05x14 - Internal Affairs

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05x14 - Internal Affairs

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Housekeeping, Tony.

Well, keep it to a dull roar, will you?

I got a hot beverage here. keep it over there.please.

Backing up three years of case files.

The bulk of our lives is in these cables right now, flying back and forth in zeroes and ones.

You do understand that I'm the ones, and you're the zeroes.

Meadowlark Lemon.

Harlem Globetrotters.

What?

Hey. Carefull with the links please, I told you, they're sensitive.

So am I, magzero.

Wait, you think I'm am I ... no, no, no... keli nell, that worked.

Yeah, how about the phones, they work calling actually, they do not.

The unix get power.

The way is gone must probabaly the writer.

It's not my fault. I didn't do this.

Freeze!

No need do that.

Tibias, what's going on? it's shut down, gibbs. two monthes ago, they put the body out of the bag.

PD has one was checking down the DNA match. yeah, and? body has been compositive identify ???

La Grenouille? he is dead?

m*rder*d.

This entire unit is under investigation.

This is ridiculous.

We're prisoners of our own evidence locked up.

We're not prisoners.

We're evidence.

So we're locked up.

Wh- why are we being guarded then? I mean, we're all being guarded, right?

You're are being very guarded about whether or not we're being guarded.

Abby, relax. I'me sure you're not suspect.

Then who is the suspect?

The FBI is not ready to walk anyone out of their handcuffs.

They're trying to keep it quiet.

They don't even know what they're looking for.

So we're supposed to ?? them their first clue?

Not us. Gibbs.

How is your Langley's job, Duois?

Intimate knowledge. The case give us the obvious choice.

And your personal relationship people involved?

Not gonna be a problem.

Evidence led to somebody in this building.

What evidence?

Other side.

Sir?

I don't drink coffee.

Don't seem too shocked on La Grenouille's dead. that wasn't ignoring Hope it was.

We have determined you and your team ?? contact with b*mb On the day he d*ed.

That morning it was almost turn down his life He wasn't the target. his daugher was.

Someone will take things personally.

You've figured out who somebody was?

No.

Final entry in your official report, has you MaGee and David ??? a yard. where La Grenouille was thought he was staying.

Yeah, we just missed him.

Did you?

'Cause the time of death, roughly coincides with your visual Ziva, McGee and I were here all night securing the???

I'm sure the report will verify the time line it's my aliby you after, Tobias?

Before that, I was in director's house With Jenny Shepard?

And the diseased.

Her phone records put them in contant the night he d*ed were you part of their little chat?

Here we are at last face to face you believed the story that my father took a bribe I'm Sorry, that's not a story, that's a fact Because I paid him no you k*ll him He left I left Come on Jethro Can't be that simple What the hell were you doing there?

He wanted protection Maybe you should have provided it Are you protecting anybody now?

I've been trying for a decade to bring him down What did he do to you, jenny?

It's not my aliby you after Can you account for the director's what about's and actions After you left the residence that night No, you k*lled him It's not loaded If the w*apon was loaded and I wasn't here Would you have pulled the trigger?

I guess we will never know You gonna accuse the director of NCIS of m*rder That evidence better be damn good You think i'd be here if it won't We both know the connection we found have nothing to do with the job Never did

?????? she spent all over this place when this is done and she's clear I want to see that file when this is done if she's clear I just might let you long way from san diego, Leon SecNav felt this weren't a deplane ticket you interegating my agents? I assume you have a suspect And you've been brought into oversea.

Well, Assistant Director Vance, you gonna ask for them?

Under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, as Acting Director of NCIS, I hereby relieve you of your duties.

I'm sorry, Jenny, you're suspended.

Hello, Leon.

Gibbs.

$2.42.

It's for the cheese Danish.

That was eight years ago.

Nine.

Are you the one responsible for this fishing expedition?

The Bureau's doing the fishing.

I'm just driving the boat.

Keep it off the rocks.

What do I say?

The truth, McGee.

You haven't done anything wrong.

It's a get-out-of-jail-free card.

You're going to hack into the CIA.

This is highly illegal, and I'm not even doing it now.

You look nervous, McGee.

Where's your head at? What were you thinking about?

Uh... nothing.

I know you've hacked into everything from the corner store to the CIA, McGee.

I don't care.

Jasper Shepard.

Director's father.

She asked you to investigate the details of his su1c1de?

No.

You didn't come up with the idea on your own, McGee.

Gibbs.

The director was particularly aggressive in her pursuit of the arms dealer La Grenouille.

Agent Gibbs was curious as to her motivation.

Gibbs doesn't get curious.

He gets suspicious.

What did he suspect?

That, uh... that she believed La Grenouille was responsible for her father's death.

Is that why she put Agent DiNozzo undercover?

To get close to him?

I can't speak to the nature of Agent DiNozzo's assignment.

Why not?

You two do have a professional relationship?

McGeek... McGo.. McGiggle... McGoogle...

Yeah. Yeah, it's... very professional, yeah.

Then tell me about his assignment.

This is not the time to cover for your friends.

I was not privy to any of his actions vis-?vis the afore mentioned undercover operation as previously stated.

In perpetuity.

Sure you were privy.

On at least one occasion, you were directly involved in his investigation.

Southeastern Quebe T.O.D. 2400.

Where's Grenouille?

Finally...

Canada?c What was the purpose of the mission?

Officer David...

I know you're Israeli.

I know you were trained by Mossad to...

Well, we know what you do.

I would hate to be misunderstood.

Does that happen often?

Once in a blue lagoon.

I think I'll able to translate.

I'll repeat--

What was the purpose of the mission to Canada?

We received intelligence that the subject would be in the vicinity.

Were you attempting to apprehend this subject who is now deceased?

Archangel has him covered.

No.

Then why were you there? What were your orders?

Archangel awaiting instructions.

You were there to k*ll him.

That's what you do.

I was there to ensure mission safety.

I was never given a fire order.

Only because you were called off at the last moment.

By a deep undercover CIA agent named Trent Kort.

Director Shepard.

We're about to lose target. Director...

Stand down, Archangel. Stand down.

Now, that must have been a shock, hmm?

To discover that Grenouille was being handled by the CIA?

Regardless. Director Shepard manufactured the entire mission to get close to him.

Why?

To put a b*llet in his head.

We met only once.

But I was rather taken by the man.

Dredged out of Baltimore Harbor.

Dead less than two days.

Maryland M.E. performed the autopsy?

She's very good.

I would like to see the body.

No Four eyes are better than two.

No. Cause of death wasn't much of a mystery.

A single g*nsh*t wound to the head.

Then what do you want from me?

From time to time you compile psychological profiles on persons of interest.

Well, following my encounter with La Grenouille, I was asked for my opinion.

La Grenouille is not your ordinary arms dealer.

He's not the type to settle disputes with v*olence.

You liked him, didn't you?

Perhaps it's clouding your judgment.

Perhaps it's not my judgment that's being clouded.

Yes, by the director herself.

I'd like to know your opinion of that encounter.

Dr. Mallard?

There was a history betweethose two.

Something that is consuming her How far?

Will she go? As far as it takes.

She did manifest obsessive behavior.

He's trying to paint a picture.

A comprehensive picture
of her need for retribution against La Grenouille. He's just confirming what he know Duck.

He's holding something back.

Do you think she could have done it?

I will get him, another time, another deal.

I will be there, and I will get him.

I'm sorry, sir. You can't leave.

You know what?

You're going to have to stop me.

Problem?

If you want it to be.

I know it's always been lost on you, Gibbs, but they write the rules for a reason I have rules, too.

So I hear.

Any reason to keep us here, Leon?

I'm well aware of your relationship with director Shepard.

Never been comfortable with intimacy between management and staff myself.

Me either.

If you've been interviewed by Agent Fornell, you're free to go.

Just to be clear... do not investigate this case.

That guy!

He just, like, puts on a fancy suit and expects everyone to do everything he says.

It is a pretty nice suit.

Come on, le's go. Work to do.

On what?

We can't investigate the FBI's case.

We investigate the FBI.

Boss...Ziva's shaking the FBI tail car.

Got 'em running in circles.

Good. When she gets here, she can help you hack into Fornell's computer.

I'm going to need to go to a public site.

They've quarantined all my...

Here, use mine.

But this doesn't have a wireless signal, though.

I'll figure it out Duck. Ho!

Your friend in the Maryland M.E.'s office--

Dr. Hampton?

Need an autopsy report.

I'll have to be charming.

Don't strain yourself.

Go out the back, through the hedge.

It's all very eiting, isn't it?

Like a cat and mouse game.

Reminds me of...

...a part of my life that I will share with you later.

Boss--

I may be able to hook up my phone and piggyback the signal.

But I'm going to need an I.D. to get access to the FBI main... frame.

Questions?

Yeah, how do you get the boat out?

Just break the bottle.

You wouldn't be breaking the chain of evidence, now, would you, Abby?

On the Portman file?

Doubt it. He d*ed in prison two years ago.

Oh. Well, let me know if you've got something to eat in there,

'cause I'm starving.

How starving?

Klowny Kakes. Ooh.

Tarot cards.

Want to see what happens next?

I am dying with anticipation.

Tony!

We are about to summon the elusive elements of the cosmos.

Concentrate. I'm with you.

Call the spirits.

Tell them to bring pizza.

Gibbs gave you a mission.

Everybody's counting on you.

Just do what you do best.

Dance?

Talk.

Ms. Sciuto.

Abby...

Mighty generous.

I've gone over your results with regard to the case in question.

There's a problem with your theory of the crime.

A big hole.

I could drive a truck through it.

Well, I may not be able to drive a truck through it,

'cause never at great with the double clutch, but a truck driver could just...

Care to share?

Well, it's obvious.

I mean, you think there's a m*rder here-- like, right underneath Gibbs' nose.

That whatever took place, took place without Gibbs knowing.

And that could never happen?

I'm going to share a secret with you.

It's a theory I've been working on.

Off the books.

Okay... the man is magic.

Like dark magic.

He has eyes and ears everywhere.

He appears like a mist.

Whenever I get a clue, he just... materializes.

Maybe he bugged your lab.

No.

I checked.

What's that like?

It sounds aggravating.

No.

Does he ever get angry?

Never.

He only uses his powers for good.

Well, sounds like you're a fan.

No crime like this could ever take place under Gibbs' nose. Uh...

He wouldn't allow it.

I understand. If we could just get back to the...

No, I don't think you do undetand.

Okay, one night I was in my lab.

It was dark and stormy...

Stop.

Okay, go a smidge to your left.

Right, a smidge to your right.

Back to your right.

There it is, there it is. Stop.

Are you serious, McGee?

Hold that position.

I've must barely got a signal her This going to work?

This thing's so ancient, it doesn't even have the protocols modern day security systems defend against.

It's brinng back memories of playing Zork.

I'm tempted to tell it to go throw the crystal orb.

Here we go.

Whoa, what's that?

Don't move! Don't move!

It's a link.

Indicates an eyewitness statement.

Hasn't been digitized.

Doubt we could play it even if it had been.

Witness' name?

Just an addres We need to know what this witness knows.

My arms are k*lling me.

The FBI car out front.

Got it.

Ziva...

Their tires, not their throats.

Hey, boss, if you've got a printer, I might be able to convert some of these crime scene sketches to the matrix.

This is going nowhere.

I've never been entirely certain she's all there.

Hey, I remembered something.

Somethinrelevant, Ms. Sciuto?

Uh, Director Shepard she asked me personally to do some forensic work for her.

I want to know whose fingerprints are on these.

Which is, uh, strange.

Um, I determined that there was a dead man's fingerprints on a liquor bottle that was left in her study.

The director's father supposedly k*lled himself years ago, so I guess that doesn't really help your case, but, um, they made it seem like somebody was trying to mess with her head, you know?

Like the CIA maybe trying to frame her.

She's a lot smarter than you give her credit for, Agent Fornell.

Guys? Hello?

NCIS?

Buy you a cup of coffee Miss Benoit?

I had hoped, Rene, that you and I would meet again in person, enjoy a glass L' Esprit de Courvoisier which you so generously gave me.

This is the best I can do.
A confession: I am actually a medical examiner. and your untimely death left questions which only you can answer.

To wit: stippling patterns, powder burns on your forehead, which, though diminished by immersion in saltwater, indicate a contact wound at close range.

No defensive wounds, so for some reason, a cautious man like yourself allowed an armed assailant to get extraordinarily close... or else the g*nsh*t wound was self-inflicted.

My colleague came to the same conclusion.

The b*llet entered the frontal bone just above the left orbit, traveled in an upward trajectory consistent with a left-handed su1c1de.

Ducky?

Did you say something to me?

No, I didn't.

Well, I could have sworn I heard you talking down here.

I'm gonna come back when you're done.

The FBI's convinced you were m*rder*d, but you didn't tell them that, did you?

Oh, well, you were never an easy man to understand in life.

Why should your death be any different?

I do wish you'd shed some light on this mystery.

Because the prime suspect is a mutual acquaintance of ours.

Wow, that's a start.

They're expecting me at your office, Agent Gibbs.

Well, their questions aren't mine.

Questions about Tony?

No. questions about your father.

Well, we've been here before, haven't we, Toby.

You were saying some pretty bad stuff about me back then.

I hope you' learned a few things since then.

I know I have. Yeah.

You've done some growing, DiNozzo.

The director thought enough of you to personally select you for an extended undercover assignment.

Yep, she played matchmaker.

How did you get so close to La Grenouille's daughter?

I see where you're going with this.

You'd like to know a few pick-up tricks, huh?

I wish I could tell you, but kind of a family secret and, you know, I took an oath. Sorry. Chip?

No.

So you reported back to the director about the girl?

Jeanne? Yes, well, her father was an international arms dealer, a thr*at to the country, the world, really.

So, yeah, I did what I was told.

The director ordered you to sleep with her?

Are you attracted to her?

Yeah.

So what's the problem?

I wouldn't call it an order.

So you didn't have any problem developing that kind of a relationship with her?

No, not at all.

But you developed feelings for her.

That wasn't very professional, Tony. How'd that happen?

Gradually.

And then all of a sudden...

The director tell you to break the girl's heart?

What'd that feel like This is more like a therapy session than an interrogation.

Why are you so interested in my feelings?

Because you had them.

So strange being back in the city.

I volunteered for a fellowship in Gabon.

Africa?

That's a big change of scenery.

I rode a canoe to the hospital every day.

My commute consisted of avoiding hippos.

Did it help?

I like to think it helped some people.

But no, I couldn't get what happened out of my head.

Whatever you told the FBI, they're convinced your father was m*rder*d.

He was.

How can you be so sure of that?

I thought you knew...

...what I saw that night.

What did you see?

Duck.

I only let Jethro call me that, Ziva.

I think she means duck, Ducky.

Okay, La Grenouille's yacht.

Single shell casing was found on the deck.

No blood splatter.

Le Grenouill must have been standing by the railing.

Okay, I'm La Grenouille.

Bang. Overboard, g*n goes with me. nine-mil shell casing lands there.

Or...

...someone approaches you with the nine.

Facing you.

Someone you know.

And I stand here and let you sh**t me in the head?

I don't flinch, don't turn my head?

The g*n is concealed.

Your guard is down.

Still, when you bring the g*n up.

I'm on boat. Why don't I just jump overboard?

Why do I let you sh**t me in the head?

Jeanne must be going through hell.

I didn't mean to hurt her.

What other option was there?

She was in love with you, too, right?

I don't know.

Come on, Tony.

You're a better liar than that.

I love you, Jeanne.

Well, you're right, Agent Fornell, I'm lying.

Everything I did with her was a lie.

Just recalling those lies, I believe that I'm lying now.

It's a, it's a cacophony of lies, really.

Are you getting all this?

Cause it's good stuff!

Yeah, she was in love with me.

We were in love.

What else do you want to know?

How is it supposed to end, Tony?

I mean, there was never gonna be a happily ever after Earlier that morning, the day her father d*ed, Jeanne was almost k*lled twice.

You barely managed to save her from a drug dealer when somebody tried to blow her up.

Yeah, I know. Someone should figure that out.

Likely one of his enemies.

Likely. He had a lot of enemies.

Any one of them could have caught up with him on that yacht.

Through the girl?

Jeanne was a key to her father.

No one knew that better than you.

So let's talk about that night.

I have to go.

What'd you tell Fornell?

I told him what happened.

When?

The night he was k*lled.

How do you know what happened?

Ziva, this mark, what does it mean to you?

Hmm. Give me your hand.

It's a pressure point.

In mossad, we call it a "thumb tap."

David says she left you alone in Jeanne's apartment.

She tried to call you on the phone the next morning, but nobody answered.

Your partner did not know where you were.

I went for a drive.

Your car was blown up that morning.

Company car. Where?

I needed to clear my head.

I wasn't ploting a course. I was upset.

Of course you were.

The woman you love is in danger.

She's running for her life and you can't protect her.

You telling me you saw who did it?

Yes. Who?!

She'd never be safe, not with her father around.

She knew it, you knew it.

There was only one way to save her Who pulled the trigger?

Tony.

Bang.

You k*lled La Grenouille!

I did what?

Jeanne Benoit saw Tony sh**t her father?

He had motive.

And means.

And no alibi.

Well, he was supposed to meet us at the bar last night.

He did not arrive, did not call.

Jethro, no two suicides are identical, but the similarities here are more than coincidental.

Ducky...

Right down to the mark on the hand.

I've seen that before. yah, so have I--

Jasper Shephard's su1c1de.

Supposed su1c1de.

Somebody is missing from this party.

Don't get too comfortable.

You already scratched my settee.

Your agents have been tearing apart my house all afternoon, and they wouldn't even tell me what they're looking for.

La Grenouille was k*lled with a nine-millimeter Glock.

You have a second w*apon.

A nine-millimeter Glock.

Registered for personal use.

Yet we can't find it.

You could have asked me.

Where's your g*n?

I gave it to La Grenouille.

You have the b*ll*ts.

Take the damn g*n!

Anybody witness that?

Gibbs.

Works for me.

Grenouille took the g*n, DiNozzo took it from him.

DiNozzo?

He's in custody.

An eyewitness at the marina saw Agent DiNozzo commit the m*rder.

You have a positive I.D. at night, in the dark, from a distance?

I think she'd recognize her boyfriend.

Jeanne Benoit is your witness?

You turned my entire department upside down based on her testimony?

I want to talk to her.

Absolutely not.

Okay.

Okay.

My name is Jenny Shepard.

I'm the director of NCIS.

Ah, give her a little rope.

I'm the one responsible for your pain.

I ordered Tony to involve you romantically.

Involved you in something you had nothing to do with.

I'm sorry. I crossed the line.

He felt horrible for what he put you through.

When he told you the truth...

My name isn't Tony DiNardo, it's Anthony DiNozzo.

This has all been a lie. Why?

You should ask him.

I think it's the first sign you're doing something wrong.. if you feel bad about telling the truth.

You think Tony's a bad person?

He k*lled my father.

That must have been the worst day of your life.

Of anybody's life.

And now you can't stop riving it.

The way you were feeling.

You probably just wanted to run away from it all.

Bought a plane ticket, packed a bag.

Maybe you were tempted to leave a note.

Some last words.

Before I knew what Tony was capable of.

Next thing you know, you're in the car on the way to the airport.

Praying that any minute you would wake up... and find out that none of it ever happened.

I trusted him.

And he lied to me.

Even after all the deception... do you just go?

Or do you stop and see him one last time?

Which him?

Tony or the dad?

That's the moment, right?

You've been taking body blows all day, and finally that's the moment you actually have to make a choice.

Forget the airport.

Go to the marina.

Pull the car over.

Yes. That's where I saw him.

Your dad? Yes.

One last time before he's gone?

Yes.

No.

The stars aligned so that you arrived at the marina when Tony pulled the trigger?

You're lying.

What really happened, Jeanne?

It's my fault.

I did it.

I k*lled him.

It feels that way, doesn't it?

But it's not true.

Believe me, I know.

You blamed Tony.

Now you are blaming yourself.

What really happened that night?

I made the wrong choice.

I wanted to see him.

He was waiting for me at the yacht.

But I just couldn't.

I kept driving.

You never went to the marina.

I figured he'd come and find me.

No matter what, Dad always found me.

And then he didn't.

I just knew.

You must be angry.

That you can't have that one moment to live or again.

I don't know if you could have changed it.

I don't know if you could have saved him.

He loved you.

Of that...

I am sure.

Who do you want to talk to now?

How's the case?

Falling apart. Better not be here, Jethro.

It'll just create more problems. No, I'm here to solve them.

Well, well, well, Mr. Kort from the CIA.

Your boss k*lled my informant.

I need your help to take La Grenouille down for it.

This is not going to end well for you.

Your investigation ends now.

This is La Grenouille's handler.

I think the CIA would want to know who k*lled him.

La Grenouille was k*lled by an associate who has since assumed control of his organization.

Let me guess... you stepped up to run the whole show.

Did number two here just confessed a m*rder?

The CIA does not assassinate people.

Not on American soil.

Let's see your get-out-of-jail-free card.

Eyes only.

It was sanctioned.

La Grenouille wanted to retire.

He's retired.

It's that simple?

CIA wants it simple.

Well, I guess we're done asking questions.

That's not for you...

Just between us...

Who k*lled Jasper Shepard?

Jasper Shepard.

Anything that guy wouldn't do to keep a long-term op intact?

Nope.

Anything he wouldn't say to shut this down before it got too loud?

That night... at her house, Jenny gave her g*n to the Frog.

You have the b*ll*ts.

Take the damn g*n!

Protect yourself.

She did.

And that would explain how it got to the yacht.

It would.

And Kort used that g*n... to k*ll him.

You're right. She's cleared.

The file?

Maybe.

Hey, Trent.

He wasn't just an operative.

He was somebody's father.

Be a nan, Tony.

She accused me of m*rder.

Who is the bad guy?

Be a man.

Go tell her what she needs to hear.

Hey, can you give us a seco, please?

Thank you. No problem.

Hey.

I'm sorry you got caught in the middle of all this.

Was any of it real...

Tony?

No.

I wish I'd never met you.

I hope you're not rushing out on my account.

Apparently not.

SecNav tells me you're going to be taking a couple of weeks of personal time.

Uh-huh.

It was never my intention to burden you with this responsibility.

Oh, I don't mind.

My wife however, is not so forgiving.

Is this yours, Leon?

Keep it.

You owe the Bureau for two sets of all-weather radials.

Yeah.

Bill me.

Fairy tale ending?

The Frog is dead, and the jesters have been kicked out of the kingdom.

The queen is back on her throne.

If you're expecting some sort of knighthood, I'm sorry to say I've misplaced Maybe it's with your g*n.

Maybe Funny quirk about the Frog-- arms dealer... never carried a g*n.

Except that night.

Take the damn g*n!

Protect yourself.

You're signing my death warrant.

That what happened?

That's how I remember it.

You remember it differently?

Take the damn g*n!

Protect yourself.

You're signg my death warrant.

Long live to the queen.
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