- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: We're just trying to find a dog for McGee, boss.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How about an Australian shepherd?
- [Tony, Ziva, and McGee pause, thinking about the choice...]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: They're working dogs.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Sit!
- [Tony, Ziva, Tim all sit back at their desks]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Stay!
- [Gibbs walks off]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [under his breath] Roll over.
- [Gibbs smiles, walks out of the room with Tony, Ziva and Tim still sitting at their desks]
- Special Agent Courtney Krieger: [about the murder victim] Picked him up offloading stolen cargo containers.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: At which point you discover a nameless man whose entire history's been erased. No fingerprints, no criminal record...
- Special Agent Courtney Krieger: Not even a high school transcript.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Well, that's impossible. You'd need first-person access to the federal mainframe, credit ratings, countless private companies...
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: That'd be like taking spit out of the ocean.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How'd he do it?
- Special Agent Courtney Krieger: Claimed he didn't. Said he was contacted by someone offering the service.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: The Eraser.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: What movie's that from?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [sarcastically] I don't know. "Flashdance"?
- Navy Lt. Carl Greer: [mercury is flowing out of a cadavers brain] Uh, Doctor? Is this natural?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Certainly not.
- Navy Lt. Carl Greer: What the hell is that?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: This, my dear lieutenant, is murder.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: You think the kid's Kamal? He would have had to start when he was 8 years old!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Not if he's the new Dread Pirate Roberts.
- Abby Sciuto: [gasp] I love "The Princess Bride"! "No one would ever surrender to the Dread Pirate Westley."
- [They laugh, Gibbs and Fornell stare blankly at both of them]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [turns his chuckle into a cough] The Dread Pirate Roberts picks a successor, then trains him, starts calling him "Roberts," and then settles into a cushy retirement. It's the *name* "Kamal" that sells the business.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: I think it's time you get back on that horse.
- Special Agent Ziva David: You're getting a pony?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: It's an adage.
- Special Agent Ziva David: I am not familiar with that breed.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: I hope your opinion of me doesn't waver after I've given this fellow a piece of my mind.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Never.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: I warn you, this might get ugly!
- [entering the office, Ducky and Gibbs find that the "Dr. Hampton" who autopsied their victim is a rather attractive woman]
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: It's not the first time someone slipped through the cracks.
- Dr. Jordan Hampton: Well, I'm glad you caught him, Dr. Mallard.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: As am I.
- [they smile at each other, before he and Gibbs leave]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [deadpan] Yeah, I hope she recovers from that tongue-lashing.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: What can I give you?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Your opinion on Special Agent Courtney Krieger.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: Promising. Does everything by the book, the book doesn't show very much imagination. Definitely a child of the Electronic Age. Currently running a low-level asset in Highland Beach...
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Asset named Hinton?
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: Okay, what am I missing?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The fact he was murdered.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: Marvin Hinton is *dead*?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I told her to notify you.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: [puts on his glasses and checks his email] You gotta be kidding me! She sent an email! It went in my spam folder! This is serious, Gibbs. Alive, Hinton was just an ex-con who made a deal with the devil. Dead means the devil came to collect!
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Who *do* you work for Tobias, Homeland Security or F.B.I.?
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: The world's on my shoulders Gibbs.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [seeing all the paper on his desk] World made of paper.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The biggest mistake you made...
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: You tried to shoot our agents!
- [Gibbs and Fornell rise from their chairs, Fornell removes his jacket]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hey, let me hang that for you, Tobias
- [Gibbs hangs Fornell's jacket over the interrogation room camera. Panicking, Graves starts to stand up]
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: [pushes him back down] *Sit down*!
- Robert Graves: Wh-what do you want?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The rest of your client list! Tell us where to find the real Kamal!
- [Graves hesitates...]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [hits the table] *Now*!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Highland beach in October. Not much of a tourist draw. Soft-shell crab season's almost over. People really like boats that much?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You work for the Navy, DiNozzo.
- [phone rings]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Pick it up, DiNozzo.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: On it, Boss.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: AFIP. Smooth things over.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [picks up phone] Please hold.
- [mutes it]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: What did we do to incur the wrath of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ducky kept one of their cadavers.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Ducky stole a cadaver?
- Ziva David: I'm sure he had a good reason.
- [DiNozzo and Krieger are undercover at a restaurant. Ziva speaks sharply over the radio, causing Krieger to spill a glass of water in DiNozzo's lap]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Good thing we didn't hide the mike in his pants.
- [Ziva snickers]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I was at an embassy party once - gated, razor wire, surveillance system, the whole deal - and this guy just walks in the front door wearing a t-shirt that says "Liquor Store", holds up a brown paper bag, and he goes, "did anybody order, um, a bottle of vodka?"
- Special Agent Ziva David: The places you can access when you look the part.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She killed once for a new life...
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Why not twice?
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: Did us a favor. Kamal's dead.
- Jenny Shepard: Doesn't seem to bother his international clients.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The terrorist training camp?
- Jenny Shepard: Marine task force just went in.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: And...?
- Jenny Shepard: One terrorist killed. They found an American passport on his body, it went through squeaky clean.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Kamal had completed the job.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: What about the rest of the cell?
- Jenny Shepard: Too late, already gone.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: They're on their way here.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: And the only man who knows who they are is past telling us.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: [entering] That's not certain, Tony. Our dead man may have one thing left to say...
- [watching the bust from MTAC]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: An NCIS production, brought to you by Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
- [Fornell and a squad of agents converge on the suspect]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Starring, as usual, the FBI, and the elusive Kamal Konkani.
- Jenny Shepard: What do you know about this "Eraser"?
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: McGee?
- [McGee calls up the information on the MTAC screen]
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: Believed to be a Pakistani national, raised in India and England. Made his name working with terrorists.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Clean IDs, easy transit.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: Facilitated Basque terror attacks in Spain, IRA bombings in England, the GIA bombing in France in 1995...
- Jenny Shepard: Killed eight, wounded hundreds. Led by Khaled Kelkal.
- Sr. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell: French authorities identified the man who made it possible as Kamal Konkani...
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: That's a lot of Ks. Ks are funny... Agent Krieger. You ever see "The Sunshine Boys"...?
- Ziva David: Shh!