NCIS

I can't I'm still working

Hey, this is my big week, man

I made more tips today than all last month

Yeah, I got four more deliveries

Yeah, I'll hook up with you around 7:00

Yeah, whatever

I used to love this game as a kid

Oh, me, too

My mother preferred I played with dolls

My favorite was GIJoe

- David, thank you - My pleasure

I enjoy shopping- especially when it's not my money

Good

That was security

A Detective Kemp is on his way up

Anyone know where Gibbs is?

Detective Justin Kemp?

That's the one Metro Homicide Why, do you know him?

Um, sort of you know

What does that mean?

We have a mutual friend

I used to date Kemp's wife

How, uh- how many dates we talking about here?

Guys, what's it matter? I don't know

Like two, or three?

Four

- Oh, that's - Not a big deal

Four months At least four months

- Oh, that is - That is a big deal

So what's Kemp doing here?

Uh, investigating a home invasion robbery

Double homicide- it's an older couple

And how does that involve us?

They don't want to discuss it on the phone

Close your mouth, Ziva He's married

- Kemp - DiNozzo

Special Agent Gibbs

Sorry to ruin your Christmas

It's December 23 We're not going anywhere

Found fingerprints at the crime scene

Ran them through AFIS- I got a hit- a Ned Quinn

A former petty officer Vietnam vet

We had a witness- a delivery boy

Worked with our sketch artist

Looks like an older version of him

Can't be Quinn died in a fire in 1991

That's why I'm here

According to VArecords Quinn's buried at Arlington

McGee, pull a copy of the death certificate

Boss, this is not good

It's a sixpence

What does it have to do with Christmas?

Everything, Abby It's a tradition

That coin has been baked, well, steamed actually

into every Mallard Christmas pudding since the 1850s

It brings good fortune and luck in the coming year

To whoever finds it on their plate

Assuming they don't choke to death on it

Sadly, with no extended family here, I've let the tradition lapse

Next year, Ducky, you and me- we're going to make Christmas pudding

I'd like that

I like everything about Christmas

Except for that Chipmunk song

And shopping- I hate shopping

I never know what do get anyone- specially Gibbs

What do you get for the guy that has nothing and wants nothing?

Some squeaky shoes

Hi, Gibbs

Bye, Gibbs

Something wrong, Jethro?

Fingerprints found at a double homicide yesterday-

belong to a petty officer who's supposed to have been dead 17 years

His death certificate

Oh, dear Someone's in trouble

I signed it?

Ned Quinn

Graduated with honors from the University of Virginia

He was accepted to its medical school, but didn't go

Enlisted in the Navy

Became a corpsman instead

Attached to the First Battalion, Ninth Marines

The walking dead

Came home from Vietnam in 1972

Was treated at VAfor post traumatic stress disorder

Quinn became addicted To methamphetamine

and was in and out of rehab His wife divorced him

in 1980, and got full custody of Their three-year-old daughter Melissa

He started living on the streets and supposedly died with seven others

In a fire at a halfway house On Canal Street

There was nothing to hint that Quinn was alive until yesterday's murders

A lot of years in between

Where's the ex-wife and the daughter now?

Wife lives in Alexandria and the daughter lives in Clearfield

McGee, go with her

massive charring

Pugilistic contractions of the extremities

Heat fractions

Evulsion of the brain

large and small intestines

My voice had a deeper timbre in those days

You make a mistake, Duck?

The city ME

Was unable to make a positive Identification from the charred remains

So I was called in in the hope that Quinn's military medical

and dental records could confirm his identity

Unfortunately, due to the victim's heavy drug use, he suffered from meth mouth

Which deteriorated his teeth and made a dental match impossible

DNA?

That was not an option back then

All I had to go by

was an examination of the skull and measurement of the bones

From which I determined only that it was a male

Caucasian, about 40 years old and six-foot, two

Well, fit Quinn's description then

And since the remains were Found in Quinn's room

With all of Quinn's personal effects

we both naturally reached a circumstantial and logical conclusion

What's more, nobody turned up claiming to be Quinn

Well, if it wasn't him

then maybe he killed someone and covered it up with the fire

In Quinn's file, it says that he was treated for his PTSD at Bethesda

By a psychiatrist- one Dr

Dr Pryor Yes As I recall, he's still there

I need to talk to him

Thanks for coming over, Mom

I just have to get a few stocking stuffers

Go, go, go, go

As long as I'm home by 6:30 to help your father brine the turkey

You know how he gets

Have you seen my car keys?

Jordie, did you take my keys?

I'll get it Hang on, hang on

You stay here, my sweet boy

Afternoon NCIS

I'm Special Agent Timothy McGee looking for Melissa Fox

Who is it, Mom?

Are you Connie Wheeler?

Yes

We need to ask you some questions about your former husband, Ned Quinn

Fingerprints found at a crime scene match his

Well, that can't be

He's been dead for 20 years

If he were alive, do you have any idea where he might be?

I couldn't even offer a clue

He's been out of our lives since the divorce

Melissa, have you had any contact with your father?

Her father is my husband Ed

He raised Melissa since she was four years old

Ned Quinn has never been a part of her life

I only have vague memories of him

If he is still alive, I don't want him to know where we are

He's already destroyed our lives once

- Mommy, Mommy, I'm done - I'm sorry, excuse me

When he came back from Vietnam

he was a drug addict

I tried, but he didn't want my help

I moved on

We both moved on

I don't remember Quinn

Apparently we treated him over a three year period- 1979 to '82

What were you treating him for?

He suffered from survivor guilt

Blamed himself for a buddy's death

Oh, my God

I heard there was a Santa in the building

- Abby - He's great

Rosy cheeks, wire-rim glasses

Your beard looks so real

That's because it is

Abigail, Dr Pryor is A psychiatrist He's here to help me find

To find out who's naughty and who's nice Hello?

You think I could get a picture?

Abigail

Why did Quinn blame himself for his friend's death?

Well, he and another corpsman

Switched patrols a week before their tour was to end

The other guy got killed In an ambush

You last saw him in '82 The fire was in '91

Have you any idea of anything that happened in the intervening years?

No Like a lot of those guys, he stopped coming

They give up

Did he have any violent tendencies?

I don't remember

I have to be at the Children's Hospital party in 30 minutes

Anything that I once knew about the man is in here

Thank you, Dr Pryor

Ho, ho, ho Merry Christmas

Thank you, Santa

I just suffered for hours through the good doctor's rambling notes

There is nothing to suggest aggressive or impulsive behavior

Per his service record, Quinn left Vietnam on December 30, 1972

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall listed 58, 000 plus names of the dead

and missing in chronological order

According to its Web site, 17 military personnel died that week

Of that number, two were in Long Khanh Province where Quinn was stationed

Only one was a Navy corpsman

Roger Laurence Grant

Yeah

After the Vietnam Memorial was dedicated,

Quinn went regularly to the wall to pay tribute to his fallen friend