Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, April 28, 2025, season 22 episode 19 called, “Irreconcilable Differences,” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below.
In tonight’s NCIS season 22 episode 19 called “Irreconcilable Differences,” as per the CBS synopsis, “McGee’s career and credibility are on the line when he investigates the deputy director for corruption. Also, Torres and Knight receive some surprising news.”
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In tonight’s NCIS episode, the investigation into Deputy Director LaRoche started months ago. NCIS Special Agent Tim McGee has always been suspicious of LaRoche. He knew something was off about the guy from the moment they met. Yet, no one would believe him. LaRoche wasn’t some politician fresh off the street.
He was a seasoned political animal. He gained the position after craftily undermining McGee and that’s the other reason why McGee’s loved ones were critical of his suspicions. LaRoche got the job that McGee wanted. He was now McGee’s boss and McGee could never reconcile himself with that fact. He didn’t think LaRoche deserved the job in the first place.
LaRoche didn’t come up through NCIS or even another federal investigating body. He was brought in from the outside. He was the private sector. He got the job after he convinced the Senate committee that NCIS was too close. He planted doubts knowing they’d think what he wanted them to think.
Someone from the outside would be more objective. He wasn’t wrong about them being too close. They operated less like an agency and more like a family. They were constantly breaking rules that wouldn’t fly anywhere else.
McGee believed at first that LaRoche sought the job to move up the political ladder. Maybe some underhand dealings or kickbacks were involved as well. Those wouldn’t have been too bad. It wasn’t until McGee suspected LaRoche burned a federal agent that he opened an investigation into him.
His first look came up with nothing. His team thought he was being crazy after that. His wife thought the same. McGee ignored his doubters. He kept looking into LaRoche. He even put that aside along with his misgivings to save LaRoche’s life.
McGee may not like LaRoche, but he was still a good person. He wasn’t going to let someone get murdered on his watch. He saved LaRoche’s life and that’s when he learned that LaRoche knew about the hitman. The one that tried to kill him. LaRoche did something so horrible to someone that he knew the person would come after him.
He deliberately put both McGee as well as his wife in the crossfire. McGee thought he had him after that one and it still wasn’t enough. His evidence wasn’t concrete.
He also didn’t secure it when he had the chance. It was probably gone now. LaRoche had the opportunity to do so the moment McGee took care of the second hitman. Still, McGee kept digging.
Director Vance found out about it. He didn’t doubt McGee’s instincts like everyone else. He didn’t ask him to drop it either. He told him to make sure his ducks were in a row when he made a move against LaRoche. LaRoche was slippery. The director knew he wouldn’t go down easy. He hadn’t been wrong.
McGee kicked off tonight by staying late at work. He was staying so late that he was falling asleep at his desk. He became something of a liability. He tried to do his normal job during the day.
He stayed extra late so that he could use NCIS’s resources to get information on LaRoche and so his dreams about being Gibbs. Wearing Gibb’s clothes. Working on Gibb’s boat. LaRoche even trying to kill him. It was all very concerning and Parker thought the same. He finally benched McGee. He told him to go home. He wanted McGee to catch up on sleep.
McGee had other plans. He saw LaRoche leaving the office. He noticed that LaRoche ditched his security detail. It was kinda big because they never did found out who wanted him dead and so him going on his own meant he didn’t want to be followed.
It was funny in a way because the lack of security directly led to McGee following him. McGee was off doing that when NCIS investigated a shooting. Someone had shot up a party supply truck from Buddy Birthday’s Barn. There were no victims only the weapon used to do it was found nearby. It said “property of the navy” on it.
NCIS were brought in to investigate where the missing weapon came from. They also had to find out who stole it in the first place. A weapons like that wasn’t just lying around. The gun was classified military tech.
It was specifically designed to take down drones. The party supply truck also had a hidden compartment. Their shooter had stolen something from the truck and it wasn’t balloons. They were figuring out the rest when McGee finally thought he had LaRoche. He witnessed LaRoche meet with someone.
The two got into an argument. LaRoche shot the other man. McGee knocked against something. It alerted LaRoche to his presence and he took off. McGee tried to pursue him. He got hit by a car.
LaRoche escaped while he was on the ground. Things got worse from there. NCIS didn’t find the body. There was no blood at the scene. Or shell casings. The driver of the car also didn’t see LaRoche fleeing the scene. The only one there was McGee. The same guy that got a concussion after the car hit him.
McGee’s testimony was easily dismissed. His team believed him, but Director Vance told them that they couldn’t keep investigating LaRoche. They had their chance at getting him and seemingly missed it. They couldn’t take it any further. Or at least not officially. McGee described the man he saw to Jimmy. Jimmy sketched him.
He had no clue how it was going to help and so it’s a good thing he was in the lab with Kasie. She found a suspect in their shooting/robbery of the party truck. His name is Crispin Shaker Jr. He has a lot of known associates. One of them was LaRoche’s victim.
His name is Jason Meeks. Parker got a printout of his photo. He showed it to McGee who confirmed that’s the man he saw LaRoche shoot. Meeks being friends with Shaker also couldn’t be coincidence. The one thing connecting both the shooting that McGee witnessed to the stolen naval tech was LaRoche.
Parker was finally taking McGee seriously. He was going to interview him and someone else beat him to it. Inspector General Regina Ward brought McGee in for questioning. LaRoche filed an official complaint against him.
The complaint was for harassment. LaRoche also threw around the words “abuse of power”. He knew that McGee was using NCIS resources to investigate him and so he sicked the IG’s office on him.
The IG doesn’t answer to Director Vance. He couldn’t shut down the investigation either. He had to let it play it out. McGee made things worse for himself when he told Ward he was investigating LaRoche. He admitted to seeing LaRoche kill someone. Ward then said she was going to be ruling he needed to be suspended indefinitely for defamation.
Ward came to believe McGee was admitting to defeat because he asked for a lawyer. It was actually a ruse. Ward left the room. McGee escaped. Before he did, he wrote “Rule #45” on a piece of paper.
McGee was going after LaRoche and waiting would have done more for him. His team found Meeks’s body. He really had been killed. His body was dumped in a national park. Kasie accessed his burner phone. He was arguing with LaRoche about a deal that LaRoche wanted to back out of. They were getting evidence to take LaRoche down.
McGee also forgot about the important thing regarding Gibbs’s rules. They always come at a cost. Rule 45: Always Clean Up Your Own Mess. McGee escaped the building without anyone seeing him.
He stashed himself in LaRoche’s van. McGee set it up to alert him whenever LaRoche scanned his ID card to gain access to something. It told him that LaRoche was down in the evidence locker. He no reason to be there. McGee tried to warn Ward and she wouldn’t listen. And that’s why he escaped, McGee realized before anyone else that LaRoche was stealing evidence to sell to the highest bidder.
McGee got LaRoche dead to rights. He caught him in the act of a buy. The two men pulled a gun on McGee and surprisingly LaRoche saved McGee’s life. He said that he had something in his pocket that would explain everything.
NCIS was also curious about it when they showed up.
THE END!
