5x08 – Designated Target
Taxi
Atif Nukunda: See? Shortcut through the park will be working.
Kenneth Kirkland: You just doubled your tip. It's Kirkland. No, my car broke down. I had to take a cab. I should be there in 20. Have Bob start the presentation. Yeah, use the laser pointer. The GAO guys are distracted by shiny things. That'll keep them busy. Be there soon.
Atif Nukunda: Through no, no... Be passing us, already. What the hell?
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NCIS: Squad room
Ziva David: Come on, come on. Go, go. No, no, no, it is not you, it's just... Well, you know, these things run their course. And, well, you... You must accept it...
Anthony DiNozzo: Personal call, David?
Ziva David: Yes. Go away.
Anthony DiNozzo: Somebody being dumped?
Ziva David: How do you tell someone you no longer want to see him?
Anthony DiNozzo: Easy... Listen, dirtbag, this is Ziva's husband. I have your phone number now. I can find your address. If you ever try to contact her again, I will reach down your throat, grab your intestines, rip them out and drive over your head! Lose this number or lose your life... You're welcome.
Ziva David: That was my Aunt Nettie from Tel Aviv. She was trying to stop seeing her 86-year-old mahjong partner.
Anthony DiNozzo: Why didn't you stop me?
Ziva David: Too stunned.
Anthony DiNozzo: Where do I send flowers?
Ziva David: If you ever communicate with her again, I will kill you.
Timothy McGee: Is it always this bright in here?
Anthony DiNozzo: Wait a second. I recognize that look. You had sex, and I'm guessing it was with a girl.
Timothy McGee: No.
Anthony DiNozzo: No, it wasn't a girl?
Timothy McGee: No, it's none of your business.
Anthony DiNozzo: If the probie was probing last night, I demand details.
Timothy McGee: Actually it was this morning. And it wasn't sex, it was coffee... And it was good.
Ziva David: The coffee or the sex?
Timothy McGee: It wasn't sex. I met a nice girl, we're hitting it off, that's all.
Anthony DiNozzo: Where do you meet?
Timothy McGee: Moved into my building a few days ago right across the hall.
Anthony DiNozzo: Proximity, that's convenient.
Ziva David: Very?
Anthony DiNozzo: McGee is getting some.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Get it out of your head, DiNozzo. And gear up, we got a dead one.
Anthony DiNozzo: You know, repeated head trauma causes brain damage!
Timothy McGee: Explains a lot.
Anthony DiNozzo: Is this side of my head bigger?
Ziva David: Yes, but so is the other side.
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Park
Anthony DiNozzo: Bonnie and Clyde.
Ziva David: Who and what?
Anthony DiNozzo: It's a movie. 1967, Warren Beatty. Faye Dunaway. It's a classic tale of crime and punishment.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Focus on this crime scene, DiNozzo.
Ziva David: Nine millimeter cartridges.
Anthony DiNozzo: It's not a robbery... Cash box is still under the seat.
Timothy McGee: Credit cards are here, too... Rear Admiral Kenneth Kirkland... Worked at the Pentagon... The driver's name... "A-tife"?
Ziva David: Atif Nukunda.
Anthony DiNozzo: Gesundheit.
Timothy McGee: Address is listed as DC.
Ziva David: Tire tracks. Single alignment, looks like a motorcycle. Top choice of assassins who often dump their weapons.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Look, Ziva... Duck?
Donald Mallard: Well, this was no traffic accident.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No kidding.
Donald Mallard: Little doubt they were killed here. Cause of death, multiple gunshots. Any one of which could have been fatal.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Time?
Anthony DiNozzo: That's not gonna be a problem. Onboard digital surveillance camera, probably time-stamped.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Let's see it, DiNozzo... What? There a problem?
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, I... McGee has the cable...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee.
Anthony DiNozzo: Normally I have the cable, but McGee has the other bag.
Timothy McGee: Recorded straight onto a flash drive, probably on a 15 minute loop. Let's see the last recorded images here... At 9:23, first shot was fired. Cab crashed seven seconds later.
Ziva David: A turkey shoot.
Anthony DiNozzo: Fish in a barrel.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DiNozzo, find out where the admiral was coming from, headed to, who knew about it... And if any of those files are missing.
Anthony DiNozzo: All right, I'll take care...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That lipstick on your collar, McGee?
Timothy McGee: Well...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Good for you, Tim. Good for you. Just don't ever get married.
Timothy McGee: Hello? I didn't order a sofa. Yeah, that's my credit card number.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Rear Admiral Kirkland's credited with several innovative efficiency programs at the Pentagon. He was involved in developing the Ready-Rapid Deployment model for moving massive amounts of assets with minimum delays.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Possible target for terrorists?
Anthony DiNozzo: Admiral hasn't left dry land since 02. Not exactly a high-value al-Qaeda target.
Ziva David: Any admiral is a high-value target.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Taxi?
Timothy McGee: Kirkland was heading from home to attend a budget meeting at the GAO.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No government car?
Timothy McGee: Broke down on 14th Street. His aide stayed with the car, Admiral called a cab.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Why go through the park?
Anthony DiNozzo: Three car pile-up on Connecticut. The cabdriver was probably trying to make up time.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Sabotage?
Ziva David: No, we checked the Pentagon surveillance tapes. Nobody touched the car before it left to pick him up.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Files?
Anthony DiNozzo: Staff checked his briefcase. Nothing was missing.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Personal?
Ziva David: No enemies, loving family, devoted wife. No large insurance policies.
Timothy McGee: No motive.
Ziva David: Every murder has a motive, McGee.
Anthony DiNozzo: Not this one.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I though you have quit.
Abigael Scuito: I did. It's no caffeine. No kick. I can suck down, like an half dozen of these babies, no ill effects. Gibbs, I'm steel... No, I am okay. I'm better than okay. Way better. From the taxi. Bullets, the slug on the right is a nine millimeter, full metal jacket, high velocity, you can see by its deformation that it went through metal, glass, whole she-bang.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The other one?
Abigael Scuito: Also nine millimeter. But just a standard hollow-point. The striations on the rounds indicate that they were using silencers.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Casings?
Abigael Scuito: Ejection port marks show that you're looking for a Glock or a Beretta. You should really try this, Gibbs. It'll change your life.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Motorcycle?
Abigael Scuito: The tread on the bike was only offered as an option on the Yamaha R-six series. No hits on sales records yet, indicating that the bike may have been purchased overseas and then brought across the border. All that, no caffeine.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Crime scene?
Abigael Scuito: I'm working on some fresh oil drops that were found near the tire tracks.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Cab took a detour. Must have followed them.
Abigael Scuito: Or they could've hacked into the taxi's onboard navigation system and were waiting. Ambush. Okay... Can I just have one little teeny-tiny baby booster sip? Please?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No.
Abigael Scuito: Thank you, sir.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Welcome. McGee, garage. Now.
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NCIS: garage
Timothy McGee: Boss, the navigation system was definitely hackable. All they would've need was the car's VIN number and the owner's address. They could have requested a diagnostic test, then captured and cloned the signal.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Who hacked it?
Timothy McGee: No way to tell. The signal doesn't ghost, and there's no recording GPS markers after the fact.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Does anyone have any answers?
Anthony DiNozzo: Ziva?
Ziva David: No.
Anthony DiNozzo: Ziva doesn't have any answers, boss.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, Duck. I'm on my way up... You look into the cab company.
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Timothy McGee: Hey, I can't really talk right now.
Anthony DiNozzo: Sure you can, probie. You can talk right now.
Timothy McGee: Go away.
Anthony DiNozzo: Put her on speaker, probie.
Timothy McGee: Get out of here!
Anthony DiNozzo: Probie...
Timothy McGee: Look, there's something...
Anthony DiNozzo: Ah, look at him. He's all grown up having his first fight.
Timothy McGee: Now, where did you get my credit card number? You opened my mail? Listen, I need to go, but we'll talk about this later, okay? You, too. I'll see you later, Bumby.
Anthony DiNozzo: "Bumby"?
Timothy McGee: Well, we can't all be called "probie", can we?
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What have you got, Duck?
Donald Mallard: Bullet from the frontal lobe of your rear admiral. Yeah, both bodies received multiple rounds from a variety of ranges and angles.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Indicating?
Donald Mallard: The first projectiles struck them after deflected off metal or glass. And they were followed by two close contact wounds with stippling, indicating that they were shot execution style.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Okay. That's it?
Donald Mallard: No, no, no. Come here... Take a look at this.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What am I looking at?
Donald Mallard: Between the second bicuspid and second molar, lower left.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Missing tooth?
Donald Mallard: Freshly extracted. And the lack of bleeding around the gum tissue indicates that it was postmortem. There was no tooth in his throat or in his stomach, so he didn't swallow it. And there was no tooth at the crime scene.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: They pulled his tooth?
Donald Mallard: Well, they could have used a pair of pliers. It's a crude if effective means of extraction.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Anything taken from our admiral?
Donald Mallard: No, no, no, no, but I found something really interesting on the driver's right hand.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What is that?
Donald Mallard: Abby ran the analysis. It's a fingerprint salve. Invisible until it's pressed on paper.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Fingerprints and tooth pulp DNA. Two of the best ways to identify a body.
Donald Mallard: Yeah, your rear admiral wasn't the target, Jethro.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No. The cabdriver was.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Dead driver name was Atif Nukunda. Immigrated here seven years ago from Burundi, in East Africa, after his name was found on a death squad list.
Ziva David: A political refugee.
Anthony DiNozzo: Employment records show he worked two jobs Cab and pizza delivery driver, about 85 hours a week.
Ziva David: Land of opportunity.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Check his address.
Anthony DiNozzo: Metro Police have been there, done that. Vacant lot.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Attacks on other cabdrivers in the past 60 days?
Ziva David: Already working on it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DiNozzo, check out the cab company.
Anthony DiNozzo: Go to, boss... "Go to". It's the new "on it." New catchphrase, just came up with it. You like it?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No. Cab company?
Anthony DiNozzo: On it, boss.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Go, too... McGee, what do you got?
Timothy McGee: Well, boss, the time-stamped footage of the killings enabled us to track all cell calls made from the park in the two minutes after the shooting. Ten calls in all. One that stands out was a high-density bandwidth transmission, almost certainly a video file. Someone filmed the execution.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Proof of death?
Timothy McGee: Call was made from a pre-paid cell phone, then sent through a router in East Africa. Lost it there.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Find it.
Timothy McGee: Well, it went to a series of public pay phones, all of which were answered. Impossible to tell which line was actually the intended number. Whoever these guys are, boss, they're very good... But so are we.
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Cab company
Ziva David: Nukunda is dead, Mr. Bayliss.
Chuck Bayliss: Oh, my God. Really dead? What happened?
Ziva David: Have you not missed him?
Chuck Bayliss: No, he works the morning shift, so, usually he's sleeping all day long.
Anthony DiNozzo: Where, in his cab?
Chuck Bayliss: In his apartment.
Ziva David: Fake address.
Chuck Bayliss: Really? That is weird.
Anthony DiNozzo: You know, I can't figure out if you're DeVito in Taxi or De Niro in Taxi Driver.
Chuck Bayliss: What?
Anthony DiNozzo: You're acting. I worked transit detail in Baltimore for two years. Come on.
Chuck Bayliss: Okay, Nukunda was off book.
Ziva David: Off book?
Anthony DiNozzo: Off book. Means he worked for himself, not just the cab company. It also means he required an illegal hack license.
Chuck Bayliss: Cause there's a lot of places that cabdrivers won't go in the city, so we let the gypsies work those areas, service the public. Everybody wins.
Ziva David: The dead cabdriver was not a gypsy.
Chuck Bayliss: What?
Anthony DiNozzo: No, "gypsy" means a cabdriver who works for himself off book. It's also a great way to take advantage of immigrants desperate for work, isn't it?
Chuck Bayliss: Dude, look, all I know is that the guy worked his ass off, okay? He never invited me to his house, so I don't know where he lives. I just can't help you out.
Anthony DiNozzo: Listen, dude, every dispatcher knows every driver and everything about them, so... I could have the Taxi Commission come down here and talk to you guys cause I know they'd like to meet each and every one of you and...
Chuck Bayliss: Wait. Look, okay, the Burundi drivers, they hang out at a little caf on 18th Street, Northwest.
Anthony DiNozzo: Little tip: lime juice. It cuts that just-barfed-on backseat smell, smelly guy.
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Anthony DiNozzo: How long have you been in this country?
Ziva David: Why?
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, you never heard of gypsy cabs? You don't use contractions. Assimilate already.
Ziva David: What are contraptions?
Anthony DiNozzo: Never mind.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: There's definitely a photo missing.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Any way to tell what was there?
Abigael Scuito: Would I have you down here to watch me fail? Silver bromide particles on any positive print leave minute traces on any surface when they're combined with compression and heat, like, say, a wallet being sat on for ten hours a day in a hot taxi. Abby-cadabra, your picture from the cadaver... That's sad. Why would they take the family photo?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: More proof they got the right guy. Any good news?
Abigael Scuito: Yes, the oil, not from the taxi but from the motorcycle. I was able to determine the exact viscosity and degradation, and I found microscopic metal shavings in it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Trace the bike?
Abigael Scuito: Well, not exactly. Well, actually, not at all, but if you find the motorcycle, then I can positively place it at the murder scene.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Unless they change the oil.
Abigael Scuito: Unless they change the oil... This is a gift for you. It's decaf... I sleep at night. I actually eat food. It is so weird, you've got to try it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Abs. Don't let that hurt your feelings.
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Caf on 18th Street, Northwest
Anthony DiNozzo: You speak Burundi?
Ziva David: The official language is Kirundi and French. But these people speak English. They just don't want to speak it with us.
Anthony DiNozzo: NCIS... Federal agents... Looking for anybody who knows this man, his family, where he lives. I take it this is the hack section. I'm just guessing, and your work visas are in order, cause I hate paperwork, so... How about a little help here?
Delphin Abaka: May I see the photograph, please? I know the man you're looking for, but his name is not Nukunda.
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Delphin Abaka: You must forgive them. Where they come from, agents of the government seldom bring good news.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, we have questions.
Delphin Abaka: Even worse.
Ziva David: These are delicious.
Delphin Abaka: Then I won't tell you what they are made from.
Anthony DiNozzo: Mr. Abaka, you say you're a professor?
Delphin Abaka: At Waverly University. I teach African Studies there.
Anthony DiNozzo: How long have you been in this country?
Delphin Abaka: Seven years.
Anthony DiNozzo: Same as our dead cabdriver.
Delphin Abaka: The same as many people in here. It was a time of unrest and upheaval in the region. Thousands of us came here looking for freedom and safety. It is unfortunate that this man and his family only found death.
Ziva David: Someone must know where his family is.
Delphin Abaka: If they are in hiding, no.
Anthony DiNozzo: What's his real name?
Delphin Abaka: I don't know. We keep secrets because secrets keep us alive.
Anthony DiNozzo: We don't put people in jail for cooperating, but we do put them in jail for not cooperating.
Ziva David: Tony.
Delphin Abaka: I have been tortured in prison. I am not afraid of your legal system.
Anthony DiNozzo: How do you feel about deportation?
Ziva David: Tony.
Delphin Abaka: I will ask, but it is not in their culture to cooperate with the government. They are too afraid.
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Street
Ziva David: He is lying about something. He looked suspicious.
Anthony DiNozzo: They all looked suspicious. I'm surprised you could understand him, Ziva. He spoke perfect English.
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Car
Ziva David: You are xenophobic.
Anthony DiNozzo: I am not Xena-phobic it's one of my favorite shows. Leather skirts, lesbian sword fighting, female empowerment. Maybe I'm a little Ziva-phobic.
Ziva David: Do you see what I see?
Anthony DiNozzo: A crazy Israeli chick with impulse issues?
Ziva David: The reflection.
Anthony DiNozzo: We could go ask him who he's calling.
Ziva David: Or we can have McGee ask for us.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Okay, triangulating all traffic from the towers closest to Caf Butu, narrowing it down to all outgoing calls the time Abaka made his call.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Less narration, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Tracing.
Anthony DiNozzo: Look at that. It's incredible. Probie's lips are still moving while he's working. He's like one of those Romanian orphans who can't stop rocking.
Ziva David: You are so prejudiced.
Anthony DiNozzo: I am not. I'm not. By the way, that's a contraction: "I'm." You should try it sometime.
Timothy McGee: Got it. Beat my old record by two seconds... Cell number is listed to Delphin Abaka of Georgetown.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Who'd he call?
Timothy McGee: The Wilmont Hotel, room 234. Currently occupied by a Sayda Zuri.
Anthony DiNozzo: African.
Timothy McGee: Accessing immigration files.
Ziva David: Probably Burundian.
Anthony DiNozzo: Cabdriver's wife maybe?
Timothy McGee: She came through Customs two days ago from Burundi. Restricted travel visa.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DiNozzo.
Anthony DiNozzo: Picking her up, boss... Found her.
Sayda Zuri: I have come to claim my husband's body.
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NCIS: Conference room
Sayda Zuri: His name is Thomas. Thomas Zuri.
Ziva David: Did he change it when he got here?
Sayda Zuri: Many times. I don't know what he calls himself now, but he'll always be Thomas to me.
Ziva David: You said he came from Burundi seven years ago?
Sayda Zuri: Yes.
Ziva David: But according to immigration records, this is the first time you have been here. Why?
Sayda Zuri: The situation in Burundi is very complicated, Miss. I have not been free to come before now, but it seems I am too late.
Ziva David: I am sorry for your loss... Who told you to come to us?
Sayda Zuri: A friend called me.
Ziva David: Professor Abaka?
Sayda Zuri: He has been helping me to try and find Thomas. We are soul mates, Thomas and I... Have you met your soul mate, miss? You will know the minute you do.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Ziva. Ready.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Sayda Zuri: No, this is not Thomas.
Donald Mallard: Yes, well, there's considerable swelling...
Sayda Zuri: May I see his body? Thomas was tortured. This man has no scars. No. This is not my husband.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: You gotta be kidding me. $15,000? $25...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Something wrong, McGee? Computer glitch.
Timothy McGee: Better?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Much... Where's Ziva?
Ziva David: Right behind you. There have been 11 attacks on cabdrivers in the past 60 days in the DC and Maryland area. Three of them are very interesting.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DiNozzo, put them up.
Anthony DiNozzo: All three were shot with a nine-millimeter. And all three autopsies showed a tooth missing.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Enlarge the photos... Come on. Tell me you just didn't lose all that information.
Anthony DiNozzo: McGee! I hit the space bar.
Timothy McGee: Just push the buttons I tell you to push, monkey.
Anthony DiNozzo: Love is not treating you well, my friend.
Timothy McGee: Yeah, no kidding.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Bring up our John Doe from the morgue... Anybody see what I see?
Ziva David: Black males.
Timothy McGee: All in their mid to late 40s.
Anthony DiNozzo: All local cabdrivers. None of them work for the same company, though.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Vitals.
Ziva David: Similar age, similar height, similar weight... They all have shaved heads and facial hair.
Anthony DiNozzo: Bad guys don't know exactly what their target looks like now. They only have a general description.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Seven years. Long time. People change.
Timothy McGee: Would explain the teeth pulling and the videos.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DiNozzo. How many cabdrivers in DC fit this general description?
Anthony DiNozzo: I'd say dozens.
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NCIS: Conference room
Sayda Zuri: Thomas was a storekeeper. He had no interest in politics. But his words were so eloquent, so passionate, that his message spread from village to village. He became a symbol of hope against a system of injustice and corruption. Extremists saw him as a threat. Privately, many in the government did not care if he died.
Jennifer Shepard: That was seven years ago. What's changed?
Sayda Zuri: There is a growing movement against the old ways. Some people are openly calling for him to return and lead the new people's party. His enemies fear he will do exactly that. I have been told they have sent people here to kill him.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Came to warn him.
Sayda Zuri: Yes.
Jennifer Shepard: How did your husband get here?
Sayda Zuri: He was smuggled out of the country by your embassy in Burundi.
Jennifer Shepard: Our government brought him here?
Sayda Zuri: Yes. You see, Thomas was pro-American. That is why the extremists hate him.
Ziva David: Why did you stay?
Sayda Zuri: I could not leave my family, Miss. My father was dying. Thomas felt that if he left, the extremists would no longer be threatened by him. He was right. They left me alone... A year after he left, I received this.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No postmark.
Sayda Zuri: It was smuggled to me by the embassy. He writes that he's working in Washington, driving a taxi. That he misses me. That he wants me to join him in America.
Jennifer Shepard: And then?
Sayda Zuri: And then there was another civil war. I never received another letter. The embassy could no longer help me. And now they have come for him... I know men like these. They will not stop until they are sure my husband is dead.
Jennifer Shepard: We need something from you.
Sayda Zuri: Anything.
Jennifer Shepard: The name of the embassy official who helped him get away.
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NCIS: Director's office
Derrick Choyce: Are you aware that I no longer work for the State Department, Director?
Jennifer Shepard: Mr. Choyce, are you aware that the State Department and NCIS are part of the same government?
Derrick Choyce: I doubt if there's anything I can do to help you.
Jennifer Shepard: You smuggled Thomas Zuri out of Burundi seven years ago. You set him up in DC. Gave him a new identity.
Derrick Choyce: Don't know what you're talking about.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Talking about saving a life. Maybe several.
Derrick Choyce: I wish I could help.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Sit down. You're not done yet.
Jennifer Shepard: You're a consultant now with an Asian-based oil company. What do you think would happen to your value in the private sector if I were to call ZNN, and tell them you refused to help us solve a murder of a United States Naval Officer? An admiral.
Derrick Choyce: Off the record. Zuri walked away. Happens all the time. Once we get a political asset into the country, we hold onto them in case we need them in the future. Zuri was very helpful. But often the assets don't like the restrictions, so they leave the program. We have no control over that. Zuri left. That was five years ago.
Jennifer Shepard: How do we find him?
Derrick Choyce: Anything I tell you is a violation of the agreement we had with him.
Jennifer Shepard: I am sure he'll understand.
Derrick Choyce: I don't know where he is.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Last known address.
Derrick Choyce: Look, he changed his address often. All I can give you is where I know he lived five years ago.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Do you understand? Stop laughing. It's not funny.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What's not funny, McGee?
Timothy McGee: Nothing. Personal...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Well, don't tell me about it. I want you to visit the State Department's strategic analysis unit.
Timothy McGee: Visit? I'm going to need clearance. Visit.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Visit.
Timothy McGee: Visit, that kind of visit. Okay. What exactly am I looking for?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Oil... In Burundi.
Timothy McGee: Don't think there's oil in Burundi.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: That's why I want you to look... And run this. Last known address for Thomas Zuri.
Timothy McGee: Okay, multitasking, boss.
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NCIS: lounge
Anthony DiNozzo: Take my money, take my money. Take my money. Give me my candy.
Ziva David: You cannot buck the system, Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: Trade bucks with me?
Ziva David: If you stop forcing things, they will come to you.
Anthony DiNozzo: Thank you, Obi-Wan.
Ziva David: Why don't you like immigrants?
Anthony DiNozzo: What?! My great-grandparents came through Ellis Island, not the first-class lounge at El Al.
Ziva David: I came here in the jump seat of a C1-30 with turbulence.
Anthony DiNozzo: Whatever. My point is, you're here on a weekend fun pass. I'm the immigrant. My family came here with nothing. Just loads of charm, talent... And great looks. My great-grandfather drove a truck for two dollars a day. Took him 20 years to start his own transportation company. And now their great-grandson, he's an NCIS agent. So don't tell me about the immigrant experience... Until you are one.
Ziva David: Any of that true?
Anthony DiNozzo: Parts. Is this stuck to my teeth?
Ziva David: Nothing sticks to you... Do you ever think about soul mates?
Anthony DiNozzo: They were on Decca, right? Big hit, mid-'70s. Sort of a disco thing? Sing a few bar, I'll get it.
Ziva David: You'll never get it.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Boss. I did what you told me to do.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You don't have to whisper. I don't care who hears.
Timothy McGee: You want me to tell you...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Nope.
Timothy McGee: 'Cause I can give you the short... Forget I asked. Classified satellite recon photos of a petroleum exploration firm linked to China, doing drilling in the Dajee region of Burundi.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Find anything?
Timothy McGee: Considering the money they're poured into the region I'd say yes.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Oil.
Timothy McGee: Guess who still has top-level clearance in the State Department?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Choyce. Still working for them.
Timothy McGee: Not as an employee, but as a consultant.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Plausible deniability. You run that address Choyce gave us?
Timothy McGee: Yeah, construction site. New condos. Original building was demolished two years ago. Guess Zuri moved on, found a new place to live.
Anthony DiNozzo: Four drivers, four different cab companies.
Timothy McGee: Nothing in common?
Ziva David: All attacked at different times of the day.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Time of death of the first driver?
Timothy McGee: 2:30 in the morning. Which was 90 minutes after he clocked out.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Second driver?
Timothy McGee: 9:45 in the evening. Two hours after he logged off.
Anthony DiNozzo: None of them were working when they were attacked.
Timothy McGee: Boss, in two of the attacks, the cabs had passengers. In each case, including the admiral's, the passengers called for a cab. They didn't just hail it on the street.
Ziva David: Meaning someone had to have dispatched it. Even if they was off the records.
Anthony DiNozzo: Meaning Bayliss, the cab company dispatcher.
Timothy McGee: He was working when every attack happened. Probably used a bypass to channel the calls.
Ziva David: Bayliss did not report to work today.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Address.
Timothy McGee: Yeah, got it.
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Building: hallway
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: NCIS! Warrant!
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Apartment
Anthony DiNozzo: Clear.
Timothy McGee: Clear.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: DiNozzo. McGee... Ziva, pick it.
Ziva David: No problem.
Anthony DiNozzo: Fives and tens. Curb cash.
Ziva David: What's curb cash?
Anthony DiNozzo: Fares. Small denominations. Street money.
Timothy McGee: Kickbacks.
Anthony DiNozzo: Lollipop for McLoverboy.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Those real?
Anthony DiNozzo: Fakes. But they're really good fakes. Guy's a regular cab coyote.
Ziva David: Is that like a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Timothy McGee: Coyote's a person who exploits people who come to this country illegally.
Anthony DiNozzo: As opposed to outsourcing, which is what you are... That's Bayliss.
Ziva David: Attic space. He must have been hiding.
Anthony DiNozzo: Been shot. Still warm, boss.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Boss, MPD shut down a 12-block perimeter around Bayliss's apartment. Nothing. Got a BOLO out on the Yamaha.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Traffic cams?
Timothy McGee: Lost the bike after three blocks. He took side streets.
Anthony DiNozzo: How did they know about Bayliss?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee, Choyce's bank records and personnel file from State. And find out who the hell Choyce called after he left here. DiNozzo?
Anthony DiNozzo: Boss.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Bring him in... Get Sayda.
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Timothy McGee: Yes? No, I told you I don't want to give you her name. I just want to cancel my credit cards.
Abigael Scuito: 58, 59. 60...
Timothy McGee: Well, why would you send the IRC after me? I haven't done anything.
Abigael Scuito: McGee. Did you know that it's 365 steps from my lab to your desk? Trying to get my blood pumping. What's wrong with you?
Timothy McGee: Nothing.
Abigael Scuito: Okay, this is the new, caffeine-free, non-jittery Abby. Still waters. Deep. You're hiding something, and I seek it. Speak.
Timothy McGee: I've been seeing this girl.
Abigael Scuito: That's nice.
Timothy McGee: No, actually, it's not nice. She stole my mail, and took out $65,000 in pre-approved credit cards in my name.
Abigael Scuito: You have really good credit.
Timothy McGee: FICO score's 750. Well, was.
Abigael Scuito: So, this is, like, the best worst love story ever?
Timothy McGee: Abby, what do I do? It's like I'm nuts for this girl, you know, and she's just... Nuts.
Abigael Scuito: She stole your heart, she stole your money. Arrest her.
Timothy McGee: That's the thing. That's what she wants. She admitted everything to me.
Abigael Scuito: That is a check for $65,000.
Timothy McGee: Yeah, her father's Earnest Leonard. He's worth billions. She does this for fun. She's been arrested twice. She steals people's money, she buys things.
Abigael Scuito: The crazy ones are the best.
Timothy McGee: See, the weird thing is... I kind of dig it, you know?
Abigael Scuito: Love is never having to read her her Miranda rights. But she's going to do this to somebody else. Throw her psycho ass in the brig. I love you, McGee. That should be enough... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
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NCIS: Interrogation room
Jennifer Shepard: Shall we try this again?
Derrick Choyce: Has something changed?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You might say that.
Jennifer Shepard: Recognize these?
Derrick Choyce: My banking details. This is outrageous. How did you get these?
Jennifer Shepard: Warrant, and this is what we found. Two deposits. One for $100,000. The second for $150.000. From a bank in Burundi. Now, we're still following the paper trail, but I think we all know where it's going to take us, don't we, Mr. Choyce? To Burundi political extremists. With well-oiled pockets. You sold them information about Zuri.
Derrick Choyce: I want a deal before I say anything else.
Jennifer Shepard: First the truth. Then a deal.
Derrick Choyce: Look, I didn't sell them anything useful. It was information from years ago. Old addresses and phone numbers, that's all. He was paranoid! He moved six times in the first year! There's no way they could find him!
Jennifer Shepard: Was one of these old phone numbers used by a taxi dispatcher named Bayliss?
Derrick Choyce: Zuri only drove cabs for a couple of months years ago. Then he quit.
Jennifer Shepard: Wrong. He went gypsy, off the books. You gave them Bayliss's name. Bayliss is dead. Got to believe he told them where to find Zuri.
Derrick Choyce: My God.
Jennifer Shepard: How did you communicate with them?
Derrick Choyce: They contacted me.
Jennifer Shepard: By phone?
Derrick Choyce: Pre-paid cell. They called me. Non-traceable. I tried.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Name... Tie him to Burundi terrorism. Send him to Gitmo. No lawyer, no phone. Good luck with that deal.
Derrick Choyce: Delphin Abaka... Delphin Abaka.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: No luck, boss. Abaka's off the grid.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He's a damn teacher at a university, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Also served in the Burundi army 20 years ago and hasn't been teaching since last semester.
Anthony DiNozzo: Guess when he realized we were involved, he tried to use Sayda to find out what we knew.
Timothy McGee: We probably know less than he does.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The DMV needs a thumbprint to get a driver's license.
Timothy McGee: Means Zuri's in the system. If we can match his prints to DMV records, we can get his current alias and an address.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's a nice try. If Zuri's still out there, he's got his fake hack license with him. I'm sorry, boss. I already looked.
Ziva David: I think I know where we can get a fingerprint. Sayda's locket.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: Scanning... Let's see what we got... It's a partial right thumb. Degraded by age, but... I have enough whirls and deltas to get eight points.
Sayda Zuri: How long is this going to take, madam?
Abigael Scuito: You know what? It's hard to tell.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Tell, Abby.
Abigael Scuito: Somebody needs to switch to decaf. Could be seconds, could be hours if he used his other thumb for his driver's license... He's not in the DC system, or Virginia or Maryland. Do you want me to run all 50 states?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yes!
Abigael Scuito: It's getting really late. Not that I'm... Tired or anything from a lack of caffeine, 'cause I'm not. At all. Really. My meter is running full blast, Gibbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Relax, Abs. I think you just solved the case.
Abigael Scuito: I did?
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NCIS: Squad room
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Meters.
Anthony DiNozzo: A form of measurement used extensively in Europe.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Taxi meters, DiNozzo. Bayliss keep meter records for gypsy drivers?
Anthony DiNozzo: Sure. Without records, he wouldn't be able to keep track of kickbacks.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Bayliss's laptop. Every driver who hasn't reported to work for the past 72 hours. I'm only interested in meters that are not running.
Timothy McGee: I don't follow. But I'm willing to give it a try.
Anthony DiNozzo: I get it. Zuri heard about other cabdrivers being attacked. He knows they're after him.
Timothy McGee: So he would have stopped driving after the first attack.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Put it up.
Timothy McGee: Dumping all females, non-African-Americans, everyone over 50 and under 30.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Match the rest against our victims' stats.
Timothy McGee: Five left, boss.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Sayda?
Sayda Zuri: That is Thomas. That is my husband.
Ziva David: Are you sure?
Sayda Zuri: Yes, I'm sure.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Give me the address, McGee.
Sayda Zuri: I want to come with you. I want to see him. Please.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No.
Sayda Zuri: Please.
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Street
Sayda Zuri: Yamaha's on the side. Engine's still hot.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee, you're out front. DiNozzo, you're with us.
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Alley
Delphin Abaka: I will not have a... To ruin my country... It's time for you to die.
Thomas Zuri: If you're going to do this, do it, but do not harm my wife.
Delphin Abaka: Shut up, shopkeeper. Be still. Be still, or she will end up dead like you. If you think I would let you return to my country, you are wrong...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: NCIS! Drop your weapons!
Gunshots
Delphin Abaka: You.
Ziva David: Hello again, Professor Abaka.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Thomas Zuri?
Thomas Zuri: Yes.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're a hard man to find.
Thomas Zuri: Perhaps... Not hard enough... My wife...
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Street
Ziva David: He is okay.
Sayda Zuri: Thank you.
Ziva David: Seven years is a long time.
Sayda Zuri: Thomas.
Thomas Zuri: Sayda.
Sayda Zuri: I have missed you so much. You have been in my heart every moment.
Thomas Zuri: Sayda... I wrote to you. So many letters. Hundreds.
Sayda Zuri: But I just received one letter, Thomas.
Thomas Zuri: And then I heard that the army had... Killed everyone in our village.
Sayda Zuri: I survived. We both survived.
Thomas Zuri: I thought... I would never see you again... I'm so sorry, Sayda. I am so very sorry.
Sayda Zuri: It's okay, Thomas... I understand... I am just glad you are safe.
Thomas Zuri: Sayda... Sayda... Let's go in.
