David McCallum credited as playing...
Donald Mallard
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Duck, everything okay?
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Yeah. Never better. Why do you ask?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Half my team's worried about you.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Let me guess which half: Abby and Ziva.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: When were you gonna tell me, Duck?
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Soon. I thought about having a service, but all of mother's friends pre-deceased her. I was all she had.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: I'm surrounded by death, Jethro. I wanted to deal with the personal loss myself. Did you know she was almost a hundred, that she had an active full life? But this last year she had not been herself. It was her time. Natural progression of age.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: [wearing a necktie instead of his usual bowtie] I found it at the Metropolitan Museum of Art store in New York. Its design is based on the Golden Hoard of Bactria, unearthed from the tombs of Tillya-tepe in northern Afghanistan.