With NCIS' Season 19 finale on the horizon, the series has done a good job of striking a balance between focusing on established characters, while giving storylines to its new additions that it could utilize in Season 20.

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McGee's actor Sean Murray got to share his character's episode with someone special. Here's what happened in "The Brat Pack" and how Murray got to work with his daughter, Cay Ryan Murray.

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The episode opened with McGee, Torres and Knight in the squad room. Everyone was ready to go home early when Parker met them at the elevator and informed them of a robbery on the Norfolk Naval Base.

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Once they arrived, the NCIS team realized that the robbery was part of a bigger problem. All the doors on base were operated with key cards, so someone had hacked into Norfolk's security system

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The robbers were not an experienced crew, but just teenagers who had made a habit of partying in empty houses.

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