- Officer Ziva David: I had nothing but death in my heart.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You never had a choice. He didn't give you a choice. He raised you to be a ruthless, souless killer.
- Officer Ziva David: I did not mean to live through it.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You didn't. That part of you died out there.
- Officer Ziva David: I am... sorry, Gibbs.
- Officer Ziva David: How's my agent application coming?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: I am working my magic. Trust me, Ziva, when I'm through, you will be...
- [McGee gets an error message]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Ooh, code blue?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Someone's been blackballed.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: They gave you the red flag.
- Officer Ziva David: [confused] What is blue, black, and red?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Zebra in a blender.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: That's black, white and red all over.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Newspaper.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Penguin with a sunburn.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Nun falling down stairs.
- Officer Ziva David: Look, I have learned many things from Gibbs, and one of those is that there is no such thing as an ex-marine
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Why do you find it so hard to belive I could hack that sucker out?
- Officer Ziva David: You cannot even work your email properly! You always reply to all, it drive me absolutely nuts! You know, when it comes to computers you are almost as impotent as Gi-
- [Stops looks around. DiNozzo laughs]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: You thought Gibbs was behind you. You know why? Because sneaky people expect sneakiness. It's a vicious cycle.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: What about the Damocles?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Lost at sea about a hundred miles off the coast of Tanzania, which was a couple hundred miles off its chartered course.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: They got lost at sea before they got lost at sea. So we got Ziva on a ship that went down somewhere it wasn't supposed to be, and a body bag filled goo from a dead Marine who wasn't supposed to be there.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: And nothing is what it's supposed to be. Gibbs tosses us, the investigation disappears.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: It's like "Alien", the Ridley Scott classic. The creepy one.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: As opposed to the non-creepy ones?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Well, Cameron's was more actiony than creepy, and Fincher's was more sleepy. Jeunet's was sort of a French-fried... I don't know what to call it.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: You know her better than I do. Closer to her than anyone.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Your relationship with her father doesn't tie your hands?
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: No. It absolutely does. So good cop, bad cop.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Plenty of ways to break someone, Leon.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: I figure she's been broken enough.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Okay, good cop, bad cop. Which one are you?
- Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Cryer: You don't want to give yourself away. Lose the jewelry.
- Officer Ziva David: I would sooner *die* than take this necklace off.
- [Pulls out Cryer's Marine tags]
- Officer Ziva David: You ought to know.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I think you already missed your chance to rescue Ziva.
- Mossad Officer Malachi Ben-Gidon: Then I hope I've arrived in time to rescue her from *you*.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: Guess it's time for you to get in there and do the bad cop.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You were being the good cop?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Talk faster. Eliminate the dead air between your words. My mind can absorb things very quickly.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: [talks very fast]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Take a breath, have a keyboard.
- [Vance is antsy as he and Gibbs wait for Dunham in MTAC]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You out of toothpicks?
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: I pulled one earlier. I got a splinter in my cheek. Cut myself shaving this morning. You know, these things happen in threes.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You superstitious?
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: I'm a little stitious.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're father Ziva, he's not a good guy. He's dirty.
- Officer Ziva David: [to Ben-Gidon] You could not say "no" to him. Not a second time.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [to Bi-Gidon] Go. Get out of here! You tell Eli David to stay away! She's off limits!
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Isn't this punishing her?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Oh, maybe it's tough loving.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: You do know there are other kinds.
- Officer Ziva David: You should keep your distance, Ducky. The ones who get to close always end up dead.
- Mossad Officer Malachi Ben-Gidon: I failed you Ziva. I'm sorry.
- Officer Ziva David: Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I got heart palpitations. You really scared me. Someone dial 9 - 1 and wait for me to tell you to dial the last 1.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: You've been in the service of two masters for too long. Your loyalty to your father and Mossad predates everything else.
- Officer Ziva David: My father is not an issue.
- Officer Ziva David: I cannot comment on Mossad operations.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: I know this to be true because I'm the one who provided Eli with the intel. You are no longer in the employ of the Mossad.
- Officer Ziva David: That does not change anything!
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: That's what concerns me.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: The truth, Ziva, may set you free.
- Officer Ziva David: And it may not.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Ziva, some bodies are not meant to stay buried. What happened to him?