AerialNation was a short drive from the SEAL base. They had set up shop five years earlier close by to cater specifically to the needs of a growing Special Forces command in the United States Armed Forces. They got about what they expected when they arrived. Gibbs strode into the smallish building quickly and in command as he approached the front desk.

"I'm Special Agent Gibbs, NCIS, I need to speak with whoever is in charge, now."

The flustered woman at the desk sputtered a bit then nodded and picked up her phone.

"Maybe we should have called first so they were ready for us." McGee opined.

"McGee, would you really want people who might have something to hide from us to be that ready?" Gibbs returned.

"Oh, I guess not."

Minutes later a man in a well tailored suit walked out of an unmarked door nearby and headed towards them.

"Special Agent Gibbs, I'm Bernard Grove, Manager of Operations here at AerialNation. Please, tell me how I can help you?"

Gibbs smirked at that. "You can open up your files regarding the-" Gibbs paused and opened a file Kate handed him. "Sixteen Eleven Jumpmaster parachute. Including all testing done on them prior to sale, and any problems reported with them."

Grove's face blanched a bit. Kate's eyes focused in on his face and saw him break into a sweat.

"I'm afraid Agent Gibbs that will be quite impossible. Most of our records were destroyed in a fire last year. And even if they weren't those are sealed and restricted."

Gibbs stepped closer to Grove, until he was bare inches from his face.

"I could come back here with a warrant if you make me. Or you can make me happy now, release the records, and I won't make trouble for you."

"He really is a guy you want to make happy." Tony interjected.

Grove paled even more, but held his ground. "I'm sorry, but as I said, our records were mostly destroyed in a fire last year."

"Really? New company like this, started up in the 90's during the tech boom and as of last year you still hadn't backed up your files on computer? Seems a little silly to me." McGee chimed in.

Everyone turned back to look at him, then the NCIS team turned back to glare at a physically squirming Bernard Grove.

"I really don't-"

"Sure would be a shame if this got leaked to the media. They're having a field day with corporate scandals and cover ups." Gibbs cut him off.

"Horrible shame." Tony added with a smile.

Grove gathered his strength and furrowed his brow.

"I'm sorry Agent Gibbs but the matter is closed."

With that he stalked off back through the unmarked door and the desk receptionist asked them to leave.

"Well that didn't go very well," Kate commented.

"It could have gone better, but it wasn't bad." Tony said.

"How do you figure?" She asked.

"Because they acted guilty as all hell that's how. It's just a matter of getting in there before they destroy those records now." Gibbs answered.

"And short of breaking and entering how are we going to do that? Until Abby can sort out that document we got from Caufield's room, we have no legal basis to get a warrant for a search." Kate complained.

"No, we don't, but that doesn't mean it can't be done." Tony said.

"How is that?" Kate asked.

Tony smiled. "Wait and see."

Kate gave him a confused look but Gibbs met Tony's look with a smile of his own and nodded. With that Tony headed off for the car with his cell phone in hand.

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Five hours later seven police cars pulled up to AerialNation, closely followed by a SWAT team. Gibbs and Kate watched as they poured into the building with loud shouts and fast movement.

"I'm Detective Mahoney. I need to speak to a Mr. Bernard Grove." A large man who appeared to be in charge said.

Gibbs and Kate watched in amusement as the ever flustered Mr.Grove came rushing out of his unmarked door into the lobby.

"I'm Bernard Grove, what can I do for you?"

"Detective Mahoney." He announced, holding up his badge, indicating he was a member of the local police department. "We have reason to believe a fugitive from a gun related crime is hiding in this building. The crime was perpetrated just down the street, and eye witnesses have indicated this is the direction of the fleeing suspect. We have a warrant to search the grounds of this building and all surrounding buildings."

"Of course Detective. If you will allow my people to escort you around the building we can aid your search and access to rooms."

"Surely," Detective Mahoney agreed. With that he ordered his men to fan out and meet with AerialNation employees to search the building.

All of them did so, except one of the black clad SWAT team members who slipped off into the unmarked door that Grove kept entering and exiting through. He swept into a long hallway with doors periodically lining the wall. The shadowy SWAT team member looked left and right, constantly checking for employees that might spot him. Eventually he came to a door marked "Records Room." He turned the handle and ventured in.

Inside he saw a large room lined with filing cabinets. He rolled his eyes and shrugged at the relatively large task and short amount of time he had to do it in. After ten minutes of fast searching, he found a cabinet marked "Special Projects." He immediately opened the top drawer and within seconds found a file that read "Sixteen Eleven Jumpmaster Testing," which he pulled out and leafed quickly through. Inside he found evidence backing up what Caufield's document accused them of. Failed testing, faulty production techniques and a host of other problems had plagued this model, but still they were ordered to push production after winning a contract through the Navy.

He turned around and saw an old Xerox machine plugged in behind him. Luckily it had paper, and he quickly copied the file. Soon he was putting the file back where it belonged with a large stack of papers jammed into his vest. But just as he was putting the file back where he found it, a name on one of the other files caught his eye.

"LC Holmes," he breathed aloud. "Why does that name sound familiar?"

He didn't know, and didn't have time to check, so he copied the file as well and put it back. The whole ordeal had taken about twenty minutes. Quickly he slipped out of the Records Room and made his was back to the unmarked door, which took him out into the lobby just as Detective Mahoney was gathering his team.

"Well, looks like the suspect isn't in this building, we'll have to check the other buildings around here though, some of which are owned by AerialNation. Your help would again me appreciated Mr. Grove."

"Surely Detective." Grove responded.

The SWAT team moved out of the building first and back to the black painted van. But the man who went off by himself before again moved away from the group over to an unmarked car. He opened the door and was inside before anyone around could notice.

"Well?" Gibbs said.

The man took off his face mask and helmet and smiled. "I got it."

"Good job Tony. Sidestepping of the law included." Kate said in praise.

"Hey, you learn some tricks when you're involved with real cops. I still have some favors that can be called in for times like this."

"What did you find?" Gibbs asked, cutting to the question at hand.

"They are covering up testing results they got from the Jumpmaster. They are producing hundreds of the things with a method full of errors. It's all in a file I copied, we can look at it back at the office and compare it with whatever Abby gets from Caufield's note."

"Anything else?" Gibbs prompted.

"Yeah, one thing. Does LC Holmes mean anything to either of you?"

Gibbs shrugged and shook his head but Kate looked surprised.

"Lieutenant Commander Holmes? He was one of the SEALs on the team that I interviewed when we first got to the base. Why?"

"Really? I found a whole file on him in the Records Room where I got these documents. I didn't get a look at anything in the file, but I did make a copy of it."

"Good work Tony."

Tony beamed with pride.

"Keep this up and you'll be as good as McGee."

His smile died abruptly and Gibbs started the car for the drive back to the office.