A classroom full of pupils pass out and so does the teacher. McGee (Sean Murray) is tasked with showing around Interns and assigning them to their designated departments. He introduces Tony (Michael Weatherly) as "our senior agent, very Special Agent, Anthony DiNozzo." Tony and Ziva (Cote de Pablo) both tell them Gibbs (Mark Harmon) doesn't like interns nor does he want any. But Tony fails to answer why that is cos if he does then he'll walk up behind him - which he does and slaps him with a file. The interns are here for a week. Sarah (Elizabeth Wright) is assigned to autopsy; Michael (David Magidoff) to forensics and Conrad (Zack Lively) stays with McGee.
Ducky (David McCallum) is already at the school too, though there's no body and Sarah tells him a story. Well he's at home having her around. Whoever Ducky gets in autopsy always ends up telling their own stories. Tony and McGee check out the ventilation system where a valve was opened on a cylinder by the use of a timer. Conrad is a finance major and thought he'd be out of school, not still be in one.
When questioning the teacher, (Sam Anderson) who looked suspicious - I mean he may be a substitute but shouldn't he have retired by now and besides there was no one else shown who could be assumed a suspect. They realize one girl, Rebecca (Sadie Calvans) is missing. Her backpack has been left. So how'd he mastermind that - pretend to pass out; abduct her and then return? Rebecca's parents are deployed on ships and she lives with her grandfather, Mason (William Devane). Tony is worried by Gibbs' look. Tony: "Did I miss something...overstep my authority...what's wrong?" Gibbs: "That's not enough." As he looks at her photo on the plasma.
Mason tells Gibbs her mother just inherited and he's confused as to how this could have happened on a marine base. Cos it was an inside job that's how. (Similar to the episode from season 3 Bait, which had a boy holding his classmates hostage with a bomb. Mason's phone rings, he says it's her father, Nick (JP Hubbell). Abby (Pauley Perrette) announces Michael must not touch anything and has to stand where she can see him. He comments he should wear bells - giving her an idea. She tells Gibbs she found the imprint of a workboot on the cylinder, but the gas inside is something new. So they're looking for a chemist.
McGee hands Conrad lots of files to search through again and is enjoying his bout of power. As Tony explains, "Now you understand." That's how he feels everytime he throws orders around. Tony informs Gibbs he's unable to reach Rebecca's parents - meaning Mason lied and has left the building. Ziva can't reach him at home. His line was forwarded to a number on Skype. They can still listen to the call he received from the server's memory. It was a ransom demand and they arrive at the location to find a DB. His boots match the print on the cylinder and he wasn't a chemist. McGee finds no viable info on Mason's background and thinks he was a spook - but not one of theirs.
In MTAC McGee finds Mason's calls going through military satellites. Mason contacts Gibbs and tells him it was self defence. Palmer (Brian Dietzen) returns to autopsy after his visit to the dentist, Tony used to have visits to the dentist and find himself redundant and a bit jealous of Sarah. Sarah has taken over his spot as autopsy gremlin - at least for a week. Ducky finds the bruises on the DB were indicative of self defence. He'd hate to see Mason on the offensive. Tony talks to a clairvoyant over the phone and hangs up, after saying she didn't see her future.
Oh one niggle, Mason says killing the DB was self defence, but when confronted at the end in the pharmacy, he finally says the DB was one of his colleagues, so he wouldn't have killed him.
Tony calls Conrad "Mini-Gee." McGee found a DVD in the DB's car - a video showing Rebecca and proof of life. The DVD has a virus and has data containing McGee's number. His phone rings and the voice asks for a million dollars ransom. They have 24 hours. Mason traces the call. At the location McGee traces the call to, they find another DB in a trailer. This one has been tortured.
Nick tells Gibbs about a box his father keeps at home. Conrad sweeps the floor and Gibbs takes money from the evidence lock-up for ransom. He can do that. Gibbs never had interns on the team before and he thinks maybe he's changing cos he let them stay. The box contains, "need-to-know" papers. McGee mentions kidnapping Rebecca was like kidnapping Jason Bourne's daughter.
Michael wears Abby's bells when he comes to get Gibbs for Abby, she couldn't just call him now. He's more afraid of Abby than Gibbs. That'd be a first. Abby has found a patent for scented billboards and Gibbs can smell burgers, making him hungry, Abby thinks. The chemist must have filed the patent. Michael smiles at Abby as their faces meet, Abby: "No, no don't go there." Outside Greystone Pharmacy, McGee spots Mason inside with third DB. He didn't kill him. He went back to his team for help and they've been killed by the kidnapper.
Michael discovers Mason's car was sabotaged and would have exploded making it look like an accident. Abby has the killer's prints, matching Walter Carmichael the teacher. Ducky analyzed his belongings and found he was in guilt cos of his past actions. Carmichael calls and offers Rebecca in exchange for Mason. Mason is cuffed and he manages to slip them free and grabs Tony's gun. Ziva shoots him and Carmichael is duped into thinking he's dead and gives up Rebecca. Mason gets up. Conrad could get used to this job and McGee hands him a form for a full Internship at NCIS. Gibbs tells him it's already filled out, he just needs to sign it, handing him a pen. Vance wanted the interns around and yet he wasn't.
No movie references from Tony again this episode, though McGee mentions Jason Bourne. NCIS has had its share of abduction episodes, mostly involving little girls, just to tug at Gibbs' heartstrings a bit more cos of Kelly. Such as 2.1. See No Evil. Conrad having a rich father yacht in tow, was a little like Tony and Senior, though last time we saw him he was broke. Abby alluding to Michael as her "new number one" is what Picard used to call Riker in Star Trek: Next Generation. Gibbs must be mellowing allowing interns around. So must Abby as she's accepted Michael.
Abby hates assistants, she had problems with Chip in season 3's The Voyeur's Web, he framed Tony for murder in Framed. Also Agent Rinnet in season 5's the Ex File, who destroyed evidence. The plot of this episode was similar to Commando with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who came out of retirement to find his missing daughter. Hey, Tony could have mentioned that.
Tony: "What's going on here? We being replaced by younger models."
Ziva: "I am a younger model."
Tony: "If that was intended to hurt me, you've succeeded...Internship program is not a good idea. It feeds McGee's need to have groupies." But McGee already has his following from the books he wrote.
What was happening with Tony and his suits this episode, he wore a dark one in the beginning, which changed to grey, then dark again and when he went into MTAC he was wearing a dark one when he didn't let Palmer in and then when he was in MTAC, it was grey again!
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