Chapter 7 – Kate's Apartment
The team had decided that Kate's apartment would be the best for the makeshift headquarters in the search for Gibbs. Abby and McGee were seated on the love sofa, Ducky was sitting on the recliner, and Tony and Kate were on the sofa sifting through a mound of files on the coffee table.
Tony took charge. "Ok, so what do we know so far?"
"Well, Gibbs was undercover as an arms dealer. He was working with these three men here, who were believed to be selling weapons and ammo to a terrorist cell," McGee said, as he held up their files. "Lt. Watson, Capt. Miller, and Second Lt. Wiley. All three served on the same ship; all three received an honorable discharge within the last six months. Of course, now they can't be found; even their families haven't heard from them. They all shared the same bank, which reported to us a considerable jump in their account balance two weeks ago," McGee stated.
"How big of a jump?" Abby asked.
McGee flipped through a few pages of bank statements. "Whoa," he said. "According to this, which was printed yesterday, each man has deposited 1.3 million dollars, and made withdraws every 3 days for the last 3 weeks. $50,000, cold hard cash every time."
Kate sighed and looked from one person to another. "I'm sorry, but how is this going to help us find Gibbs? This is useless!" She flung the file she was looking at across the room. It hit the wall with a thud.
Everyone fell silent. Then, out of no where, Abby jumped up and startled everyone. "McGee, let me see those files!" Abby yelled as she bounded to McGee and snatched the papers from his hands. She scanned through them, "Uh huh, uh huh. Yea. Uh huh. Yes, yes, YES! I've got it!" she exclaimed.
"Abigail, my dear, want to tell us just what you've got?" Ducky asked from the recliner.
"Ok, look here. According to this, these guys have been withdrawing money every 3 days. And a lot of money. Every three days - don't you get it?" she asked the rest of the team.
Tony shook his head, then filled in for his boss when he said, "Abs, don't make me use a magic word!"
Abby turned to McGee, "Come on, Mr. MIT Man. Don't you even understand what I'm getting at here? If these guys take money out of their account every three days…"
It hit McGee then. "Then we can put a GPS chip in with the money and hope they lead us to Gibbs!"
"Exactly!" Abby said with excitement. "Or at least we can catch these three losers and get information out of them, then go get Gibbs after we find out where he is!"
Kate jumped up and went over to Abby. She hugged her, saying, "I knew there was a reason I liked you! Now come on, let's get this underway!"