4. The Recruits

At a New Orleans Polytechnic University sorority house party, Tilda finds Natalie Lane with Navy SEAL PO1 T.J. Blake who was shot dead. University Police Officer Mike Banton responds first. Blake's BUDS instructor, Master Chief Erik T. Benson, directs Pride to Max Wolf; "not a SEAL" but a mercenary from their classified Somalia mission. LaSalle's college friend Heather confirms Blake and Wolf argued. Wolf claims Natalie is a hooker. LaSalle consults his C.I., Ross P, while Pride questions Tilda who claims she and Natalie are tutors. He surreptitiously takes photos of her expensive accessories.

NCIS Computer Specialist Patton Plame reveals that Tutorzone.com is actually a front for an illegal "collegiate call girls" ring. After Natalie is nearly run over, Jefferson Parish Forensic Specialist Sebastian Lund matches the bullet to a Russian mafia hit, implicating them in the prostitution ring. Ross P. sets a meet between LaSalle and Vlad Stahl. When Sebastian determines how the silencer was made, the team connects the evidence to the killer, who, under pressure, gives up the ringleader. Meanwhile, Pride's daughter Laurel visits, and wants to move his upright Hamilton piano from her dorm into the NCIS office.