Tonight on CBS NCIS Hawaiʻi returns with an all-new Monday, December 6, 2021, season 1 episode 9 called, “Impostor” and we have your weekly NCIS Hawaiʻi recap below. On tonight’s NCIS Hawaiʻi season 1 episode 9, “Impostor,” as per the CBS synopsis, “The NCIS team investigates a cold case involving WWII-era bones on the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombings, and are shocked to learn they belong to a 100-year-old survivor of the attack.”
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The remains of a dead sailor was found hidden in a cave. He was found by a beachcomber who was using a metal detector to find treasure and unfortunately he came across the body instead. The body has been dead for years. There was no identification on the body. The uniform was from over seventy years ago and the fact the victim was wearing black shoes with the Navy civilian uniform meant the body could be seventy-one to eighty-three years old. Lucy went down a military rabbit hole after she found out that Coco Chanel once created a military uniform. Lucy therefore realized that the dead body was from World War II era. The team also submitted the victim’s DNA into a an ancestry database and they sound found out the name of the victim. The victim is Ken Ito. The same Ito who was both dead and surprisingly still giving speeches about surviving the Pearl Harbor Attacks.
Tennant was informed about the victim’s identity. She ran it to her bosses and they told her in no uncertain terms that she has to find out which is the real Ken Ito. The man dead or the man they were about to honor. The team looked into the man claiming to be Ito. He was a veteran who served in three wars and whose own daughter went on to join the Navy. But they couldn’t really ask Ito. He has dementia. He was a hundred years old and he couldn’t remember much. He could remember where he served and what unit he was in. He also mentioned that he recruited Japanese immigrants fresh to the island. Then he got confused and he didn’t know if the man he was talking about was Ito or if he was Ito.
The man they suspect to be a fraud was of no use. He did give them the lead though about the pineapple farm and so the team looked into it. They did find out that Ito recruited Japanese immigrants as civilians. Tennant went digging through the archives for photos with her aunt when they came across a man trying to steal a file. He ran after Tennant identified herself as a federal agent and so her aunt managed to scratch him and grab something out of his hand. It was a photo. It was of Ito and the man claiming to be Ito. It turns out the fraudster was the Japanese immigrant hired as a civilian. He couldn’t officially join the Navy because Japanese immigrants were being denied that right by the US Military at the time. And so the guy felt hopeless.
He went fishing with Ito. He brought a gun and tried to kill himself. Ito tried to stop him. The gun went off during the struggling and it killed Ito. Only the man pretending to be Ito couldn’t remember the details. He just knows he killed Ito. Tennant had to report this to her superiors and they removed the fraud from the guest list at the Pearl Harbor event. The team was also still looking for his name and so they found the person who stole Ito’s file. It was home health aide. The guy tried to blackmail the Ito family and that was enough for the team to arrest Ryan. Ryan was later questioned about the extortion. He said it wasn’t his fault. He was just doing what was right because Ito isn’t who he says he is.
Ito isn’t just some immigrant who killed a man to take his place in the military. He was once a Japanese spy. He spied on the Americans and their movements and reported it back to Japan. Then something shifted. His group was ambushed and he was the only one to survive. The man has lived through it all and his family suspected there could be more to his story because his dementia has him admitting to things that didn’t happen. They got a hold of Ito’s file after they collected it from Ryan. They found out that he was a spy. The man pretending to be Ito had tried to kill himself after the Pearl Harbor Attacks. The real Ito tried to stop. They fought over the gun and Ito won. Ito said he’d put him out of his misery. And then a Japanese attack plane shot him down.
Suzuki Kasatochi reported it to the authorities. They realized they could him and so they officially made Ito. Ito was an only sibling and orphan. He didn’t have any family to come and interfere. But the Americans wanted Kasatochi to spy on the Japanese for them. They had him infiltrate the Japanese military and then he left Japanese soldiers right into an ambush. Kasatochi served his country. He doesn’t have to face any charges for what he did and his family was reassured that he was a hero.
Later, Tennant talked to her kids about the first time she was asked where she comes from and she told them that she was made to feel different to the point where she used to deny knowing anything about her mother’s family. And so she’s thankful her kids don’t have to worry about this in Hawaii.
