CHAPTER 23
As soon as Gibbs had seen the look on Rivers face when he walked in the door, he knew the man would never give himself up.
Without him, breaking Gow was going to be much harder but hopefully not impossible. Gibbs thoughts meandered as they worked through the filthy apartment.
After dropping off the evidence at the external lab, they headed back to NCIS, and were greeted by a waiting Director Vance.
"Gow's waived his right to a lawyer and is demanding to speak to you"
Gibbs turned to Ziva "Go see what he wants"
"Me?"
"Yes, David, you"
Ziva gave her boss a funny look then walked off.
"That a good idea Gibbs, it was you specifically he asked for" Vance asked.
"I'm not about to give that scum bag anything he asks for Leon"
"Can you break him without Rivers?"
"I hope so Leon, I hope so"
Gibbs walked down to interrogation with the sole intention of watching Ziva rattle Gow. He got there just in time.
"I want to see Gibbs"
"Well you have me instead"
"I will only talk to Gibbs"
"Anything you wish to say to Gibbs you can say to me"
"No, Gibbs or I don't talk"
"Fine, then I will go and talk to Brooks and Rivers"
At the mention of Rivers, Gow's pallor turned grey. "Rivers?" he said in a strangled voice.
"Yes, Ian Rivers, how long do you think it will take for him to start to talk to me?"
Ziva got up and left the interrogation room, closing the door softly behind her.
"Nice touch Ziva" Gibbs said as he opened the door to Brooks's interrogation room.
Brooks was pacing the room when Gibbs entered.
"Sit down"
She did, looking very nervous and more than a little scared.
"Rivers is dead, shot himself as soon as he saw me. If that was part of your plan, it back fired because now you're going to carry this whole thing yourself"
Shaking violently, Brooks dropped her head into her hands.
Gibbs pushed again "Gow won't do anything to stop this happening; he'll walk while you sit in prison for the rest of your life"
"He said he was better than you" Brooks looked up at Gibbs "he was wrong" she nodded "I'll tell you everything"
Several hours later after reading through Brooks statement, Tony and Gibbs walked into Gow's interrogation room.
"Read him his rights DiNozzo"
Gow sat in silence and stared at the file Gibbs had in his hands.
When Tony was done with the Miranda, Gibbs waved the file at Gow "This is a sworn statement by Anne Brooks, and with it, I'm going to put you away for a very long time"
"Rivers killed all of those people!"
"You called the shots Patrick, it's all in here…how you found Rivers, how you got hold of dead agents credentials, how you were very specific about which files to copy, how you picked the victims from those files. It's over."
Gow became very still and stared at the file, refusing to meet Gibbs eyes.
Gibbs sensed he was close to the edge, but waited to see if he would topple before he pushed again.
When Gow finally met Gibbs eyes, it was all he could do not to jump up in triumph, Gow was broken!
Instead Gibbs asked "Thompson, I still don't get that"
"A favour for Gary, at first Phil visited every chance he got, sometimes 3 times in a week but when he made it big, he cut off his brother, Gary decided it was time for payback. You were supposed to arrest him not kill him"
Tony forced Gow to stand and quickly applied handcuffs. At the door, Gibbs stopped them "Why? Patrick, why?"
Without turning round Gow answered "Everyday for my entire career I've had to listen to Gibbs this, Gibbs that, Gibbs the goddamn superhero! There isn't a woman in the Navy Yard that wouldn't drop her knickers for you. That was supposed to have been me!"
Tony and Gibbs shared a look of utter amazement before Tony propelled Gow out the door.