Torres grapples with his immigration history when a murder entangles an Afghan refugee center.
Palmer (Brian Dietzen) is having daughter troubles.
Knight (Katrina Law) suggests he sits with it before making any decisions.
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Then everyone’s called to a murder scene where Marine Pvt.
William Huxley has been stabbed to death with a paring knife in his garage.
Parker (Gary Cole) takes one bite of Huxley’s pistachio baklava and swears to avenge him.
Doorbell cam footage sends the team to a literal Karen who threatened Huxley for undercutting her neighborhood catering business.
She’s not the killer, but she points them to the Afghan community center where Huxley volunteered.
All signs point to no.
The team’s next stop is the grocery store where Mateen, a mechanical engineer, is stocking shelves.
But this is our home."
(He also channelsthe Fonzwith his most excellent “ayyyy.")
Quick show of hands: Who else would like Torres and Veeda to tie the knot right now?
I’m more alarmed by the professional-level foodie photos this preteen is posting.
Is he building a bomb to get revenge on the country that didn’t protect his parents?
When Veeda shows up to check on Torres' forehead wound so many sparks, y’all!
she also mentions that Mateen was doing vehicle repairs under the table.
However, he built in a failsafe to keep the bomb from exploding.
But he’s dead in his car with a bullet to the head.
This time, the careful killer slipped up and left a partial print on a shell casing.
It belongs to Robert Whitlock, the head of a white nationalist militia.
I think I speak for us all when I saybuh-byeto the white nationalists.
Kasie pulls Mateen in to explain how his dud bomb ended up exploding.
The wires he cut were reattached, but they’d still need a remote trigger to set it off.
So who did it?
As she’s arrested, she drops the facade and says people like Torres are destroying this once-great nation.
No, he replies, “It’s me and everyone here who help you make it great.”
That’s some stone-cold bigotry, lady.
Now for some feel-good wrap-up.
Jess tells Jimmy that he’s correct: She’ll never be the father of a daughter.
But the NCIS director is.
Kudos to the show for modeling such a healthy attitude about dads and daughters and trust and autonomy!
