[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 20 Episode 21, “Kompromat.”]
Remember these 4 Russian spies earlier this season? Remember the one who broke into Senator Miller’s secure for a tough drive of private pictures? Well, NCIS picks up that thread within the penultimate episode of Season 20.
After a safety guard is killed within the National Archives Museum, the staff seems into what file was stolen, main them again to Russia. Once Palmer (Brian Dietzen) narrows down the time of demise, it’s only a matter of checking the guests’ log, solely to search out that the one one who entered the archives round that point was Senator Miller … who’s at Parker’s (Gary Cole). Yes, they’ve been seeing one another.
In truth, Parker is her alibi for the homicide, and safety footage reveals the person who someway made contacts to match her retinas to enter the archives. (Later on, they discover it was completed utilizing hi-res pictures of her from an occasion.) She doesn’t acknowledge him, neither is he in any database when Kasie (Diona Reasonover) runs his picture by way of facial recognition.
And that is when issues get tense between NCIS and the State Department, particularly Stuart Greco. Those aforementioned Russian spies? They’re being extradited to Russia in trade for worldwide political prisoners, and all Greco cares about is the deal is simply too good to cross up. They are in a position to get 10 minutes with Nate Billings in holding on to the usS. Cortland throughout his switch. Knight (Katrina Law) and Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) fly out to speak to him, and as soon as he sees the photograph of the person who copied Miller’s retinas, he’s more than pleased to speak — and beg to not be despatched again to Russia. That man is Yuri, his handler, who appears to have taken issues into his personal palms after Nate failed. If he’s concerned now within the subject, doing his personal soiled work… properly, it’s not good. And then Nate is discovered hanging from a bedsheet in his cell; he killed himself after their go to.
The staff is ready to slim down the file Yuri took: a Russian defector, Ilya Sokolov, 1985. And happily for them, they know somebody who is aware of who that’s from the NCIS days: Ducky (David McCallum)! through video from cease 14 in his 35-city lecture tour in Scotland, he tells them Sokolov was an excellent scientist whom the Soviets put to work in each subject underneath the Berlin Wall got here down. He defected, modified his title, and pursued a quiet life as a school professor. His new title? “Something from an old television show,” Ducky says. Ivan Kuryakin (The Man From U.N.C.L.E. reference!) Ducky is “still the best,” McGee (Sean Murray) says. “I do what I can,” Ducky permits. (Oh, how we’ve missed him!)
By the time they discover Sokolov, it’s too late: Yuri has tortured and killed him and is showering off the blood. But it’s very worrisome that he doesn’t care that he’s been caught; he’s able to go to jail and serve his time as a result of there’s nothing left to deal with. He’s achieved his mission. His name historical past reveals he spoke with somebody in Russia, probably relaying the data he tortured out of Sokolov.
When they stumble throughout pictures of Miller with Yuri at an occasion, she as soon as once more results in interrogation … and Parker’s the one on the opposite aspect of the desk. (Awkward!) She nonetheless doesn’t acknowledge him, explaining she took plenty of pictures that night time. When their dialog takes a private flip, Vance turns off the sound to watch.
And as because the staff is in Parker’s relationship, they’ve one thing extra regarding to deal with: Two different spies a part of the trade “fell off a balcony” upon arriving in Russia. Refusing to let regardless of the final one Evelyn is aware of to die together with her when she suffers the identical destiny, the staff stops the trade from occurring, a lot to Greco’s annoyance, providing her a special deal. She tells them that Yuri ghosted her as soon as she didn’t get him what he pushed her for, however he did inform her he needed international chaos, revenge, and destruction. Uh-oh.
Miller then reveals her supply advised her that the prisoner they had been to obtain for Evelyn died three weeks in the past of pure causes. Vance (Rocky Carroll) joins her, Parker, and Greco to tell the state division lawyer that the FBI needs to speak to him about his funds; it appears he has a portfolio with the central financial institution of Russia. He’s completed. Also, completed? Parker and Miller’s relationship. Besides, she provides earlier than strolling away, he’s nonetheless in love together with his previous girlfriend.
The staff then as soon as once more connects with Ducky in MTAC. He realized from a Russia contact that earlier than Sokolov defected, the Soviets had him engaged on a most troubling challenge: one thing that falls into the class of weapons of mass destruction. If Yuri acquired the main points out of Sokolov when he tortured him, Russia might already be constructing a prototype. And with Yuri in jail and never prepared to make a deal… Well, it appears like we all know how Torres results in jail within the finale!
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Elsewhere, in happier information, Palmer by accident blurts out “I love you” to Knight as he’s leaving … and tries to cowl by telling Torres, McGee, and all of NCIS the identical factor. (According to McGee, “It was pretty epic.”) It’s not how he needed that to occur, he tells Kasie, and he’s hesitant to succeed in out, nervous he embarrassed her or she doesn’t really feel the identical. “Are we back in junior high school already?” Kasie asks. Knight refuses to speak about it — she prefers skilled discretion — till Parker is so pissed off with solely getting dangerous information with the case that she gives up one thing good, asserting, with everybody current: “I love you, too, Jimmy.” Palmer kisses her.
Something tells us that may be one of many final bits of pleasure of the season.
NCIS, Season 20 Finale, Monday, May 22, 9/8c, CBS