While playing poker at SECNAV Phillip Davenport's house, a security breach occurs which also results in the death of an ICE agent which prompts the NCIS team to be called in to investigate the crime scene. They soon begin investigating with assistance from both ICE agent Julia Foster-Yates and FBI agent Tobias Fornell with evidence soon emerging that the supposed poker game was in fact a top-secret intelligence summit while Tony finally comes face-to-face with Ziva's former partner and boyfriend, Michael Rivkin with their meeting leading up to an explosive confrontation between the two men, a fight that threatens to throw the entire NCIS team into disarray once again.