Continuing this week is the fourth series of the hit drama following a team of special agents who
investigate Navy and Marine Corps-related crimes. In this episode, the team is called in when

a picture taken by a blind photographer reveals that a young petty officer has been murdered.
Meanwhile, Tony and Gibbs are both distracted by relationship problems.
After blind photographer Jackson Scott (John Billingsley, ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’, ‘Prison Break’)
prints up his latest batch of pictures, his assistant, Bryn, takes a look. Suddenly, she gasps in horror
– in the background of one of the photographs is a dead naval officer.
Gibbs and the team arrive at Scott’s studio, where the photographer explains his methods. He says that since he lost his sight, ten years ago, he chooses his photographic subjects by following scents and smells to interesting places. The photograph in question was taken after Scott followed a fruity scent and ended up in an underpass, which is where the body was lying.
Following Scott’s directions, the team heads to the location and finds the body. “It’s funny how a
hundred people probably walked by this guy and it took a blind man to find him,” muses Tony. All the signs point towards a random mugging – the victim’s wallet and jewellery are missing, and he has been stabbed. But could the killer have staged the murder to look like a robbery?
The victim is identified as Petty Officer Peter Lynn, who worked in inventory management at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). When Gibbs, Tony and McGee go to Lynn’s apartment, they
find bags full of shredded documents, and a hidden diary on his computer. In the latest entry, Lynn says that he was contacted by the Naval Inspector General’s office and asked to go on a
mysterious mission.
When Tony and Ziva head to the Naval Inspector General’s office to find out more, Navy Commander Doug Jakobsen tells them that Lynn had been the subject of a classified investigation, suspected of providing information to the DLA’s competitors. “He betrayed his country,” says Jakobsen. “As far as I’m concerned, he got what was coming to him.”
The route described by Scott also passed by a restaurant, which, it emerges, Lynn had visited on the night of his death. In one of the photographs Scott took that night, a car is seen outside the restaurant. The number plate is traced to a David Wong, who works at the same department of the DLA as the victim. However, Wong is nowhere to be found – and his co-workers say that he has been acting strangely all week.
Before the agents get a chance to question Wong, they find him dead, hanging from the ceiling of an abandoned DLA warehouse. A suicide note explains that he and Lynn were partners in an embezzlement scam, and says that Wong resorted to murder when Lynn threatened to expose him. When Wong heard that NCIS were involved, it adds, he panicked. The case seems to be neatly wrapped up, but Gibbs suspects that this ‘suicide’ may have been murder. Ziva agrees: the middle initial on the note’s signature is not D, as it should be, but B. Is this a message, she wonders? “The letter B is not much of a message,” says McGee – but he reconsiders when he notices that it is actually a letter I and a number three. What is the significance of this? As the team delves further into the case, more suspects crawl out of the woodwork – until Ducky’s hapless assistant, Jimmy, accidentally provides a breakthrough.
Also in this week’s episode, Gibbs and Tony both deal with relationship issues. Tony has recklessly promised to move in with girlfriend Jeanne, while Gibbs is being pressurised by Hollis to make a decision on the future of their relationship. Will the much-married Gibbs be able to settle down and stay for the long haul?