FADE IN:
EXT. DOCK – NIGHT
GIBBS: (V.O.) Previously on NCIS. (BEGIN FLASHBACK SCENES)
(SCENE CUT)
GIBBS: Galib, has Abu infiltrated SeaLift?
GALIB: They’re about to. A radioman, Pinpin Pula is Abu Sayyaf.
GIBBS: He plans to blow the Capefear. This will be as bad as Nine Eleven.
(SFX: HUGE EXPLOSION)
(SCENE CUT)
GELFAND: So you didn’t know him when he was wounded in Desert Storm?
SHEPARD: No.
GELFAND: He seems to be repeating that drama, the coma that he doesn’t want to wake up from.
(SCENE CUT)
STEVENS: (ON MONITOR) If Galib had intel on Abu’s plans, did he have time to tell Gibbs?
TONY: Maybe. They were together when the bomb went off.
STEVENS: (ON MONITOR) Let’s hope Gibbs comes out of this coma in time.
(SCENE CUT)
DUCKY: Well, Jethro doesn’t talk much about the past. I know very little about his life before we met.
(INTERCUT MONGATE OF FLASHBACK SCENES OF GIBBS/ FAMILY/ KILLING)
DUCKY: Welcome back, Jethro.
GELFAND: You were in an explosion.
GIBBS: I remember. I don’t know him.
(MUSIC UP AND OUT)
(THEME MUSIC UP OVER OPENING TITLE/SCENES/
CREDITS AND OUT)
FADE IN:
INT. ICU ROOM – DAY
“HIATUS (PART II)"
GELFAND: You don’t know Doctor Mallard?
DUCKY: Ducky.
GELFAND: Ducky. Do you know Ducky?
DUCKY: I’m disappointed, Jethro. The last time someone forgot me I was a baby. My mother left me on the ferry from Orkney to John O’Groats. She was on the bus halfway to Thurso before she missed me. I’ve often wondered if I inspired the Liechtenstein t-shirt.
GELFAND: “Oh, god! I left the baby on the bus.”
DUCKY: Quite. Remember my telling you that, Jethro?
GIBBS: I remember the t-shirt.
DUCKY: But not me.
GIBBS: No.
DUCKY: No worries. It’ll come.
GELFAND: Absolutely. Temporary memory loss is to be expected. Don’t let it worry you. Are you breathing comfortably? Good. Let’s switch to the nasal cannula, Maria.
BALIAD: Okay.
GELFAND: You’re doing fine.
BALIAD: Okay, I’m just going to take this off.
GELFAND: Most traumatized brain injuries produce short-term retrograde amnesia. But to erase years of memory, his medial temporal lobes or hippocampus should be damaged.
DUCKY: No, his CAT scans and EEG are normal.
GELFAND: And he remembers the explosion. And I’ve never had a retrograde amnesia patient remember the trauma. Never.
BALIAD: Okay, there you go.
GELFAND: I don’t think it’s retrograde amnesia. I think it’s disassociative.
DUCKY: An emotional repression of memory?
GELFAND: With no physical damage to the brain, it must be psychological.
DUCKY: No…
GELFAND: But Doctor, you said Gibbs hasn’t spoken of his past.
DUCKY: Hardly ever.
GELFAND: Perhaps it’s too painful. It could explain the prolonged coma in Ninety-one.
DUCKY: But the present coma is the result of an explosion. How could it be psychological?
GELFAND: What if the latest coma caused a relapse? (TO GIBBS) So how are we doing?
GIBBS: Confused.
GELFAND: Let’s see if we can clear up some of those cobwebs. You remember the explosion?
GIBBS: Yes.
GELFAND: Where were you when it happened?
GIBBS: Kuwait.
SHEPARD: (V.O.) I have good news.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. SQUAD ROOM – DAY
SHEPARD: Gibbs has regained consciousness.
ABBY: Yay! That’s great!
SHEPARD: However, there’s also a problem. He has some memory loss.
ABBY: Retrogressive amnesia is totally normal after severe trauma.
TONY: Happens every time the boss smacks me on the back of the head.
MCGEE: Well, you know, I had amnesia after my car crash.
TONY: Your bumper car get T-boned at Legoland, Probie?
MCGEE: No, Tony. I told you about when I totaled my Camaro when I was sixteen. That day is still a blank to me.
SHEPARD: Well, Gibbs’ blank is the last fifteen years. To him, it’s nineteen ninety one and he’s a Marine Gunny Sergeant wounded in Desert Storm.
ZIVA: He doesn’t know he’s an NCIS Special Agent?
SHEPARD: I doubt it. He didn’t recognize Ducky.
ABBY: Well, if he doesn’t know who Ducky is, then there’s no…
TONY: He’ll never remember us.
SHEPARD: I am sure it’s a temporary condition. In the meantime, we have an Abu Sayyaf terrorist to apprehend. I really don’t know anything more, Abby.
ABBY: Can I go visit him?
SHEPARD: Not just yet. His neurologist, Captain Gelfand, will let us know when he’s up to it.
ABBY: Can I… I run to the restroom? I’ll come right back.
SHEPARD: If anyone else needs a potty break, now is the time to do it. We’ll meet at seventeen ten.
(SHEPARD WALKS O.S.)
ZIVA: You know what that means?
TONY: The Director’s taking over the investigation.
ZIVA: Probably. But I was thinking if Gibbs doesn’t remember the last fifteen years, he’ll be a probie.
TONY: Gibbs would never let her take over.
ZIVA: Not the old Gibbs. Probie Gibbs.
(TONY RUNS UP THE STAIRS)
TONY: Director Shepard?
SHEPARD: Yes, DiNozzo.
TONY: I want you to understand that in Gibbs absence, as the team’s senior Special Agent, this investigation is mine.
SHEPARD: Is it?
TONY: Yes, it is, ma’am.
SHEPARD: And if I were to dispute that assumption?
TONY: Then you would be a fool. And you are no fool, Director. This will be a long, tough, investigation. You’re overloaded as it is, and no one knows this team better than me…. except for the boss.
SHEPARD: Which evidently isn’t me.
TONY: I was speaking, of course, of the team boss; Gibbs. You are the Agency boss.
SHEPARD: Not if you keep telling me what I can and cannot do.
TONY: I would never do that, Ma’am.
SHEPARD: Then what is it that you’re saying?
TONY: You take care of the big picture, and let me handle the two-reeler.
SHEPARD: I always intended to, Tony.
TONY: Then… why did you make me say all that just now?
SHEPARD: I just wanted to see if you had as much guts as Gibbs.
CUT TO:
INT. ICU ROOM – DAY
GELFAND: What’s the first thing you remember after the explosion?
(INTERCUT MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK SCENES)
SHEPARD: (V.O.) Did you know when Jethro was married that he had a daughter?
CUT TO:
INT. SHEPARD’S OFFICE – DAY
DUCKY: No, that’s not possible. I know all three of Jethro’s ex-wives. They had no children. (DOOR CLOSES)
SHEPARD: With his first wife, Shannon, he did. They married in eighty-two, and had a daughter, Kelly, who was born in eighty four.
DUCKY: I can’t believe it.
SHEPARD: There’s more. They were murdered when Jethro was fighting in Desert Storm. Shannon witnessed the shooting of a Marine in Oceanside. She identified the killer as Pedro Hernandez, a Mexican drug dealer working Camp Pendleton. An NIS Agent was assigned to protect her. A sniper shot him in the head while he was driving their van. He died instantly. Shannon and Jethro’s eight year old daughter Kelly were killed in the crash.
DUCKY: That is so awful.
SHEPARD: Kelly looked a lot like Jethro, didn’t she?
DUCKY: Yes, a bit. She’s a beautiful child.
SHEPARD: Very. So was Shannon. Jethro always did like redheads.
DUCKY: Was Hernandez ever caught?
SHEPARD: No. He fled to Mexico. NIS tried to extradite, but the Mexican authorities always claimed they couldn’t find him. It’s in our cold case files.
DUCKY: Oh, you can close it.
SHEPARD: What do you know?
DUCKY: Jethro would have pursued the killer of his wife and daughter to hell and back. Jethro got his revenge.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. SQUAD ROOM – DAY
TONY: After conducting the autopsy, Ducky is virtually certain Abog Galib was inside the oil drum when the explosive detonated.
MCGEE: Why would he be in a laundry oil drum?
ABBY: Maybe he was looking for his laundry?
TONY: This is serious, Abby.
ZIVA: Oh! Listen to the pot call the kettle black. Got that right, didn’t I?
TONY: No.
ZIVA: Yes!
TONY: Probie, why was Galib in that oil drum?
MCGEE: He was hiding.
ABBY: From who? Gibbs?
TONY: Maybe. He ran from Gibbs, even though the plan was that he was supposed to get arrested in front of the crew.
ZIVA: Another question. How did Pinpin Pula know Gibbs and Galib would be in the ship’s laundry?
ABBY: Right! Because they would have had to put the bomb inside the oil drum before they got there.
MCGEE: Gibbs knows.
TONY: Gibbs also thinks the Giants just won the Super Bowl and Dances With Wolves is an Academy Award nominee.
ABBY: I loved that movie.
ZIVA: Me, too. Those Native Americans were so macho in their--
TONY: (SHOUTS) Enough! Abby, I want a reenactment of the explosion, okay? Using crime scene photos, measurements, Ducky’s autopsy--
ABBY: (OVERLAP) Ducky’s autopsy findings? I know how to do a computer reenactment, Tony.
TONY: Ziva, what did you get out of the cook? What’s his name?
ZIVA: Alon Atu. From the same Filipino village in Basilan as Pinpin. He’s hardcore Abu Sayyaf. He won’t talk unless I--
TONY: No torture.
ZIVA: He won’t talk.
TONY: Try.
ZIVA: Okay. But you’re tying my feet.
TONY: Hands.
ZIVA: Those, too.
TONY: McGee, Pinpin’s photo get added to the BOLO?
MCGEE: Yes, Tony.
TONY: SeaLift Command get it?
MCGEE: They are faxing it to all hundred and ten ships. There’s no way that he’s going to infiltrate SeaLift.
TONY: He blew up Galib and put Gibbs in a coma. Rule Number Three. Never underestimate your opponent.
MCGEE: No, actually Rule Number Three….
TONY: DiNozzo’s Rule Numero Tre, Probie.
MCGEE: Gotcha. Never underestimate your opponent.
CUT TO:
INT. RADIO ROOM – DAY
(SFX: FAX)
(SFX: PAPER SHREDDER)
CUT TO:
EXT. SHIP DECK – DAY
SEAMAN: Hey, Galib.
(MUSIC UP AND OUT)
FADE IN:
INT. ICU ROOM – NIGHT
GELFAND: (V.O.) He’s trying to catch up on fifteen years by watching TV. (BEGIN TELEPHONE INTERCUTS)
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) Jethro hates television.
(SCENE CUT)
GELFAND: (INTO PHONE) He can’t believe we’re still fighting in Iraq.
SHEPARD: (V.O./FILTERED) He’s not alone
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) Does he remember being an NCIS Special Agent?
(SCENE CUT)
GELFAND: (INTO PHONE) No. Doctor Mallard’s still a stranger to him.
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) He won’t know me, then. Ducky worked with him years before I did.
GELFAND: (V.O./FILTERED) Well, who an amnesiac remembers….
(SCENE CUT)
GELFAND: (INTO PHONE) …. depends on their prior relationship. Have you found any Marines he served with in Desert Storm?
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) Two, so far. One’s dead. The other’s a Regimental Commander in Iraq.
(SCENE CUT)
GELFAND: (INTO PHONE) Well, Gibbs recalls visiting his wife and daughter’s graves. So his memory is up to at least June of ninety-one when he was released from Bethesda.
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) He joined NIS that August.
GELFAND: (V.O./FILTERED) How about somebody he knew at NIS?
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) Um… Special Agent Michael Franks headed the murder investigation. I’ll start with him. Thanks, Todd.
(SCENE CUT)
GELFAND: (INTO PHONE) When are you coming back to see him?
SHEPARD: (V.O./FILTERED) Tomorrow.
GELFAND: (INTO PHONE) I’ll be here. (END TELEPHONE INTERCUTS)
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. HOSPITAL BATHROOM – DAY
(MUSIC OVER ACTION/GIBBS SHAVES HIS HAIR)
CUT TO:
INT. SHEPARD’S OFFICE – NIGHT
CYNTHIA: Special Agent Franks retired in ninety-six. He left no forwarding address or phone number.
SHEPARD: Yes, he did.
CYNTHIA: He did?
SHEPARD: Find out where OPM mails his retirement checks.
CUT TO:
EXT. BEACH – DAY
CAMILA: Hola, Miguel!
MIKE FRANKS: Hola, mi bonita!
CAMILA: (IN SPANISH) How did you live to be
such an old man?
MIKE FRANKS: (IN SPANISH) Old man!? Come inside. I’ll show you how old I am.
CAMILA: (IN SPANISH) You cannot afford me.
MIKE FRANKS: I just got paid.
CAMILA: Ah, then you can pay me for the groceries. You owe me three hundred and twenty pesos.
(SFX: TELEPHONE BEEP TONES/ RINGING)
CAMILA: Ah! Your hand is greasy.
MIKE FRANKS: (CHUCKLES) Who you calling?
OPERATOR: (V.O./FILTERED) Operator.
CAMILA: (INTO PHONE) I don’t know.
OPERATOR: (V.O./FILTERED) How may I help you?
CAMILA: (INTO PHONE) Collect call from Señor Miguel Franks.
OPERATOR: (V.O./FILTERED) One moment.
CAMILA: They called you at the cantina.
MIKE FRANKS: Who called me? (INTO PHONE) Who the hell is this?
(BEGIN TELEPHONE INTERCUTS)
(SCENE CUT)
CYNTHIA: (INTO PHONE) Director Shepard’s assistant, Mister Franks.
(SCENE CUT)
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) Director of what?
CYNTHIA: (V.O./FILTERED) NCIS, Sir.
MIKE FRANKS: (TO CAMILA) Why the hell didn’t you ask me?
CAMILA: They said it was muy importante. What is the problema? It’s free.
(CAMILA CURSES IN SPANISH B.G.)
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) Speak!
(SCENE CUT)
CYNTHIA: (INTO PHONE) One moment. I’ll connect you.
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) Mister Franks?
(SCENE CUT)
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) How many damn assistants does the Director have?
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) Just one.
(SCENE CUT)
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) Then who the hell are you?
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) Director Shepard of NCIS.
(SCENE CUT)
(MIKE FRANKS LAUGHS/COUGHS)
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) Charlene, is this you?
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) No. My name is Jenny Shepard and I am Director of NCIS.
(SCENE CUT)
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) Thank the Lord.
SHEPARD: (V.O./FILTERED) That mean you approve?
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) Means all my thoughts that early retirement was a mistake, just proved themselves wrong.
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) I didn’t call you to discuss your opinions of a female Director.
(SCENE CUT)
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) Didn’t think you did.
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) I need your help…. Special Agent Franks.
(SCENE CUT)
MIKE FRANKS: (INTO PHONE) Ain’t been that for eleven years. Good bye, Director.
(SCENE CUT)
SHEPARD: (INTO PHONE) Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
CUT TO:
INT. LAB – DAY
ABBY: Can you imagine how scary that would be to lose the last fifteen years of your life?
MCGEE: Oh, my God.
ABBY: What?
MCGEE: I’d still be in high school.
ABBY: Oh, yuck! Zits. Braces. Raging hormones.
MCGEE: Yeah. I used to walk around all day with my notebook in front of my….
ABBY: In front of your what, McGee?
MCGEE: The laundry room is off. It should actually be three point nine six two meters wide. Not two six.
ABBY: Better?
MCGEE: Yeah. It’s got to be accurate.
ABBY: Absolutely. So was it one of those tiny spiral notebooks or one of those big three ring binder things, Timmy?
MCGEE: And where were you fifteen years ago, Abby?
ABBY: So where did you find Gibbs?
MCGEE: Afraid I’m going to find out – what was that for?
ABBY: Distracting me.
MCGEE: I was not distracting you.
ABBY: Gibbs.
MCGEE: Between the dryer and the bulkhead. A little closer to the bulkhead. The autopsy report indicates that Galib was sitting on the bomb.
ABBY: Which consisted of one hundred and thirteen grams of Semtex.
MCGEE: Wow! You can compute the amount of Semtex used that accurately?
ABBY: I am a scientist, McGee. I can compute anything accurately, including the size of the notebook required to…
MCGEE: Stop! Can you detonate the bomb, please? (SFX: SIMULATED BOMB EXPLODES)
ABBY: Sorry. I forgot to tell you I added sound.
MCGEE: Yeah. Uh… can we try that again without sound?
ABBY: Yeah, it was a little loud, huh?
MCGEE: Yeah. And let’s go frame-by-frame so we can see what happened.
ABBY: Of course. In the first microsecond, less than the time it takes for you to blink your eye, the bottom of the barrel and Galib’s lower body are atomized. The oil drum is disintegrating, but retains enough integrity to blow what remains of Galib into the overhead. In the following microseconds, the oil drum disintegrates. Galib is impacted into the overhead and Gibbs… is… dead!
MCGEE: (OVERLAP) Dead.
CUT TO:
INT. SQUAD ROOM – DAY
MCGEE: If Gibbs had been standing when the bomb detonated, he’d have been blasted into the bulkhead and shredded by shrapnel.
ABBY: Gibbs had to duck for cover before the bomb went off.
TONY: He knew!
ABBY: Yeah.
ZIVA: What’s wrong with this picture?
ABBY: Nothing. McGee and I triple checked all the numbers to make sure that…
ZIVA: Not your picture. Did I make another idiomatic mistake?
TONY: No. You mean something’s wrong with what we know.
ZIVA:
ZIVA: Exactly. We know Galib ran. We know Gibbs pursued him. We know they were in the ship’s laundry. We know Galib sat on a bomb inside the oil drum. And thanks to Abby and McGee, we know Gibbs knew that a bomb was about to explode. Oh, and we know Pinpin, a missing crewman on the Kamir Bakir, is an Abu Sayyaf terrorist.
(CONT.) Probably the one who planted and detonated the bomb.
TONY: You left out Pinpin Pula means “rice patty dyke.” But other than that, damn good summation, Ziva.
ZIVA: Thank you.
TONY: So, as Ziva said, what is wrong with this picture?
MCGEE: Gibbs knows. But he doesn’t remember.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – DAY
SHEPARD: Jethro?
GIBBS: Shannon?
SHEPARD: No, Jethro. It’s me, Jenny. You still don’t remember me?
(INTERCUT FLASHBACK SCENES)
GIBBS: Maybe.
SHEPARD: I’m Jenny. We were partners.
GIBBS: After Shannon died.
SHEPARD: Yes!
GIBBS: Did I marry again?
SHEPARD: Three times.
GIBBS: (LAUGHS LIGHTLY) No way!
SHEPARD: Afraid so.
GIBBS: Oh, you’re an ex-wife?
SHEPARD: Oh, God no. I’m the Director of NCIS.
GIBBS: For a moment I thought you were somebody else.
SHEPARD: You remembered us making love, didn’t you, Jethro? (LONG BEAT) At least that’s a start. Do you recognize this man?
(INTERCUT MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK SCENES)
GIBBS: (LONG BEAT) It’s like … a name on the tip of my tongue and I can’t remember!
SHEPARD: Calm down. It’ll come.
GIBBS: It’s important, isn’t it?!
SHEPARD: Yes. Very.
GIBBS: It’s life or death, right?!
SHEPARD: Don’t get upset, Jethro. You won’t remember.
GIBBS: Give me a name!
SHEPARD: Pinpin Pula.
GIBBS: That’s not his name. That can’t be his name.
SHEPARD: Are you sure?
GIBBS: (SHOUTS) No! I’m not sure! I don’t remember! How can I be sure?!
GELFAND: What’s happening?
SHEPARD: I’m sorry. It’s my fault.
GELFAND: (OVERLAP) Maria, give him ten milligrams of morphine. Agent Gibbs, your blood pressure is spiking…
GIBBS: (OVERLAP) I’m not Agent Gibbs! I don’t know Agent Gibbs! I don’t want to know Agent Gibbs! I want my family. I want Shannon. I want…Kelly. I miss them. I miss them so much. Oh, no….
(MUSIC OUT)
FADE IN:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – DAY
BALIAD: Normally we’d move you to a regular room, but for once the hospital is full up, and ICU isn’t. Having the sound off isn’t going to help your memory.
GIBBS: Nothing new. Same war. Same crime. Same politics.
BALIAD: Aren’t you surprised “The Terminator” is the Governor of California?
GIBBS: No. The Gipper was President.
BALIAD: I’ll be right back with your dinner.
GIBBS: And none of that baby food, okay?! A steak. Rare would be nice. And french fries, please?
BALIAD: Maybe tomorrow.
GIBBS: Tomorrow I won’t be here.
MIKE FRANKS: (V.O.) Hello, Probie.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET – FLASHBACK
MIKE FRANKS: My brother and I married the same woman twice.
GIBBS: Twice!
MIKE FRANKS: She was a hell of a woman, Probie.
CUT TO:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – DAY
GIBBS: Hey, Boss.
MIKE FRANKS: Damn, you got old, Marine.
GIBBS: Have you looked in the mirror lately?
MIKE FRANKS: If you hadn’t been in a coma…
GIBBS: They’re dead, Mike. Shannon and Kelly, they’re both dead.
MIKE FRANKS: I know, Jethro.
GIBBS: It can’t have been fifteen years. Can it? God, feels like I just got the news in Kuwait a couple of months ago. (LONG BEAT) You investigated Shannon’s murder. That’s how I met you. Camp Pendleton. You were the Special Agent in charge. Yeah. I became an agent because of you. You left the sniper folder on your desk so I could…
(SFX: MIKE FRANKS CLEARS HIS THROAT)
GIBBS: So I could join NIS.
CUT TO:
INT. NIS OFFICE – FLASHBACK
(INTERCUT MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK SCENES)
GIBBS: I like the blue better, Boss.
CUT TO:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – DAY
GIBBS: NCIS. The Navy changed the name that same year. Nineteen… ninety? Ninety…
MIKE FRANKS: Two.
GIBBS: We investigated crime scenes.
MIKE FRANKS: I investigated crime scenes. You schlepped.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET – FLASHBACK
MIKE FRANKS: In ‘Nam I packed twice what you’re carrying through monsoon mud with Charlie shooting at my ass and still went faster than you!
CUT TO:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – DAY
GIBBS: You taught me how to be an agent.
MIKE FRANKS: Nah. I didn’t teach. You observed.
CUT TO:
MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK SCENES
(MUFFLED NEWSCASTER OVER MONTAGE OF BOMBING FLASHBACK SCENES)
MIKE FRANKS: Semper fi.
CUT TO:
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – DAY
GIBBS: Khobar Towers. You warned them about Bin Laden. They didn’t listen. And you quit.
MIKE FRANKS: I didn’t quit. I retired.
GIBBS: You were pissed that they wouldn’t listen, Mike. Pissed that all Clinton did was lob a couple of cruise missiles at Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. You quit, Mike.
MIKE FRANKS: I didn’t get calluses on my ass flying from Mexico to argue, Jethro.
GIBBS: Okay. You’re right. I’m sorry.
MIKE FRANKS: Never say you’re sorry. It’s a sign of weakness.
GIBBS: Why are you here, Mike?
MIKE FRANKS: Your Director called me in. What’s with the female NCIS Director crap?
GIBBS: I don’t know. I only remember Jenny as a…
MIKE FRANKS: Jenny?
GIBBS: Yeah. Jenny. She said she was my partner.
MIKE FRANKS: What kind of partner?
BALIAD: (V.O.)You can’t smoke in here!
MIKE FRANKS: I… forgot I was in a hospital.
BALIAD: It’s against the law to smoke in any public building.
MIKE FRANKS: You’re kidding! Another good reason to live in Mexico.
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INT. AUTOPSY ROOM – DAY
JIMMY: You were right, Doctor Mallard.
DUCKY: For once?
JIMMY: No, Doctor. You…
DUCKY: What am I right about this time?
JIMMY: Galib and the oil drum. Abby’s computer recreation looks exactly like he’s been shot from a cannon.
DUCKY: Oh, it’s a risky occupation even without explosives.
JIMMY: They don’t use explosives to shoot people out of cannons?
DUCKY: A man of your age and education? Really, Mister Palmer.
JIMMY: I know that they don’t use high explosives. I thought maybe… black powder.
DUCKY: Compressed air or spring-driven catapults shoot our intrepid cannonballer into the air. David…. “Cannonball” Smith set the record. Yes, he even was fired across the Mexican United States border. He carried a passport, although today one wonders why. It’s a sad fact that sixty percent of all human cannonballs are eventually killed.
JIMMY: Oh, if they don’t use explosives, then why do so many of them die?
DUCKY: They miss the net, Mister Palmer! (LAUGHS) They miss the – oh, my!
JIMMY: What is it, Doctor?
DUCKY: Galib wasn’t sitting in the oil drum. He was stuffed in it! Look.
(PASSAGE OF TIME)
TONY: (V.O.)The neck bone’s cut.
DUCKY: Cervical vertebrae was cut very deeply. You were slashed from ear to ear, weren’t you?
TONY: A machete or a bolo knife.
DUCKY: Yes, I believe the Filipinos call it a parang.
MCGEE: Whatever they’re called, it answers one of our questions.
ZIVA: And poses a new one. If Galib was dead…
TONY: Who did Gibbs follow into the laundry?
CUT TO:
INT. CORRIDOR – DAY
TOLLIVER: Clear! (SFX: STEADY BEEP TONE)
NURSE: Clear!
(SFX: ELECTRIC CHARGE)
(SFX: BEEP TONES)
TOLLIVER: We’ve got a pulse. Give him a mil of atropine.
NURSE: Got him at eighty two over fifty eight.
TOLLIVER: Getting better, ladies. Blood pressure is coming up. Death is not my jam.
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INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – DAY
BALIAD: You haven’t touched your dinner, Special Agent Gibbs.
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
BALIAD: No steak tomorrow if you don’t eat your Jell-O today.
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EXT. PICNIC TABLE – DAY
GIBBS: You got your knife, Mike?
MIKE FRANKS: Security took it at the airport.
GIBBS: Was it more than three inches long?
MIKE FRANKS: They changed that rule after Nine Eleven.
GIBBS: Nine Eleven?
MIKE FRANKS: September eleventh of two thousand and one.
GIBBS: Hey, Boss. It’s ninety six and you just … retired. Damn this is good. I owe you. Had to be a hijacking, huh? They never change security until it’s too late.
MIKE FRANKS: (LONG BEAT) Al Qaeda hijacked four airliners. Two hit the World Trade Center. One the Pentagon. Fourth was to take out the White House. Some gutsy passengers fought them. They went down in Pennsylvania. The Twin Towers are gone. Pentagon’s fixed. Three thousand some dead. Nearly as many wounded.
(SFX: GIBBS VOMITS)
NURSE: (V.O.) Sir, are you all right?
MIKE FRANKS: He’s okay. Got some bad news.
GIBBS: That nurse was right. I’m not ready for a steak. Well, tell me we did more than toss a couple of cruise missiles.
MIKE FRANKS: We did more.
GIBBS: Bin Laden?
MIKE FRANKS: I don’t know.
GIBBS: How the hell can you not know?
MIKE FRANKS: Remember that beach in Baja we fished?
GIBBS: Yeah. South of El Rosario.
MIKE FRANKS: I built a little place there. No TV, no radio, no newspapers. I fish. I drink beer. Listen to old eight track tapes. Drive to a cantina up the coast when I want company… when the pickup’s running. This is the first time I’ve been to El Norte in ten years. Don’t ask me for a sitrep, Jethro. I don’t know.
GIBBS: You don’t want to know.
MIKE FRANKS: That’s right. I don’t want to know.
GIBBS: You feel guilty because you quit. If you hadn’t quit… maybe you’re the one that stops it.
MIKE FRANKS: You didn’t quit.
MUSICAL BRIDGE TO:
INT. STORAGE HOLD – NIGHT
(MUSIC OVER ACTION/GALIB SETS THE BOMB DETONATOR)
CREW MEMBER: Hey, Galib. What are you up to?
GALIB: Ah, stretching my legs. It’s too windy on deck.
CREW MEMBER: Hey, why don’t you join the poker game tonight? You never leave that damn radio room.
GALIB: Ah, I talk to ham radio operators at night.
CREW MEMBER: And you’d rather do that than play poker?
GALIB: They’re all girls.
CREW MEMBER: Right.
(MUSIC UP AND OUT)
MUSIC IN:
INT. INTERROGATION ROOM
ZIVA: You insist this is Pinpin Pula.
MAHIR: Insist. Yes. I like this word. I insist this is Pinpin.
ZIVA: I don’t believe you.
MAHIR: Why would I lie to you when you threaten to kill me?
ZIVA: It is not a threat. I will kill you if you lie, Captain.
MAHIR: I believe you.
ZIVA: I’m the one who has doubts.
MAHIR: It is Pinpin. I swear.
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INT. OBSERVATION ROOM
MCGEE: That’s not loaded, is it?
TONY: Would Gibbs allow Ziva to carry a loaded weapon in there?
MCGEE: No.
TONY: And I’m not Gibbs, right?
ZIVA: (V.O.) So Captain….
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INT. INTERROGATION ROOM
ZIVA: You’re positive?
MAHIR: I am positive. Absolutely positive! How many times do I have to tell you?!
ZIVA: Once more. Take a good look.
MAHIR: I don’t need to look! The man was on my ship for months! It’s Pinpin Pula.
ZIVA: Was it Abu Sayyaf?
MAHIR: Yes! It was Abu Sayyaf.
ZIVA: Who ran from customs?
MAHIR: Yes! Yes! He ran when your guy--
ZIVA: You knew it was Pinpin not Galib at the custom’s gate.
MAHIR: (IN TURKISH) Allah help me! (IN ENGLISH) Yes, I knew. I knew. They paid me. I was quiet. They paid me to be quiet! But… Pinpin never told me there was a bomb! I never knew that! I never knew – ah!!! Oh….
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INT. SQUAD ROOM – NIGHT
SHEPARD: That’s the NCIS I.D. photo of Special Agent Abog Galib that I showed Gibbs. What’s your point, DiNozzo?
TONY: A scary one, Director. Captain Mahir admitted to Ziva that Pinpin passed himself off as Galib at the custom’s check.
SHEPARD: And Gibbs would have expected Galib to change his appearance going undercover. Growing his hair, maybe a mustache. Dirty himself up. So when Pinpin handed him Galib’s passport it was good enough.
ZIVA: To pass the mustard.
MCGEE: Muster, not mustard.
SHEPARD: Galib’s documents are vetted to get him on any crew in the world.
TONY: Including the Cape Fear or Cape Horn.
ZIVA: We sent a second BOLO with Pinpin’s photo. Both ships confirmed he was not onboard.
TONY: Send it again AKA Abog Galib. Get me the crew rosters from Sealift Command.
MCGEE: On it.
SHEPARD: DiNozzo, call MTAC. I want the NSO, Pentagon, FBI, CIA – hell, everyone on ASAP!
TONY: My gut tells me we’re missing something.
ZIVA: Gibbs.
TONY: Yeah, Gibbs.
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INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – NIGHT
(SFX: GIBBS STARTLES AWAKE)
GIBBS: And you?
ZIVA: Ziva.
GIBBS: Do we work together?
ZIVA: Yes. I’m a Mossad officer attached to your team.
GIBBS: Mossad? When did they start doing that?
ZIVA: It’s been a year.
GIBBS: Don’t feel bad. I worked with that M.E.
ZIVA: Ducky. Ten years. And you don’t remember him.
GIBBS: Do you always finish people’s sentences?
ZIVA: Only when I’m in a hurry. Abu Sayyaf is planning a terrorist attack on the Navy. It will be as devastating as--
GIBBS: Nine Eleven.
ZIVA: You remember Nine Eleven?
GIBBS: My boss told me.
ZIVA: Director Shepard.
GIBBS: No. No, my boss. It doesn’t matter. What can I do?
ZIVA: Remember.
GIBBS: (SHOUTING) I’ve been trying to since I woke up in this room!
ZIVA: Well try harder! (BEAT) Good. That’s a start.
GIBBS: What is?!
ZIVA: The old Gibbs’ stare. You gave it to all of us; McGee, Tony, me!
GIBBS: (SHOUTS) What are you talking about?!
(SFX: GIBBS HITS ZIVA IN THE HEAD)
(INSERT MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK SCENES)
ZIVA: Ari…. Ari killed Kate.
(INSERT MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK SCENES)
ZIVA: (CRYING) And I… I killed Ari!
(INSERT MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK SCENES)
GIBBS: Your brother.
ZIVA: (CRYING) Yes.
GIBBS: You killed your brother.
(SFX: ZIVA CRYING)
GIBBS: To save me.
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INT. SQUAD ROOM
TONY: (INTO PHONE) I’m sure he remembers you, Ducky.
MCGEE: (INTO PHONE) Ziva’s driving him here now!
TONY: (INTO PHONE) I don’t know. Maybe she pulled her--
(TONY AND MCGEE TALK OVER)
MCGEE: (INTO PHONE) He’s coming back. He will remember you, absolutely.
TONY: (INTO PHONE) He insisted.
MCGEE: (INTO PHONE) Any minute now. (ELEVATOR DINGS/ DOORS OPEN/ CLOSE)
TONY: Boss!
GIBBS: McGee.
MCGEE: Uh… uh, Boss, no I’m McGee.
ABBY: Gibbs! Oh! (ABBY HUGS GIBBS)
GIBBS: Hey, Abby.
MCGEE: Whoa.
GIBBS: I do remember you, Abs. Ducky, how can I forget? Your mother left you on a bus.
DUCKY: I have no idea, Jethro.
ABBY: Should you be out of the hospital, Gibbs?
GIBBS: I don’t have time, Abs. I’ll talk to you both later. I should have known it wasn’t Galib.
(ALL AD LIB AGREEMENT)
TONY: I’d have made the same mistake.
GIBBS: Well yeah, DiNozzo. I know. That’s why I’m so pissed!
(GIBBS SLAPS TONY)
TONY: You didn’t forget me!
SHEPARD: The Cape Fear is loaded with twenty thousand --
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INT. MTAC
SHEPARD: … tons of munitions, Deputy Director Welch.
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) Which is why we cannot permit her to reach Gibraltar without boarding a Navy Search team.
SHEPARD: Agreed. But if that frigate signals a heave-to and prepare to be boarded, Pinpin Pula will blow the Cape Fear. No one will survive.
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) If he’s on board and if he’s a suicide bomber.
TOM ZILL: (ON MONITOR) You’re risking nineteen civilian lives on ifs Director Welsh.
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) In the Med he could explode near a cruise ship. Nineteen will seem an acceptable loss
GIBBS: No death is acceptable when it’s unnecessary!
SHEPARD: Deputy Director Welsh, Special Agent Gibbs.
GIBBS: This terrorist isn’t after a cruise liner.
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) Islamic terrorists love soft targets.
GIBBS: No, he wants the Marine assault ship the Cape Fear’s replenishing in the Gulf.
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) You don’t know what he wants! He’s a terrorist! A cruise ship, the Suez Canal…
GIBBS: (SHOUTS) He told me!
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) He told you?
GIBBS: Pinpin Pula is an arrogant son-of-a-bitch! He thought the bomb he’d planted would kill me.
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) So he’s not a suicide bomber?
GIBBS: For God’s sakes, order that frigate to break off!
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) I can’t do that.
GIBBS: (SHOUTS) Is everyone up there as stupid as you?! Pinpin Pula is on the Cape Fear! He’s the radio man! He intercepts every BOLO we send him and he replies “No Pinpin here!”
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) We’ve got that, Special Agent Gibbs. That’s why we didn’t communicate with the Cape Fear until… now.
GIBBS: Jeff! Thank God you’re there! Can you get your SEALs onboard without being seen?
FLETCHER: (ON MONITOR) We can execute a HALO insertion within ten hours.
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) The Cape Fear will have entered the Med. That’s unacceptable. If anything happens, it’ll be on some tourist video camera.
GIBBS: The sailors on that frigate have video cameras!
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) We can confiscate those videos.
GIBBS: What? (SHOUTS) You don’t want this being seen?!
WELSH: (ON MONITOR) An accident at sea is better than an act of terrorism.
GIBBS: (SHOUTS) It’s too late!
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INT. RADIO ROOM – DAY
VOICE: (V.O./FILTERED) Cape Fear. Heave-to. Stand by to be boarded for inspection. Heave-to. Stand by to be boarded for inspection.
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INT. MTAC – DAY
GIBBS: (SHOUTS) You bastard!
(SFX: HUGE EXPLOSION AS THE SHIP BLOWS UP)
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INT. SHEPARD’S OFFICE – NIGHT
GIBBS: I was wrong.
SHEPARD: You weren’t wrong.
GIBBS: I was angry at Mike. I never understood how he could quit.( BEAT) Until now.
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INT. SQUAD ROOM – NIGHT
(SFX: DRAWER OPENS)
TONY: Oh, I got them, Boss. I got them from the medics when they took you.
GIBBS: Appreciate it. You’ll do. It’s your team now. (TO MCGEE) Tim, you’re a good agent. Don’t let him tell you otherwise.
MCGEE: I won’t, Boss.
ABBY: Gibbs! (GIBBS KISSES ABBY ON CHEEK)
GIBBS: I owe you, Ziva.
ZIVA: I’ll collect, Jethro.
GIBBS: Give me a ride home, Duck.
DUCKY: Of course.
GIBBS: Semper fi!
(ELEVATOR DINGS/ DOORS OPEN/ CLOSE)
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EXT. BEACH – DAY
(MUSIC OVER ACTION/GIBBS WALKS TO THE BEACH)
(MUSIC OVER ENDING CREDITS AND OUT)
(MUSIC UP OVER ENDING CREDITS AND OUT)
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Prepared by C.C. Printed in USA
Calvert Continuities Aired 5/16/06
