NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series)

Hard for the Money (2022)

Gerald McRaney: Retired Navy Admiral Hollace Kilbride

Quotes 

• Marty Deeks : [hushed]  Son of a... Whew.

  Horace Kilbride : You know, I've known you long enough to know that there are few things in this world that you like more than your work here and ah... and talking incessantly.

  [Deeks laughs] 

  Horace Kilbride : Now, now that being said, only a fool like me comes in on his day off. You are not me.

  Marty Deeks : Yeah. It's just this whole process for being a foster parent. They got Kensi and I jumping through all these hoops just to prove that we can provide a loving home. So, every facet of our lives has been probed and prodded and dissected. It's like a white-glove inspection on steroids. And just when you think you've done enough, right, that you're good, and then this social worker came by today and just took a wrecking ball to everything. Whatever.

  [sighs heavily] 

  Horace Kilbride : I have dedicated my life to the Navy, and I am proud of the career I've had, but I would be remiss if I didn't, uh, acknowledge the other side of that coin. My wife wanted a husband, my son wanted a father, and I was neither. At least my wife knew what she was getting into. My son didn't have a choice. And there is not a day goes by that I don't question whether it was all worth it. Hmph. Oof. If only the process for biological parents were half as stringent as what you and Agent Blye are going through, then perhaps my son could have enjoyed his teenage years instead of spending them in rehab.

  Marty Deeks : I'm sorry. Is he okay?

  Horace Kilbride : I wouldn't know. It's been ten years since we spoke.

  Marty Deeks : Well, it's not too late to fix it.

  Horace Kilbride : No, no. Afraid that ship has sailed.

  Marty Deeks : I guarantee he doesn't hate you half as much as I hated my father. I mean, I shot the guy. In all fairness, he was pointing a gun at my mother and I, and I was eleven years old, but I still shot him. And then I stopped talking to him. And now he's dead.

  [chuckles] 

  Marty Deeks : What's crazy about that is that, despite all that, if he would have asked for a second chance, I would have given it to him in a heartbeat. You know, just to see, as hopeless as it may have been, just to see if there was any way to salvage that relationship. My point is, I think you should call him. Like it or not, you're still his father.

• Horace Kilbride : You know, I've known you long enough to know that there are few things in this world that you like more than your work here and ah... and talking incessantly.

  [Deeks laughs] 

  Horace Kilbride : Now, now that being said, only a fool like me comes in on his day off. You are not me.

  Marty Deeks : Yeah. It's just this whole process for being a foster parent. They got Kensi and I jumping through all these hoops just to prove that we can provide a loving home. So, every facet of our lives has been probed and prodded and dissected. It's like a white-glove inspection on steroids. And just when you think you've done enough, right, that you're good, and then this social worker came by today and just took a wrecking ball to everything. Whatever.

  [sighs heavily] 

  Horace Kilbride : I have dedicated my life to the Navy, and I am proud of the career I've had, but I would be remiss if I didn't, uh, acknowledge the other side of that coin. My wife wanted a husband, my son wanted a father, and I was neither. At least my wife knew what she was getting into. My son didn't have a choice. And there is not a day goes by that I don't question whether it was all worth it. Hmph. Oof. If only the process for biological parents were half as stringent as what you and Agent Blye are going through, then perhaps my son could have enjoyed his teenage years instead of spending them in rehab.

  Marty Deeks : I'm sorry. Is he okay?

  Horace Kilbride : I wouldn't know. It's been ten years since we spoke.

  Marty Deeks : Well, it's not too late to fix it.

  Horace Kilbride : No, no. Afraid that ship has sailed.

  Marty Deeks : I guarantee he doesn't hate you half as much as I hated my father. I mean, I shot the guy. In all fairness, he was pointing a gun at my mother and I, and I was eleven years old, but I still shot him. And then I stopped talking to him. And now he's dead.

  [chuckles] 

  Marty Deeks : What's crazy about that is that, despite all that, if he would have asked for a second chance, I would have given it to him in a heartbeat. You know, just to see, as hopeless as it may have been, just to see if there was any way to salvage that relationship. My point is, I think you should call him. Like it or not, you're still his father