NCIS started its season-ending arc last Tuesday, and it involves terrorists recruiting teens via the internet.
Meanwhile, Abby discovers that Wilt's killer was in the back of the car during the entire drive. Dorneget learns that Wilt remotely accessed a computer belonging to Adem Faruk Korkmaz. Korkmaz is a businessman for import and export, but when trying to get a warrant for his computer, the warrant is denied. Apparently, the NSA is interested in Korkmaz because of his business with Turkey. Bishop asks Jake for the laptop, but he can't do that. The next morning, however, he gives Gibbs a hard drive from the laptop. Dorneget and McGee find out that the Korkmaz was in a chat room. He denies going into a chat room, but recognizes that the username of his daughter Layna is among the chat room members. Layna was part of the basketball that Ensign Wilt coached.
Layna says she joined a chat room and was later invited for another one. However, that chat room was filled with hatred against everything so Layna quit. She then started to receive threatening messages and asked Wilt for help, who blocked the chat room. Layna recalls the username of the person who invited her for the chat room and that he was angry when she left. This turns out to be Bradley Simek, and his late father owned the murder weapon. Bradley makes a run for it when Tony and McGee come to pick him up. They also deduce that he has made a bomb with his 3D-printer and gunpowder. The team finds Bradley in a bus filled with passengers and they surround the bus. The passengers safely leave while Gibbs tries to talk the kid out of blowing himself up. However, even though Bradley claims he didn't kill Wilt, he blow himself up anyway.
Obviously, this episode was just the beginning of an arc that will go to the season finale and hopefully beyond. This episode was a good way to kick things off on that. It started with a distraction as the focus was on the Columbian drug ring, but later we came to the real purpose of this episode. I must say it was a bit confusing with the drug ring and all the technological stuff, but in the end it all made sense. The episode was a pretty fast-paced hour, but also made room for personal character moments. The fight between Bishop and Jake was another great moment in Bishop's character development. I like the fact that they addressed her first kill in Kabul and it's interesting to see how things have changed between Jake and Bishop after she left NSA to join NCIS.
As I wrote, this episode was just the beginning of the arc so there are some things left over from this episode that I hope will be addressed over the next two episodes. Bradley said he didn't kill Wilt and while I'm not sure I believe him, it is obvious he is not working alone. How many more teenagers have been recruited? And what have they been recruited for? More importantly, who is behind all this? Clearly there is some terrorist organization here, but to what extent? Are they foreign or domestic terrorists? If the press releases of the next episodes are any indication, this terrorist group is working on a global scale. Recruiting teens via the internet is a method that is currently being used by various terrorist organizations so the story of this arc is pretty believable. The story will continue in next week's episode and it will involve a pretty significant death.
What did you tink of "Troll"? Do you think Bradley killed Ensign Wilt? Were you shocked that Bradley blew himself up? Who do you think are behind all this? How far-reaching is this terrorist organization? And lastly, who do you think is going to die in the next episode? I would love to hear your opinions and theories in the comment section below.
The next episode, "The Lost Boys", airs Tuesday at 8/7c on CBS. Watch a promo for the episode below.
