That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia

That's the night that they hung an innocent man


"Found the bullet" Tony stated coming into the room.

It was lodged in the roof." Danny informed the ladies.

"Ziva found a diamond in the blood pool." Lindsay informed the guys. "Considering both the diamond and the close embrace Woloe had with our mystery victim I bet we're looking for a woman."

"Only two women we know Woloe was currently seeing," Tony stated. "Miss Brody & Mrs. Brody."

"We're done in here. Let's send this stuff out to Adam and Abby to start processing while we search for the missing body."

Working together they quickly got everything they had processed, packaged and loaded with the courier along with Woloe's boy. Then the four turned their attention to the footprints and drag marks.

"Directionality of all three sets of prints is toward the house." Lindsay commented.

"Look at this set," Ziva pointed out. "It is deeper in the heel than in the toe."

"The only time I saw that was when a woman committed suicide trying to frame a guy for murder," Lindsay stated.

"Those shoes are a women's size six," Tony stated. "You're not going to get that kind of weight difference unless they have child size feet."

"I think this set is the same person walking backward while dragging the body," Danny added. "Look how it is much deeper overall than the approaching set. Plus the drag markings seem to be associated with this set."

"The easiest way for a woman to move a dead body would be to pull from the corpse's underarms," Lindsay added.

So the four investigators started following the tracks and signs into the woods. It quickly became apparent that Lindsay and Ziva were much better at following signs in the Georgia marsh than Danny or Tony. The guys just ended up following the ladies.

"Country girls. When do they learn all this stuff?" Danny asked.

"I don't know about in Montana," Tony stated while ducking to avoid a tree branch. "But I'm pretty sure Ziva went through Mossad's assassin school around the age of 12."

"Twelve? I was still playing Babe Ruth league ball."

"I was playing basketball, both at the Y and for my school. So when did you quit playing ball?"

"I was 22. My first year in the minors. I broke my wrist in a fight. Ended up applying to the police academy. Graduated first in my class and ended up assigned to the crime lab straight out of the academy. You?"

"Played ball for Ohio State. Senior year we made it to the Final Four. I broke my leg. Ended up with the Peoria PD then Baltimore Homicide before NCIS."

At that moment Tony's cell phone rang. "Hey, Abbs, what you got for us? ... Okay." He snapped his mobile shut. "Ziva we gotta pull out that video thing. Abby and Adam have some stuff for us."


A/N: Hope you're enjoying this. Holidays kept me slow to update. Plus it's getting to a point that it's hard for me as a writer to keep the action going forward.