NCIS Season 20 Episode 14: This week, CBS’s most popular crime drama, NCIS, will return with a brand-new episode that will continue the story that has made it one of the most famous shows in the world.
In the last few weeks, the show and its spinoffs have had a lot of exciting action scenes and emotional drama, and this week shouldn’t be any different.
In the next episode, “Old Wounds,” the team will have to deal with a security threat that goes beyond the simple justice system. It will be about a criminal with ties to the past of Special Agent Alden Parker (Gary Cole), which is sure to make the team feel a lot.
NCIS Season 20 Episode 14 Release Date
“Old Wounds,” the 14th episode of NCIS’s 20th season, will air on CBS on February 13, 2023, at 9 PM EST.
NCIS Season 20 Episode 14 Preview
It’s important to note that the title of the episode, “Old Wounds,” is a direct reference to the fact that the person who did it has a history with Supervisory Special Agent Alden Parker, who is also a new member of the family.
Even though there isn’t an official trailer for the next episode, a clip from the episode that shows one of its scenes came out earlier this week. Even though the clip doesn’t say much, the tension in the room and Parker’s reaction to almost everything show that this episode will be tense in every way.
Brian Dietzen and Scott Williams wrote the script for Old Wounds, which is directed by Diana Valentine.
As this episode gets closer to the end of the series, key parts of the story should start to come together. Mark Harmon, who played Leroy Jethro Gibbs, left the show at the end of the last season, so this will be the first time the show ends without him.
NCIS Season 20 Episode 14 Cast
- Sean Murray as Timothy McGee
- Wilmer Valderrama as Nick Torres
- Katrina Law as Jessica Knight
- Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer
- Diona Reasonover as Kasie Hines
- David McCallum as Donald Mallard(credit only)
- Rocky Carroll as Leon Vance
- Gary Cole as Alden Parker
- Tania Raymonde as Chloe Marlene
- Andrew Elvis Miller as Sam Novak
- Christy St. John as Lieutenant Renee Harlan
- Roman Arabia as Volunteer
- Alexander Harris as Museum Docent Sal
- Maxwell Almono as John Harlan
- Conisha Wade as Movie Director
- Amadeo Fusca as Gun Smuggler
- Eli Hernandez as Master-at-Arms
NCIS Season 20 Episode 14 Recap
This week’s NCIS episode, written by Brian “Jimmy Palmer” Dietzen and longtime show writer Scott Williams, pulls away Alden Parker’s (Gary Cole) friendly-guy mask to reveal a pot of guilt and anger. Even though it’s not pretty, putting a needle in that old wound turns out to be pretty important.
We start with Parker running through the woods at night, bleeding from a cut on his head, while his voiceover talks about bad things happening to good people and having dreams about the person you hate lying in a pool of their own blood while you pulled the trigger.
Then there’s a gunshot, and we go to the end credits.
Parker is in his usual good mood when he walks into the big orange room two days earlier with a box of Italian pastries, a story about orchids and a red-throated hummingbird, and a promise to bring Peruvian picarones the next day. He offers to help Palmer fix a problem with his payroll that is stopping him and Kasie (Diona Reasonover) from hiring assistants.
The team is then asked to look into the death of an ensign who was shot while driving a truck carrying $3 million worth of illegal opioids that the Navy seized at sea.
Parker sees the W logo on some of the pills that were left behind and drives off without saying a word.
The next morning, he still hasn’t been found, so the team starts going over what they know. They say, “The logo is a W, and these pills were popular 10 years ago,” when Parker storms in and yells that they need to be looking into Clayton Wills.
Then he yells at Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) for asking where the picarones are, at Palmer for taking up too much of Vance’s (Rocky Carroll) time, and at Kasie for not processing the evidence in the truck.
Vance tells Parker to calm down, but Parker makes him join a video call with Wills’ lawyer instead. What do you know? Parker also yells at her.
The CEO of WillsNet, which sells computer hardware and hires parolees like him looking for a second chance, is the person who has him all worked up.
During the next round of shouting, Torres calls him “jefe,” which may mean “boss,” but Nick says it in a way that makes it sound much more insulting.
Kasie tells the team in the evidence locker that the bullets in the truck came from a gun from World War II and that the pills are fake Oxy pills with fentanyl in them.
When the elevator door opens, McGee (Sean Murray) sees Jeremy Brighton (Michael Patrick Thornton), an author, podcaster, and online parenting coach for wheelchair users who is Delilah’s favourite. Brighton uses a wheelchair.
Brighton says that Parker was his partner at the FBI, and that the two of them worked together to get Wills in the past. Parker tells Brighton, “They’re family, you can say it,” when Brighton hesitates. So, Brighton tells him that he is in the chair because of the fight with Wills’ drug-running crew.
Wills was given a 20-year sentence, but he got out after only three years because he turned in a bunch of his friends. Parker is sure that WillsTech is a front for selling drugs, but Brighton isn’t sure yet. (He also invites McGee and his family over for dinner, which makes McGee very happy.)
When Parker goes to talk to Wills, Vance sends McGee with him to make sure Parker doesn’t Hulk out like he has been. I love this little reminder that McGee is the most experienced agent and a quiet leader in his own right.
Then Brighton gives us a hint about Alden’s secret: Parker didn’t always have so many things she liked to do. At the Bureau, he was a hothead who acted on impulse and used bad language, but he felt responsible for Brighton’s death and wanted to start over. It was too hard to do that at the FBI, so he went to work for NCIS to start over.
Even so, that old Parker comes up when Wills is being questioned. The man swears that he is honest and even gives the name and location of his old drug dealer, Benny. He casually says that Benny shot Brighton and makes fun of Parker for blaming himself, which makes Parker go for his throat.
With a little push from McGee, Vance tells Parker that he won’t be going on the Benny raid. Torres and Knight (Katrina Law) go in alone.
They beat up the room full of thugs in a fight that shouldn’t have gone their way in terms of numbers and firepower, but it did. In the end, Benny swears that Wills is back in the pill business and giving his own pills a run for their money. Also, his two best enforcers left a few months ago, probably to work for Wills, and Benny offers to set up a meeting.
Meanwhile, Kasie and Palmer have found that based on actual sales, Wills’ business should be doing a lot worse than it is, and Benny’s pills are made of different chemicals than the W-branded drugs.
Once he’s alone with Brighton, Parker admits that he loves his team, but he keeps himself busy with hobbies after hobbies to try to forget that he shot Brighton during the raid.
Oh damn. Brighton tells him that it was “pure fog of war stuff,” but Parker doesn’t want to hear it. Brighton is upset that Parker never read the letter he wrote him a month after the shooting. He tells his friend that he can’t keep carrying Parker’s guilt on top of everything else. Parker says he’ll read it after he gets Wills, which worries Brighton. Soon after that, Parker sneaks away with a gun in his pants, so he’s right to be worried.
The team is also keeping an eye on Benny’s meeting with his old enforcers, who turn out to be men from Wills’ factory carrying guns from World War II. They find a big bag of W-brand pills in the back seat. They’ve got the proof they need. They need to find Parker now.
Parker has, in fact, sneaked out on his own to talk to Wills. The man is up to his elbows in pills and says he went back into the drug business when WillsTech had a couple of bad quarters and nobody in Silicon Valley wanted to help an ex-con.
When he sees that Parker is there by himself, he gets scared and asks Parker if he is just looking for a reason to shoot. He runs away, and the scene from the beginning of the movie shows Parker chasing after him and firing a warning shot that makes Wills stop.
Wills begs to live, saying that he is trash and not even worth dying for. Parker is scared because he thinks he is about to be killed. He says he just wants this to be over.
Thanks to Wills’s men confessing to killing the ensign, the rest of the team is able to catch him and put him in jail. But McGee asks again, just like Wills did, why Parker was there by himself. He tells McGee: “Now it’s over. I’m good.” He doesn’t sound good, though.
At least there’s some good news here: Wills’ lawyer wants to keep WillsTech going so that parolees can get a second chance.
Also, McGee is in charge of the after-action report now that Parker is on the bench. When Knight and Torres hear this, they start on the paperwork right away, even though they have had a long day and it is already late.
Palmer cleans up the cut on Parker’s forehead in the mortuary and accepts his apology. Angel-on-earth Jimmy Palmer says, “No one should be judged by their worst days.”
Then he and Kasie go home, leaving Brighton with Parker. His friend tells him that he’s in a bind and that putting Wills in jail won’t help. That night, Brighton had to deal with the shooting. Parker hasn’t. And the way to fix it is to read that letter.
When Parker says no, Brighton opens the letter himself and reads it. It’s the first line of the episode, and now we know what it means: Brighton spent a lot of time hating Parker and picturing the shooting happening backwards.
Parker can’t stand it and takes the letter to himself to read it: “Yesterday, that happened. I’m going to move forward today.” The letter tells Parker that he needs to get help for his fear and trauma. Here, we cut to McGee bringing Torres and Knight, who are still working on the report, a cup of coffee.
Parker reads from Brighton’s letter, “You have a partner.” Cut to Kasie and Palmer, who are leaving and giving each other a fist bump for a job well done.
Parker reads, “You’ll always have a partner in me.” “First of all, know that I forgive you.”
Brighton tells him quietly to keep going, and Parker reads the words of forgiveness from his ex-partner: “Say it. Say to yourself, “I’m sorry.”” Parker is told to read the letter every day until he can accept that.
Parker says, “I forgive you,” softly, and when the two men shake hands, Parker breathes out hard, letting out what looks like a metric tonne of guilt that has been sitting on his shoulders.
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