- Title: NCIS – A Family Matter
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Picking from the last season’s cliffhanger, NCIS launches its twentieth season with Parker (Gary Cole) on the run and the team working to prove his innocence and untangle a convoluted storyline which will leave the team dumbfounded before the end. The episode marks the first-half a two-part crossover with the visiting Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and Ernie (Jason Antoon) lending a hand which will be reciprocated in the NCIS: Hawai’i season premiere.
Pushing the larger story forward is the discovery of incarcerated prisoners using Parker’s current status in attempts to get their prison sentences commuted. The team comes across one convict (Michael Weston) who offers NCIS a story about who might be behind the Parker frame job, but it turns out isn’t being completely honest with them. The episode offers returns of Teri Polo and Joe Spano lending a hand to help Parker, although none of them realize until far too late that they’ve been played and put a dangerous terrorist on the loose headed to Hawaii where the storyline will continue.