Conference rumors, grieving fathers, a new girlfriend, an Office Space wink, the return of a few favorite faces β¦. Then the team's summoned to the scene of the possible suicide of retired helicopter pilot Tommy Miller. Palmer Brian Dietzen recognizes Tommy from his grief counseling group, which Knight Katrina Law joined a couple of weeks ago. Palmer also quickly rules out suicide, pointing to blunt force trauma to the head that's inconsistent with a fall from a roof.
Tommy also had several missed calls from Tobias Fornell, his grief sponsor from the group. Fornell wants to help with the investigation and says Gibbs Mark Harmon would've let him "No he wouldn't," the team says in unison and contents himself with heading to the morgue, where Dr. Grace Confalone Laura San Giacomo finds them.
Good to see Dr. Grace again! She leads the grief group that Tommy joined because of his guilt over the death of crew member Sally Jordan, who died when the helicopter Tommy was piloting went down in a sandstorm in Sudan. When the team interviews Tommy's wife and brother-in-law, who both claim their innocence, Dr. Grace is able to point to a lie that Tommy's been telling: he hasn't been to nearly as many private counseling sessions with her as he claimed.
So where's he been spending his time? Answers might come from Sally's father, Richard Jordan Jack McGee , who I promise you've seen in something prior to this if you turned on a television at any point since Tommy took out a restraining order against Jordan, who held Tommy responsible for Sally's death, but it expired last week.
He knows it's a scam but doesn't know how they were able to text from the existing text thread he had with his daughter.
