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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : [Speaking of a lawyer] Oh, acts like she hates me, but... she talks like she... likes me.
Dr. Donald Mallard : Ever been married to her?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : [Chuckles] Yeah, that would explain it, wouldn't it?
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Special Agent Timothy McGee : Hey boss, I got an article here that you may want to read. I can send the link to your email or text the link to your phone.
[Gibbs stares at him]
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Or I can just print it out on paper and give it to you in your hand.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Revolutionary concept, McGee.
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : So McGee, do you know what killed Lt Commander Sayers?
Special Agent Timothy McGee : I think I do.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : You *think*, or you *know*?
Special Agent Timothy McGee : I know one thing, his jetpack exploded.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Jetpacks...? Yeah, it's going to be a weird one.
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : You were looking to pick a fight.
Margaret Allison Hart : I didn't pick this fight. But now that I've met you - I'm *glad* to be in it!
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Special Agent Timothy McGee : Can't believe the Mexican authorities dropped the charges against Colonel Bell. Colonel Bell. Wonder if there's any relationship to Bell Labs. Bell Labs: inventors of the rocket belt. Rocket belt's an amazing model. It's a catalyst that decomposes hydrogen peroxide into pressurized steam and oxygen. You get significant thrust from lightweight rockets for about thirty seconds...
[Gibbs nonchalantly slabs McGee's head]
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : I got it, McGee. You know a lot about jet packs.
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Special Agent Timothy McGee : It was his!
Ziva David : What was?
Special Agent Timothy McGee : The pack. It didn't belong to either of the Tillmans, it belonged to Sayers.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : He built his own jet pack?
Special Agent Timothy McGee : The pack uses fighter jet engineering. That's the missing piece. Sayers ripped off the technology from both of the Tillmans and...
Ziva David : He borrowed from the Navy, as well, to build his own version, which used the best of all three.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : But it crashed.
Ziva David : So, it was not very good.
Special Agent Timothy McGee : That was the intention. The intention was to crash. To dispose of the body where it wouldn't be discovered.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : It was pretty far off the beaten path.
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Any decent pilot could have flown it.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : How about a great pilot? Sheridan wanted the job with Tillman. Petitioned the Navy for it.
Ziva David : But Sayers took that, then picked up a second one.
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Sheridan loses out twice, probably doesn't respond well to that.
Ziva David : Gonna pull the squadron's psych profiles.
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Let's double check their paperwork, scan their files for engineering backgrounds. Need to talk to Gibbs.
[McGee looks around and notices Gibbs isn't at his desk]
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Where is Gibbs?
[Tony, smirking, points at his desk phone]
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : [on speaker] Right here, Elf Lord.
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : [to McGee] All right I believe you. You got the lead on this one.
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Special Agent Timothy McGee : All right, gonna need to get a look at Tillman's financials. I'm gonna stay here.
[to DiNozzo and Ziva]
Special Agent Timothy McGee : You two - go out and talk to him.
Ziva David : So McGee is not coming to the jet pack factory?
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Ok, well, you get your homework done, and - and then you can go out an play with the neighbor kids.
[DiNozzo chuckles slightly]
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Good boy.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : [DiNozzo and Ziva leave. To McGee] The price of being in charge.
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[Allison Hart unexpectedly shows up at Vanessa Tillman's workshop]
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : She's your client, too?
Margaret Allison Hart : If she wishes to be. And I would advise her at this time to refrain from speaking to you.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : You also represent her ex-husband. That's not a conflict of interest?
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : The military experiments with jetpacks?
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : [scoffs] No... well, yeah, they did, but...
[He lets out a sigh and glances at Ziva, who nods. Tony begins to recite]
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : "After years of testing various designs, ultimately they decided helicopters were more practical for earth-atmosphere flight..."
Ziva David : "Although NASA's compressed gas-powered man-maneuvering unit evolved from Bell Systems's rocket belt technology..."
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : "'Rocket belt' being the original terminology rather than the more colloquial 'jetpack... '"
Ziva David : McGee's very passionate about the subject. We spend a lot of time here, just the three of us.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : I was telling him about the bonus features section on the "Thunderball" DVD, which were pretty interesting, and he says, "um, Tony, bonus features aren't science", and so he...
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : He schooled you.
Ziva David : Yep.
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[McGee takes control of the killer's jetpack by remote control]
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Wow, it works!
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Oh, this is sweet.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : He's like a hummingbird... I wanna fly him!
[He grabs for McGee's remote control]
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Come on-!
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Tony, no, you're gonna break it-!
[the killer wavers in mid-air]
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : McGee, get him down!
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Bringing him down, Boss.
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Sayers had rat poison in his system. Abby confirmed it.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : So he was impaired while he was flying. In Commander Cody's brave new world, we're gonna be pulling people out of the sky for FUI's - F.U.I.'s.
Ziva David : So the crash did not kill him?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Well, it didn't help.
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Special Agent Timothy McGee : [narrating his own short film] This is a public demonstration in 1961. Functional technology nearly half a century ago. Measure that against progress in other arenas - internal combustion engine, radio, television, the Internet - in fifty years, they go from impossible to practical to ubiquitous. Meanwhile, *they* keep the jet pack relegated to the world of science fiction...
[McGee pauses the film]
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : "They"? The Jet Pack Conspiracy?
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Well, Boss, if you look at it, it's really the only logical explanation...
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : What's the point of the squirrel?
Jimmy Palmer : Oh, we believe his cause of death may be related to Sayers's.
Dr. Donald Mallard : In desperate situations, where the food supplies are scarce, squirrels will eat almost anything, including human flesh.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : The fire eliminated all the other options.
Jimmy Palmer : Yeah, and we have to inventory Rocket J.'s stomach to confirm its contents, but initial dental impressions suggest that his last meal was Sayers's soft tissues.
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : We're you ever a redhead? Because it sure feels like I know you.
Margaret Allison Hart : No. But, I know you.