21.0022.00Continuing this evening is the hit drama series following a team of special agents who investigate Navy and Marine Corps-related crimes. In tonights episode, McGee kills a man during an operation and ends up in serious trouble. When the chief of naval operations receives death threats from human-rights activists, the NCIS agents are assigned to protect him at his hotel. As Gibbs leads the chief and his entourage downstairs, Ziva and Tony scour the car park, and McGee secures the perimeter of the building. Suddenly, McGee encounters an armed man arguing with somebody in a large car in an alleyway behind the hotel. He draws his weapon, announces that he is a federal agent and approaches, but the man in the alleyway swings around and a shot is fired. McGee instinctively fires three shots and the man falls down, dead, while the vehicle speeds away. Despite his training, McGee finds himself unprepared for the emotional ramifications of his first kill. With no weapon or fourth bullet found at the scene to verify his account of events, however, there are much bigger problems in store for him.Back at HQ, Ziva digs up all she can on the dead man Andrew Ryan, according to his driving licence while Tony tracks the vehicle. McGee remembers that the car was dark blue or black, but is only able to recall the first two numbers of the registration plate. Determined to help his friend, Tony resolves to check all the vehicles that match McGees description against those of known human-rights activists. Ziva is less supportive, and privately tells Gibbs that she doubts McGees story.But Gibbs makes it clear that he will stick by his agent, regardless of the evidence against him. He doesnt know how to lie, he whispers. Ziva is not the only one who has doubts. Bowing to pressure from her seniors, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard soon becomes involved and calls Gibbs into her office to discuss the case. Evoking a time when Gibbs covered for her when she made a mmistake, Shepard comes straight to the point: Did McGee blow it? she asks. Things get much worse for McGee when the dead mans driving licence is found to be fake.Having run a fingerprint test on the corpse, Abby discovers that the man McGee shot was in fact John Benedict, a local police detective who had been working undercover. McGee and Gibbs head into Shepards office to face police captain Dan Karzin and Sergeant Keith Archer, the dead officers partner. Were here to find out what happened, Karzin states firmly, clearly in no mood for excuses. He accuses McGee of failing to identify himself properly before opening fire and demands an opportunity tointerrogate him. But Gibbs and Shepard support their agent and buy themselves a little more time to investigate. Now suspecting that the incident in the alleyway had nothing to do with the threat to the Navy chief, Gibbs sends Ziva and Tony back to the scene to hunt once more for the fourth bullet and the missing weapon. McGee, however, is inconsolable at the thought of having killed an innocent police officer. As night draws in, Tony visits him at home to cheer him up and offers the advice: when the going gets tough, the tough go clubbing. But McGee does not want to go out and shares his fears that he was not cut out to be a field agent.With the following day comes more trouble for McGee it seems Shepard has caved into pressure from local police and allowed McGee to be questioned. As the evidence against him mounts and the pressure builds, McGee begins to doubt himself and finally admits that he made a mistake. But was the officers death really his fault, or will Abbys forensic expertise come to her teams aid once again?
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