Georgetown University Hospital
McGee and Abby walk into Ziva's private room. "Ziva!" Abby smiles and walks over to the bed and takes a hold of Ziva's hand.
"Abby!" Ziva smiles and then glances over at McGee. "McGee!" She nods over at him.
"Ziva!" McGee smiles and approaches the bed.
"So you're stuck in the hospital for another week." Abby frowns and sits down in a chair next to the bed.
"Unfortunately yes, then I'm off to Bethesda for some rehab." Ziva sighs in annoyance.
Abby noting that Eli isn't around. "Where's your father?"
"Talking to the doctor, he wants to send me back to Israel." "I've already told my doctor I'm staying right here in Washington." "I'm an American citizen now and I work for NCIS, not for Mossad."
"I guess Eli didn't like hearing that from you." McGee laughs.
"I've patched some things up with my father, but in my eyes and heart, Gibbs is my father." Ziva warmly answers with a smile on her face.
Abby leans over the bed. "After lunch I'm heading over to Ducky's to look after mommy." Abby whispers and begins to giggle.
"I'm going to warn you, she's a horrible patient." Ziva whispers and begins to giggle.
"Can't be any worse than Gibbs." McGee laughs.
"What can't be any worse than Agent Gibbs?" Eli asks as he stands in the doorway.
"We were comparing Ziva's addiction to Berry Mango Madness smoothies to Gibbs with his caffeine addiction." McGee lies.
"The difference is I can go without my smoothies for a few days." "Gibbs can't last two hours without his coffee." Ziva laughs.
Forty minutes later out in the parking garage, McGee approaches Gibbs' car. "Eli is up in Ziva's room."
Gibbs glances down at his watch in annoyance. "Soon as he leaves, I want you to stay down in the parking garage to keep an eye out for Lusztig and Rozenkwit just in case they show up while I'm questioning Ziva."
"And you'll need me down here to keep an eye out for Eli when he returns to the hospital after lunch." McGee answers.
"Did Abby leave for Ducky's?" Gibbs smoothly asks.
"Ten minutes ago."
"Think she'll attack mommy." Tony laughs in the passenger seat.
"She better not, Jen's off of the morphine IV." Gibbs barks.
"Ducky has her off of pain medicine." Tony asks with surprise.
"He has her on Percocet's." Gibbs answers.
"Morphine can become quite addictive if you're on it for too long." McGee adds.
"I bet you Palmer is boring her to death." Tony laughs.
"You never know DiNozzo." Gibbs chuckles.
Up in the spare bedroom at Ducky's house, Jenny and Palmer are playing a game of chess. "Surprised that you play." Palmer asks.
"I use to play with my dad all the time." Jenny smiles and notices that Palmer's king has nowhere to go on the chess board. "Check mate!"
"Again!" Palmer whines in protest. Suddenly the doorbell rings. "Abby!" Palmer smiles and gets up from his chair.
"Tell her my body isn't up for hugging." Jenny warns him.
"I'll tell her." Palmer laughs and starts off for the doorway.
Outside, Abby anxiously waits at the front door. "Come on Jimmy!"
Palmer opens up the front door, Abby quickly rushes inside. "First door on your right." He shouts at her as Abby runs for the stairs. "And no hugging, Doctor Mallard has her on Percocet's now."
"Can't make any promises." Abby giggles and bolts up for the stairs, as Abby gets to the top of the stairs she runs over to Jenny's bedroom and stands motionless in the doorway. "After your all healed up you have a lot of explaining to do mommy." Abby chastises her and approaches the bed with her hands on her hips.
"This wasn't the entrance I was expecting from you." Jenny laughs trying to break the mood.
"What did you expect?" Abby angrily snaps. "What you put Gibbs through the past four years?" "He's grieved for you." "Not to mention what McGee and I went through." "Poor Cynthia was a mess." Abby sobs.
"I had my reasons Abs."
"As Gibbs has stated many times in my lab since he's found out that you are alive." "Bull shit!"
Palmer walks in. "Hate to interrupt, just letting you know I'm heading out." Palmer nods over at them.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Jenny smiles over at Palmer.
"Rematch on the chess game." Palmer winks.
"I'll just beat you again." Jenny laughs.
"There's always a first time." Palmer answers and walks out the door.
"Abby, it was either Jethro or I going to prison on what Kort had on the two of us."
"Gibbs could have gotten you out of it, he always does." Abby pouts.
"Not from a Mexican prison." Jenny frowns.
Abby begins to pack up the chess board that's on the serving tray. "Alejandro Rivera!" Abby hesitantly asks.
"Yes, Kort had threatened to have him reopen his father's murder investigation, claiming that there was a piece of evidence out there linking Gibbs to the crime scene." "He showed me a photo of the shell casing from a high powered rifle that was fired a thousand feet away from Hernandez's truck." "Hernandez's daughter was wearing it around her neck like a souvenir."
"I know!" Abby frowns and flashes back when she and McGee had encountered Paloma Reynosa at Hernandez's crime scene. "The Mexican Justice Department under Alejandro Rivera had asked NCIS to send me out to Pedro Hernandez's crime scene." "They had me set up a reenactment of the crime scene as it was in 1991." "While McGee and I were at the site, Paloma Reynosa approached us with several armed gunman." "I explained to her the reason why McGee and I were there."
"And her response?" Jenny asks.
"That what the Mexican authorities had told us about the crime scene wasn't true." "That Paloma's father Pedro Hernandez was killed by a sniper one thousand feet away." "The sniper left a shell casing behind as a calling card." "Paloma pulled a chain from under her shirt and showed me the shell casing and then tossed it over to me." "She advised me to look into when I went back to Washington when I processed the evidence."
"What other evidence?"
"Pedro Hernandez's remains, Ducky examined them down in Autopsy." "The glass from Hernandez's windshield from his truck and the bullet that was removed from Hernandez's skull." "The bullet and shell casing matched the rifle that Gibbs used." "I had asked him if he wanted me to falsify a report to cover for him and he refused."
"Abby he didn't want you to jeopardize your career." Jenny softly says to her.
"I would have taken that risk for him and for anybody that I care about."
"But you did send out the report."
"Yes, I don't know what happened to it or what's came of it." Abby sighs.
"I bet you I know where it is." Jenny sarcastically answers.
"Where?"
"Vance!"
Abby puts the box of chess on top of the dresser and sits down on the edge of Jenny's bed. "Wonder if it's up in his office."
"I bet you ten to one it's in the safe behind the desk."
"I'll tip Gibbs off about this when I get back to the office." "In the meantime, what was it that Kort had against you?"
"My missing Glock 19 9mm."
"So you did kill René Benoit?" Abby says with surprise.
"Looking back on it, it was for the wrong reasons." Jenny icily answers.
"He had something to do with your father's death, where was it wrong?" Abby asks and takes a hold of Jenny's hands.
"Something that I can't go into detail with, because it's classified Abby, I'm sorry."
"And I can't be read into it, gotcha." Abby nods and gets up from the bed. "You hungry?"
"Haven't eaten since Ducky left for work this morning." Jenny shrugs.
"Grilled cheese and tomato soup is just the thing for you." Abby winks and walks out of the room.
"René Benoit didn't kill my father, Operation Lodestone did." Jenny viciously chokes.
Georgetown University Hospital
On cue around one o'clock Gibbs walks into the room, he closes the door behind him. "And the questioning begins." Ziva sighs and sits up in bed.
"First of all we'll start with August 20th then work our way backwards." Gibbs answers and sits in a chair next to the bed. "You can leave out the diner in the Mojave Desert and Antelope Valley Hospital; DiNozzo already filled me in on that."
"I got a phone call from Jenny on the burn phone that I've been using since Director Vance me sent back to Israel after Jenny's funeral."
"What did she want?" Gibbs asks.
"She had some information that she wanted me to check our regarding classified information that was leaking from NCIS to Julien Benoit."
"Frog's son, that much we've figured out Ziva the e-mail from your Interpol contact." Tony nods.
"How did she get this information?" Gibbs asks.
"At the time I didn't ask." Ziva answers and flashes back to the morning of August 20th 2011.
After her morning jog, Ziva enters her apartment, just as she's about to walk into the kitchen, one of her burn phones begins to ring. "I feel like a drug dealer with all of the cell phones that I'm using." Ziva laughs and walks over to her coffee table and picks up the phone. On the caller ID a familiar name is displayed on. "Shalom Harriet!" Ziva answers.
"Of all the burn names that the CIA decided to use for me." Jenny hisses in protest from the other end of the phone. "Shalom Ziva!"
"I haven't heard from you in over a year and a half." Ziva asks and walks over to her sofa and flops down.
"Been busy!"
"So have I, I'm officially a Junior Agent." Ziva smiles.
"Don't worry; Tony will still call you Probie." Jenny teases her.
"He affectionately dubs me Probalina, while McGee gets Probie." Ziva giggles.
Jenny getting down to business. "Ziva I'm in Washington and I need a huge favor from you."
"What Jenny?" Ziva asks.
"I just came from an op in Riohacha, Colombia." "Without going into the details of my op since it's classified." "I came across some information that NCIS was selling classified information to Julien Benoit."
"Is he-"
Jenny quickly interrupts Ziva. "Yes he's related to René Benoit." "He's his son." "Looks like he's taken over where his father left off."
"How do you want me to help you?" Ziva inquires.
"I need to know if to know if Special Agent Erica Jane Barrett has bank accounts in either the Cayman Islands or Turks and Caicos Islands." "And I also need some information on Julien Benoit's known associates."
"EJ Barrett?" Ziva asks with surprise.
"You know her." Jenny asks.
"Yes we just had a long dragged out investigation with EJ and her team involving a serial killer." "To make a long story short." "CIA and the Navy had a joint op." "The CIA was training Navy Seals into assassins." "One of the assassins didn't handle the training and went on a killing spree." "EJ and her team were transferred to our office in Washington due to cutbacks." "Director Vance under SecNav Davenport's orders had promoted EJ as agent in charge of the investigation."
"Jethro must of have been thrilled about that." Jenny laughs.
"He wasn't too pleased." Ziva sighs in annoyance. "Complicating matters Tony was sleeping with EJ."
"Breaking Jethro's rule number twelve." Jenny grins.
"Exactly!" "The CIA came into the investigation." "Trent Kort was involved with the Seals training and wanted to take out Cobb himself."
"That explains Kort's disappearance." Jenny inwardly says to herself.
"Mike Franks had also arrived in Washington to visit Gibbs." "He was helping Gibbs out with the investigation." "Cobb killed Mike outside of Gibbs' house." Ziva chokes up.
"I heard about Mike's death a few weeks ago." Jenny sadly answers.
"I keep forgetting that Mike knew you were alive."
"Besides Tony, you, Ducky, Vance, and SecNav Davenport, Mike was the only other person that knew I was alive."
"Jenny we hate lying to Gibbs, you don't know what this has done to Tony, Ducky, and myself." Ziva begs her.
"Ziva it's for my own good and for Jethro's that I stay dead." "The both of us won't do any good being in prison and Jethro at his age won't survive a Mexican Prison."
"Your right!" Ziva relents and gets back to the subject at hand. "Gibbs and Vance took out Cobb." "It was found it that Davenport had assigned EJ as head of the 'Port to Port Serial Killer' investigation, because she was his niece." "With the backlash that the Navy was getting from this joint op with the CIA and with Davenport being prejudice and putting EJ as the lead investigator, both SecNav Davenport and EJ Barrett resigned their positions."
"And now EJ is selling classified information to Arms Dealers." Jenny fumes.
"I'll head on over to the office this afternoon." "I have an Interpol contact whose father runs several banks in the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands."
"I hate to send you over there on your Saturday off." Jenny sighs.
"It will only be for a few hours." Ziva shrugs.
"I'll call you around 1500 hours."
"Hopefully I should have something for you by then."
Present Time
"With Tony being in the office I couldn't e-mail my contact." "I spoke with Jenny out in the parking lot around 1500 hours."
"What did you say to her?"
"That Tony was in the building and I couldn't get in touch with my contact from Interpol."
NCIS Headquarters
1530 Hours
Ziva is waiting out in the parking lot near the guard gate with her car out of view. She is talking on her burn phone with Jenny. "Tony was at the office." "I have to wait for him to leave, then I'll have my contact from Interpol look into EJ Barrett's off shore accounts and also check out Julien Benoit's known associates."
"I'm wondering if Davenport is in on this, it explains the reason why he wanted Vance in as Director and me out of the way."
Before Ziva can answer her, she notices Tony's car pulling up to the front gate. "Tony is at the front gate now." "I'll meet you in the first level at the parking garage at the Ritz Carlton in Georgetown at midnight."
"I'll be dressed in all black with my face concealed."
"I'll see you then." Ziva answers and hangs up. She starts up her car and drives up to the parking garage entrance.
Present Time
"I sent an e-mail out to a trusted Interpol contact, Liz Stewart." "Unfortunately she didn't get back to me in time before my meet up with Jenny."
"So the meet up was at the Ritz parking garage at meet up."
"Yes, I pulled into my parking space just before midnight and waited inside of my car." Ziva answers and flashes back to the parking garage.
Around midnight, Ziva waits inside of her car; Jenny approaches the passenger side window and taps on the glass. Ziva gets out. "You always did look good in black." Ziva smiles at her.
Jenny walks around the front of the car and approaches Ziva. "It makes me blend in."
Ziva getting on to the subject at hand. "My Interpol contact didn't get in touch with me."
"Ziva I can't stick around in Washington for very long." "I've been gone for a week and a half." "More than likely Kort and Cruz are looking for me."
"Jenny contact Gibbs." Ziva begs her.
"No, absolutely not."
"If Davenport and Barrett are selling classified information to Arms Dealers, Gibbs has to know about this."
"And then the dirty bastard Vance will have to be notified." "I'm not taking my chances."
"Vance is at an Anti-Terrorism Conference in Munich and won't be back until next Friday."
"The answer is no Ziva." Jenny shouts and walks off towards the direction of the emergency exit.
"Jenny!" Ziva shouts at her and chases after her and grabs Jenny by the elbow. "You can't do this alone."
"For my safety and for Jethro's safety, I must remain dead."
Just as Ziva is about to answer her a Black GMC Yukon drives past Jenny and Ziva with the passenger side window down. A gun appears from the open window and open fires at them. Ziva clutching on to her thigh, goes down on ground and quickly loses consciousness.
Present Time
"Before I went out I remember Jenny returning fire."
"You should have called me, prior to the meet up." Gibbs growls and gets up from his chair.
"I know, my gut kept telling me to, but we were under orders not to mention that Jenny was alive."
"Davenport resigned, what difference does it make?" Gibbs barks.
"But Vance is still the Director of NCIS, Gibbs." Ziva reminds him.
"Not for long." "My gut is telling me that he's involved with Davenport."
"It explains the reason why EJ was appointed as lead agent of the 'Port to Port Serial Killer' investigation, other than being ordered by Davenport." Tony answers.
"Now I want you to pick up where you and Jenny first met after you and Tony saw her in the hospital."
"In Morocco, it was my first night singing at the night club." Ziva answers and flashes back to her first encounter with Jenny seeing her in the hospital."
August 14th 2008
Morocco, Africa
0200 Hours
Ziva walks out of the nightclub that she's working undercover at. As she walks out on to the street a voice calls out to her in Hebrew. "You missed your calling; you should have been a singer."
Ziva looks off into the shadows and notices Jenny wearing a blonde wig. "What are you doing here?" Ziva responds back with surprise in Hebrew.
"Doing what I do best, blending in." Jenny answers back in Hebrew.
Ziva walks over to her. "So this is the price for keeping you dead." "Davenport has sold you to another agency." "The question is which one."
"CIA!"
"So this is the price you pay for La Grenouille." Ziva snaps.
"My whole life." "But does it really matter." Jenny viciously answers.
"Yes it does." "I talked with Abby the other day." "They're all a mess." "After the funeral Vance broke up all of us." "McGee got to stay on in Washington, because he wasn't at the diner." "I'm miserable working for my father again." "Tony's now an Agent Afloat and is completely miserable."
"Vance told me about it when he briefed me a few days after my funeral."
Ziva noting that it's about to rain. "Where are you staying?"
"I just got in an hour ago."
"You won't find a hotel at this hour, come back to my place." "My partner Michael is back in Tel Aviv and won't be joining me for a few days."
"I've been up for thirty-six hours and need a place to crash for a few hours."
Present Time
"So you took her back to your apartment." Gibbs asks.
"Jenny passed out on my couch just as soon as she walked into my apartment." "The next afternoon is when we got into a discussion on what she was doing." Ziva answers and flashes back to her apartment in Morocco.
Jenny after getting a shower walks out of the bathroom. She finds Ziva sitting out in the kitchen reading a book. "I passed out last night."
"I made a fresh pot of coffee while you were in the shower."
"You're a life saver." Jenny yawns and walks over to the coffee pot and pours herself a cup of coffee.
"So you're working undercover for the CIA."
"I bid for weapons with every Arms Dealer in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Central America." "The CIA then resells the weapons for US allies that want to over throw their governments." "Afghan rebels need the weapons to fight off the Taliban resistance."
"So your whoring yourself for the CIA." Ziva sighs in disgust. Jenny glares over at Ziva. "It's not the first time you've done it or I've done it, so don't give me that wounded look."
"This time I don't have a choice in the matter." Jenny answers in disgust and flops in her chair.
"There is a way out Jenny." Ziva smiles and begins to rub Jenny's forearm.
"No there isn't Ziva."
Present Time
"It seems that somebody has a hold over Jenny and it's not Trent Kort."
"You mean somebody is holding the gun she used to kill Benoit over her head." Gibbs snaps.
"As I said earlier I bought a burn phone shortly before I left for Tel Aviv, that's how I kept in touch with Abby and McGee at first." "I also gave Jenny my phone number." "It gave her a familiar voice to talk to from time to time." "We would speak to each other at least once a month for the first few years, then after I got reinstated on your team when you rescued me from Saleem, I hadn't heard from Jenny until last Saturday."
"Did you see her after that?"
"Yes, a few days after you, Tony, and Director Vance left Israel, I once again bumped into Jenny, this time it was in Tel Aviv and that's how I met Ray Cruz."
June 3rd 2009
Tel Aviv, Israel
Ziva is wandering the streets of Tel Aviv trying to get her mind off of the events of the past forty-eight hours. Michael's death at the hands of Tony. Hurt and angry that Gibbs would choose Tony over her. "It's not the first time that Gibbs has hurt somebody he's close with. "I don't blame Jenny for leaving him in Paris." Ziva inwardly says to herself. In desperate need for an espresso, Ziva finds a coffee shop and goes inside. Sitting at a corner table, she finds a familiar face. "Shalom Harriet!" She calls out to Jenny in Hebrew and approaches the table.
"Shalom Ziva!" Jenny smiles.
Ten minutes later sitting outside at a table. "Gibbs chose Tony over me, so I stayed behind in Israel." Ziva answers trying to keep her emotions in check. "Tony killed Michael." "It might have been in self-defense as Tony has said, but I loved him."
"Ziva, in Jethro's defense, he's known Tony a lot longer than you and he's like a son to him." Jenny softly answers trying to defend Gibbs' actions.
"I knew you would stick up for Gibbs." Ziva fumes.
"I'm not sticking up for him, just trying to show you through Jethro's point of view, you were making him chose between Tony and you."
"Director Vance had accompanied us to Tel Aviv."
Jenny rolls her eyes over at Ziva. "And as usual Jethro willingly let Leon walk over him." "Don't worry I've heard about the neutered Leroy Jethro Gibbs that's Agent In Charge of the Major Case Response Team." Jenny sarcastically answers.
"From who?" Ziva curiously asks.
"Mike Franks, I got in touch with Mike the next day while I was at the hospital." "My Protection Detail was more interested in the nurses at the nurses' station across from my room, so I slipped out of my room and found a sweet old lady in a waiting room and gave her some sob story that my phone wasn't working in my room and I needed to get a hold of my husband and kids."
"Why did you need to get in touch with Mike?"
"I figured out where Mike could find Decker's Insurance Policy, I sent him out to Washington to look into an old case file in the archives room." "And my gut was telling me to have Mike check up on Jethro." Jenny answers knowing that Gibbs would try something stupid in his grief over her.
Ray Cruz approaches the table. "If it wasn't for the threat of getting bombed by Hezbollah, I would move here permanently, the weather is perfect here." Ray smiles and then notices Ziva sitting across from Jenny.
"Ray Cruz, I want you to meet Ziva David." "She's a Mossad Officer and is the daughter of Director David." "We use to work on anti-terror ops when I was an NCIS Agent."
Ray walks over to Ziva and reaches for her hand. "Shalom!" He smiles down at her.
"Shalom!" Ziva smiles back.
"Ray is a CIA agent." "We frequently work together."
Ray taken in by Ziva's beauty. "It's a shame that Harriet and I have a flight out to Cairo or I would ask you out to dinner tonight."
"My boyfriend just died a few days ago." Ziva chokes.
"I'm sorry I didn't know." Ray frowns.
Jenny glances down at her watch. "Our flight is in another two hours." "Ray could you give us a minute." Jenny nods over at him.
"Sure!" Ray answers and walks over towards the street corner to give Jenny and Ziva some privacy.
"I don't know if we'll see each other again, I just put myself at risk with Ray seeing us together." Jenny sadly answers.
"You still have the number for my burn phone." Ziva smiles and grabs a hold of Jenny's hands on top of the table. "You need just to talk to somebody, call me."
"I will!" Jenny smiles and gets up from the table and approaches Ray at the corner.
"Nice meeting you Ray." Ziva calls out to him.
"It was a pleasure meeting you." "And when the time's right I will ask you out to dinner again." Ray smiles at her.
Present Time
"Jenny and Ray got into a cab" "And that was the last time I saw Jenny until the other night."
Tony remembering that Ray had called Ziva's desk phone earlier. "I just remembered Ray called Ziva's desk phone this morning."
"Maybe it's about Jenny." "Did you give him any information out?" Gibbs asks.
"No I told him that you and Ziva were in Interrogation."
"You want me to call him?" Ziva nods over at Gibbs.
"Yes, but after our second questioning session with your father." "Ziva we need to give your father false information on whom you were meeting with in the garage and what it was about."
"Go ahead I'm all ears." Ziva winks over at Tony.
"We got the idea when conveniently I overheard Officer Lusztig on the phone mentioning that a possible assassin that might be targeting you is Gahiji Ulman."
"Saleem Ulman's younger brother?" Ziva asks.
"He took over for Saleem's terror cell after his brother was killed." "He also funds Somalia Pirates and is responsible for the kidnapping and murder of British banker Malcolm Whitfield and his wife Marjorie." Tony informs her and hands Ziva a folder on Gahiji.
"Study that file inside and out before your father gets here." Gibbs instructs her.
"Shouldn't be a problem since I'm a quick reader." Ziva grins.
Back at Ducky's house, Jenny has fallen asleep up in her spare bedroom. Abby sits in a nearby chair and watches over her dysfunctional mother. "I don't care what Trent Kort has on you and Gibbs, one way or another if it kills me, I'm getting mommy and daddy back together." Abby defiantly whispers with a wicked grin on her face.
NCIS Headquarters
Palmer is sitting at his desk writing out a report. Ducky walks in. "How's Harriet?" Ducky chuckles and approaches Palmer.
"We played chess, she beat me three times." Palmer groans.
"We use to play a lot when Jenny and Jethro were stationed over in Paris." Ducky fondly answers.
"I have a suspicion that she's going to leave once she's healed up." Palmer frowns.
"I'll tip Jethro off about that." "The bullet wound should take a few weeks to heal, but Jenny is going to be weak for at least a month from the blood loss."
"So we'll have to keep this up for at least a month." Palmer asks.
"It's going to impossible to keep this up for a month once Director Vance returns from Munich."
"What's Agent Gibbs going to do?"
"Gibbs will figure it out don't worry Mr. Palmer." Ducky smiles.
Georgetown University Hospital
1430 Hours
McGee in the backseat of his car spots Eli's limo and Officer Lusztig's car following him from behind. "I better warn Gibbs."
Up in Ziva's room, Gibbs, Tony, and Ziva are going over a plan. "I have a lot of phony contacts that I can use." Ziva giggles.
Gibbs' burn phone begins to ring. "Yeah Gibbs!"
"Boss both Director David and Officer's Lusztig and Rozenkwit are on their way up." McGee informs him.
"Thanks McGee, meet Tony and I down in the coffee shop in five minutes." Gibbs answers and hangs up. "Ziva hand me that file."
Ziva hands Gibbs the file on Gahiji Ulman. "My contact's name will be Serena Morris."
"That should keep Mossad and Director Vance busy for a while." Gibbs smirks and walks out of the room with Tony following him from behind.
Down in the coffee shop ten minutes later, Gibbs, Tony, and McGee are sitting at a corner booth. "Soon as I get back to headquarters, I'll call Director Vance." Gibbs answers keeping his voice down, so that only Tony and McGee can hear him.
"Hopefully this should satisfy him." McGee sighs.
"It will keep the focus away from Jenny." Gibbs nods over at McGee.
"I wonder how she's making about with Abby." Tony snickers.
"Doubt she's doing much of anything DiNozzo, most likely Jenny is sleeping." "She's weak from the blood loss."
"Think we should head up now." Tony asks.
"We've stalled enough time." Gibbs smirks and gets up from the table.
Up in Ziva's room, Eli, Kaylah, and Jamiel are impatiently waiting for Gibbs and his team to walk into the room. "Their late!" Eli angrily mutters.
"Gibbs did not give a set time father." Ziva sweetly reminds him.
"Don't bait me into another argument." "You've already got your way by staying here in Washington to recuperate from your injuries." Eli chastises his daughter.
"You keep forgetting that I'm now an American citizen and I'm now a NCIS Special Agent, not a Mossad Officer." Ziva smirks over at her father.
"Ziva how can you disrespect your father." Kaylah scolds her.
"Easy Kaylah, I'm his daughter and was raised to be an assassin, where you're not." Ziva grins at her.
Gibbs, Tony, and McGee walk into the room. "That elevator dragged on and on." Tony whines in protest.
"Shall we begin the interview?" Eli impatiently snaps.
"Ziva who did you meet in the parking garage at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Georgetown." Gibbs asks.
"Serena Morris, she's a trusted contact of mine from when I use to run anti-terrorism ops in the Middle East." "She had information on Gahiji Ulman, the brother of Saleem Ulman on a possible terrorist attack at Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport."
"Boss Camp Lemonnier is on the southern side of the airport." McGee notes.
"Camp Lemonnier?" Jamiel sheepishly asks.
"US Naval Expeditionary Base stationed in Africa." Gibbs informs them.
"Serena was about to give me the details of Ulman's attack, when a Black SUV drove past us and fired upon us." "Soon as I was hit I dropped to the ground and lost consciousness."
"How did Serena contact you since she didn't call or e-mail you?" Kaylah asks.
"I found a note from her in my mailbox; it was a note with Serena's familiar hand writing to meet her at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Georgetown, in the parking garage at midnight." "She had vital information on the for mentioned terrorist attack."
"Why didn't you get a hold of me?" Gibbs growls.
"In the note, Serena requested that I was to meet her alone."
"It could have been a set up." Eli seethes.
"I doubt it father, since I saved Serena's life once before, she would never do that to me." Ziva smiles.
"Kaylah and Jamiel I want you to get on a flight to Tel Aviv at once and look into this at once."
"Yes sir!" Kaylah nods over at Eli and walks out of the room with Jamiel following her from behind.
"McGee get in touch with MTAC and have them call over to Camp Lemonnier to beef up security and have them notify the airport immediately." Gibbs instructs him.
"On it!" McGee answers and walks out of the room.
"You went into the parking garage without back up." Gibbs barks at Ziva. "Director Vance when he gets back from Munich is going to have your ass." Gibbs warns her.
"I know!" Ziva sighs.
"I need a description of Selena, so I can have a bolo put out on her."
"White female, five-foot-six, a hundred and fifteen pounds, black hair, brown eyes."
"Tony get on that." Gibbs orders him.
"Seems hot!" Tony drools and as he's about to walk off for the door, Gibbs head slaps him on the back of head. "Ow!" He grimaces and rubs his head and walks out of the room.
"You haven't done that in a while." Ziva giggles.
"I'm going to head back to headquarters and notify Director Vance and update him on what's going on." "In the meantime rest up." Gibbs smiles and walks out the door.
Five minutes later down in the parking garage. "He bought it." Tony smiles.
"Now I have to get Vance to buy it." Gibbs grumbles.
"Now what?" McGee asks.
"I want to make sure that Lusztig and Rozenkwit are on a flight back to Tel Aviv, I want you and Tony to follow them from their hotel room to the airport, their staying at the Ritz Pentagon."
"Boss do you want me to use the morph program to make up Serena Morris." McGee asks.
"Good idea, I don't care what famous person you use." "Soon as Mossad is on a flight to Tel Aviv I want the both you back at headquarters." "Work on Serena's photo first then I want you down in Abby's lab."
"Right Tony has to break into Jenny's brief case." McGee answers.
"Hopefully there's a laptop and a satellite phone in there." "Then we can see what Jenny is into, before I question her."
Nice, France
2300 CEST Hours
In a large mansion in the Valrose section of the city of Nice, Regine Smidt is sitting in a study frantically trying to get her associate Martin Quinn on her cell phone. "Still can't find him."
Regine hangs up her phone and turns and faces her boss, Julien Benoit. "No, I haven't heard from him since Saturday night." Regine frowns with worry.
"Quinn was suppose to get in contact with you after the hit." Benoit viciously fumes and walks over to a sideboard table and pours himself a cognac.
"Ms. Barrett got sloppy in Riohacha." Regine hisses in protest.
"Her sloppiness brought Shepard's daughter to my attention." "According to my sources, she took a flight out to Miami on August 10th using her burn alias Harriet Jones." "I sent Martin Quinn and Marcus Colville to Miami." "Their flight from the Bahamas' had arrived in Miami before Shepard's flight arrived from Riohacha."
"I know the story Julien." "Jenny took a cab to Miami and purchased a bus ticket to Savannah, Georgia." "From there she rented a car and drove to Washington and checked into a room at a Motel 6."
"The longer she stayed in Washington, the more suspicious that I got with her getting in touch with NCIS about my transaction with Barrett." "I ordered Martin to take her out."
"Maybe she took them out instead." Regine curiously asks.
"I don't think so or my sources would have mentioned about Martin and Marcus' deaths."
"Do you think Jenny got in touch with Agent Gibbs?" Regine inquires.
"While Martin kept a sharp eye out on Shepard's movements, Marcus followed Gibbs around for a week and a half, he seemed to be going about his normal routine, going to work, coming home from work and looking after an Iraqi woman and her child." "Gibbs is in the dark that Shepard is alive."
"I wonder if Kort has something to do with their disappearance." Regine ponders.
"We won't know if you don't ask." Benoit winks and takes a sip from his cognac glass.