14x11 – Willoughby
Airport: tarmac
Paul Miller: Morning, Mr. Jintao. We're prepped and ready for departure.
Edward Jin Tao: Careful, Paul. You get ahead of yourself.
Paul Miller: Of course, standing by for your final approval, as always. I think you'll find everything up to Mr. Chen's standards.
Edward Jin Tao: I hope so. Mr. Chen's en route... We can't afford a delay.
Paul Miller: There is one issue I should mention. A revision to the crew list. Uh, my copilot is out with a case of food poisoning.
Edward Jin Tao: Bad salmon.
Paul Miller: So you know.
Edward Jin Tao: I vetted the substitute myself.
Paul Miller: Jenkins, yes. Then he's already cleared?
Edward Jin Tao: Mr. Chen signed off on him last night.
Paul Miller: Wonderful.
Edward Jin Tao: Jenkins.
Clayton Reeves: Looking forward to flying with you, Mr. Jintao.
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Gibbs's house: bathroom
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, Leon.
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NCIS: P.A. office
Leon Vance: Gibbs, Operation Willoughby is a go.
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NCIS: Squad room
Eleanor Bishop: You didn't tell me you were working with NSA.
Qasim Naasir: It's a joint surveillance with NCIS. They call it "suspicious chatter."
Eleanor Bishop: Ah, you like that, huh?
Qasim Naasir: Yes, because when I say that, you see me like a sexy spy... You're right. I'm translating boring conversations. My supervisor asked if there could be a double meaning from an Afghan point of view. But I can't think of any. Actually, I can't think at all.
Eleanor Bishop: Is this about your office again?
Qasim Naasir: It doesn't promote quality thought.
Eleanor Bishop: A good thinking spot is key. I like the library.
Qasim Naasir: How can your mind breathe with all those musty books suffocating you?
Eleanor Bishop: Ah. Well, what would you suggest?
Qasim Naasir: A place with much oxygen. The forest.
Nicholas Torres: Qasim. Hey, nice to see you, man.
Alexandra Quinn: Oh, they let you out of the annex building?
Qasim Naasir: I have to get back. Just wanted to walk Ellie to her desk... Okay, well... I'll pick you up here for dinner.
Eleanor Bishop: Okay.
Qasim Naasir: Bye.
Alexandra Quinn: Young love. Nothing like it.
Eleanor Bishop: Hey, would you guys ever go to the woods to think?
Alexandra Quinn: No, I do my best thinking when I'm sleeping.
Nicholas Torres: Mine is in the bathroom... Everything is simple in the bathroom.
Eleanor Bishop: McGee, what about you? McGee.
Timothy McGee: Huh?
Nicholas Torres: What are you reading, man?
Timothy McGee: Uh, nothing.
Alexandra Quinn: Not convincing.
Timothy McGee: Nothing?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee. Willoughby. Read them in.
Timothy McGee: Thank God. Interrogation, let's talk.
Eleanor Bishop: What's Willoughby?
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NCIS: Interrogation room
Timothy McGee: Operation Willoughby has been prepping for months. Our target is Kai Chen. This is the last photo we have of him, it was taken 15 years ago.
Eleanor Bishop: Wealthy businessman suspected of committing acts of terror to manipulate the stock market. Rumor was that he sent a suicide bomber into a Belgian bank.
Timothy McGee: Played the dip in the market.
Eleanor Bishop: And the attempted attack on the USS Mulligan?
Timothy McGee: Chen funded that as well. He was, uh, hoping to cash in on the surge in oil prices.
Nicholas Torres: So the task force got together to take him down. Slam dunk.
Timothy McGee: Chen is beyond careful. We don't have any concrete evidence connecting him to any of this.
Alexandra Quinn: Okay, Operation Willoughby is about collecting proof?
Timothy McGee: Opportunity came last night. Reeves learned that Chen was prepping to fly into the D.C. area. We helped the regular copilot get food poisoning, and Reeves stepped in.
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NCIS: MTAC
Leon Vance: Officer Moreau, can you hear me?
Louise Moreau: Yes, I'm here. Do we have the rest of the task force?
Leon Vance: We have everyone except MI6. They'll get here when they can.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Sitrep.
Kasim Alfarah: Reeves and Jintao have entered the plane, along with the pilot.
Hendric Kruger: Signal is confirming Reeves has placed the device in the cockpit. We're remotely scanning to ensure it's prepped for activation.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: How far out is Chen?
Agent: Ten minutes away, sir.
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NCIS: Interrogation room
Timothy McGee: Once the plane is airborne and Chen connects his laptop to the plane's Wi-Fi, Reeves will activate an S14 proximity device.
Eleanor Bishop: So this device remotely copies data from Chen's computer and immediately sends it to us.
Nicholas Torres: We get the proof we need, and we take him down.
Alexandra Quinn: I don't understand, what's the catch here? I mean, when NCIS came to FLETC to get recruits, they said it was something like a suicide mission.
Timothy McGee: Chen's digital security is-is beyond top-notch. Once we begin the download, Chen will be alerted.
Nicholas Torres: Reeves will be stuck on a plane with a bunch of guys who want to kill him.
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NCIS: MTAC
Agent: Chen is four minutes out, Sir.
Leon Vance: The device?
Hendric Kruger: Signal is functioning properly. We're ready for activation.
Agent: We got movement.
Louise Moreau: What is going on? Is that Jintao?
Leon Vance: He's exiting the plane.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I don't like this.
Kasim Alfarah: What's the directive?
Leon Vance: This could be routine. Stand by.
Agent: Jintao's entering his vehicle, sir.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Chen's car is exiting the highway.
Leon Vance: Damn it, he knows. Call the tower, tell them to give Reeves the abort code.
Agent: Yes, sir.
Leon Vance: Get him out of there.
Agent: Tower, dispatch code Lima...
Leon Vance: Get him out of there now!
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Look, I will get the Secretary of the Navy on the phone if I have to. No, I-I don't care what your source says, it's a matter of national security... Yes, you do that.
Eleanor Bishop: Press?
Timothy McGee: Yeah. Got them all confirming mechanical failure with no survivors. Last thing we need is Chen seeing some report that Reeves is still alive.
Eleanor Bishop: Have you heard from Reeves?
Timothy McGee: Yeah, he actually sounded pretty good. Gibbs is with him at the hospital... Pilot's in surgery. How about the scene?
Eleanor Bishop: It was a mess. Torres and Quinn are getting the debris to Abby and the NTSB. I interviewed every witness I could find. Best I could get on Jintao was that he was last seen heading south, away from the airport.
Timothy McGee: All right, well, I got a BOLO out on him and his black SUV.
Eleanor Bishop: Do we still have eyes on Chen?
Timothy McGee: No. He drove underground, switched cars and the satellite lost him.
Eleanor Bishop: McGee, what was this? The explosion, I mean. Was someone trying to take Chen down, or was Chen trying to take us down?
Timothy McGee: The timing was too perfect. I mean, somebody had to tip Chen off about Willoughby. This was all him... What?
Reporter: Sources are now confirming that the two men injured in this morning's plane explosion, are, in fact, alive although one of them remains in critical condition.
Timothy McGee: You kidding me? They ran the story anyway.
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Hospital: Reeves's bedroom
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Chen knows that you're alive and you could be a target, Reeves. You need to lay low.
Clayton Reeves: Yeah, I'd rather not. If you've got a shirt I could borrow, that'd be lovely.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The doc released you?
Clayton Reeves: I released me... Just a few bumps. I've been hurt worse falling out of bed.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What happened out there?
Clayton Reeves: I'm telling you, all the important bits are in working order. I'm completely fine.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What happened?
Clayton Reeves: I saw Jin Tao leaving. I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what I'd be walking into, going down the stairs after him. So I jumped out the exit window on the other side of the plane. The pilot, Miller... He followed me.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You need to lay low.
Clayton Reeves: Gibbs. Before he left, I heard Jintao on the phone. He was speaking Chinese... He said Chen's planning another attack. We need to get this guy before he does more damage. Put me back in. Come on, all I need is a shirt.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're here until the doctor releases you.
Clayton Reeves: And then what?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Headquarters.
Clayton Reeves: Hiding. That's a joke.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: It's an order.
Clayton Reeves: Look, I volunteered for Willoughby. I know what I signed up for. Let me see this through to the end.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We'll see this through together, Reeves... All right? Yeah, Leon. I'm on the way.
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NCIS: Director's office
Leon Vance: Does Reeves have anything specific?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Chen has a new project. That's all we know.
Leon Vance: All right. So, we start with Willoughby. As far as we were concerned, that op was as close to foolproof as it gets.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah. But it wasn't, was it? Who tipped off Chen?
Leon Vance: Task force is investigating... All participating agencies have been dispatched. MI6 rep is already in deep with several leads. He won't be able to join us until Monday.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're calling a meeting?
Leon Vance: Circumstances haven't changed, Gibbs. Our only play is to get the proof we need so we can arrest Chen. Task force is on its way here to design a new op.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: So you're calling a meeting.
Leon Vance: Is there a problem?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: With all due respect, Director, our last meeting went on for months and ended up with us almost losing Reeves.
Leon Vance: All right. Say it.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We have leads to follow here, now, on the ground.
Leon Vance: Then do it... But remember, Chen's an international threat. He's a ghost. We need the task force with us, Gibbs. We can't do this alone.
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NCIS Annex building: Qasim's office
Eleanor Bishop: Qasim.
Qasim Naasir: Hi.
Eleanor Bishop: Hey.
Qasim Naasir: You're in my office.
Eleanor Bishop: Yeah. Uh, the mail guy saw the “NSA” return address and assumed it was for me.
Qasim Naasir: More calls to translate.
Eleanor Bishop: Hey. I was gonna ask you...
Qasim Naasir: If I figured out any double meanings? Not even close.
Eleanor Bishop: Uh...
Qasim Naasir: In this one... Mm! They're telling stories about the trips they've taken. Paris, Amsterdam, Cairo.
Eleanor Bishop: Qasim.
Qasim Naasir: I know. I need to get out of this office. Maybe my own trip to the forest would help me think. We could go after dinner if you don't mind the cold.
Eleanor Bishop: Actually, I was gonna ask you if we could reschedule.
Qasim Naasir: Oh... Uh, of course.
Eleanor Bishop: Um, okay. Thanks. I just... I have to work late, so, I... I should get back.
Qasim Naasir: Ellie... Are you okay?
Eleanor Bishop: Yeah... Yeah. It's nothing, I just... I happened to see Reeves' personal info sheet.
Qasim Naasir: The agent from England? The one that looks like a sculpture?
Eleanor Bishop: Yeah. Under "Emergency Contact" he listed himself. Who does that?
Qasim Naasir: I wrote you.
Eleanor Bishop: What?
Qasim Naasir: Under "Emergency Contact," I wrote your name.
Eleanor Bishop: You did?
Qasim Naasir: Maybe Reeves only wrote himself because he doesn't have anyone else to write... I could... Write myself if you would... Rather.
Eleanor Bishop: No. No, I... Don't... Don't change it. I... I like it.
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NCIS: Squad room
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Okay. Give me an update.
Alexandra Quinn: Pilot Paul Miller is out of surgery, and McGee's on the way to the hospital to question him.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Mm. What else?
Nicholas Torres: Let's talk bad guys... Chen went back in hiding. There's no recent picture of the guy, so good luck finding him.
Alexandra Quinn: Yeah. And as you know, Chen's second-in-command is this guy, Edward Jin Tao.
Nicholas Torres: Jin Tao drove away from the airport and went off the grid.
Alexandra Quinn: But even if we did know where he was, we don't have enough to arrest him or Chen.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I got something.
Nicholas Torres: Hey, you brought your own update to, uh, update time? Well, that's refreshing.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Jin Tao vetted Reeves. Afterwards, Reeves followed him.
Alexandra Quinn: To where?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Auto parts company in D.C. It could be Chen's local hub.
Nicholas Torres: You think Jin Tao will go back there?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I think the two of you should find out.
Nicholas Torres: Copy that... I'll get my stakeout gear, baby.
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Abigael Scuito: Gibbs, Gibbs, Gibbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What do you got, Abbs?
Abigael Scuito: Um, nothing on the plane debris. I haven't been able to find anything to confirm who set the bomb.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I wouldn't put it past Chen to rig the plane.
Abigael Scuito: Yeah. Self-destruct in case of emergency, but like I said, no proof.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: So why'd you get on the elevator?
Abigael Scuito: Because, the Belgian VSSE intercepted a transmission. It was coded, but they sent it to me, and...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: And you decoded it.
Abigael Scuito: Yes.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What was it?
Abigael Scuito: It was a communication to Chen from the pilot, Paul Miller. It was at 8:12 a.m., right before Chen turned his car away from the airport.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Pilot tipped him off.
Abigael Scuito: Yeah. But how did the pilot know that Willoughby was a setup?
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Hospital
Timothy McGee: Yeah. Yeah, you got it, boss.
Clayton Reeves: I've officially been released, all right? Go ahead, call him back and tell him.
Timothy McGee: What?
Clayton Reeves: Gibbs. He sent you here to check on me, yeah?
Timothy McGee: No. No, Reeves, listen. The pilot is the one that tipped Chen off. Come on.
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Hospital: Paul Miller's room
Timothy McGee: Paul Miller? NCIS. We need to ask you a few questions about Kai Chen.
Paul Miller: NCIS?
Clayton Reeves: Listen, Paul, apologies for the alter ego, but... I wasn't the only one keeping secrets, was I?
Paul Miller: A-Are you... Are you gonna talk to my girls?
Timothy McGee: Mr. Miller, you told Chen not to come to the airport. How did you know to warn him?
Paul Miller: My girls don't know anything.
Clayton Reeves: Come on, mate, we need you to listen to what we're asking.
Timothy McGee: He's flatlining.
Clayton Reeves: Paul.
Timothy McGee: Nurse!
Clayton Reeves: Paul!
Timothy McGee: Nurse!
Clayton Reeves: Paul!
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: The Great Roxbury Fire occurred in May, 1894. The Boston Beaneaters were playing the Baltimore Orioles in the South End Grounds when a fan in the bleachers lit a cigar and dropped the match. The wooden grandstand went up in flames and spread to 117 houses. But much like this morning's catastrophe, the incredible count of fatalities when all was said and done was zero.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What about this guy?
Donald Mallard: Well, our pilot was severely injured while jumping from the plane and dodging the debris from the explosion, but these wounds did not kill him.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Surgery complications?
Donald Mallard: Good guess, but, uh, wrong, nonetheless.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I feel like I'm on a game show here.
Donald Mallard: I'm sorry, Jethro. Even after all these years, I get a kick out of hearing your conjectures... Yeah, well. Miller here, um, had every chance of making a full recovery, but for the morphine.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He was drugged?
Donald Mallard: Yes. Abby's tox screen shows that he died of an overdose.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Had agents outside his room the whole time, Duck. Nobody got in.
Donald Mallard: I don't doubt it. But my suspicions were confirmed when McGee pulled a set of fingerprints from the keypad lock on the morphine drip.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: The prints were Miller's?
Donald Mallard: Yes. He must've watched an unsuspecting nurse enter the code. And after she left the room, well, he increased his own morphine to commit suicide.
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NCIS: Squad room
Eleanor Bishop: People in Chen's organization are bound to loyalty. He has a history of hurting the families of anyone who talks.
Timothy McGee: More than hurting.
Eleanor Bishop: Exactly... Which is why Paul Miller was terrified to talk to us.
Timothy McGee: He had a family?
Eleanor Bishop: Mm-hmm... A wife and a nine-year-old daughter.
Timothy McGee: He talked about them before he died. Took his own life to protect them.
Eleanor Bishop: McGee, if Chen was able to scare Miller that much, what did he know?
Timothy McGee: Well, he's been with the organization for five years, traveling with Chen. Got paid a ton of money to be on call, like all of Chen's pilots.
Eleanor Bishop: What about Reeves?
Timothy McGee: Well, I still have more on Miller...
Eleanor Bishop: No, but did you know that Reeves spent months getting his pilot license, and then gaining Miller's trust to become his go-to backup? I mean, that's like, a huge commitment for him.
Timothy McGee: Yeah. Bishop, I read you in on this, remember?
Eleanor Bishop: Yeah. I'm just saying, I don't think Reeves has many friends.
Timothy McGee: What?
Clayton Reeves: Hey.
Eleanor Bishop: Hey. You're back.
Clayton Reeves: Listen, I know what the two of you were probably discussing just now.
Timothy McGee: Actually, I can't even begin to tell you what we were discussing. Bishop was being very confusing.
Eleanor Bishop: I was?
Timothy McGee: Sometimes, when you overthink things, you get confusing.
Eleanor Bishop: I do?
Timothy McGee: Mm-hmm.
Clayton Reeves: All right, then I'll be clear. I'm fine, I'm on desk duty. And I'm ready to move on and get Chen... Somebody checking out the place Jintao went after he vetted me?
Timothy McGee: The auto parts place? Yeah. Quinn and Torres have been staking it out since last night.
Clayton Reeves: Good.
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Torres's car
Alexandra Quinn: This isn't good.
Nicholas Torres: You're gonna have to be a little more specific.
Alexandra Quinn: This isn't good. We're too conspicuous.
Nicholas Torres: We're fine.
Alexandra Quinn: We're not fine. Yesterday, we were fine. There were other cars here. Now we're the only car on the block. We might as well have our lights flashing.
Nicholas Torres: Calm down. Look, if anyone sees us, we start making out.
Alexandra Quinn: That's a great idea.
Nicholas Torres: Really?
Alexandra Quinn: No.
Nicholas Torres: Oh.
Alexandra Quinn: There's a window, up there, and I think that's a better place. It's a good lookout. Let's park the car, let's get up there.
Nicholas Torres: Um. That's a cute plan, except I don't take any orders.
Alexandra Quinn: Would you rather that I tell everyone about your hour-long beauty regimen?
Nicholas Torres: I don't feel good about it.
Alexandra Quinn: Okay. Well, then, why don't you hide the car?
Nicholas Torres: Yeah.
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Bakery
Larry Ambrose: So, these are our specialty. Six mini donuts to a pack. Hey. I can take you out on the floor if you want to see how we apply the powdered sugar.
Alexandra Quinn: Oh. Appreciate the offer, but we really need to find that window.
Larry Ambrose: Oh, sure, yeah. I-It's this way. You know, I can tell, the two of you are living the dream, being cops.
Nicholas Torres: Federal agents.
Larry Ambrose: Me, I'm looking to leave desserts and move into entrees. I'm talking chicken pot pies. I've been working on a recipe for years. I mean, a guy can dream, right?
Alexandra Quinn: Sky's the limit, apparently.
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Bakery: hallway
Larry Ambrose: And... Here we go.
Alexandra Quinn: That's the window?
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Bakery: toilets
Nicholas Torres: Nice.
Alexandra Quinn: You can't be serious.
Nicholas Torres: Well, you know, everything's a lot more simple in the bathroom. Am I right? Larry, you mind putting an Out of Order sign on the door?
Larry Ambrose: No. Not a problem. You kids have fun.
Alexandra Quinn: Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. There must have been a window that we didn't see.
Nicholas Torres: I mean, it's either this or, um, making out in the car.
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NCIS: Directo's office
Leon Vance: I want to thank each of you for making the trip.
Hendric Kruger: It wasn't a choice. Stopping Chen is an imperative.
Leon Vance: Then we'll skip the pleasantries.
Kasim Alfarah: G.I.D. has intercepted chatter that supports your theory that Chen is planning a new attack.
Leon Vance: Do you have a target?
Kasim Alfarah: The financial district in New York was hypothesized but not confirmed.
Leon Vance: Well, until we have something certain, then, it's all just smoke.
Louise Moreau: What about our MI6 operative?
Leon Vance: Clayton Reeves.
Hendric Kruger: Director Vance. Is it possible Reeves told the pilot about Willoughby?
Leon Vance: No. Reeves is clean.
Kasim Alfarah: Perhaps he was worried for Miller's safety. They became close over those months, did they not?
Hendric Kruger: Reeves was sent in to befriend Miller because of their similar upbringing, the parallel challenges they both faced. This is the very reason they bonded so quickly. We must consider the possibility...
Leon Vance: Officers, I debriefed Reeves myself. I assure you, he wasn't compromised.
Louise Moreau: Then we must assume he somehow tipped off Miller by accident.
Leon Vance: Agreed, but are we here to pinpoint our failings or to take down Chen?
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NCIS: hallway
Eleanor Bishop: Gibbs, listen.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Bishop, I have been listening for the last ten minutes. I still don't know what you're saying.
Eleanor Bishop: I'm saying that when I met up with Reeves in Scotland last summer, we had some really great talks. I mean, I think I'm one of his only friends, and he never even told me that he was gonna risk his life, and I just...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're worried about him.
Eleanor Bishop: Yes.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Why didn't you just say that ten minutes ago?
Eleanor Bishop: I thought I did.
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NCIS: conference room
Eleanor Bishop: Alice, what can you tell us about Paul's job?
Alice Miller: He didn't talk about it much... Or maybe I didn't ask. I think part of me knew the money was too good to be true.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What about the man he worked for?
Alice Miller: I don't even know his name... Agent Gibbs... Paul didn't have it easy growing up. All he wanted was to give Lexie something better. This has been so hard on her. She's refused to leave my side since it happened... Whatever he was involved in... He was a good man. I don't want her to know anything else.
Eleanor Bishop: I like your bracelet.
Alice Miller: Whenever Paul flew somewhere, he'd bring a charm back for her. Right, baby?
Lexie Miller: Mm.
Eleanor Bishop: This is so cool. Eiffel Tower... Oh, a little shoe.
Lexie Miller: It's a clog from Amsterdam. This is a pyramid. Where's it from again, Mom?
Eleanor Bishop: Cairo.
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NCIS Annex building: Qasim's office
Qasim Naasir: Ellie.
Eleanor Bishop: The cities you were telling me about this morning. What were they?
Qasim Naasir: What?
Eleanor Bishop: From your translations, what were the cities they were talking about?
Qasim Naasir: Oh, yes, I remember... Here it is. Paris, Amsterdam, Cairo.
Eleanor Bishop: Same cities Chen went to.
Qasim Naasir: What's going on?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We need copies of everything you got.
Eleanor Bishop: Qasim, these conversations you've been listening to, they're about a terrorist we've been tracking for months. Your work could be the key to stopping him.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Our task force has been briefed on Qasim's translations.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Where is he?
Eleanor Bishop: His office. He's reviewing his work to see if anything else connects now that he knows about Chen.
Clayton Reeves: NSA and MI6 are doing the same.
Eleanor Bishop: Here are the translations... I had hard copies made, just in case anyone hates scrolling on the computer.
Timothy McGee: These are all phone calls?
Clayton Reeves: Between the same two callers, both unidentified.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Do we know why two Afghans are talking about Chen?
Eleanor Bishop: They're not Afghan. Qasim said the callers have accents.
Timothy McGee: Foreigners speaking in Pashto.
Eleanor Bishop: And not just standard Pashto. It's a rare dialect. I couldn't even understand it if I tried.
Clayton Reeves: We believe they're using this language as a cloak.
Timothy McGee: Like the Navajo Code Talkers did in World War II.
Clayton Reeves: Right, but these guys are taking security to a whole nother level. Mundane topics that have another meaning related to Chen.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Code within a code.
Eleanor Bishop: NSA has a new recording from last night. Same two callers.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Get it to Qasim.
Timothy McGee: Torres. Hey, you got anything?
Clayton Reeves: Yeah, I know.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You know what?
Clayton Reeves: I'm the only one who's had contact with Chen's organization, so you want me to spend all night reading through this stack of drivel to see if anything flags.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Do you like steak?
Clayton Reeves: Do you marinate? Purist. I can respect that.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee?
Timothy McGee: No activity in the auto parts place, boss, but, uh, Torres says they're holding up pretty great, so...
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Bakery: toilets
Nicholas Torres: You know, when man invented fire, it must've been off the chain. Like, this guy comes in, he's rubbing two sticks and, boom, changes the course of history completely. "We got fire!" I feel like men and sticks are meant for so much more, and we don't even know it... Man, I just thought of that... I dig bathrooms.
Alexandra Quinn: Is that fan closed?
Nicholas Torres: No, it's broken, which makes this place kind of like a... Like a sweat lodge. It increases brain activity even more.
Alexandra Quinn: All right, great. I got to get some food.
Nicholas Torres: Mm, could you get me five more packages?
Alexandra Quinn: Oh, that's unbelievable. It smells like sweaty sugar in here. You want more donuts? If I don't get a burger, I'm gonna die.
Nicholas Torres: Hey, the moment you leave this building, Jintao's gonna show.
Alexandra Quinn: Fine. What's this dude's name? Larry? I'll get him to make me one of his chicken potpies.
Nicholas Torres: Wait... There's a truck pulling up.
Larry Ambrose: Hey, guys, it's Larry. I need to use the facilities.
Nicholas Torres: Not now.
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Bakery: hallway
Larry Ambrose: Uh, the other bathroom's occupied, and this is an emergency.
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Bakery: toilets
Nicholas Torres: No, false alarm.
Alexandra Quinn: All right. I'm out.
Larry Ambrose: I'm sorry, guys, but those experimental potpies are going right through me.
Alexandra Quinn: I'm getting donuts.
Nicholas Torres: Hey, you drop those pants, I'm gonna shoot you.
Larry Ambrose: It's okay. I can wait.
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Gibbs's house: living room
Clayton Reeves: I'm not finding anything.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Then what good are you?
Clayton Reeves: Thanks for the non-marinated steak... So, are we gonna get this over with?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What's that?
Clayton Reeves: The talk you brought me here to have.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I don't like talking.
Clayton Reeves: But you like listening.
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Gibbs's house: kitchen
Clayton Reeves: I don't feel guilty about tipping off Miller, if that's what you're thinking, because I didn't do it... I went over every single word I said. I didn't screw this up, Gibbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Okay.
Clayton Reeves: "Okay?" That's rich. What else is there for you to fix? My parents died when I was three. I got passed around foster care, drugs...
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Yeah, I read all that in the file, Reeves.
Clayton Reeves: I don't need you to worry about me.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I don't... But Bishop does.
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Gibbs's house: living room
Clayton Reeves: Scotland... I went there alone to figure some things out... Life things... She was there the same time, so we met up. She spoke about her family.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Three brothers.
Clayton Reeves: Yeah... She also said you guys were a family... Look on her face when she said it... I came back... And I signed up for Willoughby... Because you guys shouldn't have to do that type of mission... The kind of people... Who have people.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: "You think you're alone in the dark... Close your eyes... Remember everything good." My mom said that to me just before she died. Smart lady.
Clayton Reeves: Listen.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What?
Clayton Reeves: Six, nine, seven, nine, three. They're talking about unlucky numbers. "69793 is not to be trusted." Gibbs... hat's the end of the number of my pilot certificate. They're talking about me.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: When was that call made?
Clayton Reeves: Weeks ago... If they knew they couldn't trust me back then... How long has Chen known about Willoughby?
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Timothy McGee: Geez, what'd that bubble wrap ever do to you?
Abigael Scuito: Nothing. Actually, we have a perfectly fine relationship. In the past, I've used it as a warning signal for when Gibbs is coming, but now it's helping me physicalize my aggression in a nonviolent way.
Timothy McGee: Why are you so angry?
Abigael Scuito: Because I don't like being fooled, McGee, and we all got duped by a super evil duper.
Timothy McGee: Okay, Abby, why don't you come over here with me and talk about it.
Abigael Scuito: I was looking at the phone calls that Qasim translated.
Timothy McGee: Right, two unidentified callers, two untraceable burn phones.
Abigael Scuito: Yeah. And I remembered what Qasim said about the callers having accents, and then it hit me. I noticed a pattern in the timing of the calls... Each one of these calls was made less than an hour after a Willoughby task force meeting.
Timothy McGee: Wait, are you talking about our task force? The one that's supposed to bring down Chen?
Abigael Scuito: Yeah.
Timothy McGee: You saying we have a mole?
Abigael Scuito: That's exactly what I'm saying, and Qasim was right. The callers were speaking Pashto with a foreign accent.
Timothy McGee: You were able to use voice recognition.
Abigael Scuito: Yeah, on one of them... And I caught us a super evil duper.
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NCIS: Director's office
Louise Moreau: What is so urgent? Where are the others?
Leon Vance: Officer Moreau... There is no meeting.
Louise Moreau: I don't understand.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We got a mole.
Louise Moreau: You mean, someone other than Reeves tipped off the pilot?
Leon Vance: Miller was never tipped off... And the fake transmission between Chen and him came to us from the VSSE.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: From you.
Leon Vance: Chen knew about Operation Willoughby months ago.
Louise Moreau: A-Are you suggesting that I told him?
Leon Vance: Not suggesting. Proving.
Louise Moreau: Yes, I'm here. Do we have the rest of the task force?
Leon Vance: We record everything in MTAC.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We got one hell of a forensic scientist.
Leon Vance: And she compared your voice to Caller X in the Pashto conversations.
Louise Moreau: Yes, I'm here. Do we have the rest of the task force? [Speaking Pashto]
Louise Moreau: I'd like to make a call.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: I bet you would.
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Library
Eleanor Bishop: Qasim?
Qasim Naasir: Ellie... What are you doing here?
Eleanor Bishop: Well, you weren't in your office, and your ringer was off, so I had Abby ping your phone.
Qasim Naasir: I got pinged?
Eleanor Bishop: Mm-hmm.
Qasim Naasir: That is so awesome.
Eleanor Bishop: Recordings from last night. We need to get back so you can translate them.
Qasim Naasir: Of course.
Eleanor Bishop: Hey... You know you're doing great, right?
Qasim Naasir: Really?
Eleanor Bishop: Yeah. Your tip about the accents helped us make a lot of headway.
Qasim Naasir: That's good to know. I've been sitting here for over an hour, thinking about codes within codes, and still, I have nothing.
Eleanor Bishop: But... You tried the library.
Qasim Naasir: I love the library.
Eleanor Bishop: Well, I just had about ten plants delivered to your office.
Qasim Naasir: My own little thinking forest.
Eleanor Bishop: Yep.
Qasim Naasir: Thank you.
Gunshots
Eleanor Bishop: Somebody call 911! Qasim. Hey. I'm here.
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Hospital: hallway
Nurse: Three gunshot wounds to the chest. B.P. 70/40 and dropping.
Doctor: What's his name?
Eleanor Bishop: Uh, Qasim.
Doctor: Qasim, can you hear me? Squeeze my hand if you can hear me, Qasim... Unresponsive. Prep O.R. Four.
Eleanor Bishop: Doctor, I...
Doctor: You need to wait here.
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NCIS: hallway
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What? All right. All right. You keep me posted. Hey. Qasim's in surgery.
Timothy McGee: Is someone there with Bishop?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Ducky's on the way. You find something?
Timothy McGee: Yeah. A witness at the library saw a black SUV parked outside at the time of the shooting.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Jin Tao.
Timothy McGee: It's enough to question him, but not enough to arrest him or Chen.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee, find us something.
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NCIS: Interrogation room
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Talk.
Louise Moreau: I can't.
Clayton Reeves: Well, that about sums up the last ten minutes in here, doesn't it?
Louise Moreau: You don't understand... Chen has me.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No. I have you.
Louise Moreau: I started to feed him Intel years ago. Before he became the monster he is now.
Clayton Reeves: What about Willoughby?
Louise Moreau: I-I needed the money. My son...
Clayton Reeves: I'm not asking you why you got into bed with a terrorist. I want to know why Chen let Willoughby play out to the point of blowing up his own plane.
Louise Moreau: Willoughby kept the task force tied up for months. And that was a positive as far as Chen was concerned. And he knew that his pilot had come to trust you.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: He thought Miller might've turned.
Clayton Reeves: That explosion was meant to take us both out. Is that right?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Qasim Naasir. We briefed you on his translations. You knew... That he was helping us.
Louise Moreau: Chen didn't want last night's conversation translated. He needed to buy time... But Chen did not shoot your man.
Clayton Reeves: No. But he ordered the hit. Jin Tao pulled the trigger, yes?
Louise Moreau: If I say anything more, my family is dead.
Clayton Reeves: Who were you speaking to in Pashto? How much does Chen know? Did you feed him everything?
Louise Moreau: I want to speak to my embassy.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What's his next target?
Louise Moreau: I don't know.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: What's his target?
Louise Moreau: All I know is from the task force, same as you. New York's financial district.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: You're gonna call your embassy, and you're gonna listen to them... Tell you that you're mine. And then you're gonna get a message to Jin Tao... And you're gonna tell him you need to have a meeting in that auto parts place.
Louise Moreau: Agent Gibbs...
Clayton Reeves: I don't think there was a choice anywhere in that little speech.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Abbs.
Abigael Scuito: Don't try and stop me, Gibbs. Qasim is hurt, and we know that Jin Tao shot him, and we can't prove it, and I'm really, really angry.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: McGee.
Timothy McGee: Boss, I'd just let her do her thing.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: No. I'm asking about Quinn and Torres.
Timothy McGee: Ah. Uh, hang on... All right, you're on with Gibbs.
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NCIS: Abby's lab / Bakery: toilets
Alexandra Quinn: Gibbs, Jin Tao is here.
Nicholas Torres: Yeah, he's just arrived. His SUV is parked right outside the building.
Alexandra Quinn: He went inside waiting on Moreau.
Nicholas Torres: Hell of a trap, Gibbs.
Alexandra Quinn: You just give us the go, and we're in.
Nicholas Torres: You say the word, we'll haul his ass in here.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: We'll get back to you.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Did they get anything on Jin Tao or not?
Abigael Scuito: Okay, Gibbs, I've worked off a lot of anger, and I'm ready to push forward.
Timothy McGee: Good to have you back, Abbs.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Go.
Abigael Scuito: Okay, so, when Jintao went in the building, Torres and Quinn were able to get the VIN number off of his SUV, and that enabled us to run a program that could remotely track the vehicle's GPS history.
Timothy McGee: We're waiting for it to download.
Abigael Scuito: McGee, I just... Want to tell you how much it means to me how supportive you've been with my anger, and I feel like it's made us even closer and put us on the same wavelength, and... That's us.
Timothy McGee: That's us... All right, here we go, Abbs. You can do it. Go!
Abigael Scuito: So supportive.
Timothy McGee: Time of the shooting was 8:34 p.m., and...
Abigael Scuito: And Jin Tao's car was at 830 Sawyer Avenue Southeast. That's the library. We got him.
Timothy McGee: We got him.
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Torres.
Nicholas Torres: Yeah?
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Bring him in.
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Street
Nicholas Torres: Jin Tao! Freeze!
Alexandra Quinn: NCIS!
Gunshots
Alexandra Quinn: Drop it.
Nicholas Torres: Come on, Jin Tao, talk to us.
Alexandra Quinn: What does Chen have planned for New York?
Edward: Jin Tao Again and again... You underestimate him.
Nicholas Torres: No!
Gunshot
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Hospital: waiting room
Leroy Jehtro Gibbs: Duck.
Donald Mallard: Are the others coming?
Clayton Reeves: They're on their way.
Donald Mallard: I'm afraid the news is not good. The doctors managed to stop the bleeding, but Qasim was... Without oxygen for too long.
Clayton Reeves: What do you mean?
Donald Mallard: There's no brain function. The machines are keeping him alive now. Oh, Eleanor was asking for you.
Clayton Reeves: Yeah.
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Hospital: Qasim's bedroom
Eleanor Bishop: The last recording Qasim was supposed to translate.
Clayton Reeves: Why are you giving this to me?
Eleanor Bishop: I don't know your reason... But I know you're willing to do anything to get Chen. So am I.
Clayton Reeves: Ellie... Do you want me to stay with you?
Eleanor Bishop: Uh... No... I just don't know how to say good-bye to him.
Clayton Reeves: Maybe you could... Close your eyes... And remember everything good.
