After a rocket engine expert is killed, NCIS tech operator Eric Beale goes undercover for the first time to ensure that the classified technology used to build satellites is safe.

It turns out that it was a complex plot hatched to obtain satellite technology and that the owner of the rocket company was killed with sinister intentions, not in an accident.

A rocket launch explosion is faked, and the criminals make off with the tech.

Eric is nearly killed at least once, and the team is forced to take down the bad guys in a typical shootout, but all is right with the world, and Eric earns some serious kudos.