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00:07It all started on a lonely Wednesday night.
00:12Well, it all started with Ducky, actually.
00:16He just finished up his first official day as head medical examiner in the D.C. office.
00:22Dr. Magnus retired the day before.
00:25So, by the time Ducky got home, he was dying for some morgue talk with a live human.
00:32San Diego Medical Examiner's Office, Dr. Tanglecat speaking.
00:36Dr. Tanglecat, how delightful you answered. It's Donald Mallard.
00:40We met when I had the pleasure of visiting Camp Pendleton and lending a hand on the...
00:44Dr. Mallard, how's it going?
00:45Ducky asked Tangle's advice on the case he worked that day,
00:48and he was pretty excited when Tangle called him the next week to do the same.
00:52Don't stay up too late. It's not good for your pancreas.
00:55Night, Eleanor.
00:56Night.
00:57Couple of weeks in, they decided to make it a standing call.
01:02Every Wednesday night, they discussed the ups and downs of medical examining.
01:08Right on time, Dr. Tanglecat.
01:10It's good to hear your voice, man.
01:12I have much to recount from my week.
01:14You certainly sound as if you've had quite a day.
01:17Decapitation by steel beam.
01:19Dear God.
01:20Partial or complete?
01:21Ducky didn't have many friends in D.C.
01:24And there was a hole in Tangle's life, too, without his favorite niece, Tish, around.
01:29So, they stayed on the phone longer.
01:32Ducky told Tangle how to make a damn good cup of English tea.
01:36Tangle answered all of Ducky's burning questions about the Pai and Coechum tribe.
01:41They talked about family, their mothers, their pasts, their stories.
01:47They became friends.
01:50But one Wednesday night, something happened.
01:56And by then, Ducky knew his friend well enough to know Tangle wouldn't miss their Wednesday night call for anything.
02:32What are you doing here?
02:36I don't want you to go.
02:43I got a surprise for you.
02:45Good morning.
02:47What?
02:48I didn't know how you liked your eggs.
02:50You don't even eat breakfast.
02:52I made it for you.
02:54Oh.
02:57The scar.
02:59How'd you get it?
03:02Manny.
03:03You can't do the things you do to me and then not tell me how you got stabbed.
03:09Was it an initiation?
03:12How old were you?
03:15You better try the French toast.
03:23Oh, wow.
03:24Yes.
03:25Oh, wow.
03:27You got some skills, dude.
03:28Maybe I can make you dinner sometime.
03:30Like with courses.
03:32Like a real date?
03:33But I don't know.
03:35I never know when Flacco needs me.
03:38So I can't really plan it anyway.
03:46I present to you the extra key to the fancy, unpickable cross lock on my door.
03:54It surprises me sometimes.
03:55I always come home from work eventually.
03:59What would your work guys think?
04:01My work guys think you are a model citizen named Johnny.
04:06Johnny's probably a big time chef.
04:09Yeah, but I like Manny better.
04:12Oh, yeah?
04:15Oh, come on.
04:17Morning, Mary Jo.
04:18You just missed your wife.
04:20What?
04:20She was here?
04:21No, Gibbs.
04:22She called from L.A.
04:23Remember, honey?
04:24She works there now.
04:25Yeah, I just didn't know what you...
04:28She probably called me back.
04:29She wasn't there when I called her last night.
04:31This dang thing.
04:33Earl from IT took my answering machine
04:35and switched me to this new voicemail crap.
04:38What's a voicemail?
04:39Exactly.
04:40I got a crack of numeric code just to get my messages.
04:43Woo!
04:43We made the newsletter.
04:45Really?
04:45What newsletter?
04:46The NIS newsletter.
04:47They distribute it to every NIS office in the country.
04:51Nobody here reads it because it's only ever about the big dogs in D.C.
04:55Mary Jo.
04:57Did my divorce lawyer leave a message last night?
05:00I don't know, Cliff.
05:00I'm working on it.
05:01We're in the NIS newsletter.
05:02What?
05:03Mm-hmm.
05:04Included in the Fed Five are two members of the NIS Pendleton team,
05:07Mike Franks and Elroy Gibbs.
05:10They misspelled your name, but who cares?
05:12You're immortal now, buddy.
05:14Morning.
05:14We made the NIS newsletter.
05:16No!
05:17Our team.
05:18Careful.
05:18Don't rip it.
05:19I swear to God, if Earl doesn't give me back my answering machine,
05:22we're going to have words.
05:22Elroy Gibbs?
05:23They didn't even get your name right.
05:24Randy, this is like a dream come true for you.
05:27Where's your name?
05:28Oh, please.
05:28Randolph's not named.
05:29This publication's for serious agents only.
05:31I'm serious?
05:32You do stand up, Randolph.
05:34You also frolic too much.
05:35I've never seen you stand still.
05:37It's concerning.
05:38Oh, my God.
05:38Franks, you need to get down to Mesa Detention Center.
05:42What?
05:42Dr. Friedman left a message saying Dr. Tango is in jail.
05:46He got pulled over for a DUI.
05:47Tango's driving hammered?
05:49The hell didn't use his one phone call to have me come get him.
05:52Probably with me.
05:57Boss, here.
05:59Excuse me, ma'am.
06:01We're here to post bail for a detainee named Temet Tanglecav.
06:05Bail's not set for tanking light yet.
06:07There's a mix-up with the magistrate.
06:09I need to refile for the hearing.
06:10Oh, we're going to need to see him then.
06:12Where's the sign-in?
06:13Visiting hours don't start till 10.
06:18What are you boys?
06:19FBI?
06:21NIS.
06:21You're the one that brung him in.
06:23Yeah.
06:23Joseph Sanders, NPS Ranger.
06:25I arrested tanking light just outside Mission National Park.
06:28You got a warrant to see him?
06:30His name is Tanglecat and he is family.
06:32You don't look like his family.
06:34You look like a cowboy to his Indian.
06:38Okay.
06:39How about you tell us what happened out there?
06:41He's a damn park guy, Proby.
06:43You should be out there breaking up squirrel fights.
06:45I'm a federal agent, just like you.
06:47Do you even have cause to arrest him?
06:49Okay, now it's starting to make sense.
06:51You made up a cause, didn't you?
06:52Tangle don't ever get behind the wheel drunk.
06:54Okay, I think you got your wires crossed here.
06:56This wasn't a DUI.
06:58I picked your guy up for stealing a body.
07:02Stealing a body?
07:03The man's ain't that mean.
07:05Transporting dead folks is what he does.
07:06Put the remains in the back of his own personal vehicle and fled the scene.
07:12You got any witnesses to that?
07:14Just so you know, a guy showed up with a warrant for the body a few minutes ago.
07:19Who?
07:22Greetings, dear gentlemen.
07:23Hey.
07:24Though circumstances may be dire, your shining faces are just what the doctor ordered.
07:29Ducky, what are you doing here?
07:30I was Dr. Tanglecat's one phone call.
07:32Well, didn't you call us?
07:33I assumed you were already aware.
07:35Besides, there was no time to chat.
07:36Dr. Tanglecat asked me to drop everything and fly here straight away to assist with the situation.
07:41You think you could talk some sense into that Ranger Rick?
07:43He's trying to claim that Tango stole a body.
07:46Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but I'm afraid he did.
07:53He popped the remains in here and drove off like the dickens.
07:58Son of a bitch.
08:04Wait, wait, wait, wait.
08:05Hold on.
08:06Are you saying Tango actually stole a body or is the Ranger Rick dude trying to frame him?
08:11No.
08:11Tango definitely drove off with it, but it's more of a skeleton.
08:14Why would he steal a skeleton?
08:16Tell them I say hello, would you?
08:17Oh, my God.
08:18Is that Dr. Mallard?
08:19We love you so much.
08:20You're having some fun business, honey.
08:21Gibbs, ask him if we can call him Ducky.
08:22Uh, and tell him congrats on becoming head M.E.
08:25What, you're head M.E. now?
08:26Yeah, I was in the newsletter.
08:27It's nothing, really.
08:29Oh, it's nearly 10 o'clock.
08:31This Sanders guy is being a real ass.
08:33He's having the receptionist make us wait until 10 to see Tango.
08:36Why don't you just talk to the corrections officer?
08:38Pranks did.
08:39Well, the two of them got into it.
08:40Yes, Michael is rather on edge due to his adoration for Dr. Tanglecat.
08:44We're trying to give him some space.
08:46You know, like we do with Wheeler when he eats lactose.
08:49I'm standing right here, Gibbs.
08:52Sorry, sir.
08:54We'll keep you posted.
08:59Ma'am, I think it's 10 o'clock.
09:01From where I'm sitting, it's 9.59.
09:04Moira?
09:05Looks like 9.59 to me.
09:07Don't you got an office in the woods somewhere?
09:08These are community desks.
09:10And I want to make sure that nobody tries to jump above the law,
09:14seeing as how my detainee has friends who don't think the rules should apply to them.
09:18It's 10 o'clock.
09:19Visiting hours have started.
09:21Sign yourselves in.
09:27Did you get it all done?
09:29Are the remains legally in your custody?
09:30Yes, I did exactly as you are.
09:32Yes, thank you.
09:33Now, I need you to take them to forensics and have them dated.
09:35Hang on there, Chief.
09:36Do you want to tell us what the hell happened last night?
09:38A call came in.
09:39Some youth rangers were camping in Mission Park,
09:41and they found a skeleton that was dug up by an animal.
09:44Corner vans were all out on call, so I took my own car.
09:47Dr. Friedman was going to meet you there later with a van?
09:49That's right.
09:50Then I get there, and I see the skeleton.
09:52It's old.
09:55There were seashells on the ribcage.
09:57Remnants of a necklace.
09:59It's a style popular with my tribe,
10:01from my family clan.
10:04Those are the remains of a Pionkowichim man.
10:08He needs a proper burial.
10:10His spirit needs to rest.
10:12The commission won't act without proof.
10:13Commission?
10:14What commission?
10:14NAGPRA, correct?
10:16Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
10:19If we could give the commission definitive proof
10:21the remains of Pionkowichim,
10:23that we return to the tribe.
10:24If not, the remains will be auctioned off
10:26to the highest bidder.
10:28Is there much of a market for that?
10:29Oh, yes, Jethro.
10:31Museums and collectors pay exorbitant amounts
10:33for such things.
10:34I knew if I didn't get the remains home
10:36to the reservation,
10:37they'd end up on display in some museum.
10:40I wasn't thinking.
10:42I just reacted.
10:43I made it a mile before that ranger stopped me.
10:46You know what bringing my ancestor home means to me.
10:50Yes.
10:51I remember what you told me about your father.
10:54Mike?
10:55Shh.
10:56We must start gathering proof.
10:58I'll get the remains to forensics for dating.
11:01I won't let you down, Doctor.
11:03Go on, Broby.
11:04Take the Mingus and Rando back to the scene.
11:06See if you can find any other Indian stuff
11:08that can help us prove this.
11:12Shh.
11:16Look, I know what this would have meant to your daddy,
11:17but you could get fired for this, Chief.
11:20I'm not concerned about that.
11:21Then I'll be concerned for you.
11:26Failing pin set.
11:27I'm gonna wait for that ranger to get back,
11:29and I'm gonna convince him to drop the charges.
11:34How do I look at Orange?
11:39Gray sites just passed that tree line.
11:42So, you're looking for some Native American stuff?
11:44We're also gonna need the names
11:45of anyone who was around last night.
11:47It's possible someone unknowingly removed evidence.
11:50Were those people here at that time?
11:52Uh, no.
11:53A couple of youth rangers are the ones that found the bones,
11:55but I can get you a list of everyone
11:57that was camping here.
11:58Well, I like your art.
11:58It's a lot of cans.
11:59Don't touch it.
12:00It's not slaughtered yet.
12:05Here's a question.
12:06Do you guys think Wheeler was right
12:08about me not being serious enough
12:09to make the newsletter?
12:10Hey, you're still typing all the case files
12:12into the computer, aren't you?
12:13That's something?
12:14Yeah.
12:15Yeah.
12:16Can we ask Diane what she thinks
12:18when you finally get a hold of her?
12:19I value her opinion.
12:21What the hell?
12:22Okay.
12:23You can ask Johnny, too.
12:24He seems like a serious kind of guy, right?
12:27What does he do again?
12:28He's a chef.
12:30Really?
12:30Never mind.
12:31Forget I brought it up.
12:33A serious agent would be making a game plan
12:35for searching the gravesite
12:37for Payomkawicham artifacts.
12:44Your table could use some soldering, too.
12:47Sorry.
12:50We're going to take that list to the campers.
12:52Yeah.
12:53We'll be at the gravesite
12:55if you think of anything else.
12:57Leave it!
12:58I'm never going to make the newsletter.
13:00Rando, let's go.
13:02Yeah.
13:04Did you find something?
13:06Got some blood.
13:07They must have missed it in the dark last night.
13:09Gibbs is following the trail.
13:13Someone gets hurt at the grave.
13:16Stagger's this way, losing blood.
13:24Hey, grab the tree here.
13:26There's more up there.
13:43Guys.
13:53No way, Doc Tango
13:54know about this part, right?
13:57No.
13:58No.
14:02No.
14:02No.
14:07He was murdered over the remains.
14:09Looks that way.
14:11Guess an animal didn't dig up them bones after all.
14:13And there was a blood trail?
14:16I didn't see it.
14:18I didn't know.
14:19There's Dark Owl.
14:20Plus, you were all caught up
14:21trying to get your guy's skeleton
14:22into the reservation.
14:24Look, team's going to get that murder solved.
14:26Ducky's taking care of the bones.
14:27You and me, we got to focus on
14:28getting you out of here with your job.
14:30I told you, that's not...
14:31Listen, that park ranger,
14:33he heard about the body.
14:35He circled over there.
14:35I told Dominguez to send him back here
14:37to talk to us.
14:38I'm thinking,
14:40you know, once he sees who you are...
14:41He knows I'm an M.E.
14:42You arrested me anyways.
14:43No, I mean...
14:45What?
14:46He was butchering your name on purpose.
14:48And then he's sitting here
14:49in this community desk
14:50watching over you like a hawk.
14:52The man don't like Indians.
14:55Probably not black folks either
14:56or anybody with a shake of pepper in them.
14:58We got to show them...
15:01But you're just like a white person,
15:03only more native to the land or whatnot.
15:07Okay, Mike.
15:10Chief, I'm telling you,
15:11you got to make them understand
15:12why you took them bones.
15:14You got to tell them about your daddy.
15:16The only way he's going to drop a joint.
15:21Hazard Franks,
15:22your people said you were looking to see me.
15:24Yes, sir, that's right.
15:25Have a seat.
15:25Take a load off.
15:29The youth rangers who found the bones,
15:31they, uh...
15:32They said they heard some...
15:34UFO kind of sounds beforehand.
15:36I'm guessing that had something to do
15:37with this new murder we got.
15:40You know anything about that?
15:42UFO sounds?
15:44You don't know nothing about this.
15:45He was called to the scene after.
15:46Just like you...
15:48Tell him about your daddy.
16:021971.
16:04A highway was being built.
16:0814 of my people's remains were dug up
16:11and sold to the highest bidders.
16:15My father dedicated his life
16:18to trying to bring them home
16:21into the reservation.
16:25A proper burial.
16:29He fought with everything in him.
16:32He died trying.
16:34You hear that?
16:35Tango was just trying to do right by his daddy.
16:41You got it, daddy, don't you?
16:46You filed charges against this man.
16:47He's as good as fire.
16:51That is a loss to everyone
16:53in this damn county.
16:57I'm postponing a magistrate hearing.
17:00But only to complete
17:01my own investigation.
17:03See if I need to charge him
17:05with something more than grave robbing.
17:07Come on, he ain't done nothing else
17:09and you know it!
17:10You'll be winning
17:10what you got on this new body
17:12and we'll see what I think.
17:18Son of a bitch.
17:20You, good sir,
17:22have been identified
17:23through the contents of your wallet
17:25as 39-year-old marine veteran
17:27Dennis Moore.
17:29I hear you lived a few miles from base
17:31and judging by the tools
17:33and amenities inside your tent,
17:36I gather you very much enjoyed
17:38solo camping
17:39and unearthing forgotten relics.
17:42But tell me, Mr. Moore,
17:45when you were inside said tent,
17:48did you feel at home?
17:51I've never seen anyone
17:54talk to the bodies before.
17:56Forgive me, Dr. Friedman.
17:58I'm on your dance floor.
17:59Oh, no, please.
18:01I'm stoked to finally meet you.
18:03Tango's constantly bragging
18:04about your phone calls.
18:05Was he doing okay
18:06when you saw him?
18:08What do we got, duck?
18:09Did you say duck or doc?
18:11I'll listen to whoever's talking.
18:12Would you mind talking
18:14while I dig?
18:15I think just the thought
18:16of Tango getting canned
18:17is just making me come up
18:20abnormal.
18:21I don't mind at all.
18:22Mr. Moore was stabbed to death, Jethro.
18:25The murder weapon was unusual.
18:27It made an exceptionally clean cut,
18:30but when striking the rib,
18:32a fragment of the weapon
18:33chipped off inside the wound.
18:34And I am trying to get it out,
18:37but it is jammed.
18:38Ugh!
18:39Son of a motherless ovary.
18:41I could give it a go if you like.
18:43Sorry.
18:43I'm just, uh, worried about Tango.
18:46Oh, I'm gonna give Woody a call
18:48and see how he's doing
18:49on dating those remains.
18:50And congrats on making Head M.E.
18:53He must be kicking
18:54some autopsy ass in D.C.
19:02Head M.E. is not a good thing?
19:03What?
19:05Yes, yes, of course it is.
19:06Yeah.
19:08It's just...
19:08Mother.
19:09She lives with me, you know,
19:11and my promotion
19:12has made her feel
19:13as if, well,
19:15our time in D.C.
19:17is permanent.
19:18So, uh,
19:20truth be told,
19:20she doesn't have
19:21many friends there.
19:22Oh!
19:23Jethro, I meant to tell you.
19:24I was so tickled
19:26to receive your thank-you note
19:27for the ship in a bottle.
19:28No, I'm building one now.
19:30A ship in a bottle?
19:31A boat and a shed.
19:33You're joking.
19:35Been able to work on it more
19:36now that Diane is in L.A.
19:39Diane is?
19:40She's my wife.
19:42Your wife?
19:44Blimey.
19:45That's...
19:46You're building a boat for her?
19:48No.
19:48I don't know.
19:52You know, I don't know
19:53why I'm building it.
20:00Why do you think
20:00I'm building it?
20:01I've got it!
20:04Look at that!
20:05Appears to be some sort
20:06of black stone.
20:10Do you mind?
20:13I'll get it to Woody.
20:15Brilliant.
20:16Oh, and if you hear
20:16from Bernard and Cecilia,
20:18do let me know.
20:19They found a map
20:19amongst Moore's camping things,
20:21and I sent them
20:22to an old professor friend
20:23to have a look at it.
20:23Mm-hmm.
20:25Friend is a strong word, actually.
20:27He's more of an acquaintance.
20:28But he is the most
20:29knowledgeable chap I know
20:30when it comes to
20:31native antiquities.
20:33He actually has an office
20:34on Camp Pendleton.
20:36The base was built
20:36on native land, you know.
20:38Oh.
20:39Professor Edwin Wilde
20:40is his name,
20:41and I dare say
20:43I've not always
20:44enjoyed his company.
20:45He wears an ascot
20:47religiously,
20:48and frankly speaking,
20:49Jethro,
20:49the man never
20:51shuts up.
20:52He loves to hear
20:53himself talk.
20:54It's downright
20:56exasperating.
20:58Dr. Mallard
20:59told me all about
21:00your case.
21:01More than I needed
21:02to know, actually.
21:03The man loves
21:04to hear himself talk.
21:05It's exasperating.
21:07Ah, I got that copybar
21:08at an estate sale
21:10in Santiago de Leon
21:11de Caracas.
21:11It all started
21:12when I was researching.
21:14Sorry, Professor.
21:15Can I jump in?
21:15We don't have a ton of time.
21:17What do you think
21:18about the map?
21:18Ah, yes, the map.
21:19Well, it's definitely old.
21:21It's not very detailed,
21:24but this ex here
21:26seems to indicate
21:27the location
21:28of your buried skeleton.
21:30So Morph follows
21:31the map to an unmarked grave.
21:32How does he end up dead?
21:34I'm afraid that's
21:35beyond my area
21:35of expertise.
21:36How's your search
21:37coming along,
21:37Agent Dominguez?
21:38I can't seem to find
21:39anything in here
21:40that matches the necklace.
21:41Dr. Mallard was hoping
21:43he'd help us
21:43get the remains
21:44back to Tango's tribe.
21:45Well, I have seen
21:46jewelry like that
21:47linked to the pie
21:48in Coichum,
21:48but I'm afraid
21:49Dr. Mallard
21:50was mistaken.
21:51A few shells
21:52won't be enough
21:53to convince
21:53the Nagra Commission.
21:55Can I borrow this?
21:58My tomes
21:59have a way
22:00of disappearing
22:01if I don't label them.
22:03Years ago,
22:04I had a student
22:05who borrowed
22:06an illuminated manuscript
22:07I acquired
22:08on my sabbatical
22:09in the independent state
22:10of Papua New Guinea,
22:11which reminds me
22:13of a story.
22:15It was a beautiful morning,
22:17unseasonably warm.
22:18Yes, that's why
22:19I'm calling,
22:20Francis,
22:21because when I go
22:22to use the bathroom,
22:24I don't want
22:25the lobby door
22:25locking behind me.
22:27Get rid of the
22:28frigging auto lock,
22:29Francis!
22:33Leroy Gibbs?
22:36Yeah, we're ready
22:37to see you now.
22:39No, believe it.
22:40You can get on your way out.
22:44Gibbs!
22:45Thanks for waiting.
22:45Come on in.
22:46Everything all right?
22:47Phone call sounded
22:48pretty intense.
22:50Yeah, the new auto lock
22:50in the lobby
22:51is giving me a case
22:52of lab rage.
22:52Yeah, you spend
22:53all day in here
22:54by the time
22:548 o'clock rolls around,
22:55you've got a lot
22:56of unchecked anger.
22:57Yeah.
22:57Anyway, how's the life?
22:58She's fine.
23:00Yeah, none of those
23:00L.A. men found
23:01their way into her bed yet?
23:04No.
23:05How do you know?
23:08Okay.
23:09Let's take a look here
23:10at the bone fragment
23:11we found in your dead guy's
23:12stab wound here.
23:13It's black obsidian,
23:14and if you just want
23:15my two cents,
23:16Tyann's got to get hit
23:17on, what,
23:178 to 12 times a day
23:19in L.A.?
23:20You know, but I don't see
23:20you're succumbing
23:21to the temptation.
23:22What about the skeleton?
23:23Well, Dr. Mallard
23:24said this gentleman
23:25died of blunt force
23:26trauma to the head,
23:27likely during
23:28the Mexican-American War.
23:29We dated the remains
23:30to approximately
23:31150 years old.
23:32The black obsidian
23:34stone fragment,
23:35the residue on it
23:35is also 150 years old,
23:37which means your murder
23:38weapon is probably
23:39something that was
23:39buried along with
23:40the skeleton.
23:45He's not saying anything?
23:46Yeah.
23:47He gets quiet
23:48when he's thinking.
23:49It's like he's listening
23:49to his gut or something.
23:53You want to summarize
23:54it for him?
23:55Yeah.
23:56So...
23:56Someone sees Moore
23:57digging up the remains,
23:59kills him with
24:00the 150-year-old
24:01murder weapon
24:01from the dig site,
24:02takes off with him.
24:04Yeah.
24:04That?
24:06Bye, Gibbs.
24:10Thank God I'm not
24:10socially awkward
24:11like he is.
24:12Could you imagine?
24:20Hey, did I give you
24:21anything in there?
24:22Yeah.
24:23You want me to get
24:23back down to the office?
24:24They gave you a file,
24:25huh?
24:25You think I should make
24:26a special kind of one of
24:27these for Ranger Rick?
24:28I gotta get him
24:29dropped the charges
24:29on Tango.
24:35Auto-lock.
24:38Boss.
24:41Go.
24:48Yeah, go.
24:56Freeze!
24:59What happened?
25:00This guy tried to
25:01steal the skeleton
25:02and then Phil suppressed him.
25:04Where's the woman?
25:04What woman?
25:05We heard a woman screaming.
25:07That was me.
25:07I go into my upper register
25:09whenever Phil lays down
25:10the boom.
25:11Put up a fight,
25:12but I got a lot
25:13of pent-up lab rage.
25:16Who the hell is he?
25:26Eugene Cooper.
25:27Do I have the emphasis
25:28on the right syllable?
25:29Is it Eugene
25:30or Eugene?
25:32I'd go by Gene.
25:33Gene.
25:34Even better.
25:34I like that.
25:35Listen, Gene,
25:35I'm gonna catch
25:36Agent Dominguez up
25:36on what you did.
25:37Stop me if I get
25:38anything wrong, okay?
25:39Okay.
25:40Okay.
25:40So he breaks
25:41into forensics
25:42and he tries...
25:42So what, like the side door?
25:43Yeah, and he tries
25:44to steal the skeleton.
25:45The one that's worth
25:45a ton of money?
25:46Yeah, and then Phil
25:47karate traps him.
25:53I picture him
25:53like, ka-pah!
25:55No, he was like,
25:56ka-pah!
25:57No, he was like,
25:59hi!
26:01It's not funny, Gene.
26:03You broke into
26:03a federal building.
26:04Someone could have
26:05gotten hurt.
26:06I did get hurt.
26:07How'd you know
26:08we are the skeleton?
26:09Police scanner.
26:10I heard an M.E.
26:12stole remains
26:12from a national park.
26:14I know stuff
26:14about artifacts.
26:15A native M.E.
26:17in an area known
26:17for Native American treasure?
26:21I did the math.
26:22Oh.
26:24He did the math.
26:25He did the math.
26:26So what was the plan then?
26:28Sell the skeleton
26:29to the high spitter?
26:30Pretty much.
26:32You have another theory.
26:33I can tell.
26:34Come on, what is it?
26:36Gene sees Dennis Moore
26:37digging up the bones.
26:39Okay.
26:39So he kills him
26:40to take him for himself.
26:41But before he can steal him,
26:43he hears the youth rangers
26:44coming and he runs.
26:45Right.
26:46And then he breaks
26:47into our lab
26:47to finish what he started.
26:51Hold on.
26:53I didn't kill anybody.
26:54What were the UFO sounds
26:56going on in the forest
26:56when you were out there last night?
26:57I wasn't in the forest!
26:58Hey!
26:59No need to get aggressive, Gene,
27:01or I'm gonna have
27:02to give Phil a call.
27:05I'm just kidding, man.
27:06You're safe here.
27:08It's getting kind of silly in there.
27:10It's a bozo routine.
27:12Works when the guy's a dumbass.
27:15What's good to convince
27:15Ranger Rick to drop
27:16the charges more?
27:17Words or pictures?
27:18If you want it to be good,
27:19you should ask Mary Jo
27:19to help you.
27:20No, this one's personal.
27:21Tango's old future's riding on this.
27:23The order of information,
27:24the wording,
27:25it all needs to be perfect.
27:27That's why you should
27:27ask Mary Jo.
27:28Oh, I'm telling you,
27:29I was nowhere near the forest.
27:31My neighbors can vouch for me.
27:33This guy's hiding something.
27:34Who?
27:35The dumbass, Eugene Cooper.
27:37Okay, Gene.
27:38We're gonna move you
27:38to another room
27:39while we talk to your neighbors.
27:41They're putting him in holding.
27:43Just making my brain hurt.
27:45Come on, brother.
27:46Let's go ask Mary Jo for help.
27:53Mary Jo, meet me at my desk.
27:55How was your day, Mary Jo?
27:56Fine, thanks.
27:58Dog and basement
27:59got my answering machine
27:59back for me.
28:00It's great.
28:01Meet me at my desk.
28:01Franks, Admiral Keen
28:02has called me twice
28:03asking when he's getting
28:04his M.E. back.
28:05Where is Dr. Mallard?
28:06Ducky is in the house,
28:07as they say.
28:09Yes, I'm just
28:09acquainting myself
28:10with Professor Wilde's book.
28:12I can practically feel
28:13his pompous self-importance
28:15dripping off the pages.
28:16What is all that?
28:17File to get Tango's
28:19charges dropped.
28:20Mary Jo,
28:20he's gotta project Tango's character.
28:22Okay, breathe, baby.
28:23I got you.
28:24Eureka!
28:25I found our murder weapon.
28:28Well, a photo
28:29of what I believe it to be anyway.
28:30The Black Obsidian Blade.
28:32It says here
28:33that tribes of Southern California
28:34were known to use it in battle.
28:36So we'll just need to confirm
28:37with Dr. Tanglecat
28:38that it's Piemkowichim.
28:39I'll have to wait till morning.
28:41No, no, Admiral Keen
28:41is anxious to have you
28:42back at your post.
28:43It's better to go now.
28:44Yeah, we can't.
28:44Sanders rallied
28:45all the corrections officers
28:46against us.
28:47Visiting hours
28:48aren't till 10 a.m.
28:49Wait, Joe Sanders?
28:50He's still on the job?
28:51I had a run-in with him
28:52on a case in Mission Park
28:54back when I was in the field.
28:55Worst case of my life,
28:56thanks to him
28:57and his god-awful secretary.
28:58I'm pretty sure
28:59that she hid my evidence log
29:00in her beehive.
29:01Does she have big hair?
29:03Yeah.
29:03Was her name Moira?
29:04Yeah, Moira.
29:04She's still working for it?
29:05She's a man at the desk
29:06at the detention center now.
29:08And her and this Sanders
29:10are still thick as thieves.
29:12Pretty much.
29:14Why?
29:19Moira!
29:20How are you, dear?
29:21Lovely to see you again
29:23on what I hope to be
29:24a magnificent day
29:25for one and all.
29:26Agent Sanders is out on patrol.
29:28He told me to radio him
29:30if there was any funny business.
29:31Make sure he gets that,
29:32will you, please?
29:33It's important.
29:36And this is for you?
29:37For me?
29:39No.
29:40From our secretary.
29:42Right.
29:42I see that it's 9.57,
29:44so we'll just
29:44make ourselves comfortable
29:46for three more minutes.
29:47Oh, your prisoner friend
29:49is visiting with his mother.
29:50Mama Tinkle Cat's here.
29:51It's not even 10 o'clock yet.
29:53She seemed like a nice lady,
29:55so I made an exception.
30:02I look at you,
30:04and I see your father,
30:06stubborn as a mule.
30:09The night before he died,
30:10he was still making plans
30:12to get those remains
30:13back to the reservation,
30:15like there was any hope.
30:19He would have been
30:20so proud of you to meet.
30:23But what kind of mother
30:24would I be
30:25if I let you go
30:26down the same path?
30:29Our ancestors
30:30deserves to come home,
30:31Ma.
30:33This is a sacred fight.
30:37This life you built,
30:39honoring all the dead,
30:42that's sacred too,
30:43to me.
30:45You need to protect it.
30:50Mama Tinkle Cat.
30:52Oh, Mikey.
30:55Oh, Mikey.
30:56Oh.
30:58Our Tish still loves you to death.
31:02Still over to...
31:06Ma, this is Dr. Mellor.
31:08Ah, your Wednesday phone call.
31:10Forgive me.
31:11I'm at a loss for words.
31:12Your son has told me
31:13so many wonderful stories about you.
31:15I'm a bit starstruck.
31:17Nonsense.
31:18Come sit with us.
31:19No, we've got to get back to it.
31:21We just...
31:21Oh, yes, yes, right.
31:23Ah, the black obsidian blade.
31:26We're hoping to confirm
31:27it's Pionkowichum.
31:29It is.
31:31I've seen ones like this
31:32in many of our records.
31:34Do you think it'll be enough
31:35to convince the commission
31:36to return the remains to us?
31:38I do.
31:39Wonderful.
31:40If we can find this blade,
31:41we'll get the remains
31:42of proper burial
31:43and likely solve our murder to boot.
31:44What do you say?
31:45Should we leave these good people
31:46and embark on a little
31:47obsidian blade-humping?
31:53Edwin Wilde.
31:54How do you know him?
31:56Yes, I had the displeasure
31:58of meeting him.
31:58You know him, Mama?
31:59He's an expert on Indian artifacts.
32:02He also stops at nothing
32:04to hunt them down and sell them.
32:07He's made a fortune
32:08off our heirlooms.
32:10Be careful of him
32:12and his partner, too.
32:14A man named Eugene Cooper.
32:20Knock, knock, Professor Wilde.
32:22No, I'm Ned.
32:23I'm his TA.
32:24Can I help you with something?
32:25Where is he?
32:26Donald Mallard.
32:28Look at that.
32:29You let me get two words in.
32:30Miraculous.
32:31Hello, Edwin.
32:32Still torturing that poor ascot I see.
32:35Oh, I could say the same thing
32:36about your bow tie.
32:37Okay, I ain't got time
32:38for you two to be slapping
32:40each other with your fancy gloves.
32:41We've got your partner Eugene
32:43trying to steal them remains
32:44from our lab.
32:45I don't know anyone
32:46by that name.
32:46What about stealing heirlooms
32:48from native folks?
32:48You know something about that?
32:50Everything I have,
32:52I've acquired legally.
32:53All right, talk about legal.
32:55Talk about moral.
32:56Listen here, Wilde.
32:57You are going to stand here
32:58in front of God and Ned
32:59and tell me every wrong
33:00you've done,
33:01every Indian nation,
33:02from here to China
33:03or we're going to have
33:04ourselves a problem.
33:05All right, Michael.
33:06Come on.
33:06Let's take him in
33:07for questioning, shall we?
33:08Ned, hand me a tissue,
33:10will you?
33:10Last thing I needed
33:11was to be spat on
33:13over some overvalued
33:14old bones.
33:17How dare you?
33:18Hey!
33:20Those bones
33:21are not overvalued,
33:23you ignorant toad.
33:32I don't understand
33:33what I'm doing in here.
33:35I'm the victim.
33:36The break-in
33:37at our lab.
33:38How many times
33:39do I have to tell you?
33:40I had nothing
33:41to do with that.
33:42How long have you
33:43and Eugene Cooper
33:44been working together?
33:46I don't know anyone
33:47by that name.
33:47I have no idea
33:48who that is.
33:51What's up, Wilde?
33:53Who's this?
33:53I don't know you,
33:54he's lying.
33:55She pulled that out of me.
33:57What?
33:59She's good.
34:01Following Lala's
34:02extracted confession
34:03from Eugene Cooper,
34:05Wilde admitted
34:05they had a pre-established,
34:06excuse me,
34:09pre-existing business
34:10partnership
34:11where they mutually
34:12worked.
34:13What's going on with you?
34:15Are you trying
34:15to be serious?
34:17Sir, there's no trying.
34:19I am serious.
34:20Okay, cut it out.
34:21You look like you're
34:21about to pass the stone.
34:23Okay.
34:25So basically,
34:26what happened was
34:27after we went
34:28to Professor Wilde,
34:30to ask about the map?
34:31He sent his partner,
34:32Eugene,
34:32to try to steal
34:33the remains from the lab.
34:34So which one of them
34:35killed Moore?
34:36Plot twist.
34:38Neither.
34:41Wilde and Cooper,
34:42they had nothing to do
34:43with the original dig
34:43or Moore's murder.
34:45I know, right?
34:46It's freaking nuts.
34:47But Professor Wilde,
34:48he did tell us
34:49that treasure hunters,
34:50they usually work
34:51in pairs.
34:52So,
34:53our new theory is
34:54Moore
34:55had a partner
34:56that got greedy
34:58and he
35:00sliced him
35:01with the obsidian blade.
35:03What?
35:03Oh, oh, oh.
35:04We also figured out
35:06Moore's map?
35:07It's inaccurate.
35:08No.
35:09Yes!
35:10It's from after
35:11the highway was built.
35:12You can't tell anything
35:13from it
35:13about the 1800s.
35:15So that couldn't be
35:15how Moore figured out
35:16where to dig
35:16for the skeleton?
35:18Wilde,
35:18he just told us
35:19that to buy himself
35:19more time
35:20so he could steal it.
35:21Then how did
35:21Moore know where to dig?
35:22We're working on that now.
35:24Stay tuned
35:24for the next update.
35:28Randolph.
35:30That was the most
35:32engaging set rep
35:33I've experienced
35:33in a long time.
35:35Newsletter,
35:35be damned.
35:36Keep doing
35:36what you're doing.
35:38Copy, sir.
35:41And, uh,
35:42send Dr. Mallard in,
35:43will you?
35:44Admiral Kane
35:44wants an ETA
35:45on his return.
35:46Shoot.
35:47I forgot to mention
35:48that part.
35:49Oh, uh,
35:50there was, uh,
35:51kerfuffle
35:52at the professor's office
35:54and his TA
35:54decided to press charges
35:56against Dr. Mallard
35:56for assault.
35:57Dr. Mallard
35:58assaulted a student?
35:59No, no, no.
36:00Um, he really only
36:01punched the professor.
36:03The TA just got
36:04shoved in the kerfuffle,
36:04but since the professor's
36:05office is on base,
36:06they sent Ducky
36:07to federal holding
36:07to await bail.
36:09What?
36:11Pitchy they didn't
36:12have any tea,
36:13isn't it?
36:13Hmm.
36:14Hmm.
36:16They never took you
36:17for a hothead,
36:17Dr. Mallard.
36:18Neither did I.
36:20But very much like you,
36:21in the so-called theft
36:22that started this whole thing,
36:24I wasn't thinking.
36:25I just reacted.
36:27I'm chalking it up
36:28to a bit of M.E. rage.
36:32I chalk it up
36:33to you being
36:33a hell of a friend.
36:37Hey.
36:39We'll be out of here tomorrow.
36:41I know Frank's is worried,
36:42but neither one of us
36:44is getting fired
36:45without a fight.
36:46It's not that.
36:47I-I think if I was
36:49to get sacked,
36:50a rather large part of me
36:52would actually be relieved.
36:55You don't want
36:55to be Chief M.E.?
36:58I've been telling myself
36:59that Mother is lonely
37:01in D.C.,
37:02but the truth is
37:03she's incredibly social.
37:05The woman's never
37:06at a loss
37:06for a brunch invitation.
37:09It's me who's alone.
37:13And getting promoted
37:14makes D.C. permanent
37:16for you.
37:17Yes, exactly.
37:20America is my home now.
37:22It doesn't exactly
37:23feel like home.
37:24I never even bought
37:25a proper couch.
37:28How can I commit
37:30to a whole life
37:31in a place
37:31where I feel
37:33so alone?
37:36Some sage advice?
37:38Yes.
37:41Get a couch.
37:44Really?
37:45Is that a bit of wisdom
37:46passed down
37:47through generations?
37:48It is, actually.
37:51You build a home,
37:52other people passing by,
37:54see your light on.
37:55They knock on the door
37:57and ask to come inside.
38:00And if they don't,
38:03here's to Wednesday nights.
38:09Well, enough about my trials.
38:11Here we are,
38:12a pair of seasoned M.E.s
38:14with a 150-year-old case
38:15of blunt force trauma
38:17from the Mexican-American War,
38:18and we have yet
38:19to discuss it.
38:21Blunt force trauma?
38:22Yes.
38:23The impacted skull.
38:24Didn't you notice it?
38:25Yes, but it wasn't
38:27blunt force that caused it.
38:28He was shot.
38:30The musket ball
38:31was inside of the skull.
38:33It must have fallen out
38:34in the boot of your car.
38:36That is how Moore
38:38and his partner
38:38found the remains.
38:39They didn't need a map.
38:42The musket ball
38:43was metal.
38:44Those UFO sounds
38:45the youth rangers heard
38:46were from a regular
38:47old metal detector.
38:50Provided we use
38:52this information
38:52to track down
38:53the obsidian weapon,
38:54we'll have the evidence
38:56we need to convince
38:57the commission
38:57to send your ancestors'
38:59remains home
38:59and the means
39:01to arrest our killer.
39:03Which leaves
39:04but one lingering
39:05loose thread
39:06for us,
39:07Dr. Tanglecat.
39:08The question
39:09of our own fates.
39:15You got my note?
39:17Oh.
39:18Are you Mary Jo?
39:19The one and only.
39:21The file
39:22Agent Franks
39:23left on Dr. Tangle?
39:25I read it
39:26like you asked.
39:27It was
39:28compelling.
39:30Ranger Sanders?
39:32People think
39:33he doesn't like them
39:34for one reason
39:35or another.
39:36Truth is,
39:37the man's
39:37a lifelong park ranger.
39:40That amounts
39:41to years
39:42of people
39:43poking fun,
39:44years of
39:45being disrespected
39:46by other agencies.
39:47It was enough
39:48to turn us both
39:49into a couple
39:50of hard asses.
39:51Honey,
39:51we know a little
39:52something about
39:52being disrespected.
39:53No one knows
39:55what the heck
39:55NIS even is.
39:57And our office
39:58just made
40:00the agency newsletter
40:01for the first time
40:02in 20 years.
40:06This thing
40:07with Dr. Tangle.
40:09It all started
40:10with a whole group
40:11of people
40:12being disrespected.
40:13You've worked
40:14with Sanders
40:14a long time.
40:16You worked
40:17that long
40:17with a man.
40:18I'm guessing
40:19he probably listened
40:20to you about
40:21dropping Dr. Tangle's
40:22charges.
40:25I'll see
40:26what I can do.
40:29Now,
40:30there's another
40:31M.E.
40:32in for assault.
40:34I think you can
40:35work that too.
40:39Ducky and Tangle
40:40both got a verbal
40:41warning.
40:43But neither of them
40:44lost their jobs.
40:46That Wednesday
40:47night missed call
40:48ended with them
40:49walking out
40:49of the Mesa
40:50Federal Detention
40:51Center like a couple
40:52of champs.
40:53But they weren't
40:54the only ones
40:55that got to go home.
40:56The remains
40:57of Tangle's
40:57ancestor
40:58were returned
40:59to his tribe.
41:01To us,
41:01it felt like
41:03at least one thing
41:04in the world
41:04was set right.
41:06To us,
41:07it felt like
41:08one sacred
41:09moment of peace.
41:12A moment
41:14none of us
41:15would ever forget.
41:24Bye, Ducky.
41:26I love your nickname
41:27so much.
41:29Until next time,
41:30young Jethro.
41:33before Ducky
41:34headed back
41:34to D.C.,
41:36he told Lala
41:37I was building
41:37a boat.
41:40That made her
41:40want to see it
41:41for herself.
41:42He probably
41:43thought she knew
41:44me well enough
41:45to answer my
41:45question about
41:46why I was
41:47building it
41:47in the first place.
41:48It's nice to have
41:49one thing
41:50that isn't going
41:50anywhere.
41:52Home,
41:52where my thoughts
41:53escape and home,
41:55where my love
41:55lies waiting
41:56silently for me.
41:58This is Gibbs.
42:00Leave a message.
42:01Hey,
42:03it's Diane.
42:05Darn it.
42:06It's been a day
42:07and I was really
42:08hoping to talk
42:09to you tonight.
42:11But I guess
42:11I missed you again.
42:14You build a home.
42:15Other people
42:16passing by
42:17see a light on.
42:18They knock on the door
42:20and ask
42:20to come inside.
42:23That's what Tango
42:24said to Ducky.
42:26Back then,
42:27I don't think
42:28I understood
42:28what Tango
42:29meant by that.
42:30But now,
42:31I do.
42:32Far as I'm concerned,
42:34if you're looking
42:35to build a home,
42:37there's no better
42:38way to start
42:40than with one thing
42:41that isn't going
42:42anywhere.
42:51To be continued...
42:53to be continued...
43:09to be continued...
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