Spoilers: 8x17 'One Last Score'
"You meet Agent Barrett yet?" asked Tony.
"Nope, been here all day," Jimmy replied as he filed some of the paperwork for Oliver Froman. "Why?"
"Just wondering," Tony answered with a small shrug.
Jimmy raised an eyebrow at that. "What's got you so intrigued?"
The ringing of Tony's cell phone interrupted them. "DiNozzo…okay, be right there." He turned to Jimmy. "I've got to go inventory all of Leona Phelps' belongings. See ya, Jimmy!"
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"You ever been to Spain, Jimmy?"
"Here's your sandwich," Jimmy said handing him the sub Tony asked him to get. "I visited Madrid when I was in France. Why?"
"Agent Barrett, EJ, was transferred from Spain."
"You don't say; what part?"
"Rota."
Jimmy hid his surprised look by taking a bite from his own sub. Other than that night at the bar, Tony has never mentioned Rota or the team offered to him by Director Shepard so directly or ever really. Jimmy always suspected that part of Tony has always regretted passing up such an opportunity, by that point he had worked for almost five year for Gibbs and he had even led the MCRT for four months and no one could deny that he more than measured up in that respect. Another agent would have immediately jumped at the chance to be a team leader; it was only natural. Now Tony was confronted with the "what might have been" in the form of one EJ Barrett.
"Does she know?"
"No," replied Tony after a beat.
"Are you going to tell her?"
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"Oh sorry, I was looking for Doctor Mallard," a female voice said from the entrance of autopsy causing Jimmy to turn around.
"I'm Doctor Palmer, but you can call me Jimmy," Jimmy said, it was still weird to think that he was a doctor now and he still was not used to people referring to him as one. "I work with Doctor Mallard; he's not here right now, he went to go have a word with Agent Balboa. Can I help you with something?"
"EJ Barrett," EJ replied holing out her hand. "I just transferred from Rota, Spain and the local medical examiner was going to email some files over to Doctor Mallard for him to look over for a case my team is working on."
"Well, welcome Agent Barrett, is your team here too?" asked Jimmy as he headed towards the computer in autopsy.
"Thank you and no, they're finishing up a couple of things in Rota, should be here by the end of next week though."
"Okay, so it looks like the local medical examiner emailed those files you wanted to Doctor Mallard," Jimmy said after accessing the doctor's NCIS email account, "but there's a problem."
"What's the problem?" she asked as she looked over his shoulder.
"How's your Spanish reading comprehension?"
"It's good but not great, my agents are better so I have them reread the technical reports like medical examiner reports to make sure that I haven't missed anything."
"Well, Doctor Mallard maybe able to help you if you're willing to wait otherwise you can try the linguists in the intelligence department or try someone upstairs in the bullpen. Both Agents DiNozzo and David speak and read Spanish."
"DiNozzo knows Spanish? No wonder he was offered Rota," EJ said almost to herself. She looked up and was surprised to see Jimmy, almost as if she had forgotten he was there. "Could you forward that to me? I think that I'll try someone upstairs."
"Sure thing," Jimmy said. "Okay, it should be waiting for you upstairs," he replied turning to face her.
"Thanks, Jimmy," she said with a smile.
"You're welcome," he smiled in return. "It was nice meeting you, Agent Barrett."
"Same to you, Jimmy," EJ said before walking out of autopsy.
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"Good night?" asked Jimmy after observing Tony's buoyant mood. They were meeting at a local café for lunch.
"You could say that," Tony replied cryptically.
"And what or rather who is responsible for your good mood?"
"Agent Barrett is one fascinating woman."
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Jimmy chuckled as he returned to work. Tony was right; EJ Barrett was definitely one fascinating woman.