- Title: NCIS: Hawai’i – Switchback
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The first-half of the First Season’s season finale finds Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) drafted into helping the returning Captain Milius (Enver Gjokaj) in a prison transfer that is jeopardized by the death of a Naval security officer in Hawaii. Even with the help of the others who stay behind to investigate, and capture the two mercenaries hired for the kill, NCIS remains largely in the dark as to who is going to such lengths to see a Russian spy returned in exchange for an American who supposedly knows very little worthy of keeping him other than as a bargaining chip.
The episode is notable for Gjokaij’s return in a way that leads the series back to touch on Tennant’s past with the CIA. While less gung-ho than the missions McGarrett would take on, it does feel like another similarity between NCIS: Hawai’i and Hawaii: Five-0 with the past of the team leader’s past pulling them into dangerous situations. Despite another attack, the exchange goes through but all is not well leaving a life in the balance and several answers to be discovered in the final episode of the season.
