TEXT: MUSIC IN: INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY (MUSIC OVER ACTION) DUCKY: Mister Palmer! Mister Palmer!(SFX: MUFFLED MUSIC B.G.) JIMMY: Yes, Doctor! DUCKY: As a serious and dedicated student of anatomy... you are a serious and dedicated student of anatomy, are you not? JIMMY: Uh-huh. DUCKY: Well then, Mister Palmer, are you up to the task of identifying the reconstructive blunder that has been foisted upon our deceased? JIMMY: Uh... uh... DUCKY: Would you call that a thumb? JIMMY: I would call that a toe. DUCKY: Why then, perchance, did you place it with the other digits from his right hand? JIMMY: Because that's where it belongs. If you look at the scar line, it matches perfectly. Plus his right foot had a cleanly amputated big toe. This guy lost his thumb in an accident or something and had surgery to replace it with the big toe. [SCENE_BREAK] INT. COURTROOM - FLASHBACK (MONTAGE OF FLASHBACK COURTROOM SCENES) [SCENE_BREAK] INT. AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY DUCKY: My god. I think I know who this is. (MUSIC UP AND OUT) (THEME MUSIC UP OVER OPENING TITLE/SCENES/ CREDITS AND OUT) MUSIC IN: INT. SQUAD ROOM - DAY "THE MEAT PUZZLE"(SFX: KEYBOARDING B.G.) TONY: Mmm, I love Filomena's ice cream. KATE: Filomena's in Georgetown? TONY: My standard first date place. KATE: I went there on a first date Saturday night. TONY: Yeah? After dinner, I like to stroll the lucky lady down Wisconsin to this pretentious gallery called "Im
SUMMARY:
After several months, Ducky and Jimmy finally start identifying the bodies in the meat puzzle they have been working on. It is not long before Ducky realizes that the victims all played a part in a trial in which he himself testified: the court case of a would-be medical examiner named Vincent Hanlon. Hanlon was accused of raping and murdering a young Navy lieutenant, and was eventually jailed for eight years as a result. They soon discover that the dead men were involved in the case, and it dawns on Gibbs that Ducky might be the next target. It appears that whoever has already carried out the gruesome killings is out for revenge against those who were involved in the case. Tony and Kate are assigned to protection detail, which means safeguarding Ducky and his elderly mother, but Kate makes a split-second mistake that leads to Ducky being kidnapped from his home during the night. The team must race against time to find him before he ends up dead like all the other previous victims. Meanwhile, Jimmy and Abby begin working together and uncover a surprising revelation: Vincent Hanlon, who is thought to have died in a car crash, is not actually dead. The corpse's teeth match Hanlon's, while the body belongs to someone else.