Previously on NCIS

Bury Your Dead:

Rene Benoit: I'm sure you believe your father is a good man, hmm?

Tony: He was.

Broken Bird:

Trent Kort: I opted not to call in a favor of my own. Prefer to stockpile those for a rainy day.
Gibbs: I'm good for it.
Trent Kort: No doubt.

This chapter takes place sometime after 6.16 Bounce.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own these characters. Everything belongs to the NCIS production. Although I have read spoilers, I have not seen any future scripts for season 6.

If you have not seen any of S6, this will be very SPOILERISH!!!! And, even if you have seen most of S6, there ARE spoilerish ideas present here.

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"Gibbs." Fornell said as he entered the bullpen. Gibbs was sitting alone in the darkened office, in the early morning hours.

"I heard that you found your mole, Michelle Lee." Fornell continued as he rolled a chair over near Gibbs' desk.

"Yes, that situation has finally. . ." Gibbs started to say with a haunted look. "finally been resolved." Gibbs redirected his attention to Fornell and why he was there. The arched eyebrows cued Fornell to start.

"When I handed you the FBI file on our mob boss, you asked me to look into what his connection was to Agent DiNozzo's father." Fornell smirked and shook his head at how the whole idea could even be possible.

". . needed to know what his father is into." Gibbs added. ". . .without Tony finding out about it." Fornell continued to give Gibbs a questioning look but finally nodded in understanding.

"You don't think he knows already?"

"Yes. As far as I can tell, DiNozzo's father is clean." Fornell stated. "He hasn't been funding the mob lately."

"Then what is he doing!? I know Tony, Tobias, something is not right here." Gibbs angrily shouted at Fornell. Fornell gave Gibbs a defensive look but softened, when he realized Gibbs was just showing concern for his agent.

"Something I did find interesting, but it doesn't have to do with Tony's father." Fornell started but waited for Gibbs' reaction. After Gibbs's encouraging look, Fornell began to explain. "Did you know Jeanne Benoit was murdered?"

Gibbs returned a look of terror from the news.

"Murdered?" Gibbs asked in shock. "How?"

"Car bomb. Overseas, not long after her visit back here to the States." As Fornell explained this, Gibbs looked at Tony's desk grimacing.

"After discovering that, I tried to dig up the information and evidence gathered by NCIS from when DiNozzo's car was blown up." Fornell stated. "That crime has never been solved, has it? In fact, there is no evidence that an investigation even took place in our FBI files."

After a long silence, Fornell finally redirected the conversation again.

"Our mob boss is being transferred today." Fornell explained in frustration.

"What?" Gibbs responded angrily.

"Did you find out anything about the picture?" Gibbs redirected his anger.

"The three worked on something together about fourteen years ago in Chicago. It is possible that he served as protection for the bank manager and DiNozzo's dad back then. For some reason. . . he turned against them both, recently." Fornell stated with a lost look, as he tried to understand why the mob boss would suddenly target these two men. As he looked back at the haunted look on Gibbs' face, Fornell concluded that it was time for him to leave.

"Ah, Gibbs. I need to go." Fornell said as he rolled the chair back. "I will get back to you."