Dead Air (episode)

Dead Air is the fifth episode in NCIS Season 8 and the 167th episode of the entire NCIS series.
==Synopsis==
When a politically outspoken radio host and his guest, a Navy Commander are both gunned down during a radio show, the investigation leads the NCIS team to a terrorist conspiracy involving an extreme home-grown terrorist group and a potentially devastating threat that could jeopardize national security.
==Prologue==
As a lone car drives along the road, easy-listening music is heard coming from the car's radio.
Once the jingle has played, the DJ welcomes his audience back and announces that they're on Daily Backtalk, 86.9 FM. before revealing that he's their host, Adam Gator.
Gator then announces that this morning, he's joined by a very special guest: Navy Commander Walter Daniels.
It then cuts to the inside of a radio studio where Gator and Daniels are seen in a studio while a man in the background keeps an eye on things.
Gator remarks that many loyal listeners to this show have complained and questioned why they spend hundreds of billions sending troops, planes and ships to protect other countries and resources, they say should be here protecting and bettering the homeland.
As this happens, an SUV drives along the road, its driver glued to the station as Daniels remarks they are and that the age of isolationism is long over.
Gator then wonders about those who complain about the U.S. having to be pay to be the policemen of the world?
As this goes on, it's shown that the S pulls up outside the station itself.
Daniels remarks that American military deployment around the globe assures the safety of free trade of all and that it's trade that invariably benefits their own markets.
Meanwhile, the SUV stops outside the station with the driver getting out.
As Daniel continues on, stating that secondly they're constantly eliminating terrorist threats that may otherwise end up in their own backyard while the SUV driver grabs a rifle from the back of his SUV before heading into the station.
Gator remarks that it brings them to their next topic and the main reason he asked Daniels to be here today right after a word...
Meanwhile, the driver enters a booth and shoots the engineer, startling both Gator and Daniels.
"Hey, what are you doing?", Gator yells. "Hey, put it down".
It then heads outside to the radio station with Gator yelling at the shooter to stop him before he's shot while Daniels begs for his life and for someone to call before he too is gunned down.
It then cuts to a close-up of the radio in the SUV as two more gunshots are heard.
==Act One==
==Act Two==
==Act Three==
==Act Four==
==Act Five==
As a social worker talks to Kristen in the Conference Room, Ziva keeps an eye on things from outside with Gibbs asking for an update on Arthur Haskell.
Ziva tells Gibbs that Haskell regained consciousness and that he's being treated for a mild concussion with the doctors planning on releasing him into NCIS custody very soon.
==Major Events==
*It's revealed that five years have passed since the events in Under Covers (episode).
==Trivia==
*The opening murder appears to be partly derived from the murder of Alan Berg by members of the white supremacist group The Order.
*The laptop McGee uses to delete Ziva's NCIS profile, reverting it back to her original Mossad profile, is an Acer.
==Cast==
===Series Regulars===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Leroy Jethro Gibbs	Mark Harmon 	Special Agent in charge of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Anthony DiNozzo 	Michael Weatherly 	Senior Agent and second-in-command of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Ziva David 	Cote de Pablo 	NCIS Probationary Agent and also a member of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Timothy McGee 	Sean Murray (actor)	Junior Special Agent of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Abigail Sciuto 	Pauley Perrette 	Chief Forensic Specialist of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Leon Vance 	Rocky Carroll 	Director of NCIS. Despite being credited, Carroll does not appear in this episode.
Donald Mallard 	David McCallum 	Chief Medical Examiner of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
===Guest Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Arthur Haskell 	George Newbern 	A man who lives in Royal Woods.
Kristen Haskell 	Madisen Beaty 	Arthur Haskell's daughter.
Matt Lane 	Michael Monks 	A member of Military At Home- MAH.
Zach Nelson 	Jackson Hurst 	Another member of MAH and also the killer.
Annie Nelson 	Robyn Cohen 	Zach Nelson's wife.
Adam Gator 	Eli Goodman 	Radio Host and one of the murder victims.
Hannah Gator 	Sarah Manninen 	Adam Gator's wife.
Deeter Johanson 	Cokey Falkow 	A South African bomb maker.
Walter Daniels 	Michael Duvert 	Commander in the United States Navy and one of the murder victims.
Grumpy Neighbor 	Dan Desmond 	A man who resides in Royal Woods.
Brittany 	Nadia Bjorlin 	An attractive wife who lives in Royal Woods.
Boy 	Robert Ochoa 	A young boy who appears in the episode.
Businessman (Dead Air)	CJ Johnson 	Uncredited role.
Vincent Clark 	Leo Georgallis 	Uncredited role.
Haylie Haskell 	Tracy Dillon 	Uncredited role.
Abasi El Masri 	Abraham Justice	
  v—[ e]—dNCIS Season 8
♦ Spider and the Fly (episode) ♦ Worst Nightmare (episode) ♦ Short Fuse (episode) ♦ Royals and Loyals (episode) ♦ Dead Air (episode) ♦ Cracked (episode) ♦ Broken Arrow (episode) ♦ Enemies Foreign (episode) ♦ Enemies Domestic (episode) ♦ False Witness (episode) ♦ Ships in the Night (episode) ♦ Recruited (episode) ♦ Freedom (episode) ♦ A Man Walks into a Bar (episode) ♦ Defiance (episode) ♦ Kill Screen (episode) ♦ One Last Score (episode) ♦ Out of the Frying Pan (episode) ♦ Tell-All (episode) ♦ Two-Faced (episode) ♦ Dead Reflection (episode) ♦ Baltimore (episode) ♦ Swan Song (episode) ♦ Pyramid (episode)
Category:NCIS Episodes
Category:NCIS Season 8 Episodes
Category:NCIS Episodes written by Christopher J. Waild
Category:NCIS Episodes directed by Terrence O'Hara