Unusual Suspects
Season 20 • Episode 15
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 20 Episode 15 “Unusual Suspects.”]
NCIS celebrates a milestone with “Unusual Suspects” — its 450th episode — however you wouldn’t comprehend it primarily based on the case, B-plot, or any of it. Rather, it’s similar to every other episode, with a standalone case and a little bit of perception into one of many brokers’ lives off the job, with the 2 mixing only a bit.
The milestone episode’s case is easy: The investigation right into a rideshare driver’s homicide results in a retirement residence, one Parker (Gary Cole) insisted was rundown when he checked out it for his dad (extra on that shortly), and the query of whether or not the sufferer was actually as good as he appeared. (For instance, his killer? A man he agreed to offer a journey to despite the fact that he didn’t undergo the app.) But was he having an affair with an 85-year-old girl in mentioned retirement residence, resulting in his girlfriend trashing his place? No, he met the girl by means of an app that matches the aged with youthful folks to assist out as surrogate grandkids of types. But was he scamming different matches, who had terminal sicknesses and left him cash in his will, as a result of he’d misplaced a minimum of $50,000 enjoying a web based recreation? No, he received way more than that and gave all of it to the retirement residence for upgrades.
So why was he killed? He raised simply sufficient questions that the aged girl thought he was catching on to the artwork scheme she was operating, and she or he had her associate take him out. With the app beneath investigation, the residents on the residence lose that firm and assist, and so the episode ends with McGee (Sean Murray), Torres (Wilmer Valderrama), and Knight (Katrina Law) stopping by to play playing cards with them.
Meanwhile, when the crew arrives on the workplace to search out Parker’s desk has been taken over by flowers, they decide it have to be his birthday and try to search out presents at their desks. It’s a weak celebration, so luckily, they’re off (his birthday is in November). Parker’s father, Roman (Francis Xavier McCarthy), was kicked out of his retirement residence, for stirring up drama by flirting with everybody and having the feminine residents combating over him, so now he’s dwelling with him till he can discover a new place. He needed to carry his orchids to work as a result of Roman turned up the thermostat.
Parker’s aggravated … till he receives a “9-1-1” textual content from his dad, who doesn’t reply when he calls again. Then he’s apprehensive. But he needn’t be, as he discovers, as a result of Roman simply left his cellphone on silent and may’t determine methods to use the TV distant. But then Roman’s in for a shock: Parker doesn’t have cable (so no films for him), however simply streaming. His outdated place did, Roman says. Parker factors out he’s the one who obtained kicked out, however it’s not Roman’s fault that he’s charming, one thing his son wouldn’t perceive since he can’t hold a spouse. He even wonders when Parker final referred to as Vivian, whom he bets has cable. Parker suggests he go keep together with her then, or let him dump him in a tragic residence like Sunshine Pines.
But, as they uncover throughout the investigation, Sunshine Pines is nothing like Parker’s been describing it. In truth, Roman, who goes undercover to speak to the residents for the case, is able to transfer in ASAP as soon as he will get a go searching. Parker refuses to confess he likes dwelling together with his father (or that his dad has “played shuffleboard” with anybody since his mother).
By the tip of the episode, Parker’s exhibiting his dad his new room at Sunshine Pines (cable! particular person thermostat!), however Roman’s a bit involved about leaving him alone. Parker assures him he’ll survivor, and sure, they’ll nonetheless have their weekly video games of Risk. And earlier than they get again to bickering, Roman tells him he’s son and man, Parker thanks him, and so they hug.
What did you consider the milestone 450th?
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