- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You're forgiven.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: For the crime, Jethro. For the act, there is no forgiveness.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: What was the point in it all?
- Marcin Jerek: How can you still not see?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Well, what did you want from him?
- Marcin Jerek: Nothing! I wanted *nothing* from him.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: [realizing] Javid was not your target. He was your weapon.
- Marcin Jerek: The boy was a means to break a man. Your bleeding heart eased everyone's fears. Without fear I could not do my job.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: You were torturing *me*.
- Marcin Jerek: To change you. But you took too long to break.
- [as Ducky is wheeled out of surgery]
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: My glasses?
- [Gibbs puts them back on]
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Oh, sweet of you to have held on to them for me while I went under the knife... it's ironic that the solution to one knife should be... Mr. Palmer, would you, would you finish that thought for me?
- Jimmy Palmer: Sure, Doctor.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Oh, and you need to send for a substitute M.E. Uh, Jordan...
- Jimmy Palmer: Doctor Hampton?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Yeah. On my desk you'll find her number, while I myself lie here getting much "numb-er."
- [chuckles]
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Nurse, more anesthetic, and don't spare the horses...
- [He is wheeled out]
- Abby Sciuto: Okay, he's zonked out of his gourd and he's still playing with words. Impressive.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: [Tony's looking at the crime scene photos] Tony, there's nothing new to learn there.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: There has to be!
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Why?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: The alternative is that Ducky was Dr. Mengele!
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Are you going to make me ask again?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: I suppose it's inevitable. When we've reached the tipping point when your curiosity outweighs your courtesy.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: What the *hell's* wrong with you Ducky? Your life is in the balance here! Huh? What did you do there?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Only what was required of me.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Are you *protecting* this guy?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: I am protecting no one, Jethro. Look, if you intend to unravel strings further on this matter, I would prefer you leave them unpulled.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: No.
- Marcin Jerek: [Entering a room] I'm taken from my home by federal agents, delivered to the Afghani government, and accused of war crimes. And after all this, it's just... Ducky.
- Marcin Jerek: I suspect Trent is to blame for this betrayal.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [From observation] "Trent?"
- Marcin Jerek: Destiny of students to disappoint their masters.
- [Jimmy is trying to carry on in Autopsy by himself]
- Jimmy Palmer: [speaking to the latest corpse] So... you're dead. Sorry about that.
- [imitating Ducky]
- Jimmy Palmer: Poor fellow... if it's any consolation, all indications are that you went out... with a bang.
- [pause]
- Jimmy Palmer: Oh, forget it.
- Abby Sciuto: Talk to me, baby, talk to me...
- Officer Ziva David: [enters with a] Fingerprint sheet.
- Abby Sciuto: Oh, hey! I was... I was talking to the knife. You want to talk knives.
- Officer Ziva David: Always.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: It is a rare place in this world, Mr. Palmer, where reason is the best compass.
- Jimmy Palmer: You are very, um... calm.
- Abby Sciuto: I am. If I keep going to Crazy Town every time one of you gets hurt, I'm going to have to get my mail forwarded.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, well the next phrase she yells means "You killed my brother."... Any idea why she would have said that?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Perhaps because I killed her brother.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Mr. Kort, Agency's keeping you local?
- Trent Kort: Travel is touchy at the moment. I've made a few enemies overseas.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: What? With your winning personality?
- Trent Kort: When you finally open that charm school, let me know.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I need a favor.
- Trent Kort: Gibbs, I don't like you.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: That's okay, I don't like you either. Not trading on kindness.
- Trent Kort: But we *are* trading.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: What *exactly* did she tell you?
- Afghani Ambassador Qasim Saydia: That Dr. Mallard violated Article 4 of the Geneva Convention.
- Officer Ziva David: War crimes?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Ducky?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Why are you talking so fast?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Want to get a plan of attack together because according to my internal Gibbs clock, he's about to walk through that door right... Now!... NOW!...
- [Looks around for Gibbs]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Huh?
- Officer Ziva David: Somebody's clock is off.
- Trent Kort: [to Gibbs] Couldn't help but notice these same ends could have been reached with a call from your Director to mine. Creates an official trail, of course. You prefer the back channel approach. In the hope of continuing goodwill, this second one is on the house.
- [puts a folder labelled Vance on top of Ducky's folder]
- Trent Kort: You really should learn to polish brass.
- Afghani Ambassador Qasim Saydia: Lack of respect shown by you and your people, you will create an international incident.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You're the diplomat, not me.
- Afghani Ambassador Qasim Saydia: Obviously. Dr. Mallard?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Ambassador?
- Afghani Ambassador Qasim Saydia: Have you brought legal counsel?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: I don't need counsel. I've come here to surrender.
- [Tony and Ziva are inspecting a large package on McGee's desk]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I'm bored, I don't want to play anymore, I don't care.
- [turns away]
- Officer Ziva David: [pulls her knife] Well, I am opening it.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [turns back] Thank God!
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: [enters and sees the package] Oh, goody, they're here!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Goody? Who says "goody"?
- Officer Ziva David: What is it?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: [lifts out a] This is my Mac SE. Got it for my eleventh birthday. She's my first.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: This is going to get really strange, isn't it?
- Officer Ziva David: "Going to"?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: How do you remember your childhood?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Vaguely.
- [Ziva laughs]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: You have no sense of history.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [entering] I do. So does Petty Officer Kevin Lim.
- Officer Ziva David: He is history?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Oh, yeah. Big time.