- A civilian and a Navy captain die of gunfire in Washington, DC; Gibbs and company investigate; the Duck sees unusual undergarments, which are also costumes. The gang solve the puzzle and nab the bad guys; Wendy reveals something to Tony.
- Two men die of gunfire inside a flower shop in Washington, DC; one victim is a Navy captain named Wallace, and the other is a civilian; Gibbs and company investigate; the Duck sees unusual undergarments, which are also costumes. Both victims are community activists who do neighborhood watches, community service, and fundraising; Gibbs hears a significant clue, so the gang pursue it. Vance reintroduces Gibbs and Wendy, a newspaper reporter, who has information about Wallace. Tony provides liaison with Wendy on the Wallace case; Tony and Ziva meet another superhero, who provides a clue, which produces; Abby finds and interprets a piece of evidence, which also produces. Someone makes an attempt on Wendy's life; Tony provides protection. Tony meets Fred, Ziva meets Wendy, and Gibbs and the gang meet even more superheroes, one of whom is a suspect albeit one with an alibi. The team figure it out and act on it, then Wendy makes a revelation to Tony.—DocRushing
- A man in a flower shop, takes flower orders from voice mail messages. A marine comes in wanting to place an order, but waits for the man behind the counter, Dexter Murphy, to listen to the last one. It's a Hispanic voice ordering flowers for a funeral and asking Murphy if he thought he'd get away with it. "I told you I'd get you when you least expect it," the message says. Two shots ring out, one hits the Marine, the other takes out Murphy.
At the office, Ziva comes in to work cheesed off that she got a speeding ticket -- going 80 in a 40 mph. Gibbs comes in with the body of the week: a dead Navy captain.
At the flower shop, the safe is picked. There are chewed fingernails on the floor. Palmer isn't there because Brina called, their wedding caterer went out of business. Murphy and Capt. Jack Wallace are the victims. Duckie unbuttons the captain's shirt and finds faux chain mail with an emblem of a protractor and a mallet. Tony recognizes it.
Back at the office, McGee says Wallace was a "Real Life Superhero", they do neighborhood watches and fundraising. Wallace went by "Captain Code" and his specialty was building code violations. Murphy was another member, known by "Solanum".
Leon Vance meets with a Miss Miller, a reporter. She and Gibbs go way back. Wallace called her two days ago, he ran a classified program out of the Department of Energy, securing rogue nuclear materials. There's big demand for old Soviet uranium. She's agreed to hold off on her story as long as Gibbs keeps her in the loop.
Down in Abby's lab, she tells Tony that Wallace's insignia was also in a video online six months ago, in which masked Wallace and Murphy broke up a bar fight. She hasn't been able to ID the person who shot the video.
Tony runs into Miller in the hall, Gibbs assigned her to Tony. He knows her. She's Wendy his ex-fiancee, the one who invited him to the Christmas brunch he bailed on.
Tony meets with her in a conference room, she claims not to know why Wallace was calling. She was a teacher when he knew her. They agree it's nice to see each other. Tony finds Ziva and McGee listening at the door. Wendy knows a trust fund baby named Clarence Tobett shot the fight video.
Tony and Ziva visit the Tobett mansion, where he's boxing with his butler, a former army man. Clarence is "ICU". He was on "bait patrol" when he shot the video, waiting in a bad area for trouble to start.
Clarence's dad Wayne (Ray Wise) comes in and chews out his son for being useless. Clarence has the partial license plate of the guy in the bar fight. "Captain Code" told him he was on to something.
In the morgue, Duckie finds Wallace had lots of healed wounds from street fighting. His wife died in childbirth and his daughter died when a balcony collapsed on her (thus the building code violation specialty).
Duckie wonders why Gibbs would pair Tony with Wendy.
Abby interrupts, reporting she has DNA from the fingernails. It belongs to Felix Quintero, a smalltime hood who's now a locksmith. His license plate matches the partial from the bar fight video.
Tony drives angry with Ziva. He notices they're being followed. He and Ziva get out and confront Wendy. She gets out of her car to talk to them and her hood politely belches fire. Later, they find a rudimentary bomb under her hood.
In the car back in the lab, they find past references to Captain Wallace in her notes. She lied to them.
Vance, Gibbs and Tony confront her. He was a source for her expose on wasteful military spending. She still claims she doesn't know why Wallace called this time.
Tony escorts her to her house. He's angry because he found out from her notes that she was working on a story about the Navy when she invited him to Christmas brunch. They hadn't spoken in nine years, since their engagement ended. She admits she wanted to pump him for information.
They size each other up. She used to be sweet and innocent and he used to be a hopeless romantic. They jump on each other and start making out, but are quickly interrupted by her young son, Fred, coming home with his nanny.
Wendy goes to pack and Tony tries to make conversation with Fred, asking him about Harry Potter. His favorite is the one where "Harry wasn't kissing my mom." Fred tells Tony not to let it happen again.
Tony meets McGee on a stakeout for Quintero. Tony says he and Wendy had a bad break up. They notice a woman standing in front of the building they're watching. Tony goes to talk to her and she runs away, into an alley. She ducks and throws off her trench coat, revealing a superhero unitard. She maces them as three other Real Life Superheroes come out, including Felix Quintero.
Tony and McGee impound the van and bring the RLS back to NCIS. The woman is calling herself "Spandaxia" and she's there with "Whip Cord" and "Bolt Cutter". Abby comes, wanting a picture with them.
Tony finds Wendy up in the observation room with Ziva, swapping stories.
Gibbs sits down with Felix, who left the threatening voice mail. He says Captain Code hired him to fake the attack and not even ICU, the camera man, knew it. They wanted publicity. He left the message because he never got paid for faking the attack and broke into the safe after they were dead to get his payment.
They confirm Felix's alibi.
Gibbs wants to focus on Wendy and why Wallace wanted to talk to her.
Tony visits Duckie in the lab and gets some psychoanalysis about how he keeps chasing the wrong woman because he never put everything with Wendy behind him.
Wendy broke off the engagement the night before the wedding and he didn't take it well. They haven't spoken since that night. Tony knows Gibbs set him up to try to deal with it. Duckie heard from other coroners who also had recent murders of Real Life Superheros.
There are four victims in three crime scenes. Lord of Karma was shot trying to stop a burglary and Fever Blister was killed trying to stop a carjacking.
The same cell phone shows up in each neighborhood where the murder took place. It belongs to Clarence Tobett. But Gibbs doesn't think he's guilty.
Gibbs, Ziva and Tony go to the Tobett's and find Clarence's dad yelling at him for wanting to go out dressed up like a super hero as he practices his moves. They tell the Tobetts and Tom, the butler, that they found the murderer's cell phone was at the crime scenes. Ziva dials it and Tom's phone rings. It's a company phone from Clarence's dad. Tom starts to run, but Clarence knocks him out cold.
Back at NCIS, they tell Vance that Wayne Tobett was a slum lord who bought properties in crime ridden areas. The super heroes drove down crime and property values rose, which was the last thing he wanted. They tried to kill the superheroes so crime would go back up and they could buy cheap.
Wendy wrote a story about DC real estate in high crime areas and Wayne worried she'd connect the super hero dots. Vance says good job, calling Gibbs "Cupid".
Tony finds Wendy. She tells him she invited him to Christmas brunch not for information but because she wanted to see him. He wants to know why she broke it off at the last minute. She thinks he's sad and lonely. She urges him to tell "her" how he feels, "whoever she is." He says that's not going to happen and reiterates. She left because she wasn't ready to meet the one and he was it. She sent him the invitation because she wasn't ready before, but she is now.
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