On the road
Thomas Jennings: Oh, no... Oh, my God... What the hell? Anyone there?
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Car
Thomas Jennings: What? What the hell's going on here, man?
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On the road
Thomas Jennings: Where are my keys? Anyone there? Hello?!
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Twice.
Ziva David: Four hours. That is how long I waited for your cable repairman.
Anthony DiNozzo: You've already said it.
Ziva David: Four hours!
Anthony DiNozzo: I will not reboot again. I will never reboot it again!
Ziva David: Reschedule? So you can waste another Saturday?
Anthony DiNozzo: Just admit you have no idea how to fix the problem, and then we can both get on with our lives.
Ziva David: Someone will die today.
Timothy McGee: Morning, team.
Ziva David: "Morning"?
Anthony DiNozzo: "Team"?
Ziva David: You are in a particularly good mood today, McGee.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, and I don't like it.
Timothy McGee: What gives? I had a good weekend... I had a very good weekend.
Anthony DiNozzo: Golden Girls marathon?
Timothy McGee: No, Tony, actually, I met someone.
Anthony DiNozzo: What's his name?
Timothy McGee: Her name is Claire. She is a computer programmer.
Ziva David: Where did you meet?
Timothy McGee: Well, actually, we... We haven't met yet in person. We met online.
Anthony DiNozzo: Of course, you did. Go figure.
Ziva David: So when is the first date?
Timothy McGee: Hopefully, as soon as possible. This girl, Ziva, she's perfect. She's gorgeous, she thinks I'm hysterical and she is a level 5 sorceress.
Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, God!
Timothy McGee: What?
Anthony DiNozzo: No! The sadness when I hear you talk like this. You don't know who these people are. It could be a 45-year-old overweight man in Minnesota. I mean, like you said, you two haven't even met yet.
Timothy McGee: What part of "level 5 sorceress" don't you understand?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: All of it.
Timothy McGee: Boss, to be a level 5 sorceress, you have to conquer... Not important.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. But we got a missing Navy Captain who is. Office of Naval Intelligence called it in... Where are you going?
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, didn't you say that...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Missing person, DiNozzo. Hasn't been 48 hours.
Ziva David: So it is not in our jurisdiction yet.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.
Anthony DiNozzo: But you'd like us to make a few calls.
Kevin Nelson: We certainly would... Agent Gibbs.
Anthony DiNozzo: Him.
Kevin Nelson: We spoke on the phone. This is Rebecca. Captain Jennings' daughter.
Anthony DiNozzo: And you are?
Kevin Nelson: Kevin Nelson, her fiancé... Ex-fiancé.
Rebecca Jennings: This is pointless.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I hope so.
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NCIS: Conference room
Kevin Nelson: Becky's dad was supposed to meet us last night for dinner at Mangiamo's, but he never showed.
Rebecca Jennings: You know why he never showed.
Kevin Nelson: Becky, please. They got into a fight yesterday.
Rebecca Jennings: Yeah, yesterday and... The day before yesterday, and... The day before that.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: About?
Rebecca Jennings: My father has his ideas about how I should be living my life.
Ziva David: Most fathers do.
Rebecca Jennings: He came by yesterday morning. We got into a fight, so now he's trying to prove a point.
Kevin Nelson: By disappearing? Not answering his cell? Hell of a point.
Rebecca Jennings: Kevin, it's been one day. And you're ready to call out the National Guard. Relax.
Kevin Nelson: Becky, maybe you've forgotten: you're all he has.
Rebecca Jennings: Maybe I've forgotten? Thanks for the coffee.
Ziva David: She does not seem to share your concern.
Kevin Nelson: Trust me, she's worried.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She's got a funny way of showing it.
Kevin Nelson: You have to understand, she lost her mother less than a year ago to cancer. The idea that something may have happened to her father...
Ziva David: You are a very caring... Ex-fiancé.
Kevin Nelson: She'd do the same for me.
Anthony DiNozzo: Boss... Found a body in Shenandoah. Matches the description of Captain Jennings.
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Shenandoah: Cabin
Lee Chandler: Was just getting ready to call in our forensic team when I spotted your BOLO.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who found the body?
Lee Chandler: A couple of kids in one of our warming huts. Or as they like to call 'em...
Anthony DiNozzo: Love shacks.
Lee Chandler: How'd you know?
Anthony DiNozzo: Lucky guess.
Lee Chandler: Get a lot of kids up here.
Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, to be young again.
Lee Chandler: Well, it has been a while since we've had a murder up here.
Anthony DiNozzo: How do you know it's a murder?
Lee Chandler: Ain't a suicide. That's for sure.
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Later
Ziva David: Will be hard for Rebecca to hear her father is dead. But this...
Donald Mallard: Reminiscent of a rather dark period in English history. Did you know that the preferred method of punishment for treason was to be hung, drawn and quartered. They would hang the victims by the neck, then they were taken from the scaffold before they could have the freedom of death and disemboweled. Just like this chap. Except, unlike him, they would hack them into four "quarters" and drag them through the streets, their heads stuck on pikestaffs.
Ziva David: Nice story, Ducky.
Donald Mallard: Yes, well, I did say it was dark. And, thankfully, ancient history.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Not so ancient, Duck.
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Shenandoah
Timothy McGee: Decent tire track.
Anthony DiNozzo: I got things under control. Why don't you head down to the hut, help Gibbs.
Timothy McGee: Nah, it's a bit small down there. Wouldn't want things getting cramped.
Anthony DiNozzo: Right. Got it. Chicken!
Timothy McGee: What?
Anthony DiNozzo: Five years, you still can't handle the bloodbaths, can you?
Timothy McGee: Yeah, that's what it is. Look, I told you before, I had a good weekend, I'm just trying to stay in the nice head space.
Anthony DiNozzo: Carla.
Timothy McGee: Claire.
Anthony DiNozzo: Whatever. Enjoy it while it lasts. Women are trouble. Haven't you learned anything from me?
Timothy McGee: Yeah. Not to go on undercover dates with a doctor whose father is the world's biggest arms dealer.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's low, Probie.
Timothy McGee: And not to loan your friends money. You still owe me 40 bucks.
Anthony DiNozzo: Don't change the subject. What are you talking about?
Timothy McGee: I understand what's going on here: you're jealous. You haven't had a date in a few weeks. It's okay.
Anthony DiNozzo: Me, jealous of the Elf Lord? I think you have me confused with someone who's far less awesome.
Timothy McGee: Level 5 sorceress.
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Shenandoah: Cabin
Donald Mallard: This abdominal mutilation was done postmortem. Note the lack of bleeding along the dermis here, unlike this wound, which shows signs of coagulation. Happened at least one hour prior.
Ziva David: The killer snuck up behind him. Knocked him unconscious.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Brought him here, killed him.
Donald Mallard: Well, the lack of defensive wounds would support that theory.
Ziva David: Ducky, that blood seems unusually red.
Donald Mallard: Good eye, Officer David. Erythema usually suggests that the blood is saturated with carboxyhemoglobin.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Carbon monoxide.
Donald Mallard: Yeah, possibly from the stove in this confined space. Perhaps the cause of death, perhaps not.
Ziva David: And the rest of it?
Donald Mallard: Well, I think we can rule out organ harvesting. Risk of infection is much too high.Jethro. Take a look at this.
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Thomas Jennings' house: living room
Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, boy.
Ziva David: Problem?
Anthony DiNozzo: Waiting for you to find out.
Ziva David: The man had a pentagram on his back. That does not make him possessed.
Anthony DiNozzo: Fear the house, Ziva. Always fear the house.
Ziva David: I will keep my eyes open for any poltergeists.
Anthony DiNozzo: Not the ghosts I'm worried about... It's the pentagram-happy dungeon-building freaks that always live in wholesome places like this.
Ziva David: Then I will keep my eyes open for any dungeons. They looked happy. It is nice when a couple has so much in common, like McGee and his new sorceress friend.
Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, yeah, I was going to talk to you about that. It's kind of funny, actually... Let's see. How do I put this delicately? She've... She's not real?
Ziva David: You did not.
Anthony DiNozzo: I did. I was bored. It was late. I just watched Weird Science. Next thing I knew, I was building a fake online profile and... I'm in with McGee.
Ziva David: He really likes her. Tony, you have to tell him.
Anthony DiNozzo: I know. It's actually kind of flattering... In a creepy way.
Ziva David: What did you think would happen?
Anthony DiNozzo: I didn't know. The flaw in the plan... Was the plan. But I got another plan to end it.
Ziva David: Which is?
Anthony DiNozzo: You've ever see Fatal Attraction... Poltergeist is behind me, isn't it?
Adrianna Lopez: Can I help you?
Ziva David: NCIS. Who are you?
Adrianna Lopez: Adrianna Lopez. I live here. I clean. I stay in the guest house. Did you find Mr. Thomas?
Ziva David: I'm afraid... Captain Jennings is dead.
Adrianna Lopez: How?
Ziva David: He was murdered.
Adrianna Lopez: Murdered? Dios mio, por que?
Ziva David: No lo se. Pero lo vamos a investigar.
Anthony DiNozzo: Excuse me... Do you know where that goes?
Adrianna Lopez: Mr. Thomas says no one goes down there.
Anthony DiNozzo: I don't think he'll mind. Ziva?
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Thomas Jennings' house: basement
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm betting satanic dungeon.
Beary Smyles: Hi, there. I'm Beary Smyles. Would you like me to sing you a song?
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Beary frickin' Smyles. Christmas 1989, every kid wanted one of these.
Ziva David: Including you, McGee?
Timothy McGee: Oh, yeah. But Beary was sold out everywhere. I was crushed.
Anthony DiNozzo: You were 13.
Timothy McGee: I was 12. My parents couldn't find Beary so... I decided to take the bull by the horns. I designed my own. I used my dad's old tape recorder and a Winnie the Pooh bear. Called him "Pooh 2.0".
Anthony DiNozzo: And 15 short years later, you lost your virginity.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: DiNozzo?
Anthony DiNozzo: Hey, Boss. I was just telling the guys that... Captain Jennings' car was found off Route 19. It was abandoned. It's being towed in.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee?
Timothy McGee: Boss, still working on the captain's laptop, but I was able to access his voicemail. This little gem was left two days ago by his daughter, Rebecca.
Rebecca Jennings: Hey, Dad, it's Becky. I thought long and hard about what you said and I decided that you're right. I need to pull my life together. So, from now on, I'm going to ignore my family, get what I want through manipulation, and I'm gonna leave home for weeks at the drop of a hat, and that way, I can be exactly like you. Okay, see you at dinner tonight... If you show...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Daddy's little girl.
Anthony DiNozzo: Speaking of Daddy. Captain Thomas Jennings works in the counterespionage lab at the Office of Naval Intelligence. One of those... Brainiacs, you know, who designs all their nifty whiz bangs.
Ziva David: "Whiz bangs?"
Anthony DiNozzo: Whiz bangs, you know. Sort of like Q in the Bond films.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Come on, DiNozzo.
Anthony DiNozzo: For the last two years, despite losing his wife to cancer, Captain Jennings has been working 18 hours a day, seven days a week that is, when he's actually in town.
Timothy McGee: Jennings' Naval travel logs show that he departed on international flights once a month. However, according to arrival logs, he never made it to his destinations.
Ziva David: Which begs the question.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where'd he really go?
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: Scalpel... Hemostats... Screwdriver... Thank you, Gibbs, RN. Come to play doctor? Caf-POW!
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What do you got, Abbs?
Abigael Scuito: 1989's Christmas nightmare for every parent. The unattainable...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Beary Smyles.
Abigael Scuito: My dad waited in line two hours for one on Black Friday.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Six... Christmas Eve...
Abigael Scuito: You notice the factory seals are broken. So...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Somebody's been inside.
Abigael Scuito: Yep, and after Dr. Abby finishes her exploratory surgery, she'll tell us why.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Tire tracks.
Abigael Scuito: A man on a mission. I like it. Unfortunately, I'm still working on finding the exact make and model of said tires.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And the...
Abigael Scuito: Pentagram. It's not what you think. Contrary to popular belief, a satanic pentagram has an elongated point. This pentagram is geometrically perfect. Historically, pentagrams have been used to symbolize all kinds of things.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How about this one?
Abigael Scuito: Good question. I'm still working on it.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: So, basically, you've got nothing.
Abigael Scuito: I've spoiled you, Gibbs. You can't get an answer every time you come down here, but next time I will have something.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Next time you'll have a Caf-POW!
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: Oh, Captain, Captain... Disembowelment, blunt-force trauma and a pentagram. You, my friend, are as mysterious as they come.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I was hoping you'd already figured him out, Duck.
Donald Mallard: Well, the captain was in good physical condition. No sign of arteriosclerosis or any other degenerative disease. However, in the lining of his duodenum, I found traces of green discoloration, possibly a reaction to a tetracycline-based antibiotic.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You got a cause of death?
Donald Mallard: The captain's skull showed additional signs of blunt-force trauma. At first glance I thought that might be the cause of death.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How about second glance?
Donald Mallard: Well, as usual, it proved to be more reliable than the first. Abby's tox screen confirmed that the captain was exposed to carbon monoxide at levels that would almost certainly have proved fatal.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, CO killed him. Carving the turkey came later.
Donald Mallard: Yes, and half an hour after the pentagram was imprinted on his back. You know, I don't believe this is the work of satanists.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Really? You been chatting with Abby, have you, Duck?
Donald Mallard: Well, although these wounds may appear to be random, they're not. I found a pattern. Whoever sliced Captain Jennings open wasn't trying to kill or torture him. They were looking for something.
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NCIS: Squad room
Beary Smyles: Hi, there. I'm Beary Smyles. You're my best friend, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Thank you, Beary.
Beary Smyles: You're very welcome.
Anthony DiNozzo: All right, one more time and I'm gonna rip that bear's head off again!
Beary Smyles: Gear up, DiNozzo. Got a body at Quantico.
Anthony DiNozzo: Don't mess with me.
Ziva David: That bear sounds very familiar.
Beary Smyles: You think, David? DiNozzo, bag and tag. David, witness statements. McGee, I ever tell you how brilliant you are?
Timothy McGee: Oh, Beary.
Beary Smyles: I love you, McGee... Sorry, boss.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Talk to me... You, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Well, we... Know why Captain Jennings was playing with dolls. He was using the primitive electronics in Beary here to build an old-school "phreak box".
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: In English.
Anthony DiNozzo: A phreak box. That's a tool that hackers used to use in the '80s to communicate remotely with computer systems... What? Come on, guys. War Games, Sneakers, Hackers. Very young Angelina Jolie in that.
Ziva David: Why did Jennings use a child's toy to build one?
Timothy McGee: Well, my guess is, that the technology in Beary is so old, modern systems aren't designed to defend against it. He's using it to hack something.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What?
Timothy McGee: I'm not sure what he's specifically after yet, but I do know who he's targeting. The IP addresses are assigned to Homeland Security's mainframe.
Ziva David: We also found a series of encrypted e-mails on Jennings' laptop.
Anthony DiNozzo: Can't read them. And we don't know their destination. But get this: every time Jennings goes on one of his "overseas business trips", the e-mails stop.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He's meeting his contact.
Ziva David: Contact for what?
Timothy McGee: He's hacking into Homeland Security. He's flying all over the country.
Anthony DiNozzo: Doubt they're playing Parcheesi.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: DiNozzo, David...
Anthony DiNozzo: Talk to Jennings' boss. On it, Boss.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, Gibbs.
Abigael Scuito: Now I've got something for you.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Great, be right there, Abs.
Anthony DiNozzo: So, how's it going with your other special friend?
Timothy McGee: Claire... She's gotten a bit clingy. I didn't respond to an e-mail of hers right away, and she freaked out. Starts going on about how computers are destroying civilization, which is really weird because she's a computer programmer.
Anthony DiNozzo: Kick her to the curb.
Timothy McGee: I think I'm gonna give her another shot. We connected, you know? And it's not every day that you find a...
Anthony DiNozzo: Level 5 sorceress.
Timothy McGee: Hmm.
Anthony DiNozzo: I know...
Ziva David: You have to tell him the truth.
Anthony DiNozzo: Maybe. Not until I'm absolutely sure lying won't work.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: Tell me what you see, Gibbs.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A tire.
Abigael Scuito: It's not just any tire. It's a retro-edition radial P-396. An exact match to the tracks that were at the crime scene. And it was especially made for this bad boy. Now tell me what you see.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: '72 Buick Skylark.
Abigael Scuito: Look closer.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Pentagram.
Abigael Scuito: It's an aftermarket hub cap. There's a small company in Texas that sold them. Okay, check this out... Wait for it...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Perfect match.
Abigael Scuito: When I saw that, I ran a full hydrocarbon panel on Jennings' blood. The carbon monoxide in his tissue had traces of naphthalenes and polycyclic aromatics.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Car exhaust.
Abigael Scuito: Yeah. The CO poisoning came from the car, Gibbs. Jennings had to be in the trunk!
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And the imprint on his back.
Abigael Scuito: He was lying on the spare. He choked on the exhaust. He died in the trunk. And then he was carried to the shack where he was... Sliced and diced.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby...
Abigael Scuito: '72 Skylark. Custom hubcaps. I already told Tony to put out a BOLO.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I was gonna say: "Nice job".
Abigael Scuito: Obviously not nice enough.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Fridge.
Abigael Scuito: I don't know how you did that and I don't care... Thank you, Gibbs!
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Government counterespionage gadget lab: hallway
Anthony DiNozzo: So, what's a nice girl like you doing at a top-secret, government counterespionage gadget lab like this?
Jessica Shore: Bet that sounded better in your head.
Anthony DiNozzo: No, not really. I like your glasses.
Ziva David: Let it go, Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: I can't. Let me guess. Hidden camera? Infrared? X- ray vision?
Jessica Shore: I'm Dr. Daniel's assistant, Agent DiNozzo. I make copies, get coffee. I don't play with the toys.
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Government counterespionage gadget lab: Rod Daniels' lab
Rod Daniels: That's my job. Dr. Rod Daniels. You must be Officer David and you are...
Anthony DiNozzo: Very Special Agent Tony DiNozzo.
Rod Daniels: Excuse me.
Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, neat. Acoustic bug in the stapler?
Rod Daniels: I assume you'll want to take a look at Captain Jennings' office?
Ziva David: Eventually, yes.
Rod Daniels: I just want to let you know, regardless of what your investigation has uncovered or what you discover here... Thomas Jennings was an honorable man and a patriot.
Anthony DiNozzo: So, we're gonna find something here?
Rod Daniels: I'm obligated to inform you that we have had a... Breach.
Ziva David: Specifically?
Rod Daniels: A multithreaded mini-processor that enables our moles to access enemy computer systems. We call it "Keyhole"... This is a mock-up. USB-compatible. Disguised as a toothpaste cap. Easy to get through Customs.
Anthony DiNozzo: Nice!
Rod Daniels: It was nice. It's missing and it's the last thing you'd want misplaced, but I assure you Jennings had nothing to do with it, he was...
Ziva David: We know, a patriot.
Rod Daniels: Yes. And he was heavily searched every time he left the lab area, just as I am, and just as you two will be. So, there's simply no way he could have gotten anything out of here.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: You think Jennings swallowed it?
Ziva David: It is the only way he could have gotten it out of the lab.
Anthony DiNozzo: If it was stuck in his stomach, that'd explain the green goop that Ducky found in his gut.
Timothy McGee: All right, so he stole it. Then what?
Anthony DiNozzo: We got a missing hi-tech gizmo called "Keyhole", right? Encrypted e-mails to some mystery contact overseas.
Timothy McGee: Maybe he was selling it.
Ziva David: Jennings must have arranged to meet with his contact here.
Anthony DiNozzo: But they didn't want to wait for nature to take its course. So they went dumpster diving in his belly instead.
Timothy McGee: Guys must have really been in a rush.
Ziva David: Or decided they didn't want to pay.
Timothy McGee: Yeah.
Anthony DiNozzo: Who is they?
Timothy McGee: Thanks. Let's find out. BOLO just came back on the '72 Buick Skylark.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'll call Gibbs.
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Parking
Anthony DiNozzo: Nice rims.
Ziva David: Another meet?
Anthony DiNozzo: Cockpit's empty.
Timothy McGee: Must be inside.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: DiNozzo, McGee, around back. Ziva, you're with me.
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Later
Anthony DiNozzo: Boss, Brandon Sykes, 22. Small-time drifter with a big-time rap sheet. Larceny, grand theft auto, dealing, even suspected of a homicide over an iPod. Doesn't exactly scream espionage.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hired gun.
Anthony DiNozzo: Hired by who?
Donald Mallard: "Whom", Tony. "Who" is the nominative case. "Whom" always follows a preposition.
Anthony DiNozzo: Traffic bad?
Donald Mallard: Dreadful. I'm having a better day than this poor young man... Jumped or pushed?
Anthony DiNozzo: We rushed the warehouse... Empty.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Found signs of a struggle on the roof, though.
Donald Mallard: Yeah, well, he has defensive wounds on his hands.
Anthony DiNozzo: Guess we're going with pushed.
Ziva David: Okay, thanks. Vehicle is registered to Sykes.
Timothy McGee: That places him at the warming hut where Captain Jennings was killed.
Ziva David: I doubt he was sightseeing.
Timothy McGee: So Sykes kills the captain, takes Keyhole from him, then comes here.
Ziva David: Probably to make the delivery to whomever hired him.
Timothy McGee: Didn't work out so well.
Ziva David: Someone is cleaning up their loose ends.
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NCIS: Conference room
Ziva David: Rebecca's not coming.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: So she sends her ex-fiancé?
Kevin Nelson: Not ex. We're back together... I'm not sure if it's the right thing, but she needs me.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, I need her to look at some photos.
Kevin Nelson: I know. But staring at the face of her father's killer isn't something she's up for at the moment. She asked if I could pick them up and bring them to her.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No... It doesn't work that way.
Kevin Nelson: This isn't easy for her, Agent Gibbs.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: If it wasn't necessary, I wouldn't ask... Fingerprints matched a partial found in the warming hut... You know him?
Kevin Nelson: No. Who is he?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I was hoping Rebecca would tell me.
Kevin Nelson: She wants to help, believe me. But she's in a very bad place right now. Heck, she took me back... Just give her some time.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: For Rebecca... When she's ready.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Rebecca Jennings, 22, native of Virginia.
Ziva David: Recently graduated from Indiana University, works part-time at a pet store.
Anthony DiNozzo: No criminal record, unless you count a misdemeanor for disturbing the peace. She tossed her fiancé's clothes out a second-story window. I hate it when that happens.
Timothy McGee: She's not exactly a criminal mastermind.
Ziva David: Or the first family member to not want to identify a killer.
Anthony DiNozzo: Think she knows what Daddy was into?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She knows something. Talk to her friends, co-workers, everyone.
Timothy McGee: Why don't we just bring her in?
Anthony DiNozzo: What are we gonna put on the warrant, Gibbs' gut? Not that that wouldn't be valid. I'm sure that...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Just talk to her friends. She'll come to us.
Timothy McGee: So much for my date tonight.
Anthony DiNozzo: What are you doing? So you giving the psycho another chance?
Timothy McGee: Well, I was. I guess now I got to cancel.
Anthony DiNozzo: What is that silliness?! Sorry. Ziva and I will cover the interviews for you.
Timothy McGee: That is awfully un-Tony of you, Tony.
Anthony DiNozzo: Just doing you a solid, Probie. Because you having a date is about as rare as me not having one.
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Bar
Rebecca Jennings: Am I a suspect, Agent Gibbs?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Sit down.
Rebecca Jennings: Answer the question, please... Why are you investigating me?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It's my job.
Rebecca Jennings: Are you serious? Do you think that I had something to do with... Is that him? Who is he?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You don't know?
Rebecca Jennings: No, I don't.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: But you know something.
Rebecca Jennings: Yeah. I know that my father was murdered, and you have no idea why.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And you don't either?
Rebecca Jennings: I told you, I don't.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You left him a message complaining about his long trips. No idea where he's been going?
Rebecca Jennings: None... Are you close to your father?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Getting there.
Rebecca Jennings: When my mom died... I was devastated... But I knew that I would be okay. I knew that I would make it... But this time... I'm not sure. I mean, don't get me wrong. I loved my mom, I loved her more than anything... But he's my daddy... And now I have no one left in my life.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Kevin.
Rebecca Jennings: I told him I wanted to try to work things out, but our last engagement ended with me...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Throwing his clothes out the window.
Rebecca Jennings: You heard about that? He deserved it... But when my mom died, Kevin was there for me... I just don't think I can make it through something like this again... I don't have it in me.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, you do... Might take you a while to find, but you do...
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Bar / NCIS: Squad room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Gibbs.
Timothy McGee: Boss, hey, I got something here.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee, you're working late.
Timothy McGee: Yeah, actually, I... Had a date tonight, and she didn't show. So, I, really, I kind of ended up in the area and I thought I'd...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Jeez, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Sorry. Jennings' mystery e-mails, I was able to partially decrypt the routing information in the header.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That's a good thing, right?
Timothy McGee: Oh, yeah! Allowed me to ID the NIC address on the recipient's computer. It's a laptop, and it's in use right now.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where?
Timothy McGee: Captain Jennings' house.
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NCIS: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: It's like I said, it's always the maid.
Ziva David: No. You have said it is always the janitor or the butler or anyone assigned to work in Abby's lab. But you have never once said "maid".
Anthony DiNozzo: Anyone ever tell you your memory can be a real buzz kill?
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NCIS: Interview room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who are you?
Adrianna Lopez: Adrianna Lopez. I worked for Mr. Thomas.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Captain Jennings' credit card record shows weekly payments to an outside maid service. They never heard of you... Fact is, no one has... Six weeks ago, you somehow got a green card. Before that, there's no record of you at all.
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NCIS: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: Who do you think she's working for? Chinese? Russians?
Ziva David: Cubans. After all, she is Cuban.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's way too obvious. Haven't I taught you anything?
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NCIS: Interview room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where'd you meet Captain Jennings?
Adrianna Lopez: In Cuba.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: When?
Adrianna Lopez: Six months ago.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You recruited him?
Adrianna Lopez: Did I recruit... What...?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Paid him to steal classified technologies, like Keyhole.
Adrianna Lopez: No, wait.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Then you had him killed.
Adrianna Lopez: No!
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You used him!
Adrianna Lopez: I loved him!
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NCIS: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: Maybe it was the butler.
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NCIS: Interview room
Adrianna Lopez: Thomas was in Cuba to oversee the installation of a new radar at the American base... He had just lost his wife... I had just lost my husband. He would come down to see me whenever he could. But it wasn't easy. There are restrictions. And with his job, it would have been impossible. But he was able to hide where he was going... Eventually, he got me a green card... And I came here.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: To pretend to be his maid?
Adrianna Lopez: We lied because Thomas didn't want his daughter to know about us. Not yet. He thought it was too soon.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And after he died, you kept lying. Why?
Adrianna Lopez: I did what I thought Thomas would want me to.
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NCIS: Observation room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She's hiding something.
Ziva David: I have posed as a girlfriend many times to get what I needed. She pretended to be Captain Jennings' girlfriend. Convinced him to steal the missing gizmo.
Timothy McGee: There's one problem with that, Ziva. That's gizmo is not missing anymore. I just spoke with Dr. Daniels at the ONI Lab. They found Keyhole.
Anthony DiNozzo: They "found" it? Where, under a couch?
Timothy McGee: Subfloor. Jennings never tried to get Keyhole out of the lab. He set it up for remote access. Dialed in from his basement, used it to hack the ICE database, get his girlfriend a green card.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's what she was hiding... Jennings gamed the system for her.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No mystery handler.
Ziva David: No espionage.
Anthony DiNozzo: So why in the hell was Thomas Jennings filleted?
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: I liked this case better when we had a motive.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, then find one, DiNozzo.
Anthony DiNozzo: Easier said than done, boss.
Timothy McGee: We're, trying to make a connection between Jennings and his killer.
Ziva David: Brandon Sykes. But we hit a dead end.
Anthony DiNozzo: No pun intended.
Ziva David: Actually, it was.
Anthony DiNozzo: In that case, nicely done.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Focus on Sykes. Find his killer, we'll find our motive. Ziva.
Ziva David: I will talk to Sykes' parole officer. Get a list of associates.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee?
Timothy McGee: Sykes moved around a lot, but I think I have a lead on his apartment.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Take Tony with you.
Anthony DiNozzo: You mean: "Tony, take McGee". 'Cause I'm a senior field agent, which... That's not important. Give me...
Timothy McGee: Come on, Tony. I'm going to let you play with the siren.
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Building: hallway
Anthony DiNozzo: Heard you got stood up last night, Probie.
Timothy McGee: She never even call.
Anthony DiNozzo: That ends that?
Timothy McGee: Maybe.
Anthony DiNozzo: "Maybe"? Know when to fold 'em, McGee. NCIS, open up... This girl's not worth it. Trust me.
Timothy McGee: Tony, I'm not like you. It's not that easy for me to meet women. Never has been... That's why I was hoping this girl might be... You know...
Anthony DiNozzo: You'll find your girl.
Timothy McGee: Thought I did.
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Apartment
Anthony DiNozzo: NCIS.
Timothy McGee: Federal agents.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: I love trashed apartments. Not my apartment. I like my apartment pristine. The floors clean and the furniture dusted, and the casket shined and...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby.
Abigael Scuito: Trashed apartments. Okay, first thing that I noticed is that it's trashed.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Good eye.
Abigael Scuito: No. I mean, like, really trashed. There was a microscopic layer of a silicon carbide covering pretty much the entire crime scene... Whoever trashed his apartment, went banzai on his dinner plates with a hammer. They were not looking for anything.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, they just wanted to trash it.
Abigael Scuito: And I know who "they" is. I pulled a partial print off the TV set that was thrown into the bathtub. Meet our rock star.
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NCIS: Interview room
Jessica Shore: Hell, yeah, I did it! I went over to that Jackass' place and I broke everything in sight.
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NCIS: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: That was easy.
Jessica Shore: It was all my stuff anyway. You think that dumb ass could afford real plates?
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NCIS: Interview room
Jessica Shore: When I met the guy, he had a can opener and a plastic fork. The guy's a loser, like all the rest of them. Sure I've had it. I'm done.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: So is Sykes. He's dead.
Jessica Shore: "Dead"? How?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Murdered yesterday afternoon.
Jessica Shore: And you think I did it?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Did you?
Jessica Shore: I might have, if he'd had been home. But he wasn't, and I was at work until 8:00 last night, check the logs.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How'd your boyfriend know Captain Jennings?
Jessica Shore: He didn't... You think Brandon killed the captain?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I don't think. I know.
Jessica Shore: I'm... I brought him to the Christmas party last year, but he spent the whole night in the parking lot throwing up. Like I said, a real winner.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That why you trashed his place?
Jessica Shore: I trashed his place because he proposed.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I'll take that as a "no".
Jessica Shore: Like everything else in Brandon's life, the ring was fake... Turned my finger green.
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NCIS: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: "Green"?
Timothy McGee: "Green."
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: I'd say it's more of a Torrey pine... Basically, it's the same color as this: the discoloration Ducky found in Thomas Jennings' duodenum. As for the finger, that's easy. Most fake gold is made out of copper, like this ring. And when the copper encounters the natural acids in our sweat, it oxidizes.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It turns the skin green... Torrey pine.
Abigael Scuito: Captain Jennings' gut is where it gets interesting. The ring shows microscopic signs of acidic deterioration. Specifically, deoxycholic acid.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Intestinal acid.
Abigael Scuito: This ring was in Thomas Jennings' intestines.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: There was no description of any intestinal obstruction in Captain Jennings' current medical records. So I made inquiries. Finally, I was able to contact his pediatrician. When Jennings was five, he was rushed to the ER... After swallowing his mother's engagement ring. I kid you not. The doctors deemed it too dangerous to operate and elected to wait until it worked its way out.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: But it never did.
Donald Mallard: No. As the boy grew, the plicae circulares, the lining of the boy's duodenum, simply closed around the ring, keeping it in place.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who's got access to his records?
Donald Mallard: Medical records are private, Jethro. But I doubt this story was. As family tales go, it's certainly one of the more captivating. I'm sure dozens of people heard the story.
Timothy McGee: But only one of them's been lying to us. We're going over the evidence from Jennings' house, take a look at that.
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Thomas Jennings' house
Kevin Nelson: You okay? You don't have to do this now.
Rebecca Jennings: I know... You know, don't you? Why was my father murdered?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Because of this.
Kevin Nelson: A ring?
Anthony DiNozzo: But it's not just any ring, is it, Rebecca?
Rebecca Jennings: No, it's my grandmother's engagement ring. I recognize this from the photos, but that... My father was... For a ring?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A fake ring.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's right. Grandpa proposed with a glass ring. Didn't know that part of the family story, did you, Kev?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Told your buddy, Sykes, about the ring. Did you?
Anthony DiNozzo: All he had to do was go get it. Four carats, hit paid for itself.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You didn't even get your hands dirty.
Anthony DiNozzo: Until Sykes found out the ring was fake. Then what happened? Did he try to blackmail you, Kev? Is that why you killed him?
Rebecca Jennings: Kevin?
Kevin Nelson: I told them, I don't know this Sykes guy.
Anthony DiNozzo: Let's look at some photos... There's you at a party. See you? No, can't see it? Let's blow it up.
Kevin Nelson: Becky, sweetie, I... They put... Why would I ever...
Anthony DiNozzo: Why? Because she broke off your engagement. Because you were desperate.
Kevin Nelson: And killing her father's supposed to help?
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, she broke up with you two years ago, didn't she?
Rebecca Jennings: Yeah, when my mom got sick. And I took you back.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You were hoping history was going to repeat itself?
Kevin Nelson: This is insane.
Anthony DiNozzo: Unbelievably insane. And you are a psychopath. You've just leapfrogged to the top of our "psychopath of the year" list.
Rebecca Jennings: You had my father killed.
Kevin Nelson: Baby, you know me. I would never...
Rebecca Jennings: You son of a bitch! How could you?
Kevin Nelson: You didn't give me a choice.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: And he really thought it'd work?
Ziva David: Almost did.
Anthony DiNozzo: Is killing for love really any different than killing for money? Speaking of love, how's that... Cyber-romance going, McGee?
Timothy McGee: It couldn't be worse. She sent me another e-mail. Said she's getting back together with her ex-boyfriend... I'll tell you what though. I'm not giving up on her.
Anthony DiNozzo: Wha...?
Timothy McGee: No, we got too much in common. I think she might be scared, but you know what? We can work through it. I'm telling you, I think this girl might really be the one.
Anthony DiNozzo: Take it.
Timothy McGee: Really?
Anthony DiNozzo: Sure.
Timothy McGee: Thanks. Hey, listen, I hate to ask, but...
Anthony DiNozzo: Sure. I remember. $40. With interest. Sorry it took so long. All right, see you guys later.
Ziva David: I didn't tell you so you could torture him, McGee... Very well.
