6x13 – Broken Bird
Street
Jeannette: I wish I could stay, but I have to fly.
Kevin Lim: Oh, no. That's terrible!
Jeannette: You actually said it.
Kevin Lim: I thought I was gonna ruin the moment by saying the wrong thing.
Jeannette: What could you possibly say?
Kevin Lim: I don't know. Anything involving the word layover.
Jeannette: Okay...
Kevin Lim: Okay.
Jeannette: All right.
Cheryl Young: I can't believe you did this to me. I love you. And you stabbed me in the back... At least I looked you in the eyes.
Kevin Lim: Oh,Cheryl...
Pedestrian: Is he okay? Is he all right?
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: What could it be for McGee? Cookies.
Ziva David: Those would have to be some huge cookies.
Anthony DiNozzo: Care package from home. Winter clothes? Mittens?
Ziva David: Too heavy.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm bored; I don't want to play anymore. I don't care.
Ziva David: Well,I am opening it.
Anthony DiNozzo: Thank God.
Timothy McGee: Oh, goody, they're here.
Anthony DiNozzo: Goody? Who says goody?
Ziva David: What is it?
Timothy McGee: This is my Mac SE. Got it for my eleventh birthday. She is my first.
Anthony DiNozzo: This is going to get really strange, isn't it?
Ziva David: Going to?
Timothy McGee: These are chapters of my life. From the earliest discovery to that palpable connection and the eventual evolution. Look at this. Here I am making the transition to PC.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'll alert the Smithsonian. Maybe they can make a space for your exhibit... "The Chronicles of a Teenage Shut-in."
Timothy McGee:How do you rember your childhood?
Anthony DiNozzo: Vaguely.
Timothy McGee:You have no sense of history.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I do. And so does Petty Officer Kevin Lim.
Ziva David: He's history?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Oh, yeah. Let's go. Grab your mittens. It's cold out there.
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Street
Jeannette: I forgot my passport, I came back,and I saw that he was,uh...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You didn't see who did it?
Jeannette: I didn't have to. It was Cheryl, his ex-fiancée. The engagement was just broken off.
Anthony DiNozzo: I need to take your statement.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: All right.
Jeannette: Okay.
Anthony DiNozzo: Here,let's go inside for some privacy.
Timothy McGee: Boss, got an eyewitness who saw a woman with blood on her hands headed around the corner.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Not the stewardess.
Timothy McGee: Doesn't fit the flight attendant's description.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The ex. Canvass.
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James Palmer: The reason I missed "I" Street is because I was expecting to find "I" Street two blocks past "K" Street.
Donald Mallard: It is a rare place in this world,Mr. Palmer, where reason is the best compass.
Ziva David: Miss the turn?
James Palmer: H, I, J, K. That's how the alphabet works, right? Goes the same forwards as backwards.
Ziva David: In Hebrew, there is no J.
Donald Mallard: Apart from the name of the food court at George Washington University, there is no J Street in the District. Perhaps that's where you've been spending your time, Mr. Palmer, instead of going to class.
James Palmer: I suppose that's further evidence of my lesser education that I did not know that.
Donald Mallard: The fault lies not with the institute of higher learning,Mr. Palmer, but with your observational skills. In 1791, a Parisian, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, was commissioned to design a city plan.
James Palmer: Okay, here we go.
Donald Mallard: The Capitol is at the center. Four quadrants radiate northwest, southwest, northeast, southeast. The north-south streets are numbered, the east-west streets are lettered. When the alphabet is exhausted, they go syllabically. First, two syllables, then,three syllables. Macomb is followed by Newark...
James Palmer: And Albemarle is followed by Brandywine. I understand, Doctor. I failed one class. That doesn't make me a bad student.
Ziva David: So then, why is there no J Street? Sorry.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: 13th and L.
Ziva David: One block north, two blocks east.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Need you here, Ziva.
Ziva David: Thirteenth and L. Be right there, Gibbs.
James Palmer: I will make up the class.
Ziva David: Maintain the scene.
Donald Mallard: Make it up to me right now.
James Palmer: Really?
Donald Mallard: Yeah. Come on.
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Alley
Ziva David: Got her! Stand up! Show me your hands!
Timothy McGee: Hands behind your back.
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Street
James Palmer: Upward angle of the trajectory likely severed the abdominal aorta. The shape indicates a clockwise twisting. The assailant was probably right-handed.
Donald Mallard: Refrain from conjecture.
James Palmer: Exsanguination lead to death. Judging by the diameter of the pooling, I'd say he bled out within, uh, three minutes.
Donald Mallard: Cold surface expedites coagulation.
James Palmer: Perhaps four.
Donald Mallard: Why is there no J Street?
James Palmer: I just told you, I don't know.
Donald Mallard: And I just gave you a clue to the answer. We are discussing the construction of the very streets where democracy would stride freely.
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Anthony DiNozzo: Excuse me. Sorry. That's a nice hat. Excuse me. Sorry... So, uh, is that her?
Timothy McGee: Yeah,quickest case ever.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, sets a new record. Out of the way. Nothing to see here, folks.
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Donald Mallard: This was the transformation of so much. It was the bedrock of the most lofty ideals. These were not idle decisions, Mr. Palmer. Even in 1791...
Mosuma Daoud: Sab ann muredaha toostee.
James Palmer: Doctor, look out! Look out! Doctor! Doctor! Get her! Stop her! Stop her!
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hold her.
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James Palmer: Got her. Got her. That way! She's wearing a green scarf covering her face!
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ducky... Stay still, Duck.
Donald Mallard: I'm all right, Jethro. It's just a... Defensive wound.
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Hospital: Waiting room
Abigael Scuito: Jimmy. How is Ducky?
James Palmer: Multiple superficial lacerations, plus the blade finally embedded in the midpalmar space, possibly damaging or even severing flexor tendons and lumbrical muscles. Best-case scenario entails weeks of physical therapy, uh, after reconstructive surgery. He should be out any second now,so...
Abigael Scuito: So the short answer is, he's alive.
James Palmer: What? Oh, uh, yeah, yeah.
Abigael Scuito: Because when you hear, "Ducky got stabbed," you don't necessarily take that part for granted.
James Palmer: Yeah. Sorry, sorry.
Abigael Scuito: It's okay.
James Palmer: You are very, uh, calm.
Abigael Scuito: I am. If I keep going to Crazytown every time one of you gets hurt, I'm gonna have to have my mail forwarded... Ducky.
Donald Mallard: Abby? How kind of you to visit.
Abigael Scuito: Oh, they gave you morphine.
Donald Mallard: Well, just a drop.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Duck, anything you remember about the attack?
Donald Mallard: My-my glasses. Sweetie, you held on to them for me while I went under the knife. It's ironic that the solution to one knife should be... Mr. Palmer,would... Would you, uh, finish that thought for me?
James Palmer: Sure, Doctor.
Donald Mallard: Oh, and you need to send for a substitute M.E. Uh, Jordan...
James Palmer: Uh, Dr. Hampton?
Donald Mallard: Yeah. On my desk you'll find her number, while I myself lay here getting much number. Nurse, more anesthetic! And don't spare the horses.
Abigael Scuito: Okay, he's zonked out of his gourd, and he's still playing with words. Impressive.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abs... Weapon, prints.
Abigael Scuito: How am I supposed to log this? Because technically, it's the weapon of interest in two separate cases... I'll figure it out.
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NCIS: Squad room
Ziva David: One of the residents captured the actual attack on their camera phone?
Anthony DiNozzo: Neighbors seem to think a crime scene makes better watching than, uh, daytime television.
Timothy McGee: Quality isn't great. Let me see if I can clean this up a bit.
James Palmer: Doctor? Stop her. Stop her!
Ziva David: She's what, approximately five-foot, three? To late thirties. She's wearing a hijab. Likely Muslim.
Timothy McGee: All right, this should do it.
Ziva David: Sounds like Pashtun or Dari. Might be a regional Afghani dialect.
Timothy McGee: We can get a linguist on it.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
James Palmer: So... You're dead. Sorry about that. Poor... Fellow. You know, if it's any consolation, all indications are that you went out... With a bang. Oh, forget it... Dr. Hampton.
Jordan Hampton: Jim... Oh, you prefer Jimmy.
James Palmer: Jim Palmer was a pitcher for the Orioles. I was named after him, but... I have never really liked baseball.
Jordan Hampton: Noted. Well, please, you may call me Jordan. I was named after a body of water towards which I bear no ill will. Why would Dr. Mallard need a last minute fill-in? It seems very unlike him.
James Palmer: Oh, he was assaulted at a crime scene. H-He'll be okay. His hand was injured.
Jordan Hampton: Scary. I suppose we can be his hands for today.
James Palmer: The facts of this case are pretty cut-and-dry... Jordan? You okay?
Jordan Hampton: Yes, fine... Let's get started. Thank you.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: Talk to me, baby, talk to me.
Ziva David: Fingerprint sheet.
Abigael Scuito: I was, I was talking to the knife. You want to talk knives?
Ziva David: Always.
Abigael Scuito: What we have here is a SliceCo chef knife. It's a standard part of the 12-piece introductory counter block kitchen set. It's laser-beveled titanium steel rust-resistant blade, and the tang extends the full length of the engineered thermo-resin handle, which will not crack, chip, fade, or absorb any material. It will, however, retain a print on a bloody smear. Or in this case, many prints.
Ziva David: Summer job?
Abigael Scuito: Yeah, telemarketing, sophomore year. It helps if you believe in the products. These are actually really good knives. The handle has been handled by many hands, so it's going to take some hunting and pecking to isolate Ducky's attacker.
Ziva David: What about the hijab?
Abigael Scuito: I pulled some hair from it. The fabric is quite old, handmade. So it fell off when you were chasing her?
Ziva David: Mm, unlikely. It is designed to always stay on as a sign of modesty. She would not just lose it by accident. She was trying to disappear in plain sight... Yeah.
Timothy McGee: Ziva, hey. The linguist has a translation.
Ziva David: On my way.
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Hospital: Ducky's room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Are you sure this is right?
Anthony DiNozzo: That's what she said, boss.
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Donald Mallard: Three decades ago, in my RAMC days, I was seconded to an American tank regiment. Hand injuries were prevalent in the Armored Cavalry. As a result, I considered making hand surgery my specialty. Fortunately, I opted for a less-sensitive clientele. Otherwise, this might spell an end to my career.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: "Sab ann muredaha toostee." Dari. Means...
Donald Mallard: "Bringer of death."
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Picked up a few words, did you, Duck? Your old RAMC days in Afghanistan?
Donald Mallard: I don't want to talk about it.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, well, the next phrase she yells means: "You killed my brother." Any idea why she would have said that?
Donald Mallard: Perhaps because I killed her brother.
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NCIS: Squad room
Ziva David: We have found her, Gibbs. The woman's name is Mosuma Daoub.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Put her in interrogation.
Anthony DiNozzo: She's not actually here. What Ziva meant to say is we've I.D.'d her. Fingerprint match. Throw it up, McGarnagle.
Ziva David: Mosuma Daoub... Afghani immigrant, married to Ezmaray Daoub, two children. That's their home address.
Timothy McGee: According to her tax returns, she works at a flower shop in the neighborhood where the attack took place.
Anthony DiNozzo: Her boss says she hasn't been seen since yesterday morning. She went out for coffee, stuck a knife in Ducky, and never came back.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Pick her up at home.
Ziva David: She has not returned home.
Anthony DiNozzo: According to her husband, he doesn't know where she is.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Then bringhimin here... McGee, I want to ask you something. The director's still in budget allocation meetings?
Timothy McGee: Yeah, he's gone till the end of the week.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, I need a personnel file. It can't wait.
Timothy McGee: Well, I could access that without disturbing the director. Who?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Dr. Donald Mallard.
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NCIS: Conference room
Ziva David: Mr. Daoub, you have not heard from your wife?
Ezmaray Daoub: I leave her messages. I call her friends. I have been trying not to panic the children, but I was so nervous when I dropped them at school... I forgot to give them their lunches.
Ziva David: Can you identify your wife's hijab?
Ezmaray Daoub: Hijab? You mean her scarf. We are not so traditional. Where did you find it?
Ziva David: Near her work.
Ezmaray Daoub: What could have happened that she would not call me back?
Ziva David: We will find out.
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NCIS: Hallway
Timothy McGee: Cell records for Mosuma Daoub.
Anthony DiNozzo: Any record of her calling home since yesterday?
Timothy McGee: Negative.
Anthony DiNozzo: Mr. Mom's story checks out.
Timothy McGee: Only calls she made were to the embassy.
Anthony DiNozzo: Which embassy?
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: Afghanistan... A country with a fascinating and tumultuous history. Ruled over the centuries by Kushans, Mongols, Pushtans, Persians, and a series of tribal leaders where succession was often by assassination.
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Ducky's house: living room
Donald Mallard: The Soviets tried their hand for a while. They were opposed by the mujahideen, who naturally were supported by U.S. and Britain, and out of that mess emerged the Taliban, with their rigid interpretation of Islam.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: It was they who finally destroyed the ancient statues of Buddha in the Bamiyan Valley.
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Ducky's house: living room
Donald Mallard: I was with the Royal Army Medical Corps when a notice went up in the officers' mess asking for volunteers for a refugee camp on the Pakistan border. I was such a kid back then... Full of ideology. I wanted to go somewhere where I would do the most good, where my skills would be appreciated. I was also rather entangled with a possessive German female. Olga. Was an easy way to cut loose.
Jordan Hampton: But of course you're too much of a gentleman to speak of your old flame.
Donald Mallard: Yes, well, right now, I'm concerned in producing a new one.
Jordan Hampton: I'll do it.
Donald Mallard: Thank you. Most kind... Oh, my!
Jordan Hampton: There's a bird in the house.
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Park
Trent Kort: Someday they're going to put a plaque on this bench with both our names, Gibbs.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Mr. Kort. Agency's keeping you local.
Trent Kort: Travel is touchy at the moment... I made a few enemies overseas.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What,with your winning personality?
Trent Kort: When you finally open that charm school, let me know.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I need a favor.
Trent Kort: But Gibbs, I don't like you.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That's okay, I don't like you either. Not trading on kindness.
Trent Kort: But we are trading.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: CIA aided the mujahideen resistance against the Soviets.
Trent Kort: The '80s? I was running track at Oxford, not covert missions.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Dig.
Trent Kort: Where?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Jalozai Refugee Camp, Pakistani border, summer 1980. Whatever you got.
Trent Kort: This is going to cost you, Gibbs.
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Afghan Embassy: Living room
Qasim Saydia: You are the American NCIS agents?
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo.
Ziva David: Ziva David.
Qasim Saydia: I am Qasim Saydia.
Anthony DiNozzo: Got any idea what goes on around here, Mr. Saydia?
Qasim Saydia: I believe that I do.
Anthony DiNozzo: Great. It would be really helpful if you knew about Mosuma Daoub. Otherwise, I'm afraid we'll have to speak to your superiors.
Qasim Saydia: Yes, well, that will require quite a lengthy plane flight, Agent DiNozzo.
Ziva David: Tony, he is the ambassador.
Anthony DiNozzo: I apologize. So you know what goes on around here. Where is she?
Qasim Saydia: Mosuma Daoub is in this building.
Anthony DiNozzo: She stabbed a man on an American street yesterday.
Qasim Saydia: She explained this to me. However, she is under the protection of the government of Afghanistan until we can investigate these accusations.
Ziva David: Sir, since when has she been under your protection?
Anthony DiNozzo: We only just made these accusations.
Qasim Saydia: I'm not referring to the accusations against her; rather, the accusations she has made against your Dr. Mallard.
Anthony DiNozzo: Excuse me?
Qasim Saydia: She admitted that she lost control of her senses for a moment, when she recognized him, but I can hardly blame her. From what she has told me, this man is a villain.
Anthony DiNozzo: What exactly did she tell you?
Qasim Saydia: That Dr. Mallard violated Article 4 of the Geneva Convention.
Ziva David: War crimes?
Anthony DiNozzo: Ducky?
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Article 4 of the Geneva Convention prohibits the use of violence against noncombatants.
Ziva David: Ducky's not a war criminal. That woman is lying.
Timothy McGee: We won't know the details until formal charges are filed with the State Department.
Anthony DiNozzo: Then everyone will know.
Ziva David: Ambassador Saydia said it involved events that took place at Jalozai Refugee Camp almost 30 years ago.
Anthony DiNozzo: Which would make Mosuma Daoub like eight years old at the time.
Timothy McGee: So, this woman is walking down the street, minding her own business, sees Ducky, someone she hasn't seen since she was a little girl, and is suddenly overcome with the urge to stick a knife in him?
Ziva David: She was hiding. Her husband said she never wore her hijab covering her face. I mean, that shows premeditation.
Anthony DiNozzo: Spitting distance from the Navy Yard.
Timothy McGee: She could have known Ducky would be there.
Ziva David: She's not so innocent.
Anthony DiNozzo: Okay, let's figure out how and when Mosuma could have seen Ducky in the neighborhood and how she'd know he'd be on the street. Re-canvass, reinterview, reexamine.
Timothy McGee: Why are you talking so fast?
Anthony DiNozzo: Want to get a plan of attack together, 'cause according to my internal Gibbs clock, he's about to walk through that door right... Now... Now.
Ziva David: Somebody's clock is off.
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Gibbs' house: basement
Trent Kort: Hope Dr. Mallard knows how good a friend you are to him.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Two-way street, Trent.
Trent Kort: I don't think they ever clean anything out of the archives at Langley. I had to go through 100 boxes to find that... An old instructor... Not one of my favorites... Was at the Jalozai camp. I opted not to call in a favor of my own. Prefer to stockpile those for a rainy day.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I'm good for it.
Trent Kort: No doubt. Can't help but notice these same ends could have been reached with one call from your director to mine. Creates an official trail, of course. You preferred the back-channel approach. In the hope of continuing goodwill, this second one is on the house... You really should learn to polish the brass.
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Ducky's house: entrance
Donald Mallard: Did you lock yourself out?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Were you expecting somebody else? Good to see you up and around. What you got in the box, Duck?
Donald Mallard: A dead starling.
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Ducky's house: living room
Donald Mallard: According to superstition, when a bird flies in a house, it means that someone who lives there is about to die. I was worried. Mother has moved out. I thought the augury might apply to me.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah? How is she doing?
Donald Mallard: The bad days far outnumber the good. The scientist in me knows that Alzheimer's is a deterioration, progressively, of brain cells, but the philosopher wonders whether it isn't the soul's violent attempt to eliminate painful memories of a life fraught with contradiction.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Brain can do that.
Donald Mallard: I mean, the bird was here, where it didn't belong. Instead of flying south, it came in here for warmth. Alighted on that chair. It didn't move when the dogs closed in. It happened all so slowly. The eldest one, Cooper, he opened his mouth, and he grabbed it. I yelled, and the bird fell on the floor. Poor thing. I did so wish that it might still be alive. I suppose the omen applied to the bird itself.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You've been told about the possibility of a war crimes tribunal in the Hague?
Donald Mallard: Yeah, I had a phone conversation with Ambassador Saydia. Netherlands are lovely.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Windmills are all frozen. Tulips are all dead.
Donald Mallard: Not dead; dormant.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're not going, Duck.
Donald Mallard: And what have you brought?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: CIA footage taken in Jalozai.
Donald Mallard: Such devastation in that camp. Such suffering and pain. Checked this out of your local library, did you?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Pulled a few strings.
Donald Mallard: I thought I might save lives flung there by the maelstrom. I could sooner pluck a grain of sand from a sirocco.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You, uh... You got a sheet anywhere?
Donald Mallard: What?
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: "A calm and responsible person." All her coworkers say the same thing. Until she saw Ducky yesterday.
Timothy McGee: We can change our perspective, but it doesn't change what happened.
Anthony DiNozzo: If you were a dork in high school, you'll always be a dork in high school.
Timothy McGee: That's not why I wanted my computers. I'm not trying to rewrite my life story.
Anthony DiNozzo: Did you read something personal into what I just said? McGee, I don't follow.
Timothy McGee: Tony, there's nothing new to learn there.
Anthony DiNozzo: There has to be.
Timothy McGee: Why?
Anthony DiNozzo: The alternative is that Ducky was Dr. Mengele.
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Ducky's house: living room
Donald Mallard: That's not her brother. I will know his face when I see it. His name was Javid. He came to me with lacerations. It looked as if he'd survived a knife fight. I stitched him up, but he returned, the wounds reopened.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The guy conducting the interrogation?
Donald Mallard: His official affiliation was a mystery. We-We... We first met when he came to me for a physical checkup. Then we met socially for a game of chess. He suffered from a rare congenital defect. He himself could not feel pain.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Feels nothing. Specializing in torture.
Donald Mallard: If you can't feel anything, you don't know when anything's gone wrong.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A lot go wrong out there, Ducky?
Donald Mallard: I was never in that room, but I became suspicious when Javid came to me a third time. I made inquiries... I discovered that my chess-playing companion was known to everyone in the camp,except me, as "Mr. Pain." That's him. That's Javid. Poor boy insisted that he knew nothing about troop movements or spies. Neither that nor any other force could stop Mr. Pain from torturing him for days. And-And-And each time, he was sent back to me to be sewn up. It was my first exposure to that kind of interrogation technique. In the intervening years, it has become dreadfully commonplace.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Are you gonna make me ask again?
Donald Mallard: I suppose it's inevitable, when we reach the tipping point, when your curiosity outweighs your courtesy.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What the hell is wrong with you, Ducky? Your life is in the balance here. What did you do there?
Donald Mallard: Only what was required of me.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Are you protecting that guy?
Donald Mallard: I am protecting no one, Jethro. Look... If you intend to unravel strings further on this matter, I would prefer that you leave them un-pulled.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.
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Outside Ducky's house
Jordan Hampton: Gibbs. Are you leaving?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Good to see you, Doctor.
Jordan Hampton: Good to see you, too. Donnie, I think I found a place in the ground that's not too tough.
Donald Mallard: Well, I'm sure that will be lovely for... It was only stunned... Only stunned.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He's been, uh... Waxing philosophical.
Jordan Hampton: Did he read you passages from Rilke'sLetters to a Young Poet, hmm?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Keep an eye on him.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: What do you think? Is that Mosuma?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What am I looking at?
Ziva David: We have been sifting through old crime scene photos within walking distance of the same neighborhood.
Anthony DiNozzo: Trying to prove she's seen him before.
Timothy McGee: And that she was lying when she told the ambassador it was a heat of the moment thing.
Anthony DiNozzo: If she's a liar, Ducky's in the clear.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Good theory.
Anthony DiNozzo: It is a good theory, but it's... Not. We got nothing.
Timothy McGee: Boss, it was a coincidence.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, it's not; it's fate.
Ziva David: What does this woman know about Ducky?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He won't say.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, if the ambassador gets his hands around his neck, he'll make him say.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee, I.D. the guy on this film.
Timothy McGee: Sounds more like a job for Tony.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, that's a genuine bad guy. He's not an actor... Probably tied to the CIA...
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NCIS: Squad room / Ducky's house: living room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Gibbs.
Jordan Hampton: Gibbs, it's Jordan. I was just in the kitchen making him some supper. I came to check on him, and... Well, I have no idea where he went.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I do.
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Afghan Embassy: Living room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Let's go, Duck.
Donald Mallard: No.
Qasim Saydia: Can I help you?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Special Agent Gibbs. You can't arrest this man. The accusations are false.
Qasim Saydia: Dr. Mallard has been accused of torturing and killing a citizen of Afghanistan seeking refuge. You have evidence to dispute this? Then the course of action is set. A tribunal must be convened.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Then you force me to petition for the arrest of Mosuma Daoub. You're harboring a criminal.
Qasim Saydia: I have had no contact with your State Department, which suggests they are unaware of what has transpired. Perhaps because you want to protect your friend.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You arrest him, I arrest her.
Qasim Saydia: Lack of respect shown by you and your people. You will create an international incident, sir.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're the diplomat, not me.
Qasim Saydia: Obviously. Dr. Mallard.
Donald Mallard: Ambassador.
Qasim Saydia: Have you brought legal counsel?
Donald Mallard: I don't need counsel. I've come here to surrender.
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Afghan Embassy: Waiting room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Ziva David: You're quoting Edmund Burke.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: All day with Ducky... I've got to get him to call off the dogs.
Ziva David: Gibbs... The ambassador answers only to the highest authority in his country. You cannot apply enough pressure to bend him. He has not contacted the State Department. He does not want this.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: This a lesson in Mideast diplomacy?
Ziva David: Political relations what they are between Afghanistan and the U. S., he cannot afford to appear as the aggressor.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He needs an out.
Ziva David: It is seven hours until sunrise in Kabul, then... It moves up the chain. There is still time, if you can get Ducky to open up.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: Did you write this aging program, McGee?
Timothy McGee: Yeah, updated some of the protocols on the existing version.
Abigael Scuito: It's not bad. Let's see how we do with facial recognition. I heard about your shipment from home. I was kind of shocked.
Timothy McGee: Big surprise... I was a dork.
Abigael Scuito: That's not what I meant.
Timothy McGee: Well, you may not have noticed, but it's taken a lot of work to outgrow those awkward, geeky phases.
Abigael Scuito: I like your geeky parts.
Timothy McGee: Well, I do,too,but I want to be more than just a walking search engine, you know? See, the tricky thing is adding the new layers...
Abigael Scuito: Without losing some of the old ones; I get that.
Timothy McGee: Well, then, what are you shocked at?
Abigael Scuito: Oh, I can't believe you were a Mac guy.
Timothy McGee: Got him.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Agency I.D.card for Marcin Jerek. Born in Poland, fled to Britain. Until health complications forced him into retirement, Jerek lectured on interrogation techniques at Langley. He's an expert at breaking a subject.
Anthony DiNozzo: Now we have to break him. Address is in Virginia. That's nice work, McEgghead. Oh, and the box is going back to the attic. That's smart.
Timothy McGee: Yeah, got everything I needed. All the data is right here.
Anthony DiNozzo: Your head really is shaped like an egg,you know that?
Timothy McGee: Don't do that.
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Afghan Embassy: Waiting room
Ziva David: Thank you for seeing us, Your Excellency.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We need a... A conversation with Dr. Mallard.
Qasim Saydia: He has made it clear he does not wish to speak with you.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, not me.
Qasim Saydia: Then who?
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Afghan Embassy: Living room
Anthony DiNozzo: Just in here, sir.
Marcin Jerek: I'm taken from my home by federal agents, delivered to the Afghani government and accused of war crimes. And after all this, it's just Ducky. When you left Jalozai, we were in the middle of a game. Do you rember?
Donald Mallard: Vividly. You had me in a knight-bishop fork.
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Afghan Embassy: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: You should've seen this guy's place. Tower of London's got nothing on it. It's like a weapons museum.
Qasim Saydia: In here.
Mosuma Daoud: What is going on?
Qasim Saydia: It's all right, Mosuma. Just listen.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Then you decide both their fates.
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Afghan Embassy: Living room
Marcin Jerek: Oh, it appears theirs will be the next move. I suspect Trent is to blame for this betrayal.
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Afghan Embassy: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: Trent?
Marcin Jerek: The destiny of students to disappoint their masters.
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Afghan Embassy: Living room
Marcin Jerek: So do you think they expect us to quake in fear at the hangman's noose?
Donald Mallard: I have surrendered to their judgment. It is beyond my powers to induce you to admit your shame.
Marcin Jerek: Oh, once again, you misread me.
Donald Mallard: You feel no pain because of your physical condition. But that is no excuse for your lack of remorse.
Marcin Jerek: Their enemies were hidden amongst them, so I am summoned. Times of war call for a greater enemy, but... You flew in, Doctor. A moth to the flame. Ignorant, you would be burned by its touch. You were a tourist.
Donald Mallard: I came there to save lives. You were there to destroy them.
Marcin Jerek: One life to save thousands. You do not think it costs? How many did you save? And how many did you take? Tell me.
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Afghan Embassy: Observation room
Mosuma Daoud: He does not deny he killed my brother.
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Afghan Embassy: Living room
Marcin Jerek: You never learned that death, although occasionally unavoidable, was rarely of use to me. I cannot carry on conversations with the dead. Accept it. Millions are alive still because of the work I conducted while you ran.
Donald Mallard: You shroud your depravity in principle. But you, you take such... Joy in what you do.
Marcin Jerek: Joy and pain must be earned.
Donald Mallard: You're like a child pulling the wings off flies.
Marcin Jerek: My curse was my gift. My deficiency was the fuel that drove my life towards a singular pursuit.
Donald Mallard: The pursuit of suffering!
Marcin Jerek: Of understanding the limits of human conviction. The moment when a person abandons their most deeply-held beliefs.
Donald Mallard: I've seen the tools of your trade.
Marcin Jerek: Hmm, and I've seen yours. So which of your morphine victims have brought us here?
Donald Mallard: His name was Javid. An innocent caught up in your net. Who wanted no part of war. Who sought only safety.
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Afghan Embassy: Observation room
Mosuma Daoud: Javid did not know anything. There was no reason.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yes, there was.
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Afghan Embassy: Living room
Donald Mallard: He had nothing to give you. I was there with him, speaking with him through his dying breath.
Marcin Jerek: While you ignored his infection, providing only the overdose that killed him.
Donald Mallard: It was an agonizing decision.
Marcin Jerek: But it was your decision. No amount of pain removes free will.
Donald Mallard: If I kept him alive, he would have continued to suffer. Dying slowly, in excruciating pain, at your hands.
Marcin Jerek: So you became the "bringer of death."
Donald Mallard: What was the point in it all?
Marcin Jerek: How can you still not see?
Donald Mallard: What did you want from him?
Marcin Jerek: Nothing. I wanted nothing from him.
Donald Mallard: Javid was not your target. He was your weapon.
Marcin Jerek: The boy was the means to break a man. Your bleeding heart eased everyone's fears. Without fear, I could not do my job.
Donald Mallard: You were torturing me.
Marcin Jerek: To change you. But you took too long to break.
Donald Mallard: I could have saved him.
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Afghan Embassy: Observation room
Mosuma Daoud: I have heard enough.
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Afghan Embassy: Living room
Marcin Jerek: If only you'd left sooner. Hope left with the saint... The savage brought salvation.
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Afghan Embassy: Waiting room
Qasim Saydia: You all right, Mosuma? Excuse me.
Ezmaray Daoub: Come. Let us go.
Qasim Saydia: You are free to go, Dr. Mallard. The charges against you will not be pursued.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're forgiven.
Donald Mallard: For the crime, Jethro. For the act, there is no forgiveness.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
James Palmer: I can't remember where this goes. I just want everything to be perfect here.
Jordan Hampton: Jimmy, I know you're anxious to have Dr. Mallard back, but he's not the kind of man who wants a big show of affection.
James Palmer: What kind of man is he?
Jordan Hampton: Welcome back, Doctor.
James Palmer: Dr. Mallard. Uh, while you were gone, I, uh... I was studying the penmanship on the Declaration of Independence...
Donald Mallard: Mr. Palmer... Jimmy, why don't you take the rest of the day off. Go outside. Smell a rose or two.
James Palmer: Actually, it's pretty cold out. I... Sure... Thanks... Doctor... Some people think that J Street was omitted as an intentional slight against Chief Justice John Jay, but that isn't it, is it? It's because in 1791 a capital "J" so closely resembled a capital "I," so they couldn't have both... They were just trying to keep people from getting lost.
