NCIS, Season 2

[Gibbs gets off the phone and notices Kate standing in front of his desk grinning]

Gibbs:
Gas pain?

Kate:
[smile fades away] What? No!

Gibbs:
Well, then stop grinning and tell me what you got

Kate:
When he found the first Jane Doe while jogging, Petty Officer Goetz was in port on a carrier, the Teddy Roosevelt.

Gibbs:
[looks through his case files] Agent Dawes interrogated him a number of times, on The Big Stick and here.

Kate:
The Big Stick?

Gibbs:
Teddy Roosevelt. "Talk softly, carry a big stick."

Kate:
[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"?

Gibbs:
Shall not perish.

Kate:
What?

Gibbs:
Lincoln is not the "Honest Abe". It's "Shall Not Perish".

Kate:
[bemused] What kind of nickname is "Shall Not Perish"?

Gibbs:
[resumes his work] Ask Chief Goetz when you pull him in for questioning.

Kate:
Ok. [goes back to her desk]

McGee:
The Emancipator!

[Gibbs looks up at McGee]

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.]