14x16 - A Many Splendored Thing
Turner's house: living room
T.V.: Commander Turner. Aren't you going to say hello?
Renée Turner: Who is this?
T.V.: I think you know who it is. You let us down, Commander Turner. That has consequences... You should be very proud.
Renée Turner: Oh, God.
T.V.: She really is a beautiful child.
Renée Turner: Please.
T.V.: You didn't do what you were told, and now you have a choice to make. Kill yourself... Or we kill your daughter.
Renée Turner: No.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Whoa, where's the fire?
Nicholas Torres: Oh. Oh, sorry about that. Sorry about that, McGee.
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Eleanor Bishop: Well?
Nicholas Torres: Oh, there is a fire in my pocket.
Alexandra Quinn: Oh.
Nicholas Torres: Uh, $32. We got a two-for-one coupon to the Golden Corral.
Alexandra Quinn: Ooh, I love those wings.
Eleanor Bishop: Hmm?
Nicholas Torres: And then we have a business card to a sword swallower?
Eleanor Bishop: Hmm?
Alexandra Quinn: That's weird.
Timothy McGee: Hey, how'd you get my wallet?
Nicholas Torres: Oh, um, the same way I got your watch... Again.
Eleanor Bishop: Torres is giving us a lesson in the art of pickpocketing.
Nicholas Torres: Thanks for being such a good sport. Bishop? You're up... Remember, bump, grab, slip.
Eleanor Bishop: Bump, grab, slip.
Nicholas Torres: Go, go, go, go, go, go.
Eleanor Bishop: Oh.
Alexandra Quinn: Ah! Well, she's got the bump down.
Rome Derramado: Really?
Eleanor Bishop: I am so sorry.
Rome Derramado: Mm-hmm.
Nicholas Torres: It's okay, it's okay. Small casualty. It's all good. Quinn?
Alexandra Quinn: Hmm?
Nicholas Torres: Let's see what you got.
Alexandra Quinn: You mean, other than... Your badge?
Nicholas Torres: Ooh!
Eleanor Bishop: Ooh.
Nicholas Torres: The student becomes the master.
Eleanor Bishop: Nice.
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Clayton Reeves: We need to talk. Chen. I found a translator for the last message intercepted from Chen's people.
Eleanor Bishop: What's it say?
Clayton Reeves: You tell me. Looks like it's just a bunch of song lyrics.
Eleanor Bishop: Must be another code. Maybe operational info on Chen's next attack. When's Interpol gonna make a move on the yacht he's staying on?
Clayton Reeves: They did. This morning.
Eleanor Bishop: But he wasn't there.
Clayton Reeves: Always one step ahead. But they did get lucky reconstructing some shredded documents. They picked up a trail on some low-level courier Chen's people's been using in D.C.
Eleanor Bishop: I'll grab my SIG.
Clayton Reeves: Easy, Rambo. Look, Gibbs doesn't want you anywhere near this case. And MI6 doesn't want me sharing Intel with anybody who's not been read in.
Eleanor Bishop: Did you forget the part where Chen killed my boyfriend?
Clayton Reeves: That's why we're talking, but, still, I go alone. If I need any backup, I'll let you know.
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Grab your gear. We got a body.
Nicholas Torres: Oh. Sorry about that, Gibbs.
Timothy McGee: Just a second. I'm still missing a 20. Torres, cough it up.
Nicholas Torres: Hey, just making sure you're paying attention... Wait, who's got my...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Just making sure you're paying attention.
Nicholas Torres: Oh...
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Turner's house: living room
Nicholas Torres: Our victim, Lieutenant Commander Renée Turner. Uh, the neighbor heard a gunshot. Called the cops.
Alexandra Quinn: The wound looks self-inflicted.
Eleanor Bishop: Well, if it is, it's interesting timing. I just found plane tickets to Orlando, and a confirmation to a Disney World hotel. Booked this morning.
Nicholas Torres: And there's fresh groceries in the fridge and a couple of pies. Looks like Dutch apple and pumpkin. Crisp... I skipped breakfast.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She leave a note?
Donald Mallard: Actually, it's a popular misconception that most suicide victims leave notes. In fact, only about a third leave them behind. Sometimes the lack of a final message is for the best. I once attended a crime scene where the note was so offensive, that the grieving wife, when she had finished reading it, began to mutilate her husband's body, starting with his...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Okay, Duck. I got it. We need to pick up the daughter.
Alexandra Quinn: Social Services are on their way to the school.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Bishop, find out where the husband's assigned. And somebody turn that damn thing off.
Eleanor Bishop: Uh, actually, Gibbs, I just got a text from my landlord. My water heater exploded.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Don't you mean burst?
Eleanor Bishop: There's a difference?
Nicholas Torres: Yeah, a burst is a leak. Exploded means casualties.
Eleanor Bishop: Eh, well, the "burst" sounds pretty bad. Do you mind if I, you know... Thanks. Um, do you mind?
Timothy McGee: Boss, I don't know what's going on here, the TV won't turn off. I don't know what the deal is. Maybe it's got a short in it, or something's wrong with the pi...
Alexandra Quinn: It's off.
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Van
Eleanor Bishop: Subtle.
Clayton Reeves: Yeah. I was trying to flash the lights.
Eleanor Bishop: You mean get me canned? What's with the 911 text?
Clayton Reeves: I found Chen's courier.
Eleanor Bishop: And so you jumped in your Winnebago to come to tell me?
Clayton Reeves: No... I jumped in his.
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NCIS: Squad room
Timothy McGee: Lieutenant Commander Renée Turner was assigned to the Defense Logistics Agency. Her husband is stationed at our naval base in Yokosuka, Japan.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Has he been notified?
Nicholas Torres: Quinn's on it. In the meantime, the daughter's gonna stay with her grandma.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You check Turner's psych evals?
Timothy McGee: Yes. No history of depression, or anything that might indicate 169she's a suicide risk.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: C.O.
Nicholas Torres: He said Commander Turner was stable, well-liked.
Timothy McGee: Yeah. The only blip on her record is this... Turner recently made several large computer purchases on behalf of the DLA, then cancelled the orders at the last minute.
Nicholas Torres: How's that blippy?
Timothy McGee: Well, she should've never placed the orders in the first place. DLA was already overstocked on that model.
Nicholas Torres: Yeah, but what does that mean?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It means something. Find out what.
Nicholas Torres: Okay, he definitely means you, because, uh, computers are not my thing.
Timothy McGee: I'll run it down with Bishop. Whenever she gets back.
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Van
Dabney: I told you I have no idea. I don't have a clue what Chen is up to. I make deliveries, that's it.
Clayton Reeves: If that were true, Dabney, do you really think I would've gone through all this trouble of tracking you down?
Dabney: Well, I don't really know you.
Clayton Reeves: I'm a very efficient person.
Dabney: And a terrible driver. You were riding my brakes the entire time.
Clayton Reeves: Well, maybe if you didn't drive around in Walter White's lab.
Dabney: Hey. This is my house, buddy. And you know what? I've already told you twice... Shoes off.
Eleanor Bishop: Okay, guys, let's focus. We know Chen is planning an attack on the financial district.
Dabney: Well, then you know more than me.
Eleanor Bishop: Talk!
Dabney: I can't help you... Hey!
Clayton Reeves: How about now?
Dabney: Oh, come on, man! That's grape juice. That's gonna stain.
Eleanor Bishop: That's a nice rug. Bed, Bath & Beyond?
Dabney: That was my Nana's.
Eleanor Bishop: Oh.
Clayton Reeves: Chen. Talk.
Dabney: Okay. I might've overheard some of his guys talking about some sort of attack, maybe. On something electrical, I think.
Eleanor Bishop: The electrical grid?
Dabney: Could've been.
Clayton Reeves: Where's Chen?
Dabney: Hey.
Eleanor Bishop: Oops.
Dabney: Okay, okay, okay, okay. Look, I don't have a clue where Chen is. I've never even met the guy. I mean, his people call me, I do what they say, that's it... There's nothing else I can tell you.
Clayton Reeves: What do you think?
Eleanor Bishop: I believe him.
Clayton Reeves: Good, because we're out of juice.
Eleanor Bishop: I looked at his navigation system. There's a record of all the places he's been to in the last week. Something might connect to Chen.
Clayton Reeves: Okay. I'll check it out. You should head back to NCIS.
Eleanor Bishop: No way. I'm coming with you.
Clayton Reeves: Gibbs ordered you to stand down.
Eleanor Bishop: I'm not afraid of Gibbs.
Clayton Reeves: Well, actually, I'm a little bit afraid of him. And Qasim wouldn't want you putting yourself at risk like this.
Eleanor Bishop: Well, Qasim wasn't exactly someone I would go to for tactical advice.
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Bowling - Past
Qasim Naasir: So plan is you hang out by the bar. And then when they start dividing up the teams, we'll accidentally bump into each other. Act surprised, and then I'll add you as my fourth. Just don't mention that you were all-state six years in a row.
Eleanor Bishop: Just one problem... The NCIS Bowl-Off ended an hour ago.
Pete: Hi, I'm...
Eleanor Bishop: Hi.
Pete: Pete.
Qasim Naasir: Leaving.
Pete: I'm not... Right. Well. It was nice meeting you, whoever you are.
Qasim Naasir: So. Do you bowl?
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NCIS: Autopsy room
Donald Mallard: That was quick. Did they have Orange Julius, Dr. Palmer?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Not Palmer.
Donald Mallard: So my wait continues.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What do you got?
Donald Mallard: Well, so far, only this toxicology report. Everything clear, except for one anomaly. Commander Turner had unusually high levels of oxytocin in her bloodstream. Has more in common with a lactating mother or a love-sick teen.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Not really seeing a connection there, Duck.
Donald Mallard: Oxytocin is often referred to as "the cuddle hormone" because it's largely responsible for our feelings of affection. For someone in the midst of a suicide to experience, well, emotions that would cause that hormone to spike. Well, it's very odd.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Add it to the list.
Donald Mallard: Well, unfortunately, we'll never know what she was really thinking.
Timothy McGee: Actually, I think we might. Abby ran a diagnostic on Commander Turner's smart TV. Reason it wouldn't power off is 'cause it was just hacked.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It was hacked? How?
Timothy McGee: Someone with an external I.P. Address ran a video stream directly into the house. This is what we were able to retrieve from the TV's cache.
T.V.: You didn't do what you were told. And now have a choice to make. Kill yourself or we kill your daughter.
Donald Mallard: Well that would explain the spike in Turner's oxytocin level. Her suicide was not the act of a depressive individual.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It was an act of love.
Timothy McGee: A Sophie's Choice.
T.V.: You didn't do what you were told.
Timothy McGee: Wonder what she was told to do.
Donald Mallard: And by whom?
Abigael Scuito: Good question. I can't wait for you to figure it out and tell me.
Timothy McGee: What do you got, Abbs? Uh, sorry, Boss.
Abigael Scuito: Well, I was trying to backtrace the hacker's I.P. Address, uh, but it was offline. Until two minutes ago. It just went live.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You got a location?
Abigael Scuito: You got a doubt?
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Parking
Alexandra Quinn: McGee says the I.P. Address is still active.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Someone's in there.
Alexandra Quinn: I can't get decent Internet in my apartment, and this guy's online?
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Radio tower
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Quinn.
Alexandra Quinn: Looks like someone just logged off. We missed him... Or not.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Freeze!
Eleanor Bishop: NCIS! Hi, Gibbs.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Bishop. How's that water leak coming?
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NCIS: Director's office
Leon Vance: Agent Bishop, you were specifically told to stay away from the Chen case.
Eleanor Bishop: Yes, but...
Leon Vance: And you, Officer Reeves, I don't know where to start, but it'll probably be with us reevaluating your relationship here.
Clayton Reeves: I take full responsibility, Director, but please know this wasn't Agent Bishop's fault...
Leon Vance: Save it! Gibbs can handle her. Right now, cards on the table. I need to know what you know, and I mean everything.
Eleanor Bishop: We translated the last message that NSA intercepted from Chen's people.
Clayton Reeves: Well, it's just a bunch of random song lyrics.
Leon Vance: Some kind of code?
Clayton Reeves: The kind we can't crack. Yet.
Leon Vance: And the courier you picked up?
Eleanor Bishop: He told us he made a delivery on Chen's behalf to that radio tower.
Leon Vance: That's the same place where that video to Commander Turner was from.
Clayton Reeves: Well, it can't be a coincidence. Chen must be involved in Turner's death.
Leon Vance: The attack on the electrical grid, how confident was the courier?
Clayton Reeves: Well, he just heard whispers. Chen keeps his people highly compartmentalized. And that kid was a few fries short of a Happy Meal anyway.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, he doesn't think much of you, either.
Clayton Reeves: What's this?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That's the bill for shampooing his carpeting.
Leon Vance: How'd the interrogation go?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Page two.
Clayton Reeves: He gave up the name of the guy who owns the radio tower.
Eleanor Bishop: Well, we need to pick him up. He might know what Chen's up to.
Leon Vance: Yes, we do, Agent Bishop, but we're not done here. I still need to have that chat with Officer Reeves. Actually, we can do it on the way to my 2:30. Why don't you grab these boxes, follow me out to my car.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I have absolutely no idea what you could have been thinking.
Eleanor Bishop: I can't stand the sidelines, Gibbs.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You can't, or you won't?
Eleanor Bishop: Does it make a difference?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I need people I can trust to follow orders.
Eleanor Bishop: No, you need people who care. And right now I care more than anyone else in this building.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Bishop, taking down Chen... It's not gonna bring your boyfriend back.
Eleanor Bishop: Qasim wasn't just my boyfriend, Gibbs.
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Eleanor Bishop's apartment
Eleanor Bishop: Mm, yuck!
Qasim Naasir: Hey. Am I late?
Eleanor Bishop: Early.
Qasim Naasir: Again?
Eleanor Bishop: Mm-hmm. But it's your birthday, so you can do whatever you want.
Qasim Naasir: Oh. My God.
Eleanor Bishop: Except that.
Qasim Naasir: I'm so sorry.
Eleanor Bishop: Ah... Forget about it. I'm sure I'll make it back to that village in Djibouti again... One day... Oh. You feeling okay?
Qasim Naasir: Yeah. My... Allergies just kicked in for some reason.
Eleanor Bishop: I got a new perfume... I'm gonna wash it off.
Qasim Naasir: No. Don't... I like it. It...
Eleanor Bishop: You want me to get Nasonex?
Qasim Naasir: This isn't how I imagined this.
Eleanor Bishop: Imagined what?
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NCIS: Observation room
Alexandra Quinn: His name is Kevin Lane. He purchased the abandoned radio tower last year on eBay.
Timothy McGee: Oh, I actually think I bid on that.
Alexandra Quinn: What really impresses me is I have no idea if you're joking or not.
Kevin Lane: Sorry, boys, I don't know who that is.
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NCIS: Interview room
Nicholas Torres: Was. She killed herself, after receiving a threatening message.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: From your compound.
Kevin Lane: I don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Nicholas Torres: So you're clueless.
Kevin Lane: No, I'm a carpet salesman.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: With enough emergency supplies for World War III.
Kevin Lane: No, just enough to survive.
Nicholas Torres: What, a zombie apocalypse?
Kevin Lane: The end of the world, man. It's coming sooner than you think.
Nicholas Torres: Oh, you're one of those.
Kevin Lane: If you mean one of the smart ones, yeah. Between top soil depletion, the fish hatcheries collapsing...
Nicholas Torres: Okay, we get it, man.
Kevin Lane: Rogue nukes, rogue comets, antibiotic-resistant infections...
Nicholas Torres: Oh, wait, I've heard of that one.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Kai Chen. Why is he getting deliveries to your compound?
Kevin Lane: Name doesn't ring a bell... Oh, you mean Bobby. Probably because he's one of my business partners. A silent one. I'm guessing his real name isn't Bobby?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Keep talking.
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NCIS: Observation room
Kevin Lane: Look, about a year ago, some people in the Yahoo Preppers Forum that I moderate pooled our resources and bought a piece of land that we could hole up in.
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NCIS: Interview room
Kevin Lane: Then we were outbid on an old missile silo, but we got the radio tower for $20,000. With a working generator. Bobby threw in ten.
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NCIS: Observation room
Alexandra Quinn: Am I the only one uncomfortable with Chen investing in a, uh, doomsday compound?
Eleanor Bishop: Maybe the attack he's planning on the electrical grid is bigger than we thought.
Timothy McGee: Hey, does Gibbs know you're in here?
Eleanor Bishop: He knows. We worked it out.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How do you contact him?
Kevin Lane: I don't.
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NCIS: Interview room
Kevin Lane: I mean, if you think I'm paranoid, you should see this guy. I've only seen him once, and that's when he came to inspect the land. He works mostly through encrypted chats, third-party middlemen.
Nicholas Torres: Any names?
Kevin Lane: No... You know, but... About a month ago I was working down in the bomb shelter, and some of his delivery guys showed up. They had no idea I was there. Overheard them say something about, um... Flying back into town this weekend.
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NCIS: MTAC
Donna Andrews: My REACT teams are in position at every airport that fits your source's description.
Leon Vance: Chen is the target. All other considerations extraneous.
Donna Andrews: And when we get eyes on him?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Arrest him.
Jenna Flemming: Belay that order.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Says who?
Jenna Flemming: Says the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism.
Leon Vance: I want to talk to him.
Jenna Flemming: Her. She's standing right in front of you.
Nicholas Torres: Oh. The-the... The time, this thing I have...
Leon Vance: Since when?
Jenna Flemming: Since yesterday. I was gonna tell you tonight.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Tonight?
Jenna Flemming: But when I heard about your op, I came right over. I've been tasked with supervising any activities involving Chen.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Supervising or sabotaging?
Jenna Flemming: Agent Gibbs, I agree, we need to find Chen and put the screws to him.
Leon Vance: That's exactly what we're doing.
Jenna Flemming: But our lawyers insist we don't have enough evidence to arrest him, Lee.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The body in our autopsy would say otherwise... Lee.
Jenna Flemming: I have read your report on Commander Turner, and any evidence connecting Chen to her death is circumstantial at best.
Leon Vance: We have reason to believe that Chen is planning a terrorist attack.
Jenna Flemming: We've suspected that for months. But if you arrest him now, without sufficient evidence, he'll be back on the street in two hours.
Leon Vance: And make sure we can never find him again.
Jenna Flemming: Right.
Leon Vance: Agent Andrews, your order is to surveil Chen, but do not engage. Agent Gibbs, understand?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hard not to, with you two finishing each other's sentences.
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Gibbs' house: basement
Eleanor Bishop: Hey. What's going on, Gibbs?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No compression. Rebuilding.
Eleanor Bishop: I mean with Chen. McGee just briefed me on the congresswoman's stand-down order?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. Not standing down.
Eleanor Bishop: Well, the REACT teams aren't allowed to arrest him, so what are they gonna do, throw him a tea party?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Get close enough to access his laptop remotely.
Eleanor Bishop: That plan didn't work out so well last time, and it almost got Reeves killed.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, we're just gonna have to be a little more careful.
Eleanor Bishop: I don't understand this. After everything Chen has done, after everything we think he might do, how can you just stand there? You aren't just standing there.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.
Eleanor Bishop: You know something's off.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yes.
Eleanor Bishop: And you've got a plan.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Working on it. I'm glad you came by. I kind of hit a wall.
Eleanor Bishop: All right, well, what do you got so far?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I'm thinking that we arrest Chen anyway. Better to ask forgiveness than permission.
Eleanor Bishop: That works for me. But I'm not holding my breath. We still have to find Chen. And when it comes to airports, he's always been one step ahead.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You come alone?
Eleanor Bishop: Yeah.
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Gibbs' house: kitchen
Eleanor Bishop: Chen?
Kai Chen: Hello, Agent Bishop. Agent Gibbs... I heard you wanted to see me.
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Kai Chen: Are you going to put those down so we can talk?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Bishop.
Eleanor Bishop: Hands on the table... Legs apart.
Kai Chen: I assure you I am not armed... Did Qasim like it rough, too?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Talk.
Kai Chen: I told you. I heard you wanted to see me.
Eleanor Bishop: You heard from who?
Kai Chen: Little birdie who works at an airport. That apparently is crawling with NCIS agents.
Eleanor Bishop: Well, that's what happens when you kill one of us.
Kai Chen: I have not killed anyone.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Commander Turner would disagree with that.
Eleanor Bishop: We know about your attack on the electrical grid.
Kai Chen: Sounds scary. Have any suspects?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why are you in my house?
Kai Chen: Why do you think?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You want us to arrest you?
Kai Chen: You cannot arrest me.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah? You know, I keep hearing that. Why don't we see what happens. Bishop.
Eleanor Bishop: Better to ask forgiveness than permission.
Kai Chen: You will get neither, Agent Bishop. I am not the enemy.
Eleanor Bishop: Well, that is news to me.
Kai Chen: Then apparently you have not heard.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Heard what?
Kai Chen: We are on the same team now.
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NCIS: Director's office
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: When were you gonna tell me?!
Leon Vance: Tell you what?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Chen. How long have you known that Chen was working with the CIA?
Jenna Flemming: He didn't. I found a corkscrew down in the break room.
Leon Vance: The Pinot can wait. What the hell is my agent talking about, Jenna?
Jenna Flemming: Good question. What are you talking about, Agent Gibbs?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Chen. He came to my house. He told me that he's working with the CIA now. Even has you and SecDef on his direct dial.
Leon Vance: You heard what the man said. Start talking.
Jenna Flemming: You're not authorized.
Leon Vance: Would you like to take that steak Au poivre to go?
Jenna Flemming: Chen came to us with an offer. We finalized the deal today. There is a Syrian warlord we've been trying to locate, one that Chen has done business with in the past. Chen has agreed to help us find him.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: All of a sudden he's our best bud?
Jenna Flemming: Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Agent Gibbs.
Leon Vance: Jenna, Chen is a suspected terrorist. He tried to kill two of our people. He succeeded once.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And he killed Commander Turner.
Jenna Flemming: And the warlord that Chen is helping us find has been financing ISIS cells. They're attacking NATO troops. Soldiers are dying, Lee. We need his help. And before either of you ruin what's left of our dinner, I get it. We're not gonna let Chen walk. But we're gonna hit the pause button on the investigation.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Until you get what you what.
Jenna Flemming: What we all want, Agent Gibbs. Until we have actionable intelligence...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Pause button... Got it. I'm not hungry.
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Eleanor Bishop's apartment: living room
Eleanor Bishop: Uh... You got my message.
Clayton Reeves: Yeah. All ten of them. I see you're taking it out on the dust mites.
Eleanor Bishop: What are we gonna do? We can't just let Chen get away.
Clayton Reeves: That's exactly what we've been ordered to do.
Eleanor Bishop: Yeah, well, that congresswoman can take her pause button and shove it up her ass.
Clayton Reeves: Gibbs has just let you back in. You fall out of line now and you're done... Besides...
Eleanor Bishop: What?
Clayton Reeves: I think that congresswoman has made the right call. That Syrian warlord is destabilizing an entire region.
Eleanor Bishop: That warlord's name is Asu Harari, and he's a two-bit player in Aleppo. I monitored his communications when I was at the NSA. I-I know his entire network. This is a bad call... We have a coded message from Chen on a suspected terrorist attack. And we can't arrest him because he's the CIA's lapdog? That-that is nuts.
Clayton Reeves: Okay, well, you say you know this Harari guy. Why don't we find him ourselves. Then the CIA won't need Chen.
Eleanor Bishop: That could take months.
Clayton Reeves: So? I spent months taking pilot lessons just to take Chen down.
Eleanor Bishop: Clay, I-I can't eat, I can't sleep, and I sure as hell am not slowing down until Chen is off the street.
Clayton Reeves: Look, I hear you. I do. But this is a marathon, Ellie... It's not a sprint. If you aren't willing to make the sacrifices and commit to the long haul, maybe you shouldn't be running this race.
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Bowling - Past
Eleanor Bishop: You really caught me off guard tonight. Especially with the bowling alley.
Qasim Naasir: This is where we had our first date. I wanted to bring you here to celebrate... What's the problem, Ellie?
Eleanor Bishop: What do you want from me?
Qasim Naasir: I want you to stop being afraid. I want you to admit that you can't breathe when you're not with me. And most of all... I want you.
Eleanor Bishop: You have me, Qasim. I-I spend 65% of my free time with you. We have gone on 104 dates. We've...
Qasim Naasir: You're proving my point. This is what you do, Ellie. You hide your feelings behind that brain of yours. Behind statistics, metrics...
Eleanor Bishop: Well, all of those things are true.
Qasim Naasir: But not relevant... The world isn't all zeros and ones... You can't reduce love to a binary code.
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Eleanor Bishop's apartment: living room
Eleanor Bishop: That's it.
Clayton Reeves: What's it?
Eleanor Bishop: Qasim was trying to tell me that the world isn't reducible to zeros and ones. But I got bratty and I argued with him. I pointed out that the crappy music playing at the bowling alley was all zeros and ones.
Clayton Reeves: I'm sorry, I flunked nerd in school.
Eleanor Bishop: Chen's code. I think I know how to crack it.
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NCIS: Abby's lab
Eleanor Bishop: There are two general ways to hide information. One is security through math.
Abigael Scuito: Which is just your basic, everyday encryption. The second is security through obscurity.
Eleanor Bishop: Which is where the data is not encrypted... It's just hidden.
Abigael Scuito: Like if you secretly put a key underneath your doormat. Once you know the secret, then it's easy to unlock the door.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You figured out Chen's secret?
Eleanor Bishop: Abby... Chen's message appeared to be random snippets of song lyrics. But when you convert those snippets to binary, aka zeros and ones, the result is an executable file.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A what?
Abigael Scuito: Oh, you're cute. A computer program, Gibbs. The song lyrics were a computer program.
Timothy McGee: Actually, it's a computer virus.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That does what?
Timothy McGee: Exploits the vulnerability of diesel generators in older electrical plants. Look at this... Now, DoD tested its weakness a couple years ago. Congresswoman sent over a tape of this. She's on her way over now with the full file.
Abigael Scuito: "Aurora Vulnerability" That's a pretty name.
Timothy McGee: Once infected, the virus turns the generators on and off so quickly they basically...
Abigael Scuito: Whoa, okay, that was not pretty.
Eleanor Bishop: This must be how Chen is planning on taking out the electrical grid.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Okay. Let's go. Thanks, Abbs.
Abigael Scuito: Bishop? What are you doing? The cavalry went that way.
Eleanor Bishop: Uh, I was just gonna take the stairs. I forgot something in my car.
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NCIS: Squad room
Nicholas Torres: No, any power plant with a pre-2K diesel generator is at risk.
Leon Vance: Do we know how Chen's planning to disseminate the virus?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Originally, Commander Turner.
Alexandra Quinn: Well, Chen was blackmailing her into buying these infected computers for the DLA. Once they rotated into the DoD's system, the virus would be in the wild.
Leon Vance: But she wouldn't play ball.
Alexandra Quinn: She died for it.
Leon Vance: So what's Chen's Plan B?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Working on it.
Leon Vance: So right now, we're just sitting ducks.
Timothy McGee: Not necessarily. We've got the virus's source code. I could always make an anti-virus out of it.
Leon Vance: How long?
Timothy McGee: A few hours.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Too long. Go, get it done.
Leon Vance: So much for your pause button.
Jenna Flemming: We made a calculated bet.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah? Well, you bet wrong.
Jenna Flemming: And your Agent Bishop was right. I have arranged a video conference with the Joint Chiefs in MTAC. I'd like her to brief them. When's she back?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where did she go?
Jenna Flemming: I just bumped into her in the parking lot.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Torres.
Nicholas Torres: Calling her now.
Jenna Flemming: This is Flemming.
Nicholas Torres: Um... This is Torres?
Leon Vance: Why do you have Agent Bishop's cell phone?
Jenna Flemming: And where the hell is mine?
Leon Vance: McGee, put up the parking lot surveillance.
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Ellie's car
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NCIS: Squad room
Leon Vance: She's not answering.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee, locate that phone.
Nicholas Torres: There it is.
Alexandra Quinn: The bump, grab and slip.
Jenna Flemming: She must've been waiting for me. I... I didn't even feel a thing.
Nicholas Torres: Yeah, she's either a fast learner, or she's playing us.
Timothy McGee: All right, got a location. Bishop shut the cell off, but I was able to ping the last tower she was connected to.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Where?
Timothy McGee: North of DC, Highway 19.
Jenna Flemming: Where's she going?
Timothy McGee: I don't know, but she sent a text before she went dark.
Jenna Flemming: That's the number the CIA uses to contact Chen. She knew I had the number.
Alexandra Quinn: She's going after Chen.
Leon Vance: We don't have time for this.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee, finish that anti-virus. Torres, MTAC. Quinn, let's go.
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Ellie's car
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Radio tower
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North of DC, Highway 19
Alexandra Quinn: All right, this is where Bishop shut off the cell.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What's her plan?
Clayton Reeves: To be honest, Agent Gibbs, she may not have one.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She always has a plan.
Clayton Reeves: I hope so, but when it comes to Chen, she hasn't exactly been thinking clearly.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That makes two of you!
Alexandra Quinn: All right, I got something.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Radio tower.
Alexandra Quinn: It's about 20 miles away.
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Radio tower
Kai Chen: Agent Bishop.
Eleanor Bishop: Surprise.
Kai Chen: I was expecting the congresswoman.
Eleanor Bishop: Well, something came up. She sends her regards.
Kai Chen: I see. How did you know I would be alone?
Eleanor Bishop: Because you're a rat. And if your people found out you were doing business with the CIA, you'd be a dead rat.
Kai Chen: You did not come here to talk business. This is personal.
Eleanor Bishop: No, this is pleasure.
Kai Chen: I am not responsible for what happened to your boyfriend. He is. Qasim made his own choices in life.
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Eleanor Bishop's apartment: living room
Qasim Naasir: I'm really sorry, Ellie. I shouldn't have pressured you or said those things.
Eleanor Bishop: No, you're right... About everything. I... I know I overanalyze things. My mom says it's because I prefer to think rather than feel. Yes, I use my brain to push people away... I don't want to push you away.
Qasim Naasir: But?
Eleanor Bishop: But... I'm just not ready. I'm not saying I won't be one day.
Qasim Naasir: Well, I choose to wait. So take all the time you need. I'm not going anywhere.
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Radio tower
Eleanor Bishop: You're right. Life is about choices, Chen... And I've made mine... I got him... In there. Move!
Kai Chen: You have nothing on me.
Eleanor Bishop: Put those handcuffs on. We know about your plan to attack the electrical grid.
Kai Chen: Knowing and proving are two entirely different beasts. My lawyer will have me free in two hours. NCIS is wasting its time.
Eleanor Bishop: I didn't call NCIS. I called the Syrians... Apparently, Asu Harari heard that you sold him out to the CIA. He's been looking for you. A few of his American contacts are on their way... Have fun with that.
Kai Chen: Wait!
Eleanor Bishop: Make it quick. I've got a 3:00.
Kai Chen: You cannot do this. They're going to kill me.
Eleanor Bishop: Only if you're lucky.
Kai Chen: I have money... Just name your price.
Eleanor Bishop: You know what? I have a better idea.
Kai Chen: What is that?
Eleanor Bishop: The code you created to blow up all those generators. Just like the one you're cuffed to.
Kai Chen: You set me up.
Eleanor Bishop: I'm not responsible for what happens to you, Chen. You've made your choices in life just like Qasim... And now you have one more to make.
Kai Chen: Bishop! Bishop!
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Parking
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Bishop? You all right?
Explosion
Alexandra Quinn: What happened?
Eleanor Bishop: Chen forced Commander Turner to make a Sophie's Choice. He just made his.
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Gibbs' house: basement
Jenna Flemming: Boat-building and booze? Sounds like a dangerous combination.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hasn't failed me yet.
Jenna Flemming: I have to admit, your team impressed the hell out of me, Gibbs. I think it's time you... Climbed out of the NCIS trenches. You've earned a seat in the big chair.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Director? Old Lee... That seat's taken.
Jenna Flemming: And if there's a vacancy? Sounds like you have company... Thank you for the time, Agent Gibbs. I appreciate the consideration. And the discretion about other things... Agent Bishop.
Eleanor Bishop: Congresswoman.
Jenna Flemming: Uh. Wait... Just checking.
Eleanor Bishop: Did I, uh, interrupt something?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. Just talking about you.
Eleanor Bishop: How much trouble am I in?
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: With her? None.
Eleanor Bishop: And you? Gibbs, uh... I don't blame you if you want me gone. I broke your trust, I went rogue, and I did exactly what you were worried I would do.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Twice.
Eleanor Bishop: Yeah. But I also did exactly what you would've done if you were me. And if I had to do it over, I'd do the exact same thing again.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, then we got a problem... Each time you go rogue, there's a price to pay... And it's not cheap.
Eleanor Bishop: I understand.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. You don't... But you will soon.
Eleanor Bishop: I got this for Qasim... I had it with me the night he was shot. I never had the chance to give it to him. I can't stop looking at it... But I need to... Thanks.
