Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, May 15, 2023, season 20 episode 21 called, “Kompromat,” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below. In tonight’s NCIS season 20 episode 20, “Second Opinion” as per the CBS synopsis, “When a suspicious murder occurs in the classified section of the National Archive, NCIS must investigate a string of Russian spy encounters that may be linked to the crime.
Also, Jimmy accidentally makes a confession that could change the course of his relationship with Knight”
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In tonight’s NCIS episode, Human blood was found on the floor of the classified section of the National Archives. The janitors were the ones to find it and they followed the blood until they found the body of Navy Reservist Louis Dacey. He was a security guard at the museum. He was stabbed to death.
Jimmy was able to place his time of death on the night before. NCIS looked into anyone who visited that wing around that same time. They found out that there was only one person who was there. Her name is Senator Constance Miller. She’s the one that those Russian spies were all interested in. And she was also the woman that Parker was dating.
Parker had left his team to do the paperwork so that he could finally enjoy some personal time. He ended up making a date with Constance. She came over to his place. They had a great night and then the next thing Parker is hearing was that his own team wanted to interrogate his girlfriend.
They called him to tell him that they were going over to the senator’s home to question her, but he told them that they wouldn’t find Constance at home. She was still at his place. She’s been coming to his place for several nights and one of them was when the murder took place.
Constance didn’t go into the National Archives. She has access to the classified section because of her duties serving on several committees. She also had visited the place once before. She just didn’t go on the night in question. She was with Parker all night. NCIS then pulled up the cameras and they saw that it was a man wearing contact lenses that entered the building.
The contact lenses were the perfect image of Constance’s eyes. It’s how he got pass the biometrics on the door. The fact that he wasn’t a woman probably clued in the security guard who was killed for whatever that man was looking for.
Constance has no idea how he got a perfect likeness of her eyes. She wanted the mystery man caught. Parker promised they would get him and then he ran into some issues.
He and his team wanted to talk to the Russian spies that worked Constance’s campaign only those same Russians were being exchanged in a prisoner swap with Russia. The chief council for the State Department didn’t care that the Russians were planning something on domestic soil. He wanted to make the swap at all costs because it would make him look good in the press.
It was just NCIS who didn’t want to let this drop. They looked into what happened at that museum. They determined that one file was stolen. The file was on a Russian defector named Ilya Sokolov. He was once a professional chess player with an extremely high IQ. They called up Ducky. Ducky remembers the guy. He said that Ilya worked several jobs within the Russian government until the Berlin Wall came down. Ilya chose to defect and he was given a new identity. He even became a professor.
By time NCIS were able to track him down, he was already dead. His killer was even using his shower to wash off all the blood. The killer was identified as Yuri Valkov. He was the son of a Russian oligarch. He was also the Russian spies’ handler. Or he was until they were captured by NCIS. Yuri became frustrated and he decided to deal with the problem himself. The agents asked Nate Billings about Yuri. And Nate was so frightened by Yuri that he later killed himself before he could be handed back to Russia.
Nate knew that the Russians would kill him. The Russians were killing all the spies connected to Constance’s campaign. One of the spies disappeared into Europe while the other two were killed. Councilor Greco didn’t care about the deaths. He said what Russia does with the spies was none of their business. He was more upset that he couldn’t trade Nate than he was about the death of the others. Councilor Greco was pushing through with the prisoner exchange even after they found Evelyn.
NCIS got to Evelyn. They told her she has prisoner rights. They got her to refuse the trade and she stayed behind to answer questions. She told them all about Yuri. She wasn’t scared of him. And while she was answering questions, Greco was arrested because he was trading prisoners for an American that died of natural causes three weeks ago. He knew he was setting them up to die but didn’t care because the Russians were paying him and now he was a traitor to his own country.
The reason Yuri hunted down Sokolov was because Sokolov was working on a weapon of mass destruction before he defected. And the Russians still wanted their weapon.
But Constance broke up with Parker because she said he’s still in love with his ex.
THE END!
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