The first scene was on a beach where a small party was going on. The guys and girls on the beach heard a lot of gun shots which they dismissed as fireworks. On the next incident a speed boat came crashing on shore and the boys saw a lot of bullet holes.

The killed marine has money in his pocket and was found to be counterfeit. Other agencies suspect he is into smuggling and drug dealing after other people were found dead.

Later on it was found out that the marine was caught in a crossfire between terrorist dealing drugs and counterfeit money. The suspects were classified as enemy combatants and were put under the patriotic act and would be deported. They do not have rights to remain silent nor get their own lawyer. This is a stunt by Gibbs, a bluff that worked.

They are now searching for a boat which apparently is where drug dealers went into a gun fight. It was known that the marine officer killed was just caught in a cross fire. Meanwhile, Kate asks her friend for some information; unfortunately, Kate’s friend had to tell the FBI because of the sensitivity of the case. The drug dealers were terrorists and not your typical drug dealers.

At this point, FBI and NCIS are working hand in hand to stop the terrorists. They are now going after a group which plans to shut down the power grid and disable power. They found out that stopping the Virginia power would cascade the blackout to a very large area. NCIS is now on their way to go to the power line in Virginia.

They found their terrorist preparing to take it out and immediately fired upon the NCIS when they were arriving. Gibss, Kate and Dinozo stops him just before he hits the celfone to cause the blackout. Lucky for NCIS, Gibbs points out that the terrorist didn’t know about speed dial who only needed one more number to accomplish its mission.