TEXT: BLACK SCREEN GUARD ONE: (V.O.) On your knees! (LIGHT CLICKS ON) INT. INTERROGATION CHAMBER - NIGHT INTERROGATOR: (V.O.) Colonel Ryan, where is our money? RYAN: Where you bastards will never find it. INTERROGATOR: (V.O.) I wouldn't count on that. RYAN: How long do you think you can keep this thing a secret? If I found out, so will others. INTERROGATOR: (V.O.) Then it's a good thing we're in Iraq. People like you get killed here all the time. RYAN: Maybe you're the one who shouldn't count on that. INTERROGATOR: (V.O.) If you're referring to the Marines you were traveling with, they're dead. We also intercepted the three packages you attempted to mail stateside. It's over. RYAN: Then at least tell me why. INTERROGATOR: (V.O.) We all have our orders. Unfortunately for you, we kill anyone who learns about ours. RYAN: Well, I was kind of hoping for a little more than that. (MUSIC OVER ACTION/RYAN ATTACKS THE GUARDS) INTERROGATOR: Don't just stand there! Shoot him! CAMERON: Sir! It's clear all the way back to the entrance. RYAN: By the way, it was four packages, not three. (MUSIC OUT) (THEME MUSIC UP OVER OPENING TITLE/SCENES / CREDITS AND OUT) MUSIC IN: INT. SQUAD ROOM - DAY TONY: This is my favorite part of the day. Oh Debbie, and Lisa, Lisa, Lisa. KATE: Since when did you start giving women your work address? TONY: Oh, since I broke up with Michelle. KATE: The social worker? TONY: Yeah, we had a little misunderstanding. KATE: Like what? TONY: Well, she was under
SUMMARY:
Gibbs puts his career on the line after finding out that a marine colonel, William Ryan ( Terry O'Quinn ) who also happens to be his former CO has absconded from Iraq with two million dollars, and returned to the States under an assumed name. The FBI, led by Fornell, believe that he staged the ambush and stole the money for himself while Gibbs denies the claim, believing he is innocent. Ryan later contacts Gibbs, and explains that he has discovered a conspiracy to siphon funds out of Iraq for use on black ops while vehemently denying any responsibility. Gibbs finds himself in a delicate situation as he realizes that Ryan is mentally unstable after the latter kept mentioning a "Lt. Cameron", Gibbs's former company XO who had died in his arms years ago. Gibbs later learns that Lt. Cameron is alive, but only in Ryan's head and is working with Ryan to stop the conspiracy. After being arrested for "pissing off the FBI", Gibbs, along with Fornell, set out to discover the truth behind the Colonel's claims in a tense standoff and discover that Ryan had indeed been framed. With the truth out and the standoff over, Ryan is admitted into a mental hospital so that he can be treated for his paranoid schizophrenia .