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FADE IN: INT. SQUAD ROOM - DAY TONY: Wow. What'd you do? Spend the night sake-bombing? KATE: It's a cold, Tony. Sake-bombing? TONY: Oh, come on, Kate. Don't tell me you've never heard of sake-bombing? KATE: Would I ask if - forget it. I don't want to know. TONY: You take a cup of hot sake. You drop it in a beer. You toss it back and - and KA-BOOM! KATE: Sake-bombing. TONY: Great for a cold. KATE: I'll stick to honey and hot tea, thanks. TONY: McGee, Kate's never been sake-bombing. MCGEE: You know, I don't think I have either. TONY: I work with a pair of wankers. GIBBS: And you make three, DiNozzo. TONY: Good morning, Boss! KATE: Good morning. GIBBS: Cold or flu? KATE: Just plain cold. Don't worry. I will sneeze into my tissues, unlike some people. TONY: I have allergies, Kate. GIBBS: Never had allergies. Never had a cold. KATE: You never had a cold? GIBBS: Nope. Never had the flu either. KATE: Why do I believe that? TONY: If you were a bug, would you attack Gibbs? MCGEE: I get colds all the time. TONY: Of course you do, Probie. MCGEE: This one is just addressed to "NCIS Special Agent." TONY: I think that's mine, McGee. Huh? MCGEE: How do you know? TONY: I recognize the lips. And the scent. KATE: Gummy Bears?(TONY OPENS THE ENVELOPE AND BLOWS) (FADE OUT) (THEME MUSIC UP OVER OPENING TITLE/SCENES / CREDITS AND OUT) MUSIC IN: INT. SQUAD ROOM - DAY "SWAK" (SFX: GIBBS WHISTLES) GIBBS: We've opened a letter with white powder. Use the southeast corridor to the holding room. You all know the drill. KATE: Tony! (INTO PHONE) Letter opened in Special Agent Gibbs's office dispersed a fine white powder. Initiating bio-attack procedures. Third floor is evacuating. GIBBS: McGee, are you up on procedures? MCGEE: Yeah, we shower, burn our clothes, get our blood tested. Nobody leaves the building until the substance is identified except... TONY: Lucky me! I win a free trip to Bethesda to be pricked like a pin cushion. KATE: They've shut down the air. Let's hit the showers, Tony! TONY: Thought you'd never ask. Sorry, Boss. CUT TO: INT. SHOWERS - DAY SOUND OF WATER OVER DIALOGUE TONY: Who would send me a letter with anthrax? KATE: Pick a girl, Tony. Any girl. TONY: It's not funny, Kate. KATE: Yeah, I know. TONY: This is serious. KATE: I know, Tony. I'm sorry. TONY: This very instant somebody is incinerating my Ermenegildo Zegna suit, my Armani tie, my Dolce Gabbana shirt, and my Gucci shoes! MCGEE: You know, it might not be anthrax. TONY: I like the sound of that, Probie. MCGEE: It could be small pox, bubonic plague, cholera... TONY: Probie! MCGEE: Foot powder, face powder, talcum powder. TONY: Honey Dust! MCGEE: Honey Dust? TONY: Honey Dust. I give it to girls - women, sorry, Kate. I give it to women at Christmastime. Very sensuous. You apply it with a feather. KATE: You don't use the whole chicken? MCGEE: I never heard of Honey Dust. KATE: Yeah, that's because your mother raised you to respect women, McGee. GIBBS: It makes a women's skin feel silky smooth. When kissed, it tastes like honey. (V.O.) Got a box of Honey Dust last Christmas. No card. TONY: Ah, I think the post office screwed up, Boss. Someone else got your bottle of Jack and you got the-- KATE: Hey! Doesn't the post office irradiate our mail? MCGEE: Yeah, that's right. All Federal mail is funneled through the Ion Beam facility in Bridgeport, New Jersey. If it has DNA, it dies. TONY: The diseases that you named, they have DNA? MCGEE: They do. KATE: Ah, you should have let him squirm. TONY: Ha ha! Then it's no worries. GIBBS: Unless the post office screwed up again.(SHOWER OUT) CUT TO: INT. SQUAD ROOM - DAY (MUSIC OVER ACTION/MEN IN SUITS/ CLEAN AND VACUUM) (SFX: ELEVATOR DINGS/DOORS SLIDE OPEN) CUT TO: INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY GIBBS: You should have given the letter to me, McGee. MCGEE: I know, Boss. KATE: It's not McGee's fault. Tony snatched it out of his hand. TONY: So now it's my bad? MCGEE: You did grab it, Tony. TONY: Lame excuse, Probie. You should have stopped me. DUCKY: Where do you think you're going? GIBBS: To find out who sent the letter. DUCKY: Ah ah ah ah ah. You cannot leave autopsy. It's negative pressure so airborne pathogens can't contaminate the rest of the building. GIBBS: Ducky, I have been scrubbed, sanitized, for all I know, sterilized! I have an investigation to open! DUCKY: I have a possible contagion to contain. Until your blood test clears you, I cannot permit you to leave this room. (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) PARAMEDIC: Who opened the envelope? TONY: He did. MCGEE: No no no! It wasn't me! TONY: Just kidding. I'm your pin cushion. PARAMEDIC: Did you inhale any powder? TONY: I might have. DUCKY: We took blood. Jimmy? JIMMY: Yeah. Four blood vials on ice to go. (KATE SNEEZES) KATE: It's a cold. I had it before I came in this morning. DUCKY: Which makes you even more susceptible to airborne pathogens. You should go in the hospital, too. KATE: Oh, no! GIBBS: Kate, play it safe. Go with Tony. KATE: That's safe? How long are we going to have to stay in isolation? PARAMEDIC: At least overnight. TONY: Can we have double beds because I hate it when you get that crease when you push the two-- (GIBBS WHACKS TONY) TONY: If I get anthrax, how will you feel? GIBBS: Not as bad as you, DiNozzo. PARAMEDIC: Let's go. KATE: I'm warning you, DiNozzo. TONY: Yeah? KATE: I do not feel well. TONY: You need to relax. You need a foot massage. KATE: I don't want you anywhere near my feet. I don't want you touching my feet. TONY: You don't feel well and-- (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN/ CLOSED) CUT TO: INT. LAB - DAY (MUSIC PLAYS B.G.) (MUSIC OVER ACTION/ ABBY SAMPLES THE ENVELOPE AND PERFORMS TESTS) ABBY: So how long to Atlanta? LIEUTENANT: Less than an hour. Your music's sweet. ABBY: So are you. Hoo! Talk to Mama. GIBBS: (ON MONITOR) I didn't take you for the cheerleader type, Abby. ABBY: Oh, I'm not. Grammy taught me that.(BEGIN TELEPHONE INTERCUTS) (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) She was an Olympic swimmer. Won the Silver in the two hundred meter butterfly. (SCENE CUT) JIMMY: What does swimming have to do... (SCENE CUT) JIMMY: (ON MONITOR) ...with cartwheeling? ABBY: Nothing. (SCENE CUT) JIMMY: I don't understand. MCGEE: You can't think logically with Abby. Her mind operates like a pachinko machine. GIBBS: What was the powder, Abby? (SCENE CUT) ABBY: White. (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) With a hint of tan. GIBBS: Abs! ABBY: (ON MONITOR) Well, it's all I know until my baby speaks to me. I'm auto-sampling for anthrax, botulism... (SCENE CUT) ABBY: .... Plague, cholera, all those nasty little bio-buggers. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: How long? ABBY: (ON MONITOR) A couple hours. GIBBS: I thought you said these tests were fast. ABBY: (ON MONITOR) It's not a pregnancy test, Gibbs. (END TELEPHONE INTERCUTS) CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION HALLWAY - DAY TONY: You should drink more water. KATE: Tony. TONY: Your urine's too dark. KATE: I have a cold. I can't believe you're commenting on my - eeugh! DOCTOR PITT: Neither can I. Doctor Brad Pitt. Yes, it's my real name and no we're not related. I wish we were. I'd love to meet Angelina Jolie. (KATE LAUGHS) TONY: If I said what he said you would... elbow me. (TONY/ KATE AND PITT WALK TO THE ISOLATION CUBE) DOCTOR PITT: Well, it's not The Four Seasons, but let's hope you're not here long. (SFX: WHOOSH) KATE: Negative pressure? DOCTOR PITT: Mm-hmm. Air can flow in, but not out. I'd like you to meet Lieutenant Emma Ingham, your duty nurse for tonight. EMMA: Hi, guys. How are you? DOCTOR PITT: As a precaution, I'm starting your prophylaxis with streptomycin. KATE: Prophylaxis is a measure taken for the prevention of disease, Tony. TONY: That's why I use them. (SFX: EMMA LAUGHS) KATE: Oh, you don't want to encourage him, Lieutenant. EMMA: Sorry. Um... take any beds you want, you guys. TONY: Thank you, Nurse Emma. DOCTOR PITT: But it's prudent to keep some separation in case one of you has been infected. KATE: Thank you, Doctor! DOCTOR PITT: Brad. We're informal here. KATE: Kate. TONY: Are these things sunlamps, Brad? DOCTOR PITT: U.V. Kills the bacteria in the air, although I can arrange for a sunlamp if you wish. TONY: Oh, not for me. It's for Kate. KATE: What? TONY: Yeah, a little nude sunbathing might get rid of those tan lines. KATE: Doctor, could you put him to sleep, please? TONY: 'Bye Nurse Emma. EMMA: Bye. (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) GIBBS: (V.O.) Swak? CUT TO: INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY ABBY: It's sealed with a kiss, Gibbs.(BEGIN TELEPHONE INTERCUTS) (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) Didn't you ever get a love letter? GIBBS: Does a Dear John count? (SCENE CUT) ABBY: Ah. I feel sorry for you, Gibbs. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: Is there a return address? (SCENE CUT) ABBY: Twenty seven Old Mill Bottom Road... (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) Annapolis, Maryland. GIBBS: McGee, you got that? MCGEE: Got it. I just wish I had my PDA. GIBBS: Use Ducky's. JIMMY: Uh... uh... Agent Gibbs, Sir, Doctor Mallard doesn't have... GIBBS: Requisition replacement cell phones and weapons for my team. Go! JIMMY: Pistols? GIBBS: Well no, Palmer. Crossbows if you think they might work better. (TO ABBY) Cancelled stamp? ABBY: (ON MONITOR) Noon yesterday, Annapolis. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: (ON MONITOR) Open it! ABBY: Normally I'd request a please, but... (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) ...Considering the situation. MCGEE: Boss, I can't find Ducky's PDA. GIBBS: McGee, it's a pad and a pencil!(END TELEPHONE INTERCUTS) CUT TO: INT. INNER LAB - DAY DUCKY: Oh, beautiful calligraphy. ABBY: Beautiful paper. It must be thirty two pound cotton rag. GIBBS: (ON MONITOR) Abby, does that mean you can trace it? ABBY: The water mark will tell me where it was made... (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) ... When it was made, and who sold it. The person that sent this... may as well have signed it. (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: You know, there was a time when every young woman of breeding was taught calligraphy. (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: (ON MONITOR) My mother still tries, but her hand shakes so that... (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: ...Even I can't read all her missives. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: Can you read this missive, Ducky? (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: Oh, yes. It's perfectly legible. ABBY: Um... I think he means read it out loud. DUCKY: Oh, sorry. Of course. Uh...(READS) "If you are reading this and have not initiated biological attack procedures, I suggest you do so immediately." (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: (ON MONITOR) "Since the powder dispersed by opening this envelope contains genetically altered..." (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: "...Y. pestis. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: Which is Latin for what? (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: Plague! (MUSIC UP AND OUT) FADE IN: INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY GIBBS: The powder in that envelope carries bubonic plague? (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: Pneumonic is more likely. GIBBS: (ON MONITOR) There's more than one? DUCKY: Oh, there are three, actually. But pneumonic is by far the most dangerous since it can be spread simply by breathing the Y. pestis particles. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: Tony must have breathed in some of them. (SCENE CUT) ABBY: It may not be alive. Y. pestis needs a host or moisture for it to survive more than a few hours. (SCENE CUT) MCGEE: Plus it was irradiated when it went through the mail, Boss. GIBBS: I got a Honey Dust for Christmas, McGee. ABBY: (ON MONITOR) I'll narrow my test to pneumonic Y. pestis. (SCENE CUT) ABBY: If I can isolate the strain, then Bethesda can hit it with a specific antibiotic. (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: Yeah, well that may not help. It says here, "I have genetically altered the Y. pestis to render it impervious to antimicrobials. ABBY: That bitch! She created a strain that... (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR)... Antibiotics can't whack. GIBBS: Ducky, give Bethesda a heads up. DUCKY: (ON MONITOR) Right. GIBBS: A swak does not mean that this bitch couldn't be a bastard! (SCENE CUT) ABBY: You're so right, Gibbs. I have this friend who's a transvestite. Her lips could outswak Angelina Jolie's. Remember, McGee? You met her at my birthday party. (SCENE CUT) MCGEE: Yeah, the low-cut red dress with a built-in plastic-- (GIBBS WHACKS MCGEE) (SCENE CUT) ABBY: I saw that, Gibbs. GIBBS: (ON MONITOR) Read, or you'll feel it. ABBY: Not while you're down there. GIBBS: (ON MONITOR) What?! ABBY: However, there is an antidote. She made a magic bullet. (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) "Which if administered within thirty two hours of infection, will eradicate the disease." (SCENE CUT) ABBY: "To procure the antidote, NCIS must make public the true results reported in... (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (READS ON MONITOR) ... "Dossier R-Zero Three Seven Seven. GIBBS: McGee, pull up the file. MCGEE: Yep, Romeo Zero Three Seven Seven. On it, Boss. GIBBS: Is that it? (SCENE CUT) ABBY: That's all she wrote. (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) It's guilded inside. (SCENE CUT) ABBY: I can see the swak through - uh-oh. We have a moisture strip in here. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: Yeah, keeping the bug alive until the letter is opened. ABBY: (ON MONITOR) I'm afraid so, Gibbs. GIBBS: Check the cancelled stamp, Abs! (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: (ON MONITOR) One way to get around postal irradiation - to not use the post office. (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) DUCKY: I spoke with a Doctor Brad Pitt. ABBY: You're kidding. DUCKY: No, that's his name. He made a point to stress that he is not related in any way to the actor. ABBY: Hey, did you hear when Brad and Jen split up? GIBBS: (ON MONITOR) Abby! ABBY: Gibbs, I can't until I can put this under a microscope. And I can't do that until NCID gives me approval to irradiate. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: Okay, which will be when? ABBY: (ON MONITOR) The Navy is sending a sample to Atlanta. (SCENE CUT) ABBY: It should be there... well, now. (SCENE CUT) ABBY: (ON MONITOR) And then it'll be twelve hours for DNA confirmation. GIBBS: Ducky, what's the incubation period? DUCKY: (ON MONITOR) A day at most. GIBBS: How long until it kills? DUCKY: (ON MONITOR) Well, not very long, I'm afraid. In the fourteenth century, the novelist Boccaccio wrote... (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: ... That plague victims had lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise. (SCENE CUT) GIBBS: McGee, where's the file? MCGEE: Boss, I cannot access it from-- GIBBS: Ducky! We're coming up! (SCENE CUT) DUCKY: We've already been through this, Gibbs! You can't! (END INTERCUTS) CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM (SFX: TONY SNAPS HIS FINGERS) TONY: You know what this feels like? KATE: I'm afraid to ask. TONY: Like I'm the king of cool. KATE: Elvis? CUT TO: INT. OBSERVATION ROOM TONY: (FILTERED) Elvis was the king of rock and roll. Travolta is the king of cool. (EMMA GIGGLES) KATE: (V.O./FILTERED) Well thanks for the clarification. CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM TONY: And do you know why I feel like Travolta? KATE: I feel a movie coming on. TONY: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Travolta plays this boy born with an immune deficiency. This is before AIDS. He lives in this giant plastic bubble. KATE: Tony. Tony, please. CUT TO: INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - DAY KATE: (FILTERED) We're stuck here together. Can we just make a pact? Until we're out... CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM KATE: I won't make fun of all the stupid things you say and you won't tell me any more film scenarios. Deal? TONY: Deal. KATE: Thank you. TONY: Emma. EMMA: (FILTERED) Yes? TONY: You may find this of interest. You look pretty without the mask, by the way. CUT TO: INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - DAY TONY: (V.O./FILTERED) Ralph Bellamy plays the doctor. Ralph Bellomy was this... CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM TONY: ... Great old time actor. He was in "His Girl Friday" with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. CUT TO: INT. LAB - DAY DUCKY: I cannot believe that Gibbs broke protocol! (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) ABBY: He didn't. DUCKY: He left autopsy. ABBY: But not isolation. GIBBS: McGee, MCGEE: Yeah. GIBBS: You use Abby's computer to access that case file! MCGEE: On it. GIBBS: Okay. Abby, pull surveillance videos from the squad room. Everything from twenty three hundred last night when I left until McGee came in this morning. ABBY: You've got to get a life, Gibbs. GIBBS: The last thing I need is another wife. ABBY: Life. You've got to get a life. MCGEE: Boss! Boss, I found the file. It's a rape case. GIBBS: Get the investigating agent down here. MCGEE: I can't. It was Pacci. (INTERCUT FLASHBACK OF PACCI'S DEATH) GIBBS: Put it up on the plasma, McGee! MCGEE: Okay! GIBBS: Sarah Lowell. Age twenty one. Senior, Vassar. Raped February tenth, oh-one at the Admiral's Bay Hotel in Annapolis. DUCKY: Surely you remember the case, Jethro. The maid found the poor girl naked, tied to the bed two days after she was raped. GIBBS: Duck, contact Cassie Yates in Norfolk. Tell her what happened. I need her help. DUCKY: Yeah, good idea. ABBY: Gibbs! I thought Cassie was working narcotics suppression. GIBBS: Four years ago Cassie was Pacci's probie. ABBY: Oh. GIBBS: The victim was visiting Annapolis to register for an advanced study program at Saint John's. Police had the case for three days before they called us in. ABBY: They found a Navy suspect? GIBBS: A dozen of them. Firsties were partying at the hotel the night of the assault. ABBY: Firsties? GIBBS: Academy seniors. They'd just got their fleet assignments and... are you scanning? ABBY: Gibbs, I can multitask! I can listen to you. I can scan the video. I can rub my tummy and... GIBBS: DNA testing cleared them, closed our investigation. ABBY: But someone wants it reopened. GIBBS: McGee! Call Annapolis P.D. I want their file on this case. DUCKY: I spoke to Cassie. She remembers the case. She'll be here in fifteen minutes. GIBBS: From Norfolk? DUCKY: No, Anacostia. She's working a drug sting. MCGEE: Boss. Boss, I can't call. They're not going to be able to hear me. (BEAT) I'm going to use the computer. ABBY: Gibbs! Look who else doesn't have a life. Tony came back around midnight. GIBBS: He does his best work at night. ABBY: So he tells us. Here's Tony leaving. That's Ben the mailboy. He didn't do it. GIBBS: Why not? ABBY: He's a Vegan. GIBBS: Hitler was a Vegan. ABBY: Hitler was a vegetarian. Big difference. Vegans are so against cruelty they won't even use cosmetics tested on animals. DUCKY: Abigail, could Y. pestis be altered to withstand irradiation? ABBY: No way. Altered or not, it's still a living organism. GIBBS: Could the gilding in the envelope protect it? ABBY: It would have to be at least ten mils thick. This is barely one. Uh-oh. GIBBS: Abby, I do not want to hear any more uh-ohs. ABBY: Sorry. But this swak didn't bleed through. There's another one inside. GIBBS: Get that letter out here where you can examine it! ABBY: Gibbs, I've told you! I have to wait for Atlanta to-- GIBBS: Any doubt it's pneumonic plague? ABBY: No, but... GIBBS: Then no "buts"! Okay? We're losing time. Kill those bugs! Now! CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM - NIGHT TONY: Think they really zap bugs? KATE: What? TONY: These blue lights. KATE: Are you serious? TONY: Ever heard of a placebo, Kate? KATE: Tony, placebos are administered for a psychological effect. TONY: Precisely. How do you know these lamps aren't there to make us think they're helping? Hmm? KATE: Maybe because they're there to kill whatever bugs we breathe into the air. TONY: You may have a point. KATE: You're afraid, aren't you? TONY: Kate, come on. Me? Afraid? Have you ever seen me afraid? KATE: Well, not when the danger is something that we can confront. But all we can do here is lie around and hope that we're not infected. TONY: Now who's afraid? CUT TO: INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT KATE: (FILTERED) Anyone with half a brain. I take that back. CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM - NIGHT KATE: You're not afraid. CUT TO: INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - NIGHT DOCTOR PITT: All the blood cultures came back negative except for Special Agent DiNozzo's. (V.O.) He's infected with Y. pestis. (MUSIC OUT) MUSIC IN: INT. SQUAD ROOM - NIGHT (MUSIC OVER ACTION/CAMERA PANS AROUND THE SQUAD ROOM) CUT TO: INT. LAB GIBBS: Damn it, Abby! How much longer? ABBY: Gibbs! Patience is not your virtue, is it? Look at the plasma. GIBBS: Moldy bread. ABBY: It's a Y. pestis microbe from the powder in the letter. This is the Y. pestis as the human race has known it for a half a millennium. The strain of plague we fight with antibiotics. GIBBS: The one in the letter has blue tips. ABBY: It's been genetically altered to resist antibiotics. You catch that, you're stuck in the Dark Ages, which personally I wouldn't mind until it killed me. GIBBS: This wasn't whipped up in your local meth house. ABBY: No, this took a hot molecular biologist and a big-buck lab to make this bio-weapon. Oh, my baby's calling. I ran a mass spec on the swak. GIBBS: You're analyzing lipstick instead of the letter? ABBY: Well, I figured anyone who's into calligraphy has got to wear esoteric lipstick. And since all lipsticks are tested by the FDA... GIBBS: You'll identify the brand. ABBY: Yeah. If it's as rare as I think it is, I can find out who sold it. GIBBS: Yeah, that's good thinking, Abs. ABBY: What? GIBBS: (LOUDER) Good thinking, Abby! ABBY: I don't know, Gibbs! I can't hear you! It must be the helmet head! Not nice, Gibbs. Not nice. This is weird. All the basics are there - wax, oil, eosin dye, titanium dioxide, but they're in such low levels...(SFX: GIBBS SHOUTS) (SFX: COMPUTER BEEP TONES) ABBY: Whoa! GIBBS: What is that?! ABBY: The reason the Y. pestis survived postal irradiation. Seventy two percent of the lipstick is pure lead. A lead swak on the outside of the envelope. Lead swak in the inside. In between Y. pestis on a moisture pad. This is one smart bitch. CASSIE: Wash your mouth out with purple soap. ABBY: Cassie! Wow, are you suppressing drugs or selling them? CASSIE: I'm working undercover. Everything I'm wearing is confiscated even the La Perla underwear. ABBY: Nice. CASSIE: Gibbs! Is that you playing Tella Tubby? Is this the anthrax letter? ABBY: No, it's not anthrax. It's plague. CASSIE: Thank god. Anthrax scares the hell out of me. May I? ABBY: Yeah. CASSIE: I know this return address. ABBY: Back-tracked it to the Admiral's Bay Hotel, Annapolis, where the girl was raped. DUCKY: Gibbs! Gibbs, all the blood tests came back negative except-- GIBBS: Tony. Get it off --!(GIBBS TEARS HIS SUIT OFF) GIBBS: Is he sick yet? DUCKY: Well, not outwardly. But the doctor says his temperature is elevating. They Y. pestis is attacking his pulmonary system. Hi, Cassie. CASSIE: Hey Ducky. How far are we into this thirty-two hour window? DUCKY: Too far. Tony will begin coughing soon. When his sputum becomes bloody, he'll only have a few hours to live. GIBBS: Abby, get that damn letter out of there! ABBY: I'm getting it. CASSIE: This is too easy, Gibbs. Custom paper and calligraphy that's traceable. A gene-altering bio-attack. GIBBS: Do you know who sent it? CASSIE: No, but I know who they want us to think sent it. CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM - NIGHT TONY: Bedtime snack, Brad? DOCTOR PITT: Oh, IV drip increases the efficacy of streptomycin. TONY: They teach you efficacy at Harvard Medical? DOCTOR PITT: Michigan. TONY: Can't be. It's too weird. DOCTOR PITT: What, are you a Wolverine, too? TONY: Buckeye! DOCTOR PITT: Wait, you're that DiNozzo? TONY: Yeah. DOCTOR PITT: Ninety-two. Columbus! TONY: We kissed our sisters. DOCTOR PITT: Thirteen-thirteen tie. You broke your leg in the fourth quarter. TONY: You broke my leg in the fourth quarter. (CAMERA ANGLE ON KATE) KATE: Oh, god. They're going to start bonging beers next. EMMA: I don't think so. KATE: Oh, you don't know Tony. He epitomizes sophomoric. EMMA: His blood test came back positive. KATE: Positive? EMMA: You're okay. He's the only one infected. DOCTOR PITT: (V.O.) So you didn't feel like an old man on spring break? TONY: Are you kidding? Co-eds love a mature man who can bong a beer in under six seconds. (LAUGHTER) DOCTOR PITT: Well that leaves me out. TONY: So tell me, Doc. What have I got? DOCTOR PITT: Pneumonic plague. TONY: Plague? (LONG BEAT) Plague. KATE: Yeah, Tony. Plague! Because only you would go off and get a disease from the Dark Ages! TONY: I didn't put plague in the letter. KATE: You opened it! TONY: Yeah, so I opened it. What are you so upset about? It's not like you're lying... KATE: Yeah, that's right, Travolta. I'm infected, too. TONY: Oh, Kate. I'm sorry. KATE: Well, you're going to be sorrier. TONY: No, don't tell me Gibbs got it. KATE: Oh, no, no. Just us. But I am going to make your life hell! TONY: How, it can't be worse than the plague. (BEAT) Maybe it can. (TO DOCTOR PITT) Maybe she can. KATE: I'm warning you, DiNozzo. TONY: You know, I recall a couple of plague flicks. KATE: I'm going to tell Emma all of your dating tricks. TONY: Mmm, Flesh and Blood comes to mind. Paul Verhoeven directed. Rutger Hauer starred. KATE: Tony thinks that speaking Italian turns women on. TONY: Obviously you never saw Jamie Lee Kurtis in A Fish Called Wanda. DOCTOR PITT: Kate... KATE: I know. You want to start my IV. (KATE SNEEZES) TONY: If I catch your cold I'm going to be very pissed. (TO DOCTOR PITT) She'll be okay, right? CUT TO: INT. INNER LAB - NIGHT (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) GIBBS: Hey, McGee. MCGEE: Yeah. GIBBS: Special Agent Yates needs your computer. MCGEE: Cassie! CASSIE: Hey, McGee. Can I sit in? MCGEE: Yeah, sure. Boss, Cassie and I had parking spaces next to each other at Norfolk. GIBBS: Why are you yelling at me, McGee? MCGEE: So you can hear me through your hel - helmet? GIBBS: The blood tests were negative. (MCGEE TAKES HIS SUIT OFF) MCGEE: Ah, sweet. GIBBS: Not for DiNozzo. MCGEE: Positive? Is he going to be okay? GIBBS: If he isn't, he'll be answering to me. (SFX: RAPID COMPUTER BEEP TONES) CASSIE: Almost there. MCGEE: Ah, no. Cassie, I already downloaded the NCIS report from the rape investigation. CASSIE: My notes are in my training file. I was only a probie, but Pacci had me interview Sarah. GIBBS: Oh, yeah. You're a female, about the same age. Easier to talk to you than it is to a male agent. CASSIE: It didn't help. She didn't remember a thing. CUT TO: INT. OFFICE - FLASHBACK CASSIE: (V.O.) Traumatic amnesia. Not unusual for rape cases.(BEGIN FLASHBACK SCENES) GIBBS: (V.O.) If she had amnesia, who accused the Midshipman? CUT TO: INT. LAB - DAY CASSIE: (V.O.) Her mother. Recognize her? DUCKY: (V.O.) Vaguely familiar. CASSIE: (V.O.) How about in this photo? DUCKY: (V.O.) Good god yes. That photo was on every front page in the world. She was more famous than Hanoi Jane. GIBBS: Blow that up. Get closer on the headband. CASSIE: My god, that's a swak! GIBBS: She a microbiologist? CASSIE: No, but the best in the world work for her. Hanna's CEO of Lowell Pharmaceuticals. GIBBS: McGee, I want a search warrant! MCGEE: On it, Boss. GIBBS: I'll grab a change of clothes and will meet you downstairs in five. Go to Bethesda and keep me updated on Tony's condition. DUCKY: Of course. GIBBS: Find out why Kate hasn't checked in! MCGEE: You got it. JIMMY: I got the phones, but they wouldn't trust me with the weapons. GIBBS: I wouldn't either, Jimmy. (GIBBS WALKS TO THE ELEVATOR) JIMMY: Uh, that's Agent DiNozzo's cell phone, Sir. Gibbs? CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM - NIGHT DOCTOR PITT: Why are you doing this, Kate? KATE: Damned if I know. But I'm doing it. You're not going to tell Tony. DOCTOR PITT: Well, I've already informed Doctor Mallard you're not infected. KATE: Ducky will understand. Gibbs will be the problem. DOCTOR PITT: No. The problem is that Tony can infect you. KATE: What with all the UV lights and air scrubbers, or are they just here for patient morale? DOCTOR PITT: I cannot permit you to stay. This strain has been genetically altered to resist antibiotics. Do you realize what that means? KATE: That the IV in Tony's arm is useless. So why do it? DOCTOR PITT: Well, it can't hurt. And it gives him... KATE: Hope. TONY: Kate, tell Doctor Brad about that wet t-shirt contest you won. KATE: Tell Emma about the transsexual you tongued. TONY: That never happened. (EMMA LAUGHS) TONY: That never happened. (SFX: TONY COUGHS) TONY: Thanks for passing along the cold, Kate. (FADE OUT) MUSIC IN: INT. BUILDING LOBBY - DAY CASSIE: How do you want to handle this? GIBBS: Subtle approach. You serve the warrant. I'll shove my Sig in her face. CASSIE: Gibbs, Hanna Lowell has been arrested at more protests than Jesse Jackson. She won't be intimidated. GIBBS: Okay, then I'll shoot her and I'll go after whoever made the damn bug for her. CASSIE: You're not going to kill her. GIBBS: I said shoot, not kill. CASSIE: There are dozens of microbiologists here. It would take days to interrogate them. Tony doesn't have days. GIBBS: Do you know where her office is or should I ask the receptionist? CASSIE: Boss always has the top floor office. GUARD: Excuse me. Excuse me. You have to check-in with the receptionist. Do you have an appointment? GIBBS: No. We have a federal warrant. GUARD: Security alert. CUT TO: INT. OUTER OFFICE - DAY HANNAH: (V.O.) It's about time you got here. CUT TO: INT. OFFICE - DAY HANNAH: I left enough cookie crumbs. GIBBS: You left more than cookie crumbs, lady. HANNAH: I regret I resorted to such a dramatic act, but you people at NCIS left me no choice when you lied to protect the Academy. Now, you admit that a Midshipman raped my daughter and this will all be over. CASSIE: The DNA testing cleared... HANNAH: Oh, stop it. I know how easy it is to dope a DNA test. GIBBS: You love dramatic acts. CASSIE: They can be very effective. GIBBS: The effect of this one is going to imprison you for life. CASSIE: That long, hmm? GIBBS: You're dying. CASSIE: Rather rapidly. Which makes incarceration highly unlikely. GIBBS: From the looks of it you want to protect just about every living thing on the planet except for Federal agents. CASSIE: My daughter never recovered from the horror of that weekend. The truth will help her heal. Please! Please, give it to her. You won't get that antidote until that Midshipman comes-- GIBBS: We don't need it. The post office went postal on your plaque. Zapped it right through the lead swak. No one was infected. HANNAH: Oh, I don't believe you. GIBBS: I don't give a damn whether you believe me or not. You are under arrest for a biological attack on a Federal agency. Take her to interrogation. I'll wait here for the task force to arrest the others. CASSIE: You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right... HANNAH: There are no others. I acted alone. GIBBS: You are not a microbiologist. HANNAH: (SHOUTS) I stole the Y. pestis! Doctor Pandy doesn't even know it's missing. CUT TO: INT. OUTER OFFICE - DAY GIBBS: Doctor Pandy! RECEPTIONIST: What? GIBBS: Where's Doctor Pandy's lab. RECEPTIONIST: North wing, ground floor, B-L-Alpha. But you need authorization to enter the North wing! HANNAH: Someone was infected. I hope it was Westmoreland. CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM - DAY (SFX: TONY CONTINUES COUGHING) DOCTOR PITT: Lay back, Tony. All right, everybody behind the shield. Tony, I'm going to need you to take a deep breath and hold it. TONY: I don't think I can, Brad. Maybe Emma can do it for me. You have very healthy lungs, Emma. EMMA: Is he always like this? TONY: Unfortunately. Tony's humor has always been sexist, juvenile, raunchy. EMMA: Funny? KATE: Oh, sometimes he can be funny. CUT TO: INT. BL-ALPHA ROOM - DAY PANDY: There is no antidote. I developed a vaccine, not an antidote. It's of no use once the victim is infected. Hannah misunderstood. GIBBS: She understood. PANDY: No, it's the brain tumor. GIBBS: That's what's killing her? PANDY: It's inoperable, obviously affecting her mind. Why else would a woman who fought to ban biological weapons use them? GIBBS: I don't know. Why is Lowell Pharmaceutical making them? PANDY: We're not. GIBBS: You didn't create this beast? PANDY: Yes! But only to develop a defense against it. Antibiotic resistant diseases are potential terrorist weapons. GIBBS: A terrorist isn't killing my agent, you are! PANDY: I understand your anger. GIBBS: No, you don't! But if you don't save him, you will. PANDY: It has a suicide gene that stops it from replicating after thirty two hours....as a security precaution. GIBBS: It dies? PANDY: Yes. GIBBS: It's dead now? PANDY: If it's over thirty two hours since the specimen has been infected, all of the Y. pestis is dead. However, the damage will have been done. GIBBS: The specimen is going to die?! PANDY: No. No, not necessarily. He has the same chance of survival as those infected in plagues of the past, probably better since he will be healthy and young. GIBBS: What was the survival rate of the past? PANDY: People were weakened by depleted crops, bad nutrition.. GIBBS: Damn it! What was the survival rate?! PANDY: Fifteen percent. CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM - DAY DUCKY: It looks like pneumonia.(SFX: TONY COUGHS B.G.) DOCTOR PITT: Worse, I'm afraid. He's showing signs of cyanosis. His fingernails and lips are going blue. DUCKY: The Y. pestis is starving his body of oxygen. It's too late to reverse, isn't it? DOCTOR PITT: It's never too late. DUCKY: Until I get the body. CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM - DAY TONY: I'm sorry I teased you with all those movies, Kate. KATE: Teased? You've tortured me. For two years all I've heard is John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, James Bond. TONY: James Bond... is a character... played by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, and Pierce Brosnan. Why are you wearing a mask?(SFX: TONY COUGHS) KATE: Because I have a cold. TONY: (WEAKLY) Why aren't you sick? KATE: Because I'm stronger than you, Tony. TONY: (WEAKLY) Are not. KATE: Am too. (TONY CHOKES/ GAGS) KATE: Tony! Tony! Sit up! DOCTOR PITT: Kate, you should leave. Now! (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) CUT TO: INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - DAY (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) DUCKY: You were brave to stay with him, Kate.(KATE CRIES) KATE: (CRYING) He's dying, Ducky. GIBBS: Ah, the hell he is! CUT TO: INT. ISOLATION ROOM - DAY (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) DOCTOR PITT: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who the hell are you? GIBBS: His boss. The bug has a suicide gene. It's dead. It's been dead for over an hour. He's no longer infectious. (WHISPERS TO TONY) Tony, listen to me. Are you listening? TONY: (GASPS WEAKLY) I'm listening. I'm listening, Boss. GIBBS: (WHISPERS) You will not die, you got that? (BEAT) I said, you will not die. (GIBBS HITS TONY) TONY: (WHISPERS) Okay, I got you, Boss. GIBBS: (WHISPERS) Good. It's your new cell. I'd get the number changed. Women keep calling for Spankie. TONY: (WHISPERS) Spankie. CUT TO: INT. WAITING ROOM - DAY CASSIE: (V.O.) Will you excuse me? (TO GIBBS) How's Tony? GIBBS: Ah, he'll make it. What happened? CASSIE: Oh, Hanna lost it in the car. Started rambling, flashing peace signs. When she bared her breasts and shouted "Make love not war!" I drove straight here. GIBBS: Sure it wasn't an act? CASSIE: Her neurologist says it's the tumor. He just left. He wants her released into his care. GIBBS: Not likely. He can see her here as much as he wants. Is that Sarah? CASSIE: Just as blank as four years ago. (TO SARAH) Sarah, this is Special Agent Gibbs. SARAH: I am so sorry. I can't believe this. I knew someday Mother would do something terrible. I told her, but she wouldn't believe me. GIBBS: Told her? SARAH: That it wasn't a Midshipman. GIBBS: So you remember who assaulted you? SARAH: No! GIBBS: How do you know it wasn't a Midshipman? SARAH: I... heard they were all cleared. GIBBS: Are you sure you don't remember? SARAH: (LONG BEAT) Yes. CASSIE: You know who raped you, don't you, Sarah? (LONG BEAT) Sarah? (SARAH CRIES) SARAH: (CRYING) I wasn't raped. Will thought it was funny... tying me to the bed. DISSOLVE TO: INT. HOTEL ROOM - FLASHBACK SARAH: I'd said that the Midshipman looked cute in their uniform. And so when he went out to get us some burgers and shakes, he tied me up so that way I wouldn't run off with one of them. It was a joke! (DIALOGUE OVER MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK SCENES) (FILTERED VOICES B.G.) SARAH: And then when he didn't come back... I started going crazy - first worrying about why and then... and then being found. CASSIE: What happened to him? SARAH: He was killed by a hit-and-run driver crossing the road. CASSIE: Why did you say you were raped? SARAH: I was tied naked to a bed. What else could I tell my mother? CUT TO: INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT KATE: Can I sleep here? DOCTOR PITT: As long as you don't give Tony that cold. (SFX: DOORS SLIDE OPEN) CUT TO: INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT EMMA: He's asleep. KATE: Thank you. (SFX: LIGHTS CLICKS OFF) TONY: This reminds me of the end of Alien. (KATE CHUCKLES) (ENDING CREDITS UP AND OUT) (FADE OUT) (ENDING CREDITS UP AND OUT) |
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