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00:00Okay, Jake, let's give it a little gas.
00:14Now it's a break.
00:15I know, Dad, but you told me to be careful with your car.
00:18On the road.
00:19We haven't even left the driveway yet.
00:21Now, come on, show me what this baby can do.
00:27What are you doing?
00:28This is pointless.
00:28I don't need to learn to drive.
00:30What are you talking about?
00:32How are you going to get to school?
00:33I'll take the bus.
00:34I like the bus.
00:35What about after school, meeting up with friends?
00:37I hang out on Discord.
00:39Where?
00:40It's online.
00:41Look, forget it, Dad.
00:42Listen, Jake, I know the world is changing,
00:45and I don't always understand it,
00:46but trust me, some things never change.
00:50Sooner or later, you're going to have to drive.
00:54What the?
00:55You've got to be kidding me.
01:02You stay here.
01:04Hey, man, you're going to have to pay for any damage.
01:08Whoa, man!
01:09Step away from the car.
01:10Cool.
01:11Forget I said anything.
01:12Wait, what are you doing?
01:13Don't hurt my son or my car.
01:17Drive.
01:18Wait, what the?
01:19What are you doing?
01:21Wait, wait, wait!
01:22Hey!
01:23Jake!
01:24No!
01:26Jake!
01:28Jake!
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01:31Jake!
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01:48Jake!
01:49And then if you read a little further down the page,
02:04you can see where the coroner notes
02:06acute trauma to the occipital bone.
02:08In a front-on collision,
02:09why would there be an injury to the back of her head?
02:13I know seatbelts weren't exactly a thing back then,
02:15but even that wouldn't account for an injury such as this.
02:19So I hope you can understand
02:22why I thought it was time to show you this.
02:26You think my mom was murdered.
02:28This does bring up a lot of questions.
02:29In order to get answers,
02:30we may need to move on to the next step.
02:33I would need to exhume your mother's body,
02:36with your permission, of course.
02:40I don't understand.
02:42Well, I would need to see her body
02:44in order to verify these injuries.
02:45No, no, Jimmy, what I don't understand
02:47is why we're even talking about this.
02:49Now I don't understand that.
02:50I asked you to find my mother's grave.
02:52That's it.
02:54Not track down the death certificate
02:56or the coroner's report,
02:57and I certainly didn't ask you
02:58to make a federal case out of it
03:00and share it with the entire team.
03:02No, of course you didn't,
03:03but I just saw all these discrepancies,
03:04and then I did what Dr. Mallard trained me to do.
03:06No, no, no.
03:07Don't blame Ducky for this.
03:08I told you I was looking for closure.
03:11This is the opposite of that.
03:13I wanted to close an old wound,
03:15not open a new one.
03:17I am so sorry.
03:18I did not mean to.
03:19I just thought that you would want answers.
03:21This was your mother.
03:22You didn't know my mother,
03:23and if you had, you'd understand.
03:24I don't want these kind of answers.
03:27Nothing good can come from this.
03:29All right, we've got a case.
03:37I'll grab my things.
03:38Don't bother.
03:39We don't need you on this one.
03:47What the hell kind of operation
03:49is the Navy running anyway?
03:50You don't have enough wars to fight overseas
03:52that you've got to launch an invasion
03:54on Broadview Terrace?
03:55Mr. Larson, I understand that you're upset,
03:57but we need your help finding your son.
03:58Does Jacob have a phone that we can track?
04:01Yeah, I told him to leave it in the house
04:03during the driving lesson.
04:04What about his car?
04:05Is there a GPS?
04:06She's a 73 Mustang.
04:08Do you know anyone that might have reason
04:10to kidnap your son?
04:12What? No.
04:13No, this wasn't a kidnapping.
04:14This was a carjacking.
04:16You think this guy did all of this
04:18just to get your Mustang?
04:21Look at her.
04:22She's a thing of beauty.
04:24You know how many offers I've gotten
04:25to buy her off me?
04:27I never sell her.
04:28Charlene's like a daughter to me.
04:30Hmm.
04:32That's just a nickname.
04:34You people name ships, right?
04:36Oh, yeah.
04:36You know, how about we get back
04:37to your other child?
04:39Oh.
04:41This is my wife.
04:44Please, please find my son.
04:47Hello.
04:47Charlene, huh?
04:48We have a state police manning checkpoints
04:50in every highway, 20-mile radius.
04:53Everyone's looking for a paratrooper.
04:54All right, boy, what do you think?
04:55Who are we looking at?
04:56I don't know.
04:56If you ask me, someone would watch
04:58way too many Tom Cruise movies.
04:59Except it's not Maverick.
05:01It's Kingfisher.
05:02Paratrooper's call sign.
05:03Ran through our database.
05:05Real name came back.
05:06Lieutenant Max Winger.
05:07He's a leapfrog.
05:08I thought it was a kingfisher.
05:09Leapfrogs are the Navy's
05:10performance skydiving team.
05:12They do shows for civilians,
05:13you know, football games, air shows.
05:15This guy was on the ground
05:16before 8 a.m.,
05:17a little early for a show.
05:18I spoke with the CEO.
05:19Apparently, Leapfrogs had a practice
05:21jump this morning out of trap mill.
05:23She said that Winger broke away
05:24from his team mid-air.
05:26No warning, no explanation.
05:28We don't really think he did all this
05:29just to steal a car, do we?
05:32Well, if he did,
05:32he's really bad at stealing cars.
05:34Incoming.
05:35Incoming, incoming.
05:36Slow!
05:37Stop, stop!
05:39Hey, stop, stop!
05:41Hey!
05:42Let me go, wait!
05:44Jake!
05:44My baby!
05:45Step back!
05:47NCIS, out of the car!
05:49Hands up!
05:51It's just me.
05:52I'm alone.
05:55I'm so worried.
06:00Wait, is that a scratch?
06:03What the hell happened?
06:04Uh, more importantly,
06:05where's the guy who kidnapped you?
06:07I dropped him off.
06:09I guess he just really needed a ride.
06:12Come here.
06:12Come here.
06:13Come here.
06:22So you're telling me
06:23that this guy dropped 15,000 feet,
06:26hijacked a car
06:26just to get a ride to his own house?
06:28What, did he leave the stove on?
06:30Not exactly.
06:31When we got to the house,
06:32we found a body.
06:33Navy Captain David Cruz.
06:34We shot three times.
06:36We found three spent casings
06:37and a gun at the scene.
06:39Navy says it was issued to our leapfrog.
06:41So you think Lieutenant Winger was the shooter?
06:43It looks that way,
06:44but he was long gone by the time we showed up.
06:46We put out a bow,
06:47but Winger is a highly trained Navy SEAL.
06:50You know, I thought that name sounded familiar.
06:52Wasn't Winger captured by the Taliban
06:55during the withdrawal from Afghanistan?
06:56That's right.
06:57They held him captive for over two years.
06:58Right, until the State Department
07:00negotiated his return last December.
07:01This guy's a war hero.
07:03Yeah.
07:03Now that hero looks like a murderer.
07:05So what do you think caused him to snap?
07:07Did Winger serve with his victim?
07:09No, there's no indication
07:10they even knew each other.
07:11Then what the hell was Cruz doing
07:12at Winger's house?
07:14There might be a question for Mrs. Winger.
07:17We found Cruz's body in the master bedroom,
07:20shirt untucked.
07:22Sheets were a mess.
07:24Maybe Mrs. Winger got lonely
07:26and he finally found out.
07:28Might explain why he was in such a hurry
07:30to get home.
07:32Oh, my.
07:33You think I'm cheating on my husband?
07:35I wasn't even home when this happened.
07:37I was at a PTA meeting at my son's school.
07:40There are dozens of witnesses.
07:41Mrs. Winger, we're not disputing
07:43your alibi for the murder.
07:44We're trying to figure out
07:45why Captain Cruz was in your home.
07:47I've never seen this man before in my life,
07:50let alone in my house.
07:52He must have been trying to rob us
07:53and Max stopped him.
07:54There was no sign of forced entry.
07:55I love my husband.
08:01I took a sacred vow when I married him
08:03and I will never break it.
08:05And Max would never kill anyone
08:07unless they were a threat to him or to us.
08:09He would do anything to protect his family.
08:12Mrs. Winger,
08:13are you and your husband still living together?
08:16When we were searching your house,
08:18we noticed that all your husband's clothes
08:19were missing.
08:20Like he moved out.
08:25We've been...
08:28struggling
08:29since he came back from Afghanistan.
08:32You can't imagine what he went through over there.
08:35The Taliban starved him,
08:37beat him,
08:37made him sleep in filth.
08:39So when he came back,
08:41he was a different person.
08:45Different husband.
08:47We started counseling with the Navy chaplain.
08:50And for a while it was working.
08:52Max was more affectionate with me.
08:54He was playing with Oliver.
08:57But three weeks ago,
08:59he just left.
09:01Said I was for the best.
09:02Do you know where he moved to?
09:04An apartment in Anacostia.
09:07Address is in my phone.
09:10You can check my texts,
09:12emails, whatever you want.
09:15My husband is a good Christian man.
09:22Agent Knight, he's not a killer.
09:25Casey confirmed it.
09:26Based on her ballistics report,
09:28the bullets that killed Captain Cruz
09:29came from Lieutenant Winger's gun.
09:31The irony is that Captain Cruz
09:33was already knocking on Death's door.
09:35A bullet was not the only thing
09:37I found in his brain.
09:38Look at this.
09:39That is a glioblastoma.
09:43Tumor?
09:44Yeah, an aggressive one.
09:45My guess is he probably would have
09:46only had about 12 months to live.
09:48Did he know about it?
09:48His medical file didn't mention
09:50any cancer at all.
09:51Maybe Parker was right.
09:53What you don't know can't hurt you.
09:55Yeah, yeah.
09:56Heard you talk to Parker about his mom.
10:00I'm gonna stop Tim.
10:02He didn't take it well.
10:03Yeah, I heard.
10:03I heard that too.
10:05Listen, don't beat yourself up, okay?
10:07You thought that you were doing the right thing.
10:09You thought you were helping him.
10:10I did the exact opposite.
10:11I heard him.
10:12Parker said that I reopened an old wound.
10:14Well, I'm sorry, Jimmy.
10:16We should have been there to back you up.
10:18I know.
10:18You guys warned me.
10:19That was a risky road to go down.
10:21I just kept walking.
10:23Please, you're a medical examiner.
10:24It's what you do.
10:26As far as our concern,
10:27you got nothing to be sorry about.
10:28But I'm still glad it wasn't me that he yelled it.
10:30Uh, you got some case?
10:32Oh, yes.
10:32I think I found a connection between Winger and our victim.
10:35Using cell phone records,
10:37I retraced both Winger and Cruz's locations
10:40over the past week.
10:41I discovered they coincided at one place in one time.
10:45Two days ago at the Navy Yard Chapel.
10:47So maybe the chaplain knows something.
10:49All right, thanks, Case.
10:50Jimmy?
10:51Yeah.
10:52It'll be okay.
10:52Yeah.
10:58Oh, yeah.
10:59I'm getting flashbacks
11:01to all the base chapels
11:02my dad used to drag me to as a kid.
11:05Uh, Torsonite
11:06just checked out Winger's apartment.
11:08No sign of him there.
11:10Sorry, gentlemen.
11:11You just missed the pre-deployment blessing.
11:13NCIS.
11:15We'd like a word with the chaplain.
11:16Of course.
11:17He's currently taking confession
11:18in the chapel right now,
11:19but he should be out shortly.
11:20But I'm afraid there are no weapons
11:23allowed inside the chapel.
11:28You are the chaplain's assistant?
11:30Seaman Morris.
11:31Religious programming specialist.
11:33You recognize these men?
11:37Yes, I do.
11:38Why, is everything okay?
11:39We think they were both here two days ago.
11:42Do you have any idea why?
11:43No, I don't, but, um...
11:45Well, you can ask him yourself.
11:46He's here right now.
11:47Lieutenant Winger is here in the chapel now?
11:51With the chaplain, yes, sir.
11:57Hey, CIS.
11:59Chaplain.
12:10Special Agent Parker, are you all right?
12:12Oh, I'm fine.
12:13But if, uh, you're looking for Lieutenant Winger,
12:15he isn't here anymore.
12:16He gave confession,
12:17then left at the back.
12:18All right, I'm on it.
12:21What did Winger say?
12:22Did he say where he was going?
12:23Well, I'm afraid I can't tell you that.
12:26Excuse me?
12:26Everything Lieutenant Winger told me,
12:28including his whereabouts,
12:29is confidential.
12:30It's protected by the seal of confession.
12:32With all due respect, chaplain,
12:33Lieutenant Winger murdered someone this morning,
12:36so if you know where he's going,
12:38you need to tell me.
12:39Well, then it looks like
12:39we have a problem, Agent Parker,
12:40because the way I see it,
12:41I don't have to tell you anything.
12:44I answer to a higher authority.
12:46Hey, you don't see that every day.
12:58Am I missing something?
12:59I mean, are we even allowed to interrogate him?
13:01Technically, no.
13:02Then why is it here, McGee?
13:04Because by the time I got back to the chapel,
13:06Parker already had him cuffed.
13:08He handcuffed?
13:09Hey, chaplain.
13:10Mm-hmm.
13:10Oh, man.
13:11We're getting struck by lightning.
13:12We're fired, but that seems to be
13:15a risk Parker's willing to take.
13:18Hmm.
13:21Commander Charles Gage.
13:25Charlie the chaplain.
13:26Yeah, I've heard that before.
13:27I'm more of a Buster Keaton fan,
13:29if I'm being honest.
13:30Fits you, though.
13:31Why's that?
13:32Because you're not talking.
13:33That's very funny.
13:34No, we've been over this, Agent Parker.
13:36A SEC NAV instruction, 1730.11,
13:39protects private communication
13:41between clergy and those seeking counsel.
13:44Tell that to Captain David Cruz.
13:46Nothing protected him.
13:48He was murdered this morning
13:49by this man,
13:51Lieutenant Max Winger,
13:53who was last seen talking to you.
13:55Not talking, confessing.
13:56Yeah.
13:57Yeah, I bet.
13:58Murder, kidnapping, grand theft auto.
14:01How many Our Fathers and Hail Marys was that?
14:05Are you a man of faith, Agent Parker?
14:07We're not talking about me.
14:08Except I need you to understand.
14:09We're not just dealing with the laws of man here.
14:12The seal of confession is inviolable.
14:15It extends even into the hereafter.
14:16And I'm talking about the here and now.
14:19This man is a trained killer.
14:21What else is there to understand?
14:24You like war movies?
14:25Okay, just stop changing the subject.
14:29No, I'm not.
14:30When I was growing up,
14:31I loved war movies.
14:32Patton, Platoon, The Dirty Dozen.
14:34I saw them all.
14:36Then I saw the real thing, Iraq, 2007, The Surge.
14:41Lost a lot of good men,
14:42but they taught me something no movie ever could.
14:45In battle, you put your faith
14:47in the men serving alongside you.
14:50Trust them with your life.
14:51So when a service member walks into my chapel
14:55and tells me his deepest secrets,
14:58they're trusting me with their life.
15:00If I betray that trust,
15:01I put them in danger.
15:02I put the entire unit in danger.
15:05We're not just talking about protecting Lieutenant Winger.
15:08We're talking about protecting
15:09all of the men and women who serve.
15:13Nice sermon.
15:15My dad would have approved.
15:17He liked war movies, too.
15:18But this isn't a wreck, Chaplain.
15:21And Lieutenant Winger is not at war.
15:23But still, people are dying.
15:27Chaplain Gage,
15:28I am NCIS Director Leon Vance.
15:30I'm sorry you've been detained.
15:32Please accept my apology for this inconvenience.
15:34Seems that there's been a misunderstanding.
15:36I agree, Director.
15:38You're free to go.
15:40And I assure you that Agent Parker
15:42will get a refresher on Navy regulations.
15:45No harm done.
15:47Agent Parker was just trying to do the right thing.
15:49As am I.
15:50Agent Paulson will see you out.
15:56The hell were you thinking?
15:57I was thinking that the last time
15:59a priest held out on me,
16:01it turns out he was an international drug lord.
16:04He's a base chaplain, not El Padre.
16:06You should have cleared this with me.
16:08Why?
16:09I know what you would have said.
16:10Same thing you've been saying for months.
16:12Tread lightly.
16:14Keep it low-key.
16:14We don't need bad press.
16:16We don't.
16:17Well, imagine how bad it's gonna be
16:18if Winger kills again.
16:20Do you ever consider
16:20that I have a good reason to say those things?
16:22Well, if you're ready to share, Leon,
16:24I'm ready to listen.
16:36Wow.
16:37Yeah, it was biblical.
16:39And it wasn't just the chaplain.
16:41It was Vance, too.
16:42Mm, Parker's on a tear today.
16:44He could have gotten into a lot of trouble
16:45for arresting the chaplain.
16:46Maybe it wasn't about the chaplain.
16:48Maybe it was about the chaplain's boss.
16:51You think Parker's got beef with God?
16:53After the year he's had, wouldn't you?
16:55Where are we at with Winger?
16:56We have agents outside his apartment and his house.
16:58His wife and son have a full security detail.
17:00What about bank accounts?
17:01He can't get far without cash.
17:02Well, uh, no recent transactions,
17:05but there's not a lot to draw from.
17:06Winger's are living paycheck to paycheck.
17:08Phone records?
17:09That's where it gets interesting.
17:10Winger preferred to use an encrypted messaging app.
17:13It turns out he received a voice message
17:14just minutes before his leapfrog jumped this morning.
17:17Well, now we're talking.
17:18Play it.
17:18Well, we don't have the actual message.
17:20The company is citing customer privacy
17:22and demanding a court order.
17:26And I'm gonna get a court order.
17:28Winger's psych eval, go.
17:30Uh, conducted by a Navy psychologist
17:33after Winger's release from Taliban custody,
17:35they diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress,
17:38but found him remarkably stable
17:39given the trauma that he'd been through.
17:41Yeah, I bet they'd like to revise that assessment now,
17:43especially since I found more trauma.
17:47This is Lieutenant Junior Grade Liam O'Brien.
17:50He's a leapfrog, just like Winger.
17:52He fell to his death three months ago.
17:55Parachute malfunction.
17:56According to the leapfrogs that we spoke to,
17:58Liam and Winger were really close friends.
18:01I was in a body that soon after being a Taliban prisoner.
18:03It's a lot.
18:04You went for a Navy SEAL.
18:05Sure, but parachute malfunctions
18:07don't happen every day.
18:08Are you thinking foul play?
18:10I think that in light of what we now know about Winger,
18:13we can't rule anything out.
18:15Keep digging.
18:16Watch out, Katy Perry.
18:26Jessica Knight is ready for blast-off.
18:28Mm-hmm.
18:29Funny, but, uh, no, not quite.
18:31This is NCIS Elite's new jumpsuit.
18:33It's been five months.
18:34Do you even know what you're training for?
18:36Well, on some days, it is hostile extractions.
18:38Other days, it is CBR and response.
18:40But, uh, really, I'm still just an astronaut
18:43waiting to go to space.
18:44Well, it's better than plunging back to the Earth.
18:46Just ask Liam O'Brien.
18:48Oh, Winger's friend.
18:49These were his parachute rigs?
18:51Yep.
18:51So what caused malfunction?
18:52Oh, for starters,
18:53the main chute experienced
18:54some broken suspension lines.
18:57They snapped clean,
18:58sent Liam into a spin.
18:59Don't leapfrogs train for that?
19:01They sure do.
19:02And Liam knew the drill.
19:03He cut his main away,
19:04pulled his reserve,
19:05and didn't deploy
19:06because of this pin.
19:10It dislodged
19:11and caused a horseshoe malfunction.
19:13That's where the chute won't leave the bag.
19:14Leapfrogs trained to clear those also,
19:16but at that point,
19:17Liam was under 400 feet and dropping fast.
19:20Just didn't have enough time.
19:21So was it an accident?
19:23The preliminary investigation
19:24found no evidence of sabotage, but...
19:27You did your thing.
19:28I did my thing.
19:29Swallowed for touch DNA,
19:30dusted for prints.
19:31Only found Liam's DNA in prints
19:33except on this pin,
19:35where I also found...
19:37wingers.
19:39Damn, Casey.
19:40Maybe you should be an elite.
19:41Oh, count me in.
19:42You know I love a good costume.
19:43Mm-hmm.
19:45I agree, Jess.
19:47A little touch DNA
19:48doesn't mean that Winger killed his friend.
19:51But if he did,
19:52it means whatever was going on with him
19:54happened long before
19:55he stole that car this morning.
19:58You gotta wonder what he's been hiding.
20:01Uh-huh.
20:02Yeah.
20:02Look, I gotta go.
20:09I'll see you in the morning.
20:10Okay.
20:11Okay.
20:23Hope you don't mind the intrusion.
20:25It depends.
20:27You're here to confess?
20:29In a manner of speaking.
20:31Come in.
20:36Impressive.
20:37You're like Bruce Dern in Silent Running.
20:39If you mean the guy whose garden
20:40becomes a crime scene,
20:42well, you're closer than you think,
20:43Pat and Ray.
20:44Of course.
20:45That's actually why I'm here.
20:47I owe you an apology.
20:48I didn't realize it at first,
20:49but I know you, Agent Parker.
20:50I helped arrange your father's burial at sea.
20:54I even met your sister,
20:56the vice admiral.
20:57She talked at great length
20:59about your father and you.
21:02So that's it?
21:03You just came here to apologize?
21:06Well, apology accepted.
21:08Agent Parker,
21:09are you familiar with Hillel, the elder?
21:11A Jewish scholar.
21:13There's a proverb of his
21:14that I find myself returning to.
21:17If I am not for myself,
21:18then who will be for me?
21:20Meaning?
21:21Help yourself so that you can
21:22better help others.
21:24Your pulpit is showing, preacher.
21:28Losing a father is hard at any age,
21:31and especially the way you lost yours.
21:33I was wondering if perhaps
21:35you'd talk to anyone about it.
21:37Your sister found comfort
21:38in faith and prayer.
21:40I thought it might help you, too.
21:49My father prayed every night.
21:53He read his Bible, too.
21:57This one?
21:59Oh, yeah.
22:02The Lord shall fight for you,
22:05and ye shall hold your peace.
22:08He was a man of faith?
22:12Yes, he was.
22:15What good did it do?
22:17Because he was murdered right here
22:18in that chair.
22:20So thank you, chaplain.
22:21I don't need your thoughts and prayers.
22:23I need your help in finding a killer.
22:26Anything else is a waste of time.
22:27I'll say goodnight now.
22:38All right, we are casting a whiter net
22:53for a winger.
22:54Border patrol is doing searches
22:55at every crossing.
22:57I still don't buy that he's on the run.
22:58Doesn't fit his psych profile.
23:00Guy was held prisoner by Taliban
23:01for two years.
23:03I mean, who knows what's going
23:03through his head.
23:04So post-traumatic stress?
23:06It's not really much of a theory.
23:07Unfortunately, it's the only one
23:08we have right now.
23:09Except PTS doesn't make somebody violent.
23:11It has to be combined
23:11with other risk factors.
23:13Sure.
23:13Anger issues, alcohol and drug use, yeah.
23:15And we have no evidence that winger
23:17has a history of any of those things.
23:22Special Agent McGee.
23:23Oh, chaplain.
23:24How can I help you?
23:26Uh, no, I think we would have found it.
23:29Yeah.
23:29No, we, uh, we will let you know.
23:32Let me guess.
23:33The chaplain's looking for Parker's lost soul.
23:35Funny.
23:35No, uh, chaplain's actually looking
23:37for his lost ID.
23:38I think he left it here accidentally
23:40when he was visiting for his interrogation.
23:42Or someone took it.
23:44What makes you say that?
23:45We weren't the only visit
23:46the chaplain had yesterday.
23:48Winger?
23:51All right, let me pull up
23:52the chaplain's ID logs.
23:55Okay, last time his ID was used
23:56was yesterday evening
23:58at the Navy Munitions Depot.
24:00Security cameras?
24:01Uh, yeah, trying to access them now.
24:04Parker was right.
24:05Winger was hiding more than we thought.
24:07I found a loose floorboard
24:09in Winger's apartment,
24:10and these were hidden underneath.
24:12A Quran?
24:13Yeah, and a prayer rug.
24:14But Winger's Catholic.
24:16Yeah, but he was also
24:17a Taliban prisoner for two years.
24:19Are you saying he converted?
24:20I'm saying that maybe he had no choice.
24:21And it might have been
24:22more than a religious conversion.
24:24Take a look at this.
24:25Six minutes after the chaplain's ID
24:27was used to scan into the depot,
24:29Winger came out of a sighting.
24:32And he wasn't empty-handed.
24:34What exactly is in that building?
24:35It's climate-controlled.
24:36Typically, that means chemicals or...
24:38Explosives.
24:40Winger's wife said
24:41he came back a different man.
24:42We're not just looking
24:43for a killer anymore.
24:44We may be looking
24:46for a terrorist sleeper agent.
24:55And we'll need to start
24:57decorating for Christmas soon.
24:59I'll show you
24:59where we keep the boxes.
25:05You lied to me.
25:08Give us a moment.
25:14Agent Parker,
25:15even you must know
25:16that bearing false witness
25:17is a sin.
25:18One of the Ten Commandments,
25:19if I'm not mistaken.
25:20You told me Winger gave confession.
25:22He did?
25:23Except Muslims
25:24don't give confession.
25:25We found this
25:26hidden in Winger's apartment,
25:28along with the prayer room.
25:29You know I can't speak
25:30about the lieutenant's
25:31personal and private beliefs,
25:33but he did request
25:33the sacrament of confession.
25:35Well, then he was just
25:36using you to steal your ID.
25:38Or did you give it to him?
25:39Took you long enough
25:40to report it missing.
25:41Agent Parker,
25:42I'd misplace my shadow
25:43if it weren't attached.
25:44Winger used your ID
25:45to steal something
25:46from a munitions depot.
25:48Possibly a bomb.
25:49Wait, you think
25:51he's a terrorist?
25:52Last night,
25:54you said something to me.
25:56If I'm not for myself,
25:58who will be for me?
26:02But there's more
26:03to that quote, isn't there?
26:05If I am only for myself,
26:07what am I?
26:08Are you just someone
26:09that listens to people?
26:11Or do you want
26:12to help them too?
26:14What kind of man
26:14are you, Chaplain?
26:15I'm a man of my word,
26:18Agent Parker.
26:19And whatever happens next
26:21is on you.
26:30Agent Parker,
26:31I heard what you said
26:32to the chaplain.
26:33The thing is,
26:33I'm also bound
26:34by confidentiality,
26:35but I don't want
26:37blood on my hands.
26:38Look, Morris,
26:39if you know something...
26:40Yesterday,
26:41when you asked
26:42if I had seen
26:43Winger and Cruz,
26:44I did.
26:44I overheard them
26:45talking into the chapel hub.
26:47It's going to sound weird,
26:48but they were arguing
26:49about something
26:49called the OK Corral.
26:51What, like,
26:52gunfight at the OK Corral?
26:54I don't know
26:54what it means,
26:55but Winger also said
26:56there was going
26:57to be a high body count.
26:58Ashambad Kandarik Air Base,
27:04a.k.a.
27:05The OK Corral.
27:06Just got the file
27:07from the DOD.
27:08It was a top-secret base
27:09located in northern Afghanistan.
27:11Winger served there?
27:12Yes, along with our victim,
27:14Cruz,
27:15and the dead leapfrog,
27:16Liam O'Brien.
27:17Why wasn't any of this
27:18in their file?
27:18Because the OK Corral
27:20was the launch pad
27:21for covert missions
27:22to eliminate
27:23high-value Taliban terrorists.
27:25Looks like they were successful.
27:27Until Lieutenant Winger
27:28was captured
27:28on one of those missions.
27:30So Winger and his buddies
27:31killed a bunch of Taliban.
27:32The Taliban captures Winger,
27:34and now it looks like
27:35Winger's killing his buddies.
27:36You think the Taliban
27:37are using Winger
27:38to get revenge
27:39on the people
27:39that targeted them?
27:40I think we need to find
27:41and secure anyone else
27:42who served in Winger's unit
27:44because he could be
27:44going after them next.
27:45I'll get the names.
27:47Yes, come in.
27:48Sorry to interrupt.
27:49You got something?
27:50Remember the encrypted
27:51voice message Winger received
27:52before his jump yesterday?
27:54We just got access.
27:54Does it explain
27:55why he killed Cruz?
27:56Let's just say
27:57if I heard this message,
27:59I'd jump out of a plane
28:00and get home
28:00as fast as I could.
28:04Max, it's me.
28:05It's Sarah.
28:06There are some men
28:07in the house.
28:07They have guns,
28:09and they're threatening
28:09to hurt me.
28:10And Oliver,
28:11you need to come home.
28:12You need to come home.
28:13Or else we can...
28:13Or else we can kill
28:15out of your wife and son.
28:17No cops.
28:17I hear a siren.
28:18They're dead.
28:19Just you, Max.
28:20Better hurry.
28:22Sarah,
28:23why didn't you mention this
28:24when you spoke to us yesterday?
28:25Because I didn't leave
28:26that message.
28:27Sounds like your voice.
28:28Well, it's not.
28:29And I think I would remember
28:30if I was held hostage.
28:32If someone is still
28:32threatening you,
28:34we can help.
28:35We can help protect
28:36you and Oliver.
28:37It didn't happen.
28:39You have to believe me.
28:40Agent Parker.
28:51Why are you here?
28:52James 2.14.
28:53What good is faith
28:54without deeds?
28:55Great.
28:56More proverbs.
28:57I thought about what you said
28:57this morning.
28:58I'm here to help.
28:58You'll tell me what
28:59Winger said?
29:00No.
29:00I'll let him tell you.
29:02I reached out to the lieutenant
29:03and he agreed to meet with you.
29:04Only you, Agent Parker.
29:06Not gonna happen.
29:06If he wants to meet,
29:07he has to turn himself in.
29:08No.
29:09I vouched for you.
29:12I told him you're a good man
29:13who just wants to help.
29:15Is that a lie?
29:26Lieutenant Winger?
29:30I'm Special Agent
29:31Alden Parker, NCIS.
29:32I've got agents at every exit.
29:35The bomb squad is on site, too.
29:36I'm unarmed.
29:37I'm just here to talk.
29:39And I'm willing to listen.
29:41But if you try anything,
29:44story time is over.
29:48Something funny?
29:51Story time.
29:53It's what my son calls bedtime.
29:57But I'll let Sarah tell the stories.
29:59I'm too afraid of mine
30:00to give him nightmares.
30:01I'm not a terrorist, Agent Parker.
30:04I'm a good Christian man.
30:07So the Koran and the prayer rug
30:12we found hidden in your apartment,
30:14those weren't yours?
30:16Are you a man of faith, Agent Parker?
30:18People keep asking me that.
30:20Well, I am.
30:22Or was.
30:24I don't really know anymore.
30:28Something happened to me in Afghanistan,
30:29and I lost God.
30:36So when I got back,
30:37I tried to find him again.
30:39Try the old ways,
30:40church and prayer and good works.
30:42And when that didn't work,
30:43I tried other ways.
30:45The prayer rug and Koran,
30:47that was one of them.
30:47But no matter what I tried,
30:50God doesn't seem to be listening anymore.
30:53And boy, I did.
30:54I could really use his help
30:55now that I'm being framed for murder.
30:57I don't expect you to believe me.
31:00I do, Lieutenant.
31:03You received a message from your wife
31:05just before you jumped.
31:06That's right.
31:07It wasn't her.
31:08It was a deepfake, AI-generated.
31:10Pretty good one, too.
31:12Almost fooled our best scientist.
31:13Yeah, sure fooled me.
31:16I got that message
31:17and got home as fast as I could.
31:19Cruise was already dead
31:20when I got there,
31:21and my service weapon
31:22was lying near the body.
31:23That's when I knew
31:24I was being set up.
31:25Why did you run?
31:27You had to know
31:28that would make you look guilty.
31:30Because it was the only way
31:31to prove my innocence.
31:32That's why I stole this.
31:39Slowly.
31:40It's okay.
31:41It's not what you think.
31:49I haven't killed anyone,
31:50Agent Parker.
31:57This dirt
31:58is what's killing everyone.
32:00And it's killing me, too.
32:10So Wenger didn't steal explosives.
32:26He stole soil samples?
32:27From the O.K. Corral base in Afghanistan.
32:30Before the Americans had the O.K. Corral
32:32belonged to the Soviets.
32:33I'm guessing they left us a mess.
32:34Casey analyzed it.
32:35That dirt is a cocktail
32:37of jet fuel,
32:39asbestos,
32:40and depleted uranium.
32:41Wenger thinks it made him sick,
32:42really sick.
32:43A few weeks ago,
32:44he was diagnosed
32:44with stage four
32:45malignant melanoma.
32:47What's his prognosis?
32:49Not good.
32:50Doctors don't think
32:51he has long to live.
32:52How can he be certain
32:53that the base is the blame?
32:55Because he wasn't
32:55the only one to get sick.
32:56Captain David Cruz
33:07served at O.K. Corral
33:09for over a year.
33:10Our enemy found a brain tumor
33:11while performing his autopsy.
33:13He never said anything to me.
33:15We don't think he knew.
33:16Your friend Liam,
33:18he knew.
33:19Eight days before he fell
33:20to his death
33:21in a parachute malfunction,
33:23he was given
33:24a terminal cancer diagnosis.
33:25It wasn't a malfunction.
33:29Liam didn't want
33:29to die slowly,
33:30so he took a quicker way out.
33:32You were saying
33:33he sabotaged
33:34his own parachute?
33:35I tried to stop him,
33:36tried to fix his reserve chute,
33:37but he must have double-checked
33:39and dislodged the pit.
33:41And you kept
33:41the truth secret
33:42so his family
33:43could receive full benefits.
33:45That's what it all
33:45comes down to, right?
33:47Money?
33:50It's the reason
33:50I needed to clear my name.
33:52And a murder charge
33:53would have voided
33:54your pension.
33:54And if I lose that,
33:56I've got nothing
33:56to leave my family
33:57when I'm gone.
34:00Three people sick,
34:01but that's just
34:02a drop in the bucket.
34:03There were almost
34:04a thousand service members
34:05deployed to that base
34:06during the war.
34:07McGee's running them down.
34:08This is a massive
34:09health crisis,
34:10and it's flown
34:10completely under the radar.
34:11How's that possible?
34:13After I was diagnosed,
34:14Cruz and I began
34:15to suspect it was
34:16related to the OK Corral.
34:18So Cruz began
34:19making waves
34:19at the Pentagon,
34:20trying to open
34:21an official investigation.
34:22Next thing I knew,
34:25Cruz was dead
34:26and I was being framed.
34:30Someone is trying
34:31to silence us.
34:36It's quite a theory.
34:38Pentagon murders
34:39a whistleblower
34:40and then frames
34:41a war hero
34:42to cover up
34:42health crisis.
34:44Talk about bad press.
34:45I don't give a damn
34:46about the press.
34:46Just follow the evidence
34:49where it leads.
34:55Yeah.
34:55What do you got, Case?
34:57Lieutenant Winger
34:57is wrong.
34:58About the OK Corral?
34:59No, that place
35:00is toxic as hell.
35:01He's wrong
35:02about why
35:03Captain Cruz
35:04was killed.
35:05It wasn't a cover-up.
35:06Cruz was being blackmailed.
35:08After tracing
35:09some reoccurring
35:10bank transaction
35:11to Cruz's crypto wallet,
35:13I found some
35:13encrypted messages
35:14between Cruz
35:15and a blackmailer.
35:16Who is it?
35:17The messages
35:17don't say that,
35:18but they do say
35:19what this is all about.
35:20Meet Ensign Riley Presenza.
35:23She's a subordinate
35:23under his command.
35:24The blackmailer
35:25found out Cruz
35:26was sleeping with her.
35:27Well, if that got out,
35:28that would have been
35:28the end of Cruz's career.
35:30So naturally,
35:31Cruz was paying
35:32the blackmail payments
35:33until two days ago
35:34when he wrote
35:35the blackmailer
35:36said he was stopping
35:36the payments
35:37and reporting it
35:38to his superiors.
35:39I bet that didn't
35:39go over well.
35:40Oh, the blackmailer
35:41threatened to kill Cruz
35:42and the next morning,
35:43Cruz was dead.
35:44So his murder
35:45had nothing to do
35:46with the OK Corral.
35:47Doesn't look like it.
35:49Except how did
35:49the killer know
35:50it's a frame
35:50winger for murder?
35:52NCIS didn't even know
35:53about his connection
35:54to Cruz.
35:55Yeah, it seems
35:56like the killer
35:57knew a lot
35:58of people's secrets.
35:59Almost like
36:00they confessed them.
36:04So this part here
36:05is hanging a little lower
36:06if you want to pull
36:07that top.
36:08Yeah.
36:08How's that?
36:09A little early
36:09for Christmas decorations,
36:11isn't it?
36:11Seem to go up earlier
36:12every year.
36:13I take it you're not here
36:14to help me arrange
36:15the nativity scene.
36:17I don't come bearing gifts,
36:18only bad news.
36:19It turns out
36:20your confidential conversations
36:22haven't been so confidential.
36:24We isolated
36:25a large data packet
36:27coming from the chapel
36:28whenever you
36:29were taking confessions.
36:31I'm afraid
36:31I don't speak tech,
36:32Agent Parker.
36:33The chapel's been bugged.
36:42And we have proof
36:43that these recordings
36:44were used to blackmail
36:45service members.
36:46I'm sorry, Agent Parker,
36:47are you accusing me
36:48of blackmailing
36:49people I'm supposed
36:50to help?
36:51No.
36:52I'm accusing him.
36:55Morris.
36:57It's not true,
36:58Commander.
36:59Oh, it is.
37:01You traced the recordings
37:02to your phone,
37:02and the crypto
37:03to your bank account.
37:04You tried to point us
37:05in the wrong direction,
37:06but it was never
37:06about the okay corral.
37:08You murdered Captain Cruz
37:09after he stopped paying
37:10and set up a dying man
37:13to take the fall.
37:14Even framed him
37:14with his own gun.
37:16Not hard,
37:17considering he had
37:17to remove his weapon
37:18before entering the chapel.
37:21That's right.
37:23No guns allowed.
37:26Stay back
37:27or I'll shoot him.
37:27Drop your weapon!
37:28You hear that, Agent Parker?
37:32The path of the righteous man
37:39is beset on all sides
37:40by the inequities
37:41of the selfish.
37:46Ezekiel?
37:48Tarantino.
37:55I can't thank you enough
37:56for what you've done for me.
37:57Oh, it's us
37:58that should be thanking you.
38:00And after what you started,
38:01the Pentagon now knows
38:02that military personnel
38:03at the O.K. Corral
38:04are exposed to contaminants.
38:06VA plans to extend benefits
38:07to the veterans
38:08who, uh, served there.
38:09I know in your case,
38:11it must be, uh,
38:13a small consolation.
38:14Oh, not at all.
38:15I'm proud of my country
38:16for doing right
38:16by its service members.
38:18And thanks to you,
38:20I have my family again.
38:21I'm blessed,
38:25Agent Parker.
38:27Daddy!
38:27Daddy!
38:28Daddy!
38:51Daddy!
39:21I don't get it.
39:30Winger served his country,
39:32sacrificed everything
39:33to make the world
39:36a safer place,
39:37was put through hell
39:38trying to get back home,
39:39and then when he did,
39:46how does God reward him?
39:49By killing him.
39:50painfully and slowly
39:54in front of his family.
39:56How does he still
40:01think he's blessed?
40:03I mean, what,
40:04what good can come
40:06from all of this pain?
40:15What?
40:16No proverb?
40:17I thought at the very least
40:19you'd have an answer for that.
40:20I'm afraid the answer
40:22you're looking for
40:24only God can provide.
40:28Well, that's great.
40:32As I've been asking.
40:36But the man upstairs
40:37refuses to talk.
40:38But the man upstairs is talking,
40:46but it's you who refuses to listen.
40:52Answers rarely come from a burning bush
40:55or a booming voice.
40:58Most of the time,
40:59they come from the people closest to us.
41:02if you're truly looking for answers,
41:05Agent Parker,
41:06then you have to be prepared
41:09to not like what you find.
41:20Oh, my God.
41:21Agent Parker.
41:23I am so sorry.
41:24I meant to put that away.
41:27Believe me,
41:27message received,
41:28loud and clear.
41:39Oh, yeah, Jimmy.
41:40I'm going to need you on this one.
41:41Jim, you're looking for Woodward.
41:42I am so sorry,
41:43I am so sorry.
41:44I am so sorry.
41:45I am.
41:49I am so sorry for you.
41:53I am so sorry.
41:54Please,
41:55no question.
41:55I am afraid of me,
41:58but I am too surprised.
41:58If you will die,
42:00my dad is broken.
42:00I am
42:01Towering
42:02אנ
42:02merkel teases here.
42:03I am so sorry.
42:04I don't know.
42:05I am so sorry.
42:06I am so sorry.
42:07I am so sorry for you.
42:08Annette.
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