NCIS (TV Series)

Silver War (2005)

Cote de Pablo: Ziva David

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Quotes 

• [after Ziva finds out that Gibbs didn't know that she had been assigned to his team] 

  Officer Ziva David : [downhearted]  I stand corrected. I guess he didn't know. I feel like a donkey's butt.

  Special Agent Timothy McGee : [puzzled]  "A donkey's butt?"

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : I think she means horse's ass.

  Officer Ziva David : Yes, that too.

• [after Gibbs has allowed Ziva to stay on the team] 

  Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : You will be coming along strictly as an observer. Hand over all your weapons.

  Officer Ziva David : [small laugh]  Is that really necessary?

  [Gibbs stares] 

  Officer Ziva David : Right.

  [She unloads her pistol and hands it to Gibbs, who puts it in his drawer] 

  Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : And your back-up.

  Officer Ziva David : [innocently]  What back-up?

  Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Left leg.

  Officer Ziva David : Oh... that one.

  [She removes her ankle holster and hands it over] 

  Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : And the knife concealed at your waist.

  [Annoyed, Ziva removes the knife and hands it to Gibbs. He reverses it and and hands it back to her] 

  Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : You can keep this.

  [leans in close to her ear as he passes her] 

  Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : I just wanted you to know that I know.

• Officer Ziva David : "C.W.R.?"

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Yeah. Civil War Reenactors. Guys who get together. dress up in period costumes, reenacting famous battles.

  Officer Ziva David : Why?

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : I've been asking my father that since I was 10 years old.

• Officer Ziva David : [putting her finger through a hole in the brim of her hat]  Why does my hat have a 9mm hole in it?

  Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Ventilation.

• Officer Ziva David : [to Tony]  You might want to do something about your hair. It's sticking up like a porcu-swine. Wrong word. Like a porcu-pig. The little animal with the little spikies, yes? The...

  Special Agent Timothy McGee : Porcupine.

  Officer Ziva David : Porcupine! Thank you, Special Agent McGee.

• Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : [at Manassas Battlefield]  You know what my job was during these reenactments?

  Officer Ziva David : Little drummer boy?

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Ha-ha. No. I was the one who had to scurry around carrying a bucket so these guys could take a dump. They called me their "little poo boy."

• Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Whoa, not so fast!

  Officer Ziva David : I always drive fast. It's the best way to avoid possible ambushes and IEDs.

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Well, you're in America now, so you really don't have to worry...

  [She swerves around another car] 

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : How 'bout this? Slow down or I'll puke on you!

• Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Do you know how many people are killed by bears in America every year?

  Officer Ziva David : No, but I can't imagine it's a lot.

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : You'd be surprised.

  Officer Ziva David : McGee?

  Special Agent Timothy McGee : I think it's about 1.

• Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : And you... you keep observing.

  Officer Ziva David : What exactly, Gibbs?

  Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs : I don't care, just do it quietly.

  Officer Ziva David : Now I know why he took away all my weapons.

• Officer Ziva David : A Marine, dressed as a Civil War soldier, shot by a musket and then buried alive in a one-hundred-and-forty-year-old antique iron casket... and you're telling me this *isn't* your strangest case?

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : Yeah.

  Special Agent Timothy McGee : Pretty much.

• [opening the murder victim's safe deposit box, that was last visited by a man claiming to be his brother] 

  Officer Ziva David : Ooh... we need to talk to his brother.

  Special Agent Timothy McGee : Definitely.

  [a shot of the opened box reveals a severed, desiccated human hand clutching an old map] 

• [reading a text message sent by the murder victim] 

  Special Agent Timothy McGee : "Only got half Oxbow not on his side Kearns don't let him get safety deposit box."

  Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : That's it?

  Officer Ziva David : He was buried alive, Tony. What did you expect, a soliloquy?