Leaving the meeting, Gibbs and Ziva discuss the case while Fornell trashes Krieger for her bad communications methods. Ziva is visibly pleased with this dressing down while DiNozzo defends the beleaguered agent. Ziva claims to not like cleaning up after others and accuses DiNozzo of wanting to sleep with Krieger. DiNozzo does not deny this and Ziva pretends disappointment in what she perceived was growth in DiNozzo during his relationship with Jeanne Benoit. Ziva states, “[Krieger] is just a girl; the man you were becoming needs a woman.” It is a strange relationship between Ziva and DiNozzo. There exists a sexual tension, but not like that between Maddie Hayes and David Addison on Moonlighting. This one may be playful on DiNozzo’s part but is not on Ziva’s. This is very strange mojo, indeed.

The scene breaks to Abby’s lab where she is discussing the tattoo with Ducky via the officer monitor. Gibbs enters and Abby dutifully devotes her attention to him. Abby discovers that a note written by Konkani was written on cash register ribbon contaminated with spices used in Eastern Indian food. Meanwhile, Krieger accosts Ziva in the hall and asks her if it is hard to be the only woman on the NCIS team. Ziva confidently responds no and the conversation continues with Ziva giving Krieger advice to not try and be perfect; if you make a mistake, “get back on the horse.” That prompts Krieger to say she had equestrian experience and Ziva to reveal an uncle who bred Arabians. The two women begin to warm to one another.

Meanwhile, the rest of the team is tracking down Indian restaurants close to the area where Konkani is thought to live. They identify one Tandoori restaurant, which after an undercover inspection by DiNozzo and Krieger, leads NCIS to a delivery boy who is questioned closely but appears clean. At this point it appears that the dead black man may have not been waiting for the eraser but was the eraser. Contemporarily, a woman (the waitress Shannon O'Hara) who had previously murdered her husband using the mercury injection apparently bought a new identification from Konkani, and is framed by the alleged new operative for the murder of the old eraser (the original dead guy).

The plot leads the team back to the Robert Graves, who turns out to be the apprentice to Konkani, who is just being released by Ziva and Krieger at his home when Gibbs calls and tells them to detain him. He senses this, grabs a gun and attempts to shoot Ziva, at which time Krieger exercises some impressive moves to disarm him while proceeding to give him a satisfying ass whipping. This finally endears her to Ziva. Back at headquarters, Gibbs and Fornell take questioning off video and proceed to extract information regarding Konkani from Graves the old-fashioned way, which ultimately leads to the true Konkani’s arrest.