NCIS: Hawai'i (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Impostor - full transcript
The NCIS team investigates a cold case involving WWII-era bones on the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombings, and are shocked to learn they belong to a 100-year-old survivor of the attack.
♪ Pour me another one ♪
♪ Castaway,
gonna let the sunshine in ♪
♪ I wanna be a castaway ♪
♪ And leave the world behind ♪
♪ Wasting away
down by the coast ♪
♪ Pacifico and chasing lime ♪
♪ Easy living down in paradise ♪
♪ Pour me another one ♪
♪ Make it a strong one ♪
♪ We're gonna
have some fun tonight ♪
♪ Just like the other one ♪
♪ Make it a double rum,
we're gonna castaway tonight ♪
♪ I'm in an island
state of mind... ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
This isn't real.
I'm telling you,
this all happened.
Don't love the sound of
explosions in the morning.
What did I say about
video games on school days?
It's not a video game.
It's the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Mom, did all these people
really die?
Many did, honey.
But that's why we honor them
every year.
And those who survived, too.
Though I'm not sure
why your brother...
is showing you this
before breakfast.
Because she asked.
It's for a project.
She has to do a report
about a hero who emerged after
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
So did I, remember?
I'm sure the emphasis
is more on "hero,"
less on "attack."
Mom, she's old enough
to know about the bad, too.
Ah-ah. Stay put.
Look, I appreciate
your enthusiasm, okay?
But leave the decisions
about your sister up to me.
I'm just trying to help.
So you wouldn't mind
helping Julie
find a hero for her project?
That-that's not what I meant.
And taking her to school?
But I-I...
Love you.
No Jesse or Lucy?
They're running
security checks
for the Pearl Harbor
Remembrance Day ceremony.
All right, so the boss gets
the old bones in the dank cave.
Never too senior
to get my feet wet.
Hey, Commander Chase.
Who discovered them?
Beachcomber searching
for buried treasure.
And they were found in a cave?
"The world's womb,"
where life and death intersect.
In this case, more so death.
Everything looks
so intact.
Sand, seaweed and sediment.
All provided a barrier
for the elements.
This poor soul has been forsaken
for... quite some time.
Now's our chance to set it free.
Sorry, sorry, just...
got caught up in the energy.
Tellus heard you.
Well, can you tell us anything
about the remains?
Age? Identity?
Size ten to 11 shoes,
length of the femur--
all point to the remains
belonging to a man.
And a sailor.
Hmm.
Those look like
old Navy khakis.
It's hard to tell
how old, though.
Actually, that's
the easy part.
We'll carbon-date
the textiles and bones
as soon as we're back
at the lab.
And the hard part?
Finding your suspect.
Exit wound.
Shot in the back of the head.
He was murdered.
Oh!
Oh! Oh, sorry.
No, I'm sorry. My head's
in this Force Protection Plan.
A handful
of Pearl Harbor survivors
are attending the ceremony
this week,
not one of them
under 95 years old.
Wow. Probably the last year
most of them
will be able to make it.
80th anniversary. Amazing.
Totally, amazing. But
between the threat assessment
and about a thousand meetings
that should've just been emails,
my body's about tapped out.
Oh, come on.
Time to show 'em that it's
"go" muscle, not "show" muscle.
How are you this jaunty?
Oh, it's not 'cause I ate
all of Ernie's
chocolate espresso beans.
'Cause I didn't.
Not all of 'em.
Careful, Luce--
I will blackmail you
into to doing the rest
of my security interviews.
You know that's not
the worst assignment, right?
...codebreakers
worked tirelessly
to crack
encrypted Japanese messages.
Um, they managed
to reveal details for the
invasion of Midway Island
and helped shift the tide
of the war.
Follow me.
Wow. Who'd Whistler tee off
to pull the short straw
on that assignment?
Uh, maybe they chose her
because she's smart
and knows history.
Besides, what do you
actually know
about the attack
on Pearl Harbor, hmm?
Over 3,000 casualties,
19 ships lost or damaged,
and, not many
people know this,
but 68 civilians
were killed that day.
PHRD Planning Committee?
Going over
Protective Service Details
for the commemoration before
we get back to the cold case.
Oh, please don't use that term.
Protective Service Details?
No.
Cold case.
They're like turtlenecks.
You know, once you get in them,
they never really work out
the way you wanted.
All right, well,
love it or hate it,
there's no statute
of limitations on murder.
Our victim was shot to death
and washed up in this cave.
Anyone want to guess
how long ago?
Dude, just tell us.
73 to 80 years old.
Lucy...
how did you pull that number?
Am I wrong?
No, you're, like,
eerily right.
Carbon dating puts them
at that range.
Well, details of the trousers.
Textile analysis says
it's cotton.
From what I can tell,
this particular uniform
was in use
from the '30s to 1948.
Except black shoes were more
widely worn starting spring
of 1941.
I'm impressed.
But also so curious.
I...
went down a military
rabbit hole
and I found out Coco Chanel
designed the Turks' uniforms.
Don't suppose we found
the nameplate on the victim?
Not that lucky.
It's gonna be hard to identify
the victim.
Commander Chase was able
to extract the DNA,
but may not be enough
to ID the victim on its own.
Well, this particular uniform
with the black shoes
were only worn
by non-aviation officers
and chiefs.
Lucy, check the archives
for any missing personnel
that match that profile
and that date range.
Can't we run the DNA
against one
of those ancestry databases?
Good idea. Get Ernie on it.
Maybe you should give
turtlenecks another shot.
Get out of here.
Hey, Whistler.
Whistler, you seemed focused.
Uh, is this, uh,
one of those things
where you pretend to talk
about work,
but you really ask
about dinner?
No. Actually, I'm headed
over to personnel records.
Which happens to be close
to your office.
And I'm not even
hungry for dinner.
Oh, well,
I guess we can walk together.
Oh. Hmm.
Don't suppose you
want to come with?
There's this old case involving
old bones and a murder.
Ooh, DIA doesn't do
bones and murders.
Should be your slogan.
Still, my case is
definitely more fun
than having to
play tour guide.
I didn't have to play
tour guide. I volunteered.
Oh. Really?
Those who fail to learn
from history
are condemned to repeat it.
It's an honor to host
these visitors.
And get face time
with the brass.
Honestly?
I mean, you are interested
in your career.
Wha... I...
I didn't mean to offend you.
Kind of makes it worse you think
I'm defined by ambition.
I think you're defined
by a lot of things,
some of which I don't
even know about yet,
because I'm still getting...
You don't know things about me
because you don't ask.
I know you like
pinot grigio.
And mason jars for cups.
Excuse us.
Can you move, please?
Who are all those people?
Your colleagues.
Oh, yeah, right, but...
what are they all doing there?
Big event.
Pearl Harbor Remembrance.
Kind of rings a bell.
We've been sucked
into the black hole
of DNA databases.
I managed to pull DNA
from the victim's skull
through the petrous bones
behind the ear--
a technique used
to extract DNA from bones
found at the thousand-year-old
Antikythera shipwreck.
Arr, matey.
You're right.
Antikythera is in Greece.
That reference makes no sense.
You run the DNA
against
the genealogical database?
Once we got
legal approval.
Take a look.
Your tree's missing
some branches.
In the United States, maybe.
But the DNA's tied to all kinds
of families in Japan,
so we looked
into Japanese immigrants.
And we were able
to narrow the search further
based on families
with naval officers
or chiefs in the 1940s.
Any hits?
Yes.
One. But...
this is where it gets weird.
Her victim is...
...him.
Ken Ito.
Ken Ito is a hundred-year-old
Pearl Harbor attack survivor
who's being honored
at this week's ceremony.
All true.
Except for the fact that
he was murdered 80 years ago.
The
♪ Castaway,
gonna let the sunshine in ♪
♪ I wanna be a castaway ♪
♪ And leave the world behind ♪
♪ Wasting away
down by the coast ♪
♪ Pacifico and chasing lime ♪
♪ Easy living down in paradise ♪
♪ Pour me another one ♪
♪ Make it a strong one ♪
♪ We're gonna
have some fun tonight ♪
♪ Just like the other one ♪
♪ Make it a double rum,
we're gonna castaway tonight ♪
♪ I'm in an island
state of mind... ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
This isn't real.
I'm telling you,
this all happened.
Don't love the sound of
explosions in the morning.
What did I say about
video games on school days?
It's not a video game.
It's the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Mom, did all these people
really die?
Many did, honey.
But that's why we honor them
every year.
And those who survived, too.
Though I'm not sure
why your brother...
is showing you this
before breakfast.
Because she asked.
It's for a project.
She has to do a report
about a hero who emerged after
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
So did I, remember?
I'm sure the emphasis
is more on "hero,"
less on "attack."
Mom, she's old enough
to know about the bad, too.
Ah-ah. Stay put.
Look, I appreciate
your enthusiasm, okay?
But leave the decisions
about your sister up to me.
I'm just trying to help.
So you wouldn't mind
helping Julie
find a hero for her project?
That-that's not what I meant.
And taking her to school?
But I-I...
Love you.
No Jesse or Lucy?
They're running
security checks
for the Pearl Harbor
Remembrance Day ceremony.
All right, so the boss gets
the old bones in the dank cave.
Never too senior
to get my feet wet.
Hey, Commander Chase.
Who discovered them?
Beachcomber searching
for buried treasure.
And they were found in a cave?
"The world's womb,"
where life and death intersect.
In this case, more so death.
Everything looks
so intact.
Sand, seaweed and sediment.
All provided a barrier
for the elements.
This poor soul has been forsaken
for... quite some time.
Now's our chance to set it free.
Sorry, sorry, just...
got caught up in the energy.
Tellus heard you.
Well, can you tell us anything
about the remains?
Age? Identity?
Size ten to 11 shoes,
length of the femur--
all point to the remains
belonging to a man.
And a sailor.
Hmm.
Those look like
old Navy khakis.
It's hard to tell
how old, though.
Actually, that's
the easy part.
We'll carbon-date
the textiles and bones
as soon as we're back
at the lab.
And the hard part?
Finding your suspect.
Exit wound.
Shot in the back of the head.
He was murdered.
Oh!
Oh! Oh, sorry.
No, I'm sorry. My head's
in this Force Protection Plan.
A handful
of Pearl Harbor survivors
are attending the ceremony
this week,
not one of them
under 95 years old.
Wow. Probably the last year
most of them
will be able to make it.
80th anniversary. Amazing.
Totally, amazing. But
between the threat assessment
and about a thousand meetings
that should've just been emails,
my body's about tapped out.
Oh, come on.
Time to show 'em that it's
"go" muscle, not "show" muscle.
How are you this jaunty?
Oh, it's not 'cause I ate
all of Ernie's
chocolate espresso beans.
'Cause I didn't.
Not all of 'em.
Careful, Luce--
I will blackmail you
into to doing the rest
of my security interviews.
You know that's not
the worst assignment, right?
...codebreakers
worked tirelessly
to crack
encrypted Japanese messages.
Um, they managed
to reveal details for the
invasion of Midway Island
and helped shift the tide
of the war.
Follow me.
Wow. Who'd Whistler tee off
to pull the short straw
on that assignment?
Uh, maybe they chose her
because she's smart
and knows history.
Besides, what do you
actually know
about the attack
on Pearl Harbor, hmm?
Over 3,000 casualties,
19 ships lost or damaged,
and, not many
people know this,
but 68 civilians
were killed that day.
PHRD Planning Committee?
Going over
Protective Service Details
for the commemoration before
we get back to the cold case.
Oh, please don't use that term.
Protective Service Details?
No.
Cold case.
They're like turtlenecks.
You know, once you get in them,
they never really work out
the way you wanted.
All right, well,
love it or hate it,
there's no statute
of limitations on murder.
Our victim was shot to death
and washed up in this cave.
Anyone want to guess
how long ago?
Dude, just tell us.
73 to 80 years old.
Lucy...
how did you pull that number?
Am I wrong?
No, you're, like,
eerily right.
Carbon dating puts them
at that range.
Well, details of the trousers.
Textile analysis says
it's cotton.
From what I can tell,
this particular uniform
was in use
from the '30s to 1948.
Except black shoes were more
widely worn starting spring
of 1941.
I'm impressed.
But also so curious.
I...
went down a military
rabbit hole
and I found out Coco Chanel
designed the Turks' uniforms.
Don't suppose we found
the nameplate on the victim?
Not that lucky.
It's gonna be hard to identify
the victim.
Commander Chase was able
to extract the DNA,
but may not be enough
to ID the victim on its own.
Well, this particular uniform
with the black shoes
were only worn
by non-aviation officers
and chiefs.
Lucy, check the archives
for any missing personnel
that match that profile
and that date range.
Can't we run the DNA
against one
of those ancestry databases?
Good idea. Get Ernie on it.
Maybe you should give
turtlenecks another shot.
Get out of here.
Hey, Whistler.
Whistler, you seemed focused.
Uh, is this, uh,
one of those things
where you pretend to talk
about work,
but you really ask
about dinner?
No. Actually, I'm headed
over to personnel records.
Which happens to be close
to your office.
And I'm not even
hungry for dinner.
Oh, well,
I guess we can walk together.
Oh. Hmm.
Don't suppose you
want to come with?
There's this old case involving
old bones and a murder.
Ooh, DIA doesn't do
bones and murders.
Should be your slogan.
Still, my case is
definitely more fun
than having to
play tour guide.
I didn't have to play
tour guide. I volunteered.
Oh. Really?
Those who fail to learn
from history
are condemned to repeat it.
It's an honor to host
these visitors.
And get face time
with the brass.
Honestly?
I mean, you are interested
in your career.
Wha... I...
I didn't mean to offend you.
Kind of makes it worse you think
I'm defined by ambition.
I think you're defined
by a lot of things,
some of which I don't
even know about yet,
because I'm still getting...
You don't know things about me
because you don't ask.
I know you like
pinot grigio.
And mason jars for cups.
Excuse us.
Can you move, please?
Who are all those people?
Your colleagues.
Oh, yeah, right, but...
what are they all doing there?
Big event.
Pearl Harbor Remembrance.
Kind of rings a bell.
We've been sucked
into the black hole
of DNA databases.
I managed to pull DNA
from the victim's skull
through the petrous bones
behind the ear--
a technique used
to extract DNA from bones
found at the thousand-year-old
Antikythera shipwreck.
Arr, matey.
You're right.
Antikythera is in Greece.
That reference makes no sense.
You run the DNA
against
the genealogical database?
Once we got
legal approval.
Take a look.
Your tree's missing
some branches.
In the United States, maybe.
But the DNA's tied to all kinds
of families in Japan,
so we looked
into Japanese immigrants.
And we were able
to narrow the search further
based on families
with naval officers
or chiefs in the 1940s.
Any hits?
Yes.
One. But...
this is where it gets weird.
Her victim is...
...him.
Ken Ito.
Ken Ito is a hundred-year-old
Pearl Harbor attack survivor
who's being honored
at this week's ceremony.
All true.
Except for the fact that
he was murdered 80 years ago.
The