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Previously on NCIS.

Update. Same signatures, 100 days apart.

You sure it's my gen? Here's our guy in Georgetown just an hour ago.

Name's Alden Parker, Federal Bureau of Investigation. And I hope that your team

didn't blow my cover. Gibbs stays in the loop, Agent Parker.

Put it down.

Can you kill me twice?

No more fake names, Paul Lemire. Thanks to your very real passport.

I'm just so relieved they caught the guy. Every time Lemire killed one of his

victims... Someone sent him a cool 50k. It wasn't killing for sport. He was

killing for money. He's not a serial killer. He's a contract killer.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Casey!

Ah!

CP is dropping. He's losing too much fast.

I'm only 1 ,000 feet from the platform. We've got to stop this week. I need a

transfusion here!

Nurse, excuse me. You shouldn't be here.

That's my suspect.

I need to know how he's doing.

Kids,

come to finish the job, where is he? Dead?

Or will be?

And now we're never going to find out who was paying him.

He's not going to die.

How do you know that? You pick up a medical degree on your way here?

It wasn't a kill shot.

And it wasn't your call to make.

The guy had a knife to keep him drunk.

And you had a trained hostage negotiator standing right there.

Agent Knight could have bought us some time. I'm not going to take that chance.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm sure the review board will agree that it was a

shot. I'm just telling you, it wasn't a smart move. Our only lead is going to

die. I'm not going to die.

Get your head out of the sand, okay? You screwed up.

You played Mr. Tough Guy Vigilante and you screwed up, okay?

What you did was reckless and dangerous.

Sorry to interrupt.

We've managed to stop the bleeding and stabilize Mr. Lemire.

He's going to live.

Live? The bullet only nicked his subclavial artery.

Quite lucky, actually.

One millimeter higher and he would have died for sure.

I shouldn't.

Well, glad you could join us.

Welcome.

Don't gloat.

No gloating here.

Not gloating. Uh -huh.

I'm only moving because my death is covered in blood.

Not because you want me to.

No, no, no. Of course, of course.

Of course.

How's your head?

It's better than my pride.

Can't believe I didn't see that coming.

Well, the mirror went full Hulk in us. I mean, no one saw that coming.

You got the jump on me.

I got jumped.

Happens to the best of us. I've been jumped a few times myself.

Well, a few times.

It's never happened to me.

So what's wrong with you that it keeps happening to you?

Yeah, funny.

Oh, hey, Mickey.

Hey, good morning.

Oh, nice desk.

Yeah, I liked it better when she was over there.

Any updates on Lemire's condition?

Yeah, I spoke to the hospital.

He's conscious and expected to make a full recovery.

Doctors are going to let us know when we can talk to him.

Where's Gibbs?

It's at the cemetery where we picked up Lemire, looking to see if there's

anything we might have missed.

That makes sense.

There's a lot of questions on this case.

Well, let's see if we can answer some.

What do we know?

Paul Lemire is not a serial killer. He was a contract killer, paid to kill

seven people.

Who paid him? Well, we don't know yet.

He's still tracing the pavements that we found in his thumb drive.

Okay, so if Lemire was paid, then the victims were being targeted.

Still can't find any connections between them.

We've combed the files, histories.

Nothing links them.

The link's got to be whoever hired Lemire.

We figure that out, we'll correct the case.

Well, then let's hope that Casey works her magic.

Jimmy. Yeah, your blood pressure's still a little high. Your pulse is fine, but

let me check your pupils again. Hey, hey, hey.

I need to work.

Casey, you were taken hostage, all right? Lemire had a knife. Letter

A letter opener to your throat, all right? It was a traumatic situation.

You could still be suffering from shock, from PTSD.

Or from you annoying me.

Okay, so I have told you a thousand times. I will be fine. I have been

worse. We have been through worse.

The diner two years ago? Oof.

Yeah, but we worked through that.

I don't know. That was pretty traumatic.

I mean, yes, we were taken hostage. And sure, one of them died, and then they

forced me to cut open his stomach and retrieve diamonds from his intestines.

But is it hot in here?

No, I'm going to sit down.

Yeah.

Hey, Case.

Jimmy?

What's going on with him?

He's working through something.

Any luck tracing Lemire's payments?

Whoever paid Lemire knew how to cover their tracks. We know he was paid

a shell company, Navis Ventures. But whenever I try to trace the money, it

leads to another shell company.

I've had multiple computers working on this, and I still can't find the source.

This could take days or weeks or... Why does that happen every time I say

something like that?

Let me guess, another bogus shell company?

Uh, that depends on how you feel about the U .S. government.

Lemire was paid by the Pentagon?

Thanks for seeing us, Lieutenant Falco. Of course.

Please, have a seat.

Excuse the mess. You can just throw those anywhere.

So, what can I do?

For you. So you are the senior accountant to the defense finance? And

services.

Why? We're investigating a payment to a suspect that came from this department.

Wait, wait, wait.

So you're not here about the audit?

Audit? Oh, thank God.

Thank God. Oh, you really had me going there.

The DOD is being audited again for some discrepancies in their books.

Well, $35 trillion worth.

That's a lot of discrepancies.

I have been killing myself for weeks trying to balance these books. I haven't

slept. I haven't seen my kids. It's been a nightmare.

I hear that NCIS runs a pretty tight ship, financially speaking. You know if

they're hiring at all or... You know, never mind. So this payment, you said it

came from this department.

That's right, but we don't know who authorized it.

Well, my office is just a pass -through, basically. We process thousands of

payments a week for every department in the military.

Can I see the account number?

It says here the money originated from one of our contractor accounts, Sonova

Industries. The DOD uses their data imaging machines.

So our suspect wasn't actually paid by the Pentagon.

It was paid by Sonova.

Can you tell us who from over there authorized it?

Huh. That's weird.

There's no authorizing name here.

It could be just a glitch.

Or... Or what?

Or maybe someone at Sanova is trying to hide something.

We're going to need to copy these files, please.

Sure.

How you feeling, Lemire?

Ready for another chat?

Round two?

Who hired you?

I don't know what you're talking about.

We found your offshore account.

But you already know that, don't you?

That's why you ran?

I just felt like stretching my legs.

Who are you protecting? Can we wrap this up? I got a sponge bath coming up I

really don't want to miss.

You know, for a guy who got caught, you're coming across very cocky.

You didn't catch me.

Um, I think we did, Agent McGee.

Yeah, I seem to remember taking you down at the cemetery. No, that's because

someone ratted me out.

That phone call in my apartment?

That was someone pretending to be me.

So, like a hitman impersonator?

They wanted NCIS on my tail.

I was set up.

Okay, who set you up?

Seriously, who set you up? Give us a name.

Listen, Paul.

Can I call you Paul?

Don't answer it. I'm going to do it anyway.

Paul, we got you cold for seven murders. That's a fact. You're going down.

The only question left is whether or not you get to chair. If you cooperate and

give up your employer, the FBI will make sure that you live out the rest of your

days in prison.

Now, that's the best deal you're going to get.

There's another body that you haven't found yet.

In upstate New York.

I'll take you to it.

Why would we do that?

Because it's the first victim.

It'll explain everything.

Who hired me.

Why. All of it.

You can save us a whole lot of trouble. Just tell us.

No. Do you want answers?

That's the only way you're gonna get them.

I'll take you to the body.

On one condition.

He wants Gibbs?

Lemire specifically requested that Agent Gibbs escort him to the body.

Why? Didn't say.

You told him no, right?

Leon, why are you humoring this guy?

He might not even be a body.

Actually, Casey discovered another $50 ,000 payment hidden in Lemire's account.

Dated 100 days before the first body we have on file.

So it's legit.

There's another victim. Looks like this is the first.

And feel right.

Yeah, I agree.

Lemire could try to escape again, or worse, he could try to kill you again,

finish what he started.

Frankly, after what he did to Gibbs Bone, I'd be more afraid of what Gibbs

do to him.

I can't have a suspended agent escort a suspect alone.

The FBI would never let me hear the end of it.

Director, we don't have a lot of options here.

If we're going to get Lemire to talk.

What about following the money? Are we any closer to learning who's behind the

payments? We're still digging, but we could be digging a long time.

This is your call, man.

I didn't expect your director to approve this little field trip, let alone make

us partners.

We're not partners.

No. but we're going to be breathing the same air for six hours, so maybe we

should smoke a peace pipe or something first.

He can smoke whatever he wants.

I'm driving.

All right, so I just spoke with Lemire's doctor, and technically he hasn't been

discharged yet, so you two are going to be responsible for his medical care.

Now, he needs his blood pressure medication every three hours, his

every six. Make sure he stays hydrated. Don't let him in the sun too much. Jeez,

Palmer, we're not taking him to summer camp.

I'll take care of it.

Agent Gibbs, glad you could make it.

Really looking forward to spending some time together.

Let's get this show on the road.

I asked for Gibbs.

I didn't say anything about the FBI.

Next time, be more specific.

Did a full cavity search.

Lemire's clean.

Got a radio in the car. And local authorities have been notified about the

trail.

Listen, boss, if you want it done, I know.

Yeah, Mark, boss.

I really hope they don't kill each other. Who, Gibbs and Lemire?

Gibbs and Agent Parker?

Take a peck.

Where is the new taking give?

I have a bad feeling about this trip.

Yeah, me too.

I hate road trips.

I dig it.

Dig what?

Bad junk food?

Looking for a place to pee? Bill Wurst.

The journey is the destination, baby.

I'm pretty sure the destination's the destination.

Hey, anyone here from Gibbs yet?

Not yet.

I wish there was a way we could help them.

Well, there is. We can find out who hired Lemaire.

Any luck tracking the payment through Sonova yet?

That's not going to be easy.

All right, let's run it down.

Sonova is a huge conglomerate with 14 divisions worldwide.

They started off in mining, supplying raw materials to manufacturers.

As soon as it became so big, they ended up just buying the manufacturers

themselves. They make everything, from jet fuel to petroleum jelly. I mean,

have all those TV spots that play all the time.

Sonova, making your world brighter.

Yes, I know, I know. It's an annoying jingle I've heard.

Okay.

Sonova's main headquarters are in Virginia, run by Sonia Eberhardt. She is

as a tough... CEO.

Very guarded. So getting people to count your files is going to be difficult.

And we could walk through the front door with a warrant, but that might tip them

off. So maybe we use the back door.

Looked into it, Sanova uses focus groups for their products.

Just so happens they have one scheduled for today. So maybe one of us gets in

there, is part of the group, peels off to the circle room, download the files

that are needed.

That sounds like an undercover job.

I mean, put me in, coach.

What? Why you?

What about me? I can handle myself.

I'm sorry, kind of awkward, but I'm kind of the undercover guy, so kind of my

thing.

Yeah, this product really is for you, Nick.

Welcome, ladies, to the focus group for Sanova's newest product, Beauty Fresh

Women's Deodorant.

For the record, I know a lot about deodorant, okay?

So where are you taking us, Paul?

Come on, you got what you wanted. No harm in giving us a sneak preview.

Told you.

It's in upstate.

New York, yeah.

But is it the victim's house?

Someplace where you dumped the body? What?

I don't want to ruin the surprise.

So this first victim, who was she? Why is she so important?

Nice try. I never said it was a she.

The others were just names on a list.

People I was told to kill.

This one was significant.

Significant how?

You'll see. You'll see.

You don't like me very much, do you? No, I don't.

Is it because of what I did to your boat?

I can tell. It meant a lot to you.

It was a beauty.

It's a real shame.

Must have hurt, watching it burn.

Not as much as getting one of my bullets in your chest.

So, this first victim, are you saying that you didn't kill them for money? Was

more personal then?

Come on, Paul.

I'm just trying to learn more about you.

You want to know more?

Why don't you ask Leroy here?

If I had to use a word, refreshing, I guess.

Refreshing. Nice word, Alexis. I like that.

Anyone else?

It smells like, I don't know, jasmine?

Score one for Patty.

Yes.

I mean, now when can I get out of here?

Hey, you wanted to go undercover.

All right, Jess, the server room is two floors above you, located at the end of

the hall.

It's probably locked, so you're going to need an employee access card.

Okay.

Before we move on to our next deodorant, does anyone have anything else they'd

like to say about Jasmine Dew?

Oh, Jessica, what would you like to say?

Just that I think your deodorant is sexist and kind of stuff.

Okay. That's all good.

We love feedback here.

Jessica, can I ask why you think that?

Well, for starters, why is it that all of your women's deodorants smell like

flowers? I mean, what if I don't want to smell like a flower?

What if I don't want to smell like anything?

I mean, men's deodorants have neutral scents.

So why is it that we have to smell like a freaking garden?

That's true.

She's blowing it. I'm going in. Give her a second.

I think we're just going to go ahead and move on to our next deodorant. Oh, no,

no, no.

Let's move on to the price.

How much do your deodorants cost?

About $5, I think. Oh, so basically a dollar more than deodorant for a

man. There it is. So why is it that I have to pay more for essentially the

product? She's right.

My husband's deodorant only costs $4.

Okay, so I don't know about you ladies, but I'm thinking that Sanova is hitting

us with a pink tax.

I assure you that's not what we're doing.

You see, our products are made from material which costs money.

Are you mansplaining?

What? Thank you. You ladies don't understand.

Oh, because we're not as smart as you are?

Me too. All right, I'm out of here. I'm out.

No, please, ladies. There's been a misunderstanding.

Nova's not Texas.

I'm not Texas. I have two daughters.

Do you know how hard it is to deal with us? I'm just wondering. Do you know that

we have to pay for makeup?

Got the card. Heading to the server room now.

Okay, sounds good. That was pretty sweet.

Stay on this road for another 20 miles.

Beautiful country out here.

Yeah, it's country.

Quiet, peaceful.

I always thought so.

Oh, yeah?

You grew up around here?

I'll spend some time.

Must have been nice.

Was that before or after you were in the Navy?

We read your file. What little wasn't scrubbed?

You did a good job covering your tracks.

We know you were a SEAL until 2005, but not much more than that.

That was the point.

Paul, work with me. We've already established that you grew up around

give me something.

I was raised in a small town.

Dad was in the service. I enlisted right out of school.

Did some tours.

I saw some action.

Why were you discharged?

Because I lost someone close to me.

I had problems dealing with the pain.

Family member?

Wife?

Right after the Navy, then what?

Took some odd jobs. Nothing stuck.

Until a friend of mine turned me on to a job on the force.

You were a cop?

Yeah. Kept busy.

But that pain.

Pain wouldn't go away.

I tried to lose myself in the job.

That didn't work. I tried the bottle. I can't just see what you're doing.

What? These aren't his stories. You tell them.

Mine.

Which part?

All of it.

There's no way in. Well, maybe our story's the same because we're the same.

Enough. I'm sorry if it makes you uncomfortable, but it's the truth. No,

truth is you're a psycho.

When I shot you before, I should have finished the job. You couldn't have even

if you wanted.

Really? Yeah.

All right, okay. Let's go. Hey, hey, hey. All right. Everybody calm down.

calm down.

My blood sugar's getting low.

I think we need to stop for food.

No way.

You take us to the body, then you eat. I can't take you anywhere if I'm not

alert and focused.

I need to eat, and I need to eat right now. Sorry, not happened.

Did I say it was 20 miles on this road?

Or was it the other one?

Can't remember now.

There, enjoy lunch.

Well, you two seem to be hitting it off.

That's a piece of work.

Oh, yeah.

He's a piece of something.

He knows a lot about you.

Well, he tried to kill me.

I'm guessing he did his homework.

So is all that true?

Small town, military dead, you losing your...

Oh.

Listen, Gibbs, this thing between you two, I don't like.

Mind games. Ignore him.

So that's your go -to, huh?

Don't like what you see? Pretend it's not there?

I'm saying stick with the job.

The last guy I knew who liked to stick his head in the sand?

Things didn't turn out so well, okay?

The mirror is up to something. I just can't figure out what.

What do you want to do?

Just call this off.

Turn around and go home.

It's your call.

Do what you got to do.

Right.

All right, I'll let the Bureau know we're headed back.

Hello?

Yeah, this is Agent... Hang on. Hello?

Hang on, hang on. I can't hear you. Yeah, let me speak to the commander,

Before we... Shut up, bitch!

Yeah, I'm never going to look at deodorant the same way again.

Well, hopefully Casey can analyze these files and find out who paid our hitman.

Well, if it is someone from Canova, I think tax is going to be the least of

their problems.

Finally, there you are.

Mr. Hanover? Yeah, so a friend at Shoreside Memorial told me that you had

custody and you let him go. My wife's killer. What were you thinking?

Slow down.

Slow down?

I came here for answers and they stuck me in the break room. All I want are

answers, not stale bagels and coffee.

Why don't you guys go talk to Casey?

Have her work on the flash drive.

Listen, Mr. Hanover, we haven't let anyone go, okay? I promise you, he is

in custody. Okay, then where is he? Why isn't he behind bars?

This is still an active investigation, so I don't want to tell you so much, but

just know we have him under watch, okay?

What if this guy escapes?

This man is a monster. What he did to my gen... I understand, okay, Mr. Hanover?

I promise you.

He is not going anywhere, okay?

We have our best man on it.

Who?

The best man.

Excuse me.

McGee. It's Parker.

Gibbs ditched me and took Lemire.

Smart move, getting rid of your partner.

Keeps your options open.

That's what I would have done.

How much longer?

Not far.

Of course, now that he's gone...

There'll be no witnesses.

That's what you wanted, isn't it?

Is that what you're trying to do?

Yeah, what's that?

Trying to rattle me.

Throw me off my game.

How am I doing?

I overheard what you said at the diner, and you're right. I did research you.

I know all about you.

I must admit that I was relieved to learn that there's another person just

me.

Someone who can relate.

People like us, we lead lonely lives.

People like us?

Yeah.

I know what you are.

What am I?

A killer.

Plain and simple.

Just like me.

I have nothing like you.

Really?

Your wife and daughter were killed by a man who was later found murdered by a

sniper's bullet. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who pulled the

What about all the others that followed? I mean, you were an agent for, what, 25

years? You left a lot of bodies.

How many of those actually needed to die?

Did they all have it coming?

Do they all deserve your special brand of justice?

Or maybe you couldn't stop yourself. Maybe you didn't want to.

Don't kid yourself.

You crossed that line years ago and you never looked back.

Hell, when you got tired of killing suspects, you even went after one of

own.

I was trying to save him.

But how many people could have taken that shot?

Only two I know of.

You and me.

What?

Huh? What are you going to do?

You isolated yourself.

You've cut yourself off from the one thing that's kept you sane and grounded,

okay? You could have gone back to NCIS at any time. You chose not to. You

abandoned them, your family, okay?

Shut up! Once you do that, what happens to you next?

You're looking at it! Stop!

Do it. Go ahead. No one's going to know. No one will know. You can say that I

took the gun away from you.

Come on, do it!

You were never going to take me to the body, were you?

I don't like that.

We're close, too.

Let's go finish him.

Gibbs took Lemire?

Yeah. He then turned off the radio in the cell and we got a blowout.

What about Agent Parker?

He's on his way back.

Didn't sound too happy. I don't blame him. Said there was a weird vibe in the

car that Lemire was pushing Gibbs' buttons. We need to find them. Fast.

Sorry to interrupt, but I thought this couldn't wait.

Will it help us find Agent Gibbs?

No, wait, Gibbs is missing again?

Seriously, we need to put a bell around his neck.

Casey. I was analyzing the files you all downloaded from Sinova. I found

information about something called Skylar. It's a surveillance program

has been running on people.

Lots of people. Like, hundreds.

Why? Not sure, but I found lists of their targets, and one had four names

grouped together.

Anyone look familiar?

Really, these people are victims in our case.

Could be a coincidence, but I know how we all feel about those.

So Sanova's been spying on people, then hiring Lemire to kill them? Starting to

look that way.

Who's the fourth person?

Libby Alanak, 44, lived in D .C. According to her mortgage and phone

which were just paid yesterday, she's alive and well.

And why was she spared?

Maybe Lemire was caught before he could get to her. Maybe she's in on it.

Oh, either way, we need to talk to her. Bring her in.

Ms. Alenec!

NCIS!

Ms. Alenec!

We have water coming from the inside.

Signs of a struggle.

Tell her, Nick!

Freezing in here.

The AC's on.

That's our water source.

Check the back.

Someone made a hell of a mess in here.

They're looking for something.

Hey, Jeff?

Oh, God.

Red duct tape, crushed head.

Slim ears work.

Looks like from a while back, too.

Think this could be... Maybe his first one.

Well, if this is his first victim...

And where is the man taking Gibbs?

Multiple puncture wounds with a claw hammer.

Blunt force trauma, just like the others.

Got a time of death yet? That's tricky. The AC was turned on prior to her death.

So the cold circulating air actually dehydrated her body.

But the AC also pulls a lot of energy, so I had Casey take a look at the

bill history to see when it first spiked. And?

About two years ago, which, if you do the math... Wouldn't make her Libby's

first victim.

Two years.

What took so long to find her? It says here that Libby lived alone.

She worked from home as a freelance travel writer. She often disappeared on

trips for months without telling anyone.

All of her bills are on autopay, which explains why they kept getting paid even

after she died.

And it's sad to think of her all alone in that house.

Any word on Gibbs?

Yeah, right. I don't buy it. I'm telling you, they're just going to say the same

thing. Then you won't mind me asking, where's Gibbs?

I'm sure he's called you.

No. He stopped calling in a long time ago.

What is that?

We believe she is Lemire's first victim.

First.

But if that's the first, that means that Gibbs is stepping into a trap.

We got to find him, like now.

I said we go hard on Sonoma. We know they're involved in this.

Sonoma? Yeah, we trade Flamere's payments back to them.

They had four of our victims under surveillance.

Should have led with that, by the way, but whatever. Okay, let's drag in the

and grill him.

You want to drag in Sonia Eberhardt, one of the most powerful business leaders

in the world, for questioning?

Good luck.

Yeah, without any direct evidence linking her, it's not going to be easy.

Let me worry about that.

Body's over there.

By the trees.

Stop.

I have no idea how that got there.

Go on.

You must have pulled a lot of strings to make this happen.

You have no idea.

Well, let's see if it's worth it.

We appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule. Happy to help.

Before we proceed, I wanted on the record my client is here of her own

and is in no way a suspect or being charged with anything.

More than that, so yeah.

Do you recognize this man?

Can't say that I do.

Who is he?

Contract killer.

Paid to kill eight people.

We traced the payments back to Sanova.

Eight?

That's horrible.

Do you know who in my company paid him?

We were hoping that maybe you could help us with that.

I employ over 60 ,000 people in over 11 countries, so you understand if I'm not

aware of what everyone in my company is doing.

What about a surveillance program called Skylark?

You're aware of that?

Doesn't ring a bell.

Well, it should.

Could you find out for me?

Found this document in one of your files, along with a list of four people

were murdered.

Wow.

Headman, care list.

You might want to rethink that little jingle of yours.

Making the world brighter, one body at a time? Well, that's good.

I'd listen to that one.

We have so many projects in development.

No. Skylar is not a surveillance program.

It's opposition research.

As you can imagine, we have lots of rivals. It's a very competitive

So we collect whatever we can on them to get an edge.

Does that edge include murdering them?

We research thousands of people.

The fact that four were killed could be nothing more than a coincidence.

A coincidence, huh?

Either way, the important thing is that you brought this to my attention.

And I promise you, I will mount an internal investigation to get to the

of this.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a plane to catch.

Miss Eberhardt, unless you're planning to charge my client, we're done here.

You see that? She didn't even blink when McGee mentioned the murder. She knows

something.

What is it?

Update on Gibbs.

Someone spotted the car near a house in Syracuse.

The police are headed there now.

It's there.

You

think

we get to see him again in the afterlife?

That's not your first victim.

It's your wife.

Tanner?

That's her house?

That's her family's.

I never sold it.

I just wanted to see her one more time.

We always knew how this had to end.

Two of us together.

It's like putting two lions in one cage. One of us has to die.

Back there on that road, you had your chance.

You didn't take it.

You didn't take it, Gibbs.

I wouldn't have flinched.

Maybe I was wrong about you.

Maybe there's still hope.

Who hired you?

You like fishing?

Agent Gibbs. No more games. Who hired you?

There is a great place in Naktok Bay.

You should really check it out.

Stop.

So, Amir's last words were the missing link we've been looking for.

Nantuck Bay is a small fishing community in southwestern Alaska. It's also where

Sanova is currently building a copper mine.

We combed through the eight victims again to see if there was any connection

the mine.

These four came up.

The four that Sanova was buying on.

Okay, so how are they connected?

Libby Alanoff was born in Nantuck Bay. In addition to being a travel writer,

was also a hardcore eco -activist. She organized protests, rallies, took down a

few big shots.

Considering the threat that Sanova would pose to the Alaskan ecosystem, she

definitely would have gone after Sanova once their mine was approved.

Brian Stafford was a respected research biologist.

Before he died, he was writing a paper on the effects of copper sulfate on

aquatic life.

He didn't know it, but when he was writing, he was going to make it pretty

impossible for Sanova to get approval.

Laura Blankenship worked for the Department of the Interior in charge of

granting construction permits.

Last year, if you approved about 400 and denied over 1 ,000, and guess if you

denied three years in a row.

The loaner company that Sanova is using to build a mine.

Harold Bradshaw.

This one was tricky. We had to dig into a century -old family deed.

Bradshaw held the water rights on land Sanova is digging in. After Bradshaw's

death, water rights reverted back to public use, and Sanova snapped them up.

So these four were killed because they were standing in the way of Sanova

building a copper mine.

Sanova is getting into the cell phone business. They need copper to make their

phones. It's a billion -dollar business.

Plenty enough reason to kill. And what about the other victims?

Well, we think their deaths were a smokescreen. If there were enough random

kills thrown in and everyone thought there was a serial killer involved,

wouldn't see the real connection.

We certainly didn't.

Until now.

Well...

I think it's time we had another chat with Ms. Eberhardt. Well, unfortunately,

she took a flight out of D .C. this evening.

Headed to Alaska.

Found more explosives and weapons stashed throughout the property.

Looks like the mayor had the whole place booby -trapped.

So he lies about the body and has us drive all the way out here. Why? To kill

himself?

To kill Gibbs? Doesn't make sense.

It's the department.

They want you to get back to the office immediately.

I'm not done here.

Plans have changed, sir.

Yeah, McGee. Oh, finally. Boss, listen. The clue that Lemire gave you. Naktok

Bay. It's the key to the whole thing, okay?

Synovus... Drilling a copper mine in Alaska?

Yeah, that's why those people were killed.

Okay, so what's our next move, boss?

Pack your bag.

Am I headed to Alaska?

Yeah, we're both going to Alaska.

I gotta do something first.