NCIS: Season 2, Episode 21

2 - 21: Hometown Hero

The executor of a petty officer's will discovers the skeletal remains of a missing girl in the dead man's rented storage unit. As the petty officer who died in Iraq is up for aSilver Star, it is very important that NCIS determines if he was a murderer within 24 hours or else the Silver Star will be cancelled altogether. Soil samples and further forensics lead Abby to discover that if the Marine was the killer, he could not have acted alone. Tony and McGee find CCTV footage that suggests the Marine was entirely innocent. Tony also has to deal with his car being stolen.