Chapter 14: Ranger's Second Chance
The next day Gibbs, Vance and Abby were back in Virginia.
Abby and Gibbs went down to her lab, "Oh man I have had it too good for the past month at Rangeman Gibbs. She looked at her lab.
"I know Abs, Rangeman made our stuff look like kids' toys, but they are a private company."
"Patch me through to Ducky" Gibbs said as he looked at the screen on the far wall.
"hey Duck" Gibbs told him.
"Well hello Jethro how was your trip?" Ducky asked him.
"busy" He said looking at his old friend.
"Well this poor fellow was stabbed to death with a blade about five inches long. He did not stand a chance."
"Gibbs, Gibbs, I got something. I got a DNA match on the body down stairs. He is Albert Kloughn." Abby blurted out.
"Oh no" Gibbs shook his head.
"You know him!" Abby and Ducky said at the same time.
"Yeah, he is Valerie Plum's Husband. Stephanie Plum's Brother in law." Gibbs walked out to tell Vance.
He used the eye scanner and went in to the V-Tack room. Vance was already on the come with Ranger.
"Gibbs" Vance said as he saw Gibbs putting on a headset.
"Carlos, we made progress some good some bad. First Valerie's husband is dead he was the sailor that we found. That is the bad, the good is that we know what kind of blade was use, it is about 5 inches long, and straight with a wood/ metal handle."
"Something like this" Ranger held out his knife. He held it up for everybody at NCIS to see.
"yeah exactly like that" Gibbs told him.
"Shit, it is someone from Rangeman doing this, this knife is the only used by Rangeman. It is one of my guys. All right, I think we can take it from here, Gibbs. We will send McGee back to you."
"Boss I figured out how the gunman got into Rangeman." McGee shouted.
Everyone turned to see McGee entering the command room.
"They copied one of these cards, that are used for entry into the building, which is also connected to the gate to enter Rangeman parking garage." McGee smiled
"Great work McGee, Ranger I have a better Idea, I am going to send Bishop undercover in the Georgia Rangeman, I think that is where the trouble started originally." Gibbs said.
"McGee come home" Gibbs said and then cut off comminutions.
"Okay, so what is the next move?" Vance asked Gibbs, we send Bishop undercover at Rangeman, while McGee, me and you look for the guy that killed Kloughn." Gibbs stormed out of V-Tack.
He went down to the main level, "Bishop you are going undercover in Rangeman in Georgia I have a feeling that we will find some answers there"
Bishop nodded and left to get ready to work at Rangeman.
Meanwhile at Rangeman Tank and Ranger were having a meeting.
"Okay we have found out Kloughn was killed, Morelli is missing, and Frank is kidnapped. Someone in Rangeman is behind this. I want you to go Georgia to help Bishop and find out what is going on, I think it is Randy. "Look" Ranger put in the security take of the night Ranger, Stephanie and Tank left.
"Who is he talking to ?" Tank asked.
"That is what I asked myself? So I got his phone numbers that he had called?"
Ranger tossed him the phone records he looked them over.
"Who is the private number?" Tank asked his friend and boss.
"I don't know that is what I am trying to find out." Ranger told him.
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Okay I am on my way now to Georgia." Tank walked out of his boss's off.
Ranger picked up the phone, "Get me Gibbs"
"Gibbs we have a lead, a person by the Name of Randy Thompson, he is one of my employees who is making private calls that are not registered on my call list or his call list. The number is 955-866-7856."
"Got it I will have Abby check it out. I will also check to see if she has anything new." Gibbs hung up the phone and left to go to Abby's lab.
"Abby what have you got?" Gibbs asked her as he softly kissed her on the cheek with a Caf-Pow.
"I have a partial finger print, that I managed to get from Kloughn's wallet. I ran it through AFIS and got nothing." Abby told him while pouting.
"Can you run it through Rangeman Security?" Gibbs asked her.
"Yes, I can Tank gave me access to their data bank, but it might take a while." She started to run the print and came up with a hit as Gibbs were leaving.
"Hey Gibbs, we got a hit" He ran back into the room.
"Who is it?" He asked in a stern tone.
"Randy Thompson he is the inside man at Rangeman in Georgia, but if Albert was killed here, then ."
"He is here in Virginia" Gibbs told him and smiled "I will update Ranger"
Gibbs walked out of the lab to give Ranger a call.
He went back to his office and called Ranger, "Ranger your right the inside guy at Rangeman is Randy Thompson" Gibbs said then hung up.