In Quantico, Virginia a teenage girl with the name tag, Jessie is closing up the Deli restaurant where she works. After the door is locked she tiredly starts walking to her car which is on the other side of the building. The night is quiet and she can only hear her own feet on the pavement. Jessie gets into her beaten up looking Corolla and starts to head home. No one else is on the road at this hour so Jessie is driving a little faster than usual. She is very tired and it is hard to pay attention. Jessie is rubbing her eyes trying to stay awake when suddenly the car runs over something in the road. She has run over a dead animal before, so Jessie is not too concerned. She pulls the car over, looks up and is shocked.
"Huh!" she steps back and the pupils in her piercing blue eyes dilate at a gruesome sight. A human-like figure is on the side of the road. She begins to hyperventilate as she pulls out her phone to call the police. After a crime scene is secured, the police check the body for an id. An ID is going to be hard for this one. The dead female body's clothes are all torn up, her neck has scars and her face is a mess. Jane Doe's dark blonde hair is all matted with big knots and is covered in grass. An Officer Brown searches the body for an ID, but to no avail.
"Looks like a Jane Doe Hank." Officer Brown's partner tells him. Officer Brown looks around the scene with his flashlight a little more and finds something.
"Hey Rick, here's a wallet. Maybe this won't be a Jane Doe after all."
He opens the wallet and sees a woman's ID saying, Lynn Barnes. "Her name is Lynn Barnes, she's stationed at the base."
"You know what that means."
"Yeah. Time to call NCIS again."
The agents of the Major Case Response Team of NCIS were already on the scene when the Medical Examiner's van pulled up to the scene. An elder gentleman and a young man come out of the van.
"Good morning Jethro. To whom to I owe the pleasure?"
"According to the ID found this is Sergeant Major Lynn Barnes."
"She's stationed at Quantico." Agent DiNozzo said. He and Agent McGee were taking pictures and sketching the crime scene.
"Oh dear my good Sergeant, someone really worked you over."
"Can you get an ID Duck?"
"Dental will have to do on this occasion Jethro." Ducky said. He discussed the time of death with Palmer while Gibbs went over to talk to the person who called it in who Ziva was already talking to.
"Jessie, this is Special Agent Gibbs." Ziva said. Jessie was still in shock. She was sitting on the hood of the NCIS sedan with her arms crossed. She is still shaky and her eyes dart around when Gibbs walks up to her.
"I… I've never seen anything like it before."
"I know this is a lot to take in. We found an ID with the name Lynn Barnes, do you know her?" Gibbs asked. Jessie froze when she heard the name. Her eyes widened, her mouth dropped open and her heart started to race as she looked up at Gibbs. Gibbs looked at her as she tried to keep her composure in front of the Agents.
"I know her daughter, Alyssa Barnes. We're both seniors at the high school on base and she lives in my neighborhood."
"Do you need someone to call your parents?"
"Can I borrow a phone? I dropped it cause I was freaking out and it kind of fell apart."
"Here you go." Gibbs said handing her his flip phone. Jessie seemed surprised to see the flip phone. Gibbs walked away to talk to Ducky and Jessie turned to Ziva.
"I didn't think anyone still had a flip phone."
Ziva was amused and chuckled at her.
"Agent Gibbs is a little… what's the word? Old fashioned."
Jessie smiled at Ziva and called her mom. About ten minutes later a car screeched up to the crime scene and two women ran out of it.
"Oh my God!" Jessie exclaimed.
"What is it Jessie?" Ziva asked. Jessie gazed ahead as the police let the women into the crime scene.
"She… she's alive."
"Who?"
"Lynn! Wait then how…" Jessie's heart dropped when she made the sudden realization. Her eyes filled with tears and she curled her knees against her chest. "Oh my God, not Alyssa, no no no no!"
"Jessie!" a woman exclaimed as she ran to her daughter. She gave her a big hug as Jessie sobbed. DiNozzo looked confused because the woman walking up to them looked like the woman on the ID. He held it up and looked at the woman and the picture on the ID looked exactly the same. He looked down at the dead body confused. Tony turned to McGee and said,
"That looks like our dead woman Probie."
"Well she's obviously not dead Tony."
"Then who's our victim?" Tony asked. They watched as Gibbs hold the other woman back as she was freaking out and in hysterics.
