- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: This isn't the case du jour, you know. This is life calling collect, saying "Hey, I'm short... Appreciate me."
- Dr. Donald Mallard: I can assure you Mr. Palmer, for every moment we rest, the families of these fallen Marines do not.
- Jimmy Palmer: I apologize.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Don't apologize to me. Apologize to them.
- Shannon Gibbs: Now that's what I like to hear. I love it when you start something new. What do you have in mind?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I'm hoping the wood will tell me.
- Shannon Gibbs: I hope the wood says "Roll Top Desk."
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I changed my mind. I'm thinking bed - all day - with you.
- Shannon Gibbs: Gibbs...
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: The hardware store will be there tomorrow.
- Shannon Gibbs: ...How are you going to get what you need if you don't let me go?
- Marine Captain Craig Quincy 2011: Flores lived for the corps. She was so proud, so dedicated. I used to say I wish I had 20 of her. Now, I wish I still had one. Until you guarantee she's not, I'm looking for a live Marine - *my* Marine.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Semper Fi, Captain.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: They were carrying six dead Marines home. Why blow up a flying hearse?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: They're sending a message.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: ...Got the message, boss. Loud and clear.
- Jimmy Palmer: They sure pack them in a lot of ice when they send them home.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Standard procedure, Mr. Palmer. Yes, these Marines made the ultimate sacrifice. The Corps takes pride in how they care of their fallen.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: So do we, Duck.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: This is an omen, isn't it? You were sent to talk to me?
- Navy Lieutenant Commander Melanie Burke: By whom?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: The man upstairs.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Vance?
- Navy Lieutenant Commander Melanie Burke: Uh, no. I'm here to see Agent Gibbs.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I'd pay to hear that confession.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [Gibbs enters] What am I confessing to, DiNozzo?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Nothing boss.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You're damn right about that.
- USMC Commadant General Chuck Ellison: Well, I know she was Public Affairs in this barracks. I know she's a Marine. And I know we will do whatever it takes to find her and bring her home no matter what. No Marine is ever left behind.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: No sir.
- USMC Commadant General Chuck Ellison: Gibbs, I don't care if it's you, us or those jokers at the Agency.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You want answers.
- USMC Commadant General Chuck Ellison: Whether she's alive or dead. I will move mountains to find First Lieutenant Flores, and bring her home. We'll do whatever it takes.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Gonna hold you to that, General.
- USMC Commadant General Chuck Ellison: You have my word.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Tell them the Commandant of the Marine Corps needs access.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: And if that doesn't work?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: It'll work.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Tomorrow. Go home. Get some sleep.
- Ziva David: What about you? You gonna stay here work all night? 'Cause if you stay, we stay.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Let's not get carried away, Ziva. You heard the man.
- [Ziva slaps the back of DiNozzo's head]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Special Agent David, you did *not* just do that.
- Ziva David: I did. And I would do it again.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: No, you will not.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Stand down, DiNozzo. I appreciate the offer.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Well, I doubt my friends here can tell you the details of her whereabouts. But feel free to ask.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I don't know what to ask.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Then it may be that you are talking to the wrong people. Jethro, the dead have always been kind to me. Provided the answers I have required. But if there is a possibility that First Lieutenant Flores is still alive, then perhaps these are not the ones to whom you should turn.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: [reading from Tony's bucket list] Ride a Ferris Wheel naked.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Oops, I've already done that. I should cross that off.
- Marine Captain Craig Quincy 2011: Agent Gibbs, tell me what you need and I'll do it. But if your people, Dover and AIU are all saying Lt. Flores's DNA wasn't in those remains, then pardon my French, but where the Hell is she?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You keep looking, Captain. We'll find something. We have to.
- Marine Captain Craig Quincy 2011: I understand next of kin has been contacted. What are you going to tell them now... sir?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You said something about moving mountains, sir.
- USMC Commandant General Chuck Ellison: Plane takes off at 0500, Gibbs. My people will get started. Don't come back without her.
- Ziva David: Something's on your mind. I can see your wheels churning.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Butter churns, David. Wheels turn.
- Abby Sciuto: Luckily, I developed an equation using outside stimuli and my own accelerated metabolism to predict how long I can go without closing my eyes before I turn into Zabby or zombie Abby and according to my calculations, I have like 5 minutes before I completely melt down.