NCIS

Previously on NCIS:

Galib, has Abu infiltrated Sealift?

They're about to. Our radioman, Pinpin Pula is Abu Sayyaf.

He plans to blow the Cape Fear. This will be as bad as 9/11.

You didn't know him when he was wounded

- in Desert Storm? - No.

He seems to be repeating that trauma,

the coma that he doesn't wanna wake up from.

If Galib had intel on Abu's plans, did he have time to tell Gibbs?

Maybe, they were together when the bomb went off.

Let's hope Gibbs comes out of this coma in time.

Jethro doesn't talk much about the past.

I know very little about his life before we met.

- Welcome back, Jethro. - You were in an explosion.

I remember.

I don't know him.

- You don't know Dr. Mallard? - Ducky.

Ducky, do you know Ducky?

I'm disappointed, Jethro.

The last time someone forgot me, I was a baby.

My Mother left me on the ferry from Orkney to John O'Groat's.

She was on the bus halfway to Thurso before she missed me.

I've often wondered if I inspired the Liechtenstein T-shirt.

- "Oh, God. I left the baby on the bus." - Quite.

Remember my telling you that, Jethro?

I remember the T-shirt.

But not me.

No worries, it'll come.

Absolutely. Temporary memory loss is to be expected.

Don't let it worry you. You breathing comfortably?

Good. Let's switch to the nasal cannula, Maria.

- Okay. - You're doing fine.

I'm just gonna to take this off.

Most traumatized brain injuries

produce short-term retrograde amnesia.

But to erase years of memory,

his medial temporal lobes or hippocampus should be damaged.

No, his CAT scans and EEG are normal.

And he remembered the explosion.

And I've never had a retrograde amnesia patient remember the trauma.

Never.

Okay, there you go.

I don't think it's retrograde amnesia.

I think it's dissociative.

An emotional repression of memory?

With no physical damage to the brain, it must be psychological.

- No - But, Doctor,

you said Gibbs hasn't spoken of his past.

- Hardly ever. - Perhaps it's too painful.

It could explain the prolonged coma in '91.

But the present coma is the result of an explosion.

How could it be psychological?

What if the latest coma caused a relapse?

So how are we doing?

Confused.

Let's see if we can clear up some of those cobwebs.

Do you remember the explosion?

Yes.

But where were you when it happened?

Kuwait.

I have good news.

Gibbs has regained consciousness.

That's great.

However, there's also a problem.

He has some memory loss.

Retrogressive amnesia is totally normal after severe trauma.

Happens every time the Boss smacks me on the head.

You know, I had amnesia after my car crash.

Your bumper car got T-boned at Legoland, Probie?

No, Tony. I told you about when I totaled my Camaro when I was 16.

That day is still a blank to me.

Well, Gibbs' blank is the last 15 years.

To him, it's 1991.

And he's a Marine Gunny Sergeant wounded in Desert Storm.

He doesn't know he's an NCIS Special Agent?

I doubt it.

He didn't recognize Ducky.

Wait, if he doesn't know who Ducky is, then there's no…

He'll never remember us.

I am sure it's a temporary condition. In the meantime,

We have an Abu Sayyaf terrorist to apprehend.

I really don't know anything more, Abby.

Can I go visit him?

Not just yet.

His neurologist, Captain Gelfand, will let us know when he's up to it.

Can I run to the restroom? I'll come right back.

If anyone else needs a potty break,

now's the time to do it. We meet at 1710.

You know what that means?

The Director's taking over the investigation.

Probably, but I was thinking if Gibbs doesn't remember the last 15 years,

he'll be a Probie.

Gibbs would never let her take over.

Not the old Gibbs.

Probie Gibbs.

- Director Shepard? - Yes, DiNozzo.

I want you to understand that in Gibbs' absence,

as the team's Senior Special Agent, this investigation is mine.

- Is it? - Yes, it is, ma'am.

And if I were to dispute that assumption?

Then you would be a fool.

And you are no fool, Director.

This will be a long, tough investigation.

You're overloaded as it is, and no one knows this team

better than me except for the Boss.

Which evidently isn't me.

I was speaking, of course, of the team Boss, Gibbs.

You are the Agency Boss.

Not if you keep telling me what I can and cannot do.

- I would never do that, ma'am. - Then what is it that you're saying?

You take care of the big picture, and let me handle the two-reeler.

I always intended to, Tony.

Then why did you make me say all that just now?

I just wanted to see if you had as much guts as Gibbs.

What's the first thing you remember after the explosion?

Did you know when Jethro was married he had a daughter?

No, that's not possible.

I know all 3 of Jethro's ex-wives. They had no children.

With his first wife, Shannon, he did.

They married in '82

and had a daughter Kelly, who was born in '84.

I can't believe it.

There's more.

They were murdered when Jethro was fighting in Desert Storm.

Shannon witnessed the shooting of a Marine in Oceanside.

She identified the killer as Pedro Hernandez,

a Mexican drug dealer working Camp Pendleton.

An NIS agent was assigned to protect her.

A sniper shot him in the head while he was driving their van.

He died instantly.

Shannon and Jethro's 8-year-old daughter Kelly

were killed in the crash.

That is so awful.

Kelly looked a lot like Jethro, didn't she?

Yes, a bit.

She's a beautiful child.

Very.

So was Shannon.

Jethro always did like redheads.

Was Hernandez ever caught?

No, he fled to Mexico.

NIS tried to extradite,

but the Mexican authorities always claimed they couldn't find him.

It's in our cold case files.

Well, you can close it.

- What do you know? - Jethro would have pursued

the killer of his wife and daughter to hell and back.

Jethro got his revenge.

After conducting the autopsy, Ducky is virtually certain

Abog Galib was inside the oil drum when the explosive detonated.

Why would he be in a laundry oil drum?

Maybe he was looking for his laundry.

- This is serious, Abby. - Listen to the pot call the kettle black.

- Got that right, didn't I? - No.

Yes.

Probie, why was Galib in that oil drum?

He was hiding.

- From who? Gibbs? - Maybe, he ran from Gibbs,

even though the plan was to get arrested in front of the crew.

Another question. How did Pinpin Pula know

Gibbs and Galib would be in the ship's laundry?

Right. Because they would have had to put the bomb inside the oil drum

- before they got there. - Gibbs knows.

Gibbs also thinks the Giants won the Super Bowl

and Dances with Wolves is an Academy Award nominee.

- I loved that movie. - Me too.

Those Native Americans were so macho in their…

Enough.

Abby, I want a reenactment of the explosion, okay?

Using crime-scene photos, measurements,

- Ducky's… - Ducky's autopsy findings?

I know how to do a computer reenactment, Tony.

Ziva, what did you get out of the cook, what's-his-name?

Alon Atu, from the same Filipino village in Basilan as Pinpin.

He's hardcore Abu Sayyaf.

- He won't talk unless I… - No torture.

He won't talk.

- Try. - Okay, but you're tying my feet.

- Hands. - Those too.

McGee, Pinpin's photo get added to the BOLO?

- Yes, Tony. - Sealift Command get it?

They are faxing it to all 110 ships.

No way he's gonna infiltrate Sealift.

He blew up Galib and put Gibbs in a coma.

Rule Number 3: never underestimate your opponent.

- No, actually Rule Number 3… - DiNozzo's Rule Numero Tres, Probie.

Gotcha.

Never underestimate your opponent.

Hey, Galib.

Today, technology stocks…

He's trying to catch up on 15 years by watching TV.

Jethro hates television.

He can't believe we're still fighting in Iraq.

He's not alone.

Does he remember being an NCIS Special Agent?

No, Dr. Mallard's still a stranger to him.

He won't know me then.

Ducky worked with him years before I did.

Well, who an amnesiac remembers

depends on their prior relationship.