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So when you say you're sure, how sure are you?
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Sure enough that if you don't ask
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her out by tomorrow, I'm gonna
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start spiking your coffee with testosterone, man.
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Yeah, but what if you're wrong?
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J.B., trust me, the girl's into you.
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Hey, careful!
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Ah, relax.
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This guy's a Marine.
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Or at least he was before he deployed himself through his windshield.
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So what do I say to her?
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I don't know. What do I look like, the Cyrano de what's-his-face guy?
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Go with your gut.
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You got the release?
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No, didn't you get it?
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You know what? On second thought, maybe you better not go with your gut.
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So where should I take her?
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I'm gonna start charging you for advice, you know?
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Oh, there she is.
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You smell that?
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Gas.
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Oh, no.
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Get out. Get out, get out, get out!
Go, go, go!
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What are you doing?
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I'm in the middle of a very serious negotiation.
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On McGee's computer?
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I know where you're going with this.
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And the answer is yes.
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And what's the question?
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Have I no shame?
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Who are you IMing?
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Agent Larson?
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And she thinks you're McGee?
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And this is because she warned you that if you spoke to her again,
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she would have you brought up on sexual harassment charges.
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That was a misunderstanding.
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Oh, so now you're correcting the record.
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I'm just trying to let her know that I...
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McGee feels that she may have misjudged me, and...
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that as a close, personal friend, I can...
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"Vouch for Tony's strength of character."
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I don't have much time.
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She's being reassigned in two days.
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Yeah, well, you'll be reassigned if Gibbs catches you.
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Doing what?
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Uh, we were looking at McGee's bookmarks, trying to get an idea for a...
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Birthday present.
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Morning.
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Happy birthday, Probie.
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It's a bagel.
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Um, not my birthday.
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Grab your gear.
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Medical transport just exploded.
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Any day now, Probie.
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Yep, sorry.
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I just got the strangest IM.
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She asked you out?
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You?
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Trust me, I'm just as surprised as you are.
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Trust me, you're not.
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Blast radius indicates a low-yield detonation.
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She say why?
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Uh...
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it said that she liked the loyalty I showed my coworkers.
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Pyrolysis on the pavement suggests O2 was the primary accelerant.
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Even if they were total scum.
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No idea what she was referring to.
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I'll tell you, though, did not realize she was paying so much attention to me.
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You want to tell the Probie or should I?
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How about neither?
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Why don't you just focus on the work?
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Yeah, I've noticed you've morphed into quite the forensic expert.
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I'm Israeli.
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This isn't my first exploding ambulance.
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We left the van unattended for four, maybe five minutes tops.
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As soon as Patto hit the brakes...
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The whole thing exploded into flames.
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I think someone's trying to kill us.
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Would you please stop that, J.B.?
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It was, it was an accident.
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Who's trying to kill you?
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Who knows?
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There's a lot of weirdoes out there.
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Tell me about it.
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Talk to me, Duck.
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Lance Corporal William Danforth, Jr.
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Survived IEDs in Iraq, RPGs in Afghanistan.
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Unfortunately, the local Odocoileus virginianus was
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too much to bear.
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-That's a white-tailed...
-Deer.
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Yeah, I know.
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You saying Bambi killed this Marine, Ducky?
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No. But...
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swerving at 60 miles an hour into a tree to avoid Bambi did.
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His girlfriend is still in a coma at the hospital.
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Danforth was DOA when they brought him in last night.
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This morning, he was on his way to Bethesda
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for a routine autopsy when...
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fate intervened.
-Fate?
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The scorching of the body is consistent
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with a gasoline fire accelerated by onboard oxygen.
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This could have been an accident, Jethro.
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Lucky for those two to get out.
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Yeah. Lucky in a way I don't like.
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Good morning, good morning
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Morning.
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Good...
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Good morning to you
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You, you, you
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Good...
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Ooh, what's that?
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Looks like an iPod.
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iPod photo.
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Anyone who might have possibly had a motive to try to kill them...
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Either has an alibi or is out of town. Way ahead of you.
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You could have told me and saved me the trouble.
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Just say you need the practice and leave it at that.
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What kind of music does the McGee listen to?
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Ooh, Barry Manilow?
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Julie Andrews?
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Zamfir?
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Let's go to photos.
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What are you doing?
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Well, McGee had a date with Agent Larson last night.
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Didn't return any of my e-mails about a sit-rep.
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Maybe he took some photos.
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Those are his private photos.
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Well, he left them on his public desk.
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Where's the clicker?
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Who is this?
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Well, it's definitely not Agent Larson.
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Got to be his sister.
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Why?
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You kidding? This girl's way out of McGeek's league.
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I don't think the drivers were the target, Tony.
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Um, I actually think it was the body.
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Why blow up a dead guy?
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Put it back up there.
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Put what back?
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McGee's got good taste.
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Going for coffee.
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Ow! What was that for?!
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Alerting DiNozzo.
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The fuel line to the gas tank cap...
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is ruptured...
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here.
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torn by a loose bolt on the differential housing.
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-Loosened how?
-Unknown.
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The van also had a short in the electrical system,
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coincidentally, in the taillight right by our ruptured fuel line.
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You know how I feel about coincidences, Abs.
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Equatorial pygmies know how you feel about coincidences, Gibbs.
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So one would wonder: accident or not an accident?
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That is the question.
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Our first player: an innocent differential housing bolt
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that is rubbing and straining on the molecular bonds
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of our vulcanized fuel line, until, after eons,
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our hapless hose finally ruptures.
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The gas moves quickly into the floorboard of the van when it's in motion.
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The driver smells it.
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What could it be?
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He hits the brakes, and the short in the taillight
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ignites the pooling gas vapors.
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The flames quickly superheat the onboard O2.
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And when the canisters can no longer contain
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the growing pressure, kaboom!
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Not an accident.
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Not unless the Angel of Death
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is going through a Rube Goldberg stage.
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Boss, we found remnants of what may have been
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the trigger on an O2 canister.
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May have been, McGee?
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There were traces of mercury fulminate,
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sodium azide and tetryl on the material.
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-Blasting cap.
-O2 would have never blown on its own.
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Fire wasn't hot enough.
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The perp rigged the transport to make it look like an accident.
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Might have gotten away with it if he had detonated it sooner.
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Fire dispersed pieces of the trigger.
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He waited for the drivers to get out.
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So he's not a murderer.
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Well, uh, at least he wasn't trying to kill the ambulance drivers.
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Trace it.
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Gibbs, this is a garden-variety laminated paper substrate.
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It's used as a cheap shielding in thousands of electronic devices.
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Yeah, so?
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So, maybe I should get back to work.
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Did we get a positive match on our Marine's DNA?
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You know, I've been a little busy here, Gibbs,
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with all the rubbing and the looking
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and the analyzing and the...
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I should mention that Ducky's taking care of it.
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I haven't seen a body this badly burned
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since the Bertram Mills' circus.
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Specimen jar.
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Mr. Palmer?
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Sorry, Doctor.
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Just having a problem with the smell today.
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Really?
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I think he smells like my mother's fried chicken.
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Yeah, that would be the problem.
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Oh, I see.
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Well, the vegetarian lifestyle has been medically proven to
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be the healthiest of choices.
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Perhaps it's time you made the jump.
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You wanted to see me, Duck?
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Well, actually, yes, Jethro.
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Then why do you look surprised to see me?
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Because I haven't told you that I wanted
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to see you.
Yes, well.
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Our latest houseguest has thrown us quite the little mystery.
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Define "mystery".
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Yeah, well, the young lad's death certificate
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lists blunt-force thoracic trauma as the cause of death.
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Typical in motor vehicle accidents.
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But I've only partially been able to verify that,
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since, as you can see, the postmortem damage is extensive.
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Ducky.
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Yes?
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Mystery.
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Ah, of course.
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Well, you know me, Jethro.
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I attempted to make an identification myself.
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The blast destroyed his jaw and shattered his teeth.
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It would take an inordinate amount of time
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to get an identification from dental records.
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Also,
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the fire so degraded his DNA
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that, you know, I spent the better part of yesterday
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scouring his body.
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Mystery.
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Uh, almost there.
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By a stroke of luck,
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I found a piece of tissue
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viable enough to send to have run against Danforth's DNA
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at the Armed Forces Repository.
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This isn't William Danforth, Jr.
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Uh-uh.
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Then who is this?
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That,
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my dear Jethro,
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is the mystery.
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Lance Corporal Danforth's pro and cons were Five-Oh Five-Oh.
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A real squirreled-away Marine.
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So, what'd you find, Tony?
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-Tony!
-Huh?
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Zamfir.
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He's the Master of the Pan Flute.
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-It's helping me think.
-What are you thinking?
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I'm thinking that there are a lot of reasons
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for post-mortem mutilation you're overlooking,
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besides hiding a suspicious cause of death.
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Such as?
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Such as, enraged acts of violence, sadistic curiosity.
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Trying to hide the real identity of the victim.
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That was the next one on my list.
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Is his identity in question?
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Yeah, it is now.
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-Tony, get me a copy of that...
-The names of the cops who
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processed Danforth's crime scene report. Already on its way, boss.
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-Ziva, take McGee and...
-Have a chat
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with the doctor who pronounced the body dead,
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find out who made the I.D.
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Hey, you want me to go and supervise that, boss?
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Actually, you know, I'll stay here
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just in case you need me.
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Phew!
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Zamfir.
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Not-Not saying you need me.
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That's a bad word.
Need's the wrong word.
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Oh, uh, the Director needs to see you in her office ASAP.
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I was just going to tell the Director you're here.
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Cynthia, did you know that when a Roman
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emperor made a triumphal march into Rome, he had a slave on his chariot who...
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Who whispered, "You're only human" into his ear.
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Going in unannounced is whispering into her ear.
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So, you're the Director's slave?
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Cynthia is there to direct
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traffic, Agent Gibbs.
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I'm just responding to your ASAP, Director.
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This is Lance Corporal Danforth's father, William.
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My sympathies, Mr. Danforth.
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Thank you, Agent Gibbs.
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The SecNav would like us to keep Mr. Danforth in the loop
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throughout the entire investigation.
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More than usual?
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Yes.
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Gordo and I served together in Beirut, Agent Gibbs,
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and quite frankly, I'm using that friendship.
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-Wouldn't you?
-He would.
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Sixth or Eighth?
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Two-Six. Fox Company.
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One-One. Scout Sniper Platoon.
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Beirut?
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Desert Storm.
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So, what can you tell me about my son, Agent Gibbs?
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Jethro.
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Bill.
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Only what I read in the hospital and police reports.
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Mr. Danforth has seen those.
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He's asking how his son's body was incinerated.
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It wasn't.
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AFIS couldn't match the body in autopsy with Lance Corporal Danforth's DNA.
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You're saying that it isn't Mr. Danforth's son?
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Not according to AFIS.
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Could there be a mistake?
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One in nine million.
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-Have Abby rerun the DNA.
-Already on it, Director.
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Well, if it's not Lance Corporal Danforth, who the hell is it?
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I'll let you know when I find out.
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What should I tell his mother?
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I wouldn't tell her anything yet.
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Right.
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My numbers.
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Director Shepard, I'll tell Gordo how cooperative you've been.
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Least we could do.
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Hey, Bill?
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Did you identify your son's body?
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No. The, um...
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police notified us that he had died,
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said that his body was being shipped to Bethesda.
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Do you think Billy
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could still be alive?
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I think the hospital transported the wrong body.
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Bull.
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The Marine from two nights ago, Danforth?
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Yeah, I remember him.
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Are you the one who treated him?
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Treated? No.
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Unfortunately, all I did was pronounce him dead, Agent McGee.
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It's hard to believe it's the same kid.
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Why is that?
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He was a mess.
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Heavy contusions to the cranium.
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Pronounced facial lacerations.
Half his skull caved in.
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Who ID'd his body?
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A buddy gave us the tentative I.D.
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And, uh, we also pulled his license from his wallet.
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His buddy have a name?
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I can do better than that. He's in ICU room five.
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The police report didn't mention anything about a third injured party, Doctor.
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That's because he wasn't injured, Officer David.
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He's visiting.
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"Our souls are like those orphans
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"whose unw-wedded
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"mothers die in bearing them.
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"The secret of our p...pat..."
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"Paternity lies in their graves and we must there to learn it."
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Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
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Call me Ishmael.
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It's her favorite book.
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Doctors said it-it might help.
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It's helping give me a headache.
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You're Rebecca's relatives?
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Uh, no. NCIS.
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Corporal Merrill, sir.
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Uh, at-at ease, Marine.
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We're only here to ask you a few questions.
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Oh, of course, sir.
I-I mean, m-ma'am.
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Man, she doesn't like being called ma'am.
It's okay, though.
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This about Billy, Ma... Miss?
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If you mean Lance Corporal Danforth, yes.
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We understand that you ID'd his body.
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Tried to.
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Billy's face was all m-mashed up.
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How did you know it was him?
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Who else c-could it be?
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He was in his car with Rebecca.
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Least he was la-last time I saw him.
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Which was?
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The night he was killed.
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Uh, feel free to elaborate.
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Huh?
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Tell us about the night.
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Uh, Billy had just landed stateside
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after his second tour in Iraq, so,
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me, him and, uh, Rebecca, Billy's girlfriend
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we were out celebrating at-at the Gold Monkey.
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Celebrating, meaning drinking.
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Not me, sir.
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Billy was, even though he shouldn't 'cause...
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He-He just shouldn't.
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I made Rebecca drive him home, 'cause
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he-he... he looked pretty bad,
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like he was gonna puke or something.
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You're a good friend.
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M-Me and Billy b-been buds since we was...
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this big.
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He was the only one who never made fun of my stutter.
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You saw Lance Corporal Danforth get into the car?
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I put him in it.
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Like I said, he was p... pretty drunk.
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I went back inside...
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the bar for maybe...
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half an hour?
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When I left, I...
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p-p... passed the a-accident on my way home.
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Uh, cops were already there.
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Said Billy's car hit a d... dee...
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It's okay, Corporal.
We read the police report.
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He was just lying there, all b...
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uh, broken and be-bent up.
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They were trying to, uh, uh...
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save him, but I knew.
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I-I just...
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I knew he was, uh...
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Doctor said he probably didn't feel anything.
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Think he was telling the truth, or just tryin'-tryin' to make me feel better?
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Doctors do that, don't they?
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Well, in my experiences, E.R. doctors-- they usually tell it like it is.
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You got a favorite movie, huh? Got a favorite movie?
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
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Who's your Daddy now?
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Oh!
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Are you having fun, DiNozzo?
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00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,000
Ah. All done interviewing Danforth's C.O.?
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00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:42,900
You done interviewing his platoon?
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Nothing builds rapport like a good game of ball.
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Thanks, guys.
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The guys said Danforth was a top Marine,
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but the word is, he only joined 'cause his father was a Marine.
422
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,100
Aah! Ooh!
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Little looser, please.
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My toes have gotten used to the whole, uh,
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blood thing, circulation.
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DiNozzo.
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Word also is that, uh, he was inseparable
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with another Marine, a-a Corporal...
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Kenneth Merrill.
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He followed Danforth into the Corps on the buddy program.
431
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,200
'Course he did.
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00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,000
The guy's as loyal as a Saint Bernard.
433
00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,800
Would you just focus, please?
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And I'm starting to lose feeling in my pinky toe.
435
00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,000
Does that look right?
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00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,200
Apparently, he was as loyal as a Saint Bernard.
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00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,300
According to his C.O., the Corps worked out pretty well for him.
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00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,100
Oh, yeah, he got into boxing, got his first girlfriend,
439
00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:38,600
and get this-- turns out he had a knack for disarming IEDs.
440
00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:39,700
His platoon called him the...
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Forrest Gump of explosives.
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00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000
I'm not trying to do your job, am I?
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Put an ice pack on that.
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15 on...
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15 off. Yeah, I know the drill. Thanks, Corpsman.
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Ooh, it's real swollen.
447
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I don't think I'm going to be able to walk on this thing, boss.
448
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Ha.
449
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Look at that.
450
00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:04,200
Look, it's a miracle.
451
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,100
Yeah. Loyal as a Saint Bernard.
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00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:09,100
I always wanted to get one of those until I found out
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they didn't come with that barrel of whiskey around their neck.
454
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You're wondering if Merrill helped his buddy
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fake his own death to get out of the Corps?
456
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,400
No. I'm wondering who they got to play the part of the dead body.
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You really think Lance Corporal Danforth faked his own death?
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You got a better theory?
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Actually, we do, Tony.
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I'd like to hear it, Agent McGee.
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And yours as well, Agent DiNozzo.
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Both preferably sometime today.
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We think Corporal Merrill may have killed Danforth, Director.
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Why?
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Merrill conveniently forgot to tell us
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about the fight they had the night Danforth was killed.
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00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:07,800
A fight over what?
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Gibbs is not going to like this.
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There a problem, Agent McGee?
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Uh, no, no, ma'am.
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Merrill claims that he was trying to stop him from drinking and driving.
472
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According to the bartender, they broke two tables and a chair over it.
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Sounds like more than two good friends fighting to me.
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I agree.
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Merrill also passed Danforth's accident on the way home.
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He could have easily finished him off.
477
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Merrill goes to hide the body.
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When he comes back to clean up, the cops are already on scene.
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What about the other body?
480
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There was a third party in the car.
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We only have Corporal Merrill's word that the two of them drove off.
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No way.
483
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Wrong.
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Merrill shows up at the hospital, confirms the false I.D.
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Then, later, goes back, torches the ambulance before the real I.D. can be made.
486
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No. Okay, I'm sorry.
487
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I got to interrupt.
488
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'Cause...
489
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here's the thing. Um...
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I have a theory that actually has motive
491
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which might be helpful.
I don't meant to belittle my colleagues efforts,
492
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but I am a senior field agent.
Danforth didn't hit a deer.
493
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He hit Ducky's John Doe.
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Stick with me here.
495
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He's drunk, right?
496
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Wasted, looking at five to ten for manslaughter.
497
00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:29,400
So he switches the John Doe with his body,
498
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then skips town, right?
499
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And then he has his buddy, Corporal Merrill, come along and torch the evidence.
500
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That's how it happened.
501
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,100
It's pretty simple.
502
00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:40,800
It's really just detective work connecting the dots...
503
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,200
Hey, boss, I was just...
The Director wanted...
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00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:45,400
she wanted...
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-With me.
-Okay.
506
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Dramatic.
507
00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:13,500
But duly noted, Agent Gibbs.
508
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I get it.
509
00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:24,700
That wasn't the way it looked, boss.
510
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:25,500
I know.
511
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,700
The Director kind of suckered me into that deal.
512
00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:29,700
-Ziva caved first.
-I didn't cave in. I was trying...
513
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,700
-McGee next.
-It wasn't...
514
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,000
And my loyal St. Bernard held out till last.
515
00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:36,000
Well, I...
516
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Probably all of 30 seconds.
517
00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:40,500
So what is my team?
518
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,200
Can I call you my team?
519
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,700
What are you going to do now?
520
00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:47,900
To solve the case?!
521
00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:51,000
-Tony, you impound...
-Danforth's car.
522
00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:53,000
Have Abby see if it hit anything beside a tree.
523
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,100
Then you and McGee...
524
00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:55,500
Go to the original crash site.
525
00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:58,300
McGee, I want an agent standing by Rebecca Crawford's room to get...
526
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,300
A statement. The second she wakes up, boss. You got it.
527
00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:02,900
And I'm with you, yes?
528
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,600
I don't know, Ziva.
529
00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:06,900
Are you?
530
00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:09,100
Definitely.
531
00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:19,600
The improvised explosive device, gentlemen.
532
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,200
The weapon of choice in Iraq and Afghanistan.
533
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,900
The problem is spotting them when they look something like this.
534
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,500
Now these are just a few of the IED configurations
535
00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:31,800
I encountered on my last pump in Iraq.
536
00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:34,600
Today, I'm going to teach you how to locate,
537
00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:37,400
disarm, or if need be, blow them all in place.
538
00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:41,300
Corporal, you've got it.
539
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,000
Take it over. They're yours.
540
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,100
Can I... can I help you, sir?
541
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,900
Did you know that lying to a federal investigator is a crime?
542
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,700
I didn't lie.
543
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,900
What was the fight in the Gold Monkey about?
544
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,600
Billy was drunk, sir.
545
00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:02,900
I tried to take his car keys away.
546
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:04,600
He started swinging.
547
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,000
I guess I didn't try h-hard enough.
548
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000
You told me you placed him inside the car.
549
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,100
I did.
550
00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:15,100
Billy m-must have made Becca pull over.
551
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,100
I should have... have...
552
00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:19,800
You should have taken him home yourself.
553
00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:21,100
Yeah.
554
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,100
Billy's dead, 'cause of m...
555
00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:25,300
me.
556
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:26,500
Are you sure he's dead?
557
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,700
The burned body isn't Lance Corporal Danforth.
558
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,000
Enough already. You know I'm not the type to kiss and tell.
559
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,100
Kiss?
560
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,700
I heard from a reliable source that you were out
561
00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:44,200
with Agent Larsen last night until about 2:00 a.m.
562
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,300
Who told you that?
563
00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:50,300
I have information you want, you have information I want.
564
00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:52,100
Shall we dance?
565
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:53,800
Forget it.
566
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,800
Real mean always kiss and tell.
567
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,600
Okay, so what are we looking for that the cops didn't already find?
568
00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:04,500
They thought it was an accident.
569
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,300
But they were not using the honed eye
570
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,100
of a highly trained federal agent.
571
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,200
Probie, bring one of those numbers.
572
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,600
A prescription bottle of ibuprofen.
573
00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:30,500
Grunt candy. A marine's best friend.
574
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,300
Must have been thrown from Danforth's car.
575
00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:33,500
So?
576
00:27:33,700 --> 00:27:35,900
So, it belonged to Corporal Merrill.
577
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,400
And there's blood on it.
578
00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:40,200
Come on.
579
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:41,800
Say it.
580
00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:43,000
Say what?
581
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:44,700
"You were right, Tony."
582
00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:46,900
You'll be the bigger woman for it.
583
00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:49,300
I'll just have to content myself being the...
584
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,800
well, the righter one.
585
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:52,700
Woman?
586
00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:54,600
You know what I mean.
587
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,800
I found Merrill's scrip at the scene, which means they were in it together.
588
00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:02,200
And the DiNozzo body swap theory takes the lead.
589
00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:04,400
What if he dropped it while killing Danforth?
590
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,400
Abby found Danforth's blood all over the windshield and the hood.
591
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,100
So much for your body swap theory, Tony.
592
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,500
I've seem more than a few people survive the windshield taste test...
593
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,200
Ziva!
-Give it up, Tony.
594
00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:17,500
You said Merrill was the Forrest Gump of explosives.
595
00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:20,000
Who else had the equipment and expertise to blow the up ambulance?
596
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:20,900
Ziva's right.
597
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:22,100
Bring him in.
598
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:23,800
Feeling pretty smug, aren't you?
599
00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:26,200
Oh, yes.
600
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:27,700
Very.
601
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,700
So what's bugging that famous gut now?
602
00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:39,600
Yes, you're that easy to read.
603
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,200
I learned how to speak "Gibbs" a long time ago.
604
00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:45,700
You going to Abby's lab or autopsy?
605
00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:46,700
Abby's.
606
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,200
Not to work my case.
607
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,300
I have the right to dig in to any NCIS investigation that I want to.
608
00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:53,300
Not mine.
609
00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:55,900
Unless you want me behind your desk again.
610
00:28:58,500 --> 00:28:59,500
Of course...
611
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,000
you could just observe and keep quiet.
612
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,300
Fine.
613
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,400
As you know, this is the only piece of the trigger that I found.
614
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,200
I'm not really here.
615
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,100
Do you know how long I've been waiting
616
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:21,600
to cross over into an alternate dimension?
617
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,300
Well, you're still here, Abs, for now.
618
00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:25,000
What is this?
619
00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:27,400
That's laminated paper substrate, boss,
620
00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,300
found in any number of electronic devices.
621
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,100
Unfortunately I couldn't find a trace of a single one.
622
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,100
But then, I was surfing around
623
00:29:34,100 --> 00:29:36,900
on my favorite origami web ring and it hit me.
624
00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:39,600
Origami.
625
00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:41,800
The ancient art of paper folding.
626
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,500
Maybe the laminated substrate was the trigger.
627
00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:46,900
You telling me Merrill folded himself a bomb?
628
00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:48,300
No, that's impossible.
629
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:49,300
It came pre-folded.
630
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,300
See, several companies have been exploring
631
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,000
the use
632
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:56,500
of paper circuit boards for disposable products.
633
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,700
Metallic ink is printed on laminated paper
634
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,600
and then folded into the desired shape.
635
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,200
I coated our burned substrate with a metallic iron particulate.
636
00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:07,100
Which would attach to any residual metallic ink still present.
637
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:08,800
And then I ran the whole thing through
638
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,700
an X-ray to pick up on any latent patterns.
639
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,100
Voila.
640
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,000
You're looking at a partial circuit board for a disposable cell phone.
641
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:18,700
Any chance we can read the...?
642
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,000
Any chance we can read the...?
643
00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:26,400
Call log.
644
00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:27,800
Call logs.
645
00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:31,900
I'd have a better chance of getting McGee to wear a Speedo to church.
646
00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:34,700
But I was able to pull a list of all
647
00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:37,000
the incoming calls to the hospital cell zone.
648
00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,900
Only three came in immediately prior to the explosion.
649
00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:44,200
One of them was the triggering call Corporal Kenneth Merrill.
650
00:30:57,700 --> 00:30:59,300
-Appreciate you meeting me, Bill.
-Sure.
651
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:00,400
How's she doing?
652
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,200
She's stable. Still in a coma.
653
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:03,600
You waiting to question her?
654
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,200
Listen, the fire wasn't an accident.
655
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,600
How well do you know Corporal Kenneth Merrill?
656
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:12,500
Kenny?
657
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,600
He's like a son to me.
658
00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:16,700
-It wasn't an accident?
-No.
659
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,300
The van was rigged to explode.
660
00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:21,300
Because Kenny defused IED's in Iraq,
661
00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:22,900
you think he had something to do with this.
662
00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:24,600
No.
663
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:26,500
Impossible.
664
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,700
Her mother told me that Rebecca used to be Kenny's girlfriend?
665
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:30,800
When they were children.
666
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,100
They've been best friends since elementary school.
667
00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:35,300
The night of your son's accident, he was also in a fight.
668
00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:39,100
My son
669
00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:40,800
liked to drink.
670
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,300
Sometimes in excess.
671
00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:45,400
Kenny was just trying to stop him from driving home drunk.
672
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,300
Kenny had nothing to do with this, Jethro.
673
00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:54,600
It looks like the call that triggered the fire came from Kenny's cell phone.
674
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000
What time was that?
675
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:58,600
0900 about.
676
00:31:58,700 --> 00:31:59,800
No, it wasn't Kenny.
677
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:02,300
He was with my wife and I from...
678
00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:04,100
I don't know,
679
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,100
since... since before dawn up until at least noon.
680
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:09,600
Yeah, Gibbs.
681
00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:10,900
Hey, boss, Corporal Merrill disappeared...
682
00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:15,900
Was that about my son?
683
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,200
No, Corporal Merrill.
684
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,800
After I questioned him, he walked out of the class he was teaching...
685
00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:24,800
No one's seen him since.
686
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,000
I don't recall ordering room service.
687
00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:57,900
Is that "steak au poivre"?
688
00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:00,800
And a "frisée salade"?
689
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,100
Ahh! Ohh!
690
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,500
You know, the last time we had "steak au poivre", six people
died.*
691
00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:14,700
Ordering this meal is gonna cost me?
692
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:19,100
Can a guy just sit down and have a bite with his old partner?
693
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,300
Old partner?
694
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,000
It's been worse than I thought.
695
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,500
How did it go with Danforth at the hospital today?
696
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:36,700
I went ok
697
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,600
If you're Corporal Merril...
698
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Danforth gave him an alibi for the day of the explosion.
699
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,200
I assume you didn't believe him.*
700
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:49,500
Why is that?
701
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,600
Because I wouldn't be eating a "Steak au poivre" right now if you know what I'll be dead.
702
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,500
If Danforth's covering for Merril...
703
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,100
He has to believe Merril didn't kill his son.
704
00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:07,000
- The only way we can know that for sure...
- You think the kid's still alive ?
705
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,600
But you don't believe that either ...
706
00:34:15,700 --> 00:34:17,400
The alibi was biased.
707
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,100
The grief was real.
708
00:34:21,700 --> 00:34:23,500
You're sure Danforth wasn't playing you ?
709
00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:25,600
Sorry.
710
00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:27,800
It still doesn't mean the son's dead.
711
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,500
There was an accident.
712
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:32,800
He could be hurt.
713
00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:35,200
He could be recovering in a private hospital somewhere
714
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:39,600
It wouldn't be the first time a parent with means keep a child out of trouble
715
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,500
I mean, I expect...
716
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:50,200
Thank you.
717
00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:54,600
There is an other possibility.
718
00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:58,200
If Danforth is grieving for his son
719
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,300
-Then he is only covering for Merril because...
- He refuses to believe that Merril abducted to kill
720
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:10,000
Let's hope he's not wrong
721
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,000
Either way...
722
00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:15,100
However *it went down*
723
00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:17,200
Jethro, you would find Merril.
724
00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:19,700
And you find Danforth junior.
725
00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:25,400
Merril, m-e-r-r,
726
00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:26,900
r-r,
727
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,200
like Ricky Riccardo !
728
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:31,000
Okay, I've got a CTM** record striking** for any recent activity...
729
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:33,900
Vehicule is a 10th C L**/(**Tango Sierra**), licence plate DPH...
730
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,600
Ricky Ricardo, you know, from "I love Lucy" !
731
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,800
No withdraw in the last two weeks, his credit carte
732
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,900
records coming up.
733
00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:43,200
Tan! If I meant burnt umber, I would have said burnt umber. Get...
734
00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:45,600
-Whatever it is.
-Ricky Ricardo!
735
00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:48,200
You know, "You got some 'splaining to do, Lucy."
736
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,100
Hey, Boss. Just updating the BOLO on Merrill.
737
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,000
And checking the DMV to see to see if he's had
738
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,500
any traffic violations recently.
739
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:55,700
And going through his financial records
740
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,900
to try and pick up any leads off any recent purchases.
741
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:00,300
And?
742
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,300
And we can't find him.
743
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,300
Uh... but we're not going to give up until we do.
744
00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:07,700
Or die trying.
745
00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:15,800
"Or die trying?"
746
00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:17,400
You had to put that in his head?
747
00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:21,900
You wanted to see me, Duck?
748
00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:24,200
Yes, I did. I was just about to call you.
749
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,600
Small wonder DiNozzo is always looking over his shoulder.
750
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,600
I managed to put a couple of bits together.
751
00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:32,800
Yes... lower canine.
752
00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:33,600
How long?
753
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,300
Oh, a week, maybe longer.
754
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,500
Any odds of this reconstruction getting us an ID?
755
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,000
Exceedingly long,
756
00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:41,800
but it's the only method I have for...
757
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:44,100
identifying these remains.
758
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:45,900
I've had long shots come in.
759
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,800
I-I once wagered a 500-to-one on the Irish Sweepstakes.
760
00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:53,100
He fell at the first jump, but then recovered.
761
00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:54,800
He fell at the second jump.
762
00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:57,000
You'll never guess what happened next.
763
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:01,500
Yeah, Gibbs.
764
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:02,700
It's me, Gibbs!
765
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,100
You'll never guess what I found.
766
00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:07,300
Come on, Gibbs, guess!
767
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,000
I ran the prints from the bottle of Ibuprofen
768
00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:14,100
that Tony found at the Danforth accident site.
769
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:16,700
Can I at least get a drum roll?
770
00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:18,500
Ta-da.
771
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:20,600
Pathetic.
772
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:21,500
Prints?
773
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,400
The prescription belonged to Corporal Merrill.
774
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,500
All of the prints on the bottle belonged to Lance Corporal Danforth.
775
00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:28,800
So?
776
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,500
Merrill gave Danforth some of his grunt candy.
777
00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:33,000
It wasn't grunt candy.
778
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:34,800
The bottle was empty,
779
00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:37,300
so I swabbed it and I ran it through the Mass Spec.
780
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000
Cyclosporine/Azathioprine.
781
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,400
Come on, Abs. In English.
782
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,200
They're antirejection drugs, Gibbs.
783
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,300
If Danforth was taking them, he's had a transplant.
784
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:50,200
The DNA I ran could be from a donor organ.
785
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:52,700
Kind of turning me on.
786
00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:55,300
I'm going to get another sample from Ducky.
787
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:59,200
This body could be Lance Corporal Danforth.
788
00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:03,400
So urban myth.
789
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:10,600
Hey, Bill.
790
00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:11,700
Called your home.
791
00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:12,800
Wife said you were here.
792
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,400
You got bad news for me, don't you?
793
00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:23,900
Yeah.
794
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,700
Where'd your son have his transplant?
795
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:41,800
Does it matter?
796
00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:48,000
No.
797
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,900
You can't stay in the Corps with a kidney transplant, Jethro.
798
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,600
Who burned in the fire, Bill?
799
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,900
An unclaimed body at the hospital morgue scheduled for cremation.
800
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:07,000
I made a donation, they switched a toe tag
801
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,900
and the County saved itself the cost of a cremation.
802
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,300
Could have killed those EMTs, Bill.
803
00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:12,100
No.
804
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,800
I didn't detonate that oxygen until they were clear.
805
00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:16,600
Why?
806
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:18,600
Your son was dead.
807
00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:22,100
Corps doesn't care if he had a transplant now.
808
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,800
They were more than friends.
809
00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:30,600
They were a match.
810
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,600
Corporal Merrill gave your son a kidney.
811
00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:37,300
An autopsy would reveal the transplant.
812
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,000
I was afraid that the M.E. would run a DNA check on the donor organ.
813
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,600
And you can't be on active duty if you gave away a kidney.
814
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,000
The Corps means the world to that boy, Jethro.
815
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,500
It's his life, and he risked...
816
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,000
everything. He risked it all
817
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,600
to help out his best friend, my son.
818
00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:58,900
-He rigged an IED to burn...
-I did that.
819
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,500
-Bill!
-I'll swear I did it.
820
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,100
-Kenny had nothing to do with this.
-Why'd he go UA?
821
00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:04,200
He didn't go UA.
822
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,200
He was at my place.
823
00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:09,500
The things that Kenny's teaching those Marine going
824
00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:11,600
to Iraq will save their lives, Jethro.
825
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,500
Come on, let me take the hit on this one.
826
00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:20,700
Where's your son's body?
827
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,300
At the hospital morgue.
828
00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:37,100
Come on.
829
00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:44,500
I do apologize.
830
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,300
Usually one scraping is sufficient...
831
00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:49,700
but you are...
832
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,400
so crispy.
833
00:40:54,100 --> 00:40:56,500
Oh... that should satisfy Abby.
834
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,300
Ah, Jethro.
835
00:40:58,300 --> 00:41:01,000
Abby told me about the transplant and her theory.
836
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:02,300
Mm-hmm. You buy it?
837
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,300
Well...
838
00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:05,000
it is possible.
839
00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:07,800
My money's on your teeth, Duck.
840
00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:09,100
Get back to it.
841
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,300
As soon as I give this to Abby.
842
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:13,700
I'll do it.
843
00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:14,700
Jethro!
844
00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:15,600
Huh?
845
00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:18,800
I've never seen you break evidence protocol before.
846
00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:21,500
You don't trust me, Duck?
847
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:22,900
Well, that's not the point.
848
00:41:22,900 --> 00:41:24,900
Chain of evidence is chain of evidence.
849
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,200
You're right about that.
850
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:28,600
I'd slap DiNozzo silly if he did it.
851
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,300
Jethro, you surprise me.
852
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,100
Must be getting old.
853
00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:55,700
God.
854
00:41:58,500 --> 00:41:59,300
Yes!
855
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:00,800
Yes!
856
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,300
Whoo! Yes!
857
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:03,500
That's incredible.
858
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,500
No need for a dental match now, Duck.
859
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,900
The odds on getting donor DNA from Danforth's body are...
860
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:12,000
astronomical.
861
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,600
Alabama, 1954.
862
00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:17,800
A nine-pound meteorite hits Annie Hodges.
863
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:20,200
The odds of getting hit by a meteorite?
864
00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:23,100
Astronomical no pun intended. But it happens.
865
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,300
And I'm going to be published again. Ooh!
866
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,700
Peachy for you, but we just lost our victim.
867
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:28,700
Our suspect.
868
00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:29,700
Our theories.
869
00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:33,800
We've been barking up the wrong tree the entire investigation.
870
00:42:34,700 --> 00:42:35,400
Bush.
871
00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:36,300
Sorry, Bush.
872
00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:37,800
We've been barking up the wrong...
873
00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:39,900
bush.
874
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,900
Tree. So, who torched the ambulance and why?
875
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,200
Don't look at me.
876
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:52,700
Don't tell me.
877
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:53,900
Well, yeah.
878
00:42:54,300 --> 00:42:55,200
Abby was right.
879
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,200
First test picked up donor DNA.
880
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,100
Our John Doe is Lance Corporal Danforth.
881
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:00,800
Good.
882
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:02,900
I mean, not good
883
00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:04,200
a Marine is dead
884
00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:06,500
but good that the case is no longer ours.
885
00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:07,400
Mm-hmm.
886
00:43:07,500 --> 00:43:10,200
I know what you're going to say, Jethro, and don't.
887
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,300
I want Lance Corporal Danforth's remains returned to his father
888
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,300
and I want the case turned over to the Maryland arson investigators.
889
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,900
That will make Mr. Danforth happy, which will make the SecNav
890
00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:21,800
happy, which in turn, will make me very happy.
891
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:24,500
We have wasted way too many of our resources already.
892
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,800
Okay.