
Intercut with flashbacks, Vance then tells how Jenny took the second and third shooters down before Viggo who managed to survive produces a spare gun and begins firing at her.

In the present, Vance recounts that Jenny took one bullet in the shoulder and another in the arm before moving to the side door where the other two gunmen came in. Despite this, Jenny keeps shooting and Viggo soon goes down. Vance then points out that Jenny got hit right after that and it cuts to Viggo Drantyev firing a shotgun at Jenny. It then cuts to a flashback from Jenny's point of view where the first shooter who enters the diner is shot dead almost immediately. He then heads over to a spot, declaring that this was where Jenny stood when the gunfight began and that the first shooter never got a chance to fire his gun. He tells Gibbs that the four men split into two groups and entered from both sides of the diner. Vance then gives Gibbs a detailed description of what happened, presumably from the evidence found at the crime scene. Vance tells Gibbs that the bodies were flown to D.C last night and that Ducky will be handling the autopsies.

He then spots blood on the floor which was where one of the bodies was and then heads over to where Jenny's body was found. Inside the diner, Gibbs takes in the full extent of the crime scene and notes that the bullets used have already been bagged, tagged and processed. Gibbs then turns and heads into the diner while Vance states, "I'm sorry, Jethro". Gibbs then rounds on DiNozzo, angrily insisting that he said for them to wait.Īs this happens, another male voice stating, "And I said not to" emerges and as this happens, NCIS Assistant Director Leon Vance appears with Vance telling Gibbs that this is his crime scene before removing his gloves.Īfter they've exchanged greetings, Vance reveals that when Gibbs called SECNAV, the SECNAV then called Vance.Īs Gibbs looks as DiNozzo, the other Agent is still guilt-ridden over failing to protect Jenny. He soon arrives at the diner and upon getting out of the car, sees Tony and Ziva bringing things out from the diner. The episode opens with a recap showing the events from the previous episode and then ends with NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo Junior and his partner, Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David arriving at the diner and discovering the carnage inside with NCIS Director Jennifer Shepard being among the dead.Ī few hours later, Leroy Jethro Gibbs has arrived outside Los Angeles and is heading for the diner located in the Mojave Desert where he orders someone, presumably Tony or Ziva to wait there and that he'll come to them before hanging up his cell phone. As NCIS struggles to come to terms with the news that one of their own is dead, Gibbs and the NCIS team attempt to find a motive for the killing while trying to deal with their own emotions over what's happened.
