- Leon Vance: Before the storm arrives, Gibbs, I just want to say I didn't know how exhausting politics could be.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're not even running yet.
- Leon Vance: Yet? Don't you start on me.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Why not? I'd vote for you.
- Leon Vance: Why, Gibbs, that might be the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
- Congresswoman Jenna Flemming: [entering] Oh, good. Gibbs, you're here.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yes, I work here.
- Nick Torres: Yo. How much did you tell Delilah?
- Timothy McGee: Delilah was so freaked out by the break-in itself, I had to leave out the part about killing a guy.
- Nick Torres: Another lie?
- Alex Quinn: It's not a lie, Nick. It's an omission.
- Nick Torres: Oh, right, right. It's, uh, "family".
- Timothy McGee: Yeah, and it's Delilah. I mean, she was gonna fly home as is. I had to, you know, cover, so I convinced her to stay longer. Hopefully long enough to where I can get the walls and the floor fixed.
- Ellie Bishop: You didn't tell her that, either?
- Timothy McGee: Again, why would I pile on the bad news?
- Congresswoman Jenna Flemming: Naturally, they all claim to fully support the bill, but this makes three times now that they've postponed a vote on it.
- Leon Vance: Wow. Duplicitous backstabbers on Capitol Hill. Who'd have thunk it?
- Ellie Bishop: Ducky and Jimmy are on their way.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee. There were two of them?
- Timothy McGee: Yeah. One of them got away, but I grazed him.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Check local hospitals for recent gunshot wounds.
- Nick Torres: No wallet. But a print scanner IDs him as Louis Cole, a recent parolee.
- Alex Quinn: No stolen goods on him. I wonder what the other guy made out with.
- Timothy McGee: I don't even care. I'm just happy that Delilah was in Dubai on assignment. I mean, if she would've walked in on these guys, would've been a lot worse.
- Ellie Bishop: You haven't called her yet?
- Timothy McGee: No. It's too early there. Plus, uh, I'm not really looking forward to telling her anyway.
- Alex Quinn: It's like, if Delilah were to say, "McGee, has there ever been a triple homicide in this apartment?" and you said, "No.", that would be a lie.
- Timothy McGee: That's right, and she's never asked me that.
- Nick Torres: Why the hell would she ask that?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Okay, what do we know? Update.
- Ellie Bishop: All right. Our dead burglar, Louis Cole, 37, was paroled two months ago from Haynesville Correctional Center after serving three years for transporting narcotics.
- Alex Quinn: Drug offenses, a few assaults, but no burglaries on his rap sheet.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: First time for everything.
- Paul Triff: Does that nice lady still live above us? The one with the yappy dog? Oh, that dog would make one good mitten, maybe.
- Timothy McGee: I want to know if there are any additional surprises I should be expecting. Any more occupants in the apartment?
- Paul Triff: Well if you expect them, they won't be surprises now, will they?
- Congresswoman Jenna Flemming: So, has Hollywood called yet? For the movie rights?
- Leon Vance: No, not yet. I'm not selling mine unless Denzel Washington plays me.