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I don't know what to

say.

Hey, you're an American doctor.

You don't know anything. You're a doctor.

You're a doctor.

You're a doctor.

Do you think you can finish it?

No, I don't know.

Fire at the zoo.

Caught the bad guy hours ago.

Hi.

Usually, we go home after that.

Well, my office has a nicer couch, so... I thought I'd have a post -bad guy

drink. Would you care to join me?

I'll take that as a yes.

Costa Rica.

Again.

I wasn't kidding the other day.

Uh -huh.

I'm serious.

I need a change.

I'm ready for fun and band and not facing a new murder every single day.

I actually found a place near the beach.

It's putting in an offer.

Who is anyone who?

Good. You're still here. Jack, the Bahrain office needs you in M -TAC.

Gibbs, you might as well come along.

A school bus covering four 10 -year -old girls and their chaperone was hijacked

in Heaven Province yesterday.

Bus driver was shot to death. The rest are presumed kidnapped.

Taliban?

Most likely.

They're not big fans of girls going to school.

Oh, it is why the bus routes are usually kept secret. Somehow the Taliban found

out about this one. They staged an ambush.

So what does this have to do with me?

We believe this was written by the girl's chaperone before they were all

Who's the chaperone?

It's Daria, Jack.

Somebody want to fill me in on this? When I was a hostage in Afghanistan.

Daria was another captive, a local, who they used as a servant. She brought me

food, water.

I wouldn't have made it without her.

When we pulled Jack out, Daria stayed behind, fight to fight.

We've been told that she began working with a local non -governmental

organization, an aid group helping villagers threatened by the Taliban.

Is the NGO looking for her?

For what it's worth, I'm not sure there's much anyone can do, but we just

thought you should at least know.

Thank you.

And there sure as hell is plenty we can do. Leon, I know it's not our

jurisdiction. All right, slow down. No, I'm not going to slow down. When Matthew

tortured me, it was Dottia who nursed me back to health. I'm not just going to

stand by. I already arranged for a transport.

Oh, okay. You're damn right we're not going to stand by. I was there, too. You

got us jurisdiction.

SECNAP just approved it. Plane leaves in two hours. You two got your second

COVID shots.

Got it. All right, stay safe.

So, Gibson, say anything else?

No, he texted me. When's he at that point? It's better than when I got from

Sloan. Make sure Torres feeds Carl.

Who is Carl?

Carl is a fish.

Sloan dropped him off at my place last night.

What's going on?

He was called about midnight. He said he didn't want to wake you. So, of course,

I thought he was having a stroke.

Or he was being thoughtful.

Mickey does have two kids.

You hear yourself.

Thoughtful. It skipped to the end. Why do I have a point? Because gifts and

flown are heading to Afghanistan.

They're tracking down a school bus of missing girls. We believe it was the

Taliban. Oh, that's rough.

Anything we can do to help?

Yes. NSA picked up an email containing the exact coordinates of where this bus

was ambushed.

Taliban was tipped off.

NSA will track the recipient?

No, but we got the sender, and I'm sure he knows where he sent his email to.

Name's Albert Gorsh, lives about an hour outside of D .C. So an American sent

the girl's location to the Taliban? Why?

Pick him up, find out?

Be our pleasure.

What's on your mind?

Sloan gave Carl to Torres? She could be gone for a while. Someone's got to feed

him. Except she's got an automatic fish feeder. I helped her put it in.

So exactly how dangerous is this situation?

We will be at the village in two hours.

Oh, no, take us to the bus first, please.

No, no, no.

Bad idea. We do not want to be on the road at night.

Taliban.

The bus first.

The longer we wait, the harder it will be to find those missing girls.

Dollar to me.

Wow, that's the most you've said in the last 12 hours.

Don't worry, I know what you're doing.

What am I doing?

You think that if you don't push me, I'll realize on my own that Coach Drew

the mistake and I'll change my mind.

Is that what you think?

Yep.

I wasn't the only one not saying much on that plane. What are you thinking?

I was thinking about Daria.

Well, she was a teacher before the Taliban kidnapped her.

What'd she do after?

I don't know anything except for what that agent told her.

I mean...

She used to patch me up after Masayun would torture me.

I'm sure she meant well, but they tortured me all over again, so...

We tried to keep in touch, email and such, but it got too hard.

You okay being back here, John?

Thanks, I'm okay.

I've made peace with this place.

That being said...

I wouldn't mind getting the hell out of here as fast as possible.

What does a fish actually do? You can't pet it, right? You can't play fetch.

Okay, can we stop talking about the fish?

Oh, you're not a fan?

Not since my mom flushed my goldfish down the toilet when I was six.

Oh, so Goldie was your first dead body.

No, wait.

How did you know her name?

Because all six -year -olds name their first goldfish Goldie.

Where do you smell that?

Ah, speaking of dead bodies.

Well, somebody beat us here.

Are we sure this is the right guy?

I mean, look at these posters.

Save the Amazon, the ocean.

Doesn't exactly strike me as someone who'd be working with the Taliban.

I don't know. You tell me.

Does this look familiar?

Yeah. I think those are the GPS coordinates of the bus route.

Then we got the right guy.

Agent Gibbs, Sloan?

Yes. I'm Nabi.

You're the NGO?

Yes, sir.

I help run the local camp with your friend Daria.

As you can see, all that's left behind is the children's shoes and backpacks.

And, of course...

Daria knew that the government would

not have the resources to help.

The NGO?

That's Arabic for safe passage.

Is that what you do? Arrange safe passage for girls who want to go to

A lot of food, clothing.

COVID vaccinations, but it is difficult.

The villages are under constant threat by the Taliban.

Yeah, got that.

Our birth roots are kept secret. I cannot imagine who leaked this one.

We might have an idea.

Our team in D .C. sent us this photo an hour ago.

You know him?

Yes. Albert.

He helped design Marour Amman's internal network.

Are you saying that Albert hacked into our system and leaked this person's

route? Why?

Can't ask.

He's dead.

Then we shall never know who's taken the girls.

Well, maybe not, but we know which way they went.

How?

Seen this before.

The Taliban had them take off their shoes for a reason.

Makes it harder for them to get away.

But only if they were headed into rough terrain.

Mountains are this way. That's where we'll start. Not tonight.

The Taliban soldiers like to shoot at passing vehicles at night for sport. We

should go to the village. No, with all due respect, we should stop wasting

Listen to him, Jack.

He's right.

Gibbs, you know, every second those girls are missing. We can't help them.

dead on the side of the road. We go to the village. We call Vance. We get back

up.

Take it from there, right?

Jimmy, what do you got? Kidney failure.

I mean, we don't have kidney failure. This guy's kidneys are... Well, kidney

failure didn't bash in this guy's door.

That'd be impressive.

So was this a murder? He appears to have died from pre -renal kidney failure.

His medical records show no history of any kidney problems.

Which means?

It's weird.

That's your official report?

That is all I have until Casey gets back with blood results.

I mean, if this was a murder, we don't even know what the motive was.

It's got to be one of the four L's, right? Like lust, love, loving, loot.

Still no clue who he emailed the kidnapped girl's bus route to. Did you

a mountain of his computers? Can't you just trace his email?

It would.

Like you'd get into the computer. So I've never seen this kind of encryption

before. Which means... It's weird.

These people have nothing to lose their kids to.

Marura men operates out of here.

You can contact your director inside.

What's the perimeter?

Uh, what?

Security. What do you got?

Human patrol with rifles. We have some old landmines from an abandoned military

post. We keep it in a shed.

Well, I guess the shed's safe.

Zip around. We got a lead on the girls. We need satellite access for recon land.

And troops to back us up if we find something.

I'll do what I can, but with reduced U .S. presence in country, I'll need to

call in a few favors. We'll start calling, please.

In the meantime, you might want to consider... Tripwire perimeter on the

leading into town. Use some old blasting caps. I voted for the entire landmine,

but whatever.

Jack, you sure you're okay?

I'm fine, Leon. I just wish everyone would stop expecting me to fall apart

let me do my thing.

Light! I got the door. Window!

I

got

something.

It's not it!

It's not it! Stand down, Jack.

Come on.

This is Yosemite, one of the missing girls.

Hey.

It's okay, Angel.

It's okay. I'm yet shoddy. I'm yet shoddy. Drink, Angel.

I'm yet shoddy. You're safe now.

And you were a very brave girl for getting away from those men.

No.

I'm not.

Get away.

They let me go.

They let you go?

I don't get it. Why'd they let her go?

They could be testing the perimeter.

Or using her as a distraction.

She found her right here.

Which means she might know where the other girls are.

You know a map?

Yes.

Translate for me, please.

Yes.

Hey, Yasmeen.

I'm Jack. I'm a friend.

That's a map.

This is where we are.

Do you know where those men took you?

It's okay. It's okay.

Acute stress disorder, possible dissociative amnesia would be my guess.

Interesting. I can't imagine what they might have done to her.

Actually, I can.

Listen, I can't wait until dawn to get back out there, Gibbs. You've got to be

smart.

Agent Gibbs has been flown.

Quickly. What is it?

It just appeared online.

They wear those dresses to school?

No.

You've got Daria.

She's alive.

Wait, what's she reading? A bank account number.

It's an auction.

The girls are for sale? Now I know why they let Yasemin go.

Why?

She has epilepsy.

Many hold outdated superstitions about it. Some even consider it a curse.

They did not think she was even worth selling.

Those aren't traditional bank account numbers. They're for a cryptocurrency

wallet. That means we can't trace the owner. Can we block the bank account?

By advance on time to give that backup.

Backup for what? I mean, we still don't know where the girls are being held.

I'm working on it.

Come on, Mickey. Even my grandma would have figured that by now. Who did Oliver

send that email to? Yeah, your grandmother can crack 512 -bit custom

encryption. If she can't, I know who might.

Turns out Albo had a business partner, a guy named Ben Mitchell.

They ran some animal non -profit together.

Ben was the IT guy?

Until he ended up in jail for hacking.

We should talk to this guy. Which jail? He's out now. Runs a pet store. I'll

send you the address.

Oh, maybe you can help us with Carl. You know, he's barely moving inside his

little ball.

I think he's depressed.

He looks fine.

Oh, easy for you to say. Long comes back to a dead Carl.

On the neck.

The nonprofit was just a cover.

Officially, on animal being abused, you could use our app to report them.

Unofficially, we'd hack the living crap out of whoever was doing the abuse.

Felt nice, but I ended up doing some time.

Turns out I am not a fan.

And when I got out, I went legit.

What about Albert?

Look, you're not going to get the guy in trouble.

He's dead.

You want to help us figure out why?

And help us find some missing girls?

While I was locked up, Albie jumped from animal to fighting corruption.

Started going by the name Albatross.

That's what his groupies called him. Wait, wait. You're saying that Albert

was the Albatross?

Who's that?

It's like the most famous hacktivist of all time. No wonder I can't get into

this guy's system.

Oh, and you're excited because that explains why you're failing?

Hey, the NSA has been after this guy for years, okay?

For hacky, uh, visiting?

Look, a hacktivist is a hacker who uses his skills for the purposes of good.

Yeah, in Albie's case, he started helping government whistleblowers.

And pissed off a lot of people.

Yeah, the thing I don't get, though, is activists live by a code, and that

definitely doesn't include child abduction.

He's been getting more and more extreme lately.

9 -11 truther, COVID truther.

I'm kind of not shocked to hear he hooked up with some really bad apples.

So you're going to help us get into his system?

Find those girls?

Yeah.

Of course I'll help.

You are not going to believe who our dead guy is.

Didn't we ID this guy already?

He's the Albatross.

No. Yeah.

I'm just kidding. I don't know who that is. He's the most famous hacktivist of

all time.

Oh, yeah. Sorry. No, I still don't know. But don't hacktivists, like, live by a

code that does not involve child abduction?

No. Well, Albatross's ex -partner says that he changed his tune.

Did this ex -partner happen to have the encryption keys to Albatross' server by

any chance?

He did.

Oh, that makes my news super anticlimactic. All I did was ID the

for our newly turned evil hacktivist, and it's not pretty.

He was killed by ketchup?

What was in the ketchup? Someone spiked it with acetic acid. It's what caused

the kidney failure.

Nice work.

Did you, uh... Check for prints already fine, two sets, and have already ID'd

one as belonging to our victim?

Mm -hmm.

How about the other set?

Ooh, I was just about to run them and catch a murderer, but I bet I can ID the

second set of prints before you can hack into that server.

You're on.

Okay.

Ready? Mm -hmm.

On three. Uh -huh. Three.

What?

Ten. Already?

Yeah, I just need to execute the encryption over, right?

I think I might have triggered some kind of security protocol here.

Special Agent McGee?

Really?

All over? Okay.

Yeah, I'll be right out.

The whole network is down.

Whole as in?

The entire building.

Yeah, so I'm going to go fix that before Gibbs flies back from Afghanistan and

kills me himself.

Oh, he dead.

You're doing great.

So, the girls were locked for a half hour, and they were put in a truck and

driven for another hour to a house.

That's a pretty wide radius.

She doesn't remember how she got home. I'm still working on it.

Yeah.

Hey, Leon.

Where's that satellite recon?

Waiting on an answer, Gibbs, but I got a hard no on any troop support.

We still got three girls out there. I know, but the rules of engagement the

Pentagon agreed to forbid... Rules?

This is the Taliban, Leon.

They don't have rules.

If you and Sloan try to mount a rescue, you will be on your own, which is why I

expressly forbid... Expressly what? You're breaking up, Leon.

No, Gibbs, I most certainly am not. Can't hear you.

I want you and Slo...

You got a location?

Yasmin just told us something. Well, what'd she say?

That halfway to school, Daria told the bus driver to take a new route.

Well, they change routes all the time. You read the NGO report. Yes, but look

it again.

The route Daria had the driver take was never on the network.

So how did Albatross get it?

Can't hack something that's not there.

Daria was the only person who knew where that school bus would be, which means

the only way the hacker knew it as well...

As if she told him.

Track sent here.

Track must have picked them up.

So, which way did they go?

I can't tell if that fork is a dead end or crosses a river.

She didn't do it, Gibbs.

Daria.

She would never have leaked that bus route.

She risked everything to help me. She would never sell out her own people. I

know her.

I got something, Jack.

Wait.

That's Daria's.

She had it when we were held captive.

She must have left it for me to show me the way.

Maybe.

Maybe what?

Just wondering what kind of prisoner gets to keep their jewelry.

So what, you think it's a trick to send us the wrong way?

Joe's playing the book. Got a captive that doesn't talk, stick a buddy in

soften them up.

Matthew did it to Vance with that big CIA agent. This whole thing may be one

trap.

Your name on the bus, Masahun, still got family in the area.

I got to tell you, Costa Rica's looking better by the second.

Your friend dropped the necklace going that way, Jack.

Which way are we going?

Damn, Tim, I don't get it. You're supposed to be the computer guy. How did

guy out -hack you? You know what? This guy was, like, one of the best ten

hackers in the world, okay?

You think you got problems? Try checking murder catch -up fingerprints by hand.

I'm like Amish Columbo down there.

All right, I should isolate every computer that came in contact with

virus.

Oh! Oh!

McGee in the building!

What's going on?

Those are not flattering pictures.

Why is this happening?

I isolated Albatross's server. Seriously, why is this still happening?

Because the attack isn't coming from Albatross's server. It's coming from

outside the building. Here, take a look. When McGee broke into Albatross's

system, he didn't just trigger a virus.

He triggered a warning beacon.

To who?

All of Albatross's hacker group. It was letting them know his system was

compromised. Looks like one of them went on the offensive.

And see?

Y 'all made fun of me for keeping my webcam unplugged. We got to find them

stop them. That is not going to be easy. These people are pros at staying

hidden. Then we make them come to us.

How? Stand outside with a hard drive going, here, hacker, hacker.

No, but Alba's trusting his buddies are into helping whistleblowers, right?

Well, we dangle one in front of them, let's bait.

Yeah, but who?

I mean, all of our pictures are plastered on the internet with a do not

sign stamped across them. You guys, you guys.

I don't want to be alarmist here, but my cooler just went out, and we're going

to be in a world of hurt if you... What?

Jamie, my man, you've got to calm down.

Literally the least calming thing you can say to a person.

Okay, maybe we should go over this again. You're a janitor who wants to

an NCIS cover -up.

Right, and I piggybacked onto Albatross's beacon to make contact, and

a USB drive with the dirt.

Put the USB drive down.

Jimmy, I'm sorry. I'm really nervous, okay?

And somehow simultaneously extremely bored.

This is really what you guys do on stakeouts?

Terrible for circulation.

I should mention I'm really hungry.

You know, maybe this was a bad idea.

If our guy makes Jimmy, we're not going to get a second chance here.

And not for nothing, but I think I have eyes on our hacktivist. Check out the

mom pushing the stroller.

No way.

When's a baby tune -in call drop?

Who walks a baby without a diaper bag?

Plus, that mom hasn't looked down in her stroller once.

Oh? So if you're pushing around the cutest living organism on planet Earth,

wouldn't you stare at it every chance you got?

Mm -hmm, like Baby Yoda.

Now you're getting it.

Move in, Bishop.

Yep, I got it.

Hey, NCIS.

Hey!

NCIS!

Freeze!

Go ahead, go ahead.

You're welcome.

So, you got hacked, huh?

What's that got to do with me? I think we both know the answer to that.

Good luck proving it.

I'm trying to solve your friend's murder.

Should I find it suspicious that you don't want to help?

His murder?

Right, sure.

Was this before or after he collaborated with the Taliban?

After.

You guys got to get better game. I don't know what you got on Albatross, but no

way was he collaborating with Tara.

He's one of the good guys.

And we are?

The man.

Deep state.

And I'm not buying what you're selling.

As far as I'm concerned, there was no murder, no kidnapping, and Albatross is

sitting in some black site with three little girls.

Three little girls being auctioned off like cattle.

Here's your buddy.

This one we can go see in person if you want to take a quick little field trip.

I don't really give a rat's ass who killed that guy because he sold those

girls out on their way to school.

And those girls are out there scared and hurt. And the only way to find them is

by tracing an email locked inside of Albatross' system, which we can't access

because you're a virus.

You said you're one of the good guys. Prove it.

Okay.

I'll show you how to unlock your system.

So, one thing. You said that the NSA flagged his email?

Yeah, that's right.

That I don't believe.

He's been evading them for years.

He's being set up.

Yeah.

No. We're losing the light, so we headed back.

Thanks for the heads up, McGee.

Did you track that email yet?

Uh, no, but, uh, McGee was able to block the kidnapper's bank account.

A lot of some time before they're sold.

Agent Gibbs!

Agent Sloan!

Wait, something's wrong, Gibbs.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Oh,

my God, Daria.

They, they threw her from a truck.

They didn't even slow down. Daria. Did you recognize him?

No, but this was spent on good.

Go home or there will be more blood.

It's in English.

It's to us.

So much for this being a trap.

She wasn't in on it, kid.

Where are you going?

I'm done.

What do you mean you're done?

This. Is why I want out.

This.

We chase bad guys.

We put them away.

And nothing ever changes.

Except for us.

Dottia risked her life to help me.

And we're all so twisted. We couldn't see that basic act of humanity for what

was.

So call it what you want.

Quitting. Running. I don't care.

I'm out.

I'm done.

Might as well go out in a blaze of glory, right?

Olofo thought he recognized the truck that dumped Daria's body, said it came

from that village.

I thought I'd do a little recon.

Hello? By yourself?

Are you wanting to get yourself killed?

Seriously?

Why is it?

When Leroy Jethro Gibbs wants to charge in with guns blazing, it's heroic.

But when I want to do it, I have a death wish? I don't talk like I want to die.

So pick one. You can't have it both ways, Gibbs. What am I picking? You

tell me I'm a fighter and that fighters never quit and then try to ground me

when you don't like my plan. I can if I want you to be around.

At NCIS or on the planet? Both.

Jeff. Every truck out there looks the same.

You go charging into the wrong village with your ass all on fire, we will never

see these girls again.

Do you have a better idea?

We call Vance. We see where he is on the satellite recon. If he's nowhere, then

we go check out the village ourselves.

Fine. But we do that together.

We need to hurry.

I just spoke to Vance. He just spoke to Gibbs and Sloan. What's up? Well, it

sounds like they're about to do something very Gibbsian and Sloansian.

Okay, so what can we do?

Get intel on whatever they're about to walk into.

All right, Albatross's laptop.

Did you find out who he sent that bus route to?

I didn't have any better luck tracing his email than the NSA.

Let's assume he was really the one who sent the email.

Well, baby Yoda's mom seems to think that Albatross is being set up.

Set up or not, someone kidnapped those girls.

What about focusing on the murder case?

Shake something loose?

We still don't have motive, let alone a solid lead.

Did someone order solid? Because I have got some solid gold. My computers are

back up, thank you, Secret Agent Palmer.

And I managed to ID the prints on the murder catch -up.

And? And our murderer is... You're about as good at getting away with murder as

you were at hacking.

And we know where hacking got you.

I try to help you guys, and this is the thanks I get?

This is why people hate you.

Nobody hates me. Anyone hate you, Nick?

Oh, well, I mean, I did go undercover for like 10 years, so yeah, maybe. Okay,

this isn't funny.

No. You're right. Nothing about this is funny, actually.

Your prints on the murder weapon.

Not funny.

Bottle of poison that we found in your trash.

Not funny.

You're done.

We know that you killed your ex -partner, and the jury's gonna know it,

You just want to know why?

Because he was a sellout.

He was supposed to be our hero, fighting the good fight when things got a little

too hot for the rest of us.

But you were right.

Activists live by a code, and it does not include selling information to

terrorists.

Albie started working for the mob, dealers, anyone who would pay.

So you killed him? It was an accident. That was just supposed to send him to

hospital. Give me time to access his system while I unhash that email he

What?

You're the one that set him up. You unhashed that encryption so that NFA

flag his email.

I wanted people to see what he'd become. I didn't want to kill anybody. Who eats

that much ketchup in a week?

And what about the girls?

Did you even think about them? I got his email flagged. It's not my fault you

idiots couldn't track the thing to the other side.

Hey, do you want to help us? Tell us everything you know about the

don't know anything you don't.

Except... Maybe you gave Albie that bus route in the first place. That we know.

It was Daria.

The woman in charge of the NGO.

Who?

No, it wasn't a woman.

Then who was it?

Agent Gibbs, any news?

Beat it.

Is there a problem?

Where are the girls?

Excuse me? Dottie isn't the one who sold them out. You are. She changed the bus

route at the last minute.

Didn't tell anyone.

Except you.

And then you told him.

This is absurd.

I'm going to ask you one more time where the girls are, and then I'm going to

leave you alone with her.

You're an American federal agent.

You won't hurt me.

I'm going to Costa Rica, baby.

And you killed my friend.

Daria was like a cancer.

Marura men was only supposed to supply food and shelter.

But Daria wanted to destroy our entire way of life.

She wanted these girls to learn English, Matt?

It was not right.

We sold those girls into slavery so they couldn't learn math.

That was not supposed to happen.

They were supposed to be married off to good husbands, not souls.

But it is a holy war. It is what it is.

Wait. Where are you going?

She can take it from here.

She's a crazy woman. She will kill me.

It is what it is.

What? No.

Unless you tell us where those girls are being held.

It's okay. It's okay.

Hey.

Hello.

Okay, that feels good.

Yeah.

Sir? Ma 'am?

Since the CO had to creatively interpret a few rules to okay this mission, we

need to return to base ASAP.

Please thank your CO for us, and thank you.

That's all the thanks I need.

Besides, when the director of NCIS makes a direct call... You can always count

on Lorraine.

Hoorah!

Can we give you two a lift back to base?

Gonna need a minute.

So?

Check.

I think you probably already know.

You're never going to Costa Rica.

And you know I'm not going back with you either.

We're down a leader the town's still vulnerable to Taliban attacks

And hey, I did say I needed

a change not exactly the beach but there is Yeah I

Have loved my time

in CIS been a really good pal

You don't need me anymore.

I'm not sure about that.

Come on.

I don't belong behind a desk.

I never did.

And you're right, I was running. I don't want to do that anymore.

I think I can make a difference here.

I want to make a difference here.

And I know you understand that.

Call everybody when I'm ready.

And as for you, if you ever want to visit.

Watch a new season of Big Brother Canada Wednesday on Global.