TEXT: MUSIC IN: EXT. WOODED AREA - DAY (MUSIC OVER ACTION/ HUNTER MOVES THROUGH THE BUSH CHASING A DEER) (SFX: HUNTER CLEARS LEAVES WITH HIS HANDS) (SFX: HATCH DOOR OPENS) (HUNTER SHOUTS) (MUSIC OUT) (THEME MUSIC UP OVER OPENING TITLE/SCENES/ CREDITS AND OUT) MUSIC IN: INT. SQUAD ROOM - DAY GIBBS: Grab your gear. TONY: My three favorite words. KATE: Where to? GIBBS: Saint Mary's River State Park. Right here. TONY: Maryland. GIBBS: Good guess. Think you can guess how to drive there? TONY: I'd say the fastest way would be to take the Beltway to Highway Two Thirty Five south. Take that to Route Fifty and then... punch it into the Nav System when we get lost. KATE: What's in the park? GIBBS: A deer hunter stumbled onto an aircraft drop tank - Navy markings. TONY: We're driving to Maryland to look at a drop tank? GIBBS: It's got a body inside. TONY: Now that's different. GIBBS: Yeah, I thought so. You pick up Ducky. Tony, you gas the truck. TONY: You know, Gibbs, most agencies have people who do that sort of thing. GIBBS: Mm-hmm. So do we. MUSICAL BRIDGE TO: EXT. PARK - DAY TROOPER LYNCH: Bow hunter was tracking a deer. Stumbled across the drop tank. GIBBS: He the one who opened the hatch? TROOPER LYNCH: That's right. (CAMERA ANGLE ON CORPSE) DUCKY: Mmm... KATE: How did he get so... DUCKY: I believe mummified is the adjective you were searching for. Ah,
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.