NCIS s24e03 Episode Script
Sleeping Dogs
1
Hey. That's real good, sweetheart.
(DOOR OPENING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
How's it going, Vince?
Got something for me?
Yeah.
Feels a little light.
Yeah, uh, I've been a little
strapped for cash.
I had a pipe bust and, um, fridge broke.
(CHUCKLES) Cost me a fortune.
Sounds like the plumber got paid.
Look (SIGHS)
I'll-I'll make it up to you
next month. Promise.
That your kid?
My, uh, my wife had to work.
It's nice having a family.
Lot of stress, though.
Constantly worrying about
something bad gonna happen to 'em.
I'll get I'll get you
the money next week.
Hit me again.
I'm gonna use the can.
(LOCK CLICKS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
Ah!
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
(STRAINING)
(YELPS)
(NECK CRACKS)
♪
Sorry about the mess.
♪
(TORRES SPEAKING QUIETLY)
Oh! Attention on deck!
SECNAV arriving!
Guys, seriously, how long are
you gonna keep doing that for?
I don't know, man,
till it stops being funny.
KNIGHT: We're just excited
for you, McGee.
It's not every day one of our own
gets called up to the big leagues.
I told you, though, already,
it's, like, nothing definite yet.
When I had breakfast
with SECNAV this morning,
she explained to me
that she's got another
two years left on her term.
I'm just being vetted as a possible
replacement, that's all.
It might not even happen.
Still, you and Delilah have to be
going nuts at the possibility, right?
Yeah. We're excited.
Flattered.
Little nauseous.
It's a lot to think about, you know?
I mean, it could really
change our lives.
Until that happens, though,
can we do a thing
where we, like,
not bring this up at all?
Who wants cake?
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
Congrats, Mr. Secretary.
- Look
- I'm kidding.
It's birthday cake
for Barbara from Accounting.
I didn't know it was her birthday.
Oh, none of us did. It was last week.
- We all forgot.
- Hmm. Was she bummed?
Uh, yeah, is she, uh,
going to take it out on our paychecks?
Well, I-I think I smoothed
things over with the birthday cake.
But, uh, this incident
has led me to a decision:
You guys, I'm officially
bringing birthdays back.
Did they ever leave?
Office birthdays, Jess.
As in parties and cake?
You know? It's a new era at NCIS.
You know? It's time
we celebrate a little more.
Eh, seems like a lot of work, bro.
Well, technically it's not work
if you're having fun, Nick.
Oh. Agent Parker. Cake?
What are you doing, Jimmy?
I'm the morning sweets guy.
Are you, uh, trying
to muscle in on my territory?
No, no. Of course not. This is
birthday cake. It doesn't count.
Slice?
It's pretty good.
Is that
sheet cake with vanilla frosting
from a supermarket?
Hard pass.
Little pastry snob.
Besides, we got a dead body
in a Navy hangar.
And, uh, from what I've heard,
you might not want
a full stomach for this one.
All right, so security found
the burning car this morning.
Then they called the fire department.
PARKER: We speak to them yet?
Knight's on it, and
McGee's running down the license plate.
Cameras catch anything?
TONY: Out of service.
Hangar was abandoned two years ago.
Remote location,
minimal security.
I mean, if you wanted
to dump a body somewhere,
this would be the place.
Director DiNozzo.
What a, uh, pleasant and
totally expected surprise.
Yeah, man, I see that drip.
- You enjoying a little R and R?
- TONY: I wish.
No, I got golf in 30 minutes
with the senator
who controls our budget.
He agreed to, uh,
give us a little bit more money
if I can beat him over 18 holes.
He likes golf.
I like money.
Ah, our democracy at work.
- Is he any good?
- Very.
But not as good as Chief Petty
Officer Newman over there.
- The hangar security guy?
- Oh, yeah.
Number Two on the All-Navy Golf Team.
And he's also my caddie.
Hey, that's smart.
So, what are we looking at here,
Dr. Palmer?
Well, victim is female,
somewhere between her 20s
and 40s. No ID,
so we'll have to wait on dental
records to confirm identification.
Yeah, don't need
dental records for that
JIMMY: No. That
is a laceration on her throat.
It's quite possible that she was
strangled before she was set on fire.
Killer torched the car
to destroy evidence.
- We could be looking at a pro.
- (PHONE RINGING)
McGee ran the plate. It's a rental car.
It was booked
through a corporate account
registered to
a Baltimore consulting firm.
Hmm. McGee looked into the firm.
There's no website. No employees.
Smells like a shell company.
Only name connected is
someone named Dante Navarro.
Dante Navarro?
From Baltimore?
You know him?
Well, that could be our guy.
- Let's pick him up.
- But you will never find him.
Why wouldn't we find him?
Because he doesn't exist.
I invented him.
Dante Navarro is the name
of a backstop identity
I used years ago,
during my undercover days.
Is this before you came to D.C.?
Yeah. I gave him a full legend.
I mean, he was a, uh, freelance
hit man from Baltimore.
A lone wolf. I even gave him a
signature weapon the garrote wire.
Nice touch.
You use him on multiple cases or?
TORRES: At least a dozen.
I mean, anything from drug trafficking
to armed robbery.
And then I retired him for good
when I got here.
Looks like "Dante" has come
out of retirement.
We got an ID on the victim yet?
Jimmy's still working on it.
All right, we need to figure out
why somebody would
resurrect an old alias to commit murder.
Could it be related
to one of your old cases?
So many to choose from.
Dante had a lot of enemies.
How could they have learned
about your alias in the first place?
No idea.
Only two people knew about him.
Me and Walt Keller.
My old handler from the past.
Then we need to talk to him.
TORRES: Good luck with that.
Last I heard, he left NCIS
and fell off the face of the earth.
Well, let's hope not,
'cause right now
he's the only lead we got.
I'll make some phone calls.
I take it the two of you weren't close?
Let's just say it was complicated.
(EXHALES)
Hey, roomie.
So, what do we got on this Jane Doe?
Hmm? What? What's that?
What are you doing?
Me? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Hey. I
(TONY CLEARS THROAT)
JIMMY: Look, I can explain.
This is all kinds of wrong.
The refrigerators upstairs
were all full, so
No, no, no, no, stop.
This isn't The Great British
Bake Off, Paul Hollywood.
This is the morgue.
I didn't have a choice, Tony.
I don't know if you've heard,
but I am bringing
- birthdays back.
- Birthdays back. Yes, I know.
There are five birthday cakes in here.
You told me it was just
Barbara's birthday today.
That's what I thought, okay?
But it turns out that
more than one person
shares the same birthday.
So I've got two today, I've got
three tomorrow.
Next week, I've Okay, no.
You really don't know
what's coming, do you?
What do you mean?
This whole birthday thing
it's gonna swallow you whole.
Oh, I don't know about that.
Jane Doe.
Right. I-I pulled the dental records of
all missing women in the D.C. area
and I came up with a match.
Our victim's name is Mandy Dubrow.
She was 45, paralegal.
- No criminal record.
- So nothing to suggest
why she might've been killed.
No. But I did find
something interesting.
These lacerations on her neck?
I mean, she was definitely strangled,
but the killer didn't use his hands.
He must've used some sort of sharp wire.
Like a garrote wire.
Torres did say that was
his alias's weapon of choice.
Well, someone really wants us
to believe "Dante Navarro" is real.
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
Hey, Kase. Was hoping that you Whoa.
- What the hell is that thing?
- KASIE: Piñata.
Jimmy asked me to pick it up
for one of his birthday parties.
As if I don't have enough to do.
Why is it in the shape of a gnome?
It's not a gnome, it is a baby.
It's the last one they had
left at the store. I think
it's for gender-reveal parties.
And what, you're supposed
to hit the baby?
I don't know.
This is Jimmy's idea, not mine.
Wish we could hit him with a stick.
Well, I hope
Jimmy hasn't created a monster
with this whole birthday thing.
Well, he wouldn't be the only
one who's created a monster.
- What do you mean?
- I ran the name "Dante Navarro"
through various local police databases,
and his name came up in connection with
several unsolved murders
over the past two years.
Whoever's using Torres's alias
has been busy.
Well, the killings appear
to be unrelated.
But here's something interesting.
One of the victims got a text
from a burner phone
right before his death.
MCGEE: "Watch your back.
"Dante's looking for you.
Asking about Grace."
Who's Grace?
No idea.
She was obviously worth killing for.
(PHONE CHIMES)
Ooh. Torres finally
tracked down his old handler.
Your guy sure loves his privacy, huh?
(SIGHS) Yeah. Listen, I gotta warn you.
Keller is an old-school cop, you know.
He's a little rough.
Likes to push buttons.
Is that what you meant by
"a complicated relationship"?
Well, he taught me everything
I know about undercover work.
But I'm not the same guy
that I was back then, and
he just won't accept that.
(DOOR CREAKS)
Nick.
That him?
Yeah.
- Hey, Torres.
- Drop your weapon!
Saw you pull up.
You fell for
the oldest trick in the book.
Do it now.
TORRES: Jess
it's okay.
Nice to see you too, Walt.
(KELLER LAUGHING)
Um, excuse the mess.
My maid's day off.
You want a drink?
Uh, no, thank you.
I'm sober.
(LAUGHS) Since when?
Mr. Keller, we were hoping
you could help us.
Yeah, you know,
I don't get a lot of visitors
out here that much, you know.
Couple raccoons. A bear.
Maybe. So you can imagine
my surprise when I found
the great Nicky Torres at my door.
How long has it been, Nick?
Nine ten years?
- A long time.
- Yeah.
I taught this guy everything he knows.
I recruited him fresh out of FLETC.
Green as an avocado.
I wasn't that green.
Ha! Please.
He didn't know a dead drop
from a hole in the ground.
But he was a quick learner.
And he did have a taste for it,
especially the more dangerous stuff.
We were a great team
till he left me
for that cushy desk job
with Gibbs and his crew.
- He got soft on me.
- TORRES: Here we go.
Well, I mean, it's hardly a desk job.
Nick has put himself in danger
a thousand times over.
- So maybe ease off a bit.
- Walt, we're not here
on a social call.
We actually need your help on a case.
Well, I'm not really sure
what I can do for you.
Clearly, I'm out of the game.
It's about Dante Navarro.
Somebody's using the identity
to kill people.
Bullcrap. I burned that identity myself
after we were through. I wiped it clean.
The only copy is on a federal
secure network somewhere.
Then maybe somebody hacked it.
Why?
It's a dead legend. It's useless.
Well, someone doesn't think so.
This is a list of four people
that Dante killed.
We can't find a pattern.
We were hoping you could.
Well, you can't figure out the pattern
because these aren't
the victims' real names.
They've been changed.
How would you know that?
'Cause they're all connected to Cimino.
Who's Cimino?
Sergio Cimino was the head
of a crime family
in Baltimore, back in the 2000s.
He was bad news. Drug trafficking,
weapons smuggling, extortion.
13 years ago, I went undercover
as Dante Navarro
and infiltrated the family.
KELLER: Thanks to Torres here,
we were able to build a case.
We put the Ciminos away for life.
And how do our four victims
tie into this?
Well, each one of them worked
for the Cimino family
in some low-level capacity.
Our recent victim here, Mandy Dubrow,
worked as the family's lawyer.
They offered sealed testimony
at the trial,
changed their names
for their protection.
Okay, so if all of the major players
in the Cimino family are in jail,
why take out the B team?
And why now? It's been 13 years.
And why use Torres's alias
to kill 'em all?
Dread Pirate Roberts.
Princess Bride. Our killer's
pulling a Dread Pirate Roberts.
Back in the day,
Dante was a name that invoked fear.
And our killer is
taking advantage of that.
The name itself has become the weapon.
Tony DiNozzo?
Holy balls, it is you.
Oh, my God.
Walt Keller.
- You're still alive?
- Hey, man.
You two know each other?
Uh, yeah. We got into a little
trouble back in the day.
Yeah. Tony's a legendary undercover guy.
What was your alias again,
"Tony DiWaldo"?
- "DiNardo."
- Oh, sorry.
Film studies professor.
Not nearly as cool as
Torres's hit man alias.
And so, what do we have here?
This is the
Cimino supporting cast of characters?
Somebody is picking them off one by one.
Well, that means there are
probably gonna be more targets.
We need to pull
all the case files on Cimino.
Kasie's already on it, Director.
- We have to warn Ray.
- Who's that?
Ray Moore,
my informant.
He also owned a bar where the
Cimino family used to hang out at.
We put him in witness protection
when everything went down.
He's gonna be a target.
Yeah, I'm way ahead of you.
I already called him
and a bunch of our other CIs.
They're safe and sound
Wait, why did he call you "Director"?
Because I'm the director now.
(LAUGHS)
No, really. Why?
He's telling the truth.
Huh.
Don't worry, Walt.
I run a tight ship.
- Happy birthday to you ♪
- Oh, cake!
Happy birthday,
dear Angela, Greg and Bethany ♪
Happy birthday to you. ♪
We don't we don't have
any more candles.
You left me for this?
KELLER (OVER COMMS): Now
remember, when you walk in
TORRES: You'll talk to Ray first,
you'll give me the
give me the all-clear.
Yeah, we've been over this.
KELLER: I'll be right outside
if anything goes down.
Try to get him to say something
on tape we can use.
Hey, Kase. Have you met
that Keller guy yet?
I offered him a piece of cake
and you don't want to know
where he told me to put it.
So, do you want a piece of cake?
Don't have much of an appetite.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Hey, what's the matter? You okay?
Yeah. You know, um,
Parker's got me listening to
Torres's body-wire recordings of
the Sergio Cimino case, and
It's got me kind of freaked out,
to be honest.
Yeah. Listening to Cimino
and all those mafia guys
No, it's Torres.
He just sounds so different.
Not himself.
Well, he was undercover, Kase.
I mean, that's kind of the point.
Yeah, I-I know, but
it all sounds so real.
Okay.
- Let me hear it.
- Oh,
don't say I didn't warn you.
Okay, this is where I left off.
According to the case notes,
Cimino was suspicious that
one of his guys was stealing,
so he sent Torres to confirm it.
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
TORRES:
Mikey Fallon, what's up, man?
This chair taken?
You look good.
Is that a new jacket?
Is it leather?
Suede.
Damn.
Might have to pick me up one of those.
Is it expensive?
It looks expensive.
I mean, almost as much as
that new gold watch around your wrist.
You got something to say to me,
then say it.
I ain't afraid of you, Dante.
Have you ever played, uh,
Five-Finger Fillet?
You don't know the game?
I learned it at Glades.
See, the lifers used to play it
just to pass time, right?
Then I started learning it,
and all of a sudden,
I became really good at it.
And I realized
it was all about
precision, baby.
That supposed to scare me?
Your turn.
What are you doing, man?
Don't worry. I've never missed. Watch.
Hey, get your get off me!
(SCREAMS)
Oops. (LAUGHS)
Man, my bad.
My bad. Hey, are you stealing
from Sergio?
No! Please! Oh, it hurts
Okay, well, tell me what I want
to know and I'll make it stop.
(SCREAMS)
Okay, okay, yes.
I stole the money.
- Oh, you did?
- But he told me to do it.
Who? Who told you to do it?
- Ah. Ah!
- Who told you to do it?
Johnny Russo.
(GROANS)
He said the money was going to Grace.
- Grace?
- Please
I think I'm gonna be sick.
I don't like it
when you lie to me, Mikey.
- (SCREAMS)
- Okay, stop it, stop it.
My God, Nick was actually
torturing that guy.
Kase, you were right.
I don't know who that was
on the tape there,
but that was not our friend.
Wait a minute.
We need to play this for the guys.
MIKEY (ON RECORDING):
Johnny Russo.
He said the money was
going to Grace.
- TORRES: Grace?
- MIKEY: Please
- I think I'm gonna be sick.
- TORRES: I don't like it
- when you lie to me, Mikey.
- (SCREAMS)
He said "Grace."
The same name that was
on our victim's text message.
The message said
Dante was asking about Grace.
If she's connected to the money
that was stolen 13 years ago,
maybe that's what
Dante's looking for now.
You ever follow up on it?
No. A week later, we arrested Cimino.
Uh, the case was closed.
KELLER: Why are you wasting
your time with this?
It's a dead end.
You'd get more answers
from a Magic 8 Ball.
You heard the tape.
That guy Fallon said
Mikey Fallon is a world-class
douchebag and a liar.
He'd say anything to save himself.
Still. Can't be a coincidence
that the name "Grace"
has come up twice now.
MCGEE: We need to speak to Mikey Fallon.
He was recently paroled
and lives at a halfway house
called Best Hope.
Do you have an address?
KELLER: I know where it is,
I'll take you there.
My nap's already ruined.
Was he always like that?
You get used to it.
Admit it.
You miss this.
You miss you and me, working together.
Come on, man, stop making it weird.
You know, the CIA reached out
to me recently
about doing some deep-cover work.
Real off-the-books stuff, high risk.
What do you say?
Put the band back together?
You could do it on the side.
No. Thanks, man, but I
think I'm good where I am.
Right.
Mikey!
Mikey, hold up!
We're running now?
Please, don't kill me, don't kill me
I'm not gonna kill you.
I just want to talk to you.
Sure. Everybody knows
Dante is cleaning house.
What'd I miss?
Hey, that wasn't me. I'm a Fed.
I was undercover as Dante. You see?
You're a cop?
- But then who killed
- We don't know.
That's what we're hoping
that you can help us figure out.
You want my help? (SCOFFS)
That's beautiful. (CHUCKLES)
After what you did to me?
Nice, huh?
The knife severed the tendons.
I can't move my fingers no more.
I can't wipe my own ass,
thanks to you.
So forgive me, Officer,
if I don't feel like helping you out.
Besides, what more can you do to me
- you haven't already done?
- Well,
- there's still your other hand.
- Ah!
Get him off of me!
- Hey, Walt, Walt, lay back
- Tell us what you did
with the money you stole from Cimino!
- This is not the way, Walt.
- It is if it works.
Ah! Okay, okay.
I'll talk, I'll talk.
(WINCING)
We've been stealing
from the old man for years.
Over ten million dollars.
Ten?
MIKEY: Yeah. With help from a partner.
Grace.
MIKEY: Grace wasn't a person.
That was the name of the boat.
That's where they kept the money.
Then who was the partner?
- (GUNSHOT)
- (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
- (GUNSHOT)
- (SCREAMS)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
- What are you doing?
- You're all right. I got you.
- She needs our help!
- Leave her! He's getting away!
We'll call 911 from the car!
We got a shooting victim.
I need an ambulance now.
PARKER: The pedestrian who
got hit is gonna be fine, but, uh,
unfortunately, I can't say
the same for Mikey Fallon.
What about the shooter?
- Has to be Dante.
- In the wind.
Wonder who we have to thank for that?
She was gonna bleed out on the sidewalk.
What was I supposed to do? Let her die?
KELLER: You're being overdramatic.
- She would've been fine.
- TORRES: You don't know that.
I made a call and that was it.
Yeah, and it was the wrong one.
Okay, let's just save it, all right?
You used to know the difference
between what mattered
and what didn't matter
- (RECORD SCRATCHES,
- JAZZ MUSIC CONTINUES)
Oh, I'm sorry. Did my smooth jazz
interrupt your very important fight?
- (TONY SIGHS)
- (MUSIC FADES OUT)
So
now that the SmackDown has been averted,
what do we know?
Whoever is impersonating Dante
is looking for money
that was stolen
from the Cimino crime family.
Ten million dollars.
Why would Dante shoot Fallon
before he could tell him anything?
It's not the brightest idea.
Fallon's room was ransacked
before he was killed.
So Dante found what he was looking for.
Then iced Fallon afterwards
to keep him quiet.
Good news is, is we may have a lead on
who was behind the stolen money.
Since we know it was stored
on a boat named Grace,
we searched Baltimore marina
records going back 13 years.
Found four boats with the same name.
One of them belonged to a
bookkeeper named Nelson Tuttle.
Now, the boat is
no longer in service, but
Tuttle used to work
at the same accounting firm
that did Sergio Cimino's books.
He hasn't reported for work in days
and his wife hasn't seen him.
Well, we should find him.
And quick.
If he's still alive,
he's our best shot at finding Dante.
Hopefully, we won't lose him this time.
Hey.
Hey, where do you get off
talking to me like that
in front of my boss?
I'm just stating the obvious.
Which is?
This place has made you weak.
- Get out of here
- When I first met you,
you were wild.
You were fearless.
You were willing to do
all the things the rest of us wouldn't.
Now look at you.
This place has turned you
into a house cat.
I mean, dude,
you don't even drink anymore.
- I'm a recovering alcoholic
- I don't buy it.
Alcohol was never your problem.
You're addicted to adrenaline.
The danger you feel
when you're undercover
that's what you want.
You crave it.
Oh, okay, I see. What, so you're a
you're a shrink now? Huh?
No, I'm better than a shrink.
I'm an old friend
with a great memory.
And I am only telling you this
for your own good.
So you stop living this lie
and get back to who you really are.
You're wrong.
You are wrong.
All that crap I did
in the past, it was never me.
I was undercover,
I was playing a character.
Dante did all those things. Not me.
You still don't get it, do you?
Nick Torres is the cover.
Dante is who you really are.
We're done.
Don't walk away from me
You get your hands off me.
There he is.
I knew you were in there somewhere.
Hey. Any luck?
No. Been combing through
his credit card statements,
hoping our missing bookkeeper
might've left us a clue
as to where he's hiding.
Yeah. If he's hiding.
I mean, he could already be dead.
How about you? You get anywhere
with Tuttle's wife?
Nope. But I'll tell you what,
if Mr. Tuttle is dead,
Mrs. Tuttle sure wouldn't mind.
- Ooh. Really?
- Oh, yeah.
I'm getting some heavy divorce vibes.
I mean, she was practically giddy
at the thought of becoming a widow.
Thank you guys so much for coming.
Again, so so sorry about this.
Jimmy, what happened?
I decided to throw a party for
Ruth, you know, from Dispatch?
And I thought it'd be nice
to put one candle
on the cake for each year.
Isn't she, like, 60?
Sixty-four.
Did something get lit on fire?
No, no, no, nothing like that.
No. But, uh, uh
Ruth hyperventilated when she was trying
to blow out all the candles and then
she passed out.
What was I thinking? I mean,
this whole birthday thing,
this has been a disaster.
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
Well, Jimmy, it was a nice idea.
And your intentions were so good.
Yeah, my intentions, Jess,
have cost this office a fortune.
I mean, the-the bakery receipts
alone are in the triple digits.
- Barbara is gonna kill me.
- (COMPUTER CHIRPS)
Wait a minute.
Bakery receipts A lot of them.
I get it, McGee. Please don't rub it in.
No, no, no. Our-our
missing bookkeeper, Tuttle.
He racked up some very hefty
bakery bills of his own,
at a place called "Sugar Buns."
Apparently, it's an adult erotic bakery
specializing in "romantic confections."
- (WOMAN MOANING OVER COMPUTER)
- (SULTRY MUSIC PLAYING)
Didn't you say
that Tuttle and his wife
were headed for divorce?
Yeah.
So who'd he buy the cakes for?
There you are. I was looking for you.
You and Keller hash things out?
Something like that.
(SIGHS)
Look, Nick, guys like Keller
are stuck in their glory days. Just
don't let him get to you.
That scar was my doing, you know.
Yeah, I heard.
I did some horrible things
in my past, Parker.
Justified by
saying it was in the line of duty.
But there was always something
that bothered me afterwards.
What's that?
How much I enjoyed it.
After I did all those things, I felt
alive.
What does that say about me?
You had to go to those places
to do the job. Not easy.
I know. I've done some, uh,
some things in the past
that I'd rather forget.
Like in your recent past?
Listen we all have darkness.
It doesn't get to decide
who we are, though.
(PHONE CHIMING)
It's Knight. They found the bookkeeper.
All right.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Did I miss anything?
Just got here myself.
TORRES: What is that?
Nothing, I hope.
Why am I in here?
I'm not a suspect.
If anything, you guys
should be protecting me.
Yeah, from your wife, I imagine.
She's not gonna be too thrilled to learn
you were eating cupcakes
with your mistress.
Yeah, you still got a little
frosting on your top lip.
(SIGHS)
Yeah, all right, my wife and I
were having marital problems.
Okay? But that's not why
I was at my girlfriend's.
I was hiding.
Someone's trying to kill me.
Dante Navarro?
Yeah. He's already killed
a bunch of people.
I could be next.
Please, you guys have to protect me.
It's gonna be hard
to protect you from yourself.
Right, Dante?
What are you guys talking about?
We pulled your cell records,
your GPS history.
You visited all five victims
before they were murdered.
Yeah, I was trying to warn them.
I heard Dante was
back out on the street.
The bullet that killed Mikey Fallon
is from a Remington 700 rifle
which happens to be the same
make and model of a rifle
that you yourself own.
I use that to hunt.
Okay? A lot of people own that gun.
Look, I-I didn't kill anybody!
You stole ten million
from Sergio Cimino.
Then you assumed Dante Navarro's
identity so that you could
kill anyone that could
connect you to the money.
Sure, it took a long time to find them.
Names change, people move.
But you were patient.
You wanted that money all for yourself.
You guys don't understand.
There is no money.
I had to give it all away.
Look, when Cimino got busted
13 years ago,
I was arrested on
money laundering charges.
But a federal agent offered me a deal:
ten million for full immunity.
So I took it.
Gave him all the money
and I walked free.
KNIGHT:
You remember the agent's name?
TUTTLE:
Yeah, I'll never forget it.
Bob Graves.
(PHONE BUTTONS BEEPING)
Where's Keller?
- (RECORDED): Hey, it's Walt.
- He left the building.
You know what to do.
Leave a message.
We need to send the nearest
agents to his cabin now.
"Bob Graves" is the alias
Keller used back when
he was an undercover agent.
I was afraid of that.
You were tailing him?
I have some experience
with shady mentors.
Best to keep tabs on them.
Keller was ducking out at odd hours,
making calls on a burner phone.
It's not a good look.
Which means that Keller took the money.
He played us.
Anything yet?
The agents said that Keller isn't home,
and his phone is shut off.
Dug into the bookkeeper's finances.
Confirmed ten million was withdrawn
from his account 13 years ago.
- Where'd the money go?
- Kasie's still working on it.
But we know where it went.
We don't know if it was Keller
for sure, okay?
MCGEE: Somebody could've used his alias
just like they used yours, Nick.
But they didn't, Tim. It's Keller.
He's been lying to us from the jump.
Hey, even if Keller did take the money,
it still doesn't tell us
who our murderer is.
That's true. Keller was with
you when that guy was shot.
He can't be Dante.
Well, if he's not,
Keller better watch his back.
Dante could be coming for him next.
(PHONE CHIMING)
Kasie's got something.
KASIE: The ten million was
transferred to an offshore account
13 years ago.
Not sure about the owner yet.
He hid it behind
multiple shell companies.
Of course. Why make it easy on us?
OKAY. BUT HERE'S THE WEIRD THING:
since the account opened,
the owner had been making
monthly transfers
to a custodial account
in someone else's name.
Wait, custodial?
Like, for a kid?
An eight-year-old girl.
No family. Lived in
an orphanage in Baltimore
until she turned 18 and took
full control of the money.
Here's a recent photo of her.
PARKER: Sasha Norris.
Who the hell is she?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Still working on an address.
The one on her ID isn't current.
Um, I gotta go.
Where you going?
Out.
(DISTANT CAR ALARM BLARING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
♪
(GUN COCKS)
Were you expecting someone else?
You shouldn't be here.
What, you're thinking that
Dante might show up?
Well, it makes sense, considering
that this is her father's bar.
Because Dante
or Sasha Norris, if we're gonna
go with real names
is Ray's daughter.
And now she's killing everyone
connected to the Ciminos
for what they did to her family.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Guess I should be surprised
you figured it out.
Then again, I did teach you.
You lied to me.
You said you had talked to Ray.
You said he was gonna be fine.
But I called WITSEC on the way here.
Ray and his family are dead.
The Ciminos massacred them
13 years ago when they found
out that he was an informant.
Look, I wanted to tell you, Nick
I promised him, Walt.
I looked Ray in the eyes
and I swore that we were gonna
protect him and his family.
Look, the Cimino takedown, it was chaos.
Multiple arrests, there was
people moving around everywhere.
And Ray, he just
He slipped through the cracks.
And by the time I realized it,
it was too late.
He and his family had
already been killed.
Except for Sasha.
She was hiding under the bed.
She saw the whole thing.
I felt awful.
Awful?
So awful that you stole
ten million dollars
and anonymously have been
giving it to her ever since?
Yeah.
Maybe I was hoping
it could make things right.
You know? Maybe she could
still have a bright future.
Well, it didn't work out
that way, did it?
No. It didn't.
So what now?
Sasha walks through
that door, and what?
- You gonna kill her?
- No,
I'm gonna arrest her.
She killed five people, Nick.
She's a murderer.
She needs to answer for what she's done.
Well, maybe we all do.
Oh, there you go again,
being overly dramatic.
- (GUNSHOT)
- (GRUNTS, GROANS)
Drop your weapon!
- Move away from him.
- TORRES: Sasha,
drop your weapon. Don't do this.
She's dangerous, Nick. Shoot her!
- Sasha
- (KELLER GROANS)
I'm Dante Navarro.
The real one.
I knew your father.
He was a decent man.
He wouldn't want this for you.
You're Dante?
He trusted you!
I know I failed him.
(KELLER GROANING)
But nothing I can say
will make up for that.
But killing us
is not gonna bring him back.
And it's not gonna ease your pain.
Sasha, listen to me.
How about we both put our weapons down
slowly,
together.
And we can talk.
Can you do that?
Okay.
Same time.
Ready?
Easy does it.
There you go.
That's it.
Now we come up.
There you go.
- We're gonna talk.
- (TWO GUNSHOTS)
Why did you do that?! She was unarmed!
No, she wasn't.
Check her hand.
It was in her waistband.
She's a killer, Nick.
People don't change.
KNIGHT: We matched
Sasha's rifle to the one
that was used to kill Fallon
at the halfway house.
We searched the apartment
and found a notebook
with the names and addresses
of all five victims.
Wasn't easy for Sasha
to track them down.
Which is why she hacked into our system.
And it's how she learned
about the Dante alias.
Well, Sasha was a computer whiz.
She used that money
Keller gave her to go to MIT.
She graduated with honors.
Hmm.
Some good that did her.
So, all that's left is Sasha's death.
According to his statement,
Keller said he fired in self-defense.
Is that what happened, Agent Torres?
Was it a clean kill?
Well, I tried to talk her down.
But I couldn't.
Keller made the right call.
Then that's that.
Go home.
Rest. You've earned it.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
(PHONE RINGING)
Hello?
Hey.
I never got a chance to talk to you
before you left. How you doing?
I know it was a hard day.
TORRES: I'm okay.
I've been through worse.
Listen, uh, back in the lab,
when you figured out
that Sasha was the killer
why didn't you tell me
where you were going?
Well, because some things
are best to do alone.
Wouldn't you agree?
(EXHALES)
Well, if, uh
you ever need anyone to talk to,
you know where to find me.
I appreciate that.
Hey, Parker, in a weird way
this case might've put me on the path
to figure out who I am.
And who's that?
I'll let you know when I get there.
(SIGHS)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Is that side job
with the CIA still open?
♪
Hey. That's real good, sweetheart.
(DOOR OPENING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
How's it going, Vince?
Got something for me?
Yeah.
Feels a little light.
Yeah, uh, I've been a little
strapped for cash.
I had a pipe bust and, um, fridge broke.
(CHUCKLES) Cost me a fortune.
Sounds like the plumber got paid.
Look (SIGHS)
I'll-I'll make it up to you
next month. Promise.
That your kid?
My, uh, my wife had to work.
It's nice having a family.
Lot of stress, though.
Constantly worrying about
something bad gonna happen to 'em.
I'll get I'll get you
the money next week.
Hit me again.
I'm gonna use the can.
(LOCK CLICKS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
Ah!
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
(STRAINING)
(YELPS)
(NECK CRACKS)
♪
Sorry about the mess.
♪
(TORRES SPEAKING QUIETLY)
Oh! Attention on deck!
SECNAV arriving!
Guys, seriously, how long are
you gonna keep doing that for?
I don't know, man,
till it stops being funny.
KNIGHT: We're just excited
for you, McGee.
It's not every day one of our own
gets called up to the big leagues.
I told you, though, already,
it's, like, nothing definite yet.
When I had breakfast
with SECNAV this morning,
she explained to me
that she's got another
two years left on her term.
I'm just being vetted as a possible
replacement, that's all.
It might not even happen.
Still, you and Delilah have to be
going nuts at the possibility, right?
Yeah. We're excited.
Flattered.
Little nauseous.
It's a lot to think about, you know?
I mean, it could really
change our lives.
Until that happens, though,
can we do a thing
where we, like,
not bring this up at all?
Who wants cake?
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
Congrats, Mr. Secretary.
- Look
- I'm kidding.
It's birthday cake
for Barbara from Accounting.
I didn't know it was her birthday.
Oh, none of us did. It was last week.
- We all forgot.
- Hmm. Was she bummed?
Uh, yeah, is she, uh,
going to take it out on our paychecks?
Well, I-I think I smoothed
things over with the birthday cake.
But, uh, this incident
has led me to a decision:
You guys, I'm officially
bringing birthdays back.
Did they ever leave?
Office birthdays, Jess.
As in parties and cake?
You know? It's a new era at NCIS.
You know? It's time
we celebrate a little more.
Eh, seems like a lot of work, bro.
Well, technically it's not work
if you're having fun, Nick.
Oh. Agent Parker. Cake?
What are you doing, Jimmy?
I'm the morning sweets guy.
Are you, uh, trying
to muscle in on my territory?
No, no. Of course not. This is
birthday cake. It doesn't count.
Slice?
It's pretty good.
Is that
sheet cake with vanilla frosting
from a supermarket?
Hard pass.
Little pastry snob.
Besides, we got a dead body
in a Navy hangar.
And, uh, from what I've heard,
you might not want
a full stomach for this one.
All right, so security found
the burning car this morning.
Then they called the fire department.
PARKER: We speak to them yet?
Knight's on it, and
McGee's running down the license plate.
Cameras catch anything?
TONY: Out of service.
Hangar was abandoned two years ago.
Remote location,
minimal security.
I mean, if you wanted
to dump a body somewhere,
this would be the place.
Director DiNozzo.
What a, uh, pleasant and
totally expected surprise.
Yeah, man, I see that drip.
- You enjoying a little R and R?
- TONY: I wish.
No, I got golf in 30 minutes
with the senator
who controls our budget.
He agreed to, uh,
give us a little bit more money
if I can beat him over 18 holes.
He likes golf.
I like money.
Ah, our democracy at work.
- Is he any good?
- Very.
But not as good as Chief Petty
Officer Newman over there.
- The hangar security guy?
- Oh, yeah.
Number Two on the All-Navy Golf Team.
And he's also my caddie.
Hey, that's smart.
So, what are we looking at here,
Dr. Palmer?
Well, victim is female,
somewhere between her 20s
and 40s. No ID,
so we'll have to wait on dental
records to confirm identification.
Yeah, don't need
dental records for that
JIMMY: No. That
is a laceration on her throat.
It's quite possible that she was
strangled before she was set on fire.
Killer torched the car
to destroy evidence.
- We could be looking at a pro.
- (PHONE RINGING)
McGee ran the plate. It's a rental car.
It was booked
through a corporate account
registered to
a Baltimore consulting firm.
Hmm. McGee looked into the firm.
There's no website. No employees.
Smells like a shell company.
Only name connected is
someone named Dante Navarro.
Dante Navarro?
From Baltimore?
You know him?
Well, that could be our guy.
- Let's pick him up.
- But you will never find him.
Why wouldn't we find him?
Because he doesn't exist.
I invented him.
Dante Navarro is the name
of a backstop identity
I used years ago,
during my undercover days.
Is this before you came to D.C.?
Yeah. I gave him a full legend.
I mean, he was a, uh, freelance
hit man from Baltimore.
A lone wolf. I even gave him a
signature weapon the garrote wire.
Nice touch.
You use him on multiple cases or?
TORRES: At least a dozen.
I mean, anything from drug trafficking
to armed robbery.
And then I retired him for good
when I got here.
Looks like "Dante" has come
out of retirement.
We got an ID on the victim yet?
Jimmy's still working on it.
All right, we need to figure out
why somebody would
resurrect an old alias to commit murder.
Could it be related
to one of your old cases?
So many to choose from.
Dante had a lot of enemies.
How could they have learned
about your alias in the first place?
No idea.
Only two people knew about him.
Me and Walt Keller.
My old handler from the past.
Then we need to talk to him.
TORRES: Good luck with that.
Last I heard, he left NCIS
and fell off the face of the earth.
Well, let's hope not,
'cause right now
he's the only lead we got.
I'll make some phone calls.
I take it the two of you weren't close?
Let's just say it was complicated.
(EXHALES)
Hey, roomie.
So, what do we got on this Jane Doe?
Hmm? What? What's that?
What are you doing?
Me? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Hey. I
(TONY CLEARS THROAT)
JIMMY: Look, I can explain.
This is all kinds of wrong.
The refrigerators upstairs
were all full, so
No, no, no, no, stop.
This isn't The Great British
Bake Off, Paul Hollywood.
This is the morgue.
I didn't have a choice, Tony.
I don't know if you've heard,
but I am bringing
- birthdays back.
- Birthdays back. Yes, I know.
There are five birthday cakes in here.
You told me it was just
Barbara's birthday today.
That's what I thought, okay?
But it turns out that
more than one person
shares the same birthday.
So I've got two today, I've got
three tomorrow.
Next week, I've Okay, no.
You really don't know
what's coming, do you?
What do you mean?
This whole birthday thing
it's gonna swallow you whole.
Oh, I don't know about that.
Jane Doe.
Right. I-I pulled the dental records of
all missing women in the D.C. area
and I came up with a match.
Our victim's name is Mandy Dubrow.
She was 45, paralegal.
- No criminal record.
- So nothing to suggest
why she might've been killed.
No. But I did find
something interesting.
These lacerations on her neck?
I mean, she was definitely strangled,
but the killer didn't use his hands.
He must've used some sort of sharp wire.
Like a garrote wire.
Torres did say that was
his alias's weapon of choice.
Well, someone really wants us
to believe "Dante Navarro" is real.
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
Hey, Kase. Was hoping that you Whoa.
- What the hell is that thing?
- KASIE: Piñata.
Jimmy asked me to pick it up
for one of his birthday parties.
As if I don't have enough to do.
Why is it in the shape of a gnome?
It's not a gnome, it is a baby.
It's the last one they had
left at the store. I think
it's for gender-reveal parties.
And what, you're supposed
to hit the baby?
I don't know.
This is Jimmy's idea, not mine.
Wish we could hit him with a stick.
Well, I hope
Jimmy hasn't created a monster
with this whole birthday thing.
Well, he wouldn't be the only
one who's created a monster.
- What do you mean?
- I ran the name "Dante Navarro"
through various local police databases,
and his name came up in connection with
several unsolved murders
over the past two years.
Whoever's using Torres's alias
has been busy.
Well, the killings appear
to be unrelated.
But here's something interesting.
One of the victims got a text
from a burner phone
right before his death.
MCGEE: "Watch your back.
"Dante's looking for you.
Asking about Grace."
Who's Grace?
No idea.
She was obviously worth killing for.
(PHONE CHIMES)
Ooh. Torres finally
tracked down his old handler.
Your guy sure loves his privacy, huh?
(SIGHS) Yeah. Listen, I gotta warn you.
Keller is an old-school cop, you know.
He's a little rough.
Likes to push buttons.
Is that what you meant by
"a complicated relationship"?
Well, he taught me everything
I know about undercover work.
But I'm not the same guy
that I was back then, and
he just won't accept that.
(DOOR CREAKS)
Nick.
That him?
Yeah.
- Hey, Torres.
- Drop your weapon!
Saw you pull up.
You fell for
the oldest trick in the book.
Do it now.
TORRES: Jess
it's okay.
Nice to see you too, Walt.
(KELLER LAUGHING)
Um, excuse the mess.
My maid's day off.
You want a drink?
Uh, no, thank you.
I'm sober.
(LAUGHS) Since when?
Mr. Keller, we were hoping
you could help us.
Yeah, you know,
I don't get a lot of visitors
out here that much, you know.
Couple raccoons. A bear.
Maybe. So you can imagine
my surprise when I found
the great Nicky Torres at my door.
How long has it been, Nick?
Nine ten years?
- A long time.
- Yeah.
I taught this guy everything he knows.
I recruited him fresh out of FLETC.
Green as an avocado.
I wasn't that green.
Ha! Please.
He didn't know a dead drop
from a hole in the ground.
But he was a quick learner.
And he did have a taste for it,
especially the more dangerous stuff.
We were a great team
till he left me
for that cushy desk job
with Gibbs and his crew.
- He got soft on me.
- TORRES: Here we go.
Well, I mean, it's hardly a desk job.
Nick has put himself in danger
a thousand times over.
- So maybe ease off a bit.
- Walt, we're not here
on a social call.
We actually need your help on a case.
Well, I'm not really sure
what I can do for you.
Clearly, I'm out of the game.
It's about Dante Navarro.
Somebody's using the identity
to kill people.
Bullcrap. I burned that identity myself
after we were through. I wiped it clean.
The only copy is on a federal
secure network somewhere.
Then maybe somebody hacked it.
Why?
It's a dead legend. It's useless.
Well, someone doesn't think so.
This is a list of four people
that Dante killed.
We can't find a pattern.
We were hoping you could.
Well, you can't figure out the pattern
because these aren't
the victims' real names.
They've been changed.
How would you know that?
'Cause they're all connected to Cimino.
Who's Cimino?
Sergio Cimino was the head
of a crime family
in Baltimore, back in the 2000s.
He was bad news. Drug trafficking,
weapons smuggling, extortion.
13 years ago, I went undercover
as Dante Navarro
and infiltrated the family.
KELLER: Thanks to Torres here,
we were able to build a case.
We put the Ciminos away for life.
And how do our four victims
tie into this?
Well, each one of them worked
for the Cimino family
in some low-level capacity.
Our recent victim here, Mandy Dubrow,
worked as the family's lawyer.
They offered sealed testimony
at the trial,
changed their names
for their protection.
Okay, so if all of the major players
in the Cimino family are in jail,
why take out the B team?
And why now? It's been 13 years.
And why use Torres's alias
to kill 'em all?
Dread Pirate Roberts.
Princess Bride. Our killer's
pulling a Dread Pirate Roberts.
Back in the day,
Dante was a name that invoked fear.
And our killer is
taking advantage of that.
The name itself has become the weapon.
Tony DiNozzo?
Holy balls, it is you.
Oh, my God.
Walt Keller.
- You're still alive?
- Hey, man.
You two know each other?
Uh, yeah. We got into a little
trouble back in the day.
Yeah. Tony's a legendary undercover guy.
What was your alias again,
"Tony DiWaldo"?
- "DiNardo."
- Oh, sorry.
Film studies professor.
Not nearly as cool as
Torres's hit man alias.
And so, what do we have here?
This is the
Cimino supporting cast of characters?
Somebody is picking them off one by one.
Well, that means there are
probably gonna be more targets.
We need to pull
all the case files on Cimino.
Kasie's already on it, Director.
- We have to warn Ray.
- Who's that?
Ray Moore,
my informant.
He also owned a bar where the
Cimino family used to hang out at.
We put him in witness protection
when everything went down.
He's gonna be a target.
Yeah, I'm way ahead of you.
I already called him
and a bunch of our other CIs.
They're safe and sound
Wait, why did he call you "Director"?
Because I'm the director now.
(LAUGHS)
No, really. Why?
He's telling the truth.
Huh.
Don't worry, Walt.
I run a tight ship.
- Happy birthday to you ♪
- Oh, cake!
Happy birthday,
dear Angela, Greg and Bethany ♪
Happy birthday to you. ♪
We don't we don't have
any more candles.
You left me for this?
KELLER (OVER COMMS): Now
remember, when you walk in
TORRES: You'll talk to Ray first,
you'll give me the
give me the all-clear.
Yeah, we've been over this.
KELLER: I'll be right outside
if anything goes down.
Try to get him to say something
on tape we can use.
Hey, Kase. Have you met
that Keller guy yet?
I offered him a piece of cake
and you don't want to know
where he told me to put it.
So, do you want a piece of cake?
Don't have much of an appetite.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Hey, what's the matter? You okay?
Yeah. You know, um,
Parker's got me listening to
Torres's body-wire recordings of
the Sergio Cimino case, and
It's got me kind of freaked out,
to be honest.
Yeah. Listening to Cimino
and all those mafia guys
No, it's Torres.
He just sounds so different.
Not himself.
Well, he was undercover, Kase.
I mean, that's kind of the point.
Yeah, I-I know, but
it all sounds so real.
Okay.
- Let me hear it.
- Oh,
don't say I didn't warn you.
Okay, this is where I left off.
According to the case notes,
Cimino was suspicious that
one of his guys was stealing,
so he sent Torres to confirm it.
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
TORRES:
Mikey Fallon, what's up, man?
This chair taken?
You look good.
Is that a new jacket?
Is it leather?
Suede.
Damn.
Might have to pick me up one of those.
Is it expensive?
It looks expensive.
I mean, almost as much as
that new gold watch around your wrist.
You got something to say to me,
then say it.
I ain't afraid of you, Dante.
Have you ever played, uh,
Five-Finger Fillet?
You don't know the game?
I learned it at Glades.
See, the lifers used to play it
just to pass time, right?
Then I started learning it,
and all of a sudden,
I became really good at it.
And I realized
it was all about
precision, baby.
That supposed to scare me?
Your turn.
What are you doing, man?
Don't worry. I've never missed. Watch.
Hey, get your get off me!
(SCREAMS)
Oops. (LAUGHS)
Man, my bad.
My bad. Hey, are you stealing
from Sergio?
No! Please! Oh, it hurts
Okay, well, tell me what I want
to know and I'll make it stop.
(SCREAMS)
Okay, okay, yes.
I stole the money.
- Oh, you did?
- But he told me to do it.
Who? Who told you to do it?
- Ah. Ah!
- Who told you to do it?
Johnny Russo.
(GROANS)
He said the money was going to Grace.
- Grace?
- Please
I think I'm gonna be sick.
I don't like it
when you lie to me, Mikey.
- (SCREAMS)
- Okay, stop it, stop it.
My God, Nick was actually
torturing that guy.
Kase, you were right.
I don't know who that was
on the tape there,
but that was not our friend.
Wait a minute.
We need to play this for the guys.
MIKEY (ON RECORDING):
Johnny Russo.
He said the money was
going to Grace.
- TORRES: Grace?
- MIKEY: Please
- I think I'm gonna be sick.
- TORRES: I don't like it
- when you lie to me, Mikey.
- (SCREAMS)
He said "Grace."
The same name that was
on our victim's text message.
The message said
Dante was asking about Grace.
If she's connected to the money
that was stolen 13 years ago,
maybe that's what
Dante's looking for now.
You ever follow up on it?
No. A week later, we arrested Cimino.
Uh, the case was closed.
KELLER: Why are you wasting
your time with this?
It's a dead end.
You'd get more answers
from a Magic 8 Ball.
You heard the tape.
That guy Fallon said
Mikey Fallon is a world-class
douchebag and a liar.
He'd say anything to save himself.
Still. Can't be a coincidence
that the name "Grace"
has come up twice now.
MCGEE: We need to speak to Mikey Fallon.
He was recently paroled
and lives at a halfway house
called Best Hope.
Do you have an address?
KELLER: I know where it is,
I'll take you there.
My nap's already ruined.
Was he always like that?
You get used to it.
Admit it.
You miss this.
You miss you and me, working together.
Come on, man, stop making it weird.
You know, the CIA reached out
to me recently
about doing some deep-cover work.
Real off-the-books stuff, high risk.
What do you say?
Put the band back together?
You could do it on the side.
No. Thanks, man, but I
think I'm good where I am.
Right.
Mikey!
Mikey, hold up!
We're running now?
Please, don't kill me, don't kill me
I'm not gonna kill you.
I just want to talk to you.
Sure. Everybody knows
Dante is cleaning house.
What'd I miss?
Hey, that wasn't me. I'm a Fed.
I was undercover as Dante. You see?
You're a cop?
- But then who killed
- We don't know.
That's what we're hoping
that you can help us figure out.
You want my help? (SCOFFS)
That's beautiful. (CHUCKLES)
After what you did to me?
Nice, huh?
The knife severed the tendons.
I can't move my fingers no more.
I can't wipe my own ass,
thanks to you.
So forgive me, Officer,
if I don't feel like helping you out.
Besides, what more can you do to me
- you haven't already done?
- Well,
- there's still your other hand.
- Ah!
Get him off of me!
- Hey, Walt, Walt, lay back
- Tell us what you did
with the money you stole from Cimino!
- This is not the way, Walt.
- It is if it works.
Ah! Okay, okay.
I'll talk, I'll talk.
(WINCING)
We've been stealing
from the old man for years.
Over ten million dollars.
Ten?
MIKEY: Yeah. With help from a partner.
Grace.
MIKEY: Grace wasn't a person.
That was the name of the boat.
That's where they kept the money.
Then who was the partner?
- (GUNSHOT)
- (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
- (GUNSHOT)
- (SCREAMS)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
- What are you doing?
- You're all right. I got you.
- She needs our help!
- Leave her! He's getting away!
We'll call 911 from the car!
We got a shooting victim.
I need an ambulance now.
PARKER: The pedestrian who
got hit is gonna be fine, but, uh,
unfortunately, I can't say
the same for Mikey Fallon.
What about the shooter?
- Has to be Dante.
- In the wind.
Wonder who we have to thank for that?
She was gonna bleed out on the sidewalk.
What was I supposed to do? Let her die?
KELLER: You're being overdramatic.
- She would've been fine.
- TORRES: You don't know that.
I made a call and that was it.
Yeah, and it was the wrong one.
Okay, let's just save it, all right?
You used to know the difference
between what mattered
and what didn't matter
- (RECORD SCRATCHES,
- JAZZ MUSIC CONTINUES)
Oh, I'm sorry. Did my smooth jazz
interrupt your very important fight?
- (TONY SIGHS)
- (MUSIC FADES OUT)
So
now that the SmackDown has been averted,
what do we know?
Whoever is impersonating Dante
is looking for money
that was stolen
from the Cimino crime family.
Ten million dollars.
Why would Dante shoot Fallon
before he could tell him anything?
It's not the brightest idea.
Fallon's room was ransacked
before he was killed.
So Dante found what he was looking for.
Then iced Fallon afterwards
to keep him quiet.
Good news is, is we may have a lead on
who was behind the stolen money.
Since we know it was stored
on a boat named Grace,
we searched Baltimore marina
records going back 13 years.
Found four boats with the same name.
One of them belonged to a
bookkeeper named Nelson Tuttle.
Now, the boat is
no longer in service, but
Tuttle used to work
at the same accounting firm
that did Sergio Cimino's books.
He hasn't reported for work in days
and his wife hasn't seen him.
Well, we should find him.
And quick.
If he's still alive,
he's our best shot at finding Dante.
Hopefully, we won't lose him this time.
Hey.
Hey, where do you get off
talking to me like that
in front of my boss?
I'm just stating the obvious.
Which is?
This place has made you weak.
- Get out of here
- When I first met you,
you were wild.
You were fearless.
You were willing to do
all the things the rest of us wouldn't.
Now look at you.
This place has turned you
into a house cat.
I mean, dude,
you don't even drink anymore.
- I'm a recovering alcoholic
- I don't buy it.
Alcohol was never your problem.
You're addicted to adrenaline.
The danger you feel
when you're undercover
that's what you want.
You crave it.
Oh, okay, I see. What, so you're a
you're a shrink now? Huh?
No, I'm better than a shrink.
I'm an old friend
with a great memory.
And I am only telling you this
for your own good.
So you stop living this lie
and get back to who you really are.
You're wrong.
You are wrong.
All that crap I did
in the past, it was never me.
I was undercover,
I was playing a character.
Dante did all those things. Not me.
You still don't get it, do you?
Nick Torres is the cover.
Dante is who you really are.
We're done.
Don't walk away from me
You get your hands off me.
There he is.
I knew you were in there somewhere.
Hey. Any luck?
No. Been combing through
his credit card statements,
hoping our missing bookkeeper
might've left us a clue
as to where he's hiding.
Yeah. If he's hiding.
I mean, he could already be dead.
How about you? You get anywhere
with Tuttle's wife?
Nope. But I'll tell you what,
if Mr. Tuttle is dead,
Mrs. Tuttle sure wouldn't mind.
- Ooh. Really?
- Oh, yeah.
I'm getting some heavy divorce vibes.
I mean, she was practically giddy
at the thought of becoming a widow.
Thank you guys so much for coming.
Again, so so sorry about this.
Jimmy, what happened?
I decided to throw a party for
Ruth, you know, from Dispatch?
And I thought it'd be nice
to put one candle
on the cake for each year.
Isn't she, like, 60?
Sixty-four.
Did something get lit on fire?
No, no, no, nothing like that.
No. But, uh, uh
Ruth hyperventilated when she was trying
to blow out all the candles and then
she passed out.
What was I thinking? I mean,
this whole birthday thing,
this has been a disaster.
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
Well, Jimmy, it was a nice idea.
And your intentions were so good.
Yeah, my intentions, Jess,
have cost this office a fortune.
I mean, the-the bakery receipts
alone are in the triple digits.
- Barbara is gonna kill me.
- (COMPUTER CHIRPS)
Wait a minute.
Bakery receipts A lot of them.
I get it, McGee. Please don't rub it in.
No, no, no. Our-our
missing bookkeeper, Tuttle.
He racked up some very hefty
bakery bills of his own,
at a place called "Sugar Buns."
Apparently, it's an adult erotic bakery
specializing in "romantic confections."
- (WOMAN MOANING OVER COMPUTER)
- (SULTRY MUSIC PLAYING)
Didn't you say
that Tuttle and his wife
were headed for divorce?
Yeah.
So who'd he buy the cakes for?
There you are. I was looking for you.
You and Keller hash things out?
Something like that.
(SIGHS)
Look, Nick, guys like Keller
are stuck in their glory days. Just
don't let him get to you.
That scar was my doing, you know.
Yeah, I heard.
I did some horrible things
in my past, Parker.
Justified by
saying it was in the line of duty.
But there was always something
that bothered me afterwards.
What's that?
How much I enjoyed it.
After I did all those things, I felt
alive.
What does that say about me?
You had to go to those places
to do the job. Not easy.
I know. I've done some, uh,
some things in the past
that I'd rather forget.
Like in your recent past?
Listen we all have darkness.
It doesn't get to decide
who we are, though.
(PHONE CHIMING)
It's Knight. They found the bookkeeper.
All right.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Did I miss anything?
Just got here myself.
TORRES: What is that?
Nothing, I hope.
Why am I in here?
I'm not a suspect.
If anything, you guys
should be protecting me.
Yeah, from your wife, I imagine.
She's not gonna be too thrilled to learn
you were eating cupcakes
with your mistress.
Yeah, you still got a little
frosting on your top lip.
(SIGHS)
Yeah, all right, my wife and I
were having marital problems.
Okay? But that's not why
I was at my girlfriend's.
I was hiding.
Someone's trying to kill me.
Dante Navarro?
Yeah. He's already killed
a bunch of people.
I could be next.
Please, you guys have to protect me.
It's gonna be hard
to protect you from yourself.
Right, Dante?
What are you guys talking about?
We pulled your cell records,
your GPS history.
You visited all five victims
before they were murdered.
Yeah, I was trying to warn them.
I heard Dante was
back out on the street.
The bullet that killed Mikey Fallon
is from a Remington 700 rifle
which happens to be the same
make and model of a rifle
that you yourself own.
I use that to hunt.
Okay? A lot of people own that gun.
Look, I-I didn't kill anybody!
You stole ten million
from Sergio Cimino.
Then you assumed Dante Navarro's
identity so that you could
kill anyone that could
connect you to the money.
Sure, it took a long time to find them.
Names change, people move.
But you were patient.
You wanted that money all for yourself.
You guys don't understand.
There is no money.
I had to give it all away.
Look, when Cimino got busted
13 years ago,
I was arrested on
money laundering charges.
But a federal agent offered me a deal:
ten million for full immunity.
So I took it.
Gave him all the money
and I walked free.
KNIGHT:
You remember the agent's name?
TUTTLE:
Yeah, I'll never forget it.
Bob Graves.
(PHONE BUTTONS BEEPING)
Where's Keller?
- (RECORDED): Hey, it's Walt.
- He left the building.
You know what to do.
Leave a message.
We need to send the nearest
agents to his cabin now.
"Bob Graves" is the alias
Keller used back when
he was an undercover agent.
I was afraid of that.
You were tailing him?
I have some experience
with shady mentors.
Best to keep tabs on them.
Keller was ducking out at odd hours,
making calls on a burner phone.
It's not a good look.
Which means that Keller took the money.
He played us.
Anything yet?
The agents said that Keller isn't home,
and his phone is shut off.
Dug into the bookkeeper's finances.
Confirmed ten million was withdrawn
from his account 13 years ago.
- Where'd the money go?
- Kasie's still working on it.
But we know where it went.
We don't know if it was Keller
for sure, okay?
MCGEE: Somebody could've used his alias
just like they used yours, Nick.
But they didn't, Tim. It's Keller.
He's been lying to us from the jump.
Hey, even if Keller did take the money,
it still doesn't tell us
who our murderer is.
That's true. Keller was with
you when that guy was shot.
He can't be Dante.
Well, if he's not,
Keller better watch his back.
Dante could be coming for him next.
(PHONE CHIMING)
Kasie's got something.
KASIE: The ten million was
transferred to an offshore account
13 years ago.
Not sure about the owner yet.
He hid it behind
multiple shell companies.
Of course. Why make it easy on us?
OKAY. BUT HERE'S THE WEIRD THING:
since the account opened,
the owner had been making
monthly transfers
to a custodial account
in someone else's name.
Wait, custodial?
Like, for a kid?
An eight-year-old girl.
No family. Lived in
an orphanage in Baltimore
until she turned 18 and took
full control of the money.
Here's a recent photo of her.
PARKER: Sasha Norris.
Who the hell is she?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Still working on an address.
The one on her ID isn't current.
Um, I gotta go.
Where you going?
Out.
(DISTANT CAR ALARM BLARING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
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(GUN COCKS)
Were you expecting someone else?
You shouldn't be here.
What, you're thinking that
Dante might show up?
Well, it makes sense, considering
that this is her father's bar.
Because Dante
or Sasha Norris, if we're gonna
go with real names
is Ray's daughter.
And now she's killing everyone
connected to the Ciminos
for what they did to her family.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Guess I should be surprised
you figured it out.
Then again, I did teach you.
You lied to me.
You said you had talked to Ray.
You said he was gonna be fine.
But I called WITSEC on the way here.
Ray and his family are dead.
The Ciminos massacred them
13 years ago when they found
out that he was an informant.
Look, I wanted to tell you, Nick
I promised him, Walt.
I looked Ray in the eyes
and I swore that we were gonna
protect him and his family.
Look, the Cimino takedown, it was chaos.
Multiple arrests, there was
people moving around everywhere.
And Ray, he just
He slipped through the cracks.
And by the time I realized it,
it was too late.
He and his family had
already been killed.
Except for Sasha.
She was hiding under the bed.
She saw the whole thing.
I felt awful.
Awful?
So awful that you stole
ten million dollars
and anonymously have been
giving it to her ever since?
Yeah.
Maybe I was hoping
it could make things right.
You know? Maybe she could
still have a bright future.
Well, it didn't work out
that way, did it?
No. It didn't.
So what now?
Sasha walks through
that door, and what?
- You gonna kill her?
- No,
I'm gonna arrest her.
She killed five people, Nick.
She's a murderer.
She needs to answer for what she's done.
Well, maybe we all do.
Oh, there you go again,
being overly dramatic.
- (GUNSHOT)
- (GRUNTS, GROANS)
Drop your weapon!
- Move away from him.
- TORRES: Sasha,
drop your weapon. Don't do this.
She's dangerous, Nick. Shoot her!
- Sasha
- (KELLER GROANS)
I'm Dante Navarro.
The real one.
I knew your father.
He was a decent man.
He wouldn't want this for you.
You're Dante?
He trusted you!
I know I failed him.
(KELLER GROANING)
But nothing I can say
will make up for that.
But killing us
is not gonna bring him back.
And it's not gonna ease your pain.
Sasha, listen to me.
How about we both put our weapons down
slowly,
together.
And we can talk.
Can you do that?
Okay.
Same time.
Ready?
Easy does it.
There you go.
That's it.
Now we come up.
There you go.
- We're gonna talk.
- (TWO GUNSHOTS)
Why did you do that?! She was unarmed!
No, she wasn't.
Check her hand.
It was in her waistband.
She's a killer, Nick.
People don't change.
KNIGHT: We matched
Sasha's rifle to the one
that was used to kill Fallon
at the halfway house.
We searched the apartment
and found a notebook
with the names and addresses
of all five victims.
Wasn't easy for Sasha
to track them down.
Which is why she hacked into our system.
And it's how she learned
about the Dante alias.
Well, Sasha was a computer whiz.
She used that money
Keller gave her to go to MIT.
She graduated with honors.
Hmm.
Some good that did her.
So, all that's left is Sasha's death.
According to his statement,
Keller said he fired in self-defense.
Is that what happened, Agent Torres?
Was it a clean kill?
Well, I tried to talk her down.
But I couldn't.
Keller made the right call.
Then that's that.
Go home.
Rest. You've earned it.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
(PHONE RINGING)
Hello?
Hey.
I never got a chance to talk to you
before you left. How you doing?
I know it was a hard day.
TORRES: I'm okay.
I've been through worse.
Listen, uh, back in the lab,
when you figured out
that Sasha was the killer
why didn't you tell me
where you were going?
Well, because some things
are best to do alone.
Wouldn't you agree?
(EXHALES)
Well, if, uh
you ever need anyone to talk to,
you know where to find me.
I appreciate that.
Hey, Parker, in a weird way
this case might've put me on the path
to figure out who I am.
And who's that?
I'll let you know when I get there.
(SIGHS)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Is that side job
with the CIA still open?
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