NCIS: Origins - Happy Birthday
Randy's (Caleb Foote) birthday and Franks (Kyle Schmid) growing agitation with too much change in his life anchor the episode where the NIS team looks to solve the death of a Marine found in an abandoned house in what appears to be part of some bizarre ritual. Believing he entered a similar case into the computer, Randy spends too much time in his search for Franks' liking leading to a confrontation which also highlights Randy's personality and making the best of a bad situation (even if Franks' actions do manage to draw his ire).
The murder itself isn't of much interest, although we do get Randy saving Gibbs (Austin Stowell) while looking for information at an underground fight club, as the episode is much more geared on Randy (giving us flashbacks to his childhood) and his refusal to find the missing file (which it turns out another member of the office misplaced). We also get a subplot with Lala (Mariel Molino) being annoyed by one of Flacco's henchmen, although she seems far more comfortable with him by the end of the episode perhaps teasing a possible bad decision with huge ramifications in her not too distant future.
- Title: NCIS: Origins - Happy Birthday
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