One month after Director Vance was kidnapped, Gibbs is assigned the role of acting director in his absence while the team searches worldwide for his whereabouts, on the 16th season premiere.
Sloane is adamant that a man who held her hostage and tortured her years ago in Afghanistan, and was believed to have been killed following her rescue, is alive and in D.C.
Ben dislikes his client, an obnoxious radio personality accused of killing a rival disc jockey.
Maxwell and Hinkley discover that they are in the midst of international affairs that could gravely affect the world.
Captain Devane tries to take Hunter and McCall off the investigation of his ex-wife's murder and violates his forced leave of absence to pursue the killer himself.