A Year of NCIS, Day 270: The Enemy Within (Episode 12.12)

Episode: The Enemy Within, Episode 12.12.

Air Date: January 13, 2015.

The Victim: Corpses, but no victims.

Emotionally Traumatized, But Ultimately Irrelevant, Witness Who Finds the Body: We start in Syria. It looks like a terrorist base.  Or it was one.  Until the U.S. SEALs show up and start unloading automatic rounds into terrorists.  They kill four or so, and then find a woman in a burka hiding behind a locked door.  She announces herself as American and removes the head covering.  They announce themselves at SEALs and say, “Let’s get you out of here, Sarah.”

Plot Recap: Gibbs is working on his boat and watching TV news in his basement.  The report is talking about our opening and the rescue of 28-yesar old social worker Sarah Goode.  Vance visits.  He has an ornamental box of some sort that the camera lingers on.  And he tells Gibbs they’re bringing Goode to DC.  State wants NCIS to help debrief her. 

Gibbs agrees while looking over the box.  Vance says Abby has the evidence from the raid.  Gibbs just wants to talk about the box.  He is impressed with the craftsmanship.  Vance says it belonged to his wife Jackie’s grandmother and that Jackie always wanted to give it to Vance’s daughter Kayla.  Like all parents, Vance sort of breathlessly acknowledges that his daughter is about to turn sixteen.  Gibbs thinks he can fix the box before then.  All it needs is a hinge and he thinks he can get one from a flea market.

Vance looks over at the picture of Sergei Mishnev hanging on Gibbs’s wall.  He assures Gibbs they’ll get him.  Gibbs asks if Vance is checking up on him.  Gibbs says he’s fine, but he keeps ruminating over the fact that Sergei could have killed him last episode (Check, Episode 12.11).  Vance says Sergei held off because he wants Gibbs to torture himself.  Like he’s doing. 

Vance notes there was no memorial service for Diane nee Gibbs nee Fornell nee Sterling almost Fornell again.  Diane never wanted a memorial.  That’s not usually enough to prevent one, but given Diane’s exceedingly acerbic personality, it probably would have just turned into a roast.  Vance asks after Fornell and Gibbs says he’s not in great shape- he took a leave of absence to get his act together.  Fornell and Diane were planning to get re-married, and now Fornell has to raise Emily, their teenage daughter, by himself. 

At NCIS, Tony has a new car magazine.  Which leads to he and McGee reminiscing to Bishop about the time Tony’s corvette was stolen and wrecked in a televised freeway chase.  Hometown Hero, Episode 2.21.  Tony heads out for coffee.  McGee thinks Tony has been awfully mellow and begins searching his desk drawers for prescription meds.  Bishop is horrified, but McGee, correctly, points out that Tony goes through his desk drawers all the time.  He elaborates that he locked the keys in the van the previous day and Tony didn’t even call him names.  Instead, he reminisced about being a rookie with the Philadelphia P.D.  McGee decides to test things and pours coffee all over Tony’s new sports car magazine.  Bishop is freaking out until Gibbs arrives.  McGee, hilariously, just strolls back over to his desk leaving a puddle of coffee for Tony to find.

Gibbs announces that the Goode interview is at 1:00PM.  Bishop has prepared background.  Goode was a volunteer working an orphanage in Syria when she was taken by terrorists.  The team watches Goode participating in a ransom demand video.  The terrorists wanted $100 million.  The U.S. paid it in SEAL bucks.

Tony returns and asks about the magazine.  McGee apologizes and says it happened while he was trying to answer Tony’s phone.  Terrible lie, since that type of phone has a call log.  But Tony blows it off and thanks McGee for trying to get the call.  Bishop calls this very un-Tony.

Gibbs visits Abby.  She ran prints from the terrorist base and found a rifle with a print that doesn’t match any of the dead terrorists.  The print matches Kyle Nasry, a U.S. citizen.  American Taliban again (see Shellshock, Part One, Episode 10.6).

The team backgrounds Nasry.  His father is Syrian, but they immigrated to the U.S.  He passed when Kyle Nasry was 12.  Nasry’s mother still lives in Maryland.  Nasry has a college degree and majored in environmental science.  Nasry’s only record was an arrest in 2010 during Iraq and Afghanistan protests.  He was investigated and cleared by the FBI.  Gibbs and Bishop have an interview to conduct, but Gibbs sends Tony and McGee to talk to Nasry’s mother.

At the hotel, Goode seems happy to be alive.  We learn she is an orphan and worked day care jobs after high school, and then joined an international relief agency.  She was traveling to another village to pick up a child when she was stopped and kidnapped by the terrorists.  Gibbs shows her a picture of Nasry.  Goode doesn’t recognize him.  Goode says she was isolated and only dealt with a small number of people, all of whom wore hoods and spoke minimal English.  Bishop asks why Goode turned down media interviews, and she says she doesn’t care for the spotlight.  The only thing she wants to do before she leaves DC is hear Imam Mus Ibn Hassan speak.  He’s in town for a speech and Goode exposits that Hassan’s stand against religions extremism and jihadist violence represents the beliefs of the Muslims she knew in Syria.  He also has a fatwa on him.

Goode would like to go back to Syria, crazy as that sounds.  There are so many children who need help, but she knows she can’t go back until the country is stabilized.

In MTAC, Chris Hegarty, Asst. Director at DHS, talks to Vance about how terrorists recruit disaffected American males.  Hegarty shows us Cleavon Smith, a former Detroit gang member who converted to Islam and died as Abu Hussein in Syria.  There are about a dozen U.S. citizens fighting for ISIS in Syria, but there could be more.  Nasry wasn’t on the radar.  Gibbs arrives to say that they’re working on Nasry.

Tony and McGee visit Mrs. Nasry.  She knows them because she is a teacher and Agent Dorneget spoke to her students on career day.  And that’s not the only thing she thought was good, that turns out not to be.  The boys break the news about her son.  Mrs. Nasry denies that Nasry could be a terrorist- her husband was neither religious nor political and her son went to an Episcopal high school.  She thinks he’s in Greece.  The last time they talked was via email a few weeks back.  Tony holds up a picture of Nasry with a girl.  That’s Chelsea, Nasry’s girlfriend.  She is supposedly traveling in Europe with him.  Or she was until they broke up and she came home.

Back home, Ducky, with no bodies to dissect so far, is reading Bishop’s debriefing report on Goode.  Bishop arrives and he compliments her work.  But she feels like she missed something.  Bishop is also concerned about Goode.  She thinks she’s handling her trauma too well and that it will all hit her later.  Ducky says delayed-onset PTSD is common.  He agrees with Bishop, however, that Goode should not return to work in Syria.

Tony and McGee are walking down a street.  McGee is paranoid because Tony has been so nice.  They table it to talk to Chelsea, who runs one of those mobile pet care trucks.  Chelsea flirts with Tony, but he sort of blows it off.  McGee notes it.  Chelsea says she hasn’t spoken to Nasry in months.  She says he started acting strange and hanging out with people she didn’t like.  People who were radical and extremist.  She had her fill and left.  She flirts with Tony some more, but he lets it bounce right off.

As they leave, McGee accuses Tony of dating someone.  Tony denies it.

Vance walks into the squad room and announces that DHS tagged Nasry as clearing customs a few days ago.  He dramatically proclaims that they now have a homegrown terrorist on US soil.  That’s a weird spot to head to break, but I guess the show neglected to pace its tension to the commercial breaks. 

Network TV is hard.  I am being perfectly sincere when I say that.

The team backgrounds Nasry’s return to Dulles International and goes over surveillance.  Nasry is in the wind. 

NCIS has other problems.  The elevator dings and Fornell, head completely shaved and wearing civvies, enters.  Tony gives him a hug.  Fornell doesn’t shoot him.  They’ve made progress.  Fornell notes the stares at his bald head and says he was working undercover.  Bishop offers condolences and asks after Emily.  Fornell says it has been tough, but Diane’s mother is helping out.

Yikes.  Can you imagine Diane’s mother?

McGee also offers his condolences, and if there’s someone who might be in real danger of being shot…but no, Fornell simply says Diane was very fond of McGee.  And he knows they were close.  He stares meaningfully into McGee’s eyes, until McGee denies closeness.  Gibbs tires of the awkwardness and wants to know why Fornell is at NCIS.  Fornell was involved in the FBI team that investigated and cleared Nasry.  Fornell thinks there were signs that Nasry was looking for a cause.  He should have put him on a watch list and feels guilty about the omission.

McGee takes a call.  Nasry’s mother is at NCIS.  Gibbs leaves to take the meeting.  Fornell goes with him and says FBI has jurisdiction.  Gibbs resists and notes that Fornell is on leave.  Fornell responds that being trapped in the house with a grief-stricken, hormonal teenage daughter and, well…both Gibbs and Fornell cringe over their mutual ex-mother-in-law…let’s just say Fornell is jonesing to get back to work.  Gibbs relents.

In the conference room, Mrs. Nasry said she emailed Nasry and wanted to meet him in Greece, where she thinks he is, over Christmas break.  Nasry put her off, and she’s suspicious.  Although, she doesn’t believe the agents when they say he’s back in the country.  Fornell sympathizes, now more than ever, with the pain of the single parent, but he says that Mrs. Nasry has to call if her son contacts her.  She swears Nasry would never do anything evil.

Abby knocks and interrupts.  Then she sees Fornell and they hug it out.  In front of the witness.  Professional.  Mrs. Nasry grimaces.

Gibbs and Fornell follow Abby down to the lab.  She’s working on a laptop the SEALs brought back from the Goode rescue.  She found some DNA, and identified another American working with the terrorists.  His name is Randall White. 

The team backgrounds White.  He’s ex-Army and served in Afghanistan.  He got a bad conduct discharge for insubordination.  Then he joined a gang in Newark, got pinched, pled, and served six months with two years of probation.  While in prison, White converted to Islam.  His last known location was Turkey. 

McGee checks White’s passport, and he just scanned through Customs at Dulles.  Fornell calls TSA.  McGee will work airport security cameras from MTAC.  Fornell joins McGee.  The rest head to the airport

In the car, Bishop backgrounds White.  He did his basic in Oklahoma.  An ex and a son he doesn’t support still live near the base.  He doesn’t appear to be connected to anyone in DC.  But Tony notes that White and Nasry both being in DC isn’t a coincidence. 

The phone rings and Tony helps navigate Gibbs through answering the handless system.  I guess the show decided not to depict Gibbs talking and driving anymore.  McGee reports that White got into a cab, and he has the cab number.  Gibbs tells Fornell to hold off alerting the police.  Gibbs wants to tail White.  And McGee can get the cab GPS from the company.  Vance, having appeared in MTAC, likes this idea.

In the cab, White is nervous and doesn’t want to talk to the driver.  White also notices when NCIS has dispatch call and the driver remarks that White’s destination is a hotel.

Gibbs and company move to intercept.

White pulls a pen out of his pocket and we see it has bullets inside it.  A hiding place, or some kind of weapon?  Then he calls someone and says, “Leave now.”  He asks to be let out. 

McGee gets the update that White exited the cab.  He relays the new location to Gibbs.

Gibbs pulls up and Tony and Bishop get out onto the sidewalk near White’s location.  Gibbs pulls off.

White is still moving.

Gibbs spots him and cuts him off in the car.  Tony and Bishop appear from behind to cut off escape.  White puts some kind of weird plastic gun to his head and fires, killing himself.

The team processes the scene.  Fornell and Gibbs discuss plastic guns and how White got his through security at three airports.  McGee says White went from Turkey to Athens to London to DC, all tickets purchased in cash. 

Tony joins and says he showed Nasry’s photo to the desk clerk at White’s destination hotel.  Nasry was there, but left minutes before NCIS arrived.  Even though he’d paid for a week in advance.

Ducky has White’s body in autopsy.  He has confirmed White’s identity using his service medical records.  Ducky’s examination also determined cuts and nicks on White’s face and razor burn, demonstrating a recently shaved beard.  White also has a gang tattoo from his youth.  He has an Army tattoo that he tried to cover up with something else.  Ducky thinks White was a disgruntled solider who joined a terrorist group for “even more forms of spectacular violence.”

In the squad room, ATF Special Agent Zoe Keates, arrives to visit Tony.  We met her in Parental Guidance Suggested, Episode 12.6.  She’s there to examine White’s plastic gun.  Also, to return something Tony left at her place when he rushed out that morning.  Whoa.  She returns his cuffs.  And apparently found the key.  Which means he left her locked up.  “Locked up pretty good” by his description.  Fortunately(?), there’s nobody in the squad room to hear this exchange.  But Zoe notices that Tony is nervous.  She asks if they’re a secret.  Tony says NCIS runs on gossip, and he does not want to be the topic of discussion.  He says he doesn’t want to spoil things.  She goes along with it.

For all the good it did.  As they leave for Abby’s lab, we see McGee and Bishop sneak out from behind the cubicle walls, having listened in on the entire conversation.  Bishop calls it love.  McGee says they’re at least in heat.

In the lab, Zoe thinks it’s pretty easy to 3-D print a plastic gun.  And the photos from the SEAL raid show the terrorists as having that exact equipment.  Abby pulls up the schematics.  Zoe notes that the downside of this weapon is it only holds one bullet, and there’s no rifling, so it’s not very accurate.  It’s only good at close range and the plastic degrades after a few usages.

Bishop and McGee arrive, grinning like idiots.  They keep grinning.  And they want to clue Abby in, so McGee pretends they’re there to help Abby de-encrypt the terrorist laptop.  Abby doesn’t catch on at first, and then does, in perfect TV manner.  Tony and Zoe note the weird, but they leave.

McGee and Bishop drop the news and Abby is shocked because usually Tony is way TMI with his conquests.  McGee thinks it must be serious.

Gibbs and Fornell meet with Vance and update him on the manhunt for Nasry.  But they don’t have much.  Vance asks what else they can find to connect White and Nasry other than what was at the terrorist camp.  Gibbs identifies the common hotel. 

Fornell gets a text to pick up Emily from ballet.  Vance, no stranger to the horror show of being suddenly left to be dad alone, tells Fornell to go.  But he tells him that they have a lot in common if Fornell needs someone to talk to.

Three men.  All having lost their wives to violence.  It’s a lot.

Vance asks Gibbs if Fornell is OK.  Gibbs says, “No.  But he’s putting up a good front.”

Gibbs visits Goode at her hotel.  She doesn’t look happy to see him and talks to him at first through the door chain.  But then she lets him in.  They talk.  Goode says that she will be getting on with her life when State finishes her debriefing, but she doesn’t know what her new life will look like.  She wonders why Gibbs is there.  Gibbs tells her that Nasry is in the U.S.  She asks if she is in danger, but Gibbs thinks her abduction was all about money.  There’s no reason to attack her in the States.  But he does want to ask about White.  She looks at the pic and doesn’t recognize him.  Gibbs tells her White killed himself before he could be questioned, and watches for a reaction.  Goode appears moved but says only that she wishes she could be of more help.  She never saw either man.  Gibbs doesn’t buy it but keeps his counsel.  He gives Goode a card and says she can call if she wants to talk.

We get a rare scene from the perspective of a character who isn’t one of our leads.  Goode closes the door, drops Gibbs’s card in the trash and then calls out to someone named Faheed.  Nasry, who apparently has a fake Arab name now, comes out of a room.  Goode says that White is dead.  Nasry starts to panic.  But Goode says it will be fine.  After all, they never thought that she would be “rescued,” and they need to use it to their advantage.

The next day, at the squad room, Gibbs is noting Tony’s tardiness.  McGee doesn’t rat, but Gibbs already knows about “That ATF gal” anyway.  Of course, Gibbs doesn’t get why Tony’s trying to keep things secret.

Vance arrives to focus his team (usually Gibbs’s role) and asks about Nasry.  Vance will be in the office until 11, but then State has requested he attend the District Union Club luncheon.

Fornell and Bishop are on stakeout and Fornell is unburdening.  Fornell had moved into Diane’s place to be less disruptive to Emily.  He talks about how he would have done that anyway…you know when they got re-married.  Fornell is uncomfortable with all of the girl-becoming-a-woman stuff and talks Bishop, a woman he barely knows, into having these talks with his daughter. 

Bishop decides to see how Fornell is doing.  He says it’s about Emily, not him.  He gets a call.  A wiretap paid off and Nasry called his mom.  The FBI is trying to triangulate his location.  At that point, we see that they are staking out Nasry’s mom’s house.  She exits the home.  And she has made the surveillance.  She’s not mad, though.  She tells Fornell in a matter-of-fact way that Nasry called and asked for a meeting so that he could get some money.  Fornell is glad she told, but wonders why.  Mrs. Nasry says Nasry sounded frightened and strange and this needs to end before he hurts someone else.

In the lab, Abby has finally cracked the terrorist laptop.  She found some video files and is cleaning them up and translating them.  McGee arrives and reports what Bishop and Fornell learned.

We cut to Nasry, wearing a hoodie, waiting nervously on a DC street.  He gets into his mom’s car, but it’s Bishop at the wheel, also wearing a hoodie.  Then the entire team plus Fornell surrounds him.  This time, they take one alive. 

Vance’s luncheon is for that Imam speech that Goode mentioned in the beginning.   Vance is chatting, and we see Goode come through the security.  Vance introduces himself and thanks her for her cooperation.  He notes that they share admiration for the Imam and Goode reveals that she has been invited for a private audience.  Vance chuckles and says he’ll have to settle for the speech.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Gibbs is fucking with Nasry by calling him his real name.  Then he makes light of his conversion.  And if Nasry weren’t a radical and a terrorist (not to mention the kind of disingenuous tool who purports to convert to a religion and becomes a terrorist because he needs friends), this might be mean.  But I think we can all agree Nasry has it coming.  Gibbs asks for the plan.  Clearly, Nasry wanted the plastic gun, but for what?  Gibbs is trying to get to Nasry by showing him White’s photo and even angrily demands that Nasry look at the picture.  Nasry looks at Gibbs’s watch and tries to delay by asking for something to eat.  He invokes his dietary restrictions and Gibbs makes fun of his fake name again.  But Gibbs leaves with nothing.

Fornell and Ducky are in observation and Fornell says Nasry is the same punk he interviewed four years prior.  He wonders how he missed the signs.  Gibbs joins, and Fornell says DHS has lowered the threat level with Nasry in custody.  Gibbs doesn’t like it.  They’re missing something.  Ducky agrees.  Nasry is not a jihadist.  He allowed himself to be taken captive instead of offing himself like his pal.

Bishop collects Gibbs and they go to the lab. Abby made it through the terrorist videos.  And found the unedited recording of Sarah Goode’s ransom plea.  I love outtakes.  We see Goode make her plea for ransom.  Then we see her saying she can do it better.  Worse, she says it to Nasry.  Gibbs realizes Nasry gave up too easy, to distract NCIS.

In the squad room, Tony reports that Goode left the hotel over an hour ago, and on foot.  Bishop thinks there has to be more to this than ransom.  When Goode was rescued, Nasry and White were already on their way back to the States and they couldn’t have known she was going to be rescued.  What’s their angle?  They discuss BOLOs and Fornell says they should alert Vance.  McGee mentions the luncheon and Gibbs puts it all together.

Vance takes a call as he passes through a metal detector.

We see the Imam greeting VIPs.  Goode is about three back in line.  Vance heads back through the detector and flashes his badge.  He summons his escort and gets moving. 

Goode greets the Imam.  And reaches into her purse. 

The NCIS team make it just in time.  Vance gets Sarah’s arm and restrains it in the air while another guy covers the Imam.  Then Sarah has numerous feds covering her as she screams in rage at the Imam.  Vance screams at the agents to get her out of there.  She continues to angrily rage in Arabic as she’s carted off.

The gang and Fornell are back in the squad room.  Fornell is on the phone telling Emily he’ll be home soon.  Tony is trying to knock off early to go meet Zoe.  McGee brings Zoe up, having found her in the parking lot.  And she breaks the news to Tony that everyone knows.  In honor of them being office official, Zoe nominates Tony to buy everyone drinks.  Gibbs and Fornell take a rain check.

The agents leave, and Fornell invites Gibbs to dinner with Emily and their ex-mother-in-law.  Gibbs shoots that full of holes.  As they walk out, Fornell admits that he misses Diane more than he could have ever imagined.  Gibbs gets it.  Fornell thought they really had a chance of making it work this time.  He says he loved her.  And that it should have been him.  Fornell looks over at the Most Wanted Wall and the picture of Sergei.  He tells Gibbs to make him a promise: when NCIS finds Sergei, Fornell gets a piece. 

Quotables: Nothing much.

Tony Awards: Tony made a reference to abusing McGee that sounded like a movie quote, but Google didn’t give me any hits.

Abby Road: Abby keeps it together.

McNicknames: All self-inflicted in an illustrative sort of way, but McIdiot, McGoofus, McDumbbell.

Ducky Tales: Ducky focuses.

Bishop Be Crazy: Bishop seems to be trending normal.

The Rest of the Story:

-Jackie, Vance’s wife, died in Shabbat Shalom, Episode 10.11.

-Serge Mishnev is a Russian merc and this season’s troublemaker.  His face has been on Gibbs’s basement wall since Twenty Klicks, Episode 12.1.  He is on a vendetta against Gibbs because of Ari Haswari (the troublemaker from Seasons 1, 2, and the beginning of 3).  Sergei corrupted IT Kevin, NCIS Systems Administrator (Twenty Klicks, Episode 12.1), chased Gibbs and McGee through the Russian wilderness (same), and killed Diane, Gibbs’s and Fornell’s mutual ex-wife.  Check, Episode 12.11.  He’s kind of a clown, his schemes verge on cartoonish, and he has taken quite a bit of punishment from Gibbs in the process (shot, pistol whipped, strangled).  But he’s deadly in his own way, and he keeps escaping.

-Fornell and Diane divorced off-screen (Twilight, Episode 2.23).  They got back together in Devil’s Triad, Episode 11.10.  They a daughter, Emily, who last appeared in that same episode.

-Tony used to be a cop, in Philadelphia and then in Baltimore.  Baltimore was explored in Baltimore, Episode 8.22.  The most we’ve heard about Philadelphia was recently, in Parental Guidance Suggested, Episode 12.6.

-Dorneget is heard more than seen.  He comes up all the time, but, to date, has appeared in only four episodes to date.  It adds continuity to the show without requiring that Dorneget actor Matt Jones receive any money.  Part of me wonders if it’s an intentional joke.  “Hey!  Referenced your character again!  Still not paying you!”

-As Tony informs Chelsea, he had a cat, but it ran away.  The Searchers, Episode 12.7.  The cat was named Rick Blaine after the Humphrey Bogart character in Casablanca (1942).  Tony also has two fish, Kate and Ziva.

-McGee and Diane had a weird history that really must be experienced.  Fornell, as a result, has not traditionally been Tim’s biggest fan.  See Devil’s Trifecta, Episode 10.9 and Devils’ Triad, Episode 11.10.

-Did McGee hack the airport security feed?  Because we learned in Grounded, Episode 12.9 that TSA won’t let him in voluntarily, even in an emergency.

-Zoe Keates and Tony were rookie cops together in Philly.  Parental Guidance Suggested, Episode 12.6.

-Was this one obvious?  Maybe it was the acting (and maybe that was intentional), but Goode sounded like she was reading from a script when she talked about wanting to see the Imam.  And it made zero sense that the terrorists had two English speakers on premises and never used either of them to interface with Goode.

-Sarah Goode will return.

Casting Call: Sarah Goode is played by Lindsey Kraft. She looks familiar, but I don’t independently recollect her.  However, she has guested on several sit-coms I frequent, so it makes sense.

Man, This Show Is Old: Not quite on topic, but it’s interesting how NCIS has DHS talk about terrorists using Facebook and Twitter to indoctrinate Americans in 2015.  Social media propaganda is still a huge problem here, but foreign nationals managed to scale it so that now we mainly do it to ourselves for purposes of creating homegrown terrorists.  It’s also not limited to teens.

I don’t know that you could ever purchase airplane tickets with cash.  I can’t imagine you can now.  Or even in 2015.

MVP: Vance gets the MVP.  Kinda wish he’d gotten it the old fashioned way.

Rating: I don’t usually get personally involved in the broader plot, but the idea of a bunch of punk kids betraying their country because they’re bored or trying to fill some dumb hole in their psychological make-up irritates me.  I enjoyed watching NCIS crush their sociopathic dreams.

Seven Palmers.  Good, fun, satisfying, but a little obvious.

Next Time: Gibbs’s former squeeze Hollis Mann returns.  And Breena Palmer goes into labor.

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