NCIS (TV Series)

A Bowl of Cherries (2017)

Jennifer Esposito: Alex Quinn

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• Alex Quinn : How long have you known about forgetting things?

  Marie Quinn : I've known for a while. I... I... I make a telephone call and I'd forget who I was talking to. Or I go... out for a walk, and I... I would get lost in my own neighborhood. It's like a window that just keeps closing a little bit, and then a little bit more. Every day. Like that.

  Alex Quinn : Well, we're not gonna let it close, okay?

  Marie Quinn : Baby, nobody stops this window. Nobody.

  Alex Quinn : We're not nobody. Okay? We... we... we fight. And I am not putting you in a nursing home. I am here for you.

  Marie Quinn : I know you are. But what happens when I'm not here for you anymore? Forgetting about your dad was bad enough. But what happens...

  [breaking down into tears] 

  Marie Quinn : ...when I forget who you are?

  Alex Quinn : You won't. You're not going to. How can you? I mean, come on. You're not gonna forget about me.

  Marie Quinn : I just don't want to live to be a burden.

  Alex Quinn : You are not a burden. You're my mother.

• Alex Quinn : It's just so weird without cell phones.

  Ellie Bishop : Yeah, and no laptop.

  Nick Torres : Well, the desktops still work. They're hardwired to a different network.

  Timothy McGee : [entering]  Burn phones, 'till we get our new smartphones tomorrow.

  Alex Quinn : Seriously?

  Nick Torres : This takes me back to my undercover days.

  Ellie Bishop : I mean... what do you even do with these things?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Call people.

  Timothy McGee : [offering Gibbs a phone]  Boss?

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : [holding up his own]  No, I'm good. Hack-proof. Flip phone.

• [last lines] 

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : How's your mom?

  Alex Quinn : Uh, yeah. It's like she says, "if life is a bowl of cherries, why do I always get the pits?".

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Yeah, you know what? I never got that. You got a bowl of pits, it means you ate the cherries.

  Alex Quinn : Yeah. Yeah, it just, uh... came on so quick. You know, she was good at hiding it, I was good at denying it.

  Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Hey, Quinn, it's okay to be scared.

  Alex Quinn : Yeah, I know. I'm moving back in with her. How's that for scary?