Requiem (NCIS)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Requiem
Colour =
Series = NCIS
Season = 5
Episode = 07


Caption = Gibbs with Maddie after he scared away the stalker.
Airdate = November 6, 2007
Production = 101
Writer = Shane Brennan
Director = Tony Wharmby
Guests = Cameron Goodman as Maddie Tyler Mark Totty as Retired Army Major Max Bourdais Nick Spano as Marine Sgt. Rudi Haas
Episode list = Episode chronology
Prev = Chimera
Next = Designated Target"Requiem" is the 101^st episode of the drama television series "NCIS" and the seventh episode of its fifth season.

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The episode, unlike almost all others, begins with a scene from later of the same episode. It depicts Tony jumping into the sea to save the passengers of a car, which turn out to be Gibbs and a young woman. He manages to drag both of them out of the car and onto the docks and starts to perform CPR but it does not seem to work and the viewer is left uncertain what happens next.

The episode then goes back to 24 hours before the first scene, with Gibbs entering the office. McGee tells him that there is a young woman waiting to talk to him and she refused to tell him what it was about. While the others start to speculate about her, Gibbs goes to meet her. It turns out that she was his dead daughter Kelly's best friend Maddie and that she needs his help about a Marine, Sgt. Haas, who began stalking her upon his return from Iraq. Gibbs decides to go home with her, meets the Marine on her doorsteps, and tells him rather violently (by grabbing his arm and holding it behind his back) to stop stalking Maddie, upon which the Marine leaves. Gibbs then goes into Maddie's house with her, and they talk about their memories of Kelly; she gives him a photo of both girls at the age of 8. She tells him that the girls buried a time capsule in his backyard when they were young. Gibbs, upon returning home, decides to search for it and finds it. He unburies it and brings it in to his cellar, but before he opens it, he receives a phone call from Maddie, screaming that the stalker is back. Gibbs hurries to her apartment only in time to see someone stuffing her into Sgt. Haas' car and driving away.

Back at NCIS, the team has begun researching about Sgt. Haas, and they found out that he was head of supplies in Iraq and was about to be discharged in 60 days, having refused to re-enlist. They also find out about a retired Major Bourdais, who runs a private security agency and who offered Haas a contract, citing he would be a valuable asset, but Haas turned down the offer as well. The team finds an abandoned warehouse where they think Haas has lived since his return, but to their surprise they find Haas dead for at least 12 hours, thus making it impossible for him to have been the kidnapper. In his car they find a GPS-tracking device which leads them back to Bourdais. He tells the NCIS that he was working for The Pentagon and was trying to track down 8 billion dollars in cash which went missing in Iraq. It was rumored that two of his employees were involved in stealing 4 million dollars, and they found out that Haas shipped it from Iraq two weeks ago. Gibbs goes on to search for them himself, trying to save Maddie without his badge and ID. Meanwhile, the team figures out that Sgt. Haas was stalking Maddie only because he needed a street address to send himself a letter to. Meanwhile, Gibbs figures it out himself and intercepts the letter, finding in it a receiving slip which allows him to retrieve 2 bags with the money inside.

He heads to the docks while Ziva and McGee still track his traces. Tony, being informed by the director, heads there directly. Gibbs enters a warehouse where the two ex-soldiers are holding Maddie. After trying to make them leave by giving them one of the bags and his car keys for the other one, he tosses the keys into the air, and in the ensuing chaos manages to knock them away and to run to their car with Maddie. He accelerates backwards and drops into the sea. Tony, who watched it from near the docks, runs and saves them as depicted in the first scene. Now it is also shown that they both survived.

Back in his basement, Gibbs looks over the photograph of his daughter and Maddie as kids and her photograph as an adult, which is how Gibbs imagined Kelly to be as well and then decides to re-bury the time capsule rather than opening it.(the CBS website, however, showed the items within the capsule, including candy, drawings, toys, and a letter from Kelly to Gibbs.)

Reception

On the episode's original airdate, "NCIS" was the most-watched prime-time program, beating "House" in total viewership by attracting approximately 18.3 million viewers in total with 4.1% rating and 11% share in the 18 to 49 years old demographics.Gough, Paul J., " [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ic4b4426aaea0ba2fe65e4d9f778cd074 'NCIS' nabs biggest audience, beats 'House'] ", "The Hollywood Reporter", November 8, 2007. Retrieved on November 8, 2007.]

References

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/ncis/requiem/episode/1142200/summary.html NCIS: Requiem] - TV.com