NCIS (TV Series)

Hung Out to Dry (2003)

Patrick Labyorteaux: Lt. Bud Roberts

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• Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : We know that nine parachutes were rigged to fail. The killer doctored them and repacked them. Sergeant Fuentes died as a result of that. That's premeditated murder.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : I'm sold. Hey, If I'm on the jury, you got my vote.

  Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : We found DNA evidence on the chute deployment bag knots.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : Belonging to your suspect?

  Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : We believe so. To be certain, we have to access the Armed Forces Registry.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : That's impossible. The registry was set up to identify remains only.

  [nods towards Gibbs] 

  Lt. Bud Roberts : He knows that.

  Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : [playing dumb]  I do?

  Lt. Bud Roberts : He tried to use it when he went after Commander Rabb for murder.

  Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : He get him?

  Lt. Bud Roberts : No, because he wasn't guilty. You couldn't use the DNA registry then, what makes you think you can use it now?

  Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You, Lieutenant. You're a smart lawyer, and you know the law.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : I know why I'm here.

  Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Well, I hope you do. I requested you.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : Yeah, you requested me because you think you can work me, like you did last time when I ratted out Commander Rabb.

  Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You did not rat on anyone. You told the truth.

  [Gibbs scratches at the shoulder of Bud's jacket] 

  Lt. Bud Roberts : I, uh, gave my uniform an extra lint roll this morning, Agent Gibbs. And you waltzing around in my blind spot? Not going to intimidate me this time.

  Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : We're at twenty-four hours now. And soon it's going to be forty-eight. You've done investigations, you know what that means.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : I've done JAGman investigations, sure. At forty-eight hours, your evidence begins to degrade, disappear. Witnesses change their stories, suspects improve theirs. I... I know.

  Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : So help us.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : No! Hey, you... you're not going to get me to lawyer you past an iron-clad prohibition that prevents tapping into DNA records that were designed to identify bodies, not chase suspects.

  Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : This guy is guilty. He killed him. Let him drop to his death from thirteen hundred feet.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : It doesn't matter.

• Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : For every legal firewall, there is a way around it.

  Lt. Bud Roberts : I can't help you. And can I please have my pen back?

  Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sure you can. You're gonna need it. Because if I can't have my DNA, I'm gonna need some search authorizations signed.