NCIS (TV Series)
Silent Night (2008)
Mark Harmon: Leroy Jethro Gibbs
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Quotes
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Abby Sciuto : I don't know what to get anybody. What do you think Tony needs?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : An attitude adjustment.
Abby Sciuto : Gibbs, you're not helping.
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Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard : Something wrong, Jethro?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Fingerprints found at a double homicide yesterday belong to a Petty Officer who is supposed to have been dead 17 years.
[Hands Ducky a folder]
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : His death certificate.
Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard : Oh dear.
[gaffs]
Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard : Someone's in trouble.
[looks at the death certificate]
Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard : I signed it?
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Ned Quinn : Where are we?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Melissa's house.
Ned Quinn : No, Gibbs! You don't know me. I ruin lives. I am poison.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Give yourself some credit. You're not the same person that dropped out of her life when she was three years old. You've changed.
Ned Quinn : I don't need this, I don't.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : She does.
Ned Quinn : There's too much time that's passed.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : If I had one wish for Christmas, it would be to hug my daughter... that can never be. You have that chance.
[after a moment, Quinn gets out of the car, then knocks on Gibbs's window. Gibbs rolls it down, and Quinn gives him a piece of paper]
Ned Quinn : Thank you.
[as Quinn goes to the front door, Gibbs unrolls the paper and sees Quinn's sketches of himself and the rest of the team]
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : [Standing at the Vietnam Memorial] No matter how many times I come here, it still gets to me. You look at a name, you have to look at a reflection of yourself. You are among the fallen.
Ned Quinn : Yeah. Difference is, you can leave. The names don't.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : No. Death is permanent. Except in your case, Ned Quinn.
Ned Quinn : It's been a long time since someone's called me that.
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Metro Detective Justin Kemp : You going to explain to me why you broke into the crime scene?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Are you going to explain to me why you didn't remove yourself from this case?
Metro Detective Justin Kemp : Why would I do that?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Avery Taylor was suing your father-in-law. You have no business investigating Taylor's murder.
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Special Agent Timothy McGee : The alarm was deactivated at 2:17 AM this morning. Between the time Kemp sealed the house and you...
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Broke in.
Special Agent Timothy McGee : Well, I was going to say "gained unauthorized access." Alarm was activated 4 minutes later.
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NCIS Director Leon Vance : You asked for it. Better work fast. You only have a day.
[leaves]
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Merry Christmas.
Abby Sciuto : [Abby enters] Hey guys, what's up?
NCIS Director Leon Vance : I hope no one has plans.
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Jackson 'Jack' Gibbs : [Gibbs makes a call on his cell phone] Hello?
Gibbs : Merry Christmas, Dad.
Jackson 'Jack' Gibbs : Merry Christmas, Son.
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : You might've redeemed yourself, Abby.
Abby Sciuto : What'd I do?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : Called Quinn's daughter.
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Special Agent Jethro Gibbs : So you disappeared. You hid.
Ned Quinn : It's not hard if no one's looking for you.
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NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo : [Whispering] We're not going to tell him we found the murder weapon?
Gibbs : [Shrugging] He never asked.