Old spies don’t die.
They retire to suburban D.C. We open with Danny Butler (Matthew Lawrence yes,Joeysbrother and one of the kids fromMrs.
DoubtfireandBoy Meets World) filling in his fathers doctor about dear old dads recent memory lapses.
Matthew Lawrence, Wilmer Valderrama, John Getz, and Katrina Law in ‘NCIS’.Sonja Flemming/CBS
Then she asks him to recite a series of numbers she gave him at the start of the appointment.
Shouldnt have made scary voice not in his earshot, doc!
This surprising turn of events is a job for NCIS, naturally.
Gary Cole and Sean Murray in ‘NCIS’.Sonja Flemming/CBS
When McGee (Sean Murray) searches the numbers on his phone, his phone glitches out.
Geez, the NCIS team is reallyhell on electricityso far this season!
So with the memory issues, Butler could be leaking this classified information all over the place.
Sean Murray in ‘NCIS’.Sonja Flemming/CBS
And this is when the CIA gets involved.
You thought the FBI guys last week were bad?
Of course, the CIA bricking a U.S. military hospital over a Google search is also kinda bad.
Katrina Law in ‘NCIS’.Sonja Flemming/CBS
Aaand thats when the hospital calls to report that Butler killed an orderly in his escape from the hospital.
Thats when the team realizes that the CIA didnt actually know where Butlerwasat the time.
So much for that whole friends close, enemies closer" thing.
(I guess we can rule out scared and confused, Parker says.)
The team struggles to track Butler, who uses old-school tradecraft to dodge their surveillance.
And thats a lead!
and although we dont get to see it, the wily old spy sucker punches Torres during the apprehension.
As they been doing, the team ignores Conrad to conduct their own investigation.
Unfortunately, Sparrow was killed in East Berlin in 1980.
So Butler’s timeshifting, which happens to people with cognitive issues.
Parker gently breaks it to him that its 2024.
He shows him a photo he took of Butler on his cell phone, but Butler just scoffs.
I have done future-man a dozen times.
I know the trick.
THIS is theNCISspinoff I want.
Aaaand thats when Butler recognizes Conrad as the man from the hospital who tried to kill him.
Conrad tries to shoot him, but his gun has no bullets.
And thus, a sting was born.
Furthermore, Butler was actually a highly decorated double agent who fed the USSR misinformation the whole time.
With that, our surprisingly heart-warning spy tale ends with father and son heading out for ice cream.
