"McGee! Get me everything you can on Patrick Wilkeson!" Gibbs ordered.
"On it Boss!" McGee called.
"Was that our Tony?" Ziva asked.
"Who else named Tony would I be talking to about the case?" Gibbs asked.
"How is he?" Ziva asked.
"He's fine Ziver they just want to rehydrate him and watch him." Gibbs replied.
"Boss I got the information on Wilkeson." McGee said.
"Talk to me." Gibbs replied.
"Patrick Mathew Wilkeson born January 5th 1946. One brother who lives in California though they have not spoken in over twenty years. Both parents passed away in the nineties. One daughter Patricia who's Breena's age. Wife served him divorce papers to him at the jail. Within hours of his arrest. On August 23rd 1989 he was involved in the hit and run murder of a mother and daughter Rose and Juliet Slater. Another victim Breena Slater was injured. He was not convicted until March 4th 2001. Life without parole." McGee explained.
"Great now tell me what you can about the hit and run." Gibbs replied.
"On the afternoon of August 23rd 1989 thirty-four year old Rose Slater was walking home with her two daughters Juliet age seven and Breena age three. From Juliet's second grade orientation. When a car sped around the corner at them. Rose picked Breena up and grabbed Juliet's hand. The three ran the remaining block to their home. Rose tossed the girls over the fence and was climbing over herself when. Wilkeson crashed into the fence. Rose died instantly she flipped over the fence and broke her neck. Juliet succumbed to her injuries the next day at Taylor Manor Hospital in Ellicott City Maryland. She suffered severe head trauma and her father chose to pull her off life support. Three year old Breena suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries. Two broken legs, shattered collar bone which required surgery, cracked skull, and a ruptured spleen. Wilkeson fled the scene and crashed his car into a local river. Tony solved the case eleven years later." McGee explained.
"Poor Breena I wonder if Jimmy knew." Ziva replied.
"He knew her mom and sister died in a hit and run but that's it." McGee explained.
"McGee is there anything on Patrick Wilkeson escaping from jail?" Gibbs asked.
Gibbs sighed he remembered when Rose and Juliet were killed. He had just returned from a deployment that day. He walked in the door after dropping Kelly off at Maddie Tyler's house for a lunch play date.
FLASH BACK
Gibbs opened the door and saw Shannon sitting on the couch watching the mid-day local news. He could tell she had been crying.
"Shannon what's wrong?" Gibbs asked.
"You remember that woman that was killed in the hit and run that injured her two daughters?" Shannon asked.
"Yeah why?" Gibbs asked.
"The older daughter died this morning her head trauma was too severe." Shannon tearfully explained.
"What about the younger daughter?" Gibbs asked.
"They expect her to make a full recovery but I can't imagine how she must feel. Hopefully she won't remember what happened." Shannon explained.
"How old is she again?" Gibbs asked.
"Three" Shannon replied.
"Poor kid that's too young for that big a loss." Gibbs replied.
"At least her dad has her still." Shannon replied.
"He's lucky." Gibbs replied.
"Jethro how would you cope if something happened to me and Kelly since I can't have any more babies?" Shannon asked.
"Don't think like that Shan. Nothing will happen to you two." Gibbs replied.
END FLASHBACK
Gibbs shuddered at the memory of the conversation he had with Shannon after Rose and Juliet were killed. Back then he thought nothing like that would ever happen to his family. Even when Shannon was being protected he never thought he'd lose Kelly.
"Boss are you okay?" McGee asked.
"I'm fine just thinking about stuff." Gibbs replied.
"Have you talked to Jimmy?" McGee asked.
"No I will later though." Gibbs replied.
"I hope that he is doing better today." Ziva replied.
"Not something you get over overnight Ziver." Gibbs replied.
"I know I just hope he's not so broken." Ziva explained.
"He will be for a while Ziver." Gibbs replied.
"Vance did pretty well." Ziva said.
"Not really he just is better at putting on masks than Jimmy." Gibbs explained.
Jimmy lay on the Vance's guest bed. He hadn't gotten up except to use the bathroom since he had arrived. It had been twenty-four hours since he had found out about Breena being murdered. All he wanted was for this all too be a horrible dream and she would be lying beside him in their bed. When he told her what happened she would hold him in her arms and tell him it was all a dream and would be okay. It wouldn't happen though she was dead lying in a drawer at her dad's office. Ed hated him and he kind of hated himself. Maybe it was his fault somehow Breena was dead. He shouldn't have let her go for a bike ride. What if she had fallen and miscarried or worse ruptured her placenta and died? Michelle had been killed too. Sure they had broken up but he still felt for her. He needed to face it he was a death trap for girls.
"I'm never going to date again." Jimmy whispered to himself.
He heard somebody knocking on the door and allowed them to come in. The door opened and the Vance's nanny walked in.
"Hey Jimmy" She said.
"Hi" Jimmy replied.
"Leon had to attend a meeting." She explained.
"Okay" Jimmy replied.
"He told me what happened yesterday. I am so sorry son." She said.
"I miss her so much already." Jimmy replied.
"You know she's always with you." She said.
"It's all my fault." Jimmy said.
"How?" She asked.
"She was pregnant. I never should have let her go. I mean what if she had fallen?" Jimmy asked.
"No it's not your fault it's the fault of the killer." She said.
"I still feel terrible." Jimmy said.
"Well don't." She said.
"Uh Boss." McGee said.
"Watcha got McGee?" Gibbs asked.
"Patrick Wilkeson is out of jail." McGee said.
"Okay you and Ziver go talk to him." Gibbs replied.
"We can't." McGee replied.
"Why the hell not McGee?" Gibbs demanded.
"He can't talk he's out on hospice care. Stage four brain cancer. He's a vegetable just waiting to die." McGee explained.
A/N: So Patrick didn't do it then who did? New chapter next week. Please review and thanks for reading.