But hey, whats a little Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility deployment among friends?

The woman conducting the seminar busts the pair for talking and texting (Bishops setting up date No.

5 with someone named Boyd), so they duck out and oopsie!

Toil and Trouble

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stumble across a room full of corpses.

In the present, Sloane texts Vance before she and Gibbs interrogate a terrorism suspect named Hartgrave.

(Weirdly, shes in Vances phone as Sloan.)

In the present, Hartgrave claims no knowledge of enough missing chemical weapons to wipe out a city block.

And this is where we first meet Dr. Patton Hartgrave, Trines lead chemical engineer.

Hartgrave has a cough that we all knowwill end up tying him to some the crime of the week.

Ah, but in the present, Hartgrave starts coughing up chunks of lung thanks to chlorine gas exposure.

Ill be dead before you could get me to talk, he gloats.

Still, Crawford doesnt want to move on this new information.

Then were back to the day before when the team starts tiptoeing into ethically gray areas.

Rather than hack the Pentagon, they decide to hack Trine.

And is it even really hacking if Torres was wearing the fancy hidden-camera watch that captured Hartgraves admin password?

They sign on and download whatever they can before their hack is traced.

(Next page: Can we really trust the SecDef?)

Crawfords still livid, but Ive got faith in him.

But Grant got there first and accidentally punctured a canister, dying on the spot.

At this point, Sloane texts McGee a request that he buy them more time.

(Her name is spelled correctly in his phone, for the record.)

Naturally, this only further incenses Crawford, who now believes hes being held hostage.

Said interrogations interrupted by a commotion in the hallway.

Thats some tidy circular storytelling!

And whaddya know, Crawfords a Trine shareholder and close friends with the CEO.

Once the case is wrapped, Torres apologizes to Bishop for canceling her date.

She tells him she has to be able to trust him and asks why he did it.

Torres isnt the only one keeping secrets this week.

McGee admits hes being head-hunted.

Its flattering that a cutting-edge tech companys interested in him, and theyareoffering quite a bit of money.

Is our stalwart agent ready to jump to the private sector?

He sits down to a meal withWestley Clark, the CIA agent whos been surveilling Vance.

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