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during my 26 year career with NCIS. I specialized in undercover operations. That was my big concern that you were
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going to run to the cops last night and then tell them we're going to get whacked today.
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It was fascinating. It gets you out of the office. Commence fire. You have to think on your
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feet. I like doing it. I kind of developed a particular personality when I was undercover. I like to play a tough guy.
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I am sort of a tough guy, but I like to play a tough guy. When you're undercover, the tattoos
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are very helpful because most people don't associate heavily tattooed people with law enforcement.
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This investigation revolved around the December 1983 murder of a US Navy member by the name of Sunny Graten.
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My dad, Sunny Grten, was the greatest dad in the world. He really was. Eyes on the deck. Let's move it out.
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Sunny Grten, a US Navy member, was murdered outside his house in Belfast, Maine.
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Belfast, Maine. You know, things don't happen in Belfast, Maine, but they do. And it can happen
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[Music] anywhere. I was a trooper with the state police back in 1983. I got called here 8:45 in the
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evening. It was just a warm December evening. Back then, there was a wood pile. There was no garage there. And
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there was a wood pile there. There was somebody hiding by the wood pile that was piled in the driveway. And
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for some reason, they shot my dad. He got out of his vehicle here and didn't even make it to his home and was
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shot in the walkway. Just the way the whole thing unfolded, it shocked this area.
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and Mr. Grten was executed. It was like totally unreal, like this is not happening.
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I think I had to use every tool in the investigator's toolbox to solve [Music] this. It was clear that they laid in
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weight whoever shot Sunonny. He had been paid before coming home and he had over
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$900 with him. That money wasn't taken. So, this wasn't a robbery. His case went unsolved for 17
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years. We had to develop some direct evidence against those that we believe could be involved. I learned about Dave
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Trudale's undercover work and realized that he was pretty good at it. He's worked with ex-cons. He knows what
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they think. He knows what they act. He can talk like them. Hey, I've been around some really bad people in my
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career. All right, brother. Undercover operations can be very dangerous. You want my help in this, right? Mhm.
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Best case scenario, you blow your line. Did you know tonight it was going to happen? I had no idea. Worst case
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scenario, you get killed. The NCIS mission is global. We're on aircraft carriers. We're in foreign
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ports. We watch after each other. We take care of each other. NCIS deal with every type of crime. Cyber fraud,
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murder, counter intelligence, counterterrorism. Every crime is a tragedy. Involve
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sisters, brothers, husbands. I feel it very personally. We live in dangerous times. Are we ever going to give up?
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NCIS, the cases they can't forget.