FBI Deputy Director Holden kills himself and is then implicated in the theft of a number of top level, high security files. Annie was taught by him at Quantico and, even though it does not come under Level 9 mission statement, she gets the team to start investigating the circumstances behind his suicide. The team discover that Holden was running his own, unauthorised, investigation inth the murder/suicide of Annie's parents and that he could have been getting much closer to finding out the truth than someone wanted.