‘NCIS’ RECAP: BAKING BAD

It probably did not come any shock to viewers that Parker’s favorite pastry supplier is a beautiful woman with enviable hair.

No, the bigger surprise is the body of her kitchen, cocaine in her meringue and Breaking Bad Callouts. Let’s summarize!

When Parker (Gary Cole) swings off Kostaki’s Bakery to pick up some cakes for the office, he finds the store only manned by new employee Virgil (Jordyn Owens), who is flusted and speeds up through their transaction. And the instant park is out the door, a glossy hand holding a gun, appearing from the kitchen.

Although Parker thought the meeting was a bit strange, he is not aware that the gravity of the situation before the team falls down on the pastry box as Locust and removes probably goodies to see modest Virgil wrote at the bottom: “Help! Call 911. ”

This sends parks and company that shrinks back to the bakery, where they find Virgil’s body facing in a VAT of dough. There are signs of an attempt to open the safe, which would make it the fourth attempt at robbery in this area too late.

But what is puzzling the team is that the cash register was cleaned, but Virgil’s wallet is still in his pocket. And although there is a ball of embedded in the wall, he was not killed by a shot. Parkers furious that he missed what happened under his nose.

Go into Eleni, the baker so talented that Parker brought his big buns (his words!) In the office six days in a row. She is fighting herself against the police standing outside the bakery and is horrified at what she discovers inside.

She is also shocked to hear that Alden (her words!) Is a federal agent. He says he didn’t tell her because he didn’t want to scare her off, causing her to ask, “Scare me from what?” Yes, Alden. Scare her from what?

Okay, back to the dead man. Virgil had a crime of crimes, but Eleni would give him a new start. She describes tearing his novice baking efforts and says he is probably trying to fight the robbers because money has been tight at the bakery.

Although the local PD must have jurisdiction over the crime, Parker wants to handle it himself, so he and Knight (Katrina Law) visit Virgil’s parole officer (Joel Damany Stiengold). He says Virgil was on the right way after serving two years for Grand Theft Auto, and that he and park he then binds over Eleni’s fantastic baked goods.

Meanwhile, the smell of the baked goods is vance (Rocky Carroll, who also directed this week’s episode) to Kasies (Diona bury) lab, where the contents of Eleni’s kitchen have been sent for analysis.

He gives parking permission to continue working with the case, but when their eyes fall to the goodies on the table, Kasie sharply warn them away. The meringue they spit over? They are made of a mixture of 33 percent sugar and 67 percent cocaine. In fact, she found the $ 100.00 worth of the fabric mixed in the bakery’s sugar supply.

This means that Parker has to draw her hug to question, especially when they are told that she had recently received an inexplicable deposit of $ 25,000 from an offshore shell account. (“It’s a lot of dough,” says Knight and Note that this comes after her “this one takes the cake” fright to describe this forthcoming new drug smuggling.)

Eleni begins to realize the seriousness of her situation when her sleazy lawyer Leslie Walker (Ken Garito) arrives in Bluster on jurisdiction and procedural errors.

When he tries to penetrate Eleni out the door, Parker asks quietly if that’s what she wants. Her answer is clear: “I won’t be in the same room with you.” Understandable, but Ouch!

Time to examine Eleni’s background. McGee (Sean Murray) reports that she is another generation of Greek immigrant and on paper does not exactly look like Walter White. When Parker adds that she is the only one of her five siblings who did not move to Greece when one of their sisters became ill, all silently absorb the level of personal information that their boss knows about their suspects.

Awkward that it was Eleni’s lawyer who got a man named Charles Barbieri off on drug fees and that it was Eleni who provided a shipment of cocaine meringue to Barbieri worth the exact amount of the mysterious deposit at the exact time, like Virgil was on the murder.

This sends Kasie to her laboratory’s equivalent with a light-baked oven as she tries to master the art of cocaine meringue in an attempt to prove that a beginner baker like Virgil could have made them. (Cocaine melts at 208 degrees, but meringue bakers over 200 degrees. It’s difficult!)

When Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) picks up her blow torch, she yells at him to be careful about the powdered sugar because it is very combustible. Then she brings up this week’s huge personal disclosure: Torres ‘secret girlfriend is Robin Knight, Jess’ sister.

Earlier in the episode, Knight loudly complained to his sister’s mysterious new girlfriend and complained about being the one to clean up the inevitable mess. (Not to forget, the one time we saw Robin, she was with her fifth fiancé who turned out to be a murderous psycho who destroyed Thanksgiving.)

Torres then entrusted Palmer (Brian Dietzen) that he is the person Robin sees, and Palmer immediately sold him to Kasie for the low, low price of 11 peanuts M & Ms. Although Torres insists that the relationship is not serious, Kasie insists that he comes clean with Jess or that she will do it for him.

When we talk about messy personal connections, Parker shows up on Kostaki’s Bakery to ask about Barbieri. Eleni Snips, “He’s just a customer, Alden. Same as you. “Double Ouch!

Despite her anger, he calmly begins to help otherwise die. No pastry for you!

But Eleni’s warning was too late, and Virgil’s parole officer calls Parker a spawning near the bakery where police have found the bodies of Barbieri and a rival gang member along with a blood-played Kostakis bakery.

When Eleni disappears and the team is told that her lawyer had helped moving money to both sides of this gang war, they bring him into question. Batter Call Saul, Amirite? Walker suggests that Eleni needed to find a new place to cook – is, bake – as her kitchen is now a criminal scene.

We then get a fantastic exchange between Palmer and Torres about Jimmy’s inability to keep a secret. “I think Kasie has conditioned me,” Palmer admits. “She has given me M & MS every day at. 11:30 am I like Pavlov’s dog! ”

Knight goes into this non-to-all suspicious conversation with the news that Barbieri’s body contained traces of a ceased food production substance that can be traced to a now-abandoned factory. (Where would any Hollywood -onde guys do crime if not for abandoned factories?)

When Knight and Torres arrive at the building, he begins to get clean of the “work conflict” he has with his new kind of girlfriend, and Jess’s face is a mask of growing horror when she starts putting it all together. But her flurry of stricter claps to his upper body is interrupted when they are aware that they are not alone in the building.

Nope, Eleni, is there after being Jesse Pinkman baking her cocaine meringue for the scary arturo Jimenez (Carlos Javier Rivera) who has millions of dollars product to move. As Walker explains at NCIS HQ, Eleni asked him for a loan, and he connected her Arturo, who didn’t take it kindly when she told him she had no interest in being his drug chef.

Dominos begins to fall rapidly. Kasie discovers that Eleni did not need the money for his bakery, but to pay a protection of bribery on behalf of a prison inmate named Manuel Lopez. Walker was Manny’s lawyer why Eleni went to him for help.

Some help. Arturo has literally got her tied to her mixer, complete with a walt-and-jesse-style respirator. But she bravery bravely for Knight and Torres’ life and tells Arturo that she will bake the product faster if she can use them as her assistants.

He agrees, and when they crack eggs, the two agents plans to quietly their escape and argue about Robin. Torres then sees a large bowl of powdered sugar and an idea is formed.

When the Knights phone rings with a check-in from Parker, Arturo threatens them all with his big gun. Jess calls Parker “Boss” and she reports that they found nothing of interest in the old factory. This starts Parker’s alarm bells as she has never called him before.

He and McGee arrive at the factory, just as Torres sets his plan in motion by throwing the powdered sugar into an open flame, causing the explosion Kasie to warn him. Yes, Mr. Torres! Yes, science!

The good guys are rescued, and Eleni tells Parker that Manny’s her sister’s nephew and the reason she stayed in the United States is also the reason why she hired Virgil, Manny’s friend from Lockup, who had no idea of ​​cocaine.

This fact raises one last question for Parker: Why would Arturo kill Virgil but leave $ 100,000 cocaine in a kitchen intended to become a criminal scene?

Answer: Virgil’s real killer did not know about the drug operation.

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That leaves Virgil’s parole officer who had blackmailed families into prisoners in a protective rack and killed Virgil to warn Eleni to pay up if she wanted to keep Manny in safety. There are two different crime rings, Busted. Good work, team!

But there is still some business left. First, Torres tries to talk to Knight and assures her that he didn’t tell her about Robin because there’s nothing serious to report yet. Jess warns him that Robin is probably already planning their wedding, and although she insists that she is happy as long as Robin is happy, she rejects his offer to grab the dinner.

Parker is also in a strange place with Eleni when he arrives at her bakery, after baking Baklava for her. But the tension between them is melted away as cocaine in an oven of 309 degrees. Aldens Baklava turns out to be delicious if a little thin and he opens to her a little about her mother and her sweet tooth. Eleni takes his hand and thanks him for saving her and then offers to help him with his Baklava technique.

Stray Shots

• No matter how tempting it may be, don’t throw powdered sugar on an open flame! Sugar is really very flammable.
• Is it wrong to wish a judge to knock, as a day off from Arturo’s judgment to quote GBBO During the technical challenge of this episode on gun?
• Aww, Parker and Eleni. Although the episode ends with her breaking the news that she and Manny are on their way to Greece when he is released the following month, she will hopefully return to the states to continue adding deliciousness to Parker’s life.
• NCIS really did the work of creating Nick and Robin. We have Torres to take part in rags for her exam from the online Hat-Making Academy, where Jess had so much to drink that she ended up going home in an unknown man’s jacket. Who knows what sparks fly that night? Certainly not Knight! And then of course Jess said specifically that she was planning for Christmas with her father – not mentioning her sister. The clues were there all the time …
• Who else could really go for some meringue right now?