Hospital Room
"Senator, we are assigning you a protection detail." Gibbs informed him.
"I am a Marine, Gibbs, I don't need protection." The Senator said.
"You are a Senator, now, and you are being assigned one." Gibbs informed him.
"We need to know who else has been threatening you." Gibbs asked him.
"I thought that you just arrested the man that stabbed me." The Senator asked.
"We did. However, we are not assuming that it was just one person behind your assassination attempt." Gibbs explained.
"I will call my assistant, and he will get you those names." The Senator responded. Gibbs nodded as he left the room.
Hospital Waiting Room
Gibbs approached Tony who was sitting with Wendy. As Tony saw Gibbs approach, he wrapped up his sentence and stood up to acknowledge Gibbs. He looked at both of them a minute.
"Wendy, the Senator is ready for you." Gibbs said to her before addressing Tony.
"I am leaving you in charge of the Senator's protection detail, until the agents assigned to him from the Pentagon get here." Gibbs informed Tony, after Wendy had left down the hallway to the Senator's room.
"Boss. . ." DiNozzo started to argue Gibbs' decision, but he quickly stopped when he was treated with a Gibbs' stare.
"You have unresolved issues with you ex-fiancée." Gibbs reluctantly said. "You told me Christmas night that you might be ready now."
"Yeah, well that was last year." DiNozzo said defensively. Gibbs got suspicious after seeing a haunted look in his eyes.
"That was seven weeks ago." Gibbs shot back with a confused grin.
"Yeah, last year." DiNozzo repeated. Gibbs looked away from him as he started to leave shaking his head at DiNozzo's comment.
Squad Room
"Somebody talk to me." Gibbs ordered as he entered the squad room.
"Where's Tony?" Ziva stopped and stared at her a moment before sitting down at his desk.
"McGee?" Gibbs redirected the conversation.
"The suspect is ready for you in interrogation." McGee said.
"I know that McGee." Gibbs said.
"Right Boss. We have information from the Senator's assistant, regarding those past threats. One threat started back in January 2011, then again in March 2011, and again in September 2011 for statements on anti-immigration that the Senator made. Those threats came from this man." McGee explained as he hit the button on the remote to have the picture brought up on the Plasma.
"His name is Eric Rodriguez. He threatened to expose the Senator for past war crimes." McGee explained. "The Senator had him arrested once, when trespassing on his property."
"He might have a connection with our stabber than." Ziva said.
"Possibly. Who else McGee?" Gibbs encouraged McGee to talk quickly.
"We just have some snail mail threats from members of his own political party as well as the opposing party, which concerns the upcoming vote. Some of the threats in this letter could be considered death threats."
"Find the person that wrote the letter, than McGee." Gibbs said, as he left the room heading for interrogation. "Ziva." When hearing her name called, she quickly followed Gibbs.
Interrogation Room
"He thought we were all terrorists. When I tried to tell him who I was, he did not believe that I was just in Iraq to do research for a documentary. I tried to escape his capture, so he shot me first in the leg and then in the stomach. For four months, I was paralyzed from the waist down. This afternoon, when I saw the man at the podium that caused me so much fear and agony for such a long time, I could not help myself. I yelled out what I thought of him and stabbed him."
"Did you know the Senator would be there?" Ziva asked.
"I was walking to the courthouse for Jury Duty. I have a summons in my pocket." The stabber stated. Gibbs signaled for him to take it out for them to see it. Ziva and Gibbs both stepped outside the interrogation room.
"He is telling the truth." Ziva said. Gibbs nodded as they walked back to the squad room.
"Call the prosecutor." Gibbs ordered.
"Where's McGee?" Gibbs said, as they walked into the squad room.
Squad Room
"Right here, Boss." McGee said from behind. "I found him, and I have Eric Rodriguez coming in right now." Just as Gibbs said that, the elevator doors opened with a man being escorted to the squad room.
"Eric Rodriguez?" McGee said approaching him.
"Yes. So this is NCIS?" Rodriguez said emphasizing the name.
"We need to ask you some questions." McGee said, as Gibbs and McGee took him to the other interrogation room.
Interrogation Room
"I am frustrated with how strongly this Senator feels on anti-immigration. Since my divorce last year, I have now received notification that I will be deported in another month. My wife and I got married in Mexico seven years ago. We were married for six years."
"You lived here for almost seven years now and you have a son, isn't that correct?" McGee asked.
"Yes. My name is not on the birth certificate because I am not the biological father." He explained.
"Really?" Gibbs questioned.
"I am incapable of having my own children, after having to undergo several months of chemotherapy." Rodriguez explained. "So my wife was impregnated via anonymous donor at a fertility clinic in Ohio in 2005."
"Ohio?" Gibbs questioned. McGee watched as Gibbs, tilted his head and looked to his far left to process the information.
"Yes, why?" Rodriguez questioned. Gibbs looked down and mumbled something incoherently, shaking off his own question. McGee looked at him curiously, as he tried to guess what Gibbs was thinking.
"Thank you for your time, Mr. Rodriguez." Gibbs said opening up the door for him to leave.
"Boss?" McGee said as the exited the interrogation room.
"He is being deported. He is no longer a threat to the Senator. Besides we have no other evidence." Gibbs said.
"What. . .?" McGee started to ask a question but really did not know what the question was. "Why were you questioning him about his son?"
"It isn't his son." Gibbs said with a strong emphasis.
"I know, but why. . ." McGee asked persistently.
"And, that is why I was questioning it McGee." Gibbs said, walking away. McGee stood there more puzzled then before from the rather bizarre answer to Gibbs already bizarre question. He followed Gibbs back to the squad room.
"Ziva." Gibbs said.
"I talked with the prosecutor, and she is on her way over to talk with legal." Ziva said, as she talked she watched as McGee gave confused looks over a Gibbs. They watched as Gibbs got into the elevator.
"Is something wrong, McGee?" Ziva asked, looking at him suspiciously.
"Gibbs, when he was interrogating Eric Rodriguez, just asked rather strange question. When I asked him about it, he gave me an even stranger response."
"What exactly?" Ziva asked.
"Rodriguez said that he is being deported, since he has been living on a visa and got divorced last year. He said that his son is actually not his and that he was not listed on the birth certificate because he is incapable of having children, so his wife went through a fertility clinic in Ohio to become pregnant." McGee explained.
"Aaaand?" Ziva asked, curious what this had to do with Gibbs.
"Gibbs was really surprised by that the information about Rodriguez not being the father and the fact that his wife became pregnant via anonymous donor in Ohio."
"I wonder why." Ziva said, not really sure what the connection would be and why McGee was so interested in the information. "Where did Gibbs go anyway?"
"Right here, Ziva." Gibbs said from behind her.
"Go relieve DiNozzo." He ordered. "Send him back here."