'NCIS New Orleans' Episode 19 Recap 'The Insider'
This week on "NCIS: New Orleans," while conducting an autopsy on a Petty Officer who is believed to have died of natural causes, an armed man enters the morgue and holds Wade, Sebastian, and Danny hostage.
A man is trying to get through airport security, and a guard approaches him for a random search. The man shows the guard his military badge and says his name is Felix Armstrong. As the guard lets him through, Armstrong suddenly drops to the ground and appears to be unconscious. The guards rush to his side and they find out that he's no longer breathing.
Dr. Wade arrives at the airport with the NCIS team to investigate the body. She says that he could have died due to lack of oxygen or possible drug use. Later, while she's in the coroner's office preparing to do an autopsy, a man walks in and tells her that Felix's family has given him permission to take the body. When Dr. Wade says she can't release the body until the autopsy is done, the man pulls a gun on her.
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Pride calls Dr. Wade, and she surreptitiously lets him know that things are not ok and that she, Danny, and Sebastian are in trouble. Later, when the guard learns that something is not right, he goes in to investigate, and the guard gets shot. Danny also takes a bullet wound to the chest when he tries to tackle the gunman.
Danny's lungs are filling up with blood. Unfortunately, Loretta's wrist was injured in the scuffle earlier, so she is unable to operate on him. That leaves Sebastian to do the deed. He steps up and he cuts open Danny's chest so that he could drain the blood from his lungs. Danny tells Dr. Wade that he has a message for his brother, but she tells him that he will live through this.
The team follows a lead, and they end up at the home of a Russian doctor who has been taking drugs out of the bodies of dead drug mules. The doctor identifies the gunman as Marcus Martel.
At Martel's home, Brody and LaSalle discover that Martel was friends with Armstrong. Martel's brother was a Navy SEAL whose death was very mysterious, and Martel have been trying to find out the real cause of his brother's death.
Inside the morgue, Sebastian gets a flashdrive from Armstrong's stomach. Armstrong's commanding officer, Captain Dawson, arrives outside the morgue and says that Armstrong downloaded classified information into a hard drive and swallowed it. Dawson attempts to go into the morgue, but Dwayne stops him.
Dwayne tells his tech guy to get the information from the flash drive, particularly the file on how Martel's brother, Nathan, died. Dwayne lets Martel know that he has the file, but before he can see it, he has to let Danny go to get some medical attention. Martel agrees, and he learns that Nathan was killed by an Alajamid terrorist front who was working with the US Navy to take down a Syrian officer—but they turned on Nathan and killed him instead. Martel is devastated, and FBI officers come in and arrest him.
"NCIS: New Orleans" airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on CBS.
