When Lucy receives a strange call on night watch from a man admitting to murder, the NCIS team sets out to find him.
Tropes:
- Bittersweet Ending: For Joe Pitt, Lucy and the team are able to prove his innocence and save his life. Although Joe will have to answer for being forced to kill Markus in self-defense, Jane and Lucy promise him that they will help make the justice system work in his favor. Nevertheless, Joe will face a tough and uncertain road ahead of him due to his traumatic brain injury.
- He Knows Too Much / You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: What Ethan and Markus intended to do to Joe after the robbery ended in murder.
- Killing in Self-Defense: Joe was forced to kill Markus in self-defense after realizing that he and Ethan intended to murder him for being a loose end.
- Phony Veteran: The Big Bad Ethan Denton pretended to be a veteran so he could get close to Joe and manipulate him into helping him commit a jewel robbery.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Former Marine Corporal Joseph Pitt suffers from both PTSD
and TBInote , which Ethan and Markus exploited to manipulate Joe into helping them commit a crime. - Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Joe suffers from traumatic brain injury or TBI caused by an explosion while serving overseas, leaving him with short-term memory loss and struggling with high-functioning sequencing.
- Unwitting Pawn: Shell-Shocked Veteran Joe Pitt was manipulated by Ethan and Markus into helping them carry out a jewel robbery that ends in a murder.
