While Pride fights for his life in the ICU, the team scours the city for the hit woman who attempted to assassinate him.

Pride’s father, Cassius Pride, is wrapped up in an NCIS case involving a notorious unsolved casino heist from several years ago. Also, Pride meets a family member he never knew existed.

While on a sunrise jog, Pride is grabbed by two masked men who order him to complete a series of tasks in order to save Wade and his father, Cassius Pride, who are being held captive.

Pride and the NCIS team hope to take down a secret and lethal group of former intelligence agents and avenge the death of someone close to them.

After tracking Apollyon, a deadly underground spy network, to war-torn South Ossetia, Pride is separated from the team and faces grave danger. Also, in order to save Pride, the NCIS team must locate a mole who continues to feed information to Apollyon.