Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all new Tuesday, April 19 season 13 episode 20 called, “Return to Sender” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, NCIS partners with the FBI and Homeland Security when two British prisoners, including a former spy, escape and arrive in the U.S. via a shipping container.
On the last episode, after Tony’s identity was stolen by multiple perpetrators, the fake Special Agent DiNozzos began blackmailing Senators. 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, “NCIS partners with the FBI and Homeland Security when two British prisoners, including a former spy, escape and arrive in the U.S. via a shipping container. Meanwhile, McGee goes apartment hunting and becomes determined to find out how DiNozzo purchased his lavish place.”
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A dead body was found in a shipping container on tonight’s all new episode of “NCIS”. Apparently the body of Sandra Billingsly, who had been a prison guard at a British prison, had been shipped from the United Kingdom to the United States right after a prison break three weeks ago. So naturally, after Sandra had been found, the authorities searched the rest of the container and they eventually came to a conclusion after they saw two prison uniforms also inside. And that’s why the U.S. government believe two escaped prisoners had somehow smuggled their way onto their shores, but later there appeared to be some problem with jurisdiction.
Gibbs had told his people that this was their case because they had put one of the prisoners away. In fact, NCIS probably knew more about Jacob Scott than his own government did and so they knew Jacob hadn’t been a killer when he went inside. Jacob just hadn’t been a vicious person. Though he had been traitor because he used to be a MI6 agent when out of nowhere he went rogue and NCIS had to arraigned him for espionage.
Yet, Jacob had mostly carried out a victimless crime unlike his partner on the other hand. Cassio Chaves had killed a family member because he believed he couldn’t trust them. So Cassio was already a killer when he went inside and odds are he had been the one to kill Sandra after the two took her hostage during a routine prison transfer.
Only Ducky honestly had a hard time on determining Sandra’s cause of death. There hadn’t been any distinctive wounds on the body beside what looks like fertility treatments. But, while Gibbs kept trying to run point on this investigation, he kept having to check in with his old friend Tobias. Tobias and several of his FBI flunkies had showed up at the initial crime scene claiming they had jurisdiction so a third party had to decide who should do want. And unfortunately that higher authority said they had to work together.
And that just wasn’t going to happen the way their boss thought it was. For instance, Gibbs and Tobias continuously tried to put themselves ahead of the other as if they were competing though they did occasionally remember their friendship when Gibbs noticed Tobias’s phone kept rigging and teased him about it. Yet, Gibbs hadn’t really wanted to hear about how Tobias has taken to online dating. So they stopped “sharing” the second Tobias started to mention his sex life.
However, the case itself had taken an unexpected turn. Everyone had thought that Sandra had started out as a hostage and had been killed in order to keep the prisoners’ whereabouts a secret, but Abby found a magazine in the container and she traced it back to Sandra. Which means Sandra had been an accomplice the entire time and that her death had sadly been an accident.
Sandra who was undergoing fertility treatments had probably tried to start a family with one of the men she helped escape (i.e. she was slightly delusional) however her death hadn’t been planned. Sandra apparently hadn’t gotten enough air in the container so she slowly withered away from oxygen deprivation. But, as it turns out, Jacob wasn’t as timid as everyone thought. And later he appeared to be the true mastermind of everything.
Although they didn’t what was his grand plan. Jacob’s closest friend Miranda had been murdered and a shipment of guns had been apprehended. So it was assumed that Jacob wanted to get back into the espionage game. Only what no one counted on was that he would take a hostage, a real one that time, and use Director Vance’s keycard to break into the Navy’s files.
So by time McGee, Gibbs, and Tobias figure out what was going, Jacob had already gotten what he wanted. Jacob had taken a single file from their server and oddly it hadn’t been classified or even recent. It had been an old file that didn’t appear to have any significance yet it had meant something to Jacob who had taken a great risk to get his hands on it.
But there was something strange about the file he had taken. On the service it had looked pretty harmless though the file detailed a joint operation between the Americans and the British and the operation itself was classified. So Bishop may or may not have been asked to hack into their allies’ computer files to find out why Jacob had wanted that particular file.
And so the guys were waiting for the results of that when Cassio was found. Cassio it seems had split up with his partner the second they had made it onto U.S. and the reason behind that had been drugs. Cassio had gotten cleaned in prison, but Sandra had apparently been the love of his life. So he began using again after she died and he had freely admitted to killing everyone they had found because he said the drugs make him get that way.
Only Cassio had never realized that he had been set-up until Gibbs and Tobias told him. Unfortunately, Cassio thought Jacob had introduced him to Sandra out of the goodness of his heart so it had come as quite a shock that he played the two to get them to bring the states. Where he reportedly had some unfinished business.
Jacob’s partner, you see, had told the agents why Jacob had come back to the states. He said Jacob was out for blood because NCIS killed his wife. However, there was no record of Jacob even having a wife so things didn’t make sense for a while though Bishop had ultimately found the answer. Bishop said the Juniper Strike was a 2002 raid in the middle east and there appeared to be one major casualty – a young woman that Jacob had been selling secrets to.
So that woman must have been Jacob’s wife, but that meant the list of NCIS agents that worked that case was in danger.
And neither Gibbs nor Tobias got to the former Homeland Divisional officer in time to warn him.
THE END!
