NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series)

Tidings We Bring (2016)

Chris O'Donnell: G. Callen

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• G. Callen : Jenkins bus just got off the freeway. He should be here any minute.

  Marty Deeks : You know, I think you might be on to something there.

  G. Callen : About Jenkins?

  Marty Deeks : Not Jenkins! About Kensi and me. About maybe our thing, maybe our tradition should be we do new things.

  G. Callen : Well, you don't have kids, no responsibilities. No reason not to go to Fiji in December.

  Marty Deeks : Ooh, the waves are firing this time of year.

  G. Callen : It's also, uh, summertime in Argentina right now.

  Marty Deeks : Oh, my God. Kensi doing the salsa?

  G. Callen : [excitedly]  Did you see that?

  Marty Deeks : What?

  G. Callen : I just saved Christmas!

  [Deeks chuckles] 

  G. Callen : I did!

  Marty Deeks : Fair enough, Rick Steves. What about you? You got nothing tying you down.

  G. Callen : Ah, I hate airport lines.

  Marty Deeks : But you have a car.

  G. Callen : I grew up in and out of other peoples houses. I appreciate the chance to stay put in my own.

  Marty Deeks : Yeah, but your place doesn't even have a Tiki bar. In fact, your place doesn't even have chairs.

  G. Callen : Not true. I have a dining room set.

  Marty Deeks : I'll be sure to alert Architectural Digest.

  G. Callen : [chuckles] 

• Marty Deeks : I'm saying, start small. Hetty steps. You know, just get a tiny tree.

  G. Callen : Why don't you just burn my house down and save me the hassle?

  Marty Deeks : Nell, can you please tell Callen to let joy into his life?

  Nell Jones : Actually, Christmas trees start over 200 house fires every year.

  G. Callen : [fist bumps Nell]  Mmm-hmm.

  Marty Deeks : [sarcastically]  Who hurt you?

  Nell Jones : [chuckles] 

• Marty Deeks : No. No, no, no. Look at that. The-the angles are shoddy, the lines are drooping.

  G. Callen : Looks fine to me.

  Marty Deeks : Uh, no offense, this is kind of my area of expertise.

  G. Callen : Oh yeah? You and Kens gonna light up the neighbourhood Griswold style?

  Marty Deeks : Yeah I wanted to, but she wasn't really down this year.

  G. Callen : Yeah, she's been through a lot. You'll always have next year.

  Marty Deeks : I was really looking forward to decking the crap out of those halls.

  G. Callen : I never really got it, I mean all that work for so little time.

  Marty Deeks : Buddy, it's about the tradition.

  G. Callen : Why not just do something different every year? Make that your tradition.

  Marty Deeks : No, not the same thing. You know what, when I was growing up, no matter how crazy things got around the house, my mom made sure that the holidays were the one constant in our life.

  G. Callen : I can see it now, Little Deeks out on the farm with a hot chocolate, looking for the perfect tree.

  Marty Deeks : Yeah, kind of, except for the farm was the back of an am/pm, and instead of hot chocolate, my mom was cranking menthols.

  G. Callen : Right out of a Norman Rockwell painting.