- [DiNozzo is telling McGee about the movie "Invaders from Mars."]
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: Aliens landed in a field just like this one. They took over the locals' minds, leaving a little red "x" on the backs of their necks.
- Agent Timothy McGee: Sounds lame.
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: Oh, no! Scariest movie I ever saw. Especially when this kid tries to tell his mom and dad what's going on. Camera slowly comes around, reveals x's on the back of Mom and Dad's necks. Whew! I was scared of my parents for years after that.
- Agent Timothy McGee: I'm sure the feeling was mutual.
- Logan Clay: [after Gibbs stares him down] Bet his bark's worse than his bite, huh?
- Agent Timothy McGee: Uh, the bite's actually much worse.
- [after Gibbs gets a suspect to confess by whispering something in his ear]
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: [amazed] What did Gibbs whisper to him?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: If I knew that, I would be Gibbs.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: I need you to run a tox screen on this tissue sample.
- Abby Sciuto: Where'd you get it?
- Dr. Donald Mallard: A body exhumed from Arlington. Oh, you look overwhelmed.
- Abby Sciuto: I am. And this just came in from the field. Gibbs wants me to run prints on it ASAP.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: It appears to be $1.65. Well, this poor fellow's been dead for thirty-six years. I doubt a few more days will matter.
- [first lines]
- Agent Caitlin Todd: [Tony is clipping his finger-nails at his desk when Kate walks in] Most people tend to their personal hygiene at home.
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: This bothers you?
- Agent Caitlin Todd: No, what bothers me is that it doesn't bother me anymore.
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: I'm an acquired taste.
- Agent Timothy McGee: Actually, it's more like the Stockholm Syndrome. The emotional attachment to a captor formed by a hostage as a result of continuous stress and a need to cooperate for survival.
- [last lines]
- Agent Caitlin Todd: [Tony sent Kate flowers to apologize for "a tough couple of days"] Tony, I'm blown away. They're gorgeous. And they're from Martha's Garden, my favorite florist! How'd you know?
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: Lucky guess!
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [entering] He went through your purse and got the phone number off your P.D.A.
- [Tony chuckles, Kate is furious again, Gibbs laughs]
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: NCIS! Lower your weapon, Captain Newell! It's over.
- Captain Rod Newell: It's not over until Ritt Everett's dead.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He's in the custody of the state police.
- Captain Rod Newell: That's not going to change anything. It's an eye for an eye here. Always has been.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Is that why your mother took you away? Put down your weapon.
- Captain Rod Newell: Why? I'm never gonna fly again.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, your career is probably over, but you haven't hurt anybody yet. Keep it that way, and I'll do everything I can to help you. There is a young girl carrying your brother's baby. And they could sure use your help.
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: [watching Gibbs in Interrogation] I think Gibbs enjoys this more than sex.
- Agent Caitlin Todd: That would explain the three wives.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I know why we haven't been able to find Captain Newell. Thanks, guys.
- Agent Caitlin Todd: How do you know?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Because I'm a Marine.
- Agent Timothy McGee: [offended at a trick DiNozzo has pulled on him] How long am I going to be the butt of your practical jokes, snide innuendos, and juvenile putdowns?
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: I will always outrank you, Probie.
- [watching Gibbs interrogating an uncooperative witness through 1-way mirror. Gibbs leans over the witness and whispers inaudibly]
- Agent Caitlin Todd: What is Gibbs doing?
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: T.B.I.
- Agent Caitlin Todd: Excuse me?
- Agent Anthony 'Tony' DiNozzo: Truth By Intimidation. In 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
- [points, witness begins to spill all]
- Lt. Col. Curtis Teague: Newell is alive?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah.
- Lt. Col. Curtis Teague: Well, whose body did we find?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: His brother. Captain Newell's still out there.
- Lt. Col. Curtis Teague: How do you know that?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He received S.E.R.E. training, Colonel. He's evading us. As part of his training he was taught a technique to negate enemy dogs.
- Lt. Col. Curtis Teague: Yeah, G.S. powder, irritant used in gas mask simulations. I keep a couple capsules in my survival vest. Dogs get a whiff of that, they're useless for days.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: He used it on the search dogs. Now he also has pilot's night-vision goggles and a survival radio to monitor our search frequencies. Colonel, he's using his Marine Corps training to evade us.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Colonel, your people have contaminated the scene.
- Lt. Col. Curtis Teague: I'm missing two men, Gibbs. I wasn't going to sit on my ass and wait for NCIS to drive out from Washington.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah well, we're going to have to take elimination prints from all your people.
- Lt. Col. Curtis Teague: [nods, then] Stand down, men! Let NCIS do their job.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Did you get any sleep?
- Abby Sciuto: I am over worked and not paid enough.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Quit.
- [Grinning]
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What do you got?