- Special Agent Kensi Blye: What do you know about alarms?
- Marty Deeks: Enough. I did two years LAPD Robbery Division.
- Special Agent Kensi Blye: I did an urban counter surveillance course at Quantico. Graduated at the top of my course.
- Marty Deeks: I guess there's book smarts and then there's street smart.
- Special Agent Kensi Blye: I'll run point.
- Marty Deeks: If Emma's a former operative, then she's got situational awareness.
- Special Agent Kensi Blye: [Long pause] She knew what this was about from the very start. It's why she offered herself up. She's not a soft target. She just looks like one. That's why Vekar sent professionals to take her out.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: You know, everyone in our line of work has this *regrettable* necessary choice: either be a hermit, or be a cover story.
- Special Agent Kensi Blye: Hetty, "cover story" is just a more dignified way of saying lie. I am lying to my friend.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: Well, someitmes, it's better to just leave the lie in place. If a loved one really cares for you, the lie won't matter.
- Special Agent G. Callen: Are you speaking from experience, Hetty?
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: It's amazing how much one can learn from field manuals, Mr. Callen.
- Special Agent Kensi Blye: Anyone hear from Nate?
- Special Agent Sam Hanna: Nope. Not a call. Not even an email.
- Special Agent G. Callen: [G looks at Hetty] We don't even know where he is.
- Special Agent G. Callen: So, Jon... throwing away 20 years of service to become a killer-for-hire. I'm curious.
- Jon: My pension didn't hold my interest.
- Special Agent Sam Hanna: Huh? My pension wasn't great either. But I got hobbies.
- Special Agent Sam Hanna: Craig is the only one we positively ID in Cyprus. Which means we can't arrest them til right before the hit goes down. Catch them red-handed while they're already on high alert. This is a dangerous op we're talking about. I know it's the only way, but it doesn't mean I gotta like it.
- Emma Mastin: Even if you stop *this* hit squad, he'll just send another one. There's one way to end this right now.
- Special Agent Kensi Blye: Who are you?
- Emma Mastin: Someone who willing to do anything to protect her family.
- Special Agent Kensi Blye: That is no an answer.
- Emma Mastin: Let them come. Use me as bait.
- Emma Mastin: Because if Vekar did send these people, I need to send a message back to him.
- Special Agent Kensi Blye: What message is that?
- Emma Mastin: It is not gonna be easy... Talk to your people. This is your best shot.
- Man: NCIS must be in *real* trouble if the Duchess of Deception is meeting me in person.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: Almost as much trouble as you were in, in Cape Town.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: Pardon my language, but how the Hell did this woman wind up a housewife in Sherman Oaks?
- Man: Typical Cinderlla story.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: If Cinderella was a Chechen assassin.