Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, February 24, 2025, season 22 episode 13 called, “Bad Blood,” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below.
In tonight’s NCIS season 22 episode 13 called “Bad Blood,” as per the CBS synopsis, “NCIS investigates the case of a Navy lieutenant found dead at a blood donation bank. Also, McGee needs help from the team to raise money for his twins’ school fundraiser.”
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In tonight’s NCIS episode, someone robbed a blood bank. He was armed. He was dangerous. He just didn’t want money. He robbed the blood bank of blood.
The robbery surprisingly wasn’t caught on at first. The guy opened all the other blood bags. He poured out on the floor and he killed a serving Naval Lieutenant who tried to stop him.
His victim was identified Lieutenant Barbra Jellison. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was her death that sparked a NCIS investigation. The agents spoke with the nurse that ran the drive. She described their killer. She also said he went by the name “William”.
The guy probably wasn’t using his real name when he destroyed a blood bank. Then again not a lot about this case makes sense. There was a nationwide blood shortage.
The NCIS Agents thought the killer wouldn’t have left such a mess behind if he was set on selling blood. He would have grabbed the blood and gotten out of there. He could have sold the blood bags on the red market. It was a bit like the black market except the red market was for blood and body parts. It was pretty lucrative. Jimmy even knew about it.
Jimmy’s autopsy also revealed a few things. It revealed their killer was high on this new drug. It calls “trank”. It was cut with fentanyl. Their killer was hopped up on the stuff. It could explain the sheer rage he exhibited.
Kasie then did her thing. She found out that the killer deliberately poured over forty bags of blood and that he had in fact stolen one bag of blood. Just the one. It was a donation from Lauren Hawthorne. She was a software engineer. She wasn’t married. She didn’t have kids. She lived alone and seemed pretty boring.
NCIS tried to contact her. She wasn’t answering and so they went to her house. They ended up smelling something foul coming from Lauren’s garage and they found what little was left of her. Lauren was slowly being dissolved in a bucket of acid. They called in jimmy. He had to take Lauren out with a strainer.
While he was doing that, the team was trying to figure out why anyone wanted this woman to disappear. It was one thing to turn her into soup. They also stole her donated blood because they wanted no DNA left of hers to survive. It was odd.
Lauren had just started a new job. Sure, she was seen arguing with someone on the day she died only that wasn’t reason enough to erase her. NCIS decided to check out her job. She was working for a company called “Life Sequence”. It was a company to help people survive longer. It was started by someone the NCIS knew a little too well. Fletcher Voss. He was the billionaire that almost got their director murdered. He spent a few weeks behind bars and he was out now. He said he wanted to help people. And that’s why he’s back now with a new company.
No one could legally explain Life Sequence. They were holding onto proprietary information. Voss also said that Lauren hadn’t been working there long enough to have access to anything. What Voss failed to mention was that Lauren was pregnant. She was pregnant by him and they found evidence of it. Her blood was tested when she first donated it. It was still in the system because of that. Kasie easily found it. She was also curious how Voss found out about the pregnancy. Lauren said she wasn’t pregnant when she donated her blood.
Every woman is asked that question when they donate. Lauren would only have gone through with it if she hadn’t known she was pregnant and so how did Voss know. He couldn’t have known unless Lauren was wearing a “sequencer”. It was high level smart watch. It tracks its wearer health.
Voss claimed earlier that Lauren never got a sequencer. He said she wasn’t there long enough for it, but Voss has twenty million dollars worth to lie about that. He was going through a nasty divorce. His wife could have gotten twenty million dollars from him if it came out that he fathered a child with someone else.
Voss became NCIS’s chief suspect. The man that killed the lieutenant was a hired thug. His name was Fred Sammons. He died of an overdose. His cell phone showed that he was hired to steal the blood. He was a low level crook. He has a record for light scams. He wasn’t really a killer.
Neither was Voss as it turns out. Voss was brought in for questioning. They got warrant for his sequencer. They also told Voss that Lauren was pregnant and that wasn’t something he knew. He literally cried when he found out that his girlfriend and his baby had both been killed.
Voss then passed out in the interrogation room. He had a stroke. He had been sipping his smoothie. The smoothie had been drugged and so someone tried to kill him.
Voss was currently on a liquid only diet. He must have been drugged over several days to cause the stroke. NCIS thought maybe it was the real person that invented Life Sequence. Only she admitted that the company was a sham. They didn’t have any new technology. Voss was pushing ahead because he was reckless. He thought they’d eventually find something if he pressures them enough and not everyone agreed with that.
The doctor at the company didn’t want to go ahead with the release. His name was all over it. He knew he’d lose credibility if Voss went ahead with the launch and so he tried to kill him.
He also killed Lauren to stop Voss from getting a backup supply of blood. Voss has a rare blood type. He would have died without blood if McGee hadn’t stepped up. McGee was a universal blood donor. He saved Voss’s life. It was the right thing to do. Voss also bought some of McGee’s coffee that he used to raise money for his kids’ fundraiser at school. And so Mcgee owed him.
McGee also has until next year to take the cool dad at school down.
THE END!