Tonight on CBS NCIS: ORIGINS returns with an all-new Monday, January 27, 2025, season 1 episode 11 called, “Flight of Icarus,” and we have your weekly NCIS: ORIGINS recap below.
In tonight’s NCIS: ORIGINS season 1 episode 11 called “Flight of Icarus,”as per the CBS synopsis, “The team investigates the death of a famed Marine commander’s son, while a pivotal part of Franks’ past involving his family is revealed.”
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In tonights NCIS: ORIGINS episode, Franks needed new boots. He has this pair of old crocodile leather boots that he loves. He wore them all the time and sadly they got ripped. The boot was no longer attached to the sole. Trish told him that he needed new boots, but Franks couldn’t bear to part with them.
The boots were a gift from his brother and mother. They saved up for weeks to get him those books. Franks doesn’t mention it much only he grew up on a farm. They didn’t have much money to spend on gifts back then. He didn’t even receive the boots until three weeks after his twenty-first birthday. And once he got them, he promised he’d never take them off.
Franks tried to live up to that promise. Its why he asked Tish to see if the boots can be fixed. She knows a good person capable of it and he didn’t want to throw away the boots.
Not when they meant so much to his family. They hold sentimental value now. Franks even believes it gives him luck and so its funny that ripped right before Gibbs’s first day on the job. The first case Gibbs worked was the death of Captain Cameron Reid. It was believed to be murder until they found the gun at the scene.
The gun fell after Reid committed suicide. The whole scene indicated suicide. The Medical Examiner ruled it as suicide. It’s just that Gibbs was still considered a concern back then and so him working on a suicide seemed problematic to Franks.
Franks didn’t want his probie getting ideas. He tried talking to him about it. Gibbs said he was fine. He said they were bound to run into cases difficult for him and he still has to work them. There was still an investigation with Reid’s death. It didn’t matter that it was suicide.
NCIS has what they call are “Death Investigations”. It was up to them to find out what led to the suicide. It was especially important with Reid’s death because his father was Lieutenant General Reid. He was a big shot in the military. Some call him “Alexander the Great”.
His office was contacted after his son’s body was found and he came to NCIS Headquarters to hear what happened. They did their best to respect the chain of command, but a man like that was never going to believe his son committed suicide.
Not everyone understood mental health back then. They were all old school. The General was old school. He was never going to believe or accept that his strong and confident son could be dealing with mental illness. The General demanded a full investigation. He said his son had been murdered.
He wanted all avenues of investigation to continue and he expects briefings every morning on what they found. They sadly didn’t find much. The scene did implicate suicide. The one thing that stood out was that there wasn’t any DNA on the gun.
The residue on the victim’s hands. He shot the weapon. Yet, someone didn’t leave enough DNA on the gun. It was a puzzle. Franks tried to understand that puzzle. He went to the victim’s home again. He searched the scene. He caught the attention of Reid’s neighbor. She’s a nice old lady.
She offered to help the authorities. She told Franks that Reid had gotten into a fight that night. He was overheard yelling at another man and this other man said he was coming back with a gun. The neighbor’s testimony put Reid’s death in a different light. NCIS began looking into Reid’s inner circle.
Reid was going to get promoted because his dad pulled strings. Only his friends didn’t think he was happy about it. There was a Veterans Support Group flier in his house.
His girlfriend said that Reid went to his dark place and she hasn’t seen him. Reid’s friend said Reid goaded him into hitting him. Reid didn’t fight back or anything. He just didn’t believe he deserved anything good and that could be why he went to the Veterans Support Group. Franks also tracked down the man that threatened the victim with a gun.
It was a friend. Reid asked his friend to give him a gun. They got into an argument about it. He didn’t believe he deserved his promotion to Somalia. He thought it would be like Kuwait. Reid was struggling with mental health and he paid his friend for the gun. He only fought with him because the friend didn’t want to give him the gun at first.
He caved in because he thought he owed his friend that. So, Reid did kill himself. Franks met with the General. He confirmed their initial assessment. His son struggled with PTSD and he killed himself so that he wouldn’t go back to war.
The General didn’t like it, but he had to accept it. He has to move on. They all have to move on. Randy tried to set Gibbs up on a blind date with his wife’s friend and Gibbs wasn’t ready for that.
He said as much to Randy. Franks meanwhile got a new boot guy. His boots were fixed and he was back to wearing them.
Franks was drafted into the Vietnam War. His brother could have sat out that war and he chose not to. His brother was older. What big brother stays home while the baby brother goes to war?
Mason Franks became a Marine with his brother. And our legendary Frank kept his promise that he’d always wear his birthday boots.
THE END!