This is a scene-by-scene recap of NCIS Season 22 Episode 15, “Moonlit.” For a discussion about the episode, visit our NCIS Season 22 Episode 15 review.
Jimmy is drawing a sketch from Parker’s description of someone. It’s quite an emotional description. Jimmy is happy to help crack the case, but Parker says it’s not case-related.
He’s having Jimmy draw an old friend. The drawing is of a little girl in pigtails. Jimmy nailed it, and Parker sees a vision of the girl behind Jimmy, wearing a dress and yellow sweater.
Nick rides up on his motorcycle. Sawyer worried about scratches on his nearby vehicle. He’s part of the night crew. He’s a little arrogant. He gets the most out of his paychecks, which is why he has a large truck, and Nick doesn’t.
McGee laughs. Good old Sawyer, huh? Last week, he learned Sawyer’s grandmother died and left him some money. The likely reason he didn’t just say that to Nick? He’s Nick’s perfect nemesis.
When Nick has to pay for his coffee, he discovers Sawyer’s is on his tab.
They’ve got a case in an alley. Naval intelligence officer with a blunt force wound on his head. Jimmy rules with team “killed elsewhere,” as it looks like an alligator gnawed on his shin. Parker takes a wild guess. Someone with an alligator killed him and dumped the body.
The bite was more of a nip than a chomp. Once Jimmy tees up the bite radius details, Parker goes Jaws on him: “This was no boating accident!” He gets blank stares in return.
They found cocaine in Mosey’s back pocket. He’s recently been a flake, according to a coworker. The henna QR code on his wrist is a ticket to last night’s Excessfest.
Parker was excited to go, but he’s got a call with his dad, who is on a senior’s trip in Vegas.
After everyone leaves, Jimmy gets the Jaws joke.
Parker asks his dad about the girl, whose name was Lily. Dad doesn’t remember her, but Parker wonders who else might have known her? Parker wants his dad to talk about his mother. He had a dream about Lily and his mother, and he needs answers.
Dad says he blocked out those years, and what little he remembers, Parker is better off knowing. Dad hangs up on him.
Jessica and Nick chat with the head of the rave cleanup crew. Some crazy kid let the alligator loose, and someone got bit, he said. Then he wonders why a grown-ass Navy man would be at an event like this.
As the watch video of last night’s events, Parker says no mardi gras I’ve ever been to featured a woman trapezing herself over a live alligator. Nick says he must have hit the wrong bars.
Jessica asks about Parker’s dad. He says he’s fine.
They spot the man at the rave the second he’s accepting the vial of cocaine from SAWYER! Nick says, maybe this is how he really paid for his truck, and everyone gives him the side-eye.
Nick can’t believe Sawyer would like about his grandmother dying. One has been dead for five years. He wonders what’s the big deal for taking some personal time off. Agents do it all the time. He lost his sister to drugs, so he was taking the coke away from someone, not selling it.
He’s been doing a side gig by watching over a wealthy family’s daughter. She’s the one who released the alligator. Sawyer can’t believe that Mosey is dead. Mosey took the girl home and even took the girl home. He planned on going to the ER to get stitches.
Vance is here to kick Sawyer while he’s down. Moonlighting is against the rules, and now he’ll have to act as a rookie under caution, working with the team as a probationary officer.
McGee, Nick, and Sawyer visit Shayna’s mother. She calls in her security guy, who can’t believe Mosey is dead. She’s just beside herself over the inadequacy of her guy and how her daughter is in the wind.
Security dude isn’t pleased about Sawyer being on Kate’s payroll. Nick and Sawyer take verbal jabs at each other.
Jessica pushes Parker about his dad. Great, huh? He knew she wouldn’t buy that. He tells Jess that if she has any questions for her parents, ask them before they’re too old to remember or too cranky to care.
Kasie discovered a clue: a mountain forest frog, which is owned by the Reynolds family. Mosey was at the cabin with Shayna. The cabin on the property is her happy place. The three amigos detour around to the cabin looking for Shayna.
She comes out swinging a huge stick. She’s happy when she sees Sawyer. She’s waiting for Bobby (Mosey). She doesn’t know he’s dead. She says that if Mosey is dead, her family — her mother — will want her dead, too.
She brought Bobby to the cabin, but he ran out after he got a text. Bobby had told her to stay and not open the door to anybody other than him. Her family wants to sell the property and the forest frog. Big deals are worth killing over, Shayna swears.
Kate answers to international shareholders who don’t care about their family. Shayna says that her mother is a malignant narcissist who will say anything to get her way.
When the agents talk with her again, she’s either doing an excellent acting job or is much different than Shayna imagines.
Shayna is constantly in search of herself, mom says. Shayna finally seemed like she was maturing until the frogs issue. Kate has the development map up, and the pond and cabin aren’t included. She says it’s love and family that are forever.
Dad caught a redeye to talk with Parker. Vegas wasn’t for him. Parker apologizes for pushing him so hard, but dad says he has every right to push. And he’s ready to talk. He never saw what good it would do for him and his sister to know the truth about how his mom really died.
Parker was told she suffered a stroke a few years after she ran out on them. She came home drunk one day, dragging Parker behind her. She said she was seeing friends. Dad was really concerned about her driving drunk with Parker in the car. She drove off in a rage, and she never came back.
The Sheriff came to the door and drove him a few towns over, where her car was wrapped around a tree. She was killed instantly around Rt. 9 near Deerfield. They moved so much, and had no family and friends around, so there wasn’t a funeral.
McGee found a video on Shayna’s phone. There’s a man dumping a body in the pond. If Mosey saw it, that might be why he was killed.
Nick and Sawyer take Shayna to the pond. Nick wants Sawyer to get into the pond. Sawyer wants to call a dive team. Nick says the probie needs to get off probation, and this is how to do it.
And plus, he’s his perfect nemesis. Sawyer is like, WTF?
Oddly, he doesn’t take off his clothes. But he wades in far enough to have found the body and to earn a “good job” from Nick.
Shayna is tearing herself apart over the fact she missed this. Sawyer says that people in their 20s are supposed to search for themselves and their true calling. She did nothing wrong.
When McGee comes in, the facial recognition software finds a match. He’s Kasie’s good luck charm. Clara Braden, 46, is married to Kate Reynold’s chief of security, Pete. Shayna thought Pete always seemed so nice.
They’re carrying the body to the truck when Pete arrives. He seems to think he can clean up this mess by making a bigger one.
Sawyer plays into his nemesis characters, and he and Nick change the situation. It’s not much better, but at least they have leverage. A shootout begins, and Sawyer’s truck gets caught in the crossfire.
Kate cannot believe she actually trusted someone like Pete with her security. But she’s happy for another opportunity to make things right with Shayna. Shayna agrees.
Kate offers her new head of security position to Sawyer and Nick. Nick says that if Sawyer is really still trying to find himself like he mentioned to Shayna, he should take the job, but he thinks he’s good at the job.
Sawyer tears up the card, and Nick pockets his.
Parker looks for news about his mother’s car crash. There were no skid marks, which led officers to believe she increased the speed, which led to the impact. The child Parker keeps seeing was at the scene.
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