As Abby ran the video, applying different filters, Ziva only half watched, letting her drift again. The few clues that they had been given about the mysterious woman's identity tumbling around inside her head, along with the unexplainable feeling that she had been the one to have met the woman in the past.

She tried to connect the dots, trying to get them to make a discernable picture. As she gazed unseeingly out of the small lab window, the pieces fell into place with horrible clarity. She knew where she had met the woman, and she knew her name. The realization did nothing to help alleviate the feeling of dread that had settled over all of them, if anything, it worried her even more, because she knew what the woman was capable of.

Ziva gasped, startling the others, who's full attention had been focused once again on the video playing over and over on the screen. She nearly jumped out of her chair, and bolted for the elevator before anyone could ask what was going on. The others tried to follow, but she made it to the elevator before any of them could catch her, and they had no idea where she had gone. Gibbs turned back to the others and barked out his instructions before punching the button to recall the elevator, "Abbs, keep working on trying to figure out how they faked that video, and see if you can get anything from it that we can use to find Colleen. McGee, you stay and help Abby. Tony, you're with me."

The others jumped to comply, Tony just barely making it into the elevator before the doors closed. "Where're we goin' boss?"

Gibbs shook his head, and turned to Tony with a "how dense are you?" look on his face.

Tony grimaced at the look on his boss' face, "Right, to find Ziva, and find out what made her rabbit like that."

Ziva headed strait for the parking garage and her car. Firing up the engine, she tore out and headed for the Israeli embassy, breaking more traffic rules than even her usual. Screeching into a parking spot, she didn't even bother to shut the car off before she burst through the front doors and headed to the office of her father's most trusted official in the embassy.

She slammed the door open, not hearing the receptionist shouting after her that there was a meeting in progress, and that she would have to wait her turn. As she barged into the room, all heads turned to her. Most she had only a vauge recollection of, but one face stopped her in her tracks.

The man at the head of the table stood and moved to her, "Officer David, what is the meaning of this?"

It took her a few seconds for her mind to catch up to everything that had transpired in the last few seconds. When it did, she knew there was more going on than NCIS had previously realized. "Dad, what are you doing here?"

Director David stared at his daughter for a moment before he answered her question. "I have come to oversee the extraction of a Mossad agent from a Hammas cell here in Washington. She has not answered our last few communications, and we believe she may have been compromised."

Again it took a moment for Ziva's mind to process all of the information that she had been given. It was too close to being a coincidence that her father was here at the same time that all of this was going on, and like Gibbs, she too did not believe in coincidences.

"Your agent wouldn't be a woman who used to be friends with your son would she?"

Her father studied her for a minute, as though trying to read her mind, and discover the intentions behind the question, "I do not know of whom you speak. I have never met our operative face to face, so if she had any connection to Ari, I would not know."

The answer was evasive and Ziva could not tell if he was telling the truth or not, but learning from her past experiences, she took everything that her father said with a grain of salt. She turned to leave, but before she reached the door, she turned back, "Just answer me this one question before I have to get back to work, did you know Baria and Ari had gotten married?"

Director David did not voice his answer, but a slight nod of his head before he turned away from her and back to the part of his life he considered to be truly important, gave her all the answer that she needed.

Ziva knew she would have to share what she had discovered with the others, but the other information that she would have to share in the process, made her reluctant. Before she headed back to the naval base, she pulled in at a little coffee shop frequented by NCIS agents to figure out exactly how much she had to tell everyone. For the most part, Gibbs knew about her past, but the others would have to know almost everything. Director Shepherd knew most of her past as well. They had worked together on several missions before Ziva's assignment to NCIS, and had come to trust each other almost implicitly.

From his quick acceptance of her on the team at the beginning, she knew McGee would take it in stride, but she was worried about telling Tony and Abby. From what she had picked up on over the last two years, Abby had lost her best friend, and Tony had lost the one woman he had ever wanted a true relationship with.

She only stayed at the coffee shop for a few minutes, knowing that the others would be searching for her, and wanting answers as to why she had shot out of there like that, and where she had gone. Driving back to headquarters, she took her sweet time, and for probably the first time since joining NCIS, did not break a single traffic law.

When the elevator doors opened in the basement, five people were waiting for her, their expressions ranging from Gibbs' fuming anger, to Abby's fearful curiosity, to Ducky's outright concern. The moment she stepped out of the elevator, Gibbs grabbed her upper arm, and dragged her down the hall, out of earshot of the others.

"What the hell was that Officer David? Running out in the middle of the work day without telling us where you were going, or when you would be back."

Ziva didn't let his anger get to her, she knew that he was just worried about what was going on, stressed about still having a missing child, and on top of that someone trying to make them think they were holding a dead member of his team hostage.

"I found a lead on our mystery woman, but I wanted to verify my information before I shared it. If you will let go of my arm, and come back to Abby's lab, I will explain everything. Before I start however, you may want to call the director down here, she will want to hear all of this as well."

Gibbs stared at her in silence for a few seconds, before slowly letting go of her arm and pushing past her to lead the way back to the others. Tony, Abby, and McGee tried in vain to cat casual, like they hadn't been trying to listen in, but their guilty faces were a dead give away. Shooting curious looks at each other behind Gibbs' back, they followed him and Ziva into the lab.

When they had all filed into the room, Ziva turned to face them, her expression unreadable. Gibbs quickly phoned the director from the phone in Abby's office, speaking with her quietly for a moment before he hung up. While they waited for the director to join them Ziva paced the room, looking from one to the other of them, but never making eye contact. Once Director Shepherd arrived, Ziva stopped her pacing, and faced them, finally making eye contact, but not saying a word. None of them had ever seen her so reluctant to speak.

Finally, she steeled herself, and began, "It's a bit of a long story, so you might want to drag up a chair."

Tony interrupted her in his usual fashion, "It's pull, Zee-vah, pull up a chair, not drag up a chair."

She shot him a brief glare, and then resumed her pacing. Once they had all found a chair or tabletop, or in Abby's case, spot on the floor to sit, she continued, "I know who our mystery woman is. I was the one she was speaking to when she said that we had met in the past. I suspected from the beginning that I was the one who knew her, but it did not register who she was until right before I left."

This time it was McGee who interrupted, earning himself a glare from both Ziva and Gibbs, "Why did you leave like that without saying anything, and where did you go?"

Not to be thrown off track, Ziva continued, barely acknowledging the questions, "I will explain everything, but the more you keep interrupting me, the longer it will take, and the longer Colleen Finnegan will be in danger. Now, does anyone else want to say anything, or shall I continue?" She paused for a moment to make sure that they had gotten the message, then took a deep breath and continued, "As I was saying, I realized who the woman is, and where I had met her, though I wanted to corroborate my information before I told anyone else. The woman's name is Baria, and she is supposed to be here on a Mossad mission." Tony began to interrupt again, but Ziva raised her hand to silence him. "I know this because I went to the Israeli embassy to speak to them about her. My father was there, and he informed me that she is supposed to be working undercover in a Hammas cell in the DC area."

This time it was the Director who cut her off, "There's a Hammas cell in the DC area, and they did not feel the need to inform us?"

Ziva was quiet for a moment before calmly answering, "I did not ask their reasons, but I am sure they will be happy to tell you if you ask. If I may continue, , I met her when I was very young, maybe nine or ten years old at the most, which is why it took me so long to remember having met her. I met her at one of my dance recitals. My older brother, the only member of my family who ever supported my dancing, brought his girlfriend to my final recital."

As she said this, Ziva looked to Gibbs and the Director, to see if they had made the connection between the mention of her brother and Ari. She could see that Gibbs had made it right away, and the director followed not long after. She made eye contact with them both, trying to convey that she would explain it all, and then continued, "I only spoke to her briefly then, but I heard about her again from time to time, when my brother would come to visit."

She paused again here, to let them all catch up before she dropped the biggest bomb shell. "You have almost all met my brother, and I know for a fact that you all hate him, and I will not blame you if you hate me too."

Tony, Abby, Ducky, and McGee looked to each other in confusion. Ziva could see that they were all trying to make the connection, but that it would take more for them to figure it out.

"The woman's name is Baria Haswari."

That was all it took. Tony made the connection first, but the others were not far behind. None of them spoke at first, as they were to busy trying to wrap their minds around the information they had just received. Abby was the first to regain use of her voice, though full sentences followed a few seconds behind, "You're not… he's not… You're telling us that Ari Haswari is your brother?!"

Tim just goggled at her in shock, but Tony, without a word, stood up violently, knocking his chair over in the process, and walked out of the room without looking at her.

She chose to address Abby first instead of going after Tony. It would be better to let him think things over before she tried to talk to him.

"Yes, Abby, Ari was my brother. My half-brother to be more precise, we share the same father."

Before Abby could ask any more questions, Ziva continued, "I was his control officer at Mossad, and when I was first here, I was convinced that he was innocent, and I was trying to help him get away, and prove his innocence."

McGee finally spoke up, his voice soft, "What made you change your mind?"

Ziva looked to Gibbs, who gave a slight nod before she continued, "Gibbs came up with a plan to set Ari up, to prove either his innocence or his guilt, and I helped. Gibbs set himself up as bait, if Ari took it, then he was guilty, if not, then I was right and he was innocent. He fell for it hook, string, and sinker."

More out of habit than anything else, Abby cut in, "It's line, not string Ziva."

Ignoring the comment, Ziva continued, looking at them all, ending with the director, "Gibbs' report about the death of Ari Haswari is not entirely truthful. He was not the one who killed Ari, I did."

When she stopped talking, Abby stood up, and gave her a huge hug. "I don't hate you Ziva. Yes, I do hate Ari, but I could never hate you just because you are his sister. Yes, Ari killed my best friend, but you didn't tell him to do that, and you weren't there when he did it. I'll bet if you had known what he was going to do you would have stopped him, no matter what, and you saved Gibbs and in the end, you stopped Ari." With that, she sat back down next to McGee, and looked over at him expectantly.

He stared at his hands in his lap for a moment before he spoke, "I don't hate you either Ziva I just wish you had told us earlier about all of this. You didn't have to keep it a secret."

Ziva smiled at the two of them, glad for their understanding. She turned to the Director, who up until this point had remained silent. "Jenny, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but I was afraid that the more people who knew, the more likely it would be that everyone else would find out. I didn't want to tell anyone until I had to. Truthfully I was hoping that this day would never come."

The director looked back at her for a minute, then quietly and simply said, "I understand. To tell you the truth, I probably would have done the same thing."