Chapter 3
Ziva paced through the bullpen as she had been for the past ten minutes waiting for Gibbs to get out of MTAC. McGee had been watching her for the last five minutes although he really wasn't seeing her. They still had no positive ID on the two hostages, and there had been no contact at any branch of the government, or a residence demanding a ransom for the two.
McGee pondered the footage of the kidnapping and tried to figure out a way to figure out who the two were. Unfortunately for them there was only one camera and it faced behind the bar looking at the register. So it only gave them a minimal view of what happened in the rest of the bar.
The most they were able to figure out was that the one man in military fatigues was definitely in the Navy. They were only able to get the other victims lower torso in frame which didn't tell them anything specific enough to help.
McGee and Ziva's heads both spun around when they heard the door to MTAC slam open. Ziva could guess the reason why Gibbs was so angered. He had gone into MTAC to request extra personnel to patrol Georgetown and check out residences near the bar to see if anyone saw anything. Clearly he had been denied.
Ziva walked over to the stairs and waited at the bottom for Gibbs. Uncharacteristically he walked straight past her, Ziva spun around to continue walking after him, "Gibbs I checked all navy personnel within fifty miles and none of them are currently stated as missing."
Gibbs continued on his walk back to his desk and stopped to look up at the plasma screen which showed the grainy image of a semi automatic glock pistol. The only image that their camera had picked up of the kidnappers.
Gibbs turned on his heel and walked over towards the elevator.
"Uhh… Boss where are you going?" McGee asked.
Gibbs looked back at him with one of his Gibb's stares, "To get some coffee. And by the time I get back you better have some ideas on how to find these bastards."
McGee suddenly had a flash of brilliance as when he saw Gibbs sidearm strapped to his waist, "Boss umm… I don't know how to catch them but I have an idea on the unknown victim," Gibbs started to walk back over expectantly and waited for McGee to start back up, "Well when we watch the victim come in we see him sit down in the top left of the screen and he stays there until the kidnappers come in."
"I knew this the first time we watched the video McGee."
"Yes we all did, but what I noticed when I watched it another few times I realized the unknown victim reaches into his suit as if he was reaching for,"
"A gun. That's good work McGee. Ziva go question the bartender again and ask him if he saw anything that would give him reason to suspect the guy was an off duty policeman or criminal or anything," Gibbs commanded.
Ziva was already up and near the elevator, "Got it Gibbs."
Gibbs waited until the elevator doors closed again and he heard McGee's voice speak up, "The only thing is boss if the man did have a gun how come he didn't get a shot out at the suspects."
Gibbs looked at the screen that now showed the unknown man's lower body and just enough of his torso to see he was reaching into his jacket, "I don't know McGee but I don't think it's because he wanted to go out with the guys that took him hostage."
McGee suddenly realized something, "Boss didn't you take Tony's gun and badge yesterday," Gibbs continued to just look at the plasma, "Boss what if that's him?"
"McGee call Dinozzo's cell and his home,"
"So you do think its Dinozzo boss?"
"I don't think that but, my gut thinks it's Dinozzo."
"Boss should I call Ziva and tell ask her to show the bartender a picture of Tony? See if he saw him there."
"No call her back."
"Why boss?"
"Because I don't want to tell her until I'm sure it's Dinozzo."
A/N: I know this update is short but I wanted to get one in. Tell me what you think. I know it's kind of a filler chapter but I needed it. Remember to review and let me know if you liked it.
