The plot on last night’s NCIS centered around the death of a political blogger named Matt Burns. The outspoken, conspiracy theory fanatic is pushed off a bridge while following up on a tip, going out to meet with an informant. Although the team did investigate the death of a naval officer named Rod Arnett who was under suspicion by Burns of insider trading, they concluded that his death was a car accident. However, on his blog, Burns had accused the NCIS team of covering up a murder.
Now because of Burn’s murder and with new evidence about Arnett’s insider trading, the NCIS team decides to reopen the case and things get complicated immediately. When they exhume Arnett’s body to try to gather more evidence they find that it has been stolen and inside the casket there are only metal weight plates. Because of his background, the NCIS team suspects that Burns stole Arnett’s body so that he could fuel the conspiracy that NCIS was covering up a murder. The mystery concludes at the very end of the show as it is discovered that Arnett did in fact gave insider information to a sandwich shop owner who he road the train with everyday.
Because they had no other contact outside of the train, the two believed no one would ever discover that they conspired to earn a $2 million fortune through insider training. The sandwich shop owner became paranoid that he would be found out so he gave the tip to Burns to lure him to the bridge to kill him. Unknown to him, almost everything Burns said he knew about the case was a lie and he had no evidence whatsoever linking the sandwich shop owner to anything.
This was an interesting episode of NCIS with a broad mix of characters and clues. You really have no idea who did what or what the motive was until the very end of the show. I liked the twist with the local cops, with their two head bullies going at it to try to solve the same crime.
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