- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You know how I feel about coincidences, Abbs.
- Abby Sciuto: Equatorial pygmies know how you feel about coincidences, Gibbs.
- Jenny Shepard: [after Gibbs sits down in the Director's chair, right after catching her in his chair questioning his team] Dramatic. But duly noted, Agent Gibbs. I get it.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ziva caved first.
- Special Agent Ziva David: I didn't cave in! I was trying...
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee next.
- Timothy McGee: Yeah but, Boss, it wasn't what it...
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: And my loyal Saint Bernard held out till last.
- Anthony DiNozzo: Well, I...
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Probably all of thirty seconds. So - what is my team? In fact, can I call you my team?
- Special Agent Ziva David: We've been barking up the wrong tree the whole investigation!
- Anthony DiNozzo: "Bush."
- Special Agent Ziva David: Sorry. We've been barking up the wrong... bush...?
- Anthony DiNozzo: [smiles sheepishly] "Tree."
- Jimmy Palmer: [during an autopsy of a badly burned body] I'm having a little problem with the smell today.
- Ducky: Really? I think he smells like my mother's fried chicken.
- Jimmy Palmer: Yeah, that would be the problem.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [looking for additional information on the search for a suspect's car] And?
- Anthony DiNozzo: And we - we can't find it. Uh, but we're not going to give up until we do.
- Timothy McGee: [adds] Or die trying.
- [Ziva looks at McGee like, "Say What?"; Tony looks at McGee like, "You Didn't"; Gibbs walks away]
- Anthony DiNozzo: "Or die trying!"? You had to put *that* in his head?
- [Gibbs has just walked into the Director's office with an elaborate take-out French dinner, and is setting it up]
- Jenny Shepard: The last time we had steak au poivre, six people died.
- Anthony DiNozzo: She asked you out? *You*?
- Timothy McGee: Trust me, I'm just as surprised as you are.
- Anthony DiNozzo: Trust me, you're not.
- Anthony DiNozzo: [snooping through McGee's iPod] What kind of music does the McGee listen to? Ooo Barry Manilow, Julie Andrews, Zamfir.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Put it back up there.
- Anthony DiNozzo: Put what back...
- [Gibbs smacks Tony's head. Tony puts a picture of McGee and a girl up on the screen]
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: McGee's got good taste. Going for coffee.
- [He walks past Ziva and smacks her head]
- Special Agent Ziva David: Owe! What was that for?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Alerting DiNizzo!
- Jenny Shepard: I have the right to dig into any NCIS investigation that I want to.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Not mine. Unless you want me behind your desk again.
- [He steps out of the elevator and then turns]
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Of course you could just observe and keep quiet.
- Jenny Shepard: Fine...
- [She concedes. Gibbs steps ahead of her out of the elevator, leaving her miffed]