NCIS: New Orleans (2014–…): Season 6, Episode 19 - Monolith - full transcript
What about that panelistthat
proposed an amplified
DoS Storm attackon
the stock market servers?
Terrifying.
At least the half
that I understood.
You know, I'm just glad
that these scenarios
are hypothetical. Wait, hold up.
What happened to my
conspiracy-minded buddy?
Our government is sittingon
those same weapons right now,
just itching to use them. Yeah,
well, if they are,
then I don't want
to know about it.
You know, it's the stuff
of nightmares.
Well, you know what?
Let's see which panelist
is gonna keep you upall night next.
Help! MAN: Come on, let's go!
Patton, call 911.
I'm on it.
Hey! Shut up!
Help!
Help me!
Let me go!
No! MAN: Get in!
Let's go.
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom
♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom
♪ How, how, how, how
♪ Hey, hey
♪ You gotta come on.
Hey, Carter?
You in there?
Come on, I'm double-parked.
Oh.
Uh, sorry.
Wrong apartment.
No, you're here for
Quentin, right?
Yeah. Come on in. He's almost ready.
Oh.Do you want some coffee?
Um, no. No, thank you.
Okay.
Uh, I'm Hannah,
Quentin's associate.
Audrey, Quentin's friend.
Ever heard of texting? Yeah, I did.
You didn't respond. Oh, he's bad at that.
Well, you could've just gone.
I would've met you there.
Yeah, well, we...
we got a crime scene to work.
Thought it'd be easier
with one car.
Okay. Well, let's go.Okay.
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
What's that look?
No look.
I can feel it.
I know you got a
ton of questions.
I am just walkingto the elevator.
She's a friend.
How's that?
Audrey.
She's just a friend.
Nice to have friends.
It wasn't so much
the suspects fighting back
as it was the set of stairs
I was hurled down.
Yeah. Well,
could've beena hell of a lot worse.
Glad you're okay.
What about the victim?
Well, witnesses were able
tol.D. her as Ms. Norah Moncado.
She's here attendingthe
security conference.
FBI's on this one?
Hannah and Carterare with them
at the crime scene.
Okay.
Well, I just need to check out
the security
and traffic cam footage ASAP.
If you get my
laptop, I'll, um...
Do absolutely nothing.
What? I'm fine.
It's just, you know...
Three broken ribs,
multiple contusions
and a sprained wrist.
Loretta's right.
You need to focus on recovering.
And I found
the perfect medicine.
Are those the lime ones?
Where'd you get all those?
A lady never tells.
Oh, I could get used to
Nurse Tammy.
I take it back.
I take it back.
I'm sorry. PRIDE: Okay.
Looks like you're
in good hands here,
Sebastian, with these two.
I'm gonna check in
on Hannah and Carter.
Okay.
This is all you could find, huh?
Hey.
Hey. How's Sebastian?
Well, he's gonna be all right.
The doctors want to keep him
overnight for monitoring.
Too bad his beatdowndidn't get us more
than a kidnapper's glove.
Uh, he misses you, too, Carter.
What do you have
on our kidnapping victim?
Norah Moncado, 35.
Single, no children.
Resides in Baltimore and came
to town for the conference
on behalf of her current
employer, Spotter Security.
She, uh, contracts in I.T.
Helps tech companiessquare away security.
Network encryption, data breaches.
Nothing classified
or sensitive enough
to make her a kidnapping target.
What about ransom?
There's been no calls, no demands yet.
Plus, no one to call.
Only child.
Parents died in a car wreck
when she was in college.
She's gota clean record.
Pays her taxes,
solid credit score.
Few thousand in savings.
And has a social media footprint
dedicated to
her succulent collection.
Perfectly normal.
Except...
normal people
don't get kidnapped.
We used the security
footage from the plaza
to try to track the van, but her abductors
planned a getaway routethat
avoided security cameras.
This was a brazen,
public spectacle.Mm-hmm.
Kidnappers aren't gonna
take that risk
unless Norah is important.
We're missing something
about her.
Everyone has secrets.
We just need to figure out
what hers are.
She was staying at an Airbnb
in the Garden District.
We'll check it out.
And I'll check in with Patton,
see if he's found
any cracks in her story.
Patton?
Man, you trying
to give me a heart attack. You okay?
I watched Sebastian
take that spill, man.
Set me on edge.Hey.
He's gonna be okay, P.
But with himriding the bench...
You're gonna need me to step
my game up. I'm already on it.
Our victim Norah...
She's damn sure more
than some ordinary
I.T. consultant.
She worked for
multiple companies
over the past ten years.
Now, by themselves,
none seem special.
But combined? There's a common denominator.
Presidium Limited.
Each company receives
a generous investment
from Presidium.
Then the next week, they
get a new contractor.
Norah.
What's Presidium?
You tell me.
Investment deposits come from
an offshore bank account.
No physical address, no real owner.
A shell corporation.
But why bribe these
companies to hire Norah?
I don't know.
Uh, the work she did
seems to be legit,
but I'm gonna keep digging.
Yeah, well, I feel like I know
less about Norahthan when I walked in here.
Yeah, well, I'll tell you this...
She writes some
pretty angsty poetry.
I found this train wreck
saved as a draft
in an e-mail account.
"You left a void around me,
"darkness, black.
You fled and now I'm nothing,
weightless, slack."
"Slack"?
Girl needs to find a better way
to deal with her breakups,
'cause these words
ain't winning anyone over.
So, how long you
planningon living in corporate housing?
Uh, my record is 13 months.
That was Sicily.
Usually, it's eight to 11 months
before I move on to a new gig.
You're just comfortablewith
temporary living?
Yeah, five posts in five years.
Before that, I was a Marine.
Before that, Navy brat.
So, yeah, I likethe nomad life.
Yeah, I thought I did, too.
Living out of a suitcase, seeing the world.
I really didn't know what I was missing
until I got a bed, hung up some photos.
A bed is a bed.
Photos, I keep on my phone.
As long as it's clean and I
gota place to hang my suits,
I'm good.
Property owner
texted me the code.
I'll cover the rear.
Federal agent!
You need to put that down.
Hey, I'd listen to herif I were you.
Maybe you shouldlisten to us.
We're NCIS. Who are you?
We're the ones with more guns,
so drop yours.
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
I think we have a big problem.
I'll make it go away.
Winchester?
Special Agent Khoury.
Why am I not surprised?
What the hell is DIA doing here?
Oh. You think you brought
enough guys?
I know what you're gonna ask.
Why is DIA taking over
the kidnapping
of an I.T. consultant?
And you know
what I'm gonna answer.
"Above my paygrade.
National security."
You ever get tired of
asking questions you know
the answers to? You ever get tired of using
the same crappy lines?
I do not.
Pack up the restof the house.
We'll take itinto evidence.
One of my agents
was hospitalized
trying to save Norah Moncado.
Special Agent Lund
hurt his ribs and his pride.
Both will be fine.
But my team is best-suitedfor
tracking Norah down.
Oh, I think we're doing fine
without the benefit of you.
You made it all the wayto
her Airbnb... hours after us.
Congratulations.
If this is your case,
it's your case,
but I got to know:
What is DIA's interest
in Norah Moncado?
Learn to live with disappointment.
The shell corporation.
Presidium... it's DIA cover.
You got Norah each one of
those contracting jobs.
She's one of yours.
This isn't over.
This is absolutely over.
Whether we like it or not,
DIA has jurisdiction.
Who is this Winchester guy
anyway?
He's the ultimate swooper.
He swoops in at the last minute,
takes all the credit.
Kicked us off of a killer
droneoperation last year
and expected everyone to
pretendlike none of it ever happened.
Seemed like you two
have some history.
Yeah, our first run-inwas
in North Africa years ago.
My team spent six monthsgathering intel.
Winchester came in...
Came in, took allthe glory for himself?
Swooper. HANNAH: Not this time.
Sebastian was injured.
We need to find outwho was responsible.
Sebastian's gonna be just fine.
Yeah, maybe a few
Jell-O pounds heavier.
This isn't worth getting into
a bureaucratic fight over.
The last thing we need
is to bring
the NCIS brass
down on our heads again.
Wait, how'd I manage
to piss off HQ already?
I just got here.
He's not talking about you.
Hannah.
Just tell me.
Are you being cautious because
you're anticipating
problems from D.C.,
or do you know that
something's happening?
Deputy Director Van Cleef.
Yeah, he had me demoted
for making a call.
I took my lumps.
It's been months... not a peep.
He's leaving NCIS.
Well, that should be good news.
Yeah.
But guys like him
make grand gestures
before they take a bow.
You think he's gonna
come after me?
Don't know.
But why borrow trouble?
I don't need youto protect me.
You also don't need to go
against DIA.
Both can be true.
Let 'em find their
own damn agent.
Show me your hands!
If I stop stirring,
I'll burn the risotto.
You're still here.
Ooh, you could sound
happier about it.
Oh, uh...
where did you find that thing?
Oh, this?
I found this in a drawer.
It doesn't seem like
quite your style, but...
I make it look good.Ooh.
Well, I will not disagree
with you.
Get a plate.
Food's ready.
Not that I don't appreciatea
home-cooked meal,
but I thoughtyou were flying out today.
I pushed my flight
till tomorrow.
After all,
I came here for one reason,
and that reason rudelydisappeared
on me this morning.
You know I'm always on call.
No, I don't want an apology.
I just want
what I came here for.
And what did you come here for?
It's not the risotto.
Winchester? Yeah.
The same guy who came
in and stole my drone
Mm-hmm. like a bastard?
Swooper strikes again.
Well, what'd he
want with Norah? Well,
turns out she'san undercover DIA agent.
Hey. You're gonnaget sick eating that.
Why are you eating so many?
Norah's DIA?
Yeah. That's whyshe was a target.
Well, that doesn't make any
sense... when she was taken,
she screamed,
like, a lot. Yeah, you did say
she had a healthy set of lungs.
Yeah, she didn't fight back.
That's weird, right?
You'd think a trained agent
would at least put up
some kind of a fight.
Why didn't yousay this before?
Well, it wasn't relevant
when I thought that
she was a civilian, but now
that I know she's DIA...
Oh, my God.
All right,
let me thinkabout this for a second.
Let me get my thoughts together.
Whoa! I don't need to see that.
Where you going, tiny butt?
I got to get released. Get in the bed.
No, I got to go. Get it in the bed.
In the bed.
Now, tell me
what you're thinkingso I can help.
Ah...
Canceling your flight
to stay another night?
Mm-mm, sorry.
Just finished checking in.
Mm.
Mm. I'm glad you stayed.
I'm glad your coworker
didn't interrupt us again.
Khoury, she can be
a little, um...
impatient.Mm.
But she's had a rough year.
Now, how would Agent "I Don't Get
Close to MyCoworkers" Carter know that?
Because I do my homework.
Mm-hmm. What happened to her?
Well, she used to run the team, then
she got demoted. I'm not really sure why.
Well, that's got to hurt. Yeah, but she's
handling it well.
Have you ever told her that? No.
Like you said, I don't
get close to my coworkers.
Paying someone a complimentis
not the same as gettingclose to them.
No, I'm not opening that door.
Yeah, you say something
nice to them,
then they say
something nice back...
Well, it's a vicious cycle. It is.
And then they start asking you questions,
like, "Who's that girl"
in your apartment?"
Oh. And you said? Nothing.
My relationship
with my girlfriend
is none of her business.
Mm.
Well, speak of the devil.
Duty calls.
We still good for,
uh, next month?
Meet halfway in Denver?
Uh, I'm not sure.
I'll make the wait worth it.
I promise.
I told you the kidnapping
of Agent Moncado
isn't our case anymore.
His ribs are broken,
but his brain is fine. Just hear him out.
All right, so-so Norah
didn't fight back.
Tell me you don't think
that's a little weird.
Sebastian, I already combed
through the footage.
There's nothing useful
from the attack.
Yeah, well, I'm not
interested in what happened
during the attack... I'm
interested in what happened
a few hoursprior to the attack.
Isn't that the exact location
where she was later kidnapped? Yeah,
and that's not all...
Check out her line of sight.
Oh, snap!
She's lookingat the kidnappers' van.
Any chancethat's a coincidence?
Would be if she didn't
do the same thing
the day before. She picked out
the very spot that she was gonna
be kidnapped from.
Because she was in on it.
I got to fillWinchester in.
Look, if she staged
her own kidnapping,
what else is she planning
right under his nose?
Damn, it went straight
to voice mail.
Can you locate his phone? Aw, man.
Even I can't break the
DIA's level of encryption.
But their phones transmit data
on the same cell network
that we use, too.
Then you just got to find the tower
that's receiving the encrypted signals.
I can narrow it down
to a two-mile radius.
Can you bemore specific, please?
His SUV. The DIA, they're always
concerned about their phones,
but they forget they're
drivinga computer on wheels.
American-made black SUV.
Well, there's hundreds of those
in the city.Yeah.
Yeah, we don't need to search
the whole city.
Just a two-mile area that's
receiving encrypted signals.
I'll take those odds.
I want a clean breach.
We extract our girl,
take down anyone
who tries to stop us. Copy?
Copy. In position.
Stand by.Winchester.
What are you doing here? Trying to save you
from making a mistake.
Norah is working
with the kidnappers.
It's all a setup.
Does this look like someonewho's
in on her own kidnapping?
Maybe it's Norah,
maybe it isn't.
Look, either way,
you should know more
before you charge in. There's no time.
We found a second pairof tire tracks.
The kidnappersaren't here right now,
but they could be backany minute.
Why would they... Enough!
You've lost controlof your team.
Hey, does this look off
to you? Yeah, it looks patchy.
What would cause that? I've seen it
before, overseas.
Terrorists would pack a
corpse with body warmers
so we'd pick it up.
Draw the cavalry in.
Hey!
Winchester, it's a trap!
Whoever's tied up in there
is already dead!
They're being used as...
Secure the perimeter.
Yes, sir. Winchester, stop.
This is my operation, Pride.
I'm getting my agent out.
Even if it meansrisking the lives
of the restof your men?
Stand down.
Fall back!
How's my team?
Several are headed
to the hospital.
But they'll live, so will you,
thanks to Special Agent Khoury.
You need to tell us
everything we don't know
about Norah Moncado.
I'm good.
She's dead.
We don't know that.
Regardless, the case isn't dead.
Norah had access to
classified DIA intelligence,
didn't she?
She had something
of value to exchange.
Whatever it is, DIA would hate
for it to be in enemy hands.
I taught her everything there
was to know about deception.
She used it against me.
Aw, save the pity party.
Read us in,
or explain to DoD
that you let a double agent
hand over God knows what intel
to an enemy.
Look, what I'm about to tell you
will be denied
if it comes out later.
My role at DIA is
Head of Internal Security.
So, basically, the
most secretive agent
at the nation's most
secretive agency.
I handle clearances and
vettingto find the right people
to do the most demanding
of jobs.
I also handle leaks.
And Norah Moncado?
Real name's Norah Bishop.
She was my human lie detector.
She could sniff out anyone
unfitto work at the agency.
That's why you set up Presidium.
Gave her a rotation
of cover jobs
to keep her at arm's length
while she investigated
other agents.
Any idea why she would betray
the agency now?
A month ago,
I located a dangerous leak.
DIA had a mole.
I, uh...
Turned to the one person
I could trust.
Norah. When what you
were looking for
was standing right next
to you the whole time.
It was her ideato come to New Orleans.
Claimed she had a hit
on the mole.
Never would have guessed
it was part of an escape plan.
There's still time to fix this.
Your team is in no position
to continue the investigation.
Let us help you.
I'll get the evidence
we've gathered
transferred over to you, along
with Norah's classified file.
The sooner, the better.
Norah didn't do this alone.
We need to find out
who helped her.
We're back in the game, Loretta.
I'm hoping you can putsome
points on the board. Well, I put
a rush on the DNA analysis.
Genetic markers don't lie.
This poor woman is
not your DIA agent.
Only mistake was sharing
a similar physique.
So Norah could still be alive.
Get an I.D. on this victim?
Not without dental records.
But hypostasis suggests
that she's been dead
for at least 72 hours.
Murdered? Yeah, a stab wound
at the base of the skull.
Appears the knife...
cut her spinal cord instantly.
Any luck with the evidence DIA sent? Well,
it depends
on your definition of "luck."
The gloves Sebastian grabbedoff
the kidnapper at the plaza? Mm-hmm.
I pulled DNA from skin cells.
There's no match
on any of our systems.
But whoever wore that glove is
a male of Asian descent.
That limits our suspect pool
to about four billion.
Oh. Does that get me
any pointson the board?
Wasn't a brick.
What does DIA know
about their double agent?
Norah Bishop,
she was the ultimateDIA recruit.
Joined Mensawhen she was six years old.
Programmed her first
computer at eight.
Her parents traveled abroad forwork,
Norah traveled with them.
She's fluent
in six different languages.
So we're dealing
with a superspy.
Yeah. But who's she working with?
Norah traveled to Hong
Kongresearching her PhD dissertation
on cybersecurity.
Trip was
supposed to last six weeks.
She ended up staying six months.
There must be something
in Chinaworth staying for.
Perhaps a change of allegiance?
DNA on the glove
Sebastian grabbed
belongs to an Asian male.
The body at the back
of the warehouse
was rigged by professionals.
Could be Ministry
of State Security.
Chinese intelligence?
Yeah, it makes sense,
if she was recruited
in Hong Kong.
Which means that Norah has
beenworking with the Chinese
long before she joined DIA.
They could've steered her
to them.
But why stage a kidnapping?
If she wanted
to sell the DIA out,
why not fake her own death
and disappear?
Because...
she needed Winchester involved
in the investigation.
He was the only one who knew
she had access
to classified DIA intel.
The only one who couldpeg her as the mole.
Taking out Winchester was
necessary for her escape plan.
We need to tell him.
If we're up against MSS,
DIA can help.
I'll call Winchester,
get him over here
and get him up to speed.
Keep looking for Norah.
Agent Carter,
you have a visitor.
You weren't answering my texts.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's on me.
It's a-a time-sensitive case.
I just need a quick word
before I head to the airport.
So, why the need
for the face-to-face?
Because I respect you too much
to say this over the phone.
Okay. So, what needs to be said?
It's actually what you said.
This morning.
You called me your girlfriend.
Yeah, because you are.
Actually, I'm not.
Uh, what do you mean? We've
beendating for three years.
We've been meeting every other
month for hotel trysts.
And it's fun,
but it's nota relationship.
I mean, come on.
We have that connection.
We get along, we never fight.
We understand
each other.Sure.
It's fun, it's uncomplicated.
No stakes, no depth.
It's not just the people
you work with, Quentin.
You don't let anyone in.
That's not true.
You refuse to lower your walls.
And at first,
it wasfrustrating as hell for me,
but I made my peace with it.
You... you met someone else.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's been casual, but he wants
to take it to the next level.
I didn't know if I was ready.
Until now.
Whatever this is between us,
it's never gonna
be enough for me.
Okay, so that's it?
We're breaking up?
We can't break up if we were
never actually together.
You are a good guy, Quentin.
But I deserve more.
Norah's been playing me
since the day we met?
Unbelievable.
The human race evolved
to trust others
because more often than not,
it's in our best interest.
But not spies.
We're supposed
to distrust everything.
Like Norah.
She lived a lie
for over a decade.
Question is why.
Money? Patton looked
into her finances.
Nothing raised a red flag.
If she was being coerced,
she would've been
tied to that chair and killedalongside you.
Agent Gregorio's been
working up a profile,
believes that she's beingdriven by ego.
She wanted to feel special.
Nothing is more exclusive
than a club of one
as a double agent.
If she makes it to China,
she'll also be a hero.
We can't let that happen.
Okay, then.
You're the one person
who's worked most closelywith Norah.
You knew herbeyond the agency.
I already told you
everything I know.
What about her personal life?
Did she have hobbiesor friends?
Did she take, I don't know,
any vacations?
If she was workingwith the Chinese,
there had to be
a point of contact.
No agent is that good
at covering their tracks.
The Caribbean.
She'd go there
for long weekends,
two, three times a year.
She loved all-inclusives
'cause she never had
to leave the resort.
And no real paper trail.
It's a good spotto meet with a handler.
Ugh, I hate everything
about this traitor,
but I do know where I'm
going on my next vacation.
What'd you guys find?
Tracked down each of
the resortsNorah stayed at
the past few years...
Five-star. Expensive taste.
And cross-referenced
the guest lists
with those travel dates.
Was her handler with
her? This Chinese national
overlapped Norahat the
same resort every time.
And travels under
different aliases?
Each time. Last trip six
weeks ago was under the name,
"Alex Chang." PRIDE: Well,
that's got to be her handler,
but who is he? That's
where the trailgoes cold.
We've been digginginto each alias,
but so far, they're all ghosts.
No one's a ghost to DIA.
I'll pass along the names.
We've got our own way
of finding people.
Hey. I just cracked the code
onhow Norah signals her handler.
What you got, P?
Shared e-mail account.
Norah and her cronies
used the same password.
Passing along messages in
the saved drafts folder,
weren't they? GREGORIO:
Hey,
I don't have Sebastian here
to de-geek this stuff,
so little help?
Norah writes an e-mail, never sends it,
and it saves as a "draft."
The handler sees it,
reads it, then deletes it.
Nothing's ever transmitted,
so there's no digital record.
Clever,
but how does thathelp us find Norah?
Especially if she's already
fled the country.
Oh, I doubt that. A new e-mail
showed up in her draft
folderafter she was taken.
If her handler would've seen it,
he would've deleted it by now.
Means we still have
a chance to catch her.
"The folly of man.
"Why not wo-man?
"Two of one? Separate.
Equal. Without both,
there is none."
There's no way Norah's
still writing
more bad poetry on the run.
Which made me realize
that this is a coded message.
We've got to get this poem
to DIA cryptography team
right away.
I ask for help
from your minions?
It took a patentedTriple P algorithm
to find the right cipher, and voilà.
What the heck
is "Monolith"?
What don't we know, Winchester?
And don't give us
thatnational security crap again.
Monolith is the nameof a
program that doesn't exist.
What does this
nonexistent program do?
It monitors every spy DIA
handles across the globe.
So if Norah handed it
over to the Chinese...
Every one of those agents
will be exposed.
Just updated the deputy
secretary at Homeland.
They're blasting an alert to
every agency in the Southeast.
We got BOLOs outon every private air
and boat charter on the Gulf.
I'll double back to Winchester,
see if DIA resources
have illuminated
anything else on Norah's
Chinese handler.
Let's hope she hasn't already
slipped past us.
We'll put trip wires out,
and hopefully we'll get lucky
and Norah will stumble over one.
I hope you're right.
Oh. I know you'recommitted to your froth,
but we got work to do.
Yes. Sorry.
You seem distracted.
Uh, just needed some caffeine.
Audrey, right?
You, um, need a moment?
No, I don't do moments.
All right, well, I'm here
if you want to talk.
But you probably don't
want to do that, either.
You, uh, call it
like you see it, don't you?
Sometimes I can
cross boundaries.
Yeah, I noticed that about you.
Oh? Please, don't hold back.Mm-hmm.
Oh, nor should you.
You're the one who tells
the truth, even when it hurts.
Which makes youan effective leader,
despite what the brass says.
Somebody's been gossiping.
Oh, not here. Not me.
But, um,
I heard you got demoted,
and I knowit was a raw deal.
But for what it's worth,
the way you handled it
is a case study in class.
It's worth a lot, actually.
Tell us DIA's having more luck
than we are, Winchester.
I told you,
no one's really a ghost.
The alias Alex Chang
belongs to this man,
Feng Wei.
That's the same man from each
of the resort surveillance photos.
What do you know about him?
A suspected operative
for Chinese MSS.
His file's been flaggeddozens of times
by internationalagencies.
He's their top recruiter.
Yeah, well, if he's helping
Norah escape with Monolith,
how do we find him?
We dug into all
of Wei's aliases,
and thispopped up locally.
What's Deep GulfDiving Adventures?
Seaplane charteroperating in Lafitte.
Specializes in trips to
remote Caribbean dive spots.
I take it Feng Wei'svarious aliases
have booked
their services before?
Multiple times, all arranged
by Travis Hayes, Deep
Gulf's owner and pilot.
Is there more than
a passive connection
between Travis Hayesand Feng Wei? Yes,
there is.
Hayes spent three years
in Beijing teaching English
over a decade ago.
Where he was recruitedby Feng Wei.Mm-hmm.
Seaplane's a great way to move
assets in and out of the country.
Hayes filed a flight plan
for Belize this morning.
Norah was on that
flight. She's gone. Not yet.
There's a stormin the Gulf,
it has light aircraft
grounded since yesterday,
but it is clearing soon.
All right,
let's bring these traitors in.
Monolith is priority.
Everything else,
especially Norah, is collateral.
I'll take the far side.
Clear.
Clear. Winchester?
Damn it, how did we miss them?
The river.
I count six hostiles,
but I don't see Norah.
Federal agents,
drop your weapons!
Let's go!
Get on the plane! We're leaving!
This is the
United States Coast Guard.
Shut down your engines
immediately.
If you do not comply,
we will be forced to open fire.
I repeat: this is the
United States Coast Guard.
Shut down your engines
and prepare to be boarded.
This is your final warning.
Shut down your engines now
or we will open fire.
Thanks. No sign of Norah.
Or any kind of drive
with Monolith.
Well, her message saidshe was en route
to the extraction point.
Maybe we got the wrong one.
Anything?
They're refusing to talk.
Yeah, and Norah's
still out there.
Well, she couldn't have
gotten far on her own.
You find anything on the plane
or on the bodies? Yeah,
some damn good passports
to get them into Belize.
One of those Norah's? Nope.
Well, wherever she is,
her cover's blown.
She's gonna have a
new I.D. now, too.
Yeah,
we need to figure outwho cooked these up.
Get them back to the lab,
get Patton to start hunting
for the forger.
Carter and I will stayand
coordinate with Winchester,
see if any of his DIA toysturn anything up.
Okay. Let's go.
You got that look on your face.
Yeah. Thinking about
Occam's razor.
Simplest explanation is
usually the correct one.
Uh-huh.
And the simplest way
for Norah to get out
of hereis on that plane.
Why isn't she on it? Maybe
she's just laying low here
for a while.
I mean, she's got to know that
every agency we cooperate with
is gonna be on the
lookout for her. Right?
No passport or new look is
gonna make up for the scrutiny
she'd get at
Customs Control.Mm-hmm.
Unless the plan was to never
pass through it at all.
Give me a hand.
These crates were supposed
to beloaded on the plane.
I'm not sure what you expected
to find.
Come on.
Carter!
Hannah, you all right?
Yeah.
Carter.
You all right?
I don't think your fancy threads
are gonna survive New Orleans,
hotshot.
After seeing what's
in this water,
I think I'm gonna
burn this suit.
Monolith?
What's Monolith?
Take her in my car.
What'd you call him once?
A super secret ass?
Uh-huh. Some things
never change.
You finally gonna join
us at the bar tonight?
Uh, thank you, no, thank you.
I got a lot of work to do here.Mm.
Okay. Well...
If it's a drinking-alone
kind of night...
you might as well
drink the good stuff.Ooh.
I know, I just... I did not take you
for a whiskey girl.
Yeah, well, you don't
know me very well.
But you could.
Oh, not gonna bite, Khoury.
Hmm.
It's HQ with
another e-mail blast.
Damn.
Deputy Director Van Cleef
is leaving NCIS,
pending Senate approval, to become
chief of navaloperations for DoD.
Talk about a career leap.
Yeah, it is.
Oh, you know him.
Hmm?
Um...
we've had a few interactions.
Any chance he was
involved in your demotion?
It doesn't matter.
That's in the past.
You know,
I worked with a womanat NCIS: Pearl Harbor.
She also had
a few interactionswith Van Cleef.
It didn't end well
for her, either.
Enjoy that whiskey, huh?
♪ Dancin' to the truth
♪ Let your body move
♪ Dancin' to the truth...
Well,
here's to closing our first...
And hopefully last...
Joint case with the DIA.
Amen.
I'm just dying to know
what other programs
DIA has that
"don't exist."
I could find a back
doorinto their system.Mm.
We are not getting mixed up
in anything
that could bring Winchester
back down here again.
Who wants another round?
Yeah. GREGORIO: Me.PATTON: Yes, sir.
Okay,
I got 'em. One beer's not gonna hurt.
Alcohol will not mendyour broken ribs,
Sebastian.
Lucky I brought you here
to celebrate.
It's not much of a celebration.
Here,
pumpkin. I swiped this before we left.
I figured you'd want it. Oh,
my God, I could kiss you.
Nah, just put the spoon in
yourmouth instead. You'll be fine.
Anybody heard from Hannah?
No.
Thought she'd be here by now.
You're the lastperson I expected
to get an urgent call from.
Well, I wanted to catch
youbefore you went back to D.C.
I, um... I was hoping youcould
do me a personal favor.
I appreciate your help
with Norah Bishop,
but the DIA isn't in the
business of personal favors.
Well, I'm not asking the DIA.
I'm asking you.
You owe me for North Africa
and now for here.
Is that a threat?
No, Winchester.
It's a fact.
You don't want to help,
don't help.
I'll survive.
I didn't get a chanceto
thank you back at the docks.
Thank you.
I know that wasn't easy for you.
You have no idea.
What kind of favor do you need?
I need you to lookinto somebody for me.
NCIS has resources.
Why not just use those?
NCIS can't know about this.
This has to be strictly
off the record,
and that is what you do best.
What do you want to know
aboutDeputy Director Ezra Van Cleef?
Everything.
I heard chatter for months
about his new promotion.
Are you sure it's wise
to go kicking
that hornet's nest?
No.
But I'm gonna do it anyway.
But I'm gonna do it anyway.
Captioning sponsored by CBS
proposed an amplified
DoS Storm attackon
the stock market servers?
Terrifying.
At least the half
that I understood.
You know, I'm just glad
that these scenarios
are hypothetical. Wait, hold up.
What happened to my
conspiracy-minded buddy?
Our government is sittingon
those same weapons right now,
just itching to use them. Yeah,
well, if they are,
then I don't want
to know about it.
You know, it's the stuff
of nightmares.
Well, you know what?
Let's see which panelist
is gonna keep you upall night next.
Help! MAN: Come on, let's go!
Patton, call 911.
I'm on it.
Hey! Shut up!
Help!
Help me!
Let me go!
No! MAN: Get in!
Let's go.
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom
♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom
♪ How, how, how, how
♪ Hey, hey
♪ You gotta come on.
Hey, Carter?
You in there?
Come on, I'm double-parked.
Oh.
Uh, sorry.
Wrong apartment.
No, you're here for
Quentin, right?
Yeah. Come on in. He's almost ready.
Oh.Do you want some coffee?
Um, no. No, thank you.
Okay.
Uh, I'm Hannah,
Quentin's associate.
Audrey, Quentin's friend.
Ever heard of texting? Yeah, I did.
You didn't respond. Oh, he's bad at that.
Well, you could've just gone.
I would've met you there.
Yeah, well, we...
we got a crime scene to work.
Thought it'd be easier
with one car.
Okay. Well, let's go.Okay.
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
What's that look?
No look.
I can feel it.
I know you got a
ton of questions.
I am just walkingto the elevator.
She's a friend.
How's that?
Audrey.
She's just a friend.
Nice to have friends.
It wasn't so much
the suspects fighting back
as it was the set of stairs
I was hurled down.
Yeah. Well,
could've beena hell of a lot worse.
Glad you're okay.
What about the victim?
Well, witnesses were able
tol.D. her as Ms. Norah Moncado.
She's here attendingthe
security conference.
FBI's on this one?
Hannah and Carterare with them
at the crime scene.
Okay.
Well, I just need to check out
the security
and traffic cam footage ASAP.
If you get my
laptop, I'll, um...
Do absolutely nothing.
What? I'm fine.
It's just, you know...
Three broken ribs,
multiple contusions
and a sprained wrist.
Loretta's right.
You need to focus on recovering.
And I found
the perfect medicine.
Are those the lime ones?
Where'd you get all those?
A lady never tells.
Oh, I could get used to
Nurse Tammy.
I take it back.
I take it back.
I'm sorry. PRIDE: Okay.
Looks like you're
in good hands here,
Sebastian, with these two.
I'm gonna check in
on Hannah and Carter.
Okay.
This is all you could find, huh?
Hey.
Hey. How's Sebastian?
Well, he's gonna be all right.
The doctors want to keep him
overnight for monitoring.
Too bad his beatdowndidn't get us more
than a kidnapper's glove.
Uh, he misses you, too, Carter.
What do you have
on our kidnapping victim?
Norah Moncado, 35.
Single, no children.
Resides in Baltimore and came
to town for the conference
on behalf of her current
employer, Spotter Security.
She, uh, contracts in I.T.
Helps tech companiessquare away security.
Network encryption, data breaches.
Nothing classified
or sensitive enough
to make her a kidnapping target.
What about ransom?
There's been no calls, no demands yet.
Plus, no one to call.
Only child.
Parents died in a car wreck
when she was in college.
She's gota clean record.
Pays her taxes,
solid credit score.
Few thousand in savings.
And has a social media footprint
dedicated to
her succulent collection.
Perfectly normal.
Except...
normal people
don't get kidnapped.
We used the security
footage from the plaza
to try to track the van, but her abductors
planned a getaway routethat
avoided security cameras.
This was a brazen,
public spectacle.Mm-hmm.
Kidnappers aren't gonna
take that risk
unless Norah is important.
We're missing something
about her.
Everyone has secrets.
We just need to figure out
what hers are.
She was staying at an Airbnb
in the Garden District.
We'll check it out.
And I'll check in with Patton,
see if he's found
any cracks in her story.
Patton?
Man, you trying
to give me a heart attack. You okay?
I watched Sebastian
take that spill, man.
Set me on edge.Hey.
He's gonna be okay, P.
But with himriding the bench...
You're gonna need me to step
my game up. I'm already on it.
Our victim Norah...
She's damn sure more
than some ordinary
I.T. consultant.
She worked for
multiple companies
over the past ten years.
Now, by themselves,
none seem special.
But combined? There's a common denominator.
Presidium Limited.
Each company receives
a generous investment
from Presidium.
Then the next week, they
get a new contractor.
Norah.
What's Presidium?
You tell me.
Investment deposits come from
an offshore bank account.
No physical address, no real owner.
A shell corporation.
But why bribe these
companies to hire Norah?
I don't know.
Uh, the work she did
seems to be legit,
but I'm gonna keep digging.
Yeah, well, I feel like I know
less about Norahthan when I walked in here.
Yeah, well, I'll tell you this...
She writes some
pretty angsty poetry.
I found this train wreck
saved as a draft
in an e-mail account.
"You left a void around me,
"darkness, black.
You fled and now I'm nothing,
weightless, slack."
"Slack"?
Girl needs to find a better way
to deal with her breakups,
'cause these words
ain't winning anyone over.
So, how long you
planningon living in corporate housing?
Uh, my record is 13 months.
That was Sicily.
Usually, it's eight to 11 months
before I move on to a new gig.
You're just comfortablewith
temporary living?
Yeah, five posts in five years.
Before that, I was a Marine.
Before that, Navy brat.
So, yeah, I likethe nomad life.
Yeah, I thought I did, too.
Living out of a suitcase, seeing the world.
I really didn't know what I was missing
until I got a bed, hung up some photos.
A bed is a bed.
Photos, I keep on my phone.
As long as it's clean and I
gota place to hang my suits,
I'm good.
Property owner
texted me the code.
I'll cover the rear.
Federal agent!
You need to put that down.
Hey, I'd listen to herif I were you.
Maybe you shouldlisten to us.
We're NCIS. Who are you?
We're the ones with more guns,
so drop yours.
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
I think we have a big problem.
I'll make it go away.
Winchester?
Special Agent Khoury.
Why am I not surprised?
What the hell is DIA doing here?
Oh. You think you brought
enough guys?
I know what you're gonna ask.
Why is DIA taking over
the kidnapping
of an I.T. consultant?
And you know
what I'm gonna answer.
"Above my paygrade.
National security."
You ever get tired of
asking questions you know
the answers to? You ever get tired of using
the same crappy lines?
I do not.
Pack up the restof the house.
We'll take itinto evidence.
One of my agents
was hospitalized
trying to save Norah Moncado.
Special Agent Lund
hurt his ribs and his pride.
Both will be fine.
But my team is best-suitedfor
tracking Norah down.
Oh, I think we're doing fine
without the benefit of you.
You made it all the wayto
her Airbnb... hours after us.
Congratulations.
If this is your case,
it's your case,
but I got to know:
What is DIA's interest
in Norah Moncado?
Learn to live with disappointment.
The shell corporation.
Presidium... it's DIA cover.
You got Norah each one of
those contracting jobs.
She's one of yours.
This isn't over.
This is absolutely over.
Whether we like it or not,
DIA has jurisdiction.
Who is this Winchester guy
anyway?
He's the ultimate swooper.
He swoops in at the last minute,
takes all the credit.
Kicked us off of a killer
droneoperation last year
and expected everyone to
pretendlike none of it ever happened.
Seemed like you two
have some history.
Yeah, our first run-inwas
in North Africa years ago.
My team spent six monthsgathering intel.
Winchester came in...
Came in, took allthe glory for himself?
Swooper. HANNAH: Not this time.
Sebastian was injured.
We need to find outwho was responsible.
Sebastian's gonna be just fine.
Yeah, maybe a few
Jell-O pounds heavier.
This isn't worth getting into
a bureaucratic fight over.
The last thing we need
is to bring
the NCIS brass
down on our heads again.
Wait, how'd I manage
to piss off HQ already?
I just got here.
He's not talking about you.
Hannah.
Just tell me.
Are you being cautious because
you're anticipating
problems from D.C.,
or do you know that
something's happening?
Deputy Director Van Cleef.
Yeah, he had me demoted
for making a call.
I took my lumps.
It's been months... not a peep.
He's leaving NCIS.
Well, that should be good news.
Yeah.
But guys like him
make grand gestures
before they take a bow.
You think he's gonna
come after me?
Don't know.
But why borrow trouble?
I don't need youto protect me.
You also don't need to go
against DIA.
Both can be true.
Let 'em find their
own damn agent.
Show me your hands!
If I stop stirring,
I'll burn the risotto.
You're still here.
Ooh, you could sound
happier about it.
Oh, uh...
where did you find that thing?
Oh, this?
I found this in a drawer.
It doesn't seem like
quite your style, but...
I make it look good.Ooh.
Well, I will not disagree
with you.
Get a plate.
Food's ready.
Not that I don't appreciatea
home-cooked meal,
but I thoughtyou were flying out today.
I pushed my flight
till tomorrow.
After all,
I came here for one reason,
and that reason rudelydisappeared
on me this morning.
You know I'm always on call.
No, I don't want an apology.
I just want
what I came here for.
And what did you come here for?
It's not the risotto.
Winchester? Yeah.
The same guy who came
in and stole my drone
Mm-hmm. like a bastard?
Swooper strikes again.
Well, what'd he
want with Norah? Well,
turns out she'san undercover DIA agent.
Hey. You're gonnaget sick eating that.
Why are you eating so many?
Norah's DIA?
Yeah. That's whyshe was a target.
Well, that doesn't make any
sense... when she was taken,
she screamed,
like, a lot. Yeah, you did say
she had a healthy set of lungs.
Yeah, she didn't fight back.
That's weird, right?
You'd think a trained agent
would at least put up
some kind of a fight.
Why didn't yousay this before?
Well, it wasn't relevant
when I thought that
she was a civilian, but now
that I know she's DIA...
Oh, my God.
All right,
let me thinkabout this for a second.
Let me get my thoughts together.
Whoa! I don't need to see that.
Where you going, tiny butt?
I got to get released. Get in the bed.
No, I got to go. Get it in the bed.
In the bed.
Now, tell me
what you're thinkingso I can help.
Ah...
Canceling your flight
to stay another night?
Mm-mm, sorry.
Just finished checking in.
Mm.
Mm. I'm glad you stayed.
I'm glad your coworker
didn't interrupt us again.
Khoury, she can be
a little, um...
impatient.Mm.
But she's had a rough year.
Now, how would Agent "I Don't Get
Close to MyCoworkers" Carter know that?
Because I do my homework.
Mm-hmm. What happened to her?
Well, she used to run the team, then
she got demoted. I'm not really sure why.
Well, that's got to hurt. Yeah, but she's
handling it well.
Have you ever told her that? No.
Like you said, I don't
get close to my coworkers.
Paying someone a complimentis
not the same as gettingclose to them.
No, I'm not opening that door.
Yeah, you say something
nice to them,
then they say
something nice back...
Well, it's a vicious cycle. It is.
And then they start asking you questions,
like, "Who's that girl"
in your apartment?"
Oh. And you said? Nothing.
My relationship
with my girlfriend
is none of her business.
Mm.
Well, speak of the devil.
Duty calls.
We still good for,
uh, next month?
Meet halfway in Denver?
Uh, I'm not sure.
I'll make the wait worth it.
I promise.
I told you the kidnapping
of Agent Moncado
isn't our case anymore.
His ribs are broken,
but his brain is fine. Just hear him out.
All right, so-so Norah
didn't fight back.
Tell me you don't think
that's a little weird.
Sebastian, I already combed
through the footage.
There's nothing useful
from the attack.
Yeah, well, I'm not
interested in what happened
during the attack... I'm
interested in what happened
a few hoursprior to the attack.
Isn't that the exact location
where she was later kidnapped? Yeah,
and that's not all...
Check out her line of sight.
Oh, snap!
She's lookingat the kidnappers' van.
Any chancethat's a coincidence?
Would be if she didn't
do the same thing
the day before. She picked out
the very spot that she was gonna
be kidnapped from.
Because she was in on it.
I got to fillWinchester in.
Look, if she staged
her own kidnapping,
what else is she planning
right under his nose?
Damn, it went straight
to voice mail.
Can you locate his phone? Aw, man.
Even I can't break the
DIA's level of encryption.
But their phones transmit data
on the same cell network
that we use, too.
Then you just got to find the tower
that's receiving the encrypted signals.
I can narrow it down
to a two-mile radius.
Can you bemore specific, please?
His SUV. The DIA, they're always
concerned about their phones,
but they forget they're
drivinga computer on wheels.
American-made black SUV.
Well, there's hundreds of those
in the city.Yeah.
Yeah, we don't need to search
the whole city.
Just a two-mile area that's
receiving encrypted signals.
I'll take those odds.
I want a clean breach.
We extract our girl,
take down anyone
who tries to stop us. Copy?
Copy. In position.
Stand by.Winchester.
What are you doing here? Trying to save you
from making a mistake.
Norah is working
with the kidnappers.
It's all a setup.
Does this look like someonewho's
in on her own kidnapping?
Maybe it's Norah,
maybe it isn't.
Look, either way,
you should know more
before you charge in. There's no time.
We found a second pairof tire tracks.
The kidnappersaren't here right now,
but they could be backany minute.
Why would they... Enough!
You've lost controlof your team.
Hey, does this look off
to you? Yeah, it looks patchy.
What would cause that? I've seen it
before, overseas.
Terrorists would pack a
corpse with body warmers
so we'd pick it up.
Draw the cavalry in.
Hey!
Winchester, it's a trap!
Whoever's tied up in there
is already dead!
They're being used as...
Secure the perimeter.
Yes, sir. Winchester, stop.
This is my operation, Pride.
I'm getting my agent out.
Even if it meansrisking the lives
of the restof your men?
Stand down.
Fall back!
How's my team?
Several are headed
to the hospital.
But they'll live, so will you,
thanks to Special Agent Khoury.
You need to tell us
everything we don't know
about Norah Moncado.
I'm good.
She's dead.
We don't know that.
Regardless, the case isn't dead.
Norah had access to
classified DIA intelligence,
didn't she?
She had something
of value to exchange.
Whatever it is, DIA would hate
for it to be in enemy hands.
I taught her everything there
was to know about deception.
She used it against me.
Aw, save the pity party.
Read us in,
or explain to DoD
that you let a double agent
hand over God knows what intel
to an enemy.
Look, what I'm about to tell you
will be denied
if it comes out later.
My role at DIA is
Head of Internal Security.
So, basically, the
most secretive agent
at the nation's most
secretive agency.
I handle clearances and
vettingto find the right people
to do the most demanding
of jobs.
I also handle leaks.
And Norah Moncado?
Real name's Norah Bishop.
She was my human lie detector.
She could sniff out anyone
unfitto work at the agency.
That's why you set up Presidium.
Gave her a rotation
of cover jobs
to keep her at arm's length
while she investigated
other agents.
Any idea why she would betray
the agency now?
A month ago,
I located a dangerous leak.
DIA had a mole.
I, uh...
Turned to the one person
I could trust.
Norah. When what you
were looking for
was standing right next
to you the whole time.
It was her ideato come to New Orleans.
Claimed she had a hit
on the mole.
Never would have guessed
it was part of an escape plan.
There's still time to fix this.
Your team is in no position
to continue the investigation.
Let us help you.
I'll get the evidence
we've gathered
transferred over to you, along
with Norah's classified file.
The sooner, the better.
Norah didn't do this alone.
We need to find out
who helped her.
We're back in the game, Loretta.
I'm hoping you can putsome
points on the board. Well, I put
a rush on the DNA analysis.
Genetic markers don't lie.
This poor woman is
not your DIA agent.
Only mistake was sharing
a similar physique.
So Norah could still be alive.
Get an I.D. on this victim?
Not without dental records.
But hypostasis suggests
that she's been dead
for at least 72 hours.
Murdered? Yeah, a stab wound
at the base of the skull.
Appears the knife...
cut her spinal cord instantly.
Any luck with the evidence DIA sent? Well,
it depends
on your definition of "luck."
The gloves Sebastian grabbedoff
the kidnapper at the plaza? Mm-hmm.
I pulled DNA from skin cells.
There's no match
on any of our systems.
But whoever wore that glove is
a male of Asian descent.
That limits our suspect pool
to about four billion.
Oh. Does that get me
any pointson the board?
Wasn't a brick.
What does DIA know
about their double agent?
Norah Bishop,
she was the ultimateDIA recruit.
Joined Mensawhen she was six years old.
Programmed her first
computer at eight.
Her parents traveled abroad forwork,
Norah traveled with them.
She's fluent
in six different languages.
So we're dealing
with a superspy.
Yeah. But who's she working with?
Norah traveled to Hong
Kongresearching her PhD dissertation
on cybersecurity.
Trip was
supposed to last six weeks.
She ended up staying six months.
There must be something
in Chinaworth staying for.
Perhaps a change of allegiance?
DNA on the glove
Sebastian grabbed
belongs to an Asian male.
The body at the back
of the warehouse
was rigged by professionals.
Could be Ministry
of State Security.
Chinese intelligence?
Yeah, it makes sense,
if she was recruited
in Hong Kong.
Which means that Norah has
beenworking with the Chinese
long before she joined DIA.
They could've steered her
to them.
But why stage a kidnapping?
If she wanted
to sell the DIA out,
why not fake her own death
and disappear?
Because...
she needed Winchester involved
in the investigation.
He was the only one who knew
she had access
to classified DIA intel.
The only one who couldpeg her as the mole.
Taking out Winchester was
necessary for her escape plan.
We need to tell him.
If we're up against MSS,
DIA can help.
I'll call Winchester,
get him over here
and get him up to speed.
Keep looking for Norah.
Agent Carter,
you have a visitor.
You weren't answering my texts.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's on me.
It's a-a time-sensitive case.
I just need a quick word
before I head to the airport.
So, why the need
for the face-to-face?
Because I respect you too much
to say this over the phone.
Okay. So, what needs to be said?
It's actually what you said.
This morning.
You called me your girlfriend.
Yeah, because you are.
Actually, I'm not.
Uh, what do you mean? We've
beendating for three years.
We've been meeting every other
month for hotel trysts.
And it's fun,
but it's nota relationship.
I mean, come on.
We have that connection.
We get along, we never fight.
We understand
each other.Sure.
It's fun, it's uncomplicated.
No stakes, no depth.
It's not just the people
you work with, Quentin.
You don't let anyone in.
That's not true.
You refuse to lower your walls.
And at first,
it wasfrustrating as hell for me,
but I made my peace with it.
You... you met someone else.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's been casual, but he wants
to take it to the next level.
I didn't know if I was ready.
Until now.
Whatever this is between us,
it's never gonna
be enough for me.
Okay, so that's it?
We're breaking up?
We can't break up if we were
never actually together.
You are a good guy, Quentin.
But I deserve more.
Norah's been playing me
since the day we met?
Unbelievable.
The human race evolved
to trust others
because more often than not,
it's in our best interest.
But not spies.
We're supposed
to distrust everything.
Like Norah.
She lived a lie
for over a decade.
Question is why.
Money? Patton looked
into her finances.
Nothing raised a red flag.
If she was being coerced,
she would've been
tied to that chair and killedalongside you.
Agent Gregorio's been
working up a profile,
believes that she's beingdriven by ego.
She wanted to feel special.
Nothing is more exclusive
than a club of one
as a double agent.
If she makes it to China,
she'll also be a hero.
We can't let that happen.
Okay, then.
You're the one person
who's worked most closelywith Norah.
You knew herbeyond the agency.
I already told you
everything I know.
What about her personal life?
Did she have hobbiesor friends?
Did she take, I don't know,
any vacations?
If she was workingwith the Chinese,
there had to be
a point of contact.
No agent is that good
at covering their tracks.
The Caribbean.
She'd go there
for long weekends,
two, three times a year.
She loved all-inclusives
'cause she never had
to leave the resort.
And no real paper trail.
It's a good spotto meet with a handler.
Ugh, I hate everything
about this traitor,
but I do know where I'm
going on my next vacation.
What'd you guys find?
Tracked down each of
the resortsNorah stayed at
the past few years...
Five-star. Expensive taste.
And cross-referenced
the guest lists
with those travel dates.
Was her handler with
her? This Chinese national
overlapped Norahat the
same resort every time.
And travels under
different aliases?
Each time. Last trip six
weeks ago was under the name,
"Alex Chang." PRIDE: Well,
that's got to be her handler,
but who is he? That's
where the trailgoes cold.
We've been digginginto each alias,
but so far, they're all ghosts.
No one's a ghost to DIA.
I'll pass along the names.
We've got our own way
of finding people.
Hey. I just cracked the code
onhow Norah signals her handler.
What you got, P?
Shared e-mail account.
Norah and her cronies
used the same password.
Passing along messages in
the saved drafts folder,
weren't they? GREGORIO:
Hey,
I don't have Sebastian here
to de-geek this stuff,
so little help?
Norah writes an e-mail, never sends it,
and it saves as a "draft."
The handler sees it,
reads it, then deletes it.
Nothing's ever transmitted,
so there's no digital record.
Clever,
but how does thathelp us find Norah?
Especially if she's already
fled the country.
Oh, I doubt that. A new e-mail
showed up in her draft
folderafter she was taken.
If her handler would've seen it,
he would've deleted it by now.
Means we still have
a chance to catch her.
"The folly of man.
"Why not wo-man?
"Two of one? Separate.
Equal. Without both,
there is none."
There's no way Norah's
still writing
more bad poetry on the run.
Which made me realize
that this is a coded message.
We've got to get this poem
to DIA cryptography team
right away.
I ask for help
from your minions?
It took a patentedTriple P algorithm
to find the right cipher, and voilà.
What the heck
is "Monolith"?
What don't we know, Winchester?
And don't give us
thatnational security crap again.
Monolith is the nameof a
program that doesn't exist.
What does this
nonexistent program do?
It monitors every spy DIA
handles across the globe.
So if Norah handed it
over to the Chinese...
Every one of those agents
will be exposed.
Just updated the deputy
secretary at Homeland.
They're blasting an alert to
every agency in the Southeast.
We got BOLOs outon every private air
and boat charter on the Gulf.
I'll double back to Winchester,
see if DIA resources
have illuminated
anything else on Norah's
Chinese handler.
Let's hope she hasn't already
slipped past us.
We'll put trip wires out,
and hopefully we'll get lucky
and Norah will stumble over one.
I hope you're right.
Oh. I know you'recommitted to your froth,
but we got work to do.
Yes. Sorry.
You seem distracted.
Uh, just needed some caffeine.
Audrey, right?
You, um, need a moment?
No, I don't do moments.
All right, well, I'm here
if you want to talk.
But you probably don't
want to do that, either.
You, uh, call it
like you see it, don't you?
Sometimes I can
cross boundaries.
Yeah, I noticed that about you.
Oh? Please, don't hold back.Mm-hmm.
Oh, nor should you.
You're the one who tells
the truth, even when it hurts.
Which makes youan effective leader,
despite what the brass says.
Somebody's been gossiping.
Oh, not here. Not me.
But, um,
I heard you got demoted,
and I knowit was a raw deal.
But for what it's worth,
the way you handled it
is a case study in class.
It's worth a lot, actually.
Tell us DIA's having more luck
than we are, Winchester.
I told you,
no one's really a ghost.
The alias Alex Chang
belongs to this man,
Feng Wei.
That's the same man from each
of the resort surveillance photos.
What do you know about him?
A suspected operative
for Chinese MSS.
His file's been flaggeddozens of times
by internationalagencies.
He's their top recruiter.
Yeah, well, if he's helping
Norah escape with Monolith,
how do we find him?
We dug into all
of Wei's aliases,
and thispopped up locally.
What's Deep GulfDiving Adventures?
Seaplane charteroperating in Lafitte.
Specializes in trips to
remote Caribbean dive spots.
I take it Feng Wei'svarious aliases
have booked
their services before?
Multiple times, all arranged
by Travis Hayes, Deep
Gulf's owner and pilot.
Is there more than
a passive connection
between Travis Hayesand Feng Wei? Yes,
there is.
Hayes spent three years
in Beijing teaching English
over a decade ago.
Where he was recruitedby Feng Wei.Mm-hmm.
Seaplane's a great way to move
assets in and out of the country.
Hayes filed a flight plan
for Belize this morning.
Norah was on that
flight. She's gone. Not yet.
There's a stormin the Gulf,
it has light aircraft
grounded since yesterday,
but it is clearing soon.
All right,
let's bring these traitors in.
Monolith is priority.
Everything else,
especially Norah, is collateral.
I'll take the far side.
Clear.
Clear. Winchester?
Damn it, how did we miss them?
The river.
I count six hostiles,
but I don't see Norah.
Federal agents,
drop your weapons!
Let's go!
Get on the plane! We're leaving!
This is the
United States Coast Guard.
Shut down your engines
immediately.
If you do not comply,
we will be forced to open fire.
I repeat: this is the
United States Coast Guard.
Shut down your engines
and prepare to be boarded.
This is your final warning.
Shut down your engines now
or we will open fire.
Thanks. No sign of Norah.
Or any kind of drive
with Monolith.
Well, her message saidshe was en route
to the extraction point.
Maybe we got the wrong one.
Anything?
They're refusing to talk.
Yeah, and Norah's
still out there.
Well, she couldn't have
gotten far on her own.
You find anything on the plane
or on the bodies? Yeah,
some damn good passports
to get them into Belize.
One of those Norah's? Nope.
Well, wherever she is,
her cover's blown.
She's gonna have a
new I.D. now, too.
Yeah,
we need to figure outwho cooked these up.
Get them back to the lab,
get Patton to start hunting
for the forger.
Carter and I will stayand
coordinate with Winchester,
see if any of his DIA toysturn anything up.
Okay. Let's go.
You got that look on your face.
Yeah. Thinking about
Occam's razor.
Simplest explanation is
usually the correct one.
Uh-huh.
And the simplest way
for Norah to get out
of hereis on that plane.
Why isn't she on it? Maybe
she's just laying low here
for a while.
I mean, she's got to know that
every agency we cooperate with
is gonna be on the
lookout for her. Right?
No passport or new look is
gonna make up for the scrutiny
she'd get at
Customs Control.Mm-hmm.
Unless the plan was to never
pass through it at all.
Give me a hand.
These crates were supposed
to beloaded on the plane.
I'm not sure what you expected
to find.
Come on.
Carter!
Hannah, you all right?
Yeah.
Carter.
You all right?
I don't think your fancy threads
are gonna survive New Orleans,
hotshot.
After seeing what's
in this water,
I think I'm gonna
burn this suit.
Monolith?
What's Monolith?
Take her in my car.
What'd you call him once?
A super secret ass?
Uh-huh. Some things
never change.
You finally gonna join
us at the bar tonight?
Uh, thank you, no, thank you.
I got a lot of work to do here.Mm.
Okay. Well...
If it's a drinking-alone
kind of night...
you might as well
drink the good stuff.Ooh.
I know, I just... I did not take you
for a whiskey girl.
Yeah, well, you don't
know me very well.
But you could.
Oh, not gonna bite, Khoury.
Hmm.
It's HQ with
another e-mail blast.
Damn.
Deputy Director Van Cleef
is leaving NCIS,
pending Senate approval, to become
chief of navaloperations for DoD.
Talk about a career leap.
Yeah, it is.
Oh, you know him.
Hmm?
Um...
we've had a few interactions.
Any chance he was
involved in your demotion?
It doesn't matter.
That's in the past.
You know,
I worked with a womanat NCIS: Pearl Harbor.
She also had
a few interactionswith Van Cleef.
It didn't end well
for her, either.
Enjoy that whiskey, huh?
♪ Dancin' to the truth
♪ Let your body move
♪ Dancin' to the truth...
Well,
here's to closing our first...
And hopefully last...
Joint case with the DIA.
Amen.
I'm just dying to know
what other programs
DIA has that
"don't exist."
I could find a back
doorinto their system.Mm.
We are not getting mixed up
in anything
that could bring Winchester
back down here again.
Who wants another round?
Yeah. GREGORIO: Me.PATTON: Yes, sir.
Okay,
I got 'em. One beer's not gonna hurt.
Alcohol will not mendyour broken ribs,
Sebastian.
Lucky I brought you here
to celebrate.
It's not much of a celebration.
Here,
pumpkin. I swiped this before we left.
I figured you'd want it. Oh,
my God, I could kiss you.
Nah, just put the spoon in
yourmouth instead. You'll be fine.
Anybody heard from Hannah?
No.
Thought she'd be here by now.
You're the lastperson I expected
to get an urgent call from.
Well, I wanted to catch
youbefore you went back to D.C.
I, um... I was hoping youcould
do me a personal favor.
I appreciate your help
with Norah Bishop,
but the DIA isn't in the
business of personal favors.
Well, I'm not asking the DIA.
I'm asking you.
You owe me for North Africa
and now for here.
Is that a threat?
No, Winchester.
It's a fact.
You don't want to help,
don't help.
I'll survive.
I didn't get a chanceto
thank you back at the docks.
Thank you.
I know that wasn't easy for you.
You have no idea.
What kind of favor do you need?
I need you to lookinto somebody for me.
NCIS has resources.
Why not just use those?
NCIS can't know about this.
This has to be strictly
off the record,
and that is what you do best.
What do you want to know
aboutDeputy Director Ezra Van Cleef?
Everything.
I heard chatter for months
about his new promotion.
Are you sure it's wise
to go kicking
that hornet's nest?
No.
But I'm gonna do it anyway.
But I'm gonna do it anyway.
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