NCIS (2003–…): Season 19, Episode 3 - Road to Nowhere - full transcript

Previously OnNCIS

Update. Same signatures,
100 days apart.

You sure it's my Jen?

Here's our guy in
Georgetown just an hour ago.

Name's Alden Parker,

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

And I hope that your team
didn't blow my cover.

Gibbs stays in the loop,

Agent Parker. Put it down.

Gonna kill me twice?
No more fake names,

Paul LeMere, thanks to your

very real passport.

I'm just so relieved
they caught the guy.

Every time LeMere killed
one of his victims,

someone sent him a cool 50K.

So he wasn't killing for sport,
he was killing for money.

Guy's not a serial killer.
He's a contract killer.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Kasie! Back off!

BP's dropping. He's
losing blood fast.

I'll need 1,000 cc's of plasma.

We got to stop this
leak. Pupils are dilated.

He's going into shock. Gonna
need a transfusion here!

Nurse, excuse me. You
shouldn't be here.

That's my suspect. I need
to know how he's doing.

Gibbs.

Come to finish the job?

Where is he? Dead, or will be.

And now we're never gonna
find out who was paying him.

He's not gonna die.

How do you know that?

You pick up a medical
degree on your way here?

It wasn't a kill shot.

And it wasn't your call to make.

The guy had a knife
to Kasie's throat.

And you had a trained
hostage negotiator standing

right there... Agent Knight
could've bought us some time.

I'm not gonna take that
chance. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'm sure the
review board will agree

that it was a clean shot.
I'm just telling you

it wasn't a smart move.
Our only lead is gonna die.

Not gonna die.

Get your head out of the sand.

Okay? You screwed up.

You played mister
tough-guy vigilante

and you screwed up, okay?

What you did was
reckless and dangerous.

Sorry to interrupt.

We managed to stop the bleeding
and stabilize Mr. LeMere.

He's going to live.

Live?

The bullet only nicked
his subclavian artery.

Quite lucky, actually.

One millimeter higher, and
he would've died for sure.

Nice shooting.

Well, glad you could join us.

Welcome.

Don't gloat.

No gloating here. Not gloating.

Mm-hmm. I'm only moving

because my desk is
covered in blood.

Not because you want me to.

No, no, of course, of course.

Of course.

How's your head?

It's better than my pride.

Can't believe I didn't
see that coming.

Well, LeMere went
full Hulk on us.

I mean, no one saw that coming.

Well, he got the jump on me.

I got jumped.

Happens to the best
of us, you know?

I've been jumped a
few times myself.

Wow, a few times?

It's never happened to me.

So what's wrong with you that
it keeps happening to you?

Yeah, funny.

Uh-uh.

Oh, hey, McGee.

Hey, morning. Ooh, nice desk.

Yeah, I liked it better
when she was over there.

Uh, any updates on
LeMere's condition?

Yeah, I spoke to the
hospital. He's, uh, conscious,

and expected to make
a full recovery.

The doctors are gonna let us
know when we can talk to him.

Where's Gibbs?

He's at the cemetery
where we picked up LeMere.

Looking to see if there's
anything we might've missed.

Yeah, makes sense.

A lot of questions in this case.

Yeah, let's see if
we can answer some.

What do we know?

Paul LeMere is not

a serial killer... he was a
contract killer paid to kill

these seven people.

Who paid him? TORRES:
We don't know yet.

Kasie's still
tracing the payments

that we found in
his thumb drive.

Okay, so if LeMere was
paid, then the victims...

Were being targeted.

Still can't find any
connections between them.

We've combed the
files, histories.

Nothing links them.

The link's got to be
whoever hired LeMere.

We figure that out,
we crack the case.

Well, then let's hope that
Kasie works her magic.

Mm... Jimmy.

Ah, your blood pressure's
still a little high.

Uh, your pulse is fine.

But let me check
your pupils again.

Hey, hey, hey. I need to work.

Kasie, you were taken
hostage, all right?

LeMere had a knife...
Letter opener.

A letter opener to
your throat, all right?

It was a traumatic situation.

You could still be suffering
from-from shock, from PTSD...

Or from you annoying me.

Okay, I have told
you a thousand times,

I will be fine. I have
been through worse.

Wehave been through worse.

The diner two years ago? Oof.

Well, yeah, but we
worked through that.

Uh, I don't know.

That was pretty
traumatic. I mean,

yes, we were taken hostage,

and, sure, one of them
died, and then they

forced me to cut open
his stomach and retrieve

diamonds... from his intestines,

but, uh. I... Is
it-is it hot in here?

No, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna sit down.

Hey, Kase, Jimmy.

What's going on with him?

Uh, he's working
through some things.

Oh. Any luck tracing
LeMere's payments?

Whoever paid LeMere knew
how to cover their tracks.

We know he was paid through a
shell company, Navis Ventures.

But whenever I try to trace
the money, it just leads

to another shell
company. I've had

multiple computers
working on this,

and I still can't
found the source.

This could take
days or weeks or...

Why does that happen every
time I say something like that?

Hmm, let me guess...
Another bogus shell company?

Uh, that depends on how

you feel about the
U.S. government.

LeMere was paid by the Pentagon?

Yeah.

Thanks for seeing
us, Lieutenant Falco.

Of course. Uh,
please, have a seat.

Uh, excuse the mess.

You can just throw
those anywhere. So...

what can I do for you?

So you are the, uh,
senior accountant

to the defense finance?
And accounting services.

Why?

We're investigating a
payment to a suspect

that came from this department.

Wait, wait, wait.

So you're not here
about the audit?

Audit?

: Oh, thank God.

Thank God.

Oh, you really had
me going there.

The DoD is being audited again

for some discrepancies
in their books.

Well, $35 trillion worth.

That's a lot of discrepancies.

I have been killing
myself for weeks

trying to balance these books.

I haven't slept, I
haven't seen my kids.

It's been a nightmare.

I hear that NCIS runs
a pretty tight ship.

Financially speaking.

Y-You know if they're
hiring at all or...

You know, never mind.

So, this payment...
You said it came

from this department?
That's right, but, uh,

we don't know who authorized it.

Well, my office is just a
pass-through, basically.

We process thousands of payments
a week from every department

in the military. Uh, can
I see the account number?

Says here the money
originated from one

of our contractor accounts,
Sonova Industries.

The DoD uses their
data-imaging machines.

So our suspect wasn't
actually paid by the Pentagon.

He was paid by Sonova.

Mm-hmm. Can you tell us who
from over there authorized it?

Huh, that's weird.

There's no
authorizing name here.

It could be just a glitch.

Or...

Or what?

Or maybe someone at Sonova

is trying to hide something.

We're gonna need a copy
of those files, please.

Sure.

How you
feeling, LeMere?

Ready for another chat?

Round two?

Who hired you?

I don't know what
you're talking about.

We found your offshore account.

But you already know
that, don't you?

That's why you ran?

I just felt like
stretching my legs.

Who are you protecting?

Can we wrap this up?

I got a sponge bath coming up

I really don't want to miss.

You know, for a
guy who got caught,

you're coming across very cocky.

You didn't catch me.

Um, I think we did.

Agent McGee? Yeah,
I seem to remember

taking you down at the
cemetery. No, that's because

someone ratted me out.

That phone call at my apartment?

That was someone
pretending to be me.

So, like, a hitman impersonator?

They wanted NCIS on my tail.

I was set up.

Okay, and who set you up?

Seriously, who set you up?

Give us a name.

Listen, Paul... Can
I call you Paul?

Don't answer. I'm
gonna do it anyway.

Paul, we got you cold

for seven murders.
That's a fact.

You're going down.
The only question left

is whether or not you get
the chair. If you cooperate

and give up your employer,
the FBI will make sure

that you live out the rest
of your days in prison.

Now that's the best
deal you're gonna get.

There's another body.

That you haven't found yet.

It's in upstate New York.

I'll take you to it.

And why would we do that?

Because it's the first victim.

It'll explain everything.

Who hired me.

Why. All of it.

You could save us
all a lot of trouble

and just tell us?

No.

You want answers?

That's the only way
you're gonna get 'em.

I'll take you to the body.

On one condition.

He wants Gibbs?

LeMere specifically
requested that Agent Gibbs

escort him to the body.

Why?

Didn't say.

You told him no, right?

Leon, why are we
humoring this guy?

Might not even be a body.

Actually, Kasie discovered

another $50,000 payment hidden

in LeMere's account, dated

100 days before the first
body we have on file.

So it's legit?

There's another victim.

Looks like this is the first.

Doesn't feel right.

Yeah, I agree.

LeMere could try
to escape again.

Or worse, he could
try to kill you again.

Finish what he started.

Frankly, after what he
did to Gibbs's boat,

I'd be more afraid of what
Gibbs would do to him.

I can't have a suspended
agent escort a suspect alone.

The FBI would never let
me hear the end of it.

Director, we don't have
a lot of options here.

If we're gonna get
LeMere to talk...

What-what about
following the money?

Are we any closer to learning
who's behind the payments?

We're still digging, but we
could be digging a long time.

This is your call, Leon.

I didn't expect your director to
approve this little field trip.

Let alone make us partners.

: Oh, no.

But we're gonna be breathing
the same air for six hours.

So maybe we should smoke a
peace pipe or something first.

You can smoke whatever you want.

I'm driving.

All right, so I just
spoke with LeMere's doctor,

and, technically, he hasn't
been discharged yet, so you two

are gonna be responsible
for his medical care.

Now, he needs his blood
pressure medication

every three hours, his
antibiotics every six.

Make sure he stays hydrated.

Don't let him in
the sun too much.

Geez, Palmer, we're not
taking him to summer camp.

I'll take care of it.

Agent Gibbs.

Glad you could make it.

Really looking forward to
spending some time together.

All right, let's get
this show on the road.

I asked for Gibbs.

I didn't say
anything about a FBI.

Next time be more specific.

Did a full cavity
search. LeMere's clean.

You got a radio in the car.

And local authorities have
been notified about the trip.

Listen, boss, if
you want a gun...

you know...

Good luck, boss.

Whoa! Go slower.

I really hope they
don't kill each other.

Who, Gibbs and LeMere?
Gibbs and Agent Parker?

Take your pick.

Where is
LeMere taking Gibbs?

I have a bad feeling
about this trip.

Yeah, me too.

I hate road trips.

I dig 'em.

Dig what? Bad junk food?

Looking for a place
to pee? The worst.

The journey's the
destination, baby.

Mm, pretty sure the
destination's the destination.

Hey.

Anyone hear from Gibbs yet?

Not yet.

I wish there was a
way we could help him.

Well, there is. We find
out who hired LeMere.

Any luck tracking the
payment through Sonova yet?

That's not gonna be easy.

All right, let's run it down.

Sonova is
a huge conglomerate

with 14 divisions worldwide.

They started off in mining,
supplying raw materials

to manufacturers. Soon
they became so big,

they ended up just buying
the manufacturers themselves.

They make everything from, uh,
jet fuel to petroleum jelly.

I mean, they have
all those TV spots

that play all the time, uh...

Yes. No, I know. Yeah,
it's so annoying.

It's the most annoying
jingle I've ever heard.

Okay.

Sonova's main headquarters
are in Virginia,

run by Sonia Eberhart.

She is known as a tough CEO.

Very guarded.

So getting to those accounting
files is gonna be difficult.

I mean, we could walk through
the front door with a warrant,

but that might tip them off.

So maybe we use the back door.

Looked into it.

Sonova uses focus groups
for their products.

Just so happens they have
one scheduled for today.

So maybe one of us gets in there

as part of the group, peels
off to the server room,

download the files
that are needed.

That sounds like
an undercover job.

I'm in. Put me in, Coach.

What? Why you?

What about me? I-I
can handle myself.

Uh, I'm sorry.

It's kind of awkward, but, uh,

I'm kind of the undercover
guy, so, kind of my thing.

Yeah, this-this product
really isn't for you, Nick.

Welcome, ladies,

to the focus group for Sonova's

newest product...

Beauty Fresh women's deodorant.

You know what, can I just say...

For the record, I know a
lot about deodorant, okay?

Focus groups and...

So where are
you taking us, Paul?

Come on, you got
what you wanted.

No harm in giving
us a sneak preview.

Told you. It's in upstate.

New York, yeah.

But is it the victim's house?

Someplace where you
dumped the body? What?

I don't want to
ruin the surprise.

So this first victim.

Who is she? Why is
she so important?

Nice try. Never
said it was a she.

The others were just
names on a list.

People I was told to kill.

But this one was...

significant.

Significant how?

You'll see, you'll see.

You don't like me very
much, do you, Agent Gibbs?

No, I don't.

Is it because of what
I did to your boat?

I can tell it
meant a lot to you.

It was a beauty.
It's a real shame.

Must've hurt.

Watching it burn.

Not as much as getting one
of my bullets in your chest.

So, um, this first victim.

Are you saying that

you didn't kill them for money?

Was it more personal, then?

Come on, Paul.

I'm just trying to
learn more about you.

You want to know more?

Why don't you ask Leroy here?

If I had to use a word...

refreshing, I guess?

Refreshing.

Nice word, Alexis.

I like that.

Anyone else? WOMAN:
It smells like...

I don't know, jasmine?

Score one for Patty.

Yes.

Kill me now. When can
I get out of here?

Hey, you wanted
to go undercover.

All right, Jess, the server
room is two floors above you

located at the end of the hall.

It's most probably
locked, so you're

gonna need an
employee access card.

Copy.Okay.

Before we move on to
our next deodorant,

does anyone have
anything else they'd like

to say about Jasmine Dew?

Oh, uh... Jessica.

What would you like to say?

Just that I think your deodorant

is sexist.

And... kind of sucks.

Oh.

Okay. It's
all good.

We love feedback here.

Jessica, uh, can I ask
why you think that?

Well, for starters,

why is it that all of
your women's deodorants

smell like flowers?

I mean, what if I don't
want to smell like a flower?

What if I don't want
to smell like anything?

Mm-hmm. I mean, men's
deodorants have neutral scents.

Uh-huh. So why is it that

we have to smell

like a frickin' garden?

Yeah. That's true.

She's blowing
it. I'm going in.

Wait, give her a second,
give her a second.

Uh, I think we're just gonna
go ahead move on to our next

deodorant. Uh, no, no, no.

Let's move on to the price.

Oh.Okay.

How much do your
deodorants cost?

Uh, about five
dollars, I think? Oh.

So, basically a dollar more

than a deodorant for a man.

There it is. So why is it that I

have to pay more for essentially

the same product?

She's right.

My husband's deodorant only
costs four dollars. Yep,

mine too. Okay, so I don't
know about you, ladies,

but I'm think that Sonova
is hitting us with a

pink tax.

Ooh! That's so messed up!

You've got some nerve.
No, that's...

I assure you, that's not

what we're doing...

You see, our products

are made from materials

which cost money.

Are you mansplaining?

What? Thank you, thank you.

No, I-I...

You ladies don't understand.

Oh. Because we're not
as smart as you are?

Wait... Me too, honey.

All right, I'm out
of here. I'm out.

No, please, ladies.

There's been a misunderstanding.
Uh, Sonova's not sexist.

I'm not sexist. I
have two daughters.

Do you know how hard it is to
be a woman? I'm just wondering.

Do you know that we have
to pay for makeup, bras...

Got the card, heading
to the server room now.

Okay, she's good.

Stay on this road

for another 20 miles.

Beautiful country out here.

God's country.

Quiet, peaceful.

I always thought so.

Oh, yeah? You grow
up around here?

I've spent some time.

Must've been nice.

Was that before or after
you were in the Navy?

We read your file.

What little wasn't scrubbed.

You did a good job
covering your tracks.

We know you were
a SEAL till 2005,

but not much more than that.

That was the point.

Come on,
Paul, work with me.

We've already established
that you grew up around here.

Just give me something.

I was raised in a small town.

Dad was in the
service. I enlisted

right out of school.

Did some tours.

I saw some action.

Why were you discharged?

'Cause I lost
someone close to me.

I had problems
dealing with the pain.

Family member? Wife?

Mm.

After the Navy, then what?

Eh, took some odd jobs.

Nothing stuck.

Till a friend of
mine turned me on

to a job on the force.

You were a cop?

Yeah. Kept busy.

But that pain...

that pain wouldn't go away.

I tried to lose
myself in the job.

When that didn't work,

I tried the bottle...

Ah, can't you see
what he's doing?

What?

These aren't his
stories he's telling.

They're mine.

Which part?

All of it.

Messing with you.

Or maybe our story's the
same because we're the same.

Ah, enough.

I'm sorry if it makes
you uncomfortable,

but it's the truth.

No, the truth is
you're a psycho.

When I shot you before, I
should've finished the job.

You couldn't have
even if you wanted.

Really? Yeah.

Want to try me? PARKER:
Okay, okay, all right.

Let's go. Okay,
hey, hey, hey, hey.

All right, everybody calm down.

Just calm down.

My blood
sugar's getting low.

I think we need
to stop for food.

No way.

You take us to the
body, then you eat.

I can't take you anywhere if
I'm not alert and focused.

Okay, I need to eat.

And I need to eat right
now.Sorry. Not happening.

Did I say it was 20
miles on this road?

Or was it the other one?

Can't remember now.

There, enjoy lunch.

Well, you two seem
to be hitting it off.

Guy's a piece of work, huh?

Oh, yeah, he's a
piece of something.

He knows
a lot about you.

Well, he tried to kill me.

I'm guessing he
did his homework.

So was all that true?

Small town, military dad,

you losing your...

Listen, Gibbs, this, uh,

this thing between you
two? I don't like it.

Mind games. Ignore him.

So that's your go-to, huh?

Don't like what you see,
pretend it's not there?

I'm saying stick with the job.

The last guy I knew
who liked to stick

his head in the sand...

Things didn't turn
out so well, okay?

LeMere is up to something.

I just can't figure out what.

What do you want to do?

Just call this off.

Just turn around and go home.

Your call.

Do what you got to do.

Right.

All right, I'll let the
bureau know we're headed back.

Hello?

Yeah, this is, uh,
Agent... Hang on.

Hello?
Hang on, hang on.

Yeah.
Wait, I can't hear you.

Let me speak to, uh,
the commander, okay?

Before we...

Son of a bitch!

I'm never gonna look at
deodorant the same way again.

Well, hopefully Kasie
can analyze these files

and find out who
paid our hitman.

Well, if it is
someone from Sonova,

a pink tax is gonna
be the least of their

problems.Finally. There you are.

Mr. Hanover? Yeah, so a friend
at Shoreside Memorial told me

that you had him in
custody and you let him go.

My wife's killer. What
were you thinking?

Slow down. Slow down?

I came here for answers
and they stuck me

in the break room. All I want

are some answers, not
stale bagels and coffee.

Why don't you guys
go talk to Kasie,

have her work on
the flash drive?

Listen, Mr. Hanover.

We haven't let anyone go, okay?

I promise you he is
still in custody.

Okay, then where is he?
Why isn't he behind bars?

This is still an
active investigation,

so I can only tell you
so much, but just know

we have him under watch, okay?

What if this guy escapes?

This man is a monster.

What he did to my Jen...

I understand, okay, Mr. Hanover.

I promise you

he is not going anywhere, okay?

We have our best man on it.

Who?

Our best man.

Excuse me. McGee.

It's Parker.

Gibbs ditched me
and took LeMere.

Smart move, getting
rid of your partner.

Keeps your options open.

It's what I would've done.

How much longer?

Not far.

Of course, now that he's gone,

there'll be no witnesses.

But that's what you
wanted, isn't it?

I know what you're trying to do.

Yeah? What's that?

You're trying to rattle me.

Throw me off my game.

How am I doing?

I overheard what
you said at the diner.

And you're right,
I did research you.

I know all about you.

And I must admit that
I was relieved to learn

there's another
person just like me.

Someone who could relate.

You know, people like us, we...

we lead lonely lives.

People like us? Yeah.

I know what you are.

What am I?

A killer.

Plain and simple.

Just like me.

I am nothing like you.

Really?

Your wife and daughter
were killed by a man

who was later found murdered
by a sniper's bullet.

Doesn't take a genius to figure
out who pulled the trigger.

What about all the
others that followed?

I mean, you were an
agent for what, 25 years?

You left a lot of bodies.

How many of those
actually needed to die?

Did they all have it coming?

Did they all deserve your
special brand of justice?

Or maybe you couldn't
stop yourself.

Maybe you didn't want to.

Don't kid yourself.

You crossed that line years
ago and you never looked back.

Hell, when you got tired

of killing suspects,

you even went after
one of your own.

I was trying to save him.

But how many people could
have taken that shot?

Hmm? Only two I know of.

You and me.

Shut up!

Or what?

Huh? What are you
gonna do?

You've isolated yourself.

You've cut yourself
off from the one thing

that's kept you sane and
grounded, okay? Shut your mouth.

You could have gone back to NCIS
at any time. Shut your mouth.

But you chose not to, okay?

Shut your mouth.
You abandoned them.

Your family, okay?

And once you do that,
once you do that, Shut up!

What happens to you next?

You're looking at it! Stop!

Do it.

Go ahead, no one's gonna
know. No one will know.

You can say that I took
the gun away from you.

Come on, do it.

Do it, Leroy! Do it!

Ah.

You were never gonna take
me to the body, were you?

I was, yeah.

We're close, too.

Then let's go finish it.

Gibbs took LeMere?

Yeah, he then
turned off the radio

and the cell, and
we got a BOLO out.

What about Agent Parker?

He's on his way back.
Didn't sound too happy.

I don't blame him. He said there
was a weird vibe in the car.

That LeMere was
pushing Gibbs' buttons.

We need to find
them. Fast.

Sorry to interrupt, but I
thought this couldn't wait.

Will it help us
find Agent Gibbs?

No... Wait, Gibbs
is missing again?

Seriously, we need to put
a bell around his neck.

Okay, Kasie?

Uh, I was analyzing the files

you all downloaded from Sonova.

I found information
about something called

Skylark... It's a
surveillance program

Sonova has been
running on people.

Lots of people.

Like, hundreds. Why?

Uh, not sure. But I found lists

of their targets and one had

four names grouped together.

Anyone look familiar?

Three of these people
are victims in our case.

Could be a coincidence.

But I know how we
all feel about those.

So Sonova's been
spying on people

then hiring LeMere to kill them?

Starting to look that way.

Who's the fourth person?

Libby Alonak, 44.

Lives in D.C. According to
her mortgage and phone bills,

which were just paid yesterday,

she's alive and well.

Then why was she spared?

Maybe LeMere was caught
before he could get to her.

Or maybe she's in on it.

Well, either way, we
need to talk to her.

Bring her in.

Ms. Alonak?

NCIS.

Ms. Alonak?

Got water coming
from the inside.

Signs of a struggle.

Ms. Alonak?

Good?

It's freezing in here.

The AC's on.

And that's our water source.

I'll check the back.

Clear.

Someone made a hell
of a mess in here.

They were looking for something.

Hey, Jess?

Oh, God.

Red duct tape.

Crushed head.

It's LeMere's work.

Looks like from a
while back, too.

Think this could be...

Maybe his first one.

Well, if this is
his first victim,

then where is
LeMere taking Gibbs?

Multiple puncture wounds
with a claw hammer.

Blunt force trauma,
just like the others.

Got a time of death yet?

It's tricky. The AC was
turned on prior to her death,

so the cold circulating air
actually dehydrated her body.

But the AC also pulls
a lot of energy.

So I had Kasie take a look
at the utility bill history

to see when it
first spiked. And?

About two years ago. Which,
if you do the math...

Would make her
LeMere's first victim.

Two years. What took
so long to find her?

Well, it says here
that Libby lived alone,

she worked from home as a
freelance travel writer.

She often disappeared on trips
for months without telling

anyone, and all of her
bills were on autopay,

which explains why
they kept getting paid

even after she died.

Kind of sad to think of her
all alone in that house.

Any word on Gibbs?

Yeah, right, I don't buy it.

I'm telling you, they're just
gonna say the same thing.

Then you won't mind me
asking... where's Gibbs?

I'm sure he's called you.

No.

He stopped calling
in a long time ago.

What is that?

We believe sheis
LeMere's first victim.

First?

But if that's the first,
that means that Gibbs...

Is stepping into a trap.

We need to find him, like, now.

I say we go hard at Sonova. We
know they're involved in this.

Wait, wait... Sonova?

Yeah, we traced LeMere's
payments back to them.

They had four of our
victims under surveillance.

You should've led with
that, by the way, but...

whatever. Okay, let's...

drag in the CEO and grill 'em.

You want to drag
in Sonia Eberhart,

one of the most powerful
business leaders in the world,

for questioning?
I... Good luck.

Yeah, without any
direct evidence

linking her, it's
not gonna be easy.

Let me worry about that.

Body's over there.

By the trees.

Stop.

I have no idea how
that got there.

Mm-hmm.

Go on.

You must've pulled a lot of
strings to make this happen.

You have no idea.

Now let's see if it's worth it.

We appreciate you taking time

out of your busy
schedule, Ms. Eberhart.

Happy to help.

Before we proceed, I
want it on the record

my client is here
of her own volition

and is in no way a suspect or
being charged with anything.

Well, the night's still young.

Do you
recognize this man?

Can't say that I do.

Who is he?

A contract killer paid
to kill eight people.

We traced the payments
back to Sonova.

Eight?

That's horrible.

Do you know who in
my company paid him?

Well, we were hoping that maybe
you could help us with that.

I employ over 60,000 people

in over 11 countries,
so you'll understand

if I'm not aware of what
everyone in my company is doing.

What about a surveillance
program called Skylark?

You aware of that?

Doesn't ring a bell.

Well, it should.

'Cause you signed off on it.

We found this document
in one of your files.

Along with a list of four
people that were murdered.

Wow.

Hit men, kill lists.

You might want to rethink
that little jingle of yours.

Making the world brighter

one body at a time?

Ooh, that's good. I'd
listen to that one.

Yes.

I remember Skylark now.

Must've slipped my mind.

We have so many projects
in development. No.

Skylark is not a
surveillance program.

It's opposition research.

As you can imagine, we
have lots of rivals.

It's a very
competitive business.

So we collect whatever
we can on them

to get an edge.

That edge include
murdering them?

We research
thousands of people.

The fact that four were killed

could be nothing more
than a coincidence.

Man...

that's a hell of a
coincidence, huh?

Either way,

the important thing is that you
brought this to my attention.

And I promise you,

I will mount an
internal investigation

to get to the bottom of this.

Now, if you'll excuse me,

I have a plane to catch.

Ms. Eberhart... Unless you're
planning to charge my client,

we're done here.

You see that, she
didn't even blink

when McGee mentioned the
murders... she knows something.

What is it?

Update on Gibbs.

Someone spotted the car
near a house in Syracuse.

The police are headed there now.

It's there.

You think we get to see
them again in the afterlife?

That's not your first victim.

It's your wife.

Tanner?

That's her house?

That's her family's.

I never sold it.

I just wanted to see her

one more time before...

You always knew how
this had to end.

The two of us together?

It's like putting two

lions in one cage...
One of us has to die.

But back there on that road,

you had your chance.

You didn't take it.

You didn't take it, Gibbs.

I wouldn't have flinched.

Maybe I was wrong about you.

Maybe there's still hope.

Who hired you?

You like fishing, Agent Gibbs?

No more games. Who hired you?

There is a great
place in Naktok Bay.

You should really check it out.

Stop.

So LeMere's last words

were the missing link
we've been looking for.

Naktok Bay is a small
fishing community

in southwestern Alaska.

It's also where
Sonova is currently

building a copper mine.

We combed through the
eight victims again to see

if there was any
connection to the mine.

These four came up.

The four that Sonova
was spying on.

Okay, so how are they connected?

Libby Alonak was
born in Naktok Bay.

In addition to being
a travel writer,

she was also a
hard-core eco-activist.

She organized protests, rallies,
took down a few big shots.

Considering the
threat that Sonova

would have posed to
the Alaskan ecosystem,

she definitely would
have gone after Sonova

once their mine was approved.

Brian Stafford
was a respected

research biologist.

Before he died, he was
writing a paper on the effects

of copper sulfate
on aquatic life.

Now, he didn't know it,
but what he was writing was

gonna make it pretty impossible
for Sonova to get approval.

Laura
Blankenship worked

for the Department
of the Interior,

in charge of granting
construction permits.

Last year, she approved about

400 and denied over 1,000.

And guess who she
denied three years

in a row. The loan-out company

that Sonova is using

to build the mine.

Harold Bradshaw.

Now,
this one was tricky.

We had to dig into a century-old

family deed.

Bradshaw held the water rights
on land Sonova is digging in.

After Bradshaw's death,

water rights reverted
back to public use,

and Sonova snapped them up.

So these four were killed

because they were
standing in the way

of Sonova building
a copper mine.

Sonova is getting into
the cell phone business.

They need the copper
to make their phones.

It's a billion-dollar business.

Plenty enough reason to kill.

And what about
the other victims?

Well, we think their deaths

were a smokescreen.

If there were enough
random kills thrown in

and everyone thought there
was a serial killer involved,

people wouldn't see
the real connection.

We certainly didn't.

Until now.

Well, I think it's time

we had another chat
with Ms. Eberhart.

Well, unfortunately, she took a
flight out of D.C. this evening.

Headed to Alaska.

Found more explosives
and weapons

stashed throughout the property.

Looks like LeMere had the
whole place booby-trapped.

So he lies about the
body and has us drive

all the way out here,
why? To kill himself?

To kill Gibbs?
Doesn't make sense.

It's the department.

They want you to get back
to the office immediately.

I'm not done here.

Plans have changed, sir.

Yeah, McGee?

Oh, finally. Boss, listen,
the clue that LeMere gave you?

Naktok Bay? The key to the
whole thing, okay? Sonova's...

Drilling a copper
mine in Alaska?

Yeah, that's why those
people were killed.

Okay, so what's our
next move, boss?

Pack your bag.

Am I headed to Alaska?

Yeah, we're both
going to Alaska.

I got to do something first.