[walks in, smiling and carries a coffee to McGee's desk] For the one you got me last week.
[leans in to see what he's looking at on screen and gasps] That is quite a kiss, McGee!
[grins] Not bad for a wallpaper, huh?
[chuckles] Well, you seem to be enjoying yourself. [muses] I have never seen a tongue quite so... long.
[walks in, looking at them curiously] McGee has a long tongue?
No, but the cutie-pie he's kissing does.
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] ...see it elsewhere.
[The picture turns out to be a very sweet one of McGee kneeling next to the dog Jethro, who is licking his face.]
[laughs] Oh, McRomeo... you should save that stuff for the bedroom.
Jealous? I don't think so. What you're doing there could be illegal in some states.
[Gibbs and Ziva are in Kelvin Ridgeway's office interviewing him]
RRidgeway
We just didn't see eye to eye, ya know? He'd just complain to his wife about me and I'd complain to my girlfriend about him. Like I would assume you [points to Gibbs] complain to your wife about this one. [throws his stress ball at Ziva, who promptly catches it]
Her? Ha! [laughs] Oh no, I wouldn't mess with her!
[He gets up at leaves. Ziva throws back the stress ball, which has been mashed into an unrecognizable shape, and leaves. Ridgeway looks at the ball in disbelief]
[Tony and Nikki make video contact with Abby's lab from Baghdad.]
I didn't know you two were sharing a room.
We're not exactly sharing a room.
(whispering furiously) Either they are sharing a room, or not sharing a room, I do not see what is so exact or not exact about it!
[She pastes a fake smile on her face and turns back to the screen.]
I'm checking into Locke's missing girlfriend. You?
[...]
Checking her medical records.
Why? Do you think she's been lying in some hospital unable to communicate?
No, I think she's been lying in a shallow grave unable to communicate.
Medical records are privileged information. You need a subpoena.
Not if you have an IOU from a county clerk with a very expressive poker face.
Look. If you're going to give me a lecture on my bad judgment, I don't need to hear it.
Is that what this is about? You doubting your judgment?
I should've moved earlier.
You would've if you could've.
But you didn't. You've got to trust your judgment, Ziva. Moment you don't, it won't be "almost."
[McGee and Ziva are playing Scrabble]
Hey, what's going on here? Did I get off on the wrong floor, I thought this was an office.
Officer David and I are engaged in a linguistic developmental exercise intended to bolster her English vocabulary.
[chuckles] That's good. Do you think Gibbs will buy it?
It is not my vocabulary that needs bolsterment, McGee.
Not a word. Hence the scoreboard.
[chuckles] Yeah, 50-point cushion for the professor. And there's only one tile left to play.
[smiles] Gonna be kind of tough to play that 'q' without a 'u'.
Did not. Process of elimination, I counted the tiles on the board.
You suck the fun out of everything, McCheat. [Ziva suddenly looks in thought] Give it up, Ziva.
[Ziva takes her Q tile and plays it in front of an I.]
[frowns and stares at the board] "Kwee"? I don't think so.
[smiles] Chi. As in life energy that flows through all things.
You should have seen that one coming, Probie Wan Kenobi.
[laughs] Sixty-two points!!!
[walking in] You all are! Grab your gear. Playtime's over.
[McGee panics, opening Ziva's drawer and dumping the tiles and board in, haphazardly sweeping the ones on desk to the floor as she gives him an odd look and the team gets ready to go.]
Uhh... that was a, uh, language exercise we weren't actually playing.
So he didn't actually lose.
So he wasn't actually humiliated.
[Ziva and Tony look at each other and chuckle on their way out.]
[hurries after them, muttering] "Kwee"....