NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 recap: A spooky case unites Agent Sawyer with the A-team

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NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 recap (Image via Instagram/@ncisverse)
NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 recap (Image via Instagram/@ncisverse)

NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 titled The Sound and the Fury was a Halloween-themed episode that brought back a familiar face from the NCIS Elite team. The episode opened right where the previous episode left off, when Toress was asked to stay back by Director Vance. Torres was not in trouble, but he was offered an opportunity to train with the NCIS Elite team, which he rejected due to a prior commitment.

The opportunity then directly fell into Jessica Knight's lap and she duly accepted Vance's offer. However, Jessica was not happy to learn that she was the second option and this created a rift between her and Torres, which only widened as she spent more time with Agent Sawyer in the case of the week.

Here is the complete NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 recap.


NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 recap: Brain-Matter

NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 kick-started with the death of Petty Officer Third Class Steven Keogh, whose body was found in an alleyway. Steven was found in a pool of blood with brain matter coming out of his eyes. His body also carried weird marks that appeared to be the work of a demonic possession.

The mention of a ghost made things even spookier, and it seemed that Steven had died due to supernatural forces. Agent Sawyer was working nearby when the A-team was investigating Steven's body for clues. However, the gory brain matter made Sawyer back out and left that case to the NCIS team

Steven's wife revealed that the couple was having some money problems. As it turned out, Steven had a girlfriend on the side and the team even found intimate pictures of the officer with a woman whose face was suspiciously not visible in any photos.


NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 recap: A demonic possession

The A-team starts to trace back Steven's steps, which took them to a bar called The Hairy Dave. The bar owner (Dave) revealed that they are the second team of agents he has spoken to today. It turns out, Agent Sawyer's blackmail case was connected to Steven's murder.

Sawyer was looking for a woman who was targeting naval men for money. Like Steven, they had also found intimate pictures of three other agents with a woman, who asked them to send five hundred dollars every month to keep them out of their wives' hands.

Sawyer and the A-team finally made a breakthrough in NCIS Season 23 Episode 3, when the bank account led them to a woman named Olga, who worked as a psychic. She was hired by Arben Bardhi to blackmail Steven into stealing a weapon from his work. However, Arben also mysteriously died with the same demonic possession marks on his body.


NCIS Season 23 Episode 3 recap: Torres gets possessed

The A-team finally reaches Olga's shop but before they could interrogate her, she also drops dead in front of Torres. Things take a spooky turn for the agent when he gets possessed and starts to attack Sawyer and Jessica's car, who were on a stakeout. Torres seemed out of control and he warned Sawyer to stay away from Jessica.

Elsewhere, Parker and McGee learned that Steven had stolen a small LRAD weapon from work. It was a horrifying weapon that fired off sound waves that instilled horrifying fears in a victim's brain, leading to their death.

Turns out, it was Dave (from the bar) who was the real mastermind. He had killed Steven for the weapon and later killed Arben to keep all the money from the deal for himself. The NCIS team stopped him before he could have sold the weapon to the Russians.

Torres' rage was a side-effect of the sound frequency caused by the weapon because he was standing very close to Olga when the weapon was fired. It led Torres to hallucinate that a monster was attacking Jessica. In the final moments of NCIS Season 23 Episode 3, he finally came back to his senses and congratulated Jessica for her selection into the NCIS Elite team.

NCIS Season 23 releases weekly episodes every Tuesday on CBS.


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Edited by Aashna