( McGee, Tony and Ziva wiping themselves off with smoke all around.)
"Ahh… Tony you're gonna want to take a look at this." McGee said as he back away carefully. Tony peered over McGee's shoulder to see a laptop and a package of C4 with wires running back to it. "OK everybody. I want every one to slowly retreat from the house and we're going to call the bomb squad" Tony spoke calmly. Exiting out of the room as though he was walking on eggshells.
Ziva charged from her hide place when the van squealed away. The driver had gotten up off the ground where his assailant had thrown him. Patting his jumpsuit causing a plumb of dust to rise in the air. Ziva coughed as she ran through the cloud loosing sight of the van. "You Donkey's butt! Couldn't you have waited to throw sand in my eye!" Ziva stomped back towards the driver.
Gibbs handed the photo back to the Commander saying "He's on his way back to you now as we speak." Meg blinked "What do you mean you have in your custody?" Gibbs answered back "In a manner of speaking. What do you know of a middle aged MP and a young ensign being here yesterday?"
Meg Austin walked back around her desk nodding to the other in the room to leave her alone with Agent Gibbs. She sat down while the room cleared, then answered "I myself was just assigned to this office today. However, I noticed a half used cigar on the window sill." She opened a drawer in her desk pulling out the cigar in a plastic baggy. As Gibbs walked forward to get it she pulled it from his reach "What about my officer I'm looking for?" she said with a grin. Gibbs smiled back grabbing the bag before answering. "The D.B. is on it's way to the examiner's table as we speak you can see him there."
Ziva called McGee's cell not wanting to face the wrath of Gibbs yet for loosing the body. "Hello" yelled the friendly voice over sirens in the background. "Timothy, this is Ziva I had a slight issue with the body."
"What? I can barely hear you, what did you say about your body?" McGee asked trying to get away from all the flashing lights and sounds. "Not my body, the body. It was hijacked. I need you to come pick me up at Wannatiti Road" she said in a raised voice.
"Tony doesn't want me to leave the bomb scene, I'll have one of the medical personal drive out there and pick you up. I gotta go!" McGee said and hung up.
"Fine, I'll just be here whittling my thumbs. Wait did you say bomb? McGee. Hello Argh!" Ziva slapped the phone shut and went to the side of the road to wait with her escort.
"Ok so I got your fed-ex surprise here Gibbs and let's just say I'd prefer a caf-pow instead. However I managed to get a crispy bone marrow sample to test." Abby said over the video conference with Gibbs.
"So? We already are aware that those are the remains of Admiral Prince. How are they going to help me with the gun shipment?" Meg asked peering over Gibbs shoulder looking at the small laptop screen on her desk.
"That's what we're wondering kind lady. We don't believe that this are the remain of the Admiral." Ducky answered as he walked into frame of the camera.
"That's what I was saying before Blondie interrupted me. Unless Admiral Prince was a short Japanese man these remains aren't his" Abby said.
"Whose are they Abbs?" Gibbs asked. "Well as far as I can tell Jethro, we did not receive all the remains. Which isn't that uncommon in fact most cremations added cigar ash to give the proper amount of ash one expects from a burnt body. Why I believe the ancient Mayans custom was to wrap the decease's body in leafs almost like a cigar." Dr Mallard said.
"Ducky! How much is missing?" Gibbs replied trying to get Dr Mallard back on track. "I can answer that Gibbs. From what I anayalized, I'd say around 25 of this ash is from a body. The rest is tobacco, tea leafs and some kind of root that's in a lot of Japanese dishes" Abby stated.
"But the M.P. officer a Mr. Rick Wright filled out the paper work identifying the body on the beach as Admiral Prince. The Ensign Robin Masters, who released the body to the crematorium, confirmed it." Meg Austin said from the paperwork in her hand.
"I can't tell you what I don't know but what I do know is that these remains aren't a white Dutch man, which Admiral Prince happens to be." Abby fired back.
"Thank you Abbs. Ducky you'll be getting back a body of an officer Higgins. I need a quick turn around on it." Gibbs said as he reached to terminate the connection. "Well there you Commander Austin, your gun smuggling bad guy might turn out to be Admiral Prince."
Ziva shifted in her seat unsure of which situation was worse. Telling Gibbs of the attack or having Tony rub her nose in the fact that she protect a stiff from walking away. The van pulled up to a roadblock a block away from the Higgins house. Slamming the door shut she made her way back to the scene brushing her hair out of the way as it bounced to and fro. "Where's the squad I ask for?" she heard Tony's voice break out over the crowd of officers on the scene. Spotted McGee and made her way over to him. "Tell me what's going on?" Ziva asked as McGee looked at her approach.
"We found a bomb under the floor of the closet. We're in a holding mode right now till the bomb squad gets here. What happened to you?" McGee said. Ziva rolled her eyes and answered, "Somebody really didn't want us to have a chance to examine the body closely. I think he had something on or in him that we missed."
Tony came up to the two of them saying "Probie! The bomb squad is finally here I need you to brief them on the wiring of the explosive." As McGee left to comply Tony turned to Ziva looking in her eyes "You ok? Are you hurt anywhere?" Ziva rolled her eyes "Thanks Tony, I'm fine. But I think we are missing something here. I mean what would anyone have a bomb in his closet? Yet have his dead body stolen causing more attention to the situation."
Tony smiled "Well if a certain agent could have held on to the body, I'm sure Ducky and Abby would be able to tell us." Ziva smacked Tony hard in his arm. Just then McGee came running towards them with his hands waving in panic. Tony's eyes went big and grabbed Ziva throwing them both to the ground and the house exploded in a huge fireball sending pieces of debris all around them.
( McGee, Tony and Ziva wiping themselves off with smoke all around.)