Torres is on a stakeout with the world’s most annoying man: Metro Det.

Higgins' disappearance means even more involvement with Metro, and specifically one Det.

Danny Sportelli, whomNCISfans have seena few times before.

Exit Strategy

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The agents add two and 2 million together and assume she skipped town with the bonds.

(Any other Lutherans in the house?

When Higgins logs into the Metro computer system, the team tracks the signal to a parking garage.

They find the SUV with Higgins' body in the front seat, a gunshot to the neck.

My God, Gibbs would make a terrible retiree.

Palmer’s right to be concerned: Those are large and endearingly persnickety shoes to fill.

She freaked and called her former partner, Higgins, a.k.a.

the only cop she could trust.

They met up during the stakeout and swung by his apartment to grab her old case files.

By the time help arrives at her house, they find her husband injured and her son gone.

It was months later that she learned the hit was actually from a rival gang.

Michelle and family were in the second row, Lutheran school T-shirt on display.

Gibbs doesn’t back down, of course, but Sportelli still arrests Michelle for conspiracy and fraud.

As he hauls her away, she screams at the NCIS agents to find her son.

Oh, and his crooked cop boss at Metro?

Surely he knew NCIS would track him there, right?

Anyway, Sportelli barricades himself in a back room.

Gibbs kicks a set of handcuffs under the door and tells Sportelli to choose.

Now, to Ducky’s adventures in Scotland!

And not just any book, butthebook, a definitive reference for the entire field.

Plus, New York’s only a three-hour train ride away.