NCIS - Too Many Cooks

With multiple teams in town for Professor Dale Harding's (Robert Picardo) retirement, the party turns into an investigation when the professor turns up dead of apparent suicide with evidence of stolen Department of Defense files on his computer. The set-up allows for multiple team-ups with Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and Knight (Katrina Law) performing some aggressive driving at the academy, Callen (Chris O'Donnell) and Hanna (LL Cool J) interrogating McGee (Sean Murray) who is a suspect for about three minutes, and Hanna alternating between helping and annoying Kasie (Diona Reasonover).

Of the guest-stars, Boone (Noah Mills) draws the short-straw with nothing of note to do in the episode. Each rock the teams turn over leads to the professor looking more and more guilty until they uncover NCIS most wanted Simon Williams (Kevin Changaris) was the one hunting the professor and hoping to get his hands on the file. The first-third of the three-part crossover event ends with the discovery of an associate of Williams in Hawaii and the kidnapping of Jimmy (Brian Dietzen) and Tennant allowing the storyline to move to NCIS: Hawaii for part two.

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