- Dina Rankin: My husband used to get these uh... gut feelings You ever had one?
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [slight pause] Yeah, once or twice.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Major, a man in your unit was murdered! Is there a reason you don't want to know who did it?
- Marine Major Ike Varnai: Sure I do. I'd also like the war to end, the electricity to work, and for all the tribes to get along.
- NCIS Intel Analyst Nikki Jardine: [to the Assistant Director] It is *my* area of expertise. I have a lot of contacts there.
- Officer Ziva David: As do *I*.
- NCIS Intel Analyst Nikki Jardine: My contacts are still breathing.
- Officer Ziva David: As are...
- [scoffs]
- Officer Ziva David: Hmm most of mine.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Where do you think you're going?
- NCIS Intel Analyst Nikki Jardine: Just got off a transatlantic flight. Need shower.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Yeah, well crime scenes don't wait. Showers do! Besides
- [turns on the faucet brown water comes out]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Not even *I* would shower in that.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Are you nervous?
- George Stenner: No. Yeah, I mean a little. Can I go to the bathroom really quick?
- [rises up]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No.
- George Stenner: Okay.
- [sits back down. after the interview]
- George Stenner: Can I just please go to the bathroom really quick?
- [rises up]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No!
- George Stenner: [sits back down] Okay.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Nah. I'm kidding. You can go.
- George Stenner: [rising up] Thanks!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [after accusing the Major of murder] Sorry about that, just doing my job.
- [the Major walks away]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [chuckles] I hate it when that happens. Awkward moment.
- Kelvin Ridgeway: Like I would assume you would complain to your wife about *this* one.
- [tosses his stress ball to Ziva]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Her?
- [chuckles]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Oh no, I wouldn't mess with her.
- [rises up and leaves]
- Kelvin Ridgeway: [Ridgeway chuckles] Yeah? Why would he say that?
- [Ziva throws the damaged stressball back to him]
- [Abby is speaking to Tony and Nikki in Baghdad via video chat]
- Abby Sciuto: I didn't know you guys were sharing a room.
- Officer Ziva David: [whispering] They're sharing a room?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: We're not exactly sharing a room.
- Officer Ziva David: [whispering] Either they are sharing a room or not sharing a room, I do not see what is so exact or not exact about it!
- George Stenner: [as he is being arrested] You don't understand. Rankin was going to investigate me. I would have lost my business, ruined my life!
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You just did that yourself.
- [seeing the photo of McGee cuddling with his dog]
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: At least you don't have to pay alimony, McGee.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [enters the squadroom] Oh, what happened, McGee? No pictures of your girlfriend?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: My dog's name is Jethro, Tony. Jethro, it's a boy, not a girl.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, hey, whatever your preference. Pictures of your boyfriend, then.
- [He starts typing on his computer. Each keystroke produces a barking dog sound effect]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [fake laugh] That's very funny... fix it!
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Um... you're barking up the wrong tree.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: A marine was murdered on your watch.
- Marine Major Ike Varnai: And I've lost two more since then. Blown away by roadside bombs. That's part of our reality out here, sir. Doesn't mean I like it.
- NCIS Asst. Director Leon Vance: Thank you for your time, Major.
- Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Marine gets murdered serving his country. He deserves a throuogh investigation.
- NCIS Asst. Director Leon Vance: And he'll get one. But the Sec Nav want *us* to handle the case. Who do you think I should send?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Tony said that if I really want to go, then I shouldn't volunteer. But if he says that I shouldn't volunteer, then he thinks I will volunteer. Which means if I really want to go, I shouldn't volunteer.
- Abby Sciuto: That's... good, Timmy. That sounds like you're doing exactly what you... shouldn't.
- NCIS Asst. Director Leon Vance: McGee.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: [rising] Yes, sir!
- NCIS Asst. Director Leon Vance: Disappointed. You're the *only* one who didn't volunteer. Missions like this give an agent opportunities to prove themselves.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: But uh, Tony, he didn't volunteer either.
- NCIS Asst. Director Leon Vance: He spoke to me earlier.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Iraq's not so great. I mean the whole trip is probably a big waste of time. The murderer is probably right here.
- Officer Ziva David: Awfully long gun barrel if that is true.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [DiNozzo and Jardine are staying in a hangar] Oh yeah, just like home. If you happen to live in an airport.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Why the hell are you here? Really?
- NCIS Intel Analyst Nikki Jardine: Cause it's gonna look really good on my resume.
- [leaves]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: That's not why she's here.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: So um, you got any leads on Ali's whereabouts?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Tony, you're in the same city as him! We're ten Time Zones away! Why did you go to Iraq again?
- Marine Major Ike Varnai: Good question!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Well let us know. And put my Kill Bill Mug *back* on my desk, McGee!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [trying to examine a witness's body] Major Varnai, this is a crime scene!
- Marine Major Ike Varnai: This is Baghdad, Agent DiNozzo. The whole place is a crime scene!
- Marine Major Ike Varnai: [after being accused of murder] SEMPER FI, Agent DiNozzo. Words to live and by out here! I wouldn't kill a fellow Marine!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: So Major, when you heading home?
- Marine Major Ike Varnai: 5 months, 16 days, 2 hours.
- Officer Ziva David: This is McGee's private photograph. And if he does not want you to see it here, then you have to respect his wishes. Or...
- [hits a key to bring it up on the squadroom plasma screen]
- Officer Ziva David: ... see it elsewhere.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Hey!
- [the picture turns out to be a very sweet one of McGee kneeling next to the dog Jethro, who is licking his face]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [laughs] Oh, McRomeo... you should save that stuff for the bedroom.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: You're just jealous.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Jealous? I don't think so. What you're doing there could be illegal in some states.
- NCIS Intel Analyst Nikki Jardine: [entering] Or should be... I think I need to wash.