“Corporal Punishment” · Season 5, Episode 10
In this episode: Tony DiNozzo (6), Timothy McGee (6), Leroy Jethro Gibbs (5), Ziva David (5), Ray (1)
[after hitting the comic book McGee's reading] Does that make you wanna hit me?
It's really tempting. But I think I'm gonna pass. [Ziva walks in] Maybe Ziva'll do it.
Maybe Ziva will do what?
I've been working on my six-pack. You know? Abs.
You and Abby have been drinking?
No, abdominals. No more beer gut for me. I've been training hardcore. Hitting the core hard. Carved. Hard as wood.
To match your head.
[after Tony asks Ziva to hit him in the abdomen] As hard as she can?
As hard as you can.
You know that's how Houdini died?
Ziva, did you kill Houdini?
It is possible, I do not remember all their names.
[As Tommy Lee Jones] All right, listen up, people. Our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes.
It has been three hours, Tony.
Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles per hour.
He's not on foot, he's in a car!
What I need out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in the area. Our fugitive has a name. And it is...
Corporal Damon Werth.
Hey, the Tommy Lee Jones speech... every time we have a fugitive? Really?
What were you having feelings about? You just said you were having feelings.
I said that I have feelings, not that I am having feelings.
That is a pretty sophisticated grammatical differentiation.
Don't change the subject with your big words, McNerd. Ziva says she had a feeling. Tell us about this feeling. What was this feeling?
I felt... overwhelmed. Temporarily. Which does not often happen to me. When we were wrestling with Werth.
[Tony and McGee look at each other]
What? What is this look?
Nothing. [Ziva goes back to working, Tony and McGee smile] You like him.
He was powerful.
You really like him
No I am saying he is stronger than any man I have encountered. But strength should not decide a battle. There is a weapon for every fight.
You itchin' for a rematch?
Wanna roll around on the ground with him some more?
I am trying to describe something -- complicated.
It's not complicated, Ziva. It's Conan.
To her Red Sonja.
Nice.
It only lasted a moment.
You had a moment. A moment and a feeling. And a smack to the head, broken nose, dislocated shoulder. It's been a banner day.
Easy on the painkillers, DiNozzo.
Courage doesn't have anything to do with medals. It's simple. You run to the gunfire, not away from it.
When you're dealing with a guy on the run, you gotta climb inside his head, think his thoughts. What would he do? Where would he go?
Did one armed man murder his wife?
Would he dress up like a clown and join a traveling circus, like Jimmy Stewart in The Greatest Show on Earth?
Do any of your ideas come from reality?
Sure. Just not your reality.
Could you try to zero in on Werth's reality?
Considering the dude skipped the looney bin, maybe a little bit of non-linear fuzzy logic is the key to tracking him.
Maybe he was accused of a crime he didn't commit and is trying to promptly escape to the Los Angeles underground.
[stares at McGee] He's not The A-Team, McGee.
You got yourself in a mess, Corporal. Gonna have to get yourself out of it. What seems to be the problem? [hunches down and bellows directly into Werth's ear] WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM, MARINE?
[snaps upright] I want to kill someone, sir!
Anyone in particular?
Anyone will do, sir!
Does that feel right to you, son?
No, sir. It does not. I'm not right, sir. But it's not my fault.
All you care about is selling the war.
You don't support the war?
I support the men fighting it.
[Werth has a seizure, Ziva administers a shot of adrenaline. Tony and McGee are watching on the security cameras.]
[alarmed] She's pulling a Pulp Fiction...
[alarmed] On the Hulk!
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