TEXT: MUSIC IN: INT. MALL/CHILDREN'S SALON - DAY (MUSIC OVER SCENES OF GIRLS AND MOTHERS) PAULSON: Hey. EMILY: Hi. PAULSON: Try that one. EMILY: Okay. FORNELL: Emily! EMILY: Yes? FORNELL: Come here! EMILY: They haven't called our number yet. FORNELL: I know. PAULSON: Relax, Agent Fornell. She's fine. FORNELL: I didn't expect to see you again until... twenty-sixty-seven. PAULSON: Got a reprieve. You're not going to use that in front of your daughter. FORNELL: I don't need a gun to take you down. PAULSON: You wouldn't hurt an innocent man. FORNELL: I'm not looking at one. PAULSON: That's where you and Agent Gibbs got it wrong. FORNELL: Agent Gibbs is retired. PAULSON: I know. Why do you think I'm talking to you? FORNELL: I have no idea. Why don't you enlighten me? PAULSON: I told you. You got the wrong guy. And if there's a shred of decency in you, and brains, you'll reopen my case and find the right one. Now, I'm going to walk out of here. You'll want to follow. But you'll realize something... and end up just reaching for that cell instead. FORNELL: Really? PAULSON: Yeah. FORNELL: Why's that? PAULSON: I might not be alone. (TO EMILY) See you, sweetie. EMILY: 'Bye! (MUSIC UP AND OUT) (THEME MUSIC UP OVER OPENING TITLE/SCENES/ CREDITS AND OUT) MUSIC IN: EXT. HOUSE - DAY MUSICAL BRIDGE TO: INT. BASEMENT - DAY (MUSIC OVER ACTION/GI
SUMMARY:
A former petty officer, convicted of murder, escapes from prison and forces F.B.I. Special Agent Fornell to reopen his case in order to find the real culprit whilst claiming his own innocence. Fornell asks Gibbs, who had worked on the case before and is reinstated as an NCIS agent by Director Shepard, for help when his daughter is threatened. To his former team's disappointment, Gibbs insists that the reinstatement is only temporary. The team soon finds discrepancies in the petty officer's case and that he may have been framed.