'NCIS: New Orleans' Season 6 Episode 8 weaves a dark tale of love and hunger for political power
This article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 8.
After hitting fans and viewers with the sudden, absolutely unexpected, and tragic loss of Agent LaSalle - something that fans are still recovering from - 'NCIS: New Orleans' decides to shock and entertain us somehow with a twisted tale of love, and an unquenchable thirst for political power that is straight out of an intense indie thriller.
According to the official synopsis of season 6's episode 8 titled 'The Order of the Mongoose', “Sebastian calls the NCIS team to assist with a possible kidnap case when a dignitary’s son he was assigned to protect disappears from a local concert venue.” This very dignitary - Thailand Minister Benjawan - is at the root of all the intense drama that spews in terms of twisted crimes of passion and a depraved hunger for power, as her son goes missing at first, and then ends up being framed for his own girlfriend's mother.
Benjawan's son, Tan, is out in the US in a fun, frolic, and philandering mood while his mother tries to progress her political agenda with critics and haters back home constantly trying to make things difficult for her. Despite Sebastian babysitting the young adult, Tan, he manages to go missing from a night club and it is assumed that the anti-Benjawan people are behind this. The interesting mix in the tale is, of course, Tan's issues with parental authority, as the night club security footage shows him leaving the club in a hoodie for a facade. Further security footage shows him arriving at a hotel, where he met up with a woman, therefore further corroborating that the reason behind his sudden disappearance was a voluntary decision.
Tan's intense mommy issues and secret love affair, however, turn into a gory bloodbath when the team arrives at the hotel and finds the woman Tan met up with, murdered in the hotel room bed. With the murder weapon being a knife that belonged to Tan, all evidence pointed at him for a possible suspect, but Benjawan still insists he is being framed. And she is not wrong, as is revealed by the presence of lambskin traces at the murder scene. Turns out, Benjawan's security member Kasem has been secretly a member of Thailand First - the party that is anti-Benjawan back home, and he was also the only one Tan had confided in and was taking help from to keep his relationship with the dead girlfriend alive.
Seizing the opportunity, Kasem and his girlfriend Luan - who was also a rival of Benjawan - staged the entire murder to frame Tan, and thereby smear Benjawan's reputation to turn the people against her. In all of these, the innocent girl had to take the fall purely because her wimpy boyfriend had terrible judgments when it came to the people he put his trust in.
'NCIS: New Orleans' season 6 airs on Tuesdays at 10 pm only on CBS.