James Willis vanished a week ago after visiting his mother in hospice.
Do you ever just feel like its all too much?
Reeves immediately wants to know about this PI.
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Ill initiate the briefing from my office, Fornell beams.
But when said meeting happens, its only the Young Turks in attendance.
Theyre impressed when Fornell pushes aside his wall-of-crime corkboard to reveal a high-teach touchscreen behind it.
Who knew Fornell would be a 21st century PI?
So why is Gibbs avoiding him?
The younguns all vehemently decline his request that they look into this issue.
Its complicated, in other words.
Sloane immediately apologizes and says Jessicas her only friend who also watches reality TV.
Hey, its important to surround yourself with people who share your questionable taste in entertainment!
And also have access to the guilty man you helped set free!
He also calls Gibbs Jethro in a way that sounds increasingly natural and Ducky-like.
When Bishop and Torres visit Hathaway in prison, he blames his assistant for his crimes (pig!)
and claims not to recognize Willis due to a form of PTSD from the trial (jerk!).
Torres isnt amused, but Hathaway insists he doesnt know any hitmen.
Bishop tells him theyll be reviewing all of his phone calls anyway, just in case something turns up.
Also, they stole a floor buffer, lye, and cleaning supplies, so she fired them.
He then asks Bishop how Fornell seemed, and suddenly Tobias butts into their conversation via the comms.
Hes at the height of his powers when hes grumpy, no?
Fornells impressed: Its like I want to be mad at him, but I just cant.
Bishop beats a hasty retreat, and the two old friends settle into an uneasy wait.
And the Gibbs floodgates open.
He tells Fornell that he was right all along: Hicks was guilty and shouldve stayed locked up.
Gibbs sank his career for nothing.
Bishop returns with food in time to catch Fornells exit.
Then the phone rings with the deets on the second clean-up, and the team scrambles.
The address belongs to Patrice Jansen, another Hathaway jury member whos just returned from an overseas.
Gibbs and Bishop arrive at her dark house and check it, room by room.
Bishop hears a noise in the closet, but its that old horror movie jump-scare favorite: a cat!
Most importantly, the kittys okay.
Patrice then arrives home to find two armed NCIS agents and one dead assassin in her house.
And then Gibbs starts to put things together.
Patrice confirms that they did, and she fell in love.
I deserve his life insurance.
He owed me that, she says.
WOW, thats cold, lady.
But of course, he wants in, and the bromance is back on!
6.Instead, Fornell tacks a photo of Hicks to the center of his empty corkboard.
Sloanes making some progress on Hicks, too.
Then Jessica gets into her car, and it explodes, knocking Sloane off her feet.
