Quotes
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Ellie Bishop : Victim is Navy Reserve Captain Jeremy Doblin. It's his car.
Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Who was driving it?
Ellie Bishop : No prints. Driver was probably wearing gloves.
Special Agent Timothy McGee : And not much of a physical description from the witness.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : "It was, like, a guy. I think." That's all she could give us.
Ellie Bishop : She pretty rattled?
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Oh, yeah, but, uh, not about the accident. Metro ticketed her for, uh, driving and texting and we took the cell phone into evidence.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : She almost had a stroke.
Donald Mallard : [entering with Palmer] It's called nomophobia. As in "no mobile phone" phobia. It's quite common. And a sad reflection on our ability to disconnect, to use the parlance. In fact...
[he's interrupted by a ringing phone]
Ellie Bishop : Sorry. Thought that was on vibrate.
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Donald Mallard : Well, he's been stabbed, but I would surmise that Captain Doblin's cause of death was asphyxiation from a crushed windpipe.
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Killer could've been dumping the victim's body when he got rear-ended.
Jimmy Palmer : Doctor, there's some mass in his lower abdomen, here.
Donald Mallard : Huh?
[feeling where Palmer indicates]
Donald Mallard : Oh, yeah, sizable. But it's too large for a kidney or gallstone and too regular for a fibroid. Well, I can't even speculate as to what that might be.
Jimmy Palmer : I can.
[taking his keychain out of his pocket]
Jimmy Palmer : It's my magnet, for hanging my keys on the fridge. Best gift I ever got.
[he hovers the magnet over the body, which then sticks to the mass]
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Look at that. That's a new one.
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Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : What was inside him?
Donald Mallard : Well, as Mr. Palmer demonstrated earlier, it was metallic. Um, a container of some kind lodged in his sigmoid colon. It's a technique common among smugglers.
Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : What was he smuggling?
Donald Mallard : Well, time to find out. Mr. Palmer?
Jimmy Palmer : [opening the container and finding two small vials] It's botulinum.
Donald Mallard : What? That's one of the deadliest neurotoxins on the planet.
Jimmy Palmer : Where did he get this?
Donald Mallard : I'd be more concerned to find out what he was planning to do with it.