NCIS začíná vyšetřovat údajnou vraždu poddůstojníka, počítačového experta. Telefonní operátor byl svědkem údajné vraždy ve chvíli, kdy muži telefonoval. Lidé z NCIS však zjistí, že vražda byla fingovaná. Muž právě pracoval na počítačovém programu pro námořní zdravotní službu a skrze tento program dokázal ukrást velké množství léků.

Gibbsovu týmu pomáhá s vyšetřováním poručík Cheney se svým policejním týmem, který jako by z oka vypadl Gibbsovu týmu, nikoliv však podobou, ale chováním. Kate Toddová je nejvíce zmatená z toho jak se Cheney neuvěřitelně ve všem podobá Gibbsovi.

Vyšetřovatelé a policisté se pustí muži po stopě, muže však najdou skutečně zavražděného. Jeho údajný komplic a spolubydlící však tvrdí, že muže zabil nějaký kolega oběti z práce. Gibbs dalším šetřením postupně vyloučí podezřelé a zbývá mu pouze atraktivní Karen Wilkersonová, která byla nadřízenou zavražděného experta. Problém je v tom, že se Gibbsovi velmi líbila a dokonce s ní úspěšně flirtoval...

In the squad room, Kate is lecturing Tony on all the ways he needs to stop invading her privacy. Tony denies doing any of those things but he knew where Kate went to breakfast. How? McGee gives him up, saying that Tony went through her trash. Tony tells McGee to stay out of it as Kate gets even more indignant. However, Kate never said her trash was off-limits. Kate wants to know why Tony does these things. "Sharpening my investigative skills" he responds.

Gibbs strides into the squad room telling them to gear up, there's a dead sailor. Kate knows there was no call, but Tony knows Gibbs saw it on the news. "Hey, DiNozzo, for once you're right," Gibbs says as he grabs his weapon and heads to the elevator with the rest of the team in tow.

The team drives the evidence truck onto a suburban street. Gibbs shows his badge to a LEO and asks who is in charge. Lt. Cheney is and he's waiting for them, coffee cup in hand. Cheney says Gibbs must be psychic because he just put in the call to NCIS. Nope, Gibbs just watches the news. Cheney shakes his head and complains that they monitor their radio bands. His chief tells him to cooperate with the media. Gibbs shakes his head in agreement and says "Budget time." "You got it," replies Cheney. Gibbs and Cheney discuss the crime scene, kitchen door is kicked in and there's blood but no body. They drink from their coffee cups in unison.

Cheney calls for Miller, who steps up and says "yeah Boss?" Cheney hands him his empty coffee cup, Gibbs follows suit. "Right away Boss!" Miller says and scurries away. Gibbs' team watch Miller in amazement. Cheney continues on with information about the crime, the 911 call came from a telemarketer who was talking to PO Lambert when he heard a struggle and the line went dead.

Cheney and Gibbs enter the house, seeing the blood stains on the wall and obvious signs of a fight in the living room. A female detective strides into the room telling Cheney that his ex-wife just called. "Which one?" he asks. "The nasty one," she replies. "You're going to have to be more specific," Cheney tells her. Kate and McGee feel the weirdness, but Tony thinks its a good weird. Cheney does not want the detective to call back his ex, and the next time the detective should get a name. Miller arrives with the refilled coffee cups. Every move by the LEO team is being closely observed by the NCIS team. Gibbs and Cheney drink in unison again.

Cheney hands over the crime scene to Gibbs, calls for his team, and heads out the door. Tony takes this opportunity to hit on Rachel who wants to know Tony's shoe size. "12" Tony tells her. Rachel laughs and says "you wish" as she pushes past Tony and heads out the door. Tony protests that really is his shoe size, but Rachel is gone. Gibbs calls Tony back to work and hands out assignments. Kate laughs and remarks on how odd it was, how much alike the teams are, Gibbs didn't see it.

Kate is looking for her sketch pad. Tony says it's in the van, under his seat. How did it get there? Kate decides not to pursue this again and goes out to the van. Where she literally bumps into Det. Monteleone, who hits on her. Kate tells him they shouldn't bother with preliminaries. He wonders if she's serious or not. Cheney comes by, smacks Monteleone on the back of the head and tells him Kate's not serious, but he is. As the LEO team heads to their car, Miller is addressed as Probie, and Rachel calls shotgun. Monteleone closes Rachel's door and head-smacks Probie. Kate is left standing with her mouth open, calling it deja vu.

The team is listening to a copy of the telemarketing call. The telemarketer makes between 300 and 400 calls a day. Kate wonders if he feels guilty about bothering people. He says he used to, but he got over it. He kept selling because his boss doesn't want them stopping for anything. "He's got the compassion of a cluster bomb," he says as he smiles and nods at his supervisor who is watching him. They got Lambert's number from a broker. Numbers get on the list any number of ways, including a supermarket charge. This surprises Kate who is told that it comes from those little key tags that they scan at checkout. Kate thought they were just for discounts. He laughs at her ignorance and says it's to keep track of what you buy so they can target you. Kate is not really amused at this and asks for all his phone numbers. He gives them to her, asking her not to call between certain hours and then realizes that's exactly when she is going to call him.

Gibbs has bagged the tape of the call and wants a full acoustical analysis of it from Abby. McGee reminds Gibbs how much work Abby is all ready doing on this case, so Gibbs orders him to help her. This puts a smile on McGee's face as he goes down to Abby's lab. Tony starts to question Gibbs assignment but the look on Gibbs' face makes him back down. Tony has been reviewing Lambert's papers, something he is very good at Kate remarks, and discovered that Lambert had a roommmate, George Mansur. There was no sign of a roommate in the house, but roommates move out. "Don't they, Kate? Sixteen months ago you . . ." Tony stops talking as Kate punches him in the shoulder. Kate is with Gibbs, Tony is to find Mansur.

Kate left her cell phone behind on her desk. It is open and a number is displayed. Tony moves in to see who it was, as Kate's hand appears out of nowhere and snatches up her phone. Kate walks away with a glare for Tony. Tony watches her leave with a big smile on his face.

Down in Abby's lab, Abby is reporting on the blood found at Lambert's house. It is all O positive, Lambert's blood type, but that is the most common blood type. Abby has sent the blood out for DNA analysis. The only prints she has identified so far are Lambert's. What about blood spatter analysis, Gibbs asks. Abby tells Gibbs that she knows he thinks she's Supergirl, and then goes off on a tangent starting to name all the super heroes she might be, Wonder Woman or Isis or the Power Puff girl. Kate has always been partial to Xena, but Abby doesn't think a super hero should wear open toed shoes. Kate thinks about that and agrees. Gibbs is getting annoyed.

McGee reports that Lambert erased his hard drive. "No problem," says Abby. "He used a DOD certified wipe program" McGee tells her. "Uh oh." There's no way to recapture that information. Gibbs wonders why someone would use such a sophisticated program on their home computer. Lambert is an IT person so it could be a matter of course, or he could be hiding something.

What about his answering machine? Two messages there. He's late returning Happy Gilmore and there was a message from the telemarketer. Gibbs wants to hear that. Abby has settled in next to McGee listening to him report to Gibbs. Gibbs is having none of that. "You!" he barks and points his thumb behind him at Abby's console. "Blood spatters." Abby gets up and starts singing "Yo ho heave-ho" as she shuffles back to work. Gibbs smiles to himself.

The message from the telemarketer starts and is cut off. Lambert must have picked up. Gibbs wonders if they called him two days ago, why did they call him back? Kate is assigned to find out. McGee moves on to acoustics analysis.

Gibbs stalks between McGee and Abby, peering over their shoulders, watching them work. Abby glares back at Gibbs until he starts pacing around the office instead of bothering them.

Abby has found something unexpected. She's about to tell Gibbs what it is when McGee pipes up. He's found something unexpected as well. Abby and McGee are arguing over whose news is better and who should go first, when Kate comes in with some urgent news as well. All three are clamoring to be first with Gibbs rocking back and forth in place getting more and more annoyed. Abby stops talking first and raises her hand. Gibbs whistles and shouts "Hey!" and then points at Abby.

The blood trail isn't really a trail at all. Someone stood there, dropped some blood, took a step, dropped some blood, etc. Abby is having fun saying this but Gibbs has moved on. McGee gets to go next. The acoustical analysis shows that the fight sounds were unidirectional and they came from Lambert's computer. The fight was all sound effects. Kate spoke to the telemarketers and found out that Lambert took the first call and asked to be called back between 8 and 12 last night.

Lambert faked his own murder.

In the squad room, they're trying to decide how to find Lambert. Their only advantage is that Lambert doesn't know that they know that he's still alive. Kate is going to stop all his banking items, but Tony reminds her that this guy left everything behind, including his wallet. No way he's going to swipe his card at the local Drugs 'R Us. "Tony's right," Gibbs says. "Thanks, Boss!" gloats Tony, using massive hand signals to inform Kate and McGee that this is the second time today that Gibbs has said he was right. Gibbs tells Kate to do it anyway because Lambert could make a mistake. Tony needs to find the roommate.

Tony is homing in on Mansur. He has Mansur's driver's license and tax return. Mansur was a free-lance computer geek who made 6 figures last year. Tony is impressed. McGee gloats and wonders if Tony would like to be a computer geek now. Tony would rather be homeless than be McGee. The address on the license is old, it's not Lambert's. Plus he's depreciating a 1993 Hyundai on his tax return. Why is he driving that old of a car given his income? Only one way to answer the questions. "Find him and ask him. Which I'm trying," Tony corrects himself mid-sentence "going to do."

Gibbs is gearing up and tells McGee he's with him. They're going to talk to Lambert's shipmates. McGee is puzzled because Lambert wasn't serving on a ship. Gibbs gives him the stare until McGee realizes that Gibbs was using a military euphemism and they're going to Bethesda Hospital Computer Center. McGee speaks their language. McGee is excited because he thinks he's going to get to interview people. ` "I interview. You translate" Gibbs informs him.

In the IT center at the hospital, the staff is wondering why NCIS is looking for Lambert. He's only been UA for 1 day. Gibbs wants to know what Lambert was doing. PO Wilson responds with a long explanation that evokes a "Wow" from McGee and translates to "He was writing a new computer program as part of an overhaul and update of the Naval medical computer system." Was he working on any sensitive material? PO Wilson feels a person's medical history is very sensitive, but Gibbs is interested in National Security type sensitive. Wilson again embarks in a detailed explanation of Lambert's work, which McGee translate to "No." Wilson offers that Lambert's fit-reps were above standard and he was just a regular guy. Gibbs feels they have different definitions of regular guy. McGee gladly translates to "One man's Linux is another's OS/2" which Wilson understands and laughs at. Gibbs gives McGee the look and McGee apologizes to Gibbs. Gibbs asked if there were any changes in Lambert's behavior or demeanor and Wilson at first says no but then admits he was jumpy a few days ago. McGee starts to translate that, but Gibbs got it himself. Gibbs asks for copies of "all this stuff." McGee translates to access to source code, flow charts, and the logical processes involved in the application. Wilson is happy to oblige.

Karen Wilkerson walks in and introduces herself to Gibbs. She's Lambert's supervisor. She is very good looking and Gibbs goes into charming/flirtatious mode. He details McGee to get the copies of the data they need and takes Wilkerson out into the hallway to speak with her privately. Lambert was a good guy, hard worker, first in in the morning, last to leave at night, volunteered to work weekends. Gibbs wonders if she works weekends, not if she can help it. Wilkerson also asks why he's being investigated after only 1 day, it's not like he missed a deployment. Gibbs sidesteps the question and pursues the issue of jumpiness. Wilkerson didn't have much day-to-day contact with Lambert. She's more interested in Gibbs, does he work weekends? "If I need to." "Why do I feel you need to a lot?" she asks. Gibbs turns on the charming laugh. If he needs something else, Wilkerson will make herself available, even on the weekends. Gibbs watches her walk away and comments "Wow."

Back in the squad room, Kate and Tony are still squabbling over his invasion of her privacy. For someone with nothing to hide, Tony thinks she gets awfully upset about what people know about her. Kate informs him that some people like to have private lives, they don't need to inform everyone every time they "hook up." "In a slump?" Tony inquires. Kate tries to ignore him and is aided in that by the appearance of Gibbs.

Kate and Tony report in on their efforts to locate Mansur. He's withdrawn a substantial amount of cash in the last few months and he's moved several times in the last few years. He didn't file a change of address form after his last move. Gibbs believes Mansur and Lambert are in this together. Just what is this, Tony wonders. The answer is the same. Find Mansur and ask him. "I know, boss, I'm trying." "Try harder," is Gibbs response to that. Did Lambert fake his death to get out of the Navy? Unlikely since he only had 5 months left to serve.

Gibbs hollers for McGee and sends him down to see how Abby is doing with the stuff from the hospital. Abby is nodding off in front of her monitor as she scrolls past line after line of code. McGee brightens her day by bringing her a Caf-Pow. Abby is concerned that she is dying of boredom. McGee assures her she cannot because he had Prof. Burnum for Economics. That class makes staring at a monitor seem like Mardi Gras. Abby is unconvinced. This really sucks. So they start comparing the awful jobs they had. McGee starts with being a burnt potato chip picker. Abby thinks he's making that up, but McGee convinces her otherwise. Abby counters with incinerator operator, burning medical waste, body parts, body waste. McGee ups the ante with port-a-potty cleaner in the hottest summer on record. Abby was a ski lift operator in Alberta where it was -44F. McGee cleaned asbestos while Abby collected road kill.

McGee wants to call it a tie, but Abby doesn't respond. McGee starts in with another horrible job description, but Abby stops him, putting her hands on either side of his face and turning his head to the monitor. "Is that what I think it is?" Abby has found something in the code, the reason Lambert faked his own murder. McGee looks closer and his eyes widen as he sees what Abby saw.

McGee is walking with Gibbs from the elevator to Abby's lab. McGee is explaining what Lambert had done, but doesn't actually tell him what Abby found. He's saved that part for Abby, who is very thankful because she relishes those moments. Gibbs wants her to stop relishing and start explaining. Abby finds Gibbs' impatience a bit boorish, but she launches into her explanation. For every 337 prescriptions written, one prescription was written for Lambert. The prescriptions were all for painkillers, Percocet, Vicodin, and Oxycontin. Abby informs Gibbs that Oxycontin is twice as addictive as heroin. It's even more addictive than pistachios. Well, who can eat just one pistachio? McGee can, but has a problem with potato chips. Gibbs head slaps McGee which completely flusters him for a moment, but then he gets back on track. In the last five months, Lambert got prescriptions for 18,000 Oxycontin, 12,000 Percocet, 9,000 Vicodin. The street price of the Oxycontin alone is $1M. Lambert is long gone.

Back at the hospital, McGee is showing the three lines of computer code to Wilkerson. She is amazed that he found it, but McGee admits it wasn't him, it was Abby. Gibbs wants to know if Wilkerson suspected Lambert of abusing his computer privileges. Not until NCIS showed up she says. Their investigation of a sailor who has only been UA for 1 day set off alarms. Wilkerson had Wilson check out Lambert's computer but he didn't find this. Wilson leans over to McGee and says that Abby has to be hot! McGee looks a little taken aback by this.

Gibbs tells Wilkerson about the faked death, saying Lambert wanted them looking for his body, not him. McGee says they would have fallen for it except Abby found the hinky blood trail. Wilson is even more intrigued by Abby. McGee tries to tell Wilson that Abby isn't his type, describing her with tats, piercing, dark make-up. Wilson immediately says "Goth? I love goth!" McGee is not happy with this. Gibbs is wondering why Lambert quit when he was ahead. Wilkerson tells Gibbs that the new system was going online in 5 days, Lambert was probably afraid he'd be caught.

Wilson has traced the prescriptions and has the address where they were sent. It's a box at a Mail Boxes, Etc. McGee is to work with Wilson and track down all of Lambert's bogus scripts. Gibbs is calling Lt. Cheney to tell him what they've found out and see if Cheney has any additional information for Gibbs. Wilson leans in to McGee and wants more information about Abby, but McGee tells him he can't talk and work at the same time. Gibbs is trying to set up a date with Wilkerson before he has to leave. "Do you like boats?" he asks. "Sail or power?" Gibbs half grimaces and says "Sail." Wilkerson loves to sail. "This weekend?" she asks. Gibbs has to admit that he's still building her. "Which marina?" "My basement." She laughs and says "Of course. Saturday?" "If I can find Lambert by then." "So what are you doing standing here/" she wants to know. Gibbs laughs and starts to leave. He comes back, leans in, and says "Jethro." "Jethro?" He nods yes and they both laugh.

In the squad room, the probies are doing coffee duties, two black coffees for Cheney and Gibbs and two grand triple pump half-caf vanilla lattes for the two probies. "Nope mine's the one with the extra foam" says Miller and he and McGee change cups. Cheney and Gibbs just shake their heads. Everyone drinks coffee in unison. Cheney has had his eye on someone for the drug dealing, a lobbyist who went from supplying a few friends to dealing to the whole beltway. Cheney calls Miller over to give him the file. Miller has a hard time removing the file from his jacket without spilling his latte. McGee attempts to help him and between the two of them they spill the latte on the file. They both apologize and claim responsibility for the accident, wiping at the file. "McGee" says Gibbs, closely followed by Cheney's "Miller" and they respond in unison "Sorry, boss," and hand over the damp file.

They're looking for Aaron Alan Wright, busted once in Syracuse for dealing to his frat brothers. Cheney has been hoping to catch the other end of the pipeline. If he busts Wright, he loses the dealer. Gibbs judgment is that Wright is soft so Cheney orders Miller to contact Monteleone and Rapp to bring him in to NCIS for a chat. Miller pulls out his PDA and McGee is interested in the model number. They compare notes on PDAs while Gibbs and Cheney exchange looks and head shakes.

Wright is in the interrogation room with Gibbs and Cheney. He denies knowing PO Lambert. Gibbs paints the scenario, a PO steals drugs from the Navy. Wright doesn't know what that has to do with him. Cheney continues, the PO sells them to you and you sell them to your Beltway friends. Wright's attorney figures this is a waste of time and gets ready to leave.

In the observation room, the two teams are lined up watching their bosses. DiNozzo and Monteleone are admiring Wright's high priced watch and laughing that he paid retail for it.

Cheney tells Wright they've known he's been dealing for months. Wright wonders why they've waited so long to reel him in. "The Lt. wanted your source and I just gave it to him," says Gibbs. Wright still claims no knowledge of Lambert, making it into a kind of joke. Cheney leans in to intimidate and warns him that this isn't a frat bust for grass anymore. Gibbs does the same to tell Wright that he'll be doing hard time every night. If Wright tells them where Lambert is, they'll offer him a deal. Minimum time in a federal correctional facility "without nightly cavity searches." Wright's lawyer tells him that they have nothing on him. Wright is listening to his lawyer. Gibbs warns Wright that when he finds Lambert, and he will, warns Cheney, Lambert will roll on Wright. "Because he's soft," Gibbs says and reaches across the table and rubs his finger into Wright's cheek, "just like you are." Wright's lawyer wants to know if this bad cop/bad cop. Cheney and Gibbs figure they've miscalculated. Cheney thinks Wright is looking forward to playing strip poker in Marion, without cards. The lawyer says they have to charge Wright or they're leaving. Wright is looking very uncomfortable. Gibbs and Cheney have nothing so the lawyer and Wright start to leave. "Aaron!" calls Gibbs. "You won't last 48 hours in Marion." Cheney disagrees. He doesn't think he'll last 24. Gibbs and Cheney bet 5 bucks on it and shake.

In the observation room, DiNozzo and Monteleone are laughing. Gibbs turns to the one-way mirror and shouts "What are you laughing at DiNozzo!" "And you Monteleone" chimes in Cheney. Tony and Monteleone stop laughing and look at each other out of the corners of their eyes. Kate and Rachel close their eyes and shake their heads in unison. "We didn't break him," continues Gibbs. Miller and McGee look uncomfortable and squirm a bit as their bosses holler at their teams. "Made him piss his pants though," says Cheney. "Oh hell yes," agrees Gibbs and they laugh together.

Wright and his lawyer are walking down the hallway to the elevator. Wright is lighting up a cigarette, even though his lawyer warns him to wait until they get outside. Wright ignores him and lights the cigarette and steps into the elevator, blowing the smoke into the squad room as the elevator doors close.

The two teams exit the interrogation area and Tony continues to hit on Rachel. Rachel knows his lines because Kate has warned her. Rachel tells Tony that he's almost as good looking as he thinks he is. Monteleone gives Tony a sympathetic pat on the back as they leave.

Abby races in to the squad room looking for Gibbs. She's found Mansur at a cyber cafe. Tony and McGee are going with Gibbs, Kate is on the phones, and Abby is to keep tabs on Mansur's computer. Kate is unhappy with this, calling it boy's night out. Abby thinks that's great because than it's girl's night in. Kate should transfer the phone down to Abby's lab and they'll have fun.

Tony is strong arming Mansur out of the cyber cafe, McGee is using his computer to figure out what Mansur was doing. Mansur is pretty sure this is illegal, and Tony thinks he's right. Gibbs agrees with both of them but they're still not letting Mansur go. Mansur tries screaming for help on the sidewalk, but that doesn't help him. Tony disperses the crowd showing his badge and saying "Federal agents." Mansur hasn't seen Lambert since he moved out two weeks ago. He left because Lambert bought the place and didn't want a roommate anymore. Mansur assures them they aren't partners. Lambert is doing his own trades and he has to be doing insider trading because he's doing better than Mansur is. "The drug market?" Tony asks. Mansur is sure that Lambert was not dealing drugs. Gibbs is not so sure that Mansur would know anything. Mansur says Lambert is either at home or at work.

Gibbs' phone rings and he walks away from Mansur to take the call. This gives Tony a chance to ask Mansur about his car. "I'm not a car guy," Mansur tells him. "Don't you dig chicks?" Tony wants to know. Before Mansur can answer, Gibbs is back. "Get McGee and Abby to do what they do when they hook up" Gibbs tells Tony, who snickers. Gibbs head slaps him and Tony tells Mansur that he meant was with the computers. Mansur is to be taken in despite his vehement protests that he did nothing. Tony tells him to shut up, having little patience with his whining. The call was Lt. Cheney. They've found Lambert in a ravine in Rock Creek Park.

It's night and the park is teeming with emergency vehicles. Crime scene tape is being put up everywhere and Ducky is on the scene. "This the petty officer who faked his murder, Jethro?" "Unless DNA says otherwise." "Yes, well, he's not faking now," is Ducky's learned opinion. Lambert died from a bullet in the back of his head. Ducky estimates that the muzzle was within two inches of his skull. Neither Wright nor Mansur has the guts to kill someone looking them in the eye. But Gibbs' gut says Ducky is about to eliminate Mansur as a suspect. He asks Ducky for the time of death. Ducky counsels patience as Mr. Palmer is home with the flu tonight and he is his own assistant. The liver probe beeps and Ducky estimates the time of death between 1800 and 2100 hours. "How does that jive with your gut?" Ducky wants to know.

McGee and Abby are in her lab looking at Mansur's trades. Mansur bought into a cosmetic firm right before it jumped 28 points. This is the cosmetic firm that brought out a lipstick that increases a women's libido. Abby knows all about it. McGee finds the concept of Viagra for women very amusing. Abby does not. McGee says it's not really funny, it's just, you know, women. "Women don't need to be turned on before they perform?" McGee tries to back pedal and is saved by the phone. Abby roars "WHAT!?" into the phone, causing Gibbs to nearly drop his phone. "Yikes Abby!" he exclaims. "What did McGee do now?" "He put his size 10 shoe in his size 12 mouth," Abby explains. McGee is looking very sheepish. Gibbs wants to know when Mansur logged on at the cyber cafe. 16:56 is the answer. The longest trading gap was 8 minutes before "Neander Boy" took over. "When you're done with Neander Boy, tell him to release Mansur" Gibbs tells her. "That might be a while, Gibbs" Abby says as she hangs up on him and points her finger accusingly at McGee.

Back at the crime scene, Monteleone is hitting on Kate, explaining that he has never, ever paid for it in his life. Well, except for that time when he was 15 and his cousin paid for both of them. That doesn't count does it. "Yes, it does, Tony" says Kate. Monteleone corrects her saying he's Primo. Kate sees little difference between the two. Kate finds several cigarette butts on the ground, indicating someone was chain smoking there.

Cheney and Gibbs are exiting the elevator with Wright. He's admitted that he lit up in their elevator. They're walking into autopsy and Wright sees Lambert laid out on the table with his chest cut open. "How's it going, Ducky?" asks Gibbs. Cheney and Gibbs are on either side of Wright propelling him forward against his will. "Slow with no assistant," responds Ducky, dressed in scrubs, gloves, and mask. "Is this the killer?" Wright denies killing anyone. "Do you want to see what your bullet did?" Ducky asks while waving an autopsy knife in Wright's face. "No!" responds Wright. "Did Aaron just acknowledge he shot him?" Gibbs asks Cheney. Sounded like that to Cheney. Wright did not shoot anyone, he just doesn't want to see anything.

Ducky is standing over the body and assures Wright it will be very instructional. "Your slug penetrated the occipital lobe, instantly blinding the poor fellow. Death, of course, was so sudden I doubt that he would notice it." Ducky has the brain exposed and is digging around inside of it looking for the bullet. "It then entered the corpus collosum." Wright begs Ducky to stop and leans over and throws up in a basin. Gibbs stands and watches him barf, while Cheney continues watching and listening to Ducky's lecture. Apparently they used to think that the corpus collosum housed the soul but it is really just a thick bundle of nerve fibers that transfer information between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Ducky has found the bullet and is holding it up before depositing it in a pan. Cheney finds Ducky fascinating.

Wright insists he didn't kill Deon. Gibbs is pretty sure that he at least knew him, especially since they were on a first name basis agrees Cheney. Wright wants to know if the deal is still on the table. "Nope, it's not." Wright knows who killed him but he'll only talk if he gets the deal. He picked up the drugs from the blind mail box and sent the cash by return mail. The last shipment was 2 days ago and he dropped $50,000 in the mail that night. He earned a million bucks and died waiting for $50,000? Wright feels that cops inflate the value of everything. Deon and his partner made no where near a million. What partner? Wright doesn't know his name. Gibbs and Cheney grab him by the coat collar and start to drag him back across autopsy to where Ducky is still working on Lambert.

The partner is a computer geek where Deon works. He picked up on the scam and blackmailed his way in on it. The partner killed him.

Gibbs, Tony, and McGee are back at the hospital. Gibbs is talking to Wilkerson who is incredulous. If two of her people were ripping of the system, she should be fired for incompetence. Gibbs assures her that only one of them was actually ripping off the system. If Wilson caught on to the scam, she should have as well. Gibbs says Wilson and Lambert sat next to each other. Wilkerson suggests that Gibbs isn't that computer literate. McGee is working with Wilson watching over his shoulder and finds a trojan horse on Lambert's computer. Wilson denies having anything to do with that. Just once Tony wishes that someone would admit it right off the bat. Wilson denies it vehemently and Wilkerson believes him. They cuff him anyway and discover a pack of cigarettes in his waistband.

Abby is testing Wilson's cigarettes to see if they match the ones found in Rock Creek Park. She is also testing one of Aaron Wright's cigarettes. McGee is looking at the trojan horse found on Lambert's computer and wondering how he could have missed that yesterday. Abby tells him that no one gets everything right the first time, except Gibbs. McGee doesn't want to believe it is Wilson. Abby accuses him of being too trusting. "What's wrong with that?" McGee wants to know. It's great in a relationship Abby assures him, but not so great for an investigation. This hurts McGee's feelings so Abby tries to cheer him up. "Poor baby," she says, and grabs him by the sides of his head, shakes his head, and gives him a kiss on the back of his head. McGee thinks that will do nicely.

Gibbs is giving Wilkerson a sanding lesson in his basement. Wilkerson would prefer to use power tools. Gibbs has her close her eyes and make another long pass with the sander. "Feel the wood?" She nods yes. "You don't get a sensation like that from a power tool," Gibbs informs her. She thinks about that for a moment and then they both laugh.

Back in the lab, Abby is not liking the results of her cigarette testing. The butts from the crime scene are all from the same pack. Both Wilson and Wright smoke Triboros. Their cigarettes are the same but not identical because they came from different packs. However, the crime scene butts are not Triboros. They are Llamas. McGee is going to call Gibbs and let him know that Abby cleared Wilson. Abby points out that she cleared Wright as well. Except that she didn't. All she proved was that the person at Rock Creek Park smoked Llamas. McGee calls Gibbs anyway.

Gibbs' phone rings on the work bench in his basement. Gibbs is busy kissing Wilkerson and doesn't answer immediately. McGee isn't sure if his information is important or not. Gibbs warns him that this had better be the most important phone call that he has ever made. McGee panics and tries to hand the phone to Abby who shies from it. Wilkerson pours bourbon into coffee cups for them. Gibbs listens very carefully to what McGee has to say and hangs up. "Everything all right?" Wilkerson asks. "Yeah," Gibbs responds and accepts the cup of bourbon. They both take a sip and Wilkerson presses him on what's bothering him. Wilson won't admit to any involvement. Wilkerson doesn't believe he was and takes another sip. Gibbs asks for a smoke. That surprises Wilkerson, but she goes to get her pack. They're Llamas. Gibbs takes one and so does she. He pulls out his lighter and flips it open, asking her if she's ever been to Sicily. No, she hasn't.

Gibbs lights her cigarette as he begins telling her the story from 1991 of a Mafia don sitting in an orchard chain smoking watching the road below. When two cars come around the corner, the don hit a switch and the road exploded. Gibbs lights his own cigarette and takes a deep drag. The chief magistrate prosecuting the Sicilian mafia, his wife, and three bodyguards were killed by the bomb blast. The Italian police found the cigarette butts in the orchard and sent them to the FBI crime lab to be analyzed. They matched the DNA from the butts to the don. It's the first time that DNA was ever used successfully to prosecute a killer.

Wilkerson thinks Gibbs is a very strange man. Gibbs laughs and tells her it's about to get stranger. He goes to his work bench and pulls out a pair of evidence gloves and snaps them on. She watches him in fascination as he approaches and takes the cigarette from her hand. As he does so, you can see the realization that she's been caught spread across her face. It's on Gibbs' face as well as he puts out her cigarette and then puts it into an evidence bag. Gibbs hopes that the DNA on her cigarette butt doesn't match the butts that were found where Lambert was executed. "Oh I really do." he says as he leans in to kiss her once more. The camera zooms in on the stunned look on Wilkerson's face.