Episode 1.0 Navy NCIS: The Beginning - Ice Queen. (Potomac Park) Scout leader Dryfuss: You'll never get your archery pin shooting like this, Tommy. Tommy: Trying to, Sir. Billy: (teasing) Close em' both. You might hit something. Marcus: Yeah. The River. Scout leader Dryfuss: Thats's enough boys. Okay. Last arrow. Billy: Watcha aimin' at Tommy?...Maryland? Scout leader Dryfuss: Pass your bows back and retrieve your arrows. That bow's still a little strong for you Tommy. You'll do better next year. Tommy: (dejected) Yes, Sir. (points are counted as they retrieve their arrows) Marcus: Ten, twenty, twenty-five. Billy: I rule! Scout leader Dryfuss: Come on boys. Others are waiting. (yells out) Tommy, get the one over the hill. (Tommy doesn't return) Tommy! If you can't find it, let it go! Tommy: (in tears) I didn't mean to do it!. It was an accident! (The scout leader gags at seeing the womans body in the tree.)

Gibbs: I thought I'd seen it all. Gibbs: Kid puts an arrow in a corpse. That's a new one. DiNozzo: Just a variation. (laughs) I remember we found this old guy, died watching TV. We found him sitting in his Lazy Boy, stiff as a board, with a Bud in his hand. Blackadder: Please, not another Baltimore Homicide story. DiNozzo: Looks like a natural death, but we have to wait for the ME to confirm it, right? So it's dinnertime, my partner and I are starving so we tell the rookie to keep an eye on the stiff. Rookie's never been alone with a body. Suddenly, the body goes out of rigor, slumps, and the air trapped in the lungs is forced through the voice box and the corpse moans. Blackadder: Stop it. DiNozzo: Rookie freaks, empties his service revolver into the body. Gibbs: You know what I think, DiNozzo? DiNozzo: Don't say it's an urban myth, man, 'cause I was there. Gibbs: I think...you were the rookie. DiNozzo: (blank face) That's funny Gibbs. Funny. Wrong...but funny. Gibbs: Looks like Ducky's beat us to the body. Gibbs: Tony, make a hundred meter perimeter search? Tony: One hundred. Got it. Gibbs: Viv, you get the scout leader's story. I'll take the boy. Viv: Do you have to question the boy? What can he tell us that the scout leader can't? Gibbs: I don't know. That's why I'm going to guestion him. Viv: It'll only add to his trauma. State Trooper: You're M.E.'s down by the river with the body. The little guy by himself is the one who shot the arrow. He's pretty shook. One for the books, huh? Gibbs: Uh-huh. Gibbs: (to Viv) I think the scout leader is the tall one. State Trooper: First time I've known Chief Metz to let an outside agency handle a homicide on our turf. Gibbs: Maybe he knows something about us, you don't.

Viv: Special Agent Blackadder. Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Scout leader Dryfuss: She doesn't have a face! I pushes her hair back and she didn't have a face! Viv: Did you touch any part of the body? Scoutleader Dryfuss: God no! I ran back and called the police. You don't know how horrible it was! Viv: You might want to suck it up for the boys.

Gibbs:(smiles) Hi. Name's Gibbs. I'm a Navy Investigator. Tommy: (scared) I didn't kill her. Gibbs: I know, son....It's all over now. Tommy: No, It won't be over. I'll dream about her! Gibbs: Only if I want to!. Tommy: I don't want to! Gibbs: Then close your eyes and tell yourself not to dream about her. Tommy: That won't work. Gibbs: It's worked for me since I was your age..and saw something bad like this... Trust me..Close your eyes. (Tommy closes his eye) Gibbs: I will not dream about her. Tommy: I will not dream about her. Gibbs: This is my card. Give me a call. Tommy: If I have a nightmare? Gibbs: No, we took care of that...Call when you're ready to visit our offices...and bring some friends.

Viv: The Scout leader took one look at the body, barfed and called 911. You get anything different from the boy. Gibbs: He didn't barf. Gibbs: What have you got Ducky? Ducky: A deceased pregnant Navy Lieytenant who appears to have been tossed into a tree..(sniffs the air) Hello Agent Blackadder. How about dinner tonight after the autopsy? Viv: I never date men old enough to be my father, Ducky. (Viv leans forward) Ducky: Love your perfume. Viv: Cut the Hannibal Lector act, Ducky. Ducky: PHFFFFT! (Viv walks away.) Ducky: Agent Blackadder reminds me of a young women I autopsied once. (Gibbs ignores him) Ducky: Of course, I never saw her alive, but I imagine she moved with that same little pelvic hitch. It's caused by a slight spinal curvature around T- twelve or L-one. Gibbs: When did she die? Ducky: (musing) Oh, gosh, let's see..that was in Hollywood at lease twenty years ago. She was an assistant film editor and the editor's wife caught them in flagrante delicto one evening at.... Gibbs: This one, Ducky. When did this one die? Ducky: It's been awhile. Gibbs: Care to be more specific? Ducky: Not until I do the autopsy. Gibbs: Humor me. Ducky: Judging from the decomposition I'd estimate two-and-a-half to 3 weeks. Gibbs: Cause of death? Ducky: It wasn't the arrow.

Viv: Find any track? Tony: Ground's soaked. I think the rain washed 'em away. Viv: (walks on) You concrete cops can't read a sign unless it's in neon. What's that? Tony: Deer tracks. Viv: How old? Tony: What are you, Pocahontas? Tony: What? Viv: Nothing. (walks on) Tony: No. No. Definately something. Viv: You remind me of my brother, Rex. He taught me to track....called me Pocahontas. Tony: I'd rather you didn't think of me as your brother Viv. Viv: Oh, I could never do that Tony. Tony: (smiles) Thats good to hear. Viv: Rex was much better looking. Tony: What are you, taking comedy lessons from Gibbs? (Viv seems upset to Tony) Tony: Did you say "was"? Viv: Rex was killed on the Cole. Tony: I'm sorry, Viv. Viv: Me too. He was a good man and a great brother. Tony: He why you left the FBI and hooked up with us? Viv: When the Cole was bombed, NCIS was first on-site. Before the CIA, FBI or even Jag. I di a little checking and realized my best shot at payback was working with you cowboys.

Gibbs: How pregnant was she Ducky? Ducky: I'd estimate 4 to five months. Gibbs: Brush the hair from her face will you. What happened to her face? It's to cold for larva. Ducky: Crows. They took her eyes first, then tore away the soft flesh. Gibbs: Why didn't they touch her hands and feet? Ducky: I've been pondering since I got here here, Gibbs....I really don't know. Gibbs: She was in the river. Viv: How'd she get into the tree? Gibbs: Look at the water marks on the trees and rocks. The river overflowed in the Spring thaw and washed her into it. You can bag her Ducky, she wasn't dumped here. (Ducky and his assistant James Royce are about to bag her) Tony: Hold it! (Finds something revealed in a ripped sleeve..sees a Jag Millrinde with stripes) Tony: She's a Jag. Ducky: Ever work with her? I know she's a bit messy, but how many blonde JAG female Lieutenants can there be?

(JAG HEADQUATERS) Admiral Chegwidden: The medical examiner estimates she's four to five months pregnant. Cmd. Sturgis Turner: Oh my God, I hope it's not Lieutenant Singer, Sir. Cmd. Harmon Rabb: It can't be Lt. Singer. She's due in two weeks. Adm. Chegwidden: Have you been in touch with the Lt. Commander? Cmd. Rabb: No, Sir. Not since she left three months ago...I was estimating. Lt. Colonel Sarah Mackenzie: Harm's right, Admiral. It couldn't be Loren. No medical Examiner misestimates by four months. Adm. Chegwidden: He hadn't conducted the autopsy yet and I would assume the body is...decomposed. Petty Officer Tiner: Excuse me admiral. I tried Lt. Singer's San Diego number and her cell phone. Both have been disconnected, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: Thank you, Tiner. P.O. Tiner: Aye, aye, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: I'm afraid this doesn't look good. Cmd. Rabb: You writing her off, Sir? Adm. Chegwidden: While I may not personally know each of theseven hundred and fifty JAG Officers around the world under my command, I do know that none of them have been missing for 3 weeks! NCIS will DNA the remains and compare them to the military database. If it is Lt. Singer, we'll know shortly. Cmd. Rabb: Excuse me, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: Is there something between the Commander and Lt. Singer I should know?

(NCIS) Gibbs: I want you to have a search team out first thing in the morning. Cover both sides of the Potomac, starting below the falls and working downstream. Special Agent Clarence Dobbs: How far downstream? Gibbs: To the bay if necessary. If we're lucky, her purse washed up somewhere. SA Clarence Dobbs: With this war, I can't get enough agents to cover that area. Gibbs: Call Master Sergeant Puller at Quantico. Tell him I need some of his Marines for a little field exercise. Puller owes me. He'll send em'. Tony: That was Admiral Chegwidden. He couldn't reach Lieutenant Singer. Her home phone is San Diego and cell have been disconnected. And ready for this...he said she's due to deliver in two weeks. Viv: No way that body was full term. SA Clarence Dobbs: Some women hide it well. Viv: Not that well. Gibbs: Ducky will know. Director Morrow: Gibbs. Follow me. Your team can tag along. Gibbs: Yes, Sir.

(MTAC) Viv: (looking at screen) That's Amad Bin Atwa! Clarence Dobbs: You know your terrorists. Viv: Is he in that hotel? Director Morrow: If our intel is accurate, he's just finished a 'tire un coup.' Gibbs: (to puzzled Viv) French for 'nooner." Tony: That Heather with the bag? Clarence Dobbs: Who else would have those legs? Female Agent's voice: We have a match. (To Bin Atwa)

(NCIS Squadroom) Viv: Amad Bin Atwa supplied money and explosives to..(checks phots on wall)..Hasan Mohammed who executed the attack on the Cole. They're an Al-Jihad team thats been together for nine years. (to Gibbs) If Bin Atwa gives up Hasan, I want in on the kill! Gibbs: We're not tasked with capturing Hasan Mohammed. Viv: Gibbs, my brother died on the Cole. Gibbs: I know that...and I'm sorry. Viv: Then get me in on this. Gibbs: You're not here to use NCIS as a personal instrument of revenge! Get your head around this murder case or pull your tailored suit out of mothballs and hike back to the J. Edgar Hoover building! Am I clear, Agent Blackadder? (Viv just stares at him.) Gibbs: Am I clear? Viv: Very, Sir. Tony: Ever notice how all Marines think they're D.I.'s?

Tony: You're a woman, Viv. Viv: Not in my tailored suit. Tony: How could the vic be full-term and not look it? Tony: If she delivered just before she died, she'd still appear pregnant. Tony: Viv could be onto something, Gibbs. Viv: Maybe it was too much for her. The premature delivery. Being single. Post partum depression. What if she gave up and took a header off a bridge above the falls. Gibbs: With the baby? Viv: Oh, God...what a horrible thought. Gibbs: I hope you're wrong. We need that fetus in utero to match the father's DNA. (Autopsy) Gibbs: You think that's cold? Viv: Very. Gibbs: Good. Means I'm focused. Viv: I hope I'm never that focused.

Ducky: Aside from having no face, you cleaned up pretty good, didn't you? Gibbs: Ducky, a Lieutenant Singer is the only pregnant JAG unaccounted for and she's supposedly full term. Ducky: Then she's not our guest. Tony: Could she have just delivered? Ducky: No. Of course, corpses are tricky. Never know what they're hiding. (M.E. assistant Clarence Royce is helping Ducky.) Ducky: Have a good afternoon, Vivienne? Viv: Just ducky. Ducky: I wish. Oh, the DNA results will be in shortly...(speaks to corpse)..and then we will be formally introduced. Gibbs: I'll need the fetus' DNA. Ducky: Think daddy was the killer? Tony: She was single. Ducky: (to corpse) Shame on you. Gibbs: If we're lucky, the fetus' DNA will match with someone at JAG. Viv: It's illegal to use military DNA, except to identify the boady. Gibbs: I don't intend to use it in court. Viv: It's still illegal! Gibbs: The law will change soon. Viv: It's not changed yet! Gibbs: The politicians have their timetable and I have mine. Ducky: Let's not fight, children. We're all on the same team here. Let me show you what was on the body before I send it up to Abby. (Has 2 bags of evidence First bag:) Ducky: One cocktail napkin. Very water-soaked. Appears to have a number scribbled on it. (picks up 2nd bag:) Our lieutenant was travelling on American Airlines. Gibbs: To or from? Ducky: Hard to say. It's in worse shape than the napkin. Gibbs: I can partially make out the destination...S..something...N. Tony: S-A-N. Airport designation for San Diego. Gibbs: Tony. Call San Diego. Have them check her residence, interview neighbours...full investigation. (To Ducky) Anything else for us Ducky? Ducky: Oh, yes. I saved the best for last. This metallic sliver was imbedded in a posterior skull fracture. (shows x-ray) ...Here. My guess. She was hit on the head with a blunt metal object and dumped above the falls. (points again to x-rays) These fractures could have been caused by going over the falls without a barrell. Gibbs: Tony, check the bridges over the falls. Tony: Viv and I will be out at first light. Gibbs: You're on your own. Blackadder is going with me to JAG. Ducky: Shall we see how our guest is hiding a full term fetus, Viv?

(Fax machine) It begins printing. Admiral Chegwidden's voice: ..I regret to inform you the Armed Forces DNA Registery....

(JAG Conference Room next day) Admiral Chegwidden:....has identified the body as Loren Singer. This is Special Agent Gibbs and Blackadder of NCIS. They'll be investigating her death. Cmdr. Harm Rabb: NCIS is taking the lead on this, Admiral? Admiral Chegwidden: Affirmative, Commander. Cmdr. Rabb: I'd like to request a concurrent JAGMAN investigation, Sir. Admiral Chegwidden: Request denied. Cmdr. Rabb: Admiral, I think we should... Admiral Chegwidden: Denied.

Cmdr. Rabb: Was she murdered? Gibbs: Why would you suspect that, Commander. Cmdr. Rabb: Would ou be here if it were an accidental death? Lt. Colonel Sarah McKenzie: Lieutenenat Singer was supposed to be in San Diego. Do you know what she was doing back in D.C.? Viv: We were hoping one of you could tell us. Cmdr. Rabb: The last time, any of us saw Lieutenant Singer was when she left in January. Gibbs: Do you always speak for everyone, Commander Rabb? Admiral Chegwidden: Agents Gibbs and Blackadder have requested to interview each of you individually. You will ALL give your full cooperation. How would you like to procedd Agent Gibbs? Gibbs: First, Sir, while everyone is here... I need to admonish you that discussing your testimony with one another could result in an obstruction of Justice charge, so please refrain from discussing our questions or your answers with... Cmdr Rabb: We're lawyers, Gibbs. We know the law. Gibbs: Since you seem to know it better than anyone else, Commander, why don't we start with you? Cmdr. Rabb: Fine. Admiral Chegwidden: Commander Rabb and I have the court schedule to rework. And in any case, I'd prefer you started with me. Would that be a problem? Gibbs: No, Sir. Admiral Chegwidden: Good. Give us ten minutes and I'll be at your disposal.

Viv: I thought we called the shots on an investigation. Gibbs: We do. Viv: Then, why let the Admiral cool Rabb down? Gibbs: So Admiral Chegwidden can play the good cop. (ADMIRAL Chegwidden's Office.) Adm. Chegwidden: What went on between you and Lieutenant Singer? Cmdr. Rabb: Nothing, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: Nothing, my ass! After that performance in the conference room you'd be my prime suspect! Cmdr Rabb: (shocked) Admiral, I didn't kill Loren! Adm. Chegwidden: I know that. But you're involved. How? Cmdr Rabb: I'd rather not say, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: Good god, you didn't get her pregnant, did you?...No, of course, you didn't. But you know who did and you're protecting him. Cmdr Rabb: I'm protecting Lieutenant Singer's privacy, Sir. Cmdr Rabb: If she didn't tell anyone who the father was, why should I speculate? Adm. Chegwidden: She's beyond protecting, Commander, and I don't believe you're being anymore truthful with me than you'd be with NCIS. Cmdr Rabb: I'm not going to lie, Sir. Adm. Chegwidden: You're a dam good lawyer and you know who to obfuscate the truth when being interrogated by...(stops talking)... dam he's good! Cmdr. Rabb: (confused) Sir? Adm. Chegwidden: Special Agent Gibbs. He's got me questioning you! Hearsay rules don't apply in an interrogation. I'm duty bound to repeat whatever you tell me if he asks. Cmdr Rabb: Is Gibbs really that devious, Admiral? Adm. Chegwidden: Hmmmmm....he reminds me of you.

(Admiral Chegwidden Voice.) Lieutenant Singer requested an extended maternity leave in January, which was granted. Gibbs: Was that the last contact you had with her, Sir? Adm. Chegwidden: Yes. Viv: There was a charge, subsequently dropped, by the Skipper of the Seahawk of Conduct Unbecoming. Adm. Chegwidden: She was found to be pregnant while on sea duty. The Captain suspected it was the result of a shipboard liaison. Viv: She said it happened before she sailed, but refused to prove it by naming the father. Adm. Chegwidden: That's correct. Viv: Why's the skipper drop the charges. Adm. Chegwidden: I assume he believed her. Gibbs: Or Colonel Mackenzie. You sent her to the Seahawk to invetigate Lieutenant Singer, did you not? Adm. Chegwidden: You know I did, Agent Gibbs. It's in that file. Gibbs: Not this one, Admiral. This is Commander Rabb's file.....You sen him to the Seahawk, too. Adm. Chegwidden: On a separate investigation. Gibbs: He and Lieutenant Singer even departed together. Adm. Chegwidden: Pure coincidence. She was returning to Washinton and the Commander was off to Naples on assignment. Gibbs: I'm sure they conversed on the COD. Adm. Chegwidden: I'm sure they did. But about what, I wouldn't know. Gibbs: He didn't mention it? Adm. Chegwidden: No, and neither did she. Let's save time here, Agent Gibbs. The only thing Commander Rabb's told me is that he did not murder Lieutenent Singer and has no idea who did.

(NCIS Warehouse.) Tony: Find her purse? Clarence Dobbs: Nope. Just enought junk for a garage sale. I doubt any of it ties into your case, but I'm not taking any chances. The Marines I sent find you? Tony: They're guarding the area I taped off. Didn't even ask when they were getting relieved. Clarence Dobbs: Hey, after Quantico this is a vacation. Tony: Buy a purse at the Navy exchange, soak it in mud and turn it in. Who's to know? Clarence Dobbs: First Abby. Then Gibbs. Then my widow.

(ELEVATOR) Clarence Dobbs: Blackadder doesn't know, does she? Tony: Know what? Clarence Dobbs: Gibbs is the best interrogator we've got. Soon as they loosen Bin Atwa up, the Director will be sending him in. Question is, will he take Agent Blackadder with him? Tony: I hope not. That would make him a good guy in her eyes and she's just beginning to like me.

(NCIS CRIME LAB) Tony's voice: Is that number two or three today? Abby: If you must know, it's number four. Tony: You've seen what thats stuff does to a chicken bone, right? Abby: Hey, what doesn't kill you keeps you awake. Tony: Brought you a present. Abby: (Takes envelope) And you wonder why you're single. Think it's from our Vic? Tony: Hoping. How long before we can get a DNA? Abby: Let's see what A-B-O- typing says first. Tony: (sees photos on the wall) You redecorating? Abby: Wanted to brighten up the place. Tony: You take these? Abby: Uh-huh. Tony: A shotgun- shattered backbone? Abby: Yeah. The middle one's a cross-section of an ice pick to the cerebellum. Tony: Is that an esophagus? Abby: Uh-huh. I call it 'Esophagus with Lye Chaser.' The sad end of a Drano drinker. Tony: You need to get out more, Abby. Abby: Is that an invite? (JAG Conference Room) Lieutenant Harriet Sims: Lieutenant Singer was always very...diligent and efficient in the performance of her duties. Gibbs: But.... Lt. Harriet Sims: My mama taught me to never speak ill of the dead. Viv: Mine taught me to tell the truth. Lt. Harriet Sims: Well, I always thought she was too ambitious for her own good. Gibbs: Ambitious enough to use a pregnancy to further her career?

Commander Sturgis Turner: I can't imagine even Lieutenant Singer would stoop that low. Gibbs: I just saw a light bulb. Com. Sturgis Turner: Well, It's just that..the last case we worked on, Lieutenant Singer lied about her religion to gain an advantage. She claimed to be Jewish then in fact she was a mezuzah-carrying Methodist.

Gibbs: Then, the father could be someone here at JAG? Lieutenant Bud Roberts: God no! No one around here would be dumb enough to get involved with Lieutenant Singer. I mean she wasn't unattractive, but...You don't think it was me, do you? Viv: Should we? Lt. Bud Roberts: I did not have sex with that woman? Gibbs: Not the best choice of words, Lieutenant. Lt. Bud Roberts: I know! I know! But, believe me, it wasn't me! Gibbs: We believe you....So...who was it?

Lieutenant Commander Manetti: I'm the last person to ask that. I'm new here. Gibbs: What's your intuition tell you? Lt. Com. Manetti: Not to answer questions I don't know the answers to. Gibbs: Spoken like a lawyer at a deposition, Commander. Lt. Com. Manetti: It wasn't someone from JAG. Gibbs: And just how do you know that, Commander? Lt. Com. Manetti: The bartender at Benzinger's told me Singer was seeing a civilian before she shipped out. Viv: Were you participating in Colonel Mackenzie's investigation?

Lt. Sarah McKenzie: No. I alone conducted the Singer investigation. Viv: Commander Rabb was on the Seahawk with you. Lt. Sarah McKenzie: On an unrelated case. Gibbs: Did you know Commander Rabb asked Commander Manetti to ferret out who Lieutenant Singer was seeing prior to her deployment. Lt. Sarah McKenzie: What! Gibbs: If he wasn't part of your investigation, why would he do that?.....Colonel? Lt. Sarah McKenzie: I have no idea. You'll have to ask Commander Rabb.

(In Gibbs' car) Viv: Why didn't we question him?