Tell-All recap (MAJOR SPOILERS)

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Tell-All recap (MAJOR SPOILERS)

The episode “Tell-All” opens with a couple driving on a road just outside Shenandoah State Park, headed for a camping trip. As they argue, they nearly hit a deer, but stop in time. After this close call, the woman pulls over to take pictures of the deer and spots the body of a Navy Lieutenant Commander in the grass.

Back at NCIS headquarters Ziva enters the squad room to find Tony trying figure out who sent Gibbs a wedding invitation. After making comments about tampering with the mail, Ziva makes a comment about inviting Gibbs to her wedding someday. The team then begins to discuss their respective love lives and Gibbs bad luck with marriage. In the middle of this discussion Gibbs comes in, tells them about the body, and disposes of the wedding invitation that has now been put back on his desk. They all grab their gear and follow Gibbs out to go to the crime scene.

Once they arrive at the crime scene, Ziva and Tony begin to take pictures of the area, while McGee obtains a finger print identification and identifies the body as Lieutenant Commander Patrick Casey, a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Nothing is missing from his wallet, and they find evidence that a hollow-point bullet was used to kill him. While McGee and Ducky are dealing with the body, Tony and Ziva find a message that appears to be written in the victim's own blood. The word ߵBirdsong' is shown to be written on a rock.

Gibbs returns to NCIS headquarters and talks to Admiral Hindley, who was one of the victim's supervisors. He tells Gibbs it could be weeks before the D.I.A. decides what will and won't be released. Gibbs asks if he has ever heard of Birdsong and if the victim's expertise is related to his death, the Admiral tells him he hasn't heard of it and that the expertise probably had nothing to do with it. Gibbs ends the call as Tony tells him that the victim's car was found unlocked with his keys and cell phone smashed outside it.

In autopsy, Ducky is lecturing Jimmy Palmer about the use of his cell phone at work, getting to the point that constant contact with one's lover can ruin the allure and end a relationship quicker. Gibbs enters and asks what they know. Ducky reveals that he was shot six times by frangible bullets, so they are fragmented inside the victim's body. They determine a long range weapon was used, and this makes it a rare gun that they are looking for.

In the squad room, Ziva has the victim's history, Tony has the victim's last known whereabouts before he was killed, and McGee has discovered that the D.I.A. has been looking into potentially leaked classified military information in a manuscript titled “Operation Birdsong.” Gibbs tells McGee to talk to the publishing company and find out who submitted it.

While talking to McGee and Gibbs, the publisher tells them that the D.I.A. has been searching her offices and confiscated all copies of “Operation Birdsong”. She tells them that Admiral Hindley was part of the team that did the search. Gibbs asks what's in the manuscript and she tells him it's full of weapons sales, corruption, and intrigue. All she'll tell him about the author is that it was submitted by an anonymous former intelligence officer. If they want her to disclose the author's name, she says they'll have to convince a judge to make her do it. They tell her about the victim and she reveals that he was one of two people sent an advance copy of the book.

Tony and Ziva are going to talk to FBI Agent Elise Arthur to find out what she knows about “Operation Birdsong”, but they find her dead in her living room. The FBI shows up, and Fornell tells Gibbs that she was an expert in anti-domestic terrorism stings and had been setting up fake weapons deals to try to catch homegrown extremists. Ducky tells them that the rope used to strangle her is the same kind that was used to kill Lieutenant Commander Casey. Though her neck is deeply bruised, she has no defensive wounds. Fornell says that she was a fighter and would have tried to get away. Tony tells them that Agent Arthur and Lieutenant Commander Casey had dinner the night before, and that her husband works for DC Ambulance. Fornell asks Gibbs if he got an invitation to the wedding of their ex-wife, Diane, and Gibbs says he got three.

While talking to Agent Arthur's husband, Gibbs and Fornell find out that she told her husband very few details of her job. They tell him about the other murder and that they think it's related to his wife's death. They ask him if she ever mentioned “Operation Birdsong” and he tells him it was on her nightstand.

After they return to NCIS headquarters, Gibbs and Fornell talk about their ex-wife as they head to Abby's lab to drop off a partially burned copy of “Operation Birdsong” that was found at Agent Arthur's house. She tells them that the bullets used can't be traced a gun in any database, but that they were fired from a prototype rifle that few people had access to.

Back upstairs in the squad room McGee tells Gibbs that the publisher found out about Agent Arthur's death and is afraid she's next, so she took a flight to Argentina. Gibbs tells McGee to find the author now, before anyone is killed. The publisher finally gives them the name, First Lieutenant Sam Keeler, and he is brought in to NCIS. While questioning him, he reveals that he and Agent Arthur worked together on a task force in Greece that turned out to be a waste of money and resources because someone higher up made a mistake and weapons went missing. He was blamed for it, so he wrote “Operation Birdsong” as a revenge of sorts. He also tells them that he has the original on a hard drive in a storage unit. When the team arrives at the storage unit, they find the D.I.A. and Admiral Hindley opening the door, but a bomb goes off as it's opened and the contents are damaged.

Down in Abby's lab, she and McGee are trying to fix the hard drive that contains “Operation Birdsong”, and Tony and Ziva are attempting to reassemble the pieces of the burned copy. Gibbs and Fornell arrive for an update, and Abby shows them what they have. It's basically things that they already know, but they see a pattern and realize that somebody has to pick up the slack when an arms dealer is captured. They trace some deals, and find a new dealer name Jinn who has never been seen, but has become rich from “Operation Birdsong”.

Gibbs and Fornell visit Admiral Hindley as he's being released from the hospital after the explosion and he tells them where to find Jinn. They bring a college girl named Alexis Ross, who is actually Jinn. She has been arranging arms deals from her dorm room. She is very cocky while being interrogated by Gibbs and Fornell, however Abby finds evidence that clears her of the murders but proves she blew up the storage locker. It appears that the arms deals weren't the motive behind the murders.

Gibbs talks to First Lieutenant Keeler again. This time he tells Gibbs that they had an affair while serving on the taskforce in Greece. She broke it off when they returned home, but he acknowledged her in his book dedication by using her initials. Gibbs gets a call from Abby and heads down to her lab to see what she has found.

In the lab, Abby tells, Gibbs that Agent Arthur was given a high dose of a drug that paralyzed her, which explains the lack of defensive wounds, and that the drug is used only in emergency medicine.

Gibbs and Fornell speak to Agent Arthur's husband again, but this time they arrest him for murder after telling him he didn't even kill the right guy.

4NSCHK
Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:04:17 +0000

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