5x04 – Identity Crisis
NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: Every body has a story to tell. Now although this gentleman died a natural death, he gave his cadaver to further your education, so pay careful attention to what he has to tell us... Now, the brain... Inside, you will see the delicate structures and pathways that determine memories, emotions, basic motor functions... In sum, who we are. Mr. Palmer would you cradle the brain while I sever this...? Lieutenant Greer, the four... Lobes of the cerebrum?
Carl Greer: It's the frontal, the parietal, occipital and temporal.
Donald Mallard: The adult human brain weighs approximately three pounds.
James Palmer: Feels like a soggy grapefruit.
Donald Mallard: Yes. Well, pass it around. Now, don't let its small size fool you. The cerebral cortex contains one billion neurons and one million billion connections, or synapses. If you were to count one synapse per second, you wouldn't finish counting for 32 million years.
Carl Greer: Doctor, is this natural?
Donald Mallard: Certainly not.
Carl Greer: What the hell is that?
Donald Mallard: This, my dear lieutenant... Is murder.
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NCIS: Squad room
Ziva David: Not bad.
Timothy McGee: And look at this one. You're going to love this guy.
Ziva David: Yeah, he would not be safe with me. I would eat him. He's so adorable.
Timothy McGee: How can you say no to that face?
Anthony DiNozzo: Please tell me you're looking for a man for Ziva.
Ziva David: Not me.
Anthony DiNozzo: McGoo, is there something you want to tell me?
Timothy McGee: Looking at animal rescue sites.
Ziva David: McGee's thinking about getting a puppy.
Anthony DiNozzo: Puppy's a lot of work. You got to feed it, walk it, train it.
Timothy McGee: Yeah. I'm not 12, all right? I work hard. I deserve someone who will jump up all excited when I get home, you know? Lay on the couch, watch TV. Maybe lick my face a little bit.
Anthony DiNozzo: Might be easier getting a girlfriend.
Timothy McGee: Which might even be easier with a puppy... Even for you.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm not ready to start taking tips from you on this yet, probie.
Timothy McGee: Tony, I think it's time you get back on that horse.
Ziva David: Are you getting a pony?
Anthony DiNozzo: It's an adage.
Ziva David: I am not familiar with that breed.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, well, they are quite rare. Sort of a cross between a Pegasus and a unicorn... So, who's the favorite?
Ziva David: The Pit Bull.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, that makes sense for you, actually. Not really for McGee. He's more of a... Spaniel kind of guy. Cocker, maybe?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: How about an Australian Shepherd? They're working dogs. Pick it up, DiNozzo.
Anthony DiNozzo: On it, boss.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: A.F.I.P. Smooth things over.
Anthony DiNozzo: Please hold. What did we do to incur the wrath of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Ducky kept one of their cadavers.
Timothy McGee: Ducky stole a cadaver?
Ziva David: I'm sure he had a good reason.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I hope so... Sit... Stay... Roll over.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: It's absolutely ridiculous, Jethro. This man's body should never have been donated to science.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Too late for a refund.
Donald Mallard: He was murdered, Jethro, with an injection of mercury into his brain. A liquid bullet. Mr. Palmer is presently endeavoring to reach the M.E. who made such a grievous oversight.
James Palmer: Still no answer, Doctor.
Donald Mallard: Then redial, Mr. Palmer... Yes. Unidentified African-American male, approximately 50 years old blood-alcohol level zero point one-two. Official cause of death: asphyxiation from the deceased's own vomit. However, here's the kicker. They elected not to perform an autopsy.
James Palmer: But it would be pretty hard to find a pinprick hole in the base of a skull. And heavy metals wouldn't show on a tox screen unless you're looking for them, specifically.
Donald Mallard: Mr. Palmer, do not defend the inefficiency of others.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I'm not sure you can just take control of a body, Duck.
Donald Mallard: Well, someone has to. I mean, based on preliminary findings, County Police determined that he was a nameless drifter. A John Doe. Had too much to drink and died in his sleep.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Some people live their whole lives off the grid.
Donald Mallard: No, not our man. I'd wager that he spent several years in prison... Yeah, it's elementary, my dear Jethro. The proliferation of scar tissue on his body. Cigarette-sized burns.
James Palmer: Our John Doe led a violent life.
Donald Mallard: Yes, well, this long scar on his left leg is surgical. However, it healed poorly. Suggests prison-caliber medical treatment. Especially post-operative.
James Palmer: And the tattooing. Pen ink. Jailhouse style.
Donald Mallard: Yes. Perhaps we can get Abby to shed some light on this pattern.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It's her area of expertise.
Donald Mallard: A John Doe. I mean, it's ridiculous. It can't be that difficult to locate a prison record. Somebody must actually care that this man is dead. Well? Did you locate the M.E.?
James Palmer: No. I gave up.
Donald Mallard: There in lies the problem. People are just not willing to do the legwork.
James Palmer: He had a murder victim right in front of him, classroom full of military students. I think he might be a bit embarrassed.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Excellent detective work.
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Morgue: Hallway
Donald Mallard: I hope your opinion of me doesn't waver after I've given this fellow a piece of my mind.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Never.
Donald Mallard: I warn you, this might get ugly.
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Morgue: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: I'm looking for Dr. Jordan Hampton.
Jordan Hampton: You found her.
Donald Mallard: Is there something wrong with your telephone?
Jordan Hampton: Wouldn't know. I don't answer it. Too many bodies, and not enough time.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Special Agent Gibbs, Dr. Donald Mallard. NCIS.
Jordan Hampton: Pleasure. I assume you're not here to check on my phone.
Donald Mallard: Perhaps you'd have a moment to discuss a John Doe that crossed your table nine days ago.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Remember the body?
Jordan Hampton: Yeah, I remember every body. 50 something, black male found DOA on Highland Pier. Aspirated on his own vomit.
Donald Mallard: I assume you kept him the requisite 72 hours.
Jordan Hampton: No one made any inquiries. Day two of his stay, I caught a priority triple homicide. Day four, Anatomy Board picked him up.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You needed the space.
Jordan Hampton: Not a whole lot of elbow room. Where he went after that, I can't say.
Donald Mallard: A.F.I.P., and then, our autopsy suite.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We're investigating his death as a homicide.
Jordan Hampton: Damn it. I missed something.
Donald Mallard: An injection of mercury into his brain in between the first vertebrae and the occipital bone.
Jordan Hampton: Police tried and failed to ID him... AFIS database and dental record searches: they came up empty.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DNA?
Jordan Hampton: I'm not sure how it goes at NCIS, around here, that takes about six months.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Never canvassed the scene.
Jordan Hampton: Sadly, most cops I know, they prefer to hear, "case closed" than look for a reason to open one.
Donald Mallard: It's not the first time someone's slipped through the cracks.
Jordan Hampton: Well, I'm glad you caught him, Dr. Mallard.
Donald Mallard: As am I.
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Morgue: Hallway
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, I hope she recovers from that tongue-lashing.
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Harbor: docks
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What do you find under the pier?
Timothy McGee: 85 cents, two batteries and a bottle cap.
Ziva David: No mercury, no needle.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Keep looking. Got to find someone who knew him.
Anthony DiNozzo: Highland Beach in October. How much of a tourist draw. Soft-shell crab season's almost over. People really like boats that much?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You work for the Navy, DiNozzo.
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Bar
Anthony DiNozzo: Maybe we should start with this waitress.
Shannon O'Hara: Eating or asking questions? If you were hoping for subtle, you could have lost the guns. Or least the hats.
Anthony DiNozzo: Excuse me. I'd just like to show you a photo, see if you recognize this man.
Shannon O'Hara: Okay. You trying to build suspense?
Anthony DiNozzo: No. It's just that the man in the photo is dead, and... Some people find that shocking.
Shannon O'Hara: Thanks for being gentle.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm a gentle man.
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Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Seen him?
Customer: Never seen him.
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Anthony DiNozzo: So, the waitress, Miss Shannon O'Hara, remembers our guy. Never got a name, paid cash, big tipper. How about your biker gang there?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: They're just passing through.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's it?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, they don't like cops much... Check out the brunette at the table.
Anthony DiNozzo: Good eye, boss. I'll tell you, my radar is just totally shot. She's smokin'. That's not what you meant. You were suggesting that she seems interested in our presence, maybe a little too interested, and that should question her. Not a problem... That's a problem.
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Parking
Courtney Krieger: Oh, excuse me.
Ziva David: No, excuse me.
Timothy McGee: Mind if we ask where you're going in such a hurry?
Courtney Krieger: What business is it of NCIS?
Anthony DiNozzo: We're looking for anyone who might have known this man.
Courtney Krieger: He's dead?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You know him?
Courtney Krieger: His name's Marvin Hinton. He was with me.
Ziva David: And you are? Careful.
Courtney Krieger: I was just reaching for my ID.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Special Agent Courtney Krieger.
Courtney Krieger: Hinton was working for the FBI.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Betro: Hey, Gibbs, need a refill? I'm going.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We, yeah, Betro. Thanks, make it a double.
Betro: You got it.
Timothy McGee: Still can't find any record of Marvin Hinton.
Courtney Krieger: And you won't. Marvin Hinton doesn't exist anymore.
Anthony DiNozzo: "Anymore"?
Courtney Krieger: His cellmates swear Marvin Hinton served six years at Cumberland, although any record of it vanished when he was released last month. We had to reassemble his history by hand, it's not complete. He once went by the name Frederick LeClair.
Timothy McGee: Hinton aka LeClair. Bootlegging, false Ids, resisting arrest, theft.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The guy's a career felon.
Courtney Krieger: Interstate trafficking, primarily.
Ziva David: How did he show up on your radar?
Courtney Krieger: Was a routine tip. Picked him up offloading stolen cargo containers.
Anthony DiNozzo: At which point, you discover a nameless man whose entire history's been erased. No fingerprints, no criminal record.
Courtney Krieger: Not even a high school transcript.
Timothy McGee: That's impossible, you'd need first person access to a federal mainframe, credit ratings, countless private companies.
Anthony DiNozzo: That'd be like taking spit out of the ocean.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: How did he do it?
Courtney Krieger: Claimed he didn't. Said he was contacted by someone offering the service.
Anthony DiNozzo: "The Eraser."
Timothy McGee: What movie is that from?
Anthony DiNozzo: I don't know, Flashdance?
Ziva David: Why was Hinton not back in prison?
Courtney Krieger: He was a small fish, but The Eraser... He's our real target. We hoped he would contact Hinton, get paid off and finish the job.
Anthony DiNozzo: Provide Hinton with a new identity.
Courtney Krieger: Exactly. I was left to baby-sit. It was my first field assignment... Never expected him to be killed.
Ziva David: That is what happens to bait.
Anthony DiNozzo: Hey, it's not your fault.
Timothy McGee: So why didn't Hinton skip town when he had the opportunity?
Courtney Krieger: He was having too good a time on the government expense account. But we did have him under 24-hour monitoring, three-team shifts.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What changed?
Courtney Krieger: The Eraser didn't make contact. They pulled my surveillance team to chase other leads.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You notify your boss. We need to know everything you know.
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Building: hallway
Anthony DiNozzo: The Bureau set Hinton up here?
Courtney Krieger: It's maintain the appearance he was flush.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Anyone else have their own key?
Courtney Krieger: No, we met here weekly so no one would see us together. He agreed to play along in exchange for leniency. But he knew it could be dangerous.
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Appartment
Anthony DiNozzo: Forget the puppy, McGee. A place like this is what you need to score with the chicks.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Here.
Timothy McGee: Boss, this could be the murder weapon: mercury.
Ziva David: Positive for blood... Fluids. Lots of them.
Anthony DiNozzo: No surprise there.
Timothy McGee: Six years in prison.
Courtney Krieger: The Eraser made the initial contact at the Crab Shack.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Not face to face.
Courtney Krieger: No, slipped him a note.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: So, you sent Hinton back, hoping for another one.
Courtney Krieger: Hinton was supposed to keep a record of anyone he came in contact with. I was running background checks, chasing down his leads I was waiting for anything new.
Ziva David: You got your wish. Your first crime scene. He was killed in that room.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: This is why I love you guys. You bring me hair, you bring me blood, you bring me fluids. And mercury. Predictable, yet constantly surprising.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We try.
Abigael Scuito: Of course, mercury is toxic, so you shouldn't let kids break open thermometers and play with it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Speaking from personal experience, Abb?
Timothy McGee: Actually explains a lot.
Abigael Scuito: You want it, but it kills you. It's like a metaphor. It's a cigarette.
Timothy McGee: Or chocolate for dogs.
Abigael Scuito: By the way, I like the dachshund for you. You could name him Mercury.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: This mercury, Abby.
Abigael Scuito: Industrial grade, commonly used in heavy machinery, although it's fallen out of favor because of the fear factor.
Timothy McGee: A lot of it's being dropped on developing nations like India.
Abigael Scuito: Where exporting/dumping has become a major revenue stream. Anyways, um, this is what killed our painted man. Speaking of which... I've seen a lot of great skin art done with a ballpoint pen and a needle. Like this and this.
Timothy McGee: Very nice.
Abigael Scuito: But this guy's tattoo it's, It's a mess. The symbols are gibberish, the pattern's haphazard. It's a puzzle. It puzzles me, Gibbs. I'm determined to solve it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Hair samples.
Abigael Scuito: Not nearly as interesting. Six different women.
Timothy McGee: Hinton had a lot of girlfriends.
Abigael Scuito: One's a bleach blonde. One's auburn from a bottle, if you want to know anything else, you have to find something to match it against.
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NCIS: Squad room
Deliver guy: Delivery for Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: I got it, I got it.
Courtney Krieger: Thank you.
Anthony DiNozzo: Hey, how are you?
Deliver guy: Good, thanks.
Anthony DiNozzo: Here you go.
Deliver guy: Thank you. Have a good night.
Anthony DiNozzo: Keep the change... Portobello mushroom, no tomato... Philly cheese steak, extra steak, extra cheese.
Courtney Krieger: These are all Hinton's contacts.
Anthony DiNozzo: Can't help but notice they're all women. What made him think The Eraser was a woman?
Courtney Krieger: I don't know that he did.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well... Cause you know, you said he was enjoying himself. You, you...
Ziva David: You have mushroom in your teeth.
Courtney Krieger: Where's your bathroom?
Anthony DiNozzo: I will show you where it is.
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Timothy McGee: Hey, so I've been thinking about the murder. Why kill him that way? I mean an injection into the brain, definitely not the most common method.
Ziva David: To find out "why," you must ask "who." Someone tidy. Someone who doesn't like messes.
Timothy McGee: You have a theory?
Ziva David: Someone who needs to be in constant control of the situation. Someone who does not like to lose control of their emotions.
Timothy McGee: Ziva, what are you doing? I'm not an expert here, but I'm pretty sure what you're doing now is a violation of the code.
Ziva David: It is not against the law.
Timothy McGee: The woman's code.
Ziva David: McGee, I bet you if we take a strand of her hair, it will match the sample from Hinton's condo.
Timothy McGee: Well, of course it would. She's already said she been there every week.
Ziva David: This woman is uptight... Not even a single strand... We will have to go to the source.
Timothy McGee: Ziva, no hair pulling.
Ziva David: She's the only one that was in contact with Hinton. It would have been easy for her to just sweep him under the rug.
Timothy McGee: Motive?
Ziva David: She's ambitious. He became too much of a complication. When someone's that uptight, it's only a matter of time before they... Snap.
Timothy McGee: Okay. You don't like her.
Ziva David: Do you?
Timothy McGee: I understand what she's going through. I remember what it was like to be green, afraid you're going to mess up.
Ziva David: Which she did.
Timothy McGee: So what, you want to rub it in? Come on, Ziva, I think she deserves a little sympathy... Tony seems to like her.
Ziva David: I do not think Gibbs does.
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FBI: Tobias Fornell's office
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Who do you work for, Tobias? Homeland Security or the FBI?
Tobias Fornell: The world's on my shoulders, Gibbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: World made of paper.
Tobias Fornell: Just throw that anywhere... Kind of defeats the purpose of e-mail when you have to print it all out for the fire anyway.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah. That's why I don't use it.
Tobias Fornell: Really? Not because you can't figure out how to work it? I spend most of my time now coordinating the flow of information. What can I give you?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Your opinion on Special Agent Courtney Krieger.
Tobias Fornell: Promising... Does everything by the book, the book doesn't show very much imagination. Definitely a child of the electronic age. Currently running a low-level asset in Highland Beach.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Asset named Hinton.
Tobias Fornell: Okay, what am I missing?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Fact he was murdered.
Tobias Fornell: Marvin Hinton is dead?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I told her to notify you.
Tobias Fornell: You've got to be kidding me. She sent an e-mail. It went in my spam folder. This is serious, Gibbs. Alive, Hinton was just an ex-con who made a deal with the devil. Dead means the devil came to collect.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Devil have a name?
Tobias Fornell: That's just about all he's got... You ever heard of Kamal Konkani? Built his reputation in the early '90s manufacturing false IDs for IRA bombers. Moved around Europe one step ahead of the authorities for the next ten years. Where he went, death followed.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Been invisible since the millennium.
Tobias Fornell: He made a fortune working for terrorists.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Hinton wasn't a terrorist.
Tobias Fornell: Game has changed in a decade. Documents are more sophisticated, electronic tracking, facial recognition... We think Kamal was using Hinton as a test.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: A test? For what?
Tobias Fornell: Homeland picked up chatter from a training facility in Libya. A terrorist cell with assurances of clean entry onto U.S. soil.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Assurances from Kamal Konkani.
Tobias Fornell: And with Hinton dead...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The only eyes on Kamal have been closed for a week.
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NCIS: plateform
Jennifer Shepard: You're telling me that there are terrorists on the way here and they could be anyone? How did this start?
Tobias Fornell: With a dead man named Marvin Hinton aka Frederick LeClair.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: An ex-con looking for a new identity.
Jennifer Shepard: A wish your Eraser was more than happy to accommodate.
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NCIS: MTAC
Courtney Krieger: My boss looks mad.
Ziva David: He's going to chew you up.
Anthony DiNozzo: Out. Chew you out. Maybe not, maybe he's one of those silent killer types.
Jennifer Shepard: What do you know about this Eraser?
Tobias Fornell: McGee... Believed to be a Pakistani national raised in India and England. Made his name working with terrorists.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Clean IDs, easy transit.
Tobias Fornell: Facilitated Basque terror attacks in Spain, IRA bombings in England. The GIA bombing in France in 1995.
Jennifer Shepard: Killed eight, wounded hundreds, led by Khaled Kelkal.
Tobias Fornell: French authorities identified the man who made it possible as Kamal Konkani.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's a lot of "K's." "K's" are funny. Agent Krieger. You ever see The Sunshine Boys?
Tobias Fornell: But they weren't able to put a face to the name before he disappeared off the radar.
Jennifer Shepard: Apparently, he's relocated to Maryland. Upgraded his system for taking people off the grid.
Tobias Fornell: We were tipped off to Hinton. So it's possible that Kamal dropped the dime himself to test his work.
Jennifer Shepard: His work seems impeccable.
Tobias Fornell: Now he's covering his tracks.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: And shopping the service to terrorists overseas.
Jennifer Shepard: I'll monitor the situation in the training camps, watch closely for any movement. I suggest you pick up Kamal's trail on this end.
Anthony DiNozzo: No trace. No face. This ought to be easy.
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NCIS: plateform
Tobias Fornell: Special Agent Krieger. A word.
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NCIS: stairs
Ziva David: According to his Interpol bio, Kamal rarely ventures out of his safe house once it is established.
Anthony DiNozzo: Style's cloak-and-dagger. Low-tech. No cell phone, no electronic messages.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Smart.
Ziva David: He prefers to pass notes. The Bureau provided several intercepted by the French 12 years ago, coded. Abby has them now.
Tobias Fornell: I don't give a flying crap what it states in the handbook! You don't know enough to make a decision on your own!
Ziva David: That was long overdue.
Anthony DiNozzo: What have you got against her?
Ziva David: I do not like cleaning up after other people.
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NCIS: Squad room
Ziva David: It is very clear what you would like to have against her.
Anthony DiNozzo: Excuse me?
Ziva David: You want to sleep with her.
Anthony DiNozzo: I... Well, so... What if I do?
Ziva David: Same old Tony. I thought the new Tony wanted something more. A real relationship.
Anthony DiNozzo: I was pretending to be someone else.
Ziva David: Yeah, you could have fooled me. I thought you had grown.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm not particularly interested in outgrowing sex.
Ziva David: Sure it would be nice, Tony. But it would be meaningless. Empty. It would be wrong for you. She's a pretty girl, but she's just a girl. The man you were becoming needs a woman. At least I thought he did.
Tobias Fornell: You believe that? An e-mail!
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Donald Mallard: Perhaps we're looking at this tattoo from the wrong angle.
Abigael Scuito: I've manipulated the image every way I can. I've inverted it. I've shrunk it. I've stretched it. I can't figure it out. Gonna have to mute you Duck. Nothing personal.
Donald Mallard: No, wait. It's very pecu...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You got something on the tattoo?
Abigael Scuito: It's a work in progress, but... I did find out something about the notes that the FBI got from Kamal.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: FBI code-breakers couldn't make anything of the language.
Abigael Scuito: No, neither could I. But the paper the notes are written on, it has a curve, so it came off of some sort of spool.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Cash register receipt.
Abigael Scuito: And Major Mass Spec had a field day with these smudges, decided that it's Makki Ki Roti and Sarson Ka Saag. Maize-flour bread and mustard-leaf sauce, which goes nice with a glass of lassi.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Indian food.
Abigael Scuito: Punjab, to be specific.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Kamal likes his home cooking.
Abigael Scuito: Might add to his profile.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It's good work.
Abigael Scuito: Gonna have to mute you. Don't say "good work." Not till I figure out the riddle of the tattoo.
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NCIS: squad room
Courtney Krieger: Ziva, can I ask you a question? Isn't it hard being the only woman on the team?
Ziva David: No.
Courtney Krieger: God, I wish I had your confidence.
Ziva David: Well, it comes from experience.
Courtney Krieger: The way I'm going, that's something I'll never get.
Ziva David: Look, Courtney... They obviously saw something valuable in you, otherwise you would not have made it this far.
Courtney Krieger: Thank you.
Ziva David: But... Stop trying to be perfect. You will mess up. And occasionally, you will take a beating.
Courtney Krieger: And then what?
Ziva David: Then, you know the expression "you get back on the horse"?
Courtney Krieger: I competed in equestrian... Show jumping mostly.
Ziva David: My uncle bred Arabians.
Courtney Krieger: Do we hug now?
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Timothy McGee: Assuming he still likes home cooking, there are 15 Indian restaurants within a ten-mile radius of Highland Beach.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Kamal doesn't travel.
Tobias Fornell: Confine the search to walking distance.
Timothy McGee: There's only one in the vicinity... Punjab Tandoori.
Tobias Fornell: Man's gotta eat. We know he's been in the area.
Timothy McGee: If he's using the same MO, passing notes. Who's he handing 'em to?
Anthony DiNozzo: Any chance he's got people from the old country workin' on this side?
Timothy McGee: Makes that restaurant the perfect place to hang out if he does.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Slim chance he'd be at the restaurant himself.
Tobias Fornell: Let's keep this one low-key when we go to scope it out. Have to go in undercover.
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Punjab Tandoori
Anthony DiNozzo: Hi. Table for two, please.
Waitor: Right this way.
Anthony DiNozzo: Looks like a nice place, doesn't it, honey?
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Van
Timothy McGee: Sure does, sweet cheeks. Hold it steady, I'm gonna zoom in here.
Ziva David: On the waiter, DiNozzo.
Waitor: Our specials this evening are the...
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Punjab Tandoori
Waitor: Masala Chops and the Lobia Curry.
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Van
Waitor: The Lobia is my personal favorite.
Timothy McGee: And freeze.
Waitor: Here are the menus, I'll be right back to take your order.
Timothy McGee: Facial ID should take a second here.
Ziva David: Unless he has been erased.
Timothy McGee: Ashwin Romji. Married, father of three. Resident since 1987, legal citizen since 1999.
Ziva David: Seems clean. Courtney, can you get an angle on the kitchen staff.
Timothy McGee: She looks tense. Think maybe it should be you in there?
Ziva David: I think she'll do fine.
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Punjab Tandoori
Anthony DiNozzo: Act natural. Just a normal date.
Courtney Krieger: Can I tell you a secret? It's been a while.
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Van
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah. Me, too.
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Punjab Tandoori
Anthony DiNozzo: Work comes first. Just pretend you like me.
Courtney Krieger: It's not too hard to do.
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Van
Anthony DiNozzo: You have really soft hands.
Ziva David: How is it going, Tony?
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Punjab Tandoori
Courtney Krieger: I'm so sorry. You know, I...
Anthony DiNozzo: It's okay.
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Van
Timothy McGee: Good thing we didn't put the mic in his pants.
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Punjab Tandoori
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm just gonna go clean this up. Not quite how I remember dating.
Timothy McGee: Feels about par for the course.
Robert Graves: Sorry. Sorry, man.
Anthony DiNozzo: Excuse me.
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Van
Timothy McGee: Didn't get a good look at the delivery boy.
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Punjab Tandoori
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, looks like they keep him busy.
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Van
Ziva David: Maybe Kamal gets take-out.
Timothy McGee: Cross-checking the addresses.
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Punjab Tandoori
Waitor: Can I help you, sir?
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah. Can we get our food to go? Because my girlfriend and... I understand.
Waitor: It's very naughty.
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Van
Ziva David: Stop. Third on the list.
Timothy McGee: It's a rented apartment.
Ziva David: Look at the name on the lease, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Yeah. I see him.
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Car
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yes.
Ziva David: Check the delivery boy.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Regular dinner delivery to a Frederick LeClair.
Tobias Fornell: That's a name our dead guy's used before. Dead guys don't eat.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: So who's using it now?
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Car
Tobias Fornell: We can't be this lucky.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Let him make the drop first, Ziva.
Ziva David: Yes, Gibbs. Standing by.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Okay, take him. Moving in.
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Street
Ziva David: I was wondering if you could help us. I'm a bit lost.
Robert Graves: Where are you... What the... What the hell's going on?
Ziva David: Just dinner.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The door?
Tobias Fornell: Allow me.
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Frederick LeClair's house
Tobias Fornell: Clear.
Ziva David: Clear.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Nobody here.
Ziva David: This is Kamal's place.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, or it was.
Tobias Fornell: Can't have gone far.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Where's the guy who lives here?
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Street
Robert Graves: How would I know? I just deliver the food.
Tobias Fornell: How's he going to eat if he's not home?
Robert Graves: It's a standing dinner order. I drop off his meal every afternoon, and he pays two weeks in advance.
Anthony DiNozzo: So you've seen him?
Robert Graves: Yeah. Once. Gave me a big wad of cash and a good tip.
Anthony DiNozzo: Can you describe him?
Robert Graves: Okay, I guess. Older black guy, about my height, maybe a little taller.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What about this guy you seen him before?
Robert Graves: Is this a trick question? That is the guy who lives here.
Anthony DiNozzo: Frederick LeClair.
Courtney Krieger: Marvin Hinton.
Ziva David: Kamal Konkani.
Anthony DiNozzo: Our dead guy's our bad guy.
Tobias Fornell: Then who killed him?
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NCIS: MTAC
Timothy McGee: Robert Graves. 25 years old. No aliases, no priors. No passport. According to his W4, he's been working at the restaurant six months.
Jennifer Shepard: If you believe everything on paper.
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NCIS: Interrogation room
Robert Graves: How much longer are we going to do this?
Ziva David: Anxious to get out?
Robert Graves: Wasn't planning on spending the night in custody. I have a term paper due tomorrow.
Ziva David: Grad student in electrical engineering. Solid B-minus average. You grew up in Hagerstown. Nice neighborhood?
Robert Graves: My parents were working class. I've had jobs since I was 13 and... I've had to work twice as hard as the silver spoons to get where I am.
Ziva David: The delivery boy.
Robert Graves: What did I do wrong? Was there something in the package? Drugs?
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NCIS: MTAC
Timothy McGee: He could still be a courier and not know it. He delivers information into go-boxes.
Tobias Fornell: Returns with cash that contains the reply. And someone else at the restaurant sends on instructions to prospective clients, tucked in a meal.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It doesn't matter how he did it.
Jennifer Shepard: Hinton played you... He was The Eraser all along.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Hinton was Kamal... That explains his so-called retirement.
Ziva David: He was in prison.
Courtney Krieger: Spending his time improving the technique for eliminating a person's history.
Anthony DiNozzo: Which means.
Courtney Krieger: He was testing it on himself.
Anthony DiNozzo: So, why...
Ziva David: Let himself be caught on the trafficking charge?
Anthony DiNozzo: And who...
Courtney Krieger: Killed him?
Ziva David: That... Was clearly not part of the plan.
Courtney Krieger: We were working under the assumption The Eraser killed his client to cover his tracks. What if it was the other way around?
Ziva David: The Eraser was killed by one of his clients?
Courtney Krieger: Terrorists?
Anthony DiNozzo: We don't know if they've arrived yet.
Ziva David: Another client, then. Someone... With a past they needed to forget.
Courtney Krieger: And once the client's past had been erased, he kills Kamal.
Anthony DiNozzo: To eliminate the only person who knows his true identity.
Courtney Krieger: Almost. Not a him, a her.
Anthony DiNozzo: One of his girlfriends...
Ziva David: Was actually a client.
Anthony DiNozzo: Cute. She was erased, so we don't know anything about her.
Ziva David: Wrong. We do know how she kills.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Jordan Hampton: Where is Dr. Mallard?
James Palmer: With our forensic scientist. I don't think he's ready to release the body, though.
Jordan Hampton: He really gets into his work.
James Palmer: Yeah, he's turned himself inside out trying to unscramble the meaning behind this tattoo. Dr. Mallard hates to leave anything unfinished.
Jordan Hampton: Yeah... Me, too.
Donald Mallard: Dr. Hampton? What are you doing?
Jordan Hampton: I would never cut into your body without your permission, but... I would appreciate the opportunity to... Perhaps level the scales.
Donald Mallard: Of course.
Jordan Hampton: You could have come into my lab flapping and quacking about miracles I failed to weave.
Donald Mallard: I assure you that's not in my character. Shall we... Do this together?
Jordan Hampton: I could only hope that this makes us even.
Donald Mallard: I might even owe you one... Doctor.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: The girls have a theory.
Courtney Krieger: The murder does not have anything to do with terrorism. It's one of The Eraser's other clients.
Tobias Fornell: So the killer could be anyone from anywhere?
Ziva David: We have been sifting through instances involving mercury. Did not find similar murder, but...
Courtney Krieger: Idaho. Three years ago. George Barney dies in his sleep after having a few too many drinks.
Ziva David: Choked to death on his own vomit.
Courtney Krieger: He's buried on his family farm.
Ziva David: Last month, the Barneys are digging a new well. It turns out, the groundwater had been contaminated.
Courtney Krieger: EPA was called in, traced the source of the contamination back to a leak in George Barney's casket.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Mercury.
Ziva David: His young widow had been the high school science teacher. She moved on after his untimely death.
Courtney Krieger: Local cops couldn't track her down.
Timothy McGee: She killed her husband.
Courtney Krieger: Here's a picture of the grieving wife.
Anthony DiNozzo: Look familiar?
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NCIS: Interrogation room
Shannon O'Hara: Do you need me to identify another photo?
Anthony DiNozzo: Recognize this person?
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NCIS: Observation room
Ziva David: Her hair matches one of the samples from Hinton's condo.
Courtney Krieger: And the murder has her signature.
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NCIS: Interrogation room
Shannon O'Hara: All right, look. It was a tragedy when my husband died. The entire town thought so.
Anthony DiNozzo: Doesn't sound like you share their sentiments.
Shannon O'Hara: They didn't know what he was like when he was drunk, which was all the time.
Anthony DiNozzo: So when the opportunity presented itself to start a new life, you took it.
Shannon O'Hara: Wouldn't you?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: How did Marvin Hinton know you were on the run?
Shannon O'Hara: He knew everything about me in one look, everything that matters. He knew how I'd gotten my new name. He said he'd been contacted the same way.
Anthony DiNozzo: So you went home with him? Did it occur to you that he was the one who set up your new identity? That he was toying with you? 'Cause he was the only one who knew about your past. Right?
Shannon O'Hara: I didn't kill him.
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NCIS: Observation room
Tobias Fornell: I suppose it wouldn't be any fun if she just admitted it.
Courtney Krieger: Yes, sir.
Tobias Fornell: Delivery boy still here?
Ziva David: Waiting in the conference room.
Tobias Fornell: Make sure he gets home. Special Agent Krieger... Nice work today.
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NCIS: Squad room
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: She killed once for a new life.
Anthony DiNozzo: Why not twice?
Tobias Fornell: Did us a favor... Kamal is dead.
Jennifer Shepard: It doesn't seem to bother his international clients.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The terrorist training camp?
Jennifer Shepard: Marine task force just went in.
Tobias Fornell: And?
Jennifer Shepard: One terrorist killed. They found an American passport on his body. It went through squeaky clean.
Timothy McGee: Kamal had completed the job.
Tobias Fornell: What about the rest of the cell?
Jennifer Shepard: Too late. Already gone.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: They're on their way here.
Anthony DiNozzo: And the only man who knows who they are is past telling us.
Donald Mallard: That's not certain, Tony. Our dead man may have one thing left to say.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: We cracked it, Gibbs, me and Ducky. We solved the puzzle. We were just looking at it wrong.
Donald Mallard: Yeah, it was Jordan... Dr. Hampton who had the idea of excising the section of inked flesh.
Anthony DiNozzo: That is so gross.
Abigael Scuito: But what we found is so cool. The blotchy thick, blue jailhouse dye... That's just a camouflage.
Donald Mallard: Yes, the real clue is underneath, hidden like a painted-over Monet canvas.
Abigael Scuito: All I had to do was eliminate the blue to clarify it... This... Is the original tattoo... It's beautiful, with deeper needling.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Professional work.
Abigael Scuito: It's a masterpiece, it's a Blaine Parker. He's something of a legend, Boston artist.
Tobias Fornell: A man like Hinton trying to shed his past...
Abigael Scuito: So I talked to Parker's assistant, and she was able to determine the exact dates when Hinton got the original tattoo.
Donald Mallard: Over a period of several days, ten years ago.
Anthony DiNozzo: Interpol's timeline, puts Kamal in London ten years ago.
Tobias Fornell: Hinton's not Kamal. Delivery boy lied to us.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He did more than that, he set us up. He wanted us to believe it was Hinton.
Tobias Fornell: You think the kid's Kamal? He'd have had to start when he was 8years old.
Anthony DiNozzo: Not if he's the new Dread Pirate Roberts.
Abigael Scuito: I love The Princess Bride. No one would ever surrender to the Dread Pirate Westley.
Anthony DiNozzo: The Dread Pirate Roberts picks a successor, then trains him, starts calling him Roberts and then settles into a cushy retirement. It's the name "Kamal" that sells the business.
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Car
Robert Graves: You can let me off up here.
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Street
Courtney Krieger: Sorry for the inconvenience.
Robert Graves: Just a case of mistaken identity.
Courtney Krieger: Good luck on your term paper.
Robert Graves: Thanks.
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Car
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Ziva, where are you?
Ziva David: Dropping off Graves, Gibbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Don't!
Gunshots
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Street
Courtney Krieger: Can we hug now?
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NCIS: Interrogation room
Tobias Fornell: From your closet.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Special delivery.
Tobias Fornell: How'd you find Kamal?
Robert Graves: You don't find Kamal. Kamal finds you.
Tobias Fornell: He tempts you with the money or the power? Or just the chance to become somebody else?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Kamal could tell you needed him.
Robert Graves: He needed me. He can't even work his own computer. Man's a dinosaur.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He knows how to read people.
Tobias Fornell: Cover his tracks. But you don't have the discipline. Hinton figured you out.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He would've led the FBI right to you.
Tobias Fornell: So you killed him before he got the chance. Made us think he was Kamal. Then you framed another client for his murder.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Shannon O'Hara, aka Karen Barney.
Tobias Fornell: You knew how she'd killed in the past. She was your first client.
Robert Graves: Good for you. You've got the whole story.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The worst mistake you made...
Tobias Fornell: You tried to shoot our agents.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Hey, let me hang that up for you, Tobias.
Tobias Fornell: Sit down!
Robert Graves: What do you want?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The rest of your client list. Tell us where to find the real Kamal! Now!
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NCIS: MTAC
Anthony DiNozzo: I was at an embassy party once... Gated, razor wire, surveillance system, the whole deal and this guy just walks in the front door, wearing T-shirt that says "Liquor Store." Holds up a brown paper bag, and he goes "Did anybody order a bottle of vodka?"
Ziva David: The places you can access when you look the part.
Anthony DiNozzo: This thing starts kind of slow.
Ziva David: I'm sure it gets better.
Timothy McGee: The picture's up, boss.
Anthony DiNozzo: An NCIS production. Brought to you by Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Starring, as usual, the FBI, and the elusive Kamal Konkani.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Freeze it.
Anthony DiNozzo: The Dread Pirate Roberts, I presume.
Ziva David: Did you get her number?
Anthony DiNozzo: Who, Courtney? No.
Ziva David: I did. She wants to learn how to fight.
