Tonight on CBS NCIS Hawaiʻi returns with an all-new Monday, February 13, 2023, season 2 episode 14 called, “Silent Invasion,” and we have your weekly NCIS Hawaiʻi recap below. In tonight’s NCIS Hawaiʻi season 2 episode 14, as per the CBS synopsis, “When the murder of a captain and his wife echoes a previous case, the NCIS team brings in a former team member to help determine if they are dealing with a copycat killer.”
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In tonight’s NCIS Hawaii episode, Navy Captain Bernal and his wife were murdered in their home. There had been an intruder that managed to get past their alarms without setting them off when they entered or when they left. The intruder also didn’t steal much.
They didn’t steal TVs or anything. They went for smaller items. Their sole intent in breaking in was to kill the people inside. Both victims were killed almost identically. There were no signs of sexual assault on either of the victims and this whole case reminded Jesse of another one. Jesse was reminded of a case from seven years ago that involved the murder of Rebecca Fox.
Rebecca had been the daughter of an admiral. She had been killed just like the Bengals. Her killer never set off the alarm as they were entering or leaving. They also took about twenty grand in small items instead of going for the bigger stuff.
The only difference between Rebecca and Bernals was that NCIS had solved Rebecca’s death. They found the culprit. He confessed to killing Rebecca. He’s now serving twenty to life and so everyone theorized that he either told someone at the prison how he killed Rebecca and they were a copycat. Or he deliberately asked someone on the outside to do it for him.
Clark was now in prison. Tennant went to go visit him and she asked him about Rebecca’s murder. He said he was innocent. He claims he had always been innocent and that he had been railroaded into giving a false confession. If he’s right, it means the real killer has been out there the whole time.
Tennant had her people look into it. They checked the surveillance cameras when Clark was being questioned by former NCIS Agent Jim Carter. There was a moment when Clark asked for a lawyer and then the camera goes dark. It was like someone turned them off.
They came back an hour later. By then, Carter had Clark signing a confession. No one knows what happened in that hour or whether Clark ever got his lawyer. They just knew Carter got what he wanted. He closed the case. Carter was no longer working with NCIS because he considered himself a lone wolf. He didn’t care about his bosses or the line of command. He just did whatever wanted until Tennant complained about him and it cost Carter his job. And so when Jesse went to go ask Carter about that missing hour on the tape, Carter turned on Jesse because he suspected that he had been sent by Tennant.
Carter dislike for Tennant was so legendary that he tried to make it her fault if Clark now walks free after the Bernal murders. He even showed up uninvited to her house. He was blaming her for costing him his job. He said he got the right man and that she needed to back off, but Tennant suspected he pressured Clark into signing a false confession. Tennant suspected that Carter was unethical throughout the entire investigation into Rebecca’s murder. There was apparently a witness that Carter never included in his official files. Ernie had to find out about it by digging into Carter’s old work email.
Carter has a thing with people in authority. Its why ever relationship has failed. Why he lost his job. Why he got nowhere with the investigation into Rebecca’s death. There was a witness that night that Carter dismissed because he was homeless and so Ernie went looking for the witness. The guy turned his life around. He now works at the homeless shelter. He can also remember what he saw. He saw a man in a hazmat suit climbing out of a second story window. It turns out their killer broke in earlier that day and waited for his victims in the attic.
They got DNA from something he touched in the attic. They were running that while also finding out that the killer waited in the Bernal’s attic as well. The tip from the former homeless man proved that Clark wasn’t their killer. Their killer was Jeffrey Holland. He picks his victims thanks to his sister. His sister was the underwriter at an insurance company that insured both victims’ homes. Her brother would read her files and pick victims that way. He was a Petty Officer with the Navy. He was the lowest on the totem pole and he wanted to lash out at people in authority. It tuns out he has a lot in common with Carter.
Now, that they knew who he was. They went looking for him. He wasn’t at work. He wasn’t at his own house. He was out picking a new victim. They traced his cell to a suburban area. They cleared out everyone from their homes. Tennant overheard someone in the attic. She went back into the house with Jesse and they had to shoot their way to getting their suspect. They were forced to kill him.
Later, the DNA at Rebecca’s crime scene was proved to be a match for Holland. Holland did kill her and an innocent man has spent seven years behind bars for something he didn’t do.
And Carter felt no remorse about that.
THE END!
