Mark Harmon credited as playing...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
- Ziva David: [points to the wall of Jackson's store] Uh, is that the gun you learned to shoot with?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No one was ever allowed to touch that Winchester.
- Jackson Gibbs: Yeah. Let that be a lesson in parenting: tell a kid he can't have a rifle, he grows up to be a sniper.
- Jackson Gibbs: I know you hate it when I use a hundred words when a couple will do. But give us a call some time.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It's the least I could do.
- Jackson Gibbs: Goodbye, son.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [They tear up and hug] Bye, dad.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [Approaches to see a man talking with Ziva] Word travels fast.
- Jackson Gibbs: That it does. When people actually open their mouths and speak with one another. You don't call. You don't write. Were you gonna come by and say hi?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Hi... Jack.
- Jackson Gibbs: Hi... Leroy.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [Uncomfortable silence, then he nods at the man] Ziva, McGee. Jackson Gibbs... my father.
- Tony DiNozzo: [to Jackson Gibbs] Jack, I just, I gotta know- I got a lot of questions...
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You can have two, DiNozzo.
- Tony DiNozzo: Where do I start?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: You got one left.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Without encroaching into your territory, Jethro, might I suggest...
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: That the dead guy was a dead end. LaComb was the target.
- Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard: Yeah. Any idea why?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I just started looking, Duck.
- Tony DiNozzo: My head is spinning
- [spins his chair]
- Tony DiNozzo: with questions, so many questions, Gibbs came from somewhere, he didn't just start Gibbs, he was a boy
- Ziva David: I thought he was molded from clay, had life breathed into him by a group of mystics.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: That's funny. I thought he fell to Earth in a capsule after his home planet exploded.
- Ziva David: [chuckles] No he burst forth fully grown from the mind of Zeus.
- NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: Nice.
- Tony DiNozzo: He is the avatar of Vishnu. He was sent to be the left hand of Yahweh. He was grown in a cabbage patch. I'm trying to pose a serious metaphysical question here. You want to be clever? I can be clever.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [Gibbs enters] Just a matter of time, DiNozzo.
- Jackson Gibbs: Everybody's always lying to you all the time. Can't you *ever* take things as you see 'em?
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I see people *lying* to me!
- Jackson Gibbs: You were such a happy child.
- Jackson Gibbs: When she died, I know how mad that made you. I know how much you hated me for getting on with my life. Saw the look in your face, how you wanted vengeance... Well that look went away when you met Shannon. But it came back quick after they died. I knew what that meant. You were going to find someone to take it out on. Didn't matter what I said.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: It never did! What do you see now?
- Tony DiNozzo: The rules... did he learn them from you? I mean, did you teach him all the rules?
- Jackson Gibbs: I'm sorry, son, I didn't teach him much of anything.
- NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [takes the car keys] He taught me to drive.