- Abby Sciuto: I don't know what to get anybody. What do you think Tony needs?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: An attitude adjustment.
- Abby Sciuto: Gibbs, you're not helping.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: [speaking of Quinn's daughter] How'd she know we found him?
- Abby Sciuto: Well, she might've figured it out when I called her, and told her.
- Abby Sciuto: I like everything about Christmas. Except the Chipmunk Song. And shopping, I hate shopping. I never know what to get anyone, especially Gibbs. What do you get a guy who has nothing and wants nothing?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Some squeaky shoes.
- Abby Sciuto: [spins around] Hi, Gibbs!
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Something wrong, Jethro?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Fingerprints found at a double homicide yesterday belong to a Petty Officer who is supposed to have been dead 17 years.
- [Hands Ducky a folder]
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: His death certificate.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Oh dear.
- [gaffs]
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Someone's in trouble.
- [looks at the death certificate]
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: I signed it?
- Ned Quinn: Where are we?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Melissa's house.
- Ned Quinn: No, Gibbs! You don't know me. I ruin lives. I am poison.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Give yourself some credit. You're not the same person that dropped out of her life when she was three years old. You've changed.
- Ned Quinn: I don't need this, I don't.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: She does.
- Ned Quinn: There's too much time that's passed.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: If I had one wish for Christmas, it would be to hug my daughter... that can never be. You have that chance.
- [after a moment, Quinn gets out of the car, then knocks on Gibbs's window. Gibbs rolls it down, and Quinn gives him a piece of paper]
- Ned Quinn: Thank you.
- [as Quinn goes to the front door, Gibbs unrolls the paper and sees Quinn's sketches of himself and the rest of the team]
- [the team assembles in MTAC]
- NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to partake of a DiNozzo family tradition: caramel popcorn, hot mulled cider, and the greatest, greatest Christmas movie of all time: "It's A Wonderful Life."
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [Standing at the Vietnam Memorial] No matter how many times I come here, it still gets to me. You look at a name, you have to look at a reflection of yourself. You are among the fallen.
- Ned Quinn: Yeah. Difference is, you can leave. The names don't.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: No. Death is permanent. Except in your case, Ned Quinn.
- Ned Quinn: It's been a long time since someone's called me that.
- [Harvey the security guard grabs something out of his holster]
- NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: That's a taser, Harvey.
- Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David: You only have one shot, non-fatal.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: There are five of us.
- [Harvey promptly tasers McGee]
- NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [rubbing his feet on the carpet as he walks up to McGee, in a singsong voice] Friction makes a static charge.
- [shocks McGee]
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: Would you stop that? I'm still humming from the Taser.
- Metro Detective Justin Kemp: You going to explain to me why you broke into the crime scene?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Are you going to explain to me why you didn't remove yourself from this case?
- Metro Detective Justin Kemp: Why would I do that?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Avery Taylor was suing your father-in-law. You have no business investigating Taylor's murder.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: The alarm was deactivated at 2:17 AM this morning. Between the time Kemp sealed the house and you...
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Broke in.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Well, I was going to say "gained unauthorized access." Alarm was activated 4 minutes later.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: You asked for it. Better work fast. You only have a day.
- [leaves]
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Merry Christmas.
- Abby Sciuto: [Abby enters] Hey guys, what's up?
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: I hope no one has plans.
- Jackson 'Jack' Gibbs: [Gibbs makes a call on his cell phone] Hello?
- Gibbs: Merry Christmas, Dad.
- Jackson 'Jack' Gibbs: Merry Christmas, Son.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You might've redeemed yourself, Abby.
- Abby Sciuto: What'd I do?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Called Quinn's daughter.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: So you disappeared. You hid.
- Ned Quinn: It's not hard if no one's looking for you.
- Abby Sciuto: Oh I haven't slept on Christmas eve since I was like 4. Since I started camping out in front of the fireplace trying to catch Santa. I should have pulled a fingerprint off his milk glass.
- NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [Whispering] We're not going to tell him we found the murder weapon?
- Gibbs: [Shrugging] He never asked.