Tonight, Clayton Reeves makes his first step toward being a Gibbs.
Todays flight is for Vietnam veterans, and all participants are required to travel with a guardian.
(His disdainful interpretation of friendship?
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Its for people who think ordering a pie with two forks is good.
Reach for my pie, pull back a stump.)
Unfortunately, Henry comes into NCIS orbit when Beck suddenly foams at the mouth and drops dead.
(Oh, dark web, may you never stop being a convenient plot unit!)
(Real talk: I am now picturing that, too.)
HOW DARE YOU, SIR.FRED ROGERS WAS A SAINT.
Thinking itll be easy, Reeves agrees.
Oh, Gibbs, you devil.
Henry easily reads Reeves body language, snapping, Whats the matter, your folks are dead?
I love this guy.
Henry says hed prefer Gibbs as his minder, but Gibbs tells the two men to work it out.
Reeves starts by reluctantly uncuffing him.
We have movement on Operation Sweaty Maverick: McGee found a video of Torres singingPuppy Loveat a karaoke bar.
They decide not to rely on circumstantial evidence and move on to interrogation.
Bishop gets her chance when she and Quinn are sent to a crisis hotline where Beck volunteered.
Quinn call the rumor hilarious.
At last, a lead!
Right, Henry replies, but two died anyway and the third was killed a month later.
We were all just kids.
When he offers Reeves a bottle from the minibar, Reeves tells him he doesnt drink.
Henry responds, Got that bad, huh?
Thats a telling little exchange.
Maya worked in product development at a flooring company.
McGee and Torres find a prescription bottle filled with what look like pencil shavings in her apartment.
Oh, and McGee also asks Torres about the fling rumor.
However, he neither confirms nor denies singing into a microphone while Quinn watched.
Could this all depend on what the definition of thing is?
At HQ, Reeves bumps into Vance, who offers him a high-risk mission to Syria.
Reeves is interested, particularly if it means not handcuffing any more senior citizens to chairs.
Reeves best hope is that Henry is with Gibbs, but no luck.
Thankfully, Gibbs knows where Henrys headed.
He pulls out a photo of the four of them in uniform, young and strong and unafraid.
Openly weeping now, he props the photo against the wall.
This is how I am.
Because this is all I ever was.
Gibbs isnt having it, though.
He says when you lose someone, you have to make a choice.
He chose to let people in afterwards, so I got the family I chose to make.
He made his choice.
The murder solved, Bishop and McGee make one last push to unmask Operation Sweaty Maverick.
And also, Does it look like I go to karaoke bars?
Plus, she says, her hair was way shorter back then.
Thats… a lot of denials, honestly.
But Bishop and McGee are satisfied and declare the rumor debunked.
It wasnt, she says, and Torres hums Puppy Love as they leave.
Stars and Stripes Forever plays, and he wades through crowd, shaking hands and receiving hugs.
