- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Then we got our guy.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Nope. All we got is a pile of dead skin. Only thing you can use the DNA registry for is to identify a body.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Well, there has to be a way around that.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: See, NOW you're thinking like an NCIS agent.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Dinozzo, what're you doin'?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Just doin' a little research for Abby.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: For Abby?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Well, maybe I'm servin' two masters.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You're servin' one, now.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: How did you get into NCIS?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I smiled?
- [Gibbs is finishing Billy's treehouse]
- Billy Fuentes: Can I come up?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You got a password?
- Billy Fuentes: Yes, sir. "Semper fi."
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [smiling] That's a good password.
- Corporal Paul Brinkman: Why are you jumping with us, sir?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Always wanted to jump. Agent Gibbs came along to laugh.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: You knew Lt. Roberts wasn't going to lawyer us access to the Military DNA Database.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Did I?
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: You did. So why go through the exercise?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Kate, I come from a long line of horse traders. First Rule: You pick the best horse in the barn and you work the deal until it bursts.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: That way when you go for the second best nag you get her for a song.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: The search authorization...
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We didn't have probable cause, but the Lieutenant, he's a man who aims to please. You never work the system when you can work the people.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Did any of those horse traders get hung?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, a few.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: You know, my dad gave me a power sander for my birthday. I don't really power sand much. You're welcome to it.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Aside from that bare bulb there and the plug going to that idiot box, you see a power cord around here anywhere?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: How long to find the acid and check out the rest of the chutes?
- Abby Sciuto: Well, I'm flying solo, so at least a day.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Go faster if you had an assistant?
- Abby Sciuto: Definitely.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Okay, you got the job.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: I get to do forensics?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, you get to schlep for Abby. She gets to do forensics.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah. Ducky? Why would Gibbs rip his hard line out and dunk his cell phone in a jar of paint thinner?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Oh, dear.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: What?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Oh, I should have realized the time of year. It's his anniversary.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Which marriage?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Well, the last one, of course.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Ducky. I'm not following.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Every year, ex-wife number three gets drunk on their anniversary and calls him repeatedly.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Why doesn't he, ah, change his number?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: No idea. In case you haven't noticed, Gibbs is a man of more questions than answers.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: He could've given Thumper a dirty chute.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: What'd you say?
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Ramsay could've given Thumper a sabotaged chute.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, you said dirty.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: What?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: With Gibbs, you never know.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We're going with you boys. NCIS training mission.
- Capt. Faul: Now why don't I believe that... Hell. Why not? Hate to pass up the opportunity to toss a couple NCIS agents out of a plane.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: ID withheld...
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Probably the reason you married her. I mean, she probably hid her real personality as most women do, and by that time it was too late because you'd already... I'm gonna shut up now.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Now?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Y'know, some of these guys freeze on their first jump. Have to be kicked in the ass to get them out.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Not me.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Nope. You fall in the category that want a kick in the ass on the ground.
- [seeing Gibbs' cell phone in a jar of paint thinner and his hard line off the hook]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: He's a weirdo.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We know that nine parachutes were rigged to fail. The killer doctored them and repacked them. Sergeant Fuentes died as a result of that. That's premeditated murder.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I'm sold. Hey, If I'm on the jury, you got my vote.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: We found DNA evidence on the chute deployment bag knots.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: Belonging to your suspect?
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: We believe so. To be certain, we have to access the Armed Forces Registry.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: That's impossible. The registry was set up to identify remains only.
- [nods towards Gibbs]
- Lt. Bud Roberts: He knows that.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [playing dumb] I do?
- Lt. Bud Roberts: He tried to use it when he went after Commander Rabb for murder.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: He get him?
- Lt. Bud Roberts: No, because he wasn't guilty. You couldn't use the DNA registry then, what makes you think you can use it now?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You, Lieutenant. You're a smart lawyer, and you know the law.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I know why I'm here.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Well, I hope you do. I requested you.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: Yeah, you requested me because you think you can work me, like you did last time when I ratted out Commander Rabb.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You did not rat on anyone. You told the truth.
- [Gibbs scratches at the shoulder of Bud's jacket]
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I, uh, gave my uniform an extra lint roll this morning, Agent Gibbs. And you waltzing around in my blind spot? Not going to intimidate me this time.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We're at twenty-four hours now. And soon it's going to be forty-eight. You've done investigations, you know what that means.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I've done JAGman investigations, sure. At forty-eight hours, your evidence begins to degrade, disappear. Witnesses change their stories, suspects improve theirs. I... I know.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: So help us.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: No! Hey, you... you're not going to get me to lawyer you past an iron-clad prohibition that prevents tapping into DNA records that were designed to identify bodies, not chase suspects.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: This guy is guilty. He killed him. Let him drop to his death from thirteen hundred feet.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: It doesn't matter.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: For every legal firewall, there is a way around it.
- Lt. Bud Roberts: I can't help you. And can I please have my pen back?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sure you can. You're gonna need it. Because if I can't have my DNA, I'm gonna need some search authorizations signed.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: You ever jump?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Sure, when I get an electric shock.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: We ever gonna make the eleven o'clock news?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Coulda happened tonight if you'd broke your neck.
- Jimmy: We were hanging out, listening to Dashboard Confessional.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Emo.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Emo?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Emotional music. Gotta get a radio, Gibbs.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: "Scuttlebutt"?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That's Marine for water cooler gossip.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Your mind, DiNozzo, runs the gamut from X to triple X.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Why didn't you take to me this fast?
- Abby Sciuto: You're like a piercing Tony, takes a while for the throbbing to stop and the skin to grow back.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [Grinning] That's more then I wanted to know.
- Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: How did you get into NCIS?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [Smiling] I smiled.