The crew of the Orville are morally divided when they take a trip to Bortus' planet. Bortus and Klyden must decide whether they should approve a controversial surgery for their new child.
While investigating the assassination of a Navy admiral, the team meets a woman searching for her husband, a political refugee from Africa.
Walton Flynn, an Iraq war veteran, is tasked with the protection of a visiting Iraqi businessman. When the businessman is found dead, Callen and his team are assigned to find Flynn.
Brenda and the division desperately attack a time-sensitive case involving an abducted eight-year-old girl who didn't make it home from school; Gabriel steers his focus onto a sex predator and takes increasingly bolder risks to solve the case.
Old wounds are reopened when the retired lead detective on Beckett's mother's homicide case contacts her with new information, but then is gunned down right in front of Beckett before he can tell her what he knows.
