Gibbs must face the reality of his actions after he assists Ziva with "the one thing" she said she would need to take care of before returning to her family.
Sabrina tries to clear the house of sleep-inducing poppies; Kraft pressures Sabrina to win a high school academic competition.
Car salesman Honest Eddy (Geoffrey Lewis) plans an expansion, which threatens a local orphanage at Christmas.
Sam becomes a small-time detective who looks just like Humphrey Bogart in 1953, and is suspected of murdering his partner.
Ellen attends her father's annual Civil War re-enactment and endures boot camp, while her father falls for a field nurse.