Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, February 10, 2025, season 22 episode 12 called, “Fun and Games,” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below.
In tonight’s NCIS season 22 episode 12 called “Fun and Games,” as per the CBS synopsis, “NCIS investigates the fatal poisoning of one of Kasie’s forensic scientists. Meanwhile, McGee is questioned by the Pentagon regarding the contents of his book.”
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In tonight’s NCIS episode, NCIS Special Agent McGee was about to publish a new book. People have been waiting for years for a new book. They were all so excited that they’ve already started bothering McGee for updates. They were also trying to become his new publisher and new publicist. McGee had to unplug his phone at one point.
He got tired of letting everyone down. He does have a new book, but he felt it needed several rewrites. He was nowhere ready to publish right now. He still wanted to work on it and naturally his friends were no help.
They were mocking him when the new case came in. NCIS was brought in to investigate the murder of Victor Chan. He was a Marine Core Reservist. He was also a forensic scientist.
He worked for the FBI. Chan went to a live action role-playing game at Kasie’s apartment earlier that night. He left with the group. He was last seen going to his car and something happened there. He was poisoned. Someone then drove him in his car to a ravine where they forced the car into a ditch. It was supposed to look like Chan died in a car accident.
NCIS later poked holes in that theory. They believed that Chan was killed first. Then the “accident” happened. They also knew that if that were the case then something must have happened at Kasie’s apartment. NCIS crawled all over that place. They found a container with hemlock in it.
They spoke with Kasie’s other guests. They all denied playing a part in Chan’s death. They all work with law enforcement. They were forensic scientists. There was Max with the temper. Carol with the facts. And Ilene with the profiler tricks.
They were all friends. Yet, someone wanted them dead. They wanted to kill them all. Not just Chan. Chan was a notable double dipper. He did that with the fondue and no one else ate from it.
The poison was in the fondue. The same fondue that was gifted to them by another friend. The other friend was Craig. He messaged them that he couldn’t make it that night and he had fondue delivered only it turns out Craig was dead. He was found murdered on the same day as Chan. He never sent that message or the fondue that night.
The killer just didn’t know about the double dipping. He or she planned on killing everyone at that party. Craig was first. The others were supposed to be next.
The group loves playing games together. They also talked about cases on game night. Craig did bring up some weird questions lately. He wouldn’t tell the others what case it was about or who was involved. The others had thought that was weird. They dismissed it because they couldn’t find any connection between the topics he mentioned and so Kasie thought she should contact Professor Davis.
Davis was the one that taught them everything about forensic science. The group met in her class. They still turn to her if they have questions and she made a connection that Kasie couldn’t find. Kasie asked her about some of the things that Craig mentioned. She learned that Craig wasn’t talking about solving a case.
He was talking about an off the books crime. NCIS went on to find Craig’s storage locker and he was making counterfeit cards. Craig like his friends was interested in a collectible card game. Somehow Craig ended up with the most valuable cards.
The card itself was worth ten grand each. Craig had over a hundred grand in cards in that storage locker. He was creating them himself and some feared he made a lot of money out of it.
Kasie didn’t like that at all. She thought Craig was a good guy. She didn’t want to believe he could be guilty. She especially didn’t like it that Craig’s boss was talking smack about him. Captain Fletcher claimed that Craig was being investigated. He thought Craig could be involved in a crime and, so when NCIS found the cards, they thought the criminal was Craig.
They were wrong. Craig wasn’t under investigation. He was the one investigating Fletcher. It was Flecther that counterfeited the cards. Craig recreated what he did in a bid to gain evidence.
He was building a case against Flecther and Fletcher knew about it. Flecther has a gaming problem. He lost a lot of money that way. He turned to counterfeiting cards as a means of getting out of a hole. Then Craig finds out about it. The two of them played against each other and Craig spotted the fake right away.
Flecther had plenty of motive to kill Craig, but he didn’t do it. He has a solid alibi. The killer wasn’t involved with the gaming world at all and so Kasie remembered what they all had in common.
They all took Professor Davis’s Intro Forensics class. They were all great friends with each other. Before Davis became a teacher, she worked for the Maryland State Police Department. Kasie went looking through her old files and someone that Davis put away has just gotten released. His name was Jesse Winston. He was last seen taking Davis’s class.
NCIS rushed to the college. They rescued Davis from Winston. Winston admitted before he was killed that Davis sent him to prison for something he didn’t do. She was the chief witness against him. Her “evidence” sent him away. His brother and nephew died while he was inside. He did everything he did in a bid to hurt Davis.
He only went after her and her friends. He didn’t target the prosecutor or the cops. Kasie later looked into that. She found that her mentor had fabricated evidence against Winston. He really was innocent.
Davis targeted him because of his long rap sheet. She figured he had to be guilty of something. Kasie loved Davis like a mother and she couldn’t walk away from this or bury evidence. She reported Davis.
Her mentor was going to get arrested and odds are her old case files will get reopened. Kasie was super depressed when she went home that night. Luckily, her NCIS family showed up at her door with food. They helped Kasie through her depression. Torres also agreed to read McGee’s manuscript.
McGee was contacted by someone from DOD. They wanted to make sure that he didn’t use real case files in his book and so he asked Torres to give it a quick run through. Only Torres shared it with everyone. They all thought it was pretty steamy. They also said that the book was in the clear. There were no state secrets revealed.
THE END!
