We, however, know that he was bringing flowers to Shannon’s grave on her birthday.
Yet Sloane’s the NCIS team member who’s having the worst day.
They’ve both waved off their friends' “do you need me to invent a work emergency?”
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Things at NCIS are a little off-kilter the next day.
Torres suggests that Sloane’s crazy, but in a cool way.
When Gibbs arrives (In the lab!
Two weeks in a row!
Well, Ducky amends, “Always.
She begs Vance to let her hear Hakim’s voice again and promises to tread lightly.
He says he was in Afghanistan raising money for refugee children in 2007, when Sloane was being tortured.
Then she demands that he say one word for her: Infidels.
He declines, and the deputy ambassador starts to hustle him out.
“I’ve owed him ever since,” she says.
“It would’ve been so much more satisfying.”
Afterward, Gibbs bursts in to yell at Vance for not telling him about Sloane.
Vance says he had his reasons (of course he did!)
But he has a plan to prove that she’s right.
His squad was in Afghanistan 10 years ago to rescue Marine Capt.
But as soon as he hears Hakim’s voice, Kelb starts to shout the name “Masahun.”
Sloane storms away in fury.
