The squad was previously dispatched by helicopter to a research vessel in the middle of the ocean after a crew of Navy Seals became stuck during a mission in NCIS Season 19 Episode 11. They discovered the hard way that the ambush was staged in order for extremists to capture their helicopter and sell it on the black market.
Parker thwarted their plot by hiding aboard the confiscated helicopter and informing the genuine Navy Seals, who arrived to apprehend the bandits. Parker fully accepted the NCIS team as his own and was willing to die for them at that point. Gibbs will not be returning to NCIS, it has been confirmed.
Torres arrived late to work on NCIS Season 19 Episode 12 after an interesting night. When Agent Dale Sawyer put in some additional time with Parker, Torres felt intimidated.
Is NCIS: Fight or Flight based on real events?
The NCIS crew was dispatched to a dump to look into the death of a Navy officer named Kane Lantz, who was missing an eyeball. Agent Collins from the Defense Intelligence Agency appeared out of nowhere and took over the crime scene, refusing to explain why… claiming it was classified.
Director Vance and Parker used a video conference to get information from DIA Director Maurine Lieutenant General Joseph Clark. He told them that Agent Lantz had taken a military laptop home with highly classified information on it. It had gone missing, and they feared that his eye had been taken out to gain access.
The research led them to Alex Russo, Lantz’s brother. He used Lantz as an ATM and discovered his brother was no longer alive. He admitted that a loan shark offered him money in exchange for stealing his brother’s laptop. Lantz attempted to recover it and died in the process! Torres had been acting strangely lately, and the squad wondered why. Since Gibbs’ departure. They did hear, however, that Lantz had been tortured to death. The team ended up in an abandoned warehouse as a result of their inquiry. It wasn’t a torture chamber, but a subterranean cage fighting octagon.
Someone’s Keeping an Eye On Lantz’s injuries appeared to be related to cage fighting, and the crew wondered how he was connected. They found a man named Maxim Dovhal after doing more research.
The team assigned Knight the task of getting Torres to open up when the subject of his behavior came up again, but he refused. They tracked down Dovhal and tried to catch him, but he eluded them and assaulted them. He told them to strike him because he was being monitored, which was surprising.
After Knight tased the subject, they were able to apprehend him. When quizzed, Dovhal admitted to some people threatening to harm his wife if he didn’t spar in the fight club. His wife and he relocated to the United States. They’d been separated for months, and they needed to locate Elena, his wife. The NCIS team was now pursuing a human trafficking extortion organisation.
The Octagon
The group devised a strategy for going incognito as a cage fighter. They intended to deploy two agents to battle it out. Regardless, the winner would meet with the organization’s leader. Torres and Sawyer were the two agents. They teased each other about their concerns and battled vehemently. They had to be separated.
McGee pretended to be a banker and led the undercover to the cage. They met with Sammy, who called an audible and switched who they were fighting. Torres had to spar with a colossus! Torres jumped on the behemoth when they entered the ring until it was his turn. Meanwhile, Sawyer rummaged in the storeroom and discovered a closed refrigerator. He discovered the eyeball being preserved when he broke in.
Torres was pummeled to a pulp in the ring. Torres appeared to have given up on life and returned to the ring for more wrath. Torres regained his strength and defeated the colossus!
When they went to meet the boss, Sammy and his gang were suspicious. The thugs were about to draw their weapons when agents flooded the area. It turned out that Sammy was the one in charge! Dovhal was reunited with his wife after the human trafficking network was exposed.
Torres was being stitched up by Palmer, and he, too, inquired as to why he had become so enraged recently. He identified with Torres and recognized that he was grieving the loss of his father figure. He consoled his colleague in order to assist him in his recovery…