Épisode Un homme de foi S05E11

5x11 – Tribes

Mosque

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: [Speaking Arabic] Allah, in his wisdom and greatness, has given us each a gift. A gift that we must share with others. Even if they do not wish to accept it. It is our obligation to share Islam with non-believers. So that we may save them from themselves.

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NCIS: Squad room

Anthony DiNozzo: Ziva ?

Actress: My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you?

Anthony DiNozzo: That's a movie.

Actress: I'm starting to get over the idea...

Anthony DiNozzo: Not just any movie. That's Double Identity.

Ziva David: Tony! Your power of observation is unearthly. Now, leave me alone. This is the best part.

Anthony DiNozzo: I not gonna get between a chick and a flick. How do you know it's the best part?

Ziva David: Because it is the third time I have seen it.

Anthony DiNozzo: You don't even watch movies.

Ziva David: This is not a movie. It's a classic film.

Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, I know that. You don't know that... Film studies? Well... I really appreciate that, Ziva.

Ziva David: Really, I do. I am taking it because it is the best way to pick up American colloquialism, like "bug off."

Anthony DiNozzo: You should watch "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".

Ziva David: I saw it last week. Sean Penn is a genius. Phoebe Cates is a babe. Now, do you mind?

Anthony DiNozzo: I can get you a list...

Ziva David: I have a list! Bye.

Anthony DiNozzo: Morning, Probie Pan. Where'd you pick that up? Neverland?

Timothy McGee: No, Pottery Den. 50% off. Got six of them for ten dollars.

Anthony DiNozzo: That's pretty big, don't you think?

Timothy McGee: Well, I don't like getting refills ten times a day.

Anthony DiNozzo: Well, but I mean, that's a little...

Timothy McGee: A little what?

Anthony DiNozzo: Seuss-ical?

Timothy McGee: Leave. I'm enjoying my moment.

Anthony DiNozzo:Am I the only normal one here?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.

Anthony DiNozzo:Morning, Boss.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Marine killed. Let's go.

Anthony DiNozzo: Shotgun.

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Alley

Anthony DiNozzo: Anacostia and 18th, not the battlefield he thought he'd die on.

Timothy McGee: Baghdad's safer than this neighborhood.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hey. What do we got?

Ziva David: Ring, watch, and wallet are missing.

Anthony DiNozzo: Government issue. Could be the murder weapon.

Timothy McGee: A Marine killed with his own gun?

Donald Mallard: Nearly 30% of all gun-related deaths are the results of the owner's own weapon. Your first impressions, Mr. Palmer?

James Palmer: Well, there should be much more blood loss evident.

Donald Mallard: Based upon?

James Palmer: Based on the position of the body, even with the heart slightly elevated.

Donald Mallard: Precisely even with a gunshot that high in the thoracic cavity, one would expect more blood loss.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Meaning?

Donald Mallard: Meaning I'm not going to say anything else until I've examined the body more closely. The gurney, please, Mr. Palmer.

James Palmer: Right away, Doctor.

Donald Mallard: Good lad.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Good Marine.

Donald Mallard: Sunni.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How do you know that?

Donald Mallard: If he were a Shiite, he'd have a turba with him.

Anthony DiNozzo: Like Hadji on "Johnny Quest".

Donald Mallard: No, I believe that's a turban, Tony. A turba is a small stone tablet that the Shiites set their forehead on while praying. The devout develop a callus.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ziva.

Ziva David: Checking for local Sunni mosques.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee.

Timothy McGee: Checking all security cameras. Got it.

Ziva David: There's a Sunni mosque two blocks east.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Show me.

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Mosque: hallway

Man: She cannot come in here. Women are not allowed.

Ziva David: I will wait outside.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Federal agents. She's with me.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: She is welcome here. As you are. I'm sure you understand traditions. We do not wish to offend anyone.

Ziva David: I am Jewish. I do understand tradition.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: You... Wish to ask me questions?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Then, you wish to speak to every man who worships here under the age of 30.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Then what?

Ziva David: We think this man may have attended your mosque.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: And what has he done?

Ziva David: Nothing. He is dead, killed two blocks from here... Do you know him?

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Stahf'Allah... This is my son.

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NCIS: Conference room

Anthony DiNozzo: Your son have any enemies?

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Yes. Ignorance, intolerance, and hatred.

Anthony DiNozzo: Any with a first name?

Ziva David: We would like your permission to look at Abdul's things.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: I'll need to tell the family what has happened.

Ziva David: We will have someone drive you.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Thank you.

Anthony DiNozzo: You wait here. Please.

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NCIS: Hallway

Anthony DiNozzo: Come on. Guy was with his son right before he died. Suspect.

Ziva David: Victim.

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NCIS: Squad room

Timothy McGee: Abdul Mohammed Bakr, age 23, Lance Corporal. Served in First FAST Company. Bronze Star and Purple Heart for service in Iraq. Three tours, boss. He kept going back.

Anthony DiNozzo: If he stayed, he might still be alive... Hypothetically, Boss.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What else?

Timothy McGee: Had some run-ins with the law.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Arrests?

Timothy McGee: Assault and battery, twice. Here in DC, both cases were dismissed.

Ziva David: Maybe they gave him favorable treatment because he was serving in Iraq.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Find out.

Anthony DiNozzo: Tracking down his personnel officer, Boss.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Cameras.

Timothy McGee: Yeah. I tapped into Metro traffic cameras and a few parking lot surveillance networks, stitched together Abdul's route from the alley back to the mosque. There's no sign of anything until... Here... Can't get a reading on the man's face, but he did go into the alley.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Back it up... Stop. Tighter his hands.

Ziva David: He was carrying a phone.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Forward... Stop.

Anthony DiNozzo: Must have dumped it.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee.

Timothy McGee: Already ran the phone records, Boss. His cell didn't send or receive any calls that day.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Find it.

Anthony DiNozzo: On it. Probie, you start the search near the crime scene. We'll meet you there later... David, with me.

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Bullpen

Officer: Captain's right down here.

Anthony DiNozzo: I'm sorry, the correct answer is Full Metal Jacket.

Ziva David: That was not the best Marine movie. A Few Good Men was.

Anthony DiNozzo: Based on the fact that I'm right, I'm overruling you.

Jim Mills: If you're here to volunteer, we'll take you.

Ziva David: I already have a job, Captain Mills. NCIS.

Anthony DiNozzo: We're here about a Marine. Abdul Bakr. You were his personnel officer.

Jim Mills: Yeah, First FAST Company. He's in Iraq.

Anthony DiNozzo: No, he's in our morgue.

Ziva David: He was murdered earlier today.

Jim Mills: God... He's such a good kid.

Anthony DiNozzo: Well, we know he had some troubles.

Jim Mills: A few fights, he never started 'em.

Ziva David: We would like to see his personnel records.

Jim Mills: Sure, I'll... I'll get you everything I got.

Anthony DiNozzo: You coach?

Jim Mills: Yeah, I'm a parole officer in civilian life. We have an after-school league.

Ziva David: Civilian life?

Jim Mills: I'm a reservist, recalled for active duty last year. Manpower issues.

Ziva David: Iraq?

Jim Mills: Iraq.

Anthony DiNozzo: So, a parole officer and a personnel officer, that's kind of the same thing, isn't it?

Jim Mills: Yeah, the Marine Corps likes to place reservists in similar lines of work. Makes things run more efficiently.

Anthony DiNozzo:So in your professional opinion, you think Lance Corporal Bakr's run-ins could have led to his murder?

Jim Mills: No.

Ziva David: Maybe someone he had a fight with came back?

Jim Mills: Nobody stayed mad at him. He was a good kid and a great Marine.

Ziva David: And a Muslim.

Jim Mills: Yeah. That's what the fights were about. He stuck up for his people. Hard to be a Muslim and a Marine.

Anthony DiNozzo: Was he ever sympathetic to un-American activities?

Jim Mills: No way... Not this kid.

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NCIS: Autospy room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ducky.

Donald Mallard: Just a moment, Jethro. Is the needle in his femoral artery, Mr. Palmer?

James Palmer: Yes, Doctor.

Donald Mallard: Good.

James Palmer: Never seen a gunshot victim with so much blood left in his body.

Donald Mallard: Rare but not unheard of. And if the bullet pierced his heart, it would have stopped pumping instantly. And of course the pressure of the boards on his back may have prevented gravitational loss. Right, that should do it. Take those up to Abby. Get her to run the usual tox screen.

James Palmer: Right away.

Donald Mallard: Neatly done, Mr. Palmer.

James Palmer: Thank you, Doctor.

Donald Mallard: That young man will make a first class medical examiner one of these days.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Today?

Donald Mallard: Yeah, well, until I open him up, I can't say for sure. But all indications are that he was killed by the gunshot wound. There are no defensive wounds, no lacerations, no abrasions, no contusions. And unless I find intradermal bruising, no signs of a struggle.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A Marine with combat experience let someone take his weapon away from him without a fight?

Donald Mallard: Well, I only tell you what the body tells me.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ask different questions, Duck.

Donald Mallard: I will, Jethro. I assure you. Yes, well, the first question is, what damage did that bullet exactly do?

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Ziva David: Ducky, wait... Need to talk to you. Mr. Bakr has something to say.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Dr. Mallard, please don't cut into him. I beg you to respect our religion. So my son can find peace in heaven.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: With all due respect, we have to.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: I beg of you, please don't do this.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Sorry, there's no choice.

Donald Mallard: There is a choice, Jethro. Mine... I can't do this autopsy.

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NCIS: Plateform

Jennifer Shepard: So what are you saying exactly?

Donald Mallard: That we have an obligation to honor faith as well as science, and in this case, the wishes of the family.

Jennifer Shepard: We cannot waive an autopsy in the middle of a murder investigation.

Donald Mallard: Why not?

Jennifer Shepard: Because the laws are very specific. We can try to accommodate some aspect of tradition or religious ceremony, but we can't forfeit the most critical aspect of the investigation.

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NCIS: Squad room

Donald Mallard: Abdul Bakr was a Marine who died as a hero. That young man risked his life for this country. The least we can do is to respect him in death.

Jennifer Shepard: He didn't die in Iraq, Ducky.

Donald Mallard: Well, but that's not the point!

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What is the point, Duck?

Donald Mallard: This country was founded on freedom, religious freedom. That family came here to practice it, and I can't ignore a basic tenet of their beliefs: that if I cut open the body, that will prevent their son from finding peace in heaven. There is no greater sin.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What about murder?

Jennifer Shepard: We need to find a cause of death. We need to find evidence. You need to do the autopsy. That's it.

Donald Mallard: All right, I'll do it. Under protest. I have another body to examine. So this will have to wait.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why?

Donald Mallard: I already told you why.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why?

Donald Mallard: This case brings back memories of a mass grave. I was a volunteer medical examiner for a UN task force in Bosnia in '93. I did 44 autopsies in five days, most of them children under 12, all Muslims. The village was targeted because of who they were or who they weren't. Nothing more. Selected for their ethnicity... The parents begged me not to autopsy their children. Begged me on their knees. But I had no choice... I suppose I still don't. I'll give you my report when I'm done.

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Street

Timothy McGee: His phone's got to be around here somewhere.

Ziva David: Waiting.

Anthony DiNozzo: Juicy Fruit.

Ziva David: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next.

Anthony DiNozzo: Close enough. "Hell, the fall will probably kill you."

Ziva David: Butch Cassidy and the Sunrise Kid. Great scene. Jumping off the cliff.

Anthony DiNozzo: Did you try calling the cell?

Timothy McGee: Yeah. It's on silent mode, or else I would have heard it... Found it.

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NCIS: Abby's lab

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby?

Abigael Scuito: You scared the hell out of me. Sir.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You lose something?

Abigael Scuito: No, just escaped... Gotcha.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Broken?

Abigael Scuito: Does a baby change its own diapers? Nay. Does it burp and feed itself? I don't think so. It takes a lot of TLC to keep my children happy and... And fully functioning in the lab of Abby, or "Labby," as I like to call it. You're my favorite.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Labby?

Abigael Scuito: You want results, you got 'em.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, I want 'em.

Abigael Scuito: First. Fingerprints. There were a bajillion of them, all on Lance Corporal's Koran, his clothes, but none on his misbaha.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: His what?

Abigael Scuito: Misbaha... Muslim prayer beads. It's kind of like a rosary, but different.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And?

Abigael Scuito: I ran all the fingerprints through AFIS, Interpol, the FBI. Several worshiped at the same mosque, but there's nothing to connect any of them to this crime.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Right. Go on.

Abigael Scuito: Abdul's prayer rug and his boots tested positive for phosphorus, saltpeter, Semtex and C-4.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Explosives.

Abigael Scuito: Yeah, which could mean one of two things.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Give 'em both to me.

Abigael Scuito: He was serving in Iraq with FAST company a couple of weeks ago. So if he was defusing and handling IED's, that would account for the traces of explosives.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Or?

Abigael Scuito: Or... He was handling them once he got back. That would not be good.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Terrorism.

Abigael Scuito: I cloned and mirrored Bakr's hard drive from his laptop. He recently visited three Jihadist websites. It's training videos. Suicide bomber's last statements. Anti-American everything. These sites are known hubs for al Qaeda communication.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Lance Corporal Bakr visited these?

Abigael Scuito: Well, either him or someone that had access to his computer.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: His father? Good work. Back to your babies.

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NCIS: Squad room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hey. Thought you checked phone records?

Timothy McGee: I did. Technically, Abdul never placed a call or sent a text. He did, however, press 11 keys, before tossing his phone up on the roof.

Ziva David: He wanted us to find it.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Code.

Timothy McGee: Well, basic Marine letter substitution. Crude but very effective.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And?

Anthony DiNozzo: Well, he may have named his killer, Boss. Hans Staiger. Suspected ties to al Qaeda in Germany.

Ziva David: Known as the "Recruiter".

Anthony DiNozzo: Attempted to buy off several customs officials in France last year. Got away.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where?

Anthony DiNozzo: There's no record of Staiger coming into this country or anywhere else.

Ziva David: He could be here with false papers.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Find him.

Anthony DiNozzo: We looked. If he's here, he's way underground.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Dig deeper.

Anthony DiNozzo: Where?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Mosque. Bug it. That's where this all started.

Timothy McGee: Getting a warrant.

Anthony DiNozzo: Would be easier if Bakr just sent us a text message.

Ziva David: Not if he thought someone was monitoring or intercepting his cell transmissions. Someone was following him, Tony. Three Days of the Condor?

Anthony DiNozzo: Based on the novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hey, I got one for you two. Find out who killed my Marine.

Anthony DiNozzo: Nobody likes a know-it-all.

Timothy McGee: Gibbs does. Warrant just came through.

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Van

Anthony DiNozzo: Anyone else have a problem with this? Bugging a place of worship?

Timothy McGee: Check. One, two, three, four.

Anthony DiNozzo: If this were a Catholic church or a doctor's office, we'd still be judge-hunting.

Ziva David: I agree. It should not be so easy bugging a mosque. Give it to me. I'm going in.

Timothy McGee: You're a woman. It'd be easier for me to blend in.

Ziva David: Yes, you would blend right in.

Timothy McGee: All right, then we'll flip for it.

Ziva David: If I flip you, you will get hurt.

Anthony DiNozzo: You can take her, Probie. Do it.

Timothy McGee: Compromise. Tony will do it.

Anthony DiNozzo: I don't want to do it.

Timothy McGee: That's impossible. We haven't even planted a bug yet. There's a transmission coming from inside the mosque.

Anthony DiNozzo: It's already being bugged?

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NCIS: Director's office

Jennifer Shepard: We tracked the signal back to the FBI frequency, Mr. Langer. I checked and no warrant was issued to the FBI.

Brent Langer: I can't confirm or deny if the mosque is under FBI observation.

Jennifer Shepard: This is a murder investigation. Some interagency cooperation would be nice. Anything we should know?

Brent Langer: Not that I can tell you.

Jennifer Shepard: That's crap. We both know that you can say anything you want to.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Did I come at a bad time?

Brent Langer: Jethro... How are you?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How'd they let you in here, newbie?

Brent Langer: Man, it's been a long time.

Jennifer Shepard: You two know each other. How nice.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Taught him everything he's forgotten.

Brent Langer: I thought you retired.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I tried.

Brent Langer: You look good, old man. Hey, listen, sorry about our inconvenient convergence here.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Our what?

Brent Langer: Gibbs used to fine me for every three-dollar word I used.

Jennifer Shepard: How much?

Brent Langer: Three dollars a word.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You owe me six.

Brent Langer: See.

Jennifer Shepard: Marines.

Brent Langer: No, actually, I started here. Gibbs took me under his wing and then proceed to crush me.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Nothing you didn't deserve.

Brent Langer: Left me no choice but to crawl over to the FBI.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, and they actually hired you.

Brent Langer: Yeah, can you believe that?

Jennifer Shepard: Well, now maybe the NCIS and the FBI can cooperate on this investigation?

Brent Langer: We may be observing the mosque.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, that's a little vague.

Brent Langer: I can't tell you any more than that, Jethro. You know that.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Okay. Well, I hope we don't get in each other's way.

Brent Langer: Well, now if you guys find anything out then...

Jennifer Shepard: You'll be the last to know.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hey, come on.

Donald Mallard: Excuse me, Director. Jethro, I think I have it.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Have what?

Donald Mallard: A way to find the cause of Lance Corporal Bakr's death.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're going to do that autopsy?

Donald Mallard: No. Well, yes. Well, in, in a manner of speaking. But a lot of people are going to have to look the other way. Starting with you, Director.

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NCIS: Squad room

Ziva David: Lost?

Brent Langer: Actually, I was looking for Agent Gibbs. He was just...just... Upstairs a minute ago.

Ziva David: Can I help you?

Brent Langer: Yeah. You... Maybe you could give him my card and ask him to call me.

Anthony DiNozzo: I'm Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo. I'm in charge here.

Brent Langer: Well, hey, I'm Special Agent Brent Langer FBI. You know that's weird. I could've sworn that Agent Gibbs said he was in charge.

Anthony DiNozzo: He is. Well, yeah, he's in charge when he's here, but when he's not here, I'm in charge. I'm in charge.

Brent Langer: Well, I'll just call him later. But thanks anyway.

Anthony DiNozzo: What an ass.

Ziva David: Yes, indeed.

Anthony DiNozzo: You're Langer-leering. You're leering at Langer.

Ziva David: What if I am, Tony? He's cute.

Anthony DiNozzo: "Cute". He's not cute. He's like...

Ziva David: Don't speak.

Anthony DiNozzo: Bullets Over Broadway. Woody Allen.

Ziva David: Very good. You'd get a "B" in my class.

Anthony DiNozzo: I could teach your class.

Ziva David: Yeah, right.

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NCIS: Squad room / Garage

Ziva David: Officer David.

Donald Mallard: I'm going to need you to come down to the evidence garage, and I need you to bring someone with you. The key here, Jethro, is discretion.

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Garage

Donald Mallard: We're not going through official channels, Mr. Palmer. Official channels take time. That's the one thing we don't have. Muslims desire their dead to be buried within 24 hours... That leaves us 13.

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Hospital: hallway

Donna Dunlap: Doctor.

Donald Mallard: Doctor.

Donna Dunlap: You have 20 minutes. A minute longer, you'll get found out and I'll get fired. Clear?

Donald Mallard: How do I repay you?

Donna Dunlap: I just repaid you. We're even now.

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Hospital: CT room

Donald Mallard: Something wrong, Mr. Palmer?

James Palmer: If this weren't a Muslim family, we wouldn't be here.

Donald Mallard: That is correct.

James Palmer: I don't think anyone should get special treatment. We're risking our careers by doing this.

Donald Mallard: You can always leave.

James Palmer: Doctor, I wasn't with you in Bosnia.

Donald Mallard: True.

James Palmer: And I certainly wasn't on the Crusades... But 9/11. The Intifada. Hamas.

Donald Mallard: You have a problem with Muslims, Mr. Palmer?

James Palmer: No. No, I do not. But it seems like they have a problem with us.

Donald Mallard: Religions have been the basis of conflict for generations.

James Palmer: So we just live with this?

Donald Mallard: Until we learn to respect one another.

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Hospital: Observation room

Donald Mallard: All right, Mr. Palmer, let's follow the path of the bullet.

James Palmer: The resolution's astonishing.

Donald Mallard: Yes, and magnification...

James Palmer: You can actually almost see as well as a traditional autopsy. Angle of the trajectory indicates the bullet traveled through the first intercostal space avoiding the heart and bronchial branch of the lungs. Missed all vital organs. Went to the third intercostal space and exited the back.

Donald Mallard: Hold your horses. There seems to be a bullet fragment chipped off the eighth rib and then disappeared.

James Palmer: There's no other exit wounds. Is the fragment still in his body?

Donald Mallard: Density's becoming an issue. We're seeing too much bone and not enough soft tissue.

James Palmer: MRI?

Donald Mallard: Excellent idea.

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Hospital: hallway

Ziva David: Tea?

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: You shouldn't have, but thank you.

Ziva David: Well, if you change your mind.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: You're an Israeli Jew, no?

Ziva David: Yes.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: I used to take my family to Haifa.

Ziva David: I spent my summers in Haifa.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: You make it Arab style? Strong.

Ziva David: I like strong.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: You like Muslims?

Ziva David: Yes.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: May I ask why? I mean, I don't wish to offend you. I'm just curious.

Ziva David: When you grow up in Israel, most of your neighbors are Muslim. My best friend was Muslim Arab. He was a young boy. We were very close.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Are you still close?

Ziva David: No. He was killed when I was 12. By an Israeli missile strike on a hotel.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: There has been too much death.

Ziva David: I agree.

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Hospital: Observation room

Donald Mallard: Come on now. Show us this bullet fragment. What is it, Mr. Palmer?

James Palmer: It's moving. His neck. Is that a bullet fragment?

Donald Mallard: No, bullets are lead. They're non-magnetic... Turn off the power.

Ziva David: What is it?

Donald Mallard: This, my dear Officer David, is what you call an unexpected turn of events.

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NCIS: Abby's lab

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby.

Abigael Scuito: Yay! It worked.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What?

Abigael Scuito: My Gibbs early warning alarm system. The Arabs used to put dried brush outside their tents to alert them in case there was an intruder. So I just updated it to bubble wrap.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You called me.

Abigael Scuito: I know. It was a test. You want to know what I found.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah.

Abigael Scuito: Trippy. I like it. I was able to extract an undiluted sample from inside the needle shaft. And voilà, I give you the blue-ringed octopus.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A what?

Abigael Scuito: It produces a toxin that's a hundred times more deadly than cobra venom. It's the most deadly natural neurotoxin on the planet, and it's impossible to trace in the bloodstream.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You did.

Abigael Scuito: Well, because it wasn't in the bloodstream. It was still inside the needle shaft Ducky found, perfectly preserved and pure.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He walked a long way.

Abigael Scuito: Because the needle snapped off during insertion. It was a result of oxidation and age, so that resulted in metal fatigue. Lance Corporal Bakr, he only got a partial dose. That's why he could walk for two blocks.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, but it killed him.

Abigael Scuito: Yeah... Or the bullet. I mean, it's hard to say. I'm running the toxicology now. Aren't you gonna ask me?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What?

Abigael Scuito: Why the needle was affected by magnetic force. I mean, they make these out of 440 carbon. It's a non-magnetic steel.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why?

Abigael Scuito: Because... The needle was really old. It was, like, from the '70s... Not that that's... That's not old. I mean, well, it's old for a needle, sure, but it's certainly not old for, you know, a man.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where?

Abigael Scuito: There's two companies in the United States that handle the toxin. They use it for research on antivenoms. They're both in the DC area.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Names?

Abigael Scuito: Morgan Industries and Bio-Tonics.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Have an e-mail sent...

Abigael Scuito: I already e-mailed it to McGee and Tony.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're my favorite... Abs... Lose the bubble wrap.

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Bio-Tonics: hallway

Anthony DiNozzo: Go, McGoo.

Timothy McGee: Morgan Industries is clean.

Anthony DiNozzo: Got it. Probie's over at Morgan Industries. They show no missing venom.

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Bio-Tonics: entrance

Ryan Sikes: Can I help you?

Ziva David: Yes, we need to check your records.

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Bio-Tonics: Warehouse

Ryan Sikes: You see? Every drop accounted for. There's none missing from inventory.

Ziva David: Check again.

Ryan Sikes: I've checked four times. I'm telling you, we watch this stuff.

Man: Here you go.

Anthony DiNozzo: Paycheck.

Ziva David: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman?

Anthony DiNozzo: That's right. Ben plays the bad guy, does dirty work for this company and then they erase his memory. Beats the bad guys by mailing clues to himself.

Ziva David: We are going to need all your shipping manifests. Originals.

Anthony DiNozzo: Everything that's been sent out of here in the last six months. McGee can go back and do the same at Morgan Industries.

Ryan Sikes: That's a lot of inventory to check.

Anthony DiNozzo: We got time.

Ryan Sikes: Okay.

Anthony DiNozzo: Hey! Where are you going, Jackrabbit?

Ryan Sikes: I'm going to paradise. Where are you going?

Anthony DiNozzo: To the parking lot. Put your butt in the back of our car.

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NCIS: Squad room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Go.

Timothy McGee: Hacked into Bio-Tonics worldwide tracking software.

Anthony DiNozzo: We followed a shipment of the neurotoxin from Bio-Tonics to Stanford University, except the university never received the shipment. But as you can see, Bio-Tonics tracking shows that the venom was ordered and delivered.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who signed for it?

Anthony DiNozzo: Nobody. It never got there. It turns out that the university never even ordered the neurotoxin, so there was nothing missing from the warehouse.

Timothy McGee: Enabling them to walk out the front door with it.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who?

Anthony DiNozzo: Ryan Sikes, shipping clerk. Thinks he's a jackrabbit.

Timothy McGee: And an ex-con.

Anthony DiNozzo: Did time for armed robbery, computer crimes, other assorted tidbits.

Ziva David: In prison, he converted to Islam.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Get him.

Anthony DiNozzo: Got him.

Timothy McGee: Good.

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NCIS: Interrogation room

Ryan Sikes: There is only one God and He is great.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That's good to know. Why'd you kill Corporal Bakr?

Ryan Sikes: Why has this country killed a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians and 30,000 sick children after they invaded the first time?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Corporal Bakr was a Muslim. You're a Muslim. Killing him, that's a sin.

Ryan Sikes: How many civilians have the Marines killed on Muslim soil?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I'm talking about a Marine on American soil.

Ryan Sikes: Ah.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ryan.

Ryan Sikes: Ryan is my slave name. My real name is Akbur Mohammed.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Your slave name?

Ryan Sikes: Yes. You want a statement? Death to America. You want a confession? I did it. I killed that turncoat bastard. He turned against his own people... Hey, what are you...?!

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NCIS: Observation room

Ziva David: He didn't even look.

Anthony DiNozzo: Gibbs doesn't need to.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Get in here!

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NCIS: Interrogation room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Were you gonna tell me about this?

Ziva David: The ankle bracelet was a condition of his parole. We have requested the tracking records from the parole office.

Anthony DiNozzo: Be able to put him in the alley at exactly the time Abdul was killed.

Ryan Sikes: I already confessed. Now, I killed him.

Timothy McGee: Boss? Bad news. Just got the tracking records back. GPS records show that Sikes was 20 miles away from the crime scene at the time of the murder. He's got an airtight alibi, the US government.

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Gibbs's house: Basement

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Waiting on you, newbie.

Brent Langer: Are you still working on this damn boat?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Finished it twice. This is number three.

Brent Langer: And still drinking the same beer... So, yes, we think the mosque is a recruitment center for al Qaeda.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The cell in DC?

Brent Langer: No. Al Qaeda's changed their business model. We think they're paying people now, cash, to Muslims and non-Muslims, US citizens.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Capitalist jihad. Smart.

Brent Langer: More like dangerous. We're pretty good at monitoring radicalized citizens, but, now, anyone with a need or greed might be playing on their team, who knows.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You think our murder is connected?

Brent Langer: Possible. The dead Marine's father, he's on our watch list.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why?

Brent Langer: Everything we've got is on this, and it's not much. To be perfectly honest with you, I'm not even sure why we're investigating. Homeland is working on something, but it's so compartmentalized, no one's sharing. MP3 files. Last six months of recordings from inside the mosque.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Thanks.

Brent Langer: Don't thank me. I was never here... You ever consider using power tools?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You are still a pain in the ass.

Brent Langer: I learned from the best.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Catch you later, Boss.

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NCIS: Squad room

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: [Speaking Arabic]

Ziva David: Khalid is asking for some money to be made as a donation to the mosque.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: [Speaking Arabic]

Ziva David: This other man is speaking Arabic, but it is not his first language. Think he could be German.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What's he saying?

Ziva David: Khalid is accepting cash paid through an offshore account.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee?

Timothy McGee: Running the voices through Interpol, FBI and databases.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Start with Hans Staiger.

Timothy McGee: Positive ID, boss, it's Staiger. Suspected al Qaeda recruiter. Wanted in four countries. No face, no prints, just calls intercepted over the last year... We don't know who he is, just that he is. And that he's talking to Khalid.

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NCIS: Autopsy room

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: [Speaking Arabic]

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're okay?

Donald Mallard: Yeah, I'm fine.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: The funeral home is sending a car. Thank you, again.

Donald Mallard: Thank you. Your son was a great credit to his country and his culture. Jethro, he family has requested his personal effects to be returned.

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Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Anything you want to tell me?

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: About?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Anything.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Why do you hate us?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I don't.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Your people do... All we ask for, is to live in peace and observe our beliefs.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I think you are.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Islam came to your country with hostility in 2001, and that was wrong. But you came to our land 500 years ago and you've never left. All we wish for, is to be left alone to practice our ways, and yet you cannot leave us alone. Why?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why did the recruiter kill your son, because he said "no" or because he said "yes"?

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: There is a man. A German.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hans Staiger. He recruits for al Qaeda.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: This recruiter approached my son. Abdul was gathering information for the authorities. A spy for his government. I called the FBI. I called them to investigate my own mosque. I killed my own son.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, you didn't. But until we find who did, we need to keep his body a little longer.

Khalid Mohammed Bakr: Find this recruiter and allow me to have my vengeance. Please.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He's mine.

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Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The body stays, Duck.

Donald Mallard: I already released the body.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, un-release it.

Donald Mallard: I determined a cause of death. The poison may have weakened his system, but it was the gunshot that killed him.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The body stays. Until we find our killer.

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NCIS: Squad room

Ziva David: I have killed for less.

Anthony DiNozzo: You cheated.

Ziva David: Did not.

Anthony DiNozzo: Yes, you did. That is a book of movies. I bet you never saw all those movies, you just read the book.

Ziva David: I like books.

Anthony DiNozzo: I like movies.

Ziva David: Don't quote books, I will not quote movies.

Anthony DiNozzo: What if it's a book that's been made into a movie?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Patterns.

Anthony DiNozzo: George C. Scott, 1970, won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, boss.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Patterns. Patterns, not "Patton".

Anthony DiNozzo: Patterns?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: If this is al Qaeda, that means activity.

Ziva David: Activity means patterns.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Dead Marines who are Muslims.

Timothy McGee: Checking... That's all we've got, two of them.

Ziva David: A Shiite Muslim stationed at Camp David. Died of unknown causes two weeks ago.

Anthony DiNozzo: Sergeant Major out of Norfolk, Sunni, died last week.

Ziva David: Both were stationed in Iraq, both had run-ins with the law.

Anthony DiNozzo: Both died of natural causes.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: They have something else in common.

Anthony DiNozzo: What?

Ziva David: They're both dead.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. Something else.

Ziva David: What?

Anthony DiNozzo: What?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee?

Timothy McGee: Same personnel officer.

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NCIS: Interrogation room

Jim Mills: Look, I'm a patriot. I'm a volunteer reservist.

Ziva David: With money problems. You're divorcing your wife, claimed you were broke in court, you oversee a lot of drug addicts, access to needles, access to Brian Sikes.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Which gave you access to the toxins used to kill three Marines.

Ziva David: We found $270,000 in your shed.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I guess your money problems are over.

Jim Mills: What exactly are you charging me with?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A German named Hans Staiger was paying you to help recruit troubled Muslim Marines to serve for the other side. Two of them obviously refused and are now dead.

Jim Mills: I'm a parole officer, I know how the system works. Lawyer... Right now.

Ziva David: You killed a Marine yesterday. Shot him with his own gun.

Jim Mills: Why would I do that?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: To make sure he was dead. "Natural causes" didn't work as well for him as it did for the other two, so you followed him and you shot him.

Jim Mills: Lawyer.

Anthony DiNozzo: Boss. Sorry. Ducky needs you. Now... Sorry... Sorry.

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NCIS: Hallway

Donald Mallard: I was wrong.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: About what?

Donald Mallard: The gunshot. Abby's toxicology report. Abdul was dead before he was shot. Some of the poison did get into his system. If your personnel officer did shoot him, he didn't kill him. The most you could legally prove is that he desecrated a body.

Anthony DiNozzo: If we don't have him for murder, he'll never give up the recruiter.

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NCIS: Interrogation room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We just matched the slug from Abdul's body to your gun, not his.

Jim Mills: That's impossible.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. And a good lawyer could prove that, but you're not getting a lawyer. You're getting a transfer to a Naval base in Cuba... It's called Gitmo. Ever heard of it? Case closed.

Jim Mills: I can give you Staiger... He's the one who injected Corporal Bakr, and the other two Marines when they wouldn't cooperate. He said it'd be quick. The needle broke, so he followed him from the mosque, he shot him.

Ziva David: You just happened to be there?

Jim Mills: I was the go-between. You want more? I want a civilian case, filed with the DA's Office, with the guarantee that I won't be prosecuted for terrorism.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Deal... Staiger.

Jim Mills: Bedford Hotel. Room 126.

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Bedford Hotel: Room 126

Ziva David: These belong to Abdul. They were returned to his father.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Are you sure?

Ziva David: Gibbs, I... No, nothing like them.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I didn't think so.