As soon as Renee was released, she brought Echo down to where the victim's body was found. She wanted at least to attempt to follow the trail and try to find where he was actually killed. The team knew that the victim was killed somewhere else since there was not enough blood at the scene to cause a person to die.

Echo had managed to track the scent of the Navy Commander, who was found dead earlier to the compound Renee was at. Renee and the team needed more proof than Echo's nose to nail the suspect.

Renee was never one to sit back and wait for anything, so she went by herself to gather intel when Horatio asked his sister where she was off to she blatantly lied to her brother and to Pride telling the two men.

"I'm going to hang out with some old friends. We will be getting drinks," she tells her brother, walking out quickly.

In reality, she was going to gather intel on the suspect. To do this, Renee goes on a solo and unsanctioned mission to take photos and videos of the suspect. Renee was hopeful that she would be able to get some pictures or videos of suspect moving drugs and people.

Renee had driven her dark green Ford F-350 Super Duty XLT truck down a dead-end road about one and a half miles from the suspect's compound.

Quickly and quietly, she put her swimsuit on and shoved her clothes into her dry bag. The camera, knife, and her sidearm and back up weapon were already inside the bag.

Walking to the edge of the bayou, she slides her swim fins on. Placing her full face snorkel mask on her head, she takes a slow, steady but deep breath and dips under the water. The full face mask allowed Renee to swim undetected by only requiring her to get the tip of the built-in snorkel to the top of the water.

Being the star athlete on her high school surf team, she trained herself to hold her breath for ten minutes. Renee would take a deep breath and go back under the water. It only took her about fifteen minutes to swim to the compound.

Getting to dry land, Renee was quickly dressed in her black Stryker 5 11 cargo pants, navy Cotton t-shirt, and black combat boots. Pulling her clothes out of her dry bag, she strapped her Sig Sauer P-226 chambered in .357's to her left hip. She quickly got to a place inside the large compound. Thinking that she could see the whole compound at once.

Renee's only camera that she was actually using was a tiny spy cam that just took videos. She also used a digital camera, so if she got caught, the suspect would not know that the photos on the camera are decoys. What she got was very damning for the suspect.

However, Renee never heard the sentry behind her. She had no idea he was there until she felt the steel barrel of a rifle on the back of her head.

"Freeze, put your hands up and get on your feet," the sentry orders Renee.

With the barrel of the gun against her head, Renee had no choice but to obey. The sentry then tells Renee to take out her phone and drop in on the ground. She does as she was told.

Then the sentry tells her to take out her gun and to remove the gun's magazine. Following that order with telling her to throw the magazine as far as she could. Finishing it by telling her to drop her gun on the ground and kick it to him.

Renee did everything just as she was told complete with removing the magazine from her gun, dropping her Sig, and kicking it over to the sentry.

When the sentry reached down to grab her gun, Renee charged him, knocking him flat on his back. Picking up her gun and firing it at the sentry, hitting him in the chest. The sentry gave her a totally shocked look.

Whispering to her before he succumbed to his injury, "What… How… you removed the gun's magazine?" A question that she answered quickly.

"I always have a bullet in the chamber. You never had me clear the chamber."

The gunshot, however, got every sentry on patrol in the compound to rush over to where she was. The one that she had just killed had her remove the gun's magazine and throw it far, so Renee was out of ammo.

Hearing the other sentries approaching, she tries to find some kind of cover. Looking around her frantically for anywhere that she could use to hide in.

Before she has a chance to get to a safe location, someone comes up behind her and hits her in the head with the butt end of the rifle, causing her to fall to the ground leaving a small pool of blood and obvious signs of a struggle. In the struggle, Renee's phone gets kicked into the grass, meaning she has no way of being tracked.

The next thing that Renee rememberers is that she was handcuffed to a chair with the suspect asking her questions. "What are you doing here? Who are you? Who do you work for?"

Before she has a chance to answer any of the questions, one of his subordinates whispers in his ear.

"Bitch is a cop. I saw her going in and out of the NCIS headquarters in New Orleans multiple times."

Now the suspect needed to get rid of her where she would never be found. With only a silent nod to his subordinates, Renee felt a sting on her neck. Then everything goes black.

Renee gets buried alive when the drug dealer and human trafficker decided to get rid of her. The suspect chose to bury her in a car. Placing her in the trunk, he leaves her for dead. He did throw her dry bag with her knife, and Kimber Micro back up side arm inside of it into the trunk with her.

However, he did keep her Sig Sauer with him. She did come too after what she thought was four hours. Based on the size of the trunk, Renee estimated that she was running out of oxygen.

There was no way for her to know, but her brother had called the friends that she had told him she was going out with. Her friends had no idea what he was talking about. They didn't know that she was even in the area.

Worried that his sister had gone and done something stupid, Horatio asks Pride if he knew someone who could ping his sister's phone. He needed to find where his little sister was.

Patton was easily able to trace her phone. They had found her phone hidden in the grass at the back of the suspect's compound. Getting to the location that her phone was pinging at Horatio found where his sister was caught. Seeing the pool of blood and obvious signs of a struggle, his heart sank. His fears were found to be valid.

With the phone being found in the grass, Horatio feared that they would never be able to find her. At that moment, he remembered the GPS watch that Renee had. The watch that had saved her life eight months ago when Horatio had just found out that she was his baby sister.

She had sent him a message that had her GPS watch that she needed him to trace. He still had the message on his phone, so he gave it to Patton to trace. He and Pride's team were not that far from Renee distance-wise, but they were four hours behind her time-wise.

Patton was able to pinpoint the location of Renee's watch to within five feet. When Horatio, Pride, and his team finally got to the location, Renee was really running out of oxygen. From where Horatio and Pride were standing, there was no sign that showed that Renee was even there.

Horatio had brought Echo with him knowing that the dog would easily be able to track her partner to wherever she was. He just asked the police canine where her partner was, and the dog started smelling the ground searching for his sister.

The team that Horatio was working with was new to him, so he was not sure that Patton had correctly traced the GPS. Echo, however, let out a low growl, then she feverishly began digging in the recently disturbed ground.

Horatio thought that his sister had been buried, so he started to dig where Echo was digging. Seeing Horatio and the police dog digging in the same location, Pride went to join them in digging in the same area.

Suddenly without warning, the dog stopped digging and jumped up on Horatio.

Echo's jump had caused Horatio to tumble quite a ways from where they were digging. With Horatio far away from the site the canine turned on a dime and did the same thing to Pride, the canine managed to get the seasoned agent and CSI Investigator clear of the site, but why since her partner was buried below them.

By now, Horatio knew better than to doubt the canine and what she smelled. He knew that there was something going on, and he trusted the dog and her senses, so he yells at Pride, "Stop stay back Echo smells something. We need to keep clear until we find out what she smells."

Less than thirty seconds later, the ground where the two officers had been digging at exploded. What the pair didn't know was that Renee had a backup plan and was attempting to escape.

Underground, Renee had managed to get out of the car's trunk and into the main area of the car.

She knew that she was going to have to work fast if she was going to survive. Renee knew enough about airbags that she was able to take apart the car's airbags.

Removing the car's front seat headrests, she was able to redirect the explosive force that inflates them. When that was done, the force was strong enough to shatter the window and blow a hole to the surface.

There was no way for Renee to know, but Echo had cleared the area above her. The police canine was made it safe for Renee to blow the airbags. When she used her Swiss Army knife that she always kept in her back pocket, it triggered an explosive blowing a large hole in the ground and shattering the window.

Crawling up out of the hole that was just made, she emerged from her supposed coffin unscathed. Somehow she managed to do all that while maintaining a slow heart rate. She remembered what her doctor told her about her need to keep a slow heart rate and breathing rate since her collapsed lung.

Renee was never one to do what her doctors told her, but she thought that maybe she should listen this time. Considering that she that last time she was told to keep her heart rate and breath rate low but didn't she collapsed. The fall caused her to slam her head into a marble table. In fact, she was declared dead after she had hit her head, but she fought her way back to the land of the living.

Getting to the top, she immediately recognized her brother and Pride. She, however, did not recognize the three other NCIS agents that were there. Hannah, Gregorio, and Sebastian were new to her.

Everyone, there was beyond impressed with what Renee had managed to do. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, none of the team, including Horatio, would not have believed what they saw.

Looking down into the fresh hole, Gregorio casually says to the other two agents, "That woman could definitely think on her feet. Who else would be that calm in that kind of situation?"

"What other woman would be able to clear her mind and come up with the plan she came up with and follow it through to a successful end as Renee had done." The other agents could not argue with what LaSalle had said.

Getting to the top of the crater that Renee just blew into the ground, she loses consciousness from lack of oxygen. She had managed to get out of the car on sheer adrenaline, but when that passed, she falls down unconscious. Horatio and the team of NCIS agents rush to her side.

Feeling for a Carotid pulse Horatio was relieved that Renee was still alive. His baby sister just passed out.

Patting her cheeks and gently shaking his sister awake, "Nae… Nae… Come on, open your eyes… Wake up, Sweetheart."

When she opened her eyes, her brother smiled. His ocean blue eye's met her icy blue eyes.

Winking at her, he tells her, "You have to stop doing this to yourself, sweetheart."

Thinking back about the last few hours, Renee realized just how lucky she was. Telling her brother, "I'm sorry, H, I have a bad habit of acting first and not thinking about what I am doing."

Pride looks at her and grins. "You had us scared. You can certainly think on your feet. How did you know how to do that. You know blowing a hole through a car window."

A question that Renee did have a quick answer, "That… I learned the hard way. It's a long story, so I'll tell you a little later."