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FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) A month later the CIA stuck its nose in and our file conveniently went missing. (SHOUTS) Gun!!! ALLEN: This is an outrage! Actually, yes, sweetheart. And there's a Homeland Security alert. Beer's cold. DUCKY: Several minutes. FRANKS: I was the case agent. GIBBS: Was he working for you when he killed the sailor yesterday? GIBBS: With Mike? Hard for a man not to step over them. He then shot the Colonel who came to arrest him. He's providing valuable intel on the arms trade among terrorist groups in Eastern Europe. His lawyer. I want your hands through the window, opening the door from the outside and step out of the car. Illegal slots? One to take me down, and the other to snatch him. Operation Sunburst. PUCHENKO: (IN RUSSIAN) You are a dead man! PUCHENKO: Sorry, officer. Real weapon. Recently fired. Room seven is booked in the name of a Camilla Charro, but it was not a woman that paid cash for the room. TONY: And German. TONY: With a bullet. That could be blood. Went undercover for us.
Plan: A: a man; Q: Who did Metro Police traffic cops apprehend with a recently-fired gun? A: a car; Q: What crashes behind the traffic cops? A: the driver's seat; Q: Where was the dead Petty Officer in the car? A: the team; Q: Who suspected the arrested man had shot the Petty Officer? A: Gibbs' former mentor Mike Franks; Q: Who led the undercover operation? A: a Russian terrorist; Q: What is the suspect in the case of the Petty Officer? A: illegal weapons; Q: What is the Russian terrorist selling to Chechen rebels? A: CIA; Q: Who took over the investigation of the Russian terrorist? A: the files; Q: What went missing from the evidence storeroom? A: the NCIS evidence storeroom; Q: Where did the files go missing? A: The situation; Q: What takes a delicate turn when Homeland Security claims the suspect is actually working for them? Summary: Minutes after Metro Police traffic cops apprehend a man with a recently-fired gun, a car crashes behind them with a dead Petty Officer in the driver's seat and "NCIS" written in his blood on the seat, leading the team to suspect the arrested man had shot the Petty Officer. Tony and Gibbs find out that the Petty Officer went undercover in an operation led by Gibbs' former mentor Mike Franks, who informs them that their suspect is a Russian terrorist involved in selling illegal weapons to Chechen rebels and other extremist terrorist groups but the case went cold when the CIA took over and the files "went missing" from the NCIS evidence storeroom. The situation takes a delicate turn when Homeland Security claims the suspect is actually working for them.