NCIS (2003–…): Season 5, Episode 1 - Bury Your Dead - full transcript
Tony meets Jeanne's father; Abby's fingerprint search on behalf of Jen gives a match; Jen tells the gang who Jeanne is. While with Jeanne and her father, Tony excuses himself to move his Mustang, which soon explodes while the gang watch via the traffic-cam system; however, Ducky says that the victim is not Tony. Kort, a CIA guy, arrives in the squad bay, as does Tony shortly; Kort grumbles mightily. The Frog meets Jen in the study of her home, and Gibbs joins them; the Frog leaves, and Jen and Gibbs disagree. Tony tells the gang that he told Jeanne about himself, then she takes some time off but leaves a card. Gibbs, McGee, and Ziva pursue the Frog, but they arrive too late.
[NARRATOR READS
ON-SCREEN TEXT]
Where the hell is DiNozzo?
Find him. Now.
I love you, Jeanne.
- You're very resourceful, Kort.
- That's right.
Trent Kort.
He's on the FBI arms dealer
watch list.
- Believed to have recentlyjoined--
JEN: La Grenouille.
Your favourite international
arms dealer and mine.
- This is good.
- And it's bad.
- I had to lie to Gibbs.
- You leave him to me.
What were you doing
out here alone?
I can take care of myself, Jethro.
No, this net is being cast
strictly over NCIS.
GIBBS:
FBI being polygraphed?
- Who are they after, Tobias?
- Your boss.
So you're the overzealous fed
who nearly mucked up 18 months
of undercover work.
I prefer to think of it as doing myjob.
Is she hot after all arms dealers?
Or is there something about this one
in particular?
How far are you willing to go
to get this guy, Jen?
JEN:
As far as you went to get Ari.
I know what you're hiding from.
It's not just me
that I'm worrying about hurting, Ziva.
GIBBS: Who is this?
- The director's father.
You okay?
Colonel Jasper Shepard.
Committed suicide 12 years ago.
No. He stood where you stand
three weeks ago.
Chain of evidence is not important.
I wanna know
whose fingerprints are on these.
- Do you have children?
- Sadly, no.
l have three.
TONY:
What's this?
My secret.
JEANNE: My father knows everything
aboutyou.
Welcome to the family,
Professor DiNardo.
Only what my daughter tells me.
And | tell him everything.
That's great.
So here we all are,
on our way to, um...
Where exactly are we headed?
I don't know. Breakfast?
A chance for us
to get to know each other.
I'm sure you have lots of questions.
I know I do.
My apartment first, Papa.
You wouldn't believe the night
we've had. It was very frightening.
Yes, your daughter is very impressive
with a scalpel, Mr. Benoit.
Please. Rene.
You never told me you could shoot.
Well, I can't, clearly.
There was a shooting
in the hospital?
- I missed.
- On purpose.
It's a long story, Rene.
We have all weekend.
Well, it's really more
of Jeanne's long story than mine.
There was this crazy young guy
who tried to smuggle heroin
into the country,
and he got hit by a car.
One of the bags
in his stomach burst,
but we didn't know
until it was too late. And then--
[PAGER BEEPING]
| forgot to sign the death certificate
to release the body.
Yes, sir.
Sorry, Papa.
Henri, back to the hospital.
Well, I guess breakfast
is gonna have to wait.
And all those intriguing questions.
| asked first.
Well, technically, Ziva, I think
that if we were to put that to the test,
- What're you doing here?
- What're you doing here?
you'd find that it was too close
to call.
But since my parents raised
a gentleman, and yours raised a killer,
l was defragging my computers.
Liar.
You came into the office
on a Saturday morning
Have you heard from Tony?
- because you're worried about Tony?
- You have been here all night?
- Question.
- It sounded more like a statement.
Is that a question or a statement?
Demands an answer.
Yes, l was here all night.
- Fragging the computers.
- "Defragging."
You need to work on those inflections
when you're asking a question.
For example,
why are you worried about Tony?
He was supposed to meet us
at the bar last night.
He did not arrive, did not call.
He's not answering his home phone
or his cell phone.
Do you have the number
to his second cell phone?
- The one he uses for his private calls?
- Yes.
Gibbs was here all night too.
Nope.
GIBBS:
Morning, Ziva.
Are we a team, McGee?
Nothing better to do
on a Saturday morning?
Teams do not have secrets, Gibbs.
And if you do not tell me what
you were both doing here last night,
JEANNE:
Won't be long.
Eventually.
- I can come with you if you want.
- No need. He won't bite.
McGee knows he will.
BENOlT:
Coffee?
- Coffee would be great.
- Good.
While we wait, you can tell me
how you stole my daughter's heart.
I'll get it. I'll get it.
I'm sorry for keeping you here
all night, Abby.
Director.
You know what, that's okay.
It's not the first time
I've woken up on the floor.
And not just this floor.
Not that | make it a habit
of passing out on floors.
And not that this isn't
a really comfortable floor.
If I had to--
I'm awake now.
[PHONE RINGS]
Did we get a match?
[SIGHS]
Poor guys.
No.
What search result?
Humming away all night,
and for nothing.
Thanks, Abby. You can go now.
ZlVA: Why would the CIA
come after the director?
This is not good.
GIBBS:
You tell me.
- Does the director know?
JEN: Know what?
Protecting their asset.
La Grenouille.
That it's Saturday,
and we are all here on our day off,
because we love ourjobs.
Except for Tony, who is missing.
McGee, I want you to triangulate
a cell number.
- Sure.
- 202-555-0177.
GIBBS:
DiNozzo in trouble?
I knew it.
The woman Tony has been seeing,
Jeanne Benoit,
is La Grenouille's daughter.
He's been on assignment?
You did plan to tell us
at some point?
If it led us to her father, yes.
- Yeah? Did it?
- I don't know.
You wanna tell us
what you do know, director?
Tonyjust contacted me
using his alias's cell.
It was a prearranged signal
used only in emergency
if he thought
his cover had been blown.
I want this fed to MTAC,
and I want satellite coverage.
Triangulating.
Tony DiNardo. Cute.
On its way.
Oh, everything.
World's greatest dad.
Children want to believe the best
of their parents.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
So, what did Jeanne tell you
about me?
I'm sure you believe your father
is a good man, huh?
He was.
Still, love has a way of blinding us
to the imperfections.
And we both love Jeanne.
- It's still love.
-Tme
TONY:
Yes, we do.
Are you going to break
my daughter's heart?
Sometimes we lie to the people
we love in order to protect them, true?
No, sir, not ifl can help it.
You've lied to Jeanne?
- Here she comes.
- Done.
Well, have you?
Now let's get out of here
before they remember something else.
- I have to move my car, because--
- They'll tow you for sure.
They are murder around here.
We wouldn't want that.
Stay close.
Wouldn't want to lose you.
TONY:
No chance of that.
He's on 22nd Street Northwest,
outside Monroe University Hospital.
JEN:
He's on the move.
McGEE:
He must be in a car.
How long until we get
satellite coverage?
McGEE:
At least 15 minutes.
Or we could patch
into D.C.'s traffic-cam system.
See if we can locate him
on the traffic-cam management.
GIBBS:
Do it.
JEN: Anything?
- Still not answering.
Shall I try
his undercover cell phone?
Put it on speaker.
[LINE RINGS]
[MUSIC PLAYS ON RECORDING
OVER PHONE]
TONY [ON RECORDING]: Hi, you've
reached Professor Tony DiNardo.
Leave a message,
and / will get back to you.
/ promise.
His cover is teaching film online
at American University.
No wonder he's been compromised.
Whose bright idea was that?
Tony, a teacher?
Mine.
[BEEPING]
- Ah. We're in.
- Bring it up.
Overlaying the cell-phone signal.
McGEE:
Got it.
Tony's car.
How deep is his cover?
Deep enough to withstand
the sort of scrutiny
La Grenouille can bring to bear.
Tony DiNardo's car.
You better hope so.
No one else is in the car with him.
McGEE:
West on M Street.
McGEE:
He's turning north onto 29th Street.
Traffic speed. No signs of duress.
His cell phone is still off.
ZlVA:
No one seems to be tailing him.
Maybe he's the one doing the tailing.
McGEE:
Still on 29th.
Tony.
Oh, my God.
Hey.
[SIREN WAILING]
That some sort of timer device?
Ten bucks in most electrical stores.
Probably activated
when the ignition turned on.
Counts down
however long you need it to.
When it reaches zero...
DUCKY: Shock wave would have
killed him before the fire.
Death would have been
instantaneous.
Identification?
Small mercies, my dear boy.
The general build, height, weight
are about right.
Most of the epidermis and dermis
on the hands and fingers
McGee.
have been burned off,
so no fingerprints.
McGee.
We'll need to get his dental records
for positive identification.
And is there any chance
that it's not Tony?
None that I can think of.
She blames herself.
Let me know when you finish, Duck.
Should she?
ZlVA:
Not part of my training.
McGEE:
You believe in miracles, Ziva?
McGEE:
That might not be Tony.
Not until Ducky says it's him.
Until then, he's just...
He's not here.
And I don't care
what the evidence says.
Even if everything here
belongs to Tony,
it's still not him
until Ducky says that it's him.
ABBY:
Tony is not dead, Gibbs.
And don't try to tell me
anything different,
because I'm not gonna believe you.
Tell me it's not him, Gibbs.
I Wish I could, Abby.
Tell me it's not him.
ABBY: I need to be alone right now
with the gang.
I've got work to do.
Abby.
Director Shepard swore me to secrecy
when she brought those in
How did these get here?
Um...
and asked me to run them for prints,
so I can't tell you.
No. It's just that one.
Any other secrets you can't tell me?
Because when Director Shepard said
that there wasn't an AFIS match,
and then tried
to hide the results from me,
she actually didn't swear me
to secrecy, so that is not a secret.
Who was the match?
Her father.
Her father has been dead
for 12 years, Abby.
No, not according to AFIS.
That is a ten-point match, Gibbs.
These are new prints.
There's no way
Director Shepard's father is dead.
I buried my father, Jethro.
I know he's not coming back.
But someone is going to great lengths
trying to convince me he's alive.
- We've got a polygraph test Monday.
- Routine.
They're targeting someone.
- Me?
- So I've been told.
I've never failed a polygraph.
I'm not about to start.
And if they ask you
about your father?
He's dead.
Any doubt, any hesitation
will raise a red flag.
- There is no doubt.
- I saw his fingerprints.
Subject displayed
emotional instability
My father's dead.
suggesting delusional belief
her father isn't dead.
Next question.
We just put her on medical leave,
or we fire her?
- Operation Lodestone, you know it?
- Should I?
Black op, focused on weapons control
and arms proliferation.
- Not one of ours.
- CIA.
My father's job at the Pentagon
was in the field of arms control.
He was under investigation for
accepting a bribe when he was killed.
- Coroner said he took his own life.
- He was murdered.
- Proof?
- None.
But I know who's responsible.
The same guy you sent
one of my agents after?
One of my agents.
A deep undercover operation
that I ran on a need-to-know basis.
because of what happened
to my father, you're wrong.
And, Jethro, if you think
I'm obsessed with La Grenouille
McGEE: Just checking something
Gibbs said.
You may wanna skip
that polygraph test Monday.
Tony wouldn't have carried it with him,
you know.
ZlVA:
Must you keep doing that?
His shield and ID,
not if he was undercover.
And he would have stashed it
in the car, maybe under the seat.
Just because we found his ID
doesn't mean it's Tony.
His car, his ID, his weapon,
both of his cell phones, McGee?
He thought Tony
might be tailing someone.
Stop it there.
What was it that Gibbs said
that you thought needed checking?
Take it back.
It's a limousine.
It was on the previous camera.
It's on every camera.
He was following that limousine.
Where is Gibbs?
- What type?
- A-positive.
Another shrapnel, lower left lobe.
And Tony's?
Blood tests are back.
[PHONE RINGS]
A-positive.
We'll await the dental records
before making a positive ID.
share the same blood group,
Yes, well, 34 percent
of the nation's population
so let's not go drawing
any conclusions.
In the meantime,
thelungs.
Penetrative shrapnel damage,
middle and lower left lobes.
OthenNise, healthy tissue.
Non-smoker, minimal scarring.
Minimal scarring.
Minimal scarring.
I got that, doctor.
Yes, but, Mr. Palmer, how could he?
How could he what, sir?
Yersinia pestis.
Have minimal scarring
in both lungs?
Y. pestis.
Healthy living?
The pneumonic plague?
Yes, the plague, Mr. Palmer.
This man has never had the plague.
He never had the damn plague.
No, he has never had the plague.
He's never had the plague.
ZlVA: The limousine is leased
to a shell company.
The parent company is EuroFreight.
ZlVA: The principal behind
the company is Rene Benoit.
Head office is in Luxembourg.
Tony could have been following
La Grenouille.
I'm sorry to differ, Timothy,
but he wasn't.
Look, Tony contracted
pneumonic plague,
- Before my time.
McGEE: He almost died.
as I'm sure everyone
can remember.
From severe pneumonia.
As a result, his lungs would have been
extensively scarred.
Unlike the almost pristine lung
of the man currently in autopsy.
The body on which I am performing
an autopsy is not Tony's.
And where is DiNozzo?
Bank statements,
telephone records, personnel.
If it's not Tony, then who is it?
McGEE:
Hard drive's spinning up now.
Everything, Tim.
If La Grenouille is in DC,
this could lead us to him.
Or DiNozzo.
I wanna know everything
about this company.
JEN: Well, obviously
DiNozzo is our first priority.
Ziva, start with the hospital. Find out
when DiNozzo left and with whom.
And who was driving his car. Got it.
JEN:
Mr. Kort.
Director Shepard.
An unannounced visit by the CIA
usually means someone's in trouble.
JEN: It depends on who "he" is.
- DiNozzo.
I trust it isn't you.
Where is he?
JEN:
I honestly don't know.
And even ifl did, I wouldn't tell you
until you explain to me
why you're looking for him so urgently.
La Grenouille flew to DC.
this morning.
He didn't arrive at his safe house,
and his satellite phone
has stopped transmitting.
Mislaid your arms dealer?
That's gotta be embarrassing.
I don't know what NCIS is up to,
but I want a private briefing
in your office now.
I'll decide what briefing you get
and where you get it, Mr. Kort.
why don't you have your director
give me a call.
And if you have a problem with that,
You are jeopardising
one of the most important,
long-term covert operations
the agency has ever conducted.
Operation Lodestone.
GIBBS:
Okay, so read us in.
You're not read in on Lodestone.
Unless the CIA just believes
in one-way traffic.
This is not going to end well for you.
GIBBS: Special Agent DiNozzo's car
was bombed this morning,
but I guess you knew that.
He wasn't in it.
The agency
had nothing to do with it.
Thanks for sharing.
Is that when you mislaid your frog,
in all that confusion?
Where did you go
with La Grenouille?
Hey, my car blew up this morning.
Did you do that?
Arms dealers get very touchy
about their code names.
"The Frog" has a kind of slimy
overtone to it.
Maybe you should keep that in mind
for next time.
Actually, he prefers Rene.
You could use it yourself.
We will find him, DiNozzo.
You might wanna take the stairs.
I had a little upset tummy
this morning.
Happy frog-hunting.
Saw it, heard it, felt it.
What, no balloons?
That was more exciting live.
JEN: You can start
whenever you're ready.
You saw it? You were there?
He was waiting when I left the hospital
this morning with Jeanne.
It was her little surprise, I guess.
She'd arranged it.
Meet the Parents: Part 2.
Figured my cover was blown
as soon as I saw him.
I hate sequels.
Turned out he'd known for months.
- Kort?
TONY: Probably.
I tried talking my way out of it.
Made it as far as my car.
- Hey, Tony. Tony.
-Cmp
There's no need to take your car.
Henri will drive it.
Oh, that's really nice of you.
You come with Jeanne and me.
I gotta go. I'd really--
I need to go home and change--
I will have to insist, Agent DiNozzo.
Be careful in second.
It tends to stick a little.
Both of them.
They didn't miss a beat.
Pretended everything was fine.
I could see his guy driving my car
a few car lengths behind us when...
That didn't last long.
Did La Grenouille tell Jeanne
who you were?
Stay down.
...ka-boom.
[BENOIT YELLS IN FRENCH]
[JEANNE SCREAMS]
What was La Grenouille's
first reaction?
I'm not so sure.
That he was the target.
You think it was you, Tony?
It was my car, boss.
And we have certainly pissed off
the agency a lot lately.
Well, the director and I
have pissed off the agency a lot lately.
Although, mainly me.
For what it's worth,
Kort denied agency involvement.
That's because Kort doesn't play
by agency rules.
The guy's got a hair trigger.
Where did La Grenouille take you?
Well, kind of blew away
the breakfast plans.
Jeanne.
It wasn't supposed
to happen like this.
Blew away a lot of things.
You never really thought
it could end any other way, did you?
You're not supposed to
fall in love with them.
You mean, other than badly?
Thank you so much for that,
director.
I am gonna keep that in mind
for next time.
Wait a second,
there's not gonna be a next time.
What did Jeanne say?
Nothing I'm gonna tell you.
- Agent DiNozzo.
- Nothing you need to know, director.
JEN:
Where is La Grenouille?
I don't know.
He dropped me off at the main gate.
Drove west.
Probably heading to California.
He was driving pretty fast.
He could even be there now.
Talked about his future.
Yeah? About what?
Doesn't think he has one.
- He wants out.
- Kort knows.
That would explain
why he's so desperate to find him.
The CIA is about to lose
one of its most prized assets.
What exactly does he mean
by "out"?
Well, he's gonna call
and arrange a meeting.
And give himself up.
Because he says NCIS
is the only agency he trusts.
What time?
No, no, no. No, no, I understand.
Did she say how long
she would be gone?
Thank you.
What was that for?
Believing I was dead.
Hey, I never believed
that you were dead.
Ziva was the one
that gave up on you.
Don't even think
about the head slap.
Is everything cool
with the director and Gibbs?
Beyond cool. Almost icy.
I'm fine.
You seem anxious.
Anyone call for me?
No.
She called the ER to let them know
she was going away for a few days.
If you're calling the hospital,
she's not there.
Going where?
Well...
She did not tell them.
ZlVA:
She knows?
She knows.
I am gonna wait until the morning
and then talk to her.
What are you going to do?
Wah! Tony! I knew you were all right.
I knew it.
Everybody else gave you up for dead,
even Ziva.
Okay, so I may have acted
a little hastily.
- That's my letter opener.
ZlVA: Excellent balance and weight.
The edge is a little dull,
but I have always admired it.
Palmer.
Mighty Mouse stapler?
Where's my American Pie
coffee mug?
Ducky. Hey, Ducky.
My dear fellow,
I never believed it for a moment.
Welcome home.
It's not every day
people think you're dead, DiNozzo.
Gibbs, I know who blew up
Tony's car.
Well, not Tony's car,
but his alias's car.
And not exactly who,
but more like how and why.
Do you have a motive?
Me? No.
But they do.
Every bomb-maker has a signature:
the components,
the way it's assembled.
Sometimes right down
to the coloured tape they use
to bind it all together.
In this case,
the components are common
to at least nine other bombs that
have gone off in the last four years.
I made the match on Interpol.
The bombs have gone off
all over the world.
Algeria, Indonesia,
the Middle East, Chechnya.
They were all arms dealers.
Anything linking the victims?
The only problem is,
Tony's not an arms dealer.
Girlfriend's father is an arms dealer.
She's been working nights.
I pick her up every morning
for breakfast.
You park the car,
they strap on the bomb,
set the timer and walk away.
You weren't the target, she was.
- Maybe she still is.
- Take Ziva.
Good.
Hello.
[PHONE RINGS]
BENOlT:
Good evening, Madam Director.
Good evening.
I've been told you wanna meet me.
Long overdue.
I'm sure.
Just tell me where and when.
Now.
In your study.
So here we are at last.
Hello, Jenny.
Not quite the way
I expected to meet.
Face to face.
Nor I.
I must compliment you
on your pursuit.
Jeanne?
I actually liked your Agent DiNozzo.
So does your daughter.
Very much, yes.
What do you want from us?
Well, a sanctuary, asylum.
Call it what you will.
In return for my extensive knowledge
of the arms market,
I want protection for my daughter.
Protection from whom?
Whoever tried to kill his daughter
this morning.
My enemies come for my daughter.
They wanna see me suffer.
But she's safe.
Agent Gibbs, I believe.
Well, it's true.
For the time being.
Which enemies?
BENOlT:
I have many.
This have something to do
with Operation Lodestone?
Why now?
He's well-informed.
- Read us in.
BENOlT: On what?
The arrogance of the CIA
to do what?
Make me the biggest arms dealer
in the world?
You control the illegal arms trade,
the CIA controls you.
That was the idea.
Until you came along
and someone found out.
Another arms dealer perhaps.
And I'm running out of time.
- I can no longer trust Kort.
- Did you ever?
This isn't the first time
you were in this study.
No.
I met your father here on occasion.
Many years ago.
Tell me about him.
One day, it got the better of him.
He was a fine man.
He had a conscience.
You believe the story
that my father took a bribe
while overseeing
an arms-reduction treaty?
Well, sadly, that's not a story.
It's fact.
How do you know?
Because I paid him that bribe.
You killed him
because he wouldn't take it.
JEN:
No.
Well...
I can understand
how hard that is to accept.
My daughter is...
I guess he beat you to it.
BENOlT:
I didn't want you to do anything rash
She's facing the same struggle.
before I had a chance
to explain myself.
GIBBS:
It's not loaded.
I need your protection.
You have the bullets.
Take the damn gun.
Protect yourself.
You're signing my death warrant.
Twelve years overdue.
I hope my daughter is as loyal
to her father as you are to yours.
You'd better leave before I do.
Here's my number
in case you change your mind.
get in the way
of your professional responsibility.
You just let
your own personal obsession
JEN: That's a lot of crap,
and you know it, Jethro.
There are no deals for men like him.
You wanna chase after him right now
and arrest him without a warrant,
But we both know that Kort
will have him out before breakfast.
you go right ahead.
- Then get a damn warrant.
- You get a warrant.
But you'd better do it fast
before his friends get him first.
If the weapon was loaded,
and I wasn't here,
I guess we'll never know.
would you have pulled the trigger?
You ever lie
to someone you love, Ziva?
Yes.
They ever forgive you?
He told her?
No.
They never found out.
Idid.
Tony, that was your car.
Mine found out.
Your car that just--
Your car that just--
JEANNE: I don't understand.
What's happening?
It could have been you.
It should have been you.
Tell me that you love me.
On the table.
Tell me.
I do. It's just everything
that's happened--
Happened today. Last night,
the way you handled things, the gun.
The gun, firing it the way you did,
and now this?
It's like you're someone else, Tony.
Someone else.
Someone I don't know.
What is it?
Aren't you? Someone else.
Who? Who are you?
I'm a federal agent.
and I work for the Naval
Criminal Investigative Service.
My name isn't Tony DiNardo,
it's Anthony DiNozzo,
This has all been a lie.
- A lie?
- Jeanne, listen to me.
Not all of it, not everything.
Just some things.
- Not the important things.
- Why?
Just tell me why it is you did this.
What it is I'm supposed
to have done.
Tell me. Tell me.
It's not you.
Well, he said she'd come back
after she calmed down.
What?
I will put out a BOLO.
We will find her.
I guess he was wrong.
- What?
- You should ask him.
TONY:
She doesn't wanna be found.
And he has not replaced
his cell phone yet.
- Maybe he took the day off.
ZlVA: Gibbs would have told us.
Gibbs would've told you what,
Officer David?
- If Tony was taking some time off.
- Yeah, you're right.
McGEE: No luck?
ZlVA: Not at home.
There's always more work to be done
when you're a man down on the shift.
- McGee.
- I think I've got something here, boss.
I found another one
of La Grenouille's shell companies.
Similar to the one
that leased the stretch limo,
only this one leases a yacht
down at the Gangplank Marina,
called the Mauritania.
GIBBS:
How big?
Eighty feet, three state rooms. Ziva
checked with the marina management.
Older guy with an accent.
Someone's been staying there
since Saturday.
- They think he's French.
- And a younger woman?
- No, he said he was alone.
GIBBS: Warrant?
Just arrived from Legal.
It is all in order.
They could not guarantee
it would not stop
a concerted legal challenge
from the agency.
Yeah, let them try. Let's go.
Clear.
- Clear.
McGEE: Clear.
He was here.
He's gone.
ZlVA:
Someone will.
Maybe he was never here.
One day.
We'll catch up with him eventually.
ON-SCREEN TEXT]
Where the hell is DiNozzo?
Find him. Now.
I love you, Jeanne.
- You're very resourceful, Kort.
- That's right.
Trent Kort.
He's on the FBI arms dealer
watch list.
- Believed to have recentlyjoined--
JEN: La Grenouille.
Your favourite international
arms dealer and mine.
- This is good.
- And it's bad.
- I had to lie to Gibbs.
- You leave him to me.
What were you doing
out here alone?
I can take care of myself, Jethro.
No, this net is being cast
strictly over NCIS.
GIBBS:
FBI being polygraphed?
- Who are they after, Tobias?
- Your boss.
So you're the overzealous fed
who nearly mucked up 18 months
of undercover work.
I prefer to think of it as doing myjob.
Is she hot after all arms dealers?
Or is there something about this one
in particular?
How far are you willing to go
to get this guy, Jen?
JEN:
As far as you went to get Ari.
I know what you're hiding from.
It's not just me
that I'm worrying about hurting, Ziva.
GIBBS: Who is this?
- The director's father.
You okay?
Colonel Jasper Shepard.
Committed suicide 12 years ago.
No. He stood where you stand
three weeks ago.
Chain of evidence is not important.
I wanna know
whose fingerprints are on these.
- Do you have children?
- Sadly, no.
l have three.
TONY:
What's this?
My secret.
JEANNE: My father knows everything
aboutyou.
Welcome to the family,
Professor DiNardo.
Only what my daughter tells me.
And | tell him everything.
That's great.
So here we all are,
on our way to, um...
Where exactly are we headed?
I don't know. Breakfast?
A chance for us
to get to know each other.
I'm sure you have lots of questions.
I know I do.
My apartment first, Papa.
You wouldn't believe the night
we've had. It was very frightening.
Yes, your daughter is very impressive
with a scalpel, Mr. Benoit.
Please. Rene.
You never told me you could shoot.
Well, I can't, clearly.
There was a shooting
in the hospital?
- I missed.
- On purpose.
It's a long story, Rene.
We have all weekend.
Well, it's really more
of Jeanne's long story than mine.
There was this crazy young guy
who tried to smuggle heroin
into the country,
and he got hit by a car.
One of the bags
in his stomach burst,
but we didn't know
until it was too late. And then--
[PAGER BEEPING]
| forgot to sign the death certificate
to release the body.
Yes, sir.
Sorry, Papa.
Henri, back to the hospital.
Well, I guess breakfast
is gonna have to wait.
And all those intriguing questions.
| asked first.
Well, technically, Ziva, I think
that if we were to put that to the test,
- What're you doing here?
- What're you doing here?
you'd find that it was too close
to call.
But since my parents raised
a gentleman, and yours raised a killer,
l was defragging my computers.
Liar.
You came into the office
on a Saturday morning
Have you heard from Tony?
- because you're worried about Tony?
- You have been here all night?
- Question.
- It sounded more like a statement.
Is that a question or a statement?
Demands an answer.
Yes, l was here all night.
- Fragging the computers.
- "Defragging."
You need to work on those inflections
when you're asking a question.
For example,
why are you worried about Tony?
He was supposed to meet us
at the bar last night.
He did not arrive, did not call.
He's not answering his home phone
or his cell phone.
Do you have the number
to his second cell phone?
- The one he uses for his private calls?
- Yes.
Gibbs was here all night too.
Nope.
GIBBS:
Morning, Ziva.
Are we a team, McGee?
Nothing better to do
on a Saturday morning?
Teams do not have secrets, Gibbs.
And if you do not tell me what
you were both doing here last night,
JEANNE:
Won't be long.
Eventually.
- I can come with you if you want.
- No need. He won't bite.
McGee knows he will.
BENOlT:
Coffee?
- Coffee would be great.
- Good.
While we wait, you can tell me
how you stole my daughter's heart.
I'll get it. I'll get it.
I'm sorry for keeping you here
all night, Abby.
Director.
You know what, that's okay.
It's not the first time
I've woken up on the floor.
And not just this floor.
Not that | make it a habit
of passing out on floors.
And not that this isn't
a really comfortable floor.
If I had to--
I'm awake now.
[PHONE RINGS]
Did we get a match?
[SIGHS]
Poor guys.
No.
What search result?
Humming away all night,
and for nothing.
Thanks, Abby. You can go now.
ZlVA: Why would the CIA
come after the director?
This is not good.
GIBBS:
You tell me.
- Does the director know?
JEN: Know what?
Protecting their asset.
La Grenouille.
That it's Saturday,
and we are all here on our day off,
because we love ourjobs.
Except for Tony, who is missing.
McGee, I want you to triangulate
a cell number.
- Sure.
- 202-555-0177.
GIBBS:
DiNozzo in trouble?
I knew it.
The woman Tony has been seeing,
Jeanne Benoit,
is La Grenouille's daughter.
He's been on assignment?
You did plan to tell us
at some point?
If it led us to her father, yes.
- Yeah? Did it?
- I don't know.
You wanna tell us
what you do know, director?
Tonyjust contacted me
using his alias's cell.
It was a prearranged signal
used only in emergency
if he thought
his cover had been blown.
I want this fed to MTAC,
and I want satellite coverage.
Triangulating.
Tony DiNardo. Cute.
On its way.
Oh, everything.
World's greatest dad.
Children want to believe the best
of their parents.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
So, what did Jeanne tell you
about me?
I'm sure you believe your father
is a good man, huh?
He was.
Still, love has a way of blinding us
to the imperfections.
And we both love Jeanne.
- It's still love.
-Tme
TONY:
Yes, we do.
Are you going to break
my daughter's heart?
Sometimes we lie to the people
we love in order to protect them, true?
No, sir, not ifl can help it.
You've lied to Jeanne?
- Here she comes.
- Done.
Well, have you?
Now let's get out of here
before they remember something else.
- I have to move my car, because--
- They'll tow you for sure.
They are murder around here.
We wouldn't want that.
Stay close.
Wouldn't want to lose you.
TONY:
No chance of that.
He's on 22nd Street Northwest,
outside Monroe University Hospital.
JEN:
He's on the move.
McGEE:
He must be in a car.
How long until we get
satellite coverage?
McGEE:
At least 15 minutes.
Or we could patch
into D.C.'s traffic-cam system.
See if we can locate him
on the traffic-cam management.
GIBBS:
Do it.
JEN: Anything?
- Still not answering.
Shall I try
his undercover cell phone?
Put it on speaker.
[LINE RINGS]
[MUSIC PLAYS ON RECORDING
OVER PHONE]
TONY [ON RECORDING]: Hi, you've
reached Professor Tony DiNardo.
Leave a message,
and / will get back to you.
/ promise.
His cover is teaching film online
at American University.
No wonder he's been compromised.
Whose bright idea was that?
Tony, a teacher?
Mine.
[BEEPING]
- Ah. We're in.
- Bring it up.
Overlaying the cell-phone signal.
McGEE:
Got it.
Tony's car.
How deep is his cover?
Deep enough to withstand
the sort of scrutiny
La Grenouille can bring to bear.
Tony DiNardo's car.
You better hope so.
No one else is in the car with him.
McGEE:
West on M Street.
McGEE:
He's turning north onto 29th Street.
Traffic speed. No signs of duress.
His cell phone is still off.
ZlVA:
No one seems to be tailing him.
Maybe he's the one doing the tailing.
McGEE:
Still on 29th.
Tony.
Oh, my God.
Hey.
[SIREN WAILING]
That some sort of timer device?
Ten bucks in most electrical stores.
Probably activated
when the ignition turned on.
Counts down
however long you need it to.
When it reaches zero...
DUCKY: Shock wave would have
killed him before the fire.
Death would have been
instantaneous.
Identification?
Small mercies, my dear boy.
The general build, height, weight
are about right.
Most of the epidermis and dermis
on the hands and fingers
McGee.
have been burned off,
so no fingerprints.
McGee.
We'll need to get his dental records
for positive identification.
And is there any chance
that it's not Tony?
None that I can think of.
She blames herself.
Let me know when you finish, Duck.
Should she?
ZlVA:
Not part of my training.
McGEE:
You believe in miracles, Ziva?
McGEE:
That might not be Tony.
Not until Ducky says it's him.
Until then, he's just...
He's not here.
And I don't care
what the evidence says.
Even if everything here
belongs to Tony,
it's still not him
until Ducky says that it's him.
ABBY:
Tony is not dead, Gibbs.
And don't try to tell me
anything different,
because I'm not gonna believe you.
Tell me it's not him, Gibbs.
I Wish I could, Abby.
Tell me it's not him.
ABBY: I need to be alone right now
with the gang.
I've got work to do.
Abby.
Director Shepard swore me to secrecy
when she brought those in
How did these get here?
Um...
and asked me to run them for prints,
so I can't tell you.
No. It's just that one.
Any other secrets you can't tell me?
Because when Director Shepard said
that there wasn't an AFIS match,
and then tried
to hide the results from me,
she actually didn't swear me
to secrecy, so that is not a secret.
Who was the match?
Her father.
Her father has been dead
for 12 years, Abby.
No, not according to AFIS.
That is a ten-point match, Gibbs.
These are new prints.
There's no way
Director Shepard's father is dead.
I buried my father, Jethro.
I know he's not coming back.
But someone is going to great lengths
trying to convince me he's alive.
- We've got a polygraph test Monday.
- Routine.
They're targeting someone.
- Me?
- So I've been told.
I've never failed a polygraph.
I'm not about to start.
And if they ask you
about your father?
He's dead.
Any doubt, any hesitation
will raise a red flag.
- There is no doubt.
- I saw his fingerprints.
Subject displayed
emotional instability
My father's dead.
suggesting delusional belief
her father isn't dead.
Next question.
We just put her on medical leave,
or we fire her?
- Operation Lodestone, you know it?
- Should I?
Black op, focused on weapons control
and arms proliferation.
- Not one of ours.
- CIA.
My father's job at the Pentagon
was in the field of arms control.
He was under investigation for
accepting a bribe when he was killed.
- Coroner said he took his own life.
- He was murdered.
- Proof?
- None.
But I know who's responsible.
The same guy you sent
one of my agents after?
One of my agents.
A deep undercover operation
that I ran on a need-to-know basis.
because of what happened
to my father, you're wrong.
And, Jethro, if you think
I'm obsessed with La Grenouille
McGEE: Just checking something
Gibbs said.
You may wanna skip
that polygraph test Monday.
Tony wouldn't have carried it with him,
you know.
ZlVA:
Must you keep doing that?
His shield and ID,
not if he was undercover.
And he would have stashed it
in the car, maybe under the seat.
Just because we found his ID
doesn't mean it's Tony.
His car, his ID, his weapon,
both of his cell phones, McGee?
He thought Tony
might be tailing someone.
Stop it there.
What was it that Gibbs said
that you thought needed checking?
Take it back.
It's a limousine.
It was on the previous camera.
It's on every camera.
He was following that limousine.
Where is Gibbs?
- What type?
- A-positive.
Another shrapnel, lower left lobe.
And Tony's?
Blood tests are back.
[PHONE RINGS]
A-positive.
We'll await the dental records
before making a positive ID.
share the same blood group,
Yes, well, 34 percent
of the nation's population
so let's not go drawing
any conclusions.
In the meantime,
thelungs.
Penetrative shrapnel damage,
middle and lower left lobes.
OthenNise, healthy tissue.
Non-smoker, minimal scarring.
Minimal scarring.
Minimal scarring.
I got that, doctor.
Yes, but, Mr. Palmer, how could he?
How could he what, sir?
Yersinia pestis.
Have minimal scarring
in both lungs?
Y. pestis.
Healthy living?
The pneumonic plague?
Yes, the plague, Mr. Palmer.
This man has never had the plague.
He never had the damn plague.
No, he has never had the plague.
He's never had the plague.
ZlVA: The limousine is leased
to a shell company.
The parent company is EuroFreight.
ZlVA: The principal behind
the company is Rene Benoit.
Head office is in Luxembourg.
Tony could have been following
La Grenouille.
I'm sorry to differ, Timothy,
but he wasn't.
Look, Tony contracted
pneumonic plague,
- Before my time.
McGEE: He almost died.
as I'm sure everyone
can remember.
From severe pneumonia.
As a result, his lungs would have been
extensively scarred.
Unlike the almost pristine lung
of the man currently in autopsy.
The body on which I am performing
an autopsy is not Tony's.
And where is DiNozzo?
Bank statements,
telephone records, personnel.
If it's not Tony, then who is it?
McGEE:
Hard drive's spinning up now.
Everything, Tim.
If La Grenouille is in DC,
this could lead us to him.
Or DiNozzo.
I wanna know everything
about this company.
JEN: Well, obviously
DiNozzo is our first priority.
Ziva, start with the hospital. Find out
when DiNozzo left and with whom.
And who was driving his car. Got it.
JEN:
Mr. Kort.
Director Shepard.
An unannounced visit by the CIA
usually means someone's in trouble.
JEN: It depends on who "he" is.
- DiNozzo.
I trust it isn't you.
Where is he?
JEN:
I honestly don't know.
And even ifl did, I wouldn't tell you
until you explain to me
why you're looking for him so urgently.
La Grenouille flew to DC.
this morning.
He didn't arrive at his safe house,
and his satellite phone
has stopped transmitting.
Mislaid your arms dealer?
That's gotta be embarrassing.
I don't know what NCIS is up to,
but I want a private briefing
in your office now.
I'll decide what briefing you get
and where you get it, Mr. Kort.
why don't you have your director
give me a call.
And if you have a problem with that,
You are jeopardising
one of the most important,
long-term covert operations
the agency has ever conducted.
Operation Lodestone.
GIBBS:
Okay, so read us in.
You're not read in on Lodestone.
Unless the CIA just believes
in one-way traffic.
This is not going to end well for you.
GIBBS: Special Agent DiNozzo's car
was bombed this morning,
but I guess you knew that.
He wasn't in it.
The agency
had nothing to do with it.
Thanks for sharing.
Is that when you mislaid your frog,
in all that confusion?
Where did you go
with La Grenouille?
Hey, my car blew up this morning.
Did you do that?
Arms dealers get very touchy
about their code names.
"The Frog" has a kind of slimy
overtone to it.
Maybe you should keep that in mind
for next time.
Actually, he prefers Rene.
You could use it yourself.
We will find him, DiNozzo.
You might wanna take the stairs.
I had a little upset tummy
this morning.
Happy frog-hunting.
Saw it, heard it, felt it.
What, no balloons?
That was more exciting live.
JEN: You can start
whenever you're ready.
You saw it? You were there?
He was waiting when I left the hospital
this morning with Jeanne.
It was her little surprise, I guess.
She'd arranged it.
Meet the Parents: Part 2.
Figured my cover was blown
as soon as I saw him.
I hate sequels.
Turned out he'd known for months.
- Kort?
TONY: Probably.
I tried talking my way out of it.
Made it as far as my car.
- Hey, Tony. Tony.
-Cmp
There's no need to take your car.
Henri will drive it.
Oh, that's really nice of you.
You come with Jeanne and me.
I gotta go. I'd really--
I need to go home and change--
I will have to insist, Agent DiNozzo.
Be careful in second.
It tends to stick a little.
Both of them.
They didn't miss a beat.
Pretended everything was fine.
I could see his guy driving my car
a few car lengths behind us when...
That didn't last long.
Did La Grenouille tell Jeanne
who you were?
Stay down.
...ka-boom.
[BENOIT YELLS IN FRENCH]
[JEANNE SCREAMS]
What was La Grenouille's
first reaction?
I'm not so sure.
That he was the target.
You think it was you, Tony?
It was my car, boss.
And we have certainly pissed off
the agency a lot lately.
Well, the director and I
have pissed off the agency a lot lately.
Although, mainly me.
For what it's worth,
Kort denied agency involvement.
That's because Kort doesn't play
by agency rules.
The guy's got a hair trigger.
Where did La Grenouille take you?
Well, kind of blew away
the breakfast plans.
Jeanne.
It wasn't supposed
to happen like this.
Blew away a lot of things.
You never really thought
it could end any other way, did you?
You're not supposed to
fall in love with them.
You mean, other than badly?
Thank you so much for that,
director.
I am gonna keep that in mind
for next time.
Wait a second,
there's not gonna be a next time.
What did Jeanne say?
Nothing I'm gonna tell you.
- Agent DiNozzo.
- Nothing you need to know, director.
JEN:
Where is La Grenouille?
I don't know.
He dropped me off at the main gate.
Drove west.
Probably heading to California.
He was driving pretty fast.
He could even be there now.
Talked about his future.
Yeah? About what?
Doesn't think he has one.
- He wants out.
- Kort knows.
That would explain
why he's so desperate to find him.
The CIA is about to lose
one of its most prized assets.
What exactly does he mean
by "out"?
Well, he's gonna call
and arrange a meeting.
And give himself up.
Because he says NCIS
is the only agency he trusts.
What time?
No, no, no. No, no, I understand.
Did she say how long
she would be gone?
Thank you.
What was that for?
Believing I was dead.
Hey, I never believed
that you were dead.
Ziva was the one
that gave up on you.
Don't even think
about the head slap.
Is everything cool
with the director and Gibbs?
Beyond cool. Almost icy.
I'm fine.
You seem anxious.
Anyone call for me?
No.
She called the ER to let them know
she was going away for a few days.
If you're calling the hospital,
she's not there.
Going where?
Well...
She did not tell them.
ZlVA:
She knows?
She knows.
I am gonna wait until the morning
and then talk to her.
What are you going to do?
Wah! Tony! I knew you were all right.
I knew it.
Everybody else gave you up for dead,
even Ziva.
Okay, so I may have acted
a little hastily.
- That's my letter opener.
ZlVA: Excellent balance and weight.
The edge is a little dull,
but I have always admired it.
Palmer.
Mighty Mouse stapler?
Where's my American Pie
coffee mug?
Ducky. Hey, Ducky.
My dear fellow,
I never believed it for a moment.
Welcome home.
It's not every day
people think you're dead, DiNozzo.
Gibbs, I know who blew up
Tony's car.
Well, not Tony's car,
but his alias's car.
And not exactly who,
but more like how and why.
Do you have a motive?
Me? No.
But they do.
Every bomb-maker has a signature:
the components,
the way it's assembled.
Sometimes right down
to the coloured tape they use
to bind it all together.
In this case,
the components are common
to at least nine other bombs that
have gone off in the last four years.
I made the match on Interpol.
The bombs have gone off
all over the world.
Algeria, Indonesia,
the Middle East, Chechnya.
They were all arms dealers.
Anything linking the victims?
The only problem is,
Tony's not an arms dealer.
Girlfriend's father is an arms dealer.
She's been working nights.
I pick her up every morning
for breakfast.
You park the car,
they strap on the bomb,
set the timer and walk away.
You weren't the target, she was.
- Maybe she still is.
- Take Ziva.
Good.
Hello.
[PHONE RINGS]
BENOlT:
Good evening, Madam Director.
Good evening.
I've been told you wanna meet me.
Long overdue.
I'm sure.
Just tell me where and when.
Now.
In your study.
So here we are at last.
Hello, Jenny.
Not quite the way
I expected to meet.
Face to face.
Nor I.
I must compliment you
on your pursuit.
Jeanne?
I actually liked your Agent DiNozzo.
So does your daughter.
Very much, yes.
What do you want from us?
Well, a sanctuary, asylum.
Call it what you will.
In return for my extensive knowledge
of the arms market,
I want protection for my daughter.
Protection from whom?
Whoever tried to kill his daughter
this morning.
My enemies come for my daughter.
They wanna see me suffer.
But she's safe.
Agent Gibbs, I believe.
Well, it's true.
For the time being.
Which enemies?
BENOlT:
I have many.
This have something to do
with Operation Lodestone?
Why now?
He's well-informed.
- Read us in.
BENOlT: On what?
The arrogance of the CIA
to do what?
Make me the biggest arms dealer
in the world?
You control the illegal arms trade,
the CIA controls you.
That was the idea.
Until you came along
and someone found out.
Another arms dealer perhaps.
And I'm running out of time.
- I can no longer trust Kort.
- Did you ever?
This isn't the first time
you were in this study.
No.
I met your father here on occasion.
Many years ago.
Tell me about him.
One day, it got the better of him.
He was a fine man.
He had a conscience.
You believe the story
that my father took a bribe
while overseeing
an arms-reduction treaty?
Well, sadly, that's not a story.
It's fact.
How do you know?
Because I paid him that bribe.
You killed him
because he wouldn't take it.
JEN:
No.
Well...
I can understand
how hard that is to accept.
My daughter is...
I guess he beat you to it.
BENOlT:
I didn't want you to do anything rash
She's facing the same struggle.
before I had a chance
to explain myself.
GIBBS:
It's not loaded.
I need your protection.
You have the bullets.
Take the damn gun.
Protect yourself.
You're signing my death warrant.
Twelve years overdue.
I hope my daughter is as loyal
to her father as you are to yours.
You'd better leave before I do.
Here's my number
in case you change your mind.
get in the way
of your professional responsibility.
You just let
your own personal obsession
JEN: That's a lot of crap,
and you know it, Jethro.
There are no deals for men like him.
You wanna chase after him right now
and arrest him without a warrant,
But we both know that Kort
will have him out before breakfast.
you go right ahead.
- Then get a damn warrant.
- You get a warrant.
But you'd better do it fast
before his friends get him first.
If the weapon was loaded,
and I wasn't here,
I guess we'll never know.
would you have pulled the trigger?
You ever lie
to someone you love, Ziva?
Yes.
They ever forgive you?
He told her?
No.
They never found out.
Idid.
Tony, that was your car.
Mine found out.
Your car that just--
Your car that just--
JEANNE: I don't understand.
What's happening?
It could have been you.
It should have been you.
Tell me that you love me.
On the table.
Tell me.
I do. It's just everything
that's happened--
Happened today. Last night,
the way you handled things, the gun.
The gun, firing it the way you did,
and now this?
It's like you're someone else, Tony.
Someone else.
Someone I don't know.
What is it?
Aren't you? Someone else.
Who? Who are you?
I'm a federal agent.
and I work for the Naval
Criminal Investigative Service.
My name isn't Tony DiNardo,
it's Anthony DiNozzo,
This has all been a lie.
- A lie?
- Jeanne, listen to me.
Not all of it, not everything.
Just some things.
- Not the important things.
- Why?
Just tell me why it is you did this.
What it is I'm supposed
to have done.
Tell me. Tell me.
It's not you.
Well, he said she'd come back
after she calmed down.
What?
I will put out a BOLO.
We will find her.
I guess he was wrong.
- What?
- You should ask him.
TONY:
She doesn't wanna be found.
And he has not replaced
his cell phone yet.
- Maybe he took the day off.
ZlVA: Gibbs would have told us.
Gibbs would've told you what,
Officer David?
- If Tony was taking some time off.
- Yeah, you're right.
McGEE: No luck?
ZlVA: Not at home.
There's always more work to be done
when you're a man down on the shift.
- McGee.
- I think I've got something here, boss.
I found another one
of La Grenouille's shell companies.
Similar to the one
that leased the stretch limo,
only this one leases a yacht
down at the Gangplank Marina,
called the Mauritania.
GIBBS:
How big?
Eighty feet, three state rooms. Ziva
checked with the marina management.
Older guy with an accent.
Someone's been staying there
since Saturday.
- They think he's French.
- And a younger woman?
- No, he said he was alone.
GIBBS: Warrant?
Just arrived from Legal.
It is all in order.
They could not guarantee
it would not stop
a concerted legal challenge
from the agency.
Yeah, let them try. Let's go.
Clear.
- Clear.
McGEE: Clear.
He was here.
He's gone.
ZlVA:
Someone will.
Maybe he was never here.
One day.
We'll catch up with him eventually.