- NCIS Director Leon Vance: What are we going to hold her on, Mike? She hasn't committed a crime.
- Mike Franks: Conspiracy to be a bitch?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: [Mike Franks is standing guard by the door with a gun as DiNozzo enters] Hello?
- Mike Franks: DiNozzo! You should have told me you were comin'.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I called and you didn't pick up.
- Mike Franks: I'm not gonna answer the phone, I'm a fugitive!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: So what do you want me to do?
- Mike Franks: Knock.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Why would I knock? There's no lock on that door.
- Mike Franks: Someone may be on the other side with a gun.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Why would somebody be standing on the other side with a gun?
- Mike Franks: Because there's no lock on the door!
- [Ziva appears to be asleep at her desk]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: You do realize this is a trap? She's practically inviting us to mess with her.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Well, what kind of man would I be if I turned down such an enticing invitation?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: You wouldn't be a sucker.
- [DiNozzo picks up a marker and starts moving towards Ziva's face...]
- Ziva David: Touch me and die!
- [last lines]
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: My dad told me a story once. It dates back maybe thirty years after the Civil War. My great-great-grandmother and grandfather had fathers that fought on either side. These two old warriors, they probably shot at each other on the battlefield. They couldn't even look at each other at their own kids' wedding. But they did come to live with each other in the same house, and they spent every day for the rest of their lives on the front porch, in a couple of wicker rocking chairs, rocking back and forth.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: Well, here's hoping. We got better things to do than be Franks's family counselor.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [getting up] Yeah.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: I guess they worked out their differences, your relatives. They mellowed with time, right?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Way I heard it, those two never said a word.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I left him with the boat. He trailered it to the west coast. It was a gift for my goddaughter.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: And this is how he repays you.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Those two men you killed, why were they after you?
- Mike Franks: Damn, Probie. I was hoping you could tell me.
- Mike Franks: [re: Leyla and Amira] You put them in jeopardy.
- Shada Shakarji: It would never have turned violent - I was assured of it - if not for you.
- Mike Franks: I got news for you, lady. I didn't pull a gun on them. I didn't fire the first shot.
- Shada Shakarji: Shut up. I don't believe you.
- Mike Franks: I'm not proud to cop to this... I wasn't ready for them. I didn't get tipped off. Hell, I never even heard them coming.
- Shada Shakarji: Your... defenses were down?
- Mike Franks: I was playing with my granddaughter. We were up in the boat. She wanted to paint her name on the side. Then these two guys are standing there, pointing guns up at me. Leyla noticed them from the house.
- Shada Shakarji: *My* Leyla? My meek, quiet, little girl?
- Mike Franks: Unloaded six shots, rapid fire, from a .22 hunting rifle. Five hits.
- Shada Shakarji: She knows to shoot?
- Mike Franks: I taught her. Never underestimate a mama bear when her cub's in danger.
- Shada Shakarji: ...That I believe.
- Damon Werth: What are you doing here?
- Ziva David: This is Gibbs's living room!
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: What are *you* doing here?
- Damon Werth: Rescuing a kidnapped little girl, and her mother.
- Ziva David: I'm sorry to tell you, but you are actually abducting them.
- PMC #2: Hey, Werth, cut the chitchat, just secure the prisoner.
- Damon Werth: I can't, we're making a mistake.
- PMC #2: Bell's got a lot of money riding on this job! We're gonna finish it with or without...
- [Werth knocks him senseless, then he and Ziva subdue the other two mercenaries]
- Damon Werth: [to the unconscious men] I think we should hear them out, don't you?
- Abby Sciuto: This is the crime scene. It was flown here on a C-130 cargo plane. Along with 2 bodies and all the evidence. And now it is mine. It is *all* mine! So I can figure out the mystery.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: What mystery? Who the dead guys were?
- Ziva David: Or who killed them?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Or how they ended up on the boat.
- Abby Sciuto: Sure, uh, you guys should work on that. While I figure out how he got it out of the basement.
- Mike Franks: You gonna stand there glaring at me, probie or you gonna give me a hand with the bags... or you gonna shoot me?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: No, I thought I'd ask you a few questions first, then I may shoot you.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You know, Mike, I'm used to shells and bodies and cover ups as your big finale. Something starts off like this, I don't want to think about the count.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: How's the statement coming, Mike?
- Mike Franks: ...Uh, it's a load of crap. Probie called me on it.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: You lied to us?
- Mike Franks: I'm sure you're shocked and appalled, Director.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: I'm relieved. Of all your unsavory character traits, I find that to be the most palatable. At least there aren't any more bodies.
- Ziva David: What do you know about the American Dream?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Well, let's see: I'm a white male, between the ages of 18 and 49, with a loud mouth and a gun... I *am* the American Dream.
- [McGee's phone rings]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Oh, thank God.
- [answers]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Agent McGee.
- Mike Franks: Lady Ziva, glad you're here. Gibbs send you?
- Ziva David: We have been instructed to sit on the baby.
- [Franks gives DiNozzo a puzzled look]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Well, it's gonna be fine, Mike, and it's good to see you. Have a mint.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Shoved him off and disappeared.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: That last part's the part that I *really* don't like. If he's gone underground, that means this isn't over yet. You got any idea where he might be?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Your guess is as good as mine, Leon.
- NCIS Director Leon Vance: For some reason, I doubt that's true. But I'm going to give you some leeway on this, Gibbs. As it is your friend, your boat, *your* mess... My patience will evaporate quickly if another body shows up before Franks does.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: There is a fine line between cowboy and outlaw.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: And with the level of overkill here, your conclusion is...?
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Mike Franks has crossed that line.
- Mike Franks: [to Shada about Leyla and Amira] They're safer with me than they are with you. I *can't* let you pull them back into the fold.
- Colonel Merton Bell: I tell my men: you take a swing, you make sure you connect hard enough to put the other guy down.
- [Abby is carving Gibbs's boat into sections]
- Abby Sciuto: He told me to do it, I had to do it. But I'm trying to do it like an archaeologist. I'm keeping very careful notes of where everything came from, and I'm sure I can put it back together again when I'm done.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: You're using a chainsaw!
- Abby Sciuto: Well, it's not like there was a zipper, McGee! I mean, I was hoping for a zipper, or some sort of system of dowels and slots...
- Mike Franks: You know who I am.
- Shada Shakarji: The Greeks would call you Charon. Your boat conducts the dead to Hell, leaving a trail of misery in your wake.
- Mike Franks: Yeah, lady, and you're all smiles and sunshine.
- Shada Shakarji: I have been tracking your every move, since the day your accursed offspring ruined my daughter.
- Mike Franks: [seething] I have never hit a woman, but...
- Shada Shakarji: I find that hard to believe.
- Mike Franks: I'm finding it hard to believe you're actually a woman!
- [she curses at him in Arabic]
- Mike Franks: You manipulative, stubborn old hag!
- [McGee is waiting at the airport, holding up a card with Shada's name on it]
- Shada Shakarji: [without looking at him] I am Shada Shakarji.
- [She walks right past him, dropping her suitcase at his feet]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Welcome to Washington!
- [grabs the suitcase]
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Car's right out front...
- Mike Franks: [as he's leaving] Why don't you put something in front of the door?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Nah, I'll just stand here with my gun.
- Colonel Merton Bell: You want to go punch-for-punch with me, Gibbs? Keep in mind, I got a big arsenal behind me.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I wouldn't worry, your suit covers it up very nicely.