Mark Harmon credited as playing...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: That's my room.
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: Vance put me in charge.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Vance isn't here.
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: I'm trying to establish that he was in all four cities at the same time of the murders.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Focus on Balfour. That's our body. That's our evidence. That's our case.
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: This is a multiple murder case!
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Start by pinning one murder on him, and then connect the others. That's how it's done.
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: Maybe that's the old school way.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: That's *my* way.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Native Americans designed their pole so that the lower you were on it, the higher they held you in esteem. Calling someone "low man on the totem pole" is in fact a compliment.
- Jimmy Palmer: So all these years, Gibbs has been complimenting me?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [Gibbs enters] Oh, I wouldn't go that far, Palmer.
- Abby Sciuto: No - it's just - change, Gibbs. Change makes me itch. It always has. It's - it's Agent Barret. I'm - not a fan. I mean - of change. Her
- [Abby stutters]
- Abby Sciuto: I don't mind. She's - feisty for someone so small. Um and I like that. Not that I like her, because I don't really.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Abby.
- Abby Sciuto: Not like I like you.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Abs.
- Abby Sciuto: I just - I like
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Abs.
- Abby Sciuto: Our family the way it is.
- [Gibbs hugs Abby]
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: It's not against NCIS policy to date co-workers.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: It's against *my* policy. This team operates on respect.
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: You don't respect me.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: No, I don't trust you.
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: Really?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Really. Except to work the case, leave my team alone. We clear?
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: Are you questioning whether I know what I'm doing, Agent Gibbs?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: No ma'am. I'm questioning the way you do it.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [Entering Interrogation] Starting without me, Special Agent Barret?
- NCIS Special Agent E.J. Barrett: Oh, just getting settled in.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [Gibbs puts the file down. Then whispers to Barret] You're in my chair.
- Ziva David: Okay. Uh, Gibbs, can I give Ray a tour?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, sure. Don't lose him.