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These Marines sure take
this stuff seriously.
Might as well get comfortable;
this could take some time.
Check the ID, check the trunk.
No dogs.
Hate dogs.
Dogs are a pain in the ***.
Never met a dog that didn't
want to try to bite me.
Looking for bombs or bin Laden, I guess.
Clear.
Finally.
Proceed.
Good morning, sir.
- Photo ID and pop the trunk, please.
- Sure thing.
Drop off?
Guy says he wants to see someone at NCIS.
Clear.
Lower the window, please, sir.
Hey, buddy, lady needs to see some ID.
Photo ID, please, sir.
Sir?
Step out of the vehicle, please.
NCIS Season 4 Episode 23
Trojan Horse (LOL)
Capture : Swsub.
com
Correction : Kasius.
These files have to be
reviewed by Friday.
I'll get to them.
Tomorrow's Friday.
Had a wife like you once, Cynthia.
- I divorced her.
- Beat her to it, did you?
You didn't read it.
Scoletti case.
I know the case agent.
Jeff Gillman.
He's a good man.
Director doesn't want
Justice not going to trial
because of a procedural error.
Well, then the Director should be here
instead of shopping in Paris all week.
An Interpol antiterrorist
conference isn't shopping.
Yeah.
You know him, too?
Yep.
Don't worry.
Justice has its own procedural problems.
Who's Special Agent Grisham?
Transferred in from San Diego.
Hollywood Special Agent.
- Rejected.
- You have to give a reason.
It's her private line.
Hello, Cynthia.
Cynthia?
No
Jethro.
I should have recognized
the heavy breathing.
Is the Agency intact?
I cut it up into small bitsy pieces
and sold it to the three-letter boys.
I take it walking my heels
has presented a challenge.
Well, I accepted some
speaking requests for you.
Which speaking requests?
Women for Women,
St.
Paul, Minnesota chapter.
The eighth grade class of Hondo
Middle School in Hondo, Texas.
The teacher, she's an admirer.
Society of Preservation
for Barbershop Quartets.
You're not serious, Jethro.
Well, about the barbershop
quartets, no, no, I'm not.
But I did accept six, seven eight,
nine others for you.
- Put Cynthia on.
- Hey, how's the frog
legs?
You always enjoyed them
sauted in butter.
Cynthia.
Now!
Yes, Director.
Tell me you didn't send out acceptances
for speaking engagements.
Of course not, Director.
Thank you, Cynthia.
You have just earned yourself
a Hermes scarf.
Thank you, Director.
C'�tait un grand plaisir, madame.
Au revoir.
Put him back on.
Yes?
Is there any serious business
I should know about?
Well, the
Buy America toilet paper doesn't fit the
metric fixtures, and we got a truck
She hang up on me.
Shocking.
You call back to apologize?
I don't know what you heard, boss,
but I was not the one
who started that pool.
What pool is that, DiNozzo?
- On the case.
- What case?
"There's a dead body in the taxi
at the main gate" case.
I'll be right there.
The case files?
Leave them on my desk.
They are on your desk.
It's not often we get to walk to a crime
scene, if this is a crime scene.
There's no blood, no bullet
holes, no knife punctures,
no obvious signs of bruising,
no ligiture marks,
no petechial hemorrhaging
on the eye or eyelid.
Natural causes?
There's nothing natural about a man
of his age keeling over in a taxicab.
Maybe he died of embarrassment
when he couldn't pay the cab fare.
Alas, death by embarrassment
is not a certifiable cause,
however intriguing the notion.
Excuse me, Ducky.
It's about time that boy fell in love.
I found a house.
House? Thought we were
renting an apartment.
No, we're buying a house.
Buying?
It's the most adorable
little bungalow, Tony.
Only Hollywood has bungalows, Jeanne.
You don't want to buy a house with me?
I love playing House with you.
Not the same thing.
Can I call you back tonight?
My boss is on his way over and he
doesn't look very happy.
I thought you ran things over there.
I do.
Just not all the time.
We'll play house tonight.
Hey, I win the pool!
Wait a minute.
How do you figure that?
I predicted that Gibbs would
last four days as Director
before reverting to working a case.
This is Thursday.
Four days!
He's not working on case.
He's just
curious.
Every time he's been at the crime scene,
he's been there to investigate.
- How is today different?
- He is in the Navy Yard
because that's where the
Director's office is located.
Let's ask him.
So you would have Gibbs give up
his post as Acting Director
just to win a $50 pool?
Yes.
Guess it's true what they say about
the Scotsmen.
I trust that if Gibbs is more than
just curious, you will inform me?
Scout's honor.
You said you were never in the Boy Scouts.
I was an Alpha Chi Delta
wet T-shirt spring-break talent scout.
Does that count?
Give me some love.
You gave that man too much
to swallow in one bite, Dr.
Benoit.
It's a house, Carly, not a steak.
From rental apartment to buying a house
in one phone call, are you crazy?
You got to take these things slow.
Toss a few home magazines around.
Leave the real estate section
of the Sunday paper next to the toilet.
Well, he does crossword puzzles in there.
Okay, talk to him about it
when he's vulnerable.
Tony's never vulnerable.
Not even when you put on
your best bedside manner?
Driver's name is Joe Kelly.
He says the victim hailed him on 25th
Street and told him to bring him here.
- To see?
- Us.
He did not specify a particular agent.
Mr.
Kelly,
did you ever see your fare before?
Never.
He seem injured or ill
when you picked him up?
Not really.
He was kind of out of breath.
Like he was running?
Yeah, and he kept looking
back over his shoulder
like he thought someone
might be following us.
Were they?
Good luck tailing anyone in D.
C.
traffic.
Did he speak to you?
Not a word.
As usual, I did all the talking.
Passes the time, you know?
I passed the time,
he passed away, poor guy.
- Yeah, Gibbs.
- SecNav is holding, sir.
SecNav? Tell him I'm
I already told him you on the
Navy Yard and available, sir.
Cynthia, don't ever tell
anybody I'm available
until I tell you I'm available, okay?
- Yes, sir.
- Put him through.
- That the Director on the phone?
- SecNav.
- Wonder what Gibbs did wrong.
- Slipped into Jenny's heels.
Ziva, take the driver's statement.
I already did.
McGee crime scene photos, finish 'em.
- Yeah, I finished them.
- You get an I.
D.
?
Yeah, the photo on the Yemeni's
driver's license matches the victim's.
"Hamal Farhan".
No buzzers.
- Bells.
- What else?
List, seven names on it,
Farhan is number five.
Obviously, whatever he wanted to tell us
had something to do with this list.
Find everyone on it.
So, Director, does that mean you're?
I'm heading the investigation.
Hey, Duck, you win the pool.
Yes !
Thank you, Jethro.
And I didn't do anything wrong, McGee.
Black Rose has countered
our ejection-seat bid.
How does the POB hope to maintain
a classical ballet company
if there are no classical
works scheduled?
I have no idea.
Black Rose, Rene?
What is La Dame's bid?
Double it.
I know you want to corner the market
on F-14 components, Rene,
but even if the Iranians pay top Euro
by the time we split the shipment
for transport
We're not splitting the shipment now.
It's all going on La Tortue.
She sails for Hormuz on the 23rd.
If the Americans stop her, you risk losing
not only the components, but the ship.
$68 million and change.
Regine, the U.
S.
Navy will seize La Tortue
after she enters the Persian Gulf.
Don't you know Americans pay more
to keep their F-14 parts
out of Iranian hands than
Iranians pay to get them.
So
just double it
Nice in 20 minutes.
Time to refresh.
A friend in the GRU informs me that
NCIS nipples is quietly trying
to locate a former
Colonel-General Dimitri Borov.
Elle commence � me gonfler.
She is relentless.
Does that surprise you?
She is the first female director
of an armed Federal Agency.
Have they located
Colonel-General Dimitri Borov?
Not yet.
Perhaps they should.
I've been hacking cabs for 22 years.
Never had a fare die on me.
Couple of heart attacks, a suicide attempt
or two, but none of them died.
Till now.
Anyone who does something
for 22 years must love it.
You kidding?
It's the best job in the world!
So now you think I'm crazy, right?
But here's the thing.
My best friend, I met him in the cab.
The guy who does my tax,
I met him in the cab.
Poker buddies, met'em in the cab.
I even met my wife in the cab.
Well, three out of four ain't bad.
This is your statement.
Read it.
If you agree, sign it.
I think we should, call for a recount.
- On what?
- Ducky winning the pool.
Gibbs is up in the Director's office
directing, right?
We're working the case.
He's not.
Because he's waiting for me
to give him an update.
Which I'm gonna do, as soon as Mr.
Kelly
signs his statement and leaves.
I can go?
You can go to the head
or our conference room.
He said I could leave.
Well, what I say doesn't count
when the boss is here.
Like me when the wife is around.
- Mr.
Kelly.
- Lead the way.
Follow me.
- Update?
- McGee.
According to Immigration, Hamal Farhan
applied for a student visa twice
and was turned down twice.
Granted a six-month tourist visa.
That was a year and a half ago.
Even if he had it extended for a year,
he's here illegally.
Should we notify Immigration
and deport him?
That's a good one, boss.
Actually,
his visa was extended indefinitely.
Yemen added Farhan
to their Embassy personnel.
What are you trying to do,
make me look bad?
I just read it.
Added as what?
A gardener.
In here.
Anything I can get you, Mr.
Kelly?
My cab so I can leave.
To eat or drink?
Philly cheesesteak
and a beer would be nice.
No alcoholic beverages allowed.
I will work on your sandwich.
You gonna lock me in?
No, but there will be
an escort outside the door.
Is that another name for a guard?
Thelma, you're never gonna
believe where I am.
No, I'm not at Kelsey's Bar.
How did he die, Duck?
Quickly, Jethro, as the meter ticked over
and without the driver even noticing.
And whatever caused his demise
is not evident from my autopsy.
There's no sign of violence,no lumps,
bumps, punctures or holes.
Drug overdose?
Well, I can't say for certain
till I receive Abby's report.
But he didn't die of a cardiac infarction
which is how most overdoses kill.
His heart shows no sign
of coronary artery disease.
In fact, it's in excellent condition,
as can be said of all your organs.
Pity they couldn't all have been donated.
They were all so healthy.
Poison?
It's the most likely culprit,
but again, I wait Abigail.
I thought you were supposed
to solve these riddles, Duck.
Abby and I like to share.
Right.
That wouldn't have been your assistant,
would it, Director?
I do hate a nagging woman, Duck.
She's only doing her job, Jethro.
Ah, Abby.
Any news on the tox screen?
Abby, Abby, are you there?
Oh, I guess she must have
gone.
Oh, this cab is bringing back
memories:
cheap vinyl, plastic divider,
dirty floors.
Actually, these floors are pretty clean.
The ones I remember were dirty.
Let me guess.
Short-lived career as a cabbie?
Ah, a short-lived encounter.
Ships in the night.
My first time.
For what?
Front seat or back?
Back.
Well, both, kind of.
My first time was in a weapons carrier.
Of course it was.
Where was the cabbie
when this encounter took place?
He was the cabbie,
putting himself through school.
It was his first time, too.
- First time for what?
- Seeing a curling match, Gibbs.
Have you ever seen a curling match?
The pristine ice and those
little brooms that sweep
That's a clean cab.
So, what killed him, heart attack?
No, Ducky ruled out a heart attack.
Poison looks better all the time.
Well, Major Mass Spectrometer
is working as fast as he can.
Make him work faster, Abby.
Yes, sir.
Running shoe.
Yeah, that impression
matches Farhan's left foot.
The cab must have been cleaned
before he was picked up.
After he hailed the cab,
like most passengers
he didn't sit directly behind the driver.
Crossed his leg like this.
Then he died.
In a very relaxed position.
May have been a natural death, Gibbs.
I know he was healthy and
young, but it does happen SADS.
No, sad.
No S.
No it is SADS.
Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome.
Right.
Sorry.
It can leave the heart
looking perfectly normal.
McGee, you check out our cabbie?
Not yet.
That is my next task.
Hey, boss.
Five of the seven names found on the list
in Farhan's wallet are dead.
- A hit list?
- When?
First died three weeks ago.
The last not including
Farhan Monday.
Kind of rules out your SADS theory, Ziva.
- SADS?
- Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome.
I know what it is, Ziva.
It's number two on the list.
Sean Price, 24, died of SADS.
- The others?
- Heart attack.
- Or a blown autopsy.
- No autopsy.
He was 79.
One car crash, one drowning.
One list, five people.
You and Ziva find the two live names
on this list.
Look for a connection.
David Brown and Robert Smith.
There'll be dozens of them.
I read the obits.
If there's a connection, I didn't see it.
There's a connection.
- What?
- They're all dead.
Relax, Thelma, they won't
keep me here overnight.
I'll be out of here soon.
Right, boss?
I'm not your boss.
Right now it sure feels like it.
When'd you have the cab cleaned?
I got it that way from dispatch.
How many fares before Farhan.
- He was my first.
- He was looking over his shoulder?
Till he was sure we weren't being tailed.
Then he relaxed.
Maybe I just thought
he relaxed, seeing how he was dead.
Can I get my cab and go now?
Not yet.
I am very relieved
that none of the deceased
are your friends or relatives.
Hi, may I speak with David Brown?
- Yes, I am certain they are dead.
- Thanks.
Oh, no, no, I wouldn't send flowers.
May I speak with David Brown?
If you wish to send a sympathy card,
I am sure it would be very appreciated.
Well, you have a good life, too.
I wouldn't normally ask you this,
but since you don't know the deceased,
I was wondering if you'd be interested
in subscribing to our DVD club.
It's mostly East German films.
Because I have a very special
Gets them off the line fast every time.
Hey, boss, 32 David Browns in the metro
area.
So far I've talked to four.
And I notified the Yemen embassy of
Director Gibbs!
- Your cell phone is off.
- Because I shut it off.
The Yemen embassy has been calling
for the Director.
- Did you tell them she's in Paris?
- Yes.
Good.
I also told them you were Acting Director.
They're sending an attache
to identify the body.
Yes, that is him, Hamal Farhan.
When will the body be released?
- When we know how he died and why.
- You suspect ***?
I always suspect *** when a healthy
young man dies of no apparent cause.
Finding the cause of death
could take several days.
Weeks.
It is our request that Mr.
Farhan
be turned over to the embassy immediately.
Kid must have been a hell of a gardener.
He had no family in America.
We take care of our own.
This time of night,
the embassy sends an e-mail,
not a cultural attache, Dr.
Temani.
You are Acting Director
of NCIS, I believe?
Director will be back at the end of
the week if you want to wait around.
Mr.
Farhan wanted to attend
an American university,
but was repeatedly denied a student visa.
So he took up gardening?
Only on paper.
He stops at the embassy every Friday
just to pick up a paycheck.
- He was connected.
- Yes.
The son of one of
the Prime Minister's advisors.
Hamal wanted to learn English
and study American culture,
nothing more.
- Did I say there was?
- No, but I know what you're thinking.
Hamal was not the type to
be involved with terrorism.
He asked to be brought
to NCIS for a reason.
I cannot imagine why.
The last person from your country
who asked to talk to NCIS was killed.
- When was that?
- October 10, 2000.
Two days before the terrorist
attack on USSCole.
Do you know Maury Goldberg,
Thomas West, Adam Zeileg, Sean Price or
Hamal Farhan?
- Adam West?
- No, not Adam West.
Adam Zeileg or Thomas West.
- You know Burt Ward?
- Yeah, I do.
Really? Holy molars!
No kidding.
On The Simpsons? Which one?
Is that the one with
the Muslim guy on the bike?
Thanks for your help, Mr.
Brown.
Tell Burt, Tony says hi.
I know, boss.
This isn't TV trivia.
A dead man was left
on our door step clutching a hit list.
Well not exactly clutching, but
with a hit list in his wallet,
and we have to find
the two names on the list
that haven't been hit yet
before they are hit.
- No, DiNozzo.
- No?
We have to find the dirt bag
that killed the other five!
- Agent Gibbs?
- What?!
Justice called on the Scoletti case.
They've granted the defense permission
to do their own ballistics test tomorrow.
Tell Special Agent Gillman
this is his case.
As Acting Director,
You have to sign off on it.
We still have those case files to review.
We can do them later.
Joe Kelly.
Uh, legit.
He's had a IC licence
in D.
C.
for 22 years.
Other than a couple of minor
traffic violations, he's clean.
He has been here a while.
Should we release him?
- If I wanted him released, McGee
- You would have told me.
Scoletti's lawyers have a hired gun
coming into check Abby's ballistics.
Tell Abby.
- I'd really rather not.
- It wasn't a request.
- When is the Director returning?
- Sometime tomorrow.
I don't think Gibbs
is going to last that
- Hello?
- Yes.
Mister Smith.
I'm calling from NCIS.
Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
They're questioning the validity
of my ballistics?!
Scoletti's lawyers are desperate.
They're desperate.
They're like drowning men grasping
At thin polystyrene tubes?
I was going to say straws,
but I do like that idiom better.
Because mine's more accurate.
I mean,
does saying, "grasping at straws"
tell you if they're made out of paper
or glass or metal or polystyrene? No!
I pride myself on the accuracy
of my forensics,
and lawyers lawyers are questioning it!
Abby, they don't know
you like we know you.
Okay? They're hoping
that you made a mistake,
but when their ballistic experts
don't find any,
that makes your forensics
all the more damning in court.
So please do not let
desperate lawyers grasping
at thin polystyrene tubes
upset you, please?
I love you, McGee.
Not like love you,
love you.
Not that l don't love you,
because I do, kind of.
You know, like
like the way I love puppies.
I could have done without
that comparaison.
But I love puppies.
You'll just have to wait.
They can't hold me here overnight.
My wife doesn't believe
I'm being held by Navy cops.
He's a material witness.
Thanks, pal.
You know how wives arethey don't
trust you as far as they can kick you.
Wouldn't know.
Never married.
How did you get away?
After a while, women
they just don't like me.
- What do you do, leave the toilet lid up?
- I know when they're lying.
Men, too.
From the top.
The guy was my first fare.
Flagged me down outside
Kelsey's Bar on 25th.
Done.
I have a dozen Smiths left.
Want to take half of them?
I don't think so.
- Will make it worth your wow.
- While.
- Not wow.
- Wow makes more sense.
You're right.
Wow would be better.
Then you'll help me?
No.
Did you call to apologize?
Yeah.
You're right.
I was in a rush.
I should have taken more time.
Me, too.
I sprung that house on you.
It was a surprise.
You willing to look at it with me?
Look?
Yeah, when?
Saturday.
Deal.
I got to go.
I love you, Tony.
Love you, too, Jeanne.
Come on.
You can tell us what you're feeling.
Stop nagging my baby
or you can plot the mass spectrum
on a graph yourself, McGee.
Perfect.
You know what they say about
the watched pot, right?
Don't you have something to do?
No.
Not until Major Mass Spec
tells me if Farhan was poisoned or not.
Be a good boy and go get me Scoletti's
weapon out of the evidence locker.
You gonna run another ballistics test?
No, I've already quadruple-checked that,
but the serial number was
filed off of the weapon.
I used an acid-etching
solution to lift it up.
I'm going to quadruple check that now.
Abby.
You did not make an error.
By the time you get back,
the kettle will be whistling.
If not sooner.
Saxitoxin?
- Never heard of it.
- It's a neurotoxin.
It's found in most cases of
paralytic shellfish poisoning.
He ate a bad clam?
I don't know.
What are you looking for?
Gibbs.
He has this uncanny way of just showing up
whenever I make a discovery.
He's a little bit off his game since
he's been playing Director.
Is that so, McGee?
Both of you, get down here.
Saxitoxin is produced
by a single-cell organism
that flourishes in the warm months.
It is eaten by oysters, clams,
mussels, and is responsible
for the deadly phenomenon
known as "red tide".
The poison disrupts the electrical
impulses to the brain,
and the body basically forgets
how to breath, how to live,
and it's practically undetectable.
Good work, my dear.
- Thank you, Ducky.
- You're welcome
Whenever you two are done.
Yes, well,
six-tenths of a milligram
could kill an adult.
That level is consistent with, well,
for example, improperly prepared fugu.
It's a blowfish.
Japanese delicacy.
Perhaps death was accidental?
Not likely.
His stomach was empty.
And even if it wasn't,
the saxitoxin levels were
a hundred times higher than he could have
possibly consumed by eating shellfish.
There's nothing in nature with
that high of a concentration.
During the 50s,
a suicide pill was synthesized
using contaminated butter clams.
- By who?
- Our old friends, The CIA.
Shepard.
Colonel-General Borov.
Who is this?
I have located him.
Place de la Concorde.
Circle the obelisk.
I will be waiting where
Marie lost her head.
Ten minutes.
Place de la Concorde.
And hit it.
Yes, Director.
There he is.
Pull over.
After Pulp Fiction,
a gun aimed my way in
a car makes me nervous.
Put it away, Hektor.
And turn around, Hektor.
This is to be a private conversation.
- Colonel-General Borov.
- No foreplay?
No time.
So American.
Is La Grenouille in Paris?
That's better.
No.
He is in Nice.
I'm joining him later tonight.
Why is the CIA helping me?
Perhaps we believe in righting a wrong.
Colonel-General Borov's address.
He's in a hospital?
Dying of lung cancer.
Pull over by the bridge.
There's an e-ticket in your name
with a visa at Charles de Gaulle.
Aeroflot Flight SU 252 to Moscow.
It departs in three hours.
Au revoir, Ch�rie.
We are trying to establish a timeline
of Farhan's final ride, Gibbs.
Taxicab's on board computer
tracked his movements with a GPS,
and determined the fare based
on how many zones it crossed.
Our cabbie did not take the most
direct route from the Embassy.
This is America, Ziva.
Land of opportunity.
No cabbie ever takes the quickest route
He dropped down along the river,
circumvented the city center.
How much?
$27.
65.
Hope you guys are on overtime.
Is this the route you took
to the Navy Yard this afternoon?
- More or less.
- More.
The fare was $27.
65.
It does not match the distance
you said you traveled.
There was traffic.
I was trying to avoid it.
Got jammed up.
He wasn't complaining, you know?
Because he was dead.
The wife.
I'm going to take this because
she scares me more than you guys.
Thelma?
I made the switch.
Now get us the hell out of here.
I'm trying, Thelma, I'm trying.
Yeah, well, try harder, sweet pea.
I'm pretty sure they're going
to let me go soon.
Well, they'd better, or you're
going to end up like your fare.
Love you, too, sweetheart.
Thelma's really getting worried.
The route.
Okay, so maybe I took the long way around.
What cabbie doesn't now and then?
Report me to the commission.
I'll report myself to the commission.
Just tell me we're done.
Tell me I can get my cab
and go home to Thelma.
Abby's done with the taxi
and he's been here all the day.
Call the front gate.
Thank you.
Thank you
Just go home to your wife.
Did I tell you Thelma and I are going
to take a cruise to the Bahamas?
Bingo.
So how did it get there, Abigail?
What are we watching?
It's an NSA decryption program scanning
all possible connections
between people on the list.
There's a five and a three
in all their Social Security numbers.
Except for Farhan, who didn't
have a Social Security card.
I have the numbers three and five in mine.
- Me, too.
- That's it? No other connections?
- Nope.
- No common churches, social clubs,
schools, fraternities, nothing.
The only place these people
ever met was in the obituaries.
Pull up the full pages of the obituaries.
Where're your eyes go to?
The photos.
You think their names were randomly
picked from the obits?
Gives the appeance of a hit list.
The only one actually murdered was Farhan.
- Why?
- To distract us.
Gibbs.
Unless this foam grew legs,
something weird is going on.
Not that polrethane foam growing
legs isn't weird in the first place,
but this is the foam that we found
on the floor of the taxi,
- and this foam is exactly the same.
- The point.
Well, I just found this foam
inside the evidence lock-up.
David.
Too late, he's gone.
- Speed it up.
- 15's the limit.
Never had my *** give me orders.
- What?
- Main gate's coming up.
Hi, NCIS call about me?
They did, sir.
Both hands on the wheel.
Okay, okay, whatever you say.
Step out of the taxi.
Hands on the wheel or step out?
I can't do both.
Guess.
Oh, man.
Both hands on the hood.
What is this, Baghdad?
Gibbs! Thank God you're here.
Tell these GIrines I can go.
- Clear.
- Clear? It's empty.
- Front or back?
- What?
Which seat?!
Which seat?
What are you talking about?
The accomplice you smuggled
into the evidence lock-up.
Accomplice?
Thelma looks like you when she's pissed,
only she doesn't have a gun, thank God.
Front or back?
Front, front.
Name?
Mario Vincetti.
Mario!
Special Agent Gibbs.
Come out.
Slowly, hands first.
There's no sense in getting
Don't shoot.
I'm coming out.
I said drive faster.
And to think I pitied a murderer.
Murderer?
That guy was murdered?
I didn't know.
I ain't no murderer.
Mario told me the guy was a stiff they
got from a funeral home.
Tell them.
Let Scoletti's lawyers
do the talking, dummy.
Scoletti's lawyers got us into this mess.
Shut up!
Honest, I didn't know they killed the guy.
I was going to get ten grand,
take Thelma on a Princess
cruise to the Bahamas.
A second honeymoon.
We never had a first.
Tell her enough with the evil eye.
It reminds me of my mother.
You're comparing me to your mother.
Just the eyes,
maybe a little around the mouth.
Permission to shoot?
And you come all the way from
America to see my grandfather?
Actually, I was in Paris
when I found out he was ill.
He is dying.
This week, perhaps next.
Lung cancer.
I'm sorry.
Still, you must have flown
half the day to get here.
I'm writing my father's biography.
He and the Colonel-General
were close friends.
They were adversaries, yes?
Sometimes adversaries
make the best friends.
Most days the morphine affects his memory.
Let's hope this isn't one of them.
Stuff the crocus.
Do you have a cigarette?
Cigarettes put you here.
Oh, what are they going to do?
Kill me twice?
It appears to be a good day.
I will find a vase.
Do you have a cigarette?
Your father and I swapped
Cuban cigars for American cigarettes.
Like ***.
It does not burn so much the second time.
You did not come all this way
to watch an old man die.
No.
I came for your signature.
What does it say?
That you verified the destruction of
Warsaw Pact weapons
that were in fact acquired
by an arms dealer known as La Grenouille.
Are you angry at your father?
No.
Why would you even think that?
We had to mutually verify.
La Grenouille paid him, too.
That's a lie.
A dying man does not lie.
Ask your father.
My father's dead.
He beat me to it.
- When?
- 12 years ago.
The old fox.
One last move on the game, huh?
My father has been dead since '95.
He stood where you stand
three weeks ago,
smoking a cigar.