CHAPTER 13
Much later the same day…..
Everyone was gathered at Gibbs place, much to Tony's relief Gibbs was gradually assuming command of their investigation and had made several cryptic to calls to all of them through the course of the day.
"Abby, what ya got for me?"
"I ran the CCTV footage from the archives, on the day Kate went there, 3 people visited. Only one of them I have a clear shot of their face, Toby from the Middle East desk, he was in and out in 10 mins. The other 2 weren't so accommodating but I did manage to work out height, the first is definitely male, 6 foot 6 and heavy, carrying an injury to his left leg, the way he's walking"
"Alistair Pearson" Gibbs and Tony said at the same time.
"The third person has to be the person impersonating Kate, small, 5 foot 4, but they could be in heels. Looking at the other date, when Jenny went, only 1 person went to archives that day and I think it's the same person" Abby pulled up the video and played in slow motion "Look at the way she moves and keeps her face hidden from all the cameras"
"Good work Abs! I want you to go through the tapes again, look to see if this person has visited on any days other than the ones we know about"
"McGee, check the guard schedule and look into everyone that came into contact with our suspect"
"Ziva, the ID's that were used? Originals?"
"No way to tell, all I had was a scanned image"
"Fornell, what did you uncover about Gow?"
"The man's got friends upstairs, Jethro. He had been working a smuggling case that crossed over onto a child porn case being worked on by Leon Vance, I couldn't find out the details but your director reported him for dereliction of duty, 2 weeks later he was out of field work, probably should have been fired on the spot"
"Here's the kicker Jethro" Fornell continued "the first 3 or 4 cases of yours he audited, he was still in the field office, he shouldn't have been anywhere near them"
"DiNozzo, you find out everything you can about Gow, Fornell, you help him, we need to do this on the QT"
Gibbs lifted his car keys "David, with me, we've got a visit to make"