NCIS (TV Series)

Crossing the Line (2019)

Sean Patrick Thomas: Ian Rackham

Quotes 

• Ian Rackham : The victim's Petty Officer First Class Kendrick Allston. He was one of our cryptologic techs.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : How long has he been on board?

  Ian Rackham : Little more than four years. Longer than I've been here.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You know him well?

  Ian Rackham : Better than most. He was one of the brightest sailors I'd ever been around. Would've staked my career on him making it to admiral one day.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : How long until he was retreived from the water?

  Ian Rackham : One minute and 56 seconds from the time he was spotted. I know that man-overboards happen at sea, but nothing like this has ever occurred under my command before. I want answers just as much as you do.

• Ellie Bishop : Gibbs, no one who was on deck at the time saw how or when Petty Officer Allston fell overboard.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Then find the last person to see him alive.

  Ian Rackham : There's no need to dance around this on my account, agents.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You have something else to add, Commander?

  Ian Rackham : Just that I agree with what you're probably already suspecting. That what happened to Petty Officer Allston wasn't an accident.

  Ellie Bishop : Why do you say that?

  Ian Rackham : The likelihood of him drowning is slim to none. Allson was a Search and Rescue swimmer.

  Ellie Bishop : Even so, the impact of him hitting the water could have knocked him unconscious.

  Ian Rackham : It was a fall that he had done dozens of times in training and it never affected him. Something else must have happened to him.

• Ian Rackham : With Allston's body headed to NCIS, what kind of timeline are we looking at?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : 'Til we get a cause of death, your ship's in a holding pattern, Commander.

  Ian Rackham : Mission deadlines aren't my concern, Agent Gibbs. It's the safety of my crew. If there's a murderer on board, I want him found. What can I do to expedite things?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : We'll need access to the entire ship. Including Petty Officer Allston's quarters.

  Ian Rackham : Well, the Master-at-Arms sealed off his rack and foot locker this morning. I'll see to the rest.