NCIS (TV Series)

Call of Silence (2004)

Mark Harmon: Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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• Gibbs : McGee: he says he's been reporting this to 9-1-1, can't get anybody to believe him.

  Timothy McGee : Gee, what a surprise.

  Gibbs : Trace the call, I want to hear one of them.

  Timothy McGee : On it.

  Gibbs : Kate: he's a former Marine, probably WWII. Corporal Ernest Yost. Dig up his SRB.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Got his Social Security number?

  Gibbs : They didn't use them for serial numbers when he served.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : So how am I supposed to get his SRB without his serial number?

  Gibbs : Well, Kate, you could ask him.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Gibbs, I doubt that he could remember his shoe size...

  Gibbs : [barks an order]  Corporal Yost!

  Ernie Yost : Yo!

  Gibbs : Serial number!

  Ernie Yost : 3-3-0-0-9-0, *sir*!

  Gibbs : [to Kate]  Or, you could just look him up under Medal of Honor recipients.

• Gibbs : Come on, Corporal. Let a Gunny buy you dinner.

  Ernie Yost : You... you were never an officer?

  Gibbs : Oh, hell no.

  Ernie Yost : I knew there was something I liked about you...

  [he throws a haymaker at Gibbs's face, Gibbs ducks with a grin] 

• Gibbs : Or you could just look him up under Medal of Honor recipients.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : He won the Medal of Honor?

  Gibbs : You don't "win" the Medal of Honor, Kate. You're awarded it, for conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty.

• Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : I'm tired of arguing with you, Gibbs. I want Corporal Yost taken into custody.

  Gibbs : I can't.

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : Damn it, Gibbs! Do you think I want to incarcerate an eighty-two year old man? I am following the SecNav's direct orders! He said, "investigate," you did, and found enough evidence to hold him over for a court-martial. Now take him into custody!

  Gibbs : I said, "can't," not "wouldn't."

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : Please don't insult me by telling me he escaped.

  Gibbs : The older they are, the sneakier they are.

  Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Yost complained of a weak bladder. He had to use the restroom every fifteen minutes. We got tired of escorting him. One time, he left the room and never came back.

  Timothy McGee : We found a window open, he must have shimmied down the drainpipe.

  Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman : [sarcastic]  I'd like to have seen that.

  Timothy McGee : I put out an APB. Airports. Train stations. Taxicabs. Walker... rentals.

• [first lines] 

  Henry : Gibbs.

  Gibbs : Hey, morning, Henry!

  Henry : That sushi place you sent me to...

  Gibbs : What, you didn't like it?

  Henry : I liked it fine, only you didn't tell me I had to speak Japanese to order.

  Gibbs : You don't order; you eat what you're served, with a smile. Just like being married.

• [Entering the NCIS building, Ernie sets off the metal detector] 

  Henry : Are you wearing jewelry?

  Ernie Yost : Oh, forgot. Senior moment.

  [From around his neck he pulls a medal. Henry looks at it, astonished] 

  Gibbs : Henry... we're in the presence of a Medal of Honor recipient.

• Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : Lt. Commander Coleman is going to use this to put Yost away for the rest of his life.

  Anthony DiNozzo : Do we have to tell her?

  Gibbs : [sarcastically]  Well, no, Special Agent DiNozzo. Here at NCIS we just report evidence we like.

• [toasting each other with cups of sake] 

  Gibbs : Semper Fi!

  Ernie Yost : Semper Fi!

  [they drink, and Yost coughs] 

  Ernie Yost : Sail again?

  Gibbs : Yeah, why not?

  [Gibbs calls to the sushi chef in Japanese. The chef responds, and Ernie is surprised to recognize Hitoshi, who refills their cups] 

  Gibbs : Arigato.

  Ernie Yost : You conned me, Gunny.

  Gibbs : Nah, would I do that to you?

  Ernie Yost : You're damn right you would... and I want to thank you for it.

• Caitlin 'Kate' Todd : His citation of conspicuous gallantry, above and beyond the call of duty.

  Gibbs : Corporal Ernest Yost, United States Marine Corps, 1st Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division, at Iwo Jima, volcano island, 4 March, 1945. Terrain studded with caves and ravines, Corporal Yost was standing point forward of our lines, when he spotted Japanese troops attempting to infiltrate under the cover of darkness. He immediately waged a fierce battle, during which, a grenade gravely wounded his right hand and fractured his thigh. Near exhaustion from profuse bleeding, he continued to defend his forward position, engaging in hand to hand combat, when he was out of ammunition. At dawn, Corporal Yost was found amid the bodies of 26 Japanese soldiers he had killed, in a self sacrificing defense of his forward position.

  Ernie Yost : [Yost, just having walked back from the water cooler, sees Gibbs and company standing up from reading his citation]  What?

  Gibbs : We just heard about your wife Mr. Yost. You have our sympathies, sir.