NCIS (2003–…): Season 5, Episode 11 - Tribes - full transcript

[KHALID SPEAKING ARABIC]

[KHALID SPEAKS ARABIC
& CROWD REPEATS IN ARABIC]

[KHALID SPEAKS ARABIC
& CROWD REPEATS IN ARABIC]

Allah, in his wisdom and greatness,
has given us each a gift.

A gift that we must share with others,
even if they do not wish to accept it.

It is our obligation to share Islam
with nonbelievers,

so that we may save them
from themselves.

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTING]

WOMAN: Good morning, Tony.
- Hey.

- Ziva?
- Shh.

You were anxious to talk to him,
weren't you?

That's a movie.

Not just any movie,
that's Double Indemnity.

Tony,
your power of observation is unearthly.

Now leave me alone.
This is the best part.

I'm not gonna get
between a chick and her flick.

How do you know it's the best part?

Because it is the third time
l have seen it.

You don't even watch movies.

This is not a movie.
It's a classic film.

Yeah, I know that.
You don't know that.

Film studies? Wow.

I really appreciate that, Ziva.
Really, I do.

I'm taking it because it is the best
way to pick up American colloquialism,

|ike bug off.

You should watch
Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

I saw it last week.
Sean Penn is a genius.

Phoebe Gates is a babe.

Now, do you mind?

- I can get you a list.
- l have a list.

Bye.

Oh, morning, Probie Pen.

Where'd you pick that up?
Neverland?

No. Pottery Den.

Fifty percent off.
I got six of them for $10.

That's big, don't you think?

Well, I don't like getting refi||s
10 times a day.

Well, but I mean, that's a little...

Litt|e what?

- Seussical?
- Leave. I'm enjoying my moment.

TONY: Am I the only normal one here?
GIBBS: No.

- Morning, boss.
- Marine killed. Let's go.

TONY:
Shotgun.

TONY:
Anacostia and 18th.

Not the battlefield
he thought he'd die on.

Baghdad is safer
than this neighbourhood.

Hey. What do we got?

Ring, watch and wallet are missing.

TONY:
Government issue.

Could be the murder weapon.

Marine killed with his own gun?

DUCKY: Nearly 30 percent
of all gun-related deaths

are the result
of the owner's own weapon.

Your first impressions, Mr. Palmer?

Well, there should be much more
blood loss evident.

DUCKY:
Based upon...?

Based on the position of the body,
even with the heart slightly elevated.

Precisely.

Even with a gunshot
that high in the thoracic cavity,

- one would expect more blood loss.
- Meaning?

Meaning I'm not gonna say
anything else

until We examined the body
more closely.

- The gurney, please, Mr. Palmer.
- Right away, doctor.

DUCKY: Good lad.
GIBBS: Good Marine.

DUCKY: Sunni.
- How do you know that?

Well, if he were a Shiite,
he'd have a turbah with him.

- Like Hadji on Jonny Quest.
- No, I believe that's a turban, Tony.

A turbah is a small stone tablet
that the Shiites set their forehead on

whiIe praying.

The devout develop a callus.

Ziva.

ZIVA:
Checking for local Sunni mosques.

GIBBS:
McGee.

Checking all security cameras.
Got it.

There's a Sunni mosque
two blocks east.

GIBBS:
Show me.

MAN:
She cannot come in here.

Women are not allowed.

I will wait outside.

Federal agents. She's with me.

[KHALID SPEAKS ARABIC
& MAN RESPONDS IN ARABIC]

She is welcome here, as you are.

I'm sure you understand traditions.
We do not wish to offend anyone.

I am Jewish.
I do understand tradition.

You wish to ask me questions?

GIBBS:
No.

Then you wish to speak to every man
who worships here

under the age of 30?

GIBBS: No.
KHALID: Then What?

We think this man
may have attended your mosque.

- And what has he done?
ZIVA: Nothing. He's dead.

Killed two blocks from here.

Do you know him?

[KHALID SPEAKS ARABIC]

This is my son.

TONY:
Your son have any enemies?

Yes.
Ignorance, intolerance and hatred.

Any with a first name?

We would like your permission
to look at Abdul's things.

I need to tell the family
what has happened.

- We will have someone drive you.
- Thank you.

TONY:
You wait here. Please.

Come on.

The guy was with his son
right before he died.

- Suspect.
- Victim.

McGEE:
Abdul Mohammed Bakr. Age 23.

Lance Corporal.
Served in 1 st FAST Company.

Bronze Star and Purple Heart
for service in Iraq.

Three tours, boss.
He kept going back.

If he'd stayed, he might still be alive.

Hypothetically, boss.

- What else?
- He had some run-ins with the law.

- Arrests?
McGEE: Assault and battery, twice.

Here in DC.
Both cases were dismissed.

Maybe they gave him
favourable treatment

because he was serving in Iraq.

- Find out.
- Tracking down his personnel officer.

- Cameras.
- I tapped into metro traffic cameras

and a few parking-lot
surveillance networks.

Stitched together Abdul's route
from the alley back to the mosque.

There's no sign of anything until...

Here.

Can't get a reading on the man's face,
but he did go into the alley.

Back it up.

Stop. Tighter on his hands.

ZIVA: He was carrying a phone.
- FonNard.

Stop.

- Must have dumped it.
- McGee.

I already ran the phone records,
boss.

His cell didn't send
or receive any calls that day.

- Find it.
McGEE: On it.

TONY: Probie, you start the search
near the crime scene.

We'll meet you there later.
David. With me.

The captain's right down here.

TONY: I'm sorry, the correct answer
is Full Metal Jacket.

That was not the best Marine movie.
A Few Good Men was.

Based on the fact that I am right,
I'm overruling you.

If you're here to volunteer,
we'll take you.

ZIVA:
I already have a job, Captain Mills.

NCIS.

We're here about a Marine.
Abdul Bakr.

You were his personnel officer.

Yeah, 1 st FAST Company.

- He's in Iraq.
- No, he's in our morgue.

ZIVA:
He was murdered earlier today.

Oh, God.

- He was such a good kid.
- We know he had some troubles.

A few fights. He never started them.

We would like to see
his personnel records.

Sure. I'll...

I'll get you everything I got.

TONY:
You coach, huh?

Yeah.
I'm a parole officer in civilian life.

We have an after-school league.

- Civilian life?
- I'm a reservist.

Recalled for active duty last year.
Manpower issues.

- Iraq?
- Iraq.

So a parole officer
and a personnel officer,

that's kind of the same thing, isn't it?

Yeah, the Marine Corps likes to place
reservists in similar lines of work.

Makes things run more efficiently.

So in your professional opinion,

do you think Corporal Bakr's run-ins
could've led to his murder?

- No.
ZIVA: Someone he had a fight with?

Nobody stayed mad at him.
He was a good kid.

- A great Marine.
- And a Muslim.

Yeah.
That's what the fights were about.

He stuck up for his people.

Hard to be a Muslim and a Marine.

Was he ever sympathetic
to un-American activities?

No way. Not this kid.

- Ducky.
- Oh, just a moment, Jethro.

Is the needle in his femoral artery,
Mr. Palmer?

- Yes, doctor.
DUCKY: Good.

I've never seen a gunshot victim
with so much blood left in his body.

DUCKY:
Rare, but not unheard of.

And if the bullet pierced his heart, it
would have stopped pumping instantly.

Of course,
the pressure of the boards

on his back
may have prevented gravitational loss.

Right. That should do it.

Take those up to Abby.
Get her to run the usual tox screen.

Right away.

DUCKY:
Neatly done, Mr. Palmer.

Thank you, doctor.

That young man will make a first class
medical examiner one of these days.

- Today?
- Yeah.

Well, until I open him up,
I can't say for sure,

but all indications are that he was killed
by the gunshot wound.

There are no defensive wounds,

no lacerations, no abrasions,
no contusions.

And unless I find
intradermal bruising,

no signs of a struggle.

A Marine with combat experience

let someone take his weapon
away from him without a fight?

Well, I only tell you
what the body tells me.

- Ask different questions, Duck.
- Oh, I will, Jethro, I assure you.

Yes, well, the first question is,

what damage
did that bullet exactly do?

ZIVA:
Ducky, wait. Need to talk to you.

Mr. Bakr has something to say.

Dr. Mallard,
please don't cut into him.

I beg you to respect our religion,
so my son can find peace in heaven.

- With all due respect, we have to.
- I beg of you. Please don't do this.

- Sorry, there's no choice.
- There is a choice, Jethro. Mine.

I can't do this autopsy.

JEN:
So, what are you saying exactly?

That we have an obligation
to honour faith as well as science.

And in this case,
the wishes of the family.

We cannot waive an autopsy
in the middle of a murder investigation.

- Why not?
- Because the laws are very specific.

We can try to accommodate
some aspect of tradition

or religious ceremony,

but we can't forfeit the most critical
aspect of the investigation.

DUCKY: Abdul Bakr was a Marine
who died as a hero.

That young man risked his life
for his country.

The least we can do
is to respect him in death.

- He didn't die in Iraq, Ducky.
- Well, but that's not the point.

What is the point, Duck?

This country was founded
on freedom, religious freedom.

That family came here to practise it,

and I can't ignore
a basic tenet of their beliefs.

That if I cut open the body,

that will prevent their son
from finding peace in heaven.

- There is no greater sin.
- What about murder?

We need to find a cause of death.

We need to find evidence.

You need to do the autopsy.

That's it.

All right, I'll do it.

Under protest.

I have another body to examine,
so this will have to wait.

VVhy?

I already told you why.

VVhy?

This case brings back memories
of a mass grave.

I was a volunteer medical examiner
for a UN task force in Bosnia in '93.

I did 44 autopsies in five days.

Most of them children under 12.
All Muslims.

The village was targeted because
of who they were or who they weren't.

Nothing more.

Selected for their ethnicity.

The parents begged me
not to autopsy their children,

begged me on their knees,

but I had no choice.

I suppose I still don't.

I'll give you my report
when I'm done.

McGEE: His phone's gotta be
around here somewhere.

ZIVA:
Waiting.

TONY: "Juicy Fruit."
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next.

Close enough.
"Hell, the fall will probably kill you."

Butch Cassidy and the Sunrise Kid.

Great scene, jumping off the cliff.

Did you try calling the cell?

Yeah. It's on silent mode,
or else I would have heard it.

[CLICK]

Foundit

- Abby?
- Ow!

You scared the hell out of me.

- Sir.
- Did you lose something?

No. It just escaped.

Ah. Gotcha.

- Broken?
- Does a baby change its own diapers?

Nay.

Does it burp and feed itself?
I don't think so.

It takes a lot of TLC
to keep my children happy

and fully functioning
in the lab of Abby,

or Iabby, as I like to call it.

[WHISPERS]
You're my favourite.

- Labby?
- You want results?

- You got them.
- Yeah, I want them.

First, fingerprints.
There were a bajillion of them.

All over the lance corporal's Koran,
his clothes, but none on his Misbaha.

- His what?
- Misbaha.

Muslim prayer beads.

- It's kind of like a rosary, but different.
- And?

I ran all the fingerprints
through AFIS, Interpol, the FBI.

Several worshipped
at the same mosque,

but there's nothing
to connect any of them to this crime.

All right. Go on.

Abdul's prayer rug and his boots
tested positive

for phosphorous, saltpetre,
Semtex and C-4.

Explosives.

Yeah,
which could mean one of two things.

Give them both to me.

He was serving in Iraq with FAST
Company a couple of weeks ago.

So if he was defusing
and handling IEDs,

that would account
for the traces of explosives.

Or?

Or he was handling them
once he got back.

- That would not be good.
- Terrorism.

I cloned and mirrored Bakr's hard drive
from his laptop.

He recently visited
three jihadist websites.

There's training videos,
suicide bombers' last statements,

anti-American everything.

These sites are known hubs
for al Qaeda communication.

Has Corporal Bakr visited these?

Well, either him or someone
that had access to his computer.

His father?

Good work. Back to your babies.

Hey, I thought
you checked phone records.

McGEE:
I did.

Technically, Abdul never placed
a call or sent a text.

He did, however, press 11 keys before
tossing his phone up on the roof.

He wanted us to find it.

GIBBS:
Code.

McGEE: Well, basic Marine letter
substitution. Crude but very effective.

GIBBS: And?
- He may have named his killer, boss.

Hans Staiger.

Suspected ties to al Qaeda
in Germany.

Known as the recruiter.

Attempted to buy off several customs
officials in France last year, got away.

GIBBS:
Where?

There's no record of Staiger coming
into this country or anywhere else.

He could be here with false papers.

GIBBS:
Find him.

VVelooked.
If he's here, he's way underground.

GIBBS:
Dig deeper.

- Where?
GIBBS: The mosque.

Bug it. That's where this all started.

Getting a warrant.

It'd be easier if Bakr
just sent us a text message.

Not if he thought
someone was monitoring

or intercepting
his cell transmissions.

Someone was following him, Tony.

Three Days of the Condor.

Based on the novel Six Days
of the Condor by James Grady.

Hey, I got one for you two.
Find out who killed my Marine.

Nobody likes a know-it-all.

Gibbs does.
A warrant just came through.

Anyone else
have a problem with this?

Bugging a place of worship?

Check. One, two, three, four.

If this were a Catholic church
or a doctor's office,

we'd still be judge-hunting.

I agree. It should not be so easy
bugging a mosque.

Give it to me. I'm going in.

You're a woman.
It would be easier for me to blend in.

flAUGHS]

Yes, you would blend right in.

- All right, then we'll flip for it.
- If I flip you, you will get hurt.

You can take her, probie. Do it.

Compromise. Tony will do it.

I don't wanna do it.

[MAN SPEAKING ARABIC ON BUG]

It's impossible.
We haven't even planted a bug yet.

There's a transmission
coming from inside the mosque.

It's already being bugged?

We tracked the signal back
to the FBI frequency, Mr. Langer.

I checked, and no warrant
was issued to the FBI.

Well, I can't confirm or deny

if the mosque
is under FBI observation.

This is a murder investigation.

Some inter-agency cooperation
would be nice.

Anything we should know?

- Not that I can tell you.
- That's crap.

We both know
that you can say anything you want to.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Did I come at a bad time?

Jethro. How are you?

How did they let you in here,
newbie?

[LANGER LAUGHING]

LANGER:
Oh, man, it's been a long time.

You two know each other. How nice.

I taught him
everything he's forgotten.

Oh, I thought you retired.

I tried.

Well, you look good, old man.

Hey, listen, sorry about
our inconvenient convergence here.

Our what?

Gibbs used to fine me
for every three-dollar word I used.

How much?

- Three dollars a word.
- You owe me 6.

See?

Marines.

No, actually, I started here.

Gibbs took me under his wing
and then proceeded to crush me.

Nothing you didn't deserve.

Left me no choice
but to crawl over to the FBI.

Yeah. And they actually hired you.

Hey, can you believe that?

[GIBBS & LANGER LAUGH]

Well, now maybe
the NCIS and the FBI

can cooperate on this investigation.

We may be observing a mosque.

Well, that's a little vague.

I can't tell you any more than that,
Jethro, you know that.

Okay.

Well, I'll hope
we don't get in each other's way.

Well, now,
if you guys find anything out, then...

You'll be the last to know.

- Hey, come on.
DUCKY: Excuse me, director.

- Jethro, I think I have it.
- Have what, Duck?

A way to find the cause
of Lance Corporal Bakr's death.

- Are you gonna do that autopsy?
- No.

Well, yes.
Well, in a manner of speaking,

but a lot of people
are gonna have to look the other way.

Starting with you, director.

Lost?

Actually, I was looking
for Agent Gibbs. He was just...

Just upstairs a minute ago.

- Can I help you?
- Yeah.

You know, maybe you could give him
my card and ask him to call me.

I'm Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo.
I'm in charge here.

Oh, hey.
I'm Special Agent Brent Langer, FBI.

That's weird. I could have sworn that
Agent Gibbs said he was in charge.

He is.

Well, yeah.
He's in charge when he's here,

but when he's not here, I'm in charge.
I'm in charge.

Well, I'll just call him later,
but thanks anyway.

-What an ass.
-Yes, indeed.

You're Langer-Ieering.
You're Ieering at Langer.

What if I am, Tony? He's cute.

flAUGHS]

Cute. He's not cute.

- He's like--
- Don't speak.

Bullets Over Broadway.
Woody Allen.

Very good.
You'd get a B in my class.

- I could teach your class.
- Yeah, right.

[PHONE RINGS]

Officer David.

I'm going to need you to come down
to the evidence garage.

And I need you
to bring someone with you.

The key here, Jethro, is discretion.

We're not going
through official channels, Mr. Palmer.

Official channels take time.
That's the one thing we don't have.

Muslims desire their dead
to be buried within 24 hours.

That leaves us 13.

- Doctor.
- Doctor.

You have 20 minutes.

A minute longer,
you'll get found out and I'll get fired.

- Clear?
- How do I repay you?

Ijust repaid you. We're even now.

DUCKY:
Something wrong, Mr. Palmer?

If this weren't a Muslim family,
we wouldn't be here.

That is correct.

I don't think anyone
should get special treatment.

- We're risking our careers doing this.
- You can always leave.

Doctor, I wasn't with you in Bosnia.

True.

And I certainly wasn't
on the Crusades.

But 9/11, the intefadeh, Hamas.

You have a problem with Muslims,
Mr. Palmer?

No. No, I do not,

but it seems
like they have a problem with us.

Religions have been the basis
of conflict for generations.

So we just live with this?

Until we learn
to respect one another.

DUCKY: All right, Mr. Palmer,
let's follow the path of the bullet.

PALMER: Resolution's astonishing.
- Yes, and magnification.

PALMER: You can actually almost see
as well as a traditional autopsy.

Angle of the trajectory

indicates the bullet travelled
through the first intercostal space,

avoiding the heart
and bronchial branch of the lungs.

Missed all vital organs.

It went
through the third intercostal space

and exited the back.

DUCKY:
Hold your horses.

There seems to be a bullet fragment

chipped off the eighth rib,
and then disappeared.

PALMER:
There's no other exit wounds.

- Is the fragment still in his body?
- Density is becoming an issue.

We're seeing too much bone
and not enough soft tissue.

MRI?

Excellent idea.

Tea?

You shouldn't have, but thank you.

Well, if you change your mind.

- You're an Israeli Jew, no?
- Yes.

KHALID:
I used to take my family to Haifa.

I spent my summers in Haifa.

DUCKY:
No, just push it to one side.

You make it Arab style, huh?

Strong.

[ZIVA CHUCKLES]

I like strong.

You like Muslims?

Yes.

May I ask why?

I mean, I don't wish to offend you.
I'm just curious.

When you grow up in Israel,
most of your neighbours are Muslim.

My best friend was Muslim Arab.

He was a young boy.

We were very close.

Are you still close?

No. He was killed.

When I was 12,
by an Israeli missile strike.

On a hotel.

There has been too much death.

I agree.

Come on, now.
Show us this bullet fragment.

- Oh.
- What is it, Mr. Palmer?

It's moving. His neck.

- Is that a bullet fragment?
- Bullets are lead.

They're non-magnetic.

Turn off the power.

- What is it?
- This, my dear Officer David,

is what you call
an unexpected turn of events.

[POP]

Abby.

- Hey, it works.
- What?

My Gibbs early-warning
alarm system.

The Arabs used to put dried brush
outside their tents

to alert
in case there was an intruder.

So Ijust updated it to bubble wrap.

GIBBS: You called me.
- I know. It was a test.

- You wanna know what I found.
- Uh-huh.

Whoa. Trippy. I like it.

I was able to extract
an undiluted sample

from inside the needle shaft.

And voila.
I give you the blue-ringed octopus.

The what?

It produces a toxin that's a hundred
times more deadly than cobra venom.

It's the most deadly
natural neurotoxin on the planet,

and it's impossible to trace
in the bloodstream.

- You did.
- Well, it wasn't in the bloodstream.

It was still inside the needle shaft
that Ducky found.

- Perfectly preserved and pure.
- He walked a long way.

Because the needle snapped off
during the insertion.

It was the result
of oxidation and age.

So that resulted in metal fatigue.

Our Lance Corporal Bakr,
he only got a partial dose.

That's why he could walk
for two blocks.

- Yeah, but it killed him.
- Yeah.

Or the bullet.
I mean, it's hard to say.

I'm running the toxicology now.

- Aren't you gonna ask me?
- What?

Why the needle was affected
by magnetic force?

I mean, they make these
out of 440 carbon.

- It's a non-magnetic steel.
- Why?

Because the needle was really old.

It was, like, from the '70s.

Not that that's...

That's not old.

I mean, it'sjust-- Well, I mean,
it's old for a needle, sure.

But it's certainly not old
for, you know, a man.

Where?

There's two companies in the
United States that handle the toxin.

They use it for research
on antivenoms.

- They're both in the DC. area.
- Names?

ABBY:
Morgan Industries and Bio-Tonics.

- Have an e-mail sent.
- I emailed it to McGee and Tony.

GIBBS:
You're my favourite.

Abs, lose the bubble wrap.

[PHONE RINGS]

Go, McGoo.

McGEE: Morgan Industries is clean.
- Got it.

Probie's over at Morgan Industries.

They show no missing venom.

- Can I help you?
- Yes, we need to check your records.

SIKES:
You see? Every drop accounted for.

There's none missing from inventory.

ZIVA:
Check again.

I've checked four times.
I'm telling you, we watch this stuff.

Here you go.

Paycheck.

ZIVA: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman.
- That's right. Ben plays the bad guy.

Does dirty work for this company
and then they erase his memory.

Beats the bad guys
by mailing clues to himself.

We are going to need
all your shipping manifests.

Originals.

Everything that's been sent out of here
in the last six months.

McGeek can go back
and do the same at Morgan Industries.

It's a lot of inventory to check.

- We got time.
- Okay.

TONY:
Hey.

Where are you going, jackrabbit?

I'm going to paradise.
Where you going?

To the parking lot to put your butt
in the back of our car.

Go.

Hacked into Bio-Tonics
worldwide tracking software.

We followed a shipment
of the neurotoxin

from Bio-Tonics
to Stanford University.

The university
never received the shipment.

But as you can see,
Bio-Tonics' tracking shows

that the venom
was ordered and delivered.

- Who signed for it?
- Nobody. It never got there.

It turns out that the university
never even ordered the neurotoxin,

so there was nothing missing
from the warehouse.

Enabling them to walk out
the front door.

GIBBS: Who?
TONY: Ryan Sikes, shipping clerk.

- Thinks he's a jackrabbit.
- And an ex-con.

TONY: Did time for armed robbery,
computer crimes,

other assorted titbits.

In prison, he converted to Islam.

- Get him.
- Got him.

Good.

There is only one God,
and he is great.

That's good to know.

Why did you kill Corporal Bakr?

Why has this country killed
a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians,

and 30,000 sick children
after they invaded the first time?

Corporal Bakr was a Muslim.
You're a Muslim.

Killing him, that's a sin.

Well, how many civilians have
the Marines killed on Muslim soil?

I'm talking about a Marine
on American soil.

Ah.

Ryan.

Ryan is my slave name.

My real name is Akbur Mohammed.

Your slave name?

Yes. You want a statement?

Death to America.

You want a confession?

I did it. I killed that turncoat bastard.

He turned against his own people.
Hey, what are you--?

ZIVA:
He didn't even look.

Gibbs doesn't need to.

Hey. Get in here.

Were you gonna tell me about this?

The ankle bracelet
was a condition of his parole.

We've requested the tracking
records from the parole office.

Be able to put him in the alley
at the time Abdul was killed.

I already confessed.
Now, I killed him.

Boss? Bad news.

I just got the tracking records back.

GPS records show
that Sikes was 20 miles away

from the crime scene
at the time of the murder.

He's got an airtight alibi:
the US. government.

GIBBS:
Waiting on you, newbie.

Are you still working
on this damn boat?

Finished it twice.
This is number three.

And still drinking the same beer.

So yes, we think the mosque
is a recruitment centre for al Qaeda.

A cell in DC?

No. Al Qaeda's changed
their business models.

We think they're paying people now.

Cash, to Muslims and non-Muslims.
US. citizens.

Capitalist jihad. That's smart.

More like dangerous.

We're pretty good
at monitoring radicalized citizens,

but now, anyone with a need or greed
might be playing on their team.

- Who knows?
- You think our murder is connected?

Possible.

The dead Marine's father
is on our watch list.

VVhy?

Everything we've got is on this.
And it's not much.

To be honest with you, I'm not
even sure what we're investigating.

Homeland's working on something.

But it's so compartmentalized,
no one's sharing.

MP3 files.

Last six months of recordings
from inside the mosque.

- Thanks.
- Don't thank me.

I was never here.

You ever consider
using power tools?

You are still a pain in the ass.

Yeah, well, I learned from the best.

Catch you later, boss.

[KHALID SPEAKING ARABIC
ON RECORDING]

Khalid is asking for some money to be
made as a donation to the mosque.

[MAN SPEAKING ARABIC
ON RECORDING]

This other man is speaking Arabic,
but it is not his first language.

- I think he could be German.
- What's he saying?

Khalid is accepting cash
paid through an offshore account.

GIBBS:
McGee.

McGEE: Running the voices through
Interpol, FBI, and databases.

Start with Hans Staiger.

Positive ID, boss. It's Staiger.

Suspected al Qaeda recruiter.
Wanted in four countries.

No face, no prints,
just calls intercepted over the last year.

Don't know who he is.
Just that he is.

And that he's talking to Khalid.

[KHALID SPEAKING ARABIC]

[WOMEN CRYING]

[KHALID SPEAKING ARABIC]

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

[WOMEN CRYING]

You okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

The funeral home is sending a car.

- Thank you again.
- Thank you.

Your son was a great credit
to his country and his culture.

Oh, Jethro, the family has requested
his personal effects be returned.

- Anything you want to tell me?
- About...?

Anything.

- Why do you hate us?
- I don't.

Your people do.

All we ask for is to live in peace
and observe our beliefs.

GIBBS:
I think you are.

Islam came to your country
with hostility in 2001.

And that was wrong.

But you came to our land
500 years ago and you've never left.

All we wish for is to be left alone
to practise our ways.

And yet you cannot leave us alone.

- Why?
- Why'd the recruiter kill your son?

Because he said no?
Or because he said yes?

There is a man. A German.

Hans Staiger.
He recruits for al Qaeda.

The recruiter approached my son.

Abdul was gathering information
for the authorities.

A spy for his government.

I called the FBI.

I called them
to investigate my own mosque.

- I killed my own son.
- No. No, you didn't.

And until we find who did, we need
to keep his body a little longer.

Find this recruiter

and allow me
to have my vengeance.

- No.
- Please.

No.

He's mine.

GIBBS: The body stays, Duck.
- I already released the body.

Well, unrelease it.

Jethro,
I determined the cause of death.

The poison
may have weakened his system,

but it was the gunshot
that killed him.

Ducky, the body stays
until we find our killer.

[TONY LAUGHS]

- I have killed for less.
- You cheated.

- Did not.
- Yes, you did.

That is a book of movies.

I bet you never saw all those movies.
You just read the book.

- I like books.
- I like movies.

Do not quote books,
I will not quote movies.

What if it's a book
that's been made into a movie?

GIBBS:
Patterns.

George C. Scott, 1971,
Seven Academy Awards--

Patterns, DiNozzo.
Patterns, not Patton.

Patterns?

If this is al Qaeda,
that means activity.

Activity means patterns.

Dead Marines who are Muslim.

Checking.

That's all we got. Two of them.

A Shiite Muslim
stationed at Camp David,

died of unknown causes
two weeks ago.

Sergeant Major out of Norfolk,
Sunni. Died last week.

Both stationed in Iraq.
Both had run-ins with the law.

Both died of natural causes.

They have something else
in common.

- What?
- They're both dead.

No. Something else.

- What?
- What?

GIBBS:
McGee.

Same personnel officer.

Look, I'm a patriot.

I'm a volunteer reservist.

With money problems.

You're divorcing your wife.
Claimed you were broke in court.

You oversee a lot of drug addicts.
Access to needles.

Access to Ryan Sikes.

Which gave you access
to the toxins used to kill three Marines.

We found $270,000 in your shed.

Yeah. I guess
your money problems are over.

What exactly
are you charging me with?

A German named Hans Staiger,
was paying you

to help recruit troubled Muslim Marines
to serve for the other side.

Two of them obviously refused
and are now dead.

I'm a parole officer.
I know how the system works.

Lawyer. Right now.

You killed a Marine yesterday.

- Shot him with his own gun.
- Why would I do that?

To make sure he was dead.

Natural causes
didn't work as well for him

as it did for the other two,
so you followed him.

And you shot him.

Lawyer.

Boss, sorry. Ducky needs you.

Now. Sorry.

Sorry.

I was wrong.

- About what?
- The gunshot.

Abby's toxicology report.

Abdul was dead before he was shot.

Some of the poison
did get into his system.

If your personnel officer did shoot him,
he didn't kill him.

The most you could legally prove
is that he desecrated a body.

If we don't have him for murder,
he'll never give up the recruiter.

We just matched a slug
from Abdul's body to your gun.

Not his.

- That's impossible.
- Yeah.

And a good lawyer could prove that,
but you're not getting a lawyer.

You're getting a transfer
to a naval base in Cuba

called Gitmo.

Ever heard of it?

Case closed.

I can give you Staiger.

He's the one
who injected Corporal Bakr

and the other two Marines
when they wouldn't cooperate.

Said it'd be quick, but the needle broke
so he followed him from the mosque.

He shot him.

You just happened to be there?

I was the go-between.
You want more?

I want a civilian case
filed with the DA's office

with the guarantee that
I won't be prosecuted for terrorism.

Deal.

Staiger.

Bedford Hotel. Room 126.

These belonged to Abdul.
They were returned to his father.

Are you sure?

Gibbs, I...

No. Nothing like them.

I didn't think so.