CHAPTER 20
NCIS
Gibbs is in his office and call up an old friend.
"Hey, I need a partner for tonight, you up for it."
Jen answers, "Jethro. It's 1:30 in the morning."
"Well, McGee and Abby are working on finding the cell. Morgan and McCormick are staked out at Paula Cassidy's house. And Ziva is running down leads that Mossad gave her."
"Okay. I'll be there in half an hour."
"Make it twenty minutes."
He hangs up and then says to himself, "I could get used to this."
As Jen arrives Gibbs directs her to Abby's lab. There McGee, Abby and Ziva have joined forces to narrow down the potential suspects.
Gibbs walks in with Jen and Ziva ask, "I thought you went home?" she asks her friend.
"I was. Someone needed a partner." as she looks at Gibbs.
"Hey, if we find this I need you to back me and Ziva up."
"You and Ziva. I thought you an I-"
"I need you to run things here until we find DiNozzo."
"Oh, okay. Hey where is Kellie?"
"She had a gig she could get out of. She'll be back around 0400." Abby informs.
Gibbs seems to be getting angry, "Have you found anything yet?"
"Well we narrowed the search to 10 square miles of south Maryland. They could be anywhere in this area."
"Are there any suspects in that area?"
"Yes, three. None of which are responding to phone calls of e-mail."
"They're probably working together. You have the addresses."
"Yeah Boss. Two are in Lexington Park the other is in La Plata."
"Okay Ziva let's go."
"Jethro, what do you-"
"I need you to find us if we don't contact you by 0600. I think they'll be waiting." Gibbs says.
"Be careful, Jethro."
"I always am, Jen."
McCormick and Morgan are watching Agent Cassidy's house when a truck pulls up.
"So this is how stakeout';s go." Morgan asks.
"Pretty much." McCormick responds as he gets the BOLO on Roger Cassidy's vehicle.
A man walks out and goes to the front door. Paula answers and they seem glad to see each other.
"That is the truck registered to Roger Cassidy."
"Does that mean that she is involved?"
"Yes." as he reaches for his gun. As he goes for the door handle two men with automatic weapons come to the doors. They disarm the agents and tell them to leave the area.
As they leave they see Paula being taken by her brother at gunpoint.
"Where are we going to go?"
"Back to HQ. I'm sure Gibbs will want to know what happened?"
Gibbs and Ziva are hurrying toward the target areas.
"I doubt La Plata is where they are. Lexington Park is closer to the Chesapeake. They will probably try to get away by boat."
"Okay, which one."
"Where are they at?" Gibbs asks.
"One is in a commercial area. Factories and distribution centers. The other is an abandoned warehouse district on the south west side." Ziva informs.
"It's the warehouse one. The other one will be to busy with workers on the night shift."
Gibbs turns hard to the left and pulls up near the area.
They get out and look around, as Ziva asks, "Which one?"
"We'll have to search all of them."
"That will take hours."
"You going somewhere?"
"No."
"Good. Grab you backup as well."
The to agents starts searching the warehouse. They go through three when they see lights on one down at the end of a row of buildings.
They come to a locked door. Ziva picks the lock and they enter. They hear voices, two or three men and a woman. They make their way though large crates and hide behind one where they can see Tony.
"Thank God, he is still alive!" Ziva whispers.
"Maybe not for long." as Gibbs sees the two guards with large weapons.
"What should we do?"
"Wait." Gibbs says.
On the outside a guard is doing rounds and find the unlocked door he walks in and alerts the guards near Tony. The woman goes into anther room as the guards search the are.
"Time to move." Gibbs says.
Gibbs and Ziva sneak around and shoot the two guards, killing them.
Tony has been tortured and looks like hell.
"I knew you'd come, Boss."
Gibbs pulls out his knife and cuts the ropes on his hands and chest. Ziva cuts the ropes on his feet.
They hear yelling nearby.
"We have to hurry!" Ziva exclaims.
Two gunshots ring out as Gibbs is hit in the left lower arm and right lower leg. All three agents fall to the ground as the other guards show up. They are disarmed of their primary guns. Gibbs moans on the floor. Marashi comes up and says, "Welcome Agent Gibbs. It's nice to finally meet you."
Gibbs is shocked at who he is seeing, as is Ziva. "You look like-" Gibbs tries to speak.
"Special Agent Caitlin Todd. Yes, I was to infiltrate your team to kill you. Unfortunately our fellow brother killed her before we could get in. That is why you are here."
"Your fellow brother, Ari, was a bastard! He wanted me dead, and was going to do anything to me to do it." Gibbs yells out.
"That is true. But we have taken over that mission."
"He was your mole. He wanted to take out Mossad. He had to kill me to prove himself to you."
"Ari Haswari was no mole. He was following his own agenda. He wanted to kill his father, but he didn't have, how do you say, guts to do it."
"You make a good argument. But you forgetting, I killed him."
"We don't think so. That is why we lured you here."
The other guards tie up Ziva and Gibbs and retie tony who seems to be out of it.
Marashi goes to leave, but then goes over and slaps Ziva hard enough to cut open her lip.
"That is for lying to us!"
"You will pay for that you-bitch!" Ziva yells.
"We will see."