Coast Guard Investigator (CGIS) Abigail Borin Marine called old acquaintance Gibbs having been the last to see alive highly decorated first lieutenant Jeremy Nolan. He was expertly shot twice, from a smaller boat, during a family dinner celebrating his safe return from Afghanistan, aboard the Potomac boat where Borin had a lousy date with Steve Mehlman, with socialite sister Kimberly 'Kim' Nolan, sole heir to the late self-made millionaire Jack, who disinherited Jeremy for refusing to succeed him in Nolan Radar Systems, now run by CFO Tom Adam, and their uncle, ...
Navy Petty Officer First Class Simon Craig (27) is pushed down a staircase and finished off by crushing his skull with a workman's boot in the Maryland high-school where he counseled five potential recruits. Simon started a gay affair a month earlier with English teacher Glenn Block, whose viciously jealous wife Penny recently found out. 'Recruit' Paul Simmons never mentioned their contacts to his dad, unemployed drunk Lance, who can't believe Paul would even consider military discipline, but ignores a crucial secret. meanwhile Ducky's predecessor, Doctor Walter ...
Active reserve US Marine sergeant Travis Wooten (35)'s corpse is found in his backyard by dog-walkers Kyle Severin and Lauren Donnelly. Blood traces suggest his wife, gunnery sergeant Georgia, a tough close combat instructor, and their son Jacob (6) seem kidnapped. In fact she's found AWOL in Maryland but shows no mourning. Indeed, she knew Travis cheated on her with Jancey Gilroy, who ignored about his marriage, in fellow veteran Len Feeney's pool club. Both spouses have excessive wounds and bruises. While more saucy background is unearthed, taunter Tony solves ...
Submarine USS Colonial's North Korea observation mission is frozen when its XO, commander Vincent Reynolds, not far from retirement, is found in his state room, fatally shot with a Russian gun. While Dr. Rachel Cranston follows each in turn, digging in their fears and frustrations as hated, long overdue 'routine' psychological evaluation, the team passes from three foreign journalists on board to Vincent's own hidden problems, such as as affair with Navy Admiral Wayne Hargrove's wife Nancy.
Belgravian defense minister Andor Gorgova survives a bomb attack in his Balkans capital, thanks to his US Marines bodyguard, who is killed. The State Department therefore hosts the signing of a controversial treaty and offers protection to his party, assigning to NCIS his headstrong daughter Adriana, who keeps her identity secret except for study friend Judd Stern and diplomacy professor Carl Fleming. She seems to flirt with McGee after he saves her PC, but is kidnapped on his watch, and was in on the stunt to help prevent the treaty being signed. But the demands are ...
USMC corporal Zach Anderson's severed finger - and toe tips are found in a different place than his corpse, which was stretched to death on a rack. His stolen credit-card traces to his ex Maxine 'MaxDestruction', who dumped him for infidelity, claims she just 'paid off' his debt to her and gets on great with Mcgee as a fellow gamer, unlike Zach. She's shot at in his presence with the gun of martial arts instructor Lisa Bock, one of many victims of his elaborate fake rich guy act, but she has a double alibi. NCIS has computer problems and gets a visit for security firm...
Recently let-off temporary NCIS research assistant Oliver Froman is found in a parking garage, expertly cut open with several upward knife thrusts. He was working on the case of Leona Phelps, a fraudster who stole fortunes she was supposed to invest for many people and is offered a probation deal. More crimes follow, involving her victims and/or accomplices. Tony has mixed feelings towards the new agent in charge of a team reposted in DC from Spain, which would have been him if hadn't refused to transfer.
A teenage boy is accused of murdering his father, a retired marine, and Gibbs questions Vance's decision that Gibbs should cross-examine the young man.
Naval intelligence lieutenant commander Patrick Casey is shot but managed to write is his own blood the code word Birdsong. The team ultimately works out it's a manuscript an dodgy arms deals by former Marine 1st Lieutenant Sam Keeler. besides him, it was advised by an FBI agent, specialized in interior anti-terrorism, who is found murdered at home. A copy for proofreading, which her EMT husband Derrick Archer knew to be on her nightstand, has been burnt. Meanwhile Gibbs ignored three wedding invitations, actually from the ex she shares, like this case, with senior ...
Navy Seaman Derek Balfour was murdered in a port, the fourth following an apparent pattern, so the director gives the lead to NCIS Special Agent Erica Jane 'EJ' Barrett, who already investigates the earlier three. Ziva's CIA lover Ray Cruz assures her informally that Barrett's suspect Bryce Leitner, under another investigation, must be innocent of Balfour's murder.
A top-secret archives clerk is murdered inside the Pentagon. Yet the killer on security video, Navy Petty Officer Eric Donner, a crippled special ops veteran, couldn't even be there. The team soon works out his identity was stolen, including his face, using a top-notch mask like the CIA makes. His own former unit, commanded by Nelson Tunney, also has a mask-artist, who was ordered to make the one the murderer wore. His motive and identity are harder to work out.
Tony's former civilian Baltimore police partner, meanwhile retired detective Danny Price, is murdered conform the Port-to-Port Killer's MO. Feeling guilty about losing contact, Tony is haunted by the corruption case involving Joey Peanuts and Navy lieutenant Ian Floyd, during which they met Gibbs, undercover, and collaborated, leading to his transfer to NCIS. Forensics indicate Danny's murder must involve a hacker and/or an insider. A significant MO deviation suggests a copycat.
While the team chases Port-to-Port Killer suspect navy lieutenant Jonas Cobb, he manages to kill NCIS Special Agent Gayne Levin, wound colleague Simon Cade and ridicule Barrett in a challenging message, which even gets the Secretary of the Navy's attention. Next, he overpowers Ziva and walks into NCIS, in order to teach a lesson to all he holds responsible for the torturous Operation Frankenstein.
Suffering from amnesia and having arrived with blood on his badge, making him the prime suspect in an NCIS colleague's gun-murder, Tony has sassy therapy sessions with Dr. Rachel Cranston in between questioning by Gibbs. Told in flashbacks, Tony starts reconstructing his months of top-secret operation, reporting only to Secretary of the Navy Clayton Jarvis, who hand-picked him. Meanwhile Sean Latham, chief of the internal spy watchers, cleans up the mess with his man Casey Stratton, who poses as FBI agent.
Generaly liked model marine PFC Thomas 'Tommy' Hill, who was expected to lead his Virginia small town's home-coming parade, returns from Iraq to his adoptive family mortally wounded and previously sedated heavily. His hard to recover cellphone and his notebook computer's only movement out of town lead the team to a 'second chance' restaurant for ex-cons and a buried cash treasure. However Tommy wasn't the one with the fatal secret in Ernest McCormick's family. Tony meanwhile feels guilty about a mean high-school prank between him and classmate 'Dirty' John Smith.
Navy lieutenant Paul Booth is mysteriously shot in the Virgina woods just after transferring all his assets to his wife's account. Even she ignored that he actually worked for Vince Westfal's secretive research company, which is a major Defense contractor, founded by the late Max Ellswood. To McGee's shock, Booth was in contact with his own grandmother, rebellious academic Penelope Langston. She and reporter Andrew Pike know about the crucial, top-secretive research project.
Metro Detective Danny Sportelli found that Paul Marvin Arliss, killed in a car accident carried a gun used for five murders attributed to the same mysterious hit-man. The team works out his latest target was Navy lieutenant commander Geoffrey Brett, the Pentagon's representative to the House Committee on Defence, who is surprisingly uncooperative, even dodges 'bodyguard' Ziva. Meanwhile the killer an money trails point to another murder and money-laundering plus a cinematographic alias. Meanwhile Abby's volunteering for a kidney donation proves she has a full sibling ...
When the Coast Guard boards a cargo vessel at night, a hidden shooter kills one of the officers. No crew is aboard, a Lebanese family of four, all aspiring asylum, is found locked inside. The father, under an alias, is identified as a former anti-US bomb terrorist. Forensics show there was no crew since at least a week. Ziva bonds with the mother, who is reluctant to believe one of her sons may be a killer even when confronted with their family past.
Dr. Donald Mallard, who was uncharacteristically quiet since his mother's death and moving out of the family estate, arouses team interest in his much younger flame, Dr. Mary Courtney. Navy Reserve lieutenant James Sims is found wandering, collapsing and dying on the access road to a Virginia nature park. He drowned internally after XTC was slipped into his drinks. No motive checks out.
The team stands by to identify the remains of six marines aboard a terror-bombed airplane repatriating them after being killed in Helmond province during a Taliban attack on a girls school. DNA analysis shows first lieutenant Gabriela Flores is missing. Corps and MOD insist on top priority. McGee gets and analysis satellite images of the school bombing.
As the NCIS team continues its search for a missing Marine, Gibbs and Ziva travel to her last known whereabouts in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Tony reveals his deepest fears and Gibbs is forced to relive events from his past.
After Anthony DiNozzo, Sr. is found in a car with a dead body in the trunk and no memory of the previous night, the NCIS team must figure out if he is capable of murder. Meanwhile, Tony is sidelined for this case and must go against orders to try and prove his father's innocence.
Navy Captain Jake Marsden is killed in a hotel room. His pregnant partner Marine Lieutenant Emma Reynolds, an Afghanistan veteran herself, needs NCIS's protection after seemingly mysterious attempts on her life by Rusian mobsters, but mistrusts the team too. This arouses gripping memories of his late daughter, rendering Gibbs personally committed. The team works out the key is in Afghan real estate and the child's father. Ducky meanwhile coaches Palmer to grow a spine when his impossible to please, insufferable father-in-law-to-be Ed Slater visits NCIS.