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KATE: (INTO PHONE) If we exonerate him then his wife and daughter will get the death benefit they deserve. ABBY: Oh hey, come on! Are you sure? Both expensive. GIBBS: A deer hunter stumbled onto an aircraft drop tank - Navy markings. GIBBS: Saint Mary's River State Park. GIBBS: Use that computer. GIBBS: When? GIBBS: Who searched? He was declared a deserter thirty days later and he received a dishonorable discharge. I work for a living. Is he lying? It had to have been Mark. KATE: Miss Toner? KATE: One point two million dollars out of the Eisenhower's safe. KATE: The carrier was a day out of Norfolk at the end of a six month deployment in the Med. KATE: Who tried to make his getaway in a cargo pod. Petty Officer Martinez surprised him with a knife, ransacked the safe and forced Lieutenant Schilz to carry the money to a Tomcat where he murdered Lieutenant Schilz, stuffed him in a pod and left with the money. Sailor on a half shell! TONY: Maybe she was named for Mamie. The chains and the tats and the piercings.
Plan: A: Gibbs; Q: Who is called in to investigate the murder of a lieutenant? A: a mummified lieutenant; Q: What is found in a cargo pod? A: 1.2 million dollars; Q: How much money was the lieutenant believed to have stolen? A: nine years; Q: How long ago did the lieutenant abscond with Navy funds? A: his position; Q: What did the lieutenant receive a dishonorable discharge for deserting? A: half; Q: How deep was the cargo pod in which the lieutenant was found buried? A: Navy markings; Q: What was on the cargo pod that the corpse was found in? A: a deer hunter; Q: Who found the corpse of the lieutenant? A: St. Mary's River State Park; Q: Where was the corpse of the lieutenant found? A: Two; Q: How many former shipmates of the deceased are suspected of the murder and theft? A: suspicion; Q: What do two former shipmates come under for both the murder and the theft? A: the murder; Q: What do Gibbs and Tony work on investigating? A: Kate; Q: Who is charged with tracking down the missing funds? A: his death benefits; Q: What does Kate want to make sure the former wife and daughter of the dead lieutenant receive? A: Abby; Q: Who uses a computer reconstruction to work a confession out of a possible suspect? Summary: Gibbs and the team are called in when a mummified lieutenant, who was believed to have absconded with 1.2 million dollars of stolen Navy funds nine years previously and later received a dishonorable discharge for allegedly deserting his position, is found in a half-buried cargo pod with Navy markings on it by a deer hunter deep in the woods of St. Mary's River State Park . Two former shipmates who served with the deceased come under suspicion for both the murder and the theft. Gibbs and Tony work at investigating the murder, while Kate is charged with tracking down the missing funds, although she is more devoted to ensuring the dead lieutenant's former wife and young daughter receive his death benefits. Abby uses a computer reconstruction to work a confession out of a possible suspect.