Tonight on CBS NCIS: ORIGINS returns with an all-new Monday, November 4, 2024, season 1 episode 5 called, “Last Rites,” and we have your weekly NCIS: ORIGINS recap below.
In tonight’s NCIS: ORIGINS season 1 episode 5 called “Last Rites,” as per the CBS synopsis, “With the countdown on to an execution, Franks races to extricate the location of a missing body from a death row inmate and honor a promise he made to the victim’s sister before time runs out.”
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In tonight’s NCIS:ORIGINS episode, Jethro Gibbs had a death wish for a while. It started the moment he heard about his family. He was told his wife and daughter had been killed. He was deployed at the time. No one expected him to be battle ready anytime soon, but Gibbs ran into the action.
He didn’t try to save anyone. He didn’t try to keep himself alive. He ran into the action because he wanted to be killed. He got pretty banged up after doing that. H
e had to rehabilitate back stateside where his father took over his care. His dad did everything to keep him alive. The one thing he couldn’t do was give Gibbs a reason to live. And so the job offer from NCIS did what Jackson couldn’t do, it gave Gibbs a reason to fight.
Gibbs was now helping people. NCIS gave people justice. Its why this latest case meant so much. NCIS were brought in on an old murder investigation. The killer was Albert Hope. He was a professor of Theology. He killed his wife and her lover when he returned home early one day.
Franks worked this case alone at the time. He managed to get a confession out of Hope. Hope even gave Franks the location of one of the graves. His wife’s lover was Captain Jonathan Rice. His remains were left in a wooded area. He was later buried with respect.
The one thing Hope wouldn’t give was the location of his wife’s body. Ana Larsen was dead. Hope said as much. He just wouldn’t allow anyone to see her or bury her.
Franks believed that Hope loved holding onto that information because he has a god complex. He likes being in control. It’s been years since Franks worked the case and he never got Hope to give so much as a hint on where Ana’s body was located. It haunts Franks that he couldn’t give the family closure. He’s been drinking a lot the closer they get to Hope’s execution.
The state was going to execute Hope for the double homicide. If he dies before he revealing where Ana’s body was, the truth dies with him. They all knew that they were running out of time. Hope used that against them. He toyed with them. He reached out to Ana’s sister. He claimed that he wanted to talk and heal.
Franks knew that was a load of crap. He advised Julie not to meet Hope. Hope couldn’t be trusted. He was only dangling information now to buy himself time. Franks knew that and he still had to play Hope’s game.
Franks’s usual means of doing things didn’t work before. He wasn’t even allowed to be with Hope unsupervised because he once tried to beat the information out of the man. Anyways, things were different now. Franks has his own team. They were all willing to look through the case files with him.
Gibbs looked at everything trying to help. Rando read Hope’s books. It was giving them nothing new to work with and so Franks made a deal with the devil. Franks got Hope to tell them where Ana’s body was in exchange for him getting forgiveness from Julie the sister.
Hope led NCIS into the desert. Their radios didn’t work out there. Gibbs got sidetracked when two Latinos drove close to the scene and he racially profiled them.
He drew a gun on them when they tried to get their license from the glove compartment. Lala stopped Gibbs for shooting two unarmed men. The guys drove off. Gibbs and Lala went back to securing the scene. Hope came through. He led them to Ana’s body. He waited to speak to Julie and that’s when Franks double-crossed him. Franks was never going to give Hope the opportunity to talk to Julie.
Franks knows that Hope doesn’t deserve forgiveness. He wrote a book asking for it and yet he must have known he didn’t deserve it. He only wanted to talk to Julie because she and Ana were twins. He wanted to treat himself to her pain just a little longer. Franks denied him that. Lala also spoke to Gibbs.
She couldn’t keep covering for him. This goes double after his last eval. She had the situation handled. He shouldn’t have overreacted. She now has to report him to Franks and Franks wasn’t in the mood to hear it.
Hope played him. The body they found wasn’t Ana’s. It belonged to a good Samaritan. The guy was on a road trip when he saw Hope’s car on the side of the road and he offered to help him with his car. Hope stopped there because he was getting rid of the body. He was afraid the other guy would see too much.
He killed him and no one connected him to the man’s disappearance until now. Ana’s remains were still out there. Franks was tired of the back and forth. He finally let Julie speak to Hope. And Hope proved once again to be a horrible person.
It was Julie that drove Ana to the bar where she met her lover. Hope asked to meet Julie not because he wanted absolution. He wanted her to seek absolution from him. He said she’s the reason her sister is dead. Franks tried to attack him after that. The bars on Hope’s cell worked against him.
Hope was left in a position of power and he wanted everyone to beg him for information on Ana. He was loving all the attention he was getting. Franks was right when he said Hope had a god complex. He just didn’t know how to combat it.
Lala meanwhile had a break in the case. She found out that Hope buried his victims according to their religion. Rice was buried under a cactus that looked like a cross. He was a catholic and so that fits.
The good Samaritan was buried honoring Muslim customs. They just needed to know what Ana’s faith was. They called around. They heard that Ana didn’t worship any one faith. Hope wrote about that in his book and so right before he was executed by the state – Franks visited him. He finally figured out where Ana was buried.
Hope buried Ana in a vineyard because wine was her god. Hope’s final moments on earth was him realizing he didn’t win. Ana was found and her sister later buried her with respect. Franks was able to close a case that’s been haunting him for six years. Tish had even thought he had an affair with Julie because they were that close.
Franks had to reassure her. He also had to rectify things with Vera Strickland. He cut into her interview with the big boss. It’s like he didn’t see her. And she said that’s why she couldn’t work with him anymore.
And so Franks made up to everyone in his life. He let Tish know she’s the one. He got approval for Strickland’s program. He also never heard about the incident involving Gibbs. Lala chose to cover it up.
THE END!
