NCIS (TV Series)

Skeleton Crew (2017)

Wilmer Valderrama: Nick Torres

Quotes 

• Timothy McGee : This place is amazing. Delilah and I came here last month for their "Game of Thrones" theme night. I went as Ser Jorah, she went as Khaleesi, Mother of Dragons. Mother of Dragons, mother. Get it?

  Nick Torres : What the hell did he just say?

  Ellie Bishop : I'm not your nerd whisperer, Nick.

• Nick Torres : That was crazy.

  Ellie Bishop : Butler give you anything?

  Nick Torres : No. No, but, uh... you know, he stayed in character the entire time. You got to admire that kind of discipline.

• Nick Torres : I can get behind the whole murder mystery thing, but the masquerade? I just... I don't like that. You know? I don't like when people wear masks and they pretend to be somebody else. That's just... that's just weird. That's just creepy, man.

  Timothy McGee : You're kidding, right?

  Ellie Bishop : You were an undercover agent.

  Nick Torres : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. It's different, guys. 'Kay? I'm not pretending to be someone. I'm embodying someone. It's a big difference. You guys want to see a little demonstration?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : [entering]  No.

  Nick Torres : Okay, maybe later.

• Leroy Jethro Gibbs : What do we know?

  Timothy McGee : Victim is Marine First Lieutenant Ethan Wynn, 25. Stationed out of Dam Neck.

  Ellie Bishop : He was stabbed twice in the abdomen in the service hallway. Stumbled into the dining room, where he lost consciousness.

  Nick Torres : Two partygoers found him, and they called 911. He was taken to a local hospital, and he remains in the ICU.

  Timothy McGee : The local LEOs are trying to contact the wife.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Okay. McGee, Torres, get to the hospital. See what he knows. Bishop, witnesses?

  Ellie Bishop : Well, most were wearing masks, so no one recalls seeing Ethan beforehand. A few guests report hearing screams, but it was part of the show.

• Nick Torres : To be undercover is like being a chameleon. You know? You have to connect with the character you're portraying. You have to understand what drives them. That's what keeps them authentic. Know what I mean?

  Timothy McGee : I stopped listening a while ago.

• Timothy McGee : Our missing sailor is Lieutenant JG Helen Wynn, 26. A supply officer stationed on the USS Ewing out of Norfolk.

  Ellie Bishop : According to her husband, First Lieutenant Ethan Wynn, the two were cornered at the murder mystery dinner by a man in a devil costume.

  Timothy McGee : He stabbed Ethan, took Helen, fled in the Wynns' car. BOLO's already out on him.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : What's the condition of the husband?

  Nick Torres : Both stab wounds missed any vital organs.

  Timothy McGee : Yeah, Helen's mother has been notified. She's on her way in now.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Bishop, Torres, get on board her ship. See what you can find out.

  Ellie Bishop : Uh, Gibbs, the USS Ewing left Norfolk early this morning 'cause of the-the hurricane.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Take a helo. Go on. Get out there.

  Ellie Bishop : [more to herself]  Flying to a ship at sea in the middle of a hurricane. Yeah. What could go wrong?

• Ellie Bishop : Is Helen Wynn's department head standing by?

  Navy Petty Officer Third Class Joe Smiddy : No, ma'am. Lieutenant Simoni is on leave in Japan right now, but our XO is waiting to assist you. Commander Thomas Buckner.

  Ellie Bishop : Oh. I knew a Tommy Buckner back in Oklahoma.

  Nick Torres : An ex-boyfriend of yours?

  Ellie Bishop : Hardly. He was one of the popular kids who made my life miserable.

  Nick Torres : I figured you more for a, uh, homecoming queen.

  Ellie Bishop : Far from. I was all knees and elbows. I spent most of my time in the computer lab trying to avoid Buckner and his friends. God, I hated that guy.

  Nick Torres : Well, let's not hold it against this guy because he has the same name.

  Navy Petty Officer Third Class Joe Smiddy : Sir, NCIS Agents Torres and Bishop.

  Thomas Buckner : Ellie Bishop? Is that you?

  Ellie Bishop : You've got to be kidding me.

  Nick Torres : No! Now, okay, this just got really interesting.

• Nick Torres : So, uh, how long has it been, huh, since you two crazy kids have seen each other?

  Thomas Buckner : Not since high school. I mean, Scarecrow here never showed up to any of our reunions, so...

  Ellie Bishop : And there's why.

• Nick Torres : Okay, maybe he was an ass as a kid. High school was a long time ago. You gotta get over it.

  Ellie Bishop : You know, that is easy for you to say. Y-you were a-a popular jock, like Buckner, okay? You have no idea what it was like to be mocked and laughed at every day. A-and the only reason Buckner even let up was because of my brothers, so...

  Nick Torres : What'd they do, break his leg?

  Ellie Bishop : No. Two of his fingers. Wish they were here now.