- A covert identity created for one of Gibbs' undercover cases 20 years ago resurfaces after a murder victim is found living under the alias.
- A man is killed and NCIS is called. They learn the man was not in the Navy or Marines so why were they called. The police ran the man's name and they were told to call them. When Gibbs arrives, and when he's told the man's name, he says it was the name he used when he went undercover over 20 years ago. They try to find out how the man got the identity. Gibbs talks to former Director Morrow for help.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
- A man follows his GPS through an area full of warehouses while he talks on the phone, doubting he's in the right place. Two shots blast through his windshield, killing him.
In the office, McGee programs a new smart phone for Gibbs to try out. Gibbs arrives with the body of the week, not a member of the Navy.
On the scene, Metro PD explains that the victim was Leland Speers and his ID was flagged to notify NIS (previous name of NCIS, changed in 1992) if anything happened to him.
Gibbs and McGee arrive late. McGee's smart phone navigation tutorial resulted in a battered smart phone. Gibbs recognizes the victim's name and knows his birth date -- the ID is his.
Back in the office, Gibbs explains that Speers is his old undercover ID. McGee thinks it must have been unearthed by hackers since any hard copies would have been destroyed years ago.
In the garage, Abby tells Tony that "Speers" was talking on a burner phone when he was killed. There was also a very sophisticated GPS tracker planted in his car, the type used by government agencies.
In the morgue, Duckie got nothing from the victim's fingerprints.
Ellie and McGee check out the victim's apartment and find sports memorabilia and video games, like a teenage boy's apartment. They find his access card. They bust one of his neighbors, a day trader named Robbie Hale, at the door. He says Speers as been home a lot playing video games and listening to top 40 pop.
In the lab, Abby tells Gibbs the slugs that killed Speers don't match any weapons. His GPS shows he's been to NBA games, strip clubs and burger joints, plus a remote cabin.
Ellie and McGee head to the cabin. Ellie starts worrying about what would happen if she was undercover and the mark hit on her. They're steps away from the cabin when it explodes.
Later, with everyone on the scene, they find a melted computer and the bomb's trigger.
Back in the city, Gibbs meets with Homeland Senior Division Chief Tom Morrow, his old boss, at the diner. He says a woman named Michelle Stark built the Leland Speers cover ID, along with many others for the CIA. She retired recently.
Gibbs and Ellie pay a visit to Michelle Stark. She says the ID would be burned from everywhere except the CIA's classified files. It shouldn't be able to be retrieved.
Back at the office, Tony makes excuses on the phone to bail on Zoey. Her parents are in town and he's avoiding dinner. He's never met the parents before -- other than when he was undercover.
McGee found that Speers was looking into a semi conductor called Gallium Nitride, which is used in the military.
Later, with Morrow in the office, Gibbs knows all about Gallium Nitride from the undercover investigation he was conducting as Speers. He posed as an IT guy.
Down in the lab, Abby and McGee tell Gibbs that Speers used Gibbs' old ID to get a job at Longview Technics, a research company that uses Gallium Nitride. Speers was stealing data.
They know the company won't want to allow access to their network, so Gibbs' suggests they go in undercover. Gibbs wants to send McGee, but Abby insists it's faster and easier to send Gibbs.
Later that night, with Abby and McGee watching on headsets in MTAC, Gibbs goes into the company. His ID badge doesn't work and he has to talk to the security guard. He ignores all the techno babble McGee feeds him and says his boss emailed him to come in. When the guard asks to see the email, Gibbs takes out his smashed smart phone and says his boss woke him up. The security guard laughs and punches in the code to let Gibbs up.
Up in the lab, McGee walks Gibbs through logging into the system and getting what they need. It takes four hours.
The next morning, McGee finds that's Speers used company software to transfer files. They get a location and the team busts down the door to an immaculate safe house with another dead body in the kitchen. There's mail addressed to Edgar Braun -- Mike Franks' old cover ID.
Back at the office, Gibbs notices tattoo magazines among Speers' things and finds it odd, since he didn't have any. He order the team to find out everything they can on Miranda Fleming -- but doesn't say who she is.
Down in the morgue, Gibbs finds ultraviolet tattoos on Speers' body, including one in Serbian.
Gibbs sits down with Michelle Stark and Morrow. Franks' used his ID back then to identify suspects they thought were trying to sell intel to the Serbians, but they never got anywhere. It can't be a coincidence that now they have two dead Serbians.
McGee interrupts with the Miranda Fleming file Gibbs asks for -- it was Jenny Shepherd's old ID. He found Fleming, she has a ticket booked for Buenos Aires tomorrow. Her passport shows she's Michelle Stark.
In interrogation, Michelle tells Gibbs and Morrow that an attaché from the Serbian embassy approached her for backstopped IDs to get Gallium Nitride. She was resentful at being forced into mandatory age-related retirement. She figured the Nitride was so old, it wouldn't matter. She never met the agents, but their handler said Speers was getting sloppy. He was "going American."
They ask her to email the handler and tells them that Edgar Braun is on life support at a hospital and is expected to live.
Later, at the hospital, the team stakes out the hospital, with McGee as Braun. The fire alarm goes off. Ellie is in McGee's room when Speers' neighbor Robbie Hale comes in to inject him with something.
They take him in to custody.
Back in interrogation, Hale is claiming diplomatic immunity, even though he had a syringe full of heart attack-inducing drugs. Hale confessed and says the two victims finished their mission and were supposed to return home, but hadn't.
Gibbs confirms that Hale has no diplomatic immunity.
Gibbs sends Tony and McGee home. Ellie asks Gibbs if he'd ever ask her to do deep undercover work. Gibbs tells her to go home to her husband.
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