Emily Wickersham credited as playing...
Ellie Bishop
- Ellie Bishop: Where's Gibbs?
- Jimmy Palmer: Talking to the CO. Now it's time for you to talk to me. Who do we have here?
- Ellie Bishop: Well, Petty Officer Robert White. And I hope he's a fast talker.
- Jimmy Palmer: Yeah, me, too. I have a whole list full of events planned for Dr. Mallard's last day.
- Ellie Bishop: If you want to see him before he leaves, let's make this quick, okay?
- Jimmy Palmer: Hey. You doing okay?
- Ellie Bishop: Yeah. Just not a big fan of being underwater these days, you know, so...
- Jimmy Palmer: Oh, that's right. And now you're basically trapped on a big, giant underwater coffin.
- Ellie Bishop: Not helping.
- Jimmy Palmer: Look, we are gonna be fine, all right? This baby is indestructible. And if anything were to go wrong with the boat, Bishop, good news, we'd be dead before you know it.
- Ellie Bishop: Okay. So, it's times like these I'm really gonna miss Ducky.
- Chief Petty Officer Emily Ross: It was a by-the-book dive. This shouldn't have happened.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How well did you know Petty Officer White?
- Chief Petty Officer Emily Ross: He'd only been board a few days. But I could already tell he was a bit cocky. You know how SEALs are.
- Ellie Bishop: Cocky enough to make someone want to kill him?
- Chief Petty Officer Emily Ross: You NCIS guys always go straight to that.
- Ellie Bishop: Well, it's kind of our job.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You just said it shouldn't have happened.
- Ellie Bishop: Except it did, and we're not ready to rule anything out.
- Chief Petty Officer Emily Ross: All I meant was White was a highly-trained diver, so something must've gone wrong. Like maybe with the equipment.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Okay. Aside from White, who had access to his dive gear?
- Chief Petty Officer Emily Ross: His dive partner. And... me.
- Ellie Bishop: So, you and White get along?
- Chief Petty Officer Emily Ross: You guys are barking up the wrong tree, okay? I don't have any beef with...
- Ellie Bishop: [a klaxon blares] What's that?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It's the dive alarm.
- Ellie Bishop: Uh, what? They're not supposed to dive with us on board.
- Chief Petty Officer Emily Ross: Not unless it's an emergency, no.
- Ellie Bishop: Oh. Mm. Okay. That's just great.
- Chief Petty Officer Emily Ross: Well, whatever it is, we're going down fast.
- Ellie Bishop: Gibbs...
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Bishop...
- Ellie Bishop: Huh?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It's fine.
- Ellie Bishop: Mm-kay.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Everything's gonna be fine.
- Navy Captain Reginald Barkley: I thought NCIS left with the body.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. We're still here.
- Navy Captain Reginald Barkley: Well, you two are gonna have to sit tight, then.
- Ellie Bishop: What's going on?
- Navy Captain Reginald Barkley: We've been given emergency dive orders, told to wait for further instruction.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We need to get word to NCIS.
- Lieutenant Commander Gregory Pullman: [chuckles] That's a hard no. Orders include radio silence.
- Ellie Bishop: Uh, but...
- Lieutenant Commander Gregory Pullman: Until we hear otherwise, nothing is going out.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Captain, you have an unexplained death on your boat. I'd like to think you'd be a little more curious about what happened.
- Navy Captain Reginald Barkley: You got a lot of stones to stand on my bridge and insinuate I don't care about what happens to my crew.
- Ellie Bishop: All due respect, a Navy SEAL died on a routine training exercise, and no one can explain why.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We'll have full access to your crew, and we'll start with Petty Officer White's diving buddy.
- Navy Captain Reginald Barkley: Agent Gibbs, I understand that you have a job to do.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We do. And the full authority to do it.
- Navy Captain Reginald Barkley: But let me make myself perfectly clear. If either of you interfere with the operations of this boat, I will fire you out of that torpedo tube myself.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [amused laugh] I wish you luck with that.
- Ellie Bishop: Hey, any way to open this from the inside?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, blowtorch.
- Ellie Bishop: Yeah, well we should have brought one from home. What are you looking for?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A blowtorch.
- Leon Vance: Dr. Mallard, I, um, assume that you are aware that FBI and CIA have agency historians, whose purpose is to insure that the collective knowledge of those institutions live on for future generations.
- Donald Mallard: Yeah, of course. But what has that to do with me?
- [Vance steps aside to reveal a door with a name plaque]
- Donald Mallard: "Donald Mallard, MD, NCIS Historian"
- Leon Vance: Now, if you need some time to think...
- Donald Mallard: Can I come and go as I please?
- Leon Vance: Why, yes.
- Donald Mallard: Does it come with a badge and gun?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.
- Leon Vance: No.
- Donald Mallard: So it's paid, part-time work. Well, now, I suppose this is not the time to discuss contractual details.
- Ellie Bishop: Is that a yes?
- Nick Torres: It sounded like a yes.
- Donald Mallard: Well... if you insist.
- Leon Vance, Jimmy Palmer: That was a yes.
- Jack Sloane: [while others applaud] All right!
- Leon Vance: [they enter the unfinished room] Um... your office still needs work.
- Donald Mallard: [chuckles] Yes, it does.