16. My Brother's Keeper

Complete story — includes the ending

After three Iraq tours and a Purple Heart, single and raising foster brothers Danny and C.J. Malloy, Navy recruiter Petty Officer Maggie Barringer, is murdered by a hit-and-run driver. NCIS finds Maggie's emails to Community Foster Partnership, who are withholding money intended for the children. Fellow foster parents Joe and Jane Trahan confirm, CFP "social worker" Sumner St. Croix earns millions while under investigation for fraud. Confronted by Pride, Sumner leaps to his death. Jefferson Parish ME Loretta Wade uncovers domestic violence, and insists on accompanying Pride to question elder brother Danny. Brody finds Maggie's recent boyfriend Anthony Antonelli is Danny's boss at a sandwich shop. They find Danny has Robinhood PCP stamps in his locker, and he drives ex-con Bull Costigan's Camaro. LaSalle consults his C.I., Ross P.. The team finds Danny prepping PCP. Captured, Danny admits Bull is his father who is using his younger brother C.J. to mule PCP to Mobile, Alabama. At the bus station, Bull is apprehended. Loretta temporarily allows Danny and C.J. to stay with her. Meanwhile, LaSalle gets reacquainted with classmate Savannah Kelly, Cade's new counselor, but worries about Cade's bipolar therapy, complicated by Cade's brand-new girlfriend Windi Stewart.