Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all new Tuesday February 24, season 12 episode 16 called, “Blast From the Past” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, a covert identity created for one of Gibbs’ [Mark Harmon] undercover cases 20 years ago resurfaces.
On the last episode, the NCIS team suspected Gibbs’ arch-nemesis was behind an explosion at a summit for global terror event, but Gibbs elected to sit out the investigation in order to help a grief-stricken Fornell, whose life is on the verge of imploding following his wife’s murder. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the CBS synopsis, “a covert identity created for one of Gibbs’ undercover cases 20 years ago resurfaces after it is discovered that a murder victim was living under the alias.”
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A report came in about a dead civilian in the warehouse area and oddly the NCIS team were dragged into it on tonight’s all new episode. Apparently, their victim Leeland Robert Spears was flagged by them twenty years ago. Meaning if he ever showed up injured or dead then it had to be reported to NCIS.
Yet this case was different. And that’s because Gibbs knew for fact their victim’s name couldn’t be Leeland Spears. Not when Gibbs was the real Leeland Spears. Well, technically!
Spears it seems was a created identity. Gibbs had used it back in the day when he had gone on an undercover mission and so it was surprising to say the least to find that exact name and matching date of birth on someone else. There is only one conclusion to explain that. Their victim must have stolen his identity but the team wants to know if that’s why their victim was murdered? Or if there was another reason they didn’t know about?
The man pretending to be Spears was actually an oddball. He lived in an apartment that was completely filled with video games and junk food. Or in other words it was a man cave. And while every man loves to have one of those – a fifty year old living his life like that is kind of weird.
Especially as the team later found a second location that again looked like a man cave. Only that one wasn’t supposed to be found because after Bishop and DiNozzo made it to the building – it blew up. Luckily, no one was hurt by the incident but now the team is looking for a killer and a bomber.
And to just add another mystery to the pile, the team also has to figure out how their victim got hold of the Spears identity.
After Gibbs used it, that identity was supposed to be destroyed. It was actually ordered and yet that’s not what happened. And no one including the creator knows how that identity was able to be retrieved.
So the team asked about this undercover work. And imagine their faces when they were told their computer ditzy boss once pretended to be I.T. Something like that made them wondered if Gibbs really knew about computer of if had been pretending to be incompetent all along.
But they got their answers when Gibbs once again went in as Spears. It seems the man that was pretending to be him had used that identity to infiltrate a computer company and in order to find out what he was looking into – Gibb had to impersonate him pretending to be Gibbs undercover. And what he found out was that this latest Spears was looking into the same information he was.
They were researching a special kind of metal that could be used as a weapon. And at the time Gibbs and his then team were originally investigating it – they were on the look-out for Serbs. Serbia had allegedly wanted to get their hands on the metal as well and now it appears they tried the same thing. Just twenty years later.
The Spears in the morgue had a hidden tattoo on his body and under blacklight it was revealed to be a tattoo in Serbian. One generally used by that country’s servicemen. Thus, they had a Serbian spy in their mist.
Yet, he wasn’t the only spy that ended up in Ducky’s morgue. Because later they found another Serb using another fake identity that was on the original mission. So Gibbs asked McGee to look someone else that worked with him back then. And as it turns out that identity was currently being used. But this time not by a Serb.
Stark, the former CIA associate that had created all the undercover identities for the agency back in the day, was apparently using one of her fake identities for herself. She confessed to Gibbs that she had joined up with the Serbs after she was forced into retirement and because she thought no one would get hurt – she helped them steal data. However she swears she didn’t know the two agents Serbian agents were going to be murdered. According to her, there was no reason for it.
But, thankfully, Stark helped the team bring in the Serbian’s agents’ handler. And seeing as the handler thought he had diplomatic immunity – he confessed to everything. Only for his government to then deny he was ever working for them.
According to the handler, the agents had become too Americanized. Like that man cave. “Spears” had gotten so used to American life that he was trying to live it to his fullest, but in the end he was killed for it because the Serbians were afraid he would defect.
THE END!
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