cobb was the port-to-port killer on ncis.
cobb was the port-to-port killer on ncis.
who was the port-to-port killer on ncis?
cobb
jonathan cole (scott wolf), alias fbi agent casey stratton, is one of the primary antagonists of season nine. he was formerly a member of "phantom eight", a clandestine team of operatives assigned to the watcher fleet tasked with protecting the united states navy. cole goes rogue some time after the phantom eight are disbanded and begins working with sean latham, the corrupt director of special operations for the office of naval intelligence and a former member of phantom eight himself. cole and latham conspire to sell a series of microchips belonging to phantom eight members, which give their owners unrivalled access to the navy mainframe. cole makes his first appearance in "nature of the beast", where he adopts the alias of casey stratton, an fbi agent assigned to investigate a shooting involving tony dinozzo. dinozzo, having forgotten the events that led up to the trauma of the shooting, attempts to reconstruct his memories, recounting his investigation of ncis agents simon cade and e.j. barrett. his investigation centers on a microchip barrett extracted from the body of gayne levin, who also served in phantom eight, but wound up the last murder victim of lt. jonas cobb, the port-to-port killer. cole manipulates dinozzo, barrett, and cade into first distrusting one another and then meeting, where he attempts to kill all three before fleeing with the microchip. cole kills cade, wounds dinozzo, and misses barrett, who flees. he later approaches dinozzo in the hospital under the casey stratton alias, but is unable to kill him as dinozzo is under guard. cole reappears in "housekeeping", where he attempts to kill e.j. barrett, who has since resurfaced. after the first failed attempt, latham advises cole to abandon his mission, but cole refuses, claiming that he has to see it through, and he murders latham. now aware of his role in phantom eight and his actual name, ncis trick cole into attacking a safehouse under the pretense that barrett and dinozzo are hiding there. the safehouse is empty, and cole is apprehended. his final appearance comes in "till death do us part" when gibbs feels he would be an ideal operative to get close to the terrorist harper dearing. cole agrees in exchange for a (slightly) reduced sentence, but dearing is already aware of his role and rejects his offer of help. cole is killed when attempting to defuse a bomb left by dearing outside ncis headquarters. although cole never offers a reason for his crimes, and the circumstances that led to his becoming a traitor are never detailed, he does admit that he thought he had good reasons for doing what he did; he was soon proven wrong.
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in the present, ducky (david mccallum) discovers a typo in his autopsy report about the details of the port to port killer's previous victims that is reflected in price's murder, indicating that a copycat killer is responsible. when dinozzo retrieves his misplaced cell phone, he finds a voicemail from price before he died, saying they need to talk. price had realized that the money launderer never exposed him because there was a second, higher-ranking accomplice in the department - his and dinozzo's former captain, who killed price to keep his corruption secret, then disguised his crime as an act by the port to port killer, using details from ducky's report, which had been emailed to the baltimore police by ncis.
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