Leroy Jethro Gibbs quotes from NCIS

Gibbs

You ready to go? I'm driving.

Borin

No. After everything's that happened, I think it's the best for everyone if I just pull out of the case. It's fine. Look, I'm gonna call headquarters, they're gonna send in another agent––

Gibbs

No, Borin. I have it. My case, my call.

Borin

[looks at Gibbs] You pulling rank on me, Gunny?

Gibbs

A Marine leaves no man behind.

Gibbs

When you left the Corps, was CGIS the change you were looking for?

Borin

[shakes head] Not exactly. At least not at first. More like running away than a fresh start. [pauses] But eventually it became more....work started to mean something. I started to feel....

Gibbs

A sense of purpose again?

Borin

[smiles at Gibbs] You're good.

[about having to suspend Jackson's license] It's never easy. I know what losing a license can do to a person.

Gibbs

Well, if his eyes are that bad you didn't have a choice.

I'm glad to hear you say that. Your father told me you were going to get me in my sleep!

Gibbs

Is there any right way to be a son?

Ducky

Just as there is no right way for you to act as his father. The pain of watching a parent age is unlike any other.

The important thing was that we were both fliers. We were brothers up there. We were the same. We're all the same. We were fighting each other. [takes out the letter] Walter told me that he saved me that day because he wanted to remind himself who he was. He's dying and all he can see is the people he killed over ideas that weren't even his. He can't forgive himself.

It's not an easy thing to do, Dad.

Tony

You notice anything different about Carrie, Boss? No wedding ring. Told you the husband was a handbag.

Ducky

[looks at Tony, confused] Handbag?

Gibbs

[as he leaves the squad room] Something useless you hang on your arm.

Ducky

[chuckles] Oh.

Ducky

[enters crime scene with Palmer] It's been a brutal week. I have a chill I just can't shake.

Palmer

Me too. Anybody mind if I do some jumping jacks?

Yes!

Tony

[whispers to Gibbs] That's funny, that looks like your ex-wife.

Champagne first, and then a little...

Well, tie me up and call me Loretta.

Gibbs

[blinks] Wow.

Tony

Wowsers.

Bishop

So Agent Fornell was married to Gibbs' ex-wife?

Tony

[grins] Yup.

Bishop

And the owner of the second cellphone from our crime scene was dating Gibbs' ex-wife?

McGee

Yup.

Bishop

Phoah. That's quite a coincidence.

Tony

[chuckles] I know. It really is.

McGee

You know, it's hard to imagine the same woman liking Fornell and this Eddie guy. Although maybe Diane liked him because he's not Fornell.

Best to leave the psychoanalysis to Ducky. If you value breathing.

McGee

[looks behind to Bishop] Bishop, you could've warned me.

Bishop

[innocently] You said I wasn't supposed to do that!

Gibbs

[walks in] Tobias, hey, what are you doing here?

Just thought you might need some help. Diane's really worried. Just want to put her mind at ease.

Gibbs

[smirks] Yeah, uh-huh.

You shot me... in the caboose. You owe me.

I'm just sayin' that there's something different this time, maybe because we're ex's. [looks at Gibbs] You should try it. [awkwardly] I mean, with another one of your ex-wives...not this one 'cause...this one's taken.

Gibbs

[getting out of Fornell's car] Can I go home now?

You are the worst advice-giver I've ever met! Don't quit your day job.

Hello, Diane. I heard we broke up, sorry about that. Oh, by the way, I'm a Secret Service Agent.

Diane

I heard. What's with the attitude?

Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's that you were sleeping with your ex-husband while we were dating.

[starting to restrain Eddie] Hey...! [stops, thinks, turns to Diane] Man has a point.

Diane

[scoffs] Oh, you guys are buddies now?

Gibbs

(deadpan) Yeah. We're thinking of starting a club.

Ellie Bishop

Are you ok, McGee?

McGee

Was just thinking about little Emma here and the Dalys, they must be so happy

Bishop

Yeah and I feel bad about scaring them the way I did.

McGee

You still haven't gotten over that?

Bishop

Well, like they didn't have enough on their plates without me suggesting a "targeted chemical attack".

Tony

I've done worse. [Bishop looks at him] And McGee? [points to McGee] He's...remember the time with the–– [McGee looks at Tony] I'm not gonna talk about it but it's.....it's been done. You just have to move on. You made a mistake.

Bishop

A big mistake.

Gibbs

Learn from it. Move on.

Tony

Leroy Ebenezer Gibbs, did we just agree on something?

Gibbs

[deadpan, retorts] Hey! Bob Cratchit, find patient zero, huh?

Tony

And a playful movie reference. It really is starting to feel like Christmas.

Tony

But we did learn that in addition to dirt and tight spaces Bishop is also good with heights. [pulls up a picture of Bishop climbing up a ladder, her eyes squeezed shut]

Bishop

[annoyed] This is more "hazing", I take it.

Gibbs

[matter-of-factly] Nope. It's all part of the job.

Palmer

Our birth mother officially signed the adoption papers today. All she has to do now is have the kid. And not change her mind.

Ducky

Oh... for heaven's sake.

Palmer

I just jinxed it, didn't I?

Gibbs

Ya think?

Palmer

[laments] I always do this! I always say too much! [hurriedly knocks on wooden table three times]

Bishop

Can I ask you a question?

Gibbs

Uh-hmm. Just did.

Bishop

You were a sniper. How did you do it?

Gibbs

Pulled the trigger.

Bishop

Right.... [pauses] But, what...what did you think about when you were taking aim?

Gibbs

Smoke checking the target, Bishop.

Bishop

Right, of course.