NCIS

Corporal werth is your poster boy for the marine corps.

Rapid improvement in every facet

Since he enlisted four years ago:

Strength, speed, stamina, mental acuity, everything.

Mcgee, back off!

Damon, what are you doing?

Stay down.

Oh, man, my head.

Heatherton.

Yo, heatherton.

Man, was that a party or what?

Step to it, marine.

All right. Home again, home again.

Let's get some lights on in here.

Look at that.

You got rid of the piles of magazines.

Looks nice. Homey.

Not "homie" as, in, you know,

"you're my homie"" I meant the place.

I'm gonna check your, uh,

Fridge for some food.

I just asked you to drive me, mcgee.

Always happy to drive you, boss.

There's nothing in here but fish food.

Well, you know what I could do?

I could, uh,

Feed the fish, and if you get hungry,

You could eat the fish.

Sorry. It's a bad joke.

Uh, you need help with your shoes, or...

All right.

Got a new lock on the front door.

That's to keep out unwanted guests.

Ah.

All right. Pick you up in the morning.

I know my goldfish didn't eat a t-bone.

Payback, agent gibbs.

Friends are welcome.

You're not a friend.

I need your help.

I didn't want anyone to see us talking.

You're paranoid.

I'm clean.

I'm off the juice.

Who do you think's watching you?

Guy named aaron szwed. He's got a trucking company.

Friend of mine from the corps's been doing work for him.

Questionable work.

Go on.

This is...

This is heatherton and me.

After we got shipped stateside.

Wife and kid left him. He had some trouble

Making the transition back to civilian.

Unlike you?

I didn't carry him out of the desert so he could wind up dead

In some alley tonight.

He came by for a drink.

Partied. He was upset.

He wanted to tell me something about the last job, and I...

You what?

I blacked out again.

Is your head straight?

I only had a couple of beers, I swear.

You only had a couple you remember.

He's still laying out there, gunny.

Hello. Hey, mcgee.

Yeah, boss? Day's not over.

Well, it's, uh... It's the district.

So, technically, it's metro's jurisdiction.

But we can take it if we find a reason.

Cooperating witness.

Heatherton's not active service.

Hasn't been since he was wounded in iraq.

I'll call metro.

If they can kick it

To the bureau's violent crimes task force,

They can hand it off to us.

Get, uh, ziva and dinozzo out of bed.

What?

Wake 'em up.

Oh, oh, oh.

Right, um... Get them out of bed,

Because it's the middle of the night and they're asleep.

Yes.

Individual beds. Get them out of individual beds.

I was confused. I thought we were talking...

Need some sleep yourself, do you, mcgee?

Uh, no.

You got bags under your eyes.

It's a look that I'm going for.

Believe me now?

What was heatherton doing for szwed?

Driving a truck. Like, serious driving.

Last run was cross country and back in less than a week.

He...

He said he messed up, but he had to.

Something about being a human first.

Heatherton was recruiting me for the next run.

And, um....

Szwed offered it to me.

When?

Before I came to see you.

I went to see szwed at his warehouse out in manassas.

You lucas?

Where's heatherton? Expecting two of you.

You guys haven't seen him?

Is this the wheelman?

Yeah.

But our boy heatherton's gone missing.

That guy's unreliable.

I'm not.

Your friend told me you can drive.

If the money's right.

Really?

It's a two-man job.

We'll roll tomorrow.

I've got someone in mind.

This is a murder investigation.

Szwed's body man, lucas, he carries a jack knife.

I think they killed him.

You're not getting involved.

What do I tell his wife, gibbs?

What do I tell his little girl?

I'll tell you.

You're just a witness here.

And you're not a very good one.

No.

I'm the guy taking a dead man's place behind the wheel.

You need me, gibbs.

What happened to your face?

What happened to your arm?

The job.

Same.

Office said you just got home a few hours ago.

Rico case.

Couple of mob hits.

Deep cover.

No sugar?

Try not to look so chipper.

All right, go.

I'm taking your crime scene.

Let me hop in the shower.

Tobias.

Nice slippers.

Oh, sorry.

It's okay.

You were sleeping.

I know.

It's kind of like being in a cave

With a hibernating bear, you know?

Makes me nervous.

I'll fall right back to sleep.

You can do that?

Wish I could.

My brain.

Once I'm awoken, just keeps going.

Starts spinning. Can't stop it.

Mm-hmm.

That would get irritating.

Yeah. I wish my brain had an on/off switch, you know?

In the corps, you learn

To get your sleep wherever you can.

Well, that makes sense.

You never know

What's going to happen next, right?

Any time, alice.

Boss.

I wasn't sleeping.

Werth and I were just talking about how...

All right. Let's go process the scene.

You're already doing it, aren't you?

This time of year, gaining weight, I got knots.

That's because you sleep in a chair.

It's not a chair.

It's a not-chair?

It's a top-of-the-line comfortastic brand

Gentlemen's reclining chaise

With a pretty terrific massage feature

And pretty fantastic cup holder.

It is a massage chair that gives you knots.

It is not healthy.

I can assure you, dear boy,

With the passing years, the knots do not get any looser.

For the sake of your health,

Give up the chair.

Can we just not... Not say "knot" anymore?

Thank you.

So, what are we...

What are we looking at here, ducky?

Well, his throat's been slit

With what appears to be a serrated blade.

Blood loss would have been extreme and immediate.

So, I would give you odds that he did not...

It would have been quick.

Bureau's case file on aaron szwed

For interstate trafficking.

It's just allegations.

He runs a fleet of trucks moving product overland.

That's legit.