When Chief Petty Officer Wiley is murdered before he can divulge information about infamous arms dealer Agah Bayar, Special agent
Leroy Jethro Gibbs is immediately on the case. As he and his team investigate, they discover that Wiley sold top secret information about America's stealth communication network to Bayar. However, Gibbs is then approached by the
DIA and ordered to halt the investigation. Gibbs then decides to pursue Bayar's mistress. Meanwhile, the young and bumbling Probationary agent Ned Dorneget tries to butter up Gibbs in hopes of joining the team. Gibbs decides to send him and Special agent
Timothy McGee to pick up the mistress, but it is revealed that she is an
SVR agent, and quickly escapes custody. A disgruntled McGee accuses Dorneget of getting seduced by her, but Dorneget counters by revealing that he is gay. Gibbs and Director
Leon Vance then deduce that the entire case was a DIA plot, using Wiley as the patsy to leak faulty information to the Russians in order to sabotage their stealth communication research. The plan began to go awry when Wiley was busted for drug possession and tried to leverage a plea bargain by providing information on Bayar, forcing the Russians to kill him to save their operation. Bayar, who was aware of the plan, acted as the middleman while the SVR agent was the courier. ==Production==