Back at the shack, Abby tells Gibbs it was the FBI that deleted the fingerprint files, but Gibbs already knows because his old friend and nemesis FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano) has arrived to pick up what he claims to be his body at the same time that Ducky and NCIS Medical Examiner Assistant Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) discover a human toe in the stomach of the corpse.
Fornell identifies the corpse as a cannibal serial killer that the Agency has been tracking for the over a decade. The murderer’s trademark was gnawing off the toes from the left feet of his victims. The Agency does not know the corpse’s age but did find the prints at a crime scene. Gibbs and Fornell bump heads and Gibbs remains in control, taking Fornell to show what the corpse looked like in life, identified at Charles Bright, who disappeared five years and seven months ago. The team gets an address, and after obtaining a search warrant, delivered by the delicious NCIS Special Agent Michelle Lee (Liza Lapira), all head over.
Gibbs and Fornell go to question Bright’s wife, Amy Bright (Marcella Lentz-Pope), who has two children. Fornell freaks out when he sees Amy Bright, who looks like all of the alleged murderer’s victims. Meanwhile, Tony finds a skeleton in the Bright’s backyard. Bright was identified as a building inspector for the Department of Defense and was scheduled to visit the middle school where his corpse was found when he disappeared. Gibbs does not believe that Bright’s death was an accident. The FBI uncovers several more skeletons. Ducky declines to offer a TOD and proceeds to tell a story of how he, Gibbs, and Jenny had a French warrant for their arrest for Ducky’s assault of a French officer. Ducky recalls this fondly and the thaw with Gibbs begins.
Gibbs and Spano return to question Amy Bright, who vehemently denies that her husband could have been the murderer in spite of the fact the authorities were removing four bodies from her backyard. The tearful Bright is convincing. Perhaps the murderer was not her husband. Back at headquarters, Ducky and Gibbs have a heart to heart about Ducky’s animosity toward Gibbs. Ducky’s feelings were hurt that Gibbs did not tell him goodbye when he quit nor about his murdered family. Gibbs apologized. The rift is completely defined and resolved.
After Tony and his paramour finally do the deal, the scene shifts to the next morning and Ziva detecting that Tony had enjoyed sensual release the previous night. Fornell enters with a Justice Department Order to turn the body and investigation over to the FBI immediately. While Gibbs, Fornell, and Jenny discuss the situation in the Director’s office, Ducky announces that he has determined the cause of death of the smoked corpse. Ducky points out to Fornell on a CT scan of the body that reveals several abdominal punctures with either an ice pick or a Phillips-head screwdriver. The man was murdered on a marine base saving the case for NCIS’ attention.
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