- Kasie Hines: Lilly said that when she was inside this mattress, Robert Hill dragged it out of his house to his truck. On the side that scraped the ground, I found something.
- Nick Torres: The address where of they're holding Morgan?
- Kasie Hines: Man, how easy do you think this job is? No, I found bird poop.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You ID the bird?
- Kasie Hines: You mean did I get the bird's name and Social Security number? No. Seriously, you two?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I had a dream that I was her. I was trapped. I could not get out. Yet I believed there would be a savior. To the very end, I believed. But sometimes a savior never comes.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Rule ten. Say it. Say it.
- Ellie Bishop: Never get personally involved on a case. So what? No, so what? I connect with Lily, a-and you put me in the field. I want to fulfill the dying wish of our victim's mother, and you say "rule ten"? No, Ziva was personally involved in every case.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Don't you tell me about Ziva!
- Ellie Bishop: Then what about you? You were furious when he handed off the case because you take every case personally,too, even one you only had for half a second.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Enough.
- Ellie Bishop: No. Rule ten, it's B.S.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Every time I look at that desk, you know what I see? She is not there. You ignore rule ten, you go too far, you end up dead just like her. Go home. You're off this case.
- Ellie Bishop: I scanned through some of Ziva's journals, and she mentions a "basement confidant" quite a bit. She called him Mr. H, which stood for...
- Jimmy Palmer: Happy as an oyster?
- Ellie Bishop: Yes. But shouldn't it be "clam"?
- Jimmy Palmer: It should. It should be "clam", yeah.
- Ellie Bishop: It's about you, right? I had no idea you two were so close.
- Jimmy Palmer: Eh, it must be something about being this far underground. You know, people feel safe, like they can really confide in me.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We never should have handed this case off.
- Leon Vance: Well, look at you. Bringing up ten years ago?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yes, I am.
- Leon Vance: Well, that's a new one. Usually, the past is nipping at your ass and you're running full steam ahead the other way.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Morgan Burke was Navy. That case should have been ours.
- Leon Vance: She hadn't served a day yet. I approved that handoff. I followed protocol in doing so, and so did everyone else involved. So... are we done talking about this already?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: This case is ours now.
- Leon Vance: At the very least, the Sheriff's Office will want to do a joint investigation, and I don't see them walking away without a fight.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Maybe not. But you're the bigger dog.
- Ellie Bishop: I have something to read to you, and you're gonna listen. It's a letter from Morgan's mother.
- Robert Hill: Yeah, I got it.
- Ellie Bishop: What?
- Robert Hill: Somebody already came here and read it to me.
- Ellie Bishop: Who?
- Robert Hill: [laughing weakly] She told me she was gonna haunt my dreams.
- Ellie Bishop: Look at all these dates. They go all the way up to 2013. That's years after the police ruled this a suicide.
- [looking through surveillance photos]
- Ellie Bishop: "Ben Ramsey, boyfriend of Morgan Burke." Look at all these.
- Nick Torres: He was a suspect.
- Ellie Bishop: Yeah. Whoever was investigating this must have thought this was a murder and not a suicide.
- Nick Torres: Who was investigating?
- Ellie Bishop: [noticing something, she grabs a magnifying glass for a closer look] Oh, my god.
- Nick Torres: What?
- Ellie Bishop: Look at the reflection in the window.
- Nick Torres: You can see who's taking the picture.
- Ellie Bishop: That's Ziva.
- Ellie Bishop: Clearly, every case mattered to Ziva, but she kept investigating this one even after it was handed off, and you knew about it. So why was this case so important?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The next time you withhold relevant information, you are gone.
- Ellie Bishop: Gibbs...
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Rule ten. Get back to the office. Keep your head in the game.
- Kasie Hines: I know I said you could have your tip line transferred down here, but that was before I knew Gibbs sent you home.
- Ellie Bishop: Yeah, but the woman on the phone might have the location of Robert Hill's uncle.
- Kasie Hines: Uh-huh. What do you think Gibbs is gonna do if he sees you down in my lab working, as opposed to at home regretting your life choices?
- Leon Vance: This, um, outside office of Special Agent David's.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, I'm handling it. I have the journals. I'll clear out the rest of it when this is over.
- Leon Vance: It's just a room, I know. But it must be bringing up a lot.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A lot of what?
- Leon Vance: When a daughter keeps a secret like that, a father has to ask himself why.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She didn't think I would approve. She was right.
- Jack Sloane: Doctor says she's undernourished and highly susceptible to illness.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Spend your whole life locked in one room, you have no immunity.
- Jack Sloane: Hmm. They're gonna keep her for a few more days, build her strength, run some more tests.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: She say anything else about where her mom is?
- Jack Sloane: No. She's regressing by the minute. The more overwhelmed she becomes by this huge, foreign world, the more she retreats. Plus, what the doctors originally thought were bug bites on her arms and legs were actually burns.
- Jimmy Palmer: Happy Random Day, everybody!
- Nick Torres: You got a punching bag?
- Jimmy Palmer: Yeah, those punches I landed at the Studio-Art Brawl of 2018 really got my juices flowing. I mentioned in passing I wanted to get one.
- Kasie Hines: Yeah. It's secondhand, but it's a beauty.
- Jimmy Palmer: You know, I think I might take it home. I was gonna, uh, leave it down in Autopsy, but can you imagine the glare I would have gotten from Gibbs?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [behind him] Oh, you're getting a pretty good one right now.