History Recap / NCISHawaiiS02E03StolenValor

* SpottingTheThread: For all her effort to impersonate Lt. Commander Garrett, carefully aligning the ribbons and putting on the correct shoulder boards for a lieutenant commander, Vessela Toska neglects to put on the correct uniform cover (hat). Toska wears a cover with a single anchor emblem, which is the correct emblem for senior enlisted, e.g., a chief petty officer. But officers like Garrett wear a cover with a more elaborate emblem: an eagle perched on a shield in front of two crossed anchors. Toska even had a reference photo of the real Garrett wearing the correct cover. Whoever stole Garrett's identification card and military medals neglected to also steal one of Garrett's covers, so instead they had to buy one, and they bought the wrong one.

NCIS Agent Tara and FBI Agent Whistler are sparring at the gym when Tara gets the call to go investigate Garrett's death. The team quickly find that the deceased is not Garrett.

After a couple of days cleaning houses, Whistler is given the assignment of impersonating Garrett. It turns out that Bulgarian terrorists wanted to steal Cs-137, a radioactive isotope of cesium, out of a special medical machine in order to use it in a dirty bomb.

* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: Kate goes undercover to infiltrate a Bulgarian theft ring by going to a job interview. The following day, she meets an angry Ms. Petrov and her goons in the storage room, the latter accusing her of lying. We're lead to believe that her cover has been blown, but it remains intact. The lie is one of omission, where Kate's cover identity failed to disclose felony convictions.
* BalkanBastard: The Bulgarian ring is full of them. Ms. Petrov is the only one to avert it, and Malkie is a gender inversion, given that she is the ringleader. She orchestrated the theft of Cesium-137 in order to sell it to Eastern European seperatists.

* SpottingTheThread: For all her effort to impersonate Lt. Commander Garrett, carefully aligning the ribbons and putting on the correct shoulder boards for a lieutenant commander, Vessela Toska neglects to put on the correct uniform cover (hat). Toska wears a cover with a single anchor emblem, which is the correct emblem for senior enlisted, e.g., a chief petty officer. But officers like Garrett wear a cover with a more elaborate emblem: an eagle perched on a shield in front of two crossed anchors. Toska even had a reference photo of the real Garrett wearing the correct cover. Whoever stole Garrett's identification card and military medals neglected to also steal one of Garrett's covers, so instead they had to buy it.

* SpottingTheThread: The homicide victim was dressed as a naval officer in service whites. However, the cap insignia does not correspond to the rank/rate on the rest of the uniform. It has the anchor for Chief Petty Officer instead of an officer's crest, but shoulder boards for a Lieutenant Commander.

So Whistler goes undercover as a down-on-her-luck Canadian immigrant to the Happy Housekeepers office, where she convinces Lydia Petrov (Creator/KathySearle) to give her a job as a housekeeper.

Team Tennant suspects foul play while investigating a car accident when the victim turns out to have been impersonating a naval officer.
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* JanitorImpersonationInfilatration: The Bulgarians disguise themselves as housekeepers, uniforms and everything, to infiltrate the homes of unsuspecting people, many of whom are privy to matters of national security.

* JanitorInfiltrationImpersonation: The Bulgarians disguise themselves as housekeepers, uniforms and everything, to infiltrate the homes of unsuspecting people, many of whom are privy to matters of national security.