Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, October 4, 2021, season 19 episode 3 called, “Road to Nowhere” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below. On tonight’s NCIS season 19 episode 3, “Road to Nowhere,” as per the CBS synopsis, “Gibbs and Parker go on a road trip to find one of the serial killer’s victims; Agent Knight goes undercover at a large manufacturing company with ties to the murders.”
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Tonight’s episode begins with the team caught the serial killer. However, he wasn’t really a serial killer. He was a hitman and that meant each and every one of his victims was murdered because someone hired him to do it. The team has the hitman. They now just needed to find out who hired him. They couldn’t find a link between the victims. The only thing they had was Paul LaMere .LeMere didn’t want to go to prison without a fight and so he tried to escape. He took Kasie prisoner. He was then shot by Gibbs. Gibbs is an expert shooter. He managed to shoot LaMere at the exact spot to take him down and not kill him. LaMere is expected to make a full recovery. He therefore could be questioned by whoever hired him because what Kasie found just wasn’t making sense. She found that the money that was being paid to LaMere after every hit was coming from the Pentagon and again that doesn’t make sense.
There is no way the government would hire LaMere to kill a bunch of civilians. Torres and Knight traced the money back to the DOD and their financial department. The same department handles all the money coming from the military as well as military contractors. It wasn’t the DOD that authorized payment to LaMere. It was one of their contractors. The specific contractor was Sonova Industries. Sonova Industries were doing their best to hide the payment to LaMere and so it couldn’t be traced any further. The only and last option the team had for answers was LaMere himself. He woke up at the hospital. He was told he was facing execution if he didn’t cooperate and so he started talking. He said there was the eighth victim. And this victim would explain who hired him.
The eighth victim was in fact the first victim. LaMere murdered this person first and it was once his boss saw him in action that he hired him to murder the other seven. LaMere was willing to take the authorities to the first victim, but he had a request. He requested that he be handed over to Gibbs. He wanted to take Gibbs personally to the body and it was his only demand. The team agreed to it. Gibbs was fine doing it. Parker, unfortunately, tagged along believing his expertise was needed and he drove both LaMere and Gibbs up the wall with his questions. Parker thought he could get to LaMere. Like maybe there was a person behind the killer mask. Parker did his best to question LaMere and eventually, LaMere found him a story. Gibbs’s story.
LaMere told Gibbs story to Parker. He tried to claim it as his own and Gibbs called him out on it. There was this strange dynamic between Gibbs and LaMere. Parker picked him on it after he realized LaMere had been lying to him and so he told Gibbs. He said that maybe shouldn’t be alone at any point in time and Gibbs responded by leaving Parker at a lunch stop. Gibbs drover off with LaMere. He wanted the killer to show him the victim and he didn’t want Parker getting in the way. Gibbs as still angry about his boat blowing up. It wasn’t even the attempt on his life that phased him. It was the fact that this man blew up his boat and so the two of them being alone together wasn’t the best idea Gibbs ever had. Gibbs was technically still suspended. He couldn’t afford to violate someone else’s rights right now and still, he drove off with LaMere.
The rest of the team meanwhile tried to solve the case without LaMere’s input. They tried to trace the money again and they went as far as to put malware onto Sonova Industries’ computers. They were hoping to find an answer using the malware when they came across Jenn Hanover’s widow. The widow wanted to know why the man who killed his wife wasn’t behind bars. He had a source who told him that LaMere had been seen walking around and so McGee had to reassure the widow that LaMere was still in custody. He also said that his best man was on it. McGee and the team later learned that Gibbs ran off with LaMere and ditched Parker. Parker had no idea where they were going and neither did the team. And that was an issue because the team later found LaMere’s first victim and Gibbs and LaMere were nowhere near it.
The team learned from their malware that Sonova Industries has been spying on people. They were using a program called Skylark to spy on seemingly everyday citizens and three of the victims were on that list. The team went looking for the fourth person thinking she might still be alive and instead they found her dead at her home. It turns out she had put her accounts on automatic payments. It’s why her bills have been paid and why no one thought she was dead. Libby Alonak was a travel writer. She worked freelance and was often gone months without anyone noticing. She also lived alone. She didn’t have a family. She was the perfect victim in a sense because LaMere killed her two years ago and literally no one noticed. It was also odd that she would be under surveillance or that someone would kill her.
The team needed to get to the bottom of why the company was spying on people. They tried to question the CEO of Sonova Industries and Sonia Eberhart was denying any involvement. She said she has over sixty thousand employees. Any one of them could be behind the surveillance and so Eberhart played it cool. She then let her lawyer-speak for her. He said that she had business out of town and that was the end of the interview. It took Gibbs calling them to give them the last clue to make them put everything together. Gibbs called because LaMere killed himself. LaMere made Gibbs drive to his dead wife’s house and there he said goodbye to her grave and stepped on a landmine. LaMere is dead. Gibbs survived. Gibbs passes on LaMere’s last words. He said “Naktok Bay”.
It’s an area in Alaska. It’s where Sonova Industries plans on building a copper mine. They killed the four people under surveillance because these same people would have warned the world about the disastrous effects on the environment if a copper mine opened up and so they were killed along with several others to make it look like a random serial killer. Eberhart left their headquarters to fly to Alaska and so she’s probably going to try and do damage control. And it was up to Gibbs to stop her.
Gibbs told McGee to pack up. They were heading to Alaska.
THE END
