- Gibbs and company continue to investigate the killings at Vance's home, seeking whoever hired the shooter; the gang identify the hit man and later figure out who's responsible. Ziva buries her father, and Vance and the team bury Jackie.
- Gibbs and company continue to investigate the killings at Vance's home, seeking whoever hired the shooter; McGee identifies the gunman; Tony and McGee get a lead on the kingpin; Tony questions the suspect. Tony provides secure lodging to Ziva at his own pad, and Vance takes leave and goes to a hotel. The new director of the Mossad arrives and throws his weight around. McGee says that the bullets came from Russia via Sweden; he also identifies the smuggler, who is Iranian; McGee traces the payment to the hit man, then Ziva interprets a crucial and clinching clue, which leads to the man responsible. A Suburban explodes, killing a key foreign official. Ziva escorts her father's body back home for burial in Israel; the whole gang accompany Vance and his kids for the burial of Jackie; Ziva goes to the wailing wall and later picks olives and plants an olive tree.—DocRushing
- Ziva remembers learning how to say the blessing with her father when she was a child.
Cut to present day, her praying in a synagogue, asking God why she should still have faith. Tony finds her. She's not in the mood for sympathy. She wants revenge.
At NCIS, Sec Nav Jarvis gets 48 hours from the Secretary of State before they tell Israel what happened. They caught the shooter, but not the ones who hired him. Jarvis is mad no one told him Eli David was in the country. Deputy Director Craig is on his way back to fill in for Vance.
In the morgue, Duckie puts Jackie Vance away. She died of a single gunshot. The shooter committed suicide by cyanide, but they haven't ID'd him. He also had less than six months to live, due to liver cancer.
Vance comes into the office to find Deputy Director Jerome Craig (Greg Germann) in his chair. He was buying chocolates for Jackie in Geneva when he got the news. He excuses himself. Vance asks to be part of the investigation. Jarvis will keep him in the loop, but says he can't be involved.
Outside, Craig assures Gibbs he's not interested in Vance's job permanently. Gibbs assures him he has his back.
McGee IDs the shooter as Roland Ames, a Swedish mercenary. Gibbs wants them to track down Eli's Iranian pal Kazmi -- Gibbs dropped a bug in his pocket. They track him to Georgetown.
Down in the lab, Abby makes cookies. Ziva drops by. She knows she has to pretend her father is still alive. Ziva wants to know about the bullets, but Abby says she can't tell her.
Gibbs sidles up to Kazmi on the street. Gibbs pulls him into an alley and pulls a gun on him, demanding to know where Eli is. Once Gibbs is sure Kazmi doesn't know, Gibbs takes him in to NCIS to break the news.
Kazmi says he approached Eli about forging peace. To prove he's on Gibbs' side, he offers to share Iranian intelligence.
In MTAC, Tim chats with Gavriela Adel, their mole in Jerusalem, who has heard from her contacts that Eli David was going to visit Ziva. She says the First Wave group, a pro-Palestinian organization funded by an American billionaire named Gustafson, was out to get Eli David.
Back in the office, McGee finds a wire transfer of $3 million to the shooter's ex wife just after the shooting.
Tony interviews Gustafson about First Wave. He admits contributing because of his oil ties in the Middle East. Gustafson is about to call his lawyer when Vance busts in, full of rage, and asks Gustafson what he thinks about collateral damage to innocent people. Craig diplomatically gets Vance out of the room, then asks him, on Jarvis' behalf, to take administrative leave.
Duckie finds Ziva in the dark morgue standing outside the drawer that holds her father. She wants to take his body to Israel for burial according to Jewish custom. Duckie agrees to help, despite the secret murder investigation.
Tony and Gibbs come down, telling her to go stay at Tony's because her place isn't safe. At Tony's she sees that he has brought in her old friend Shmiel for her to talk to.
Back at NCIS, Mossad Deputy Director Ilan Bodnar (Oded Fehr) comes looking for Ziva and Eli. He demands they call Jarvis. They call Gibbs instead.
At Tony's place in the middle of the night, he hears Ziva making troubled noises in her sleep.
Back at NCIS, Jerome Craig briefs Bodnar on Jackie and Eli's deaths. He assumes the Palestinians or Iranians are behind it -- Craig tells him the Israelis have agreed to let NCIS lead the investigation and the Israelis prosecute. Bodnar doesn't agree to cooperate.
Gibbs meets Vance. He can't even tell his kids who killed her. Vance tells Gibbs he now understands some of what Gibbs has done, getting revenge for his wife's murder. He asks if it was worth it, but Gibbs doesn't answer. Vance asks Gibbs to catch whoever did it to keep war from breaking out.
At Tony's place, Ziva checks her email and learns Bodnar is in town. She's upset he's in the loop and she's not. Tony tells her to focus on grieving.
At NCIS, Abby finds the bullets were Russian, from a batch seized by Swedish police last year. They were smuggled by an Iranian named Omeed Abasi. He's not in the Iranian intelligence files Kazmi gave them. Gibbs talks to Kazmi, who knows Omeed's name and is surprised he wasn't in the intel files.
Craig and Gibbs believe him and don't think Kazmi's involved.
Bodnar drops by, angry over having learned that they believe Kazmi really wanted peace. He thinks Kazmi and Iran are responsible and says it could lead to war.
At Tony's place, Ziva sees an incoming video call on Tony's computer and answers. It's Bodnar, he wants to see her. When she says no, he says he'll just track her down.
Kazmi checks with his office and finds Omeed was in the files they sent -- but there was a six hour lag from when they sent the files and when they arrived. They were hacked.
McGee tracks the wire transfer to the shooter's ex-wife to a bank account in the Caymans labeled Virtue. They call Ziva, who says Virtue is "Tohar" in Hebrew -- Ilan Bodner's middle name. He's on his way to see her. They roll out.
Tony tells her where to find the gun taped to the back of his toilet.
Gibbs and Tony arrive there first. McGee reports Bodnar isn't at his hotel room.
Jarvis, Craig and Gibbs brief Kazmi on the fact Bodnar is behind Eli's death, trying to frame Iran and take over as director of Mossad. Gibbs commends him for trying to forge peace.
Kazmi gets a ride to the airport in an SUV. When his car stops on the street, it explodes in a giant fireball.
Ziva and Shmiel prepare to fly with Eli David's body to Israel. Tony comes to see her off. She gets choked up and gives him a hug. He whispers "at lo lavad" (you are not alone) in her ear. "I know," she says.
The title of the song that plays for the rest of the episode is "Not Alone" by Patti Griffin.
The team goes to Jackie's graveside service. Leon consoles his children.
In Jerusalem, Ziva leaves a prayer in the wailing wall and plants an olive tree in remembrance.
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