NCIS Season 8 Episode 17

Boy: We were at Paul's birthday part at the pizza place, and me and Lauren took a step outside, to get some fresh air. And she's making fun of me because I watch Victorious, on Nickelodeon. I mean, Victoria Justice is hot, right?

Victorious is a TV show on Nickelodeon that stars Victoria Justice.

"One Last Score" refers to the common theme of heist and criminal-centric movies, like Ocean's Eleven, Layer Cake, etc., in which the criminals must do their last crime so they can fully retire, as DiNozzo and McGee have described.

(Tony is complimenting Gibbs on his car chase)
Tony: Like Doc McCoy in The Getaway.
Gibbs: Yeah? No, not really.
Tony: McQueen had Jewison, he had Yates, he had Peckinpah -- right there, guiding him, navigating him, molding him. You would have made a great director, Boss.
Gibbs: Yeah, well - already got one of those.
Tony: McQueen also had Jacqueline Bisset, Faye Dunaway and Ali McGraw. Did you notice that the new girl likes to shower here before she goes home? (Gibbs delivers a head slap.)

Reference to Steve McQueen, an American actor who (1930-1980) known for his caper-style movies. He often did his own stunt work driving cars in his movies, and was known for his love of race cars and car collecting. Among his movies, he starred as Doc McCoy with Ali McGraw in The Getaway (1972), directed by Sam Peckinpah; The Thomas Crown Affair with Faye Dunaway, directed by Norman Jewison (1968); and with Jacqueline Bisset in Bullitt, directed by Peter Yates, also in 1968.

Ziva: (Referring to desk in warehouse) It belonged to William Faulkner! I love his writing!
Tony: Total genius!
Ziva: Yes! It was worth learning English just for "The Sound and the Fury"! Or that chapter in "As I Lay Dying", you know, the one with the five words, "My mother is a fish!"
Tony: I don't really like his books that much, but I'm a big fan of movies that he made based on other people's books, like The Big Sleep and To Have And Have Not. I mean, he gave us Bogey and Bacall. God bless you, William Faulkner.

"Sound and the Fury" was a book written by Mississippi writer William Faulkner in 1929, and is ranked as #6 on the 100 best English language books of the 20th century. It deals with the Compson family, a family of fading Southern aristocrats. "As I Lay Dying" is another Faulkner book written in 1930 about the death of a woman and the events leading up to her family's struggles to abide by her wishes for burial. William Faulkner spent the 1940's in Hollywood writing for Howard Hawks, including The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who married after To Have and Have Not.

Tony: Paintings coming to life - guy probably thinks he's like Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum, he's playing baseball by himself. I mean, he's a working stiff - no magic there.

Allusion to 2006 movie Night At the Museum, which starred Ben Stiller as an evening security guard at American Museum of Natural History, who is surprised to discover the museum comes alive at night.

McGee: It's one of Tony's movie myths - I've never had a good time in a women's prison! What a horrible woman!

Reference to an earlier NCIS episode, "Caged", where McGee is trapped in a women's prison investigating a murder.

Guard: There's nothing going missing.
Tony: How would you know? This place looks like Xanadu.
Guard: Well, we've never had any of these paintings come to life and jump out of the frame!
Tony: Are you referring to the Olivia Newton-John movie?
Guard: Weren't you?
Tony: Xanadu... Citizen Kane's house.
Guard: Oh. Well -- that's a little embarrassing.
Ziva: Yeah, for both of you. But really, how would you know if someone took Rosebud out to go sledding?
Tony: Nice!

Xanadu is a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John as a Muse of dance who emerges from a painting to help an aspiring artist. Citizen Kane was the 1941 drama written, produced, directed and starring Orson Welles, which featured a looming estate "Xanadu". "Rosebud" was the name of Kane's wooden sled and a memory of a simpler childhood that was Kane's last word before he died.

Gibbs: Probably had access to the details.
Ziva: Possibly tried to sell them.
Tony: Like Heat, the Michael Mann movie...

Heat was a 1995 crime drama movie directed by Michael Mann, starring Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer and Natalie Portman, about a heist that went wrong.

Tony: Liver?
Ducky: Spleen. Interest?
Tony: Psycho.
Jimmy: Aren't they all?
Tony: The movie, Palmer. Disgruntled employee steals from the office on the way out of town, stops for a little while, and winds up dead, just like Marion Crane in Psycho.
Jimmy: Haven't seen it.
Tony: You've had 50 years to catch up on the story of Norman Bates!
Ducky: The character inspired by the exploits of the 'Wisconsin Cannibal', Ed Gein.

Two allusions, one to the 1960 movie Psycho, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Norman Bates was the disturbed killer who ran the hotel where Marion Crane stayed and was murdered. The second allusion is to Ed Gein, a serial killer whose extreme exploits in the 40's and 50's have contributed to part of Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacres, and Silence of the Lambs.