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Episode 1.0 Navy NCIS: The Beginning - Ice Queen.

(Potomac Park) Scout leader Dryfuss: You'll never get your archery pin shooting like this, Tommy. Tommy: Trying to, Sir. Billy: (teasing) Close em' both. You might hit something. Marcus: Yeah. The River. Scout leader Dryfuss: Thats's enough boys. Okay. Last arrow. Billy: Watcha aimin' at Tommy?...Maryland? Scout leader Dryfuss: Pass your bows back and retrieve your arrows. That bow's still a little strong for you Tommy. You'll do better next year. Tommy: (dejected) Yes, Sir. (points are counted as they retrieve their arrows) Marcus: Ten, twenty, twenty-five. Billy: I rule! Scout leader Dryfuss: Come on boys. Others are waiting. (yells out) Tommy, get the one over the hill. (Tommy doesn't return) Tommy! If you can't find it, let it go! Tommy: (in tears) I didn't mean to do it!. It was an accident! (The scout leader gags at seeing the womans body in the tree.) Gibbs: I thought I'd seen it all. Gibbs: Kid puts an arrow in a corpse. That's a new one. DiNozzo: Just a variation. (laughs) I remember we found this old guy, died watching TV. We found him sitting in his Lazy Boy, stiff as a board, with a Bud in his hand. Blackadder: Please, not another Baltimore Homicide story. DiNozzo: Looks like a natural death, but we have to wait for the ME to confirm it, right? So it's dinnertime, my partner and I are starving so we tell the rookie to keep an eye on the stiff. Rookie's never been alone with a body. Suddenly, the body goes out of rigor, slumps, and the air trapped in the lungs is forced through the voice box and the corpse moans. Blackadder: Stop it. DiNozzo: Rookie freaks, empties his service revolver into the body. Gibbs: You know what I think, DiNozzo? DiNozzo: Don't say it's an urban myth, man, 'cause I was there. Gibbs: I think...you were the rookie. DiNozzo: (blank face) That's funny Gibbs. Funny. Wrong...but funny. Gibbs: Looks like Ducky's beat us to the body. Gibbs: Tony, make a hundred meter perimeter search? Tony: One hundred. Got it. Gibbs: Viv, you get the scout leader's story. I'll take the boy. Viv: Do you have to question the boy? What can he tell us that the scout leader can't? Gibbs: I don't know. That's why I'm going to guestion him. Viv: It'll only add to his trauma. State Trooper: You're M.E.'s down by the river with the body. The little guy by himself is the one who shot the arrow. He's pretty shook. One for the books, huh? Gibbs: Uh-huh. Gibbs: (to Viv) I think the scout leader is the tall one.

State Trooper: First time I've known Chief Metz to let an outside agency handle a homicide on our turf. Gibbs: Maybe he knows something about us, you don't. Viv: Special Agent Blackadder. Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Scout leader Dryfuss: She doesn't have a face! I pushes her hair back and she didn't have a face! Viv: Did you touch any part of the body? Scoutleader Dryfuss: God no! I ran back and called the police. You don't know how horrible it was! Viv: You might want to suck it up for the boys. Gibbs:(smiles) Hi. Name's Gibbs. I'm a Navy Investigator. Tommy: (scared) I didn't kill her. Gibbs: I know, son....It's all over now. Tommy: No, It won't be over. I'll dream about her! Gibbs: Only if I want to!. Tommy: I don't want to! Gibbs: Then close your eyes and tell yourself not to dream about her. Tommy: That won't work. Gibbs: It's worked for me since I was your age..and saw something bad like this... Trust me..Close your eyes. (Tommy closes his eye) Gibbs: I will not dream about her. Tommy: I will not dream about her. Gibbs: This is my card. Give me a call. Tommy: If I have a nightmare? Gibbs: No, we took care of that...Call when you're ready to visit our offices...and bring some friends. Viv: The Scout leader took one look at the body, barfed and called 911. You get anything different from the boy. Gibbs: He didn't barf. Gibbs: What have you got Ducky? Ducky: A deceased pregnant Navy Lieytenant who appears to have been tossed into a tree..(sniffs the air) Hello Agent Blackadder. How about dinner tonight after the autopsy? Viv: I never date men old enough to be my father, Ducky. (Viv leans forward) Ducky: Love your perfume. Viv: Cut the Hannibal Lector act, Ducky. Ducky: PHFFFFT! (Viv walks away.) Ducky: Agent Blackadder reminds me of a young women I autopsied once. (Gibbs ignores him) Ducky: Of course, I never saw her alive, but I imagine she moved with that same little pelvic hitch. It's caused by a slight spinal curvature around T- twelve or L-one.

Gibbs: When did she die? Ducky: (musing) Oh, gosh, let's see..that was in Hollywood at lease twenty years ago. She was an assistant film editor and the editor's wife caught them in flagrante delicto one evening at.... Gibbs: This one, Ducky. When did this one die? Ducky: It's been awhile. Gibbs: Care to be more specific? Ducky: Not until I do the autopsy. Gibbs: Humor me. Ducky: Judging from the decomposition I'd estimate two-and-a-half to 3 weeks. Gibbs: Cause of death? Ducky: It wasn't the arrow. Viv: Find any track? Tony: Ground's soaked. I think the rain washed 'em away. Viv: (walks on) You concrete cops can't read a sign unless it's in neon. What's that? Tony: Deer tracks. Viv: How old? Tony: What are you, Pocahontas? Tony: What? Viv: Nothing. (walks on) Tony: No. No. Definately something. Viv: You remind me of my brother, Rex. He taught me to track....called me Pocahontas. Tony: I'd rather you didn't think of me as your brother Viv. Viv: Oh, I could never do that Tony. Tony: (smiles) Thats good to hear. Viv: Rex was much better looking. Tony: What are you, taking comedy lessons from Gibbs? (Viv seems upset to Tony) Tony: Did you say "was"? Viv: Rex was killed on the Cole. Tony: I'm sorry, Viv. Viv: Me too. He was a good man and a great brother. Tony: He why you left the FBI and hooked up with us? Viv: When the Cole was bombed, NCIS was first on-site. Before the CIA, FBI or even Jag. I di a little checking and realized my best shot at payback was working with you cowboys. Gibbs: How pregnant was she Ducky? Ducky: I'd estimate 4 to five months. Gibbs: Brush the hair from her face will you. What happened to her face? It's to cold for larva. Ducky: Crows. They took her eyes first, then tore away the soft flesh. Gibbs: Why didn't they touch her hands and feet? Ducky: I've been pondering since I got here here, Gibbs....I really don't know.

Gibbs: She was in the river. Viv: How'd she get into the tree? Gibbs: Look at the water marks on the trees and rocks. The river overflowed in the Spring thaw and washed her into it. You can bag her Ducky, she wasn't dumped here. (Ducky and his assistant James Royce are about to bag her) Tony: Hold it! (Finds something revealed in a ripped sleeve..sees a Jag Millrinde with stripes) Tony: She's a Jag. Ducky: Ever work with her? I know she's a bit messy, but how many blonde JAG female Lieutenants can there be? (JAG HEADQUATERS) Admiral Chegwidden: The medical examiner estimates she's four to five months pregnant. Cmd. Sturgis Turner: Oh my God, I hope it's not Lieutenant Singer, Sir. Cmd. Harmon Rabb: It can't be Lt. Singer. She's due in two weeks. Adm. Chegwidden: Have you been in touch with the Lt. Commander? Cmd. Rabb: No, Sir. Not since she left three months ago...I was estimating. Lt. Colonel Sarah Mackenzie: Harm's right, Admiral. It couldn't be Loren. No medical Examiner misestimates by four months. Adm. Chegwidden: He hadn't conducted the autopsy yet and I would assume the body is...decomposed. Petty Officer Tiner: Excuse me admiral. I tried Lt. Singer's San Diego number and her cell phone. Both have been disconnected, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: Thank you, Tiner. P.O. Tiner: Aye, aye, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: I'm afraid this doesn't look good. Cmd. Rabb: You writing her off, Sir? Adm. Chegwidden: While I may not personally know each of theseven hundred and fifty JAG Officers around the world under my command, I do know that none of them have been missing for 3 weeks! NCIS will DNA the remains and compare them to the military database. If it is Lt. Singer, we'll know shortly. Cmd. Rabb: Excuse me, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: Is there something between the Commander and Lt. Singer I should know? (NCIS) Gibbs: I want you to have a search team out first thing in the morning. Cover both sides of the Potomac, starting below the falls and working downstream. Special Agent Clarence Dobbs: How far downstream? Gibbs: To the bay if necessary. If we're lucky, her purse washed up somewhere. SA Clarence Dobbs: With this war, I can't get enough agents to cover that area. Gibbs: Call Master Sergeant Puller at Quantico. Tell him I need some of his Marines for a little field exercise. Puller owes me. He'll send em'.

Tony: That was Admiral Chegwidden. He couldn't reach Lieutenant Singer. Her home phone is San Diego and cell have been disconnected. And ready for this...he said she's due to deliver in two weeks. Viv: No way that body was full term. SA Clarence Dobbs: Some women hide it well. Viv: Not that well. Gibbs: Ducky will know. Director Morrow: Gibbs. Follow me. Your team can tag along. Gibbs: Yes, Sir. (MTAC) Viv: (looking at screen) That's Amad Bin Atwa! Clarence Dobbs: You know your terrorists. Viv: Is he in that hotel? Director Morrow: If our intel is accurate, he's just finished a 'tire un coup.' Gibbs: (to puzzled Viv) French for 'nooner." Tony: That Heather with the bag? Clarence Dobbs: Who else would have those legs? Female Agent's voice: We have a match. (To Bin Atwa) (NCIS Squadroom) Viv: Amad Bin Atwa supplied money and explosives to..(checks phots on wall)..Hasan Mohammed who executed the attack on the Cole. They're an Al-Jihad team thats been together for nine years. (to Gibbs) If Bin Atwa gives up Hasan, I want in on the kill! Gibbs: We're not tasked with capturing Hasan Mohammed. Viv: Gibbs, my brother died on the Cole. Gibbs: I know that...and I'm sorry. Viv: Then get me in on this. Gibbs: You're not here to use NCIS as a personal instrument of revenge! Get your head around this murder case or pull your tailored suit out of mothballs and hike back to the J. Edgar Hoover building! Am I clear, Agent Blackadder? (Viv just stares at him.) Gibbs: Am I clear? Viv: Very, Sir. Tony: Ever notice how all Marines think they're D.I.'s? Tony: You're a woman, Viv. Viv: Not in my tailored suit. Tony: How could the vic be full-term and not look it? Tony: If she delivered just before she died, she'd still appear pregnant. Tony: Viv could be onto something, Gibbs. Viv: Maybe it was too much for her. The premature delivery. Being single. Post partum depression. What if she gave up and took a header off a bridge above the falls. Gibbs: With the baby? Viv: Oh, God...what a horrible thought. Gibbs: I hope you're wrong. We need that fetus in utero to match the father's DNA.

(Autopsy) Gibbs: You think that's cold? Viv: Very. Gibbs: Good. Means I'm focused. Viv: I hope I'm never that focused. Ducky: Aside from having no face, you cleaned up pretty good, didn't you? Gibbs: Ducky, a Lieutenant Singer is the only pregnant JAG unaccounted for and she's supposedly full term. Ducky: Then she's not our guest. Tony: Could she have just delivered? Ducky: No. Of course, corpses are tricky. Never know what they're hiding. (M.E. assistant Clarence Royce is helping Ducky.) Ducky: Have a good afternoon, Vivienne? Viv: Just ducky. Ducky: I wish. Oh, the DNA results will be in shortly...(speaks to corpse)..and then we will be formally introduced. Gibbs: I'll need the fetus' DNA. Ducky: Think daddy was the killer? Tony: She was single. Ducky: (to corpse) Shame on you. Gibbs: If we're lucky, the fetus' DNA will match with someone at JAG. Viv: It's illegal to use military DNA, except to identify the boady. Gibbs: I don't intend to use it in court. Viv: It's still illegal! Gibbs: The law will change soon. Viv: It's not changed yet! Gibbs: The politicians have their timetable and I have mine. Ducky: Let's not fight, children. We're all on the same team here. Let me show you what was on the body before I send it up to Abby. (Has 2 bags of evidence First bag:) Ducky: One cocktail napkin. Very water-soaked. Appears to have a number scribbled on it. (picks up 2nd bag:) Our lieutenant was travelling on American Airlines. Gibbs: To or from? Ducky: Hard to say. It's in worse shape than the napkin. Gibbs: I can partially make out the destination...S..something...N. Tony: S-A-N. Airport designation for San Diego. Gibbs: Tony. Call San Diego. Have them check her residence, interview neighbours...full investigation. (To Ducky) Anything else for us Ducky? Ducky: Oh, yes. I saved the best for last. This metallic sliver was imbedded in a posterior skull fracture. (shows x-ray) ...Here. My guess. She was hit on the head with a blunt metal object and dumped above the falls. (points again to x-rays) These fractures could have been caused by going over the falls without a barrell. Gibbs: Tony, check the bridges over the falls.

Tony: Viv and I will be out at first light. Gibbs: You're on your own. Blackadder is going with me to JAG. Ducky: Shall we see how our guest is hiding a full term fetus, Viv? (Fax machine) It begins printing. Admiral Chegwidden's voice: ..I regret to inform you the Armed Forces DNA Registery.... (JAG Conference Room next day) Admiral Chegwidden:....has identified the body as Loren Singer. This is Special Agent Gibbs and Blackadder of NCIS. They'll be investigating her death. Cmdr. Harm Rabb: NCIS is taking the lead on this, Admiral? Admiral Chegwidden: Affirmative, Commander. Cmdr. Rabb: I'd like to request a concurrent JAGMAN investigation, Sir. Admiral Chegwidden: Request denied. Cmdr. Rabb: Admiral, I think we should... Admiral Chegwidden: Denied. Cmdr. Rabb: Was she murdered? Gibbs: Why would you suspect that, Commander. Cmdr. Rabb: Would ou be here if it were an accidental death? Lt. Colonel Sarah McKenzie: Lieutenenat Singer was supposed to be in San Diego. Do you know what she was doing back in D.C.? Viv: We were hoping one of you could tell us. Cmdr. Rabb: The last time, any of us saw Lieutenant Singer was when she left in January. Gibbs: Do you always speak for everyone, Commander Rabb? Admiral Chegwidden: Agents Gibbs and Blackadder have requested to interview each of you individually. You will ALL give your full cooperation. How would you like to procedd Agent Gibbs? Gibbs: First, Sir, while everyone is here... I need to admonish you that discussing your testimony with one another could result in an obstruction of Justice charge, so please refrain from discussing our questions or your answers with... Cmdr Rabb: We're lawyers, Gibbs. We know the law. Gibbs: Since you seem to know it better than anyone else, Commander, why don't we start with you? Cmdr. Rabb: Fine. Admiral Chegwidden: Commander Rabb and I have the court schedule to rework. And in any case, I'd prefer you started with me. Would that be a problem? Gibbs: No, Sir. Admiral Chegwidden: Good. Give us ten minutes and I'll be at your disposal. Viv: I thought we called the shots on an investigation. Gibbs: We do. Viv: Then, why let the Admiral cool Rabb down? Gibbs: So Admiral Chegwidden can play the good cop.

(ADMIRAL Chegwidden's Office.) Adm. Chegwidden: What went on between you and Lieutenant Singer? Cmdr. Rabb: Nothing, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: Nothing, my ass! After that performance in the conference room you'd be my prime suspect! Cmdr Rabb: (shocked) Admiral, I didn't kill Loren! Adm. Chegwidden: I know that. But you're involved. How? Cmdr Rabb: I'd rather not say, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: Good god, you didn't get her pregnant, did you?...No, of course, you didn't. But you know who did and you're protecting him. Cmdr Rabb: I'm protecting Lieutenant Singer's privacy, Sir. Cmdr Rabb: If she didn't tell anyone who the father was, why should I speculate? Adm. Chegwidden: She's beyond protecting, Commander, and I don't believe you're being anymore truthful with me than you'd be with NCIS. Cmdr Rabb: I'm not going to lie, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: You're a dam good lawyer and you know who to obfuscate the truth when being interrogated by...(stops talking)... dam he's good! Cmdr. Rabb: (confused) Sir? Adm. Chegwidden: Special Agent Gibbs. He's got me questioning you! Hearsay rules don't apply in an interrogation. I'm duty bound to repeat whatever you tell me if he asks. Cmdr Rabb: Is Gibbs really that devious, Admiral? Adm. Chegwidden: Hmmmmm....he reminds me of you. (Admiral Chegwidden Voice.) Lieutenant Singer requested an extended maternity leave in January, which was granted. Gibbs: Was that the last contact you had with her, Sir? Adm. Chegwidden: Yes. Viv: There was a charge, subsequently dropped, by the Skipper of the Seahawk of Conduct Unbecoming. Adm. Chegwidden: She was found to be pregnant while on sea duty. The Captain suspected it was the result of a shipboard liaison. Viv: She said it happened before she sailed, but refused to prove it by naming the father. Adm. Chegwidden: That's correct. Viv: Why's the skipper drop the charges. Adm. Chegwidden: I assume he believed her. Gibbs: Or Colonel Mackenzie. You sent her to the Seahawk to invetigate Lieutenant Singer, did you not? Adm. Chegwidden: You know I did, Agent Gibbs. It's in that file. Gibbs: Not this one, Admiral. This is Commander Rabb's file.....You sen him to the Seahawk, too. Adm. Chegwidden: On a separate investigation. Gibbs: He and Lieutenant Singer even departed together. Adm. Chegwidden: Pure coincidence. She was returning to Washinton and the Commander was off to Naples on assignment.

Gibbs: I'm sure they conversed on the COD. Adm. Chegwidden: I'm sure they did. But about what, I wouldn't know. Gibbs: He didn't mention it? Adm. Chegwidden: No, and neither did she. Let's save time here, Agent Gibbs. The only thing Commander Rabb's told me is that he did not murder Lieutenent Singer and has no idea who did. (NCIS Warehouse.) Tony: Find her purse? Clarence Dobbs: Nope. Just enought junk for a garage sale. I doubt any of it ties into your case, but I'm not taking any chances. The Marines I sent find you? Tony: They're guarding the area I taped off. Didn't even ask when they were getting relieved. Clarence Dobbs: Hey, after Quantico this is a vacation. Tony: Buy a purse at the Navy exchange, soak it in mud and turn it in. Who's to know? Clarence Dobbs: First Abby. Then Gibbs. Then my widow. (ELEVATOR) Clarence Dobbs: Blackadder doesn't know, does she? Tony: Know what? Clarence Dobbs: Gibbs is the best interrogator we've got. Soon as they loosen Bin Atwa up, the Director will be sending him in. Question is, will he take Agent Blackadder with him? Tony: I hope not. That would make him a good guy in her eyes and she's just beginning to like me. (NCIS CRIME LAB) Tony's voice: Is that number two or three today? Abby: If you must know, it's number four. Tony: You've seen what thats stuff does to a chicken bone, right? Abby: Hey, what doesn't kill you keeps you awake. Tony: Brought you a present. Abby: (Takes envelope) And you wonder why you're single. Think it's from our Vic? Tony: Hoping. How long before we can get a DNA? Abby: Let's see what A-B-O- typing says first. Tony: (sees photos on the wall) You redecorating? Abby: Wanted to brighten up the place. Tony: You take these? Abby: Uh-huh. Tony: A shotgun- shattered backbone? Abby: Yeah. The middle one's a cross-section of an ice pick to the cerebellum. Tony: Is that an esophagus? Abby: Uh-huh. I call it 'Esophagus with Lye Chaser.' The sad end of a Drano drinker. Tony: You need to get out more, Abby. Abby: Is that an invite?

(JAG Conference Room) Lieutenant Harriet Sims: Lieutenant Singer was always very...diligent and efficient in the performance of her duties. Gibbs: But.... Lt. Harriet Sims: My mama taught me to never speak ill of the dead. Viv: Mine taught me to tell the truth. Lt. Harriet Sims: Well, I always thought she was too ambitious for her own good. Gibbs: Ambitious enough to use a pregnancy to further her career? Commander Sturgis Turner: I can't imagine even Lieutenant Singer would stoop that low. Gibbs: I just saw a light bulb. Com. Sturgis Turner: Well, It's just that..the last case we worked on, Lieutenant Singer lied about her religion to gain an advantage. She claimed to be Jewish then in fact she was a mezuzah-carrying Methodist. Gibbs: Then, the father could be someone here at JAG? Lieutenant Bud Roberts: God no! No one around here would be dumb enough to get involved with Lieutenant Singer. I mean she wasn't unattractive, but...You don't think it was me, do you? Viv: Should we? Lt. Bud Roberts: I did not have sex with that woman? Gibbs: Not the best choice of words, Lieutenant. Lt. Bud Roberts: I know! I know! But, believe me, it wasn't me! Gibbs: We believe you....So...who was it? Lieutenant Commander Manetti: I'm the last person to ask that. I'm new here. Gibbs: What's your intuition tell you? Lt. Com. Manetti: Not to answer questions I don't know the answers to. Gibbs: Spoken like a lawyer at a deposition, Commander. Lt. Com. Manetti: It wasn't someone from JAG. Gibbs: And just how do you know that, Commander? Lt. Com. Manetti: The bartender at Benzinger's told me Singer was seeing a civilian before she shipped out. Viv: Were you participating in Colonel Mackenzie's investigation? Lt. Sarah McKenzie: No. I alone conducted the Singer investigation. Viv: Commander Rabb was on the Seahawk with you. Lt. Sarah McKenzie: On an unrelated case. Gibbs: Did you know Commander Rabb asked Commander Manetti to ferret out who Lieutenant Singer was seeing prior to her deployment. Lt. Sarah McKenzie: What! Gibbs: If he wasn't part of your investigation, why would he do that?.....Colonel? Lt. Sarah McKenzie: I have no idea. You'll have to ask Commander Rabb. (In Gibbs' car) Viv: Why didn't we question him?

Gibbs: Is that what the FBI would of done? Viv: Damn right! Gibbs: Yeah, well they wear suits and ties, too. Viv: They may wear suits and ties but they share the playbook. Rabb ran an unofficial investigation into Lieutanant Singer's love life! Why didn't we slap him in a room, read him his rights and go for the jugular? Gibbs: Because he's JAG's fair-haired boy. Viv: That gets him a pass on a murder investigation? Gibbs: Viv, he's the smartest prosecutor and defender they have. Viv: I'm in awe. Gibbs: You should be. If we question Rabb before we know all the pieces of the puzzle, he'll O.J. on us and he won't need Johnny Cochran to do it! Viv: What's the biggest missing piece? Gibbs: What? Viv: Rabb's behaviour. He's involved. But how? Is he the father? If so, his Naval career is over. Or is he protecting the father? A Friend? Someone close to him at JAG? Or is he really the father and murderer? If he is, he's got his defense laid out and his truculent attitude is part of it. Viv: I'm feeling really stupid Gibbs. Gibbs: You're not stupid, Viv. Just a little behind the learning curve. (Airport Hanger) Sergei Zhukov: (cell phone rings) Da. Cmdr. Rabb: Sergei! Sergei: Brother! How are you? Cmdr. Rabb: I'm okay. How's your fiance? Sergi: Galina is wonderful! But a little crazy making plans for the wedding. You're not calling to tell me you can't be my best man, are you? Cmdr. Rabb: No. Nothing like that. Sergei: What is wrong, brother? Cmdr. Rabb: Sergei...did you see Loren when you were here last month? Sergi: Loren? No. Cmdr. Rabb: Did you talk to her on the phone? Sergi: Not since the night you made her call me about the baby? Harm: Did you believe her? That it wasn't yours? Sergi: Why would she lie? Cmdr. Rabb: Sergei...Loren was murdered three weeks ago. Sergi: Murdered! (in Russian) Bozhe moi! (Oh my God!)..You think I did it? Cmdr Rabb: No! Of course not! But the investigators will if they find you could be the father and were in town when she was murdered! Sergi: Always the big brother. Always protecting me. Cmdr Rabb: That's what big brothers are for. (NCIS Crime Lab) Abby: We'll do a full DNA for court. But the A-B-O shows a match. Type A-B, I testes other factors.

(Abby to Tony) "I'd say the blood you found (from the bridge) was Lieutenant Singer's. Gibbs: Good work. Tony: Thanks Gibbs. Gibbs: I was talking to Abby. Abby: And I've got more. (logo under light shows name on napkin) Viv: Benzinger's! Tony: That a magic word? Gibbs: A bar in Falls Church where Lieutenant Singer hung out. Abby: A bar goes with the chemical analysis I did on the stomach contents. Based on the degree of digestion, she dies within two hours of her last snack. And I do mean snack. Tony: (reading computer) Thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, vegetable oil... Abby: Pretzels, peanuts, crackers. Bar mix! Viv: Whats the nine digit number? Gibbs: Moscow cell phone. After six months undercover if I can't I.D. a Moscoe cell phone, the taxpapyers should get a refund. (to Viv) You know how to trace the number, fast? Viv: Uh-huh. Through the FBI. Gibbs: Guess that would work, too. Abby: I got more goodies. Her name of the ticket. Tony: We knew that. Abby: Her destination... Tony: Knew that too. Abby: And her departure date. Tony: Early April. Abby: January the Sixth. Gibbs: (squinting at screen) No. That's got to be April Six. Abby: You need young eyes, Gibbs. That's a one, not a foir. Tony: She missed her flight. Abby: Duh! Tony, she was whacked! Tony: Not three months ago. Ducky: Actually....three months is probably quite accurate. I'm afraid our victim was in the Potomac Park for at least that long. Abby: Racking up frequent floater miles? Ducky: Being an Ice Queen. She was frozen. Viv: Hey, I got us a suspect! Manetti said the Benzinger's bartender told her Singer was seeing a civilian before she shipped out. Well, that Moscow cell phone is registered to a Sergi Zhokov. I'm running an immigration check. He was in the States when Singer got pregnant. Left two days before she shipped out. And returned for just forty-eight hours three weels ago! (They all go quiet) What? Gibbs: Lieutenant Singer was murdered months ago. Ducky: I'll explain it over lunch. Gibbs: Cross check Zhukov's cell calls with Rabb's numbers. Viv: I won't have to. Zhukov's Green Card sponsor was Commander Harmon Rabb....They're half brothers.

(Great Falls Overlook) Director Morrow: (To Clarence Dobbs) You making progress on the JAG murder? (MTAC) Gibbs: Yes, Gibbs. Director Morrow: Who's your prime suspect? Gibbs: A JAG officer. Director Morrow: Damn. We have to work with those people. Not a senior officer, I hope. (Gibbs goes silent) Director Morrow: Do I know him? Gibbs: Yes, Sir. I believe you do. Director Morrow: You want to tell me his name. Gibbs: Commander Harmon Rabb....You asked. Director Rabb: I couldn't be more stunned if you said, Admiral Chegwidden. Are you certain? Gibbs: Not a hundred percent, but the evidence we're gathering indicates he's deeply involved. Director Morrow: I don't have to tell you the implications if you are wrong. Gibbs: That's why I'm moving slowly. Director Morrow: Don't move too slowly. N.S.A. decrypts indicate Al-Jihad is poised to launce another gray hull attack. Gibbs: Which ship? Director Morrow: Only Hasan Mohammed knows. Gibbs: Not Bin Atwa? Director Morrow: The boys up the river tell me Al-Jihad has limited target data to the executor. I need you to crack Bin Atwa, Gibbs. Gibbs: When do I leave? Director Morrow: As soon as you wrap up this JAG murder. Gibbs: With all due respect, Mister Director..breaking him is more important than wrapping up a murder. Director Morrow: If it involved anyone other than JAG, I'd agree. So, all I can tell you is...do both. Fast. (NCIS Warehouse) Abby's voice: How'd you find her wheels? Tony: DMV check. It's been sitting in the impound lot since January. Abby: Let your fingers do the waking. Why'd they tow it? Tony: It was abandoned in a lot at Great Falls. Tony: Any of those prints large enough to be a man's? Abby: Uh-Huh. Whoever was riding shotgun. Tony: How fast cn you run them? Abby: Usually takes twelve hours, but for a dinner.... Tony: Get me I.D. in two and I'll make it Cafe' Atlanrico. Abby: Sweet!

(NCIS Squadroom) Gibbs: What have you got? Viv: Plenty. San Diego found that Singer took a furnished rental on Coronado Island. Ordered a phone installed. And never showed. No credit card or bank account activity since she picked up two hundred dollars at a Falls Church ATM on Jan Four. Gibbs: That narrows the murder date to between the fourth of January and her missed flight on the 6th. Tony: Abby's pulled a man's prints from her car. She's running 'em now. Gibbs: Viv, see if those dates coincide with Ducky's autopsy. Let's go, Tony. Tony: Where? Gibbs: To get a drink. Viv: They get drinks and I get Ducky. (Autopsy) Ducky: All her cells are ruptured from freezing. (Talking to deceased) That's why the crows only got at your face...your arms and legs were still encapsulated in ice. Viv: Could she have died between the Fourth and Sixth of January? Ducky: No way to be certain with an Ice Queen. (looks at jar containing fetus) However, the development of the fetus is consistent with 20 weeks. If she was to be full-term now...she'd had deceased sometime in the first two weeks of January. Viv: Ducky.... Ducky:..Yes. Viv: You didn't match Rabb's DNA to the fetus, did you? Ducky: Didn't have to. We didn't always have DNA you know. In fact, we didn't always have television. You're too young to remember, but in many ways radio was much more... Viv: Ducky, why didn't you have to? Ducky: I checked Commander Rabb's blood type. That's legal. He couldn't have fathered the girl. Viv: Girl? Ducky: (places liver in a tray) Sure you won't have dinner with me tonight, Viv? Viv: Ducky, you're disgusting! Ducky: The pursuit of sex is an affirmination of life, Vivienne. That's way older men are so lascivious. Viv: I'm talking about your lack of respect for the dead. Ducky: I have the utmost respect for the dead. Viv: That's obvious from the way you speak to them. Ducky: Do you believe in an existence after death? Viv: I believe in God. Ducky: Isn't what I asked but it will do. If you were dead, wouldn't it be nice if you were spoken to, rather than about? Viv: Her soul isn't in that...shell. Ducky: Perhaps not. But I've always felt a presence while conducting an autopsy...especially on murder victims. I couldn't understand why the crows didn't touch her hands and feet. Suddenly, I saw myself in a block of ice with only my head exposed.

Viv: Your subconscious solved the problem. Ducky: Then shouldn't I have envisioned the Lieutenant in a block of ice? Why don't we discuss it over dinner? Viv: Not tonight. (She leaves) Ducky: (to himself) She didn't say "No. Just not tonight." (Great Falls.) Marines are searching the falls. Gibbs: We had a conversation with the bartender at Benzinger's. (JAG Conference Room) Gibbs: He recalls you being there one evening in January. Petty Officer Coates: I was at Benzinger's a couple of times in January, Sir. Gibbs: This night you were in a booth behind Commander Rabb and Lieutenant Singer. Petty Officer Coates: I make an effort not to listen in on other peopl'es conversations. Tony: This conversation was so heated it got the bartender's attention across the room. Petty Officer Coates:.....I may have heard a few things. (NCIS Observation Room.) (Gibbs talks over a speaker) Cmdr. Rabb: What makes you think I would be involved in any way other than professionally with Lieutenant Singer? Gibbs: You're more comfortable asking questions than answering them, aren't you? Cmdr. Rabb: I'm not used to being a suspect. Gibbs: Who said you were a suspect? Did I read you your Article Thirty-one rights? Cmdr. Rab: No. Which means your're playing a very risky, Gunny. Gibbs: I'm not smart enough to play risky games with a lawyer of your calibre, Rabb. Cmdr. Rabb: It's Commander Rabb. Commander. Or Sir, Gunny. I be;ieve as a reservist, your're technically still in the Corps. Gibbs: I'm an NCIS Special Agent. I don't have to "Sir" you, salute you or show you any military courtesy. But you knew that. So who's playing the games here? (Cmdr. Rabb slams his hand into the interrogation glass) Gibbs: You're quite the control freak, aren't you? Cmdr. Rabb: That makes two of us. Tony: (comes in.): Dobbs is coming in with a cover he found in the woods below the falls...a cover just like... (Viv points to Harms cover on the table)...Tony: ..that one. Cmdr. Rabb: (picks up cover) Since I'm not a suspect, I see no reason to waste my time here. Gibbs: I wonder how Admiral Chegwidden will feel about his top JAG not cooperating on an inquiry into the death of one of his officers? (Cmdr. Rabb looks back at Gibbs) Gibbs: (on phone) Jessie. One coffee, black and... Cmdr. Rabb: (looking at Gibbs) Same. Gibbs: Make that two, Jessie. Cmdr. Rabb: (replaces his cover on desk) Gibbs, I don't know who fathered Singer's baby and I don't know who murdered her. What else?

Gibbs: What did your investigations show? Cmdr. Rabb: You were there. The Admiral ordered me to stay out of this. Gibbs: Oh...I was referring to the investigation you had Commander Manetti conduct into Singer's love life prior to deploying. (NCIS Observation Room) Tony: (laughs) Oops. Viv: Oops is right. Without reading him his rights, we're gonna lose all this stuff in court. Tony: We've got THIS stuff, Viv. Gibbs is setting Rabb up. (Viv writes on Palm Pilot to Gibbs: Read him his rights!) (NCIS Interrogation room:) Cmdr. Rabb: Colonel Mackenzie was getting nowhere on the investigation into Singer's pregnancy. Mac and I are old friends. I thought I could help. Gibbs: Reasonable answer. Cmdr. Rabb: The truth usually is. Gibbs: Then you won't mind giving us a DNA sample? Cmdr. Rabb: For what purpose? Gibbs: Paternity check. Cmdr. Rabb: I didn't even like Singer. Gibbs: I wouldn't say that in a murder investigation. Cmdr. Rabb: No. You can't have my DNA. Gibbs: If you're not guilty... Cmdr. Rabb: General principle. Gibbs: Okay, no DNA. (looks at Palm Pilot) When did you last see Lieutenant Singer? Cmdr. Rabb: Early January before she left for San Diego. Gibbs: What'd you talk about? Cmdr. Rabb: We swapped the usual lies between two officers who don't usually have anything in common. (Observation Room) Tony: Here it comes. Gibbs is going straight for the jugular. (Interrogation Room) Gibbs: This was the first week in January? Cmdr. Harm: Sounds right. Gibbs: And that was the last time you saw her? Cmdr. Harm: At Benzinger's. (Observation Room) Tony: Buggered! Abby: Rabb's fingerprints are all over Singer's convertible. (Interrogation Room) Cmdr. Rabb: Who said we met at Benzinger's. Gibbs: You meet her there, didn't you?

Cmdr. Rabb: Yes. Gibbs: To tell each other the usual lies? Gibbs: (coffees arrive) Yo! (reads message about Rabbs prints on Palm Pilot) Cmdr. Rabb: Who's prompting from behind the mirror? Gibbs: (punches up a number on Palm Pilot and shows Rabb.) Recognize this? (It's the number on the Benzinger's napkin) Cmdr. Rabb: Should I? Gibbs: You call it often enough. Cmdr. Rabb: I call so many numbers. Gibbs: It's your brother Sergei Zhikov's cell phone in Moscow. Immigration records show him here when Lieutenant Singer got pregnant and again, three weeks ago. Cmdr. Rabb: Sergei didn't kill her. Gibbs: Is he the father? Cmdr. Rabb: She told him he wasn't. Gibbs: And he believed her? Cmdr. Rabb: Yes. Gibbs: But you didn't? Cmdr. Rabb: I'm not sure. The important thing is Sergei believed her. He swore to me he hasn't seen or talked to Singer since she called him in January. Gibbs: Why'd he give Singer his Moscow number? Cmdr. Rabb: I di that. I wrote it on a napkin at Benzinger's and... Gibbs: Commander Rabb, you are suspected of having committed the offense of murder. Cmdr. Rabb: What? Gibbs: You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right anything you say can be used against you in a trial by court-martial. Cmdr. Rabb: You think I killed Loren? (Tony Comes in and handcuffs Cmdr. Harm) Gibbs: You have the right to have an attorney appointed t you by the Navy or obtain one at your own expense, or both. Cmdr. Rabb: I know my Article Thirty-One rights and waive them! Viv: Do you understand your rights....? Cmdr. Rabb: I said I waive it. Gibbs: She use to be FBI. Cmdr. Rabb: How long you been doing this, Gibbs? Gibbs: Nineteen years. Cmdr. Rabb: Can you tell someone's lying by just looking at their eyes? Gibbs: I can. Cmdr. Rabb: Yeah, well, look at mine. Ask me. Ask me! Gibbs: Would you kill for your brother? (To be continued in Part 2 - Melt Down)

Episode 1.1 "Yankee White"

Gibbs: Rule number three; Don't believe what you're told. Always double check. Kate: Should I write these on my Palm Pilot, or crochet them on pillows? Abby:There's a futon, under the cabinet over there Tony: Oh, bless you! Abby:What are you, my priest? Tony:Curse you? Abby: Ahhha Kate: You know, when you're on the job 24/7, how else do you get to know someone? Gibbs:Church. Tony: Thats funny Gibbs, real funny. Especially sinceah Gib- ah! Gibbs: (Hangs up his phone) I guess they found him. Kate: I earned my jock strap. Gibbs: Ever give you that empty feeling? Kate: What? Gibbs: Your jock strap. Kate: No, like some species of frogs, I grow what I need. Dennis: NCIS. Never heard of it. Gibbs: Thats embarrassing. Dennis: NCIS anything like CSI? Tony: Only if youre dyslexic. Coroner: Hello Ducky. Howd you like those steaks I air-expressed you? Ducky: Delicious. Fornell: He air-expressed him steaks? Kate: Its a big state. Look how long it took him to get here. Gibbs: Hey! Cockpits on the top deck. Tony: I knew that. Gibbs: Did you enjoy playing my boss? Ducky: I did, rather. Ducky: Good God, Gibbs. Ive barely met the deceased. Tony: Gibbs? Pilot wont take off until the secret service chick gives her thumbs up. Kate: I think that just made it my team. Gibbs: No. I think it means I just have to hijack Air Force One.

Kate: Your team. But only because I dont wanna delay us further by having to shoot you. Fornell: Why is your medical examiner taking the body to Washington? Coroner: Never said he was MY medical examiner. Kate: I can't give him Air Force One's floor plans, they're top secret! Gibbs: Come on, Agent Todd. I saw all this in a Harrison Ford movie. Gibbs: NCIS does not leak. These plans get out... you can shoot DiNozzo. Kate: No, I think I'm destined to shoot you. Director Morrow: Did you have to, literally, slam the door on the FBIs face? Gibbs: There were more of them than us. Director: Theres always more of them than us. Ducky: I thought your photo analysis was brilliant, Tony. But isnt 36D a bit of wishful thinking? Tony: Yeah maybe it was. Gibbs: Rule number one: Never let suspects stay together. Gibbs: Rule number two: Always wear gloves at a crime scene. Gibbs: Rule number three: Never believe what your told always double check. Tony: (slightly hopeful): You think shes got whatever killed the Commander? Kate: Did you use that thermometer on cadavers? Ducky: Would you rather I use the liver probe? Ducky: Well, if you dont work with him, then how Ah! Kate: Did you think I was a virgin? Ducky: Id hoped not. Gibbs: Want me to take that call for you? Kate: I'd have to be dead. Gibbs: (laughs) Gibbs: If you two are through taking pictures of each other maybe we can move this body aft. Gibbs: Never say youre sorry. Gibbs: Ducky? Why would Abby go to a fat party? Abby: This guy was on organic freak. I mean, he probably whizzed green.

Abby: Do you dudes in the Secret Service ever think about throwing yourselves in front of the Presidents diet? Fornell: Hows your butt? Tony: (with a smile) Still bouncing on the beltway. Gibbs: Please? Abby: Wow! Gibbs said Please". Ducky: Nature always proves to be a far more illusive and powerful killer than men. Kate [addressing Gibbs]: Youre still a bastard. Gibbs: I heard you quit, Agent Todd. Kate: Happy news gets around fast. Yes, I resigned. It was the right thing to do. Gibbs: Yep. Pull that crap at NCIS, I wont give you a chance to resign. Kate: Is that a job offer? (Tony is in an FBI van in a body bag, pretending to be a dead body) Tony: Hello? Gibbs: We're in the clear.You can get out of the body bag. Tony: I never thought I'd say this, but I'm not sure I want to. GIbbs: What? You gotta search Commander Trapp's apartment tonight. Tony: Aw, Gibbs, come'on.It's one am. Gibbs: Agent Axelrod is tailing you to pick up the bag when the FBI tosses it. Tony: That's funny, Gibbs, real funny.....Gah! Gibbs: I guess they found him. Secuirty Guard: Okay, you can go through the metal detectors, but your bags gotta go through the scanner. Gibbs: Wait a minute, you're letting us take weapons on board, and you wanna scan our bags? Secuirty Gaurd: Well, you've got permits for the weapons.You don't for the bags. Gibbs: We're LEO's. Dennis: Ah, I'm a Capricorn. Tony: LEO, short for Law Enforcement Officer. Baer: I'm going to be doing paper work for a week. Gibbs: Oh yeah, me too. Baer: Agent Todd told me about her and Major Kerry when she tendered her resignation. Gibbs: You accepting? Baer: Of course, she broke the rules. (shakes Gibbs hand) Thank you Special Agent Gibbs. Gibbs: No, sir. Thank you.

Kate: I may not know the finer points of investigating, like sticking needles in liver and measuring swimsuit models, but I do know enough to hold the stewards who prepared and served the President's lunch. Gibbs: Hum. Okay. Kate: You want to question them? Gibbs: No, they're not going anywhere, and we've got a crime scene to investigate. Rule Number One. Never let suspects stay together. Kate: Well, I didn't consider them suspects. Gibbs: Then why'd you hold them? Tony: Tell me her measurements. Kate: You're pathetic. Tony: No, I'm serious. Can you tell if she's five foot four and a thirty-four C, or five foot seven and a thirty-six D? You can't. Not from a photo. That's why we do sketches and take measurements. Thank you. Episode 1.2 "Hung Out to Dry" Tony: Do you jump? Gibbs: Only when I get an electric shock. Tony: That explains the lack of power tools. Gibbs: (referring to the boots) Put 'em on. Can't work a field in high heels. Tony: Depends on the kind of work you're doing. Kate: Your mind, DiNozzo, runs the gamut from X to XXX. Tony: Yeah? Tony: Hey, you could be the NCIS poster girl in that outfit [Kate's tweed suit and combat boots]. Tony: Jumping's gotta be so cool. Gibbs: Hey, you wanna play paratrooper? Pay $180, take a class like all those other weekend warriors. Tony: Yeah, I have so many weekends free! Gibbs: How long to find the acid and check out the rest of those chutes? Abby: Well, I'm flying solo, so at least a day. Gibbs: Go faster if you had an assistant? Abby: Oh, definitely. Gibbs: Okay, (nudges Kate) you got the job. Kate: I get to do forensics? Gibbs: No, you get to schlep for Abby. She gets to do forensics. Kate: How'd you get into this? Abby: Filled out an application.

Gibbs: So you gonna do it? Tony: What? Gibbs: Spend $180 to defy gravity? Tony: (grinning) Yeah, I think I am. Gibbs: Y'know, some of these guys freeze on their first jump. Have to be kicked in the ass to get them out. Tony: Not me. Gibbs: Nope. You fall in the category of want to get kicked in the ass on the ground. Tony: Very electric Kool-Aid, Abby. Abby: I was thinking more Blue Man Group. Tony: Wow, why didn't you take to me this fast? Abby: You're like a piercing, Tony. It takes a while for the throbbing to stop and the skin to grow back. Tony: That's more than I wanted to know. Gibbs: Only thing you can use the DNA registry for is to identify a body. Kate: Well, there has to be a way around that. Gibbs: See? Now you're thinking like an NCIS agent. Gibbs: You never work the system when you can work the people. Kate: Any of those horse traders you come from get hung? Gibbs: Yeah. Few. Gibbs: (looking at his cell phone) Identity withheld. Tony: Probably the reason you married her. I mean, she probably hid her real personality, as most women do, and by that time it was too late 'cause you'd already... I'm gonna shut up now. Gibbs: Now? Kate: How did you get into NCIS? Tony: I smiled. Gibbs: DiNozzo, where'd you learn how to write? China? Kate: I'd say Egypt. Looks more like hieroglyphics. Tony: Hey! You were in a rush to read it. Gibbs: My mistake. Kate: If the Captain were a suspect, we would've read him his rights, wouldn't we? Gibbs: Very good, Agent Todd. Very good.

Gibbs: We're going with you boys. NCIS training mission. Capt. Faul: Now why don't I believe that? Hell, why not! Hate to pass up an opportunity to toss a couple of NCIS agents out of a plane. Marine: Why you jumping with us, Sir? Tony: Always wanted to jump. Agent Gibbs came along to laugh. Tony: What's your reserve chute number? Marine: Four. Tony: Four? No, four's unlucky in China. Gibbs: We're not in China. Tony:I don't care Tony: Are we ever gonna make the eleven o'clock news? Gibbs: Could've happened tonight if you broke your neck. Witness: We were hanging out, listening to Dashboar Confessional. Tony: Emo. Gibbs: Emo? Tony: Emotional music. Gotta get a radio, Gibbs. Tony: Ducky? Why would Gibbs rip his hard line out and dunk his cell phone in a jar of paint thinner? Ducky: Oh, dear. Tony: What? Ducky: Oh, I should have realized the time of year. It's his anniversary. Tony: Which marriage? Ducky: Well, the last one, of course. Tony: Ducky. I'm not following. Ducky: Every year, ex-wife number three gets drunk on their anniversary and calls him repeatedly. Tony: Why doesn't he, ah, change his number? Ducky: No idea. In case you haven't noticed, Gibbs is a man of more questions than answers. Kate: He could've given Thumper a dirty chute. Gibbs: What'd you say? Kate: Ramsay could've given Thumper a sabotaged chute. Gibbs: No, you said dirty. Kate: What? Tony: With Gibbs, you never know. Abby: When I was a kid, we lived near this lot where they brought all the burned-out hulks from the gnarliest car wrecks. I used to sneak in there at night and take pictures. It wasn't about the gore, it was about...figuring out how things happened. Y'know, like action, reaction, the science of the whole thing. I got hooked.

Captain Faul: You JAG or NCIS? Gibbs: Do I look like a lawyer?

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