Mystery Compounding Mystery
Tony sat at his desk and sighed with frustration. "Any luck, McGee?" he asked, frowning.
McGee looked up from his desk. "None whatsoever. All I've been able to determine sofar is that he vanished without a trace on the last day of his leave. It narrows the TOD window a little bit, but essentially…" he trailed off.
Tony grunted. "Essentially, that still leaves us with jack." McGee said nothing, but nodded, then turned back to his computer.
"There is something else we need to figure out, too," McGee said, suddenly. Tony looked up. "Great, another mystery to solve." Kate approached her desk and sat down. "Why Moonchild was in uniform if he was on leave, Tim?" she asked. McGee looked up at her and nodded towards her affirmatively. "You're right, that makes no sense. And interviewing witnesses is gonna be a little inconvenient," Tony said, still sounding exasperated.
"McGee, he was found in a shipping container. Do we know where exactly that container was located?" Tony asked, suddenly.
McGee was heard typing rapidly as Tony and Kate both gazed over at him expectantly.
"Norfolk has received cargo from Halifax," he finally said. "I can't seem to nail down specifically which container it is though." Tony nodded thoughtfully. "Halifax makes sense, that's where he was from. So we'd have to go and actually check them out, look for trace evidence." McGee nodded, regretfully.
"Halifax?" Kate groaned. I was hoping it would be a little smaller than that."
"It still might be, Kate," Tony said hopefully. "I mean, would he venture as far away as into the city if his wife and baby were still at home on base? Why weren't they with him?"
"Ummmm… because the baby is a baby?" McGee said, sounding like he'd just been forced to overstate the obvious. Tony made a face at him, and Kate rolled her eyes at the pair of them, even if she was sometimes forced to admit to herself that if she had a choice in the matter, she'd rather have these two clowns for her brothers, than her real brothers. At least Tony and Tim were only intermittently insane.
"The shipping container," Kate said, looking at her own computer, "what do we know about that? Was Moonchild in it when it left, or did he somehow find his way into it later on?"