History Series / NCISNewOrleans

* PunnyName: Sebastian is with the "Intergalactic Krewe of [[Characters/StarWarsRebelHeroes Chew]][[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians bacchus]], which is [[http://chewbacchus.org/ a real thing]].

* VigilanteExecution[=/=]VigilanteMan: Kills [[RuleOfThree three]] AssholeVictims in "The List"; the [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers last "target"]] is found in time he was innocent but acted suspiciously because he was more afraid of being outed as a gay man than being the prime suspect in a murder (for bonus irony points the motive was two guys fighting over a girl).

* HeroesWantRedHeads:
** [=LaSalle=] and his girlfriend Savannah, who he's been in love with since high school. A sassy ATF agent nicknames her "mermaid" after [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 the Disney movie]].
** Pride's daughter [[ShipperOnDeck would not be unhappy]] if her father hooked up with the redhead investigator from Australia.

* JurisdictionFriction: FBI Agent Gregorio's cartel cases keep mixing in with Pride's NCIS cases; rather than fight over it she joins the team for convenience until they root out the cartel.

* {{Speedrun}}: [[invoked]] Sebastian mentions among things that he takes for granted "being able to do a speedrun of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' in eight and a half minutes." Probably ArtisticLicense, as at the time of this episode's airing the world record for that game was 8:32.7.

** Brody is the most regular user, being the team's primary interrogator. She takes it UpToEleven while trying to break a white supremacist.

* CIAEvilFBIGood: More like CIA JerkAss, FBI super-annoying. While the team isn't on great terms with the FBI in season 3 they join together to take down a CIA agent illegally operating on US soil who also leaked info to the press blaming a plane crash on a Middle-Eastern-American officer to cover up a secret passenger, a Colombian cartel informant (he survived... somehow) whose presence was the reason why one of the pilots crashed the plane. A rogue SmugSnake CIA agent also allowed a murderous South American war criminal to live peacefully in New Orleans. He actually seemed to have gone quiet until people started getting too close then it was back to killing and ''ripping out tongues''.

The show stars Creator/ScottBakula and Creator/LucasBlack as the NCIS agents who run the office and it also features Creator/CCHPounder as a medical examiner who works with them.

* RealityEnsues:
** Due to Pride's role in killing a rogue navy officer who leaked sensitive information to the black market, NCIS is forced to investigate for weeks on what the specifics are since he was ordered to bring him in alive.
** In the season 2 finale, Brody discovers that FBI agent Russo, who she was having an affair with, is part of an anti-government militia. While the team stop an attack, they're put on probation for letting a mole get so close. Also, in season 3, it's revealed Brody lost her security clearance and can no longer be an agent.
** Pride's CowboyCop ways consistently get him in trouble, ranging from being disciplined, suspended, and as of the second-to-last episode of the fourth season, under indictment.
** The New Orleans Office Of Inspector General indicts Percy at the end of "Krewe" for lying under oath when a judge receives video evidence of her letting Nadine Brancroft go.
** The plot arc involving Mayor Hamilton in Season 4 concludes with Pride saving the Clearwater community from Hamilton's scheme to demolish it and build a massive naval base on the lands, but, while he clears his name and earns the adoration of Clearwater and his team, the next few episodes involves him contending with disgruntled New Orleans residents who found themselves out of a job. True, Hamilton was a CorruptPolitician who had no qualms ordering the deaths of anyone in his way and the destruction of an entire community, but that naval based promised a ''lot'' of people jobs, jobs that no longer existed when Hamilton got busted, and put New Orleans' economy into decline. Not everyone knows the full extent of what Hamilton planned to do, and many of the people affected by economic fallout of the naval base plan falling through blame Pride for standing in its way.
** The season 2 finale and 3 opener has Pride getting fatally shot, but he manages to hang onto the realm of the living through sheer force of will and rejecting passing on personally. In season 6, [[spoiler:Lasalle gets fatally shot in a similar manner and hospitalized immediately after, but dies not even halfway through the episode by a medical complication without even any dramatics or theatrics, highlighting just how extraordinary and implausible Pride's prior survival was.]]

The second spin-off of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', it is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin set in New Orleans]] and is about the [=NCIS=] field office based in the city and the small team of agents that maintains it. Unlike its sister series ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', which deals with espionage and undercover investigations, it is closer in style with the early seasons of its parent series ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', as a [[CrimeAndPunishmentSeries crime procedural]] centered around a group of [[BunnyEarsLawyer odd but professional]] investigators.

The show stars Creator/ScottBakula and Creator/LucasBlack as the [=NCIS=] agents who run the office and it also features Creator/CCHPounder as a medical examiner who works with them.

Sadly, the seventh season would turned out to be the final season as CBS officially announced in February 2021 that ''NCIS NOLA'' would end, with the series finale airing in May 2021.

* AfterlifeWelcome: Implied in the episode in which Christopher [=LaSalle=] was shot. He awakens and reaches for Dr. Wade's hand, saying, "I've missed you". However, his next line reveals that he was actually talking to his deceased brother when he then says, "Let's go fishing, Cade". . . and promptly flatlines.

* BewareTheNiceOnes / BewareTheSillyOnes: After Loretta (and other victims!) is infected with an engineered virus, Sebastian threatens to inject a Chinese agent with the same virus (the real thing, not a needle full of saline) if he doesn't reveal where the antivirus is.

* [[{{BigDamnKiss}} Big Damn Hug]]: [=LaSalle=] and Percy have a [[{{BigDamnKiss}} Big Damn Hug]] and an AlmostKiss in the season 2 finale, but in season 3 Percy is determined to [[UnresolvedSexualTension forget it ever happened]], even exclaiming "Ew!" when Gregorio reveals she thought they had slept together ("You two have a vibe!").

* BlandNameProduct: For some reason, despite using obvious stock footage and the franchise being BackedByThePentagon, the show decided to call the US Navy's Blue Angels the Golden Aces.
** Probably has something to do with the pilot/VictimOfTheWeek being suspected of drug use actually trying to harvest her eggs so she can have children on her own schedule, cheating, and nepotism (she's the first female pilot and her father is a high-ranking officer), her fellow pilots being suspected of assaulting her, and ultimately the contractors who built the planes cut corners by using shoddy parts that were slowly poisoning the pilots, hence the victim and her teammates' sickly appearance, which ''probably'' wouldn't happen in real life.

* {{Bookends}}: "Escape Plan" starts with Sebastian and his mother at breakfast with her ordering for him and lecturing him on not talking to the pretty waitress, who she thinks is trampy. It ends with them at the same restaurant, with him dismissing these same efforts to coddle him, ordering what he wants and asking for the waitress' number.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: The agents of the New Orleans office are odd even by [=NCIS=] standards.

-->'''[=LaSalle=]''': "You present yourself all buttoned up, but you are an odd bird, Brody."
* TheButcher: Nickname of a Serbian war criminal in a local prison who Sebastian is kidnapped to help bust out.
** ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: He's none too appreciative that his jailbreak took so long and involved crawling through a storm drain.

* TheCameo: There have been a lot of appearances of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' characters on this show. Most of them are so brief and have the guest character do so little that they appear to have been done purely so that they could advertise the appearance of the guest star.
-->'''[=DiNozzo=]''': "Can I go home now?"

* CarFu: In "If It Bleeds, It Leads", [=LaSalle=] stops a fleeing trail bike by backing his pickup in front of it; sending the rider flying.

* CIAEvilFBIGood: More like CIA JerkAss, FBI super-annoying. While the team isn't on great terms with the FBI in season 3 they join together to take down a CIA agent illegally operating on US soil who also leaked info to the press blaming a plane crash on a Middle-Eastern-American officer to cover up a secret passenger, a Colombian cartel informant (he survived... somehow) whose presence was the reason why one of the pilots crashed the plane.
** A rogue SmugSnake CIA agent also allowed a murderous South American war criminal to live peacefully in New Orleans. He actually seemed to have gone quiet until people started getting too close then it was back to killing and ''ripping out tongues''.
* CityOfAdventure: New Orleans. And unlike some crime and punishment shows, the series personalizes New Orleans until it is practically a character, with hints at it's history and culture.

* Cliffhanger: The season 4 finale "Checkmate" - Pride is shot twice in the chest in the room above his bar and is bleeding out.

* ConsummateLiar[=/=]ILied: Brody, especially to suspects and occasionally to [=LaSalle=], most notably when she told him a ton of embarrassing information after he had met a friend of hers ("He didn't tell you about _____, did he?") only to reveal she had been lying after [=LaSalle=] revealed his own embarrassing info to get her to talk.

* CyanidePill: In "The Third Man", TheMole delivers a cyanide pill to Judy Brown while she is in NCIS custody to allow her to kill herself before she can be handed over to the Department of Homeland Security.

* DisposableWoman: BOTH [=LaSalle=] brothers lose their girlfriends in the same episode (Savannah's death confirmed in the next one): Cade's girlfriend Wendi is murdered by a serial killer and Chris' girlfriend Savannah (who he's been wanting to marry since high school) is killed by Baitfish just to set the team up for an ambush.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: One of the college students in "The Recruits" is the mastermind of the Navy [=SEALs=]' murder and the leader of the covert prostitution ring. Luckily enough, Price was able to get a confession by using a wire on one of her classmates.

* DownerEnding: By the end of "Follow the Money", Pride's old friend is killed by her fiancee, a major cartel figure, with the evidence she obtained not having any defining links between him and the cartel, and the lack of any leads basically costs Gregorio her job.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hamilton, the corrupt politician who harasses Pride is no killer, and even gives Pride his father's DNA when he (the father, a member of KKK-like group) is suspected of killing a civil rights activist (he's innocent, at least in that instance). He also loves New Orleans as much as Pride, which is why Pride doubts he's behind Sasha Broussard's smuggling ring.

* EvilIsPetty: Brody calls Dept. of Homeland Security agent/Colombian cartel stooge Russo]]'s motive for attacking the country "petty": the cartel "appreciated him better" (implying they paid him) than any of the legit institutions he had applied to all the way back to college.
** TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Said bad guy had been an exceptional person and had lived an especially upstanding life.

* ExasperatedPerp: Brody and Borin give an uncooperative suspect (who's been whistling "Dixie") a taste of his own medicine by whistling and singing "I Fought the Law and the Law Won".

* HugeGuyTinyGirl / OddCouple: Tall, pale, and geeky Sebastian and PintSizedPowerhouse SassyBlackWoman Percy. She loves his sense of humor.

* IdiotBall: Quite a few times and not just by the bad guys.
** In "Monster," a CIA operative hires a known arms dealer and his gang to steal weapons in hopes of luring in terrorist buyers. It naturally goes wrong as the guy uses the clout of federal immunity to pull off a huge heist and ends up (literally) stabbing her in the back. He even lampshades the stupidity of her "strategy":

* ItsAllAboutMe: [=LaSalle's=] attitude prior to meeting Pride (literally, his attitude starts to change after they meet) -- he considered cases and victims to be nothing more than stepping stones to higher positions and when he got overwhelmed by a difficult case that happened during hurricane Katrina he was ready to give up and go home to Alabama.

* ItsPersonal: Pride loves New Orleans so much that he takes anything that threatens to tarnish the city's reputation as a personal affront.

*** NothingPersonal: Baitfish tells Savannah this just before he kills her to draw out Pride; he also tells [=LaSalle=] this when [=LaSalle=] has him at gunpoint and wants to kill him for revenge.

* TheLadette / OneOfTheBoys: Percy is ''very'' annoyed she wasn't invited to "Boys Night Out". She didn't actually want to go, but was offended that she wasn't even considered.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Pride is obsessed with tracking down an old snitch (whom he disparagingly calls "Baitfish") because he thinks Baitfish is trying to build a new empire out of the remains of the Broussard Syndicate. Pride eventually discovers that Baitfish has a backer in the form of Sasha Broussard, the supposed white sheep of the family. And there's a mysterious man involved as well, but viewers only get a glimpse of his shoulder through fogged up glass; he turns out to be The Mole (see below).

* MarriedToTheJob: Pride's devotion to his job cost him his marriage (fortunately he's AmicableExes with his wife) and at least one previous relationship that he's reconnecting with; Brody's war photographer ex-fiance left town for an assignment ''in the middle of planning their wedding''.

* MeaningfulName / NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: [=LaSalle=]'s brother used [[Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye Caulfield]] and [[Series/TheFugitive Kimble]] as aliases while he was on the road.

* TheMole: The mysterious man conspiring with Sasha Broussard turns out to be Detective Messier, who also killed (or helped kill) Baitfish and the head of security to cover up Sasha's smuggling.

*** FalseFriend: Subverted, that person claims they really did like Brody up until they both realized the truth. For their part Brody suspected the truth very quickly.

* MyGreatestFailure: In "End Of The Line" Loretta believes she sent an innocent man to prison for 20 years because her emotional testimony won over the jury (she just got divorced from her abusive husband and took her frustration out on the suspect when she was only supposed to report the facts of the victim's autopsy).
** TheAtoner: After it's proven the guy was innocent Loretta starts helping him adjust to the outside world.
* NewMeat: Percy is subjected to pranks and gruntwork in the season premier and is referred to as the "NFG" (New [''something''] Girl [[note]] It's normally FNG (F'ing New Guy/Girl[[/note]]).
** After Gregorio joins the team she immediately inspects her desk for pranks; [=LaSalle=] and Percy wonder what kind of sadistic workplace she came from, then reveal the previous episodes' shenanigans left then with too much paperwork for pranks. They then surprise her in the kitchen with confetti poppers.

* OddlySmallOrganization: The [=NCIS=] New Orleans Office is responsible for investigating Navy-related crimes throughout the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that its agents handle cases coming in from at least five states. Yet, it only employed two full time agents for a number of years before a third transferred in[[note]]The real life [=NCIS=] New Orleans Office really did only operate with two agents for a long time[[/note]]. The team will be five agents once Sebastian finishes training. That's still five agents ''total'' (the other shows have buildings full of agents).
** Lampshaded when Pride is [[ClosedCircle trapped on an oil rig with no gun and no cell reception]] with three killers. The rig's operator, [[{{Retirony}} who wanted to leave her post "with a bang"]] but not like this, is not comforted by his certainty that "only" three agents will come and rescue them.
* OhCrap: Pride in "Carrier" after Loretta tells him that the sailor on her autopsy table died from bubonic plague.

* OutGambitted: The team figure they finally have a lead on drug kingpin Garcia as his fiancee (an old friend of Pride's) realizes who the man is and helps them get data files on his finances. However, it turns out that Garcia had made sure to put everything under his fiancee's name, nothing connecting to him so the info is useless. Then he hires a hitman to take her out before she can testify against him.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: In "The Insider", Loretta is being held hostage by a gunman. When Pride asks her about the victim on her slab, she says that he died from "Larrabee's syndrome". Pride recognizes this as a QuietCryForHelp because Captain Larrabee was an officer who was killed working a hostage situation with Pride years before.

** TheCracker: Elvis's protege who was involved in the deaths of four people at a nigh-OmniscientDatabase, which led to DuelingHackers until he was murdered by his partner, the actual killer.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Links [[TwoLinesNoWaiting all three plots]] in "One Good Man" (lampshaded by Pride at the end when he tells Loretta's son to "speak his truth"):

* QuietCryForHelp: Loretta gives one to Pride in "The Insider" when she tells Pride that the victim on her slab died from "Larrabee's syndrome". Captain Larrabee was an officer who died while working a hostage situation with Pride years before.

* RealityEnsues: Due to Pride's role in killing a rogue navy officer who leaked sensitive information to the black market, NCIS is forced to investigate for weeks on what the specifics are since he was ordered to bring him in alive.

* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: Four of the first five episodes include at least one regular from ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' plus two recurring characters from the parent show make guest appearances as well. To put it in perspective, it took all of ''two episodes'' for ''NCIS New Orleans'' to have more appearances by ''NCIS'' regulars other than Rocky Carroll (Director Vance) than ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', which debuted five seasons earlier.
** Since it's debut, it's also had two crossover episodes (Sister City and Pandora's Box) with its parent show during the February sweeps of Seasons 2 and 3, respectively, indicating that this will be a yearly occurrence.

* RuleOfThree[=/=]TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The third ''NCIS'' series is the only show with a RealSongThemeTune, isn't shot in Los Angeles, and has colored {{eyecatch}}es. They also have the smallest group of agents (three, of course, compared to the other series' four they add Percy as the fourth agent, then Gregorio after Brody leaves; when Sebastian completes his training it'll make five), and the possibly the smallest headquarters since unlike the other shows' teams they're ''it''.

* SassyBlackWoman[=/=]SpicyLatina[=/=]PintSizedPowerhouse:
** ATF Agent Sonja Percy, who later joins the team.
** Loretta's no slouch in the sass department either.
** Brody's mom isn't Black or Latina but she is pint-sized and sassy.
** FBI Agent Tammy Gregorio is more subdued but still sassy, she also joins the team.

** A would-be victim who's TrappedInASinkingCar uses the air valve from a tire to get oxygen, just like Creator/RogerMoore did in Film/AViewToAKill. Sebastian even explicitly mentions the movie upon surveying the crime scene.

* SplashOfColor / DeliberatelyMonochrome: A woman dressed in blue flees from a gunman dressed in black while they're surrounded by a crowd of people wearing red dresses (including Pride, [=LaSalle=], Sebastian, and Pride's councilman nemesis).
** MonochromePast / UnnaturallyBlueLighting: Percy's flashbacks of from the same episode are tinted blue.

* SuicideByCop: Agent Russo does this at the end of "Sleeping With the Enemy"; drawing his gun on Brody despite the fact that she already has the drop on him.

* WesternTerrorists: The Season 2 premier deals with a collection of unaffiliated RightWingMilitiaFanatic groups from across the country, united by a man calling himself "The Father" (a banner behind him indicates the group is/will be named "The Family"). At the end of the episode, the movement's ''actual'' leader, "The Mother", ominously states that ''any'' enemies of the US government [[EqualOpportunityEvil are friends of theirs]].
* WhamEpisode: "Checkmate" appears to be ending on a high note--the bad guys have been defeated, Pride has been reinstated, everyone is celebrating at his bar... then he goes upstairs to his apartment and is shot three times by the one baddie who ''did'' get away and who the viewers had forgotten about.

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''NCIS: New Orleans'' is an American TV show created by [[Series/{{NCIS}} Gary Glasberg]] and executive produced by [[Creator/MarkHarmon Mark Harmon]]. It premiered on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2014.

As of November 2020, the seventh season is currently airing.

* WhiteMaleLead: Despite having a far more diverse cast than its parent show, the show has this in Dwayne Pride (and technically [=LaSalle=], who's his second in command).
* WhiteSheep: The victim in "Slay The Dragon" joined the Navy to get away from his criminal family and was a genuinely good guy unfortunately for him his bank account was where Gregorio's ex hid the stolen Katrina funds and his brothers were willing to kill for it.
* WhodunnitToMe: To Lt. Gabriel Lin in "The Walking Dead", who is poisoned by radiation ''a la'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko Alexander Litvinenko]].
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Percy and [=LaSalle=] had this throughout her time on the show. They ultimately did not, deciding that embarking on a relationship would be disruptive to the team. But when she decided to leave the team anyway, they mutually admitted that they regretted not giving it a try.
* WireDilemma: Percy faces a variation of this in "Sleeping With the Enemy". In her case, she knows exactly which wire she needs to cut, but - in order to do so - she has to locate the detonator, and she is fast fast running out of time because the Coast Guard has orders to sink the boat she is on if it does not stop.
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: A notorious South American killer nicknamed "El Heche" who killed seven villagers was living in New Orleans pretending he could've been the eighth and cooking in a small restaurant; the CIA agent he paid off was working as a community organizer.
** A traumatized teenage girl whose stepmother was murdered (years after the death of her bio-mom) turns out to be violent and controlling. You'd think that woman would leave that girl and her daddy alone after having a glass chucked at her head in a restaurant but ''she just wouldn't listen.'' She also shot one of her friends/thralls after he threatened to confess.
** The mastermind behind the stalking of Pride's daughter and was spying on the team wasn't the imprisoned Family Militia leader but their lawyer -- the same young woman who tearfully told Pride she was being blackmailed and threatened with death.
* WorkingTheSameCase: In "Means to an End", Pride pulls his team off the seemingly minor case they were working on - a missing petty officer - to investigate an attack on his daughter. It turns out the two cases are connected, and the attack on his daughter was actually arranged to distract NCIS from the missing petty officer.
** FBI Agent Gregorio joins the team "for convenience" when they keep running into each other on cartel cases.
* WouldHitAGirl: In both senses of the word: DHS agent Russo kills a female terrorist he had hired via suicide pill after she gets caught and attacks Brody when he realizes she knows the truth.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Sebastian is abducted when a woman rushes up to him, claiming to need help for her injured husband. He leans over the guy to check on him and is promptly stun-gunned into unconsciousness.
* YouCantThwartStageOne[=/=]YouAreTooLate: In spite of Baitfish's death and Sasha Broussard's capture, her extensive smuggling network already allowed ''something'' terrible to get into New Orleans, which turns out to be Nigerian terrorists.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Zed, accomplice of The Father's ex-wife, fails to kill Pride after arranging an elaborate ambush involving a bomb, fake Texas cops, and a weaselly accountant. While he's in the hospital after being shot by Pride someone comes in and tells him he's going to be punished for his failure, [[FaceDeathWithDignity which he willingly accepts]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In "Sleeping With the Enemy", TheMole does this to one of his underlings; detonating the bomb he has just finished constructing in an attempt to make the NCIS team think that the underling was the mastermind and that he has just accidentally blown himself up, taking all of the explosives with him.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: In "No. 1 Fan" a woman has been gathering evidence of a serial killer. Rather than simply go to the NCIS office and present the evidence to them so they can take it from there (like several people have done) she walks right up to Pride, acts hysterical, forceful when he doesn't take her seriously, then kidnaps Pride and rants at him like a stereotypical conspiracy theorist when it's clear he doesn't believe her. Naturally nobody believes her until they get a good look at the evidence, which they're unable to do until they free Pride.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief For obvious reasons]], Pride's mysterious premonitions and hallucinations not to mention everything involving the "Angel" after the season five start can be either his mind and instinct filling in gaps combined with his stress after his brush with death, or genuine hints of supernatural elements. Everyone but Pride himself believes the former, yet the sheer oddities and coincidences make him believe to the contrary. This picks up again with the "Man in the Red Suit" in the aftermath of [[spoiler:Lasalle's death]] in season six which the cast interpret to be something tied to his memories, which requires him outright diving into his own dreams and psyche with some aid to figure out what it all means.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief For obvious reasons]], Pride's mysterious premonitions and hallucinations not to mention everything involving the "Angel" after the season five start can be either his mind and instinct filling in gaps combined with his stress after his brush with death, or genuine hints of supernatural elements. Everyone but Pride himself believes the former, yet the sheer oddities and coincidences make him believe to the contrary.

** In the season 2 finale, Brody discovers that FBI agent Russo, who she was having an affair with, is part of an anti-government militia. While the team stop an attck, they're put on probation for letting a mole get so close. Also, in season 3, it's revealed Brody lost her security clearance and can no longer be an agent.

Starting November 2020, the seventh season is currently airing and as of September 2020, the seventh season of ''NCIS: NOLA'' is currently filming.

* {{Irony}}: Loretta's foster son "assistant" is not amused by the fact that he never had a gun pulled on him when he dealt drugs, but on his very first day working with her he gets shot.
** A rich man's son does everything he can think of to make sure his long-lost illegitimate half-sister won't claim her half of his inheritance -- except talk to her. If he had he would have learned that in spite of her poor childhood she wasn't interested in money. Spoiler: she would've gotten half the guy's inheritance but since he committed at least three or four actual crimes including killing a member of the Navy he loses his entire inheritance and she gets the whole lot.