Tonight’s episode of NCIS: New Orleans was gut wrenching, jaw dropping, and tense as a hostage situation put Loretta, Sebastian, and Danny, the teenager Loretta took in, in danger.
After the death of Petty Officer Felix Armstrong, Loretta is ready to do the autopsy. However, a man named Phillip Culliver, comes into the autopsy room and threatens them with a gun. He was meeting Armstrong at the airport when Armstrong died of what appeared to be a heart attack and now he wants to take the body.
Meanwhile, the team is investigating Armstrong, but can find nothing on what he is up to. At first, they have no idea there is anything wrong in the morgue until a video call with Loretta clues Pride in. It is a tense situation as Danny gets shot during a struggle and Sebastian steps up to help when Loretta injures herself.
Eventually, the team is led to a man named Doctor Yeltin, who informs them Culliver is Marcus Martel. It appears he wanted something from Armstrong’s body and the team is eventually led to a classified documentation of Martel’s brother’s murder while working as a SEAL. In order to save his friends, Pride makes a choice that could get him into trouble.
This was an amazing, powerful, and thrilling episode that put our characters through a lot. We saw the desperation from Loretta in her efforts to save Danny’s life and Sebastian stepped up in order to get Martel what he wanted while also helping Danny to survive. We have put together the top ten moments that made our hearts pound as we wondered if our team would be all right. What did you like from the episode “The Insider?”
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10. Case
The victim in this case is seen trying to go through airport security, but he appears to have trouble breathing and is sweating. When he is almost pulled aside for a random screening, he suddenly collapses. Later, Loretta, who has arrived with Danny, sees he has blue fingers consistent with a heart attack.
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9. Hostages
Loretta is about to do the autopsy as she teaches Danny about things for autopsies. Sebastian comes in and appears jealous that he got to go to the crime scene. They are interrupted with a man comes in claiming to want the body of the victim for the family. Loretta refuses to turn him over, but then the man pulls a gun on them.
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8. Suspicions
After talking to Armstrong’s commanding officer, Pride can’t figure out why Armstrong came to New Orleans. Brody also tells him that they found no one named Phillip Culliver in the city and Patton is trying to use facial recognition to find him. At this point, nothing is clear to them about what is going on and they have yet to hear from Loretta.
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7. Laraby syndrome
No one has been able to get a hold of Loretta, so Dwayne gets her on video monitor. She tells him that the autopsy was routine and mentions he died of Laraby syndrome. When he gets off the monitor, Pride orders them to call SWAT and informs Brody and Chris that Laraby is the name of a marine who died in a hostage situation.
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6. Shot
Phillip and Loretta are about to leave autopsy, but a guard sees Loretta’s face and is suspicious. Phillip shoots toward him and forces her back into the autopsy room. Danny makes a run to stop him, but ends up being shot.
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5. Surgery
Loretta realizes Danny’s lungs are filling with blood and they need to open his chest to insert a tube to drain the blood. Since she hurt herself when she fell, she tells Sebastian he needs to do it. He is able to save Danny, who tries to ask Loretta to tell something to CJ if he doesn’t make it. Loretta notices the man react when CJ is mentioned and she figures he has a brother. Later, Sebastian does an autopsy on Armstrong to find the flash drive that Marcus apparently wanted, which is full of classified documents.
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4. Marcus Martel
After locating a Russian doctor named Yetvin, who Patton saw their suspect was calling when he left the hospital, Brody and Chris learn that the suspect’s name is Marcus Martel. He had been calling to tell him that he had a body he wanted the doctor to cut into. Back in autopsy, Sebastian has to do an autopsy on Armstrong in order to find what Martel wants. He displays great bravery when he stands up to Martel on taking his time. While this is all happening, Pride finds out that Martel had been trying to get information on the classified death of his brother and he was likely making an attempt to get even for not being informed.
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3. Pride’s choice
In order to save the lives of the people he cares about, even though he knows it could get him in trouble, Pride has Patton download the information on Nate Martel’s death. He ignores orders not to go into the morgue and he goes down to autopsy where he gets Marcus to let him in.
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2. Staying with Danny
As Pride is trying to negotiate with Marcus, he asks him to let Danny get to the hospital. Loretta points out that CJ should not have to feel the pain Marcus feels over losing Nathan. Then, Sebastian is allowed to get out of the morgue with Danny and as he gets into the ambulance, an EMT tells him he can’t. Already fed up after being held hostage and forced to do things, Sebastian tells her he is staying with Danny so he knows the kid will be all right. It’s a short but powerful scene showing how deeply Sebastian cares for him.
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1. Comfort
After talking to the commanding officer about Martel’s brother deserving a bronze star, Pride goes to the hospital to see Loretta. He tells her Chris and Brody went to get CJ and she tells him Danny is stable. They talk about Sebastian and Loretta refers to him as her “silver lining on a cloudy day.” She is trying to be strong and as she tells Pride she is fine, Loretta breaks down as he hugs her. Such a touching and moving scene between two friends.