Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, February 12, 2024, season 21 episode 1 called, “Algún Día,” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below. In tonight’s NCIS season 21 episode 1, “Algún Día” as per the CBS synopsis, “The NCIS team must help Torres when he puts his future at stake by confronting the man who tormented his family when he was a child, on the 21st season premiere.”
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In tonight’s NCIS episode, NCIS Special Agent Torres recently spent some time undercover. It was nothing new for him. He’s been undercover in one form or another for years. His mission in prison worked out in his favor. He was able to leave, but something stayed with him. He saw someone from his past while he was there.
Just seeing this person unraveled all the hard work he did on himself. He broke sobriety. He also broke the law. He did that when he broke into a man’s home and pulled a gun on him. Something happened. It was unclear what did happen. Torres walked away with a few bruises as well as a hangover after that night.
His boss noticed both the next morning. He would have mentioned some thing only he had bigger issues to contend with. Parker accidentally talked the head of NCIS Cyber Division into quitting. The guy left his job to join the private sector and that was all because of his conversation with Parker. Parker was then put in charge of the Cyber Division while they looked for someone permanent.
He didn’t know a thing about his computers. He quickly handed over the job to McGee without once trying to do it himself. McGee will be filling in until they got a new department head. It was therefore McGee who got the notice first that the FBI were coming to the Navy Yard.
The FBI eventually arrested Torres for murder. McGee thought he didn’t do it. Parker didn’t even want to believe Torres could kill someone for personal reasons. They tried to get to Torres before the feds and Torres wouldn’t talk. He refused to say anything. He didn’t bother claiming his innocence.
He let the FBI arrest him for murder. Torres wasn’t going to fight a thing and so his team did the fighting for him. NCIS were warned several times to let the FBI handle Torres’s case, but they ignored that because they wanted to prove Torres innocent.
They figured they knew Torres too well for him to surprise them by being a murderer. His sister reaffirmed that belief. Lucia has left JAG and gone into private practice.
She was her brother’s lawyer. She knew who he supposedly killed. She knew the evidence against him. She was refusing to believe her brother killed Maurice Riva. Riva was a con artist. He met their family when they were in South America. He helped them get to the United States. Torres’s mother fell in love with the guy and the guy eventually stole her identity to commit fraud.
Their mother didn’t report it because Riva was also abusive. He would abuse every member of that family for years and it stopped when he decided to move on.
He was just gone one day. There was no letter or phone call. He simply left. Torres and his sister as well have been looking for Riva for years.
They never found him on their own. Not until Torres went undercover at a prison. He saw that Riva was still preying on the vulnerable and undocumented. His most recent girlfriend was Marta De Leon. She was another immigrant. She too had a son. Her son was in prison for fraud and he’s claiming he’s innocent. And that he had been framed.
Torres instantly believed the kid. Especially after he saw that Riva visited Reymundo in prison. Torres called his sister and he told her that night that he found the man that abused them.
She tried calling him back. He wouldn’t answer her calls. He didn’t even call Lucia to work as his attorney after he got arrested. He refused his right to attorney. He also pled guilty.
His one term for doing so was that he wanted to be sent to the same person where he was an undercover cop. Everyone knew that would be an instant death sentence if he goes back and he did so anyways.
NCIS thought he did so because of Reymundo. Riva probably committed the fraud that Reymundo De Leon was in prison for. They reached out to the mother, Marta. Marta didn’t want to believe that Riva was a bad man.
She didn’t come to a realization until after she talked to Torres’s sister Lucia. Lucia showed her some old photos of Riva’s ring damaging her mother’s face. She spoke in Spanish to Marta. She acted as a translator between Marta and Parker. And Parker didn’t suspect something was up for a while.
Parker truly thought that Lucia was only there to protect her brother. They couldn’t understand why Torres pled guilty. Much less why he wanted to die in prison. It didn’t make sense.
Then they got some help from FBI Special Agent Rose. She infiltrated their office to leave the FBI’s case files for them. The one piece of evidence they had against Torres was that his fingerprint was found on Riva’s ring. They had nothing else. They didn’t even have the murder weapon. They stopped looking once Torres confessed to murder.
Then they listened to Torres’s voicemail. They heard Lucia leave a message saying “Justice” in Spanish for her brother. It was a message they would tell themselves after Riva would beat them.
Torres must have heard that message and thought his sister killed Riva. Only she didn’t do it either. NCIS saw that Torres confessed under the assumption his sister did it.
They visited him in prison. They had to see him in the medical bay because Torres had gotten stabbed by the Russians and so Lucia finally talking to Torres helped clear up all the confusion. Neither of them were the killers.
The killer was actually Marta De Leon. She knew the truth about Riva. She also knew that Riva was going to go back on the run now that her son was in prison and so she killed him.
She claimed in a letter that he had assaulted her. Which in turn made her grab for the gun in self-defense. Marta confessed in the letter and she left behind the murder weapon. Other than that she was gone. She went on the run.
FBI Special Agent Rose used her helping skills to get the new job as head of the Cyber Division.
Torres got to leave prison, but he was worried he was about to get fired and so Parker reassured him that he was still a member of their team. And that’s when they got the sad news about Ducky.
THE END!
