Mark Harmon credited as playing...
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Yeah, perhaps if humanity focused *less* on what separates us from one another and more on what we could learn from our differences, we would stop killing one another. That is what I pray for.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [Gibbs enters] You're not the only one, Duck.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: That's not the first time you fired that Winchester.
- Jackson Gibbs: No. It's not the first time I killed somebody, either. But it's the first time I saw the face. Twenty-three. Had a kid, somebody told me.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Looks different from up there in the cockpit, doesn't it?
- Jackson Gibbs: Yeah. From up there, it doesn't look like much of anything. You pull the trigger, feel the release, nothing. I never even thought about it much. Now that's all I think about. How did you do it all these years, son? I need to know.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: That's why you came?
- Jackson Gibbs: That and because it's Christmas.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: It's not supposed to be easy.
- Jackson Gibbs: Nobody said it would be, huh?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: No.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [answering his phone] Yeah, Gibbs.
- Jackson Gibbs: You have to come home.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Dad, I can't.
- Jackson Gibbs: I need you here. I almost burned your house down.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You did *what*?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I'm surpised you came, dad.
- Jackson Gibbs: It's good to be with family at Christmas.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Yeah. You gonna be okay here - alone?
- Jackson Gibbs: I'll be fine. You go to work. Death doesn't take a holiday. I'll be fine.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Interpols checking into it.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Tell them to check faster.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: You do it!
- [Gibbs stares at DiNozzo]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Not you, Boss.
- [to Ziva]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: You. I mean how many languages do you speak anyway?
- Ziva David: Including the language of love, 10.
- Jackson Gibbs: Old place looks pretty good.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, well, it could use a coat of paint.
- Jackson Gibbs: Couldn't we all?
- Marine Colonel George Ellis: What I did was wrong, but well intentioned. And if it led to my son's death, God forgive me. And Tom's god too.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: One and the same, Colonel.
- Marine Colonel George Ellis: Nothing tests a marriage like the Corps.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Nature of the beast.
- Marine Colonel George Ellis: I forgot you were a marine, Agent Gibbs.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I remember you, Colonel.
- Marine Colonel George Ellis: It's "Reverend" now.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Why the change?
- Marine Colonel George Ellis: When my wife died, I wanted to be closer to God. Now he's taken my son, as well.
- Ziva David: Hmmm, these chocolates are delicious.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Hey Dad, stop making my team fat.
- Ziva David: [Gibbs enters as Jackson Gibbs is giving them homemade candy] Gibbs, why didn't you tell us your father was coming?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: I didn't think he'd actually show.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [as DiNozzo's reaching for more candy]
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Go ahead, have another one, bubble butt.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: It's my metabolism. It's slowing with age. It's nothing a post holiday cleanse won't cure.
- Abby Sciuto: How fun would it be to have a totally impromptu Christmas party? Like right now? We could decorate my test tube tree. We could warm up dumplings in the incubator.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs, Ziva David, Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Abby!
- Abby Sciuto: I know. Typing. I feel like Scrooge being visited by the three grumpy ghosts.
- Jackson Gibbs: [through laughter] And by... by the time I got there, Leroy had fallen asleep and left the gate unlocked.
- Jackson Gibbs, Dr. Donald Mallard: [both laughing]
- Jackson Gibbs: [stops laughing and looks troubled] I don't remember what happened next.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Well, I spent the next 25 hours trying to round up 26 missing sheep.
- Jackson Gibbs: That's right.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Hello, Jethro.
- Jackson Gibbs: That's right.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Your father has been regaling me with stories of his youth. We have a lot in common. Naive heartbreak, tales of adolescent chivalry. Oh, oh, and fond memories of skinny-dipping as children.
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: [taking away the bottle of liquor] Ah, Duck?
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Uh?
- Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Come on, getting late.
- Dr. Donald Mallard: Oh, yeah, time to go. Yes, there is Christmas shopping to be done and a ruse to be ghosted.
- [Ducky and Jackson laugh]
- Dr. Donald Mallard: A goose to be roasted.