

McGee discovers that Commander Lively was supposed to have a meeting with the Secretary of Defense, but the latter has no clue what it could be about. Meanwhile, in NOLA, Percy and LaSalle search Luca's apartment and find a bag with two guns, a high-tech bug and a large amount of money. Abby comes to autopsy to identify her brother, but quickly notices the body has its earlobes attached, which Luca doesn't have. The team finds five bodies at the crash site, including a badly burned Luca. Besides Luca, four other persons were on board: the pilot, the co-pilot, the Senior Vice President of Blye Industries and a Commander Lively. Abby does not believe that the brother she grew up is dead. Pride from New Orleans, who has tracked down the flight manifest, takes a moment off-screen and calls Gibbs to inform him that Abby's brother Luca Sciuto was on board since he is the chef of Jenner Blye, who owns Blye's Industries. However, Abby instead takes control of the satellite, which causes the plane to crash land in a reservoir. The pilots are dead, so the plan is to remotely shoot down the jet. The plane, which was chartered by the military tech company Blye Industries, needs to be stopped as it will run out of fuel somewhere above New York, Philadelphia and Boston. The case starts when all communications are lost with a private airplane going from New Orleans to DC. NCIS Episode 13.12 "Sister City (Part I)" recap
