Two young men stumble out of a night club with beer bottles still in hand. The two are drunkenly laughing. One lays his head on his friend's shoulder as they continue laughing.
"Can you believe what just happened?"
"That girl actually believed I was twenty-five."
"Well I was impressed." The guy looks at his friend and his head perks up.
"Did you hear that?"
A trash can crashing is heard in the distance. All of a sudden a car screeching away catches their attention.
"Someone's in a hurry." One says in a slur.
"Call the cops!"
"You really want to call the cops over a speeding driver?"
The guy looks where his friend is staring. The back window of the car is covered in blood and a woman with messy hair and hands tied together banging on the window. The two young college boys look mortified. Sirens from a silver sedan blare as they pull up to the boys and two patrol cops. A handsome Hispanic man and an attractive, confident woman walk out of the car.
"Alright Marby what's the 911?" the male detective asks.
"These two college kids believe they witnessed a kidnapping."
The two boys look irritated. In their drunken state it is difficult to believe them, but they are not idiots.
"Listen to me! I know that I'm drunk, but I'm not stupid!"
"I have the license plate."
Everyone looks up at him.
"Well when were you going to tell us this?"
The college kid did not answer, he just pulled out his phone and showed the cops the video he took. In the heat of the moment he managed to pull out his phone and get some footage of the abduction. The detectives agree to investigate. Back at their station house, Detective Danny Mota is looking into the Missing Persons while his partner Detective Cassie Leland runs the license plate.
"You find anything?" Cassie asks.
"I don't even know what I'm looking for."
"Well I found something. The car was reported stolen two days ago."
"Really?"
"Yeah it was reported by a Navy Lieutenant Aliya Farrah."
Danny groans at the news of the navy being involved.
"I am telling you right now, we are not letting those Navy cops take this case from us."
Cassie smiles at Danny's callus nature.
"Well calm down. Let's just go talk to her first."
Danny and Cassie drive to the Dupont Circle area of the city. The two of them walk up to the red door on the townhouse. Repeated knocking and demands to open the door does not get a response. Cassie peers under the curtain trying to see inside when the crash of a glass makes the two detectives enter the house with force. After scouting out the place they determine that no one is in the house except for a cat. Danny and Cassie are taken aback of how the small city house looks. There is shattered glass on the floor, pictures are knocked over, furniture is out of place and blood stains cover the plain walls.
"Well she isn't here."
"But someone else definitely was."
While the Crime Scene Unit works at the townhouse, Cassie and Danny pay the Lieutenant's Commanding Officer a visit. Time to go to the Pentagon!
"Commander Katz."
"Yes?" a man in an office asks.
"Detective Cassie Leland, Detective Danny Mota, Metro Police."
The Commander looks concerned.
"Is something wrong?"
"We need to talk to you about Lieutenant Aliya Farrah."
"Farrah?" Commander Katz's demeanor changes. He looks uncomfortable and agitated.
"Is she… dead?"
Danny and Cassie look at each other suspiciously.
"Why would ask that Commander?"
"I reported her UA yesterday which I thought I would never do. Farrah has never just not shown up before."
Katz starts to be defiant.
"Listen I'll run by her place and check on her…"
"Uh we have already been there. She's not there."
"I need to make some calls. I'm going to need you to leave."
"Sir."
"You need to leave now!" Katz stands up and stares them down. Danny and Cassie are hesitant to leave, but they are pointed to Lieutenant Farrah's office where they find absolutely nothing to help them find her. They are in the middle of talking to the AWOL officer's coworkers when a call from their captain interrupts. The captain needs them back at the house. Danny and Cassie look at each other confused. Not only is their Captain, Jeff Dalton with Commander Katz, but with a redheaded businesswoman as well.
"Who is that?" Cassie asks nervously.
"Don't know."
Everyone in their squad room turns to them.
"Detectives, meet Jenny Shepard director of NCIS and Commander Troy Katz." Captain Dalton says.
Danny aggregately takes a deep breath. Danny really hates when other agencies, especially NCIS takes their cases which they do all the time.
"Commander."
"So Director, why is NCIS taking our case from us this time?"
Director Shepard looks at him with raised eyebrows.
"How many times have we "taken" from you Detective?"
"Oh quite a few. Director."
"Danny!" Dalton can hear the cross in his voice. Danny crosses his arms trying to compose himself.
"NCIS needs to investigate this because Lieutenant Aliya Farrah just got back from Bahrain on Special Assignment."
"Meaning what exactly?"
"Classified." Director Shepard says.
Danny chuckles and looks down at his shoes.
"With all do respect. Director, Commander we don't even know what's happened to Lieutenant Farrah."
"I am having my best agents look into this matter."
In the midst of the discussion no one has noticed the other two detectives from Captain Dalton's team have been eavesdropping the whole time. They have just gotten back from following up on a lead on one of their major cases.
"Well it sounds like we don't have much of a say in this, so we'll just go and investigate crimes we can actually look into." Danny turns around and bumps into Detective Archer who now looks like he just caught stealing a cookie out of the cookie jar.
"Chase. What the hell are you guys doing?"
"Uh... we were just… uh…"
"We just came to inform everyone of a break in the Dowling case." Detective Silas says. Danny perks up at this news.
"A break?"
"What's the Dowling case?" Director Shepard asks.
"That's classified." Danny says sarcastically. Captain Dalton smiles at Danny's remark and hands Director Shepard the few files they have on Lieutenant Farrah.
"Good luck on your case." Director Shepard says as she leaves.
"Give Agent DiNozzo my regards!" Danny yells from around the corner.