- A shooter kills three people, including a Navy commander, on live talk radio; Gibbs and company investigate; they believe that the host was the main target. The gang pursue clues to a bomb at a baseball diamond, where they nab the bad guy.
- Radio listeners report gunshots during a live talk show; the Virginia State Police responds and finds three bodies, including that of the guest speaker, who was a Navy commander; Gibbs and company investigate; they believe that the host was the primary target; Tony finds a tape with a reference about the motive of the shooter. The widow of the host provides a carton of clues, which enable the gang to meet a mailman and a bunch of sociable suburbanites in a gated community. Ziva poses as a potential seller, and money starts moving, then a neighbor sustains an injury. The neighbor's daughter lends a hand, then the father does, then the gang collar the bad guy, find the bomb, and prevent casualties; Ziva winds up on top of Tony, who says that he had missed the old Ziva. Finally, Gibbs and Ziva play catch under the lights.—DocRushing
- Talk show host Adam Gator hosts Major Walter Daniels. Someone listens to the show and drives to the studio. They take a rifle out of the back of their car and go in the studio shooting. The radio broadcasts the host begging for his life, followed by shots.
Tony and McGee rave about baseball as the American pastime. Ziva doesn't really get it. Gibbs comes in to announce the three dead bodies of the week. At the station, the producer Vincent Clark, host and guest are all dead. Daniels is a special duty officer in the office of public affairs. He was there to talk about foreign military policy. Duckie calls Gator a "smart aleck" host. The host was shot three times, the other one each. Tony plays a tape from Gator introducing a call from someone making the next threat to national security -- right before he was shot. Back at the office, they talk to Adam's wife, who says some half-assed extremist group who claimed to have a bomb was trying to recruit him. She says he was a patriot and would have called the police if he thought they were serious. She gives them his mail and his taped phone calls.
In the lab, Abby explains how she used acoustics to ID the rifle as a Remington hunting rifle.
McGee finds a letter with Benjamin Franklin's cartoon on it from a Matt L., sent to a post office box with no return address. He searches the postal system's database.
In the morgue, Duckie tells Gibbs there were traces of deer urine on the bullets.
Tony and McGee talk to Matt L., the postal carrier. He has proof he was elsewhere on a delivery when Gator was shot.
In the lab, Abby plays a tape from Gator's cell phone of Gator calling a man from a group called MAH "domestic terrorists" and telling him he's going to expose them on the air the next day. She traces the call to a fancy housing development called Royal Woods.
Tony says MAH comes from the slogan "Military at Home," meaning we should protect the homeland first. There are 35 houses in the development outside Arlington. They want to get voice samples from all the men who live there.
Tony goes door to door in Royal Woods, introducing himself as someone looking at buying a house there. One guy is in a hurry to leave and Tony stops him at his car.
Abby IDs the voice match, it's the car guy, Arthur Haskell, an investment banker. Abby finds that his wife was killed in a home invasion by a drug addict with a gun. Arthur and his 16 year old daughter witnessed the murder.
McGee finds a mention of a gift for Arthur's wife in his online calendar, which he figures is code since she's dead. He was emailing Dieter, a meth cooker from South Africa who makes explosives. They find Arthur is meeting with Dieter in two hours.
At the meet, Ziva tells McGee to go ahead and erase the last five years of her file. Tony and Gibbs stop Dieter as he pulls up. Ziva meets with Arthur, telling him Dieter is out of business. She introduces herself as Ziva David, Dieter's competition. She's herself from five years ago, assassin and rogue Mossad agent.
Arthur says he'll talk to her after he makes a few calls.
Tony interviews Dieter at NCIS, suppressing his cough. He loses his voice before the interview gets going. Gibbs steps in. Dieter tells him Arthur hired him to make explosives undetectable by dogs. He says Arthur has them already, but they don't detonate under 400 degrees Celsius. Arthur still needs the detonator.
Duckie checks out Tony and says he'll be fine, but shouldn't talk for 24 hours. The others don't think he can do it, especially if a movie reference comes up.
Ziva stops by Arthur's house. He opens up the deep freezer in his garage and shows her the bomb. She asks what the target is, but he asks how to pay her. Then he takes her out to the party -- a backyard barbecue. Arthur's daughter Kristin yells at him for missing her soccer game. Ziva introduces herself to the neighbors, including Matt the mailman and Annie Nelson and her husband Zach. They ask how long she's been part of the cause. The rail about the government spending money overseas instead of on drugs and illiteracy and crime fighting back home.
At the office, McGee reports that Haskell is draining money from work accounts to funnel it through the Middle East to pay Ziva. The money has been red flagged by Homeland Security -- they're stealing money from Al Qaida.
The team raids the house -- but they're too late. They fight Haskell bleeding and unconscious in his garage and the bomb is gone.
At the office, Ziva reports that Haskell has a concussion and just woke up. Kristin won't talk to him. Gibbs tells Ziva to talk to her. She says her dad took her to soccer practice the morning of the radio station shooting, but she says he should go to jail if he was working with terrorists. Kirsten mentions that her dad took a hunting trip last year with Zach Nelson. Cut to Gibbs bringing a rifle and deer urine into the interview room with Zach. McGee reports the bullet and pee match those at the station. But he claims not to know anything about Arthur being attacked. As they're cuffing Zach, Tony picks up the "pee" and swigs it town -- chamomile tea. They hadn't searched his house yet - but will now.
Gibbs sits down with Arthur with Kristin watching from the observation room. Arthur says Matt the mailman beat him up because he and Zach got tired of waiting. He wanted to destroy the tower at Norfolk navy base as a symbol. Arthur says Matt was supposed to get the explosives on base in his mail truck.
McGee tells Gibbs that Matt called in sick but is scheduled to officiate a girl's softball game that afternoon. They check the roster -- daughters of judges, senators or other high profile people.
At the softball diamond, Gibbs and the team pull up on Matt getting into his car. He wishes them luck finding the bomb. Ziva notices the gas grill has a lot of tanks on it. They yell at everyone to leave and Ziva sees the grill is chained shut. Ziva sees it's off the temperature scale, she runs away from it, tackling Tony to safety. He enjoys that she lands on top of him. Everyone is fine.
Later, Ziva doesn't understand why Matt would plant a bomb then stay to officiate the game. They explain it's the lure of baseball. She invites Gibbs to have a catch. Her dad taught her.
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