When Gibbs doesn't come in to work, they all wonder why. They go to where he goes before coming in, the coffee shop where he gets his coffee. They find his truck and no sign of him. They track his phone and find it in a mailbox along with his wallet and credentials. They check video surveillance and they see him approach a man who was in the coffee shop and goes with him. They check the man out and learn he was the subject of an undercover assignment Gibbs had 15 years ago. It seems the man was part of a militia group who stole some nuclear rods which have never been recovered. So they assume he's trying to find them. The guy says his brother has the rods and contacting him is not an easy task. Vance brings in a retired agent who worked with Gibbs and someone from the Department of Energy. When the brother calls he tells the brother Gibbs is a fed so he pulls a gun on him. Gibbs gets out of it and goes back and Vance tells him one of the two men he told of him reopening the case may have told the brother about him. But which one. And how do they find the brother. Bishop still reeling from Qassim's death is trying to find the one responsible despite being told not to.
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