Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, May 1, 2023, season 20 episode 19 called, “In the Spotlight,” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below. In tonight’s NCIS season 20 episode 19, “In the Spotlight” as per the CBS synopsis, “Agent Knight goes viral for saving a mother and child from a potentially fatal car accident.”
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In tonight’s NCIS episode, NCIS Special Agent Knight was driving into the Navy Yard when she witnessed an accident. This woman was driving crazily. She almost crashed into Knight’s car. She did crash her car into a bush. It caught fire. Knight became concerned for the people still inside. She got mother and child out of the car.
She went back to rescue a man in there, but a huge explosion knocked her off her feet. It also killed the man that was inside. Knight didn’t know what happened. How it all went wrong? Knight had to get treated for a burn wound on her arm and so she took the time to ask the people she saved about what happened.
The mother was really cagey. She didn’t want to go into detail much less give her name. She also tried to leave with her son when she noticed that cops were on the scene and so Knight came to suspect that something was going on. She stopped the woman from leaving. She talked her into going to the hospital with her son.
Knight reminded them that they were in an accident. They needed to get checked out. Knight also dealt with the cops. She went to Parker with her suspicions. She told him that she thought there was more to this car accident. And Parker agreed to let her stay on with this case.
The case would normally have gone to MPD, but Parker pulled rank. The accident did happen on Navy Yard property. It was technically their jurisdiction. Parker just had to run with it. He later made sure that it was Knight that questioning the surviving duo. Knight found out the mother’s name is Reyna.
Her son’s name is Adam. Reyna claimed she was driving her brother Daniel to the hospital when they got into a car accident. She also said she didn’t want to talk to police because she wasn’t an American citizen.
Reyna was an illegal immigrant. Her son was an American. She was afraid she might get deported and her son put in foster care. She didn’t want to leave him alone for a minute for fear they would be separated, but she needed to get an MRI at the hospital. Adam wasn’t allowed to come with her.
Reyna got taken by a nurse and that was the last they saw of her because she disappeared right after that. The nurse claims that Reyna attacked her before fleeing. There was no sign of Reyna. They didn’t know where she could have gone. They just knew she left her son behind.
Adam was so angry at being left behind that he lashed out at Knight. He blamed her for what was happening. He said if she hadn’t told his mom to go to the hospital that none of this would happen and so Adam was being really mean to Knight. He wanted someone to blame for his mom leaving him. Knight became the safest target. Nevermind that Reyna lied about a few things. Daniel wasn’t her brother. He was her handler. Daniel Tanner was a DEA Agent. He had Reyna spying on the Serrano cartel.
Something must have gone wrong because Daniel was shot before the car accident. Reyna was taking him to the hospital when they got into accident and he died in the car fire. NCIS continued to dig into Reyna. They found out that she didn’t leave her son behind. Her nurse had arranged for her to be kidnapped at gunpoint. The nurse was apparently working with the Serranos. She later claimed they threatened her into doing it. She gave them descriptions just not any names. And they took it from there.
DEA Agent Raymond Frank was assisting NCIS with the case. He’s the one that told them about Daniel. He even mentioned that Daniel recruited Reyna because he thought she was tough to handle the life of being an informant. Daniel had liked Reyna. He told his bosses that she has in her to go the long haul as long as she was guaranteed a visa at the end of it. Only something was holding up the visa. Reyna was getting antsy. Reyna’s son said she got a call about a friend being in trouble and then she left before coming back with Daniel in the passenger seat.
She grabbed her son. She tried to drive too fast to the hospital when she got into the car accident. The Serranos found her at the hospital because of the video. Some skateboarder had recorded Knight rescuing Reyna and Adam. He posted it online. The media started calling Knight “Wonder Woman”. It began trending. It’s why no doubted people when they started asking what happened to everyone that Knight saved and the media said they were taken to a hospital. It was the video that risked Reyna’s safety.
Reyna was grabbed by the Serranos. They knew she was being taken to the boss, Matteo Serrano. They went looking for her by tracking down Matteo and they eventually found her. They found Reyna safe and alive. They also were forced to kill Matteo, but certain things weren’t making sense. Why did they let Reyna live? Reyna admitted that she gave a recording of Matteo Serrano to Daniel. She suspected that it got destroyed in the car fire and so her son surprised her. Adam was a DJ. He likes making remixes.
He saw the recording in the backseat and he thought it was for him. He then used it in a song. The recording was piece back together. It led back to Agent Frank. Frank was Serrano payroll. He’s the one that killed Daniel. He’s the one that was holding up Reyna’s visa. And he’s the one that killed Matteo to try and cover up what he did.
Adam saved the day, his mother was getting her visa, and Frank was making a deal to save his own skin.
Adam eventually made a remix for Knight in thanks for her help in protecting his mom.
THE END!