Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all new Tuesday February 3, season 12 episode 13 called, “We Build, We Fight,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, Gibbs [Mark Harmon] investigates a possible hate crime when a Navy lieutenant who is set to be the first openly gay serviceman to receive the Medal of Honor is murdered. Meanwhile, Palmer prepares for fatherhood as his wife’s due date approaches.
On the last episode, the NCIS team searched for a home-grown terrorist after a rescue mission in Syria revealed an American was involved in the capture of a social worker. Meanwhile, McGee and Bishop questioned DiNozzo’s unusual behavior. Joe Spano guest starred as Senior FBI Agent T.C. Fornell and Marisol Nichols guest starred as ATF Special Agent Zoe Keates. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the CBS synopsis, “Gibbs and the team investigate when a Navy lieutenant who is set to be the first openly gay servicemember to receive the Medal of Honor is murdered. Also, as his wife’s due date approaches, Palmer prepares for fatherhood with a NCIS baby shower.”
Tonight’s episode looks like it is going to be great and you won’t want to miss it, so be sure to tune in for our live coverage of CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at 10:00 PM EST! While you wait for our recap hit the comments and let us know how excited you are about this new season.
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Tonight’s episode of NCIS begins with a man in his house washing the blood of his knuckles, it looks like he just punched a brick wall. He calls someone named Vince and gets his voicemail. His electricity goes out, and he heads outside to the breaker box. Someone shoots him and kills him in the dark behind is house and then runs off in to the night, dressed in black.
At the office, they are having a baby-shower for Jimmy’s girlfriend. She sends him on a wild goose chase to find water with a perfect PH balance. She begs Abby, Tony, and everyone at the office to “make up a fake case” so that Jimmy will leave town because he is driving her insane and won’t let her eat or drink anything she wants. Her wishes are answered, Gibbs walks in and tells everyone to pack their bags because they have a new murder case.
Gibbs and his team head to the man that was shot’s house – he was shot in the chest three times. Ducky says his time of death was around midnight last night. Meanwhile, Tony finds the shooter’s bootprint and the casings from the gun. They head inside and found a broken drinking glass on the floor – but nothing else looks out of place. Tony finds two holes that were punched in the wall – they are from the murder victim.
Outside Gibbs questions the officer that was first on the scene. He starts crying and says that the murder victim, Eric was his husband. Gibbs gets a call, the DOD has sent Alice to assist with his investigation. She explains that she has been investigating Eric for the last two weeks, he was being vetted, they were about to present him with the “Medal Of Honor.”
Gibbs rallies his team and briefs them. Their victim is Eric Kutzler, he spent 18 months recovering from injuries he received in an ambush in Afghaniston. Apparently Kutzler jumped on a live grenade to protect his troop, and he survived. Eric would be the first openly gay man to receive a “Medal of Honor,” they think that it may be a hate crime.
Jimmy delivers a bag of blood to Abby, she tells him that he just got off the phone with his wife Brina and she is in labor. Jimmy panics and runs out of the room screaming about “needing his baby bag.” Gibbs arrives and Abby tells him that the neighbors have security cameras set up in their yard and it captured
Eric’s murder – unfortunately the killer was wearing a black hoodie and they can’t ID him. But, it also shows Vince arriving in the morning. He checks Eric’s pulse and then runs inside – but he didn’t call 911 until twenty minutes later. Vince lied to Gibbs when he originally questioned him. They bring Vince in for questioning, Tony demands to know why he waited twenty minutes before calling 911. Vince has a black eye, he insists that he got it when he pulled over a drunk driver. Tony reveals that they know Vince was discharged from the Marines, because he had a bad temper and yelled at his commanding officer.
Gibbs takes Vince aside, and Vince explains that he was discharged because he was gay. Vince insists that he didn’t kill Eric, but he confesses that he found a bag in the kitchen when he went to call 911 and it was full of syringes – he hid it in the garage before the police go there because he didn’t want Eric to lose his medal of honor. He pleads with Gibbs to help him protect Eric’s name – and swears that he didn’t have a drug problem.
Abby runs a tox screen on Eric – he wants using drugs. But, she tested the viles they found in his garage, and they were home made morphine cocktails. She thinks that he might be a drug dealer. Ducky calls Gibbs and says that he noticed something strange, Eric hasn’t taken any medication – not even Tylenol, but he had dozens of prescriptions. Gibbs thinks that Eric blames himself for the grenade explosion and was choosing to live with the pain and punish himself. Gibbs wants to investigate the grenade incident. They do some research and learn that Eric had been written up a few days before the incident, they visit Mead the man that wrote him up. He explains that Eric got in to another argument with an officer named Riley Davis over being gay.
Tony and Hollis visit Davis Riley to question him, Davis wants to know where Davis was last night. He explains that he was murdered and Davis runs around the corner and throws up. Afterwards they sit down with Davis, he admits that he hated Eric – but he is a changed man after his time in Afghanistan. He describes what happened the day that Eric saved his life, he dove on top of a grenade. Davis says that he and Chief Donahue filled out the letter of recommendation for medal of honor themselves – Tony is baffled because Davis’s letter of recommendation wasn’t in the file.
Gibbs gets bad news. He learns that the DOD is going to pull Eric’s medal of honor if they don’t clear his name in 48 hours. The press has learned about the drugs in Eric’s house, and they are running a story about it. The military doesn’t want the bad press. The story runs in the paper, and Gibbs’s crew tries to hide it from him because it does not look good.
Hollis does some research, and learns that Davis Riley was telling the truth – someone buried the medal of honor file from 2012 that Davis submitted. Hollis and Gibbs sit down with Admiral Mead, and accuse him of trying to “kill Eric’s first medal of honor submission.” He insists that Eric’s file must have gotten lost in the shuffle – but Hollis calls him out on his lie, she has proof that he “sandbagged it.” Gibbs accuses him of tampering with documents and interfering with a criminal investigation. Mead refuses to answer any more questions and he lawyers up. Gibbs tells him he is a disgrace to the uniform for being bias against homosexuals.
Tony and McGee discover are tailing Davis and they discover that he attended the same Addits Anonymous group at Cutler. They stop him outside to question him, and find syringes in his backpack, then Davis passes out and falls on the ground. Tony thinks he is faking it, but McGee checks his pulse and he isn’t breathing, they call 911.
Hollis visits Gibbs in his basement where he is building a boat to try and talk to him – he is still giving her the cold shoulder. She reports that Riley is in stable condition. Hollis refuses to leave until Gibbs talks to her, he tries to send her home. Hollis won’t leave without telling him that it wasn’t his fault that Diane died. Gibbs has a meltdown, it’s obvious that he does blame himself. He doesn’t want Hollis around, because he doesn’t want her to be in danger. She reassures him that she can handle herself.
Davis wakes up in the hospital, and Gibbs arrives to question him. Davis breaks down, he blames himself for Eric throwing his body on the grenade. He cries that he can’t get the image out of his head, and he started using drugs because he wanted to forget. Davis says that Eric stepped in and got him in the program – and saved his life a second time. But, he relapsed three days ago. Eric came to his apartment three days ago and he was angry, he took his drug stash and stormed out. Davis says that Eric went back to the community centar later that night to confront his drug dealer – they guy at the front desk of the community center named Matt Jenson.
Tony heads to the community center and confronts Davis’s drug dealer Matt Jenson, they already searched his car – and they found a gun in his trunk, the same gun that was used to kill Eric. Matt shot and killed him to keep him quiet about his drug business. Gibbs pays Vince a visit – Eric’s medal of honor is going through even after his death, Gibbs tells Vince to continue Eric’s legacy.
THE END!
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