The team spent an hour surveying the crime scene, while Ducky looked over the body of Lance Corporal Leonard Gray. He had been found in an alley between an apartment building and convenience store. All his and credit cards were on him still, and it appeared that he was stabbed multiple times in the chest, stomach and head. Currently, DiNozzo was currently taking photos while Gibbs was speaking with the officer who had taken the call. Kate was talking with Ducky about the body, and Tim was getting ready to find and talk to the teenager that had found him.

Tim walked up to the young teen. He was 15, maybe 16 and he was standing off to the side near a police car. The kid had dark red hair, brown eyes and more freckles than D.C had marines. "Special Agent McGee, NCIS, I need to ask you a couple of questions, it won't take long." The kid nodded and waited for Tim to continue."Did you notice anyone around when you found the body? Any cars, or something that stood out to you?" He The kid stood there for a moment and then said, "No, the alley was empty, I was just cutting through to get home." Tim nodded and wrote in his notebook. "Is there anything else that might have seemed out of place at the scene?" Again the kid, who Tim by now knew as Colton Greene, took a moment. "The alley is usually lit up at night, I walk this way every night when I go home from work, and the lights weren't on tonight." Nodding as he wrote Tim, thanked the boy and let him know that an officer would take him home.

Tim walked over to where Gibbs was standing, and was about to give him a brief summary of what Colton had to say when his phone rang. "This is McGee," he said without checking the caller I.D. He smiled when he heard his wife's sweet voice asking him if he'd be home on time or not. "I'm sorry beautiful, I wouldn't count on it. We were given a case about an hour ago." He talked to her for a few more minutes when Gibbs looked at him expectedly expectantly, and Tim handed him his notes. "I gotta go honey; I'll call around 17:00 if I can get home early. I don't want you waiting up for me." He frowned and shook his head, she was being stubborn again. "No, no go to bed if I don't call, don't worry about me, uh huh, yeah honey, I love you too. I'll see you when I get home."

Tim hung up and went to explain his notes to Gibbs, when he walked off and told the team that they were ready to head back to headquarters. Tim cringed as Gibbs had chosen to drive this time, and Tony took the opportunity to bother him some more about his wife. "So, tell us McSneak, was that the wifey on the phone? Checking up on her geek was she?" Tim took a deep breath and rolled his eyes. "Yes, that was Lilly, she was worried, I always call at lunch and today I didn't." Tony grinned and continued to pester him about being checked up on, wondered wondering if Lillian was more of a mother to him than a wife. Finally, Gibbs interrupted, slapped Tony and told him to shut up.

In no time at all, they were back in the office and they were waiting on the report from Ducky, and one from Abby as well. In the mean time, Tim was looking through Gray's records while Tony and Kate had left to speak with the Lance Corporal's CO, and then they would be moving on to talk to his wife and a few of his friends. The poor guy was young, at 28 he was just a year younger than Tim himself. He had a full life ahead of him, and it was snuffed out in an instant. Several hours after he had started, Tim had finally finished going through Gray's cellphone and home phone records. Gibbs had gone down to autopsy not too long ago, after being called down by Ducky.

"It would appear that our victim has been strangled. Ducky found several bruises, and his windpipe was crushed. The stab wounds were what killed him, obviously. Ducky said that they were done after he was strangled though, whoever did this was making sure that he was dead," Gibbs said to t hethe team when they had all gathered at their desks. "Tony, I want you to go back to the crime scene. Look around; see if you can find the knife. Kate, see if there is anything in his service record that would give someone a reason to kill this guy. McGee, I have his hard drive, I want you to go through it."

Everyone got to work, Tony left quickly, as did Kate, and Tim got right to work, connecting the hard drive to a spare computer in one of the labs and to began begin working through it. The hard drive was well over half full, and it was a 500 gig drive. He slowly went through the files one by one, trying to see if he could find anything potentially helpful. At this point, all he had was the man's online address book, and his amazingly large porn collection.

The time flew by, and before he knew it he had nothing and it was after midnight. Gibbs had come down to the lab five minutes before and told him to pack it in for the night, go home to his wife. He happily obliged and locked up the hard drive with the other evidence for the night. At 1:00 he was out the door and on his way to the garage and his car. It wasn't a long drive home, 15 to twenty minutes and when he was finally arrived at the apartment, he parked the car in the parking garage and made his way wearily to his apartment and wife. Unlocking the door, the first thing he noticed was that all the lights were out. He draped his jacket on the back of one of the kitchen chairs and made his way quietly to his bedroom. He couldn't help but smile at the sight before him. Lillian was lying on his side of the bed, hugging his pillow and snoring softly. Yes, he was a lucky man.