Tonight on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles returns with an all-new Sunday, October 23, 2022, season 14 episode 3 called, “The Body Stitchers” and we have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. In tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 14 episode 3, as per the CBS synopsis, “The NCIS team join forces with the FBI when a group of grisly murderers known as “The Body Stitchers” returns after evading capture by NCIS years ago. Also, Sam’s dad makes a new friend in Arkady.”
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In tonight’s NCIS: Los Angeles, there was a case some years ago that involved a group of killers known as “The Body Stitchers”. This group would go around abducting people and killing them as part of a live show. But they got their name because their audience especially enjoyed when they stitched up their victims with various body parts. Its like they were Dr. Frankenstein. They wanted to recreate his monster and their audience loved watching. It definitely seems to be paying well because the group has been on the run for years. They would pop up in various countries for a few weeks. They managed to enter and leave without going through the normal points of entry. And they continuously buy aliases off the dark web.
Anyways, the Body Stitchers disappeared when NCIS came close to arresting them. The group vanished into thin air and it was up to the FBI to finish what the NCISA team started. The FBI has been looking for the group for a couple of years. They failed to capture them or get any kind of intel. They also failed to realize when the Body Stitchers returned to LA. Senior Special Agent Rand has been pursuing the group for years and she didn’t even know that the killers were back on her home turf. Rand contacted NCIS when she found that out. She wanted their help in finding this group. The team was prepared to help and it was just Admiral Killbride who had reservations.
Kilbride reminded Rand that this was no longer an NCIS case. They stepped in when a decorated naval officer was killed and that’s how they came close to arresting the Body Stitchers. Killbride felt that naval cases had to taken priority with NCIS. He told Rand that if another job called that the team had to be redeployed on their actual jobs rather than helping the FBI. Rand understood. She was willing to accept whatever help that the team could provide and so the team went looking for the Body Stitchers. They found out how the group was paying for their lavish lifestyle of travel. The group was selling online memberships to their little club.
These memberships came with a password to an online feed showing a live viewing. There were people out there that were so obsessed with the morbid part of the internet that they were willing to pay for anything. Even help fund murder. The team later caught up with one of those members. They questioned him about the group. They told him he would be held responsible for the murders seeing as he watched it them stitching up body parts and so the guy talked. He didn’t want to go to prison. He told the team everything he knew about the group. He told them how to access their page.
The guy also said he was scared of the group. He said he had no idea that they were killing all those people they stitched up and that he was scared for his life. The team hadn’t believed him until they found the guy’s mother. She had been put in a bathtub and someone poured acid all over her. But her hand was missing. The hand was what alerted them to the Body Stitchers being behind it. The team notified their suspect that his mother had been murdered and he stopped talking because he was worried about what else the group would do to him now that he talked. Fatima and Roundtree meanwhile were hacking the group’s web page when a terrorist alert came in.
Like Killbride mentioned at the start, NCIS cases take priority. He sent some of his agents to deal with the crisis and the rest of the team continued with the Body Stitchers. The team was able to get an address from where the videos were being streamed. They went there with the FBI. They were there when someone shot one of the Body Stitchers. No one on the team knew who killed the guy. They all moved in after the shots rang out and they were able to arrest the chief Body Stitchers. They just didn’t catch the ringleader. The ringleader was named Vincent. Vincent was more than just a leader. He ran this cult.
After one guy was caught by Roundtree, he demanded to talk to Vincent. The team told him that he could call them at prison and so the guy pretended to turn himself in and really he was making a last stand. He refused to drop his weapon. Or talk about Vincent. Roundtree was forced to shoot him and he was rushed to the hospital. But the team never arrested this Vincent. They had no idea what he looked like. The man they saved from the Body Stitchers only knew what he sounded like, but the team eventually learned a critical piece of information. The guy they arrested because they thought he was just a witness – he wasn’t just a witness. He killed his mother. He’s been working with the Body Stitchers all along.
He was protected by FBI Special Agent Collins. Collins was the person who shot one of the Body Stitchers during the live show. He was also the guy that helped one of the Body Stitchers escape the theatre. The agent didn’t just help. He’s Vincent. His nickname is short for Vincent Van Gough. He started a cult and he’s been protecting his true people the whole time. Its why the FBI never got anywhere in their case. Its because Collins was a spy on the inside.
THE END!