NCIS (TV Series)

Call of Silence (2004)

Sasha Alexander: Caitlin Todd

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• Gibbs : McGee: he says he's been reporting this to 9-1-1, can't get anybody to believe him.

  Timothy McGee : Gee, what a surprise.

  Gibbs : Trace the call, I want to hear one of them.

  Timothy McGee : On it.

  Gibbs : Kate: he's a former Marine, probably WWII. Corporal Ernest Yost. Dig up his SRB.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Got his Social Security number?

  Gibbs : They didn't use them for serial numbers when he served.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : So how am I supposed to get his SRB without his serial number?

  Gibbs : Well, Kate, you could ask him.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Gibbs, I doubt that he could remember his shoe size...

  Gibbs : [barks an order]  Corporal Yost!

  Ernie Yost : Yo!

  Gibbs : Serial number!

  Ernie Yost : 3-3-0-0-9-0, *sir*!

  Gibbs : [to Kate]  Or, you could just look him up under Medal of Honor recipients.

• Gibbs : Or you could just look him up under Medal of Honor recipients.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : He won the Medal of Honor?

  Gibbs : You don't "win" the Medal of Honor, Kate. You're awarded it, for conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty.

• Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : I'm tired of arguing with you, Gibbs. I want Corporal Yost taken into custody.

  Gibbs : I can't.

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : Damn it, Gibbs! Do you think I want to incarcerate an eighty-two year old man? I am following the SecNav's direct orders! He said, "investigate," you did, and found enough evidence to hold him over for a court-martial. Now take him into custody!

  Gibbs : I said, "can't," not "wouldn't."

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : Please don't insult me by telling me he escaped.

  Gibbs : The older they are, the sneakier they are.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Yost complained of a weak bladder. He had to use the restroom every fifteen minutes. We got tired of escorting him. One time, he left the room and never came back.

  Timothy McGee : We found a window open, he must have shimmied down the drainpipe.

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : [sarcastic]  I'd like to have seen that.

  Timothy McGee : I put out an APB. Airports. Train stations. Taxicabs. Walker... rentals.

• Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Lt. Commander Coleman is going to use this to put Yost away for the rest of his life.

  Anthony DiNozzo : Do we have to tell her?

  Gibbs : [sarcastically]  Well, no, Special Agent DiNozzo. Here at NCIS we just report evidence we like.

• [Coleman enters the squadroom with two Marine MPs] 

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : Where's Gibbs?

  Anthony DiNozzo : And a good afternoon to you too, Commander Coleman.

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : He was to deliver Corporal Yost to me...

  Ernie Yost : Present and accounted for, sir!

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : ...at 0800. You're Ernest Yost?

  Ernie Yost : [stands at attention]  Yes, ma'am.

  Anthony DiNozzo : This is Lieutenant Commander Coleman, Ernie, JAG Corps. She's here to, um... arrest you.

  Ernie Yost : I can't tell you how much I appreciate this, Commander.

  Anthony DiNozzo : [referring to the two Marines]  What's with the Olsen twins?

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : They're here to escort the accused to Quantico.

  Ernie Yost : Well, it's about time.

  [He holds out his hands to be cuffed, but Kate pushes them down] 

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : *We'll* deliver him.

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : You've had two days to do that.

  [DiNozzo pulls aside Ernie's tie, revealing the Medal of Honor. Coleman and the Marines snap to attention, and the Marines salute] 

• Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : His citation of conspicuous gallantry, above and beyond the call of duty.

  Gibbs : Corporal Ernest Yost, United States Marine Corps, 1st Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division, at Iwo Jima, volcano island, 4 March, 1945. Terrain studded with caves and ravines, Corporal Yost was standing point forward of our lines, when he spotted Japanese troops attempting to infiltrate under the cover of darkness. He immediately waged a fierce battle, during which, a grenade gravely wounded his right hand and fractured his thigh. Near exhaustion from profuse bleeding, he continued to defend his forward position, engaging in hand to hand combat, when he was out of ammunition. At dawn, Corporal Yost was found amid the bodies of 26 Japanese soldiers he had killed, in a self sacrificing defense of his forward position.

  Ernie Yost : [Yost, just having walked back from the water cooler, sees Gibbs and company standing up from reading his citation]  What?

  Gibbs : We just heard about your wife Mr. Yost. You have our sympathies, sir.

• Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : I'd love to buy you dinner, Mr. Yost.

  Ernie Yost : You would?

  Timothy McGee : Me too.

  Ernie Yost : She asked first.