- Abby Sciuto: The 40's. The 40's are for emergency use only!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: If the 40's are in play, something unspeakably bad is going down.
- Ziva David: We have to get him back!
- Ziva David: You must be feeling like the red-headed stepchild.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Now how would you get that idiom right?
- Ziva David: Because I am an American now.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Not yet. I'm going to call my Congressman.
- Ziva David: How did they get Gibbs's gun? Gibbs has always said there is *one* way to do that.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: [Palmer looks puzzled] Pry it from his cold dead hand.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [Ziva has been accepted as a naturalized citizen] I've never been more disappointed in my government.
- Ziva David: Hey! That is my government now.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Not 'till Friday.
- Ziva David: It is no the first time he has run off on his own.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Hey, not the first time he's run off to Mexico.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Certainly not the first time he's gone without telling us anything.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Nope. Nothing new to see here.
- Leon Vance: [Entering] Not a poker player among you. Terrible. Terrible bluffs. We're all used to how Gibbs operates, for better or worse. Let's just stay focused on what we're good at without Gibbs.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: What would that be Director?
- Leon Vance: If you don't know, Agent DiNozzo, I'm not going to tell you.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [Rivera has a gun pointed at Gibbs] You've never done this before. I have. I've killed men, and women in combat, in the line, and in life. And some of them still haunt me. But I never lost a night's sleep over your father. You want to know what it's like to be the hand of justice?
- [Rising up]
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Then pull the damn trigger yourself. Go on! DO IT!
- Leon Vance: Put a lot of trust that I'd follow your lead, Gibbs.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Everyday, Leon.
- Margaret Allison Hart: [to Gibbs] Do you really believe in right and wrong? And in enforcing the law? Putting the bad guys behind bars? Protecting and serving?
- [Hart sighs]
- Margaret Allison Hart: Why, of all things, are you a cop?
- Mike Franks: Look at you. All self-loathing and misery. You make me sick. Come here to mope?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Nope. Came here for a job.
- Mike Franks: My God!... You really want to be a cop? You gotta let a lot of old stuff go, learn a lot of new stuff to take its place. You think you can do that?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I think I'd be a good cop.
- Paloma Reynosa: I see you choose your words carefully, Agent Gibbs. That is good, Your life depends on them.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I don't usually drink scotch.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: And I'm Rick?
- Leon Vance: Oh, in so many ways. The problem's me. I'm sick of being Louie. I'm sick of having to look the other way when I know you're sneaking around behing my back. That doesn't work for me.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Maybe I shouldn't work for you.
- Abby Sciuto: Gibbs, have you met Darren? Darren's an armed security guard. He's recently been reassigned to guard me. Although, I have no idea why that might be.
- [Gibbs stares at Darren. Darren leaves]
- Abby Sciuto: Except when I look at you. I know *exactly* why.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I've seen enemies with vendettas, Leon. Seen people lose their lives to them. People that matter.
- Leon Vance: Worst enemies are the ones that hide in plain sight. One's we can't arrest.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You didn't get a copy of Abby's report?
- Leon Vance: I never saw it. Decades old cold case in Mexico, that's not my business, is it?
- Paloma Reynosa: It's never easy to turn someone. To change them. A federal agent in DC? You have value. I don't want your death. I want your life.