NCIS (2003–…): Season 5, Episode 2 - Family - full transcript

It got ugly. Didn't think
I was gonna get out of there.

No, he still hasn't checked in.
I'll let you know as soon as I know.

[PHONE RINGS]

Tell me you have it.
How much time have you had?

- Dude, it's a keg.
MAN [OVER PHONE]: lknow.

- You go to the liquor store, pick it up.
- All right.

Here's the thing
about surprise parties, okay?

They're supposed to be a sur--

[G RUNTS]

MAN [OVER PHONE]: What was that?
Chris, man, talk to me.

What's up, dude? Are you there?

- Are you okay?
- I got into an accident.

- Accident?
- I'll call you back.

Don't worry. I'm fine.

It was a simple question, McGee.

Yeah, one I would expect from Tony,
not you.

ZIVA:
I'm just being curious.

- About when I lost my virginity?
- No, you misunderstood.

I'm not asking when you lost
your virginity, but if you lost it.

Do you mean, beside from Tony
being here before us?

- And actually working?
- I can hear you, you know.

- I am here if you would like to talk.
- About what?

I know how much
you cared about her.

- I'm fine, Ziva.
- All right.

But I thought maybe you needed
a little cheering up.

If I needed to be cheered up,
I would put Super Glue

on McGee's keyboard.

You put Super Glue
on my keyboard.

Well, you got me.

McGEE: Come on.
- l was sort of saving it for a rainy day.

- Did it help?
- It didn't hurt.

McGEE:
You know...

[GROANING]

- Boss, Tony--
GIBBS: I know.

Are you ever gonna learn, McGee?

Grab your gear. We've got
a petty officer in a hit-and-run.

McGEE:
Uh...

Guys.

Little help, please.

Hit-and-run.
It's a felony now,

but in DiNozzo's Guide to Women,
a way of life.

In this case, death.

TONY: How'd he end up over here?
GIBBS: Good question, DiNozzo.

TONY:
Least he went out looking sharp.

DUCKY: Yeah, but when he dressed
this morning

I doubt he was aware
that the end was nigh.

When people choose
not to wear their seat belts,

they rarely consider
their own mortality.

If they did, they would definitely
wear their seat belts.

You know, I would have thought
with that kind of damage,

he would be all the way down there.

- Did you move my body, Jethro?
- Someone did.

Well, the state police said they didn't
touch the body after they lD'd him.

The report indicated
he blew that stop sign over there.

GIBBS:
Swerved to avoid another car.

And he went through the windshield
when he hit the bridge?

[VELCRO TEARS]

DUCKY: Hello.
TONY: This just keeps getting better.

I'm going with stripper.

DUCKY:
This is not an uncommon way

for young servicemen
to complement their incomes.

In fact, when I was young,
I used to...

Used to what?

DUCKY: Oh, my.
GIBBS: Shotgun, close range.

Our hit-and-run
just became shoot-and-scoot.

DUCKY: But there's no visible damage
to the head.

I do not believe
that this gentleman made that hole.

If he didn't make it, who did?

McGEE: The more I think about it,
the more I can't believe we fell for it.

Tony with a girlfriend?

I believe he had real feelings
for her, McGee.

Well, I don't doubt that.
See what she looks like?

Sounds like you wish
you had the assignment.

Yeah, I don't know why the director
didn't give it to me to begin with.

Still talking about the probie
losing his virginity?

DUCKY:
Down here.

There.

This is more like it.
She has a smashed cranium,

lacerations
and possible multiple fractures.

I think we've found
our human cannonball.

TONY: I think the state police
definitely had it wrong.

Petty Officer Munoz
didn't blow off that stop sign.

No, he was in the other car. He got
run off the road by the guy who did.

Then got shot for his trouble.

ZIVA:
No footprints.

Her companion took off
in Mufioz's vehicle

and left her here to die.

Who does that?

Clearly, someone in a terrible rush.

Rush to where?

TONY: Well, we know where
Petty Officer Munoz was in a rush to.

ZIVA:
We spoke to his roommate.

Munoz was throwing a surprise party
for one of his friends

who had just arrived from Iraq.

But he was late coming back

from the Chelsea Girls School class
of '5750-year reunion.

And I got the pictures to prove it.

Ugh.

My God.

It's like Cocoon
meets Dirty Dancing.

I wonder if Ducky
has dreams like this.

Gibbs probably isn't too far behind.

He's standing behind me, isn't he?
Sorry about that, boss.

Gonna be your dreams one day too,
DiNozzo.

Well, maybe Petty Officer Munoz
danced with the wrong woman.

And was run off the road
by a jealous husband.

What? In his motorized wheelchair?

This is pretty simple. We're looking
for a bad guy who got into an accident.

And then he carjacked Munoz,

because he wanted
to get out of Dodge.

I put out a BOLO on Mufioz's truck.
We got a few more leads to follow,

but my gut tells me that Munoz
had a terminal case

of wrong place, wrong time.

Unless your gut
told you something else, boss.

- The girl.
- And we got a hit on the prints.

Heidi Campisano, 25,
though this picture is three years old.

TONY: Pyramid schemes,
Internet fraud, bogus rare coins.

- She is a con artist.
- Was.

Dropped off the radar
three years ago.

I'm guessing, since she's laying
in our morgue, it wasn't to go legit.

- The car hers?
McGEE: No.

Car is registered to Nicholas Barnes.

GIBBS: DiNozzo.
- Here.

[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYS
OVER SPEAKERS]

MAN:
Nicky.

Get your ass out here.

Ran into the bathroom like a little girl
when he saw you guys pull up.

This is about Tiffany, right?

- Tiffany?
- Yeah, his girl.

Nicky.

The name's not Tiffany.

Oh, really? You don't say?

I told him that girl was no good.
He didn't listen to me.

[TOILET FLUSHES]

Well, there's some Navy cops here,
wanna ask you a few questions.

You remember what I told you
about telling lies.

- Something wrong?
- Nope.

TONY:
Just had to pee all of a sudden?

Figured you wanted to ask me
about Tiff.

Didn't really wanna talk about her.
Is that a crime?

No. But murder is.

MAN:
Oh, murder. Perfect.

You know this guy?

Nope.

He was shot and killed today.

Your car was found at the scene,
wrapped around a bridge.

Not my car.

I gave it to Tiff.
She said hers was stolen.

MAN: Oh, tell them
what else you gave her.

Thousand bucks. Tell them why.

Oh, for an operation.
What kind? He didn't even ask.

He also didn't ask how she was.

Car wrapped around a tree and all.

- I hope she's dead.
- She is.

If you'd like us to arrest you now,
Nicky, that can be arranged.

Hey. Now wait a second.
Just hold on right there.

My boy ain't guilty of anything,
except for being an idiot.

And that girl, Tiffany,
or whoever she was,

she was playing him
and a couple other guys.

He spoke up to her about it,
and she ran off.

That was about a week ago.

She said she loved me.

You don't lie to somebody you love.

You know how wonderful it is
to be with someone

who doesn't even lie
about the little things?

How could / ever trust you again?

Why? Why? Why?

GIBBS:
DiNozzo.

DiNozzo.

Sorry, boss.

- I ain't seen her since she left.
- Anybody seen you this morning?

Well, he was here with me all day.

I got about a half a dozen customers
who can vouch for that.

- Names.
- Sure.

Like I said, my boy's an idiot,
but he ain't a killer.

Now, a girl like that,
playing with people's hearts,

you track down
some of them jilted lovers.

I guarantee you'll find out
who done her in.

Oh, I can't wait to make those calls.

DUCKY: The demise of someone
as young as you is always a tragedy.

But someone
in your chosen profession,

it's to be expected.

For example, did you know
that the infamous confidence man

Victor Lustig
sold the Eiffel Tower almost twice?

And then he convinced Al Capone
to buy $50,000 of bogus shares.

What do we have here?

You're late.

- We have an appointment, Duck?
- No, we have a crisis.

I apologise for not seeing it sooner.

You know how I feel
about apologies.

Yes. Well, you may wanna make
an exception in this case.

I now know
why the driver of the Chevy

didn't bother
to check on his companion.

She was dead
before she was put in the car.

All her vehicular injuries
are postmortem.

- How?
- Extensive blunt-force trauma.

She had a subdural hematoma

that would almost certainly
have proved fatal.

Poor girl was beaten to death.

- Thanks, Duck.
- Well, I knew all that an hour ago.

What Ijust learned
was that she had been pregnant.

- She gave birth?
- Yeah.

Right before she was murdered.

Hey, Abs. Hope you don't mind,

but I need to use
one of your computers.

Hard to concentrate while Tony's
calling Heidi's former victims.

I'm very sensitive
to the word "liar" these days.

I thought you quit.

McGee, there is a baby missing,
that might need medical attention.

I need to be at the top of my game.

You're gonna spend your game
in the bathroom.

I already thought of that.
I'm upping my salt intake

to increase
my body's water retention.

Of course you are.

So, what do you have for Gibbs?

Nothing.

- Why, is he on his way down here?
- No. He's here.

And he's talking about himself
in the third person. I like it.

Ducky said you had something.

Don't you wanna see
what McGee has first?

I came down to see you.

Abby was able to recover amniotic fluid
from the dead woman's clothing.

- You got the baby's DNA.
- Abby's running it now.

You can't use it to find the father.
But when you have a suspect,

Abby can test it
and see if he is the father.

- Nicholas Barnes.
- Abby already ruled him out.

- Not the same blood type.
- Good work, Abby.

McGee is going through
Heidi's records now.

Problem is, because she had
so many fake identities,

there's about ten times
the amount of normal data.

And plus, most of the activity
is over three years old.

[BEEPING]

But, luckily,
a snooper programme I was running

did find one, two, three, four
sizeable deposits

made to her account recently
from a man named Adrian Nelson.

Maybe that's another boyfriend
she conned.

We'll let you know
when we get back.

Abby has to pee.

MAN:
Heidi Campisano.

No, I'm sorry,
I don't recognise the name.

Well, she's got a lot of them,
Mr. Nelson.

ADRIAN:
Maybe.

- I travel a lot.
- Travel where?

Trade shows. My husband's
a computer programmer.

Well, I work in domotics.

It's home automation.
The application of--

Automated techniques for the comfort
and security of the home resident.

I can control the entire house.

Lights.

- Media.
MAN [ON TV]: You gotta be kidding--

Fireplace.

Even turn on the lawn sprinklers
if someone isn't supposed to be here.

- Who is she?
- Who was she?

She's dead, murdered.
And her newborn is missing.

Why are you telling us this?

We've traced several
recent deposits

made to her account
from your husband.

From me?
Well, there's gotta be some mistake.

You said that she uses
a lot of names, right?

Maybe she's stolen my identity.

Like I said, I travel a lot.
It wouldn't be hard to do.

I can settle this.
Feel free to look around,

but if my husband says
he doesn't know her,

he doesn't know her. Right?

That's right, honey.

Well, that isn't supposed to happen.

I'm gonna have to reset the breaker.
Excuse me.

GIBBS:
Here, I'll give you some help.

ADRIAN:
Reset switch is just in here.

How long you been seeing Heidi?

- I told you, I don't know--
- No, you told your wife, and I let you.

But now I get the truth.

Just a few months.

Till I found out
she was stealing money from me.

She was forging my signatures
on my cheques.

We barely saw each other,
and we never slept together.

- The baby's not yours?
- No. It's not.

I'll need your DNA to verify that.

Forget it. I'm not going on record
that I was involved with that woman.

You need DNA,
you're gonna have to talk to my lawyer.

Maybe I'll just talk to your wife.

Is your evidence that flimsy
that you have to resort to threats?

I had nothing to do
with Heidi's murder, okay?

you should go get a warrant.

Fair enough?

Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I guess it'll have to be.

SARA:
Adrian?

ADRIAN: Everything's fine.
They're gonna show themselves out.

SARA: Everything's not fine.
- Got it?

McGEE: Fingernail clippings,
toothbrush swabs and Q-tips.

ZIVA:
He lied to us.

This is a cheque to Heidi Campisano
from Adrian Nelson's account.

This is a known sample
of his handwriting.

The signature is real. Four cheques.
Ten thousand dollars total.

Heidi didn't steal anything.
Adrian sent her the money himself.

- Did more than that, McGee.
- Tried to hide it from us.

- DNA?
- Abby's still working on it.

TONY:
Come on, that's not what I'm saying.

Boss, since we got
a pretty strong lead here,

can Tony stop calling Heidi's
other marks, looking for suspects?

Listen, I am simply saying
just because she was lying to you,

doesn't mean that she didn't
really love you. That--

Hello?

What?

Let him call a few more.

We have two theories to explain
the dishonesty. Theory number one:

Heidi Campisano
seduced Adrian Nelson.

Then blackmailed him,
threatening to tell his wife.

She'd done it before.
It would explain the payments.

And the fact she is now dead.

Theory two: Adrian found out
that Heidi was pregnant with his baby.

- Also explain the payments.
- And the fact she is now dead.

With those options,
I would have lied too.

DUCKY: But no doubt more effectively.
But thinking more optimistically,

I took the liberty of going out
and getting this

for when you find
our missing newborn.

Any word?

DUCKY: Yeah, I checked all
the hospitals in the area and beyond.

No babies on any doorsteps.

But you weren't expecting any,
were you?

The killer's got the baby, Ducky.

Only way we're gonna find that kid
is to find the killer.

TONY:
Yes. Okay, I'm on my way.

You got something, DiNozzo?

Yeah, a dentist appointment.

No, this is for real, guys.

Remember I chipped my tooth,
and I got the...

I sent you an e-mail
for a leave request,

like, two days ago about this.

You don't check your e-mail.
Never mind.

[PHONE RINGS]

Very Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo,
boy who cried wolf,

and who must now suffer
periodontal disease for it,

- how may I help you?
ABBY: I've got something.

- Get down here.
- Okay.

It's Abby. She's got something.

Hi, Gibbs.

I think you might need
to lay off the caffeine again.

Maybe I need a little more.
You ever think of that?

Baby missing.

- You said you had something.
- I do. That's what I'm so excited about.

Actually, everything's really exciting
to me today.

Um, I was able to get
the Nelsons' DNA

off the toothbrushes
that McGee swabbed.

I compared the husband's DNA

to the foetal DNA
from the missing child.

Adrian Nelson, definitely the father.

- Well, there's no shocker there.
ABBY: Well, I'm not done.

Heidi Campisano,
definitely not the mother.

She gave birth to a child
who was not hers?

It's called gestational surrogacy.

Where the sperm and the egg
come from third parties,

and then the surrogate
acts as a host.

- Abs, did you check--?
- Sara Nelson's DNA?

Sara Nelson is definitely the mother.

McGEE:
That's what the payments were for.

The Nelsons hired Heidi Campisano
as their surrogate.

Perhaps she changed her mind
about giving up the baby.

- That's not the question.
- Did the Nelsons kill her for it?

- Clear.
- Clear.

- Clear.
- Looks like they left in a hurry.

- Place is a mess.
- Not all of it.

I do not understand
what the Nelsons' plan was.

That part I understand.

That is why they hired
Heidi Campisano as a surrogate.

But if she refused
to turn over the baby,

I'm sure the Nelsons would have had
other options besides killing her.

I mean, after all,
they were the biological parents.

I'm not a lawyer.

ZIVA:
But you were a parent.

Do you wanna have children, Ziva?

- Well--
- It's a simple question.

I do not have a simple answer.

Once you have kids,

you'll understand.

If the Nelsons were really willing
to do anything for their child,

they would be getting it
medical attention.

Yeah, well, maybe they are.
Safe was cleaned out.

Plus, I found the box
to an infant car seat in the garage.

- They're going somewhere.
- You go for a swim, DiNozzo?

Sprinkler went off when I was digging
in the trash outside. Nice timing.

Actually, that's part
of their security system.

I forgot to warn you
about that.

Boss, I found something
on their computer.

TONY: Thanks for the heads up,
probie. I owe you one.

I love you. Now you need to figure out
if you feel the same way.

TONY: / don 't wanna hurt you,
but / can 't live a lie.

Tony, |--

Adrian Nelson is covering his tracks.
He erased his entire hard drive.

GIBBS: So we can't see
what he's been doing.

TONY: I thought you said
you found something.

Yeah, the root directory is still intact.

I mean, there's no personal data,
but I did find an API he had written

to interface
his home automation system

to his car's onboard
navigation computer.

Hm. Yeah. Pretend you're talking

to someone who actually has sex
with other humans.

All I have to do is hack the API
and use it

- to get GPS coordinates on his car.
- Yeah. Do it, do it.

This is great. It means
I can stop calling Heidi's marks.

I mean, of course,
I will look for those other guys, but--

Sorry.

McGEE: They haven't moved
in the last 20 minutes.

TONY:
They might have dumped the car.

Gibbs and the state police
will know soon enough.

[KEYS CLICKING]

- What are you still typing?
- I'm refreshing the tracker.

Forget it.
It's good to have a geek on the team,

but I prefer good old-fashioned
police work.

McGEE: Well, it's not
an old-fashioned world, Tony.

Tell that to Gibbs.

What was it like?

Sex? Losing your virginity?
It's good.

Pretending to be someone else.

I don't know, elf lord.

You were really in love with her,
weren't you?

Don't you have some more typing to do
or something?

Yeah, he does.

The car wasn't there.

What? I double-checked the...

All right. I think I know
what happened here.

Twenty bucks says McGee's
about to say something

nobody understands again.

The GPS coordinates came bundled
in a proprietary packet.

Since it was a beta, I thought--

I'm starting to think
you can't help yourself, McGee.

The code must have alerted
Adrian Nelson that I was tracking him.

He reprogrammed his car
to send us back false coordinates.

- Can you deprogram it, McGee?
- I can try.

Well, while why he tries,

I'm gonna resort to some
good old-fashioned police work.

Oh, look.

What's that?

Who are you calling?

MAN: Hey, probie.
- Donnie. Hey. DiNozzo.

- Hey, man.
- Yeah, man. What's going on?

Listen, I got an update
on the BOLO. Missing kid.

- Give it to me.
- Dead Head sticker.

Excellent. Where?

- Left rear window.
- Nice.

- Yeah.
- They're around '89.

I know, man. That was good times.

Listen, I got another call.
I really gotta go.

Hang tough, Donnie.

Old-fashioned police work deserves
an old-fashioned reward. Ohh...

Interrogation got a little out of hand.
I had to...

I can't explain that.

Hello.

Again.

You know
I saw this on Cinemax once.

So, what happens now?

"I have been watching you
from afar."

Well, I've been watching you
from afar, Tony,

which is why I know
how much you cared for Jeanne.

[CHUCKLES]

Oh, your timing is impeccable, Ziva.

And how much it hurt when she left.

So, what happens now?

You are not fine.

You're still deeply troubled.

Even if I was,
this bothers you because...?

Because you are my partner.

And because you made a grave error in
judgement falling in love with that girl.

If this is a pep talk,
I give you a D-minus.

And right now, it is very clear
you are still hanging onto her.

I see the confusion.

- These are called feelings, Ziva.
- Feelings you need to let go.

That easy, huh?

Tony, even if by some miracle
Jeanne did forgive you,

would you be willing
to be Tony DiNardo full-time,

to leave your entire life behind
for her?

You did not think this through.

Didn't you tell me
the heart wants what it wants?

No.

Actually, I didn't.

Well, it does.

Well, it shouldn't.

Really?

This coming from the woman who fell
in love with the dead man walking?

[TONY GRUNTS]

- Yeah.
- You crossed the line, Tony.

Oh, I crossed the line?

- Don't ask.
- Wasn't going to.

BOLO just came in.
They found the car.

Ah. Hm. Jelly donut, one.
Inspector Gadget, zero.

Not the BOLO on the Nelsons' car.

The BOLO
on the dead petty officer's.

Nothing here.
The truck's been wiped clean.

And someone's stolen
our petty officer's bloodstain.

It was also cleaned.

Or we're wrong
about where Munoz was shot.

- Witnesses?
McGEE: Uh, no witnesses.

Local Leos found the truck
abandoned near a forest preserve.

TONY:
It couldn't have been there long.

How would you know that?
Oh, wait. I forgot.

You know everything
about everybody.

Sap, Ziva.
There'd be more sap on the roof.

Except for the fact
it rained last night.

GIBBS: Do I need to send
you two back to the men's room?

Hey, she followed me in there.

Only because
you wouldn't talk to me.

Shutting up, boss.

Ready?

ZIVA: So much for being wrong about
where Petty Officer Munoz was shot.

TONY: We got footprints.
GIBBS: Yeah. Question is, whose?

Petty Officer Munoz was a size 13.

- Those look like a size 13 to you?
- Send them up to Abby.

ABBY: The prints were made
by a residue of polysaccharide dust

derived from beta glucose.

What makes it interesting
is a backbone of D-xylopyranose

linked with eight xylose units.

Panda poop.

- Panda?
- Poop.

Which is why it fluoresces,
like all other poop does.

What makes it really, really interesting
is the sodium hypochlorite,

a.k.a., chlorine bleach.

- I lost you at poop, huh?
- Uh-huh.

Paper, Gibbs.

A while ago,
a group of Chinese researchers

decided to try to recycle panda poop
into high-quality paper.

They contracted
several US. paper mills

to develop the research.

Killer must've gone to one
after he shot Munoz.

The dust from the mill
would've been impossible to avoid.

There's one within a hundred miles.
Closed down six months ago.

I love myjob.

TONY: You're telling me I'm
the only one who has a problem

with the panda-poop paper?

Animal dung is used
for a variety of things.

Paper, fuel, mud bricks.

It's very useful.

ZIVA:
Not for them, it wasn't.

This place is abandoned.

[CAR DOORS CLOSING]

Not quite, Ziva.

ADRIAN: Here, let me get it.
Honey, let me get it.

GIBBS: DiNozzo.
TONY: In position, boss.

Federal agents.

- NCIS. Hands in the air.
SARA: Oh, no.

Agent Gibbs, please,
you have to leave.

My God, you'll ruin everything.

ADRIAN:
Oh, no, no.

Please wait, wait.

- You gotta stop him.
- My baby.

They've got my baby.

Oh, God.

TONY: At least probie has an idea
for his next book.

Baby Kidnapped:
Cops Screw up Ransom Drop.

Let me know ASAP
if the situation changes.

ZIVA: The Nelsons hid the kidnapping
from us, Agent DiNozzo.

The mistake was theirs.

Well, you should point
that out to Gibbs, Officer David.

- I'll be in the next ZIP code.
GIBBS: McGee?

Agents are still out canvassing.

No one saw the Honda,
much less who was driving.

- Keep looking. DiNozzo?
TONY: Taps on the phones.

I'm on it, boss, right now.

And I still have a few more
of Heidi's marks

that I have to track down.
That's next. That's right after...

- I'm on it.
GIBBS: Ziva?

Coordinate with the state police.
See if we can widen the search.

TONY: Hi, this is Special Agent
Anthony DiNozzo.

I need to arrange taps--

You think the kidnappers will call
to arrange another ransom?

What's the option, McGee?

I'll see about getting more agents
on the canvas.

We already have
the entire department, McGee.

All I know is, we got a call
saying that Heidi was dead

and that if we ever wanted
to see our baby,

we needed to come up
with $50,000.

Which we did, until you ruined it.

ADRIAN: How much longer
do we have to sit here?

GIBBS: That depends.
- On what?

GIBBS: Whether or not
I get the truth this time.

Don't you have something you could
be doing, like finding my child?

ADRIAN: My wife had
a partial hysterectomy four years ago.

We tried to adopt and--

Went all the way
to Southeast Asia and back.

And then we met Heidi.

My exact opposite.
She had a womb, but no eggs.

She was a lifesaver.

- It was almost--
- Too good to be true?

Then it usually is.

ADRIAN: We already knew
her background, Agent Gibbs.

You still think
she was trying to con us?

You paid her.

- Paid surrogacy is illegal in Virginia.
- That why you didn't go to the police?

Hey, look, I got all day.
Your kid is missing.

We didn't go to the police, because
we knew they'd screw things up.

And you've still got it wrong.
Heidi was our friend.

We were happy to pay.
And she needed the money.

Then she decided she wanted more.

This may have been her,
but not anymore.

- She was trying to start over.
- Someone wouldn't let her. Who?

I have no idea.
I don't know who has my child.

But as far as I'm concerned,
if anything happens to my child,

you're the one
who better run for cover.

McGEE: No satellite coverage
of the paper mill.

- Nothing on the traffic cams.
- All right, send it over.

Careful over there.
Wouldn't wanna break a finger.

Gibbs does not accept apologies,
but I do.

I'm sorry, Ziva.
I know you were trying to help.

Did I?

Um...

I'll get back to you

after I shame McGee.

McGEE:
Did you find something?

I've been compiling a list
of Heidi's former marks.

ZIVA:
We've noticed.

Any one of them
could have a score to settle.

The problem is, they all have solid
alibis for the day that Heidi was killed.

Except this guy. Scott Berks.

Filed a complaint over a pyramid
scheme Heidi was running.

Where does he say he was?

Well, he doesn't.
I haven't found him yet.

Does not exactly look
like a score settler to me.

No. How about now?

Buddy at Baltimore P.D.
just sent this over.

Turns out this guy also filed
a complaint against Heidi.

It is the same person.

It's called a shell. They're part of
the con, but they pose as a customer

to try to convince the other marks
to jump in.

If the con goes bad,
they'll often file a complaint

so it builds credibility
with the other marks.

Then they can move in
for a secondary con.

I used to date this guy once.

He was Heidi's partner.

Yeah, might still be.

High-five
for the traditional police work.

Tony, he's dead.

Killed a year ago
by one of his marks.

You might want to brush up
on the traditional police work.

Hey.
Do you know where my killer is?

ABBY: Gibbs,
I don't know where the killer is,

but I know what he was planning
on doing with Heidi's body.

ABBY: Since the Chevy didn't leave any
skid marks at the site of the accident,

the first thing I did
was check the breaks.

The lines were intact,
and the fluids were topped off.

The pads were bad.
They needed to be replaced.

I know, Gibbs.
But here's the thing.

This is so good,
I can hardly take it.

The brakes were replaced
about two weeks ago.

I found metallic shavings
in the brake drum and the calliper.

It only could have come
from new pads and shoes.

Brakes were replaced,
then the old ones were put back on?

Yes. The accident
was not an accident.

Well, actually, it was.
It just happened too soon.

It was the perfect cover-up. The killer
probably planned on putting Heidi's body

behind the wheel of the car,
and sending it over a cliff.

- Would have covered up the murder.
- And been blamed on worn brakes.

The only problem is,
the killer cut it too close.

The brakes went out, and, kabam.

So who would rely on the mechanical
failure of a brake pad

compressed against a disc rotor
to hide a body?

Hey.

Uh-oh.

- What'd my loser son do now?
- He killed Heidi Campisano.

Then tried to ransom her baby
back to the biological parents.

flAUGHS]

My boy ain't that clever.

Guess that's why
he needed your help.

Look, I told you,
he was here with me all day.

Yeah,
and your customers confirmed that.

But nobody we spoke to saw you.

But a witness did see you
in this Honda

near the Stern Paper Mill
this afternoon.

ZIVA: It seems you two are more than
just father-and-son mechanics.

Nice shotgun.

Shoot any Naval petty officers
lately?

Where's the baby?

I don't know what you're talking about.
So I was at a paper mill.

What's that, some kind of a crime?

Baby.

- The baby's with Nicky.
- And Nicky?

Well, I told him
to wait here for me to call,

but my moron son
never does what he's told.

- DiNozzo.
- BOLO, on it, boss.

Girl of his
was never gonna give up that baby.

I was doing those parents a favour.

You're under arrest
for the murder of Heidi Campisano.

Oh, come on. That was an accident.

Petty Officer Munoz,
that an accident too?

ZIVA: Because his murder
is also in our warrant.

Look, when my brakes gave out--

You mean,
when you rigged them to go out.

McGEE: We know
that you replaced Heidi's brakes

with a set that were about to fail and
make it look like she died in a crash.

Well, that little son of a bitch.
I'm gonna kill him.

After all I've done
for that little bastard.

- Didn't know the brakes were rigged?
- No. Cancel that BOLO, DiNozzo.

NICKY [SINGING]:
London Bridge is falling down

Falling down

London Bridge is falling down

My fair baby

You got my pa?

- Yeah.
- He killed Heidi.

Made me lie to you about her.

I know.

She didn't cheat on me.

She wasn't bad no more.

We were even gonna start
a family together.

Except Heidi
couldn't have no kids of her own.

She was smart, though.
Figured out a way to get one.

I guess that part was bad.

I wish I could tell you it wasn't.

I would have raised
my own boy right.

When the baby was born,
we were planning to run away.

But my pa wanted the rest
of the money we were gonna get.

Heidi and him fought.
Then she had the baby.

My pa took it. She was screaming.

And you didn't do a thing.

Idid.

It was just too late to matter.

The brakes.

Am I in trouble?

The prosecution's
gonna call it attempted murder.

Your lawyer
is gonna call it self-defence.

What do you call it?

Family.

Hey, boss.

Is everything okay?
Just the sprinkler again.

The parents are waiting outside.

You think I'm crazy?

No.

ZIVA:
Here's your baby.

Oh, my God.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

It's a boy.

- Hey.
- Here you go, Tony.

Look at him.