NCIS (2003–…): Season 5, Episode 17 - About Face - full transcript

MIKE: You see what Carolyn
was wearing today, man?

Damn, she's hot.

Today's the day, man.
I'm gonna ask her out.

Gotta figure out how to get
a few minutes alone with her.

- Know what I'm saying?
- Uh-huh.

CAROLYN [ON RADIO]: Hey, Richie,
you forgot to sign your time card.

Sorry about that, Carolyn.
I'll be right down.

Dude, what are you doing?
The bro rule. I called dibs.

- Survival of the fittest, my man.
- You ain't got a shot.

RICHIE:
What the--?

Hey. Come on, Mike.
I just want one date. Come on.

TONY: Well, I'm not exactly sure
how it works.

That's why I'm not in charge of that.

What's going on here?
Did I get off on the wrong floor?

Thought this was an office.

McGEE:
Officer David and I are engaged

in a linguistic developmental exercise

intended to bolster
her English vocabulary.

That's good.
You think Gibbs will buy it?

It is not my vocabulary
that needs bolsterment, McGee.

- Not a word. Hence the scoreboard.
TONY: No.

Fifty-point cushion for the professor,
and there's only one tile left to play.

Gonna be kind of tough
to play that Q without a U.

- You peeked.
- Did not.

Process of elimination.
I counted the tiles on the board.

You suck the fun out of everything,
McCheat.

McGEE:
Give it up, Ziva.

"Qi"? I don't think so.

"Qi," as in the life energy
that flows through all things.

Should've seen that coming,
Probie-Wan Kenobi.

No.

Sixty-two points.

- Jedi wins.
- l'm challenging.

GIBBS:
You all are. Grab your gear.

Playtime's over.

That was a language exercise, boss.
We weren't actually playing.

- So McGee didn't actually lose.
McGEE: Correct.

[TONY & ZIVA LAUGH]

"Qi."

- Did you know him?
- Wasn't one of our guys.

Had the same crew in here
since the beginning.

GIBBS: What's the job?
HARRIS: Retrofitting.

Building's only ten years old.

They don't make them
like they used to.

- Security guard?
- Not on weekends.

- Well, who knew that?
- Who didn't?

Are these guys
gonna be here a while?

Oh, yeah.

TONY: Spatter over here.
Looks like this is where it started.

ZIVA: And that is where it ended.
TONY: Right.

Okay, so we got the altercation
starting here.

Fight, fight, fight.
Scuffle, scuffle, scuffle.

Then they end up here.

Man falls over the edge,
lands on the roof of the cage,

which was three storeys down.

And then he rides the elevator
all the way back up to the crime scene.

Yeah, it's funny
till someone plunges to their death.

Oh, come on. Still with the height
thing? You gotta get over that, man.

You don't just get over irrational fears,
Tony. They're irrational.

So we got a struggle
and a dead guy.

- Struggle over what?
- Over the edge.

TONY: All right, here's the cell phone.
McGEE: I'm heading back down.

TONY:
Dead, just like its owner.

PALMER: Need a hand, Dr. Mallard?
DUCKY: Best way to renew the mind

and body, Mr. Palmer, is exercise.

The more, the merrier,
when it comes to stairs.

- Well, I didn't mean--
- My cardio is fine.

Unlike this poor fellow.

Yeah, use the thermometer.
That is one nasty contusion.

He struck something hard,
or else something hard struck him.

TONY: Yeah, we're still looking.
- Rick Baxter, 34 years of age.

Virginia driver's licence.

We won't be able to tell you much
more until we get him back to Autopsy.

Gotta figure out what he was doing.

- And with whom he was doing it.
- Doing what with?

Whatever it was he was doing
when he was undone.

- Done... What?
- Done.

"In," my dear fellow. "Done in."

Don't you understand
the Queen's English?

Not this queen.

- Time of death, approximately 4 am.
TONY: Okay, thanks.

- He's an early riser.
- Early demiser.

Oh, please, Mr. Palmer.

Dr. Mallard,
aren't we forgetting something?

No, I'm gonna get the gurney.

- Well, I should do that.
- No, no, no. I shall use the elevator.

So you get the body off the roof
to down here, and then--

And then we can move the body
back into the cage.

Good thinking, Mr. Palmer.

DUCKY:
Mr. Palmer?

- Nice job of parking.
- Sorry.

- Yeah. It's all clear up there?
- All clear, doctor.

Good.

McGee?

Did you take that passport, McGee?

Tony?

Hey, Ziva, is that you?

Who's there?

Hey. Hey! Stop!

Mr. Palmer?

Stop!

Jimmy.

[COUGHING]

Jimmy? Jimmy?

Are you all right?

LEON: So we got no shooter,
we got no shell casings,

we got nothing.
This guy gonna be useful to us at all?

He's a witness, not a suspect.

He's an assistant
to the medical examiner.

- He's paid to observe things.
- He's not a field agent.

- He's a member of your team.
- No. He works for Ducky.

Ducky works for you.

Something bugging you, Leon?

Yeah.
Director's back end of the week.

I wanna go home.
I miss my kids. I miss San Diego.

Missed my damn flight
because of this case.

- Ijust want it solved so I can leave.
- Works for me.

Like I said, I got him.

Good luck.

I saw some of these guys
at the Navy Annex garage,

but none of them look like
the guy who shot at me.

What about the photo
on the passport?

Definitely the dead guy. Positive.

Name on the passport?

It wasn't the name
on the driver's licence, which was...

- Baxter?
- Right.

I think the name on the passport
started with a S-U-S or an S-A-S.

Country?

The lettering wasn't in English.
It was like hieroglyphics.

Design, then.

Blue cover.

Might've been like an eagle
or a star, stylized.

You know, like a swirl, sort of.

Swirly?

So you saw a man with a gun,
and you decided to chase after him?

No, I chased after him,
and then I saw the gun.

Can't tell if you're dumb or brave.

Not brave enough.

The gun.

- What about it?
- Automatic? Revolver?

Nickel-plated? Black? Dull?
Shiny? Big? Small?

- Big.
- The barrel?

Yes, the barrel.

You wanna take a minute?

- No. No, |-- I'm good. I'm good.
- All right.

Height.

- Average.
- Can you be more specific?

It all happened so fast.

- But you got a really good look at him?
- Yeah, a very good look.

Beady eyes, okay?

Reptilian.

So we're looking for
a beady-eyed reptile with a big gun?

- How close were you to the shooter?
- How close?

Okay.

- What are you doing?
- Pythagorean Theorem.

By calculating two fixed points,
then factoring in the shooter

as a third fixed object,
I think I can estimate how far--

Okay. That's enough for tonight.

Go down to Sciuto's lab first thing
in the morning, draw a sketch.

I wanna put a BOLO out.

Sir, I'm so sorry that I couldn't--

Remember?

- Catch him.
- It's okay. We'll catch him.

Rick Baxter, 34.

McGEE: Single, born in Denver,
no known relatives.

According to the DMV,
he's lived at the same address

- in Virginia for the past 11 years.
- And?

The address has been a strip mall
for the past two years.

Baxter's condo was demolished.
No record of a current address.

- Renewed his licence by mail.
- Fake?

No, it's real. Hologram, strip mag.
Everything checks out.

- The only fake part is the address.
- Passport?

Baxter's never applied for one.
He's never left the country.

So real driver's licence, phoney
address, and a fake passport.

It's like Jason Bourne.

Should we put out a BOLO
for Matt Damon?

[TONY LAUGHS]

- Or not.
- Prints.

Baxter's not
in any system anywhere.

He's never been arrested.
He never served in the military.

So there is no way to know
who Baxter really is, or is not?

He didn't take the licence.
He took the passport. That's the key.

Maybe Mini-Mallard made a mistake,
and it wasn't a passport.

It was. McGee.

Baxter hasn't filed a tax return
in ten years.

- No applications for unemployment.
- Bank records?

Dormant account.
Defaulted to the state five years ago.

- Phone.
TONY: Ah.

Baxter's cell
was a burned phone, boss.

Purchased at a convenience store
with cash ten days ago.

So there's no address to trace.

From the phone's SIM card,

we know that a call was placed
from his cell at 4:03 this morning.

Around the time of death.

Trace.

That's gonna be
a bit of a problem, boss.

The phone he called
was also a burned phone.

So even going off cell towers,
we can't really get a fix.

Maybe I can...

Maybe I can track all transmissions
from both phones,

see if! can find a common number
that links both to a land line.

Do that. Passport, shooter, dead guy.
Connect the dots.

- Yeah, Gibbs.
DUCKY: Your friendly pathologist.

Be right there.

- Duck?
- Jethro.

The wound to Mr. Baxter's
left temporal lobe did not kill him.

I found evidence of blood
in his lungs,

indicating that he lived some time
after the initial blow.

- Enough time to make a phone call?
- Yeah. 911 would've been advisable.

- He had something to hide. Death?
- Exsanguination.

Shattered spleen, and a crushed liver,
and other assorted abdominal injuries,

not to mention all the fractures.

- The fall.
- With catastrophic results.

I surmise the blow to the head
made him lose his balance,

and that caused him
to fall to his untimely death.

I don't know how it fits
into your puzzle,

but it is on his upper extremities
and throughout his respiratory system.

- He was breathing it.
- It seems so.

- What is it?
- Abby is running tests.

- Thanks, Duck.
- Yeah. How is Mr. Palmer?

I really miss his assistance.

I mean,
you never fully appreciate someone

until they're not here.

He'll be all right.

Jimmy may not have had
a good look at the shooter,

but I fear the shooter
may have had a good look at him.

Duck, you let me worry
about the shooter.

My soup is simmering.
Now back to my masterpiece.

Now flare the nostrils.

Split the difference.

What about the ears?

Bigger.

No. Not that big.

Yeah, like that. Now reduce the density
of the orbicularis oris area.

- The what?
- The space,

- between the nose and the upper lip.
- Oh.

We call that a Cupid's bow.

One time, I got my lips stuck
in a vacuum-cleaner display

at the department store.
I lost like a quart of saliva

before my cousin pulled the plug.

Still have nightmares about it.
Can't be alone with a HEPA filter.

- How old were you?
- Twenty-two.

It was, like, Fat Tuesday,
or Arbor Day.

That's him. That is the guy.

That's the guy? That's the guy
that picked up the passport?

Yeah. Why? What's wrong?

- So you got shot at by Dr. Jekyll?
- I think you're referring to Mr. Hyde.

Dr. Jekyll's the one who invented
the potion. But, look, yeah,

you have captured
his essence perfectly.

His anger. His intent.

- No, his blood lust.
- His likeness?

It's his likeness.
That's kind of the point here.

You know what?
Let's just start over.

Okay. He was a white guy, right?

I couldn't catch him.
Now I can't even identify him.

I'm sure Gibbs thinks
I'm completely useless.

No. Jimmy,
you chased a crazy guy with a gun.

You're a studmuffin.
You're an iron fist with a velvet glove.

You're baby Gibbs.

Really?

Now make
the bridge of the nose flatter.

GIBBS:
McGee.

Done, boss. Common calls
from both burned phones

were made to a single residence
two days ago.

- Address.
- A mobile-home park in Alexandria.

I hope there's no tornados. You know
what they say about tornados--

Gear. Go. Get back.

Should've seen that coming.

Looks like we missed the twister.

ZIVA:
It was Baxter's house,

but it disappeared
in the middle of the night.

No one heard or saw it leave. Put
a BOLO out on the plates. Nothing yet.

Neighbours positively identified Baxter
from our driver's-licence photograph.

TONY: Manager said
Baxter had been there for a year.

Paid through the end of the month.
Gave no notice of leaving.

Someone is going to great lengths
to clean up after him.

- The question is, why?
- I took that picture.

Notice anything odd about it?

Little underexposed.

Five-gallon drum.
Abby ran the contents.

Hydrofluoric acid.

- That's important because--
- Yeah.

They don't use it in construction.

I knew that.
That's why I took the picture.

PALMER: I'm really trying here, McGee.
- Jimmy, I know. Passport.

PALMER:
Okay. Blue?

Dark blue.
I'm pretty sure it was dark blue.

Yes, you have narrowed it down
to the most popular colour in the world.

Sorry, McGee.

It's all right. Don't worry.

Again, these represent
every dark-blue passport in the world,

from Argentina to Zimbabwe.

- There are so many.
- Seventy-two.

With each country
averaging 10 percent of the population

with passports, we're looking at
approximately 200 million suspects.

Give or take a few million.

You know,
I took a wilderness-survival course.

Spent two weeks alone.
I even encountered a bear.

But a ten-second encounter
with a bad guy, and I go blank.

I do not understand.

Well, was that bear in the woods
packing heat?

- No.
- There you go.

PALMER:
Guess you never know, do you?

- What?
- How you'll respond.

A moment of crisis,
a split second to make a decision.

Jimmy,
someone was pointing a gun at you.

In that split second,
you chose to duck.

- I think you passed with flying colours.
- It's like it fried my brain circuitry.

We're gonna fix that, okay?

Do you mind
it! ask you a personal question?

Yeah.

How did you handle getting shot at
the first time?

Well, you know,
I'm a highly trained federal agent.

It's not really a fair comparison.
Anything on these passports?

I'm not a lot of help, am I?

All right.

There is something else
that we could try.

ABBY:
Your eyes are getting heavy.

All information is recorded
in the subconscious mind.

I'm gonna count down from three.

As I'm counting down, you're gonna go
into a deeper state of relaxation.

Three.

You're getting calm and relaxed.

Two. You're going
into a deeper state of comfort.

One.

You're in a deep sleep.

You're at peace.

You have the ability
to retrieve any information at will.

You have total recall.

If at any time you feel a block
to your memory,

take a deep breath,

and the block will melt away.
Understand?

Okay.
I'm gonna take you back to yesterday.

You're at the crime scene.
You find a passport.

- Passport?
- Yeah.

Do you see it? It's vinyl. Dark blue.

- Vinyl.
- Yes.

- Dark blue?
- Yes.

Pick it up.

- No, I'm gonna get hurt.
- You're safe, Jimmy.

No one's gonna hurt you.
Deep breath.

Good.

Okay. You're at the crime scene.

You look down,
and what do you see?

Leather. Light brown.

What?

Okay, pick it up and look at it.

- Are you doing it?
- Mm-hm.

Okay, what does it say?

Cole Haan. Low boot.

Size 7 and a half.

- Sounds like a woman's boot.
- Jimmy, put Ziva's boot down.

- Can you hear me? It's Abby.
- Oh, Abby.

Black. High platforms.
Demontia. Size 10.

- Jimmy.
- What?

What'd I say? Did we catch him?
Did we learn anything about this guy?

No, but we certainly learned
something about you.

- Whatever it is, it's not what you think.
- If the shoe fits...

Wait, wait. Where are you going?

- These boots were made for walking.
- Oh, wait. You can'tjust give up.

- We're not giving up, Jimmy.
- We're moving on.

No, no, no, I have to do this.
Please. Please. Try again?

Balding, short-cropped rim
of dark hair.

Squinty eyes,
but set deep in his sockets.

Full face.

Small scar on the right jaw line.

- His details are amazing.
- Right down to the scar.

Sideburns,
about two inches lower than the ears.

Small gold ring in his left earlobe.

Razor stubble. Pale complexion.

He's got every feature.

This is good enough for a BOLO.

Okay, Jimmy,
I'm gonna count backwards from four.

When I get to one,
you're gonna open your eyes.

Four, three, two, one.

- How'd I do?
-Gmm.

Like, greater than great.

I didn't mention anything about

the sleep-out
at Camp Wimmanocka, did I?

Okay, are you ready?

That's the guy.

The guy who took a shot
at you, right?

Two shots.

Of espresso.

That's the guy I get my coffee from
every morning.

Jimmy.

Wait, what happened
at Camp Winemonka?

I'm leaving.

Hey.

[BEEPlNG]

I got the results
on that white powder found on Baxter.

- Any luck jogging Palmer's memory?
- Working on it.

LEON: He's got a serious case
of brain freeze.

- Well, freeze can always thaw, Leon.
- Agent Gibbs.

I've got Abby's results from
that white residue found on Baxter.

It was efflorescence.

Abby says that efflorescence forms

when water and calcium carbonate
seep through concrete.

Subgrade concrete.

That's why the Naval building
was being retrofitted.

I saw it on the cement, not in the air.

What would cause him
to breathe in a good amount?

Drilling.

PALMER: Why would he be drilling
in the concrete? |--

I guess that's
what you're gonna find out.

Grab your gear. We're going back.

McGEE:
Move it down slowly.

Keep going.

Okay. Converting
to a three-dimensional image.

And we get rebar.

ZIVA: Maybe he did not know, or forgot,
where he was supposed to be drilling.

TONY: Well, maybe he was drilling
to place explosives.

First time they hit
the World Trade Center,

they aimed at the garage.

- Navy Annex building's next door.
- Keep looking.

Here is another hole.

I thought that drill belonged
to one of my guys.

No. Dead guy's prints are all over it.

McGEE:
Okay, Tony.

Keep moving it down.

Keep going.

Stop right there. Stop.

Converting.

Boss?

DUCKY:
It'll take a very long time

to get fingerprints
off that unfortunate soul.

How long, Mr. Harris?

We're ready to cut out the section,

but we have to wait
for the structural engineer.

- He's on his way.
- Oh, thank you for your cooperation.

Yeah, well, my cooperation
just put us in the red on this job.

If you'll back away, please.

All right, jack it up, shore it.

MAN: Get ready.
- Well, we're making progress, boss.

We have one dead guy
with two identities,

and now we've got another dead guy
with no identity.

There has to be a connection.

DUCKY: The body must've been
dumped into the column form

before the concrete was poured.

But what was Mr. Baxter doing here
in the middle of the night?

Without a jackhammer,
he couldn't get those bones out.

- He didn't have to, Duck.
- Because he had hydrofluoric acid.

Hydrofluoric acid is highly corrosive.

If he had managed
to pour in that acid,

it would've destroyed
all organic material.

That would've made DNA
and dental identification

virtually impossible.

Doesn't explain who killed Baxter.

It's probably the same guy
who shot at me.

Yes. Well, I think we're done here.

McGEE: Foreman said it'd take a couple
hours to cut out that section of column.

Gibbs wants me to stay behind
and maintain the chain of evidence.

PALMER: Yes, well, Mr. Palmer
and I have to go

pick up some unconventional tools.

Don't we, Mr. Palmer? Mr. Palmer?

Did you see him?

- Who?
- lt's him. He's right behind that truck.

- He's been watching me.
- Stay here.

Hi, Gibbs.

GIBBS:
Impressive.

Well, I learned from the master.
That would be you, the master.

And I would be the apprentice.
The master's apprentice.

The apprentice to the master.

I said, "Hi, Gibbs," every ten seconds
since I called you five minutes ago.

To tell me what?

I took a photo of Baxter's head wound
using an oblique-angled light source.

It makes the impression from
the blunt-force weapon even clearer.

Weapon of choice:

Bolt cutters. Watch.

- Perfect fit.
- Lot of those on a construction site.

You bring them to me,
and I will tell you exactly which one.

And that's not all.

Ducky found a microscopic piece
of metal in the victim's wound.

It's 99 percent pure copper.

Zero-point-four phosphorous.
I matched it to an electric cable.

Do you know what the spot price is
for copper, Gibbs?

I know our killer does.

Thanks, Abs.

DUCKY:
Ah.

[CHUCKLES]

DUCKY:
You know, there was a time

when I thought
I would be an archaeologist.

- Really?
- Yes.

I was in the upper sixth at school.

Summer holidays,
I volunteered for a dig in Tanzania.

Well, what happened? Why did you
decide to go to medical school?

Well, although archaeology
carried a certain romantic appeal,

I soon realised it wasn't in my bones,
so to speak.

You have to decide
what's in your bones, Mr. Palmer.

- Not a spine.
- Nonsense.

You just have a well-developed sense
of self-preservation.

You're training
to be a medical examiner,

not an NClS field agent.

I have no doubt that you have it in you
to die a hero's death.

But for the time being,
I'd appreciate it

if you could stay alive
to help me examine the dead.

Ducky, sorry to interrupt.
Need to borrow Palmer here.

- What's happening?
- We have a suspect.

PALMER:
A suspect? Where'd you find him?

Sometimes I worry
about that young man.

Now, let's have a look.

GIBBS:
Your bolt cutters, Enis?

We got a blood match.
You should've used bleach.

How did you know Rick Baxter?

- I didn't.
TONY: Right.

So you met him at the construction site
when you went to go steal something?

With bolt cutters?

What does copper sell for
these days, Enis?

WATLEY: About $4 a pound.
- That worth killing for?

It was self-defence, man.
This guy was trying to kill me.

There was some copper wire I wanted
up on the third floor, south side,

and I went up there, and I saw him.

He was drilling a hole
in the support column.

You know, he spotted me,
he went nuts.

I ran. He came after me.
And I thought he was gonna kill me.

I had my cutters.
You know, I took a swing. I got lucky.

Caught him in the side of the head.

He staggered back.
Just fell right over the edge.

I swear, that's it.
It! didn't do it, he would've killed me.

Watleyjust confessed to killing Baxter.
He claims it was self-defence.

- No more looking over your shoulder.
- You got the wrong guy.

He just confessed.

He may have confessed
to killing Baxter,

but that is definitely not the guy
who tried to kill me.

Well, look at the bright side.
At least we solved Baxter's murder.

ZIVA: Self-defence, not murder.
TONY: So says our copper thief.

And Abby. She analysed
the footprints and blood spatter

we lifted from the garage.

- Matches Watley's story.
- I'm more concerned with Palmer.

He said Watley's not the guy
who took a shot at him.

- Or stole Baxter's passport.
- And we still don't know who did.

- You already knew that.
GIBBS: DiNozzo.

Call every Baxter in the phone book.
Find a relative.

- Ziva?
- Help Tony.

- McGee.
- Recheck for a financial trail. Got it.

LEON: Short leash.
- Them or me?

- No ID on the mummy yet?
- Abby's working on it.

Then I'm sure you'll have one soon.
How's Palmer?

I'll let you know.

[GASPS]

- Sorry.
- Never say that.

- You writing a letter?
- E-mail to my mom.

Been trying to figure out
how to describe what happened.

- How do you do it?
-Hm?

Block out fear.

You don't.

It's what you do with it.

Well, what I'm doing with it is
nothing to write home about.

The look in someone's eyes
can tell you a lot.

What do mine tell?

Hold off on that.

You'll have something to tell them.

Gibbs, pull up a chair.

Just got to the East Coast felons.
It's always my favourite part.

- Facial recognition.
- Yep.

GIBBS:
Where'd you get the face?

When we found John Doe,
there was nothing left

except a shrunken,
dried-up mummy.

But then I realised,
when he was first buried,

he must have had some kind of face.
When the concrete was poured--

- It left an imprint.
- Exactly.

So I scanned the pieces of concrete
that were surrounding his face,

and then I had the computer look
for pieces that matched the template.

Then I converted the grid
into a 3-D imprint.

I scanned the imprint,
added flesh tones,

and estimated a brow line.
And I made a photo likeness.

Voila.

- Oh, you got a match.
- Not yet.

But I'm searching
every database I can.

- The software is crunching any poss--
- No, Abs. You got a match.

It didn't ding. My dinger didn't ding.
My dinger must be broken again.

- Abby.
- I got a match.

Personal-injury case from 1998.

And the winner is...

ZIVA:
Rick Baxter. The real Rick Baxter.

McGEE: However, the real Rick Baxter
had his identity stolen by this man.

TONY:
Elevator guy.

He didn't just steal Rick Baxter's
identity, he became Baxter.

And got rid of the original.

Stuffed the body in concrete,
then had to go back and get rid of it

before the retrofitters found it.

- Why Baxter?
- Green.

Baxter was injured
at a construction site in California.

Won a big settlement 12 years ago.

Two-point-one million
to be paid over 20 years.

So Mr. Elevator-Shaft-Guy
killed Baxter and then stole his identity.

He needed to keep him alive
to keep receiving the payments.

Kind of ironic.

Get injured at a construction site,
and the next day, you're part of one.

Still doesn't tell us
who took a shot at Palmer.

He had a partner, McGee.
Check settlement payments.

They've all been cashed
at the same currency exchange.

I'll go there
and see what I can dig up.

PALMER: Dr. Mallard,
aren't we forgetting something?

DUCKY:
lsha/l use the elevator.

So you get the body off the roof...

And then we can move the body
back into the cage.

DUCKY:
Mr. Palmer?

Is it all clear up there ?

Hey! Stop!

[GUNSHOTS]

- Ziva.
- Yes, Jimmy?

I've been thinking, and |--

Well,
you're obviously the one to ask.

Obvious in which way to ask what?

What I should've done.

- Done?
- If I'd actually caught the guy.

The shooter guy.

What should I have done?

To protect yourself?

Yeah. I guess so.

This is a gun.
I am you. You are the shooter.

Shoot me.

- Okay.
- Okay.

You try.

ZIVA:
Hm.

Well, perhaps it is best
that you did not catch him.

- M-I.
_ I'M-Ill?

M-l. The first two letters
in his first name were M-l.

- Ziva, you can let go now.
- Oh.

PALMER: All right, the first name
started with an M and an I.

Last name started with an S-U-S.

And the next letter was a...

The next letter was a...

McGEE: Republic of Yugoslavia.
- That's it. That is the passport.

Half the settlement payments
were converted to Serbian dinars.

Eighty percent of Serbian names
end with an l-C.

PALMER:
I-C.

I-C. M-I, S-U-S.

- l-C.
- There are also a lot of C's and K's.

PALMER:
M-I...

Milos Suskavich. Milos Saca--

Whatever. I can spell it.

S-U-S-K-A-V-C-E-V-I-C.

Heard it the first three times,
P-A-L-M-E-R.

ZIVA: Milos Suskavcevic,
a native of Central Serbia.

McGEE:
Emigrated to the US. in 1998.

ZIVA: Two years after Baxter
was awarded his settlement.

- Did he come alone?
- No, he came with his brother, Tesla.

Run him.

- Is that the guy?
- I don't know.

Didn't have a beard when I saw him.

I'd have to see him in person.

Worked out real well for you last time,
didn't it, Palmer?

Find him, McGee.

All right. Accessing Homeland Security
database for Tesla Suka...

How it's spelled.

The only address listed for Tesla
is another PO. Box.

I'm checking the cell-phone records.

- Got a BlackBerry.
- Trace it.

McGEE:
Already on it.

Junction at 95 and Arlington Highway.
It's another trailer park.

TONY:
Hiding in plain sight.

No. You stay.

- Well, I can identify him.
- You will when we bring him back.

[INDISTINCT DIALOGUE ON TV]

Clear.

McGEE: Just missed him.
- He'll be back.

"Belgrade, Serbia. First class."

Travelling on Baxter's dime. Or dinar.

McGee, check the park.

- DiNozzo.
TONY: Boss.

Check the manager's office.
Ziva, stay here.

- What are you doing?
- I thought I could help.

What don't you understand
about the word "stay"?

Stay, Palmer. You stay in the car.

Oh, boy.

Ah!

[GIRLS SCREAMING]

GIBBS:
Drop the gun.

McGEE:
Put the gun down.

ZIVA: Get on the ground now.
TONY: Hands behind your back.

What the hell were you thinking?

I did not get out of the car.

Don't ever do it again.

Now you got something
to write home about, Palmer.