5x05 – Leap of Faith
Hotel room
Jake: I've got that marketing meeting at 1:30. You got to make this quick.
Ashley: Not too quick. You think Anderson's secretary saw us leaving together?
Jake: We were going to lunch.
Ashley: She's been looking at me funny the last couple weeks... She knows my husband.
Jake: What the hell is that?
Ashley: Thought you'd like it.
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Parking
Frank Thompson: Your sailor's real nervous. Tried to talk to him, but he's not making a lot of sense.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You get his name?
Frank Thompson: No. Shut down. Threatened to jump if we didn't back off. Hose jockeys want to set an airbag.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That height? I don't think it's going to make much of a difference.
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Timothy McGee: I don't think Gibbs knows.
Anthony DiNozzo: Not going to hear it from me.
Ziva David: Not going to hear what from you?
Anthony DiNozzo: Abby may have gotten a job offer.
Ziva David: Oh.
Anthony DiNozzo: Big bucks.
Timothy McGee: Allegedly.
Anthony DiNozzo: Private sector.
Timothy McGee: Still just a rumor, Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: Not anymore, probie-san. Someone from Human Resources told a friend of a friend that Abby had cocktails last night at the Ritz-Carlton with a corporate headhunter.
Ziva David: And this friend told you?
Anthony DiNozzo: Not exactly. I overheard it in the elevator.
Ziva David: Very reliable source. Abby was probably on a date.
Timothy McGee: Abby on a date at the Ritz-Carlton?
Anthony DiNozzo: Strictly business time, Ziva.
Timothy McGee: They say which business?
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, the elevator reached my floor, I had to get off.
Timothy McGee: Oh, that's a long way up.
Anthony DiNozzo: Long way down.
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Roof
Anthony DiNozzo: Okay, so what you want to do is gain his confidence here, boss. He's been out there for a while. He's obviously having second thoughts.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Stay.
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Michael Arnett: Get away from me.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Just want to talk.
Michael Arnett: No!
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Make it easier if I knew your name... Where you stationed?
Michael Arnett: I said leave me alone!
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Timothy McGee: Boss, you know, we could snap a picture of him with a cell, e-mail it to Abby, get her to run it through photo-recognition. If he went to the Academy, we get a quick ID.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Do it.
Timothy McGee: Me?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It's your idea, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Right.
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Timothy McGee: Boss? I'm not very good with heights... Point. Point and click.
Michael Arnett: Don't come any closer! What are you doing?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Wouldn't give me your name. Want to know who you are.
Timothy McGee: Yeah.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Great view of the Washington Monument from up here.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Donald Mallard: Abigail?
Abigael Scuito: What's up, Doc?
Donald Mallard: Had a report for Jethro, but I...
Abigael Scuito: Is that what I think it is?
Donald Mallard: If you're thinking it's a firearm, the answer is yes. I thought you might have seen him.
Reporter: He appears to be in his late 20s, although, from my vantage point, that is very difficult to confirm.
Abigael Scuito: McGee, he's got a gun.
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Roof
Timothy McGee: Boss, he's got a gun.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, yeah. I know that, McGee. I see that.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: I'm running the image against the last ten Academy classes.
Donald Mallard: What could make a young man so desperate?
Abigael Scuito: I got it, McGee.
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Roof
Timothy McGee: Boss, his name is Lieutenant Michael Arnett. Stationed at the Pentagon. Academy class of '01. He's a linguist, translator. Married, no kids.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: So, Michael? You mind if I call you Michael?
Michael Arnett: You can't help.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I can try.
Michael Arnett: Don't.
Ziva David: I do not have a shot. I'll hit Gibbs, too.
Anthony DiNozzo: Lean back, boss. Just ease back.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: Damn you, Gibbs! You take too many chances.
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Roof
Timothy McGee: All right, boss, his wife works at a travel agency on K Street. Name's Dana. She's at lunch. Her boss has no idea where she went.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Trying to get a hold of your wife. You want to talk to her?
Michael Arnett: No! She left me.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah. I've been there... That's tough... It's not worth your life.
Michael Arnett: It's more complicated than that.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Tell me.
Michael Arnett: It's too late.
Timothy McGee: He's got a sister. Her name's Rachel.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You want to talk to Rachel? How old is she?
Michael Arnett: 17.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: 17? What does that make her... A senior in high school? You want Rachel to remember this from her senior year? I don't want to make that call, Mike.
Michael Arnett: It's too late.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Why don't we start with the gun, huh?
Michael Arnett: I really messed up. I should have told someone.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You tell me. I'll help you... You can trust me... Put it down... I'll help you... Take it really easy.
Gunshot
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Parking
Ziva David: Slug is flattened. Not much for Abby to work with.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: She had success with less.
Anthony DiNozzo: Shot definitely came from the building across from the hotel.
Timothy McGee: Door to the rooftop was picked. No shell casings, no prints, nothing. Several people in the building heard the shot. Witnesses on the street saw the flash.
Anthony DiNozzo: Guy's going to kill himself. When he doesn't, someone does it for him. Why?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Arnett's apartment.
Anthony DiNozzo: Color back now that you're on terra firma there, probalicious?
Timothy McGee: Hey, I would have done it...
Anthony DiNozzo: Only... You didn't.
Ziva David: I think he's more afraid of heights than you are.
Anthony DiNozzo: Please. I rock-climbed.
Ziva David: Yeah. 20 feet, with a harness, to impress a girl.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, it worked.
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Donald Mallard: Having an eyewitness like you makes my job a lot easier... Nevertheless, I will get you autopsy results post-haste.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Thanks, Duck.
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Michael Arnett's apartment
Anthony DiNozzo: There's absolutely no evidence a woman lived here.
Ziva David: Manager said she moved out a week ago.
Anthony DiNozzo: Gibbs was right. In a divorce, the guy gets screwed. She left him diddly-squat.
Ziva David: Maybe she had a good reason to leave him.
Anthony DiNozzo: Poor guy's sleeping on a blow-up bed.
Ziva David: Good marriage needs good communication.
Anthony DiNozzo: Here's another reason he'd want to end it all: Rejuvinator... Arnett was losing his hair.
Ziva David: Maybe he didn't talk to her anymore.
Anthony DiNozzo: He was younger than I am.
Ziva David: Or didn't listen.
Anthony DiNozzo: She did leave him something.
Ziva David: A sad commentary on the state of matrimony?
Anthony DiNozzo: No. A pink toothbrush.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: I'm fast, but I'm not that fast. Something still bothering you?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah. We're investigating a homicide and a suicide.
James Palmer: Was the reason the lieutenant was out on the ledge the same reason that he was shot? I guess you wouldn't know that yet, would you?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He was coming in... Wanted to tell me something.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Confucius say: "Life's many pleasures await you."
Abigael Scuito: What yours say?
Timothy McGee: "As you approach life's crossroads, look both ways."
Abigael Scuito: I'm sure it's meaningful. Just think about it and search your inner self.
Timothy McGee: "Lisa Nerlman, Hypnotherapist." What is this for?
Abigael Scuito: She does wonders with phobias.
Timothy McGee:Tony, who else did you tell?
Anthony DiNozzo: I told you it was a very sensitive subject, Abby.
Abigael Scuito: Your turn.
Ziva David: I refuse to make decisions based on stupid sayings stuffed inside stale cookies.
Abigael Scuito: "Welcome an invitation that change your financial future." Got to go.
Anthony DiNozzo: That was incredible. It was fate that Abby opened that cookie.
Ziva David: She's good. She didn't blink an eye.
Timothy McGee: That's why I don't play poker with her.
Anthony DiNozzo: No tell. He was sleeping on an air mattress, boss.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The wife?
Ziva David: Staying at Lafayette Court Hotel. She's coming in at 5:00. Wants to talk to Arnett's parents first.
Anthony DiNozzo: Would have bet we'd find a suicide note. No luck.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That'd be too easy.
Ziva David: I took his computer down to Abby. Maybe she will get lucky.
Timothy McGee: He's a second-generation American. Grandparents emigrated from Syria. His fluency in Arabic led to his advancement and special assignments in the Middle East. Presently assigned at the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Combating Terrorism. Other than that, I can't tell you much. I'm getting stonewalled by the Pentagon. They won't even connect me to his CO.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, Gibbs... On my way. Let's go, McGee. You're with me.
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NCIS: MTAC
Jennifer Shepard: Special Agent Gibbs. Captain Walsh, Lieutenant Arnett's CO.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're a hard man to reach.
Roger Walsh: My hands were tied. I had to get permission from the Director of National Intelligence to talk to you.
Jennifer Shepard: SecNav has to make a decision.
Roger Walsh: Unless you can tell me Lieutenant Arnett's murder was unrelated to his Navy duties, my unit's going into lockdown.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I can't tell you that, Captain. We're just beginning our investigation.
Roger Walsh: How long is this going to take?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: At this point, no one will even tell me what Arnett does.
Roger Walsh: Did.
Jennifer Shepard: Captain Walsh just briefed me on Lieutenant Arnett's general duties. He was an Arab-speaking intelligence officer, working assets in the Middle East.
Roger Walsh: Personally responsible for exposing a number of Al-Qaeda ops. I'm sure he was high on their hit list.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What was he working on?
Roger Walsh: Tracking down an Al-Qaeda operative.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs:Where?
Roger Walsh: Right here. In DC. What the hell happened up there?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He was going to jump.
Roger Walsh: Why?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Working on it.
Roger Walsh: We've got an Al-Qaeda operative on the loose. If you'd done your job and pulled Arnett off that ledge, my best man wouldn't be dead... So, you'd better be working on it.
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Pentagone
Roger Walsh: Unit's in lockdown. All work's been secured. The section restricted to quarters. National security's at risk, my people are sitting on their hands. How long is this going to take?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We're working as fast as we can.
Timothy McGee: When was the last time you saw Lieutenant Arnett?
Roger Walsh: Two days ago. He seemed fine. Called in sick. His desk. He tell you anything up there?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We need to know more about this current operation.
Roger Walsh: Told you as much as I can.
Timothy McGee: Don't suppose I can copy the contents of his hard drive?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You want answers.
Roger Walsh: Personal effects. Best I can do.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: This his wife? You met her?
Roger Walsh: Married about a year.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Separated last week.
Roger Walsh: Didn't know.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Any change in Arnett's behavior lately?
Roger Walsh: He was always quiet. Maybe more so recently. He did his job. Never shared anything personal.
Timothy McGee: Phenelzine. Strong antidepressant. Did you know he was taking medication?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That all we get?
Roger Walsh: I'll go through his files. See what I can give you... Keep me in the loop, Special Agent Gibbs.
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NCIS: Squad room
Ziva David: Okay... We'll be right there. Thank you.
Anthony DiNozzo: I can't believe Abby would think of leaving without saying anything.
Ziva David: Get over it, Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: I mean, I understand her not telling you, but me? I mean I've known her for a long time, you know.
Ziva David: Arnett's wife is here. I am having her brought over to the conference room.
Timothy McGee: Boss, I got an address for Dr. Neil Fleming. Prescribed Arnett the medication. He's not military. Has a private practice in Georgetown.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Guy gets free medical care from the Navy, goes to a shrink who probably charges $350 an hour.
Timothy McGee: I'll check him out.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: With him, DiNozzo.
Anthony DiNozzo: With him, boss.
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NCIS: conference room
Dana Arnett: Our marriage was doomed from the start. The Navy took advantage of Michael's language skills. They assigned, reassigned him to dangerous posts in the Middle East. The few times he was home, he was uptight. He wouldn't want to talk about what he did... I became more and more frustrated.
Ziva David: Did you discuss it with him?
Dana Arnett: We tried marriage counseling. It didn't help. Michael couldn't open up.
Ziva David: Did you know he was seeing a psychiatrist?
Dana Arnett: No... I... I wanted him to get help... I didn't think he would.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It was your idea to separate?
Dana Arnett: I thought it would force him to face our problems... It was a mistake.
Ziva David: Where did you meet?
Dana Arnett: The National Gallery. An exhibit of Mesopotamian art... I was... Standing, admiring a sculpture, and Michael was behind me. He began explaining the piece to me. He brought it to life. He was the most intelligent man I'd ever met. He made me laugh... I haven't seen him laugh in a long time.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're not surprised he was suicidal.
Dana Arnett: What does surprise me is that he was murdered. Why, Agent Gibbs? Why?
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Neil Fleming's practice: waiting room
Timothy McGee: Don't do that.
Anthony DiNozzo: Do what?
Timothy McGee: The doctor might be in with a patient, Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: That tells him someone's here?
Timothy McGee: You ever been to a therapist before?
Anthony DiNozzo: Me? No... You?
Timothy McGee: Yeah, once, when I was young.
Anthony DiNozzo: For your acrophobia?
Timothy McGee: You're blowing that all out of proportion, Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, you showed a pathological fear of heights earlier today.
Timothy McGee: I was staring down ten stories. Getting a little disoriented, it's a little understandable.
Anthony DiNozzo: Disoriented? You had your panties in a twist. Tears in your eyes. Wait. I couldn't see your eyes 'cause they were shut so tight. You were hysterical like a little girl.
Timothy McGee: I was not.
Anthony DiNozzo: You were hugging the ladder. Ladder-hugger. And I got the photographic evidence. Let technology show you the truth.
Timothy McGee: My eyes are not closed. I was blinking.
Anthony DiNozzo: Is that... Is that what you're doing? Let's let the people decide.
Timothy McGee: You are not gonna post that on YouTube.
Anthony DiNozzo: I might.
Timothy McGee: You, give me that thing or I'm gonna... What are you gonna do? Yeah! Slap you silly!
Anthony DiNozzo: You're not getting it.
Neil Fleming: Hello. You two have deeper issues than you discussed on the phone.
Anthony DiNozzo: On the phone?
Neil Fleming: Aren't you the couple who called up about marriage counseling?
Timothy McGee: Couple? Us?
Anthony DiNozzo: No, no. It's okay, Timmy. Timmy, we're in a safe place. We can be ourselves here. We just got back from Vermont. Pretty this time of year.
Timothy McGee: Sorry... NCIS. Special Agents McGee, DiNozzo.
Anthony DiNozzo: Very special agents.
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Neil Fleming's practice: office
Neil Fleming: I've been seeing patients all day. I didn't hear about Michael.
Anthony DiNozzo: Why was he seeking your help?
Neil Fleming: I can't discuss that.
Timothy McGee: Doctor, we're investigating his murder. His job at the Pentagon makes it a matter of national security.
Neil Fleming: Well, I'm bound by ethics and HIPAA laws.
Anthony DiNozzo: That ended with his death.
Neil Fleming: Not for me.
Timothy McGee: Well, can you at least explain to us why a Naval officer, with free medical care, would come to a civilian doctor?
Neil Fleming: I have several patients in the military whose psychological problems, if known, would jeopardize their careers. I can tell you this. The last time I saw Michael Arnett, he was depressed... Not suicidal. Now, without a court order, that's all I'm saying.
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NCIS: Squad room
Abigael Scuito: I heard that, DiNozzo. Another wise-ass comment like that I'll smack you so hard your grand children will feel it. Think it's funny, McGee? Wipe that smile off your face. That goes for you, too, David... Special Agent Gibbs... You're standing behind me, aren't you?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yup... Feeling real secure about your job, are you, Abs?
Abigael Scuito: Not so much anymore.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You up here cause you got something for me, Abs?
Abigael Scuito: Yup.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Ballistics on the bullet?
Abigael Scuito: It's a mangled, useless chunk of lead. Well, actually, only the core is lead because the jacket is 95% copper and 5% zinc, but you already knew that.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Arnett's computer?
Abigael Scuito: Scrubbed clean like the day it was born in Taiwan... Lieutenant Arnett's cell phone. It was in his pocket when he fell, so it's as squished as he is, but I removed the CPU and I stripped away the peripheral...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Abby?
Abigael Scuito:You're not gonna like who he received his last call from, Gibbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Who?
Abigael Scuito:Us. NCIS... Someone called Lieutenant Arnett from inside this building.
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NCIS: Cynthia's office
Nikki Jardine: Director Shepard.
Jennifer Shepard: I appreciate you getting here so fast.
Nikki Jardine: No problem.
Jennifer Shepard: Is something wrong, Nikki?
Nikki Jardine: May I be frank?
Jennifer Shepard: Of course.
Nikki Jardine: I know I'm only a low-level NCIS Intel Analyst.
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NCIS: Director's office
Nikki Jardine: And I am more than happy to do whatever the Agency requires of me, but I resent having a rude message left on my phone by Special Agent Gibbs. With no explanation at all, in the most condescending and insulting manner, he demanded that I get in here immediately. He certainly lives up to his reputation.
Jennifer Shepard: Special Agent Gibbs isn't known for his people skills.
Nikki Jardine: I'm sorry, Director Shepard, I just... Needed to vent. What's this about?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You don't know?
Nikki Jardine: I have no idea.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What about the murder of Lieutenant Michael Arnett?
Nikki Jardine: He's dead? I just called him this morning.
Jennifer Shepard: That's why you're here.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Half of Washington watched him get shot on live television. NCIS was on scene. You work in this building and had you "no idea"?
Nikki Jardine: When did it happen?
Jennifer Shepard: A little before 1:00 this afternoon.
Nikki Jardine: I was home... Asleep. I've been working the Middle East desk for the past couple days. Everyone I had to speak to is eight hours ahead of us. I was here all night.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Working on what?
Jennifer Shepard: Navy counterterrorism intel has suffered leaks over the last few months. Al-Qaeda has managed to get a step ahead of us.
Nikki Jardine: We suspect a mole.
Jennifer Shepard: Nikki has been analyzing data trying to look for a common denominator. I had no idea it involved Lieutenant Arnett.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What's his connection?
Nikki Jardine: Well, Lieutenant Arnett had gone outside the wire, working contacts in Djibouti, gathering valuable intel, some of which had been compromised. I wanted to talk to him about who he shared the information with.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, he cooperate?
Nikki Jardine: When I called him, he seemed preoccupied. He said he couldn't talk. He'd get back to me. Guess that's not going to happen.
Jennifer Shepard: This is a priority. Until we find out why he was killed, you are assigned to Special Agent Gibbs' team.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Report to the squad room at 07:30.
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NCIS: Elevator
Ziva David: It's a start-up bioengineering firm. $200,000 a year, stock options and a car.
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NCIS: squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: A car. What kind of car would Abby lease? Another hearse?
Timothy McGee: Guys, this is Nikki Jardine. She's an intel analyst who had contact with Arnett. She's going to be working with us. Yes, I am still on hold.
Ziva David: Hi. I'm Ziva David. I've seen you around.
Nikki Jardine: I'm sorry. I don't shake hands.
Anthony DiNozzo: I guess a hug's out of the question. Anthony DiNozzo.
Ziva David: Behave yourself, Tony.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee?
Timothy McGee: Boss, can't find a judge to sign the warrant. No one wants to violate the patient-client privilege.
Nikki Jardine: I know we started off on the wrong foot last night, and I just...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You've got something?
Nikki Jardine: I spoke with a cryptanalyst at the Pentagon. Lieutenant Arnett returned from the Middle East two weeks ago. He passed through the NCIS field office in Djibouti. With your permission, I'd like to contact the special agent in charge there.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Do it. Where are you going, Jardine?
Nikki Jardine: To my office to make the call.
Ziva David: We have backgrounded Lieutenant Arnett's family.
Anthony DiNozzo: Arnett's grandparents lived the American dream, boss. Came to this country as teenagers. Opened a small appliance shop in the '60s... Which evolved into a chain of electronics stores.
Ziva David: 19, to be exact. Grossing over $250 million last year. We're talking big family money.
Anthony DiNozzo: If there's a prenup, the soon-to-be ex-wife stands to lose a fortune. Think Black Widow, Theresa Russell film of the same name.
Ziva David: All right, Tony. Dana Arnett, travel agent, is a crack shot with a sniper rifle?
Anthony DiNozzo: Could've hired a hit man.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Get her in here again.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm sorry. I have allergies.
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NCIS: Autospy room
Abigael Scuito: I could never wear contact lenses. Just the thought of sticking my finger in me eye...
Donald Mallard: It conforms with Lieutenant Arnett's medical records. Near-sighted, 20/80 vision with an astigmatism.
James Palmer: Here are the blood samples.
Abigael Scuito: Thanks, Jimster.
Donald Mallard: Expect to find Phenelzine when you run the tox screen.
Abigael Scuito: Roger... What?
James Palmer: What?
Abigael Scuito: Am I unbuttoned or ripped? Are my ponytails crooked? Why is everyone staring at me today?
James Palmer: I wasn't staring... I wasn't staring.
Donald Mallard: You were staring, Mr. Palmer.
James Palmer: You hear about Abby's new job?
Donald Mallard: Worst-kept secret at NCIS.
James Palmer: I was told she was promised a state-of-the-art lab, two assistants and... Her own Caf-Pow machine.
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NCIS: Director's office
Nikki Jardine: I spoke with Agent Wells in Djibouti. She said Lieutenant Arnett stopped by the NCIS field office a couple of weeks ago. He was upset. He was concerned that his key local witness was missing. They offered to help locate him, but Arnett was so protective of his sources. He wouldn't reveal the contact's identity.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That's all?
Nikki Jardine: Yes.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Pentagon just sent Arnett's files.
Nikki Jardine: Is he always this...
Jennifer Shepard: Impatient?
Nikki Jardine: It's not exactly the word I was looking for.
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NCIS: stairs
Ziva David: You are not denying she's pretty.
Anthony DiNozzo: Bizarre trumps pretty.
Ziva David: But you would...
Anthony DiNozzo: How? In a hazmat suit?
Ziva David: You two would make a good couple. You have something in common.
Anthony DiNozzo: What?
Ziva David: Fear. She's afraid of germs. You're afraid of commitment. And you're both afraid of Gibbs.
Anthony DiNozzo: For the record, Ms. David, I'm not afraid of Gibbs.
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NCIS: conference room
Ziva David: Thank you for coming back in, Mrs. Arnett.
Dana Arnett: You have news?
Ziva David: Sorry, no.
Dana Arnett: So why am I here?
Ziva David: This will not take long. We just need to clarify something.
Anthony DiNozzo: The circumstances under which you got married.
Dana Arnett: What does that mean?
Anthony DiNozzo: Your husband's family is worth a lot of money. You didn't by any chance sign a prenup, did you?
Dana Arnett: My husband attempted to take his own life and then was murdered. He hasn't even been dead 48 hours and you have the nerve to stand here and ask me how much money I may or may not get? Michael's parents are arriving and... I have a funeral to arrange... Do I need someone to escort me out of the building?
Ziva David: I will escort you, Mrs. Arnett... Nice, Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: "Black Widow". Guilty. When there's money involved, it's always the spouse.
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NCIS: Autospy room
Abigael Scuito: Roll call. Phenelzine is present and accounted for, as predicted, but Timolol made a surprise appearance.
Donald Mallard: Timolol?
Abigael Scuito: A very high concentration.
James Palmer: Timolol?
Abigael Scuito: It's a beta-blocker. Eye drops. Used to treat glaucoma.
Donald Mallard: Which, according to his medical records, Lieutenant Arnett never had. Mr. Palmer, have the lieutenant report back to the table.
James Palmer: Yes, sir.
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NCIS: squad room
Timothy McGee: Boss, I vetted Dr. Fleming. Turns out he was a radical undergraduate at Berkeley in the early '70s. Arrested several times for civil disobedience. As recently as last week, spoke at a Get-Out-of-Gitmo rally on the Mall.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Well, bring him in. We don't need a subpoena to interview him.
Jennifer Shepard: Captain Walsh is online in MTAC.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Arnett's files. Redacted to the point it's useless.
Nikki Jardine: Special Agent Gibbs, I've got something. Yes, sir.
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NCIS: MTAC
Jennifer Shepard: Captain Walsh, sorry to keep you waiting.
Roger Walsh: My unit's still on lockdown. You were supposed to keep me in the loop, Agent Gibbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Lieutenant Arnett's file... I could've got more reading The Washington Post.
Roger Walsh: Blame the Director of National Intelligence.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: And you forgot to mention Arnett was questioned about leaked intel.
Roger Walsh: Didn't think I needed to. Don't you people at NCIS talk to each other?
Jennifer Shepard: Captain Walsh, in order for this agency to complete a thorough investigation, we will need your full cooperation. You'll be briefed when we think it's appropriate.
Roger Walsh: I have a meeting with the Undersecretary in half an hour. What do I tell him?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Tell him the Director of National Intelligence is obstructing our investigation.
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Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Djibouti's coming online. Satellite time's expensive.
Jennifer Shepard: What do you have for us, Special Agent Wells?
Roberta Wells: We've been working with Bahrain. I think we've come up with something. A tribal leader was beheaded for collaborating with an American agent. It's definitely the work of Al-Qaeda operatives... We have every reason to believe the victim was Lieutenant Arnett's missing contact.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: When did it happen?
Roberta Wells: A couple days ago, not too much longer. We're just getting into it questioning villagers.
Jennifer Shepard: I want updates as you get them.
Roberta Wells: Yes, ma'am.
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Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What've you got, Jardine?
Nikki Jardine: I did a matrix. Focused on the four most recent leaks. Charted who generated the information, received it, or had access to it, directly or indirectly. The only person who had knowledge of all the leaked intel was Lieutenant Arnett himself. If the beheaded tribal leader was in fact his source and his identity has been leaked, then Arnett is the only one who would have known. I think Lieutenant Arnett was the mole.
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NCIS: squad room
Nikki Jardine: Mid-Eastern ancestry. Arab-speaking. Naval Academy graduate. Intelligence officer in the Pentagon. He is the perfect deep cover mole. Sort of an Arab version of Kevin Costner in No Way Out.
Ziva David: A movie buff. One more thing you two have in common.
Nikki Jardine: Arnett's juggling two lives. Things are closing in on him. He's stressed to the max. On antidepressants, a liability to his Al-Qaeda handlers. When he doesn't jump, they terminate him before he can expose their cell.
Anthony DiNozzo: Nah, I still like the... Wife. Had him killed for the money. There's a prenup. He dies before they get divorced, she gets the big check. If he died after, she gets zip.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, why the suicide attempt, DiNozzo?
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm still working on that part, boss.
Abigael Scuito: We know why he was suicidal.
Donald Mallard: Abby found Timolol in Lieutenant Arnett's blood. It's used to treat glaucoma.
Abigael Scuito: He didn't have glaucoma.
Timothy McGee: So why'd he take it?
Abigael Scuito: Well, that's the best part. He didn't know he was. Someone substituted Timolol for his contact lens solution. His lenses were soaking in it all night.
Donald Mallard: It's the equivalent of wearing nicotine patches on his eyes. The level of the drug was 20 times the recommended dosage.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I still haven't heard why he was suicidal.
Abigael Scuito: Because the combination of the eye medication and the antidepressant he was taking has a serious side effect: severe clinical depression.
Timothy McGee: Well, I think you're overlooking an obvious character.
Anthony DiNozzo: Character? This isn't one of your novels, Mr. Gemcity.
Timothy McGee: Dr. Fleming has anti-government leanings. He prescribed the antidepressant and would know the combined drugs side effects. If Arnett discussed classified information during their sessions, Fleming could have passed the intel on. There's your spy.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yes, probie, but the wife had access to the contact lenses.
Ziva David: That does not prove anything. McGee found a bottle of lens solution in Arnett's Pentagon office desk.
Anthony DiNozzo: Your point?
Ziva David: Captain Walsh had access to his desk, and, as Arnett's CO, knowledge of his intel.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's the weakest point of all.
Nikki Jardine: All these make more sense than Arnett.
Anthony DiNozzo: Listen, I think I'm not missing the point. I think...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Break up the dog pile. This is a murder investigation. And I am hearing a lot of theories here and not much else. Get on it!
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NCIS: interrogation room
Neil Fleming: So, I'm against the war and the Patriot Act. Doesn't make me un-American... What have you got there? Government keeping a file on me?
Timothy McGee: I'll ask the questions, Dr. Fleming.
Neil Fleming: I've had enough of this.
Timothy McGee: Sit down!
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NCIS: observation room
Jennifer Shepard: I see McGee's got your mad act down.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Almost.
Jennifer Shepard: I heard your agents are pitted against each other. Wasn't that Gibbs' rule #15: "Always work as a team"?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Not on this one.
Jennifer Shepard: No one could have saved him, Jethro... He was dead the moment he stepped out on that ledge.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That what I tell his sister?
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NCIS: squad room
Ziva David: You have any luck?
Nikki Jardine: Might be something. The summer before his junior year in high school, he spent two months in Damascus with relatives. I'm trying to ascertain their politics.
Ziva David: Entrapped the "Black Widow" yet?
Anthony DiNozzo: Minor setback. I thought since Dana Arnett was married to a guy with top-secret clearance, she would have been vetted.
Ziva David: Let me guess. She's squeaky clean.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, I don't know because she was never checked out. If he'd married some foreigner, then, obviously, she would have been subjected to a vigorous background check, but she was born in Kansas.
Ziva David: I am having the same problem McGee had with Captain Walsh. The Pentagon is rock-walling me.
Anthony DiNozzo: She means stonewalling. Little quirk she has.
Nikki Jardine: I guess everyone has their little quirks, even me.
Anthony DiNozzo: Really? I hadn't noticed.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Nikki Jardine: Abby, please. All I'm asking is for you to take another look at the hard drive on Arnett's computer.
Abigael Scuito: It's wiped clean.
Nikki Jardine: Maybe you can find an embedded file, anything.
Abigael Scuito: I can't, okay? I am too busy. Why don't you ask McGee to do it? Because Mr. MIT claims that he's better at this stuff anyways.
Nikki Jardine: May I take a couple of these?
Abigael Scuito: Sure, knock yourself out.
Timothy McGee: Abs?
Nikki Jardine: McGee, I need your help.
Timothy McGee: I got Dr. Fleming's fingerprints on this water bottle. I need you to compare it to the prints lifted in Arnett's flat.
Abigael Scuito: Take a number, because Tony has me running DNA off this toothbrush with an entire database of felons.
Timothy McGee: It'll only take a minute.
Nikki Jardine: I asked first.
Anthony DiNozzo: I did. I've got seniority.
Nikki Jardine: Yes...
Abigael Scuito: Back off! All of you, okay? I am one person!
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Easy, Abs.
Abigael Scuito: No! It's late. I am tired, I am overworked, and I am taken for granted!
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Maybe you should accept that job offer.
Abigael Scuito: I can't believe you'd say that to me, Gibbs. How could you think that I would be leaving? 'Cause I got a little mad? So what? We're family. That's allowed. I get three or four job offers every year. I've never considered any of them.
Anthony DiNozzo: Then why'd you have dinner with that headhunter?
Abigael Scuito: Have you ever had the Beluga caviar at the Ritz-Carlton? And besides, it was nice to feel wanted. Now, get out of here, all of you. I have work to do.
Anthony DiNozzo: What was that for?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Spreading rumors.
Anthony DiNozzo: Thank you, boss.
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NCIS: elevator
Abigael Scuito: DiNozzo! Get back in here!
Anthony DiNozzo: Anyone wanna come with me?
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NCIS: squad room
Ziva David: I am meeting Captain Walsh's former executive officer at the Naval Amphibious Base at Little Creek tomorrow. He is willing to talk to us, off the record, but not here.
Anthony DiNozzo: You losers might want to follow me. Boss, need you in MTAC. Clearly, you're not one of the losers. My hunch paid off. Figured the "Black Widow" has a felony record. Abby just got a DNA match from Interpol.
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NCIS: MTAC
Hugh Benson: Her real name is Najida Mamud, an agent of the Syrian Mukhabarat. She's a gifted linguist, she was educated in England, and secretly trained in weaponry, martial arts and covert operations.
Anthony DiNozzo: Ziva, she's you.
Hugh Benson: Najida Mamud was in an Al-Qaeda camp in Sudan until we lost track of her three years ago. We thought she was in Pakistan.
Anthony DiNozzo: She was obviously smuggled into the US and then deep-backstopped with impeccable American ID.
Timothy McGee: Homeland Security's worst fear.
Hugh Benson: And ours. Let me know if you apprehend her.
Anthony DiNozzo: Lieutenant Arnett didn't casually meet his wife at a museum. She set him up, just like Kathleen Turner set up William Hurt in Body Heat.
Ziva David: Lieutenant Arnett wasn't the mole.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He was married to the mole.
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NCIS: stairs
Ziva David: How did she know he was going to jump off a building?
Timothy McGee: Didn't. She was drugging him, building a case for his depression.
Anthony DiNozzo: So when she killed him...
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NCIS: squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Overdose, slit his wrists, whatever, it would appear to be suicide.
Ziva David: He must have realized he was the source of the leak that got his operative killed.
Nikki Jardine: Reason enough to jump?
Timothy McGee: Guess when we got involved, she had no choice. Had to take him out. I'm gonna put out a BOLO, notify Homeland Security.
Ziva David: I will call the hotel, see if she's there.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm getting the car, boss.
Nikki Jardine: What can I do?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Assignment's over... You can get me that phone number.
Ziva David: Dana Arnett notified the front desk that she is checking out.
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Parking
Ziva David: She left the lobby less than a minute ago.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DiNozzo, McGee, start at the top, work your way down... Federal agents. Keep moving.
Anthony DiNozzo: Boss!
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Pull the fire alarm! McGee, level seven.
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Anthony DiNozzo: Probie! This is not how I want it to end!
Timothy McGee: Hang on, Tony. I'm coming.
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Ziva David: Give me an excuse.
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Anthony DiNozzo: It's about time!
Timothy McGee: Come on.
Anthony DiNozzo: I love you, McGee... I promise never to give you a hard time again.
Timothy McGee: Yeah, right.
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NCIS: squad room
Abigael Scuito: Where's Gibbs?
Timothy McGee: I don't know.
Ziva David: Is that what you get for turning down the job offer?
Abigael Scuito: No. For solving the case.
Anthony DiNozzo: I believe those are for me, then, because I solved the case.
Timothy McGee: But Abby ran the photo-recognition that ID'd Lieutenant Arnett.
Anthony DiNozzo: I risked my life hanging off a wall.
Ziva David: She discovered the drug interaction that made Arnett suicidal.
Anthony DiNozzo: I suggested we run the wife's DNA.
Timothy McGee: Against a national database of felons. Dead end. Abby went the extra step and compared it to the Interpol database.
Anthony DiNozzo: I don't believe this.
Abigael Scuito: He still loves me.
Timothy McGee: Give it up, Tony.
Ziva David: She will always be the favorite, Tony.
Abigael Scuito: I still love you... Back to work.
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NCIS: hallway
Nikki Jardine: Agent Gibbs? That phone number you wanted.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That's good work, Jardine. Good night.
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NCIS: squad room
Rachel Arnett: Hello?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Hello. Rachel?
Rachel Arnett: Yes, this is Rachel.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We haven't met... But I knew your brother.
