Sasha Alexander credited as playing...
Caitlin Todd
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Then we got our guy.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Nope. All we got is a pile of dead skin. Only thing you can use the DNA registry for is to identify a body.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Well, there has to be a way around that.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: See, NOW you're thinking like an NCIS agent.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Dinozzo, what're you doin'?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Just doin' a little research for Abby.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: For Abby?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Well, maybe I'm servin' two masters.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're servin' one, now.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: How did you get into NCIS?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I smiled?
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: He could've given Thumper a dirty chute.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What'd you say?
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Ramsay could've given Thumper a sabotaged chute.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, you said dirty.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: What?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: With Gibbs, you never know.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: You knew Lt. Roberts wasn't going to lawyer us access to the Military DNA Database.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Did I?
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: You did. So why go through the exercise?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Kate, I come from a long line of horse traders. First Rule: You pick the best horse in the barn and you work the deal until it bursts.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: That way when you go for the second best nag you get her for a song.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: The search authorization...
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We didn't have probable cause, but the Lieutenant, he's a man who aims to please. You never work the system when you can work the people.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Did any of those horse traders get hung?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, a few.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How long to find the acid and check out the rest of the chutes?
- Abby Sciuto: Well, I'm flying solo, so at least a day.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Go faster if you had an assistant?
- Abby Sciuto: Definitely.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Okay, you got the job.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: I get to do forensics?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, you get to schlep for Abby. She gets to do forensics.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We know that nine parachutes were rigged to fail. The killer doctored them and repacked them. Sergeant Fuentes died as a result of that. That's premeditated murder.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I'm sold. Hey, If I'm on the jury, you got my vote.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: We found DNA evidence on the chute deployment bag knots.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: Belonging to your suspect?
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: We believe so. To be certain, we have to access the Armed Forces Registry.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: That's impossible. The registry was set up to identify remains only.
- [nods towards Gibbs]
- Lt. Bud Roberts: He knows that.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [playing dumb] I do?
- Lt. Bud Roberts: He tried to use it when he went after Commander Rabb for murder.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: He get him?
- Lt. Bud Roberts: No, because he wasn't guilty. You couldn't use the DNA registry then, what makes you think you can use it now?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You, Lieutenant. You're a smart lawyer, and you know the law.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I know why I'm here.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, I hope you do. I requested you.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: Yeah, you requested me because you think you can work me, like you did last time when I ratted out Commander Rabb.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You did not rat on anyone. You told the truth.
- [Gibbs scratches at the shoulder of Bud's jacket]
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I, uh, gave my uniform an extra lint roll this morning, Agent Gibbs. And you waltzing around in my blind spot? Not going to intimidate me this time.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We're at twenty-four hours now. And soon it's going to be forty-eight. You've done investigations, you know what that means.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I've done JAGman investigations, sure. At forty-eight hours, your evidence begins to degrade, disappear. Witnesses change their stories, suspects improve theirs. I... I know.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: So help us.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: No! Hey, you... you're not going to get me to lawyer you past an iron-clad prohibition that prevents tapping into DNA records that were designed to identify bodies, not chase suspects.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: This guy is guilty. He killed him. Let him drop to his death from thirteen hundred feet.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: It doesn't matter.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: "Scuttlebutt"?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That's Marine for water cooler gossip.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Your mind, DiNozzo, runs the gamut from X to triple X.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: How did you get into NCIS?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [Smiling] I smiled.