The discussion is interrupted by the arrival of two Middle Eastern men, greatly anxious at the damage at the scene. They are members of the Islamic nonprofit Coalition for Peace. The two men, Jamal Malik (Dominic Rains) and Abdul Wahid (Haaz Sleiman) are looking for their friend, Yahzeed Fahad, who is the president of their organization. Conveniently, Ziva locates the bomber’s head in the building’s rafters and drops it to the floor where it is identified by his partners. The two men are taken back to NCIS headquarters and questioned by Gibbs and Ziva together, where they try and convince Gibbs they are not criminals. They do convince Gibbs they are innocent while on the other side of the glass DiNozzo tells Cassidy Gibbs wants her to remain at headquarters.
Meanwhile Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) is analyzing the voice data from the phone call received by Cassidy before the explosion. She discovers McGee grieving in her lab and she comforts him. Gibbs enters and Abby identifies the dead suicide bomber as Yahzeed Fahad and further reveals that he was in the US Navy, discharged in 2004. Ducky chirps in to bring Gibbs and Cassidy to the morgue to let them know that Fahad had been dead 24 hours (based on deterioration of the brain) before the explosion and therefore could not have made the phone call credited to him. This establishes either Abby or Ducky as being wrong, providing the necessary internal conflict for the episode.
Breaking to the next scene, Ziva details the search of Fahad’s apartment which revealed no evidence that the dead man would have been a suicide bomber. Cassidy reveals an intense dislike for Ziva evidenced with impatience. DiNozzo attempts levity to lighten the mood, Gibbs pops the back of his head and sends Cassidy and DiNozzo back to the crime scene to investigate if there was another way out of this building that appeared to have only one exit. At the crime scene, Cassidy and DiNozzo reveal their previous personal history and discuss DiNozzo’s floundering love life. Cassidy councils DiNozzo that life is too short not to tell those you love that you love them.
Article comments
1 - C. Michael Bailey
Whoa Nelly!
I left an error in the first paragraph. "The death of former NCIS Special Agent Mike Franks (Muse Watson) was the topic of the previous episode..." should have been "The death of former NCIS Special Agent Mike Franks' (Muse Watson) son was the topic of the previous episode..."
2 - Phillip Winn
Fixed it up; thanks!