“Keep Your Marafiki Close” – After the body of a missing Navy commander is found, Vance orders Gibbs and the team to work with former FBI Agent Tobias “T.C.” Fornell (Joe Spano), the private investigator who was hired to locate him.

Gibbs and McGee are Skyping (or the non-product-placement alternative) the Senator from Chandler's bedside, because they need to remind everyone of the dire situation.

We open at the Civilian marina port in Norfolk near the base with an elegant yacht sitting alone at the dock. Cue Dork. He’s on the phone with a friend all excited because it’s his birthday and he’s ordered a little “something”.

Over at Chez Vance, Kayla is making a scary-looking brown smoothie and asks Leon if he wants some. Since Leon is smart, he tells her that he and Gibbs are having breakfast at the diner. I upendo the diner and thinks that Gibbs secretly owns it.

While McGee and Gibbs continued with “the world’s slowest-moving escape plan,” NCIS caught the case of a “reformed” drug smuggler who got shot down in the mitaani, mtaa in broad daylight.

The character of Quinn was conceived kwa former NCIS showrunner Gary Glasberg shortly before his death last September. I hear the onyesha plans to go in a new creative direction inayofuata season.

This week’s episode opens with a father and his adult son fighting. The father blows through a stop sign while shouting at his son. He quickly calms down and eases up a bit. He even pulls over to get his son cash out of the ATM.

Someone in the government is trying to get donations for her upcoming campaign kwa going out on the hunting trip. Her assistant quickly reminds her that they have a 10AM appointment and she needs to get going.

Gibbs was confronted in person kwa Special Agent Alex Quinn (new series regular Jennifer Esposito), the FLETC instructor who cannot fathom why “the Goldilocks of NCIS” keeps rejecting the probies she sends his way.