Patrick Labyorteaux credited as playing...
Lt. Bud Roberts
- 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.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: For every legal firewall, there is a way around it.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I can't help you. And can I please have my pen back?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sure you can. You're gonna need it. Because if I can't have my DNA, I'm gonna need some search authorizations signed.