NCIS (TV Series)
Hung Out to Dry (2003)
Sasha Alexander: Caitlin Todd
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Quotes
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : "Scuttlebutt"?
Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : That's Marine for water cooler gossip.
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Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Your mind, DiNozzo, runs the gamut from X to triple X.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Yeah.
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Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : How did you get into NCIS?
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : [Smiling] I smiled.
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Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : That's Stupid!
Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : No, that's a Marine.