Masquerade (episode)

Masquerade is the fourteenth episode in NCIS Season 7 and the 152nd episode of the entire NCIS series.
==Synopsis==
After a car explodes during a chase in downtown D.C, the NCIS team discover that it contains radioactive material that a lone terrorist group called Libertad Nueva is using the material to create dirty bombs. With time of the essence, the team attempt to solve the case but all is not what it seems.
==Prologue==
In a bar as Sharon Little's "In My Dreams" plays in the background, Roy and his friend, Alfonso Vega arrive in.
Seconds later, Alfonso remarks that he came to a bar with Roy before suggesting that they go.
Roy, however puts his foot down, stating that he's listened to Alfonso complain the entire year about how Alfonso doesn't have a girlfriend before Roy tells Alfonso "Here they all are".
Alfonso states that he's not very good at picking up girls.
Roy states that even the worst pick-up lines are better than not trying. He tells Alfonso to come on and give him something.
"So is it hot in here or is it just you?", Alfonso wonders.
At the bar, a girl smiles, obviously impressed.
Roy then tells Alfonso to give him something else.
"Are you Jamaican?", Alfonso wonders. "Because you're Jamaican me crazy".
Roy, however, pulls a face, clearly disgusted at the dreadful pick-up lines before he tells Alfonso that he stands corrected with Roy also saying that's absolutely worse than not trying.
"Maybe you should just try being yourself", the girl at the bar says.
Alfonso and Roy look at each other with Roy telling Alfonso "Just be cool".
The girl then turns back, chuckling.
Alfonso approaches her, stating well if he was being himself, he wouldn't be here.
The girl remarks that she knows how he feels before introducing herself as Lynne.
"Alfonso", comes the reply.
The two shake hands with Lynne even waving to Roy who nods back, smiling.
Alfonso wonders if Lynne doesn't want to be here, then how come...
However, his eyes dart to something on the TV which has him stopping.
It then cuts to the TV screen which is showing a live car chase going on with the caption "Breaking News: Police Pursuit in D.C." while revealing that the channel is ZNN.
Alfonso stares at the screen, horrified.
"Don't have a TV at home?", Lynne wonders.
"Ahem", Roy chimes in. "Not being cool".
Alfonso then states that...that's his brother's car.
Seconds later, Alfonso's cell phone rings.
He answers it, asking his brother Roman what the hell's going on.
Over the phone, Roman tells his brother to listen carefully, that it's happening and wherever Alfonso is, he's got to run, now.
Seconds later, the car blows up live on the TV screen.
It cuts to Alfonso who's still on his cell phone while staring at the TV, stunned.
==Act One==
==Act Two==
==Act Three==
==Act Four==
In Vance's office, Vance is stunned at the fact that the victim isn't Corporal Vega before wondering who it is.
Gibbs tells Vance that the guy's name is John Cook with McGee explaining that Cook was a former staff sergeant who served briefly in the second Gulf War before being dishonorably discharged for looting.
==Act Five==
==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.
Donald Mallard 	David McCallum 	Chief Medical Examiner of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
=== Recurring Cast ===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
James Palmer 	Brian Dietzen	Assistant Medical Examiner.
Guy Ross 	Kent Shocknek	Reporter.
Margaret Allison Hart	Rena Sofer 	Attorney who has been seen in earlier episodes, now defending suspects in Gibbs's investigations on orders from her client, Colonel Merton Bell.
===Guest Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Walter Kane 	John Getz 	Owns a private investigation company that works for the Pentagon.
Damon Shore 	Brad Greenquist 	Dentist and a Doctor.
Alfonso Vega 	Jeremy Ray Valdez	Younger brother of Ramon Vega who works at a phone company.
Ramon Vega 	Yorlin Madera 	Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps.
Roy (Masquerade)	Arjay Smith 	A friend of Alfonso.
Lynne 	Ginny Weirick 	A patron at the bar Alfonso and Roy go to.
Guard 	Marlon John 	A man who appears in the episode.
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♦ Truth or Consequences (episode) ♦ Reunion (episode) ♦ The Inside Man (episode) ♦ Good Cop, Bad Cop (episode) ♦ Code of Conduct (episode) ♦ Outlaws and In-Laws (episode) ♦ Endgame (episode) ♦ Power Down (episode) ♦ Child's Play (episode) ♦ Faith (episode) ♦ Ignition (episode) ♦ Flesh and Blood (episode) ♦ Jet Lag (episode) ♦ Masquerade (episode) ♦ Jack-Knife (episode) ♦ Mother's Day (episode) ♦ Double Identity (episode) ♦ Jurisdiction (episode) ♦ Guilty Pleasure (episode) ♦ Moonlighting (episode) ♦ Obsession (episode) ♦ Borderland (episode) ♦ Patriot Down (episode) ♦ Rule Fifty-One (episode)
Category:NCIS Episodes
Category:NCIS Season 7 Episodes
Category:NCIS Episodes written by Steven D. Binder
Category:NCIS Episodes directed by James Whitmore, Jr.
Category:NCIS Episodes featuring James Palmer
Category:NCIS Episodes featuring Margaret Allison Hart