mascot thing.
Chris shows Heather photos of Blake and Wolf and she confirms they were there lats night
and argued. Chris approaches Wolf who takes off while his buddies beat up on Chris. Brody gives
Chase and she and Wolf grapple but she finally takes him down. Wolf asks if she’s some kind of
superhero and Chris comes out and says he should see her when she’s angry.
Wolf insists the Cuban Kush they caught him with was medicinal but Brody asks why he
ran. He flirts with her and offers her a job at Shade Corp — she says she’s more into legitimate
operations. She tosses down a photo of Blake dead and he tells her to go to hell and he didn’t
kill him. He says they fought because he’s a hypocrite that’s dating a prostitute. He says he and
Blake fought because he called his GF a whore — that’s Natalie. Wolf says there are two words
to describe her: hook er. Brody holds up Natalie’s photo to the glass for Dwayne to see and says
— she lied.
They discuss if Wolf told the truth and Natalie is, in fact, a college student, even if she’s a
prostitute, that’s not motive but Chris comes in and says Wolf had an alibi. Chris pulled Natalie’s
juvie record and saw she was charged with attempted murder of her abusive stepfather. They try
to find Natalie but she skipped classes — Chris goes to call a contact that knows pros. Dwayne
and Brody head to campus and discuss that the evidence against Natalie is all circumstantial
but still compelling.
Dwayne says once your kids go off to college, you lose control and it’s scary to think one could
go as dark as turning tricks and murdering people. Chris comes into a bar and finds Ross P. He
says he heard he was selling illegal firearms to kids and they struggle and he hauls him into the
back where they get chummy — the guy is his CI. He asks Ross if he’s seen Natalie and he says
white girls all look alike to him. Chris threatens him and then he admits he’s seen her. Chris says
she may have killed a SEAL. Ross calls her a bad little white girl and promises to ask around.
Tilda tells Dwayne that Natalie stayed with her last night but was gone this morning. She
thinks Natalie went to class and tells him after class, she works tutoring. She says it’s a good
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way to make money because college is expensive. He asks Tilda if she’s okay and she says she’s
just worried about Natalie. She tells Dwayne she need to go to class. He shoots some photos of
some stuff in her room on the sly, then goes. Brody talks to Officer Mike who tries to flirt and ask
her out. He shows Brody the photos and she IDs them all as costly goods. Dwayne says Natalie
may not have been the only pro.
Patton explains to Dwayne that the website the girls are using looks educational but then
once you dig in, it turns out TutorZone is definitely a hooker portal. Laurel and Brody come in
and Laurel asks who he is and Chris says he’s a hacker no matter what his official title is. Laurel
says that’s dope and her dad looks at her. She says that’s a good thing and he says he knows
what it means. Laurel says sex is big business in college and says she knows people that do
phone sex, web cams and then Dwayne sends her out of the room.
Brody says Tilda, Natalie’s friend, is an econ major who was busted last year in New York.
Laurel says she came to talk to him about the piano. She insists she wants to bring it there and
he says a piano there doesn’t belong in an NCIS office and he says it’s just one more thing he’ll
have to move back home but then Brody comes in. She says Patton made an appointment to
”study” with Natalie tonight at the Roosevelt hotel. Brody and Dwayne sit outside in the car and
she asks about the piano. He says it was his grandmother’s and is an upright Hamilton.
Brody tells him it can be hard to be stuck in between and says she went through this with
her own parents. Chris complains that it’s taking so long and Brody asks if he has a date with
Heather. She tells Dwayne he was Big Ed, the walrus but Chris says it was Big Al, the elephant.
Natalie gets out of her taxi at the hotel and they get out to approach her but then a car speeds
toward her and Dwayne calls to her and knocks her out of the way just before she’s mowed down.
She’s terrified and tells him — they’re going to kill me.
Brody says they have a BOLO out on the SUV but says that with no plate, a hit isn’t likely.
Dwayne’s talking with Natalie while the other two head over to see what Sebastian has for them.
Natalie tells Dwayne her dad died in the service and her mom married a psychotic alcoholic. She
then talks about Blake, she calls him TJ, and says he wasn’t a john. She says she was studying
in a park when he walked by in uniform and he reminder her of her dad because he was just a
good guy. He asks why she didn’t tell them that before and she says no one knew.
She says girls at her job are warned not to get serious with guys. She says he wanted her to
quit. She says she bailed on a call girl appointment and got a threatening text after she did telling
her not to pull that again. Dwayne asks if she was supposed to be working the night Blake was
killed. She says she didn’t want to let them control her, but then says — they do. She says they
murdered him because he was trying to help her change her life. Patton asks Dwayne if she’s
sure she doesn’t know who runs the pro ring and he says he believes her.
Patton says all the threatening texts are burners. He also says he put a trace on the other girl’s
phones to try and track down the ring leader. Sebastian tells Brody and Chris about ballistics
evidence history. He shows them the bullet that killed Blake. He shows them similar striations
from an unsolved murder back in 2006. It was a promoter at Club Madison. Chris remembers the
case and says it involved the Russian mob and says they are heavily involved in the sex trades,
especially at port cities like NO. He goes to see Ross who points out Vlad who is mob connected
and psycho crazy.
Chris approaches Vlad at the bar and shows him the pics of Natalie and Blake. Vlad says he’s
legit. He goes to pull a gun on Chris and finds Chris’ weapon already in his hand. Ross sneaks up
behind Vlad and puts a gun to his head. Chris snatches Vlad’s gun and hauls him in. Chris tells
Dwayne that a rich businessman had a hook up with Natalie and fell in love. When he wanted to
see her again, she canceled because of Blake. They wonder if that’s why the mob killed Blake —
to make sure to keep a good customer happy.
Sebastian and Loretta video call to say they figured out the improvised silencer. He shows
them these 20 ounce drink bottles that you stuff with fabric. They even ID’d the specific soda —
Orange Haze. Brody says Campus officer Mike also drinks that soda. He sees them coming on
the security cameras and takes a hostage then tries to flee. Brody calls out to him to stop. He
heads back down to the secret tunnel in the dormitory and tries to get away. He fires a couple
of shots back at Chris to slow him up. He gets to the ladder, climbs up and Dwayne is there,
waiting, with his gun trained on him. He tells Mike to give him an excuse.
He sits in interrogation and Brody tells him she doesn’t know he drinks Orange Haze. She
also tells him he should have rinsed the bottle before he made his silencer. He denies to Dwayne
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that he knew Blake or the club promoter. Dwayne says they know he works for the Russian mob
and have him on two murders and another attempt. Brody says he faces the death penalty if he
doesn’t deal. He tells them he didn’t try to run the girl over — he says he never misses. He asks
for a lawyer. Natalie comes to Tilda and tells her they have to go.
She says Mike was arrested and that they’re going to figure out who runs the ring and they’re
going to kill her. Tilda gets rough with her and Natalie realizes Tilda is the one that runs the
ring. Tilda says she better not have told anyone about the ring. Natalie says she didn’t but then
says — you did — and shows her the wire she’s wearing. They bust in and arrest Tilda and haul
her out. Dwayne shows up to Blake’s funeral and shakes his boss’ hand. Natalie is there too and
says TJ saw the best in her.
Brody and Chris show her a scholarship they found for her since her dad died in the line of
duty that will let her stay in school without hooking. She thanks them for giving her a second
chance. Lauren finds her dad playing the piano outside the office. He says they’re making room
for it inside. Dwayne tells her he doesn’t want her caught in the middle. She sits and they play a
song together.
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It Happened Last Night
Season 1
Episode Number: 5
Season Episode: 5
Originally aired: Tuesday October 21, 2014
Writer: Jack Bernstein
Director: Arvin Brown
Show Stars: Scott Bakula (NCIS Special Agent Dwayne Pride), Lucas Black (NCIS
Special Agent Christopher LaSalle), Zoe McLellan (Special Agent
Meredith ”Merri” Brody), CCH Pounder (Dr. Loretta Wade), Rob
Kerkovich (Forensic Scientist Sebastian Lund)
Guest Stars: Rocky Carroll (NCIS Director Leon Vance), Joe Spano (Senior FBI Agent
T.C. Fornell), Gabriel Olds (Oliver Huntington), David Burke (Bernard
Lanier), Dorian Brown (Helaine Morgan), Chelsey Crisp (Marilyn Reed),
Gabe Begneaud (Albert Fontenot), Hakim Callender (Gunnery Sergeant
Adams), Brandon Stacy (Rance The Trainer), Kim Collins (Maurice We-
holt), Luke Sexton (Paul Burns), Lauren Gros (Kathleen Burns)
Production Code: 105
Summary: A chief warrant officer who specialized in counterintelligence is mur-
dered. The investigation reveals the victim’s wife has been kidnapped
and is being held for ransom. Meanwhile, senior FBI agent Fornell
travels to the Big Easy to assist with the case.
A body was found in the bayou. A couple
of sightseers on their honeymoon were
the ones that spotted it and unlike their
tour guide — they honestly thought the
body was part of the ”show”.
But the dead marine was not part
of anyone other than his killers’ enter-
tainment. The Chief Warrant Officer was
proven to have been water boarded prior
to his death. And the significance of that
is while he’s officially referred to by his
fancy title — he was in truth an inter-
rogator.
William Reed was put in charge of the
most harden criminals during his two
tours in the Middle East. Men would be taken right off of the field and be delivered directly
into his hands. Yet in spite of all of that, no one is claiming responsibility for his death. So if he
murdered for revenge — no one is owing to it.
And the case gets weirder. There looked like there was a fight when the federal agents showed
up at William’s home. Everything was out of place and William’s newly made widow was also
missing. However her brother said that might not be all that strange. Marilyn Reed and her
husband have been having some problems lately.
According to Marilyn’s brother, William wasn’t what his parents wanted for his sister. So, in
the end, although she had given up her generations old trust in order to be with him — she
always felt like she deserved more from husband. And sometimes she would eye a certain trainer
for far too long. But Marilyn’s brother was also later shown to have lied to the feds. Oliver said
he hadn’t been by the house for some time and someone’s surveillance camera picked had him
up driving to his sister’s on the day William was murdered.
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Hence the team had to confront Oliver. If he could lie about a little thing like a visitation then
he could be withholding more pertinent information.
And he was sitting on quite a big secret. Marilyn wasn’t missing. She was in fact kidnapped
and because Oliver didn’t want to risk her life — he hadn’t informed the police about what
happened to his sister. He was just going to pay the ransom.
Though Pride thankfully stopped Oliver from going through with that rather foolish plan.
Indeed he probably even saved Oliver from signing off on his own sister’s death. Because who
knows what would have happened once the kidnappers got their hands on 3 million. Oliver and
his sister could easily be written off as loose ends!
Anyways, Oliver could only ever gotten that kind of money with his lawyer’s assent. And
getting that alone would have been a trial. The family trust was tied up so that no one generation
could blow through it all. Yet Oliver allegedly has a history with constantly asking for more
money. So the lawyer wouldn’t have just handed away that much money.
It wasn’t until the lawyer had met Pride that he realized Oliver wasn’t merely making up a
kidnapping to suit his own ends.
By this point, Dr. Wade had recognized a foreign substance that was still on William’s corpse.
It came from certain algae and the one remaining area that carried that type of flower could be
found on an estate owned by Oliver’s family estate.
So suspicion naturally fell on Oliver. Maybe he arranged his sister’s kidnapping in order to
get his hands on all of the family money. But Oliver didn’t recall ever buying an estate. He didn’t
need one! Hence the team along with some help from Senior FBI Agent T.C. Fornell took a second
look at the bank statements.
And it looked like the lawyer was planning on scamming the trust away from Oliver because
he was behind forging Oliver’s name. It seems he always wanted the money and rather than take
little by little — he was simply going to use Marilyn to drain the accounts all at once.
Yet when the cops showed up to arrest him — he was dead and the money had been trans-
ferred out. Apparently, his partner also known as the nosiest neighbor alive (she was a good
friend of Marilyn’s) had hatched the plan together but when she found out that he had killed
William — she decided to keep the money all to herself and ”take care” of her partner.
But Pride put a stop to her dreams. And the team found Marilyn and returned her to her very
worried brother.
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Master of Horror
Season 1
Episode Number: 6
Season Episode: 6
Originally aired: Tuesday October 28, 2014
Writer: Scott Shapiro
Director: Terrence O’Hara
Show Stars: Scott Bakula (NCIS Special Agent Dwayne Pride), Lucas Black (NCIS
Special Agent Christopher LaSalle), Zoe McLellan (Special Agent
Meredith ”Merri” Brody), CCH Pounder (Dr. Loretta Wade), Rob
Kerkovich (Forensic Scientist Sebastian Lund)
Guest Stars: Steven Weber (Councilman Douglas Hamilton), Paige Turco (Linda
Pride), Rodney Rowland (Chief Petty Officer John Neville), Eyal Podell
(Dr. Samuel Wilkins), Adam Rose (Jesse Neville), Aubrey Deeker (Navy
First Class Petty Officer Jake Dern), Cyd Strittmatter (Kimberly Mur-
dock), Brooke Hurring (Raquelle), Brett Zimmerman (Eric), Samantha
Beaulieu (Officer Sullos), Jessica McDaniel (Judge Advocate Melanie
Herman), Megan Few (Denise Murdock)
Production Code: 106
Summary: A Naval staff judge advocate is murdered on Halloween and found
in a cemetery dressed in a Victorian costume with vampiric puncture
wounds on her neck. Meanwhile, the team members discuss what Hal-
loween activity and costumes would be best.
It’s Halloween in New Orleans. So of
course the team was expecting a bit of
theatrics during this time of year but in
a place where voodoo practices is consid-
ered a normal everyday occurrence — no
one could have foreseen an actual case
involving fangs and creatures of the night
as being anything close to realistic. But
on tonight’s episode of NCIS: New Or-
leans, the usual looks possible when the
body of a Naval Staff Judge Advocate was
found in a cemetery suffering from severe
blood loss with, dum dum dummm, two
puncture wounds to the neck.
Judge Herman was alive when she
was found and only later died from her wounds but make no mistake — no one seriously be-
lieves her killer was anything other than human. And this is in spite of her last words being the
devil did that to her. Loretta’s autopsy showed their victim was drugged for the most part which
explains her loopiness and it’s a good thing too. Although the two puncture wounds were merely
superficial; their victim appeared to be short one kidney.
Her killer had stolen her kidney before he let her bleed out. And it had to be intentional
because what skilled surgeon can remove a kidney with no little problem but hold off on stitching
the patient back up again.
Thankfully, though, the team managed to retrace their victim’s steps. However the case got
even odder from there. Their victim went to an abandon building that looks like it used to be a
voodoo shop. And when Christopher and Meredith went in to investigate — they found another
body. This time the victim was found in a freezer.
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The second victim only had one connection to the judge and that’s they’ve both served on
a rape case. He was a juror and Judge Herman was the one presiding. The case itself was
compelling. So eventually the court had no other choice than to rule against Chief Petty Officer
John Neville. But now two people from the trial are dead and the assault victim from the case,
Denise Murdock, hasn’t been seen in the last two days.
So that really leaves only on suspect — Neville. He got paroled three months ago and to this
day he claims Denise lied and the cops set him up.
He refuses to accept any blame and with Denise missing — the team just didn’t have time to
wait for him to mess up. They had to move fast and amazingly Sebastian, the weird kid in the
coroner’s office, was able to help with this. You see he had caught a pattern with the two victims
they had so far.
The first, the judge, was staged to look like Dracula’s first victim. And as for the second
victim, he was given Judge Herman’s kidney and received electric shock post-mortem. Almost as
if someone wanted to create their very own Frankenstein. So they looked into Neville’s past. And
Neville loved the old horror tales. The true scary ones.
He was fascinated by Dracula and Frankenstein. But there was a third tale he loved. It was
one of Edgar Allan Poe’s and involved burying someone alive.
The team immediately ransacked Neville’s home. They looked into all the walls but while they
found the knife he had used on Judge Herman — they didn’t find Denise. They did on the other
hand come across her abandoned car. It was left by the side of the road and there was a fair
amount of blood inside. Yet even the blood was a mystery. DNA testing showed it came from
Neville. However he didn’t have a mark on him.
Because of medical reason, Neville had to take samples of his blood. And someone could have
easily stolen those vials. For instance, how about his son. Although Jessie appears dimwitted,
he was the only one that had access to vials of his father’s blood.
Plus there’s no love lost between father and son. The elder Neville treated Jessie like an
annoyance at the best of times. During the worst of times, he abused his son. Which explains
the Dissociative Identity Disorder.
The disease causes the victim to create a second identity. Often the victim isn’t even aware of
the second person. And the second person likes to keep it that way. They’re created to protect
the original and that’s what Jesse’s did when his father started to abuse him.
Jessie had passed the lie detector test the first time around but after they suspected him
of suffering from D.I.D — they made sure the second personality was forced to come out and
answer some questions. And Mr. Hyde was a sight to see.
He hurt so many people in order to get his father thrown back in jail. And it’s nothing new for
him. Jesse’s other personality was the one that had attacked Denise all those years ago. Then he
framed Jesse’s father for it hoping the other man would stay in prison.
But when Neville got out, Hyde wanted to make sure the next time the other man went to
prison would be his last. Hence the murders. Yet once he was discovered by the NCIS team —
he quickly made a deal. A psychiatric hospital for Jessie and in return he would tell Pride where
Denise was. That is if she’s still alive.
And, thankfully, she was! Though how she’s going to be after this is really up in the air at this
point!
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