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Using their desk phones to contact Shelly O'Malley Calvin Hart, both McGee and DiNozzo prepared themselves for a headache when the other side picked up the phone.

Hunched forward over his desk with the receiver in one hand and the other rubbing his temple, McGee was trying to force some words out, but was constantly being overruled by Hart. "Mister...Mister...Mister Hart, yes, I'm with NCIS. No. No. I didn't hack your internet, sir. How did I get your number? Well, sir, it's not YOUR number. It belongs to the facility you live in...No. No, sir. I found it using the Phone Book." The more he talked the more he wanted to slam his head into the desk. He was going around in circles with this guy. Hart's words were disjointed, incoherent, and in his excited state much of it wasn't even words, but yells.

Next to him Tony was hitting a brick wall as well. Shelly O'Malley lived only a few minutes away, but she was unwilling to come in for many reasons and they were coming out as long rants about government agencies out to get her and her family. Realizing that he could just sit back and not really listen and watch his colleague in agony, Tony whispered to McGee who was face down on his desk, "How areyou doing, Probie?"

McGee didn't answer him. Instead, he tried to force in a few words over Mr. Hart, "Listen to me, Mr...Mr. Hart? Mr. Hart!" then his forehead hit the desk in frustration, "Mr. Hart. I didn't hack your phone line. Yes, I'm certain I didn't. How did I get your number then? It's not your number. It's the number to the facility..." What he didn't say was the facility that he resides in had struck up a novel way of keep tabs on their patients. They gave them cell phones with tracking chips in them. The cell phones could only call emergency numbers, the facility itself and two programmed numbers for family. The tracking chips couldn't be turned off and the patients didn't know about the tracking.

McGee was able to make headway at first with the facility who said that Hart had been allowed a pass to leave the facility to visit his grandmother who lived in Richmond, Virginia and he was currently there. Yes! McGee thought, there was a chance. They gave him the cell phone number after they verified themselves that he was still at his Grandmother's house. When he finally connected with Hart, that's when it felt like hitting a brick wall.

"What's going on?" Ziva asked as she looked at the two.

Clapping a hand over the mouth piece of the receiver, Tony hissed, "This woman is nuttier than a fruit cake!"

The Israeli paused for a moment then asked in a serious tone, "Wait. What? How can a fruit cake have nuts when it's supposed to be a fruit cake?"

Tony's eyes hung open wanting to say something snark, but his concentration was thrown off when Shelly began speaking again. Wanting to hear this for herself, Ziva calmly walked to his side of the desk and pressed the speaker phone button. Caught off guard at first, Tony hung up the phone and Shelly's raspy voice was heard. "...I was working with the CIA. I was in contact with the director, and he said to me that there were people hired by the KGB that were out to kill my family because of what I knew."

Silently looking at Tony, Ziva's eyebrows buckled in confusion. Not wanting to be heard Tony quickly took a pen and jotted down on a pad of paper, "Nut!"

Shelly continued her rant, "This stems from when I was in High School. I was on the swim team."

"You are a swimmer?" Tony asked.

"Yes! I was! I was the best swimmer on the team. I made two world records in 100 meter swimming. You can look for yourself. I'm in the books."

Ziva thought, 'That's something I could do' and went for her computer leaving poor Tony to continue talking to her, "Well, listen, Mrs. O'Malley, what I was calling about was your job with the Navy as a councilor. I understand that you were fired..."

Before he could finish Shelly spoke up, "I was fired because there were people in the organization out to get me."

It sounded like a fascinating story in her mind, but, Tony didn't want to be going around and around in circles with her because he was straying away from his questions and conducting a pronoun game of 'They are out to get me' and not saying who 'They are. Tony continued to convince her to come to the office, but the snow was a factor.

"How about this, Mrs. O'Mally, you come here and talk it over a good cup of coffee?" this time laying it thick with his charm.

"Okay then" she said, "I'll be there soon."

Hanging up the phone Tony sunk into his chair with a heavy sigh as Ziva lifted her head, "I'm not finding anything about her holding a record in anything."

"Like I said, 'Nut!'Tony said then paused for a moment to gather his thoughts. She was a nut, but he asked Ziva, an accomplished killer, "Do you really think she's capable of killing two people?"

With confidence on her face she replied, "Anyone is capable of anything if given the chance."

Nearly an hour later Shelly arrived at the office wearing a bright red snow cap, bright thick blue coat, black running pants, and Croc shoes, not something for the wet and cold. Tony with a cup of hot coffee from Starbucks, better than the black oil being served in the building, but when giving her the coffee he had to hold his breath as there was a stench lingering over her, smelled like she hadn't bathed in days. Leading her into the interview room Ziva was already waiting in the other room watching them through the one way mirror. Tony said, "Thank you for coming in. I know that the weather is bad, but we'll make sure to get you travel reimbursement" and flashing his 1000 watt smile.

Shelly had her coffee in hand and smiled back before taking a long sip and feeling the hot liquid rolling down her throat.

"Now, going back to what we were discussing on the phone..." Tony began with. He didn't mention that the Walkers were dead. Though two deaths were reported on the news, they had yet to reveal their identities. This, it was hoped, would give them an edge over Shelly, if she knew she was suspected of their murders, then she might shut up. "You were saying that you were fired because of..." and stopping himself there.

Shelly rambled with that raspy voice, "Well, what happened was, she called the boss, our boss, and was telling him that I was abusing and insulting my patients. And, so, our boss called me in and said that they were concerned about my well-being and wanted to lock me up in the mental ward."

She was playing the pronoun game forcing Tony to ask, "She? Who is she?"

"Her!" Shelly replied sharply. Again, Tony didn't know who 'she' was so he turned his head slightly towards her with an inquisitive look trying to silent coax Shelly to give up the identity. "Emily Walker" finally coming out with it. "What happened was, was, she called our boss and said I was doing all of this so she could get me out of the way so she could get promoted to be second in command of the group. Emily wasn't as good as me, both as a woman and as a councilor. She was dealing with patients like senators and congressmen..."

That's when Tony knew that Shelly was crazy, but he remained silent and just allowed her to spill it.

McGee was trying frantically to get Hart to stop and listen and try to convince him to come to the office and talk it over, but when he heard about the base, that's when he flipped his lid and adamantly refused thinking that they were going to kidnap and brainwash him. The only chance he seemed to have was to go visit the grandmother's house there and pray that she was of sound mind.

Shelly continued, "I was at that facility for many years, over ten years, and when she first arrived there, Emily and her husband kept attacking me both physically and psychologically. They would leave nasty notes under my door, and have our commander give me bad fitness reports.

"How'd you know it was they?"

"I worked with the FBI and the CIA..." Shelly began. Tony nearly burst with laughter, but was able to restrain himself. "I worked closely with them and they were able to trace everything to Walker and her husband."

"Why do you think that they were targeting you?" Tony asked. His curiosity was running and he wanted to see how far down the rabbit hole it was going to take him and watching her go live it was better than a movie.

"It was because she was jealous, or something, against me for my many accomplishments. I have several World Records and I have an MBA. And, and, she committed libel against me and I wanted sue, but her father is Senate majority leader and his father (Mr. Walker) owns the New York Times. That allows them to write so much against me and my family and censor anything negative about them. They're trying to silence me."

"Silence you about what?"

"I was able to uncover that both of them were in bed with the Bush family. That they were able to get special favors that got them positions in my facility, and when I uncovered this-that's when they tried to have me committed against my will." Throughout this entire interview, Shelly had her large dark brown eyes locked onto Tony that made him nervous. This woman was out of her skull and she had a lot of resentment towards the victims, but she had not pegged that they were dead. But, in listening to her ramble on and on, Tony was having doubts of her ability to kill because she seemed too random or incoherent enough to break into a person's house quietly and shoot them. She looked more like the crazy cat lady down the road.