The case of a Navy seaman abducted by a human trafficking ring leads Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and Dominguez (Mariel Molino). However, things get more interesting when cartel responsible is revealed to be the same cartel that killed Gibbs' family. "Vivo o Muerto" plays the "everyone on deck" trope with lots of work in the office while Gibbs and Dominguez, and eventually Franks (Kyle Schmid), work to track down not only the seaman but several other women all held by the cartel whose members include the man Gibbs has been hunting since his return from overseas.
With his colleagues watching him closely, Gibbs holds it together and helps free the women and take down the members who it turns out do not include Pedro Hernandez. The twist of the episode, which like several includes flashbacks to Gibbs struggling to deal with the loss prior to joining NCIS, is when Lala interrogates one of the men busted in the raid who reveals that Hernandez is already dead. Turns out he was killed months ago... by a sniper.
Rather than center an episode around Gibbs hunting for revenge, "Vivo o Muerto" instead gives us the killing in the epilogue during a flashback before jumping to the present and forcing Franks and Dominguez into an uncomfortable drive back across the border with Gibbs with neither willing to ask the question they already know the answer to. The fallback of his actions, already consummated (and apparently the key to his recovery) are left open-ended. We know, unless the show plans to take a drastically different timeline to NCIS, that Gibbs gets away with the crime, but it will be interesting to see how the knowledge of what he has done, and their silence after the fact, may effect his coworkers.
- Title: NCIS: Origins - Vivo o Muerto
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