Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jackson Gibbs : I mean it's wonder Leroy can get any work done surrounded by such beautiful women.
Abby Sciuto : Are you always this *awkward* around girls?
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Jackson Gibbs : Does he ever talk about me, my boy?
NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee : I think I heard him refer to you once as dead.
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Jackson Gibbs : Tell me about this investigator thing of yours. We haven't talked since you started it.
[indicating a case of products Jethro is price stamping]
Jackson Gibbs : It's a dollar seventy-five. In fact, we haven't talked since the funeral. I adored that wife of yours. And I adored that child, too. Always figured it was Shannon that sent me the Christmas cards.
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Jackson Gibbs : [to Ziva] Tells a story, 20 dollars in your wallet is just paper, put it on the ground, it's full of wonder.
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NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee : It's a lot of data to sift through, but I *can* tell who's seen it.
Jackson Gibbs : You can do that? You can tell everything I've been looking at?
Ziva David : What have you been looking at?
Jackson Gibbs : None of your business.
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Jackson Gibbs : He'd spend all his time out in the garage working on some project. We didn't even have electricity out there.
NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee : [to Ziva] I can see it.
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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.
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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?
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NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee : This is a pretty nice set up you got here, Mr. Gibbs.
Jackson Gibbs : Jack... You gotta stay up with technology, Tim. Otherwise you concede to time, inch-by-inch. Not that it's worth the while
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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.
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NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee : Boss, I talked to Tony and Abby...
Jackson Gibbs : "Boss"? You make them call you that?
[to McGee]
Jackson Gibbs : He's not a...!
[catches himself]
Jackson Gibbs : Are you a boss, Leroy?