Highlights from the Fifth Episode of Season 9 of NCIS

When a coast guard officer is gunned down on a cargo vessel, the NCIS team searches for the killer, but finds a Lebanese family seeking refuge on American soil.

Special Agent Ziva David

Special Agent Ziva David (Cote de Pablo, left) speaks with the mother (Shohreh Aghdashloo) of a Lebanese family seeking asylum in the United States on NCIS. Photo: Sonja Flemming

Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs

Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) searches a ship that has been harboring a Lebanese family seeking asylum in the United States on NCIS. Photo: Sonja Flemming

Tony DiNozzo

Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) photographs a crime scene which took place on a ship harboring a Lebanese family seeking asylum in the United States on NCIS. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS

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Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly, left) and Special Agent Ziva David (Cote de Pablo, center) discuss the murder of a Coast Guard officer with CGIS Special Agent Abigail Borin (Diane Lane, right) on NCIS. Photo: Sonja Flemming

Safe Harbor

he NCIS team investigate the murder of a Coast Guard officer aboard an abandoned ship at sea on NCIS. Pictured from left to right: Sean Murray, David McCallum, Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo and Diane Lane. Photo: Sonja Flemming