Épisode Etroite surveillance S05E12

5x12 – StakeOut

Street

Homeless guy: Wash your window?

Driver: Go on, man, keep moving.

Homeless guy: Almost done.

Driver: Go on.

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Street / Apartment

Timothy McGee: Pusher's back.

Anthony DiNozzo: I'm starving like Lee Marvin, McGee. What's taking you so long?

Timothy McGee: He's making another deal.

Anthony DiNozzo: We're here to find out who stole navy radar and stashed it across the street. He's not our problem, unless he's pushing steak and cheese hoagies.

Timothy McGee: I'm a sworn federal agent, Tony. I'm not gonna stand by and watch a felony go down.

Anthony DiNozzo: That's a good idea. Blow our stakeout over a $50 crack sale? If Gibbs doesn't slap you silly, I will.

Timothy McGee: You're gonna slap me?

Goldilocks: If that's what you want, honey.

Anthony DiNozzo: Go for it, McFreaky. Goldilocks is just your type.

Timothy McGee: Bite me.

Goldilocks: That'll be extra.

Timothy McGee: Hey!

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Apartment

Anthony DiNozzo: Hey! Monitor number two was flickering there. Fixed it.

Timothy McGee: I think I've seen that Beemer before.

Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, we've seen it all before, McGee. Feels like we've been stuck here for months doing nothing... Come on! I said scrambled. You haven't gotten a single order right in four days.

Timothy McGee: They're eggs, eat 'em.

Anthony DiNozzo: Well, I don't like sunny-side up. Sunny-side up oozes. They look like eyes. They're looking at ya. I bet your burrito's just the way you like it.

Timothy McGee: You want your eggs scrambled? They're scrambled.

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Apartment

Ziva David: Do you think prostitutes get bored? I mean, the same work, day in, day out. Day in, day out... Ziver.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The storage facility?

Ziva David: I'm sorry, Gibbs, I just get bored. I hate stakeouts.

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Apartment / NCIS: Abby's lab

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby... Abby!

Abigael Scuito: Gibbs! Hey, Gibbs, I was just, stacking specimen jars.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Haven't heard from you.

Abigael Scuito: I know. I miss you, too. It's so quiet around here. I had to go get my own Caf-POW. Did you know they raised the price 25 cents?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Did you come up with anything?

Abigael Scuito: I guess that depends on what you mean by "anything".

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Anything. Abby, anything. Anything that can tell us who rented this storage locker.

Ziva David: Gibbs, van.

Abigael Scuito: McGee found a chewing gum wrapper in the storage locker. I ran fingerprints, DNA, ultraviolet. Nothing. Nada. Zero.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Watch the hallway.

Abigael Scuito: What I did get isn't much. I got two prints off the rental agreement. One matched the office manager. And the other, it's a three-point partial, that could our fictitious rentee of locker 23.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby...

Abigael Scuito: AFIS gave me 3,251 possible matches, just in the DC metropolitan area... So many men, so little time.

Ziva David: They are in our hallway.

Abigael Scuito: Gibbs?

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Apartment

Ziva David: Twenty-three... 23. Locker 23 to the left. Twenty... Three. Please.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Keep an eye on 'em.

Ziva David: They are late. I'm going to call DiNozzo... They may have killed each other.

Anthony DiNozzo: DiNozzo.

Ziva David: Where are you?

Anthony DiNozzo: I just left my place.

Ziva David: Are you kidding me? How long will it take you to get here?

Anthony DiNozzo: With luck, an hour. I don't know.

Ziva David: Your goose is fried.

Anthony DiNozzo: Cooked... And, no, it's not. Only a minute late.

Ziva David: Idiot.

Anthony DiNozzo: Where's Gibbs? What did I miss?

Ziva David: Goldilocks hooked up with Papa Bear and they found a bed that is "just right". Personally, I think she could have done better.

Anthony DiNozzo: What?

Ziva David: That Jack she is with is... Gross.

Anthony DiNozzo: You mean John.

Ziva David: You know him?

Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, my God.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: If you care, DiNozzo, nobody came to the storage locker.

Anthony DiNozzo: Hey, boss.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where's McGee?

Anthony DiNozzo: I wanted to talk to you about that. We finally agreed on something. We're going to commute separately, 'cause he's always whining. It's all he does. You know, the air-conditioning, and this and that. Is there any way can shuffle the deck? You know, sort of do this differently? I don't know, mix it up a little... Or not. You know, we'll figure it out. We'll work it out.

Timothy McGee: Sorry, boss, there was a... An accident on the Mason Bridge.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The e-mail.

Timothy McGee: Still working on it. It's definitely a free account opened under a fictitious name.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Knew that two days ago.

Timothy McGee: Trying to track the e-mail's path, but there's several servers. Whoever tipped us of about the missing radar being in this storage locker is going to great lengths to remain anonymous.

Anthony DiNozzo: Pusher's back. So is the suit in the Beemer.

Timothy McGee: Guy's dealing drugs up the street.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Noticed.

Timothy McGee: Same buyer was here yesterday, too. Love to bust 'em.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Record it. Turn it over to Metro when we're done.

Ziva David: Have a nice day, McGee.

Anthony DiNozzo: Alone at last... You watch. I'll do this, you do that... You're a dead man, McGee.

Timothy McGee: Don't look at me, raccoon boy... It was Ziva.

Ziva David: Ziva.

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Dennis Moran: I did everything you wanted.

Scott Matthew Rowe: What do you want from me?

Timothy McGee: Something's going on.

Scott Matthew Rowe: Come on.

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Street

Homeless guy: Somebody help! Call 911, man! Call 911! Call the police! Come on!

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Alley

Homeless guy: Hey, is he dead? Is he dead? What's going on?

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Andrea Sparr: Driver's license and car registration ID him as Scott Matthew Rowe. 44. Home address in the Adams Morgan district. It doesn't look like a robbery.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We got video of him going into the alley with a suspect.

Andrea Sparr: Really?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Caucasian, early 30s.

Andrea Sparr: Lucky break. So NCIS just happened to be in the neighborhood with a camera?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I'll have someone e-mail the video to you.

Andrea Sparr: Excuse me. Excuse me. This is a restricted crime scene.

Anthony DiNozzo: Boss?

Andrea Sparr: He's one of yours?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah.

Anthony DiNozzo: Special Agent DiNozzo. Anthony. Tony.

Andrea Sparr: Detective Sparr.

Anthony DiNozzo: Detective Sparr, what does it look like?

Andrea Sparr: Classic, rich guy wants to get high, trolls known area to buy recreational drug. Deal goes bad.

Anthony DiNozzo: You think so?

Andrea Sparr: You think otherwise?

Anthony DiNozzo: Guy rolling around in a $90,000 car, buying drugs in neighborhood like this, I wouldn't turn the engine off, let alone get out of the car.

Andrea Sparr: Thanks for your help, Special Agent Gibbs. Appreciate the video.

Anthony DiNozzo: I worked narcotics, Baltimore PD, two years.

Andrea Sparr: Three, before I transferred to homicide... Okay, what do we have?

Anthony DiNozzo: That the murder weapon? When did a pipe become a drug dealer's weapon of choice?

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NCIS: Autopsy room

Donald Mallard: Abigail! What are you doing?

Abigael Scuito: I'm trying to change my spatial orientation and help myself get a new perspective.

Donald Mallard: How is it working?

Abigael Scuito: I think I'm going to be sick. You wanted to see me?

Donald Mallard: You didn't have to make a special trip. But when you regain your equilibrium, I have a John Doe. I need a CBC with platelets and a complete chem screen and CK.

Abigael Scuito: Ducky, this, John Doe doesn't have a case number on it.

Donald Mallard: Yet to be determined. I'll give it to you later.

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NCIS: Conference room

Jonathan Chow: My company spent the last ten years developing that radar system. You need to release it back to us now.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Stakeout's our best chance to catch who was behind the theft.

Jonathan Chow: It's been two weeks.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Since the radar was stolen. It's only been four days since we got the e-mail tipping us off to its location.

Jonathan Chow: Haven't you got something to say, Captain?

Dean Pullman: Have you found out who sent the e-mail?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Working on it.

Jonathan Chow: Okay, I thought this nightmare was over when the radar was found. I should have never agreed to let you and the navy use it as bait.

Dean Pullman: Why do you have to leave it there? You can still arrest whoever comes to collect it.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Covert surveillance. Got in, planted the cameras, got out.

Jonathan Chow: Your point?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It takes time to move the radar. We might not be the only ones watching the locker.

Jonathan Chow: Know what this is, Agent Gibbs?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Zumwalt class destroyer.

Jonathan Chow: Stealth destroyer Agent Gibbs, without its radar, it's useless. I was supposed to be at that shipyard today installing that radar. Instead, I have to stand by and watch you play policeman.

Dean Pullman: I'd like to help you here, Gibbs, but that ship is due to start sea trials next month.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It gets delayed, SECNAV will have my ass.

Dean Pullman: They'll want a much higher price than that.

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NCIS: Autopsy room

Donald Mallard: Anthony, you scared me. Is the stakeout over?

Anthony DiNozzo: I wish. It's worse than watching a five-day cricket match.

Donald Mallard: Careful, young man. It's late, you've been working 12-hour shifts. I would think you'd rather be anywhere but here on your time off. You must want something.

Anthony DiNozzo: Well... How well do you know the city ME?

Donald Mallard: Tom Hubbard? I play bridge with him every Tuesday night. Excellent medical examiner. Dreadful bridge player.

Anthony DiNozzo: There was a murder this morning, down the street from the stakeout, and I'd love to get a look at the autopsy report.

Donald Mallard: Can't you get one through normal channels?

Anthony DiNozzo: I had a little difference of opinion with the homicide detective, she and I didn't see eye to eye.

Donald Mallard:"She"? Does Gibbs know you're doing this?

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Apartment

Ziva David: Tony's going to try to get even. I know he has booby-trapped something.

Timothy McGee: Boss, hey, got your message. What's wrong?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I'm getting a low battery signal from the camera in the locker.

Timothy McGee: That's odd, I used fresh batteries. Should be good for at least another week... Okay, I'll go see what's going on.

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Apartment / Storage: Locker

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee, hallway's empty... McGee, we haven't got all day.

Timothy McGee: Boss, what do you see on the monitor?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I see a radar system on a shipping pallet.

Timothy McGee: You sure?

Ziva David: We're staring right at it, McGee.

Timothy McGee: Do you see me?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: "Do you see me?" No!

Timothy McGee: Boss, we got a problem.

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Storage: Locker

Timothy McGee: Camera's working fine, boss. I don't know why... I would start a sentence with "I don't know."

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Figure it out, McGee. Fast! Yeah?

Ziva David: Would not want to be Gibbs right now.

Anthony DiNozzo: I would not want to be McGee anytime.

Ziva David: We are a team. We need to support each other. No more practical jokes.

Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah. Yeah, sure.

Ziva David: Agreed.

Anthony DiNozzo: Agreed... D tente. This is crazy. I'm taking pictures of an empty room.

Ziva David: How did $90 million worth of high-tech electronics just... Vanish?

Anthony DiNozzo: I saw David Blaine make an elephant disappear once in front of hundreds of people.

Timothy McGee: It's an illusion, Tony. He's an illusionist. I can assure you the elephant never left the building.

Ziva David: We have to open and check every locker. We need a warrant.

Timothy McGee: Warrants. One for each locker.

Anthony DiNozzo: Or not. I'll go lean on the manager.

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NCIS: MTAC

Sandi: Sorry, Special Agent Gibbs. I was told the captain was coming on 15 minutes ago.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I'm being punished, Sandi.

Dean Pullman: Sorry, Gibbs. SECNAV wouldn't let me go. Wants to know whose bright idea it was to use top secret radar as bait.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That'd be Gibbs, two "B"s.

Dean Pullman: Yeah, he knows. Look, he's trying to track down your director. Her office says she's out of the country.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She is.

Dean Pullman: DNI is concerned the technology maybe in the wrong hands and Chow's hysterical. I guess I don't need to tell you that. He says it'll take nine months to remanufacture.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Have the sea trials been delayed?

Dean Pullman: Not officially, but you've read the press releases. The Zumwalt class multimission destroyer is being touted as the future of the blue-water navy. SECNAV is not ready to go public, especially if the technology has been compromised... I wish I could help you, Gibbs.

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NCIS: Squad room

Anthony DiNozzo: You got it.

Donald Mallard: At great personal expense, I fear. I agreed to be Tom Hubbard's bridge partner at a tournament next month. A weekend in hell... You want the high lights?

Anthony DiNozzo: Yes, please.

Donald Mallard: Cause of death, blunt force trauma. He was not a healthy man. Mr. Rowe had quadruple bypass surgery before his 40th birthday.

Anthony DiNozzo: Was he an addict?

Donald Mallard: Most definitely. He appears to have been addicted to fatty red meats, fried foods and eggs. His cholesterol was 388.

Anthony DiNozzo: Drugs?

Donald Mallard: No, not even an aspirin. Which he should have been taking on a daily regimen for his condition.

Anthony DiNozzo: Thanks, Ducky, I owe you.

Donald Mallard: And one day, dear boy, I shall collect.

Anthony DiNozzo: Cover for me. I've got to run an errand.

Ziva David: Tony's playing with fire.

Donald Mallard: Yeah, that's what I told him. Time for me to exit stage left.

Ziva David: We checked the storage facility from bottom to top. The radar's not in the building.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where's DiNozzo?

Ziva David: He's... Running an errand.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Never cover for me, David.

Timothy McGee: Boss, finally managed to trace the e-mail. It was transmitted from a cell phone using a Wi-Fi network in the Dupont Circle area.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who?

Timothy McGee: I don't have a name yet, but I do have the electronic serial number of the device. Cell provider's going to get back to me with the name of the registered owner.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Bring him in.

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Street

Andrea Sparr: This is the guy we've been looking for, have you seen him?

Goldilocks: Let's see... No.

Andrea Sparr: All right. Well, you call me if you remember anything?

Goldilocks: Sure. I'll call you.

Anthony DiNozzo: Any good tips... On the case?

Andrea Sparr: You're here because I didn't return your call.

Anthony DiNozzo: That would've been nice, yeah.

Andrea Sparr: When in the middle of an investigation, I don't return social calls.

Anthony DiNozzo: What makes you think it was social?

Andrea Sparr: The way you stared at my ass the other day.

Anthony DiNozzo: How do you know my interest in your ass wasn't purely professional?

Andrea Sparr: I have dealt with your type all my life.

Anthony DiNozzo: Really? What is my type?

Andrea Sparr: Not my type. Rules don't apply to you, can't imagine a woman wouldn't hang on your every word.

Anthony DiNozzo: Have you always lacked self-esteem?

Andrea Sparr: I've got a murder to solve. Haven't you got a drunk sailor to find? Try me again in a couple of months.

Anthony DiNozzo: Well, you do have a nice ass, but it wasn't a social call, it was business. Scott Rowe wasn't murdered in a drug deal. He wasn't a user, there were no drugs in his system.

Andrea Sparr: How do you know that?

Anthony DiNozzo: Autopsy report.

Andrea Sparr: I haven't seen it... You went around me.

Anthony DiNozzo: Well, if you'd let me help, I wouldn't have to do that. Hey... I have a gut feeling about this case.

Andrea Sparr: Why?

Anthony DiNozzo: Why do I have a gut feeling?

Andrea Sparr: Why do you want to help?

Anthony DiNozzo: Because I feel responsible. I could have stopped it. I saw what was going down, and I thought it was just a drug deal, just like you. And it wasn't, trust me. My instincts are usually right.

Andrea Sparr: You don't do anything without telling me.

Anthony DiNozzo: Absolutely. Any leads?

Andrea Sparr: No prints on the murder weapon. We enhanced your video, got a decent image of the drug dealer's face. ID'd him as Dennis Moran. Multiple arrests, most drug-related, convicted twice. We're looking for him.

Anthony DiNozzo: What about Scott Rowe?

Andrea Sparr: He's a hard guy to figure. Was a stockbroker, lost his license, couple of civil lawsuits against him. Shady deals. Rowe's had a history of financial ups and downs, currently down.

Anthony DiNozzo: Excuse me. Yeah? Yeah. Well, did you tell him that I... Yeah. Well, try it.

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NCIS: Observation room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I thought you said you found the anonymous tipster.

Timothy McGee: I did. Name's Jordyn Wright. The e-mail was sent from her cell phone.

Jordyn Wright: Mom, how much longer do we need to wait here?

Joanne Wright: I don't know, honey.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She couldn't get a sitter?

Timothy McGee: Jordyn's the girl, not the mother.

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NCIS: Interrogation room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Special Agent Gibbs.

Joanne Wright: Can you please tell me what this is about?

Jordyn Wright: Told him I didn't send you any e-mail.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: NCIS received a message from this phone.

Jordyn Wright: Not from me. Now, can I have it back, please?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Did you let somebody borrow it?

Jordyn Wright: Not allowed to.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where were you last Thursday night, Jordyn, about 7:30?

Joanne Wright: It was a school night. She was home.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You were in the Dupont Circle area, weren't you?

Jordyn Wright: No... Okay, so I was in Rock'N Java.

Joanne Wright: What?

Jordyn Wright: See? Like you and Dad even noticed.

Joanne Wright: Who were you with? You weren't with that Ramone boy, were you?

Jordyn Wright: Nicky, Mom. Nicky Ramone, and he's not a boy, he's 17.

Joanne Wright: That's exactly why you can't see him.

Jordyn Wright: You can't choose my friends.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Mrs. Wright, deal with this later... You let someone borrow it?

Jordyn Wright: Some guy at the next table couldn't get a signal. He gave me ten bucks to use mine.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Would you recognize him?

Jordyn Wright: I guess.

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NCIS: Squad room

Ziva David: You are supposed to be working on our case, Tony.

Anthony DiNozzo: Our murder victim was a loser and a fraud.

Ziva David: Not our murder victim, Tony.

Anthony DiNozzo: Declared bankruptcy twice. Beemer leased for $1,200 a month. He was three months behind on payments.

Ziva David: Does Metro Homicide know what you are doing?

Anthony DiNozzo: Detective Sparr and I have an understanding.

Ziva David: I'll bet you do. Detective Sparr must be hot.

Anthony DiNozzo: Yes. But no. For the moment, it's all business.

Ziva David: Business.

Anthony DiNozzo: Business.

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Timothy McGee: Her name Abby. You're gonna love her. She's gonna do a computer sketch of this guy, okay?

Jordyn Wright: Is this some kind of test? You already know who borrowed my cell phone.

Joanne Wright: Who, Jordyn?

Jordyn Wright:Him.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Are you sure, Jordyn?

Jordyn Wright:He gave me ten bucks. I'm sure.

Anthony DiNozzo: Are we missing something?

Timothy McGee: Yeah, our anonymous tipster was Scott Rowe, our dead guy.

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Ziva David: McGee.

Timothy McGee: Did you lose something?

Ziva David: Tony still has not gotten me back for the binoculars.

Timothy McGee: I thought you two shook on it... No more practical jokes.

Ziva David: Do you trust DiNozzo?

Timothy McGee: Point well taken. Where is he?

Ziva David: The homicide detective from Metro is here. He's escorting her up.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Say one for me while you're down there, McGee.

Timothy McGee: Working on a theory, boss. How someone could've stolen the radar without us seeing.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah? Tell.

Timothy McGee: Well, I would rather show it to you, so I'm going to set up a demonstration out in the evidence garage.

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Andrea Sparr: So our cases have crossed. Means you can tell me why NCIS was staking out the neighborhood.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Classified navy equipment was hijacked. Got an anonymous tip it was in a storage building next to the alley where Rowe was killed.

Anthony DiNozzo: Just learned Rowe was the tipster.

Andrea Sparr: Still conducting the stakeout?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No... No. The equipment was stolen... Again.

Andrea Sparr: Messy.

Ziva David: Ziva David.

Andrea Sparr: You dragged me up here to pull the national security, need-to-know card? That Rowe's murder is no longer a Metro case?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. We investigate the murder together. The theft stays classified.

Andrea Sparr: Do I have a choice?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.

Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah. Don't ask.

Andrea Sparr: Sorry. Sorry. What did you say your name was again?

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Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Jardine.

Nikki Jardine: Four people in my department have come down with the flu.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're in my department now.

Nikki Jardine: Yes, sir.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What do you got?

Nikki Jardine: It's just a little tickle at the back of my throat, but it's... I did not pick up any chatter on the stolen dual-band radar. Talked with contacts at the NSA and CIA. They're alerted. Where are we going?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Interview. Don't talk. Just listen.

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NCIS: Conference room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Do you know him? Scott Rowe.

Jonathan Chow: Means nothing.

Dean Pullman: Who is he?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He's the man who tipped us off to the radar.

Dean Pullman: Well, is he cooperating?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, he's dead. Murdered.

Jonathan Chow: Okay, this just gets worse. You people have lost cutting-edge, dual-band technology. In hands of a foreign government, it would be the biggest threat to national security since the Cold War.

Dean Pullman: If they figure out how this thing works, they can jam it. You're the analyst. Has Intel picked up anything?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, if we get a lead, we'll let you know.

Jonathan Chow: My company's ruined... We worked day and night to meet that original delivery schedule. By the time we could remanufacture... We'd lose the contract.

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NCIS: Garage

Abigael Scuito: Hey, McGee.

Timothy McGee: Hey.

Abigael Scuito: What are you doing?

Timothy McGee: It's a model.

Abigael Scuito: That is really cool.

Timothy McGee: Demonstration for Gibbs. You know how hard it is to explain technical stuff to him.

Abigael Scuito: Yeah, good thinking. It's like every time I try to explain something sciency, and his eyes glaze over, and he gives me that will you shut up and get to the point look? He's behind me, isn't he?

Timothy McGee: No... Want to see a dress rehearsal?

Abigael Scuito: Can I be Gibbs?

Timothy McGee: Yes. Okay, boss. Boss. This is the hallway. This is a locker. These are our surveillance cameras. Now if I could direct your attention to these monitors here. These are the feed from the surveillance cameras. I'm working under the assumption that whoever stole the radar knew that we were watching.

Abigael Scuito: Okay.

Timothy McGee: Using a scanner, they found our video frequencies.

Abigael Scuito: Had to be nearby, McGee?

Timothy McGee: That is an excellent question, boss. Yes. With our mini-transmitters, they would have to be within 500 feet. Then they could steal and record the video signals, which I have already done, and play them back with these much more powerful transmitters. They would have overridden our signals. Now, they would need a pallet jack to get the radar out.

Abigael Scuito: McGee, I don't see the guy.

Timothy McGee: That is because you are watching the loop I made of the empty hallway, just as we were doing during the stakeout... When they were gone, they turned off the loop in the hallway and continued transmitting the second loop showing the radar still in the storage locker.

Abigael Scuito: McGee, this is... This is so great! Even Gibbs could understand this.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He does... Not off the hook until the radar is found, McGee.

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NCIS: Autopsy room

Donald Mallard: Mr. Palmer, I thought you'd gone for the night.

James Palmer: I made it halfway home before I realized I left my cell phone here. What are you working on, Dr. Mallard? Anything I can help you with?

Donald Mallard: No, no, no. It's an old case just popped into mind. I thought I'd check a few things.

James Palmer: I'll take that to the file room for you.

Donald Mallard: I'll take care of it.

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NCIS: Squad room

Nikki Jardine: I've worked all the usual channels. Nothing.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And you thought it was important to come up here and tell me that?

Nikki Jardine: Well, that's the point. If top-secret electronics were out there for sale or in the hands of a foreign operative, we would have picked up something by now. I think the silence speaks volumes.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What's it's saying?

Nikki Jardine: It suggests a domestic operation. If it's not out there for sale...

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A competitor of Jonathan Chow's company... Yeah. Gibbs.

Nikki Jardine: Mind if I ask what that is?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: According to McGee, he's the guy who stole the radar.

Nikki Jardine: Ziva.. I don't know if I should say anything or not, but I saw Tony putting something under your car.

Ziva David: What? When?

Nikki Jardine: What. I don't know. When this morning.

Ziva David: I told you, I told you he could not be trusted.

Timothy McGee: Was Tony really messing with her car?

Nikki Jardine: No. Tony just told me to tell Ziva that when I saw her.

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NCIS: Abby's lab

Abigael Scuito: Scott Rowe's prints were lifted postmortem by the ME. This is the unidentified partial from the storage rental agreement... It matches Scott Rowe's left index finger.

Andrea Sparr: Detective Sparr.

Anthony DiNozzo: Rowe rented the locker?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Probably hijacked the radar.

Anthony DiNozzo: Right. Then tipped us off where to find it? Doesn't make any sense.

Andrea Sparr: Our missing pusher, Dennis Moran, he's been spotted downtown.

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Street

Andrea Sparr: Hey, thanks for the call. Where is he?

Goldilocks: Went into the hotel acting real hinky. There's a reward, right?

Anthony DiNozzo: Yes. You get him.

Goldilocks: I remember you. The biter.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You stay here. You come with me. McGee, take the perimeter.

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Alley

Anthony DiNozzo: NCIS! Freeze! Hey! Hold it!

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Street

Dennis Moran: All right, just get away.

Anthony DiNozzo: Get away, okay? Federal agents. We just want to talk, Dennis.

Dennis Moran: No. I'm not going back to prison.

Anthony DiNozzo: We just want to talk.

Dennis Moran: No, no. You. No, you think I kill... I killed that guy. I didn't, okay? I didn't.

Anthony DiNozzo: Then why did you run?

Dennis Moran: I'm on probation. I get convicted again, and it's over... It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.

Anthony DiNozzo: Dennis, you don't want to do this. Don't make us do this Dennis. Put the gun down! God, stop it!

Dennis Moran: I didn't kill anybody. I swear I didn't. I didn't kill anybody, I swear. I swear I didn't do it.

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NCIS: Interrogation room

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What were you doing with Rowe?

Dennis Moran: Who?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Dead guy in the alley.

Dennis Moran: I told you I didn't kill him.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You want me to start believing you, you better start remembering things.

Dennis Moran: I'm. I'm. I'm trying.

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NCIS: Observation room

Andrea Sparr: Gibbs always throw softballs?

Anthony DiNozzo: I've seen him make a 300 pound drill instructor cry.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How long did you know him?

Dennis Moran: I didn't.

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NCIS: Interrogation room

Dennis Moran: The guy showed up a couple days ago. Paid me two bills to watch a building.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Storage facility.

Dennis Moran: Yeah. He told me, he gave me a number to call him when the feds came.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: They came for what?

Dennis Moran: I don't know. He was... He was crazy. Said the place was going to get raided. I never saw nothing.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who hit him with the pipe?

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NCIS: Observation room

Dennis Moran: I don't know, I don't know who killed... Who hit him.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You were there.

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NCIS: Interrogation room

Dennis Moran: I was loaded, man... The BMW dude was hassling me... For not calling. We went into the alley. That other guy was there. He saw him... Went crazy. Picked up the pipe and started hitting him. You know, I got the hell out.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Can you describe the other guy?

Dennis Moran: I was so whacked, man.

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NCIS: Observation room

Andrea Sparr: He couldn't pick his own mother out of a line up. You believe this junkie?

Anthony DiNozzo: He had a gun. Why use a pipe?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Escort him back down to sick bay lock up.

Andrea Sparr: I have a better idea. I take him downtown. Civilian vic, civilian suspect on a Metro street.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Not yet.

Andrea Sparr: Why? National Security?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Works for me.

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NCIS: Squad room

Ziva David: Great. Lunch. I'm starving!

Timothy McGee: Nikki, there's an extra burger in there if you want one.

Nikki Jardine: No, thanks. I don't eat food prepared by others.

Timothy McGee: Of course you don't. Did you come up with anything?

Nikki Jardine: Nothing. No connection.

Ziva David: By the way, who do I owe?

Timothy McGee: Tony.

Ziva David: Tony? Where is he?

Timothy McGee: Interrogation.

Ziva David: Does he think I'm that stupid?

Nikki Jardine: Come on. Would Tony really do something to your food?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah.

Timothy McGee: Boss. We went through Scott Rowe's bank statements and brokerage accounts. He sold 50,000 shares of IRT, Jonathan Chow's company, short.

Ziva David: He was betting the stock would fall.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why?

Timothy McGee: Don't know. Settlement date's this Friday. Hard to make a killing on the market when you're dead.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Insider information.

Nikki Jardine: We're checking for a connection between Rowe, Chow or anyone at IRT.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: SECNAV wants a briefing. You stay on it.

Timothy McGee: It could have been anyone who knew about the theft. Including Captain Pullman.

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NCIS: Autopsy room

James Palmer: You ready, Dr. Mallard?

Donald Mallard: As ready as I ever will be. We have put this bloody business off long enough.

James Palmer: They don't prepare you for all this in medical school.

Donald Mallard: Yeah, well, let's get it over with. Where shall we start?

James Palmer: Latex gloves?

Donald Mallard: Good Lord. Do we really get through that many?

Abigael Scuito: Requisition forms. I did mine last week.

Donald Mallard: Don't gloat.

Abigael Scuito: Okay. All business. I got the blood work you wanted on the John Doe. The white blood cell count was normal, but there was a high level of the enzyme creatine kinase.

Donald Mallard: I didn't realize how late it was. Let's put all that off until tomorrow, Mr. Palmer, when we're both fresh.

James Palmer: I guess one more day won't matter.

Donald Mallard: Yes, well, thank you, Abigail. I'll see you in the morning.

Abigael Scuito: What's going on?

James Palmer: I don't know.

Abigael Scuito: He asked me to run blood tests on a John Doe.

James Palmer: We don't have any John Does.

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NCIS: Squad room

Anthony DiNozzo: No.

Ziva David: Sleep through your alarm?

Anthony DiNozzo: I wish. Morning, Boss. Morning, McProbious. Well, we got the dirt on Rowe. Whoever killed him might have done him a favor.

Andrea Sparr: He was going to file for bankruptcy. We met with his attorney.

Anthony DiNozzo: Also interviewed the broker who placed the short sale of IRT stock. Says he tried to talk Rowe out of it.

Andrea Sparr: Pretty sure the broker's clean. We caught him off guard, jogging at Rock Creek Park.

Anthony DiNozzo: At 6:15 this morning. It was good old-fashioned legwork, Ziva, it usually solves crimes.

Timothy McGee: Well, sometimes computers do help, Tony. I wrote a program to cross-check credit card charges, ran Scott Rowe's against corporate cards issued to IRT execs, limited my search parameters to the last six months under the assumption...

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee!

Timothy McGee: Sorry, boss. Just got a hit. Five weeks ago, Scott Rowe's and Jonathan Chow's credit cards were swiped at the same Georgetown bar within minutes of each other. Both were also waited on by the same server.

Ziva David: Suggests they sat next to each other.

Anthony DiNozzo: Maybe that's how they met. It's like the Hitchcock classic, Strangers on a Train. Two men, don't know each other, meet by chance to hatch a nefarious crime.

Timothy McGee: Chow's a Caltech graduate. It would have been a piece of cake for him to block and override our signal.

Ziva David: Chow denied knowing Rowe.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Rowe's dead. He can't talk.

Andrea Sparr: The fact that two guys had a drink at a bar at the same time doesn't really prove anything.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Get Moran in here.

Andrea Sparr: He couldn't ID anybody. And even if he did, he's not a reliable witness.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Agreed.

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Bar

Jonathan Chow: You the guy that called me?

Dennis Moran: Sit down.

Jonathan Chow: You were kind of cryptic on the phone.

Dennis Moran: Sit down. I don't think you want me talking too loud.

Jonathan Chow: I think you're mistaking me for someone else.

Dennis Moran: I know exactly who you are. I saw you hit Rowe with a pipe.

Jonathan Chow: What are you talking about?

Dennis Moran: Told me he... Met you here five weeks ago.

Jonathan Chow: What do you want?

Dennis Moran: How much is the question... Sit down... I know about your arrangement.

Jonathan Chow: How much do you want?

Dennis Moran: 50 thou.

Jonathan Chow: How do I know you're not going to double-cross me like Rowe did?

Dennis Moran: Is that why you killed him?

Jonathan Chow: It's going to... It's going to take me a little while to come up with the money.

Dennis Moran: Got till tomorrow.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You got a lot of explaining to do.

Timothy McGee: Too bad you couldn't block this transmission.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He's all yours.

Andrea Sparr: You're under arrest for the murder of Scott Rowe... You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Dennis Moran: You think this will help me out with the judge?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I think you did great.

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NCIS: MTAC

Dean Pullman: Jonathan Chow had his own radar system stolen? Why?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It didn't work.

Timothy McGee: There was a fatal glitch in the software that controlled the radar. As a result, the programming for all the integrated, multifunction peripheral components had to be rewritten. It would have taken mon... Months.

Dean Pullman: Where's the radar now?

Anthony DiNozzo: Back of a truck. Chow left it in long-term parking at Reagan National.

Dean Pullman: Well, I guess it's not going to do the navy much good if it doesn't work.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: INope.

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NCIS: stairs

Timothy McGee: Rowe would have made a fortune on the stock market when the navy discovered the radar didn't work.

Anthony DiNozzo: A whole lot more than Chow paid him to steal it in the first place.

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NCIS: Squad room

Timothy McGee: Rowe tips us off, Chow freaks, steals the radar back, kills Rowe.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Not our finest moment.

Ziva David: If I never go on stakeout again it will be too soon.

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NCIS: Autopsy room

James Palmer: Should I prep now?

Donald Mallard: No time like the present. I'll get changed... A new arrival. Two-pack-a-day gunny. Died of a suspected heart attack last night. They're not all murders.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hey, Palmer. Abby's looking for you.

James Palmer: I just left her... I will go see her again.

Donald Mallard: Is something wrong?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, you tell me. I thought we didn't keep secrets from each other.

Donald Mallard: You're referring to the blood tests I asked Abby to run on the nonexistent John Doe. And so I shouldn't be surprised. She goes to you with everything.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She cares about you and she's worried.

Donald Mallard: About me?

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You were running the tests on yourself.

Donald Mallard: No, I am not self-diagnosing. You know, Abby allows her emotions to cloud her judgment. She jumps to a conclusion. No, I'm in excellent health for a man of my age. And if she'd bothered to check further, she'd have realized it's not my blood type.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who?

Donald Mallard: You're putting me in a very difficult position, Jethro.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I can't think of anybody you'd stick your neck out like that for... Except... Director Shepard... Jenny?