TEXT: MUSIC IN: INT. HOTEL DINING AREA - DAY (MUSIC OVER ACTION/CAMERA PANS AROUND THE GUESTS) (SFX: ZIVA SLAPS TONY) TONY: Ow! ZIVA: We're not here to eat. We're here to protect the Director. TONY: Ziva, this is probably the most secure building in the whole country right now. CIA, DSS, ATF, F.B.I... the whole alphabet's here. Not to mention State Troopers, Metro Cops and NCIS' finest....me. (BEAT) And you. But "me" is hungry. These are public servants like us. This is free food. ZIVA: Some are defense contractors. TONY: Beltway Bandits who make a career of standing in front of the public trough. ZIVA: Politicians. TONY: Have you ever seen a skinny politician? ZIVA: Too late. Our guest of honor has just arrived. CONVENOR'S: (V.O.) Ladies and gentlemen, the retiring Secretary of Defense of the United States of America! (SFX: APPLAUSE) TONY: I'm going to get something to eat. (SFX: VOICES MURMUR B.G.) ZIVA: (SHOUTS) Director! (MUSIC OVER ACTION/ZIVA RUNS TO SHEPARD/ KNOCKS HER OUT OF HARM'S WAY) (SFX: VOICES B.G.) (MUSIC UP AND OUT) (THEME MUSIC UP OVER OPENING TITLE/SCENES/ CREDITS AND OUT) MUSIC IN: INT. DINING AREA - DAY TONY: Exactly thirty seven minutes... POLICEMAN: Yeah, that'll do. SHEPARD: Good morning, Gibbs. McGee. GIBBS: Director Shepard. SHEPARD: Our gatecrasher was a Marine. Sergeant Brian Wright. The hotel was in lockdown and he wasn't a registered guest. He took
SUMMARY:
A decorated Marine veteran falls from a floor of a hotel during a conference of agency directors (that included Jenny Shepard) while Tony and Ziva were on security detail and the NCIS team must find out what happened to him. Soon they realize that the Marine did not commit suicide and that he was homeless, having lost everything after being injured while serving in Iraq. Having gone through the victim's personal belongings, the team soon find compromising evidence against him but Gibbs is determined to prove the man's innocence by any means necessary.