- Timothy McGee: Your mom says the twins are already asleep.
- Delilah Fielding: [Sarcastically] So that's all it takes- just a little shooting. We should do this everyday.
- Nick Torres: Sorry, but McGee, uh, hit the limit of how many people he can shoot in his apartment.
- [Torres chuckles]
- Delilah Fielding: What is he talking about?
- Timothy McGee: I do not know. But I packed your bag here. Ready to go to your mom's.
- Delilah Fielding: *What* is he talking about?
- Timothy McGee: Not a big deal, all right. but a couple of years ago when you were in Dubai. There was a break-in here in the apartment and uh, I shot someone.
- Delilah Fielding: *In* our apartment?
- Timothy McGee: Yeah.
- Delilah Fielding: And you failed to mention this to me!
- Delilah Fielding: Well, now I'm worrying for a whole new set of reasons. Like what else aren't you telling me?
- Timothy McGee: Nothing.I'm not hiding anything from you at all. No, I swear. Scout's honor.
- Jimmy Palmer: [Palmer enters] So - is it - is it just the one or did you find another mummified body under the bed?
- Timothy McGee: Okay, hang on. Hang on. I might've failed to mention there was also a mummified body but...
- Delilah Fielding: Mum...
- Timothy McGee: HANG ON. We have bigger fish to fry. Like finding out why this guy tried to lure me out of the apartment and what was he after.
- Timothy McGee: I'm sorry, who are you?
- DOD IG Inspector Richard Sullivan: Dick Sullivan. Deputy Inspector General, DOD.
- Ellie Bishop: Does Gibbs know about this?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [entering] Rule 99.
- Jack Sloane: "Never tell Gibbs he's being audited."
- Nick Torres: That's not a real thing.
- Ellie Bishop: Hey, can I borrow a pen?
- Nick Torres: No way. Get your own.
- Ellie Bishop: What? Since when did become a pen Nazi?
- Nick Torres: Ever since I found out that pens are not expensable.
- Ellie Bishop: That's crazy.
- Nick Torres: Yeah, you know what's crazy is that my protein powder is not expensable, either.
- Ellie Bishop: Yeah, I would file that one under "duh".
- Ellie Bishop: Can't believe you still have it.
- Timothy McGee: Yeah, it's the first PC I ever built. Made me realize that...
- Nick Torres: You would never have a girlfriend?
- Timothy McGee: Um, I've had plenty of girlfriends, thank you.
- Ellie Bishop: Yeah, one even helped him build this.
- Timothy McGee: No, actually that was just a girl-dash-friend.
- Ellie Bishop: Oh.
- Nick Torres: Oh, so, like, pathetic-dash-disturbing.
- Timothy McGee: I pulled this bad boy out of the mothballs last week, see if I could get the twins started on computer science early.
- Ellie Bishop: Well, it's a really nice design.
- Timothy McGee: Well, the twins had other ideas. Morgan threw up on the CPU and Johnny peed on the hard drive.
- Jack Sloane: This is insane. I've never been audited in my life.
- DOD IG Inspector Richard Sullivan: Well, if it makes you feel better, it wasn't just you. Agent Gibbs' entire team was sloppy with their expense reports.
- Ellie Bishop: What?
- Timothy McGee: Wait, what?
- Ellie Bishop: We're being audited?
- Nick Torres: Did you think I was organizing my receipts for fun? No, that's something that dorks who build their own computers do.
- Jimmy Palmer: So, what do we have here?
- Nick Torres: Dead Navy contractor.
- Jimmy Palmer: That's the third one this year.
- Nick Torres: Am I the only one that doesn't keep track of these things?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What have we got?
- Ellie Bishop: An empty notebook. Pages torn out. Oh, wait. I see some indentations.
- [Gibbs hands her a pencil]
- Ellie Bishop: Oh.
- Nick Torres: You know, pens are not expensable.
- Ellie Bishop: [raising the indentations with the graphite tip] All right, I got some numbers here. 4, 20, 19, 94.
- Timothy McGee: That's funny. That's the exact same date that I got my, uh...
- Ellie Bishop: Z28?
- Timothy McGee: Yeah, back when I lived in...
- Ellie Bishop: Hampstead?
- Nick Torres: Uh... can someone explain to me what just happened?
- Timothy McGee: That's one of my old computer passwords.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, McGee, why does a dead guy have one of your old computer passwords in his pocket?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What do we got?
- Nick Torres: Phone records. Nothing too exciting. Bunch of calls to mom, sis, yada yada, but the last call that Kane made before he disappeared is really interesting, to a high school in the middle of nowhere.
- Timothy McGee: Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
- Ellie Bishop: Don't tell me it's yours.
- Timothy McGee: Well, one of them. We moved every time my dad transferred.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You sure you didn't go to high school with this guy?
- Timothy McGee: Boss, I'm-I'm positive that I did not go to high school with this guy. I remember everyone at the school. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.
- Nick Torres: I'm Special Agent Nick Torres. NCIS.
- Mister Lewis: I'm actually late for a rehearsal right now. We're doing "Cats", again, so, um, if you could, uh...
- Nick Torres: Ask you a few questions while we're standing here? Yeah, I like the idea.
- Timothy McGee: I mean, what kind of teacher doesn't nurture a budding flower, you know? Alcohol wipes, babe.
- Delilah Fielding: [passing them over] Well, turned out all right, didn't it?
- Timothy McGee: Well, I don't know about that. Haven't tapped since college, and I'm a failure as a writer.
- Delilah Fielding: You wrote a best-seller, Tim.
- Timothy McGee: Yeah, that was, uh, ten years ago, and it was two best-sellers, by the way. Torx driver.
- Delilah Fielding: I thought you were happy at NCIS.
- Timothy McGee: I am. It's just... last thing I wanted to do as a kid was join the Navy.
- Delilah Fielding: And you didn't.
- Timothy McGee: You know, I don't fight for the Navy, but I am a cop for it.
- Delilah Fielding: [McGee turns on his old computer] Um, Tim, what is it doing?
- Timothy McGee: Oh. Looks like it's opening up an Internet Relay Chat.
- Delilah Fielding: On its own? And IRC? Who uses that anymore?
- [he receives a message reading "Hello, Timothy"]
- Delilah Fielding: Timothy, why is your computer talking to you?
- Timothy McGee: ['talking' to his computer] Who is this?
- [the reply reads "Someone who has the answers you seek"]
- Delilah Fielding: Is this really creepy, or is it just me?
- Timothy McGee: No, it's not just you.
- Delilah Fielding: Ask it what it wants.
- Timothy McGee: Okay.
- [typing]
- Timothy McGee: "What do you want?"
- [the reply asks if he's alone]
- Timothy McGee: "No."
- Delilah Fielding: [hitting him] Don't say that.
- Timothy McGee: What? Why?
- Delilah Fielding: Because clearly, whoever that is wants you to be alone, so let them think you are alone.
- Timothy McGee: Okay, okay.
- [typing]
- Timothy McGee: "Yes. I'm alone."
- [the reply reads "There is a package for you in the stairwell"]
- Timothy McGee: Go to the kids, now.
- Delilah Fielding: Tim?
- Timothy McGee: Someone could be in the building. Call Gibbs. Actually, call 911, then call Gibbs.
- Delilah Fielding: Be careful.
- Young Chloe Crane: What's it called?
- Young McGee: It was just released. It's called a web browser.
- Young Chloe Crane: Cool name. What is it? A new development stack?
- Young McGee: No. You use it connect to something called the Internet.
- Young Chloe Crane: And then what?
- Young McGee: Watch.
- Young Chloe Crane: Is that the phone company?
- Young McGee: It's their website, yeah.
- Young Chloe Crane: Wait. Are you tunneling into their backend servers?
- Young McGee: Yup. I figured out a way to make long-distance phone calls for free.
- Young Chloe Crane: Oh, my god. Do you know how much money we could make?
- Young McGee: I just want to be able to call my dad when he's on deployment.
- Young Chloe Crane: I hear you, but... do you know how much money we could make?
- [showing McGee a framed picture of his father]
- Young Chloe Crane: Do it for your dad, and the extra pocket change.
- [he executes the command; a power line outside blows up, and the power goes out]
- Young McGee: Oops.
- Timothy McGee: Ranger found the body about an hour ago.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Witnesses?
- Timothy McGee: They canvassed nearby campgrounds, no one saw anything. Think this belongs to our murderer?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, it's a shovel, McGee. It's-It's by a dead body. You tell me.
- Ellie Bishop: Edward Kane, 45. Worked at the Defense Payroll Service at DOD.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Bean counter.
- Ellie Bishop: Been missing since Thursday, and Jimmy says he's been dead for about four days.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee.
- Timothy McGee: Boss, I don't know the name, I've never seen this guy before in my life.
- Ellie Bishop: He knows you, or at least your password.
- Timothy McGee: Unless it's a coincidence.
- Ellie Bishop: Do you know the odds of a 19-digit string randomly matching your...
- Timothy McGee: 9,000,652,000 to 1, yes.
- Nick Torres: So, I talked to the front office. Uh, Kane called, asked to talk to the guy who runs the computer lab, an Andrew Lewis.
- Timothy McGee: You're kidding. Mr. Lewis? Can't believe he's still here. Yeah, I was never really a fan, but I'm sure the guy remembers me.
- [recognizing a passing faculty member]
- Timothy McGee: Oh, Mr. Lewis.
- Mister Lewis: Yeah, and who are you?
- Timothy McGee: It's me, Tim McGee.
- Mister Lewis: Doesn't ring a bell.
- Nick Torres: Well, made quite an impression.
- Timothy McGee: Our records show that last week, you talked to an Edward Kane.
- Mister Lewis: Mm... no. No, I didn't. Uh, in fact, I've never heard the name before.
- Timothy McGee: [showing him Kane's picture] So you don't know this guy?
- Mister Lewis: No. Anything else?
- Nick Torres: You should pay more attention to your star pupils.
- Young Chloe Crane: [seeing Tim's new tap shoes] Wow. Pretty sharp. And expensive-looking.
- Young McGee: Well, I worked all summer for 'em.
- Young Chloe Crane: Selling free long-distance would've been an easier way to make a buck.
- Young McGee: Easier way to go to jail.
- Young Chloe Crane: Well, that summer gig was worth it. You look great.
- [he does a short dance]
- Young Chloe Crane: Too bad you suck.
- Young McGee: Please. They don't call me "Timothy Soft Shoes Savant McGee" for nothing.
- Young Chloe Crane: You're the only one who calls you that.
- Young Chloe Crane: So, what's it gonna be next year in college? Gonna go for the big leagues?
- Young McGee: I was actually thinking about majoring in writing. What do you think? Pretty crazy?
- Young Chloe Crane: I think it's a great idea, but it's not me you need to worry about.
- Young McGee: I know. "Son, every McGee since the last millennium has gone into the Navy."
- Young Chloe Crane: You should just tell him no.
- Young McGee: Chloe, he's not exactly the guy who takes no for an answer.
- Mister Lewis: Maybe you should listen to him. Well, I'm just judging by what I hear your English teachers say, and how well you did in the talent show last year.
- Young McGee: Thanks for the encouragement?
- Mister Lewis: I'm just saying that talent is a real thing. Not everybody has it. You should find out what you're good at, just do that.