[Gibbs gets off the phone and notices Kate standing in front of his desk grinning]
Gas pain?
[smile fades away] What? No!
Well, then stop grinning and tell me what you got
When he found the first Jane Doe while jogging, Petty Officer Goetz was in port on a carrier, the Teddy Roosevelt.
[looks through his case files] Agent Dawes interrogated him a number of times, on The Big Stick and here.
The Big Stick?
Teddy Roosevelt. "Talk softly, carry a big stick."
[realizes] Big stick! Cute. [continues] Goetz stayed in the Navy, is a Chief and arrived in Norfolk in the same carrier as the seamen who found our Jane Doe. The "Honest Abe"?
Shall not perish.
What?
Lincoln is not the "Honest Abe". It's "Shall Not Perish".
[bemused] What kind of nickname is "Shall Not Perish"?
[resumes his work] Ask Chief Goetz when you pull him in for questioning.
Ok. [goes back to her desk]
The Emancipator!
[Gibbs looks up at McGee]
That would be a good name for the Abraham Lincoln. [Gibbs looks at him] Since he signed the Emancipation Proclamation.... [Gibbs continues staring him down until McGee realizes and stops talking.]
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