Meredith asks Heather to help fix Derek's hand; Cristina sets Stephanie and Leah against each other in a competition; Alex starts to see Jo differently; Shane learns a valuable lesson from April.
While stopping by his usual diner for coffee, Gibbs finds himself in grave danger, prompting him to think about his past and the choices he made in his life.
Vance assigns McGee, Torres and Bishop to COVID compliance duty at a foreign affairs summit, where they discover a link to another NCIS teams murder case.
Evidence from the stabbing of a Marine Sergeant leads Torres to meet his father, Miguel (Steven Bauer), who left when he was a child.
The NCIS team is forced to re-examine a hit-and-run murder case when a former FBI agent turned lawyer confides in Gibbs that her client's confidential alibi is solid. Meanwhile, McGee grows suspicious of Tony's strange behavior.