[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 22 Episode 15 “Moonlit.”]
NCIS lastly offers Parker (Gary Cole) solutions concerning the little lady he’s been seeing for the reason that Season 21 finale, and it includes a heartbreaking revelation about his mom’s demise.
Parker has Palmer (Brian Dietzen) do a sketch of Lily. He describes her expression as “vibrant, harmless, stuffed with hope,” in addition to “like an previous soul.” Palmer, at first, thinks it’s case-related, however Parker says she’s “simply an previous good friend.” His sketch is nice. “You nailed it,” Parker says as he sees her standing behind the ME.
Parker then has a video name along with his father, Roman (Francis Xavier McCarthy), who’s on a visit in Vegas along with his seniors group. He’s already requested him greater than as soon as if he remembered a woman named Lily, however he’s hoping a visible (Palmer’s sketch) will assist. It doesn’t ring any bells, Roman says. Parker wonders if another person might need recognized her, like… his mom, Roman realizes, asking if it’s only a ploy to get him to speak about her. Parker’s not choosy; he’ll take solutions on both. In spite of everything, each his mom and Lily have been in that first dream he had on the ship. Roman doesn’t wish to discuss his late spouse, however Parker argues that what he desires ought to take a backseat to what he wants. Roman insists that he blocked out these years, and Parker’s higher off not figuring out what he does keep in mind. He hangs up.
However then Roman reveals up at Parker’s, prepared to speak. He didn’t see what good it could do for him and his sister to know the reality about how their mom actually died. Roman instructed them it was a stroke just a few years after she ran out on them, however that was simply so Parker wouldn’t be as traumatized as he would’ve been over what actually occurred. His mom got here house drunk at some point, dragging Parker behind her, and stated he’d been visiting pals. Roman thought she’d been having an affair, however he was loads madder about her driving drunk with their son. Roman says it’s a blessing Parker doesn’t keep in mind any of that. They fought like loopy, it bought ugly, and when she drove off, Roman yelled at her to by no means come again. These have been the final phrases she heard him say.
An hour or so later, the sheriff got here and took him just a few cities over to the place his spouse’s automotive was wrapped round a tree. The sheriff instructed Roman she was killed immediately. With them shifting a lot as a result of Roman’s Navy transfers, there wasn’t a funeral, and he needed to guard his youngsters from the disgrace of all of it.
Later, Parker tells Knight (Katrina Regulation) that the dialog along with his father was like no speak they’d had earlier than and a “watch out what you want for” sort. And govt producer Steven D. Binder was actually proper when he instructed TV Insider that Parker has “an fascinating type of tousled historical past.”
The episode ends with Parker at house wanting up articles on-line to search out the one about his mom’s demise, the sketch of Lily hanging subsequent to his laptop. Then, he does: Eleanor Parker, 38, in a violent crash. Witnesses didn’t report any screech of the brakes, main the police to consider her pace exceeded the restrict upon impression. She was killed immediately. When Parker clicks into the complete article, he sees that Lily is likely one of the bystanders within the picture accompanying it. He then turns and sees Lily standing subsequent to him.
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