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00:00Rise and shine, gentlemen. Let's go. You're doing the drill.
00:21It's time for Wrecking Day.
00:25No one will come to your defense.
00:30We'll cut you down where you stand.
00:36And when the game were in, that cold ground is where it ends.
00:44Last one standing against it all.
00:51Rise and shine, gentlemen. Let's go.
00:53Rise and shine, gentlemen. Let's go.
00:59We know the drill.
01:00Rise and shine, gentlemen. Let's go.
01:16We know the drill.
01:17Inmate 670, step out.
01:27Break a hole.
01:28Damn it, Mulligan. I ain't got time for this today. I said move it.
01:31No.
01:37No. No!
01:37No!
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02:37It represents who and what NCIS is, like a computer or hardware.
02:41No, Mickey.
02:42Just think about it. We use computers and technology for everything we do.
02:46We couldn't get work done without them.
02:47I get that, but computers are just so impersonal and boring. No offense.
02:52Yeah, no, that's fine. It was just my life's passion, but whatever.
02:55I was thinking that we go more emotional, something that really details NCIS and the community, like a commemorative flag.
03:01That's super boring.
03:03Nick, what about you? What do you think should go into the capsule?
03:06Look, I want to celebrate the Navy just like anybody else, okay? But a time capsule?
03:11Mm, not your thing, huh?
03:13Well, I don't believe in thinking about the future or the past. I live in the moment, baby.
03:17So you don't care what people a hundred years from now will think of us?
03:20No, because I won't even be here, all right?
03:23And whoever opens this time capsule might not even be human anyways.
03:26That's right. Could be talking apes.
03:28If we're lucky.
03:29Talking apes is never going to happen.
03:30It's the insects we've got to worry about, especially roaches.
03:33They're going to outlive us all.
03:35This conversation got weird fast.
03:37You two gear up.
03:38Taurus, you're with me and EmTech.
03:40I just got a call from the U.S. Marshal's office.
03:42Inmate escaped from Morris Federal Prison.
03:44In Maryland?
03:45It's not a military prison.
03:47Why are the marshals calling us?
03:48Because the convict, Thomas Mulligan, killed a chief petty officer 30 years ago.
03:53It's actually one of Gibbs' first cases.
03:59First prison break in my 20 years here.
04:01It's the day every warden fears.
04:04Two of our agents are en route to your facility now, Warden Tully.
04:07In the meantime, maybe you can fill us in on the details.
04:10Well, it wasn't easy.
04:12They used some tools from the machine shop and removed the toilet from the wall.
04:16And then they squeezed through the narrow hole behind it and both stowed away on the outgoing laundry truck.
04:22They?
04:23You mean two inmates escaped?
04:25Unfortunately, yes.
04:26The second wasn't flagged until we did the final morning count.
04:30Luther Stokes, former hitman for the Baltimore mob.
04:34Serving life without parole, he has real bad news.
04:38Were he and Mulligan tight?
04:39Not that I know of.
04:40They ran in different circles.
04:41Stokes was a hard case.
04:43He got into a lot of fights.
04:45And Mulligan?
04:45We never had any problem with him.
04:47He was a recent transfer from California.
04:50He kept to himself.
04:51He was reserved, quiet.
04:53Uh, not so quiet.
04:54State police found Stokes' body in a ravine ten miles from the prison.
04:58My guess is Mulligan thought he was slowing him down, so he killed him.
05:02Looks like Mr. Mulligan will do anything for his freedom.
05:05Well, that's the funny thing.
05:07Mulligan just had his parole commission review a few weeks back.
05:11It was approved.
05:12He was set to be released soon.
05:14How soon?
05:14Three weeks.
05:16Why would you risk an escape when three weeks later you can just walk out the front door?
05:20No, I understand.
05:29Yeah, please keep me in the loop.
05:31All right.
05:32Thank you, Senator.
05:34Problems up on the hill?
05:36No, just more rumors about budget cuts coming down the line.
05:38Usual.
05:40Okay, so, um, where are we at with our escaped inmate, Mulligan?
05:43One of the prison guards reported her cell phone missing, so Casey is monitoring it now in the off chance that Mulligan took it.
05:50McGee and I did find something interesting when we were searching his cell.
05:54Mulligan drew dozens of pictures, all of the same woman, wrote her name underneath.
05:58Laney Sims.
05:59Laney Sims.
06:00She was from Mulligan's hometown, Serenity, California.
06:04The same place where he murdered that man 33 years ago.
06:08Dispatch told us that the case was connected to Gibbs, but we never got the details.
06:15Chief Petty Officer Lewis Burke was shot dead, and his body thrown in front of an oncoming train to make it look like suicide.
06:22The crime happened in broad daylight, but when Gibbs and his team went to investigate, no one said a thing.
06:30Were they afraid? Were they protecting somebody?
06:33Burke was a bad seed.
06:35Nasty drinking habit, got into fights a lot, destroyed property.
06:38Sound bully.
06:40The thinking was, the town was happy to see him go, and they didn't want to turn in the person that did them a favor, so they all clammed up.
06:47Until Mulligan, who was the town sheriff at the time, miraculously came forward and confessed to the killing.
06:55But Gibbs didn't believe it.
06:57No, Gibbs always thought that the woman in those sketches, Laney Sims, committed the murder, and that Mulligan took the fall for her.
07:05The problem was, Gibbs couldn't prove it, so the case was closed.
07:08But it was Gibbs' boss, Mike Franks, who took it the hardest.
07:12He called it the one that got away.
07:15He never got over it.
07:16Well, apparently neither did Mulligan.
07:18So you think his breakout is connected to Laney Sims?
07:21Doesn't explain why he escaped so soon before his release, but it's a good place to start, but we need to get to Laney before Mulligan does.
07:29He already killed one man during his escape.
07:31Who knows what he's capable of?
07:34Multiple contusions all over his body.
07:36Defensive wounds suggest a struggle.
07:38Cause of death was severe trauma to the cervical spine.
07:41Mulligan broke his neck and snapped it like a twig.
07:44Plus, Mulligan's DNA was under his fingernails, so it was definitely him.
07:49Not bad for a man Mulligan's age.
07:51And Gibbs thought that Mulligan wasn't capable of murder.
07:54Maybe he wasn't back then.
07:56For 30 years in prison, that much time can change a man.
07:59Oh, speaking of time, I came up with the perfect item for the Navy time capsule.
08:04Okay, Jimmy, you know, I'm not really into this thing.
08:07Oh, whoa.
08:09Okay, what the hell is that?
08:10Is that a toe?
08:11This toe belonged to one of the victims of the bone man.
08:14Remember the infamous serial killer that we put away a few years ago?
08:17Yeah, I remember.
08:18At the start, this toe was the only clue we had.
08:22This toe represents teamwork.
08:25This toe is a symbol of what makes NCIS great.
08:30It's also disgusting.
08:32Have you thought this through, Jimmy?
08:34Well, I, uh...
08:36Hey, do you want children 100 years from now to open a time capsule and find a wrinkly, nasty-ass toe?
08:43Oh, yeah, no, no.
08:46You're right.
08:47I guess I got carried away.
08:49I guess I got excited when I saw the memo and...
08:54Oh, it's Jess.
08:54I gotta go.
08:55We're gonna be late to the airport.
08:57Where are you two going?
08:57We're going to Mulligan's hometown in California.
09:00We're having problems tracking down his crush, Lainey.
09:03Plus, Parker wants us there in case Mulligan shows up.
09:06Okay, well, travel safe.
09:07And, uh, you won't tell anybody about the toe thing, right?
09:12Right?
09:14Hey, Case.
09:16You look tracking that cell phone Mulligan's phone?
09:18Uh, yeah, that kind of got slammed with all this last minute.
09:21What is all this stuff?
09:22You looking to put something in the time capsule?
09:23No, although this whole box is practically a time capsule,
09:27it is Gibb's original case box from 33 years ago.
09:31It has everything related to Mulligan's murder charge.
09:34Oh, anything good?
09:36Maybe it was good back in the 90s, but it's a museum piece now.
09:39Nothing's digital.
09:40It's just tons and tons of paperwork, like on physical paper.
09:46Ew.
09:47Oh, and get this.
09:49The interrogation tapes?
09:51VHS.
09:52Do we even own a VCR?
09:53No!
09:54I don't know how people solved crimes in the 90s.
09:57I don't know how they got anything done.
09:59Ah, sweet technology music to my ears.
10:02Oh, please tell me that music includes a hit on Mulligan's phone.
10:06Yep.
10:06Looks like he ordered an Uber to take him somewhere in D.C.
10:09Ordered an Uber during a prison escape?
10:11Well, that's a first.
10:12Okay, according to the account, the car took him to a residential address.
10:17Belongs to someone named Vera Strickland.
10:20Vera?
10:22You know her?
10:23Yeah.
10:24Vera was an NCIS agent back in the day.
10:26She used to work with Gibbs and Mike Franks.
10:29You know what I wonder?
10:30What?
10:35Yeah, here it is.
10:37Vera worked a murder case 33 years ago.
10:39Why is Mulligan headed to her now?
10:43I don't know.
10:44But he's desperate and he's on the run and that's not good.
10:47Next case.
10:47Federal agents!
11:09Haven't you heard of a doorbell?
11:11What the hell?
11:12Uh, Ms. Strickland, my name is Special Agent Parker.
11:17This is Special Agent...
11:18Oh, I know who he is.
11:20McGee.
11:22Hi, Vera.
11:23Uh, are you okay, Ms. Strickland?
11:26We have reason to believe an escaped convict was headed here to your home.
11:30An escaped convict.
11:32Here.
11:33So you're alone?
11:35Me?
11:35I'm a lonesome.
11:36Just reading a book, having a cup of tea.
11:38Would you boys like some?
11:40No.
11:42Caffeinated or decaf?
11:46Whatever, it's fine.
11:47So you been here the whole time?
11:49Yeah.
11:50I'm retired.
11:51Where the hell else am I gonna go?
11:53Oh, no tea.
11:55Do you mind if we look around a little bit?
11:56Make sure this guy didn't try to break in.
11:58Knock yourself out.
11:59Okay, I'm afraid it's gonna have to be water.
12:02Tap.
12:03I don't spring for that bottle crap.
12:05Who is this convict?
12:07Anyway.
12:08Thomas Mulligan.
12:10You put him away on a murder charge 33 years ago.
12:17Thought you said you were alone.
12:20You got me, Columbo.
12:23Mulligan was here.
12:25McGee?
12:25He just took some money, clothing, a few other things.
12:30What other things?
12:41My Harley.
12:53You lied to us, Miss Strickland.
12:55You just aided and abetted a fugitive.
12:59Don't get so dramatic.
13:01I was gonna call the authorities after he left.
13:04He only asked for a five-minute head start.
13:07That's all.
13:07Well, at least tell me you were coerced.
13:09That he put a gun to your head.
13:11I know that I might have crossed a line a little.
13:17But I have my reason.
13:19Vera, you didn't just cross the line.
13:20What you did was reckless.
13:22Watch it, goatee.
13:24You're in no position to lecture me.
13:26I seem to remember the last time we met,
13:29you recklessly lost your gun and your badge.
13:33It was my credentials.
13:34It's because of you that I had to go in the field.
13:36I got a sprained ankle.
13:38Okay, you know that wasn't my fault.
13:39And I couldn't ride my bike.
13:40And I couldn't ride my bike.
13:41Oh!
13:42Oh!
13:42Oh!
13:45Can we please try to get back on track?
13:51Why did you help, Mulligan?
13:52Because he is innocent.
13:55We put away the wrong man 30 years ago.
13:59Gibbs knew it, Franks knew it, and I knew it.
14:01We might have been innocent back then,
14:03but he just killed his fellow inmate.
14:05You know, that wasn't self-defense.
14:07Mulligan told me the guy wanted to kill a gas station owner
14:11for the cash in the register.
14:12Mulligan had no choice.
14:14Maybe.
14:15Or maybe he just said that so you'd help him.
14:17Did Mulligan tell you where he was headed?
14:22Or why he broke out three weeks before his release?
14:25No.
14:26All he said was he had a right or wrong.
14:29That's it for now.
14:30We'll be in touch.
14:31I know we will.
14:33Because I want in on this case.
14:35Excuse me?
14:36You?
14:37I know the original murder case.
14:40I was there.
14:41I know all the players.
14:42You're lucky I don't throw your ass in jail.
14:45But I can help!
14:47Okay, here.
14:48Have you talked to Jimmy Wallace in D.C. yet?
14:51You mean Congressman James Wallace?
14:53He's from Mulligan's hometown.
14:56He was called Jimmy back then.
14:57He goes way back with Mulligan.
14:59Maybe he could give you some insight.
15:01Insight.
15:03See?
15:04I'm helping already.
15:05Thanks, but no thanks.
15:07No, wait.
15:08Wait!
15:09Wait!
15:11The fact of the matter is, I need this.
15:15Retirement is boring as hell.
15:17Working on this case would not only give me my groove back,
15:22it would give me closure on something that's been hanging over my head for 33 years.
15:27Please.
15:28Please let me help.
15:31Please let me help.
15:41Well, this town has seen better days.
15:45Yeah, it's kind of depressing.
15:47Something I can help you with?
15:48Agents Knight, Torres, we called earlier about Lainey Sims.
15:52He didn't get my message.
15:54Damn it, Delroy.
15:56My deputy, he was supposed to ring you, but he must have forgot.
15:59Lainey Sims is not here.
16:01She and her husband split up about eight years ago.
16:04Took their son, moved up north.
16:06Any idea where?
16:07No.
16:08But her ex, Mac, lives in town, willing to help you in any way he can.
16:12Well, that's good to hear.
16:14Since the last time NCIS was here, you weren't too cooperative.
16:17I read somewhere you trashed one of our cars.
16:21Hey!
16:22Stop!
16:22Stop it!
16:23Put it down!
16:23Stop it!
16:24Put it down!
16:25Put it down!
16:25I was a messed up kid back then.
16:29I cleaned myself up, straighted myself out.
16:31More than I could say about most things around here.
16:34What happened to this place?
16:35If you ask the state, they'll say it was climate change.
16:38Serenity used to be a big farming town.
16:41Lived off our own water.
16:42But then we had a few bad drought years.
16:44The aquifer dried up.
16:45We were forced to make deals we couldn't afford for outside water.
16:49Now this is what's left.
16:50All because of a drought.
16:52If you believe the state.
16:55But you don't?
16:57Ask anyone around here, they'll tell you the same thing.
16:59The murders, what did this town in?
17:01All our bad luck started when Lewis Burke was killed 33 years ago.
17:05This town was cursed.
17:07There's no way around it.
17:09Burke wasn't the only thing that died that day.
17:11You find anything yet?
17:16I've got a CD player.
17:17I've got a fax machine.
17:19But so far, no VCR.
17:20Case, I should have come down here a long time ago.
17:22I'm getting so many good ideas for the Navy time capsule.
17:26Ah, what happened?
17:27You're not going with your severed toe idea anymore?
17:30It was a bad idea.
17:31I admit it.
17:33That is putting it lightly.
17:34Okay, all right, fine.
17:35What would you put inside the time capsule?
17:37Easy.
17:38A glitter bomb.
17:39That way, whoever opens it gets a fabulous surprise.
17:42I can't tell if you're joking.
17:45Casey, Jimmy, I'd like you to meet retired Special Agent Vera Strickland.
17:49She'll be assisting us in a limited capacity.
17:52Very limited.
17:53Pleasure to meet you.
17:56This pleasure is all mine.
17:59I googled you after your name came up yesterday.
18:02You're a legend.
18:02The profiling program you created is still the gold standard today.
18:07Legend's a little strong.
18:09Let's go with Trailblazer.
18:10I remember this.
18:14Gibbs notepad.
18:16Frank's old files.
18:17Oh, I could never read his handwriting.
18:18It was like chicken scratch.
18:21If I knew you had this, I would have brought my VCR.
18:26You're my new best friend.
18:30Congressman Wallace is waiting in the conference room.
18:32Oh, great.
18:32Let's hit it.
18:33No, you're staying here where they can watch you.
18:37Don't let her out of your sight.
18:40No.
18:40Hey, I am not a child, Parker.
18:43I don't need babysitting.
18:45Do you hear me?
18:47Oh, he's irritating.
18:49Oh, handsome, but irritating.
18:53Well, thanks for coming in, Congressman Wallace.
18:56We know election season's been keeping you busy.
18:58What can I say?
18:59I'm a glutton for punishment.
19:01I take it you know about Thomas Mulligan escaping.
19:04Yeah, such a shock.
19:05But I'm not sure how I can help.
19:08How well did you know him?
19:10Pretty well.
19:11Tom was a good guy.
19:12I was floored when he confessed to killing that man.
19:15The whole ordeal tore the town apart.
19:17It was awful.
19:19Especially on the heels of what had just happened.
19:23What do you mean?
19:24The victim, Louis Burke, he beat up my grandpa a week earlier.
19:28It's my grandpa, Dominic.
19:29I took this yesterday.
19:36Died later from his injuries.
19:39Rumor was that Burke's killing was revenge for what he'd done to my grandpa.
19:43Eye for an eye.
19:45Yeah, but I didn't ask for that.
19:47I was raised to believe in the rule of law, not this frontier justice crap.
19:52That whole mess is why I got into politics to begin with, to fight for real justice.
19:55I'm sorry.
19:59Tom escaping, it brings up old memories.
20:02Yeah, we understand.
20:04Congressman, we checked Mulligan's visitor prison logs, and your name came up a few times.
20:10Why did you visit him?
20:11He wrote to me, asked to help with his parole.
20:15I did.
20:16Something I now regret.
20:18Why is that?
20:20Because he changed.
20:22The last time I saw him, he was more aggressive, edgy.
20:26Like, something had set him off.
20:29Scared me, to be honest.
20:30What do you think set him off?
20:33I don't know.
20:34But I'll tell you this.
20:35Wherever Mulligan is headed,
20:37I sure as hell wouldn't want to be there when he shows up.
20:41Mr. Simms, NCIS.
20:47Your neighbor said we'd find you here.
20:50I heard you guys were in town, but waiting for you to show up.
20:55We're looking for your ex-wife, Lainey.
20:57We're thinking that Tom Mulligan might try to contact her.
21:03This is my husband, Matt.
21:05Yeah, well, he ain't gonna find her.
21:10Neither are you.
21:11Lainey, uh, died three years ago.
21:19They said the Smokenswood did it, but I know it was a guilt over what happened to Lewis Burke.
21:31Guilt.
21:34Because she killed him?
21:37Because we all did.
21:41She didn't plan on killing him.
21:44It was one of those spur-of-the-moment things.
21:47She was just so filled up with rage over what he'd done to old man Wallace.
21:56Lainey loved him like a father.
21:59So she just snapped.
22:03She come to me afterwards.
22:06She wanted to do the right thing.
22:07She wanted to turn herself in.
22:09But you had other plans?
22:14I buried the gun out in the field.
22:18Then me and a few others put Burke in his car, push him on the tracks, and let the train do the rest.
22:27Burke was no good.
22:28He had to go.
22:30Lainey couldn't go to prison.
22:31She was pregnant.
22:32So everyone just kept a secret.
22:39Until you all showed up asking questions.
22:43Which forced Mulligan to step forward and confess?
22:47Did the fall for your wife.
22:49And you let him.
22:51Doesn't matter now, though, I guess.
22:54Lainey's gone.
22:55My son won't talk to me.
22:56The whole town's falling apart.
22:58And we all thought we got away with Burke.
23:06Mr. Sims, we're going to need you to come with us so we can take a written statement.
23:11If Mulligan is innocent, we're going to need to know.
23:18You know, funny thing is, we all thought it was Burke who beat up Wallace.
23:24But now, I'm not so sure.
23:30He might have been sad of.
23:34And everything we did, might have been for nothing.
23:40What are you talking about?
23:44See my son.
23:47Tell him I love him.
23:49No!
23:49No!
23:54Max Sims was declared dead at the scene.
24:00Honestly, the guy seemed kind of haunted.
24:02Like he was Don Carey in the wait.
24:04At least his confession tells us one thing.
24:07Tom Mulligan was innocent.
24:09He didn't kill Chief Burke.
24:11Gibbs was right.
24:12That wouldn't be the first time.
24:14Vera, it's a restricted area.
24:15How'd you get in here?
24:16Oh, don't get your panties in a bunch.
24:18I still have some friends in the building.
24:21What do you want to throw me out, McGee?
24:23Try it.
24:24Vera?
24:24Vera, you are supposed to be working on the old case files downstairs.
24:29In the dust trap?
24:31Uh-uh.
24:31This is where the action is.
24:34And who are they?
24:35The new Tony and Ziva?
24:37What?
24:38I've been here for nine years.
24:40What do we got?
24:43Okay.
24:44With Max's confession, that's one mystery solved.
24:47We still have a fugitive on the loose.
24:50Any idea where he might be headed?
24:52Uh, possibly.
24:53We think it might be connected to this man.
24:55Dominic Wallace.
24:57That's Congressman Wallace's grandpa.
25:00The man Burke assaulted.
25:01Well, maybe not.
25:02Max said that Burke didn't do it.
25:03That he was set up.
25:05Well, he was a town bully.
25:06Be easy to do.
25:07Our fugitive might learn the real identity of the attacker.
25:10And he's going after them now for revenge.
25:12If we find out who this person is, we find Mulligan.
25:14Who else had motive to attack Grandpa Wallace?
25:18Well, see, that's the thing.
25:19I mean, we asked around town, and we can't find anyone who wanted to hurt him.
25:22Is there anything in the original report about his attack?
25:24Sheriff is having problems finding it.
25:27What about you?
25:29What about me?
25:30What?
25:31You were there, remember?
25:33I know all the players.
25:34What can you tell us?
25:36Hey, I only worked on the Burke murder case.
25:40This guy Wallace wasn't military.
25:42Wasn't our case.
25:43So you can't help us.
25:44I didn't say that.
25:46I know two people who might have some info for you.
25:50And they're neck of the woods.
25:51But I warn you, these guys, these guys can be prickly.
25:57Agent Knight, Torres.
25:59How's it going?
26:00Hey.
26:00How you doing?
26:01Woody Brown.
26:01Good.
26:02This is my assistant.
26:03Former assistant, Phil Hallertson.
26:05Oh, thanks for taking the time.
26:06Well, we're retired, so what else are we going to do?
26:09He's retired.
26:10I am still working.
26:11I'm the assistant professor of chemistry at the local college.
26:14All these years, you're still somebody's assistant.
26:16How is that even possible?
26:18Okay.
26:19You know, Vera said that the two of you used to work forensics for NIS back in the day.
26:24Can you tell us what you remember about the Dominic Wallace case?
26:26Quite a lot, actually.
26:28It wasn't even technically our case, but Michael Franks asked us to take a look at it on the side.
26:32Over time, of course.
26:34Dominic Wallace was leaving his favorite restaurant at 10 p.m.
26:37when he was beaten within an inch of his life with a baseball bat.
26:39Elm Royal brand, 34-inch solid wood.
26:43No witnesses, but everybody in town just assumed Burke did it.
26:46Because it was the town's bully?
26:48That, and because the Elm Royal bat was Burke's favorite item.
26:51Carried it around all the time.
26:52It was like a good luck charm.
26:54Also, he had no alibi.
26:55Yeah, I was just about to say that, Phil.
26:57However, Burke did dislocate his shoulder a few months earlier,
27:00which raised doubts he could have swung the baseball bat that violent.
27:03Is it okay for me to speak now?
27:04Do I get a second now to speak?
27:06Do you ever not speak?
27:07Phil, ladies and gentlemen.
27:08Okay, okay, guys.
27:09This is all great, but without any solid evidence,
27:11it's going to be very hard to prove that Burke was Frank.
27:14Yeah, we can't even find the murder weapon.
27:16The sheriff thinks it's lost.
27:18Oh, it's not lost.
27:19We have it.
27:20What?
27:21Yeah, no, we got it.
27:23You know, when the Burke murder case was closed,
27:25Franks asked us to hold on to it, so we did.
27:27Uh, I can't believe you guys still have it.
27:29We got a whole storage unit filled with all kinds of crap from old cases.
27:33You never know when it's going to come in handy, right?
27:35Did you analyze this?
27:36Yeah, we had it analyzed right away when Franks gave it to us.
27:39We had two different sets of DNA.
27:40One was from our victim, Wallace,
27:42and the other was not enough to produce a proper ID.
27:45It was the 90s.
27:46We needed big DNA samples to get anything done.
27:48But now, with modern technology, you can reanalyze the bat,
27:51maybe run it through one of the...
27:52Probably identify Wallace's killer.
27:55Seriously?
27:55That one just felt on purpose.
27:57I was in the middle of talking.
27:58You're old.
27:59I'm not...
27:59I'm trying to keep you back on your thoughts.
28:01I'm not old.
28:01You're some kind of spring chicken, Phil?
28:03Yes.
28:04I disagree completely.
28:08What are you doing?
28:10You better not be messing around my VCR.
28:13I'm reviewing Mulligan's interrogation tapes from 92.
28:17Going over Gibbs' notes here.
28:19Seeing if there's anything we missed.
28:21Oh, look at me.
28:23That was a fox.
28:31What are we going to do about it?
28:32Oh, there's Roy.
28:36Gibbs was so young.
28:39We all were.
28:40Time is a bitch.
28:45You know he talks about you.
28:49Yes?
28:50Mm-hmm.
28:50You...
28:51You talk to him?
28:53Would he call you, or...?
28:54Well, not exactly.
28:56But it's not important how I talk to him.
28:59What is important...
29:01...is that he's proud of you.
29:03He told me that you are a better agent at your age than he ever was.
29:07The job is done, bro, B.
29:12You gotta walk away.
29:15Rule 11.
29:16Mm-hmm.
29:16That's where you got it from.
29:18Mm-hmm.
29:19The irony is...
29:21Frank's never followed his own rule.
29:23Did he?
29:24I mean, this case bothered him until the day he died.
29:28Because the job wasn't done.
29:30Right.
29:31Now it's our turn to finish it for him.
29:40Huh?
29:41In any case, you got anything for me?
29:44DNA results on the baseball bat.
29:46We had the office in San Diego run the test.
29:49And?
29:49The DNA does not belong to Burke.
29:51He's not our killer.
29:53Great.
29:54That means he was definitely framed.
29:56Whose DNA is it?
29:57I know.
29:58They're not in the system.
29:59Now we're back to square one.
30:01Not necessarily.
30:02I think Gibbs just handed us a piece we've been missing.
30:05Wait till you hear this.
30:06I was going through Gibbs' case notes.
30:08And on the days leading up to the attack,
30:10Grandpa Wallace called the San Diego County office dozens of times.
30:14He even set up a meeting with them on the actual morning he was attacked.
30:17Gibbs tried to follow up with the county, but they never called him back.
30:20The case was closed before he could do any more.
30:24I called the county archive department.
30:25And Wallace had filed dozens of documents with them.
30:28That disappeared shortly after his death.
30:31Whoever killed Wallace must have taken him to destroy evidence.
30:34But we know something that the killer didn't know.
30:37The county made copies of all the originals.
30:40Apparently someone requested to see them just three weeks ago.
30:44Who?
30:46Jason Cross.
30:48Lives alone.
30:48Works as a vet assistant.
30:50As a vet assistant.
30:51One with 30-year-old papers.
30:52Looks like we're not the only ones interested in this case.
31:07I'll take the back.
31:09Copy.
31:09Jess, run her!
31:27NCIS, let me see your hands, Mulligan.
31:30Hey, I heard a noise.
31:31I didn't know who you were.
31:32Step back!
31:33It's not what you think.
31:35I'm not here to hurt anyone.
31:37Then what are you doing here?
31:40I'm trying to save my son.
31:50Laney and I had been having an affair for over four years.
31:53No one knew.
31:55Not even her husband.
31:57Jason Cross is your and Laney's son.
32:01Cross was his mother's name.
32:10And that's why you went to prison for her.
32:12She was carrying your child.
32:15Laney didn't want me to do it.
32:16Of course, she hated the thought of me being punished for something that she'd done.
32:23But I convinced her that it was the right thing to do.
32:30You know, for Jason.
32:33So, I went away.
32:37And we kept our secret.
32:40I shot Lewis Burke.
32:42This is the gun I used to do it.
32:46But Jason found out.
32:49Yeah.
32:49A few weeks ago, he visited me in prison for the first time.
32:58He said that Laney had told him everything on her deathbed.
33:03About me being his dad.
33:06About the murders.
33:07Somehow, he figured out who really killed old man Wallace.
33:13He didn't tell you who he was?
33:15No.
33:15Just...
33:17Said he wanted to make them pay.
33:20Why?
33:22Jason wasn't even born when any of this happened.
33:24You don't understand.
33:27See, in Jason's mind...
33:28Every bad thing that's ever happened to our family.
33:33I mean, to this town.
33:35All started with Wallace's murder.
33:38I mean, that's like the original sin.
33:40To him, the man who killed Wallace just...
33:43cursed us.
33:45He's to blame for everything.
33:47So now, he's out for revenge.
33:49I...
33:50I tried to talk him out of it, but he...
33:52You couldn't listen to me.
33:55That's why I broke out of prison.
33:56I...
33:56I couldn't wait for my release.
33:58The damage could already be done.
34:00I...
34:00I have to stop...
34:02My son from making the same mistake that Laney did.
34:06Where's Jason now?
34:08I...
34:08I don't know.
34:10I got here not long before you did.
34:13His car's gone.
34:14Looks like he's packed.
34:16Any idea where he might be headed?
34:18Who he might be targeting?
34:20No.
34:20Well, whoever it is.
34:24I think you'll find the answer in here.
34:31Thanks so much.
34:32So where are we at?
34:33We've revised the bolo, so it's now for Jason Cross.
34:36The FBI set up a tip line.
34:38Calls have come in that have placed him in Colorado
34:40and then in Chicago as recently as two days ago.
34:43He's heading east.
34:44Call Taurus tonight, tell them to get their butts back here.
34:46Already done.
34:47They're on the plane with Mulligan now.
34:48All right, let's leak to the press that we're looking for Cross.
34:50Maybe if he catches wind, we're on to him.
34:52He'll back off whatever he's planning.
34:55Hey, you guys need to see this.
34:57Case, what you got?
34:58Wallace's county documents.
34:59Knight and Taurus scanned them for me before they left.
35:02Listen to this.
35:02Before he died, Wallace was in the process of gifting his property to the town of Serenity.
35:07Why?
35:08I thought it was worthless.
35:09He was sitting on a gold mine.
35:11Wallace's property is situated above a huge aquifer.
35:14There's enough water in there to supply a whole city for decades.
35:17And no one knew?
35:18Wallace didn't even know until an outside water company approached him to sell his water rights.
35:23Jason looked up the original offer.
35:25It was huge.
35:26Wallace could have made a fortune, but instead he decided to gift it to the town he loved.
35:30Somebody killed him before he could do it.
35:32That same somebody who inherited his water rights bought his debt.
35:36His next of kin, Congressman James Wallace.
35:38I looked up the Congressman's bank accounts going back decades.
35:43He came into a huge amount of cash months after his grandfather's death.
35:46He must have learned about his grandfather's decision to donate the aquifer.
35:49And then he killed him, so he could sell the rights himself.
35:52The Congressman has to be Jason's target.
35:54We need to warn him.
35:56Where's the Congressman now?
35:57So then, after the music, I'll say it's good to see so many hard-working folks here today.
36:27You think Jason's here?
36:32No, he's planning on killing the Congressman.
36:34This isn't good a place as any.
36:35All right, let's split up.
36:36Search windows.
36:37Any high vantage points?
36:38All right.
36:57Jason?
36:59Jason?
37:09ICIS, show me your hands!
37:11Get back!
37:12Get back!
37:12Don't go any further!
37:14Put the gun down, Jason!
37:16Stay away from me!
37:17Jason, put the gun down!
37:19Stay away!
37:20Don't do this!
37:21Stop it!
37:22I need it!
37:23Get back!
37:23We can help you.
37:24Hal!
37:25Hal, I've got nothing!
37:27Wallace destroyed everything!
37:28We know.
37:29We know.
37:30We're going to make him pay.
37:32But don't let him destroy you.
37:34No, no.
37:37My team, they knew your mother.
37:41And she wouldn't want this, Jason.
37:45And your biological father?
37:48He spent 30 years in prison to protect you.
37:52And he broke out to do it again.
37:54If you do this now, all that sacrifice is for nothing.
38:01If you do this now, all that sacrifice is for nothing.
38:01He's a saint.
38:03WISH.
38:05He's a member of thesized syllable.
38:06It's a premier thể not known for that punishment.
38:08Do you tame him?
38:08I've heard something,時代 will hurt him.
38:09What do you do?
38:16I've heard something, man.
38:19I won't.
38:20I have seen him before.
38:22Because they're in mychief.
38:22I didn't do this now.
38:28Welcome, man.
38:29I can't thank you enough, Agent Parker, McGee.
38:37You saved my life.
38:39Well, you may not want to thank us just yet.
38:47So the congressman confessed to killing his grandfather.
38:50Didn't need to.
38:51He took his DNA from the water mug he used when he was here.
38:55Compared to the killers on the murder weapon, it's a perfect match.
39:00Congressman's gone away for a long, long time.
39:02Well, then there's just one last thing left.
39:06And, um, what about my...
39:08father?
39:11Is he going to be charged for breaking out of prison?
39:14No.
39:15We spoke to a federal judge who agreed that 33 years for a crime he didn't commit counts as time served.
39:22And the other convict that he killed was in self-defense.
39:26Your dad's a free man.
39:27But, unfortunately, I can't say the same for you.
39:31With a weapons charge and intent to commit murder, you're going to have to do some time, Jason.
39:38Sorry.
39:40Yeah.
39:40But, luckily, you won't have to face this alone.
39:46There'll be somebody pulling for you, waiting on the other side when you get up.
39:55Jason.
39:56Look, um...
40:02I know that I wasn't able to be in your life before.
40:14I'm here now.
40:15I'm going to be sad to see you go, Vera.
40:35Thanks for all your help.
40:37Oh, no.
40:37Thank you, guys.
40:39This case was the little pickup I needed.
40:41And I didn't even sprain my ankle this time.
40:43No.
40:45No, seriously, though.
40:47Working here the past few days, it reminded me why I love this job so much.
40:52Does that mean you're thinking about coming out of retirement?
40:55Hell no.
40:56I'm going to leave all the agenting up to you young pups.
41:00You, not so much.
41:02Yeah.
41:03Don't be a stranger, Vera.
41:05I'll see you, Park.
41:07And you.
41:09See you, Vera, Al.
41:10Uh-huh.
41:11Oh, good.
41:12You're all here.
41:13Jimmy, what's going on, bro?
41:15I finally came up with the perfect item to put in the time capsule for the Navy celebration.
41:19Oh.
41:20Oh, gosh.
41:20Oh, gosh.
41:21Jimmy, we're so over this.
41:23Please, don't tell me there's another toe.
41:25No, no, hear me out.
41:26So, I've been working this case.
41:27I've been going through a ton of old photos and videos.
41:30Made me realize how much history we have together.
41:31Now, who has all that history in one place?
41:35Oh.
41:36Oh, my gosh.
41:38Not only does it have a lot of great stories about our cases, but the revised edition actually
41:41has photos of all of us from past and present.
41:45This is what people should remember about NCIS.
41:48What we meant to each other.
41:50Wow.
41:50That we were family.
41:51Look, a young Gibbs.
41:53Oh, my gosh.
41:54Oh, look at this one else.
41:56Look at that.
41:56Oh, this might be true, too.
41:58Oh, yeah.
42:00Oh.
42:01We've got a winner here, Jimmy.
42:05Okay.
42:06Can I say no?
42:06All my babies.
42:07Can I say no?
42:07Yeah, this is me.
42:08He just did.
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