NCIS (TV Series)
Handle with Care (2018)
David McCallum: Donald Mallard
Quotes
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Palmer.
[Jimmy nods to something behind him; turning around, he sees...]
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Duck. Well, good morning.
Donald Mallard : Good morning, Jethro. No doubt you're wondering why I'm here.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Well, I don't know. Maybe you missed us?
Donald Mallard : Well, true as that sentiment may be, the university is on spring break, and I'm here in town to handle the second of life's two certainties.
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Leroy Jethro Gibbs : What do you got, Jimmy?
Jimmy Palmer : Well, Petty Officer Sweeney definitely died of a cardiac arrest.
Donald Mallard : But the real question is why.
Jimmy Palmer : 23 year old, active-duty sailor. He just had a physical last December, Gibbs. He passed with flying colors.
Donald Mallard : Not exactly the ideal candidate for heart failure.
Leroy Jethro Gibbs : Maybe he had help.
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Donald Mallard : How may I be of assistance?
Jack Sloane : I was hoping that you could help me with a bit of profiling.
Donald Mallard : Well, I'm always up to a challenge.
Jack Sloane : Okay. The subject is retired armed forces with past trauma they refuse to talk about, and their whole life is stil wrapped up in the military.
Donald Mallard : Unable to move on?
Jack Sloane : Unwilling, at least.
Donald Mallard : History of aggression?
Jack Sloane : Sporadic.
Donald Mallard : Intelligence?
Jack Sloane : High.
Donald Mallard : Has the subject ever sought counseling before?
Jack Sloane : No.
Donald Mallard : What about the family?
Jack Sloane : None.
Donald Mallard : Huh. And... well, your concern is what?
Jack Sloane : What happens if the subject continues to internalize what happened?
Donald Mallard : Almost certainly, they'd be on the road to disaster.
Jack Sloane : Yeah. That's what I thought.
Donald Mallard : Well, you... you just have to use all your tricks to get him to open up.