Quotes
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[a furious Gibbs is sanding his boat, producing clouds of sawdust]
FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : [coughing] How the hell do you breathe in all this dust?
Gibbs : I don't.
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FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : Directors want your word that you'll forget about Ari. They think you'll blow his cover.
Gibbs : If I get paid back, it won't be by blowing his cover. Why are *you* asking me this and not my director?
FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : He refused to.
Gibbs : [Gibbs finally laughs] Yeah.
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Gibbs : [Gibbs is working on his boat while the TV in the background mentions Ari Haswari's failed mission] Suspected drug dealers. Whose idea was that?
FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : Secret Service.
Gibbs : They give Ari his get out of jail for free pass too?
FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : Nah, CIA did that. All the Directors agreed, including yours. Ari's father was Mossad, probably knocked his mother up to get a son with Arab blood. Sent him to medical school to vet him as a doctor in Gaza. This guy's been a sleeper all his life.
Gibbs : [deadpan] Well, I'd like to put him in a coma.
FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : Al Qaeda fronted this Hamas op. Ari was just having to do what'd make his bones with 'em.
Gibbs : [uncompromising on his answer] You tell that to Gerald.
FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : You forget I lost a man and had three wounded.
Gibbs : No, but it seems you did.
FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : You know better than that.
Gibbs : There's a line, Tobias. That bastard crossed it. You don't make your bones shooting friends.
FBI Agent T.C. Fornell : What d'you want him to do. He's in Al Qaeda.
Gibbs : [smacks boat hard] *I don't know!*
