Previously...
VANCE: I'm very sorry to have to report
that Professor Dale Harding
was found dead this morning in his apartment.
Someone call The Guinness Book of Records.
I think we have the most senior field agents at a crime scene.
Hello, Professor. This is Simon Williams.
TORRES: He's a rogue operative. Wanted for.
everything, from espionage
to murder for hire.
Hey. Who are you?
Simon.
Williams. TORRES: Yeah?
Then who the hell is this?
That's Simon Williams.
We're all Simon Williams.
Is Jimmy and Tennant inside already?
Neither one is answering their text messages.
MAN: Take it easy, Agent Tennant
or somebody might get hurt.
♪ ♪
(birds calling)
(grunting)
Aah!
(grunts)
♪ ♪
(muezzin praying over speaker)
(panting)
TENNANT: Jimmy, you okay?
JIMMY: I'm fine. I'm fine. You?
(sighs) Yeah.
So, where do you think we are?
Judging by the plane ride,
uh, which was maybe, what,
ten, 12 hours...
Uh, it's 12 hours. I had to pee four times.
I'm quite regular.
Okay.
It's not enough time to get to Russia
or any of the less friendly nations in Africa.
You think we've been renditioned? No. (sighs)
That's what the government says when they take terrorists.
Okay? Let's call this being kidnapped.
That does not make me feel any better.
I call it like I see it.
Or in this case, like you don't see it.
Uh, okay, tell you what.
(grunts) They just finally left us alone, so...
Jimmy,
we're not alone.
(sniffs) I don't smell anyone.
W-Why would you smell them?
I have very sensitive olfaction.
Dr. Mallard says I might have hyperosmia.
(sniffs) But we haven't really tested it.
(sniffs) But I can pretty much identify anyone...
(sniffs) based solely on their smell.
(sniffing)
Or maybe we just take the hoods off, huh?
Oh, Sam. (breathing heavily)
I thought you were in L.A.
(scoffs) Made it as far as my front door.
Ah.
I can't believe they got you, too.
I mean, with all your training.
There was four of 'em.
I made an impression on each one,
but they did have Tasers.
Yeah. We know.
This has to do with the Simon Williams case.
Simon Williams?
I thought Torres and Knight took that guy out.
No, they got someone connected to Simon Williams
but not the man himself.
All right, honestly, guys,
we don't know anything.
Whatever we stepped into, it's big.
They gave us the five-star treatment.
(door creaks open)
SAM: Hey, fellas.
Ready for round two?
I need you to understand that you are not in control anymore.
(elevator dings)
What took so long?
It's not easy to rush back from D.C.
Three planes, one cancellation
and the worst cab driver in Hawai'i.
Drop your bag. We got work to do.
(sighs) Any updates?
Yeah. None of 'em good.
Worse than our boss going missing?
Not missing.
Abducted.
Along with Jimmy Palmer
and Sam Hanna from OSP.
We think it's Simon Williams responsible? Don't know.
Any clue where they might have been taken?
Not really.
All right, well, what do we have?
Whole lot of hope we figure it out. Fast.
Parker, how are you here?
I left D.C. hours before you.
Took an FBI plane.
You guys got a plane?
A fleet of them, actually.
Always avoid commercial when you can.
Well, why are you here at all?
Tennant and the others were taken in D.C.
I was just about to hop a flight back.
Not yet. I'm thinking our best bet
in tracking Simon Williams is in Hawai'i.
So I'm taking operational command.
That a problem?
No. Not at all.
Just didn't realize it was a thing.
Oh, it's a thing.
WHISTLER: The dead suspect
in Virginia you believed was Simon Williams
is 30 years too young to actually be him
and has no identity. JESSE: Yeah, I know.
The DoD files on Simon Williams were all destroyed.
True. But the FBI files weren't.
Now, there's not much here. Except for the name
of a known associate.
PARKER: Mel Cano. Connections
to several Simon Williams assassinations.
Who is he? WHISTLER: Don't know much more.
His name is an alias.
He's a freelance operative. Mostly works overseas.
Been on the FBI watchlist for three years after attempting
to kidnap our ambassador to Algeria.
And he arrived in Hawai'i a few hours before me.
Dale Harding also planned on coming to Hawai'i.
This whole case is centered here now.
What's Cano's connection to our people?
He was flagged at Dulles Airport five days ago.
Think he knows where our people are?
I think we're gonna find out.
Ernie. Yeah.
If he flew in, he'll need transportation.
I'll find it and find him.
Just need creative space.
It's not a metaphor.
This is how it works.
I will question you individually.
You'll comply,
cooperate fully and get rewarded.
You mess around, you will be penalized.
That means you, Special Agent Hanna.
If I am convinced that what you have told me is truthful--
and that is a big if--
then I will take your questions. Understood?
No.
What do you mean, no?
He means we're not doing anything until you tell us
where we are and who you are.
Or we walk out of here.
Right now. I assure you
that if you could escape this secure compound,
you wouldn't make it three yards.
You heard the call to prayer.
You are not in friendly territory.
We have been renditioned.
No, she's lying, Jimmy.
Call to prayer happens at dawn,
noon, afternoon, sunset and night.
We've heard it three times since we've been in here.
It's a gag.
Meant to throw us off.
I do know where we are.
Jimmy, what do you smell in the air?
(sniffs)
Just a hint of jasmine.
TENNANT: Exactly.
We call that "pikake" in Hawai'i.
Which is where we're being held.
I wouldn't push me if I was you.
SAM: Yeah?
What are you thinking--
little waterboarding?
Sensory deprivation?
Try me.
How about some more parlor tricks
like the call to prayer? You have
no idea who I am.
We know exactly who you are.
With all the tough talk,
strong show of force.
This whole Zero Dark Thirty energy you have going.
They only teach that in one place.
Langley.
Why would the CIA abduct three federal employees
off the street?
And I've got a question.
Can I use your bathroom before you interrogate me?
Okay, we don't have time for that.
Okay.
It doesn't matter if I'm CIA.
'Cause you definitely are.
It doesn't matter that you're clever.
Thank you. What matters is that you
understand that your investigation of Simon Williams
has put you and every single person that you care about
at deep risk.
My name is Melina Devlin,
and you need to tell me everything that you learned
about Simon Williams if you want to survive.
(door beeps)
Ernie, what have you learned?
That Agent Parker's hair is still perfect,
even in this humidity.
And Mel Cano
is a bad dude.
Bad enough to kidnap our friends?
He's got the pedigree for it.
Though most of the schemes he's involved in
have led to dead victims.
Look, you're not filling me with optimism.
Based on what I can tell,
Cano is an assassin first and foremost.
Likes working with a knife.
And is connected to several murders
linked to Simon Williams himself.
Okay.
Okay, so you figured out the who.
How about the where?
Can you locate Cano on the island?
I'm working on it. (grunts)
Cano had a rental car delivered to him
at Kalaeloa Airport when he landed.
Can you track the GPS? I have been.
Car has been on and off radar all day.
And then it just stopped.
At a parking lot in Waikiki. (sighs)
You could've led with that.
Yeah, but I'm worried.
It-it seems too easy, right?
For an elusive international killer?
Seems like we're about to find out.
(door closes)
Ernie's right. Seems easy.
You thinking a trap? I'm thinking
Cano could've baited us to get here.
Or he's just out buying sunscreen.
Let's check the car, find out.
Uh, no need to pop the lock. Keys are on the dash.
(sighs)
I know why we can't track Cano.
So much for our one good lead.
WOMAN: Not really.
Cano never would have led you to your friends.
And, frankly, you got bigger concerns.
I'm sorry, who are you?
Melina Devlin.
CIA.
♪ ♪
So you're saying the CIA grabbed us off the street,
threw hoods
over our heads
and flew us to this compound
in Hawai'i for our safety?
Why not pick up the phone like a normal agency?
Because Simon Williams is not a normal bad guy.
He has eyes and ears everywhere. We had to make sure
that you were secured, that your phones weren't being tapped.
Were our phones tapped?
You're missing the point.
Because I made some very personal phone calls
over the last couple days. No, Jimmy,
your phones were clean.
Okay. But your former teacher,
Dale Harding's, was not.
Every call,
email, message that he made
was being monitored. SAM: We know the professor
was into something big.
But he was a FLETC instructor.
Why would Simon Williams care about his communications?
Because before Dale Harding was a FLETC instructor
he was an intelligence operative.
Operative?
For the CIA? Hey.
Focus. A little less quid,
a little more pro quo would be nice.
No, you said you were monitoring Dale's communications.
So what'd you find? For years,
the CIA's been tracking Simon Williams and his network.
Any time we got close,
every informant, agent, witness that we had
ended up dead.
Including your friend.
We'll start the interrogation now.
Hey. I don't know anything.
I-I was just getting a bite to eat with Agent Tennant. Hey.
Shut up! We tried it your way.
You've wasted time that we don't have.
Now we're gonna do it my way.
Let's go.
Looks like you are who you say you are.
Mm. Well, that's a relief.
Still doesn't explain why a CIA officer
is operating on U.S. soil.
KAI: HPD and FBI
are looking through CCTV to see who dumped
the rental car in the parking lot.
Mm. They won't find anything.
MCRT and Forensics are scouring the trunk
they found Mel Cano's body in.
Waste of time.
We're trying to track his cell phone, too.
(chuckles) Dead end.
Hey, it's called police work.
Police work isn't how you track Simon Williams.
You got to think outside the box.
Outside the box?
Like a CIA officer
running an op on domestic shores?
I'm here to observe and advise.
And we're trying to find our abducted friends.
So unless you can help us with that...
I can. KAI: Then please start.
Mel Cano didn't take your friends,
but he worked with the people who did.
Simon Williams' people? That's right.
KAI: Okay, then who killed him?
Simon Williams. Why?
Because you were on to him,
and he's willing to kill anyone who gets too close,
including his own men.
We got Mel Cano's name
from a classified FBI file.
How would he even know that we're on to him?
How does the world's most notorious assassin
know every move we make before we make it?
He's got spies inside the government. Bingo.
Not sure who or how many, but they're there,
which is why I'm here running
an off-the-books operation to ferret them out.
WHISTLER: Okay, that's cool-sounding and everything,
but how does this get us any closer
to finding our colleagues?
Because this network of rogue agents are responsible
for taking Special Agents Tennant, Hanna
and Jimmy Palmer.
They could be anywhere in the world. No.
They're on the Island.
How could you know that?
Because Hawai'i is Simon Williams'
base of operations.
Okay, happen to know where?
Well, if I did, we wouldn't be sitting here
twiddling our thumbs.
ERNIE: Speak for yourself.
My thumbs have been very busy.
With the help of an FBI forensic botanist,
we were able to source the soil
Mel Cano's body was covered in.
I'm sorry, the FBI has a botanist?
Several, actually.
ERNIE: We got traces of peat moss, bark and perlite.
KAI: Impressive. Not really.
That's common in most potting soil.
What? I garden.
What is impressive is the soil had
further trace elements of microorganism cultures
not typically found in Hawai'i.
Do you know where the cultures came from?
All plants and soil not native to the Island
must be cleared by the Department of Agriculture.
Unless it was smuggled in.
Or someone lied on their paperwork.
Or Mel Cano already had the soil on him
when he arrived. Yes, yes, yes,
lots of "unlesses."
However, I did find where it came from,
because the importer didn't lie to bring it on island.
KAI: Norm's Flora.
Nursery found on the windward side.
Owned and operated by one Norman Dell.
You're saying Farmer John over here
has something to do with Simon Williams?
Farmer Norm isn't what he appears on this website.
Or, actually, is only what he appears on this website.
We can see that's interesting to you.
There's no record of Norman
other than what you're looking at.
No Social Security number, no birth certificate,
no credit rating, no Yelp profile,
nada. He just got a lot more interesting.
We should check it out.
Maybe one of you can give me a lift.
If you would just cooperate,
this whole thing would go a lot smoother.
TENNANT: You want this to go smoothly?
Maybe you shouldn't have kidnapped us
and threatened us with 50,000 volts.
I'd rather take my chances with Simon Williams.
No, you would not.
TENNANT: Okay, you want us to trust you?
How about a show of good faith?
Let us call our teams.
Absolutely not. Not trustworthy.
No, Simon Williams could be monitoring their communication,
and I have to keep this operation
as compartmented as possible.
Simon Williams has dropped two bodies.
He's looking to drop more.
I think we're way past compartmenting.
TENNANT: All three of our teams are turning over
every rock looking for us.
They're wasting time.
They should be working on the case.
And watching their six. Okay.
Okay, yeah, fine.
I'll let you make one phone call to one team member
of my choosing.
Special Agent Parker.
Well, why not one of my team
since we're already in Hawai'i?
Because Parker is in Hawai'i, too.
See anyone?
No.
Seems abandoned.
(phone rings)
We should check the office.
I'll catch up.
This is Parker.
TENNANT: Wow, only out of pocket for a few hours
and you took my parking spot.
Tennant. You're okay?
I am.
So is Hanna and Jimmy.
What the hell is going on?
I can't talk right now, but we are at
a Company retreat.
As in the Company?
Yep.
Our host is Melina Devlin.
She is very adamant about knowing everything we know
about Simon Williams.
That's funny, I'm in the exact same situation.
Literally.
Small world.
Uh, anyway, we'll talk soon.
That's it?
Yeah, he's kind of busy.
And we're kind of prisoners. It's fine, Sam.
Melina did her part, now it's our turn.
I'm ready to talk. Really?
Look, we've never worked a case together,
and I don't know you at all,
but remember what the professor always said
about trust being a two-way street.
I got you.
Let's dish.
So, Dale Harding, huh?
Not very original with his sayings.
How's that? (sighs)
"Trust is a two-way street"?
Well, you should have heard how Dale said it.
How was that?
He said it wasn't.
(grunting)
Aah!
Jimmy. Jimmy! Behind one of these doors.
Don't make a move!
(grunts)
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Damn, Jimmy.
And I think I just broke my thumb.
(short chuckle) Let's secure these prisoners,
Yeah. get that thumb checked out.
Invoices, unused coffee creamer.
I don't think Norman is connected to
the world's most dangerous assassin.
If Simon Williams is hiding, he's going to hide well.
What, you think Norman Dell is Simon Williams?
I think you're gonna tell me
everything you've learned about Simon Williams.
We'll go from there.
Getting the feeling you weren't completely honest
about who you are.
I'd go with that feeling, Boone.
(chuckling): Hey, relax.
We're all friends here.
Friends don't point guns at other friends.
I'll stand by that.
Who are you, really?
Melina Devlin, CIA officer.
You verified my credentials yourself.
You made it clear that Simon Williams
has people everywhere. It's possible
you hacked the system.
Hey, Parker? One second, Boone.
Trying to keep your head from being blown off.
I appreciate that, I really do,
but we got movement outside.
Norman Dell. Gun!
I think he's reloading.
(engine starts) Think he's retreating.
(tires screeching)
We got a bigger problem.
Where's Melina?
Any luck getting in touch with your team?
Most of them, except for Callen.
He's not picking up or answering his texts.
Is that unlike him? It's very like him. But still.
Where's Jimmy?
He busted his thumb taking down a guard.
Taking down a what?
You got a badass M.E., Agent Parker.
But he is okay.
He's at the clinic with the other guards.
Who are less okay.
And, uh, your Melina Devlin?
She's in Interrogation, waiting. What about yours?
Uh, she got away, along with Norman Dell,
who may or not be Simon Williams.
Okay, so we got some catching up to do.
All right, here's our players. Mel Cano,
Simon Williams operative from the FBI watchlist,
found dead in a trunk early today.
Then you got our Melina,
who claims to be CIA, but really seems to be
working for Simon Williams too.
And, finally, Norman Dell, the, uh,
deadliest gardener in Hawai'i.
Think he killed Mel Cano.
JESSE: And that Norman may be the real Simon Williams.
Is that my mug?
Yep. And your Mokalbari Golden Assam tea as well.
I am very happy that you feel comfortable here.
Like a home away from home. Any other questions? SAM: Yeah.
If Norman Dell is Simon Williams,
why kill your own man?
Well, according to our Melina,
we got to close to Mel Cano. He had to go.
Yeah, but your Melina works for Simon Williams,
so do we really trust anything she said?
Probably shouldn't.
Considering she infiltrated us to figure out
how close we were to finding Norman.
And then helped him escape.
You got any idea where they went?
When they might come at us next?
No, not yet. Ernie's working on
Norman Dell's real identity.
Might help locate where he's hiding.
I just don't get it.
Simon Williams was supposedly living in plain sight
on the Island, and then suddenly...
Starts taking out people connected to him.
We're missing a piece.
Maybe our Melina has some answers.
(lock chirps)
TENNANT: Okay, lightning round.
Why is Simon Williams active again,
why is he coming after our people,
and why did the CIA not alert us to it? (laughs)
You assaulted me and then you left me
in what you could only describe as a dungeon,
and now you want me to answer your questions?
That's what you get for abducting an NCIS agent.
I explained to you why I had to take
such extreme measures.
You're a CIA officer on an off-the-books mission
to stop Simon Williams.
Exactly.
Kind of impossible to verify.
Did you check my credentials? Yeah.
Melina Ruth Devlin.
CIA officer for the past ten years.
So? So...
...we also have this.
Melina Marie Devlin.
CIA officer for the past seven years.
You understand our confusion.
She is an imposter.
TENNANT: Or you are. SAM: Or both of you are.
Thus the cuffs, until you can give us something
to sort it out.
I am not going to say anything
until I get a call in to my supervisor,
just to let him know that I'm okay.
Yeah. No.
Wait. Okay? Just wait.
Her name is not Melina Devlin,
it's Morgan Miller.
And she's also CIA. Technically.
Technically how?
She's a contractor.
She's trained in the art of...
(scoffs)
...dirty tricks.
Covert action.
Like infiltrating NCIS to figure out
what we know about Simon Williams? Yes.
Because she's working with him.
Yes. Which is why my mission had to be so secretive.
He's got moles everywhere.
And I... this is the last thing I'm saying
until I get my call.
Okay.
Thanks.
(door beeps, lock clicks)
(door closes)
(door beeps, lock clicks)
Do I smell a whiff of inspiration?
That was the garlic hummus from lunch.
Which, in retrospect, was a mistake.
Do you have anything new on Norman Dell?
Yeah. His name is an alias.
One of 17 connected to him.
He has 17 different identities?
So far. We keep finding new ones.
And several of these aliases
have been used by other people involved in our case.
Yeah, including Mel Cano and Dale Harding.
Our dead guy from the trunk, Tennant's FLETC instructor
and the gardener all used the same aliases.
Yeah. Tell him the strange part.
That wasn't the strange part? No, these are triple-A identities
with Social Security numbers, credit scores,
I mean, even employment history.
And no one but the government could create them.
But one company keeps coming up on their employment histories.
A place called Haven Ltd.
Okay, so what's Haven Ltd.?
It's a website with a phone number.
And every time we try to dig deeper, we hit a brick wall.
I even put the FBI's cyber team on to the trail.
Bunch of hacks, if you ask me.
Maybe, but they finally got an answer for us.
The brick wall came from Langley.
Haven is a CIA front.
Oh, Special Agent Parker.
It's nice to see that you've talked some sense into her.
I was about ready to ask for a lawyer.
Probably best we keep lawyers out of this,
considering the multiple felonies you and your men
have committed transferring my friends
from D.C. to Hawai'i against their will.
How about a coffee instead, then?
After you tell us what Haven Ltd. is.
I've been down here all night.
I'm not feeling overly motivated to help.
Eighteen U.S. Code, Section 1201.
Kidnapping a federal officer or employee
carries a 20-year sentence. For each instance.
That's 60 years.
I told you I am on a mission.
You got dead bodies in multiple time zones. And a rogue
CIA operative using your identity to kill our people.
PARKER: You got no lifeline,
and, uh, only one path to righteousness.
Us.
What's Haven Ltd.?
It's a clearinghouse.
It's a one-stop shop meant to support deep-cover ops.
What kind of support? Aliases,
equipment, finances,
transportation. whatever you needed.
Haven provided it.
As in past tense?
Haven was shut down years ago.
Is there a physical location? Yeah, yeah.
(chuckles)
It's right here on Oahu. (chuckles)
(sighs) Still can't get Callen on the phone.
None of my team can, either.
You worried?
All this cloak and dagger stuff is his kind of tea party,
but if he's gone dark, it could be connected.
You gonna head back to L.A. and find him?
That's the plan.
Unless you need any more rescuing, Jane.
Kinda feels like I rescued myself.
Fair enough.
See you soon. Later.
(door opens)
(door closes)
Think he's right,
that this case stretches to L.A.?
I still think we're only seeing part of the iceberg.
Why would Simon Williams be killing people
over a defunct CIA clearinghouse?
Well, the one thing we know for sure (phone chimes)
that he'll do anything not to be exposed.
And Haven Ltd. must have meaning,
and now we have the address.
You gonna check it out? Yeah.
You're welcome to join.
I wish I could, but it looks like I'm
taking Melina back to D.C.
Director Vance wants to question her personally.
That'll go well. (door beeps)
We got something.
WHISTLER: Morgan Miller,
aka Other Melina,
is also an alias.
Confusing. For sure.
But her alias connects to Haven,
which means we were able to track her credit card charges.
That's promising.
Rented an Airbnb in Diamond Head.
Probably bugged out by now.
TENNANT: Still worth checking out.
Grab Kai, go to Diamond Head.
Jesse and I will head to Haven.
(door opens, closes)
Doesn't seem like anyone's worldwide headquarters.
Could be nothing more than Haven's fake mailing address.
Is that why we're going
all John Wayne-- for nothing?
I'm past my quota for being
taken by surprise on this case.
(sighs)
No one's been here since the Reagan administration.
Then why is the door open?
Why'd we bring a vanload of REACT agents
if we're not using them?
Well, Morgan Miller's probably not here,
but if she is, we don't want to spook her.
(lock clicks) Got it.
♪ ♪
(gun cocks)
(grunting)
Stay down, damn it!
Shoot me already!
We're not gonna shoot you, Mr. Williams.
We're gonna take you in.
What'd you call me? Williams.
(laughing)
What's so funny?
You think I'm Simon Williams?
I mean, a little less, now.
Simon Williams isn't a person.
What does that mean?
Switch on the lights, you'll see.
You're standing inside Simon Williams.
The CIA's most successful assassination program.
I think you broke my rib. You were trying to kill us.
Thought you were with them.
Didn't know law enforcement was into this.
Well, we are.
That's too bad for you.
Anybody who gets close to Simon Williams... Yeah, we know--
dies.
You want to tell us why this whole bunker
is rigged to blow?
My final patriotic act as a Simon Williams.
You just said Simon Williams was a program, not a person.
It is a program. And a person.
Or people.
A fictional assassin known as Simon Williams.
Set up in the '80s to eliminate enemies of the state
without blowback on the U.S.
CIA-sanctioned murder.
Yep. To take out petty tyrants,
terrorist leaders, drug lords.
And you were part of it. Mm-hmm.
They recruited out of the military.
Special Ops, mostly.
Take out the worst of the worst.
What about Dale Harding? Oh, yeah.
Dale was there.
Barely survived the early years.
Hard gig.
And the files he stole from DoD--
those are about Simon Williams?
How does this all work, anyway?
When one of us was given a target,
we became Simon Williams.
Leave enough clues to make it clear
he was the one responsible for the killing.
How long did you do it?
Not long. A few years.
New administration came in and shut us down.
1993, I think. No. that doesn't track.
Simon Williams has been active since then.
Yeah.
Someone started it up again.
You need to put your weapon down. You first.
Absolutely not.
Well, it seems we've reached a bit of an impasse.
I'm an FBI agent.
I'm the Good Humor Man.
You're what?
Neither of us can prove it.
I have a team of agents right outside this door. No.
You have a van of agents down the block,
and you have a partner... (floorboards creak)
...who's standing right behind me.
Put it down.
I believe we've covered that.
You're outnumbered.
And you're in each other's crossfire.
Doesn't the FBI even train their agents?
I'm not FBI, I'm NCIS Special Agent Holman.
And I won't miss.
Wait, as in Kai Holman?
Yeah.
You were stationed at Pendleton after FLETC.
Yes. And your SSA was Philipa Brooks,
the Great Whisperer. Oh, my God,
I could never understand what she was saying. CALLEN: Right?
But she was a great agent. Oh, yeah. Awful cook.
The worst. Wait. Does that...
Does that make you Callen?
That makes me Callen.
Agent Brooks loves you. She, like,
told us all these stories about your crazy cases.
Well, she made a lot of those stories up 'cause
I made a lot of those stories up.
Hey, guys, since we're all friends now,
can we lower our weapons?
Special Agent Whistler, this is Callen. He...
he works with Hanna out of OSP in L.A.
Nice to meet you. Apologies for almost killing you.
I just assumed you were with the bad guys.
Same. KAI: Hey, you know,
Hanna's worried about you.
You've been off the grid.
Yeah, it's because he got himself kidnapped. Again.
I'm here to help. Well,
he's on his way to L.A. to help you.
That's too bad. Could've used him.
How do you mean?
This house was rented by a rogue CIA contractor.
Morgan Miller. We know.
Morgan Miller and, well, based on the gun bags
and the ammo boxes in the room next door,
probably eight of her closest associates.
So where did they go?
Hey, I've been out of the game a long time.
Some of the guys are still in government work.
They'd reach out,
tell me Simon Williams was active again.
CIA reopened the program?
Someone did.
Except this time, targets weren't enemies of the state.
Some were even friendlies.
You think someone's using the program for personal gain?
I know it.
For maybe 20 years now.
People connected to the original program are dying now.
Is that why Dale Harding was coming to visit you in Hawai'i?
Probably.
Why are people dying?
Beats me.
ERNIE: I got it!
I don't know how I got it, but I actually got it!
Oh, that's so great! What did you get?
The... Where is everyone?
Uh, Parker went back home, I believe your team
is in the field, so it means
there's just us non-agents here with nothing to do.
I-I got tons to do, actually.
I basically keep this place running.
Mm. Jess said you were a little more eccentric
on your home turf. (laughs)
She called me eccentric?
No. No, Ernie, she didn't.
Uh, she called you, uh, kooky?
That's worse. No, no, no, it wasn't kooky.
It was, uh, uh, uh,
I want to say, um... quirky.
I'll take it. Since I don't have time to unravel that one.
Good. What'd you figure out?
Why everyone connected to Simon Williams is being killed.
Ooh. Why?
I did some digging with a friend from NSA.
Mm-hmm. Turns out, there's a high-level intelligence hearing
in three days.
An old operative came forward
with sensitive information on Simon Williams' CIA connection,
and died before he could testify.
Dale Harding. No.
Someone else.
So all the people dying are witnesses?
Precisely. I need to tell Tennant.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yup, I'm gonna help.
I'm coming. I'm coming.
(phone vibrating)
Look, the government's holding hearings
on the Simon Williams program.
That's why people are dying.
We know Dale Harding was part of your group.
You got other names?
Yeah, I do, but you never will.
Listen, they could all be in danger right now.
Most of us are dead already.
And what about the rest?
There's only two of us left.
Don't care who you are
or what hearing is happening.
Dale stole those files from DoD
to protect the people named in 'em.
He gave his life.
I'm willing to do the same.
That's why you got this place ready
to go off like Fourth of July.
Yup.
So you might want to, you know,
make scarce.
No, that's not how this works.
You're coming back to Pearl with us.
So I can die on a Navy base? Ha!
That wasn't a request.
Too late for me anyway.
Too late for all of you, actually.
Weapons down.
I like you less every time we meet.
That's too bad. I find you charming.
Look, I don't know what you're hoping to accomplish here.
My team's on their way with the cavalry as we speak.
Your team's spread out all over the island and can't
possibly make it here in time to save you.
You want what's in the bunker.
Names of the remaining Simon Williams operatives.
MILLER: That's right. And if I give 'em to you,
you'll let them live?
Anything you say.
Go on in.
You know she's lying, right?
Do you?
Hope you're a better shot
than you are a fighter. Wait a minute. Maybe we should...
Aah!
(gunfire continues)
Callen.
Always good to see you, but especially today.
Aim to please.
Hey, you might want to call Hanna.
He's worried about you.
Well, it's nice to know that he still cares.
JESSE: Hey, boss.
He's dead.
KAI: Hey, did one of you
shoot Morgan Miller?
Yeah. Why?
She's gone. Again.
JESSE: We'll put a BOLO out.
We clipped her good. She couldn't have gone far.
And our only hope of IDing the rest
of the Simon Williams operatives
is in there.
CALLEN: Yeah, no, Sam.
Yeah, I should have texted you.
Well, especially after all this way you flew. No...
Yeah, that would have been the considerate thing to do.
TENNANT: Hey.
I-I got to go, all right?
Find anything useful from the bunker?
ERNIE: Smoke, ash,
fragments from some desperately-old servers.
And this.
ERNIE: Single photograph
that somehow survived the initial explosion,
but sadly, got caught in the flames.
You're not gonna be able to ID anyone from that photo. No,
but thanks to Mr. Palmer here... Dr. Palmer.
...Dr. Palmer, we were able to restore it digitally.
I'm somewhat of a photograph conservator hobbyist.
I'm sure it's a real conversation starter on dates.
The point is this.
Class photo of the inaugural Simon Williams group
over 30 years ago.
33 to 35, to be precise.
CALLEN: Mm. There's Dale Harding.
TENNANT: And Norman. ERNIE: Along with four others.
All former military and all dead within the last few weeks.
But there are seven men in that photo.
JIMMY: The guy second from the end was a doozy to restore.
JIMMY: But with some infrared filtering
and a little tough love...
Hollace Kilbride.
Wait. He's...
Current head of OSP.
My boss.
Who's got a target on his back.
I got to get back to L.A. now.
What are you doing?
Coming with you.
We've gone this far. I'm gonna see this through.
Let's do it.
(door closes)
(panting)
(sharp inhale)
(groans)
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