Evening

Jason Whittaker is missing. After being kidnapped from his own kidnappers by a mysterious figure in a Jeep, no one in Odyssey knows where he is - and at Whit's End, everyone is feeling the strain. Jillian Marshall copes by ordering two milkshakes at once, while Connie Kendall keeps the shop running and fields messages for Detective Polehaus. Reporter Sky Feldstein stops by with information about the green sweatshirt found after the Triple J Antiques break-in: a former employee of hers, Maurice Glendale, once asked her for an extra-large green sweatshirt for his uncle. Dr. Rusk calls in too, remembering that the suspect had a deep voice and a New Jersey accent.

Upstairs, Whit and Polehaus puzzle over the strange break-in. Nothing was actually stolen, so Whit wonders whether the thief broke in not to take something but to leave something - maybe a bug to track Jason. Polehaus searches the antique shop with Officer Burke, but they find nothing, and Polehaus grumbles that they are missing a clue. Along the way, the two trade barbs about the disastrous blind date Burke arranged between Polehaus and the much-younger Sky. When Polehaus swallows his pride and visits Sky to ask about the case, she is still smarting over how the evening ended, but she confirms that Maurice's uncle is from New Jersey - matching Dr. Rusk's description.

That night, while locking up, Whit and Connie notice an odd piece of mail: an Odyssey Business Association calendar that only runs from July to November, with the TV news station highlighted. Whit quietly takes the calendar and later shows up at the station, where he gets a surprise - the agent hiding Jason is Jillian, who is secretly with the NSA. Jason explains the calendar was her clever signal: the first letters of July through November spell JASON. Jillian briefs them on the danger. Alexander Dervisci, a nuclear scientist who builds high-tech weapons and sells them to the highest bidder, was once investigated by Jason, and intercepted messages suggest Jason's life is now at risk.

Their hideout doesn't stay secret long. Connie, who spotted Jillian driving an unfamiliar Jeep, comes knocking, and the group reluctantly lets her in on the truth. Connie can hardly believe the scatterbrained jewelry-maker she knows is an intelligence agent - after all, this is the woman who insisted "birds are mammals because they're made of meat." Jillian admits the ditzy persona was all part of her cover to stay close to Jason, and Connie is sworn to absolute secrecy.

Jason shares a deeper worry with his dad. The man who questioned him during his kidnapping wanted his Pentagon contacts, and Jason can't shake a feeling of dread about the Shadow Recons - a top-secret squadron of eight submarines armed with warheads in the Indian Ocean. Jason has quietly been doing contract work on the program and knows the launch codes, though a launch would also require a matching code from a general at the Pentagon. Whit reminds his exhausted son that he has been robbed, crashed, knocked out, and kidnapped twice: "You've had a full day." He sends Jason to rest while the others keep working and praying.

Back at the police station, Burke and Polehaus study security footage from the alley behind Hal's Diner and watch the man in green hand an envelope to a big accomplice they recognize as monosyllabic Moe.

Through the night, Whit, Jillian, and Connie dig into Dervisci's records. His money trail leads to the Blanshire Foundation, a shuttered medical research lab founded by neuroscientist Dr. Colette Blanshire - who recently died in an unexplained home explosion. Whit spots a trusted friend, Lily Graham, on the foundation's employee list and plans to call her. At 4:30 a.m., a breakthrough: an untraceable phone number in Dervisci's records matches a contact with the alias Cobra Orange. They dial it on a burner phone with the speaker on - and the voice that answers is unmistakable. Sky Feldstein is Cobra Orange.