NCIS s19e03 Episode Script

1 Previously on "NCIS" - Update.
- Same signatures, 100 days apart.
You sure it's my Jen? Here's our guy in Georgetown just an hour ago.
Name's Alden Parker, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
And I hope that your team didn't blow my cover.
Gibbs stays in the loop, - Agent Parker.
- Put it down.
- Gonna kill me twice? - No more fake names, Paul LeMere, thanks to your very real passport.
I'm just so relieved they caught the guy.
Every time LeMere killed one of his victims, someone sent him a cool 50K.
So he wasn't killing for sport, he was killing for money.
- Guy's not a serial killer.
- He's a contract killer.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! - Whoa, whoa, whoa! - Kasie! - Back off! BP's dropping.
He's losing blood fast.
I'll need 1,000 cc's of plasma.
- We got to stop this leak.
- Pupils are dilated.
- He's going into shock.
- Gonna need a transfusion here! - Nurse, excuse me.
- You shouldn't be here.
That's my suspect.
I need to know how he's doing.
Gibbs.
Come to finish the job? - Where is he? - Dead, or will be.
And now we're never gonna find out who was paying him.
He's not gonna die.
How do you know that? You pick up a medical degree on your way here? It wasn't a kill shot.
And it wasn't your call to make.
The guy had a knife to Kasie's throat.
And you had a trained hostage negotiator standing right there Agent Knight could've bought us some time.
- I'm not gonna take that chance.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I'm sure the review board will agree that it was a clean shot.
I'm just telling you it wasn't a smart move.
Our only lead is gonna die.
Not gonna die.
Get your head out of the sand.
Okay? You screwed up.
You played mister tough-guy vigilante and you screwed up, okay? What you did was reckless and dangerous.
Sorry to interrupt.
We managed to stop the bleeding and stabilize Mr.
LeMere.
He's going to live.
Live? The bullet only nicked his subclavian artery.
Quite lucky, actually.
One millimeter higher, and he would've died for sure.
Nice shooting.
Well, glad you could join us.
Welcome.
Don't gloat.
No gloating here.
Not gloating.
Mm-hmm.
I'm only moving because my desk is covered in blood.
Not because you want me to.
No, no, of course, of course.
Of course.
How's your head? It's better than my pride.
Can't believe I didn't see that coming.
Well, LeMere went full Hulk on us.
I mean, no one saw that coming.
Well, he got the jump on me.
I got jumped.
Happens to the best of us, you know? I've been jumped a few times myself.
Wow, a few times? It's never happened to me.
So what's wrong with you that it keeps happening to you? Yeah, funny.
Uh-uh.
Oh, hey, McGee.
Hey, morning.
Ooh, nice desk.
Yeah, I liked it better when she was over there.
Uh, any updates on LeMere's condition? Yeah, I spoke to the hospital.
He's, uh, conscious, and expected to make a full recovery.
The doctors are gonna let us know when we can talk to him.
Where's Gibbs? He's at the cemetery where we picked up LeMere.
Looking to see if there's anything we might've missed.
Yeah, makes sense.
A lot of questions in this case.
Yeah, let's see if we can answer some.
What do we know? Paul LeMere is not a serial killer He was a contract killer paid to kill these seven people.
- Who paid him? - We don't know yet.
Kasie's still tracing the payments that we found in his thumb drive.
Okay, so if LeMere was paid, then the victims Were being targeted.
Still can't find any connections between them.
We've combed the files, histories.
Nothing links them.
The link's got to be whoever hired LeMere.
We figure that out, we crack the case.
Well, then let's hope that Kasie works her magic.
- Mm - Jimmy.
Ah, your blood pressure's still a little high.
Uh, your pulse is fine.
But let me check your pupils again.
Hey, hey, hey.
I need to work.
Kasie, you were taken hostage, all right? - LeMere had a knife - Letter opener.
A letter opener to your throat, all right? It was a traumatic situation.
You could still be suffering from-from shock, from PTSD Or from you annoying me.
Okay, I have told you a thousand times, I will be fine.
I have been through worse.
We have been through worse.
The diner two years ago? Oof.
Well, yeah, but we worked through that.
Uh, I don't know.
- That was pretty traumatic.
- I mean, yes, we were taken hostage, and, sure, one of them died, and then they forced me to cut open his stomach and retrieve diamonds from his intestines, but, uh.
I Is it-is it hot in here? No, I'm gonna, I'm gonna sit down.
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
Hey, Kase, Jimmy.
What's going on with him? Uh, he's working through some things.
Oh.
Any luck tracing LeMere's payments? Whoever paid LeMere knew how to cover their tracks.
We know he was paid through a shell company, Navis Ventures.
But whenever I try to trace the money, it just leads to another shell company.
I've had multiple computers working on this, and I still can't found the source.
This could take days or weeks or Why does that happen every time I say something like that? Hmm, let me guess Another bogus shell company? Uh, that depends on how you feel about the U.
S.
government.
LeMere was paid by the Pentagon? Yeah.
Thanks for seeing us, Lieutenant Falco.
Of course.
Uh, please, have a seat.
Uh, excuse the mess.
You can just throw those anywhere.
So what can I do for you? So you are the, uh, senior accountant - to the defense finance? - And accounting services.
Why? We're investigating a payment to a suspect that came from this department.
Wait, wait, wait.
So you're not here about the audit? Audit? Oh, thank God.
Thank God.
Oh, you really had me going there.
The DoD is being audited again for some discrepancies in their books.
Well, $35 trillion worth.
That's a lot of discrepancies.
I have been killing myself for weeks trying to balance these books.
I haven't slept, I haven't seen my kids.
It's been a nightmare.
I hear that NCIS runs a pretty tight ship.
Financially speaking.
Y-You know if they're hiring at all or You know, never mind.
So, this payment you said it came from this department? That's right, but, uh, we don't know who authorized it.
Well, my office is just a pass-through, basically.
We process thousands of payments a week from every department in the military.
Uh, can I see the account number? Says here the money originated from one of our contractor accounts, Sonova Industries.
The DoD uses their data-imaging machines.
So our suspect wasn't actually paid by the Pentagon.
- He was paid by Sonova.
- Mm-hmm.
Can you tell us who from over there authorized it? Huh, that's weird.
There's no authorizing name here.
It could be just a glitch.
Or Or what? Or maybe someone at Sonova is trying to hide something.
We're gonna need a copy of those files, please.
Sure.
How you feeling, LeMere? Ready for another chat? Round two? Who hired you? I don't know what you're talking about.
We found your offshore account.
But you already know that, don't you? That's why you ran? I just felt like stretching my legs.
Who are you protecting? Can we wrap this up? I got a sponge bath coming up I really don't want to miss.
You know, for a guy who got caught, you're coming across very cocky.
You didn't catch me.
Um, I think we did.
- Agent McGee? - Yeah, I seem to remember - taking you down at the cemetery.
- No, that's because someone ratted me out.
That phone call at my apartment? That was someone pretending to be me.
So, like, a hitman impersonator? They wanted NCIS on my tail.
I was set up.
Okay, and who set you up? Seriously, who set you up? Give us a name.
Listen, Paul Can I call you Paul? Don't answer.
I'm gonna do it anyway.
Paul, we got you cold for seven murders.
That's a fact.
You're going down.
The only question left is whether or not you get the chair.
If you cooperate and give up your employer, the FBI will make sure that you live out the rest of your days in prison.
Now that's the best deal you're gonna get.
There's another body.
That you haven't found yet.
It's in upstate New York.
I'll take you to it.
And why would we do that? Because it's the first victim.
It'll explain everything.
Who hired me.
Why.
All of it.
You could save us all a lot of trouble and just tell us? No.
You want answers? That's the only way you're gonna get 'em.
I'll take you to the body.
On one condition.
He wants Gibbs? LeMere specifically requested that Agent Gibbs escort him to the body.
Why? Didn't say.
You told him no, right? Leon, why are we humoring this guy? Might not even be a body.
Actually, Kasie discovered another $50,000 payment hidden in LeMere's account, dated 100 days before the first body we have on file.
So it's legit? There's another victim.
Looks like this is the first.
Doesn't feel right.
Yeah, I agree.
LeMere could try to escape again.
Or worse, he could try to kill you again.
Finish what he started.
Frankly, after what he did to Gibbs's boat, I'd be more afraid of what Gibbs would do to him.
I can't have a suspended agent escort a suspect alone.
The FBI would never let me hear the end of it.
Director, we don't have a lot of options here.
If we're gonna get LeMere to talk What-what about following the money? Are we any closer to learning who's behind the payments? We're still digging, but we could be digging a long time.
This is your call, Leon.
I didn't expect your director to approve this little field trip.
Let alone make us partners.
Oh, no.
- We're not partners.
- No.
But we're gonna be breathing the same air for six hours.
So maybe we should smoke a peace pipe or something first.
You can smoke whatever you want.
I'm driving.
All right, so I just spoke with LeMere's doctor, and, technically, he hasn't been discharged yet, so you two are gonna be responsible for his medical care.
Now, he needs his blood pressure medication every three hours, his antibiotics every six.
Make sure he stays hydrated.
Don't let him in the sun too much.
Geez, Palmer, we're not taking him to summer camp.
I'll take care of it.
Agent Gibbs.
Glad you could make it.
Really looking forward to spending some time together.
All right, let's get this show on the road.
I asked for Gibbs.
I didn't say anything about a FBI.
Next time be more specific.
Did a full cavity search.
LeMere's clean.
You got a radio in the car.
And local authorities have been notified about the trip.
Listen, boss, if you want a gun you know Good luck, boss.
Whoa! Go slower.
I really hope they don't kill each other.
Who, Gibbs and LeMere? Gibbs and Agent Parker? Take your pick.
Where is LeMere taking Gibbs? I have a bad feeling about this trip.
Yeah, me too.
I hate road trips.
I dig 'em.
Dig what? Bad junk food? Looking for a place to pee? The worst.
The journey's the destination, baby.
Mm, pretty sure the destination's the destination.
Hey.
Anyone hear from Gibbs yet? Not yet.
I wish there was a way we could help him.
Well, there is.
We find out who hired LeMere.
Any luck tracking the payment through Sonova yet? That's not gonna be easy.
All right, let's run it down.
Sonova is a huge conglomerate with 14 divisions worldwide.
They started off in mining, supplying raw materials to manufacturers.
Soon they became so big, they ended up just buying the manufacturers themselves.
They make everything from, uh, jet fuel to petroleum jelly.
I mean, they have all those TV spots that play all the time, uh Sonova making your world brighter.
- Yes.
No, I know.
- Yeah, it's so annoying.
It's the most annoying jingle I've ever heard.
Okay.
Sonova's main headquarters are in Virginia, run by Sonia Eberhart.
She is known as a tough CEO.
Very guarded.
So getting to those accounting files is gonna be difficult.
I mean, we could walk through the front door with a warrant, but that might tip them off.
So maybe we use the back door.
Looked into it.
Sonova uses focus groups for their products.
Just so happens they have one scheduled for today.
So maybe one of us gets in there as part of the group, peels off to the server room, download the files that are needed.
That sounds like an undercover job.
I'm in.
Put me in, Coach.
What? Why you? What about me? I-I can handle myself.
Uh, I'm sorry.
It's kind of awkward, but, uh, I'm kind of the undercover guy, so, kind of my thing.
Yeah, this-this product really isn't for you, Nick.
Welcome, ladies, to the focus group for Sonova's newest product Beauty Fresh women's deodorant.
You know what, can I just say For the record, I know a lot about deodorant, okay? focus groups and So where are you taking us, Paul? Come on, you got what you wanted.
No harm in giving us a sneak preview.
Told you.
It's in upstate.
New York, yeah.
But is it the victim's house? Some place where you dumped the body? What? I don't want to ruin the surprise.
So this first victim.
Who is she? Why is she so important? Nice try.
Never said it was a she.
The others were just names on a list.
People I was told to kill.
But this one was significant.
Significant how? You'll see, you'll see.
You don't like me very much, do you, Agent Gibbs? No, I don't.
Is it because of what I did to your boat? I can tell it meant a lot to you.
It was a beauty.
It's a real shame.
Must've hurt.
Watching it burn.
Not as much as getting one of my bullets in your chest.
So, um, this first victim.
Are you saying that you didn't kill them for money? Was it more personal, then? Come on, Paul.
I'm just trying to learn more about you.
You want to know more? Why don't you ask Leroy here? If I had to use a word refreshing, I guess? Refreshing.
Nice word, Alexis.
I like that.
- Anyone else? - It smells like I don't know, jasmine? Score one for Patty.
Yes.
Kill me now.
When can I get out of here? Hey, you wanted to go undercover.
All right, Jess, the server room is two floors above you located at the end of the hall.
It's most probably locked, so you're gonna need an employee access card.
- Copy.
- Okay.
Before we move on to our next deodorant, does anyone have anything else they'd like to say about Jasmine Dew? Oh, uh Jessica.
What would you like to say? Just that I think your deodorant is sexist.
And kind of sucks.
Oh.
Okay.
It's all good.
We love feedback here.
Jessica, uh, can I ask why you think that? Well, for starters, why is it that all of your women's deodorants smell like flowers? I mean, what if I don't want to smell like a flower? What if I don't want to smell like anything? - Mm-hmm.
- I mean, men's deodorants have neutral scents.
- Uh-huh.
- So why is it that we have to smell like a frickin' garden? - Yeah.
- That's true.
She's blowing it.
I'm going in.
Wait, give her a second, give her a second.
Uh, I think we're just gonna go ahead move on to our next - deodorant.
- Uh, no, no, no.
Let's move on to the price.
- Oh.
- Okay.
How much do your deodorants cost? - Uh, about five dollars, I think? - Oh.
So, basically a dollar more than a deodorant for a man.
- There it is.
- So why is it that I have to pay more for essentially the same product? She's right.
My husband's deodorant - only costs four dollars.
- Yep, mine too.
Okay, so I don't know about you, ladies, but I'm think that Sonova is hitting us with a pink tax.
- Ooh! - That's so messed up! - You've got some nerve.
- No, that's I assure you, that's not what we're doing You see, our products are made from materials which cost money.
Are you mansplaining? - What? - Thank you, thank you.
No, I-I You ladies don't understand.
Oh.
Because we're not as smart as you are? Wait Me too, honey.
- All right, I'm out of here.
- I'm out.
No, please, ladies.
There's been a misunderstanding.
Uh, Sonova's not sexist.
I'm not sexist.
I have two daughters.
Do you know how hard it is to be a woman? I'm just wondering.
Do you know that we have to pay for makeup, bras Got the card, heading to the server room now.
Okay, she's good.
- That was pretty sweet.
- Mm.
Stay on this road, for another 20 miles.
Beautiful country out here.
God's country.
Quiet, peaceful.
I always thought so.
Oh, yeah? You grow up around here? I've spent some time.
Must've been nice.
Was that before or after you were in the Navy? We read your file.
What little wasn't scrubbed.
You did a good job covering your tracks.
We know you were a SEAL till 2005, but not much more than that.
That was the point.
Come on, Paul, work with me.
We've already established that you grew up around here.
Just give me something.
I was raised in a small town.
Dad was in the service.
I enlisted right out of school.
Did some tours.
I saw some action.
Why were you discharged? 'Cause I lost someone close to me.
I had problems dealing with the pain.
Family member? Wife? Mm.
After the Navy, then what? Eh, took some odd jobs.
Nothing stuck.
Till a friend of mine turned me on to a job on the force.
You were a cop? Yeah.
Kept busy.
But that pain that pain wouldn't go away.
I tried to lose myself in the job.
When that didn't work, I tried the bottle Ah, can't you see what he's doing? What? These aren't his stories he's telling.
They're mine.
Which part? All of it.
Messing with you.
Or maybe our story's the same because we're the same.
Ah, enough.
I'm sorry if it makes you uncomfortable, but it's the truth.
No, the truth is you're a psycho.
When I shot you before, I should've finished the job.
You couldn't have even if you wanted.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Want to try me? - Okay, okay, all right.
- Let's go.
- Okay, hey, hey, hey, hey.
All right, everybody calm down.
Just calm down.
My blood sugar's getting low.
I think we need to stop for food.
No way.
You take us to the body, then you eat.
I can't take you anywhere if I'm not alert and focused.
Okay, I need to eat.
- And I need to eat right now.
- Sorry.
Not happening.
Did I say it was 20 miles on this road? Or was it the other one? Can't remember now.
There, enjoy lunch.
Well, you two seem to be hitting it off.
Guy's a piece of work, huh? Oh, yeah, he's a piece of something.
He knows a lot about you.
Well, he tried to kill me.
I'm guessing he did his homework.
So was all that true? Small town, military dad, you losing your Listen, Gibbs, this, uh, this thing between you two? I don't like it.
Mind games.
Ignore him.
So that's your go-to, huh? Don't like what you see, pretend it's not there? I'm saying stick with the job.
The last guy I knew who liked to stick his head in the sand Things didn't turn out so well, okay? LeMere is up to something.
I just can't figure out what.
What do you want to do? Just call this off.
Just turn around and go home.
Your call.
Do what you got to do.
Right.
All right, I'll let the bureau know we're headed back.
Hello? Yeah, this is, uh, Agent Hang on.
Hello? Hang on, hang on.
Yeah.
Wait, I can't hear you.
Let me speak to, uh, the commander, okay? Before we Son of a bitch! I'm never gonna look at deodorant the same way again.
Well, hopefully Kasie can analyze these files and find out who paid our hitman.
Well, if it is someone from Sonova, a pink tax is gonna be the least of their problems.
- Finally.
There you are.
- Mr.
Hanover? Yeah, so a friend at Shoreside Memorial told me that you had him in custody and you let him go.
My wife's killer.
What were you thinking? - Slow down.
- Slow down? I came here for answers and they stuck me in the break room.
All I want are some answers, not stale bagels and coffee.
Why don't you guys go talk to Kasie, have her work on the flash drive? Listen, Mr.
Hanover.
We haven't let anyone go, okay? I promise you he is still in custody.
Okay, then where is he? Why isn't he behind bars? This is still an active investigation, so I can only tell you so much, but just know we have him under watch, okay? What if this guy escapes? This man is a monster.
What he did to my Jen I understand, okay, Mr.
Hanover.
I promise you he is not going anywhere, okay? We have our best man on it.
Who? Our best man.
Excuse me.
McGee.
It's Parker.
Gibbs ditched me and took LeMere.
Smart move, getting rid of your partner.
Keeps your options open.
It's what I would've done.
How much longer? Not far.
Of course, now that he's gone, there'll be no witnesses.
But that's what you wanted, isn't it? I know what you're trying to do.
Yeah? What's that? You're trying to rattle me.
Throw me off my game.
How am I doing? I overheard what you said at the diner.
And you're right, I did research you.
I know all about you.
And I must admit that I was relieved to learn there's another person just like me.
Someone who could relate.
You know, people like us, we we lead lonely lives.
- People like us? - Yeah.
I know what you are.
What am I? A killer.
Plain and simple.
Just like me.
I am nothing like you.
Really? Your wife and daughter were killed by a man who was later found murdered by a sniper's bullet.
Doesn't take a genius to figure out who pulled the trigger.
What about all the others that followed? I mean, you were an agent for what, 25 years? You left a lot of bodies.
How many of those actually needed to die? Did they all have it coming? Did they all deserve your special brand of justice? Or maybe you couldn't stop yourself.
Maybe you didn't want to.
Don't kid yourself.
You crossed that line years ago and you never looked back.
Hell, when you got tired of killing suspects, you even went after one of your own.
I was trying to save him.
But how many people could have taken that shot? Hmm? Only two I know of.
You and me.
Shut up! Or what? Huh? What are you gonna do? You've isolated yourself.
You've cut yourself off from the one thing that's kept you sane - and grounded, okay? - Shut your mouth.
You could have gone back to NCIS - at any time.
- Shut your mouth.
But you chose not to, okay? - Shut your mouth.
- You abandoned them.
Your family, okay? - And once you do that, - Shut up! Once you do that, what happens to you next? - You're looking at it! - Stop! Do it.
Go ahead, no one's gonna know.
No one will know.
You can say that I took the gun away from you.
Come on, do it.
Do it, Leroy! Do it! Ah.
You were never gonna take me to the body, were you? I was, yeah.
We're close, too.
Then let's go finish it.
Gibbs took LeMere? Yeah, he then turned off the radio and the cell, and we got a BOLO out.
What about Agent Parker? He's on his way back.
Didn't sound too happy.
I don't blame him.
He said there was a weird vibe in the car.
That LeMere was pushing Gibbs' buttons.
We need to find them.
Fast.
Sorry to interrupt, but I thought this couldn't wait.
Will it help us find Agent Gibbs? No Wait, Gibbs is missing again? Seriously, we need to put a bell around his neck.
Okay, Kasie? Uh, I was analyzing the files you all downloaded from Sonova.
I found information about something called Skylark It's a surveillance program Sonova has been running on people.
Lots of people.
- Like, hundreds.
- Why? Uh, not sure.
But I found lists of their targets and one had four names grouped together.
Anyone look familiar? Three of these people are victims in our case.
Could be a coincidence.
But I know how we all feel about those.
So Sonova's been spying on people then hiring LeMere to kill them? Starting to look that way.
Who's the fourth person? Libby Alonak, 44.
Lives in D.
C.
According to her mortgage and phone bills, which were just paid yesterday, she's alive and well.
Then why was she spared? Maybe LeMere was caught before he could get to her.
Or maybe she's in on it.
Well, either way, we need to talk to her.
Bring her in.
Ms.
Alonak? NCIS.
Ms.
Alonak? Got water coming from the inside.
Signs of a struggle.
Ms.
Alonak? Good? It's freezing in here.
The AC's on.
And that's our water source.
I'll check the back.
Clear.
Someone made a hell of a mess in here.
They were looking for something.
Hey, Jess? Oh, God.
Red duct tape.
Crushed head.
It's LeMere's work.
Looks like from a while back, too.
Think this could be Maybe his first one.
Well, if this is his first victim, then where is LeMere taking Gibbs? Multiple puncture wounds with a claw hammer.
Blunt force trauma, just like the others.
Got a time of death yet? It's tricky.
The AC was turned on prior to her death, so the cold circulating air actually dehydrated her body.
But the AC also pulls a lot of energy.
So I had Kasie take a look at the utility bill history - to see when it first spiked.
- And? About two years ago.
Which, if you do the math Would make her LeMere's first victim.
Two years.
What took so long to find her? Well, it says here that Libby lived alone, she worked from home as a freelance travel writer.
She often disappeared on trips for months without telling anyone, and all of her bills were on autopay, which explains why they kept getting paid even after she died.
Kind of sad to think of her all alone in that house.
Any word on Gibbs? Yeah, right, I don't buy it.
I'm telling you, they're just gonna say the same thing.
Then you won't mind me asking where's Gibbs? I'm sure he's called you.
No.
He stopped calling in a long time ago.
What is that? We believe sheis LeMere's first victim.
First? But if that's the first, that means that Gibbs Is stepping into a trap.
We need to find him, like, now.
I say we go hard at Sonova.
We know they're involved in this.
Wait, wait Sonova? Yeah, we traced LeMere's payments back to them.
They had four of our victims under surveillance.
You should've led with that, by the way, but whatever.
Okay, let's drag in the CEO and grill 'em.
You want to drag in Sonia Eberhart, one of the most powerful business leaders in the world, for questioning? I Good luck.
Yeah, without any direct evidence linking her, it's not gonna be easy.
Let me worry about that.
Body's over there.
By the trees.
Stop.
I have no idea how that got there.
Mm-hmm.
Go on.
You must've pulled a lot of strings to make this happen.
You have no idea.
Now let's see if it's worth it.
We appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule, Ms.
Eberhart.
Happy to help.
Before we proceed, I want it on the record my client is here of her own volition and is in no way a suspect or being charged with anything.
Well, the night's still young.
Do you recognize this man? Can't say that I do.
Who is he? A contract killer paid to kill eight people.
We traced the payments back to Sonova.
Eight? That's horrible.
Do you know who in my company paid him? Well, we were hoping that maybe you could help us with that.
I employ over 60,000 people in over 11 countries, so you'll understand if I'm not aware of what everyone in my company is doing.
What about a surveillance program called Skylark? You aware of that? Doesn't ring a bell.
Well, it should.
'Cause you signed off on it.
We found this document in one of your files.
Along with a list of four people that were murdered.
Wow.
Hit men, kill lists.
You might want to rethink that little jingle of yours.
Making the world brighter one body at a time? Ooh, that's good.
I'd listen to that one.
Yes.
I remember Skylark now.
Must've slipped my mind.
We have so many projects in development.
No.
Skylark is not a surveillance program.
It's opposition research.
As you can imagine, we have lots of rivals.
It's a very competitive business.
So we collect whatever we can on them to get an edge.
That edge include murdering them? We research thousands of people.
The fact that four were killed could be nothing more than a coincidence.
Man that's a hell of a coincidence, huh? Either way, the important thing is that you brought this to my attention.
And I promise you, I will mount an internal investigation to get to the bottom of this.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a plane to catch.
Ms.
Eberhart Unless you're planning to charge my client, we're done here.
You see that, she didn't even blink when McGee mentioned the murders she knows something.
What is it? Update on Gibbs.
Someone spotted the car near a house in Syracuse.
The police are headed there now.
It's there.
You think we get to see them again in the afterlife? That's not your first victim.
It's your wife.
Tanner? That's her house? That's her family's.
I never sold it.
I just wanted to see her one more time before You always knew how this had to end.
The two of us together? It's like putting two lions in one cage one of us has to die.
But back there on that road, you had your chance.
You didn't take it.
You didn't take it, Gibbs.
I wouldn't have flinched.
Maybe I was wrong about you.
Maybe there's still hope.
Who hired you? You like fishing, Agent Gibbs? No more games.
Who hired you? There is a great place in Naktok Bay.
You should really check it out.
Stop.
So LeMere's last words were the missing link we've been looking for.
Naktok Bay is a small fishing community in southwestern Alaska.
It's also where Sonova is currently building a copper mine.
We combed through the eight victims again to see if there was any connection to the mine.
These four came up.
The four that Sonova was spying on.
Okay, so how are they connected? Libby Alonak was born in Naktok Bay.
In addition to being a travel writer, she was also a hard-core eco-activist.
She organized protests, rallies, took down a few big shots.
Considering the threat that Sonova would have posed to the Alaskan ecosystem, she definitely would have gone after Sonova once their mine was approved.
Brian Stafford was a respected research biologist.
Before he died, he was writing a paper on the effects of copper sulfate on aquatic life.
Now, he didn't know it, but what he was writing was gonna make it pretty impossible for Sonova to get approval.
Laura Blankenship worked for the Department of the Interior, in charge of granting construction permits.
Last year, she approved about 400 and denied over 1,000.
And guess who she denied three years in a row.
The loan-out company that Sonova is using to build the mine.
Harold Bradshaw.
Now, this one was tricky.
We had to dig into a century-old family deed.
Bradshaw held the water rights on land Sonova is digging in.
After Bradshaw's death, water rights reverted back to public use, and Sonova snapped them up.
So these four were killed because they were standing in the way of Sonova building a copper mine.
Sonova is getting into the cell phone business.
They need the copper to make their phones.
It's a billion-dollar business.
Plenty enough reason to kill.
And what about the other victims? Well, we think their deaths were a smokescreen.
If there were enough random kills thrown in and everyone thought there was a serial killer involved, people wouldn't see the real connection.
We certainly didn't.
Until now.
Well, I think it's time we had another chat with Ms.
Eberhart.
Well, unfortunately, she took a flight out of D.
C.
this evening.
Headed to Alaska.
Found more explosives and weapons stashed throughout the property.
Looks like LeMere had the whole place booby-trapped.
So he lies about the body and has us drive all the way out here, why? To kill himself? To kill Gibbs? Doesn't make sense.
It's the department.
They want you to get back to the office immediately.
I'm not done here.
Plans have changed, sir.
Yeah, McGee? Oh, finally.
Boss, listen, the clue that LeMere gave you? Naktok Bay? The key to the whole thing, okay? - Sonova's - Drilling a copper mine in Alaska? Yeah, that's why those people were killed.
Okay, so what's our next move, boss? Pack your bag.
Am I headed to Alaska? Yeah, we're both going to Alaska.
I got to do something first.