NCIS (TV Series)

Crossing the Line (2019)

Wilmer Valderrama: Nick Torres

Quotes 

• Ellie Bishop : [on the phone with Torres]  To be honest, yes, I am shocked.

  Nick Torres : What? Why?

  Ellie Bishop : What do you mean "why"? Everybody knows you're terrible with teenagers.

• Blake : We're looking forward to this, sir. Consider us sponges ready to absorb all the knowledge you have to impart on us.

  Nick Torres : Did you just call me "sir"?

  Blake : Yes, sir.

  Nick Torres : Actually, that does have a nice ring to it.

• Nick Torres : Yo, my man. What about "stay put" don't you get?

  Max Girard : I'm not a dog.

  Nick Torres : I know, 'cause dogs listen, and if you don't, I'll try a different method.

  Jack Sloane : [Nick holds up his handcuffs]  Nick, is that really necessary?

  Nick Torres : Jack, teenagers are like raptors, okay? They smell fear. You have to stay strong.

  [ushering Max out of the room] 

  Nick Torres : Come on, move it. Come on.

• Nick Torres : Yeah, yeah, I know I'm late. The MPD, uh, cop I hooked up with last month gave me a...

  [amused snicker] 

  Nick Torres : ...a jaywalking ticket this morning and, uh, well... talk about a scorned woman.

  Blake : Nice.

  Nick Torres : All right, that would be a whoops.

  Leon Vance : Thank you for that illuminating and highly inappropriate recap, Agent Torres.

  Nick Torres : Uh, Director, I, uh... did not see you standing there. And by "hooked up", I meant, like, you know, we get together and discuss a case.

  Hayley : We know what "hooking up" means.

  Blake : We're seventeen. Not seven.

  Leon Vance : Well, this mentorship is off to a fantastic start.

  Nick Torres : Wait, I'm sorry. Say what?

• Jimmy Palmer : The line-crossing ceremony is really quite fascinating. Did you know it's a sailing tradition that dates back over 400 years?

  Nick Torres : [not really paying attention]  Fascinating.

  Jimmy Palmer : You doing okay? You look exhausted. I mean, the bags under your eyes...

  Nick Torres : Bags? What bags? What're you talking about?

  [looking at his reflection in a medical tray] 

  Nick Torres : Ah... it's those damn kids, man.

  Jimmy Palmer : They running you ragged, huh? I know you're no good with teenagers.

  Nick Torres : Why does everybody keep saying that? I am seasoned law enforcement agent. Nothing fazes me, son.

  Jimmy Palmer : Where are your little mentees?

  Nick Torres : Up in the lab learning military strategy and combat tactics.

  Jimmy Palmer : Oh. Wait, what?

  Nick Torres : Don't overthink it.

• Nick Torres : What's the cause of death?

  Jimmy Palmer : Prepare yourself, because it is rather unexpected. Petty Officer Allston's cause of death was not drowning, nor was it a blunt force trauma to the head. Nick, he died of a sudden cardiac arrest.

  Nick Torres : A heart attack? At 24?

  Jimmy Palmer : Even stranger considering he has no familial history of heart issues. I'm still awaiting the results of his blood panel, but it-it... a massive cardiac episode could give another explanation to his head wound.

  Nick Torres : So he wasn't struck from behind?

  Jimmy Palmer : Upon closer inspection, I found that the wound pattern is not that of a medieval flail, but rather bulkhead piping from a Navy destroyer.

  Nick Torres : So he was hit with a piece of the ship?

  Jimmy Palmer : Possibly, or he accidentally hit his head and fell overboard.

• Nick Torres : Yo, yo, I'm here. What's the problem?

  Kasie Hines : I'm sorry, what's that? Uh-uh... the blood in my ears must be affecting my hearing.

  [indicating his mentees playing video games] 

  Kasie Hines : That's the problem. I have work to do, and I can't concentrate with the sounds of D-Day going on in here.

• Nick Torres : Kaise, you have to help me out. I got to stash them somewhere so I can get some work done.

  Kasie Hines : Okay, you know what? That sounds like a Torres problem, not a Kasie problem.

  Nick Torres : You think I don't have anything better to do, huh? Than to babysit annoying wannabe teenage agents?

  Kasie Hines : [behind them, Max loudly chews a potato chip]  Where did he come from?

  Max Girard : Break room. Thanks for the cash.

  Nick Torres : What cash?

  Max Girard : [tossing Nick's wallet to him]  Your snack machine sucks.

  Nick Torres : Okay, the wallet swipe, that's my thing. And you owe me sixty cents.

• Nick Torres : Oh, thank god you guys are back.

  Timothy McGee : What? What're you doing?

  Nick Torres : Please don't ever leave me again like that. Those kids are driving me crazy, man.

  Timothy McGee : The mentees?

  Nick Torres : It takes less energy to infiltrate a drug cartel. I pawned them off on a probie just so I can have a few hours of "me" time.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : How about update time?

  Nick Torres : Yeah, and that, too.

• Leroy Jethro Gibbs : What about the drugs in Allston's system?

  Nick Torres : According to Kasie, it's some kind of, uh, synthetic combination of halluciogens and stimulants.

  Hayley : It's called a tri-shot. Well, at least that's what the kids at my school call it.

  Blake : Mine, too.

  Nick Torres : Why are you not with Agent Ventura?

  Blake : She went to look for Max. He wandered off again.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Torres, go find him.

  [to Hayley and Blake as Nick leaves] 

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You two, keep talking.

• Timothy McGee : Andrew Townsley?

  Andrew Townsley : Who wants to know?

  Nick Torres : [showing their badges]  NCIS.

  Andrew Townsley : Use context clues, idiots. Can't you see I'm not in the Navy anymore?

  Timothy McGee : [sarcastic]  I'm sure they're reeling from the loss.

• Nick Torres : They say parting is such sweet sorrow. Not always.

  Max Girard : Bet you can't say where that line's from. Here's a hint. It's not "Maxim".

  Nick Torres : Oh. I'll miss those witty remarks most of all.

  Hayley : Agent Torres, would it be possible to extend shadowing another day? I just feel like there's so much we didn't get to see yet, and...

  Max Girard : Oh, I know, I know, right? I know, but those are the rules. That's all the time we got. So, yeah.

  Blake : Well, we really appreciate you mentoring us for these past few days. I feel like I've learned a lot.

  Max Girard : Yeah, thanks to you, we learned how to get by in life by doing as little as humanly possible.

  Nick Torres : It's a gift.

• Nick Torres : You believe that kid?

  Jack Sloane : Uh, actually, Nick, I'd say you're the one acting like a child here.

  Nick Torres : Me? What did I do?

  Jack Sloane : How about what you didn't do? Like read your mentees' essays.

  Nick Torres : Jack, I was busy working on the case.

  Jack Sloane : Had you tried to get to know them, you would know that Max is the son of Ed Girard, one of the NCIS agents that was killed in the Navy Yard bombing six years ago. Max was here visiting his father that day. Only one of them made it out alive. He came here searching for closure, and he was treated like an inconvenience. You want me to choose sides, Nick? I'm on Max's.

• Nick Torres : Why didn't you tell me?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Tell you what?

  Nick Torres : That Max was Agent Girard's son.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Why would I?

  Nick Torres : Well, because I would've acted differently. I would've... would've done something else.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : It shouldn't matter who he was. That's the point, Torres.

  Nick Torres : Was this some kind of test?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You're damn right.

  Nick Torres : What do you want from me?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : This is your mess, Nick. You clean it up.

• Nick Torres : I didn't ask for this. I wasn't cut out to be a teacher.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : You are scared.

  Nick Torres : I don't get scared.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Stop holding back when something is not familiar.

  Nick Torres : Because you know everything, right?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : A student's failure... is a reflection of their teacher.