"Sorry Caitlin." "Ari." "Found Ari's sniper's nest, boss." "Didn't police his brass." "I'm dead now, Ducky." "Shouldn't be." "I could have killed Ari right here." "You okay?" "Yeah." "Him sniping Abby means he's after my people." "I've been offered a deputy director's position at Homeland Security." "Well, who'll be replacing you, sir?" "Hello, Jethro." "On the job, it is "Director Shepard" or "ma'am."" "I'm here to see Special Agent Gibbs." "You first." "Ziva David, Mossad." "She's here to stop you from whacking Ari." "Director Jenny Shepard." "Same mission." "Ari Haswari is a Mossad operative under cover in Hamas." "He hasn't turned on us or you." "Dr. Maard, I want to prove I didn't kill Caitlin." "By taking Gerald hostage?" "Gerald is free to go." "Come alone, and you can exchange places." "You shouldn't have come, Doctor." "Couldn't let the bastard put a bullet in your good shoulder, or you'd never return to work." "Do you have your cell phone?" "Ari took it." "Keep walking." "###############################" "Where is Ari?" "In the backseat." "Well, when I reach your car," "I'll lean in through the open window." "That's your cue to drive off fast." "Dr. Mallard..." "Go straight to NCIS." "Tell Gibbs everything that's happened." "You've reached Dr. Donald Mallard." "Please leave a message, and I'll get back to you asoon as I can." "I said no one was to leave the building!" "Ducky, please call, okay?" "_We're all really worried..." "_"No one" includes you, Dr. Mallard!" "We're worried, including Gibbs." "Or he wouldn't be yelling." "Look, Gibbs, it's not Ducky's fault, okay?" "He probably did Kate's autopsy on autopilot, and then just drove himself home the same way." "Boss, outside call came into Autopsy 23 minutes ago." "Tracing the number." "You look surprised." "I expected to be shot." "Doctor, please." "I would never harm a fellow physician." "Use the clutch!" "Good God, man, use the clutch!" "You're-You're-You're stripping the gears!" "This is too painful, Doctor." "Gerald, turn it off!" "Obviously, Gerald does not have an intimate relationship with a standard transmission." "Unbelievable." "The price of growing up in America." "That was so unnecessary,Doctor." "Gerald is free to leave in his own car." "Boss, that call came from Gerald Jackson's cell phone." "I almost forgot about Gerald." "The guy's been in rehab a year." "Maybe he heard about Kate, and he called Ducky." "_They're in a pub somewhere consoling each other?" "_Yes." "_I don't like it." "_Why?" "I don't need a reason why." "Did you buy it in such pristine condition?" "God, no." "The frame had severe termite damage." "That's right." "The Morgan has a wood frame." "Top was in rags, the body dented, the rocker panels rusted out." "It was a disgrace." "Who did the restoration?" "I did." "Of course you did." "Do you doubt me?" "Not at all, Doctor." "I was thinking of the irony that hands so skilled at dissecting the dead are also capable of restoring life, at least to a machine." "What do you want, Ari?" "A test drive." "Now, who at NCIS could be calling Gerald at this hour, hmm?" "Oh, well." "Gerald is sure to arrive there shortly." "Doctor." "Oh, your cell phone." "Now, buckle up, Doctor." "It's a dangerous night." "_Please record your message." "_I'm getting voice mail." "They probably can't hear their phones because they're in a pub." "Do you want me to leave a message?" "No." "Get a GPS fix." "Snap it up, McGee." "One second, boss." "Got it." "Georgetown." "Olive and Twenty-ninth." "I know that street." "It's mostly residential." "Locate Ducky's cell." "See, they're together." "There's no pub there." "Well, maybe Gerald lives there." "That's negative." "He lives on Peabody." "So, they're-they're parked." "They're talking." "You want me to go with you, boss?" "Uh, Tony's out." "Stay here with Abby." "For nobody leaving the building, there are a lot of people leaving the building." "Why don't you visualize her naked?" "Does she intimidate you?" "Woman hasn't been born yet who can intimidate Anthony DiNozzo." "You're forgetting your mother." "Mothers don't count." "And that lawyer, Marla?" "Divorce attorney." "Worse than mothers." "Well, Ziva's not your mother." "She's not a divorce lawyer." "She definitely intimidates you." "Does not." "Does too." "Does not." "Does too." "Okay, where are they now?" "Same place, Boss." "Olive and Twenty-ninth." "Get a fix on my cell." "Okay, you're right on top of them." "Damn it, McGee, they are not here!" "They have to be, boss." "Gibbs, is there a pub?" "No!" "There isno pub!" "There are no people!" "There are no cars!" "Okay, I was just checkg." "How accurate is this fix, McGee?" "It's within 25 meters." "It's gonna happen again, isn't it?" "Ducky's gonna take a bullet for you." "He won't kill Ducky." "Why not?" "Because you couldn't live with the guilt?" "Maybe Ari knows that." "Maybe that's his plan." "Maybe the only way to save Ducky," "Abby and McGee is to kill yourself." "Special Agent McGee." "Found Ducky and Gerald's cell phone in the park." "Why would they leave their cell phones in the park?" "They wouldn't, McGee!" "Do you want me come down there?" "If I wanted youto come down here, I would've told you so." "Put a BOLO out on Ducky's Morgan." "Pull his license plate from his file." "Gibbs." "Ari has Gerald and Ducky." "They're not dead, Abs." "How do you know?" "Because..." "Ari dumped their cell phones in the park, not their bodies." "Uh, boss, Gerald's here." "Ari's got Dr. Mallard." "How'd you get away?" "!" "I didn't." "Ari let me go." "Excuse me." "May I?" "You certainly may." "I've never driven a stick." "Are you serious?" "What, you can drive a stick?" "Yeah." "Since I was, like, ten." "What were you driving when you were ten?" "A red '47 Ford half-ton pickup with four on the floor and Bubba riding shotgun." "Bubba?" "Best damn coon dog in Jefferson parish." "I don't believe in coincidences, Tony." "I know, boss." "Haven't I beat that into you?" "!" "That's what I said." "What did you say?" "I said the reception sucks!" "Stay with them!" "I'm on my way." "...they split up?" "What about your gut?" "!" "It wants a pizza!" "Ah, God." "What do we have?" "Ari picked up Gerald to force Ducky into a meet." "Did you warn him?" "I did, but you know Dr. Mallard-- he came anyway." "Not your fault, Gerald." "Ari's the bastard." "Ducky made the decision to go, not you." "Debrief it." "Write it up." "I'll be with Tony at the Embassy Hotel." "Tony's at the Embasero." "Well, why did he say the Embassy?" "Cell phone garble?" "All right, from now on, everyone is using phonetics, like we did in the Corps." "Um..." "Golf-India" " Bravo-Bravo-Sierra?" "Can I please go back to my lab?" "I'm flipping out up here with nothing to do." "_Okay, but don't leave..." "_Don't leave the building." "I know." "Bravo-Yankee-Echo." "Mind if I join you?" "One more lap, you'll have it all to yourself." "How's the water?" "Lovely." "Have a nice swim." "Thank you." "They're switching robes." "What are you doing?" "Going for a swim!" "There's a locker room." "I'm fine." "Where's your swimsuit?" "Don't have one." "I should call security." "You didn't see the sign." "What sign?" "I must've been blocking it." "Uh, remember when I was waiting outside and you... wanted to come in?" "I remember." "Hackensack Nudist Society." "From 10:27 to 11:51, the pool is ours." "And, uh, it's our third annual convention here's Agnes and Agnew right now." "Uh, he's our president, and Agnes is our social secretary." "Hey, guys." "They look funny with clothes on." "Inventive." "Funny, even." "But I'm married." "So am I." "Boss, can you hear me?" "Across the street." "Boss?" "Here." "Got you." "Ziva slipped a phony French passport and some cash to the, uh,woman with the Star of David." "...I told you about." "I love you, boss." "How do you know the passport's a phony?" "Ari's photo, but not his name." "What name is he using?" "Aren't you curious to know how I got it?" "I assume you improvised like a good agent should." "What an improv." "I swear to God, I could get a gig on SNL." "Okay, get this:" "I pretend like" "I'm this real goofy guy trying to get laid." "Pretend?" "!" "That hurt, boss." "What's the name?" "Well... the..." "The name." "Rene Saurel." "S-A-U-R-E-L." "Description?" "All I saw was the name and the photo." "The woman." "About 5' 9", dark hair, blue and white jogging outfit, big gym bag, real pretty girl." "Looked enough like Ziva to be her sister real pretty." "Maybe she is." "Mossad's like the Mafia one big happy family." "Hey, McGee, put out a passport alert." "Ari's traveling with a French passport under an alias:" "Rene Saurel." "Sierra-Alpha-Uniform" " Romeo-Echo-Lima." "Okay, what alert category?" "Terrorism." "On it." "That out to get Customs' attention." "Well, let's make sure he doesn't get that far." "Boss, that's her." "Stay with Ziva." "What if this girl's meeting Ari?" "You're gonna need backup." "Let me rephrase that..." "Out!" "Thanks for the pizza, boss." "Thank the night shift." "I swiped it from them." "Ari!" "Get out, Ari!" "Good grief, Jethro!" "Put that weapon down!" "Had enough excitement for tonight." "Ari abducts me, Gerald strips my gears, and now you play chicken on a wet street." "Where's Ari?" "Well, gone, I imagine." "We were parked about... well, a ways back." "He received a cell phone call and then... told me to drive down the street for ten minutes." "McGee." "Congress Cab number 17 picked up a female fare at the Embasero Hotel ten minutes ago." "If he's en route, I need his 20." "If he's dropped his fare, then get me an address and take the BOLO off Ducky's Morgan-- he's safe." "Our paths didn't cross by accident." "Ari's cell call came from that woman in that cab I was tailing." "He sent me down this street so that you would run into me?" "Yeah, cab keeps going, picks him up, they're gone." "Ari abducts me to get you off a tail?" "Maybe." "What'd you talk about?" "Well, my Morgan, for awhile." "He was surprisingly knowledgeable." "Then, Edinburgh Medical School." "Yeah, we were both alumni a few decades apart..." "Anything important, Ducky?" "Yes." "He swore he didn't kill Caitlin." "Made a very logical and passionate defense." "You believe him?" "He was very persuasive." "Said he knows you'll never believe him." "He's right about that!" "And that it's a shame that one of you has to die." "He's arrogantly confident that it won't be him." "But said, on the off chance that it is, to keep looking for Caitlin's killer." "He's a slick bastard, Duck!" "But he's right." "One of us is gonna die!" "Jethro!" "Jethro!" "Espresso?" "Take it." "It's not a bribe." "How long have you known I was...?" "Following me?" "Since I left the Navy Yard." "I don't think so." "Blue sedan." "You laid behind a white station wagon for a while, then a telephone van." "You lost me at the traffic circle on..." "Okay, okay, you knew." "Take it." "It's chilly out here." "You shouldn't feel bad." "I was trained by the best." "You know, that's what I like about Mossad." "Our training?" "Modesty." "Um, there's a slice in there." "Toda." "Prego." "I lost my little sister Tali in a Hamas suicide bombing." "She was 16 and the best of us." "Tali had compassion." "I'm sorry." "After Tali's death, I was like Gibbs." "All I wanted was revenge." "Is that why you joined Mossad?" "I was Mossad long before Tali's death." "Old family tradition?" "Israeli sense of duty." "So, come on." "Who recruited you?" "Father?" "Uncle?" "Brother?" "Boyfriend?" "Aunt?" "Sister?" "Lesbian lover?" "You're good." "You almost got me off the question." "Almost." "I volunteered." "Laila Tov." "Buona notte." "Why haven't you come down to see me yet?" "If you don't peek at the back of my head, it'll just look like I'm asleep." "I'm so lonely." "I'd even welcome a visit from Tony." "McGee!" "Didn't Tony match the tire tracks to a Chevy Suburban?" "Uh, yeah, Bridgestone Duelers." "Factory issue." "Uh, what are you doing?" "We caught a break." "NRO orbited a new Keyhole." "They're doing calibration tests using the seventh hole of Norfolk Naval golf course." "Why the seventh hole?" "See, that's why I dig you, McGee." "You think specific." "Whatever the reason, we are grateful because that orbit took the Keyhole over Newport News." "I inputted the warehouse coordinates..." "That's the rooftop." "That's me..." "Tony..." "Gibbs..." "Kate." "Is that the building where Ari's sniper nest was?" "It is." "Ari's not there." "What do you expect, video of him shooting?" "Well, I was hoping." "Only in flicks, McGee." "Okay." "Then why are you so excited?" "I don't know." "Maybe it's being alone with you on a rainy night." "Abby..." "Oh, look." "Could it be?" "A black ChevSuburban driving down the alleyway." "can-can-can you read the license plate?" "That depends more on angle than resolution." "It's not a dress, McGee." "You can't look up it to see what you want." "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "McGee!" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I got to put a BOLO out on that plate." "We did good, huh?" "You did great." "Yeah." "Gibbs." "We got Ari's..." "Slow down, McGee." "Take a breath." "Start with the address." "Seven-two-four Tango-Juliet-Alpha." "Got it." "Shepard." "I need a partner for the night." "You up for it?" "Jen?" "Jethro, don't you know any other women?" "None I can call for backup." "You didn't think I meant..." "That's what you have a whole team of agents for." "Well, McGee's on protection duty with Abby." "DiNozzo's tailing Ziva." "And since I lost..." "DiNozzo's what?" "He's tailing Ziva." "Well, where are you?" "Outside." "What are the chances that Ari is still at this house?" "Zero." "Ducky was a diversion, so your friend" "Ziva could pass cash and documents to him." "Ziva's a control officer doing her job." "You'd do the same if the roles were reversed." "She's using you, Jen." "And I'm using her." "A half dozen Hamas suicide bombers will not be blowing up our boys in Iraq because of Ziva." "She's "Metsada," isn't she?" "The Mossad code name for that division is "Komemiute."" "Whatever they name it, they specialize in assassinations." "Excuse me." "Weren't you a Marine sniper?" "If I have to go through your friend to get Ari, I will." "Ziva knows that." "You really do like her." "She's damn good." "And I owe her." "She saved my life in Cairo two years ago." "I can't believe this." "I've been a director less than 24 hours, and I'm back on the street." "It's great, isn't it?" "No, Jethro, it isn't." "Come on." "Come on." "You love it." "Truthfully?" "I'd rather be in bed." "Sleeping." "Remember that stakeout in Marseilles?" "August." "Stuck in that attic with no air." "Photographing everyone who boarded that Lebanese trawler." "That second night that's the first time we..." "Okay." "Shut up." "Hand me the binocs underneath your seat." "What?" "It's Ari's SUV." "Shooter!" "Stay down!" "I expected Haswari to be older." "He is." "Gunshot number three is located under the right clavicle." "Appears to be a distant wound from the absence of sooting and stippling." "Gunshot number four is located six centimeters to the left." "Appears to be a distant wound from the absence of sooting and stippling is a miracle, boss." "He was shooting to kill her, not you, just like he did with Kate and Abby." "It's funny how he always went after women..." "You're not going to like this, Gibbs." "All of the .308 full metal jacket rounds recovered from the shooting came from this Bravo 51 rifle, dropped by the sniper you shot last night Mohamed Esfiri was a homegrown terrorist." "Born in Cleveland." "He was an ardent of a radical Imam, who promised martyrdom Miss Scuito confirmed that the sniper rifle we recovered last night was the weapon used to murder Special Agent Todd and, with no evidence to the contrary, it appears that" "Mohammed Esfiri was the sniper." "I believe it's safe for your team to go home, Gibbs." "Special Agent Todd's funeral isin Indiana tomorrow afternoon." "SecNav has offered his private jet to fly us there." "Go home." "Get some rest." "What about you, Jethro?" "Mohammed didn't kill Kate and he didn't shoot at Abby." "You are not infallible, Jethro, no matter what your gut is telling you." "Ari isn't trying to kill you, but this obsession might." "Hey, Jen." "What?" "Why did he only shoot at your side of the car last night?" "I suppose you were right." "He was trying to kill women who work with you." "How did he know you were in the car?" "I called you at the spur of the moment." "I parked in the dark." "He couldn't see through our windshield, even with a scope." "That guy was sent to die, not to kill." "No." "No one's going to do that." "Come on, Jen." "Hamas suicide bombers blow themselves up all the time." "It doesn't matter how a martyr dies, as long as it's for the jihad." "Mohammed, last night he died for rivers of honey and 72 virgins." "I'm not saying you're right." "But if you are,how do we prove it?" ""We"?" "Did you just join my side?" "Jethro, I've always been on your side." "What do we do?" "Kill Ari before he kills me." "Told you she looked good." "Probie wouldn't believe me, Kate." "Thought you'd look like Return of the Living Dead." "Did not." "Don't lie to the dead, McGee." "Not nice." "I was a little afraid." "Kid was terrified." "But it took a lot of guts to come down here, alone." "Showed how much he cared for you." "I really did like you, Kate." "A lot." "It's raining, Gibbs." "You smell like a wet dog." "Well, there was one... here, underneath the bench, when I got here." "I put him in the gazebo." "Why aren't you in the gazebo?" "Dog smells like hell." "So why didn't you leave him under..." "Never mind." "If I ask you something, Tobias, you going to lie to me?" "Depends on the question." "What's Ari Haswari's real mission here?" "I'm going to lie to you." "Mossad lies to the CIA." "They lie to us, I lie to you." "I don't know who you lie to, being the bottom of the armed Fed food chain... and not married." "So, you don't know." "Correct." "I do not know." "You ever go to the movies?" "I build a boat." "Well, you and that dog are gonna need one." "Why don't you get out of the rain, Jethro, and go watch a movie." "You have a film in mind?" "Not in theaters anymore, but you can rent a DVD." "Sounds like a good idea." "Good thing to do on a rainy afternoon." "What's the name of this film?" "The Peacemaker." "George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, directed by Mimi Leder." "Made it in '97." "It's a real action flick." "Clooney and Kidman have to find this stolen nuclear weapon before it's used by terrists." "I can't believe you never saw it." "Where is Gibbs?" "You know, that'sthe first question you asked me when we met." "No, the first queson was "Were you having phone sex?"" "Ziva." "Deputy Director David is on teleconference for you." "Deputy Director David?" "Wouldn't be "Daddy," would it?" "David is a common Israeli name." "You didn't answer my question." "They lose a nuke, boss?" "According to the deputy director, Israel doesn't have nukes." "Boss?" "They have a power plant in Dimona, where a small amount of plutonium is missing." "Hamas is making a bomb?" "They have a core, no detonator." "Ari was to buy a Krytron trigger." "When he delivers it to the Hamas cell with the plutonium..." "Mossad grabs 'em." "Only he's a littlebehind schedule." "They're getting nervous." "Deputy Director David is up there, right now, ordering Ziva to cooperate." "He her daddy?" "No idea." "I didn't ask." "Do you know why Ari left his brass behind?" "You are a broken tape, Gibbs." "Record." "Broken record." "A sniper's brass is like signing your signature." "That's why a sniper always polices his brass." "Lapua .308 casing." "Boat tail." "Moly-coated full metal jacket bullet." "That's what you shot as a Marine sniper." "At Mossad, we use Sierra 6.5 hollow points." "How do you know what I shot, Miss David?" "She profiled you for Ari." "Not just the boss." "That's how you knew where I was born and went to school." "Ari's missions involved NCIS." "As his controller, of course, I did dossiers on everyone he might interact with." "It's SOP at Komemiute." "Director, Abs, Tony... give me a minute alone with Ms. David, please." "You found out about my first wife and my daughter?" "Yes." "I'm sorry." "Then we know why Ari is shooting at women, then, don't we?" "If he wanted you to know he is the sniper, why didn't he use your rifle-- an M-40?" "The Bravo 51 he fired is called a "Kate."" "I still don't believe Ari is the sniper." "But what you have said should be investigated." "Well, when the media gets wind of this, it's going to create a furor." "Are you threatening to go to the media?" "No, not me." "This can stay between Mossad and NCIS." "In exchange for what?" "Setting up Ari for you to kill?" "No." "Setting me up for Ari." "And if I'm wrong about this, he won't show up." "And if you're right?" "Then I'm counting on you to back me up." "You looking for this, Jethro?" "I want you to know, I wish I hadn't had to shoot Caitlin." "Why did you?" "To cause you pain." "I piss you off that much?" "Not you." "My father." "You have the misfortune of reminding me of the bastard." "He didn't marry your mother, huh?" "That's what makes me a bastard, not him." "From the moment of my birth, he groomed me to be one thing:" "his mole in Hamas." "Sent me to Edinburgh to become a doctor, so I could work in the Gaza camps alongside my mother." "When he had her killed, I had no trouble joining the Iz Adin al-Kassam." "You don't really believe your father had your mother killed." "It was a retaliatory Israeli strike, on a day I was in Tel Aviv, visiting him." "After decades of planning, the bastard had his mole in Hamas." "He never knew how much I hated him." "I wish I could see his face when he realizes he created not a mole but a monster, eager to strike at the heart of Mossad and Israel." "Yeah, I almost feel sorry for you." "And I for you." "When Ziva told me you were placing flowers on the roof where Caitlin died, I couldn't believe it." "Such a romantic touch." "Almost too good to pass up." "Almost." "Why did you?" "I need you to commit suicide with your own rifle." "You never did give me enough credit in our game." "I knew it was a trap before Ziva told me you asked her to cover you." "You'd never trust Ziva." "And you need to kill me, to tastehe sweetness of revenge." "I've killed enough menin my life, Ari." "It's going to be just as sweet watching you die." "Sorry to spoil your..." "His father is a deputy director in Mossad?" "Yes." "Not David..." "Yes." "He's my half-brother." "Afraid I wasn't going to make it." "Ari?" "Ziva's escorting his body to Tel Aviv." "You're late for my funeral, Gibbs." "Sorry, Kate." "Do you mind if I play a song for Kate?" "She was very fond of you."