- Ziva David: [points to the wall of Jackson's store] Uh, is that the gun you learned to shoot with?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No one was ever allowed to touch that Winchester.
- Jackson Gibbs: Yeah. Let that be a lesson in parenting: tell a kid he can't have a rifle, he grows up to be a sniper.
- Young Shannon: Well I have a rule. It's either one or number three: Never date a lumberjack.
- Young Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You have a rule for everything?
- Young Shannon: Working on it. Everyone needs a code they can live by. What's your name?
- Young Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [Embarassed] Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
- Young Shannon: I'm just going to call you "Gibbs."
- Young Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You can call me anything you want.
- Young Shannon: I'm Shannon.
- Jackson Gibbs: I know you hate it when I use a hundred words when a couple will do. But give us a call some time.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It's the least I could do.
- Jackson Gibbs: Goodbye, son.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [They tear up and hug] Bye, dad.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [Approaches to see a man talking with Ziva] Word travels fast.
- Jackson Gibbs: That it does. When people actually open their mouths and speak with one another. You don't call. You don't write. Were you gonna come by and say hi?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hi... Jack.
- Jackson Gibbs: Hi... Leroy.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [Uncomfortable silence, then he nods at the man] Ziva, McGee. Jackson Gibbs... my father.
- Tony DiNozzo: [to Jackson Gibbs] Jack, I just, I gotta know- I got a lot of questions...
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You can have two, DiNozzo.
- Tony DiNozzo: Where do I start?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You got one left.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Without encroaching into your territory, Jethro, might I suggest...
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That the dead guy was a dead end. LaComb was the target.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Yeah. Any idea why?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I just started looking, Duck.
- Tony DiNozzo: My head is spinning
- [spins his chair]
- Tony DiNozzo: with questions, so many questions, Gibbs came from somewhere, he didn't just start Gibbs, he was a boy
- Ziva David: I thought he was molded from clay, had life breathed into him by a group of mystics.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: That's funny. I thought he fell to Earth in a capsule after his home planet exploded.
- Ziva David: [chuckles] No he burst forth fully grown from the mind of Zeus.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: Nice.
- Tony DiNozzo: He is the avatar of Vishnu. He was sent to be the left hand of Yahweh. He was grown in a cabbage patch. I'm trying to pose a serious metaphysical question here. You want to be clever? I can be clever.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [Gibbs enters] Just a matter of time, DiNozzo.
- Jackson Gibbs: I mean it's wonder Leroy can get any work done surrounded by such beautiful women.
- Abby Sciuto: Are you always this *awkward* around girls?
- Jackson Gibbs: Does he ever talk about me, my boy?
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: I think I heard him refer to you once as dead.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: [Tony gets out of the car grimacing and rubbing his arm] Pass a lot of Volkswagen beetles on your way up?
- Tony DiNozzo: Abby cheats at punch buggy.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: I know.
- Jackson Gibbs: Tell me about this investigator thing of yours. We haven't talked since you started it.
- [indicating a case of products Jethro is price stamping]
- Jackson Gibbs: It's a dollar seventy-five. In fact, we haven't talked since the funeral. I adored that wife of yours. And I adored that child, too. Always figured it was Shannon that sent me the Christmas cards.
- Jackson Gibbs: [to Ziva] Tells a story, 20 dollars in your wallet is just paper, put it on the ground, it's full of wonder.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: [describing Gibbs's behavior around his father] He's like a teenager, sort of.
- Tony DiNozzo: I'm coming!
- [to Abby]
- Tony DiNozzo: I'm going! I'm leaving!
- [starts to leave]
- Abby Sciuto: Me too!
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: It's a lot of data to sift through, but I *can* tell who's seen it.
- Jackson Gibbs: You can do that? You can tell everything I've been looking at?
- Ziva David: What have you been looking at?
- Jackson Gibbs: None of your business.
- Jackson Gibbs: He'd spend all his time out in the garage working on some project. We didn't even have electricity out there.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: [to Ziva] I can see it.
- Jackson Gibbs: Everybody's always lying to you all the time. Can't you *ever* take things as you see 'em?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I see people *lying* to me!
- Jackson Gibbs: You were such a happy child.
- Jackson Gibbs: When she died, I know how mad that made you. I know how much you hated me for getting on with my life. Saw the look in your face, how you wanted vengeance... Well that look went away when you met Shannon. But it came back quick after they died. I knew what that meant. You were going to find someone to take it out on. Didn't matter what I said.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It never did! What do you see now?
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: This is a pretty nice set up you got here, Mr. Gibbs.
- Jackson Gibbs: Jack... You gotta stay up with technology, Tim. Otherwise you concede to time, inch-by-inch. Not that it's worth the while
- Tony DiNozzo: The rules... did he learn them from you? I mean, did you teach him all the rules?
- Jackson Gibbs: I'm sorry, son, I didn't teach him much of anything.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [takes the car keys] He taught me to drive.
- Ziva David: [after meeting Jack] I'll call Tony.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: I'll call Abby.
- [they both run into the store; later, via video-chat]
- Ziva David, NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: Gibbs has a father!
- Tony DiNozzo, Abby Sciuto: Tell me everything!
- [Ducky arrives at the crime scene in a tuxedo]
- Ziva David: A little early for formal attire.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Oh, really?
- Tony DiNozzo: I'd say late. Looks like Ducky got lucky.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Haven't you ever heard of a night at the opera?
- Tony DiNozzo: Sure. Groucho as Otis B. Driftwood, the Marx Brothers at their most hilarious. I love the part where they rip up the contract.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: [imitating Groucho] That's no good-a for you, it's no good-a for me!
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: Boss, I talked to Tony and Abby...
- Jackson Gibbs: "Boss"? You make them call you that?
- [to McGee]
- Jackson Gibbs: He's not a...!
- [catches himself]
- Jackson Gibbs: Are you a boss, Leroy?