Tonight on CBS NCIS: New Orleans returns with an all-new Tuesday, February 6, 2018, season 4 episode 15 called, “The Last Mile,” and we have your NCIS: New Orleans recap below. On tonight’s NCIS: New Orleans episode as per the CBS synopsis, “FBI Special Agent Raymond Isler asks Pride for help with an off-the-books opioids theft investigation he is personally invested in. Also, Percy is sent undercover as a getaway driver with Isler as the muscle for a job tied to the case.”
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FBI Special Agent Isler got himself into a spot of trouble on tonight’s all-new episode “NCIS: New Orleans” in order to pursue an off-the-case.
Isler had come to town because he managed to find a connection between several robberies of armored vehicles and couldn’t get anyone to believe him. They instead were all jockeying for positions in the federal hierarchy and so no one had wanted to take a risk on Isler especially as Isler had once been on top of the said hierarchy. He had been a big name and had been going places when once case put a stop to all of that, but now he needed people to believe him when he said several robberies of armored vehicles were all connected and so the only person he could turn to was Pride. Pride had gotten the call when Isler was arrested for being involved in a shoot-out and failing to identify himself as a federal officer so Pride had wanted to know what was going on.
Pride has known Isler for some time now and some could even say that they were friends yet Isler used to be a stickler for the rules and at one point he had tried to take down Pride because Pride wasn’t one to follow those rules. He thought the only way he could take down the bad guy was to do everything possible and unfortunately that got him into a lot of trouble. Pride had just recently gotten the feds back in Washington off his backside when Isler showed up and asked for his help. Isler needed a team to help him work this case and he couldn’t turn to the FBI. It had to be off the books and it could be a great fit for Pride’s team because he found a way to connect his case to an NCIS case.
A dead petty officer had overdosed a few weeks ago and so Pride could open an investigation into how Petty Officer Walsh got his hands on the drugs because Isler believed it connects to his armored trucks. The trucks were part of the opioid crisis that Isler believed the money was funding and he had a theory that the drugs as a whole were part of a thirty-million-dollar drug ring though neither Pride nor his team was too sure about helping Isler. Isler had proven that he was willing to do anything to get a lead on the case and the fact he had used an actual federal informant to get him a meeting had seemed like a step too far. That could have compromised several other cases on the line and so Pride had agreed to take the case for several reasons – one of them being to protect Isler from himself.
The other reason had been Walsh. Walsh had been supplied drugs that had later killed him and so Pride would have liked to have gotten justice for him yet he would have liked to have done things his way and not Isler’s. Isler had gotten close to identifying one of the drivers used in the heist and so NCIS had tracked this person down. He had gotten injured in the shoot-out with Isler and unfortunately, Isler had wanted to play things his way. He had stood over the other man and had threatened him which hadn’t worked because the guy knew his rights. He knew the police couldn’t abuse him and so Isler decided to test that theory. He applied pressure on the man’s injured arm and had said they could sit on calling a doctor for him.
Pride was then forced to play along. He said that “yeah, they could wait on that doctor” seeing as they would have to bring in a specialist anyways. Pride and Isler pretended that their perp could lose his arm if a specialist wasn’t brought to him in time and so that turned their robber into an informant. He agreed to set up a meeting between Isler and the guys in charge of the heists so Isler had been too willing to go in. Isler had been undercover for so long that he didn’t think it mattered if he went in alone again and so Pride had had to tell him differently. Pride’s team were part of the case and that meant one of them was going to go to that meeting with Isler. Isler hadn’t liked that and had needed to be convinced.
Only Percy managed to convince him that he needed her by telling him he would die without her. He had gotten made the first time around in a meeting that had barely been five minutes long and if Percy was going to go with him into his next meeting then she at least wanted to prepare him. Isler had a backstory that was basic. He had gotten injured, had lost his job, and was giving his backstory like it was – a backstory rather than the real thing. Isler was just saying things he remembered and so Percy trained to dig a little deeper until he didn’t just get injured. He developed a drug problem that had ruined his career and his family to the point he didn’t even take aspirin anymore because he didn’t want to lose control like that again.
The when Isler was deemed ready, he and Percy went to their arranged meeting with Cranston. Cranston, unfortunately, had a scrambler on him and so NCIS couldn’t hear what was going on inside, but that had been a test. Cranston hadn’t been the one running things and so he was testing them before he brought them out to the field where they could then do a job. The job was apparently for someone named Charlie and he talked to Cranston through a satellite phone so neither Isler nor Percy ever saw Charlie. He remained the man on the phone while they were being tested and started to issue orders when they left. They had to make a drop and as it turns out they ran into some cops before they could make it to Charlie. And, well, Cranston got hit and he died before they could make it to the drop.
His phone, on the other hand, was still working and so Isler decided to follow the directions. They went to the woods and they waited until they saw the black car pulled up behind them however the man that stepped out and revealed himself to be Charlie was Former Special Agent Driscoll. Driscoll used to work at the FBI running down opioids and so he used to work Isler. Funnily enough, Isler and Driscoll hadn’t recognized each other until they were mere feet from each other and so that’s when the game was up. Driscoll pulled out his gun and even gave Isler the added benefit of knowing why he had switched sides. He said he did it because the FBI hadn’t appreciated him when he worked opioids while someone like Isler who had been an addict had gone to rehab and had then gone on to get the corner office.
Driscoll had thought that was unfair and so he turned an informant into an asset. Cranston had then helped him fund the drugs crisis and they had been at for two years before someone like Isler noticed. So Driscoll thought he could continue getting away with his crimes if he took care of Isler and had missed his shot because of Percy. Percy had had her gun trained on him and so Isler used her to distract Driscoll long enough to make a grab for the other man’s gun. And so they worked together to take away his weapon except he made off in his car and had come across the NCIS team that was on their trail until he was eventually run off the road.
Driscoll had gotten into a nasty car accident that had taken care of him and had finally gotten Isler off the bench back in Washington yet while he was happy to put his past as well as his drug history behind him – he did warn Pride that whoever was after him in Washington was still out there. This person had pull and they wanted to get rid of Pride. Except Pride wasn’t afraid. He couldn’t do anything about his person without knowing who they were and so he was going to keep living his life doing the job he loved. He had even figured out why Isler took this case so close to heart and hadn’t used it to throw back at Isler. Isler was friend and tonight he actually admitted that out loud.
THE END!