Brian Dietzen credited as playing...
Jimmy Palmer
- Donald Mallard: Just as too much salt will dull the taste buds, a lifetime of autopsies has dulled my olfactory nerve.
- Jimmy Palmer: Yeah, but salt factory don't taste bud.
- Donald Mallard: Come again?
- Jimmy Palmer: Paper cut and floor action... Ducky?
- Donald Mallard: Step away from the body. Do it now! Get away from the table!
- [Ducky rushes to hit the Emergency alarm as Jimmy collapses]
- Donald Mallard: [as Jimmy regains consciousness] It wasn't the smell that took him out. His delirium points to something far worse.
- Jimmy Palmer: Wait, wait, I was delirious?
- Donald Mallard: Incoherent. You called me "Ducky."
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Palmer, what's the last thing you remember?
- Jimmy Palmer: Let's see... I was taking a sample from the liver, and then the smell got bad, and then it got much worse, and... now I'm laying on an autopsy table.
- Donald Mallard: Since the liver acts as a filter, a concentration of toxins built up...
- Donald Mallard: [kindly] -- enough to fell a seasoned professional.
- Jimmy Palmer: Thank you, Doctor.
- Donald Mallard: [as Gibbs is rushing to leave the overwhelming odor in Autopsy] Oh, oh, Jethro, Jethro, I know it's been said many times of late, but do allow me to to echo the resounding chorus of our peers...
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: [face palms] Duck, Duck, echo faster, huh?
- Donald Mallard: [not rushing] It's good to have you back.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Yeah, thanks, I'm glad to be here.
- [hurries out]
- Donald Mallard: [chuckles]
- Jimmy Palmer: [grinning] You did that on purpose.
- Donald Mallard: The old "two bodies in one casket." Conjures up a wave of nostalgia.
- Jimmy Palmer: You've seen this before?
- Donald Mallard: Oh, quite a few times. Yeah, it was a common means of hiding dead gang rivals in London back in the '70s.