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Okay, Jake, let's give it a little gas.

Now it's brake.

I know, Dad, but you told me to be
careful with your car. On the road.

We haven't even left the driveway yet.

Now come on, show me what this baby can
do.

What are you doing? This is pointless.

I don't need to learn to drive.

What are you talking about? How are you
going to get to school?

Take the bus.

I like the bus.

What about after school, meeting up with
friends?

I hang out on Discord.

Where? It's online. Look, forget it,
Dad. Listen, Jake, I know the world is

changing, and I don't always understand
it, but trust me, some things never

change. Sooner or later, you're going to
have to drive.

What the... You've got to be kidding me.

You stay here.

Hey, man.

you're gonna have to pay for any damage
whoa man step away from the car forget i

said anything wait what are you doing
don't hurt my son or my car drive

wait what the what are you doing

And then if you read a little further
down the page, you can see where the

coroner notes acute trauma to the
occipital bone. In a front -on

would there be an injury to the back of
her head?

I know seatbelts weren't exactly a thing
back then, but even that wouldn't

account for an injury such as this.

So I hope you can understand why I
thought it was time to show you this.

You think my mom was murdered? This does
bring up a lot of questions. In order

to get answers, we may need to move on
to the next step. I would need to exhume

your mother's body, with your
permission, of course.

I don't understand.

Well, I would need to see her body in
order to verify these injuries. No, no,

Jimmy, what I don't understand is why
we're even talking about this.

No, I don't understand. I asked you to
find my mother's grave. That's it.

not track down the death certificate or
the coroner's report, and I certainly

didn't ask you to make a federal case
out of it and share it with the entire

team. No, of course you didn't, but I
just saw all these discrepancies, and

I did what Dr. Mallard trained me to do.
No, no, no, don't blame Ducky for this.

I told you I was looking for closure.
This is the opposite of that.

I wanted to close an old wound, not open
a new one.

I am so sorry.

I did not mean to. I just thought that
you would want answers. This was your

mother. You didn't know my mother. And
if you had, you'd understand.

I don't want these kind of answers.

Nothing good can come from this.

All right, we've got a case.

I'll grab my things. Don't bother.

We don't need you on this one.

What the hell kind of operation is the
Navy running anyway?

You don't have enough wars to fight
overseas that you've got to launch an

invasion on Broadview Terrace? Mr.
Larson, I understand that you're upset,

we need your help finding your son.

Does Jacob have a phone that we can
track?

Yeah, I told him to leave it in the
house during the driving lesson. What

his car? Is there a GPS?

She's a 73 -month -day.

Do you know anyone that might have
reason to kidnap your son?

What? No.

Well, this wasn't a kidnapping. This was
a carjacking.

Do you think this guy did all of this
just to get your Mustang?

Look at her.

She's a thing of beauty. Do you know how
many offers I've gotten to buy her off

me? I never sell her. Charlene's like a
daughter to me.

That's just a nickname.

You people name ships, right?

Oh, yeah. You know, how about we get
back to your other child?

My wife.

Please. Please find my son.

Charlene, huh?

We have the police manning checkpoints
in every highway, 20 -mile radius.

Everyone's looking for a paratrooper.
All right, well, what do you think? Who

are we looking at? All right, if you ask
me, everyone's watched way too many Tom

Cruise movies. Except it's not Maverick.
It's Kingfisher.

Paratrooper's call sign. Ran through our
database.

Real name came back. Lieutenant Max
Winter. The leapfrog. That was a

Leapfrogs are the Navy's performance
skydiving team.

They do shows for civilians, you know,
football games, air shows. This guy was

on the ground before 8 a .m., a little
early for a show. I spoke with the CEO.

Apparently, Leapfrogs had a practice
jump this morning out of a trap. Now,

said that Winger broke away from his
team midair. No warning, no explanation.

We don't really think he did all this to
steal a car, do we?

Well, if he did, he's really bad at
stealing cars.

Incoming. Incoming, incoming.

Stop!

Stop! Stop! Hey! Stop! Stop!

Hey! Turn the lights!

Jake! My baby!

Step back!

NCIS! Out of the car!

Hands up!

It's just me.

I'm alone.

I'm so worried.

Wait. Is that a scratch?

What the hell happened? Uh, more
importantly, where's the guy who

I dropped him off.

I guess you just really need a ride.

So you're telling me that this guy
dropped 15 ,000 feet, hijacked a car

get a ride to his own house?

What, did he leave the stove on?

Not exactly. When we got to the house,
we found a body.

Navy Captain David Cruz.

We shot three times. We found three
spent casings and a gun at the scene.

Navy says it was issued to our leapfrog.
So you think Lieutenant Winger was the

shooter? Looks that way, but he was long
gone by the time we showed up. We put

out a bow, but Winger is a highly
trained Navy SEAL. You know, I thought

name sounded familiar.

Wasn't Winger captured by the Taliban
during the withdrawal from Afghanistan?

That's right.

They held him captive for over two
years. Right, until the State Department

negotiated his return last December.
This guy's a war hero.

Yeah, now that hero looks like a
murderer.

So what do you think caused him to snap?
Did Winger serve with his victim? No,

there's no indication they even knew
each other. Then what the hell was Cruz

doing at Winger's house?

That might be a question for Mrs.

Winger.

We found Cruz's body in the master
bedroom, shirt untucked.

Sheets were a mess.

Maybe Mrs. Winger got lonely and...

He finally found out. Might explain why
he was in such a hurry to get home.

Oh, my.

You think I'm cheating on my husband?

I wasn't even home when this happened. I
was at a PTA meeting at my son's

school. There are dozens of witnesses.

Miss Mayer, we're not disputing your
alibi for the murder.

We're trying to figure out why Captain
Cruz wasn't in your home. I've never

this man before in my life, let alone in
my house. He must have been trying to

rob us and Max stopped him. There was no
sign of forced entry.

I love my husband.

I took a sacred vow when I married him,
and I will never break it.

And Max would never kill anyone, unless
they were a threat to him or to us. He

would do anything to protect his family.

Mrs. Winger, are you and your husband
still living together?

When we were searching your house, we
noticed that all your husband's clothes

were missing.

Like he moved out.

We've been...

Struggling since he came back from
Afghanistan.

You can't imagine what he went through
over there.

The Taliban starved him, beat him, made
him sleep in filth.

So when he came back, he was a different
person.

Different husband.

We started counseling with the Navy
chaplain and for a while was working.

Max was more affectionate with me. He
was playing with Oliver.

But...

Three weeks ago, he just left.

Said it was for the best.

Do you know where he moved to?

An apartment in Anacostia.

Address is in my phone.

You can check my texts, emails, whatever
you want.

Thank you.

My husband is a good Christian man.

Agent Knight, he's not a killer.

Casey confirmed it.

Based on our ballistics report, the
bullets that killed Captain Cruz came

Lieutenant Winger's gun.

The irony is that Captain Cruz was
already knocking on death's door.

A bullet was not the only thing I found
in his brain. Look at this.

That is a glioblastoma.

An aggressive one. My guess is he
probably would have only had about 12

to live.

Did he know about it? His medical file
didn't mention any cancer at all.

Maybe Parker was right.

What you don't know can't hurt you.

Yeah, yeah.

Heard you talked to Parker about his
mom.

I messed up, Tim.

He didn't take it well. Yeah, I heard. I
heard that, too.

Listen, don't beat yourself up, okay?
You thought that you were doing the

thing. You thought you were helping him.
I did the exact opposite. I hurt him.

Parker said that I reopened an old
wound.

Well, I'm sorry, Jimmy.

We should have been there to back you
up. No, you guys warned me. That was a

risky road to go down.

I just kept walking.

Please, you're a medical examiner. It's
what you do.

As far as I'm concerned, you've got
nothing to be sorry about.

But I'm still glad it wasn't me that he
yelled at.

You got some, Case?

Oh, yes. I think I found a connection
between Winger and our victim.

Using cell phone records, I retraced
both Winger and Cruz's locations over

past week. I discovered they coincided
at one place and one time.

Two days ago, at the Navy Yard Chapel.

So maybe the chaplain knows something.

All right, thanks, Case. Jimmy?

It'll be okay.

Oh, yeah.

I'm getting flashbacks to all the base
chapels my dad used to drag me to as a

kid.

A tourist tonight has checked out
Winger's apartment.

No sign of him there.

Sorry, gentlemen.

You just missed the pre -deployment
blessing.

NCIS. We'd like a word with the
chaplain. Of course.

He's currently taking confession in the
chapel right now, but he should be out

shortly.

but I'm afraid there are no weapons
allowed inside the chapel.

You are the chaplain's assistant?

Seaman Morris, religious programming
specialist.

Do you recognize these men?

Yes, I do.

Why, is everything okay?

We think they were both here two days
ago.

Do you have any idea why?

No, I don't, but, um... Well, you can
ask him yourself.

He's here right now.

Lieutenant Winger is here in the chapel
now?

Mr. Chaplin, yes, sir.

Hey, CIS.

Chaplin.

Special Agent Parker, are you all right?

Oh, I'm fine.

But if you're looking for Lieutenant
Winger, he isn't here anymore. He gave

confession and left at the back.

All right, I'm on it.

What did Winger say? Did he say where he
was going?

Well, I'm afraid I can't tell you that.

Excuse me? Everything Lieutenant Winger
told me, including his whereabouts with

confidentials, protected by the seal of
confession.

With all due respect, Chaplain,
Lieutenant Winger murdered someone this

so if you know where he's going, you
need to tell me. Well, then it looks

we have a problem, Agent Parker, because
the way I see it, I don't have to tell

you anything.

I answer to a higher authority.

You don't see that every day. Am I
missing something?

I mean, are we even allowed to
interrogate him?

Technically, no. Then why is he here,
McGee? Because by the time I got back to

the chapel, Parker already had him
cuffed.

He handcuffed? A chaplain. Oh, man,
we're getting struck by lightning. We're

fired, but that seems to be a risk
Parker's willing to take.

Commander Charles Gage.

Charlie the chaplain.

Yeah, I've heard that before.

I'm more of a Buster Keaton fan, if I'm
being honest.

Fits you, though. Why's that?

Because you're not talking.

That's very funny. No, we've been over
this, Agent Parker.

SecNav instruction 1730 .11 protects
private communication between clergy and

those seeking counsel.

Tell that to Captain David Cruz.

Nothing protected him. He was murdered
this morning by this man, Lieutenant Max

Winger, who was last seen talking to
you.

Not talking, confessing. Yeah. Yeah, I
bet. Murder, kidnapping, grand theft

auto.

How many Our Fathers and Hail Marys was
that?

Are you a man of faith, Agent Parker?

We're not talking about me. Except I
need you to understand.

We're not just dealing with the laws of
man here.

The seal of confession is inviolable. It
extends even into the hereafter. And

I'm talking about the here and now. This
man is a trained killer. What else is

there to understand?

You like war movies?

Okay. Stop changing the subject. No, I'm
not.

When I was growing up, I loved war
movies.

Patton, Platoon, The Dirty Dozen. I saw
them all.

Then I saw the real thing. Iraq, 2007,
The Surge.

Lost a lot of good men.

But they taught me something no movie
ever could.

In battle, you put your faith in the men
serving alongside you.

You trust them with your life. So when a
service member...

walks into my chapel, and tells me his
deepest secrets.

He trusted me with their life.

If I betray that trust, I put him in
danger. I put the entire unit in danger.

We're not just talking about protecting
Lieutenant Winger. We're talking about

protecting all of the men and women who
serve.

Nice sermon.

My dad would have approved.

He liked war movies, too.

But this isn't Iraq, Chaplain, and
Lieutenant Winger is not at war. But

people are dying.

Chaplain Gage, I am NCIS Director Leon
Vance. I'm sorry you've been detained.

Please accept my apology for this
inconvenience.

Seems that there's been a
misunderstanding.

I agree, Director.

You're free to go.

And I assure you that Agent Parker will
get a refresher on Navy regulations.

No harm done.

Agent Parker was just trying to do the
right thing, as am I.

Agent Paulson will see you out.

The hell were you thinking? I was
thinking that the last time a priest

on me, it turns out he was an
international drug lord. He's a base

a padre.

You should have cleared this with me.
Why? I know what you would have said.

thing you've been saying for months.

Tread lightly.

Keep it low -key. We don't need bad
press. We don't.

Well, imagine how bad it's going to be
if Winger kills again. Do you ever

consider that I have a good reason to
say those things? If you're ready to

share, Leon, I'm ready to listen.

Wow. Yeah, it was biblical.

And it wasn't just the chaplain.

Vance, too.

Parker's on a tear today.

He could have gotten into a lot of
trouble for arresting the chaplain.

wasn't about the chaplain.

Maybe it was about the chaplain's boss.

You think Parker's got a beef with God?

After the year he's had, wouldn't you?

Where are we at with Winger? We have
agents outside his apartment and his

His wife and son have a full security
detail. What about bank accounts? He

get far without cash. No recent
transactions, but there's not a lot to

from. Winger's living paycheck to
paycheck.

Phone records? That's where it gets
interesting.

Winger preferred to use an encrypted
messaging app. It turns out he received

voice message just minutes before his
leapfrog jumped this morning.

Now we're talking. Play it. We don't
have the actual message. The company is

citing customer privacy and demanding a
court order.

And I'm going to get a court order.

Winger's psych eval, go.

Conducted by a Navy psychologist after
Winger's release from Taliban custody,

they diagnosed him with post -traumatic
stress, but found him remarkably stable

given the trauma that he'd been through.
I bet they'd like to revise that

assessment now.

Especially since they found more trauma.

This is Lieutenant Junior Grade Liam O
'Brien.

He's a leapfrog, just like Winger. He
fell to his death three months ago.

Parachute malfunction.

According to the leapfrogs that we spoke
to, Liam and Winger were really close

friends. I'm looking to body that soon
after being a Taliban prisoner.

It's a lot.

You in for a Navy SEAL? Sure, but
parachute malfunctions don't happen

Are you thinking foul play?

I think that in light of what we now
know about Winger, we can't rule

out. Keep digging.

Watch out, Katy Perry. Jessica Knight is
ready for blastoff.

Funny, but no, not quite.

This is NCIS Elite's new jumpsuit.

It's been five months.

Do you even know what you're training
for?

Well, on some days, it is hostile
extractions. Other days, it is CBR and

response. But really, it's still just an
astronaut waiting to go to space.

Oh, it's better than pointing back to
the Earth. Just ask Liam O 'Brien. Oh,

Winger's friend.

These were his parachute rigs? Yep. So
what caused the malfunction?

Oh, for starters, the main chute
experienced some broken suspension

They snapped clean, sent Liam into a
spin.

Don't leapfrogs train for that? They
sure do. And Liam knew the drill. He cut

his main away, pulled his reserve, and
didn't deploy.

Because of this pin.

It dislodged and caused a horseshoe
malfunction.

That's where the shoe won't leave the
bag. Leapfrog's trying to clear those

also, but at that point, Liam was under
400 feet and dropping fast.

Just didn't have enough time.

So was it an accident? The preliminary
investigation found no evidence of

sabotage, but... You did your thing. I
did my thing.

Swipe for touch DNA, dust it for prints.
Only found Liam's DNA and prints,

except on this pin where I also found...
wingers.

Damn, Casey, maybe you should be in the
lead. Oh, count me in. You know I love a

good costume.

I agree, Jess.

A little touch DNA doesn't mean that
Winger killed his friend.

But if he did, it means whatever was
going on with him happened long before

stole that car this morning.

You gotta wonder what he's been hiding.

Uh, yeah.

Look, I gotta go. I'll see you in the
morning.

Okay.

Hope you don't mind the intrusion.

That depends.

You're here to confess?

In a manner of speaking.

Come in.

Impressive.

You're like Bruce Dern in Silent
Running. If you mean the guy whose

becomes a crime scene, well, you're
closer than you think, but... Of course.

That's actually why I'm here. I owe you
an apology. I didn't realize it at

first, but I know you, Agent Parker.

I helped arrange your father's burial at
sea.

I even met your sister, the Vice
Admiral.

She talked at great length about your
father and you.

So that's it? You just came here to
apologize?

Well, apology accepted. Agent Parker,
are you familiar with Hillel, the elder?

Jewish scholar.

There's a proverb of his that I find
myself returning to.

If I am not for myself, then who will be
for me?

Meaning? Help yourself so that you can
better help others.

Your pulpit is showing, Preacher.

Losing a father is hard at any age, and
especially the way you lost yours.

I was wondering if perhaps you'd talk to
anyone about it.

Your sister found comfort in faith and
prayer.

I thought it might help you, too.

My father prayed every night.

He read his Bible, too.

This one.

Oh, yeah.

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye
shall hold your peace.

He was a man of faith?

Yes, he was.

What good did it do? Because he was
murdered right here in that chair.

So thank you, chaplain. I don't need
your thoughts and prayers.

I need your help in finding a killer.
Anything else is a waste of time.

I'll say goodnight now.

We are casting a wider net for Winger.

Border Patrol is doing searches at every
crossing.

I still don't buy that he's on the run.
Doesn't fit his psych profile.

Guy was held prisoner by Taliban for two
years.

I mean, who knows what's going through
his head? So, post -traumatic stress?

It's not really much of a theory.
Unfortunately, it's the only one we have

now. Except PTSD doesn't make somebody
violent. It has to be combined with

risk factors.

Sure. Anger issues, alcohol, drug use,
yeah. And we have no evidence that

has a history of any of those things.

Special Agent McGee?

Chaplain. How can I help you?

No, I think we would have found it.

Yeah. No, we will let you know.

Let me guess.

Chaplain's looking for Parker's lost
soul?

Funny. No, Chaplin was actually looking
for his lost ID. I think he left it here

accidentally when he was visiting for
his interrogation.

Or someone took it.

What makes you say that?

We weren't the only visit the Chaplin
had yesterday.

We are?

All right, let me pull up the Chaplin's
ID logs.

Okay, last time his ID was used was
yesterday evening at the Navy Munitions

Depot. Security camera?

Yeah, trying to access him now.

Parker was right.

Winger was hiding more than we thought.

I found a loose floorboard in Winger's
apartment, and these were hidden

underneath. A Quran? Yeah, and a prayer
rug.

But Winger's Catholic.

Yeah, but he was also a Taliban prisoner
for two years. Are you saying he

converted? I'm saying that maybe he had
no choice. And it might have been more

than a religious conversion.

Take a look at this.

Six minutes after the chaplain's ID was
used to scan into the depot, Winger came

out of a sighting.

And he wasn't empty -handed.

What exactly is in that building? It's
climate -controlled. Typically that

chemicals or explosives.

Winger's wife said he came back a
different man.

We're not just looking for a killer
anymore.

We may be looking for a terrorist
sleeper agent.

And we'll need to start decorating for
Christmas soon. I'll show you where we

keep the boxes.

You lied to me.

Give us a moment.

Agent Parker, even you must know that
bearing false witness is a sin.

One of the Ten Commandments, if I'm not
mistaken. You told me Winger gave

confession. He did.

Except Muslims don't give confession.

We found this hidden in Winger's
apartment, along with the prayer rug.

I can't speak about the lieutenant's
personal and private beliefs.

But he did request the sacrament of
confession.

Well, then he was just using you to
steal your ID.

Or did you give it to him? It took you
long enough to report it missing.

Agent Parker, I'd misplace my shadow if
it weren't attached.

Winger used your ID to steal something
from a munitions depot.

Possibly a bomb.

Wait, you think he's a terrorist?

Last night she said something to me.

If I'm not for myself, who will be for
me?

But there's more to that quote, isn't
there?

If I am only for myself, what am I?

Are you just someone that listens to
people?

Or do you want to help them too?

What kind of man are you, Chaplain?

I'm a man of my word, Agent Parker.

Then whatever happens next is on you.

Agent Parker?

I heard what you said to the chaplain.
The thing is, I'm also bound by

confidentiality, but I don't want blood
on my hands.

Look, Morris, if you know something...
Yesterday, when you asked if I had seen

Winger and Cruz, I did.

I overheard them talking into the chapel
hub.

It's going to sound weird, but they were
arguing about something called the OK

Corral. Like gunfight at the OK Corral?
I don't know what it means, but Winger

also said there was going to be a high
body count.

Ashambat Kandarik Air Base, a .k .a.

the OK Corral, just got the file from
the DOD. It was a top -secret base

in northern Afghanistan.

Winger served there?

Yes, along with our victim, Cruz, and
the dead leapfrog, Liam O 'Brien.

Why wasn't any of this in their file?

Because the OK Corral was the launch pad
for covert missions to eliminate high

-value Taliban terrorists.

Looks like they were successful.

Until Lieutenant Winger was captured on
one of those missions.

So Winger and his buddies killed a bunch
of Taliban. The Taliban captures Winger

and now it looks like Winger's killing
his buddies.

You think the Taliban are using Winger
to get revenge on the people that

targeted them? I think we need to find
and secure anyone else who served in

Winger's unit because he could be going
after them next. I'll get the names.

Yes, come in. Sorry to interrupt.

You got something? Remember the
encrypted voice message Winger received

his jump yesterday?

We just got access. Does it explain why
he killed Cruz?

Let's just say if I heard this message,
I'd jump out of a plane and get home as

fast as I could.

Max, it's me. It's Sarah.

There are some men in the house. They
have guns.

And they're threatening to hurt me and
Oliver.

You need to come home. You need to come
home. We're helping them.

Or else we'd kill your wife and son.

No cops.

I hear a siren. They're dead. Just you,
Max.

Better hurry.

Sarah. Why didn't you mention this when
you spoke to us yesterday?

Because I didn't leave that message.

Sounds like your voice.

Well, it's not.

And I think I would remember if I was
held hostage.

If someone is still threatening you, we
can help.

We can help protect you and Oliver.

It didn't happen.

You have to believe me.

Agent Parker.

Why are you here? James 2 .14. What good
is faith without deeds? Great. More

proverbs. I thought about what you said
this morning. I'm here to help. You'll

tell me what Winger said?

No. I'll let him tell you. I reached out
to the lieutenant and he agreed to meet

with you. Only you, Agent Parker.

Not going to happen. If he wants to
meet, he has to turn himself in. No.

I vouched for you.

I told him you're a good man who just
wants to help.

Is that a lie?

Center winger.

Special Agent Alden Parker, NCIS.

I've got agents at every exit.

The bomb squad is on site, too. I'm
unarmed.

I'm just here to talk.

And I'm willing to listen.

But if you try anything, story time is
over.

Something funny?

Story time.

It's what my son calls bedtime.

But I let Sarah tell the stories. I'm
too afraid to give them nightmares.

I'm not a terrorist, Agent Parker. I'm a
good Christian man.

So the Koran and prayer rug we found
hidden in your apartment, those

weren't yours?

Are you a man of faith, Agent Parker?

People keep asking me that.

Well, I am.

Or was.

I don't really know anymore.

Something happened to me in Afghanistan,
and I lost

God.

So when I got back, I tried to find him
again.

Tried the old ways, church and prayer
and good works.

And when that didn't work, I tried other
ways.

The prayer rug and Koran, that was one
of them.

But no matter what I tried, God doesn't
seem to be listening anymore.

And boy, I dare I could really use his
help now that I'm being framed for

murder.

I don't expect you to believe me.

I do, Lieutenant.

You received a message from your wife
just before you jumped.

That's right.

It wasn't her.

It was a deepfake, AI -generated.

Pretty good one, too.

Almost fooled our best scientist.

Yeah, sure fooled me.

I got that message and got home as fast
as I could.

Cruz was already dead when I got there,
and my service weapon was lying near the

body. That's when I knew I was being set
up.

Why did you run?

You had to know that would make you look
guilty because it was the only way to

prove my innocence That's why I stole
this

Slowly

it's okay. It's not what you think

I

Haven't killed anyone agent Parker

This dirt is what's killing everyone.

And it's killing me too.

So Winger didn't steal explosives. He
stole soil samples?

From the OK Corral base in Afghanistan.

Before the Americans had the OK Corral,
it belonged to the Soviets. I'm guessing

they left us a mess.

Casey analyzed it. That dirt is a
cocktail of jet fuel, asbestos, and

uranium. Winger thinks it made him sick,
really sick.

A few weeks ago, he was diagnosed with
stage four malignant melanoma.

What's his prognosis?

Not good.

Doctors don't think he has long to live.

How can he be certain that the base is
to blame? Because he wasn't the only one

to get sick.

Captain David Cruz served at O .K.
Corral for over a year.

Our army found a brain tumor while
performing his autopsy.

He never said anything to me. We don't
think he knew.

Your friend Liam, he knew.

Eight days before he fell to his death
in a parachute malfunction, he was given

a terminal cancer diagnosis.

It wasn't a malfunction.

Liam didn't want to die slowly, so he
took a quicker way out.

You're saying he sabotaged his own
parachute?

I tried to stop him, tried to fix his
reserve chute, but he must have double

-checked and dislodged the pit.

And you kept the truth secret so his
family could receive full benefits?

That's what it all comes down to, right?

Money.

The reason I needed to clear my name and
a murder charge would have voided your

pension. And if I lose that, I've got
nothing to leave my family when I'm

Three people sick, but that's just a
drop in the bucket.

There are almost a thousand service
members deployed to that base during the

war. Maybe he's running them down. This
is a massive health crisis and it's

flown completely under the radar. How's
that possible?

After I was diagnosed, Cruz and I began
to suspect it was related to the OK

Corral. So Cruz began making waves at
the Pentagon, trying to open an official

investigation.

Next thing I knew, Cruz was dead and I
was being framed.

Someone is trying to silence us.

It's quite a theory.

Pentagon murders a whistleblower and
then frames a war hero to cover up

crisis. Talk about bad press.

I don't give a damn about the press.

Just follow the evidence where it leads.

Yeah. What do you got, Kate?

Lieutenant Winger is wrong.

About the OK Corral? No, that place is
toxic as hell.

He's wrong about why Captain Cruz was
killed. It wasn't a cover -up. Cruz was

being blackmailed.

After tracing some reoccurring bank
transactions to Cruz's crypto wallet, I

found some encrypted messages between
Cruz and a blackmailer. Who is it? Oh,

messages don't say that, but they do say
what this is all about.

Meet Ensign Riley Presenza. She's a
subordinate under his command. The

blackmailer found out Cruz was sleeping
with her. Well, if that got out, that

would have been the end of Cruz's
career.

So naturally, Cruz was paying the
blackmail payment. Until two days ago.

When he wrote the blackmailer, he said
he was stopping the payments and

reporting it to his superiors. I bet
that didn't go over well. No, the

blackmailer threatened to kill Cruz, and
the next morning, Cruz was dead. So his

murder had nothing to do with the OK
Corral. Doesn't look like it.

Except how did the killer know to frame
Winger for murder?

NCIS didn't even know about his
connection to Cruz.

Yeah, it seems like the killer knew a
lot of people's secrets.

Almost like they confessed it.

So this part here is hanging a little
lower. If you want to pull that top.

How's that? A little early for Christmas
decorations, isn't it? Seem to go up

earlier every year. I take it you're not
here to help me arrange the nativity

scene. No, I don't come bearing gifts.
Only bad news. It turns out your

confidential conversations haven't been
so confidential.

We isolated a large data packet coming
from the chapel whenever you were taking

confessions. I'm afraid I don't speak
tech, Agent Parker.

The chapel's been bugged.

And we have proof that these recordings
were used to blackmail service members.

I'm sorry, Agent Parker, are you
accusing me of blackmailing people I'm

to help?

No, I'm accusing him.

Morris.

It's not true, Commander.

Oh, it is.

You traced the recordings to your phone
and the crypto to your bank account. You

tried to point us in the wrong
direction, but it was never about the

corral. You murdered Captain Cruz after
he stopped paying and set up a dying man

to take the fall.

You even framed him with his own gun.

Not hard, considering he had to remove
his weapon before entering the chapel.

That's right.

No guns allowed.

Stay back or I'll shoot him. Drop your
weapon!

Did you hear that, Agent Parker?

The path of the righteous man is beset
on all sides by the inequities of the

selfish.

Ezekiel?

Tarantino.

I can't thank you enough for what you've
done for me.

Oh, I should be thanking you.

And after what you started, the Pentagon
now knows that military personnel at

the O .K. Corral are exposed to
contaminants. VA plans to extend

veterans who served there. I know in
your case, it must be a small

No, not at all. I'm proud of my country
for doing right by its service members.

And thanks to you, I have my family
again.

I'm blessed, Agent Parker.

I don't get it.

Winger served his country, sacrificed
everything to make the world a safer

place. He was put through hell trying to
get back home.

And then when he did, how does God
reward him?

By killing him.

Painfully and slowly in front of his
family.

How does he still think he's blessed?

I mean, what good can come from all of
this pain?

What, no proverb?

I thought at the very least you'd have
an answer for that.

I'm afraid the answer you're looking
for, only God can provide.

That's great.

Because I've been asking.

But the man upstairs refuses to talk.

Can I offer a suggestion?

Perhaps the man upstairs is talking.

But it's you who refuses to listen.

Answers rarely come from a burning bush
or a booming voice.

Most of the time, they come from the
people closest to us.

If you're truly looking for answers,
Agent Parker, then you have to be

to not like what you find.

Oh, my God. Agent Parker.

I am so sorry. I meant to put that away.

Believe me, message received loud and
clear.

Oh, yeah, Jimmy, I'm going to need you
on this one.