After the events of the last episode of NCIS, Fornell was rushed to the hospital as Gibbs went to be at his side. When he had to stay behind the doors, Tim, Ellie and Tony arrived to give Gibbs an update. Jessica Terdei died from her wounds. Gibbs told his team to find Jacob Scott and he wanted make sure he was dead.
As the team processed the crime scene at Gibbs’ house, Tim was able to lift a print off an area of the house that matched Scott. While they were there, Emily, Fornell’s daughter, arrived and was in tears as Gibbs hugged her. She ordered him to find the person who hurt her father.
When Vance called him, Gibbs left and went to his office, where he met FBI Agent Tess Monroe, who worked with Fornell on the case. She was going to work alongside them and when the audience met her, she was almost like a female Gibbs. Gibbs was told the FBI were securing the other targets on the hit list, but two spies who knew how to stay hidden were missing.
The team told Gibbs that they were able to track down Angela, an ex-wife of NCIS Agent Kevin Dresser. Tess was already with her since, according to Tim, she had a stare that could rival Gibbs.
Gibbs went into the interview room, where Angela told the agents while it had been some time since she saw her ex-husband, he left a plant on her porch every year on their anniversary. Since it was just a week ago, she still had the plant.
In her lab, Abby had a prayer circle for Fornell before telling Gibbs she was able to determine that based on the molecules in the soil, she could tell that Kevin lived near an airport. Gibbs was interrupted with a hysterical call from Emily.
It turned out Emily had discovered her dad had a DNR and she was angry that the doctors wouldn’t dismiss it. After finding out Gibbs had been named the emergency contact for this kind of decision, Emily pleaded with the agent to allow her dad to live. Gibbs assured her he would.
Meanwhile, the team went to Kevin’s house, but were too late as Kevin was dead on the floor and two men were in a fight. One turned out to be MI6 Agent Clayton Reeves, who was working with Tony overseas, and CIA Trent Kort.
Kort claimed he and Dresser had been old friends and he got a call from Dresser saying he felt someone was following him. He came to check on him and got into an altercation with Clayton. Clayton himself had arrived with a lead on Scott’s whereabouts. Kort was very surprised to hear Scott escaped from prison.
Since one more agent is still in danger, Tess and Tim went to stake out his residence. They made small talk and Tess seemed to be really good at noticing things from Tim since she knew he was proposing to his girlfriend. While speaking, they found out the agent they are looking for, Allen Kane, had received large sums of money. Once Kane was in their sight, Tess and Tim took him in.
At first, Kane wouldn’t budge as Clayton and Gibbs interrogated him, but eventually he gave up a safe house Scott would go to. Ellie and Tony went to investigate the building, which had been turned into a hotel used for pleasure and release. The woman in charge told them she had just called the police due to a burglar in her office. Video camera footage showed it was Scott and he did not want them following him any more.
Ellie and Gibbs went to Abby’s lab, where she had gotten items from the room to use in her investigation. The footage showed Scott had gotten something hidden in the floor and he also used the building’s wireless network to look for someone. He was searching for Ziva David.
The team tried to contact Ziva, but she wasn’t responding to them. They were confused about why Scott wanted her since she hadn’t been involved in his case. They asked Trent, who was shocked that she was involved and told them she wasn’t part of the CIA case file against Scott.
In autopsy, Tess made Palmer nervous while they discussed Scott’s psychological profile. When she inquired about a profile of Gibbs, Ducky balked and refused to entertain the notion of such a profile. Tony came in and found out Kevin had put up a massive fight before he died and likely injured the person who attacked him.
Meanwhile at the hospital, Emily sat with her father threatening to paint his toe nails when he began to wake up. He began saying things to her as she stood over him.
In her lab, Abby told Kort she had discovered that thanks to the television recording voices, she was able to get data that showed Jacob called someone about going to Tel Aviv.
Gibbs got a call from Emily that Fornell was trying to say Jessica called someone and the words giff-gaff. The last word was the name of a UK phone company and Tim worked to figure out where Scott was calling from with an unregistered phone. When they discover Scott is in the Navy Yard, they are ready to lock it down when Scott simply walked into the building to turn himself in.
In interrogation, Gibbs asked Scott why he was looking for Ziva. Scott told Gibbs he had been framed for the original leak case and that the former Director of Mossad, Eli David, had files that showed proof of his innocence. He had been looking for Ziva to try and get the files since he thought she inherited his personal papers upon his death. Researching Ziva had led him to Gibbs, who he felt would "find the truth."
Tess, Vance and Gibbs argue over whether Scott was telling the truth. Gibbs felt it was possible he was while Vance wasn’t buying it. Tess revealed she was leaning toward the possibility that Scott was telling the truth.
Abby confirmed to Gibbs that Scott told the truth. Not only did his blood not match Kevin’s killer, but his print at the scene was too perfect. Someone likely had lifted it somewhere else and used the same print at each scene that was connected to Scott at first. She was also able to determine that the blood that was found on Dresser’s body belonged to Trent Kort.
Heading to interrogation, the team discussed Kort, who had been fired from his agency and was now in the wid. The guys watched as Tess and Clayton, but mostly Tess, interrogated Kane to get information. They found out that Kort was the one selling intel and he had made Nika and Jacob his fall guys. Kane was given money to give updates on how the investigation was going.
As the team let Jacob go and tried to figure out where Kort was, Tim got disturbing news. Footage from Israel showed a farmhouse had been attacked in a possible act of terrorism. The farmhouse was Eli David’s and the place Ziva had been thought to be staying.
Is Ziva dead? To be continued in the season finale next week.