NCIS Recap 02/27/23: Season 20 Episode 15 Unusual Suspects

Publish date: 2024-05-04

NCIS Recap 02/27/23: Season 20 Episode 15 "Unusual Suspects"

Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, February 27, 2023, season 20 episode 15 called, “Unusual Suspects,” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below. In tonight’s NCIS season 20 episode 15, “Unusual Suspects” as per the CBS synopsis, “NCIS investigates the death of a ride-share driver who was found after a car accident. Also, Parker’s dad, who is temporarily living with him, assists the team in their investigation.” 

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Tonight’s episode begins with Petty Officer First Class Sam Vega who was found dead from an apparent car accident. There were no signs that he tried to slow down or that he was wearing a seatbelt. NCIS caught this case and they initially thought Sam might have tried to kill himself. Only Jimmy proved that wasn’t the case when he found a puncture wound in Sam’s neck. Sam had been dosed before his “accident”. There were later evidence indicating that someone used a brick to way down the pedal and so this accident was in fact murder. Sam had been murdered. And that seemed hard to believe at first because Sam didn’t have any clear enemies.

Sam seems to have lived under the radar. He didn’t make enemies at work. He also had a side job as a ride share driver and so odds are he met with someone dangerous after picking them up, but NCIS did check his home. They found it vandalized. Someone had written in blood the word “liar” on Sam’s wall. They also broke literally everything possible in that one apartment. NCIS tested the blood. It wasn’t Sam’s. It might have been Lisa’s. Lisa was Sam’s ex-girlfriend. They recently broke up because of something Sam allegedly did. And Lisa started sending him threatening texts right after this breakup.

NCIS brought Lisa in for questioning. She revealed it was her blood that she wrote the word “liar” in. She said she did that after she went to Sam’s apartment and she found herself alone with his laptop. Lisa naturally went snooping through his emails until she found several of them addressed to Marilyn. Sam wrote about missing Marilyn. He said he couldn’t wait to see her. Which set off Lisa because she hadn’t seen Sam all that much since he came back from deployment and so she assumed he was cheating on her.

Lisa however claims not to have killed Sam. She hadn’t known he was dead when she first began talking to NCIS. They had to break the news to her. But Lisa was quick to point blame. She started talking about how much Sam loved her. She even claimed that Marilyn must have known that Sam would never leave her and that’s why this Marilyn killed him. NCIS had to consider that angle in spite of how farfetched it might sound. They looked into Marilyn and they found out she wasn’t having an affair with Sam.

Marilyn was an elderly woman in her eighties. She hired Sam to help out around her rooms at the retirement home. They met on an app called Grand Bubby. Sam hadn’t told his girlfriend he was picking up odds jobs because then he would have to explain his online gambling. Sam was a gambling addict. He was losing a lot of money very fast. He started doing the odd jobs to help pay them off only that hadn’t been enough for him. Sam started doing Grand Bubby because the app was helping young people fleece the elderly.

The app connects young people with the elderly. Sam has gotten matched up at least four times before Marilyn and his former clients have all left for him money in their wills. He also always seemed to pick the ones that just got diagnosed with a terminal illness. Its likes he knew which ones to rob. This was on top of being paid twenty dollars an hour to spend time with these people. He was fleecing them and there was a chance that Sam was killed because he screwed over one of his victim’s families.

NCIS were suspicious of the Grand Bubby app. The Grand Bubby app was set up at one specific retirement home and so Parker sent in a spy. Parker sent in his dad, Roman. Roman had gotten kicked out of his retirement home for flirting too much. He was driving all the women at his former community wild and they kicked him out to save the peace. Only Roman still held onto the charm. He went in wearing a wire and a comms piece. He quickly found women to flirt with and he was propositioned on day one by two different women.

It was all too much for Parker. He had Knight listen in on his dad while he followed the lead. He found out that Sam was in communication with the director of Sunshine Pines. He thought that must mean that the director was helping him and that wasn’t the case at all. Sam may have been taking money from the elderly, but he was using that same money to reinvest with the community. He paid for upgrades. He paid for special classes for them. Sam also used his gambling problem to make a lot of money on the side and so he wasn’t fleecing anyone. He was a genuinely a nice guy.

It was Marilyn who wasn’t what she seemed. Marilyn’s late husband was an art thief. She would befriend sailors on Grand Bubby and ask them to pick up packages for her knowing that Customs wouldn’t check sailors. But Sam realized something was off. He knew the frame of a painting was a lot older than the painting it showed. He brought that up with Marilyn and Marilyn had her lover murder him. And this was all revealed after Torres decided to visit Marilyn because he thought the old lady might feel lonely without Sam and ended up catching her trying to sell the painting.

After Marilyn and her lover were arrested, Parker’s dad chose to move fulltime into that retirement home. He liked the people there. Sam’s renovations made it a great place to live and so Roman found a place for himself. It got him out of Parker’s hair. And it made him appreciate Parker for taking him in like he did because not everyone’s kids were that nice.

THE END

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