'NCIS' Season 12 Spoilers News: Episode 16 Recap 'Blast From the Past'
This week, on an all new episode of "NCIS," a covert identity made for one of Gibbs' undercover cases 20 years ago resurfaces after it was discovered that a murder victim was living under the alias.
"Blast From The Past" starts with a report coming in about a dead man in a warehouse. The victim, named Leeland Robert Spears, was flagged 20 years ago by NCIS, so if he goes missing or is reported dead, then NCIS should know all about it.
Gibbs is certain that the man is living under an assumed identity. He knows this for a fact because Gibbs used the name Leeland Robert Spears 20 years ago on an undercover. He's surprised to find out that the man pretending to be Leeland not only stole his name, but also his made-up date of birth.
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It turns out that the victim was a recluse who has been living in an apartment filled with junk food and video games. The team finds it odd that a 50-year-old man would spend his life holing up in a man cave, so they go to another location which also looks like the first apartment. However, just as the the NCIS got there, the building blows up. Fortunately, the agents came out of it unharmed.
The team now tries to investigate how the man got hold of Gibbs' alias. They were surprised to find out that their boss once tried to pretend that he was an IT expert, which made them all wonder whether Gibbs was really clueless when it comes to all things tech-related, or he's just pretending and messing with their heads.
Ducky has the man's body in the morgue, and the body has a tattoo which was identified as a Serbian tattoo. Later, another body winds up in the morgue, and the victim also assumed a fake identity from a previous NCIS mission.
Later, Stark, the woman who used to create all the undercover identities back in the day, confessed to Gibbs that she joined forces with the Serbs after she was forced to retire. She helped the two Serbian agents steal data from NCIS, and she swore she didn't know that they were going to be killed.
Stark helps the NCIS team bring in the Serbs' handler, and he says that the two got so used to living in the United States and that they wanted to live a new life, but in the end they got killed because the Serbians thought that they might turn traitor to their country.
"NCIS" airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on CBS.
