NCIS (TV Series)

Friendly Fire (2018)

Brian Dietzen: Jimmy Palmer

Quotes 

• Jimmy Palmer : You know, I can't imagine a more difficult detail for a Marine to be assigned than escorting fallen brother or sister home.

  Colonel Park : I suspect your job is not much different, Doctor.

  Jimmy Palmer : Yeah. It's a - it's a struggle at times. But I take comfort in knowing that we're providing some closure.

  Colonel Park : My comfort is inconsequential. Those that have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country deserve be brought back home with honor.

• Donald Mallard : Well consider it a parting gift.

  Jimmy Palmer : Parting gift? You going somewhere?

  Donald Mallard : Indeed, I am. You can call it a globe trotting adventure.

  Jimmy Palmer : But - you just got back.

  Donald Mallard : [Small chuckle]  . You have proven yourself more than capable, Dr. Palmer. I have no doubt that you will continue to hold the fort while I'm gone.

  Jimmy Palmer : Sure, but you will be back, right?

  Donald Mallard : Of course, and when I return in the new year, I shall have many more stories to relate.

  Jimmy Palmer : That's great. What's the first stop on your vacation going to be? Something exotic - maybe the Pyramids, Great Wall of China? The Serengeti?

  Donald Mallard : Mount Rushmore.

  Jimmy Palmer : South Dakota - in the middle of winter. You are one in a million, Doctor.

  Donald Mallard : True.

• Donald Mallard : The cause of death was a fracture to the c3 vertebrae.

  Jimmy Palmer : But it wasn't from the fall into the water. The victim was dead beforehand.

  Timothy McGee : So, not a suicide?

  Jimmy Palmer : Not unless he broke his own neck and then somehow managed to roll himself into the water.

  Donald Mallard : Broke his own neck and rolled himself into the water? I don't have a story for that one. Well, *that's* never happened before.