What happens when a dead body is impaled on a fence during a costume tour? That’s what NCIS: Sydney is trying to work out in episode 4, titled Ghosted. A US petty officer is shot before he ends up falling through a window before being impaled.
According to Roy, the impalement isn’t what killed the officer. In the morgue, the team learns from Blue that the dead guy was killed by a deserter from the US Navy who has been in Australia for 50 years, thanks to fingerprints found. Though, something feels… off. Almost like the NCIS Sydney are being… ghosted.
Blue runs the identity through the database and finds nothing, indicating that the suspect could still be alive. Mackey and JD find a business card for a guy who identifies the medal as a Vietnam War medal.
Following the trail, Evie and DeShawn find the deserter hiding in a closet. At Headquarters, Mackey and JD interview the guy who confesses to killing the Perry Officer but doesn’t give a reason why. JD presses him harder, showing him the medal the Petty Officer had in his flat.
The Bold Faced Lie
The guy explains that the Petty Officer had demanded money for his silence and he did as told. However, the Officer wasn’t going to stop, so the guy took his service pistol and shot him.
Mackey and JD get into an argument over whether or not the guy did it.
Blue runs a test for gunpowder residue and it comes up negative, meaning the guy who confessed, likely didn’t fire the gun.
Evie and DeShawn return to the guy’s house, where they reveal to his partner that they know about the murder victim returning his medal. However, according to the woman, he didn’t want to the medal, but was like a father figure to murder victim.
There’s More To The Story
JD and Mackey return to the guy in the interrogation room, telling him they know he didn’t kill the vic. After another argument, JD walks out of the room, allowing Mackey to be in the room with the guy. She recounts a story of three guys she worked with who had snuck off base. She and a couple of others disobeyed orders to find their missing comrades. The three that had snuck off base returned home to face “the music.” The two that had accomplished Mackey on the mission, went home in body bags.
Mackey’s story gets the guy to open up to her, as they now have something in common. He reveals what happened the night the Petty Officer died. Moreover, there was a guy who was trying to extort his partner, and there was a struggle in an abandoned building. The victim attempted to stop it and was shot. But no identity is revealed.
The True Extorter
It turns out that the guy who was helping with the medal is the one who was the extorter and the true killer.
DeShawn, through his law training, finds a way to keep the couple together by allowing them to get married.
NCIS: Sydney is heating, and Ghosted was the perfect set-up for telling us more about what makes Mackey tick. Finally, as time passes, we should learn more about everyone else.
