Gibbs made his way through NCIS to Vance's office. His former boss had called him and asked him to come in. He hadn't explained why, but Gibbs had a good idea of the answer. He was sure to have gotten the evidence of McGee's 'guilt' by now and needed help finding the younger man.

Gibbs walked right passed Vance's assistant and burst right into Vance's office. "You wanted to see me, Leon?"

"You know, I would think you would at least bother to knock now that you don't work here anymore," Vance commented.

Gibbs ignored his comment. "What do you want, Leon?"

Vance handed him the faxed information he'd gotten form Eli. "Take a look at this."

Gibbs took it and glanced at it. Once he realized that it had come from Mossad, he dropped it down on Vance's desk without even reading it. He didn't need to read it to know what it was. "No thanks. I don't usually read fiction."

"So you already know," Vance stated. He wasn't that surprised. McGee had been working with him and it was obvious that the only reason Eli was involved was because his daughter was. Agent David had probably called Gibbs when she realized her former teammate was being set up.

Gibbs just gave him one of his famous stares and refused to answer.

Vance sighed. "I don't really expect you to tell me if you do know, but I have to ask the question anyway. Do you know where McGee is?"

"You're right, Leon. I wouldn't tell you if I knew. But it just so happens that I don't. I'm the last person he would trust with his location," Gibbs said.

Vance nodded. He was actually relieved to hear it. He couldn't say it out loud, but he was glad McGee couldn't be found. He had no desire to arrest one of his best agents for something he didn't do.

"I assume Callen is going to be released," Gibbs said. The CIA couldn't hold Callen now, not with the evidence implicating McGee. They would have to let him go.

"The order has already been granted. He's on his way here now," Vance said.

"Good. He doesn't belong in jail, neither does McGee," Gibbs said.

"I'm aware of that, Gibbs, but there's nothing I can do about it. When McGee is found, I have no choice but to hand him over to the CIA," Vance said. He'd tried to make it so that McGee would stay within NCIS custody, but it was a no go. This was the CIA's case.

"I think we both know that McGee won't be found unless he wants to be found," Gibbs said. Tim was smart. He knew how to avoid getting caught. He'd gotten a flicker of that when he was avoiding them all getting caught digging by the CIA. "Have you told the rest of their team yet?"

Vance bit his lip. He certainly hadn't done that. That was not a conversation he was looking forward to. Hetty might be his subordinate and much smaller than him, but she was also very scary, especially when her people were involved. He did not want to be the one to tell her that another one of her agents was wanted by the CIA. She'd nearly bitten his head off when he told her about Callen.

Gibbs smirked. "Scared of a little old woman, Leon?"

Vance raised an eyebrow. "You're not?"

"I plead the Fifth," Gibbs said.

Just then Vance's phone rang. He immediately picked it up. "Yes? Alright, I'll be right down," he said before hanging up. "Callen's being brought up now."

Gibbs nodded and led the way out. They went downstairs and through the bullpen where they came across Tony.

"Boss, what are you doing here?" Tony asked.

"Not your boss anymore, Tony," Gibbs said.

"You'll always be my boss, Boss," Tony said.

Soon a tall bald headed man came over. "DiNozzo, I don't pay you to stand around all day! Get your ass back to work!"

"On it, sir," Tony said before going to his desk.

"Gibbs, this is Agent Nickles. Nickles, this is your predecessor, Gibbs," Vance introduced.

"So then you're responsible for that," Nickles said irritably as he pointed to Tony.

Gibbs was saved from answering when they all heard the elevator ding, indicating that Callen had arrived.

"Excuse us," Vance said before he and Gibbs quickly made it to the elevator in time to see Kort come off the elevator. Callen was behind him being escorted by two other agents. He was still handcuffed, much to Vance's irritation. "Let him go."

"Not so fast. I want McGee first," Kort said.

Callen's head snapped up in shock. "What? No freaking way! You're not getting Tim. If this is some kind of trade or something, you can forget it! You might as well take me back right now!" He would not allow Tim to be sacrificed for him. No way in hell. He would rather have them torture him for the rest of his life than allow one of his people, one of his friends to take the fall for him.

"Agent Callen!" Vance snapped in order to silence the man. He then glared at Kort. "This is not a trade. You will release Agent Callen because there is a court order demanding you do so."

"There is also similar order demanding you turn McGee over to me," Kort argued.

"I can't give you what I don't have. Now I won't say it again. Release my agent now!" Vance demanded.

Kort continued to glare at Vance for a minute before nodded to his men, who immediately removed the cuffs from Callen's wrists.

"Gibbs, I realize you no longer work for me, but would you mind escorting Agent Callen down to autopsy. I believe he could use an examination from Doctor Mallard," Vance said. He knew that Callen could make his way there on his own, but he wasn't sure he would.

"No way! I'm not going anywhere until someone tells me what the hell is going on!" Callen yelled angrily.

Vance gave him a steely glare. "This not a debate, Agent Callen. You will go now. That's an order!"

Callen glared back at Vance for a minute and then turned that same glare to Kort. "This isn't over. Now my phone and my weapon if you please."

Kort reached into pocket and pulled out the other man's cellphone and handed it over. He then took out his gun.

Vance grabbed the gun before Callen had the chance. The last thing he needed was the understandably volatile agent having a loaded weapon on him at this moment. As much as the idea of Callen killing Kort appealed to him, it would not help McGee any. "You'll get it once they're gone. Now go."

Gibbs approached Callen and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Come on, let's go see Ducky."

Callen shrugged Gibbs off of him and walked back towards the elevator with Gibbs trailing behind him.

Vance waited for Callen and Gibbs to leave before turning back to Kort. "He's right you know. This is not over."

"Where is McGee?" Kort asked.

"Your guess is as good as mine," Vance said.

"You expect me to believe you don't know where he is?" Kort asked skeptically.

"I really don't give a rat's ass what you believe. But the fact remains that McGee is not here. Not here in this building, and probably not here in DC. Now I will do my job and I will try to find him with the best of my ability, but don't think for a second that means I don't know what's really going on here. McGee is no more a terrorist than Callen. And you know that just as well as I do," Vance said before getting closer and speaking quietly so that no one else could hear. "I know you set him up and I know why. You knew that McGee was likely responsible for hacking into your agency's mainframe. And you wanted to make sure that if he figured out that Callen was set up that he wouldn't do anything about it. You thought you could keep him quiet by making it look like he was the guilty party. You thought he would bury the evidence if you did. That was a very big miscalculation on your part."

"That is quite the assumption, Director Vance. Unfortunately, the evidence doesn't support it. Now I expect that if you find Agent McGee, you will over to me," Kort said.

"Of course. Like I said, I'll do my best, just as I'm sure you and your people will, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. OSP is almost as good at laying low as the guys at Witness Protection. You won't find him until he wants you to, and I doubt you'll wanna find him then. Now get the hell out of my building," Vance demanded.

Kort smirked arrogantly. "I will find him. Finding a computer geek can't be that difficult."

Vance chuckled. "Arrogance is a flaw, Kort. It'll be your undoing. Now you underestimated McGee once already when you assumed he wouldn't allow Callen to be exonerated at his expense. But you go ahead and do it again. I'll take great pleasure in watching you fall on your face. Now get lost," Vance ordered once more.

Kort smiled at him once more and then made his way into the elevator with his men trailing behind.