NCIS: New Orleans (2014–…): Season 6, Episode 13 - The Root of All Evil - full transcript
Yeah...
Dexter!
Dex?
Here, boy.
Dexter!
Ah, there you go, boy.
Come here.
Help me! Please, somebody!
Somebody, help!
Help!
Hannah?
Thank you.
Nothing like a homicide
to kick-start the evening, huh?
Who's our victim?
Captain John Garrett,
25 years, JAG Corps.
Still active duty?
Yeah, military judge.
Daughter found the body.
She hurt?
No, she's just in shock.
She's with an officer
inside.
Loretta and
Sebastian here?
Loretta and Tammy.
Sebastian's in REACT training
in Florida.
Right, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, we could use
a forensics expert.
The crime scene's...
it's not pretty.
The preliminary
cause of death appears
to be blunt force trauma
to the head.
And based on injuries
and blood spatter,
it appears the body was moved.
Seems like his daughter
was trying to revive him.
Well, there's no weapon, either,
unless it's under the body.
Uh, you shouldn't
be doing that.
You're going to contaminate
my crime scene.
Yourcrime scene? WADE: Uh...
Heather Daniels,
NCIS Agent Tammy Gregorio.
Heather's my intern.
Uh, she's a student
from John Jay College
of Criminal Justice.
Oh, what's up?
My master's is
in forensic science.
Now, I'm going for my PhD
in criminal justice.
Cool. Knock yourself out.
As I was saying, protocol
requires law enforcement
to consult with
the onsite medical examiner
before adding
a foreign object
to the scene,
which you failed to do.
Brooklyn, meet Manhattan.
He's dead...
isn't he?
I tried to revive him.
I'm so sorry.
I'm Special Agent Pride.
Understand how hard this is,
but we need to ask you
a few questions
if you're up to it.
Whatever I can do.
You're the one
that found your father?
Yeah.
Can you tell us about it?
I just remember seeing
someone on the floor.
I didn't think it was him.
He looked so small and...
then I flipped
him over and...
he wasn't breathing and...
I tried CPR,
but that didn't work.
And I couldn't find a pulse.
No matter what
I did and...
then there was this dog,
and, like...
The dog was from a neighbor
a couple blocks up.
I knew something wasn't
right the minute I got home.
I wondered why
the door was open.
Can you think of anyone
who might have issues
with your father?
No.
All I can think
about is...
the blood.
You know?
I tried calling
911, but...
my hands...
the-the blood.
And then I moved to
the landline, and then that fell
off of the desk,
and I couldn't...
There was just so much blood...
Okay.
That's good for now.
Let's take a break, huh?
We'll get someone
to get you cleaned up.
Please.
Please find the person
who did this to my father.
So, uh, judging by
the chatter in the room,
sounds like the first drill
is gonna be a search and rescue.
I got some tactics in mind.
Hey. Hey, guys, sorry, uh...
I'm Sebastian Lund,
out of New Orleans.
I did not realize
that I was late.
You're not late.
Everyone else is early.
Right.
Rhonda, Detroit.
That's Quynh. Los Angeles.
Nice.
Gus.
Former Marine from Louisville.
Cool. Well, it's great
to meet you guys.
I'm really looking
forward to the whole...
Good morning, recruits.
I'm Commander Taylor.
Welcome to NCIS REACT Training.
While you're here,
your team will compete
in a series of tactical drills.
Victory is earned
on the strength of teamwork.
If one of you fails,
you all fail.
As for choosing team leaders.
This is not a democracy.
Short straw takes the lead.
Congratulations, Agent Lund.
Your team is counting on you.
What have we learned
about Captain Garrett?
He's a JAG Corps judge.
Presided over nearly
a thousand military trials
and responsible
for hundreds of dishonorable
discharges.
That is a hell
of a suspect pool.
Anybody pop? An
anonymous anybody
sent Garrett
a series of death threats.
15 in total. When were they sent?
The first 12 were sent
over a six-month period
five years back,
but then they stopped.
As of a few months ago,
they started up again.
Oh, that is a long time
to hold a grudge.
Yeah. Yeah, we'll need to comb through
five years' worth
of Garrett's cases.
Patton's cross-checking
identifying details
of every felon
Garrett sent away.
And we got four viable hits.
Three are still incarcerated.
That leaves one suspect...
Who is it?
Lawrence Chastang.
Served five years
for an assault.
Paroled last month.
Listen to this.
"You ruined my life
"and took everything
from me.
"I'm patient.
I will complete
my mission."
And this one.
"Nobody you love is safe.
"They'll pay just like you.
You have only yourself
to blame for what's
about to happen next."
This was six weeks ago.
Not just threatening
Captain Garrett.
Threatening his family, too.
Garrett's only
immediate family is Selina.
If Chastang is serious,
she's in danger.
We need a location on Chastang.
Pinged his cell phone.
Intersection of Royal
and St. Philip
in the Quarter. All right, let's go.
Location's not exact.
You're gonna have
to look for it.
That's Chastang's car.
What I'm seeing
looks like blood on the trunk.
Sounds like
probable cause to me.
I got a bloody tire iron.
This is his car.
You got eyes on him?
No. Wait.
Selina Garrett's inside.
What? She's in the back.
At a table. What about Chastang?
Yeah, I got him.
He's headed right for her.
Lawrence Chastang!
Whoa, whoa! PRIDE:
NCIS! Get your hands up!
Everybody, stay calm. I'm
just getting coffee, all right?
I'm just here for coffee! On the ground!
Easy! Put it down! This is a mistake, okay?
Come on,
on the ground. I didn't do anything.
On the ground, all the way down. Please,
this is a mistake.
Come on!
What's going on here? Come with me, Selina.
Who is that man?
Is he... is that the man
who killed my father?
Please, Selina,
Selina, please...
He wants to hurt me?
No one's gonna hurt you,
I promise.
Lawrence, don't waste our time.
I'm telling you,
I didn't kill anybody.
You just keep other people's
bloody tire irons in your trunk?
I don't know how
that got in there!
The murder weapon
that killed Captain Garrett
just magically wound up
in your car?
And you just magically appear
at the same coffee shop
as his daughter? Because I'm
there a few times a week, all right?
I go there to check out
job listings.
Yeah, that's a hell
of a coincidence...
You and the daughter of the man
who put you in jail
all in the same place
right after you kill her father.
I didn't kill
Captain Garrett.
I didn't even know
he had a daughter.
Oh!
Now, that's a lie.
See, because you threatened
his whole family
in writing.
Where'd you get these?
From the dead man's house.
And we know
that you wrote them.
Okay, I wrote them. Okay?
I was angry. All right?
First year locked up,
I was blaming everybody.
I had rage issues.
Especially at the man
who sentenced you to prison.
You mention in those letters
about a dozen times
how you planned
to kill him.
I'm only as sick as my secrets.
I was an addict.
Okay? But I'm
in recovery now.
It took me years
to own my actions,
to realize
I'm responsible
for the pain I cause.
No one else.
Okay, then come clean, Lawrence.
Own up to what you did.
I'm owning it, okay?
I wrote the letters.
But that's it.
My girlfriend mailed them
for me.
We know that you sent
the letters, okay?
The question is,
what did you do last night?
If I would've been released
back then...
okay, maybe,
maybe I would've done something
to hurt him.
But I am no longer the man
who wrote these letters.
So what happened?
The new you fall off
the revenge wagon?
What are these?
These letters were written
three months ago.
I-I didn't write these.
Same wording.
Same turn of phrase.
Same grammar mistakes.
I... I-I didn't write these.
Your little redemption tale
notwithstanding,
all the evidence points to you
as the murderer.
You're going back to prison.
So, it looks like
a capture the flag mission.
We all have to go in,
and we all have to come out
with the flag.
Teams are gonna be ranked
according to how quickly
we finish.
Right. Thanks for summing up
everything, Rhonda.
Um, so, I-I've got a strategy.
We go in hard, and we fan out.
That's-that's one way to go.
Definitely, yeah.
Um, I was thinking
something just-just
a little different, okay?
So, we've been given this
wide array of equipment, right?
There's four of everything.
But if we work in teams,
then there are certain things,
like, uh, like the rope,
the Maglites, that
a team can share.
Part of this challenge
is knowing what to leave behind.
Well, my strategy allows us
to cut down what each
person is carrying
by nearly 40% and still
taking everything in.
We don't need all of that. SEBASTIAN:
Well,
I mean, you never know
what you're gonna need.
Right? That's my point. It's inefficient,
and it's wasteful,
which is my point.
Who's with me?
This is not a democracy,
remember? I'm team leader.
I didn't come here to lose.
What can you tell us, Loretta?
Ah, the preliminary finding
was accurate.
C.O.D. is blunt force trauma
to the head
caused by some sort of bludgeon.
Tire iron, for instance?
That's consistent. And the
blood and tissue samples
taken from your tire
iron matches the victim.
Though there were
no fingerprints found
on the weapon. Yeah, that's not a problem.
What do you mean by that?
I mean Chastang
might have wiped it clean,
or he wore gloves.
You're saying he wiped
it clean of fingerprints
but left it dripping with blood?
Or... he wore... gloves.
There are
potential inconsistencies.
Well, we found the murder weapon
in his car. That and the letters
are more than enough
to tie him to the murder.
Textbook.
Yeah, exactly.
He's our killer.
No. I mean, you're displaying
textbook confirmation bias.
I've read about it. Amazing
to see it in action.
All right, then. That's, uh... Um,
shouldn't she be seen and not heard?
Tammy, she's my intern,
not my 19th century orphan.
Dr. Wade hasn't even finished
presenting, and you've
already got a suspect
doing 25 to life based on
your preexisting theory.
Let's just save
this debate
until after Loretta's finished.
Good idea. Okay.
Now, the blood spatter pattern
indicates that the assailant
was behind the victim
when he struck him
in the back of the head,
and the second blow
was to the side of the head.
So Garrett was turning
to look at his attacker?
Trying to, but the second blow
caused him to fall
to the ground face-first.
The death threats
sent to Captain Garrett
suggest revenge-seeking
behavior.
But revenge seekers tend to
want to face their victims.
So, you're a profiler now?
Well, am I wrong?
No, let me tell you
what you are.
We're done here.
Thank you, Loretta. Thank you.
Is she okay? Yeah, she's fine.
What was that about?
Trying to teach
this millennial some respect.
Yeah, well, she's
precocious, sure.
But you are a profiler.
What would you say
about the person
who sent those
letters to Garrett?
He's a revenge seeker.
There's no way
he attacked Garrett from behind.
He'd want to know that he was
the last face Garrett saw.
Right. And Chastang admitted
that he wrote the
earlier letters
even though we
couldn't prove it.
Not a good idea
if he killed Garrett.Right.
So Heather's not wrong.
Chastang doesn't quite fit.
Of course she's not wrong,
but I'm not gonna tell her that.
Let's go kick the tires
on ourcase.
Ourcase. I-I-I hear you.
I understand what you're saying.
Thank you. Yeah. Hey.Hey.
Everybody who worked
at the coffee shop confirmed
that Chastang was there
a couple of times a week,
so he was telling
the truth about that.
Doesn't mean
he didn't kill Garrett. No,
but forensic analysis of
the letters is inconclusive.
Both paper and ink generic
enough to be widely available.
What did Chastang's girlfriend
say about mailing the letters?
She totally backs his story.
She took those letters,
mailed them
a couple of years back,
but they broke up
before he was released.
That doesn't help us
with the recent letters.
I talked to the parole
officer. Mm-hmm.
He said Chastang turned
his life around in prison.
Said it wasn't an act.
None of this moves the
needle. There's plenty
of evidence to
charge Chastang.
It just doesn't fit.
Revenge killers are hot.
Chastang may have been
five years ago,
but now I'm not so sure.Okay.
Devil's advocate. If
it's not Chastang,
who're we looking for?
Someone who's
close enough to Garrett
to have seen
the earlier letters,
and someone who's motivated
to frame Chastang.
And someone with a
good enough motive
to go through all that trouble. PATTON:
I'd say
greed is a great motive.
Hmm. Someone's been doing
some digging.
Yep.
Into Garrett's family.
Turns out his wife
came from money.
After she died, he
inherited $3 million.
Now that he's dead,
his sole heir is his only child.
Selina Garrett.
Clear!
Clear!
Clear.
Tear gas.
Fall back!
Fall back! Go!
Thanks for coming in.
I want to help.
We'll-we'll try and get you
in and out of here
as quickly as possible.
Can I get you anything else?
No, thank you.
Okay. Uh, Ms. Garrett,
are you aware
that you are the sole heir
to a pretty large estate?
What?
I... I-I guess.
Yes, uh, my mother's family
was well off.
It's just something I
didn't expect to deal with
for a long time.
Why do you ask?
It's just really
for our records.
You were so upset
last night,
understandably,
that we didn't get
to all our questions.
Like, for instance...
you said that you found
your father around 8:00 p.m.
last night, but you didn't
say where you were
earlier that evening.
An alibi?
You're asking for an alibi?
It's a formality.
I, uh...
I was across town
at a session with my therapist.
She has evening hours,
and my session started at 7:00.
Took me half an hour
to get home.
Your therapist will be able
to confirm that?
Of course.
I'll give you her number.
Yeah, let's do that.
I'm confused.
I was standing right there
when you arrested that man
at the coffee shop.
Yeah. Do you frequent
that place often?
It seems a little out
of the way for you.
No, I...
I went for a walk
to clear my head.
I decided to grab a coffee.
It's like you're suspecting me.
Selina, we're not suspecting you
of anything.
Well, it sounds like
you think I killed my dad.
That is the last thing
that we want to think.
This is how these
investigations work.
We have to rule out
every possibility.
And since you've got
nothing to hide...
I don't.
Then-then you got nothing
to worry about.
Hey, Sebastian.
Hey, I'm-I'm really sorry
to bug you.
Oh, no, it's no bother.
I'm glad you called.
You know, we just...
We could really use
some fresh eyes...
Well, your eyes...
Um, on this crime scene.
Yeah, happy to help.
Uh, be nice to be needed.
Just send me the photos,
and I'll call you
as soon as I get a chance
to take a look at them.
Great. I'm sending them
for you right now.
Things okay at training?
Made me team leader.
Oh, yeah? That's great.
Yeah, right?
Just living the dream.
Being in charge of everyone.
Any questions?
Well, since you ask,
uh, I am kind of wondering
what your secret is.
My secret?
Yeah, you-you make
the whole team leader thing
seem easy, but it's not easy,
in fact. It's...
It's incredibly hard, yeah.
Yeah, and you went
into these offices
all over the world
and led groups
of complete strangers.
Just... How do you do it?
I mean, there's no formula.
You know,
I wasn't always successful.
Come on, it's your superpower.
How do I get these guys
to listen to me?
Okay,
start by listening to them.
Get to know the people
that you're leading.
You know, strengths, weaknesses.
Help them be seen.
They'll do the same for you.
Well, what do you do
if they don't respect you?
Take stock of, um...
my own strengths and weaknesses
and use them both to connect.
Trust me. It works.
What happened today
was my fault.
I take full responsibility.
I started out in the lab, okay?
I was a-a forensics tech,
and, uh, people in my office,
they believed in me.
Encouraged me
to become a field agent,
and, I mean,
I'm a damn good one.
Still, there's this-this
part of me that feels
like a lab tech
pretending to be a field agent.
That's the part of me
that showed up
when I drew the short straw.
I guess I felt the same way
about me being a leader
as you guys did.
So, I didn't, uh...
lead the team
like I should have.
I failed you,
and, uh, I failed us.
You were right.
I was?
Your breach strategy.
It was right.
We should've gone with it.
Yeah, but, I mean,
I second-guessed myself.
Because of me.
I know I come on
too strong sometimes.
In my defense,
I'm an awesome leader.
Yeah, and I have no doubt.
Just-just not as good
at following.
I didn't give youa chance
to lead.
You were right about
taking all the gear.
We would have finished
in good time
had we had taken
those gas masks.
And our lunch wouldn't be
tasting like tear gas right now.
Well,
since we're playing
true confessions here...
I hate being small.
Everyone sees me
as the weakest link,
so I overcompensate
like nobody's business,
just trying to prove this body
isn't as frail as it looks.
Yeah, but, I mean,
I don't see frail, you know?
I see, like...
a featherweight champ.
Yeah.
Okay.
Your therapist confirmed
that she was with you
last night at 7:00.
Thank you for
clearing it up.
It's okay.
I know
you're only doing your job.
I appreciate it.
And I really do
want to help you out, but...
it's hard...
when you're hiding things
from me.
What are you talking about?
Well, we asked you
if you knew of anyone
who might have had issues
with your father.
Yeah, and I told you
there was no one.
Dad got along
with people.
Did he get along
with Mason Balfour?
How do you know about Mason?
Not from you
or from your social media.
You scrubbed
nearly a year's worth of content
from your sites.
Everything associated
with Mason.
You two...
you were planning
to get married?
And all I've been trying to do
is forget about it,
which has more to do
with my bad life choices,
not my dad's murder.
My people found footage posted
by one of your friends
on her Facebook page.
The engagement party.
She started recording
'cause she thought
your dad was about
to make a toast.
Instead, she got this.
She says she posted it
to remind you
that you #DodgedABullet.
What? You know what?
I need to talk to you. You know what?
Get your hands off of me,
Selina. SELINA: Mason, stop.
You're gonna do this right
now? MASON: Why? Why?
It didn't... Excuse me.
You are making a scene.
Oh, I'm making a scene? Mason...
You're the one who's
humiliating me.
You refuse to toast us at
our own engagement party.
That's right.
I just can't do it.
Dad, please. I'm sorry, Selina.
Look at the way that he is
behaving. You know what? SELINA: I know.
You can do a lot better. Why don't you
come here and say that to my face, old man?
Mason, just back off. Stop.
You're gonna take his side?
You know what? Screw you both!
Happy now? Mason...
You're getting exactly
what you wanted.
That was less
than a month ago.
You didn't forget.
You chose not to tell us. Why?
Because it was the worst night
of my life.
Because it doesn't have anything
to do with what happened
to my father.
Selina, Mason argued with him.
Blamed him for breaking up
your relationship.
My dad was a Navy man.
He liked order and routine,
and that's not Mason.
So what is... Mason?
Because as far as I can see,
he's violent
and vindictive.
He was just drunk.
And Dad wasn't the reason
we broke off the engagement.
Is that what Mason will say
when we talk with him?
You're talking to him?
Yeah, we're bringing him in
right now.
Why would you do that?
See, your reaction right here...
It makes me
feel like there's
more to the story.
Where is she?
Selina?!
Where the hell are you?
You bitch!
What are you trying to do to me?
You set me up! I didn't, I swear.
They found a video
of you fighting with my dad.
I'd never turn
you in. Never.
You got a temper, Mason.
I don't like being accused
of things that I didn't do.
What about the
things you did do?
You got quite a rap sheet.
You like to fight.
I don't like being disrespected.
Yeah, is that what happened
with Captain Garrett?
He disrespected you? Who gives a crap?
We do, 'cause he's dead.
Where were you last night?
Out.
Out. Out.
Out where?
At a bar.
This is New Orleans.
Can you narrow it down?
A bunch of 'em...
in the Quarter.
Who were you with?
Myself. I went there to drink,
not to socialize.
You got receipts? Paid in cash.
In other words, no alibi.
I don't need an alibi.
I didn't do anything.
You fought with Captain Garrett
less than a month before
he was bludgeoned to death
and he busted up
your engagement to his daughter.
I think you need an alibi.
Although, to be
honest, if Garrett
tanked my relationship,
I'd be pissed, too.
He didn't tank anything.
Garrett didn't like me,
I didn't like him.
But Selina couldn't care less
what he thought.
She made up her own mind.
She's the one who broke
it off. GREGORIO: Hmm.
Saying you got no hard feelings?
For him?
Dude did me a favor.
Hmm.
Practice run complete.
Is that a cell phone?
Turn it off!
Where is it?
Hey.
Give it to me.
What? It's contraband.
I have to take it.
I'm not gonna rat
you out, trust me.
What are you doing?
You get caught with a cell
phone, we all pay the price.
It's all right, okay?
Don't worry about it.
I need the phone to stay
in touch with my son.
You have a son? Zach. He just turned four.
The phone is so he can message
me when he really needs to.
I have to be able to reassure
him when he reaches out.
But he's in good hands
while you're here, right?
My husband Tim is a great dad.
I learned a long time ago
that the less I say
about my personal life,
the better.
Yeah.
All right, listen,
I'm gonna hold on to the phone.
But if Zach tries to reach out to you,
I'll make sure you can respond.
Yeah?
Okay?
All right.
Hi. He doesn't have an alibi.
Guy we saw in the squad room is
definitely capable of violence.
He could've planted the tire
iron in Lawrence Chastang's car.
Mm, I don't think he's
smart enough to think of that.
Plus, how would he know
about Chastang's death threats?
Only from Selina.
But she claims
that she had no idea, either.
We have nothing to tie
him to this murder,
except his bad attitude.
Selina refuses to believe
that Mason was involved.
And...
I can see a "but" forming.
She's genuinely
afraid of him.
I mean, she was
shaking like a leaf
when you guys
brought him in.
Okay, so, what... you think
she's covering for him?
Hey.
I got something.
I asked Sebastian
to take a look
at our crime scene
photos with fresh eyes.
He notes that the scene was
severely contaminated
by the first person to arrive.
Well, that would be Selina,
but she was in a panic
trying to revive
her father.
Well, did Sebastian
read her statement?
I didn't want
Sebastian's conclusions
to be influenced
by anything other
than the physical evidence.
Okay. What's his take?
Sebastian pointed out.
Selina's fingerprints on nearly
every surface
in her father's study.
Can this be attributed to shock?
Oh, this is beyond shock.
We're talking every shelf,
lamp, corner and crevice.
That's strange. HANNAH:
Yeah. Then there's.
Selina's footprints through
the blood. They're everywhere.
Sebastian counted 92
complete or partial steps
all attributed to her.
There's other,
larger prints,
but Selina's
obscures them all.
The killer's.
Right. Sebastian believes
that Selina deliberately
contaminated the scene
in order to obscure
or destroy evidence.
Okay, but why?
Her alibi was rock solid.
Yeah, but it makes sense
if she's protecting the killer.
Selina... was terrified of Mason
when you brought him in.
I thought...
Thought she was afraid
that he'd hurt her.
But it wasn't that at all.
She was afraid
that he'd flip on her.
Because
they're in this together.
If you're right, Pride, Selina
and Mason faked their breakup,
conspired
to kill Captain Garrett,
and framed
Chastang for it.
That would mean that
Selina had to be on board
with Mason brutally murdering
her father.
That's really cold. Yeah,
but maybe Mason didn't want
to share the details
of what he was planning.
Maybe he just wanted
her to have an alibi
and not be there
for the actual kill.
Well, Captain Garrett was never
gonna approve of the marriage,
which meant no inheritance.
Well, love and greed...
That's a powerful motive. HANNAH: Mm-hmm.
I mean, if you have to
kill a parent over it.
They had three million reasons
to get Garrett out of the way.
And Lawrence Chastang was
the perfect patsy.
Selina was living
with her father.
She could've accessed
his case files.
No, even if Chastang denied
writing those earlier letters,
he fit the bill.
The minute they found out that
he was being released from
prison, they made their move.
We've got a bunch of evidence
that points to Chastang's guilt,
and nothing but a theory
to implicate Selina and Mason.
What's our play?
Just need one of 'em to crack,
and that'll open the floodgates.
We need an angle.
I'd go with
"prisoner's dilemma."
Oldie, but a goodie.
Even mocked up props for y'all.
Thank you.
All right, let's get to it.
What?
You remind me of the guys
I grew up with.
Real brutes.
You don't remind me of anyone.
Those guys
were always good
to their girlfriends;
Never lifted a hand.
That's where
the comparison ends.
I never hit Selina or any woman.
What if I told you
she went to the cops
about you a few weeks ago,
looking
for a restraining order
because you beat her?
No way.
Got a police report right here.
Says, "Female victim was
terrified of the male suspect."
"Victim told
the detective the suspect
"grabbed her forcibly
by the wrist.
Punched her."
That's a lie.
Maybe. Maybe not.
You're terrified of him.
I'm not.
I just didn't want him
to get the wrong idea.
Has he, uh...
has he ever hurt you?
You don't understand.
But your father did, didn't he?
I'm guessing
he gave you an ultimatum.
If you marry Mason,
you lose the money.
Maybe she convinced you
to stage the whole thing.
Fake the breakup.
No.
Help get rid
of her father.
And then, in the end,
you'd get the girl
and the $3 million
she's supposed to inherit.
That's not
what's happening.
It's a pretty good plan though.
But wait,
just hear me out.
What if she realized
that splitting the $3 million
one way
is better than two?
He's buying it. HANNAH: Mm-hmm.
That wiped the smirk
off his face.
She would never do that to me.
Which part?
Try to get you
to kill her father?
Or sacrifice you to the cops?
None of it.
It's only been...
three weeks
since you called off
the engagement.
He's...
already seeing other people.
That's not true.
I own a bar.
Bartenders talk.
A lot.
Mason's been working
every cocktail waitress
in the Quarter.
And I'm sorry.
I don't mean
to hurt you,
but you should know
who you're covering for.
I got...
names,
if you want 'em.
No. I don't care.
We're not together.
I'm just not convinced
that's true.
I think you staged
your breakup
so you could stay
in your father's will.
It's all about
that money.
That's not me.
But it isMason.
Even if you confess
to me right now
that she put you up
to the murder,
she'd just turn around and say
it was you who intimidated her.
She'd walk away clean.
Now, we both know
how this ends.
Like I said, you remind me
of the guys I grew up with.
I don't want you
to take the fall here.
You know what I mean?
Mason has, uh,
opened an offshore
bank account.
There's not much in it.
A few hundred bucks.
His intention is clear.
You come into money.
He comes back into your life.
Once you're married,
he drains your accounts
and takes off with...
one of his waitresses.
Mason killed your father.
I know it.
You do, too.
Can I ask you a question?
Yeah, of course.
Am I free to go?
Well, Mason...
I asked you a question.
Can I leave?
I'm telling you, man,
she's giving you up.
Save yourself.
I'm gonna take that as a yes.
It's okay.
Just tell me what Mason did.
I want to.
Selina!
They read you your rights?
Then they got nothing.
Come on, baby, let's go.
No, Selina.
I'm afraid I have to go.
Thank you for caring.
You okay? Yeah.
Yes, man!
We got this.
All right.
Yes!
Blue Team,
congratulations.
You've come in first place
in the final drill.
Nice.
Unfortunately, you've also
been disqualified.
What? Why?
We won fair and square.
A check of the barracks
turned up
a contraband cell phone
with Agent Lund's belongings.
Yeah, there's no excuse for me
to have my phone here.
I take full responsibility
for the infraction.
Sir, that's not true.
The phone belongs to me.
Agent Lund confiscated it
and was going to turn it in.
No, sir... Commander Taylor,
it was my phone. I will take the blame.
I take full responsibility... All right,
all right!
Stand down, Blue Team.
One person fails,
you all fail.
Doesn't matter
whose phone it is,
the disqualification stands.
As I said at the start,
victory is earned
on the strength
of teamwork.
Yes, sir, you did say that.
You failed as a team,
because you have become a team,
Agent Lund.
You may have lost
the competition,
but you did not
fail the drill.
And you did not
fail each other.
Welcome to NCIS REACT.
Yeah!
Yes! All right. Nice work, nice work.
It looks like
a sad bunch of agents.
We just watched
two murderers walk.
I can't believe it.
You lost the battle,
not the war.
We didn't just lose.
We were routed.
Loretta's right.
They'll slip up,
and we'll be there when they do.
Exactly.
And I'm gonna get
the next round
of drinks, so...
Nothing for me, thanks.
Figures.
Just wanted to stop by
and say thank you.
For what? Doing right by
Lawrence Chastang.
You prevented an innocent man
from being unjustly convicted.
Eh, we're just doing our job.
The way we do it even
without the benefit
of your 25-year-old wisdom.
I think she's extending
an olive branch, Gregorio.
It's traditional to say
something nice in return.
Well, you did good, too.
Your instincts aren't
all that bad.
When you go through puberty,
you might actually
have a future in this job.
Thanks... I think.
Like that, Pride?
Something like that.
Pride.
What? When?
Okay, on my way.
Everything okay?
I don't think so.
Dwayne, thanks for
coming down.
Ms. Garrett asked
for you by name. What happened?
Looks like he was getting
pretty rough with her.
She was fighting
for her life.
Selina did this?
- Self-defense.
- Abusive boyfriend.
She called it in herself.
I have no doubt.
I'm so sorry.
Y-You were right.
You were right
about everything.
He hurt me,
and he killed my father.
And he was gonna
kill me, too.
Thank you so much,
Special Agent Pride.
I couldn't have done it
without you.
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Come here.
Help me! Please, somebody!
Somebody, help!
Help!
Hannah?
Thank you.
Nothing like a homicide
to kick-start the evening, huh?
Who's our victim?
Captain John Garrett,
25 years, JAG Corps.
Still active duty?
Yeah, military judge.
Daughter found the body.
She hurt?
No, she's just in shock.
She's with an officer
inside.
Loretta and
Sebastian here?
Loretta and Tammy.
Sebastian's in REACT training
in Florida.
Right, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, we could use
a forensics expert.
The crime scene's...
it's not pretty.
The preliminary
cause of death appears
to be blunt force trauma
to the head.
And based on injuries
and blood spatter,
it appears the body was moved.
Seems like his daughter
was trying to revive him.
Well, there's no weapon, either,
unless it's under the body.
Uh, you shouldn't
be doing that.
You're going to contaminate
my crime scene.
Yourcrime scene? WADE: Uh...
Heather Daniels,
NCIS Agent Tammy Gregorio.
Heather's my intern.
Uh, she's a student
from John Jay College
of Criminal Justice.
Oh, what's up?
My master's is
in forensic science.
Now, I'm going for my PhD
in criminal justice.
Cool. Knock yourself out.
As I was saying, protocol
requires law enforcement
to consult with
the onsite medical examiner
before adding
a foreign object
to the scene,
which you failed to do.
Brooklyn, meet Manhattan.
He's dead...
isn't he?
I tried to revive him.
I'm so sorry.
I'm Special Agent Pride.
Understand how hard this is,
but we need to ask you
a few questions
if you're up to it.
Whatever I can do.
You're the one
that found your father?
Yeah.
Can you tell us about it?
I just remember seeing
someone on the floor.
I didn't think it was him.
He looked so small and...
then I flipped
him over and...
he wasn't breathing and...
I tried CPR,
but that didn't work.
And I couldn't find a pulse.
No matter what
I did and...
then there was this dog,
and, like...
The dog was from a neighbor
a couple blocks up.
I knew something wasn't
right the minute I got home.
I wondered why
the door was open.
Can you think of anyone
who might have issues
with your father?
No.
All I can think
about is...
the blood.
You know?
I tried calling
911, but...
my hands...
the-the blood.
And then I moved to
the landline, and then that fell
off of the desk,
and I couldn't...
There was just so much blood...
Okay.
That's good for now.
Let's take a break, huh?
We'll get someone
to get you cleaned up.
Please.
Please find the person
who did this to my father.
So, uh, judging by
the chatter in the room,
sounds like the first drill
is gonna be a search and rescue.
I got some tactics in mind.
Hey. Hey, guys, sorry, uh...
I'm Sebastian Lund,
out of New Orleans.
I did not realize
that I was late.
You're not late.
Everyone else is early.
Right.
Rhonda, Detroit.
That's Quynh. Los Angeles.
Nice.
Gus.
Former Marine from Louisville.
Cool. Well, it's great
to meet you guys.
I'm really looking
forward to the whole...
Good morning, recruits.
I'm Commander Taylor.
Welcome to NCIS REACT Training.
While you're here,
your team will compete
in a series of tactical drills.
Victory is earned
on the strength of teamwork.
If one of you fails,
you all fail.
As for choosing team leaders.
This is not a democracy.
Short straw takes the lead.
Congratulations, Agent Lund.
Your team is counting on you.
What have we learned
about Captain Garrett?
He's a JAG Corps judge.
Presided over nearly
a thousand military trials
and responsible
for hundreds of dishonorable
discharges.
That is a hell
of a suspect pool.
Anybody pop? An
anonymous anybody
sent Garrett
a series of death threats.
15 in total. When were they sent?
The first 12 were sent
over a six-month period
five years back,
but then they stopped.
As of a few months ago,
they started up again.
Oh, that is a long time
to hold a grudge.
Yeah. Yeah, we'll need to comb through
five years' worth
of Garrett's cases.
Patton's cross-checking
identifying details
of every felon
Garrett sent away.
And we got four viable hits.
Three are still incarcerated.
That leaves one suspect...
Who is it?
Lawrence Chastang.
Served five years
for an assault.
Paroled last month.
Listen to this.
"You ruined my life
"and took everything
from me.
"I'm patient.
I will complete
my mission."
And this one.
"Nobody you love is safe.
"They'll pay just like you.
You have only yourself
to blame for what's
about to happen next."
This was six weeks ago.
Not just threatening
Captain Garrett.
Threatening his family, too.
Garrett's only
immediate family is Selina.
If Chastang is serious,
she's in danger.
We need a location on Chastang.
Pinged his cell phone.
Intersection of Royal
and St. Philip
in the Quarter. All right, let's go.
Location's not exact.
You're gonna have
to look for it.
That's Chastang's car.
What I'm seeing
looks like blood on the trunk.
Sounds like
probable cause to me.
I got a bloody tire iron.
This is his car.
You got eyes on him?
No. Wait.
Selina Garrett's inside.
What? She's in the back.
At a table. What about Chastang?
Yeah, I got him.
He's headed right for her.
Lawrence Chastang!
Whoa, whoa! PRIDE:
NCIS! Get your hands up!
Everybody, stay calm. I'm
just getting coffee, all right?
I'm just here for coffee! On the ground!
Easy! Put it down! This is a mistake, okay?
Come on,
on the ground. I didn't do anything.
On the ground, all the way down. Please,
this is a mistake.
Come on!
What's going on here? Come with me, Selina.
Who is that man?
Is he... is that the man
who killed my father?
Please, Selina,
Selina, please...
He wants to hurt me?
No one's gonna hurt you,
I promise.
Lawrence, don't waste our time.
I'm telling you,
I didn't kill anybody.
You just keep other people's
bloody tire irons in your trunk?
I don't know how
that got in there!
The murder weapon
that killed Captain Garrett
just magically wound up
in your car?
And you just magically appear
at the same coffee shop
as his daughter? Because I'm
there a few times a week, all right?
I go there to check out
job listings.
Yeah, that's a hell
of a coincidence...
You and the daughter of the man
who put you in jail
all in the same place
right after you kill her father.
I didn't kill
Captain Garrett.
I didn't even know
he had a daughter.
Oh!
Now, that's a lie.
See, because you threatened
his whole family
in writing.
Where'd you get these?
From the dead man's house.
And we know
that you wrote them.
Okay, I wrote them. Okay?
I was angry. All right?
First year locked up,
I was blaming everybody.
I had rage issues.
Especially at the man
who sentenced you to prison.
You mention in those letters
about a dozen times
how you planned
to kill him.
I'm only as sick as my secrets.
I was an addict.
Okay? But I'm
in recovery now.
It took me years
to own my actions,
to realize
I'm responsible
for the pain I cause.
No one else.
Okay, then come clean, Lawrence.
Own up to what you did.
I'm owning it, okay?
I wrote the letters.
But that's it.
My girlfriend mailed them
for me.
We know that you sent
the letters, okay?
The question is,
what did you do last night?
If I would've been released
back then...
okay, maybe,
maybe I would've done something
to hurt him.
But I am no longer the man
who wrote these letters.
So what happened?
The new you fall off
the revenge wagon?
What are these?
These letters were written
three months ago.
I-I didn't write these.
Same wording.
Same turn of phrase.
Same grammar mistakes.
I... I-I didn't write these.
Your little redemption tale
notwithstanding,
all the evidence points to you
as the murderer.
You're going back to prison.
So, it looks like
a capture the flag mission.
We all have to go in,
and we all have to come out
with the flag.
Teams are gonna be ranked
according to how quickly
we finish.
Right. Thanks for summing up
everything, Rhonda.
Um, so, I-I've got a strategy.
We go in hard, and we fan out.
That's-that's one way to go.
Definitely, yeah.
Um, I was thinking
something just-just
a little different, okay?
So, we've been given this
wide array of equipment, right?
There's four of everything.
But if we work in teams,
then there are certain things,
like, uh, like the rope,
the Maglites, that
a team can share.
Part of this challenge
is knowing what to leave behind.
Well, my strategy allows us
to cut down what each
person is carrying
by nearly 40% and still
taking everything in.
We don't need all of that. SEBASTIAN:
Well,
I mean, you never know
what you're gonna need.
Right? That's my point. It's inefficient,
and it's wasteful,
which is my point.
Who's with me?
This is not a democracy,
remember? I'm team leader.
I didn't come here to lose.
What can you tell us, Loretta?
Ah, the preliminary finding
was accurate.
C.O.D. is blunt force trauma
to the head
caused by some sort of bludgeon.
Tire iron, for instance?
That's consistent. And the
blood and tissue samples
taken from your tire
iron matches the victim.
Though there were
no fingerprints found
on the weapon. Yeah, that's not a problem.
What do you mean by that?
I mean Chastang
might have wiped it clean,
or he wore gloves.
You're saying he wiped
it clean of fingerprints
but left it dripping with blood?
Or... he wore... gloves.
There are
potential inconsistencies.
Well, we found the murder weapon
in his car. That and the letters
are more than enough
to tie him to the murder.
Textbook.
Yeah, exactly.
He's our killer.
No. I mean, you're displaying
textbook confirmation bias.
I've read about it. Amazing
to see it in action.
All right, then. That's, uh... Um,
shouldn't she be seen and not heard?
Tammy, she's my intern,
not my 19th century orphan.
Dr. Wade hasn't even finished
presenting, and you've
already got a suspect
doing 25 to life based on
your preexisting theory.
Let's just save
this debate
until after Loretta's finished.
Good idea. Okay.
Now, the blood spatter pattern
indicates that the assailant
was behind the victim
when he struck him
in the back of the head,
and the second blow
was to the side of the head.
So Garrett was turning
to look at his attacker?
Trying to, but the second blow
caused him to fall
to the ground face-first.
The death threats
sent to Captain Garrett
suggest revenge-seeking
behavior.
But revenge seekers tend to
want to face their victims.
So, you're a profiler now?
Well, am I wrong?
No, let me tell you
what you are.
We're done here.
Thank you, Loretta. Thank you.
Is she okay? Yeah, she's fine.
What was that about?
Trying to teach
this millennial some respect.
Yeah, well, she's
precocious, sure.
But you are a profiler.
What would you say
about the person
who sent those
letters to Garrett?
He's a revenge seeker.
There's no way
he attacked Garrett from behind.
He'd want to know that he was
the last face Garrett saw.
Right. And Chastang admitted
that he wrote the
earlier letters
even though we
couldn't prove it.
Not a good idea
if he killed Garrett.Right.
So Heather's not wrong.
Chastang doesn't quite fit.
Of course she's not wrong,
but I'm not gonna tell her that.
Let's go kick the tires
on ourcase.
Ourcase. I-I-I hear you.
I understand what you're saying.
Thank you. Yeah. Hey.Hey.
Everybody who worked
at the coffee shop confirmed
that Chastang was there
a couple of times a week,
so he was telling
the truth about that.
Doesn't mean
he didn't kill Garrett. No,
but forensic analysis of
the letters is inconclusive.
Both paper and ink generic
enough to be widely available.
What did Chastang's girlfriend
say about mailing the letters?
She totally backs his story.
She took those letters,
mailed them
a couple of years back,
but they broke up
before he was released.
That doesn't help us
with the recent letters.
I talked to the parole
officer. Mm-hmm.
He said Chastang turned
his life around in prison.
Said it wasn't an act.
None of this moves the
needle. There's plenty
of evidence to
charge Chastang.
It just doesn't fit.
Revenge killers are hot.
Chastang may have been
five years ago,
but now I'm not so sure.Okay.
Devil's advocate. If
it's not Chastang,
who're we looking for?
Someone who's
close enough to Garrett
to have seen
the earlier letters,
and someone who's motivated
to frame Chastang.
And someone with a
good enough motive
to go through all that trouble. PATTON:
I'd say
greed is a great motive.
Hmm. Someone's been doing
some digging.
Yep.
Into Garrett's family.
Turns out his wife
came from money.
After she died, he
inherited $3 million.
Now that he's dead,
his sole heir is his only child.
Selina Garrett.
Clear!
Clear!
Clear.
Tear gas.
Fall back!
Fall back! Go!
Thanks for coming in.
I want to help.
We'll-we'll try and get you
in and out of here
as quickly as possible.
Can I get you anything else?
No, thank you.
Okay. Uh, Ms. Garrett,
are you aware
that you are the sole heir
to a pretty large estate?
What?
I... I-I guess.
Yes, uh, my mother's family
was well off.
It's just something I
didn't expect to deal with
for a long time.
Why do you ask?
It's just really
for our records.
You were so upset
last night,
understandably,
that we didn't get
to all our questions.
Like, for instance...
you said that you found
your father around 8:00 p.m.
last night, but you didn't
say where you were
earlier that evening.
An alibi?
You're asking for an alibi?
It's a formality.
I, uh...
I was across town
at a session with my therapist.
She has evening hours,
and my session started at 7:00.
Took me half an hour
to get home.
Your therapist will be able
to confirm that?
Of course.
I'll give you her number.
Yeah, let's do that.
I'm confused.
I was standing right there
when you arrested that man
at the coffee shop.
Yeah. Do you frequent
that place often?
It seems a little out
of the way for you.
No, I...
I went for a walk
to clear my head.
I decided to grab a coffee.
It's like you're suspecting me.
Selina, we're not suspecting you
of anything.
Well, it sounds like
you think I killed my dad.
That is the last thing
that we want to think.
This is how these
investigations work.
We have to rule out
every possibility.
And since you've got
nothing to hide...
I don't.
Then-then you got nothing
to worry about.
Hey, Sebastian.
Hey, I'm-I'm really sorry
to bug you.
Oh, no, it's no bother.
I'm glad you called.
You know, we just...
We could really use
some fresh eyes...
Well, your eyes...
Um, on this crime scene.
Yeah, happy to help.
Uh, be nice to be needed.
Just send me the photos,
and I'll call you
as soon as I get a chance
to take a look at them.
Great. I'm sending them
for you right now.
Things okay at training?
Made me team leader.
Oh, yeah? That's great.
Yeah, right?
Just living the dream.
Being in charge of everyone.
Any questions?
Well, since you ask,
uh, I am kind of wondering
what your secret is.
My secret?
Yeah, you-you make
the whole team leader thing
seem easy, but it's not easy,
in fact. It's...
It's incredibly hard, yeah.
Yeah, and you went
into these offices
all over the world
and led groups
of complete strangers.
Just... How do you do it?
I mean, there's no formula.
You know,
I wasn't always successful.
Come on, it's your superpower.
How do I get these guys
to listen to me?
Okay,
start by listening to them.
Get to know the people
that you're leading.
You know, strengths, weaknesses.
Help them be seen.
They'll do the same for you.
Well, what do you do
if they don't respect you?
Take stock of, um...
my own strengths and weaknesses
and use them both to connect.
Trust me. It works.
What happened today
was my fault.
I take full responsibility.
I started out in the lab, okay?
I was a-a forensics tech,
and, uh, people in my office,
they believed in me.
Encouraged me
to become a field agent,
and, I mean,
I'm a damn good one.
Still, there's this-this
part of me that feels
like a lab tech
pretending to be a field agent.
That's the part of me
that showed up
when I drew the short straw.
I guess I felt the same way
about me being a leader
as you guys did.
So, I didn't, uh...
lead the team
like I should have.
I failed you,
and, uh, I failed us.
You were right.
I was?
Your breach strategy.
It was right.
We should've gone with it.
Yeah, but, I mean,
I second-guessed myself.
Because of me.
I know I come on
too strong sometimes.
In my defense,
I'm an awesome leader.
Yeah, and I have no doubt.
Just-just not as good
at following.
I didn't give youa chance
to lead.
You were right about
taking all the gear.
We would have finished
in good time
had we had taken
those gas masks.
And our lunch wouldn't be
tasting like tear gas right now.
Well,
since we're playing
true confessions here...
I hate being small.
Everyone sees me
as the weakest link,
so I overcompensate
like nobody's business,
just trying to prove this body
isn't as frail as it looks.
Yeah, but, I mean,
I don't see frail, you know?
I see, like...
a featherweight champ.
Yeah.
Okay.
Your therapist confirmed
that she was with you
last night at 7:00.
Thank you for
clearing it up.
It's okay.
I know
you're only doing your job.
I appreciate it.
And I really do
want to help you out, but...
it's hard...
when you're hiding things
from me.
What are you talking about?
Well, we asked you
if you knew of anyone
who might have had issues
with your father.
Yeah, and I told you
there was no one.
Dad got along
with people.
Did he get along
with Mason Balfour?
How do you know about Mason?
Not from you
or from your social media.
You scrubbed
nearly a year's worth of content
from your sites.
Everything associated
with Mason.
You two...
you were planning
to get married?
And all I've been trying to do
is forget about it,
which has more to do
with my bad life choices,
not my dad's murder.
My people found footage posted
by one of your friends
on her Facebook page.
The engagement party.
She started recording
'cause she thought
your dad was about
to make a toast.
Instead, she got this.
She says she posted it
to remind you
that you #DodgedABullet.
What? You know what?
I need to talk to you. You know what?
Get your hands off of me,
Selina. SELINA: Mason, stop.
You're gonna do this right
now? MASON: Why? Why?
It didn't... Excuse me.
You are making a scene.
Oh, I'm making a scene? Mason...
You're the one who's
humiliating me.
You refuse to toast us at
our own engagement party.
That's right.
I just can't do it.
Dad, please. I'm sorry, Selina.
Look at the way that he is
behaving. You know what? SELINA: I know.
You can do a lot better. Why don't you
come here and say that to my face, old man?
Mason, just back off. Stop.
You're gonna take his side?
You know what? Screw you both!
Happy now? Mason...
You're getting exactly
what you wanted.
That was less
than a month ago.
You didn't forget.
You chose not to tell us. Why?
Because it was the worst night
of my life.
Because it doesn't have anything
to do with what happened
to my father.
Selina, Mason argued with him.
Blamed him for breaking up
your relationship.
My dad was a Navy man.
He liked order and routine,
and that's not Mason.
So what is... Mason?
Because as far as I can see,
he's violent
and vindictive.
He was just drunk.
And Dad wasn't the reason
we broke off the engagement.
Is that what Mason will say
when we talk with him?
You're talking to him?
Yeah, we're bringing him in
right now.
Why would you do that?
See, your reaction right here...
It makes me
feel like there's
more to the story.
Where is she?
Selina?!
Where the hell are you?
You bitch!
What are you trying to do to me?
You set me up! I didn't, I swear.
They found a video
of you fighting with my dad.
I'd never turn
you in. Never.
You got a temper, Mason.
I don't like being accused
of things that I didn't do.
What about the
things you did do?
You got quite a rap sheet.
You like to fight.
I don't like being disrespected.
Yeah, is that what happened
with Captain Garrett?
He disrespected you? Who gives a crap?
We do, 'cause he's dead.
Where were you last night?
Out.
Out. Out.
Out where?
At a bar.
This is New Orleans.
Can you narrow it down?
A bunch of 'em...
in the Quarter.
Who were you with?
Myself. I went there to drink,
not to socialize.
You got receipts? Paid in cash.
In other words, no alibi.
I don't need an alibi.
I didn't do anything.
You fought with Captain Garrett
less than a month before
he was bludgeoned to death
and he busted up
your engagement to his daughter.
I think you need an alibi.
Although, to be
honest, if Garrett
tanked my relationship,
I'd be pissed, too.
He didn't tank anything.
Garrett didn't like me,
I didn't like him.
But Selina couldn't care less
what he thought.
She made up her own mind.
She's the one who broke
it off. GREGORIO: Hmm.
Saying you got no hard feelings?
For him?
Dude did me a favor.
Hmm.
Practice run complete.
Is that a cell phone?
Turn it off!
Where is it?
Hey.
Give it to me.
What? It's contraband.
I have to take it.
I'm not gonna rat
you out, trust me.
What are you doing?
You get caught with a cell
phone, we all pay the price.
It's all right, okay?
Don't worry about it.
I need the phone to stay
in touch with my son.
You have a son? Zach. He just turned four.
The phone is so he can message
me when he really needs to.
I have to be able to reassure
him when he reaches out.
But he's in good hands
while you're here, right?
My husband Tim is a great dad.
I learned a long time ago
that the less I say
about my personal life,
the better.
Yeah.
All right, listen,
I'm gonna hold on to the phone.
But if Zach tries to reach out to you,
I'll make sure you can respond.
Yeah?
Okay?
All right.
Hi. He doesn't have an alibi.
Guy we saw in the squad room is
definitely capable of violence.
He could've planted the tire
iron in Lawrence Chastang's car.
Mm, I don't think he's
smart enough to think of that.
Plus, how would he know
about Chastang's death threats?
Only from Selina.
But she claims
that she had no idea, either.
We have nothing to tie
him to this murder,
except his bad attitude.
Selina refuses to believe
that Mason was involved.
And...
I can see a "but" forming.
She's genuinely
afraid of him.
I mean, she was
shaking like a leaf
when you guys
brought him in.
Okay, so, what... you think
she's covering for him?
Hey.
I got something.
I asked Sebastian
to take a look
at our crime scene
photos with fresh eyes.
He notes that the scene was
severely contaminated
by the first person to arrive.
Well, that would be Selina,
but she was in a panic
trying to revive
her father.
Well, did Sebastian
read her statement?
I didn't want
Sebastian's conclusions
to be influenced
by anything other
than the physical evidence.
Okay. What's his take?
Sebastian pointed out.
Selina's fingerprints on nearly
every surface
in her father's study.
Can this be attributed to shock?
Oh, this is beyond shock.
We're talking every shelf,
lamp, corner and crevice.
That's strange. HANNAH:
Yeah. Then there's.
Selina's footprints through
the blood. They're everywhere.
Sebastian counted 92
complete or partial steps
all attributed to her.
There's other,
larger prints,
but Selina's
obscures them all.
The killer's.
Right. Sebastian believes
that Selina deliberately
contaminated the scene
in order to obscure
or destroy evidence.
Okay, but why?
Her alibi was rock solid.
Yeah, but it makes sense
if she's protecting the killer.
Selina... was terrified of Mason
when you brought him in.
I thought...
Thought she was afraid
that he'd hurt her.
But it wasn't that at all.
She was afraid
that he'd flip on her.
Because
they're in this together.
If you're right, Pride, Selina
and Mason faked their breakup,
conspired
to kill Captain Garrett,
and framed
Chastang for it.
That would mean that
Selina had to be on board
with Mason brutally murdering
her father.
That's really cold. Yeah,
but maybe Mason didn't want
to share the details
of what he was planning.
Maybe he just wanted
her to have an alibi
and not be there
for the actual kill.
Well, Captain Garrett was never
gonna approve of the marriage,
which meant no inheritance.
Well, love and greed...
That's a powerful motive. HANNAH: Mm-hmm.
I mean, if you have to
kill a parent over it.
They had three million reasons
to get Garrett out of the way.
And Lawrence Chastang was
the perfect patsy.
Selina was living
with her father.
She could've accessed
his case files.
No, even if Chastang denied
writing those earlier letters,
he fit the bill.
The minute they found out that
he was being released from
prison, they made their move.
We've got a bunch of evidence
that points to Chastang's guilt,
and nothing but a theory
to implicate Selina and Mason.
What's our play?
Just need one of 'em to crack,
and that'll open the floodgates.
We need an angle.
I'd go with
"prisoner's dilemma."
Oldie, but a goodie.
Even mocked up props for y'all.
Thank you.
All right, let's get to it.
What?
You remind me of the guys
I grew up with.
Real brutes.
You don't remind me of anyone.
Those guys
were always good
to their girlfriends;
Never lifted a hand.
That's where
the comparison ends.
I never hit Selina or any woman.
What if I told you
she went to the cops
about you a few weeks ago,
looking
for a restraining order
because you beat her?
No way.
Got a police report right here.
Says, "Female victim was
terrified of the male suspect."
"Victim told
the detective the suspect
"grabbed her forcibly
by the wrist.
Punched her."
That's a lie.
Maybe. Maybe not.
You're terrified of him.
I'm not.
I just didn't want him
to get the wrong idea.
Has he, uh...
has he ever hurt you?
You don't understand.
But your father did, didn't he?
I'm guessing
he gave you an ultimatum.
If you marry Mason,
you lose the money.
Maybe she convinced you
to stage the whole thing.
Fake the breakup.
No.
Help get rid
of her father.
And then, in the end,
you'd get the girl
and the $3 million
she's supposed to inherit.
That's not
what's happening.
It's a pretty good plan though.
But wait,
just hear me out.
What if she realized
that splitting the $3 million
one way
is better than two?
He's buying it. HANNAH: Mm-hmm.
That wiped the smirk
off his face.
She would never do that to me.
Which part?
Try to get you
to kill her father?
Or sacrifice you to the cops?
None of it.
It's only been...
three weeks
since you called off
the engagement.
He's...
already seeing other people.
That's not true.
I own a bar.
Bartenders talk.
A lot.
Mason's been working
every cocktail waitress
in the Quarter.
And I'm sorry.
I don't mean
to hurt you,
but you should know
who you're covering for.
I got...
names,
if you want 'em.
No. I don't care.
We're not together.
I'm just not convinced
that's true.
I think you staged
your breakup
so you could stay
in your father's will.
It's all about
that money.
That's not me.
But it isMason.
Even if you confess
to me right now
that she put you up
to the murder,
she'd just turn around and say
it was you who intimidated her.
She'd walk away clean.
Now, we both know
how this ends.
Like I said, you remind me
of the guys I grew up with.
I don't want you
to take the fall here.
You know what I mean?
Mason has, uh,
opened an offshore
bank account.
There's not much in it.
A few hundred bucks.
His intention is clear.
You come into money.
He comes back into your life.
Once you're married,
he drains your accounts
and takes off with...
one of his waitresses.
Mason killed your father.
I know it.
You do, too.
Can I ask you a question?
Yeah, of course.
Am I free to go?
Well, Mason...
I asked you a question.
Can I leave?
I'm telling you, man,
she's giving you up.
Save yourself.
I'm gonna take that as a yes.
It's okay.
Just tell me what Mason did.
I want to.
Selina!
They read you your rights?
Then they got nothing.
Come on, baby, let's go.
No, Selina.
I'm afraid I have to go.
Thank you for caring.
You okay? Yeah.
Yes, man!
We got this.
All right.
Yes!
Blue Team,
congratulations.
You've come in first place
in the final drill.
Nice.
Unfortunately, you've also
been disqualified.
What? Why?
We won fair and square.
A check of the barracks
turned up
a contraband cell phone
with Agent Lund's belongings.
Yeah, there's no excuse for me
to have my phone here.
I take full responsibility
for the infraction.
Sir, that's not true.
The phone belongs to me.
Agent Lund confiscated it
and was going to turn it in.
No, sir... Commander Taylor,
it was my phone. I will take the blame.
I take full responsibility... All right,
all right!
Stand down, Blue Team.
One person fails,
you all fail.
Doesn't matter
whose phone it is,
the disqualification stands.
As I said at the start,
victory is earned
on the strength
of teamwork.
Yes, sir, you did say that.
You failed as a team,
because you have become a team,
Agent Lund.
You may have lost
the competition,
but you did not
fail the drill.
And you did not
fail each other.
Welcome to NCIS REACT.
Yeah!
Yes! All right. Nice work, nice work.
It looks like
a sad bunch of agents.
We just watched
two murderers walk.
I can't believe it.
You lost the battle,
not the war.
We didn't just lose.
We were routed.
Loretta's right.
They'll slip up,
and we'll be there when they do.
Exactly.
And I'm gonna get
the next round
of drinks, so...
Nothing for me, thanks.
Figures.
Just wanted to stop by
and say thank you.
For what? Doing right by
Lawrence Chastang.
You prevented an innocent man
from being unjustly convicted.
Eh, we're just doing our job.
The way we do it even
without the benefit
of your 25-year-old wisdom.
I think she's extending
an olive branch, Gregorio.
It's traditional to say
something nice in return.
Well, you did good, too.
Your instincts aren't
all that bad.
When you go through puberty,
you might actually
have a future in this job.
Thanks... I think.
Like that, Pride?
Something like that.
Pride.
What? When?
Okay, on my way.
Everything okay?
I don't think so.
Dwayne, thanks for
coming down.
Ms. Garrett asked
for you by name. What happened?
Looks like he was getting
pretty rough with her.
She was fighting
for her life.
Selina did this?
- Self-defense.
- Abusive boyfriend.
She called it in herself.
I have no doubt.
I'm so sorry.
Y-You were right.
You were right
about everything.
He hurt me,
and he killed my father.
And he was gonna
kill me, too.
Thank you so much,
Special Agent Pride.
I couldn't have done it
without you.
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