4x21 – Brothers in Arms
Street: homeless camp
Troy Webster: Are you alone?
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Street: car
Jennifer Shepard: You bring it? You're doing the right thing.
Troy Webster: I know I'm doing the right thing. I'm just... I'm still not sure you're the one I should be doing it with.
Jennifer Shepard: You're not exactly a man with many options... Come on... Get down!
Gunshots
Jennifer Shepard: You hit.
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Street
Anthony DiNozzo: What's wrong with this picture?
Ziva David: You mean aside from the Director being out at 4:00 a.m. and a dead homeless man in her car?
Anthony DiNozzo: No, that about covers it.
Timothy McGee: Not quite. His alley-mates don't think he's homeless. Said he showed up last night. He looked dirty, but smelled like he had just taken a bath... Said he didn't talk to anyone.
Ziva David: He talked to somebody.
Timothy McGee: It's a nice phone.
Ziva David: The Director's on another Op.
Anthony DiNozzo: If she is, I'm not in on it.
Ziva David: Would you tell us if you were?
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Jennifer Shepard: Name's Troy Webster. He had information I needed.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The Frog.
Jennifer Shepard: Getting La Grenouille on ARES is off-limits, but with what Webster had, I still could have nailed Grenouille to the wall.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: And the reason I'm finding out about this right now... Or you gonna quote Rule Number Four to me again?
Jennifer Shepard: Are you gonna quote Rule Number One back at me?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What were you doing out here alone?
Jennifer Shepard: I can take care of myself, Jethro.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Right. Who was taking care of him?
Donald Mallard: Well, from this point forward, that would be me... Well, it's not anything I said.
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Ziva David: Any witnesses get an I.D. on the vehicle?
Timothy McGee: All I got is some kind of truck. Plates were missing.
Jennifer Shepard: It was a dark Limited Edition, Ford Excursion. Tinted windows. Off-road tires. Broken taillight. And, uh... Now missing a rear window.
Anthony DiNozzo: You got off a few rounds.
Jennifer Shepard: I don't take kindly to being shot at.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Was he shooting you or him?
Ziva David: Director of NCIS is a high-value target.
Anthony DiNozzo: Whereas this guy is..
Jennifer Shepard: His name is Troy Webster.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Troy Webster. Never met a dollar he couldn't launder.
Ziva David: A certified CPA with offices in the Isle of Man, Dubai and the Caymans.
Anthony DiNozzo: His number one client...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The Frog.
Jennifer Shepard: La Grenouille.
Anthony DiNozzo: Your favorite international arms dealer and mine.
Jennifer Shepard: Wasn't Webster's favorite. At least not anymore.
Ziva David: They had a falling out?
Jennifer Shepard: Webster woke up one day, and realized he had sold his soul to the devil.
Anthony DiNozzo: Too bad the devil doesn't give refunds.
Jennifer Shepard: Webster knew the risks.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What was the reward?
Jennifer Shepard: He was bringing me a file on La Grenouille's entire operation, down to the last dock invoice, past and future.
Timothy McGee: Next arms shipment he made, we could have nailed him.
Jennifer Shepard: France would have had no choice but to extradite him to the U.S.
Anthony DiNozzo: And he'd never know how we got to him.
Ziva David: The only thing we found on Webster was his cell. No file.
Timothy McGee: The cell's flash drive was empty, but that doesn't mean there couldn't be a hidden directory.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee, get the drive down to Abby...
Jennifer Shepard: Down to Abby and see if she can pull anything off of it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DiNozzo, Ziva...
Jennifer Shepard: Follow up every lead...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Follow up every lead...
Jennifer Shepard: You have on the shooter, and report directly to me.
Anthony DiNozzo: I sure would like to be a fly on the wall up there... Never mind.
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NCIS: Director's office
Jennifer Shepard: I suppose I should say thank you.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: For?
Jennifer Shepard: For not calling me out when you had a right to... I apologize. It's your team. I was out of order.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Whose team?
Jennifer Shepard: Your team.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Want me to get the shades?
Jennifer Shepard: I'm through sitting in the dark looking at photos.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah. I noticed.
Jennifer Shepard: You think I'm being reckless.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What do you think?
Jennifer Shepard: I think I'm taking the same chances that you did when you were after Ari.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I wasn't the Director of NCIS.
Jennifer Shepard: But I am. It gives me prerogatives... Troy Webster initiated contact with me three months ago. Then he got cold feet.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Until last night.
Jennifer Shepard: He called after midnight. Said he had information on an arms shipment to an American supplier happening soon. It was an opportunity I could not pass up.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Which Webster would have known.
Jennifer Shepard: It wasn't a trap.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You sure? You're still assuming Webster was the target.
Jennifer Shepard: He could have been the bait.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Do you get it now? The real question is, why didn't you get it sooner?
Jennifer Shepard: You think my personal feelings about La Grenouille are clouding my judgment? You don't know what my personal feelings are.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Right. I have no need to know... How far are you willing to go to get this guy, Jen?
Jennifer Shepard: As far as you went to get Ari, Jethro.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: It was 1917 before Mata Hari was finally arrested, although the French had no concrete proof that she was spying for the Germans. Yeah, but who needs proof when accusation will suffice? Strange to say, it was the Germans who deliberately leaked that she was working for them, thus reinforcing the spy world's oldest maxim...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Don't be a spy?
Donald Mallard: Trust no one. You would have made a lousy agent provocateur, Jethro.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Well, thank you, Duck. I'll take that as a compliment.
Donald Mallard: I'm just taking my own advice, trying to confirm Abby's fingerprint I.D. somehow.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You got a reason to think they won't match?
Donald Mallard: Well, you never know in this game.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Duck, I also don't know what I'm doing here.
Donald Mallard: Oh. Oh, yes. Well, I do have some information that you may find useful as well as inexplicable. Take a look at this... One bullet perfectly bisected the inferior vena cava. Another, the superior vena cava. Also a perfect bisection.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Two in the chest.
Donald Mallard: And one in the head. Almost dead center... Standard execution-style, but with astounding accuracy.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Troy Webster was the target.
Donald Mallard: Yeah. If the shooter had wanted the Director dead, he would not have missed. As for Troy Webster, the shooter may have wasted his bullets. The patient suffered from an elevated protein level in his cerebral spinal fluid. I didn't think much of it at the time until I opened up his cranium. And I found this. It's almost certainly malignant.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Brain tumor.
Donald Mallard: And inoperable. He would have been dead in six weeks.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That might explain why he had a change of heart.
Donald Mallard: If he knew about it. I also took the precaution of acquiring his medical records. Given the size of this tumor, I'd think he would have known something was amiss. He would have said something to his doctor, but there's no mention of any abnormality, far less cancer.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Any chance they could have missed it?
Donald Mallard: No. I am at a loss to explain it. Hence the word "inexplicable"... Hello, hello. What is this?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The backup generators is kicking in.
Abigael Scuito: Sorry! That was me.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Timothy McGee: I think it's out.
Abigael Scuito: Have you ever seen anything like this?
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NCIS: hallway
Jennifer Shepard: What's going on?
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You two okay?
Timothy McGee: Well, we're fine.
Abigael Scuito: Bertha... She's toast.
Jennifer Shepard: What happened?
Timothy McGee: Well, we were trying to access Webster's smartphone.
Abigael Scuito: Turned out there was some sort of hidden partition. We must have triggered some sort of fail-safe.
Timothy McGee: Which uploaded a virus on Abby's system.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: A virus did this?
Abigael Scuito: No. But it tricked our surge protector into thinking that there was a lightning strike that killed the power.
Timothy McGee: When the backups kicked in, it overloaded our distribution node.
Jennifer Shepard: Were you able to pull anything off the phone before it self-destructed?
Timothy McGee: No. Surge took care of that.
Abigael Scuito: Pretty Mission: Impossible, huh?
Jennifer Shepard: Can you retrieve any data?
Timothy McGee: There's no data left to retrieve.
Abigael Scuito: Anything that Webster would have had on La Grenouille, it's gone. Aw, somebody need...
Jennifer Shepard: This was careless!
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Jen.
Jennifer Shepard: How many more lives are going to be ruined before we bring that monster in?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: How many have been ruined so far?
Jennifer Shepard: It's not over. We still have Troy Webster.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Not sure how much talking he's going to do.
Jennifer Shepard: He doesn't need to. Webster was going to bring us La Grenouille for arms dealing. Now he's going to bring him to us for murder.
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NCIS: Director's office
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: This ever happened before?
Jennifer Shepard: No.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What'd you say to them?
Jennifer Shepard: I told them to send someone over.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You want to see the CIA, you always do it on their turf and their terms.
Jennifer Shepard: Maybe they've finally figured it out that we're all on the same team.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It doesn't mean they're going to play ball.
Jennifer Shepard: After the way we salvaged ARES for them, they owe us. Yes, Cynthia?
Cynthia: You appointment's arrived, Director.
Jennifer Shepard: Send them in... Agent Fornell?
Tobias Fornell: Jenny. Jethro.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Get lost on your way to work, Tobias?
Jennifer Shepard: We were expecting someone from the CIA, not FBI.
Tobias Fornell: As you know, I'm on attachment to Homeland Security.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That doesn't make you CIA.
Tobias Fornell: And yet here I am, just the same.
Jennifer Shepard: Langley hates the FBI.
Tobias Fornell: Yeah, but not so much as they hate you right now. You really pissed them off over something.
Jennifer Shepard: And so you volunteered to smooth things out.
Tobias Fornell: Not exactly "volunteered". I just drew the short straw. So you guys want to tell me what this is all about? 'Cause they didn't tell me squat.
Jennifer Shepard: I need face time with one of their undercover assets.
Tobias Fornell: Name?
Jennifer Shepard: Trent Kort. Alias.
Tobias Fornell: They're gonna want to know why.
Jennifer Shepard: On going NCIS investigation.
Tobias Fornell: That's it?
Jennifer Shepard: One of my informants was killed. I believe Kort has information to help me find the killer.
Tobias Fornell: That sounds reasonable. On the other hand, this is the CIA, so they're probably going to tell me to tell you to go to hell.
Jennifer Shepard: Remind them they owe us... And if you want to know why, ask them.
Tobias Fornell: And who said the old days were dead.
Jennifer Shepard: Not them.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Well, I guess hell hasn't frozen over after all.
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NCIS: garage
Abigael Scuito: Thank God you're here... I told you to come alone.
Anthony DiNozzo: Look, I'm through keeping secrets on this one, Abs. If it's about the case...
Timothy McGee: We are all ears.
Ziva David: Is that like being a fly on the wall?
Abigael Scuito: Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you. Per strict instructions from Director Shepard, I'm going over all the crime scene evidence with a fine-tooth comb.
Anthony DiNozzo: Anything good?
Abigael Scuito: Tire marks confirm the make and model of the drive-by vehicle.
Timothy McGee: Which we already know from the Director.
Abigael Scuito: I'm just getting warmed up here. The striations on the slugs from the Director's car match the slugs from Troy Webster. I didn't find any of the Director's slugs.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's 'cause she didn't miss.
Abigael Scuito: I did find something interesting on the window she shattered.
Timothy McGee: Blood.
Abigael Scuito: Even though blood spatter can travel for several meters, the SUV was too far away for this to be Troy Webster's.
Anthony DiNozzo: She hit one of La Grenouille's men.
Timothy McGee: Through a tinted window.
Ziva David: In a car going 40 miles an hour.
Anthony DiNozzo: Rock on, Jenny.
Ziva David: But was it the shooter or the driver?
Anthony DiNozzo: Enough to pull DNA?
Abigael Scuito: I'm running it now.
Anthony DiNozzo: Let us know.
Abigael Scuito: Actually, it's what I found inside the Director's car that I'm not really sure what to do with.
Anthony DiNozzo: What'd you find?
Abigael Scuito: They were in her glove compartment.
Anthony DiNozzo: What was that doing in her glove compartment?
Abigael Scuito: I don't know. But I'm sure the Director doesn't want her... Personal business on an inventory log for the entire federal government to read.
Ziva David: Not this business.
Abigael Scuito: And I can't take it off the log. That would be a crime.
Timothy McGee: Maybe you should ask the Director what to do.
Abigael Scuito: I am not having that conversation... But you could.
Anthony DiNozzo: Me?
Timothy McGee: Yes, you are the senior field agent.
Ziva David: And you never hesitate to remind us.
Anthony DiNozzo: As your senior field agent, I say we draw straws... Here, hold that... Thought for a second.
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NCIS: garage / Street
Anthony DiNozzo: Hey, what are you wearing?
Jeanne Benoit: Scrubs.
Anthony DiNozzo: Scrubs can be sexy.
Jeanne Benoit: You've got sex on the brain, you know that?
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, why fight a billion years of evolutionary drive?
Jeanne Benoit: I don't know, you're the one who made me wait, remember?
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, the good news is, those dark days are long behind us.
Jeanne Benoit: I've got some good news myself. My mother is in town... And she wants to meet you.
Anthony DiNozzo: Apparently you and I have very different definitions of the word "good".
Jeanne Benoit: I would think you'd be the kind of guy that's had a lot of practice meeting parents.
Anthony DiNozzo: Actually, no.
Jeanne Benoit: Right. Never made it that far. There's a first time for everything.
Anthony DiNozzo: Hey, hey, you...
Jeanne Benoit: What was that?
Anthony DiNozzo: Uh, kind of hard to explain.
Jeanne Benoit: Maybe explain it to my mother and me over dinner.
Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, Jeanne, I'm sorry I'm, I'm... I'm going to have to work late tonight.
Jeanne Benoit: What kind of a lame excuse is that?
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, it is lame, but it's not an excuse. I'll see what I can do.
Jeanne Benoit: I promise I'll make it worth your while.
Anthony DiNozzo: Bribery will get you everywhere.
Anthony DiNozzo: Bye.
Anthony DiNozzo: Bye.
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NCIS: MTAC
Agent: Director.
Jennifer Shepard: Schedule a briefing in an hour and get me Agent DiNozzo.
Agent: Yes, ma'am.
Anthony DiNozzo: You got him.
Jennifer Shepard: I know Gibbs teaches you to anticipate, but I didn't even know I need you until a second ago.
Anthony DiNozzo: You know, when you're good, you're good.
Jennifer Shepard: What's on your mind?
Anthony DiNozzo: You first.
Jennifer Shepard: The GPS marker you tagged with Regine Smidt's luggage with has gone dark.
Anthony DiNozzo: Maybe it's out of batteries... Well, that means she found it. How? Little bugger's supposed to be undetectable.
Jennifer Shepard: I'm more concerned with when hhe told La Grenouille. And if she managed to ascertain the time her luggage was tagged...
Anthony DiNozzo: He might be able to figure out who tagged it. Just when I thought my day couldn't get any worse.
Jennifer Shepard: Fornell. Forward that file to my office, please.
Agent: Yes.
Anthony DiNozzo: Fornell?
Jennifer Shepard: He's been assigned as our liaison with CIA.
Anthony DiNozzo: They chose him because they thought it'd make you easier to handle?
Jennifer Shepard: Actually, he said the agents drew straws for the duty. Apparently, my reputation precedes me. It's hard to imagine grown adults drawing straws just to deal with little old me... What was it you wanted to ask me again?
Anthony DiNozzo: Nothing.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: Come to Mama... Beautiful... Hi.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Hi.
Abigael Scuito: It's kind of a tradition when I get new equipment. So I guess you're here for the results of the blood I found?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I heard you got a hit on the DNA.
Abigael Scuito: Yes, and no.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Let's start with the yes part, Abs.
Abigael Scuito: I'm down here by myself all day long, and I finally have some company. So, don't make me rush this. I isolated the DNA from the blood on the SUV's glass fragments. The blood spatter indicated that it came from the driver. So I ran the DNA through every database I could think of, and I got nothing. So, ask me why I'm smiling.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're always smiling, Abby.
Abigael Scuito: Well, that's 'cause I'm a happy person, Gibbs. And I was especially happy when I found out that our driver was a mutant. I mean, we all have mutations in our DNA technically...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Abby.
Abigael Scuito: The owner had a genetic defect at position 370 on his glucosidase beta acid gene. It's called Gaucher's Disease.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Rare?
Abigael Scuito: It's rare enough. It's treated with an enzyme-replacement drug called Ceredase. There's only three pharmacies within a hundred-mile radius that carry it, and there's only one patient taking it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You got an address?
Abigael Scuito: Do you even have to ask?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Thank you.
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Building: hallway
Anthony DiNozzo: Nice place.
Ziva David: Apartment 212.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Warrant.
Anthony DiNozzo: Right here.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Federal agents!
Timothy McGee: Boss, Agent Lee wanted me to remind you we need to wait at least 15 seconds...
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Apartment
Ziva David: Clear!
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, this guy was either practicing for his plastic surgery finals...
Ziva David: Or he was injured in a drive-by.
Timothy McGee: Not injured.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Dead.
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NCIS: Director's office
Jennifer Shepard: Come in... Ducky. I was just reading your autopsy report... Lucky we don't have to worry about finding this one's killer since it was me.
Donald Mallard: Your bullet tore through his brachial and carotid arteries and lodged against his clavicle. Someone tried to stitch up his wounds, but without proper medical knowledge.
Jennifer Shepard: I had La Grenouille by the throat... Then he had my informant killed. Fine. I'll make a murder case. And then I kill the star witness who could tie the murder back to La Grenouille. Perfect.
Donald Mallard: There's always the shooter.
Jennifer Shepard: If we can find him.
Donald Mallard: Though I doubt he would be able to give you what you want.
Jennifer Shepard: Is there something I can do for you, Dr. Mallard?
Donald Mallard: Yeah, I came to discuss my preliminary findings.
Jennifer Shepard: Isn't that what I just read?
Donald Mallard: No, no, no. Not that. My psychological profile of La Grenouille. It's not complete, but under the circumstances, I thought it prudent to avail you of what I've gathered so far.
Jennifer Shepard: Avail me.
Donald Mallard: Well, La Grenouille is not your ordinary arms dealer. He's educated, refined, has a keen appreciation of opera. And let's not forget cognac.
Jennifer Shepard: Oh, I haven't.
Donald Mallard: I will forever remember his gift to me. Do you know that it was a unique and rare bottle of Napoleon br...
Jennifer Shepard: Ducky, your point?
Donald Mallard: He's not the type to settle disputes with violence.
Jennifer Shepard: He's an arms dealer.
Donald Mallard: Who fancies himself a businessman. Now, he may be a merchant of death, but he's... He's no more likely to solve a problem with violence than your typical tobacco company CEO. And we both know how many people those products kill.
Jennifer Shepard: So La Grenouille was going to let Troy Webster turn state's evidence against him?
Donald Mallard: I'm not suggesting he wouldn't have dealt with those problems, but a man whose favorite opera is La Forza del Destino is sophisticated. And he's far more likely to use that sophistication as his weapon. Violent murder just... Is not his style.
Jennifer Shepard: You liked him, didn't you?
Donald Mallard: Excuse me?
Jennifer Shepard: La Grenouille. You found him charming?
Donald Mallard: Well, I don't see how that's relevant... Well, I admit, for a mass murderer, he may have a certain... Gracious charm.
Jennifer Shepard: Perhaps it's clouding your judgment.
Donald Mallard: Perhaps it's not my judgment that's being clouded.
Jennifer Shepard: You don't know him like I do.
Donald Mallard: And exactly how is that, Director?
Jennifer Shepard: Good night, Doctor.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: The dead driver appears to be a dead end.
Ziva David: Which makes the shooter our last link La Grenouille.
Timothy McGee: Better hope he's not dead, too. I'll start running down his known associates.
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NCIS: Elevator
Donald Mallard: Jethro.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Hey, Duck... You and the Director have a nice chat?
Donald Mallard: Well, I wouldn't call it "nice"... Illuminating, perhaps.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: For who?
Donald Mallard: Well, not for her. As you expected, she didn't... Appreciate my thoughts on La Grenouille. She still thinks of him as a prime suspect.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: So do I.
Donald Mallard: Yes, but you listen to my perspective, and I have no doubt that your mind would change if the facts were to change.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: And the Director's won't?
Donald Mallard: It does not seem likely.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: But why?
Donald Mallard: Well, you don't need a degree in psychology to see that there's a history between those two. Something that is consuming her. Her every... Action, every thought.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: How far?
Donald Mallard: Will she go? Well, as far as any obsessed person... As far as it takes.
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Restaurant / Toilets
Anthony DiNozzo: Jeanne, what is taking you so long? Your mother could be here any second.
Jeanne Benoit: Relax, Tony. I'm 20 feet away.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, well, what am I supposed to do if she comes in here while you're gone?
Jeanne Benoit: Uh, say hello and introduce yourself.
Anthony DiNozzo: Just like that?
Jeanne Benoit: Just like that. What woman can resist your usual charming self?
Anthony DiNozzo: Thanks.
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Restaurant
Anthony DiNozzo: Hello... Hi... Show time... Hello, Dr. Berkley. I'm, I'm Tony.
Helen Berkley: I know who you are. My daughter told me you'd be the one in the overpriced shoes. Zegna Oxfords?
Anthony DiNozzo: Good eyes. What else did she tell you about me?
Helen Berkley: Everything. I'm not quite sure what worries me the most... Hi, baby.
Jeanne Benoit: Hi, Mom. I see you two have met.
Helen Berkley: Thank you.
Jeanne Benoit: Thank you.
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Street
Jennifer Shepard: You got to be kidding.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Old habit.
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Car
Trent Kort: So, you're the overzealous Fed who nearly mucked up 18 months of undercover work.
Jennifer Shepard: I prefer to think of it as doing my job.
Tobias Fornell: Gibbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I'm not my Director's keeper.
Trent Kort: I don't have a lot of time. Grenouille thinks I'm in DC getting dirt on a troublesome customs inspector. Well?
Jennifer Shepard: Your boss killed my informant two days ago.
Trent Kort: Informant got a name?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Troy Webster.
Jennifer Shepard: I need your help to take La Grenouille down for it.
Trent Kort: You sure it was my boss?
Jennifer Shepard: You have any information to the contrary?
Trent Kort: No, but I've been working with Grenouille a long time. I've never known him to order a hit.
Tobias Fornell: And if he did, you'd know?
Trent Kort: Not necessarily. Grenouille keeps information as compartmentalized as possible, where everything is...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Need to know.
Trent Kort: Yeah. And accounting is not my department. Still, I doubt Grenouille had anything to do with the murder. It's just not his style.
Jennifer Shepard: This isn't a fashion contest. I'm not asking for your opinion. I'm asking who La Grenouille would have gotten for the hit.
Trent Kort: Andre Jones. He's Grenouille's American small arms distributor. The kind of guy that's not afraid to get his hands dirty. If Grenouille were to contract a kill in the States, Jones would be the only man he'd trust.
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Restaurant
Helen Berkley: So, I told the rep from the HMO that if he didn't authorize the transplant, that I'd give his number to the family, and he could take it up with them.
Jeanne Benoit: My mother is used to getting what she wants.
Anthony DiNozzo: I don't doubt that for a second.
Helen Berkley: I didn't become a doctor to do paperwork. I became a doctor to be a doctor. As it is, the delay caused a rupture in the bile duct.
Jeanne Benoit: Which increases post-op susceptibility to intestinal parasites.
Helen Berkley: Very good, honey. Speaking of intestinal parasites, how's your father?
Jeanne Benoit: Mom, be good.
Helen Berkley: I think I earned that segue.
Jeanne Benoit: I saw him last month... He's fine.
Helen Berkley: Good for him. So... How long have you been sleeping with my daughter?
Jeanne Benoit: Mother.
Helen Berkley: We're all adults here. Two of us are even doctors.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, we've been sleeping together for a few months, and before you ask, yes, we are using protection.
Helen Berkley: How'd you know I was gonna ask that?
Anthony DiNozzo: Because... You said that Jeanne told you everything about me. And so... You know that I'm...
Helen Berkley: A player?
Anthony DiNozzo: Actually, I was gonna say "new at commitment". But as her mother, naturally you're concerned that your daughter's being taken advantage of.
Helen Berkley: Oh, I know you're not taking advantage of her.
Anthony DiNozzo: And how do you know that?
Helen Berkley: The way you look at her. Love doesn't show up on an X ray, but I do recognize it when I see it.
Anthony DiNozzo: And still you worry about me.
Helen Berkley: A leopard doesn't change its spots overnight. And I can see the doubt in your eyes. Even you're wondering how long this is gonna last.
Jeanne Benoit: Okay, I think it's time for another segue.
Helen Berkley: I made the same mistake with Jeanne's father.
Jeanne Benoit: Mom... Tony is not Dad.
Helen Berkley: And I don't want to see her hurt the way that I was... 'Kay?
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Alley / NCIS: MTAC
Anthony DiNozzo: Could've used one of these last night.
Timothy McGee: Dinner went well?
Anthony DiNozzo: Barely got out of there alive.
Timothy McGee: Hopefully, we all do. This Jones guy's got a pretty serious record. Besides being Grenouille's American distributor, we've got suspected murder, aggravated assault...
Jennifer Shepard: Don't forget assault with a deadly weapon, arson and kidnapping. He's not going down without a fight.
Ziva David: He did not look so tough to me. Suspect is on-site, alone.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Armed?
Ziva David: There was. I took care of it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You two take the back. McGee, you're with me.
Jennifer Shepard: Just make sure Jones can still talk after he's taken care of. To get extradition, we need an actual confession that La Grenouille ordered the hit.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Copy that.
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Outside the warehouse / NCIS: MTAC
Timothy McGee: Not so tough.
Ziva David: The bigger they are, the louder they fall, McGee.
Anthony DiNozzo: The harder, Ziva.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Get ready to move... Move. Now.
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Warehouse / NCIS: MTAC
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Freeze.
Timothy McGee: Federal agents.
Andre Jones: La Grenouille told you where to find me?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I said freeze.
Andre Jones: You try to do a guy a favor, and this is how he repays you.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Get down on the ground... Stop!
Jennifer Shepard: Hold your fire.
Ziva David: Hold it!
Timothy McGee: Don't do it!
Jennifer Shepard: I need him alive.
Gunshot
Jennifer Shepard: Tango Eight... Sitrep! I repeat, I need your sitrep, Tango Eight.
Ziva David: We're fine, Director.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Uh, suspect isn't.
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NCIS: Director's office
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Staring's not gonna change anything... Trust me.
Jennifer Shepard: As far as I'm concerned, Andre Jones got exactly what he deserved.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: This isn't about Jones.
Jennifer Shepard: You're fishing. It's not like you, Jethro.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You and me are gonna have a little talk.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Doesn't make sense. Why does Jones think that La Grenouille sold him out?
Anthony DiNozzo: Jones was the last link to The Frog.
Ziva David: With him out of the way, we'd never make a murder charge against La Grenouille stick.
Timothy McGee: He tricked us into doing his dirty work.
Ziva David: Ducky says he uses his sophistication as a weapon.
Donald Mallard: Even I was unaware of just how sharp that weapon is. I just got off the phone with Troy Webster's physician.
Timothy McGee: Did you let him know he missed Webster's cancer?
Donald Mallard: I did. And I got two distinct impressions. One, he was scared. And two, he was well aware of that tumor. I mean, how could he have missed it? Yeah, the good doctor was bribed to keep it a secret. Or threatened.
Anthony DiNozzo: La Grenouille worried his employee health premiums were going to go up?
Donald Mallard: Being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Tony, tends to make one eager to atone for one's sins.
Timothy McGee: And Grenouille didn't want Webster atoning for his.
Ziva David: Webster still tried, so he must have known he was dying.
Donald Mallard: With that tumor I found? No, the neurological deficits would have been pronounced. He must have suspected the end was near... Regardless of what any doctor told him.
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NCIS: Director's office
Jennifer Shepard: Normally, when someone says that they need to have a little talk, they actually talk.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Director... Of NCIS.
Jennifer Shepard: Yes.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That's a job I wouldn't want.
Jennifer Shepard: Don't worry, no one's offering.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You know why?
Jennifer Shepard: You mean besides your impatience, total lack of respect for authority and the fact that you still haven't learned to play nice with others?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah. Yeah, besides all that?
Jennifer Shepard: I already told you, I am not allowing my personal feelings to interfere with my job.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Tell me again.
Jennifer Shepard: Is there something wrong with wanting to put an arms dealer out of business?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No. Is that what you're really after?
Jennifer Shepard: What else would I be after?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I don't know, but at the rate you're going, the name "Director" is not gonna be on that door much longer.
Jennifer Shepard: It's good to know you're watching my back, Jethro.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah. Gibbs... Be right down... Well, you just may get a chance to put that arms dealer out of business yet.
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NCIS: Abbys's lab
Abigael Scuito: You can run, La Grenouille... But you can't hide... Or maybe you can.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What do you got, Abs?
Abigael Scuito: Oh, your usual incriminating evidence, all circumstantial, but beggars can't be choosers.
Jennifer Shepard: I'll take what I can get at this point.
Abigael Scuito: McGee asked me to parse Andre Jones's old phone and bank records, and when I did, I saw a pattern. An encrypted satellite phone call comes in, and then a large payment to an offshore account goes out.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Jones is paying for a shipment.
Abigael Scuito: And then, like Swiss clockwork, 48 hours later, his GPS signal goes off the grid.
Jennifer Shepard: Picking up the shipment.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He doesn't want to be followed.
Abigael Scuito: I haven't been able to trace the satellite call yet, but I did recognize the encryption algorithm.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The Frog.
Abigael Scuito: It's the same as the one La Grenouille's people used to call Charles Harrow.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That's a good job, Abby.
Abigael Scuito: I have a grand finale. Jones made his last phone call exactly one day ago.
Jennifer Shepard: Which means a shipment is coming in less than 24 hours.
Abigael Scuito: Ten bucks says that that is what Troy Webster was planning on telling us this entire time.
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Park
Trent Kort: An arms shipment. What happened to your murder case?
Jennifer Shepard: Our key witness didn't survive his deposition.
Trent Kort: Wouldn't have done you any good if he did. After our conversation, I made some interdepartmental inquiries. Grenouille was not happy to hear about Webster's murder.
Jennifer Shepard: You're saying he didn't authorize it?
Trent Kort:I'm saying, Grenouille specifically spread the word to not touch Webster.
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Tobias Fornell: She's pretty fired up.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Hum hum.
Tobias Fornell: You know what her beef is?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No.
Tobias Fornell: Would you tell me if you did?
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Trent Kort: Jones disobeyed La Grenouille. Didn't care about the orders to leave Webster alone. He knew Webster could hurt him as bad as he could hurt La Grenouille.
Jennifer Shepard: That's why Jones thought La Grenouille had sold him out. As punishment for killing Webster.
Trent Kort: Grenouille must have had his own plans for Webster. Sap's probably better off dead. One thing Grenouille is good at, it's ruining people's lives.
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Tobias Fornell: Okay, tell me this. Is she hot after all arms dealers, or is there something about this one in particular?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're CIA for now, Tobias. You tell me.
Tobias Fornell:Something about this one. And you don't know what it is either.
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Trent Kort: As for your arms shipment, as far as I know, Grenouille has no upcoming deliveries.
Jennifer Shepard: As far as you know.
Trent Kort: Like I said, not my department... However, every arms shipment requires an end-use certificate. It's a guarantee from the buyer that the arms won't be resold illegally.
Jennifer Shepard: That's why we've had so much trouble getting to La Grenouille. His buyers always manage to get one.
Trent Kort: All it takes is a third-world general on the payroll or an exceptionally good forger.
Jennifer Shepard: Which one did Andre Jones have?
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NCIS: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: Guy looks like an English teacher.
Timothy McGee: Actually, an art teacher.
Jennifer Shepard: You know why you're here.
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NCIS: interview room
Mitchell Reese: No.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It wasn't a question.
Jennifer Shepard: Do you know how long you're going to prison?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That was a question.
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NCIS: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: Get the feeling these guys have done this before?
Jennifer Shepard: Agent Gibbs.
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NCIS: interview room
Jennifer Shepard: What's the going rate for forging an EUC certificate for arms smuggling?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: 20 years.
Mitchell Reese: I'm an art teacher.
Jennifer Shepard: Good... Then you can draw us a picture...
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NCIS: Observation room
Timothy McGee: Walked right into that one.
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NCIS: interview room
Jennifer Shepard: Of the EUC document you forged for Andre Jones's guns. And please make sure that I can read the time and location of shipment.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It's going down either way.
Jennifer Shepard: If you help us, I can put in a good word with the judge.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: And if you don't, then...
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NCIS: Observation room
Jennifer Shepard: I hear Gitmo is lovely this time of year.
Ziva David: Definitely done this before.
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NCIS: interview room
Jennifer Shepard: Though you will be wearing a hood.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: And that's certainly going to kill your view.
Mitchell Reese: What kind of good word could you put in with the judge?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Well, it depends how good your drawing is.
Mitchell Reese: Yeah, okay. I forged the EUC for Jones, but I don't have a location or a date.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No, not good enough.
Mitchell Reese: No, he makes me leave it blank. I swear. It's added by his shell company.
Jennifer Shepard: Name?
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Abbot Imports.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, you got an address?
Anthony DiNozzo: Still working on it.
Jennifer Shepard: What's the problem?
Timothy McGee: Problem is, it doesn't exist. There's no federal tax I.D.
Anthony DiNozzo: Mail goes to a P.O. box.
Ziva David: The number's a payphone.
Jennifer Shepard: Who owns the box?
Timothy McGee: Bills are paid by Andre Jones.
Jennifer Shepard: I'm really starting to wish we didn't kill him.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee, did you try Customs?
Timothy McGee: Trying now.
Ziva David: There has to be some record of his imports, even if it is through a shell company.
Timothy McGee: Oh, there is. Next shipment is scheduled to arrive today.
Ziva David: Norfolk Port Authority.
Anthony DiNozzo: Got the container number.
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Norfolk Port Authority
Timothy McGee: Ever seen anyone walk that quickly in heels?
Anthony DiNozzo: Only at the end of a really hairy date.
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Tim Gerber: Import company missed the pickup. No one claims the container within the next 12 hours, orders are "return it to sender." Lucks yours guys called when you did.
Jennifer Shepard: Luck had very little to do with it.
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Timothy McGee: I really hope the Director relaxes a bit after this.
Ziva David: Don't get your hopes up, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Why?
Anthony DiNozzo: Once we get the weapons and trace them back to La Grenouille, he'll go underground.
Ziva David: Interpol will issue a red notice.
Timothy McGee: But it'll still be up to us to find him. So, in other words...
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Jennifer Shepard: There.
Anthony DiNozzo: Cancel your dinner plans, Probie.
Jennifer Shepard: Open it.
Tim Gerber: Yes, ma'am.
Jennifer Shepard: I got you.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Squirt guns.
Jennifer Shepard: "Dear Webster, best wishes on your new career. La Grenouille".
Ziva David: We have nothing.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We never did.
Anthony DiNozzo: He's good.
Timothy McGee: He's really good.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He'd better be.
