"♪ ♪" "(alligator growls)" "(phone beeping)" "(beeping speeds up)" "(beeping stops)" "(wood cracks loudly)" "(gunshots)" "(squawking wildly) boom ♪ bang ♪ boom ♪ how ♪ hey ♪" "♪ You gotta come on. ♪" "(playing jazzy piano music)" "Hoyt." "it's getting late." "Not my idea." "It's hers." "you got a fan." "Been watching you play for a while now." "What do you want me to do?" "I'll handle it." "Thanks for the drink." "Thought you could use it." "Really?" "Why's that?" "seem a little tense." "You might want to lighten up on the keys." "Oh." "huh?" "You play?" "though." "Long time ago." "Why'd you stop?" "Lost my piano player." "I still haven't forgiven you." "For the record... wasn't just me who ended it." "25 years is a long time to hold a grudge." "but who's counting?" "(chuckles)" "I heard you moved back." "I wondered when we'd bump into each other." "Forgot nothing happens in this town without you knowing about it." "(chuckles)" "Yeah." "Dwayne." "Rita. sorry to hear about you and Lloyd." "Sorry to hear about you and Linda." "right?" "Yeah." "♪ Sometimes you gotta just move on... ♪ uh... buying me a drink at 1:00 in the morning after all these years?" "(chuckles)" "Everything all right?" "(exhales) No." "it's not." "♪ No one else gonna love you like I do. ♪" "♪ ♪ I got to find a new mode of transportation." "I'm a moped guy through and through." "But the law of physics is not in my favor when there's a huge SUV riding right up my... no." "I mean... this glass." "Check it out. will you?" "What do you see?" "Lipstick." "Looks like Pride had some company over here last night." "Femalecompany." "you mean..." "Pride?" "Lady time at work?" "I don't think so." "is coffee on? too?" "man." "GREGORIO:" "Excuse me." "Are you just gonna ignore this?" "Ignore what?" "Gregorio seems to think that Pride had a date last night." "Yes. lipstick?" "Hello." "Doesn't even smell like alcohol." "come on." "Aren't you guys the least bit curious about this?" "it's not what you think." "Our King's not like that." "He wouldn't bring anybody to the office." "Like what?" "He lives upstairs." "so you don't know." "You don't know." "You don't know." "SONJA:" "What we've learned is Pride is married to his work." "Period." "Okay." "All right." "$20 says I'm right." "ALL:" "You're on." "(knock at door)" "PRIDE:" "Got a case." "JAG lawyer Noah Sandler." "Prosecutes highly classified cases for the Navy." "He's gone missing." "For how long?" "The last time anybody heard from him was the night before last." "Called a fellow JAG. but never showed." "Her?" "also an A.D.A." "She trained Noah." "Gave him his start." "Knows he wouldn't have called if it wasn't important." "So she thinks something happened to him?" "we both do." "Rita and I went to his..." "GREGORIO:" "Rita?" "PRIDE:" "Sorry." "JAG Devereaux and I but there were no signs of him or his car." "it's only been a day and a half." "NOPD doesn't even take missing persons cases 48 hours?" "we're not NOPD." "And this isn't just anybody we're talking about here." "I... but I've known Rita a long time." "She's not one to panic easily." "She's concerned." "I told her we'd help." "King." "What's our next move?" "Only thing suspicious we found at JAG Noah's apartment was there was nothing on his computer." "Nothing?" "Like it had been erased?" "Yeah." "I want you and Patton to work on it." "Maybe see if you can restore what was on it." "Might give us some leads." "deep dive Noah. surveillance cameras." "Anything that might help us trace his last known whereabouts." "You got it." "What can I do?" "You and I are going to Belle Chasse." "Okay." "of Noah's cases have something to do with his disappearance." "Classified cases-- do we have access?" "and Rita will meet us there to help us sort things out." "then." "Look forward to meeting this Rita." "Don't get me wrong. is you have a definite nose for justice." "is all." "Gregorio? we usually start things off with an actual crime." "a body." "banking a lot on this Rita friend of yours." "You must have good reason to trust her instincts." "I do." "Oh." "New York." "Dwayne." "No thanks necessary. JAG Corps Rita Devereaux." "I know." "You can call me Rita." "Rita." "D.A. get us any access?" "but yes." "Glad the uniform still fits." "It's been a while." "you look great." "Thank you." "Yeah." "Ladies?" "Yeah." "We find anything in Noah's case files that might help?" "unfortunately. nothing stands out as suspicious." "too?" "it seems to be intact." "His last entry was calendaring the meet he wanted to have with me tomorrow morning." "office not? could be more of a personal nature than business." "Gregorio's right. but there were at his apartment... you knew him well." "What did he do with his personal time?" "We really haven't had a chance to catch up since I moved back here a couple months ago." "you lived in New Orleans?" "way back when I first met Dwayne." "Looks like Noah was pretty involved with Fort MacArthur." "GREGORIO:" "What's Fort MacArthur?" "Private military academy outside the city." "Town has a long-standing history with the school." "Takes in troubled juvies with criminal records." "Place is their last shot at turning their lives around." "RITA:" "Just like it did for Noah." "Academy offered him structure and direction." "It's why he joined the Navy." "And why he's been volunteering there ever since." "He likes to give back." "actually." "GREGORIO:" "Looks like your friend was doing more than volunteering. blueprints of the school's ground." "it almost feels like (phone rings) he was investigating something there." "I wonder what." "Sebastian?" "Okay." "tell Christopher we'll meet them there. but they were able to trace the IP address to his laptop." "Call me." "Good or bad." "Promise." "Noah Sandler's vehicle." "it sat here overnight." "Any sign of Noah?" "Not yet." "Any idea what he was doing all the way out here?" "it could have been gator hunt." "Got the gear." "but you got to have courage." "Meaning?" "(sighs) Lake Verret's not the safest place to hunt." "PRIDE:" "It's pretty remote and dangerous." "Nobody usually comes out here alone." "too. it was used to remotely erase Noah's home computer first." "Noah didn't come all the way out here to erase computers." "King." "Whoa." "(growling)" "Hyah." "Get back." "Hyah." "(growling) Hyah." "Get back." "Get back." "Hyah." "Yeah." "(hisses) Get back." "Hyah." "It's probably Noah." "Looks like he's been shot twice." "Which means our missing persons case just turned into a murder." "Doc Wade call you yet?" "why?" "She just finished her prelim autopsy on JAG Noah." "Turns out you were right." "He was shot twice in the back." "Hunting accident? and both went right through the heart." "Kill shots." "who killed him and why?" "Looked like he drove out there by himself. hoping to make it look like a hunting accident?" "how'd they know he'd even be out there?" "And why was he there? says he wants to discuss a sensitive case with her." "it had to be connected to whatever case right?" "And told her it was important. probably never would have found Noah's body." "Gators would have made sure of that." "Was probably what the killer was hoping for." "You and Patton have any luck figuring out what was on Noah's computers before they got erased?" "Nada." "We even hacked into the cloud to check the data stream." "Which means whoever it was went through an awful lot of trouble to cover up whatever Noah was working on." "RITA:" "Any word?" "You said you would call. and I..." "I wanted to be sure first." "Sure of what?" "you wanted to know." "It's not good." "Rita." "He was shot." "What?" "How?" "Who?" "I don't know." "We just started the investigation." "I assume that... that you've kept looking." "Any idea what Noah wanted to talk to you about yet?" "What was so important?" "uh..." "I think it had something to do with Terrence Lewis." "He's one of the cadets that Noah was mentoring at the academy." "I started looking more into Noah's Fort MacArthur connections after you left." "What's so special about Lewis?" "Noah had requested but JAGs can't access a minor's record without a court order. hoping you could get him the files?" "Terrence Lewis. either. both in and out of Fort MacArthur." "If Terrence Lewis knew Noah was investigating him..." "He might have killed him so he couldn't?" "That's a stretch." "Dwayne." "It's what I do." "but not every kid can be reformed." "And Lewis looks like he wasn't. and then Noah gets shot to death before we can even meet?" "I don't know what is." "Don't want to rush to judgment here." "Especially when it comes to the kids at the academy." "regardless of age." "I know that Noah was your friend." "That's got nothing to do with this." "It does when you're not thinking straight 'cause you're loaded for bear." "(exhales)" "Might be the first argument I ever won with you." "Rita." "They're good at their jobs." "Let us investigate Terrence Lewis and whatever connection and I promise we'll find out who killed Noah." "Okay." "I will." "drill commands shouted)" "(drums playing)" "Agent Pride?" "General Walsh." "Heard a lot about you." "It's nice to finally meet you." "General." "Special Agents Percy and Lasalle." "General." "Welcome." "Thank you." "DRILL SERGEANT:" "Atten-hut." "WALSH:" "So... what brings NCIS to Fort MacArthur?" "probably best to discuss in private. want to handle this as sensitively as possible." "Understood..." "and appreciated." "Especially considering where most of our cadets come from." "Law tends to assume the worst about them." "who is that?" "PRIDE:" "He was the man who practically founded this place." "You're familiar?" "Hard to grow up in this town and not be." "troubled kids he helped." "a second chance." "General Sklahr was the father figure most of these boys didn't have." "That's large shoes to fill." "Proud to have been appointed to do exactly that." "easier said than done." "COMMANDING OFFICER:" "Halt!" "CADETS:" "♪ The military live... ♪ which of my boys is in trouble?" "not sure any are yet." "That's why we're here." "Hoping for an assist." "Terrence Lewis." "so would I." "Private Lewis has been UA for three weeks now." "Wish I could say that was unusual." "LASALLE:" "Lewis go missing often?" "yes. how to commit to something larger than themselves." "we're not always successful and I'm afraid that includes Private Lewis." "You notify NOPD he was missing?" "They don't have the manpower to chase down runaways and... juvies like Lewis aren't a high priority." "What's he done?" "uh... JAG Noah Sandler has been murdered." "And Terrence Lewis is a person of interest." "my God." "when?" "Last night." "And what we know now is:" "Noah was investigating Lewis." "And maybe even the academy." "Investigating?" "Noah never said anything to me about it and he was here all the time." "not just Private Lewis." "Is it all right if we speak with Lewis' commanding officer?" "Of course." "Uh... please." "Sir?" "Captain Dorsey." "They need to speak to Commander Cabral ASAP." "sir." "Right this way." "Agent Pride?" "This news of Noah's death is gonna hit the boys hard." "if that's all right with you." "sir." "(sighs)" "(door opens)" "Loretta?" "that was way too much like Pride." "I got to work on that." "it's gonna be fine." "you're doing fine." "it's just..." "I guess." "You know?" "Maybe I should keep the moped." "You here for an update?" "inquiring minds want to know." "Especially Pride's. it appears JAG Noah's body was dragged postmortem." "Because of Tick-Tock Croc?" "It's a Peter Pan reference. the alligator bite pattern didn't match so... closer to the water." "yes." "(sighs) Doesn't really get us any closer though. narrow down what type of gun was used?" "It was definitely an automatic rifle of some kind." "Based on the... probably military." "I can't be sure until you find me the projectiles." "right? it's probably buried back in the bayou somewhere." "Mm-hmm." "Sounds like a field trip to me." "Yeah." "do you mean me?" "You-- you want me to go back out there to deadly gator-world?" "By myself?" "Tick-Tock Croc." "(sighs)" "All right." "I'll see you never." "(door opens) atten-hut!" "sir." "Commander." "these are NCIS agents." "They need to speak with you in private." "sir." "front and center." "Lieutenant." "sir." "Still can't wrap my head around how teaching juvies to shoot M16s helps reform them." "it's not about that." "It teaches them responsibility." "At least this place gives them a chance." "Port arms!" "How can I be of assistance?" "I understand Terrence Lewis" "Commander?" "sir." "Private Lewis is..." "I know." "How well do you know him?" "General Walsh assigned him to my squad three months ago." "Hoped I could straighten him out." "How so?" "Permission to speak freely?" "We're just looking for answers." "However you can help." "Private Lewis was a difficult recruit." "The academy prides itself following orders." "Lewis fought it every step of the way." "So I take it you and Lewis didn't get along very well." "Lewis didn't get along with anyone very well." "What about JAG Noah?" "JAG... he's always been there for us." "but... son?" "JAG Noah tried to help Lewis with some stuff he was going through." "But Lewis got mad." "even." "too." "That's the last anyone ever saw of him." "(device beeping slowly)" "(loud growl) What the...?" "(beeping)" "(beeping rapidly)" "Bingo." "Okay." "(beeping steadily)" "(beeping rapidly)" "my God! I'd estimate the boy died about three weeks ago." "SEBASTIAN:" "Same time Lewis went UA." "Cause of death?" "WADE:" "Your missing cadet was obviously beaten. and chest are still evident." "is what was used to beat him." "we recovered the same substance found in the epidermis of the bruises-- potassium hydroxide... soap." "We even found trace amounts of it in Lewis' mouth." "Soap?" "Soap bashing." "A hazing technique the military has long condemned." "Except soap didn't break the boy's parietal bone." "The cause of death was a sharp blow and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what was used." "Hazing gone too far?" "JAG Noah may have been investigating not a juvie. and then got shot by whoever killed Lewis." "but if more than one cadet then it's hard to believe they're not responsible for both murders." "okay?" "(phone beeping)" "We need to be sure." "I need to know what exactly was used to kill Terrence Lewis." "On it. get an ID on those bullets that killed JAG Noah." "I want to know what type of weapon they came from ASAP." "Copy that." "Where you going?" "Rita just texted." "I need to try and slow her down." "Send her up as soon as she gets here." "assault with a deadly weapon." "aggravated assault." "attempted rape." "Rita... armed robbery." "And the list goes on." "I unsealed every cadet's criminal record after I heard about what happened." "Dwayne." "too." "But you can't tell me none of them are capable of murder." "You can't prejudge them from their past." "That's not fair." "That's what reform's all about." "This isn't about reform anymore." "This is about justice." "but all I'm saying is we don't know enough yet." "we know enough to get a search and arrest warrant which is exactly what I'm going to do. when you thought that Lewis killed Noah? and Fort MacArthur gets shut down. too." "They're boys." "They're suspects!" "Dwayne." "They always have because you always put them first." "I know." "Rita." "I know how you grew up. but sometimes they don't deserve it." "We don't know enough yet." "There's too much risk to those boys and to the academy." "please..." "I disagree. but Terrence Lewis is mine." "I'm getting the arrest warrants." "DRILL SERGEANT:" "Hut!" "(sighs) I don't believe this." "Hazing?" "Murder?" "I've lost total control of this school." "How certain are you of this?" "The bullets that killed Noah could have come so we need to find out what is true if we have any hopes of containing the situation." "we need to and know which students were off-campus or on leave during both murders." "I'll get the logs." "(gunshots) Clear!" "Thank you guys for your cooperation." "Didn't know how you would act after finding out what happened to JAG Noah." "He'd be the first to counsel calm and that's what I'm doing." "whose rifle's up next?" "Commander Cabral's." "Let's have it." "why are they checking our guns?" "I don't know." "Commander Cabral." "At ease." "Commander." "It's about Private Lewis." "Victoria." "sir." "Prep the squad for Code 18." "But..." "Just do it!" "(gunshots)" "Christopher?" "What is it?" "but I don't have a good feeling about this." "Something's definitely up over there." "One ID shows off premises at the time of both murders." "Dog tag 2476." "PRIDE: 247..." "Lieutenant Commander Max Cabral." "his rifle just matched the bullets that killed JAG Noah." "(alarm blaring) What's that?" "It's a lockdown." "But I didn't order it." "Whoa!" "What the hell is going on?" "I'm protecting the academy." "Hands up!" "(sirens wailing)" "(alarm blaring) come on." "let's go." "Stop looking back." "come on!" "son." "You're not thinking straight." "What is this supposed to..." "Sit down!" "Sit down!" "CABRAL:" "Pull their weapons." "(alarm buzzer continues)" "(cell phone ringing)" "You should answer that." "Talk to him." "don't." "Don't." "We're under strict orders." "Orders?" "Orders from who?" "Stand watch." "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "(indistinct shouting)" "No answer?" "No." "It's weird." "Pride." "Anything?" "NOPD and LSP are evacuating the students." "SWAT's taking position." "Geez" " Dorsey!" "Why is SWAT here?" "Rita. it's obviously warranted." "Where the hell are Christopher and Sonja?" "NOPD saw a squad of them take them into the mess hall at gunpoint." "What?" "Students were blocking the windows." "No one's answering." "Things are getting" "General." "Fast." "Dorsey!" "Sir." "what did he say?" "he didn't say anything." "I just told him then he triggered a lockdown." "You don't think Cabral do you?" "no." "Hold on." "All we know right now is that the bullets match Cabral's rifle." "That's it." "SEBASTIAN:" "Right." "Why would he hand us over his rifle if he knew it was gonna match the murder weapon?" "GREGORIO:" "He wouldn't have let you test it." "Get ahold of Loretta." "let's hope she's got some answers." "We're missing something here." "I'm still trying to establish communication stand by." "A.D.A. Devereaux." "What's going on?" "What happened?" "The cadets have locked down the school." "because of the warrants?" "We never got a chance to serve them." "heavily armed and they've got hostages." "How long till HRT gets here? we may not have that long." "I want scopes in every window and access..." "I don't want this blowing up on us." "We need to find out what they want first. is they've taken hostages." "they'll listen to me." "talk to Commander Cabral." "he'll do whatever I say." "It may be the only way to save them." "WADE:" "The lethal blow to the head on Terrence Lewis was administered after the hazing." "How long after?" "15 hours." "it's not due to the hazing?" "Unless Lewis threatened to tell somebody and got killed later." "there's still not enough there to let Commander Cabral off the hook." "Any idea what the murder weapon was?" "but I did find some curious details." "I found a sliver of wood but 200-year-old cedar." "saltpeter." "That sounds like black gunpowder." "like from the Civil War?" "WALSH:" "Yeah." "what is it? could trace amounts of black gunpowder... and end up embedded in the skull?" "Absolutely." "General?" "I never even noticed it was gone." "Who else has access to the office?" "Captain Dorsey." "Where is Dorsey?" "CABRAL:" "This is not a negotiation." "Lieutenant." "All I'm saying is maybe we should listen to them." "We didn't do anything wrong." "Lewis is dead because of us! just like we were ordered to do this." "We didn't kill Lewis any more than we killed JAG Noah." "You think anyone outside of here cares about that?" "Everything this place stands for is on the line." "Do you understand?" "We follow orders." "Period." "But following orders is what got us into this mess in the first place." "PRIDE:" "Rita!" "but I think this proves" "I was right about the cadets." "I think they're being set up." "I don't think any of the cadets killed Lewis or Noah." "Based on what?" "Have you seen Captain Dorsey?" "we just sent him inside." "Why?" "(door closes)" "Stand down." "Cadet." "Now I have to clean it up." "With me." "guns clicking) the situation may not be as it appears." "We think Commander Cabral's being set up by the man you just let inside." "Cabral is holding two of your own people hostage." "He's just following orders. and that's to defuse the situation any way I can." "MAN (over radio):" "Dugan?" "Excuse me." "RITA:" "This doesn't make any sense. why do this?" "Why take hostages?" "The whole premise of reform here is to teach cadets to put the academy first." "Dorsey took advantage of that." "and Lewis?" "Why?" "SEBASTIAN:" "Pride." "Talk to me." "The general got me access to Dorsey's personnel files." "he applied to take over the academy but Walsh got it instead." "no." "But the main reason that he got passed over might be." "Dorsey had been reprimanded several times including ordering the hazing of cadets. JAG Noah figured it out... too." "Still doesn't explain why Cabral locked down the school." "it does." "if he's following Dorsey's orders." "And if Dorsey's trying to make Max look guilty..." "Where's Gregorio?" "PRIDE:" "We only got one shot at this." "Pride." "I just hope we have enough time." "But not like this." "even the military's not supposed to follow orders and neither are you." "if you want to do what's right?" "What is wrong with you?" "We can stop this before it's too late." "You can stop this. let us go." "You are an embarrassment to the uniform." "Commander." "I was following your orders. which is exactly what you've done." "What the hell were you thinking?" "You're the one that started this." "scare him straight." "didn't you? but that would've brought down the very institution that's kept you from spending the rest of your sorry-ass life in prison." "I didn't kill Lewis!" "But I had to!" "To protect the academy from the same mess." "What about JAG Noah?" "Also on you." "I had to do something to protect us all from your screwups!" "Loyalty above all else!" "Remember that?" "That's what this place stands for." "But that's something you obviously don't get. and this institution." "You should be ashamed of yourself!" "Do I have permission to fire?" "You think you got the balls?" "pull the trigger!" "Shoot me!" "but I do." "Move." "Do it!" "Federal agents!" "Don't move!" "Put your hands up!" "all clear." "Gregorio." "I knew you could do it." "See you when you get back down here." "Copy that. how'd you know that would work?" "That that was Dorsey's plan?" "but I couldn't figure out what else he was gonna do. assumed things would escalate." "it was just a hunch?" "I prefer "educated guess." "(exhales)" "(chuckles)" "(piano playing)" "GREGORIO:" "Still can't quite figure him out." "Figure out who?" "Pride?" "Yeah." "What's there to figure out?" "He's the man." "I think she's talking about his personal life." "Oh." "but playing piano is his personal life." "there's got to be more to it than that." "He's such a good catch." "no?" "let's just be clear." "King is not in a hurry to get together with anyone anytime soon." "SONJA:" "Yeah." "He's just happy being King. and it's just not natural." "You're just cranky that you lost the bet about Rita." "Bingo." "Exactly!" "I forgot." "I'm cranky?" "I'm cranky?" "you cranky." "Then why is she here?" "GREGORIO:" "Huh?" "I see I made an impression on you." "yeah?" "How's that?" "less tense." "you're pretty confident." "not so much." "Certainly not after I nearly caused a disaster." "You're being too hard on yourself." "Eh." "What else is new?" "I should've known better." "I should've remembered." "Never go up against one of your hunches." "too." "Troubled history those kids had even before hard not to think there's fire." "certainly what Captain Dorsey was hoping to make everybody believe. but also make Walsh look bad so he could take over." "Almost brought down the academy instead." "Thanks for putting in a good word on their behalf." "it's the least I could do." "those boys deserve a second chance." "I agree with that." "(playing piano) go ahead." "By the way... (begins playing "It Had to Be You")" "Remember this one?" "don't go there." "are you scared?" "♪ It had to be you ♪" "♪ It had to be you ♪ though." "What?" "♪ I wandered around ♪" "♪ Finally found somebody who... ♪" "That's perfect." "it's too low." "♪ Could make me be true ♪" "♪ Could make me be blue ♪" "♪ Or even be glad ♪" "♪ Just to be sad thinking of you ♪" "Yes!" "♪ Some others I've seen ♪" "There it is." "Okay." "♪ Might never be mean ♪" "May be right." "♪ Might never be cross ♪" "BOTH:" "♪ Or try to be boss ♪" "♪ They wouldn't do ♪" "(clears throat)" "BOTH:" "♪ For nobody else ♪" "Pay up." "Let's go." "♪ With all your faults ♪" "♪ I love you still ♪ (chuckles)" "Thank you." "♪ It had to be you ♪ (laughs)" "Too bad you don't take credit." "♪ It had to be you. ♪" "{\cH00ffff} Captioning sponsored by {\cH00ffff} CBS" "Captioned by {\cHffff00} Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org" "Uh-oh."