NCIS Finale Recap 05/22/23: Season 20 Episode 22 Black Sky
Tonight on CBS NCIS returns with an all-new Monday, May 22, 2023, season 20 episode 22 called, “Black Sky,” and we have your weekly NCIS recap below. In tonight’s NCIS season 20 episode 22, “Black Sky” as per the CBS synopsis, “orres finds himself in prison as the team tries to stop an impending terror attack on U.S. soil.”
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Yuri Valkov was happy to go to prison. He knew his family’s money and connections would protect him there and he wasn’t wrong. Prison was later a breeze for him. He hired goons. He even bought himself a guard or two. Yuri was living an easy life behind bars. He had the guards make sure that he didn’t have any roommates nor did he have any immediate neighbors. Until that is when Torres ruined the status quo. Torres went undercover at the prison. He was assigned to the cell right across from Yuri. Yuri didn’t like that and he tried to establish dominance with Torres. Torres was pretending to be Manuel Delgado. He went by Manny.
Manny’s backstory was that he was caught in an armed robbery. He was sentenced ten years behind bars. He has no hope for an appeal and this wasn’t the first time he got in trouble with the law. Torres played a great Manny. He showed that prison didn’t bother him. He also told Yuri that he couldn’t intimidate him. Yuri had approached him as a means of threatening him to be a good neighbor, but Torres played it cool. He showed he wasn’t going to fold so easily. He took a stand against Yuri and that proved to be a mistake because Yuri knew there was an undercover agent there.
Yuri’s father was Kostya Valokv. He was a big time spy with KGB back during the Cold War. He’s since became a Russian mob boss and he maintains his strong ties to the Kremlin. He now wants to commit a terrorist attack against the United States. He had his son Yuri helping him. Yuri admitted to Evelyn Shaw that something big was coming. That his dad had planned an attack. She didn’t know the details and so NCIS couldn’t give her witness protection only she knew that they had an agent on the inside at Yuri’s prison.
One of the guards at Evelyn’s prison was also on Kostya’s payroll. He was the one that allowed Evelyn’s cellmate to try and kill her. The bunkmate failed but the guard said that she was safe for now because they didn’t know if NCIS had put someone at her prison too. Evelyn told Knight what the guard said. They realized that Torres was compromised. They tried to pull him. He refused to break cover. He said he was getting great information. He learned that Yuri was in contact with his dad from behind bars.
One of the guards had given Yuri a cell phone. Torres saw Yuri with the cell phone. He told his team about it and they hacked the phone. They found out that Yuri’s father was planning on attacking the US’s power grid. The DOD has done research on what would occur if that were to ever happen. It was called “Black Sky”. It was said that all forms of government would fall without the lights on. It was very reminiscent of a certain show that used to be on NBC. Everything would break down and the country would return to a lawlessness it hasn’t seen in over a century.
This attack was everyone’s worst fear. They wanted to get as much information from Yuri as possible. They faked a high school for Torres. They had everything in his undercover persona check out. Yuri was just about to trust him and then Yuri’s own people kill him. Yuri had revealed something right before his death. He revealed he has a sister. A sister that hated him. She treated him horribly and their father never stopped her because she was daddy’s little princess. And so when people heard “Anastasia”, they thought that was the name of the attack.
Torres never connected it to a person. They were still operating under the false name of an attack when they spoke with one of Yuri’s killers. Lev said that he was loyal to Kostya. Everyone assumed it must have been Kostya who gave the order to kill his son. They thought Kostya was cleaning up house to make sure that no one knew about his plan. They had Parker pretend to be Lev’s lawyer. Lev gave him flight information. The information showed that someone was heading to the US on a private plane.
Then the city went dark. The lights went down. They had to operate by radio. They found out that the plane that Kostya was on was landing in the same town where they placed Evelyn in witness protection. They then made the connection between Anastasia and Yuri’s sister. Anastasia was a nickname. It was the name of a real life Russian princess and it was a nickname for Viktoria Valkov. Also known as Evelyn. Evelyn played them all for months. She was the mastermind behind this attack and she was using a computer to hack the power grid.
They found her at the house. She had killed her guards. They in turn killed her father. They then arrested Viktoria. She will have to face a long time in an American prison and this time her daddy wasn’t there to protect her. But Torres found out someone from his past was still around and was still dangerous. Torres went to this man’s house. He broke in. Tonight’s episode ended with him telling this mysterious man that he wants to watch him die. Who is this man? Why does Torres hate him? Will Torres commit murder? There’s just no telling what might happen!
THE END
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