Chapter Two: From Russia with Love
"What do we have, Duck?"
"One bullet, thru and thru. Exactly in the middle of the heart. The cuts were probably mad by a small knife. If you ask me, it was a torture session."
Gibbs paused to drink some coffee before asking his next question. "Time of death?"
"Late last night, around eleven," Ducky responded as he removed the liver probe.
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Tony was sketching the scene while McGee snapped pictures. Ziva was continuing to look for clues. As she walked around she spotted a card. She read the little blue card before taking it to Gibbs.
"Calling card," she asked him.
He took the card from her and looked it over. "Lilacs," he commented.
"Lilacs?"
"It smells like lilacs."
"You think a woman did this?"
"Do you know anything about the symbol?" The center of the card has a triangle with a strange symbol in the middle of it.
"The letter is a Russian 'D', but that's all I know."
"Find the murder weapon.'
Ziva walked away to continue searching the crime scene, while Gibbs put the card in a plastic evidence bag.
Palmer and Ducky got the body into a body bag and headed back to headquarters in order to do the autopsy. A few minutes after they left, Ziva founded a gun.
She walked over to Gibbs again while saying, "Russian issue. Only one bullet missing. Another connection to Russia, yes?"
"Where was it?"
Ziva pointed to a vase of lilacs that sat on a mahogany dresser. "It was in the top drawer. Someone wanted us to find it."
"From Russia with love."
