NCIS: Squad room
Ziva David: Where is McGee?
Anthony DiNozzo: I don't know. He's been acting distracted lately. Gibbs is on his case.
Ziva David: I have noticed. So... Did you know Special Agent Patterson?
Anthony DiNozzo: Not really. Met him in a crime scene training class at FLETC. Seemed like a nice guy. Give McGee a call... Tell him we're waiting. I have a message. Good afternoon, I'm calling from Hubbard & Hubbard, solicitor's office...
Timothy McGee: Sorry. There was an accident on MacArthur.
Ziva David: Let's go.
Anthony DiNozzo: That was strange. A law firm in London wants me to call. Says it's important.
Ziva David: What could they want?
Anthony DiNozzo: I don't know. Maybe it's about my Uncle Clive. Remember that funeral I went to last month?
Ziva David: Your uncle really died? I thought you were making that up to get some time off.
Anthony DiNozzo: Who do you think I am?
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Street
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He was Agent Afloat on the George Washington. It returned to Norfolk two days ago.
Donald Mallard: You notified Director Vance?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. It's way after midnight in Singapore. I send up an e-mail.
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Anthony DiNozzo: Sorry, boss. Got hung up in traffic.
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Ziva David: 911 came from the pastry chef at the restaurant on the corner. He was in the kitchen when he heard the screech of tires. Ran out. Caught sight of a dark-colored SUV racing away. He did not here any shots. Silencer?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Or a small-caliber weapon that doesn't make much noise.
Ziva David: Ducky said the entry wounds were small.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. One shot was behind the ear, close-range. Professional hit.
Donald Mallard: Jethro. You might want to take a look at this.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: DiNozzo, bring him in.
Anthony DiNozzo: Homeland Security. Got it.
Timothy McGee: Tony, why'd you cover for me?
Anthony DiNozzo: Did I? This is Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS. Please call me back...
Timothy McGee: Patterson never got a shot off. The mag's full.
Anthony DiNozzo: Boss, I reached his office. Voice mail. Left a message.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: DiNozzo, cell phone on the back of the card.
Anthony DiNozzo: Good eye... I don't know how I could have missed that... Bartholomew Lemming, this is Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo.
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Cop: Special Agent Gibbs, I got a woman who insists on talking to you. Claims she's with NCIS. Real weirdo. Wearing a Dracula cape and dog collar. Like she'd be with you.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She is.
Cop 1: You serious?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Oh, yeah. Let her in.
Cop 2: Sorry about that. Go ahead.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What are you doing here?
Abigael Scuito: Is that him? Is that Jack Patterson?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What are you doing here?
Abigael Scuito: This is terrible.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby...
Abigael Scuito: This is all my fault... Gibbs, he was coming to see me.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: Agent Jack Patterson. It's not what I thought he'd look like.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Said you knew him.
Abigael Scuito: We had a very special phone relationship. He would mail me forensic evidence, I'd e-mail him back results. He'd call me, I'd call him. He never forgot my birthday... Like you did last year. I don't know. It's his voice. He sounded... Shorter, blonder, with a mustache.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You got all that from his voice, Abs?
Abigael Scuito: You sounded different when you had a mustache.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, why was he coming to see you?
Abigael Scuito: He said he wanted to show me something.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What?
Abigael Scuito: I don't know. He wanted to meet up last night. And I... I put him off. I told him to come this morning... Gibbs, if... If I had just met up with him last night, he'd probably be alive right now.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, it's a little after 10:00 in the morning here. I can be reached on my cell at any time. You did write that number down? Good. Tell Mr. Hubbard that I anxiously await his call, and you have yourself a very nice day or night, or whatever time it is there... Okay, cheerio.
Timothy McGee: I suppose that was for my benefit. Okay, I'll bite. Are you in the will?
Anthony DiNozzo: McProbie, we can only assume, right? That was his secretary. Mr. Hubbard, my... Great-uncle's solicitor wasn't available, but... She did confirm that... He represents Uncle Clive's estate.
Timothy McGee: Clive DiNozzo.
Anthony DiNozzo: Clive Paddington. It's my mother's side.
Timothy McGee: We talking big money?
Anthony DiNozzo: Huge money! I mean, Jed Clampett money. I'm talking Texas gold. It's actually North Sea oil money.
Timothy McGee: I take it you were close to the old gent.
Anthony DiNozzo: I spent my 17th summer in Blighty. Uncle Clive was my mentor. Kind of like Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell in Scent of a Woman.
Timothy McGee: Guessing the opposite sex was involved.
Anthony DiNozzo: He could sniff out a gorgeous woman and close the deal faster than anyone I ever met.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I'm more concerned about closing that case.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm working on it, boss... Right... The George Washington returned from a six-month deployment to South and Central America. Special Agent Patterson was still living on board in Norfolk. Was looking for an apartment. No one knew he left the ship and was in D.C.
Timothy McGee: Ten years in the Navy, joined NCIS in '98. He had a setback in 2003. Spent some time on the beach for use of excessive force. Never married. Only immediate family: a mother and a sister living in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Ziva David: Special Agent Gibbs, Bartholomew Lemming, Homeland Security.
Jerome Sax: Call me Bart, Agent Gibbs.
Anthony DiNozzo: Anthony DiNozzo.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We're in the conference room.
Anthony DiNozzo: Oh.Oh. Oh. My life is about to change.
Timothy McGee: Thinks he's about to inherit a fortune.
Ziva David: Ha!
Anthony DiNozzo: Anthony DiNozzo. Oh! Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Okay, as soon as I can. Sorry. Blockbuster. Rosemary's Baby, it's overdue.
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NCIS: Conference room
Jerome Sax: I met Jack Patterson shortly after I joined Homeland Security. I was assigned to Customs Border Protection Division. He was working out of the NCIS Resident Agency in Yuma, Arizona, so we coordinated on incursions and smuggling cases.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The last time you heard from him?
Jerome Sax: He left me a message last night. I was gonna call him when I got to the office this morning. Said he was working a case and he found something he wanted to show me.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. What did he want to show you?
Jerome Sax: What's he working on?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I don't know.
Jerome Sax: Jack and I were friendly in Yuma. You know how it goes. We lost contact with one another. How did he die?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Shot. Think he was on his way here.
Jerome Sax: And he had my business card in his hand. Why?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You tell me.
Jerome Sax: We had some good times. Jack could put them down. He knew how to party. We were single then. Took the plunge last year... What can I do to help?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I don't know yet.
Jerome Sax: You have my cell number. That's the best way to reach me. I'm in the field this week. Well, joint Threat Assessment Task Force with the FBI.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I wish you luck with that.
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Abigael Scuito: You know, we always said that, we would meet someday. This isn't exactly what I expected. God, this is awkward... When you called me last night, you sounded... You know, excited. Said you had to see me... I thought you meant a date... I mean, did you want to go out or was it something else? Was I just jumping to conclusions? I... God, I didn't know what to say to Gibbs... Oh, no, are you behind me, Gibbs?
Donald Mallard: You flatter me, Abby.
Abigael Scuito: There was just... There was something I needed to ask Special Agent Patterson.
Donald Mallard: Abigael.
Abigael Scuito: What? You talk to dead people all the time.
Donald Mallard: Well, I have my reasons. Their bodies tell me a great deal. It helps to reciprocate... But we have work to do.
Abigael Scuito: I need the slugs.
Donald Mallard: You'll get them... In due time.
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Norfolk: George Washington, board
Weidman: Patterson was supposed to be finishing up paperwork on the deployment. I have no idea why he was in Washington. He's NCIS, don't you know?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Anything unusual happen during the deployment?
Weidman: Well, 6,500 men and women, six months, seven tropical ports, the usual. Alcohol, fighting, petty thefts. All in Patterson's daily activity log... Nothing major.
Timothy McGee: Excuse me, Commander?
Weidman: Yes?
Timothy McGee: Could you identify these photos? It's the last file Patterson opened yesterday afternoon. These images were downloaded from a digital camera.
Anthony DiNozzo: 9-35-6-A. That would be a forward port-side storage area. I spent four glorious months aboard the Seahawk. It was a rewarding experience.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: This part of an investigation, Commander?
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Norfolk: George Washington, hallway
Weidman: It's a big ship, on a cruise to South America. A misguided sailor might think he'll be able to smuggle drugs aboard.
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm not getting a signal down here.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You expecting a call, DiNozzo?
Anthony DiNozzo: They'll leave a message.
Weidman: Patterson and I worked well together. He understood the demands on the X.O. Usually didn't come to me until he had something.
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Norfolk: George Washington, storage area
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, if you were thinking of smuggling something, this'd be the perfect hiding place.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Check it out.
Timothy McGee: Boss, it's, it's pretty late. This could take hours, and then it's a long drive back to Washington.
Weidman: Most of the crew's on leave. You'll find a place to bunk.
Anthony DiNozzo: Perfect.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Ziva David: 22-caliber. This one's in pristine shape.
Abigael Scuito: I like pristine.
Roy: Hey Abby. Ziva.
Abigael Scuito: Hey, Roy.
Roy: U.S. Mail.
Abigael Scuito: You mean overnight carrier.
Roy: No, no, U.S. Mail. Someone dropped this in the mailbox. No postage. 'Cause it was addressed to NCIS, the postal inspector gave us a call.
Abigael Scuito: It's addressed to me?
Roy: Well, you could say that.
Abigael Scuito: It's a credit card receipt... It's Jack Patterson.
Ziva David: Did the... Postal inspector say where it was mailed from?
Roy: 400 block of K Street.
Ziva David: That's where Patterson was killed.
Abigael Scuito: So... He knew he was in jeopardy, and his last desperate act was to mail this? He wanted this to get to me even he didn't... He died getting me this?
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Later
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: There has to be a reason he sent it to you.
Abigael Scuito: I don't know. I mean, maybe he guessed the little girl looked like me, or... No, that's... Stupid. I don't know.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You ever talk about art? When you weren't talking about forensic evidence, what'd you talk about?
Abigael Scuito: Well, that's personal. I feel like you're interrogating me.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I am... Okay, she's reading a book. The book got a title?
Abigael Scuito: No.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby, Patterson died getting this to you.
Abigael Scuito: I know. This is totally weirding me out.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: All right, you said you had a match on the slug.
Abigael Scuito: Yeah... Okay. The one on the left is one that Ducky took from Patterson. I ran it through the NIBIN database. It's an exact match to the one on the right, which was used... In the unsolved murder of a businessman in Scottsdale, Arizona, two years ago.
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Norfolk: George Washington, storage area
Anthony DiNozzo: McGee... What are you doing in there?
Timothy McGee: Our jobs. I'm looking for contraband... I found this.
Anthony DiNozzo: You are looking good. What have we here?
Timothy McGee: We? Where were you, when I'm down there banging my head, huh? Skinning my knees?
Anthony DiNozzo: I was up on the flight deck, trying to get a cell signal. I've been playing phone tag with Uncle Clive's solicitor.
Timothy McGee: Screw your Uncle Clive. You haven't done anything all morning.
Anthony DiNozzo: What's with you, McCranky? You need to chillax.
Timothy McGee: You want me to chillax? You want me to chillax? I will chillax when you tell me that you have done something!
Anthony DiNozzo: I have done something... I went over Special Agent Patterson's e-mails and daily activity log. Four days ago, he did a background check on a... Seaman Richard Zell. He's had him under surveillance since Panama. Zell... Is one of only three people with the access code to... This storage bay.
Timothy McGee: Where's Seaman Zell now?
Anthony DiNozzo: According to the ship's duty roster log, he's due back on board in an hour.
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NCIS: Squad room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You make anything of it?
Jerome Sax: Yeah. I'm aware of the artist. Dina Risi. I admired her work in Yuma. I should've bought it then. I can't afford it now.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Any idea why Patterson would've sent it to our lab?
Jerome Sax: I've been trying to make a connection between the painting and Jack, but I can't.
Ziva David: That was a Scottsdale homicide detective... It made his day when I told him the weapon that killed Special Agent Patterson was the same one that was used in the murder of a local businessman by the name of... Hamilton Cooper. They have not had any movement on the case in the past two years. He is e-mailing me their case file.
Jerome Sax: You think his death had anything to do with the time he and I were stationed in Yuma?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Do you?
Jerome Sax: Well, we did some joint operations. I'll make some phone calls, go back through the files, see what I can dig up.
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Norfolk: George Washington, hallway
Anthony DiNozzo: Uncle Clive's primary residence is this manor house that's just outside of Henley on Thames. You have to come and visit sometime. In the summer, they have these... Annual regattas. It's absolutely smashing.
Timothy McGee: Tony, shut up. "What I wouldn't give for a sock full of horse manure."
Anthony DiNozzo: La-di-da! Look at you, fancy-pants-movie-reference. Annie Hall, 1977. Really Woody Allen's best. Did I tell you about Clive's... Muse in London? Really?
Timothy McGee: Do you have any idea how insufferable you are? What are you doing? You're dripping paint all over the place. Look, you see what you're doing there? Look at what I'm doing, okay? Watch. You do... Even strokes. You see that? Nice, even strokes.
Anthony DiNozzo: We're pretend painting, McGoo.
Timothy McGee: Keep that away from me.
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Norfolk: George Washington, storage area
Timothy McGee: Hey.
Anthony DiNozzo: NCIS.
Timothy McGee: Put your hands behind your head, spread your legs.
Anthony DiNozzo: God! I don't need this crap! I'm about to be a very wealthy man.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: I fumed it with cyanoacrylate. There's dozens of prints. So far I've been able to I.D. Two: Special Agent Patterson and Roy from our mail room. So many prints, so little time. But... I tried something else. How long do you think it takes ballpoint pen ink to dry? Like, really, really dry.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abs.
Abigael Scuito: Four to five days. I removed the clear plastic window from the carton, and I coated the inside with a solvent, lifting the ink residue left by the original sender's mailing label. I heat-transferred it to a clean piece of paper, then I scanned it...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What's it say? I can't make it out.
Abigael Scuito: I'm not done yet, Gibbs. And I ran it through an enhancement program. The package was sent to Patterson from the artist, Dina Risi. And there's her phone number.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Give yourself an atta-girl.
Abigael Scuito: Atta-girl.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Atta-girl. You get anywhere with the painting?
Abigael Scuito: Never enough for you, Gibbs, is it?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Went right to voice mail... She's got her phone turned off.
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NCIS: Interview room
Anthony DiNozzo: You know we've got you for drugs... And assaulting a Federal Officer. So why don't you tell me... What was going down between you and Agent Patterson.
Richard Zell: Yeah, I punched him.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah.
Richard Zell: Yeah, the coke is mine. But I told you, it's a big ship, I didn't know Patterson.
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NCIS: Observation room
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, he knew you. Had you under surveillance since the ship left Panama.
Ziva David: He may have killed Special Agent Patterson, but Seaman Zell could not have killed the Arizona businessman. According to his service records, he was aboard a frigate on his way to the Persian Gulf at the time of the murder.
Anthony DiNozzo: Tell me why you didn't.
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NCIS: Interview room
Richard Zell: I was just trying to make a couple bucks. Could you live on an E-3 salary?
Anthony DiNozzo: What did you pay for the coke?
Richard Zell: $2,000. I'm going home to Brooklyn on leave next week. On the street, I can get 20.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, you'll be lucky if you get 25... Years for murder.
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NCIS: Observation room
Timothy McGee: Boss. His alibi for yesterday morning checks out. Patterson was shot at 5:40 A.M. 30 minutes later, Seaman Zell was with drawing $40 from an ATM on the base at Norfolk. That's 200 miles away. Even you couldn't drive that fast, boss.
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NCIS: Squad room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Based on the amount of drugs involved, we're pretty sure that Seaman Zell was working alone.
Weidman: So I don't have a serious smuggling problem aboard the Washington.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A new NCIS Agent will be assigned this week. He'll follow up.
Weidman: What's to follow up? I thought you said Seaman Zell didn't have any connection to Special Agent Patterson's death.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It's an ongoing investigation. We're returning him to your command. Suggest you put him in pre-trial confinement.
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Anthony DiNozzo: He say anything? Feel like the guy's got an agenda?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What do we got?
Anthony DiNozzo: McGee, tell him about the e-mail.
Timothy McGee: Doesn't sound like Patterson shared Commander Weidman's feelings about them working well together. Patterson told the captain in an e-mail that he felt Weidman was obstructing some of his investigations.
Anthony DiNozzo: Got a call into the captain.
Ziva David: Gibbs, Dina Risi, the artist, she's starting to be recognized outside Arizona. Had a showing in San Francisco in December. She specializes in landscape.
Timothy McGee: She grew up in Italy, studied art in Milan, moved to Arizona about ten years ago.
Ziva David: Dina Risi's always been very outspoken on ecological issues.
Anthony DiNozzo: I did talk to the local sheriff... Guy by the name of Clay Boyd. And he said that he was looking for her, but she, well, she just disappeared.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Disappeared?
Anthony DiNozzo: Disappeared. Like she just fell off the face of the earth. He talks just like that. That's how he talks. I won't though. Says that she has a remote, mountain retreat where likes to go and paint, but he doesn't know where it is.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Find it, McGee.
Timothy McGee: Think I did, boss. I only used Risi paintings that have distinctive geographical landmarks. Compared them to Google Earth satellite images. These locations correspond to backgrounds in her paintings. They're all within a four-mile radius of Mount Pinos. Searched the area, only found one structure. This was taken six months ago.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Good. See if she's there.
Anthony DiNozzo: Piece of cake, Probie.
Ziva David: A Ferrari. 599 GTB. You are counting your eggs before they are laid.
Anthony DiNozzo: Operative word is "laid".
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NCIS: Conference room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Wouldn't drink that.
Jerome Sax: Sure I've had worse.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What do you have?
Jerome Sax: I know who's at the center of this. Dina Risi, the artist. Get this: I talked to a bartender at a place Jack and I used to hang. After I left Arizona, Jack used to come in with her. Bartender hinted they were a lot more than just friends.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Might explain why Dina Risi sent Patterson the painting.
Jerome Sax: You talk to her yet?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. She went into hiding. We may have a location though. Mount Pinos.
Jerome Sax: That's the badlands. Good luck finding her up there.
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NCIS: Squad room
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm e-mailing the lawyer in London. All right? The suspense is killing me.
Ziva David: I did not ask. I have the Scottsdale Police report on the murder of Hamilton Cooper, the local businessman.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Anything?
Ziva David: Yes... He was worth $20 million. Investigators suspected his wife hired a hit man. She was conveniently out of town. Shooter used a .22, multiple hits to the body. One to the head, right behind the ear.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Just like Patterson.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, I guess that lets Commander Weidman off the hook.
Timothy McGee: Boss. Tasked an NSA satellite. I got an infrared image of the cabin here.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Heat signature from the fireplace. Somebody's there. Ziva, you and McGee work the case from here. DiNozzo, go home, pack.
Anthony DiNozzo: Where am I going?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We're going to Arizona.
Anthony DiNozzo: Okay. Arizona and I don't get along.
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Mount Pinos
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Sheriff Boyd?
Clay Boyd: Yes, sir.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Special Agent Gibbs, NCIS.
Anthony DiNozzo: Hey. Special Agent DiNozzo. How are you?
Clay Boyd: DiNozzo. Is that an Italian name?
Anthony DiNozzo: What?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Any word on Dina Risi?
Clay Boyd: Nope. We tried all our sources.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No one seems to know where she went. You know her?
Clay Boyd: Well, I met her. She was chained to a tree. I was the one with the bolt cutters and handcuffs.
Anthony DiNozzo: Let me show you where we're aiming to go, Sheriff. We think she's in a small cabin in... This area here.
Clay Boyd: Are you expecting to go to a dance while you're here in town, Agent DiNozzo?
Anthony DiNozzo: Why don't we take our four-wheeler. You know, the rental.
Clay Boyd: You can't get up there in a vehicle. Only way to get up there is horses.
Anthony DiNozzo: Why don't we just requisition a helicopter? Or not. If the government spent that kind of money every time they interviewed somebody, government would go broke?
Clay Boyd: The government is broke.
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NCIS: Squad room
Ziva David: That was security. Bart Lemming is on his way up.
Timothy McGee: Maybe he's got something for us... That could be London.
Ziva David: Answer it.
Timothy McGee: What, and have Tony harass me some more about my message-taking skills? No, thank you.
Ziva David: I'll get it.
Timothy McGee: Why? You're gonna tell them he's not here, they're not gonna tell you anything.
Ziva David: I think you are jealous Tony's going to inherit money.
Timothy McGee: No, I just think that it could change him.
Ziva David: Which in Tony's case would be a good thing.
Timothy McGee: Unless he becomes more...
Ziva David: Tony-ish. I see your concern. But you did not change when your books made you plush.
Timothy McGee: Flush. Thanks, Ziva, but it really wasn't that much. I bought my car, bought some clothes. What was left over, I put in a hedge fund which just crashed.
Ziva David: Sorry. That is why you've been so distracted lately.
Timothy McGee: It shows?
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Mount Pinos
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Easy.
Clay Boyd: You ever saddled a horse, DiNozzio?
Anthony DiNozzo: Me? Saddle? No, not really.
Clay Boyd: You have ridden, ain't you?
Anthony DiNozzo: Sure. Oh, yeah. Eighth birthday party. Pony rides and-and-and... Stuff like that.
Clay Boyd: Well, this should be interesting. Yeah. Give me that. Give me that.
Anthony DiNozzo: Here you go. I got it. It's a lot of leather. Here we go.
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NCIS: Squad room
Bartholomew Lemming: I'm looking for Special Agent DiNozzo.
Timothy McGee: He is away from the office right now.
Bartholomew Lemming: He left me a message while I was on vacation, said it was urgent. I returned his call, but I haven't heard from him.
Ziva David: And you are?
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Mount Pinos / NCIS: Squad room
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Gibbs.
Timothy McGee: Boss, we've got a problem. Bartholomew Lemming from OHS is here.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What's the problem?
Timothy McGee: It's the real Bartholomew Lemming. The guy that we've been dealing with is an impostor.
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Mount Pinos
Anthony DiNozzo: He planted the business card on his body, knowing whoever investigated the murder would call.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Well, we did. And I briefed him on the investigation.
Anthony DiNozzo: Well, the guy's good, boss. Probably knew Lemming was on vacation. It's like Nicholson in Chinatown, you know? He used a stolen business card to make everyone think he was from the Department of Water and Power. Maybe he left his print on the card.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Abby's on it. McGee's running facial recognition against NCIS security videos... Let's go!
Anthony DiNozzo: Excuse me, boss.
Clay Boyd: Hey, no, no. Come on around here.
Anthony DiNozzo: Is there a step ladder or anything?
Clay Boyd: No. Go ahead, get up. No, left foot.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: DiNozzo, come on!
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm on my way, boss.
Clay Boyd: You don't want to get on his bad side, do you?
Anthony DiNozzo: You're a good judge of character, Sheriff. Oh, boy.
Clay Boyd: There you go.
Anthony DiNozzo: He's going. He's going... No! Sheriff... I think he lost a contact.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Abigael Scuito: We X-rayed the painting that Patterson sent me, but we couldn't get a clear image. It was foggy.
Timothy McGee: Did it four times, thought it was the equipment. I was about to call the technician...
Abigael Scuito: Then I got an idea.
Ziva David: Radioactive.
Abigael Scuito: It's the paint.
Timothy McGee: Dina Risi goes to the extremes of mixing her paints and pigments with indigenous substances, much like the Mayans did.
Abigael Scuito: She used clay containing metallic elements occurring in pitchblende. Also referred to as uraninite, which is processed into purified uranium dioxide, UO2, also used in manufacturing...
Timothy McGee: Nuclear weapons.
Ziva David: Gibbs's satellite.
Timothy McGee: I already tried calling him. You're not gonna get ahold of him.
Ziva David: It's ringing.
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NCIS: Abby's lab / Desert
Abigael Scuito: Ah Gibbs! It's not the painting, it's the paint. The little girl, the dead steer, the book, none of it means anything. I mean, well, I'm sure it meant something to the artist, but...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Slow down. What are you trying to say?
Abigael Scuito: Patterson. The painting that he sent me. It wasn't about the image. The paint is radioactive. Uraninite, used to make nuclear weapons. Dina Risi, she must have known. That's why she sent the painting to Patterson.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Transfer me to McGee.
Timothy McGee: Yeah, boss.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I haven't heard from you.
Timothy McGee: We're still running facial recognition on the fake Bartholomew Lemming. I am going to expand the search to Interpol. But based on your suggestion, we did lift a right forefinger and thumbprint from the carafe our impostor used in the conference room.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Did you get a hit?
Timothy McGee: No. He doesn't have a record.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I want a name, McGee!
Timothy McGee: He says hi!
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Desert
Clay Boyd: You know, the sun's starting to set. This would be a good place to camp.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, sir. No, sir. I want to keep pushing on.
Clay Boyd: This mountain at night, the trail starting to narrow, big drop-offs. You got a tenderfoot... No, we camp.
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Later
Anthony DiNozzo: Can you get nerve damage in your buttocks?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're gonna feel worse in the morning.
Anthony DiNozzo: Don't say that, boss.
Clay Boyd: Beans?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Thanks.
Anthony DiNozzo: "Mongo like beans." Mongo... Mongo. Blazing Saddles. Mel Brooks, genius.
Clay Boyd: What the heck is he talking about?
Anthony DiNozzo: I'm okay. I mean, I'll skip the beans, Sheriff. Thanks for not offering, though. I got an energy bar at the airport, so I'm good.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What time is it in London, DiNozzo?
Anthony DiNozzo: It's 3:00 am. Six hours till I can make the call.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're not gonna be with this agency much longer? You get that inheritance, maybe you think about retiring.
Clay Boyd: That's yours.
Anthony DiNozzo: I would get that, boss, but I got a cramp in my leg.
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NCIS: Squad room / Desert
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, Gibbs.
Ziva David: We played a hunch. If Bart is a professional hit man, he would be on his way to Arizona to silence Dina Risi.
Timothy McGee: The woman who knows too much.
Ziva David: We checked all flights from the D.C. area the last 24 hours, and I think we found something.
Timothy McGee: A corporate jet filed a flight plan from Washington Executive Hyde Field to a small airport 50 miles from Mount Pintos.
Ziva David: It landed two hours ago.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Whose plane?
Ziva David: It's registered to the Sunset Mining Corporation of Phoenix, Arizona.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Get some sleep.
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Desert
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ever heard of Sunset Mining?
Clay Boyd: Yeah.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who are they?
Clay Boyd: Just a slick bunch out of Phoenix.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: They got mines around here?
Clay Boyd: Not yet, no.
Anthony DiNozzo: What's that supposed to mean?
Clay Boyd: Negotiating.
Anthony DiNozzo: Negotiating for what?
Clay Boyd: Mineral rights. To an abandoned gold mine. It's a waste of time, though. I got more gold in my mouth than is in that whole shaft. Dina and her tree huggers, they're fighting them. Claim that Sunset Mining... Will rape public lands.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She knows they're not looking for gold.
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Morning
Anthony DiNozzo: That's what valley fever is about, you know. I mean, I'm not afraid of getting it again. It's just that, you know, Arizona is a dangerous place... And, can we stop soon?
Clay Boyd: Just up ahead.
Anthony DiNozzo: That one hit me where I live.
Gunshots
Clay Boyd: Dina, stop shooting. This is Sheriff Boyd.
Dina Risi: How did you find me?
Clay Boyd: I didn't. These Feds did. They're with the Navy.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: NCIS.
Dina Risi: Jack Patterson told me not to talk to anyone but him.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, well, Jack Patterson's dead.
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Dina Risi: I mix my own pigments. As the base of my earth tones, I use clay... That I found near the old mine.
Anthony DiNozzo: When did you suspect the paint was radioactive?
Dina Risi: About a month ago. I wasn't feeling well. My doctor ran blood tests. Told me I was exposed to radiation. So that's what made me suspect Sunset Mining was interested in the mineral rights. Not for gold, but for uranium.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You tell anyone?
Dina Risi: I started asking questions. Thought I was discreet, but, I started getting paranoid. Felt I was being followed. Didn't know who to trust... Called Jack.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Patterson told you to send the painting?
Dina Risi: Yeah. He said he'd have it check out... If the mine is a major source of uranium, it could be worth billions to Sunset Mining.
Anthony DiNozzo: Worth killing for.
Dina Risi: How did Jack die? He was shot on his way to see us.
Anthony DiNozzo: We're pretty sure it was a professional hit.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It's not safe up here. We got to get down the mountain.
Anthony DiNozzo: Great. Just when I was getting the feeling back in my lower extremities.
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Desert
Clay Boyd: You know, you might want to let go of that horn, junior. Riding a horse is like making love. You got to relax and enjoy it.
Anthony DiNozzo: Sheriff, I have a strong feeling that you and I enjoy both of those activities in really different ways, no disrespect.
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NCIS: MTAC / Desert
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Gibbs.
Timothy McGee: Boss, we've got you on satellite here and MTAC. You've got company. There's an aircraft moving low over the landscape.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What direction?
Timothy McGee: West.
Ziva David: It is closing in on you.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Head for the rocks.
Dina Risi: What's going on?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Go! Move! Move!
Gunshots
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Go! Keep going! Go! The rocks. Take cover.
Anthony DiNozzo: All right. Behind the rocks... Boss, he's coming back!
Clay Boyd: I'm all right, Gibbs... Get the Henry. It pulls to the right.
Gunshots
Explosion
Timothy McGee: Boss, you okay? Boss?!
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. I'm fine here.
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Desert
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, take it easy, Sheriff.
Anthony DiNozzo: Now we've got to round up the horses. How do you do that?
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Howdy, partner. Welcome back to the fort. I'm surprised you can sit down.
Anthony DiNozzo: You humor me, Tim.
Timothy McGee: That lawyer call?
Ziva David: Tony was notified he would be calling at 9:00.
Timothy McGee: That is just a couple minutes away.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yes, it is. How's the sheriff, boss?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He's going to be fine. Driving the nurses nuts.
Timothy McGee: FBI lifted a thumbprint off of his body. Real name is Jerome Sax. Lived in Oregon. Had a wife and two kids.
Anthony DiNozzo: That's my future calling. Excuse me. Yes, Mr. Hubbard. How are you, sir?
Ziva David: He was a little league coach, deacon of his church. Wife thought he was a factory rep who traveled out of town on company business.
Timothy McGee: So far, Ballistics tie him to four unsolved murders. They think there'll be more.
Anthony DiNozzo: That is unbelievable!
Ziva David: The Phoenix D.A.'s investigating Sunset Mining. Three executives are expected to be indicted for the involvement in the death of Special Agent Patterson, and the mining scam.
Anthony DiNozzo: Okay, well, thank you very much. Yes, thank you very much. All right. See you, pal.
Ziva David: Did... Uncle Clive leave a big estate?
Anthony DiNozzo: Huge! 24 million pounds!
Timothy McGee: Whao. That's over $35 million.
Anthony DiNozzo: Yes! Yes, it is! Yes, it is! And he left it all to my sniveling cousin Crispian. I mean, I'll give you, granted he did take care of Uncle Clive when he was ill, and he gave a very moving eulogy.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why is the lawyer calling you?
Anthony DiNozzo: When I was in college, I borrowed $10,000 from Uncle Clive, and, I guess I signed an IOU. I don't really remember, but Crispian says that he found this document. Said "IOU", and that I owe him that $10,000 plus compounded interest over the last 20 years. Do you know how much that is, by the way?
Timothy McGee: I am sorry for your loss.
Anthony DiNozzo: It's only money.
