[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 22 Episode 13, “Bad Blood.”]
The NCIS crew will get a really undesirable blast from the previous within the newest episode. However that’s not the one acquainted title: McGee (Sean Murray), due to Kasie (Diona Reasonover), will get assist from some buddies along with his twins’ faculty fundraiser.
The crew investigates the homicide of a lieutenant who intervened after a person held up a nurse in a cellular blood financial institution; although he destroyed all of the blood luggage there, they uncover he stole one, and the stays of the donor, Lauren, are then discovered being dissolved in acid. (It’s as gross because it sounds.) Moreover, her home has been utterly cleaned — fingerprints, hair, something together with her DNA. A neighbor noticed her arguing with a person simply earlier than her time of dying.
Lauren simply began a brand new job at a well being startup, Life Sequence, which research how an individual’s DNA impacts dietary wants. As Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) factors out, Gibbs’ rule 39: There’s no such factor as coincidences. The corporate makes use of sequencers (bands round wrists) to trace shoppers’ actions and vitals and create a well being plan tailor-made to a person’s DNA. Proper now, they’re in beta testing , with the CEO making an announcement in a number of weeks to launch it. And the CEO? Effectively, he’s a visionary billionaire who sacrificed his dream of going to the moon to start out the corporate. Sadly, McGee and Parker (Gary Cole) are proper after they notice it’s Fletcher Voss (TJ Thyne, beforehand seen within the franchise’s 1,000th episode).
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How is he not in jail for his function in Vance (Rocky Carroll) nearly being killed? He by no means meant for him to be shot, Voss insists. He did exhausting time, and his three months in jail modified his life. He needed to lose the whole lot — emotionally (he made tens of millions promoting Bandium) — to comprehend what’s necessary, he claims. It’s all due to NCIS, he says. However he additionally claims to not know Lauren … just for them to find that she was pregnant and he was the daddy. He’d should pay his ex-wife tens of millions of their divorce settlement if she came upon, so there’s a motive. Vance, greater than anybody, doesn’t need to danger him getting away with homicide. Then, due to some hacking whereas Torres is undercover as a “good specimen,” they’re capable of place Voss at Lauren’s when she was killed.
Nonetheless, as soon as they carry in Voss for questioning, he reveals that he and Lauren had been relationship and he didn’t know in regards to the being pregnant. His response is real … after which he collapse after ingesting the smoothie he has six instances a day. He survives, however somebody’s been slowing poisoning him (with warfarin), and Lauren was killed as a result of the identical blood thinner was in her system from ingesting among the smoothies; the killer wanted to cowl that up. Holly made the smoothies and appears to have motive, having created Life Sequence and offered it to Voss. Nonetheless, Holly reveals that the algorithm and sequencers are all truly lies and don’t work. Voss was nonetheless going to go dwell in two weeks, and that might have introduced down the corporate. So who had motive? Effectively, his physician, whose title was on all of the (faux) research, so he’d be seen as a fraud as soon as Voss went dwell with this system.
Then Voss wants a blood transfusion (after the blood financial institution was hit), and so McGee, as a common donor, donates. He then goes to see Voss within the hospital and makes him really feel even worse by telling him that it was Vance’s concept. After speaking to McGee about being a great dad, Voss then wonders if he’s a great individual, too, just like the agent, as a result of he’s inside him. McGee, in fact, doesn’t need to hear him say that ever once more, however Voss retains going about how they’re related by blood and blood brothers.
Elsewhere within the episode, McGee enlists the company to assist his twins with a faculty fundraiser promoting espresso: Fireplace Brew (with habanero), Mocha Mania, and Jitter Joe (has further jolt). He needs to beat the “cool faculty dad” Brendan Banks and show to his twins that he, too, is a cool dad. Kasie goes all in on serving to McGee, emailing to their sister places of work (nobody from the opposite exhibits seems or is heard onscreen) and even speaking to Michelle Mackey from NCIS: Sydney over the telephone to get her order at one level. She additionally has tallied orders on her board: Mackey (seven Jitter Joe, eight Mocha Mania, 5 Fireplace Brew); NCIS: Hawai’i‘s Jane Tennant (three Jitter Joe, 5 Mocha Mania, two Fireplace Brew) and Ernie Malik (two Jitter Joe, three Mocha Mania, 4 Fireplace Brew); NCIS: Los Angeles‘ Kensi Blye (three Jitter Joe, two Mocha Mania, one Fireplace Brew) and G. Callen (one Jitter Joe, 5 Mocha Mania, two Fireplace Brew), and NCIS: New Orleans‘ Dwayne Delight (three Jitter Joe, two Mocha Mania, one Fireplace Brew).
Sadly, even with all that — and Voss shopping for 100 luggage of Mocha Mania — McGee nonetheless are available in second, behind Brendan by $300.
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