- Mike Franks: You do hear ghosts, probie?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Oh yeah. I see 'em too.
- Mike Franks: I believe we make 'em.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We've made our share.
- Mike Franks: Not just with this.
- [Indicating his gun]
- Mike Franks: But the memories we make. We - fill the spaces we live in with them. That's why - I've always tried to make sure that wherever I live, the longer I live there - the spaces become filled with memories - of naked women.
- [Both laugh]
- Mike Franks: To more good memories.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. Fewer bad ones.
- Mike Franks: How about fewer altogether?
- Mike Franks: Ain't you smart enough to get out of the rain?
- [Long pause]
- Mike Franks: Me neither, JONAS... My name is Mike Franks. I figure I got one more fight left inside me. You want it?
- Ziva David: There's another monster.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Yep.
- Ziva David: I mean, we pursue them. But we just - keep making targets of ourselves.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Better us than someone who didn't sign up for it.
- Ziva David: I don't think I can take any more.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Hey, we're gonna get him, okay?
- [Ziva leans on DiNozzo. They hug. The elevator door opens. Revealing McGee and Abby hugging]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Bring it in.
- [Group hug]
- Leon Vance: Agent Barret, Kort... meet NCIS legend Mike Franks.
- Mike Franks: Director. Okay if I stay for this educational briefing?
- Trent Kort: This is uh, sensitive agency information.
- Leon Vance: And this is my agency. I can't think of a better reason for him to stay other than it makes you so uncomfortable.
- Mike Franks: I'll take this to my grave.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: When's a swan know he's about to die?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Some animals just know - when the end is near.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No coincidence you were in Hawaii with the Port-to-Port killer.
- Trent Kort: I wasn't with him. I was pursuing him.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Bang up job you did there, Kort.
- Trent Kort: Can you... walk on this side DiNozzo? Still getting used to the limited peripheral visiion.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: You know flounders only have eyes on one side of their head.
- Mike Franks: Halibut too.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Think that's typical of most... bottom feeding mud suckers. Out of curiosity, your eyeball, we're holding on to it for you by the way, how come it opens up restricted areas at NCIS?
- Trent Kort: If I recall, you once slammed one of those doors in my face. Always hoped for the opportunity to show you nothing's off limits to the Agency.
- NCIS Special Agent Erica Jane 'EJ' Barrett: Kort claims to be the one who interevene in Hawaii.
- Leon Vance: Well, I'm reluctant to take anything Kort has to say at face value.
- [Gibbs laughs]
- Leon Vance: Would you care to share, Agent Gibbs?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, as far as confirmation, his face has some value. It's no glass slipper.
- Leon Vance: You proposing we stuff the eye back in the socket - see if it fits?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: If you're looking for volunteers...
- Leon Vance: Agent Gibbs and I have a... bit of a history with this particular operative.
- NCIS Special Agent Erica Jane 'EJ' Barrett: Oh. Then it should make it easier to initiate inter-agency cooperation.
- Leon Vance: [Vance chuckles] Nothing's ever easy with Trent Kort.
- Leon Vance: But he uses bait to attract his targets. He's never baited you.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, not me. He feels a kinship with me because I got skipped over.
- Leon Vance: In favor of Barrett.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: There is no witness. He videoed himself. He's using it to bait the trap.
- Leon Vance: I'm your boss, Gibbs. And we've been tight. Sometimes tight like a damn noose. So if I backed off on our friendship - maybe I had to step back take a deep breath and do my job. I have other people I have to answer to.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Maybe - maybe when bodies were showing up in Europe, but when it's in my own backyard! And you promote that - ROOKIE over me?
- Leon Vance: That wasn't my decision.
- Mike Franks: Offer me a drink.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It's 6 o'clock in the morning.
- Mike Franks: Float a cheerio in it.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: We did pull a slug embedded in a parked car. Traces of blood. Through-and-through. We can assume Cobb got hit at least once.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: ...Mike's swan song.
- Ziva David: ...Excuse me.
- [Ziva leaves]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: No case?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No. There's a case. Just not ours.
- NCIS Special Agent Erica Jane 'EJ' Barrett: [Barret enters. To her team] Gear up!
- Jimmy Palmer: [Gibbs enters autopsy] Um we-we can call you when we're finished with the autopsy if you...
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Leave him be, Mr. Palmer.