The NCIS team investigate when a young Petty Officer informs the local authorities that she was attacked by someone wearing battle fatigues and body armor but the Petty Officer's therapist strongly disagrees, instead believing that the woman is suffering from paranoid delusions that were triggered by the death of her fiancee in Iraq the previous month. Unfortunately, the woman is later found dead in her room, having apparently committed suicide by hanging herself with her bed-sheets but Ducky soon discovers that she was actually murdered, sending the team on a quest to find out who was not only responsible for the woman's death and for also triggering her supposed breakdown but who was having an affair with one of the personnel at the hospital....