David McCallum credited as playing...
Donald Mallard
- [in the isolation chamber]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [coughing] Why are you wearing a mask?
- Special Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Because I have a cold.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Why aren't you sick?
- Special Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Because I'm stronger than you, Tony.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Are not.
- Special Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Am too.
- [He starts hacking]
- Lt. Emma Ingham: Tony, sit up.
- Dr. Brad Pitt: Kate, you should leave.
- [as soon as she's outside the isolation chamber, Kate bursts into tears]
- Special Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: Oh, God...
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: [hugs her] You were brave to stay with him, Kate.
- Special Agent Caitlin 'Kate' Todd: He's dying, Ducky.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [walking past them] Ah, the hell he is.
- [Gibbs enters the isolation chamber without a mask]
- Dr. Brad Pitt: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who the hell are you?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: His boss. The bug had a suicide chain, it's dead. Been dead for over an hour. He's no longer infectious.
- [goes to Tony's bed and whispers]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Tony, listen to me. You listening?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [weakly] I'm listening, Boss.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You will not die. You got that?
- [Tony starts closing his eyes. Gibbs gives him a gentle slap on the head, and Tony opens his eyes again]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I said: You. Will. Not. Die.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I gotcha, Boss.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Good.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: [looking at the empty autopsy room on a monitor] I cannot believe that Gibbs broke protocol!
- [the door opens behind them, and Abby turns]
- Abby Sciuto: [slight chuckle] He didn't.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: He left Autopsy!
- Abby Sciuto: But not isolation.
- [Gibbs and McGee enter wearing biohazard suits]
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: In the 14th century, the novelist Boccaccio wrote that plague victims had lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in Paradise.