NCIS: Sydney Season 3 Episode 13 recap - Kyle leaves a wounded Trigger to face Evie’s ticking bomb alone

Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 picks up right where episode 12 left us hanging, with Trigger bleeding out and Evie trapped with a bomb strapped to her neck.

The pressure is pretty brutal, and that's been confirmed with the way the CBS synopsis for "Lone Wolf: Part Two" reads.

"With multiple lives in danger, including their own, the team races to stop a bomber’s path of destruction."

Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 dives straight into the truth behind Jason Wright’s death that took place years ago, exposes a cover-up, and follows Kyle as he pushes things further.

In Episode 13, Trigger and Evie are forced to work together under extreme pressure, while the rest of the team scrambles to catch up, as time is running out.

Spoiler Alert for Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3. Reader discretion is advised.

NCIS: Sydney Season 3 Episode 13 recap - Kyle leaves a wounded Trigger to face Evie’s ticking bomb alone

The truth about Jason Wright finally breaks open

Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 changes what we thought we knew about Trigger’s past from the previous episode. He did shoot Jason Wright, but not in cold blood. He genuinely did believe that Jason was going to get hold of a weapon. However, the reality? Jason was only reaching for his inhaler.

AFP Sergeant Rory Latham was the one who planted a gun at the scene after the shooting, and Trigger never saw it happen. However, he was fed the same story of Jason reaching for a weapon (which was a lie).

Rory sent Trigger away and then staged the evidence. Because of the lie that Trigger was fed for all of these years, he carried a lot of guilt, but never once did he know the full truth, until now. Meanwhile, Kyle grew up knowing exactly what happened.

That’s what fuels Kyle's entire revenge arc in Episodes 12 & 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3. Kyle did not just lose his father. He also watched this lie take shape, and there was no one who took responsibility, and no one corrected the story.

Because of this, Kyle turned to anger, and that anger turned into the bombings we are seeing now.

JD then starts digging into the old case again and finds something off. The planted weapon does connect back to Rory. Once that clicks, everything does fall into place. But hey, it's too late to fix anything because damage is already done.

Now, we know that Trigger is not innocent, but he is also not fully guilty in the way Kyle believes either. The real problem was the cover-up that was done by AFP Sergeant Rory Latham, and Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 makes it clear that this cover-up is what created the monster Kyle has now turned into.

Trigger and Evie fight to survive the bomb

The scenes with Trigger and Evie in Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 are very much intense and direct. Trigger is already injured, has lost a lot of blood, and still has to figure out how to remove a bomb that has been strapped to Evie’s neck.

And Kyle? He leaves them like that on purpose. He wants to watch them fail. Pleasure in another's misery.

Trigger tries his best not to panic, and in doing so, he focuses on the problem as much as he can. Even while he's weak, he manages to work through the device, and Evie trusts him fully. They manage to get free and take cover just before the blast hits. It is a very close call, but they survive.

Kyle is nearby the whole time watching. And when the explosion does not kill them in Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3, he is clearly frustrated because he wants to see them suffer in real time.

After the blast, Trigger is taken to the hospital. His condition is serious because of the gunshot wound, and Evie refuses to leave his side. She understands that this is all personal for Kyle, and she is now part of that story whether she likes it or not.

She also puts together something really important. Kyle is not working alone. The clues from where she was held point to someone else being involved, and this information pushes the investigation forward in a big way.

Lachie enters the picture, and the plan gets bigger

The second half of Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 expands the threat because Kyle is not working all on his own. His connection to Lachlan Accaria, also called Lachie, comes from their time in a boys' home.

Kyle was the dominant one even back then, and he protected Lachie and controlled him the best he could; this dynamic of theirs never once seemed to change. Even after all of these years, Lachie follows Kyle’s lead without an ounce of doubt.

Evie recognizes the location where she was held because of the markings they left behind as kids. That confirms Lachie is involved, too, and once the team starts looking into him in Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3, things move a lot faster.

At the same time, Kyle is back at his shenanigans again. He blows up Rory’s car, killing him and injuring the other people who are nearby, and this affects JD a lot. Rory once saved his life, so finding out the truth about his death breaks him.

But Kyle is not done; he's nowhere close to being done. He and Lachie break into the AFP evidence locker and steal a huge amount of money from a drug bust. While they were busy doing that, they almost killed Rosie and Nia, who barely managed to lock themselves away and survive.

The money that they steal is also a part of their exit plan. They are preparing to leave, and Nia figures out how. Lachie owns a boat, and everything in Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 points to them escaping by water.

The team then tracks Lachie down and arrests him before he can leave. But Kyle is still out there, and he still has unfinished business.

The final moves bring everything back to Trigger

Kyle’s last move is exactly what Evie had predicted. He goes after Trigger once again, this time at the hospital. He breaks in and tries to finish what he started, but Evie steps in and manages to stop him.

A still from Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 (Source: Instagram/@ncisverse)

Before surgery, Trigger also names Evie as his next of kin.

Episode 13 then shifts its focus to Rory’s funeral, which turns into another threat. Trigger notices something off immediately. A toy soldier was left on the coffin. That is the clue.

He realizes there is a bomb in the church and soon clears everyone out. In the crypt, he also then finds not one but two devices, and both of these devices need to be handled at the same time.

He calls Evie in to help. Together, they manage to disarm both of the bombs. There's a proper amount of teamwork that these two can now handle.

At the same time, Rosie misses a call from Blue because he is busy with Nia, DeShawn starts talking to someone new, JD admits he kept the truth from Trigger, and Mackey reveals her own concern about her son.

Episode 13 of NCIS: Sydney Season 3 answers big questions about the past. Trigger and Evie's bond highlights how teamwork is now a piece of cake for the two, and Kyle’s motives are fully clear now.

By the end, the team manages to stop the immediate danger, but the impact of what they uncovered remains and will stay with them all.