Tony reunites with Jeanne (again) in NCIS season 13 episode 16 “Loose Cannons,” and things go from awkward to worse when they uncover a connection to her father during the investigation. Plus, Dr. Taft tags along for the case and tries to get Gibbs to see a real therapist.
Here are the best quotes from “Loose Cannons.”
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“I’d learn just as much about you playing chess on my computer.”
Taft: “Quid pro quo. I open up a revealing window into my childhood, you open one up too.”
Gibbs: “No, that’s not the deal.”
Taft: “So, screw our deal too.”
Gibbs: “I said I would talk. No head shrinking and no ‘opening windows.'”
Taft: “And no progress. I’d learn just as much about you playing chess on my computer.”
“You were shot. You suffered trauma, much of it unseen. Am I ringing any bells here?”
Taft: “I really want to know if you’d be willing to see an actual therapist.”
Gibbs: “No. What for?”
Taft: “What for? You were shot. You suffered trauma, much of it unseen. Am I ringing any bells here?”
“You do if you want to see Ducky.”
Taft: “You know, it’s not you I came to see, Gibbs. I’m here for your good Dr. Mallard.”
Gibbs: “Ducky? What for?”
Taft: “Again with the ‘what fors.’ Must I really explain everything to you?”
Tony: “You do if you want to see Ducky.”
“That would be just ducky, Ducky.”
Ducky: “Would you care to do the honors, Cyril?”
Taft: “Oh. That would be just ducky, Ducky. I’ve been dying to say that.”
Ducky: “Well, you’d hardly be the first.”
“Jeanne Benoit? Really?”
– McGee to Tony (aka the go-to reaction to Jeanne)
“In place of me, absolutely.”
Bishop: “How’d it go, Tony? You okay?”
Tony: “Well, aside from Taft verbally ripping the bandage off a very delicate wound, it was super awesome, thanks.”
McGee: “What about her husband, David? That weird?”
Tony: “Not at all. He’s a lovely guy. In fact, he wants to take us out for a fancy dinner to thank us for saving his life in Africa.”
McGee: “Excellent. Can I bring Delilah?”
Tony: “In place of me, absolutely.”
“No.”
Gibbs: “How about you? It weird, her and the husband?”
Tony: “Do you really want to know?”
Gibbs: “No.”
– Discussing Tony seeing Jeanne again
“It certainly would be a happier hobby than being your therapist.”
Taft: “I really had no idea, Gibbs. I mean, the thrill of the investigation. I think I may have missed my calling.”
Gibbs: “You want to be a cop now?”
Taft: “Doctor-slash-cop. Why not? It certainly would be a happier hobby than being your therapist.”
“Not as good as he’s been for me.”
Catherine: “I just wanted to thank you real quick for being Cyril’s friend. We’ve been through a lot since losing Paul, and I think this sparring that you guys do — it’s good for him. You’re good for him, Gibbs. Very good.”
Gibbs: “Not as good as he’s been for me.”
Catherine: “Not that you’re going to tell him that.”
Gibbs: “Oh, no. His head’s already big enough.”
“When affairs end badly, like yours most certainly did, they have a way of staying under the skin, whether you want them to or not.”
David: “I see the way you look at her. Frankly, the way that she looks at you would trouble me a bit if I didn’t know your history.”
Tony: “So you know.”
David: “I’m her husband. I know everything. Just like I know when affairs end badly, like yours most certainly did, they have a way of staying under the skin, whether you want them to or not.”
Tony: “She’s not under my skin, David.”
David: “It’s not your skin I’m worried about.”
“So we’re good now? Or will you one day find another reason to stop by? And always at the precise moment when I’m starting to feel whole again.”
– Jeanne to Tony
“‘If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.'”
Gibbs: “‘If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.'”
Taft: “Is that — Did you just quote Yogi Berra?”
Gibbs: Yeah, my dad, he was a big Yogi fan. Big. Used to always tell me that as a kid. Whenever I got down.”
Taft: “‘If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.'”
“Jeanne, David, all those looks. I would say that ‘awkward’ doesn’t even begin to describe that.”
McGee: “Jeanne, David, all those looks. I would say that ‘awkward’ doesn’t even begin to describe that.”
Tony: “Okay, ‘super-awkward’ then, which I admit it was.”
“I guess I would go back further.”
Tony: “What you said yesterday, about me dropping in just when you start feeling whole again.”
Jeanne: “And what about it?”
Tony: “I know that feeling. The not feeling whole part.”
Jeanne: “Do you?”
Tony: “And if I had one wish, Jeanne … I would turn back the clock, to right when we got back from South Sudan. Because I think that was a much better ending for both of us. What?”
Jeanne: “I guess I would go back further.”
“Ready.”
Grace: “You ready for another, Popeye?”
Gibbs: “It’s Gibbs, but I think you know that. Don’t you, Grace?”
Grace: “That’s Dr. Confalone to you. You ready?”
Gibbs: “Ready.”
– Gibbs meets Taft’s therapist over a crossword puzzle at the diner
NCIS season 13 airs Tuesdays at 8pm on CBS.
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