- 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.
- Ziva David: I'm not cold at all.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Because you're cold blooded, David. Like a lady komodo dragon. Ice queen. Frigid and deadly.
- Ziva David: And I remembered to wear my thermal underwear.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: I'll give you 50 buck for it right now.
- Ziva David: Wouldn't fit. You're too big.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: They'll stretch. Hand 'em over.
- Marine First Sergeant Louis Tibbens: But I bet a pretty little thing like you never killed nothing before, huh?
- Ziva David: [Ziva chuckles] I'll never tell.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Oh boy.
- 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 Anthony DiNozzo: If Santa's lookin' for Rudolph, I think I know what happened.
- [bartender glares at DiNozzo]
- Ziva David: Tibbin's sister described this place perfectly. So this is where a "red throat" would hang out after being overseas for months.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: It's not "red throat", it's "redneck".
- Ziva David: Oh.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: And I think we found the entire cast of "Hee Haw".
- Ziva David: Over there. That's him.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Hm, with his brother Daryl and his other brother Daryl?
- 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.
- 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.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Somebody broke my cover.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Oh?
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: She knows - I'm her Secret Santa. McGee, you wouldn't do that?
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Ho ho ho.
- 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?
- Navy Lieutenant Commander Aaban El-Sayad: Look, as much as I am here to pray for the injured and the dying, I am also here to *open* the minds of people. To help them to understand the beauty and strength of Islam.
- 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.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: Look, I sympathize, okay? But satellite feeds to the Indian Ocean are restricted to all but the highest priority communications.
- Abby Sciuto: What's a higher priority than a little boy that wants to see his mom on Christmas?
- Jackson Gibbs: You don't believe in Santa, but you believe in hobbies. As long as you believe in something, I guess.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: You're gonna have to come down to NCIS with us. Come on.
- Marine First Sergeant Louis Tibbens: I got a better idea.
- [walks closer to Ziva]
- Marine First Sergeant Louis Tibbens: How about this one comes back to my place and decorates my tree.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Oh, no.
- Ziva David: Happy Chanukah. Now let's go.
- [Tibbens grabs Ziva's shoulder and is summarily pushed into a wall and handcuffed]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Ziva! No!
- [backs away from Tibbens friends who start coming toward him]
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Easy! Easy! Heel!
- [Hits one with a bar stool]
- 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.
- Ziva David: [after the fight in the bar is concluded] Redthroats.
- Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: "Rednecks."
- Ziva David: Whatever.
- Special Agent Timothy McGee: [on the phone] Okay, so you're telling me that Ensign Blake cannot be reached on board? Well, you know what, this is an emergency. I have direct orders from Admiral... Nicholas Whitebeard. Yes, yes, that is his name. He's the Admiral that oversees the... Northern Polar Regions.
- Patrick Ellis: You taught us to be proud, you know. Proud of this family. And when Tom changed, *everything* changed! Because the one thing this family had was honor! And he RUINED that! I loved him so much AND HE TURNED HIS BACK ON US!
- Marine Colonel George Ellis: I don't know, maybe we turned our backs on him.