NCIS (TV Series)

Beneath the Surface (2018)

Wilmer Valderrama: Nick Torres

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• Jimmy Palmer : Did you know that Halloween's origins come from the Celtic festival for the dead called Samhain?

  Nick Torres : I'm not much of a Halloween guy.

  Jimmy Palmer : Yeah. Neither are the Celts. They believed that, uh, ghosts roamed the earth on All Hallow's Eve, so they'd dress up in costumes, leave little treats along their doorstep just to appease the evil spirits.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : [entering]  Yeah? Appease me. What do you got?

• Leroy Jethro Gibbs : There's an ocean between you and Kohl.

  Nick Torres : I'd say more like a creek. Had the same training, same hobbies, same tastes. What if I slip up?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : It's about choices, Torres. You've made yours.

  Nick Torres : And what choice is that?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You chose the life where you catch the bad guys. He picked the one where you kill 'em. For money.

  Nick Torres : Then why doesn't that make me feel better?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Because you're a good guy, and this is a dirty business. And if you didn't feel that way, then I'd start to worry about you.

• Nick Torres : Oh, okay, this is not how I pictured Anderson Kohl living.

  [spotting something] 

  Nick Torres : Oh... my god. Check that out.

  Ellie Bishop : Yep, it's a car.

  Nick Torres : No, you don't understand. This car is worth more than both of our salaries combined.

  Ellie Bishop : No way. Really?

  [gasp] 

  Ellie Bishop : I still don't care.

• Ellie Bishop : Are those heated tiles in the bathroom?

  Rachel Brentwood : Along with gold-threaded shower curtains and a self-cleaning toilet.

  Ellie Bishop : Wow. I am never using my bathroom again.

  Nick Torres : Oh, wow, really? You don't care about cars, but that toilet, wow, that just puts you over the edge?

  Ellie Bishop : Okay, can you focus?

• Nick Torres : [McGee is marching in place at his desk]  Uh, Tim? I'm starting to worry about you.

  Timothy McGee : Hey, laugh all you want, but people that sit all day are twice as likely to get heart disease than those that stand.

• Nick Torres : [learning a personal acquaintance was murdered]  Man, I knew this guy looked familiar. I-I took the same class before I went undercover. This guy was a rock star.

  Timothy McGee : Yeah, but you said that he failed out.

  Nick Torres : Yeah, he had an authority problem. But he was good. He was really good.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : How'd he end up dead in a truck stop bathroom?

  Nick Torres : I don't know. We were close during training. We were always trying to one-up each other. Then we lost touch after he failed out.

  Ellie Bishop : Well, he's got no work record, no social media presence, but he lives here in D.C., rents a condo in Georgetown.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Go, Torres. Take Bishop with you.

• Nick Torres : You know, when I was undercover, I had a few aliases, but nothing like this. I knew a lot of smugglers who did.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Okay. What's he smuggling?

  Nick Torres : Drugs, guns. People?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You asking me or you telling me?

  Nick Torres : I don't know, is there another option?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Sure. Go find it.

• Jack Sloane : Whoa. Hell of a car, isn't she?

  Nick Torres : She ain't a car. She's magic.

  Jack Sloane : Huh. Kohl was definitely good at spending money.

  Nick Torres : He was good at making it, too.

  Jack Sloane : Ooh. Do I detect a note of jealousy?

  Nick Torres : Jack, I knew the guy, okay? We were equals once. I mean, friends, even. But the guy wasn't smarter than me or better than me.

  Jack Sloane : Do you think that he's better than you now?

  Nick Torres : Oh, I never said that.