NCIS: Origins (2024) s01e05 Episode Script
Last Rites
1
OLDER GIBBS: I saw a tunnel.
I saw people passing through.
People from my life.
They said he was doing better.
His CAT scans show no cerebral damage.
But we're still doing studies
on traumatic brain injuries,
and while he was
They moved him across the damn ocean.
He had to be better to survive that.
Mr. Gibbs,
you run straight into enemy
fire the way your son did,
there are going to be complication
He did what?
I'm sorry, I-I thought you knew.
I'll get you the full report
from Dr. Gelfand.
No, no, no, I'm not standing here
waiting for someone to type it up.
No, he ran onto the battlefield to
to what
help one of his men?
No.
He had just gotten the news
about his wife and daughter.
He was distraught.
He was looking to get hit.
It's a miracle he survived.
We should focus on that.
(DOOR OPENS)
Is he gonna wake up?
I don't know.
OLDER GIBBS: I saw
my dad teaching me to fish.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
Saw my mother
holding me in the hospital
the day I was born.
Saw the faceless man
that murdered my family.
They were in the tunnel.
But they were
just passing through.
I was there to stay.
I was living in the in-between.
Reload.
I told you, Mike, we're all closed up.
Where's Smitty?
How many times I got to tell you?
- He's off tonight.
- (DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
I've got him.
You called her?
Damn traitor.
Okay. Let's go.
I'm sick of you anyway.
OLDER GIBBS: Time stands still
in the in-between.
Hey, Mike!
Mike.
OLDER GIBBS:
When you're in that tunnel,
there is no sleep.
RANDY: Albert Hope, PhD.
Former professor of theology.
He's been on death row
for six-plus years.
Last night, he lost his final appeal.
He'll be executed in two days.
We thinking he's innocent?
No. Dude's guilty as hell.
He confessed to a double homicide.
RANDY: He murdered his wife,
Ana Larsen, and her lover.
LALA: Captain Jonathan Rice.
They met at a bar.
Love at first sight and all that.
Professor Hope comes home
from teaching a class on God,
he finds his wife in bed
with the captain,
then he murders them both
in a fit of rage
with the pen in his pocket.
After that, he dumped the bodies.
Log says there's one more box
I'm not seeing.
Some dimwit must have
put it in the wrong spot.
Hey. Grain of salt with these two.
They like to sound smart,
but this case was before their time.
Uh, doesn't matter.
Everyone knows about it.
It's in the zeitgeist.
Big word, big brain.
We get it.
Franks didn't come in this morning.
Okay. That's a thought.
Franks didn't come in this morning.
So you figure it might have
something to do with all this?
Does it?
Yeah. It does.
Franks worked this case alone.
Six years ago,
I thought he was teamed up with Vera.
She begged off the partnership
a week before.
This case came up.
We were shorthanded,
so Franks worked it alone.
He located the body of
the boyfriend out in the desert.
The wife's body was never found.
Franks took that burden on himself.
He wanted to bring closure
to the family. He went to Hope
time and again. He tried every which way
to get him to give up
the location of the body.
But the bastard refused to talk.
So, Franks lost his head.
He lost his way
for a good stretch of time.
It was hell on him,
not being able
to bring her body home.
- (DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE)
- TISH (IN DISTANCE): Hey.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
(DOOR OPENS)
- Oh. (COUGHS) Oh, my freakin' God.
- (GROANS)
Smells like whiskey feet in here.
The hell Tish let you in here for?
- Tish!
- Hey. Come on.
You need to get your ass to the office.
Look, I don't know what
you think you're doing, but
Hope lost his appeal.
They're putting him down in two days.
Yeah, I'm aware.
Your victim's sister
is on her way in, so
(SIGHS)
(SNAPPING FINGERS) Hey.
Did you hear what I said?
Hey. Come on.
- (MOANS)
- Seriously?
What do you want me to do?
I don't know, okay?
I don't even know why
I bother to come by.
I got to go, though, 'cause
I got some stuff to print out
for my thing, my-my presentation.
What do you want me to do
race into his cell
and beg him to tell me
where the body is?
I tried that, Strickland. Six years.
Tried it all.
Guy's got a God complex.
I don't know how he gets in
Gets in your head, poisons you.
Last time I went,
he had me damn near strangling him.
They had to haul me off like a lunatic.
He was just standing there.
This big ol' grin on his face.
This thing's a loss.
I was never gonna find that body.
Okay. Okay.
Hey, I get it.
No, you don't.
You weren't there.
Okay.
Well, here's what I do know.
Julie Larsen is on her way
to the office right now.
She wants to find her sister and give
her a proper burial, and she's got
two days left to make that happen.
So if you think it's a loss,
then you need to put on
some pants and tell her that.
(BOTTLE CLINKS)
(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)
Look out, friends, coming in hot.
Kowalski found that other
case box he was looking for.
Had a bunch more photos
and the professor's book.
Look at that. He wrote it.
Searching for God: A Study
in Comparative Religion.
I'm out.
But you love reading.
Plus, Franks made notes in it.
That alone is worth
the price of admission.
Yeah, you have fun with that.
Give me the pictures.
Printer's not working?
Try banging it.
GIBBS: Hey.
- Vera?
- Yeah?
Thought you said Franks
was on his way in.
Well, I'm hoping he jumped
in the shower first.
- What about the victim's sister?
- I I set her up
with coffee. It's only been ten minutes.
Why don't we give it a couple minutes,
Sparky?
Hm?
(SIGHS)
I'm telling you,
this printer is gonna drive me to drink.
All right, well, if Wheeler
doesn't have a document,
- my whole presentation
- Presentation won't land.
I heard you the first ten times.
Well, then Anza-Borrego Desert.
This is where Captain
Rice's body was found.
Mike.
We're looking back over the files.
Seeing if there's anything
worth a second look.
Where's she at?
The conference room.
JULIE: I ever tell you
where it came from?
Ana stole it from a gas station
on our 16th birthday.
One for me, one for her.
Turned our necks green,
but she didn't care.
"It's a twin thing."
That's what she'd tell people.
Eventually she got a nicer chain, but
She never took hers off.
I know why you gave me yours.
Told you I'd bring Ana home
so you could lay her body to rest.
I made you a promise and I failed.
I'm sorry for that.
Mike, we have to figure out
where Hope's head is right now.
He knows he's gonna die.
That can change a person.
No, not him. He ain't a person.
We have two days. We have to try.
I ain't going back in there.
I ain't playing his games, I
ain't giving him what he wants.
He ain't never gonna
tell us where she is.
We got to find a way to live with that.
He called me this morning.
He said he wants to see me.
No.
You ain't going there, you hear me?
- I
- I mean, maybe if I go, then
he'll tell me where she is.
He's playing you.
I know you want to protect me,
He's gunning to rip you up
on his way out. I know.
Mike!
I have to try.
I have to try.
Can't let you inside this time, Franks.
Warden's orders.
I'll keep my hands to myself this time.
You got my word.
It's gonna cost you extra.
Hundred more.
Open up.
Let's go.
Next two days,
you try calling her again,
I'll come here and I'll kill you myself.
The Dalai Lama said
there are only two days
when nothing can be done.
Yesterday and tomorrow.
I want you to look me in the eye
and tell me you heard what I said.
(SIGHS)
Ana was drunk
on fancy wine
when I walked in on her that night.
Did you know that?
Do you know what it's like
to live with a cheating alcoholic?
I'm not here to talk about Ana.
I'm here to talk about Julie.
The live twin.
You're so protective of her.
That's nice.
But I need to see Julie.
I want absolution.
You want forgiveness for what you done,
find yourself a damn priest.
Agent Franks, I
(SIGHS)
I want you to look me in the eye
and tell me you heard what I said.
I want to see Julie.
I want absolution.
And in return, I'd like to offer
the location of Ana's body.
I think Julie would be fine
with you speaking on her behalf,
so
(WRITING)
tell me you accept.
Guard.
Mm-hmm.
(KEYS JANGLING)
(CELL DOOR OPENS)
(WATER RUNNING)
Gibbs.
What are you doing,
guarding the latrine?
(CHUCKLES) No, I, uh
You know, uh, I knew a guy in Korea.
Sensitive type.
He could only get a stream going
if he was alone.
I don't have that problem.
Well, the place is clear,
got your opening.
Aah! Were you waiting out here for me?
Franks made a deal with the professor.
Yeah.
I heard. He's going
around telling everybody.
His face looks about 60% less droopy,
so that's good.
Hey.
You think he's all right?
I mean, it was
tough on him, working this one alone.
But now he's got us, right?
Go, team.
Don't sniper-stalk me outside
the bathroom anymore, okay?
It's weird.
VERA:
What I'm proposing will propel
our investigative capabilities
into the 21st century.
Um, if you'll, uh, if you'll turn
in your document to page four,
you'll see a, um
Page four.
- Mm-hmm.
- You'll see a list
of criminal profiling courses
I've already taken through the FBI.
All right, what's the
ask here, Strickland?
(SIGHS)
I need a small amount of funding,
for the pilot program.
I'll interview
a-a control group of offenders
and create a, um, a teaching
tool for in-house agents.
That, plus a database of profiles
to, uh, help predict the
attributes of future assailants.
- Sir, we never
- I made a deal with Hope.
He's gonna lead us to the body tomorrow.
- And you believe him?
- Not really, but how am I not
- gonna try?
- Hey, excuse me. Sir
- The marshals are
- (PHONE RINGS)
- transporting him?
- Yeah, they're
being a bunch of idiots,
per usual, but
come down to the bullpen,
I'm going over the logistics.
- All right, I'll be down in a minute.
- Sir, this is
Budget's tight. So we will circle back
to your thing in the next fiscal year.
Wheeler.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Yeah.
Franks.
- Look, I'm busy.
- Franks!
What?
What are you looking at, Jeff?
The hell's gotten into you, woman?
I have been waiting
for that meeting with Wheeler
for three weeks.
And you just-you just barge in
And you busted into my bedroom,
so I'm thinking we can call it a wash.
This program that
I am going for is big, Franks.
Okay? It means something to me.
Hell, it used to mean something to you.
- I don't know a thing about it.
- The
Profiling, Franks.
One minute you're asking me
no, you're begging me
to create a profile,
for some guy off the books,
and the next minute, it's, "What?
"Strickland who?
"What? Huh?
- What's a profile?"
- You ever hear what I said
in there about Hope?
Hell, it's the reason you got me
out of bed this morning.
Now you're gonna harp on me about this?
- Huh?
- Listen to me.
Wheeler worships you.
You can talk to him for me.
- (SCOFFS)
- He will do what you say.
I ain't got no control over Wheeler.
And you wonder why I left.
I know why you left.
You didn't want
to be my partner no more.
How could I be partners with
somebody who will walk into a room
and not even see that I'm there?
I see you fine, Vera, always did.
But sometimes it ain't about you.
Okay.
(DOOR SLAMS)
Hope said the body was located somewhere
in the Anza-Borrego Desert.
LALA: Isn't that where
Captain Rice was buried?
Files said you already searched there.
Can't dig up
the whole desert, Dominguez.
Point man for the
marshals gave me a call.
He confirmed that Hope
will be loaded into the van
at zero eight, and caravan
will push off directly after.
We'll be traveling east across the 78.
Once we pass this vineyard,
Dominguez, you and probie
will hang back
and secure that access point.
Was Hope in contact with
anyone on the outside?
We thinking he might pull something?
I ain't putting nothing past him.
Terms of the deal are this.
He wants to see Julie.
He wants her to forgive him.
Absolution.
He actually has a chapter on that.
It's called "The Release from Guilt."
Oh, boss, you wrote a note on it here.
"Whole chapter is a load of BS."
Well, I'm sure I wasn't wrong, Rando.
I told him he leads us
to the body first.
Forgiveness after.
He wants eyes on Julie the whole time.
She's ready to play ball,
but I want her protected at every turn.
Rando, you're escorting
her in the giddyup car.
Copy.
Lot of variables, so I am gonna
need all of you
to keep your radios close.
FRANKS: Come on, Cliff.
What could go wrong?
(CLAPS HANDS)
("PATIENCE" BY GUNS N' ROSES PLAYING)
(DOOR OPENS)
♪
Hey, come on, get him in, let's go.
Let's move out.
Dominguez, hang back.
Hold the perimeter like I told you.
LALA: Copy that.
Did he say how much further?
FRANKS: Yeah,
we're straight up this road for
(SIGNAL BREAKING UP, STATIC CRACKLING)
Mike?
ike, you opy?
I told Earl to check these damn
radio we left.
We get to the hang back.
Cop
Copy, Dominguez?
(STATIC CRACKLING)
MARSHAL: Taking a right here.
And it's straight ahead.
Camping out here.
I think should hit that vineyard
on the way back. Maybe
they got a drive-through, huh?
Give me the damn radio.
Bunch of idiots.
(STATIC CRACKLING)
Camping out here.
See if I can get 'em on another channel.
This is PE-20.
- Do you copy? Over.
- (DOOR CLOSES)
That cactus up there.
That's where Captain Rice was buried.
PE-20. Anybody out there? Over.
(STATIC CRACKLING)
Franks, Randy.
This is PE-20. Do you copy? Over.
(STATIC CRACKLING)
Switching to walkie. You got me, Rando?
Yup, we're here.
Keep her in the car
until I say the word.
Dominguez, you with us?
(STATIC CRACKLING)
This is PE-20. Do you copy? Over.
♪
(VEHICLE APPROACHING)
Keep it moving. Come on.
Keep it moving.
Sorry. Road is closed.
You got a gun and everything, huh?
I need you to make a U-turn
and head back that way.
(LAUGHS, SPEAKS SPANISH)
GIBBS: Hi. You good?
What's he saying? Does he know Hope?
What's he talking about? Hope?
It's there.
LALA: Okay.
- Get out of the car.
-
No. Wait, no, they're fine.
They don't know Hope.
- Glove compartment!
- Hey, hey!
Get out of the car!
Get out now!
Get out of the car!
Get out of the car now!
- Shut your mouth! Get out of the car!
- Gibbs!
- Gibbs.
-
Gibbs, he doesn't have anything.
- Get out!
- (SPEAKING SPANISH)
LALA: Gibbs? Gibbs.
Lower your weapon, now.
It's here.
Special Agent Franks.
Our agreement?
Rando. We're good.
Giddyup.
(ENGINE STARTS)
You lied to me.
LALA: No, no, no, no,
I'm trying to schedule the delivery,
but you guys never pick up the phone.
No. No, I already have a desk.
But I need you guys to take that one
when you deliver the new one.
Eighteenth is fine.
Thank you.
Uh, you need something moved,
I got the truck.
I won't charge you.
No, it's it's just a desk.
It's-it's a write-off
for Eddie for work.
He's moving in.
Marshals took these at the burial site.
Remains are with Doc Tango now.
It's a big win for Franks.
Did you know the whole time
what a giddyup car was?
No one told you?
It's like stuff I saw in Kuwait.
Burial customs.
They use stones to elevate the body
so it doesn't touch the dirt,
wrap it in a white cloth.
Ana wasn't Muslim, though, was she?
Didn't say in the files.
Uh, Randy says Hope talks about
being agnostic in his book.
Wonder why he went through
all the trouble
instead of just burying her
with the captain.
Maybe he didn't want 'em together.
Same as in life.
Look. What happened out there
Yeah. Franks was walking around
like the world was ending.
And then, that guy
the way he's looking at you,
and then, I-I didn't know
if he had a weapon
and I couldn't understand him
- and that's just
- But I could.
Can't keep doing this with you, Gibbs.
When I was a kid,
I had a dog.
Got hit by a car.
I loved that dog.
After he was gone, I got angry.
And I would lash out without thinking.
I got into fights.
My dad taught me to fish.
Helped me see straight.
My mom died.
I fished some more.
I haven't fished in a while.
Protocol says I have to
report you to Franks.
Especially considering your eval.
Understood.
Hey.
If he fires me,
will you at least
tell me what my eval said?
(DOOR CLOSES)
Uh, hey, Angela.
Hi, Randy.
Dr. Téngalkat's just finishing up.
- Thanks.
- Mm-hmm.
(LAUGHING): Hey, hey, hey, my man.
Massive high five, boss.
You know I don't do those.
Yeah, I know. I just figured,
special circumstances.
It is unbelievable what you
pulled off with the professor.
Really, boss.
- Get Julie home?
- Yeah.
Um, she was,
you know, um, happy,
but, uh, sad at the same time,
and just so, so grateful.
She wants you to call her after this.
She, uh
She has a couple questions.
About what?
Condition of the body.
What it says
about how much Ana suffered.
Couldn't talk her out of it.
I'm sorry. Uh, I don't know what to say.
I know you got a lot of years
riding on this, Mike.
Are you sure?
I had Dr. Friedman confirm,
along with two other colleagues.
These aren't the remains of Ana Larsen.
They most certainly belong to a male.
If you look here,
(VOICE FADING): the pelvic bone
has a narrow sciatic notch
and a flat auricular surface.
♪
Cause of death appears
to be blunt force trauma to the head.
FRANKS: And he told him what, Vince?
Yeah, that's what I'm asking.
Yeah. Okay.
Son of a bitch.
He confessed to the chaplain.
Body he led us to was
a guy who happened by
while Hope was burying the captain.
He asked Hope if he needed a jump.
He saw too much, Hope killed him.
Did they identify him?
Matched him to a missing persons.
He was on a road trip, nobody
thought to connect him to Hope.
They're notifying the family now.
- Julie?
- She wants to go see him.
She still thinks
that if she forgives him,
then he'll tell her where Ana is.
She's wrong.
Maybe not.
One day left. If she wants to see him,
who are you to stop her?
This don't concern you.
What?
Said, this don't concern you!
You make it concern me
when you bring it into my house.
You can't just tell me
what to do and I do it.
Six years.
Oh, don't do that.
Six years. How many hours
have you spent with her,
protecting her, agonizing over her?
It is my job. I made her a promise.
Why? Why did you promise her?
Just tell me.
You and her?
No.
Tish.
There's nothing.
Then what are you doing?
(DOOR OPENS)
You won't be joining me inside?
Special day. Last meal.
Spoon and bottle.
GUARD: Let's go, Hope.
Mm-hmm.
What can I do for you, Agent Franks?
It's clear. Come on in.
(HOPE SIGHS)
I-I told Ana she should stop
bleaching her hair.
She wouldn't listen to me.
Looks so much better natural.
Shut your mouth and listen.
(SNIFFLES)
Al, I forgive you.
I forgive you for killing Ana.
You forgive me?
You have your absolution.
Now, please tell me where she is.
I am so sorry, Julie.
There's been a misunderstanding.
I didn't want absolution for me.
I wanted it for you.
We're done here. Mike, no.
Why did she start going out to drink?
Who convinced her that
these fancy bars were fun?
She was miserable.
I wanted her to have a life.
Who drove her to the bar the
night she met that young marine?
Who drove her?
I did.
You got her killed, Julie.
But I forgive you.
Son of a
GUARD: Damn it, Franks! I need help.
Franks, Franks!
- Where is she?!
- Get him out!
Tell me where she is!
Beg me.
Tell me! Tell me!
Tell me where she is.
Tell me where she is!
Tell me where she is!
- Beg me.
- GUARD: Get him out!
FRANKS: Tell me!
- Tell me!
- Beg me.
Franks was screaming at Hope,
"Where's the body?
Where's the body?"
And they had to haul him out of there.
Who told you?
Gail heard Wheeler on the phone,
she told Mary Jo,
Mary Jo told me, then she went
to go get Franks some coffee.
He's outside now.
His mustache is all disheveled.
Situation's dire, man,
we got to help him.
How?
I don't know. Go back through the files?
I got to finish reading Hope's book.
Hey, uh, did Lala talk to him
since he got back?
- Who, Franks?
- Yeah.
About what?
LALA: Hey, guys.
Look at these.
What do you see?
Uh, the place where
Captain Rice was buried.
Yeah, but look.
This one, you don't notice
the shadow of the cactus
'cause it's over the dig site.
This is the one I took yesterday.
- Look at the shadow.
- GIBBS: It's a cross.
Captain Rice's file said
he was Catholic.
Yeah. And the victim
Hope led us to yesterday
the rocks, the shroud-like covering
He's Muslim?
His niece confirmed it.
He must have asked him
before he killed him.
He buried his victims
according to their religion.
Ana's religion was what?
Don't know. File didn't list one.
Let's get her sister on the phone, huh?
Mary Jo.
- Ask Gail.
- Gail?
Mary Jo, can I please get
this printer off my desk now?
MARY JO: Yeah, sure.
How do I do that?
Use your arms, baby.
How long's he got left?
(DOOR CLOSES)
52 minutes.
I promised Julie
I'd bring her sister home.
Rookie mistake,
making a promise like that.
You weren't a rookie anymore by then.
I was alone.
You mean 'cause Vera didn't
want to be your partner?
It's not her fault you made a promise
you couldn't keep, honey.
I didn't know
which way was up without her.
Well
now you got a whole team in there,
working their butts off
trying to do right by you.
Hey.
You know I see everything.
And you know I'm a vault.
That file Vera did for you
she'll never ask you
what it was for, but
was it for Gibbs?
The man who killed his family?
(KISSES)
Love you, Mary Jo.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Ana Larsen.
No, S-E-N.
Did she attend services there?
There's a pet crematorium here.
Maybe she was cremated.
- She was getting into Buddhism.
- No, it doesn't fit the timeline.
It would take at least
two hours to cremate
- a human body.
- LALA: How the hell do you know that?
RANDY: There are so many
things in this book I can't unlearn.
- There are 28 hells, by the way.
- That's just Hinduism.
Franks put a star by his favorite ones.
You're here.
Catch me up.
GIBBS: Hope buried his victims
according to their religion. If we can
figure out what Ana's was, we'll
- be able to
- She didn't have one.
That's what Julie said, too.
Uh, we called her without you, boss.
- I hope that's okay.
- Last chapter.
S-Sorry?
Last chapter in the book
it's about finding your religion.
He said something
about everybody having one.
I remember 'cause it's
the only chapter in the book
that made any damn sense.
Except for the-the hells. I put stars
- next to it.
- Here we go.
"Each of us has a system of worship,
"whether we call it a religion or not.
"Anything can become your god:
"money, sex, alcohol,
power. Whatever you worship,
you will follow its laws"
Boss?
500 milligrams of midazolam.
Franks, stop!
Stop! You bastard!
You thought wine was her god.
You buried her in the vineyard.
I'm bringing her home.
I'm bringing her home.
("PATIENCE" BY GUNS N' ROSES PLAYING)
♪
♪
Shed a tear 'cause I'm missing you ♪
I'm still all right to smile ♪
Girl, I think about you ♪
Every day now ♪
Was a time when I wasn't sure ♪
But you set my mind ♪
Strickland.
I'll catch up.
I put in the request and
got preliminary approval.
Your profiling program.
(SCOFFS)
What happened to next fiscal year?
WHEELER: Hey, Mike.
Let me get a ride back.
All we need ♪
Is just a little patience ♪
Said, "Sugar ♪
Son of a bitch.
(CHUCKLES)
You, uh, pack up your desk yet?
All we need is just ♪
(CHUCKLES)
Kidding.
I decided Franks had enough
to deal with this week.
Your eval said that
you are in a depressive state.
Because of trauma.
Impulsive tendencies,
unaddressed anger issues.
Evaluator strongly recommended
extensive therapy
and concluded
you wouldn't succeed long-term at NIS.
But you know, love, there's one more ♪
Thing to consider ♪
You should hear what's in my eval.
Oof (LAUGHS)
And I don't even want to know
what was in Franks'.
(LAUGHS)
Just fine ♪
You and I'll just use a little ♪
You get your head straight.
Go fishing once a week.
Said, sugar ♪
Prove 'em wrong.
'Cause the lights are shining bright ♪
You and I've got ♪
What it takes to make it. ♪
YOUNG JACKSON: I know you haven't
felt like yourself
since your pup died.
Got your mom worried.
Here.
Fishing reminds you that
everything's coming and going.
There's time to take a breath.
Drop your line in, son.
(CHUCKLES) There you go.
You're just getting started.
You hear me?
You're just getting started.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
JACKSON: You hear me, son?
You're not done yet.
You're just getting started.
Got your whole life ahead of you.
(MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY)
Doctor! Dr. Lin?
OLDER GIBBS:
When you're in that tunnel,
there is no sleep.
Mr. Gibbs, I need you to step back.
What's
What's happening? What's happening?
DR.
LIN: We've got an elevated heart rate.
Leroy. Leroy!
- Leroy!
- OLDER GIBBS: But there are
people passing through,
just like always,
just like life.
And if one of them
manages to rattle
the walls hard enough
JACKSON: Leroy. Leroy!
OLDER GIBBS: you
might remember to wake up.
OLDER GIBBS: I saw a tunnel.
I saw people passing through.
People from my life.
They said he was doing better.
His CAT scans show no cerebral damage.
But we're still doing studies
on traumatic brain injuries,
and while he was
They moved him across the damn ocean.
He had to be better to survive that.
Mr. Gibbs,
you run straight into enemy
fire the way your son did,
there are going to be complication
He did what?
I'm sorry, I-I thought you knew.
I'll get you the full report
from Dr. Gelfand.
No, no, no, I'm not standing here
waiting for someone to type it up.
No, he ran onto the battlefield to
to what
help one of his men?
No.
He had just gotten the news
about his wife and daughter.
He was distraught.
He was looking to get hit.
It's a miracle he survived.
We should focus on that.
(DOOR OPENS)
Is he gonna wake up?
I don't know.
OLDER GIBBS: I saw
my dad teaching me to fish.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
Saw my mother
holding me in the hospital
the day I was born.
Saw the faceless man
that murdered my family.
They were in the tunnel.
But they were
just passing through.
I was there to stay.
I was living in the in-between.
Reload.
I told you, Mike, we're all closed up.
Where's Smitty?
How many times I got to tell you?
- He's off tonight.
- (DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
I've got him.
You called her?
Damn traitor.
Okay. Let's go.
I'm sick of you anyway.
OLDER GIBBS: Time stands still
in the in-between.
Hey, Mike!
Mike.
OLDER GIBBS:
When you're in that tunnel,
there is no sleep.
RANDY: Albert Hope, PhD.
Former professor of theology.
He's been on death row
for six-plus years.
Last night, he lost his final appeal.
He'll be executed in two days.
We thinking he's innocent?
No. Dude's guilty as hell.
He confessed to a double homicide.
RANDY: He murdered his wife,
Ana Larsen, and her lover.
LALA: Captain Jonathan Rice.
They met at a bar.
Love at first sight and all that.
Professor Hope comes home
from teaching a class on God,
he finds his wife in bed
with the captain,
then he murders them both
in a fit of rage
with the pen in his pocket.
After that, he dumped the bodies.
Log says there's one more box
I'm not seeing.
Some dimwit must have
put it in the wrong spot.
Hey. Grain of salt with these two.
They like to sound smart,
but this case was before their time.
Uh, doesn't matter.
Everyone knows about it.
It's in the zeitgeist.
Big word, big brain.
We get it.
Franks didn't come in this morning.
Okay. That's a thought.
Franks didn't come in this morning.
So you figure it might have
something to do with all this?
Does it?
Yeah. It does.
Franks worked this case alone.
Six years ago,
I thought he was teamed up with Vera.
She begged off the partnership
a week before.
This case came up.
We were shorthanded,
so Franks worked it alone.
He located the body of
the boyfriend out in the desert.
The wife's body was never found.
Franks took that burden on himself.
He wanted to bring closure
to the family. He went to Hope
time and again. He tried every which way
to get him to give up
the location of the body.
But the bastard refused to talk.
So, Franks lost his head.
He lost his way
for a good stretch of time.
It was hell on him,
not being able
to bring her body home.
- (DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE)
- TISH (IN DISTANCE): Hey.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
(DOOR OPENS)
- Oh. (COUGHS) Oh, my freakin' God.
- (GROANS)
Smells like whiskey feet in here.
The hell Tish let you in here for?
- Tish!
- Hey. Come on.
You need to get your ass to the office.
Look, I don't know what
you think you're doing, but
Hope lost his appeal.
They're putting him down in two days.
Yeah, I'm aware.
Your victim's sister
is on her way in, so
(SIGHS)
(SNAPPING FINGERS) Hey.
Did you hear what I said?
Hey. Come on.
- (MOANS)
- Seriously?
What do you want me to do?
I don't know, okay?
I don't even know why
I bother to come by.
I got to go, though, 'cause
I got some stuff to print out
for my thing, my-my presentation.
What do you want me to do
race into his cell
and beg him to tell me
where the body is?
I tried that, Strickland. Six years.
Tried it all.
Guy's got a God complex.
I don't know how he gets in
Gets in your head, poisons you.
Last time I went,
he had me damn near strangling him.
They had to haul me off like a lunatic.
He was just standing there.
This big ol' grin on his face.
This thing's a loss.
I was never gonna find that body.
Okay. Okay.
Hey, I get it.
No, you don't.
You weren't there.
Okay.
Well, here's what I do know.
Julie Larsen is on her way
to the office right now.
She wants to find her sister and give
her a proper burial, and she's got
two days left to make that happen.
So if you think it's a loss,
then you need to put on
some pants and tell her that.
(BOTTLE CLINKS)
(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)
Look out, friends, coming in hot.
Kowalski found that other
case box he was looking for.
Had a bunch more photos
and the professor's book.
Look at that. He wrote it.
Searching for God: A Study
in Comparative Religion.
I'm out.
But you love reading.
Plus, Franks made notes in it.
That alone is worth
the price of admission.
Yeah, you have fun with that.
Give me the pictures.
Printer's not working?
Try banging it.
GIBBS: Hey.
- Vera?
- Yeah?
Thought you said Franks
was on his way in.
Well, I'm hoping he jumped
in the shower first.
- What about the victim's sister?
- I I set her up
with coffee. It's only been ten minutes.
Why don't we give it a couple minutes,
Sparky?
Hm?
(SIGHS)
I'm telling you,
this printer is gonna drive me to drink.
All right, well, if Wheeler
doesn't have a document,
- my whole presentation
- Presentation won't land.
I heard you the first ten times.
Well, then Anza-Borrego Desert.
This is where Captain
Rice's body was found.
Mike.
We're looking back over the files.
Seeing if there's anything
worth a second look.
Where's she at?
The conference room.
JULIE: I ever tell you
where it came from?
Ana stole it from a gas station
on our 16th birthday.
One for me, one for her.
Turned our necks green,
but she didn't care.
"It's a twin thing."
That's what she'd tell people.
Eventually she got a nicer chain, but
She never took hers off.
I know why you gave me yours.
Told you I'd bring Ana home
so you could lay her body to rest.
I made you a promise and I failed.
I'm sorry for that.
Mike, we have to figure out
where Hope's head is right now.
He knows he's gonna die.
That can change a person.
No, not him. He ain't a person.
We have two days. We have to try.
I ain't going back in there.
I ain't playing his games, I
ain't giving him what he wants.
He ain't never gonna
tell us where she is.
We got to find a way to live with that.
He called me this morning.
He said he wants to see me.
No.
You ain't going there, you hear me?
- I
- I mean, maybe if I go, then
he'll tell me where she is.
He's playing you.
I know you want to protect me,
He's gunning to rip you up
on his way out. I know.
Mike!
I have to try.
I have to try.
Can't let you inside this time, Franks.
Warden's orders.
I'll keep my hands to myself this time.
You got my word.
It's gonna cost you extra.
Hundred more.
Open up.
Let's go.
Next two days,
you try calling her again,
I'll come here and I'll kill you myself.
The Dalai Lama said
there are only two days
when nothing can be done.
Yesterday and tomorrow.
I want you to look me in the eye
and tell me you heard what I said.
(SIGHS)
Ana was drunk
on fancy wine
when I walked in on her that night.
Did you know that?
Do you know what it's like
to live with a cheating alcoholic?
I'm not here to talk about Ana.
I'm here to talk about Julie.
The live twin.
You're so protective of her.
That's nice.
But I need to see Julie.
I want absolution.
You want forgiveness for what you done,
find yourself a damn priest.
Agent Franks, I
(SIGHS)
I want you to look me in the eye
and tell me you heard what I said.
I want to see Julie.
I want absolution.
And in return, I'd like to offer
the location of Ana's body.
I think Julie would be fine
with you speaking on her behalf,
so
(WRITING)
tell me you accept.
Guard.
Mm-hmm.
(KEYS JANGLING)
(CELL DOOR OPENS)
(WATER RUNNING)
Gibbs.
What are you doing,
guarding the latrine?
(CHUCKLES) No, I, uh
You know, uh, I knew a guy in Korea.
Sensitive type.
He could only get a stream going
if he was alone.
I don't have that problem.
Well, the place is clear,
got your opening.
Aah! Were you waiting out here for me?
Franks made a deal with the professor.
Yeah.
I heard. He's going
around telling everybody.
His face looks about 60% less droopy,
so that's good.
Hey.
You think he's all right?
I mean, it was
tough on him, working this one alone.
But now he's got us, right?
Go, team.
Don't sniper-stalk me outside
the bathroom anymore, okay?
It's weird.
VERA:
What I'm proposing will propel
our investigative capabilities
into the 21st century.
Um, if you'll, uh, if you'll turn
in your document to page four,
you'll see a, um
Page four.
- Mm-hmm.
- You'll see a list
of criminal profiling courses
I've already taken through the FBI.
All right, what's the
ask here, Strickland?
(SIGHS)
I need a small amount of funding,
for the pilot program.
I'll interview
a-a control group of offenders
and create a, um, a teaching
tool for in-house agents.
That, plus a database of profiles
to, uh, help predict the
attributes of future assailants.
- Sir, we never
- I made a deal with Hope.
He's gonna lead us to the body tomorrow.
- And you believe him?
- Not really, but how am I not
- gonna try?
- Hey, excuse me. Sir
- The marshals are
- (PHONE RINGS)
- transporting him?
- Yeah, they're
being a bunch of idiots,
per usual, but
come down to the bullpen,
I'm going over the logistics.
- All right, I'll be down in a minute.
- Sir, this is
Budget's tight. So we will circle back
to your thing in the next fiscal year.
Wheeler.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Yeah.
Franks.
- Look, I'm busy.
- Franks!
What?
What are you looking at, Jeff?
The hell's gotten into you, woman?
I have been waiting
for that meeting with Wheeler
for three weeks.
And you just-you just barge in
And you busted into my bedroom,
so I'm thinking we can call it a wash.
This program that
I am going for is big, Franks.
Okay? It means something to me.
Hell, it used to mean something to you.
- I don't know a thing about it.
- The
Profiling, Franks.
One minute you're asking me
no, you're begging me
to create a profile,
for some guy off the books,
and the next minute, it's, "What?
"Strickland who?
"What? Huh?
- What's a profile?"
- You ever hear what I said
in there about Hope?
Hell, it's the reason you got me
out of bed this morning.
Now you're gonna harp on me about this?
- Huh?
- Listen to me.
Wheeler worships you.
You can talk to him for me.
- (SCOFFS)
- He will do what you say.
I ain't got no control over Wheeler.
And you wonder why I left.
I know why you left.
You didn't want
to be my partner no more.
How could I be partners with
somebody who will walk into a room
and not even see that I'm there?
I see you fine, Vera, always did.
But sometimes it ain't about you.
Okay.
(DOOR SLAMS)
Hope said the body was located somewhere
in the Anza-Borrego Desert.
LALA: Isn't that where
Captain Rice was buried?
Files said you already searched there.
Can't dig up
the whole desert, Dominguez.
Point man for the
marshals gave me a call.
He confirmed that Hope
will be loaded into the van
at zero eight, and caravan
will push off directly after.
We'll be traveling east across the 78.
Once we pass this vineyard,
Dominguez, you and probie
will hang back
and secure that access point.
Was Hope in contact with
anyone on the outside?
We thinking he might pull something?
I ain't putting nothing past him.
Terms of the deal are this.
He wants to see Julie.
He wants her to forgive him.
Absolution.
He actually has a chapter on that.
It's called "The Release from Guilt."
Oh, boss, you wrote a note on it here.
"Whole chapter is a load of BS."
Well, I'm sure I wasn't wrong, Rando.
I told him he leads us
to the body first.
Forgiveness after.
He wants eyes on Julie the whole time.
She's ready to play ball,
but I want her protected at every turn.
Rando, you're escorting
her in the giddyup car.
Copy.
Lot of variables, so I am gonna
need all of you
to keep your radios close.
FRANKS: Come on, Cliff.
What could go wrong?
(CLAPS HANDS)
("PATIENCE" BY GUNS N' ROSES PLAYING)
(DOOR OPENS)
♪
Hey, come on, get him in, let's go.
Let's move out.
Dominguez, hang back.
Hold the perimeter like I told you.
LALA: Copy that.
Did he say how much further?
FRANKS: Yeah,
we're straight up this road for
(SIGNAL BREAKING UP, STATIC CRACKLING)
Mike?
ike, you opy?
I told Earl to check these damn
radio we left.
We get to the hang back.
Cop
Copy, Dominguez?
(STATIC CRACKLING)
MARSHAL: Taking a right here.
And it's straight ahead.
Camping out here.
I think should hit that vineyard
on the way back. Maybe
they got a drive-through, huh?
Give me the damn radio.
Bunch of idiots.
(STATIC CRACKLING)
Camping out here.
See if I can get 'em on another channel.
This is PE-20.
- Do you copy? Over.
- (DOOR CLOSES)
That cactus up there.
That's where Captain Rice was buried.
PE-20. Anybody out there? Over.
(STATIC CRACKLING)
Franks, Randy.
This is PE-20. Do you copy? Over.
(STATIC CRACKLING)
Switching to walkie. You got me, Rando?
Yup, we're here.
Keep her in the car
until I say the word.
Dominguez, you with us?
(STATIC CRACKLING)
This is PE-20. Do you copy? Over.
♪
(VEHICLE APPROACHING)
Keep it moving. Come on.
Keep it moving.
Sorry. Road is closed.
You got a gun and everything, huh?
I need you to make a U-turn
and head back that way.
(LAUGHS, SPEAKS SPANISH)
GIBBS: Hi. You good?
What's he saying? Does he know Hope?
What's he talking about? Hope?
It's there.
LALA: Okay.
- Get out of the car.
-
No. Wait, no, they're fine.
They don't know Hope.
- Glove compartment!
- Hey, hey!
Get out of the car!
Get out now!
Get out of the car!
Get out of the car now!
- Shut your mouth! Get out of the car!
- Gibbs!
- Gibbs.
-
Gibbs, he doesn't have anything.
- Get out!
- (SPEAKING SPANISH)
LALA: Gibbs? Gibbs.
Lower your weapon, now.
It's here.
Special Agent Franks.
Our agreement?
Rando. We're good.
Giddyup.
(ENGINE STARTS)
You lied to me.
LALA: No, no, no, no,
I'm trying to schedule the delivery,
but you guys never pick up the phone.
No. No, I already have a desk.
But I need you guys to take that one
when you deliver the new one.
Eighteenth is fine.
Thank you.
Uh, you need something moved,
I got the truck.
I won't charge you.
No, it's it's just a desk.
It's-it's a write-off
for Eddie for work.
He's moving in.
Marshals took these at the burial site.
Remains are with Doc Tango now.
It's a big win for Franks.
Did you know the whole time
what a giddyup car was?
No one told you?
It's like stuff I saw in Kuwait.
Burial customs.
They use stones to elevate the body
so it doesn't touch the dirt,
wrap it in a white cloth.
Ana wasn't Muslim, though, was she?
Didn't say in the files.
Uh, Randy says Hope talks about
being agnostic in his book.
Wonder why he went through
all the trouble
instead of just burying her
with the captain.
Maybe he didn't want 'em together.
Same as in life.
Look. What happened out there
Yeah. Franks was walking around
like the world was ending.
And then, that guy
the way he's looking at you,
and then, I-I didn't know
if he had a weapon
and I couldn't understand him
- and that's just
- But I could.
Can't keep doing this with you, Gibbs.
When I was a kid,
I had a dog.
Got hit by a car.
I loved that dog.
After he was gone, I got angry.
And I would lash out without thinking.
I got into fights.
My dad taught me to fish.
Helped me see straight.
My mom died.
I fished some more.
I haven't fished in a while.
Protocol says I have to
report you to Franks.
Especially considering your eval.
Understood.
Hey.
If he fires me,
will you at least
tell me what my eval said?
(DOOR CLOSES)
Uh, hey, Angela.
Hi, Randy.
Dr. Téngalkat's just finishing up.
- Thanks.
- Mm-hmm.
(LAUGHING): Hey, hey, hey, my man.
Massive high five, boss.
You know I don't do those.
Yeah, I know. I just figured,
special circumstances.
It is unbelievable what you
pulled off with the professor.
Really, boss.
- Get Julie home?
- Yeah.
Um, she was,
you know, um, happy,
but, uh, sad at the same time,
and just so, so grateful.
She wants you to call her after this.
She, uh
She has a couple questions.
About what?
Condition of the body.
What it says
about how much Ana suffered.
Couldn't talk her out of it.
I'm sorry. Uh, I don't know what to say.
I know you got a lot of years
riding on this, Mike.
Are you sure?
I had Dr. Friedman confirm,
along with two other colleagues.
These aren't the remains of Ana Larsen.
They most certainly belong to a male.
If you look here,
(VOICE FADING): the pelvic bone
has a narrow sciatic notch
and a flat auricular surface.
♪
Cause of death appears
to be blunt force trauma to the head.
FRANKS: And he told him what, Vince?
Yeah, that's what I'm asking.
Yeah. Okay.
Son of a bitch.
He confessed to the chaplain.
Body he led us to was
a guy who happened by
while Hope was burying the captain.
He asked Hope if he needed a jump.
He saw too much, Hope killed him.
Did they identify him?
Matched him to a missing persons.
He was on a road trip, nobody
thought to connect him to Hope.
They're notifying the family now.
- Julie?
- She wants to go see him.
She still thinks
that if she forgives him,
then he'll tell her where Ana is.
She's wrong.
Maybe not.
One day left. If she wants to see him,
who are you to stop her?
This don't concern you.
What?
Said, this don't concern you!
You make it concern me
when you bring it into my house.
You can't just tell me
what to do and I do it.
Six years.
Oh, don't do that.
Six years. How many hours
have you spent with her,
protecting her, agonizing over her?
It is my job. I made her a promise.
Why? Why did you promise her?
Just tell me.
You and her?
No.
Tish.
There's nothing.
Then what are you doing?
(DOOR OPENS)
You won't be joining me inside?
Special day. Last meal.
Spoon and bottle.
GUARD: Let's go, Hope.
Mm-hmm.
What can I do for you, Agent Franks?
It's clear. Come on in.
(HOPE SIGHS)
I-I told Ana she should stop
bleaching her hair.
She wouldn't listen to me.
Looks so much better natural.
Shut your mouth and listen.
(SNIFFLES)
Al, I forgive you.
I forgive you for killing Ana.
You forgive me?
You have your absolution.
Now, please tell me where she is.
I am so sorry, Julie.
There's been a misunderstanding.
I didn't want absolution for me.
I wanted it for you.
We're done here. Mike, no.
Why did she start going out to drink?
Who convinced her that
these fancy bars were fun?
She was miserable.
I wanted her to have a life.
Who drove her to the bar the
night she met that young marine?
Who drove her?
I did.
You got her killed, Julie.
But I forgive you.
Son of a
GUARD: Damn it, Franks! I need help.
Franks, Franks!
- Where is she?!
- Get him out!
Tell me where she is!
Beg me.
Tell me! Tell me!
Tell me where she is.
Tell me where she is!
Tell me where she is!
- Beg me.
- GUARD: Get him out!
FRANKS: Tell me!
- Tell me!
- Beg me.
Franks was screaming at Hope,
"Where's the body?
Where's the body?"
And they had to haul him out of there.
Who told you?
Gail heard Wheeler on the phone,
she told Mary Jo,
Mary Jo told me, then she went
to go get Franks some coffee.
He's outside now.
His mustache is all disheveled.
Situation's dire, man,
we got to help him.
How?
I don't know. Go back through the files?
I got to finish reading Hope's book.
Hey, uh, did Lala talk to him
since he got back?
- Who, Franks?
- Yeah.
About what?
LALA: Hey, guys.
Look at these.
What do you see?
Uh, the place where
Captain Rice was buried.
Yeah, but look.
This one, you don't notice
the shadow of the cactus
'cause it's over the dig site.
This is the one I took yesterday.
- Look at the shadow.
- GIBBS: It's a cross.
Captain Rice's file said
he was Catholic.
Yeah. And the victim
Hope led us to yesterday
the rocks, the shroud-like covering
He's Muslim?
His niece confirmed it.
He must have asked him
before he killed him.
He buried his victims
according to their religion.
Ana's religion was what?
Don't know. File didn't list one.
Let's get her sister on the phone, huh?
Mary Jo.
- Ask Gail.
- Gail?
Mary Jo, can I please get
this printer off my desk now?
MARY JO: Yeah, sure.
How do I do that?
Use your arms, baby.
How long's he got left?
(DOOR CLOSES)
52 minutes.
I promised Julie
I'd bring her sister home.
Rookie mistake,
making a promise like that.
You weren't a rookie anymore by then.
I was alone.
You mean 'cause Vera didn't
want to be your partner?
It's not her fault you made a promise
you couldn't keep, honey.
I didn't know
which way was up without her.
Well
now you got a whole team in there,
working their butts off
trying to do right by you.
Hey.
You know I see everything.
And you know I'm a vault.
That file Vera did for you
she'll never ask you
what it was for, but
was it for Gibbs?
The man who killed his family?
(KISSES)
Love you, Mary Jo.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Ana Larsen.
No, S-E-N.
Did she attend services there?
There's a pet crematorium here.
Maybe she was cremated.
- She was getting into Buddhism.
- No, it doesn't fit the timeline.
It would take at least
two hours to cremate
- a human body.
- LALA: How the hell do you know that?
RANDY: There are so many
things in this book I can't unlearn.
- There are 28 hells, by the way.
- That's just Hinduism.
Franks put a star by his favorite ones.
You're here.
Catch me up.
GIBBS: Hope buried his victims
according to their religion. If we can
figure out what Ana's was, we'll
- be able to
- She didn't have one.
That's what Julie said, too.
Uh, we called her without you, boss.
- I hope that's okay.
- Last chapter.
S-Sorry?
Last chapter in the book
it's about finding your religion.
He said something
about everybody having one.
I remember 'cause it's
the only chapter in the book
that made any damn sense.
Except for the-the hells. I put stars
- next to it.
- Here we go.
"Each of us has a system of worship,
"whether we call it a religion or not.
"Anything can become your god:
"money, sex, alcohol,
power. Whatever you worship,
you will follow its laws"
Boss?
500 milligrams of midazolam.
Franks, stop!
Stop! You bastard!
You thought wine was her god.
You buried her in the vineyard.
I'm bringing her home.
I'm bringing her home.
("PATIENCE" BY GUNS N' ROSES PLAYING)
♪
♪
Shed a tear 'cause I'm missing you ♪
I'm still all right to smile ♪
Girl, I think about you ♪
Every day now ♪
Was a time when I wasn't sure ♪
But you set my mind ♪
Strickland.
I'll catch up.
I put in the request and
got preliminary approval.
Your profiling program.
(SCOFFS)
What happened to next fiscal year?
WHEELER: Hey, Mike.
Let me get a ride back.
All we need ♪
Is just a little patience ♪
Said, "Sugar ♪
Son of a bitch.
(CHUCKLES)
You, uh, pack up your desk yet?
All we need is just ♪
(CHUCKLES)
Kidding.
I decided Franks had enough
to deal with this week.
Your eval said that
you are in a depressive state.
Because of trauma.
Impulsive tendencies,
unaddressed anger issues.
Evaluator strongly recommended
extensive therapy
and concluded
you wouldn't succeed long-term at NIS.
But you know, love, there's one more ♪
Thing to consider ♪
You should hear what's in my eval.
Oof (LAUGHS)
And I don't even want to know
what was in Franks'.
(LAUGHS)
Just fine ♪
You and I'll just use a little ♪
You get your head straight.
Go fishing once a week.
Said, sugar ♪
Prove 'em wrong.
'Cause the lights are shining bright ♪
You and I've got ♪
What it takes to make it. ♪
YOUNG JACKSON: I know you haven't
felt like yourself
since your pup died.
Got your mom worried.
Here.
Fishing reminds you that
everything's coming and going.
There's time to take a breath.
Drop your line in, son.
(CHUCKLES) There you go.
You're just getting started.
You hear me?
You're just getting started.
(MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY)
JACKSON: You hear me, son?
You're not done yet.
You're just getting started.
Got your whole life ahead of you.
(MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY)
Doctor! Dr. Lin?
OLDER GIBBS:
When you're in that tunnel,
there is no sleep.
Mr. Gibbs, I need you to step back.
What's
What's happening? What's happening?
DR.
LIN: We've got an elevated heart rate.
Leroy. Leroy!
- Leroy!
- OLDER GIBBS: But there are
people passing through,
just like always,
just like life.
And if one of them
manages to rattle
the walls hard enough
JACKSON: Leroy. Leroy!
OLDER GIBBS: you
might remember to wake up.