NCIS: Origins

Where is Stanley Turner? Who's in charge?

My husband's in charge,

but we haven't seen Stanley since yesterday.

Abe! Where's my brother?

I heard Stanley's name on the scanner.

They said what he did.

It'd be great to be able to tap you as a field agent.

- What if I freeze up again? - Hey.

I got you. You got me.

Okay?

Manuel Santiago.

Flaco's telling you to keep on me?

- You're seeing flaco's guy? - I'm not seeing him.

Sometimes, I see that gangbanger at church,

and we talk about our day, okay? You're the one

who got drunk-married in Vegas.

Come on... The evidence locker window.

Yes. Yes.

Every day, Kowalski would look out

and he would take stock.

"The office is a living, breathing thing."

That's what Kowalski always said.

Like it's my fault...

He charted its ups and downs, the ebbs and flows.

What he saw from that window...

it wasn't always good. Wasn't always happy.

But what mattered, he said,

was that folks were putting their heads together.

When the office was communicating,

the work was getting done right.

Cases were getting solved.

And more often than not,

people could make it home in time for dinner.

But every now and then,

Kowalski would look out the window

and he'd notice that things were off.

He'd notice that we were in our own worlds.

We were operating next to each other

instead of with each other.

And that's when he'd take action.

Hey, smitty.

Hey, close it down for us tonight, all right?

"Kowalski cocktails," he called it.

Yeah. All right, thanks.

It was his way of team building.

- Hey, kid. - Yeah?

I'm calling Kowalski cocktails for tonight.

Make sure everyone knows.

Can you have Mary Jo do it?

- I'm trying to get this thing wrapped up. - Right.

I'm sorry to bother you.

I thought you had leadership goals.

What?

I thought you wanted to be a team leader someday.

What does being team leader have to do

with telling people about drinks?

- Hey, Mike. - What do you need?

Got a guy coming by to fix my TV.

I'm calling Kowalski cocktails for tonight.

- Make sure everyone knows. - Listen up, people!

Kowalski cocktails tonight.

Gail, call Wheeler, let him know.

Giddyap. Kowalski cocktails. I will see you there.

You see that?

Team leader takes significant information

and acts on it.

I didn't realize that wasn't something

- you're interested in. - I didn't say that.

I'll see you at daly's, kid.

Back then,

I didn't know if I had what it took to be a team leader.

I figured I'd go to drinks that night

and put it out of my head.

But that's not what happened.

Because that night was about to become

one of the craziest 12-hour runs in nis history.

After that night, when Kowalski looked out his window,

he'd never see me the same again.

You get it fixed?

What happened was, you had a couple of

bad solder joints.

Discussing this evening.

See that?

I do outstanding work. Picture's clear as day.

Joining us is Abe pruitt's wife, Beth.

And also with us is legal rep

for the pruitt family, Doug westmont.

Thank you for having us, Jane.

The hell? You seen this?

To begin, I'd like to hear from you, Beth.

How do you feel about your husband's recent arrest?

That's Abe pruitt's bigamy wife.

They got Doug westmont as their lawyer now?

Are they the ones that helped that guy

blow up the movie do me?

Doug westmont, he's a big deal.

Abe has been doing so many positive things with our land.

She's an idiot. Pruitt's got her brainwashed.

Nis had nothing to connect him to the bombing,

but they just want to strut around

with a big fish on their hook.

Hey, if I'm strutting, you're gonna know I'm strutting.

Hand me that wrench, would you?

Abe should be released immediately.

Released? You hearing this blood-sucking...

Son of a bitch!

Are you all right?

What happened? What's wrong?

- My back. - Don't move.

My back. D-Don't move. Don't move.

Hey. K-cocktails tonight. Did you guys hear?

Yeah. Hey, when we're there,

we should reenact that scene from cheers last night.

I'll be norm.

- I didn't see it. - What?

- You never miss cheers. - Did you tape it? No.

- Why not? - I forgot.

- What were you doing? - Nothing.

If you weren't doing anything,

- why weren't you watching cheers? - Randolf,

let's go. I need alcohol

before I hear you talk this much.

- Roy, shake a leg. - One of us needs to wait for Dalton.

He's duty agent tonight,

- and he's not here yet. - Randolf.

Hold on, let me put you on speaker.

No, don't put me on speaker.

Sorry, boss, I already did it.

You want me to take you off?

Forget it, randolf, I just... Threw out my damn back.

- Doing what? - Picking something up off the floor.

What? No, that's like an old person thing to happen.

Maybe you're just sore from lifting.

Just tell Kowalski I ain't gonna make it tonight.

No. You know how Kowalski gets

when we miss k-cocktails.

Look, I got magic hands,

passed down from my aunt Gloria.

I'll go to your house, adjust your back,

and then we can go to daly's from there.

No, Vera, I don't want you coming over here.

She's already gone.

Dammit.

Well, that was abrupt.

You guys should go.

- I'll wait for Dalton. - Meet you over there. No.

I'll stay. I'm the alternate.

No, I got it.

Kowalski was busting my balls earlier.

If he gets in a few drinks before I see him,

maybe he'll let up.

I need a...

Hey, there. Can we help you?

I need to... I need to make a report.

Yeah?

What's going on?

How much have you had to drink tonight, man?

I'll get him to the drunk tank.

- You guys should get out of here. - Love you, Gibbs.

Seriously, why didn't you watch cheers last night?

Mary Jo, you take off yet?

Gibbs. Did you hear from Dalton?

He's supposed to be the duty agent tonight.

We need to call the mps,

get this guy transferred over to the drunk tank.

Gail, did you forget to give

Dalton basement his schedule again?

I know we call him basement,

but I do tend to forget his office is down there.

You got any ID on you?

You all are doing makeup?

Daly's shut down for nis folks only.

No one to impress.

Well, Gail has a thing for jj,

so I'm thinking a fierce smokey eye will seal the deal.

Lord help us.

Yeah, I got a drunk marine here.

Captain Brian polanco.

Yeah, polanco.

Get over to daly's. I got him.

I appreciate someone taking initiative around here.

That's very nice, Gibbs. I like that very much.

Okay. Yeah, we'll see you here soon. Thanks.

- He sprayed me. - What's that?

Someone sprayed me.

Last night.

I was walking up to my place, and then...

sprayed me in the face.

You saying you were assaulted?

Dammit. Captain? You okay?

- Polanco? Gail, call 911. - What?

- We need an ambulance! - Hey, what's going on?

- I don't know. - I thought he was drunk.

- Something's wrong. - Gary, back. Back.

Polanco. Look at me.

Brian! Brian?

Hey! Look at me!

Franks, it's Vera.

It's open.

Hey. Let me in.