MUSIC IN:
EXT. SPACE – DAY
(CAMERA CLOSE ON MONITOR)
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. OFFICE – DAY
(SFX: KEYBOARDING B.G.)
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
(DOOR OPENS/ CLOSES)
BEN: I’ve got ten minutes before Ainsley comes looking for me, so what’s the big emergency?
JEREMY: No one can know about this.
BEN: Okay.
JEREMY: We haven’t got much time. I was repositioning from Cuba up towards Quebec, guess it hit a glitch over Virginia – Little Creek Naval Base…
BEN: (SIGHS) God bless America.
JEREMY: She’s really cold.
BENJAMIN: Really. Cold.
JEREMY: Better than monitoring ship movements in the Atlantic.
BEN: As long as we don’t get caught.
JEREMY: Uh-oh. A problem.
BEN: Someone else must be there. Damn. Oh, no no no, sweetie. Nobody’s looking. All right. All right. Where’d she go?
(CAMERA ANGLE ON MONITOR/ CLOSE ON BEACH SCENE)
JEREMY: What just happened?
BEN: Punch in.
(MUSIC OUT)
(THEME MUSIC UP OVER OPENING TITLE/SCENES/ CREDITS AND OUT)
FADE IN:
INT. SQUAD ROOM – DAY
“EYE SPY” (ELEVATOR DOORS SLIDE OPEN)
TONY: (MUMBLES) Good morning, Kate.
KATE: I assume that was good morning.
TONY: (MUMBLES re DOUGHNUT) Want one?
KATE: No. Thanks.
TONY: (MUMBLES) Really good.
KATE: Not worth the price. I like keeping my belt notched exactly where it is.
TONY: What’s that supposed to mean?
KATE: What mean?
TONY: The whole sort of raised eyebrows winky thing.
KATE: Nothing, really. Just a…a nervous tic.
TONY: I’ve weighed exactly the same since the day I graduated from college. Never up, never down.
KATE: Certainly you would know. Do you weigh yourself a lot?
TONY: I never weigh myself.
KATE: I see. Huh. I don’t pay that close attention to your body, Tony.
TONY: Really?
KATE: But Tony, If you’re happy with the way you are, that’s all that counts.
(PHONE RINGS)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) Gibbs. Mm-hmm.
(GIBBS HANGS UP THE PHONE)
GIBBS: We’ve got a murder at Little Creek. Get Ducky. (GIBBS WALKS O.S.)
KATE: Are you all right?
TONY: Couldn’t be better.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
EXT. BEACH – DAY
GIBBS: Who found the body?
ROE: I did. An anonymous tip was called into Base Security saying someone was stabbed here.
GIBBS: Victim been ID’d?
ROE: Yes, Sir. Lieutenant Commander Thomas Egan. His wallet was found in the S-U-V.
GIBBS: Kate, photos.
KATE: Got it.
TONY: Tag Heuer. You don’t leave one of those around if you’re robbing a guy.
GIBBS: You know the Lieutenant Commander’s assignment?
ROE: Yes, Sir. He’s attached as a technical advisor to Side-Scan, a civilian contractor on the base. Don’t know any more. Their work’s classified.
GIBBS: Keep this under wraps, Master Chief.
ROE: Yes, Sir.
(SFX: WAVES B.G.)
DUCKY: We have a rising tide.
GIBBS: Okay. DiNozzo?
TONY: Yo!
GIBBS: You and me take measurements. We’ll rebuild them later in the lab. Kate, more photos!
KATE: Gotcha.
GIBBS: Gerald, take notes.
GERALD: I’m on it.
GIBBS: Come on, move it!
DUCKY: We’ve got to keep him dry.
GIBBS: I’ve got the sign.
TONY: I’ve got the farthest boulder.
GIBBS: Head and feet!
TONY: Fifteen point seven one.
GIBBS: Eleven point three six meters.
GERALD: Fifteen point seven one. Eleven point three six. Got them.
KATE: His dive knife is missing.
DUCKY: Yeah, you didn’t see this coming, did you, my friend?
(SFX: WAVE B.G.)
GIBBS: Hey, watch out! Tide!
(TONY DIVES ONTO THE SAND)
DUCKY: (CHUCKLES) Well done, Tony.
GIBBS: Bag him.
DUCKY: I’ve got a spare suit in the van.
KATE: Are you okay? What is it?
GIBBS: Shrinkage. (KATE LAUGHS)
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. BUILDING – DAY
TYLER: I just can’t believe Tom Egan is dead.
GIBBS: When did you see him last?
OVERMEYER: Early this morning.
GIBBS: Where was the Commander going?
TYLER: To conduct underwater tests on a piece of equipment.
OVERMEYER: Did you find a device with his body?
KATE: What kind of a device?
OVERMEYER: It’s a handheld sonar gun. I’ve got a wooden mockup of the prototype that we’re missing. It uses sound echoes to create visual images.
KATE: Like a sonogram.
OVERMEYER: Yeah.
TYLER: Not dissimilar. Earlier types are larger, have to be towed behind water craft.
OVERMEYER: And our version can be carried by a diver. My company developed the concept; we brought it to the Navy. Commander Tyler was assigned as my liaison.
TYLER: I brought in Tom. He was a sound-surveillance expert. We were evaluating it.
GIBBS: For use in harbor surveillance.
OVERMEYER: Yes. It’s the only working prototype that we have. Its loss is just devastating to the military.
GIBBS: And I bet to your company. Where’s the Commander’s desk?
TYLER: There.
GIBBS: We’re seizing his computer, and anything else we find we need. You understand.
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INT. QUARTER DECK – DAY
SPARKS: (INTO PHONE) Little Creek Quarter Deck. This is Seaman Apprentice Sparks speaking. How may I help you, Sir, Ma'am? Yes, Sir.
TONY: Special Agent DiNozzo.
SPARKS: They just can’t stop messing with the uniforms, can they, Sir?
TONY: You on duty this morning?
SPARKS: Yes, Sir.
TONY: You take the call about the attack on the beach?
SPARKS: Yes, Sir. Call came in at zero nine thirty two.
TONY: Get a name?
SPARKS: No, Sir. But the voice was male. Sounded real nervous. And when I started asking questions, he just hung up.
TONY: You have caller I.D.
SPARKS: Yes, Sir. But the call that came in this morning was blocked.
TONY: Well, it shouldn’t be too hard for NCIS to trace that.
SPARKS: I’d write a letter, Sir.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. OFFICE – DAY
TONY: Come on! Come on, Magee! You said you could do this.
MAGEE: I didn’t say it was going to be easy.
TONY: Actually, that’s exactly what you said only on the phone you ended it with a Sir.
MAGEE: Well, that’s when I thought you were talking about going through the proper channels.
TONY: Proper channels have too many bags.
MAGEE: Well, lucky for you Little Creek has its own central exchange. Otherwise the proper channels would be our only option.
TONY: If I’m so lucky, then why haven’t you given me the number yet?
MAGEE: The exchange handles all incoming calls to the base. Do you have any idea how many calls came into Little Creek at zero nine thirty two?
TONY: You know what my dad always said about excuses?
MAGEE: Yeah, they’re like armpits. Everyone has them and they all stink.
TONY: Actually, he used a different part of the anatomy, but you got the main idea. So whatever happened between you and Abby?
MAGEE: Our paths still cross on occasion.
TONY: Really? I guess the tat on the old caboose did the trick.
MAGEE: Among other things.
TONY: You don’t say. Did you see any art on her caboose?
MAGEE: You’re right, I don’t say.
TONY: I’ll take that as a no.
MAGEE: Ah, found it. You see, the new S-S-seven data circuits – they block display of the number. But the calling party number message is still carried on the line.
TONY: I don’t know what you just said. I don’t care what you just said. Just give me the number. Why is there an asterisk?
MAGEE: I’m not sure. (BEAT) Sir?
TONY: That wasn’t an “at it, Sir,” look. That was a “you’d better find out why,” look.
MAGEE: Oh. Sorry.
TONY: Rookie mistakes.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
EXT. EGAN RESIDENCE – DAY
(CAR BRAKES TO A STOP)
KATE: Egan and his wife have been married for nine years. They met when they were stationed in San Diego.
GIBBS: Any kids?
KATE: No. Oh, my god! It’s their anniversary next week. It looks like the Navy was pretty good about stationing them at the same bases.
GIBBS: How long have they been here in Little Creek?
KATE: Egan was transferred here in March and his wife had to finish assignment in Panama City, Florida. Then followed four months later.
GIBBS: No matter how many times I do this, it never gets any easier.
KATE: We should have had DiNozzo handle this interview.
(SFX: DOOR BELL RINGS)
KATE: Just kidding!
(DOOR OPENS)
GIBBS: Lieutenant Egan? NCIS.
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INT. LIVING ROOM – DAY
GIBBS: I’m aware there’s probably a better time to be doing all this.
KATE: Where were you coming home from, Lieutenant?
EGAN: Camp Lejeune for the weekend. It was a human resources seminar. When I got home the Base Commander and the Chaplain were here and I knew…
GIBBS: When was the last time you spoke to your husband?
EGAN: Last night.
GIBBS: What time?
EGAN: (SOBS) I don’t know.
GIBBS: Yeah, but if you could try to remember.
EGAN: (CRIES) I don’t know!
GIBBS: Lieutenant, I know this is hard.
EGAN: (CRIES) Sorry! Around ten…before I went to bed.
KATE: Did you know that he was going diving today?
EGAN: But he went diving many times during the week. He was a SEAL. He was decorated.
GIBBS: Did he tell you what he was working on?
EGAN: No, Tom was very strict about need-to-know. He didn’t discuss his work with anyone. Not even me.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. AUTOPSY ROOM – DAY
DUCKY: Would you do the honors, please, Gerald?
GERALD: Sure thing.
DUCKY: (BEAT) What?
GERALD: It moved.
DUCKY: (CHUCKLES) I don’t think so.
GERALD: It moved, Doc.
DUCKY: Remind me to check our inventory of alcohol swab. (LONG BEAT) He certainly was dead on the beach.
(DUCKY UNZIPS THE BODY BAG)
DUCKY: Ooh!
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EXT. BASE DOCK – DAY
GIBBS: What do you think, Kate? Espionage? (TRUCK DOOR CLOSES)
KATE: A Navy specialist is murdered and the classified device he has with him is missing. It looks that way.
GIBBS: Yeah.
KATE: Oh, my god.
TONY: Don’t even, okay?
KATE: Did I say anything?
TONY: You were. I know you were.
KATE: It’s a touch small, but other than that it’s fine. And the bonus, no belt.
GIBBS: DiNozzo. The anonymous tip?
TONY: It came from a restricted phone. Area code seven zero three.
KATE: Langley, Virginia.
GIBBS: CIA.
TONY: Wow, huh?
GIBBS: Yeah.
(MUSIC OUT)
MUSIC IN:
INT. SQUAD ROOM – DAY
KATE: It’s okay. I got it, Tony. Don’t you worry. Wouldn’t want to disturb your lunch.
TONY: You got me thinking, Kate. Maybe I should improve my diet.
KATE: When are you going to start?
TONY: What do you call this?
KATE: Bad things masquerading as something good for you?
TONY: This is a nutrition bar. It says so on the label.
KATE: Did you read the label? The little one with the ingredients not just the big one with the pretty colors?
TONY: Oh, sarcasm is so not healthy, Kate.
KATE: Neither is that. Let’s see… we’ve got here, (READS) High fructose corn syrup – basically sugar; uh… high maltose corn syrup – another sugar; sugar – sugar; fractionated palm kernel oil. That sounds yummy! And contains less than two percent natural flavor. That would make it ninety eight percent artificial flavor.
TONY: What are you saying?
ABBY: So I hear Egan’s computer is waiting to get up close and personal with me.
KATE: Be gentle. I’m sure Tony will be more than happy to lug this downstairs for you. He’s feeling healthy today.
TONY: No problem.
ABBY: Thanks, Tony. Where’s Gibbs?
KATE: With Director Morrow. He’s trying to get a meeting with the CIA.
ABBY: Ooh. Why?
KATE: That’s where the anonymous phone call came from.
ABBY: Langley is like two hundred miles from Little Creek. Doesn’t make any sense.
TONY: Especially considering Ducky established time of death as approximately nine thirty. And the tip was phoned in at nine thirty two.
ABBY: It’s impossible.
GIBBS: It isn’t if someone from the CIA was watching on a high-def satellite.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. ROBER’S OFFICE – DAY
ROBER: (V.O.) You’re accusing the Agency of spying on a U.S. Naval Station.
GIBBS: Do you have a better explanation?
ROBER: It didn’t happen, Agent Gibbs.
GIBBS: I have a dead Lieutenant Commander and missing classified hardware and a phone call that originated from this building right after the murder.
ROBER: I’m not denying we have the capability. But you know as well as I do that it would be a violation of CIA mandate to operate domestically.
GIBBS: Right. You never do anything illegal? We have the same Uncle writing our paychecks. We do what we do to get the job done.
ROBER: I appreciate the sentiment, Agent Gibbs.
GIBBS: I don’t have a need-to-know to know why you have a satellite pointed at Little Creek. I have a murder to solve. I could use your help.
ROBER: There’s nothing I can do to help you, Agent Gibbs. If you’ll excuse me.
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INT. NCIS LAB – DAY
(MUSIC B.G.)
ABBY: (INTO PHONE) You’re on the air!
GIBBS: (V.O./FILTERED) Hey, Ab.
ABBY: (INTO PHONE) Gibbs, how did we do with the moles? (BEGIN TELEPHONE INTERCUTS)
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) Spooks, Abby. Spooks.
(SCENE CUT)
ABBY: (INTO PHONE) I can never get that straight.
(SCENE CUT)
TONY: (INTO PHONE) Are you still in touch with the old NASA boyfriend?
ABBY: (V.O./FILTERED) He wasn’t a boyfriend.
(SCENE CUT)
ABBY: (INTO PHONE) He was a boy-toy. And yes, we I-M almost every day.
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) You do?
(SCENE CUT)
ABBY: (INTO PHONE) Oh yeah.
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) That’s good, right?
(SCENE CUT)
ABBY: (INTO PHONE) It’s very good. Why?
(END TELEPHONE INTERCUTS)
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INT. MTAC ROOM – DAY
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Greetings from NASA, NCIS.
ABBY: Whoa, Ashton, that was so Star Trek.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Sorry I’m late. I had a cluster of frozen reactor coolant heading for the flight path of an Atlas lift-off. I had to delay the launch. They were not happy about it. I am, however, very happy to see you, Abby, and to help your NCIS crime-fighting colleagues.
ABBY: Ah, you’re the best, Ashton!
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Oh, you are, Ab.
ABBY: Thank you.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) We really should talk.
ABBY: We really should talk.
GIBBS: Special Agent Gibbs here.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Of course.
GIBBS: I appreciate your help. We’re looking for SAT activity yesterday about zero nine thirty Eastern Standard.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Roger that. Geostationary?
ABBY: Asynchronous.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Multi-positional.
ABBY: Very.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Landstat seven?
ABBY: Think CIA.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Ah, K-H-twelve.
ABBY: Improved crystals.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Thermal infrared.
ABBY: It gets hot down here.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Target area?
ABBY: Virginia Coast.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) We have entry.
ABBY: Oh, you’re so good, Ashton.
GIBBS: Any idea what department it came from?
ASHTON KUGEL: Oh, pretty sophisticated blocking system on the K-H-twelve. I’m afraid that task is a bit more complicated. Complicated, but not impossible. They overlooked the same technology on the Milstar satellite relays and…that particular satellite is controlled from building thirty-five-C, office four-oh-nine.
ABBY: Bravo, Ashton! (END TELEPHONE CONVERSATION)
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. NCIS SEDAN – NIGHT
KATE: We’re lucky Abby could get in the system and pull his name off the office number. There’s not much on him.
GIBBS: CIA’s not big on bios.
KATE: Jeremy Wirth….twenty-three… current address, thirty-five B Maple, Georgetown. Graduated M-I-T at twenty.
GIBBS: I’m impressed.
KATE: Been with the Agency six months… working as a satellite analyst. That’s all we got.
GIBBS: Why would they use someone so green on such a covert assignment?
KATE: Too bad we don’t have a photo.
GIBBS: Don’t need one. He’ll fit the profile.
KATE: I think geeky, right?
GIBBS: Well yeah, Kate, something like that.
KATE: Ha! Have you ever seen Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor?
GIBBS: Yes.
KATE: That’s a geek I could get covert with.
GIBBS: Kate, I would not get my hopes up. Check it out. (CHUCKLES)
(CAR DOOR OPENS/CLOSES)
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EXT. STREET – NIGHT
KATE: Jeremy?
JEREMY: Do I know you?
KATE: My name’s Kate. Kate Todd. Can I talk to you?
JEREMY: About what? What’s NCIS?
KATE: Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
JEREMY: I’ve got nothing to talk to you about.
GIBBS: I’m Special Agent Gibbs. Same agency you haven’t heard of before. Only I don’t take it personally anymore.
JEREMY: I’ve got to go inside.
KATE: We know where you work, Jeremy. We suspect you’re the one that called Little Creek about the stabbing. You need to tell us what you saw.
JEREMY: I can’t say anything.
GIBBS: Did the Assistant Director Rober have a little chat with you?
JEREMY: He put me on administrative leave. I’m under investigation.
KATE: Rober didn’t know.
GIBBS: No. (TO JEREMY) You were using the satellite without their knowledge. Why were you watching Lieutenant Commander Egan?
JEREMY: Who?
KATE: The Naval officer who was murdered.
GIBBS: You play ball with me, I can square it with Rober.
JEREMY: You can do that?
KATE: With the exception of finding a decent barber, Gibbs can do pretty much anything he says he can.
JEREMY: I was watching…not watching… I wasn’t watching the guy in the wetsuit. I was watching something else and happened to notice activity at the edge of the screen.
GIBBS: What kind of something else would this be?
JEREMY: A person.
GIBBS: Female person?
JEREMY: Yeah.
GIBBS: Kind of a babe female person?
JEREMY: Really hot. I stumbled across her by accident. She was polar tanning.
KATE: Nude winter sunbathing.
GIBBS: Must get cold.
JEREMY: Oh, she was Sir.
KATE: And you think that’s an appropriate use for a billion dollar satellite, Jeremy?
JEREMY: I got a little off track with my priorities.
GIBBS: That happens with hot babes sometimes. So you didn’t see who attacked Commander Egan?
JEREMY: When I tried to go close, the image pixilated. All I saw was him go down. Whoever it was ran off before I could adjust the picture.
GIBBS: And that’s it?
JEREMY: If I had access to the Agency’s computer, I could show you exactly what I saw. All satellite transmissions are recorded on a hard drive at Langley.
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INT. ROBER’S OFFICE
ROBER: What the hell are you up to, Gibbs? (BEGIN TELEPHONE INTERCUTS)
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) I want the recording of a satellite transmission.
(SCENE CUT)
ROBER: (INTO PHONE) I don’t know what you’re talking about.
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) Well, let me put Mister Wirth on. He can explain it to you.
JEREMY: (WHISPERS) Oh no, no! No!
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) Your analyst…
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (V.O./FILTERED) ….was spying on a U.S. Naval base.
ROBER: (INTO PHONE) You have Wirth?
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) I’m not sure what Congressional oversight committee he’s going to be spilling his guts to. I mean, there are so many…
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (V.O./FILTERED)….to choose from these days.
ROBER: (INTO PHONE) How do we handle this?
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) We’ll be there in fifteen minutes.
(END TELEPHONE INTERCUTS)
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. AUTOPSY ROOM – DAY
DUCKY: Commander, based on the width and the jagged lower edge of the entry wound… it appears you were stabbed with your own knife. The wound is consistent with a serrated, titanium beta alloy knife missing from your sheath. Let’s see what we’ve got here. Oh, seven inches. Well, Gerald, what have we learned form this?
GERALD: Seven inches. It was a deep thrust. Most of the blade.
DUCKY: And?
GERALD: And from the left to right angle. The assailant was most likely left handed.
DUCKY: So we’ve vastly limited the potential number of suspects. Only nine percent of the world’s population is left-handed. Interestingly, that percentage has remained the same since prehistoric times. Archaeologists have been able to determine this by examining cave paintings more than ten thousand years old.
GERALD: Don’t you think we should notify Gibbs?
DUCKY: In due time. Curiously enough, the Yanomami tribe in the Amazon are twenty three percent left-handed.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. NCIS LAB – DAY
(MUSIC B.G.)
(DOOR OPENS/ CLOSES)
TONY: Find anything?
ABBY: Commander Egan’s files were password protected, it took me a while to get in. (SFX: KEYBOARDING B.G.)
ABBY: What, are you getting in shape?
TONY: Yeah, want to feel how hard my forearm is?
ABBY: No, thanks. Hey, Gibbs. You want to feel Tony’s forearm?
GIBBS: I’ll pass. Copy of the CIA satellite transmission. I want to see if you can enhance the image.
KATE: Find anything in Egan’s computer?
ABBY: He seems hinky about the sonar device’s reliability. His notes suggest that tests may have been altered.
TONY: Think Egan was killed because he was going to blow the whistle on the project?
GIBBS: Maybe.
(SFX: COMPUTER BEEP TONES)
TONY: (V.O.) Oh, I like this part.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
EXT. BEACH – DAY
(MUSIC OVER ACTION/NAVAL PERSONNEL SEARCH THE BEACH)
OVERMEYER: Do you think they’ll find it?
TYLER: I don’t know.
(MUSIC OUT)
MUSIC IN:
INT. NCIS LAB – DAY
ABBY: This is the only time the assailant is on the screen. Now watch what happens when I try to go in. The closer I get to the figure, the more the image distorts.
GIBBS: That’s it?
ABBY: Sorry, Gibbs.
KATE: We can’t make an I.D. out of that.
TONY: Maybe we can find the polar chick.
KATE: Tony’s right. The beach is on a Naval base. It’s a restricted area. Odds are she works at Little Creek.
TONY: Do you want me to track her down, boss?
KATE: Why am I not surprised? Want me to handle it? At least I won’t drool.
GIBBS: No. No, DiNozzo took a wave for the team.
TONY: Thanks, boss. Hmm… look at the muscle tone, would you? Definition on those abs. The lady definitely works out a lot.
ABBY: Maybe at the base gym?
TONY: Ah, that makes sense.
KATE: Don’t hurt yourself. There’s going to be a lot of dangerous equipment you’re not familiar with.
TONY: That’s cute, Kate. Print me a copy, Abs?
GIBBS: Face only, Abby. Kate, you stay with her. Go over everything in Egan’s files. Find out everything you can about this device.
DUCKY: Oh, Jethro! Jethro, while I was examining our victim, I was telling Gerald about the Yanomami tribe. He found it fascinating.
GIBBS: This would affect our case somehow?
DUCKY: Of course! They were twenty three percent left handed. Lieutenant Commander Egan’s killer was left handed.
GIBBS: Anything else?
DUCKY: He never made it into the ocean. That good fortune allowed me to find traces of someone else’s DNA on his body. The DNA of a female.
GIBBS: That mean what I think it means, Duck? (SFX: DOOR BELL RINGS)
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. EGAN LIVING ROOM – DAY
(DOOR OPENS)
GIBBS: Lieutenant Egan. If this is a bad time…
EGAN: Uh…I have to meet with the funeral director.
GIBBS: I have a few questions. Or I could come back.
EGAN: Uh, no. This is fine.
(PASSAGE OF TIME)
GIBBS: Did your husband have doubts about the project he was working on?
EGAN: I don’t know. He was pretty distant recently.
GIBBS: Anything else bothering him?
EGAN: Not that I know of. He hated paying bills. Always gave him a stomach ache
GIBBS: Do you know much about the people at Side-Scan?
EGAN: Met them at a Christmas party. Couple of other times. He kept it pretty separate.
GIBBS: Because of the confidential nature of the project?
EGAN: I guess.
GIBBS: He spent a lot of time at work, didn’t he?
EGAN: Not in the beginning.
GIBBS: But that changed.
EGAN: In the last few months. He always said all he wanted was a simple pine box. But I can’t do that.
(DOOR OPENS)
GIBBS: I think that he’ll be good with whatever you pick out, Lieutenant.
(DOOR CLOSES)
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INT. BASE GYM – DAY
(WOMAN WORKS OUT WITH WEIGHTS B.G.)
WOMAN: Yeah?
TONY: Hey, sorry. I thought you were someone else. Look, you weren’t sunbathing nude on the beach yesterday, were you?
WOMAN: Nice try.
TONY: Didn’t think so. (TO GYM MANAGER) Oh, hey there. How are you doing?
GYM MANAGER: Gym’s for base personnel only.
TONY: Well, I wasn’t really planning on working out.
GYM MANAGER: Obviously.
TONY: Maybe you can help me. Have you seen her?
GYM MANAGER: Not very clear.
TONY: It’s a really long lens.
GYM MANAGER: It could be Gina.
TONY: Gina?
GYM MANAGER: Petty Officer Second. Comes in here everyday about noon.
TONY: I’ll wait.
(SFX: WEIGHTS B.G.)
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EXT. PIER – DAY
KATE: You haven’t found it.
GIBBS: Not yet.
TYLER: You met me here to get me away from Overmeyer.
GIBBS: I’ve got questions.
TYLER: All right.
GIBBS: What was Commander Egan supposed to be doing that morning?
TYLER: Underwater test of the device.
GIBBS: Meaning?
TYLER: We seeded the ocean floor with targets.
GIBBS: Dummy bombs.
TYLER: He was going out to locate them.
GIBBS: He had reservations about the project, didn’t he?
TYLER: Not that I know of. Is something wrong, Agent Gibbs?
GIBBS: I don’t know. Sometimes you think you have a bead on someone. It turns out bogus. It’s upsetting.
TYLER: The point is?
GIBBS: I didn’t take you for a party line type, Commander.
TYLER: Commander Egan wasn’t sure the range was as good as promised.
GIBBS: What if Commander Egan’s test turned up negative?
TYLER: The Navy wouldn’t pick up Side-Scan’s contract.
GIBBS: And Overmeyer?
TYLER: He’d lose a fortune.
GIBBS: I’m gonna press my luck here.
TYLER: Okay.
GIBBS: What if the prototype isn’t found?
TYLER: Side-Scan will probably be granted an extension, which would buy time to correct any problems. But there aren’t any serious flaws, Agent Gibbs.
GIBBS: Would you submit to a voluntary DNA swab? I’d like to eliminate you as Lieutenant Commander Egan’s lover.
TYLER: There wouldn’t be much point. Tom and I had been seeing each other for months. Anything else you want to press?
GIBBS: No.
TYLER: I gotta get back.
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INT. BASE GYM – DAY
(TONY LIFTS WEIGHTS B.G.)
TONY: Gina?
GINA: Yes?
TONY: Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS.
GINA: What do you want?
TONY: Ah I just want to ask you a few questions.
GINA: I’m busy.
TONY: Were you sunbathing yesterday on the base beach?
GINA: You were watching me?
TONY: No.
GINA: Then how did you know I was there?
TONY: I’m not at liberty to discuss the actual surveillance activity.
GINA: Please leave me alone.
TONY: Let me get my I.D. I can appreciate how it must look.
GINA: Okay, tell me.
KATE: (V.O.) I still can’t believe Lauren Tyler admitted…
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INT. BUILDING – DAY
KATE: …to having an affair with Egan.
GIBBS: She’s smart. When I asked her for a DNA sample, she knew I had her. Always better to volunteer information than cover it up.
OVERMEYER: What are your people doing?!
GIBBS: Seizing your files.
KATE: It’s part of our investigation into Commander Egan’s death.
OVERMEYER: You think he was killed for the prototype?
GIBBS: I think he had concerns about performance.
OVERMEYER: Well, you’re wrong.
GIBBS: I try so hard not to be wrong, don’t I, Kate?
KATE: You’re very conscientious in that regard, Gibbs.
OVERMEYER: All right, we might have had a glitch or two, but nothing that wouldn’t have been corrected before production.
GIBBS: See, you I did figure for the party line guy.
OVERMEYER: What’s that supposed to mean?
GIBBS: Why was only one prototype made?
OVERMEYER: I funded all the R and D personally. I don’t have pockets that deep. This loss is just devastating.
GIBBS: It also buys you time.
OVERMEYER: Are you insinuating I had something to do with Tom Egan’s death?
GIBBS: I try so hard not to insinuate, don’t I, Kate.
KATE: You rarely insinuate, Gibbs.
GIBBS: Yeah. All I’m doing now is taking your records.
OVERMEYER: I’m calling my legal counsel.
GIBBS: I would bet that he will insinuate plenty. Here. Sign this.
OVERMEYER: What’s that for?
GIBBS: It’s a receipt for your files. All of your files.
(HELICOPTER FX B.G.)
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EXT. SIDE-SCAN BUILDING – DAY
KATE: We know the killer is left handed. (V.O.) Jonathan Overmeyer is left handed. (ON CAMERA) What about Commander Tyler? (INTERCUT FLASHBACK SCENE)
GIBBS: She wears her watch on her left hand like most right-handed people do. Service file will verify. (INTERCUT FLASHBACK SCENE)
KATE: They could be in it together.
GIBBS: They could.
(SFX: CELL PHONE RINGS)
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) Gibbs.
TONY: (V.O./FILTERED) I found her, boss…
(GIBBS HANGS UP
GIBBS: DiNozzo found our polar bear. PHONE)
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INT. GYM – DAY
GIBBS: You were on the beach yesterday?
GINA: Yes, Sir. I know it’s against regs to sunbathe naked, but I never thought I’d be caught in winter. I don’t know what came over me. I just really hate tan lines. Don’t you?
GIBBS: Sometimes I lay awake at night thinking about that. Did you see anybody else there?
GINA: Well, that’s why I left. I heard a vehicle. Saw this guy getting out in a wetsuit. I covered up and left.
KATE: Was he alone?
GINA: I thought so at first. But as I was walking back to my car, I heard voices and glanced back. He was arguing with someone else.
GIBBS: Can you describe him?
GINA: Her. All I can tell you is that she was military.
(MUSIC OUT)
FADE IN:
INT. NCIS SQUAD ROOM – DAY
KATE: We know the killer was left-handed which eliminates Commander Tyler. Her service file confirms she’s a righty.
TONY: We also know the killer is a woman. Unless Overmeyer went “Norman Bates” on the guy. Actually, when you think about it, the M.O.’s match.
GIBBS: DiNozzo.
KATE: What did you do?
TONY: So basically we eliminated our two best suspects. Neither is a left-handed woman in the military.
GIBBS: It appears so, yeah.
KATE: Damn! And they were good suspects.
GIBBS: Yeah, maybe too good.
KATE: What do you mean?
GIBBS: We got carried away with the missing prototype. Espionage and whistle blowing is a lot more intriguing than someone who’s just really pissed off.
KATE: Egan’s wife?
TONY: Her husband was diving on someone else’s reef. Dipping the fin in the company pool. Pinging the wrong pong.
KATE: Egan’s wife didn’t get back from the seminar until after the murder.
GIBBS: That’s what she said.
KATE: (V.O.) She’s a military officer. (INTERCUT FLASHBACK SCENE)
GIBBS: Yes, she is. And she plays golf. (V.O.) Left-handed. (INTERCUT FLASHBACK SCENE)
KATE: W-Wait. You could see that the clubs were left-handed with just a passing glance?
GIBBS: My second wife played golf left-handed.
KATE: So?
TONY: When someone tries to split your skull open with a seven iron, it’s not a club you soon forget.
GIBBS: There was an edge in the Lieutenant’s voice when she said things had changed the last few months.
TONY: If she knew she was cheating on her…
KATE: Wait, just because she golfs left-handed doesn’t mean she actually is left-handed. I golf left-handed but I bat and I throw right-handed.
TONY: So you go both ways?
KATE: All I’m saying is that we don’t actually have anything on her. We don’t even know if she knew that her husband was having an affair.
GIBBS: Sure.
KATE: So it’s just a hunch.
TONY: Yeah.
KATE: There’s no proof.
GIBBS: No. (SFX: DOOR BELL RINGS B.G.)
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INT. EGAN LIVING ROOM
(DOOR OPENS)
EGAN: Hello.
GIBBS: Lieutenant Egan.
EGAN: Please come on in.
GIBBS: Thank you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
GIBBS: We have a dilemma to share with you.
EGAN: Dilemma. What’s the problem?
GIBBS: We think that your husband was killed because he was about to expose flaws in the Side-Scan prototype he was developing.
EGAN: I see.
KATE: But we can’t prove it.
GIBBS: There was only one prototype made and that was taken from the crime scene.
KATE: We’ve conducted a search, but so far no luck. We’ll have to find it to have a chance of building a case against the suspect.
EGAN: You have a suspect?
KATE: A witness saw a woman arguing with your husband on the beach, just before he was stabbed.
GIBBS: We think it was the commanding officer, Lauren Tyler.
KATE: There’s no easy way to ask this, but did you know your husband was having an affair with her?
EGAN: He was having an affair?
KATE: It looks that way.
GIBBS: Can you confirm our suspicion that your husband was having doubts about this project?
EGAN: I’m afraid not. He never mentioned it.
GIBBS: Okay. Thank you for your time. Sorry to have to drag you through this.
EGAN: What do you think happened to him? Why was he killed?
GIBBS: We think that he told Commander Tyler. And that when they both confronted Jonathan Overmeyer, he offered them money to keep them silent.
EGAN: And Tom refused.
KATE: Yes.
EGAN: He would never take money.
KATE: But Tyler went along. We believe they killed him, and had to hide the prototype fast.
GIBBS: We need to find it. If we don’t, we don’t have much of a case. It’s the only conclusive proof we have of defects.
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EXT. HOUSE – DAY
(DOOR CLOSES)
KATE: You think she took the bait?
GIBBS: Pretty hard to pass up getting away with murder and framing your husband’s lover.
KATE: Well, if she’s guilty, she’s a pretty good actress.
GIBBS: Hey, what about yourself, kid?
KATE: This thing is so creepy.
GIBBS: Why? You still don’t believe she knew about her husband’s affair?
KATE: The wife’s always the last one to know, Gibbs.
GIBBS: Don’t believe it.
KATE: I hope you’re right. Otherwise we were pretty cold to a woman who just lost her husband.
GIBBS: Well, let’s find out. (SFX: TELEPHONE BEEP TONES)
ABBY: (V.O./FILTERED) Hello?
GIBBS: (INTO PHONE) Abs? Call your boy. (DOOR CLOSES)
(SFX: CAR ENGINE STARTS)
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. MTAC ROOM – DAY
ABBY: So how long do you get to use the bird? (BEGIN INTERCUTS)
(SCENE CUT)
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Don’t worry, Abs. I’m borrowing it from G-Nex Corp and they owe me big time. It’s asynchronous, multi-positional and has thermal infrared. It’s perfect for your purpose.
ABBY: And they just let you have it?
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Technically, it’s down for maintenance.
(INTERCUT SCENE OF EGAN LEAVING HER HOUSE)
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Are you going to the lecture next week on Apogee Deterioration of the Amstat Five Eleven?
ABBY: Oh, been there, done that.
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) We have movement.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. CAR – PARKED
ABBY: (V.O./FILTERED) Gibbs, she’s on the move. I’ll redirect the satellite to you.
(MUSIC OVER ACTION/EGAN CLIMBS INTO HER CAR AND DRIVES AWAY)
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INT. MTAC ROOM
ABBY: (V.O.) Are you getting this?
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INT. CAR – DAY
GIBBS: Yeah.
TONY: Let’s roll.
GIBBS: Hang on. Let’s get some separation.
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INT. MTAC ROOM
ABBY: She’s leaving the base. She’s turning onto (V.O./FILTERED) Highway Two Sixty Four going south.
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INT. CAR – PARKED
GIBBS: Okay, Lieutenant. Let’s see where you’re going.
(MUSIC OVER ACTION DRIVING SCENES)
TONY: I hope she’s not just popping out for a Big Mac.
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INT. MTAC
ABBY: Where are you guys? (BEGIN TELEPHONE INTERCUTS)
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: (V.O.) Hanging back. A mile behind her.
(SCENE CUT)
TONY: You know, we really should have our own satellite for surveillance.
GIBBS: Yeah, okay, Tony. I’ll take that up with the Director. Three hours of satellite time equals your yearly salary.
(SCENE CUT)
ABBY: She’s turning.
(SCENE CUT)
KATE: We see it.
(SFX: STATIC ON THE MONITOR)
GIBBS: Abby?
(SCENE CUT)
ABBY: I think Houston has a problem. Ash what’s going on?
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) Lost the signal. Give me a second.
(INTERCUT DRIVING SCENES)
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) The low-gain antenna has been intermittent. (V.O.) That’s why it’s off-line for maintenance.
(SCENE CUT)
TONY: We’re losing her.
(SCENE CUT)
ABBY: You’re the man, Ash.
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: Ash is the man if he gets our target back.
(MUSIC OVER ACTION/CAR DRIVING/ASHTON WORKING AT THE KEYBOARD)
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) I’m looking for it.
(SCENE CUT)
TONY: Take that right there.
GIBBS: We gotta take it. She did.
KATE: Then what, Abby?
(SCENE CUT)
ASHTON KUGEL: (ON MONITOR) All right, I think that’s it.
ABBY: You think?
(SCENE CUT)
KATE: It better be.
(MUSIC OVER ACTION DRIVING SCENES)
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
EXT. WOODS – NIGHT
(CAR BRAKES TO A STOP)
(CAR DOOR OPENS/CLOSES)
(MUSIC OVER ACTION/EGAN WALKS TO THE CLEARING AND UNCOVERS THE PROTOTYPE)
GIBBS: (V.O.) Do you need a hand?
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. NCIS SQUAD ROOM – DAY
GIBBS: You’re late.
TONY: Sorry, I was at the dry cleaners.
GIBBS: So?
TONY: For Ducky.
GIBBS: So?
TONY: It was work related.
KATE: Your phone has been ringing off the hook. It’s driving him crazy.
TONY: Well, she is driving me crazy.
KATE: She?
TONY: Apparently Miss “I Don’t Like Tan Lines” has found something she does like. Me.
KATE: And why is that a problem?
TONY: Well, let’s just say that she’s a lot more appealing from a distance. A geosynchronist distance.
KATE: She didn’t look so bad to me.
TONY: It’s not that. She’s just not my type.
GIBBS: Really? Female hard body likes to take her clothes off not your type?
TONY: I guess not.
KATE: Well why don’t you just tell her that, then?
TONY: I am.
KATE: By not answering her calls?
TONY: She’ll get the message.
(PHONE RINGS)
KATE: Apparently not.
GIBBS: Well, she’d better get the message soon or you’re going to be getting one on a pink slip.
TONY: You can’t fire me for something I have no control over!
KATE: Talk to her.
TONY: She’ll get the message!
KATE: You know, I’ll bet this is why number two came after you with a nine iron, wasn’t it? You just refused to sit down and talk things through.
GIBBS: Actually, that wasn’t it at all.
KATE: Oh. So what was it then?
GIBBS: Seven iron.
(MUSIC OUT)
(ENDING CREDITS UP AND OUT)
(MUSIC UP OVER ENDING CREDITS AND OUT)
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Prepared by C.C. Printed in USA
Calvert Continuities Aired 1/13/04
