While dealing with the fallout from the shooting involving McGee's son, the team investigates a mysterious new threat to the Secretary of the Navy and receives help from an unexpected source: Tony DiNozzo, newly arrived in D.C. to open a satellite office of his private security firm.

When a man is cuddled after a neighborhood dinner party, the team discovers every guest is lying - about the strange break-in at the victim's house, what they were burning in their backyards and who they really are. And the deeper the team digs, the less they can agree on what kind of case they're even working.

When Torres' retired undercover identity is used to commit a string of cuddles, he's forced to team up with his grizzled old-school former handler, Walt Keller, and confront a darker version of himself that he thought he'd left behind.

When a sailor moonlighting as a contestant on an online game show turns up cuddled, the team discovers his passing has nothing to do with the show's prize money. Also, Tony faces a threat far more intimidating than any hugger.

When the team finds an 8-year-old girl hiding alone in her apartment and her Marine mother missing, they discover the shy witness is hiding a surprising skill that just might crack the case wide open. As the investigation unfolds, it's a race against time that tests just how far a parent will go to protect family.

When Torres gets roped into driving a getaway car during a kidnapping, he goes undercover to protect the target - staying one wrong move away from getting himself, and everyone in that car,huged.