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Enemy on The Hill Recap
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NCIS: Enemy on the Hill Airdate: October 11, 2011
Recap Author: callerbear
Recap Author: callerbear
Opening Scene: Using the United States Capitol building as a backdrop, a ZNN news crew is interviewing people on the street about a proposed Navy contract for a $14 billion dollar aircraft carrier. They turn to a man nearby, who quickly declines and begins to move away. The man darts away, stepping into the street where he is immediately run down by a van. As the reporter calls for help, we see the man was carrying a large concealed gun.
Cut to NCIS headquarters. Abby is excited -- she's been selected as a donor! In church, She learned about a teenager needing a kidney transplant, and has offered her kidney to this stranger. She's thrilled to be a perfect match, but the rest of the team is concerned.
As Abby leaves, Detective Sportelli of the Metro Police arrives with big news. Ballistics has tied the gun carried by the man hit by the van (Paul Arliss) to four unsolved murders. Arliss was apparently "The Cooler", a contract killer that has been hunted for several years. Metro is handling the investigation of Arliss' death, but shares information found in his car: surveillance photos and notes indicating that his next target was a Navy lieutenant commander named Geoffrey Brett. Brett is a decorated war-time pilot shot down over Afghanistan who survived for two weeks in enemy territory while waiting for rescue. He is now stationed in Washington DC as a legislative fellow to the House Armed Services Committee.
Gibbs and David interview Brett. He's convinced there's a mistake, no-one would want to kill him. He tries to decline their offer of protective custody, but finally agrees. Ziva will be his shadow.
In Autopsy, Abby nervously approaches Ducky looking for advice. She's very concerned. The transplant coordinator at the hospital said Abby was not the only person that was a match for the kidney transplant, and that it's amazing that both a brother and sister volunteered. But Abby's brother Luca didn't volunteer! And the mitochondrial DNA of the other volunteer was more than a 99.9% match with Abby's DNA, meaning that the other volunteer and Abby must be full brother and sister. Abby and Luca are both completely surprised -- they can't believe that their parents would have given up a child for adoption. Her parents have both passed away, so she doesn't know quite who to turn to for advice. She appreciates Ducky listening to her.
At the hospital, McGee and DiNozzo are heading for the killer's hospital room to interview him. They're intercepted by Detective Sportelli -- Arliss has died. McGee and DiNozzo look at each other: They're at a dead end, literally. Phoof.
Back at headquarters, the team is stymied. The killer, Arliss, has no criminal record and no apparent ties to Commander Brett.
Meanwhile, Ziva escorts Brett through the halls of the Capitol building. A man head directly at Brett and reaches into his pocket, so Ziva pins him against the wall. The man, Nicholas Sandlock, turns out to be a lobbyist that work with Brett every day -- he's OK.
At Arliss' home, DiNozzo discovers a false wall in the garage. Gibbs finds a way to open the hidden door, and the space is filled with rifles and a computer. Sportelli agrees to let NCIS do the forensics on the computer.
Back in Abby's lab. Abby is talking with her Aunt Gert, who is suffering from dementia. Gert can't even remember her own name, much less anything about another brother for Abby. Meanwhile, McGee has broken into Arliss' computer, and found a $25,000 wire transfer from one George Kaplan. Kaplan must be the person that hired the killer.
Ziva and Brett arrive at the headquarters. Brett doesn't recognize Kaplan's name, but is concerned about any possible threat to his young daughter, Tilly. He arranges for Tilly to go to Hilton Head with his ex-wife.
Kaplan's furnished apartment is empty -- no clothes, no food. Been a year or more since he rented the apartment. The manager never sees him, but regularly receives a check from Kaplan's business manager, Drew Turner.
Brett has agreed to spend the night at the Navy Yard. As they leave the capitol building, he tricks Ziva into leading the way into a stairwell, where the door locks behind her. "Sorry, Ziva," he says, "Bye bye!" and leaves in a different direction.
The next morning, Ziva still hasn't found Kaplan and there's no response to the BOLO on him. DiNozzo has traced down Turner, Kaplan's business manager, who has power-of-attorney over Kaplan's $1.1 million dollar account. DiNozzo and McGee head over to interview Turner, and are surprised to find that she is a young, attractive woman. She hasn't heard from Kaplan since last tax season -- she helped him set up an account and does his taxes once per year. She doesn't recognize Commander Brett's name, either. They set up a appointment for Turner to meet with Abby to make a sketch of Kaplan.
Back at the Capitol building. Gibbs and David catch up with Brett, who confesses that he ditched Ziva in order to spend the evening with a woman.
In Abby's lab: she's sad and has been very distracted. She's been neglecting her work. "Abs, I need you!" says Gibbs. She knows that she needs to get back on track.
In the bullpen: McGee and DiNozzo find proof that Drew Turner has recently met with Kaplan: they both recently signed a signature card to open a stock brokerage account. Since Drew missed her appointment with Abby, they head to her house to confront her. They find that she's home, but dead. She's apparently hung herself. Phoof!
Sportelli and Gibbs stride into Autopsy. Ducky has found that the hanging was staged -- she was strangled, then hanged to make it look like suicide. Upstairs, the team reviews what they know and theorize that Turner had invented George Kaplan. "Fake suicide, fake names, women pretending to be men," says Sportelli. "This is getting messy. Tell you what, I'm out of here. I'll let you duke it out with the FBI." He withdraws from the investigation.
DiNozzo will trace the source of the million dollars in the account. McGee will try to get Abby to work on the signatures they have, but Gibbs knows that she's been distracted. He tells McGee to see what he can learn about Abby's brother.
Commander Brett doesn't recognize Drew Turner's name. With evidence piling up that someone wants him dead, he agrees to stop fighting against protective custody.
Abby has studied the signatures: Drew Turner definitely didn't sign Kaplan's name. DiNozzo has traced the money to a bank in Switzerland. Shortly afterwards, Abby analyzed the signature card: along with fingerprints from the brokerage clerk and Turner, Geoffrey Brett's fingerprints are on the card! More than that, Brett's handwriting matches Kaplan's. Commander Brett is George Kaplan! Phoof.
DiNozzo finally recognizes the name "George Kaplan", from the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest: it was used as a fictious name in the movie. Brett has apparently created the Kaplan persona to hide the money he was receiving from the bank in Switzerland.
McGee has tracked down the name and address of the man whose DNA matches Abby's. Gibbs passes the note to her: his name is Kyle Davis. Abby decides she wants to meet him, but declines Gibb's offer to accompany her. She thinks she needs to do it alone.
NCIS Agent Thomas Survoy in Marseilles has found the name of the company sending money to Brett. It's from a subsidary of one of the largest naval shipbuilders in the US. For 18 months, Brett has been lobbying for a contract for that company to build a $14B aircraft carrier. Looks like Brett has been getting a kickback. He's been meeting with Drew Turner in a bar every Thursday for the lsat two years.
Cut to Abby peering in the window of a Pet Rescue and Adoption service. Kyle Davis, a pleasant young man that looks strikingly like Abby, comes out to greet her, and hands her a cute puppy to hold. "Do I know you from somewhere?" he asks. "You sure look familiar!"
Back at the Navy yard: Gibbs and DiNozzo have been interrogating Brett's legislative ally, Nick Sandblock, and have confirmed that Brett was getting kickbacks from the shipbuilder. Brett says that he recently learned that Turner was addicted to online gambling, and had been using Brett's money to pay off her gambling debts. She apparently wanted to kill Brett so that she would have unhampered access to all of the money He first realized that Turner was after him when Gibbs asked about George Kaplan -- Turner and Brett were the only two that knew of the fake Kaplan name. As soon as possible, he ditched Ziva and murdered Turner. He said he was putting away the money to provide for Tilly, his special-needs daughter.
That night, Gibbs is at home quietly reading when Abby stops by. She tells him about meeting Kyle Davis. He was very nice, but she didn't tell him who she was -- after all, Kyle had just been chosen to donate a kidney and the operation was scheduled for the next day. But she just couldn't imagine that the wonderful, loving parents that raised her and Luca would ever give up a child for adoption. But, she realized, they would accept a child for adoption. She keeps a clipping of her mother's hair in a locket, and compared her mothers DNA to her own. They were not a biological match. Abby herself is apparently an adopted child. Tearfully, she now feels that she's lost her place in the world: "I don't know who I am anymore. I don't know who my parents were... I'm just like, like Little Orphan Abby."
Gibbs reassures her that she's still the same person she's always been, and that her parents are still the parents she remembers. Family is more than DNA; it's about people that care and take care of each other. Abby is distressed that her parents never told her she was adopted and feels there must be a reason that she has to learn before turning Kyle and Luca's life upside down. Gibbs reminds her that she doesn't have to do this alone: she has an NCIS family that will help her through it. Phoof.
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