ABBY: Horrible. ABBY: Human-scent detection is a viable forensic tool! And trying. DUCKY: That thorough. Embezzling. GIBBS: Bring them in. GIBBS: Coordinate with Abby. GIBBS: Find out what happened here. GIBBS: I thought she was done with the court. How bad does a drug deal have to go for you to leave the drugs behind? MCGEE: They do. MUSIC IN:
EXT. SHEPARD: State Police have been notified. TONY: Back in the car. TONY: From who? TONY: Right now Abby's our best lead. The only reason I was able to even worm into Abby's computer and hack onto her drive in the first place because somebody else had already cracked the authentication protocols before me. There appears to be a shellcode. There is no Abby and you. What's wrong? While she and McGee were playing in the showers, Ziva and I took a walk through the world of Sciuto. ZIVA: Little Creek Base? ZIVA: We think whoever set up the crime scene might be after Abby.
Plan: A: A couple; Q: Who finds their room covered with bloodstains and human tissue? A: Little Creek Naval Base; Q: What is the motel near? A: The team; Q: Who realizes that they have been set up? A: Tony; Q: Who notices discrepancies in the bloodstains? A: Ducky; Q: Who identifies the slices of human tissue as discarded tissue from surgical procedures? A: McGee; Q: Who is Abby's partner? A: the drugs; Q: What did Abby realize was rigged? A: Abby's past; Q: What must the team dig into to find out who wants Abby dead? A: their search; Q: What leads them to the main suspect in the embezzlement trial Abby is testifying in? A: whose obsession; Q: What is a grave cause for concern with Abby's ex-boyfriend? Summary: A couple checking in at a motel near Little Creek Naval Base find their room covered with bloodstains and slices of human tissue in what appears to be a drug deal gone horribly wrong. The team realizes that they have been set up after Tony notices discrepancies in the bloodstains, Ducky identifies the slices as discarded tissue from surgical procedures and Abby and McGee barely escape being poisoned after she realizes the drugs she was testing were rigged. They must dig into Abby's past to find out who wants her dead and their search leads them to the main suspect in the embezzlement trial Abby is testifying in, the suspect's lawyer and Abby's ex-boyfriend whose obsession with Abby is a grave cause for concern.