Langley, Virginia
CIA Headquarters
1400 Hours EDT
McGee is working side by side with Darren Wong over in the cyber division. "I headed my own team for four months." McGee says as their reviewing the flash drives that McGee had brought over from his apartment.
"You gave up being a Team Leader." Wong says with surprise.
"I'm a field agent." McGee smiles with pride. "I was bored out of my mind sitting behind a desk all day long." "I would visit Gibbs a few times a week and he would be pulling out his hair with the agents they assigned to his team, I was surprised with Brett Langer since Gibbs had trained him years before and he had transferred over to the FBI."
"Why would anyone want to transfer back to the lowest Federal Arms Agency?" Wong laughs.
"You know I really get tired of the other agencies mocking NCIS." McGee snaps.
"Gibbs and DiNozzo would never have made it as FBI, CIA, DEA, or as a Secret Service Agent." "They may have gotten by as US Marshalls or working for the ATF."
"And where would have I been qualified as an agent?" McGee asks in a snippy tone of voice.
"NSA or FBI!" Wong smiles.
"Really!" McGee answers, taken back at Wong's response.
"Agent David would have fit in nicely with the CIA."
"What about former Director Shepard?"
"With her MTAC intelligence, NSA definitely, but where she excels is undercover work and from what I can make out from the back up copy from the hard drive from her satellite laptop, FBI or CIA, she really wasted her skills over at NCIS as an agent." Wong sighs.
"Keep in mind Gibbs trained her." McGee smirks.
Director Petraeus walks into the room. "How are you making out?" Petraeus asks and glances behind Wong's shoulder.
"Seems like Galanos wanted to be king of the world." Wong grumbles as he continues to go over the files from Jenny's satellite laptop.
"With Kort bumping him off, it seems that he wants to take his place." Petraeus snorts.
McGee having Benoit's IP number in Nice is hacking through Benoit's home computer. "No it seems that Julien Benoit wants to be king of the world." "According to his day planner, Benoit is having a party at his home in Palm Springs." "He's invited some of the exclusive drug cartels and weapons dealers from Central America."
"When is the party?" Petraeus asks.
"Tomorrow night!"
Fornell walks in with several coffees. "Come up with anything?" He asks and puts the coffees down on top of an empty desk.
"Yes big party at Benoit's house tomorrow night." Wong answers.
"How big?" Fornell asks.
"Drug lord's and weapon's dealers from Central America." McGee answers.
Fornell rolls his eyes and glances over at Director Petraeus. "You know this will now involve other members of the alphabet." Fornell grumbles.
"CIA is the lead agency in this, we'll get the credit." Petraeus nods.
"What about NCIS, since one of our agents was shot at by Julien Benoit's orders?" McGee sheepishly asks.
"Harriett Jones was also shot at and is a CIA Operative." "In Columbia it was Harriett Jones who saw former NCIS Special Agent Erica Jane Barrett handing over a classified file to Julien Benoit with an NCIS logo on the outside of the file." "Within an hour, Benoit used that information to purchase weapons from Bernardo Suárez." Petraeus reminds McGee.
"What difference in who gets the credit?" "Bad guys are going down one way or the other." Fornell answers and takes a seat behind a desk.
"I'm surprised at you Fornell." McGee laughs.
"I have my alternatives McGee." Fornell smirks.
Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, Tony is munching on a sandwich. "I'm starving!" Tony says between bites of his sandwich.
Cruz's cell phone begins to ring. He glances down at the caller ID. "Kort is persistent!" Cruz chuckles and flips his phone open. "Cruz!"
Nice, France
Julien Benoit's Mansion
2100 Hours CEST
"You ass better be on a plane to Nice." Kort snarls from Benoit's living room couch.
"I'm somewhere over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Kort." Cruz sighs in protest.
"When does your flight arrive?"
"I'd say between 0230 Hours and 0300 Hours." Cruz smoothly answers.
"I'll pick you up at the airport." "Text me your flight information."
"I thought that I would check into a hotel and unwind for a few hours."
"That can wait business first." Kort snorts and glances down at his watch.
"I take our new boss isn't very patient." Cruz shrugs.
"None, he doesn't believe unwinding in a hotel after a long flight." Kort answers and notices that several of Benoit's men have entered the room.
"I might as well get some shut eye on the flight over to Nice." Cruz answers.
"You'll have plenty of rest soon enough Ray." Kort smirks and hangs up. "Is the job done?" Kort nods over at Andrew.
"Taken care of." Andrew grins and walks over to Kort and hands him a cell phone number.
"Monsieur Benoit has requested that he needs more security for his dinner party tomorrow in Palm Springs." Richard announces to Kort and Andrew.
"We'll see if we can get a late flight out to the states." Andrew nods and walks out of the room with Richard and the others.
Iris walks in. "I still can't get into Galanos' accounts." Iris mutters in frustration and flops down on the couch beside Kort.
"Most likely the CIA got into his accounts and has them locked out." Kort answers.
"Absolutely not!" Iris defiantly answers and tosses her heels off to the side. "Shepard had his passwords written down in a special notebook."
"Which somebody found?" Kort snaps.
"He had a unique shorthand style that only Shepard could read." "I couldn't decipher it."
"Maybe if you were better in the bedroom, the old man would-"
Iris's hand goes across Kort's jaw before he can finish. "Don't go there Kort." Iris screeches at him and gets up from the couch.
"The last time a woman landed a hand on me, she was properly disposed of in a zoo." "The tigers and lions enjoyed the delicacy of human remains." Kort grins and gets up from the couch.
"Is that a threat?"
"I don't make threats Iris, I make promises." Kort laughs and walks out of the room.
"I'll give this new life a month." "If I don't like it, the same outcome that came of Shepard can happen to you as well Trent." Iris wickedly purrs.
Later that evening back in Langley, McGee, Wong, and several CIA cyber specialists are working with McGee and Wong. "I can't believe that Gibbs got away with this as long as he did." Wong chuckles.
"When the silver haired fox has a plan in action it's hard for anybody to catch on." McGee grins.
Washington, DC
NCIS Headquarters
Fornell steps out of the elevator, up on the balcony Vance is talking to his assistant Tom Watters. "Special Agent Fornell is there something I could help you with?" Vance shouts down.
"Nothing that I can think of Director Vance, I'm here to see Doctor Mallard." Fornell nods up at him and walks off down the aisle past Gibbs' section, he gives Ziva the version of the Fornell stare as he heads over to the elevator.
"Agents DiNozzo and McGee have been gone all day." Allison sighs with surprise.
"SecNav might have them working late tonight." Ziva shrugs.
Allison begins to pack up her desk. "It's been nice working with you guys." "Director Vance has reassigned me to Norfolk." Allison frowns.
"Norfolk isn't so bad." Ziva smiles.
Abby's Lab
Ten Minutes Later
Ziva walks in. "I never thought that she would leave." Ziva grumbles and walks into the backroom where Abby, Ducky, and Fornell are waiting for her.
"Soon as Vance goes home for the day, McGee and Agent Wong will be up in his office going over Vance's Office computer." Fornell informs them.
"Any word from Gibbs and Jenny?" Ducky asks.
"They're checked into a hotel in Nice." Fornell nods.
"I guess their catching up on old times." Abby winks.
"Abigail really!" Ducky mutters.
"From what I could see from the MTAC feed at CIA Headquarters they already caught up on old times inside Galanos airplane." Fornell laughs.
Nice, France
Park Inn by Radisson Nice Airport
0130 Hours CEST
Gibbs dressed in his white t-shirt and jeans sits on the edge of the bed. Jenny peacefully is sleeping on her stomach. "Hopefully by Monday this will be over with." Gibbs whispers and crawls over to Jenny on the bed, he begins to rein kisses on her lower back.
"Jethro!" Jenny mumbles in her sleep.
Gibbs works his mouth up her back, over her right shoulder, and over to Jenny's right ear. "Time to get up." He tenderly says and begins to nibble on the back of her ear.
"Five more minutes." She moans in protest.
"Ordinarily I would let you sleep in for ten more minutes but we have to meet DiNozzo and Cruz at the airport." Gibbs chuckles and gets his weight off of her from behind. Jenny rolls over and rubs the sleep out of her eyes. "If it wasn't for the op, I would be taking full advantage of you right now." Gibbs laughs and leans over and passionately kisses Jenny on the mouth. Jenny wraps her arms around his neck and deepens his kiss; Gibbs breathlessly pulls away before they get carried away. "I'll go pour you some coffee while you get dressed." Gibbs smiles and gets off of the bed.
Jenny reluctantly gets out of bed and walks over to the carry-on bag and finds a pair of undergarments, jeans, and a black blouse." "If we're doing this at night time, the darker the clothing the better I'll be concealed." Jenny answers and begins to dress.
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport
0245 Hours CEST
Tony and Ray walk out of their boarding gate. Gibbs and Jenny are off in the distance. "My gut is telling me to hold back for a minute." Gibbs whispers in Jenny's ear.
Byron and Mortimer are the last ones off of the plane. Spotting Tony and Ray in the center of the room. "They're here to meet somebody." Mortimer says.
"Approach them cautiously." Byron advises and they slowly approach Tony and Ray from behind.
"You got to be kidding me." Jenny laughs.
"And they work for Julien Benoit." Gibbs chuckles.
"I better alert Tony." Jenny laughs and picks up her burn phone and texts Tony.
Tony and Ray take a seat at a nearby lounge. Tony feeling his burn phone vibrating in his pocket takes out his phone from his pocket, on the caller ID Rose appears, signally Jenny's alias. He flips open his phone and presses in accept for the text. "Tweetle Dee and Tweetle Dum!" Tony reads.
"Meaning!" Cruz shrugs.
Tony glances over his shoulder and spots Byron and Mortimer pretending to look at a painting. "We're being followed." Tony whispers…. "I better check in with mom and let her know that my plane landed." Tony loudly says so that Byron and Mortimer can hear him. Tony presses in the speed dial button for Gibbs' burn phone. "My plane has landed." Tony grins.
Gibbs and Jenny standing off in the distance. "Lead them to the men's room." Gibbs instructs them.
"Remember mom can't go in there." Tony snickers.
"It's nothing that she hasn't seen before only mine is better." Gibbs smirks and hangs up.
"How would you know that?" Jenny sighs.
"I have the scratch marks on my back and ass to prove it." Gibbs grins.
Before Jenny can answer Tony and Ray get up from their seats and walk over to the bathroom. "Afraid that there might be something bigger in there Leroy." Jenny baits him and walks off for the men's room.
Gibbs quickly chases after Jenny. "It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it." Gibbs laughs.
Jenny getting aroused by their conversation quickly changes the subject. "How are we going to delicately do this?"
"You changed the subject." Gibbs smirks.
"That's because I'm too aroused to follow up on it." Jenny mutters.
"We'll give them a minute."
Inside the bathroom, Tony is whistling 'Moon River' at the urinal. Ray is standing in the next urinal over. "Great I'm going to have that song in my head for the rest of the day." Ray whines.
Byron and Mortimer are in the next urinal over from Ray. Tony and Ray fix the fly to their pants, flush the urinal and walk over to the sink and wash their hands. "I saw 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' the other day on ZMC." "A few years ago I mimicked George Peppard's fashion style from that movie." Tony grins.
"Chick flick!" Cruz cackles.
"Is not!" Tony grumbles and walks over and gets a paper towel.
"Is to!" Ray chuckles.
Byron and Mortimer roll their eyes at Tony and Ray and are about to leave the room. "Hey don't you know about hygiene etiquette." Tony chastises them.
"Typical American!" Byron sighs and walks over to the sink with Mortimer.
With their backs facing away from Tony and Ray and from the door, Gibbs and Jenny walk into the bathroom and approach Byron and Mortimer from behind pressing a gun to the back of their heads. "This was to easy DiNozzo." Gibbs laughs.
Tony and Ray frisk Byron and Mortimer from behind. "They're clean!" Tony nods.
"I bet their weapons are inside a trashcan in Dulles." Jenny answers.
Byron and Mortimer turn and face Gibbs and Jenny and are taken back that Jenny is alive. "Our boss is looking for you." Byron warns her.
"I know, he can't catch something when he doesn't know where to look for me." Jenny smirks.
"When Kort finds you-"
"He won't, you're going to lead us to Kort." Gibbs grins and strategically presses his gun behind Byron's lower back. "Jen give DiNozzo your Sig." Gibbs orders her. Jenny glares over at her lover. "Jen!" He snaps at her.
Jenny angrily relents and hands Tony her gun. Tony approaches Mortimer from behind. "How are we going to do this?"
"We have a rental car parked outside." "Plan A is to follow Kort and Ray." "If we lose them, then Tweetle Dee and Tweetle Dum we'll lead us to Benoit's house." Gibbs smoothly answers.
Half an Hour Later
Cruz gets inside of Kort's car. "How was your flight?" Kort asks and pulls away from the curb.
"I wouldn't know I slept the whole time." Cruz shrugs.
Unknown to Kort, Gibbs is driving behind him several car lengths away. "Now this is how you tail somebody Ray." Tony grins in the back seat with Jenny's gun pointing over at Byron and Mortimer.
Jenny in the front seat, pointing Gibbs' Sig in the direction of Byron and Mortimer. "I could have handled one of them on my own Jethro." Jenny hisses at him.
"Ooo fight!" Tony laughs.
"Shut up DiNozzo!" Gibbs and Jenny shout at him at the same time.
"I have my gun in my carry-on bag inside the trunk." Tony nods.
"Now that's intelligent." Jenny sighs.
"I didn't have the time to take it out." Tony whines in protest.
Ten minutes later, Kort pulls over in front of a café. "I have to make a phone call and the cell phone connection is horrible in this area." Kort grumbles and gets out of the car and walks across the street.
Gibbs pulls over at the end of the block. "What's Kort up to?" Gibbs asks.
Tony with his gut churning inside remembers Ray's cryptic words on how Kort was responsible for the bomb that was planted under his Mustang. "Ray!" Tony frantically shouts out, just as Tony is about to open up the passenger side door, Kort's car explodes.
On the street corner, Kort smirks over at his burning car. "That was so unnecessary Ray." Kort smirks and jumps on top of a waiting motorcycle.