- Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: [Ducky is talking to a body] You know, Ducky, someday one of them will talk back.
- Abby Sciuto: [to Gibbs] Ducky! He's barking up my heels like a dog with mange...
- Abby Sciuto: [as Gibbs leaves] ... And he's *so* grouchy, he'll give *you* a run for your money!
- Timothy McGee: If I said that to Gibbs, I would be seeing stars.
- Abby Sciuto: Well *that's* the advantage of being *me*!
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: The language of silence may be hard to hear, Caitlin. But, unlike the living, when the dead speak, they do not lie.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Come here. Abs, you'll need Ducky's help.
- Abby Sciuto: No I won't!
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [Gibbs nods in Ducky's direction. Ducky looks pitifully at the screen pics of the two victims] Abs.
- Abby Sciuto: Yes I will.
- Female Bartender: [at a lesbian bar] A *man* did this to her?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah. And I'm the one trying to catch him, so don't take it out on me.
- [last lines]
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: [speaking to ashes of Jane Doe #1] Time for our relationship to change, my dear. It's time for you to go home. But... it's not the home you knew in this life, but I think you'll find peace here. And the way things turned out, so will I.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [to McGee who is under Abby's feet at a computer] Special Agent Goodwrench?
- Abby Sciuto: [chuckles] McGee is rewiring my Hot Box.
- Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: [to Tony] With all the bad karma you've built up with women alone, I am surprised that something hasn't just fallen off.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: [looking over the corpse of Lt. Jane Doe] You're back aren't you? You bastard.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You've been holding out on me, Doctor.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Yes, Agent Gibbs... I have.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: [after evidence links victim to a cold case] He's back, isn't he? Not again, Jethro. We *can't* let him escape again.
- [first lines]
- Seaman Joe Wilkins: It's been 6 months, 3 weeks, 14 hours, 18 minutes since I last saw Tina's cute little...