NCIS (TV Series)
Handle with Care (2018)
Emily Wickersham: Ellie Bishop
Quotes
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Ellie Bishop : At least a dozen people copied the information onto Twitter, Facebook, and multiple other sites.
Timothy McGee : From there, it spread like wildfire.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Wait. Who wrote the first thing?
Timothy McGee : Well, it was a dummy account. Like most Web handles, it didn't connect to any name, address, or bank account.
Ellie Bishop : But we were able to trace the subnet of the IP address.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : I have no idea what that means.
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Bob Sweeney : You guys the cops?
Ellie Bishop : Uh, yep. NCIS.
Bob Sweeney : Well, if you want my advice, I'd look into her.
Clayton Reeves : Why would we do that?
Bob Sweeney : You see this place? You think a petty officer's salary paid for it? No. James' parents, my brother and his wife, they had money.
Emma Sweeney : Get out of my house.
Bob Sweeney : They died in a car crash six years ago, and they left everything they had to their boys. She never had any interest at all in James until they were dead.
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Ellie Bishop : How did I never know this?
Timothy McGee : I'm telling you, the elevator close-door button is a placebo. Same with crosswalks.
Ellie Bishop : Wha... so we've just been pushing it all these years for no reason?
Timothy McGee : Yeah, it's crazy, especially when recent studies show that levels of bacteria on elevator buttons can be forty times higher than on public toilet seats.
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Timothy McGee : [hearing Nick yell in frustration] Everything all right?
Nick Torres : No!
Ellie Bishop : You want to talk about it?
Nick Torres : I got a letter from the IRS. They want my leave and earning statements from when I was undercover in South America. I mean, who keeps an LES from five years ago?
Timothy McGee , Ellie Bishop : I do.
Clayton Reeves : I once had a friend at MI6 whose taxes get messed up when he was undercover in Borneo. Took him years to pay off.
Timothy McGee : How'd that happen?
Clayton Reeves : He tried to write off a helicopter as his company car.
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Palmer finished the body that came in last night. I'll be down in Autopsy.
Ellie Bishop : Well, I thought Spain said he had heart failure.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : They did.
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Ellie Bishop : Petty Officer Second Class James Sweeney.
Timothy McGee : 23 years old, married, no kids.
Nick Torres : He owns a home in Virginia with his wife Emma.
Timothy McGee : Parents were killed in a car crash when he was sixteen years old.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Record?
Ellie Bishop : Spotless.
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs : What about our suspect?
Nick Torres : Retired Marine Sergeant John Ross.
Ellie Bishop : He sends out care packages every day from his Legion Hall in Franconia, Virginia.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Every day?
Timothy McGee : Got him set up in interrogation whenever you're ready.
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs : We sure that Sweeney's care package was sent by Ross?
Ellie Bishop : Contents are consistent with the packages he sent in the past.
Nick Torres : And not to mention his pictures.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : [looking closer at Ross' ribbon rack] That's the Prisoner of War Medal.
Timothy McGee : Yeah, Ross was held captive for five years in Iran after being taken during the raid on the U.S. Embassy. He was on duty as a Marine Security Guard.
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Timothy McGee : About three months ago, a podcast host named Whit Dexter had John Ross on his show.
Ellie Bishop : An unwitting Ross assumed the interview was about the care packages.
Timothy McGee : Dexter pushes insane theories he knows are false in order to gain listeners and advertisers.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Yeah. I know who he is.
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Is there a connection to the victim?
Timothy McGee : After Ross leaves, Dexter lays out Ross' history of violence and aggression.
Ellie Bishop : He promised his listeners something big would soon be revealed to prove that Ross is a government thug.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : What, a box of poisoned cookies?
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Clayton Reeves : He wasn't lying when he said the information about John Ross and the poisoned cookies was all over the Internet before he reported it.
Ellie Bishop : We've been trying to find the original source, but...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : There are no "buts", Bishop.
Timothy McGee : Boss, we've been looking, but it's like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Clayton Reeves : More like hay mountain.
Ellie Bishop : We'd need to comb through the entire Internet to find the first post describing the murder that all the others piggybacked on.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : [frustrated] There's a dead sailor. There's a vet being framed. God. Find the source.
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Ellie Bishop : I am not built for all-nighters anymore.
Clayton Reeves : I forget. Can anybody beat 3:23 p.m.?
Timothy McGee : Well, the earliest post I can find describing the murder is 2:59 on a chat site called JohnOTruth.com.
Ellie Bishop : Mm, I got 2:44 on Twitter.
Clayton Reeves : I can't keep them straight.
Abby Sciuto : Don't worry. I'm keeping a running list of all the posts.
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Nick Torres : I got it!
Ellie Bishop : Thank god.
Clayton Reeves : Well, where was it?
Nick Torres : Oh, it was in an e-mail account I forgot I had.
Ellie Bishop : What? Well, what are you talking about?
Nick Torres : My missing LES, baby. Pay period eleven, 2013. I've been looking for it all night.
Abby Sciuto : Wait. So... you've been in there working on your taxes?
Nick Torres : Yes.
Clayton Reeves : And you haven't done anything the entire time?
Nick Torres : I can multitask.
Timothy McGee : I no longer feel bad the IRS wants to take all your money.
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Ellie Bishop : We're looking for Clyde. We went to his apartment, he wasn't home.
Emma Sweeney : And you came here?
Ellie Bishop : Well, yeah. I mean, we figured since you two are sleeping together and all.
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Timothy McGee : How'd it go?
Ellie Bishop : Had nothing to do with James Sweeney's inheritance.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Wife wanted out of the marriage for a while. She paired up with the brother once the husband was deployed.
Ellie Bishop : They decided to kill James and impress Clyde's hero, Whit Dexter, at the same time by framing Ross.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Two birds, one care package.
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Timothy McGee : Is that your "caught the bad guy" dance?
Nick Torres : No, that's my "IRS messed up and now they owe me money" dance.
Timothy McGee : Oh, they owe you?
Nick Torres : Yeah. The only thing that would make this day better is if we somehow got to arrest Whit Dexter.
Ellie Bishop : Well, you get the next best thing. He's already lost multiple sponsors.
Nick Torres : No!
Ellie Bishop : Yeah, apparently influencing a murder is where they finally draw the line.