As Cable played back the confession of Tali David Dani got the night before, the whole TAC team was in shock.
"I need to call Gibbs he needs to know what is going on." Jason said.
After about ten minutes Jason came out of his office.
"Pack your things, we are heading for D.C. we meet with a federal prosecutor in the morning. Tali was arraigned this morning they have already set her trial date. If we are going to put Tali away, we have to have all our ducks in a row." Jason told his team. With that the team started packing up their equipment and was on the next plane to D.C.
TAC played the recording for Gibbs. Needless to say hearing the recording pissed Gibbs off.
"Why the hell would Ziva come in trying to act all upset when Tony died when that bitch knew she was the one behind his murder? And to have it all planned out to try and get his estate when in fact she was the one that hired Deanna's ex-boyfriend to carry it out." Gibbs was fuming and ranting by this point. Jason knew not to interrupt a pissed off Gibbs. "To think she had the nerve to show up at Tony's funeral with Tali knowing that he was dead because of her and then set Deanna up to take the fall! Hell Tali didn't even know who Tali was! Yes Tony was in love with Ziva but he had to move on because Ziva never came back to the states. Hell he had even went over to Israel to try and bring her back and she was the one that told him to leave and go back to the states. It tore that poor boy all to pieces. She never told him she was pregnant so he never knew about Tali. If he had known he would have been back over in Israel in a heartbeat and none of this would be happening."
"So your saying Tali never even knew Tony?" Jason asked trying defuse a hot headed Gibbs.
"No! Oh what I wouldn't give to be able to get my hands on Ziva. If I had known Ziva was behind it the whole time, I would have led a mission myself to bring her back and get justice for both Tony and Deanna's murders. McGee, see if you can book us on the next flight to Tel Aviv!" Gibbs said.
"Yes boss." McGee answered getting on his computer.
"Agent Gibbs, McGee. There's no point in doing that. Ziva died yesterday morning." Dani explained.
"Dammit! How the hell am I supposed to get justice? I thought I had closure when Tanner was killed, but now to find out Ziva was behind it that whole time. That Bitch!" Gibbs said.
"I think there is something else you might want to see Jethro." Fornell said walking in with his team. He spread out a map of NCIS headquarters. On it were boxes with each agent's name signifying where their desks were, there was also a map of autopsy and the lab. What was disturbing was the red x's near McGee and Gibbs desk's and more x's spread out on the layout.
"Tobias, what am I looking at?" Gibbs asked.
"Jethro, Tali was planning on blowing up NCIS. Those x's is where she was planning on putting the bombs, one at yours and agent McGee's desk. We found explosives inside her apartment last night." Fornell answered.
"Now all we have to do is find her guilty on all this. Cable do some searching. I want you to find Abby Sciuto. I want her brought in for questioning. She was one of the witnesses in Deanna's trial and tried to put Deanna away for the murder of Tony. I want to know if she has had anything to do with attempted murder of Tonya." Jason said.
Fornell and his team along with Dani were able to find Abby down in New Orleans. She was working as a witch doctor and seemed to have gone crazy. They were able to bring her back to D.C. on the grounds that she got to see Gibbs.
The trial of Tali David started three days later. Jason was sure to keep this federal prosecutor in line. He helped pick all 12 jurors that would be hearing testimony and ultimately put Tali away for good.
"The prosecution would like to call Abbigail Sciuto to the stand." The ADA Cliff Davenport said.
Abby walked up to the stand dressed in black as always in her pig tails. It looked as though time had not been on her side as she had aged horribly since the last time Gibbs saw her which was almost 20 years ago.
"Ms. Sciuto tell me what your occupation is." Davenport said.
"I am a witch doctor in New Orleans." Abby answered.
"Have you always been a witch doctor?" Davenport asked.
"Of course not, I used to be a forensic scientist with NCIS." Abby said.
"What made you leave a federal agency such as NCIS to become a witch doctor?"
"Objection, relevance." Tali's lawyer Luke Jackson stood up and said.
"Overruled. The prosecution may continue." The judge said.
"I was fired from NCIS after the death of Tony DiNozzo."
"Was it true that you falsified evidence against his wife Deanna DiNozzo?"
"Yes and I did my time for that."
"True you did, but is there a way that you wanted to get back at NCIS by taking out another agent? By helping Tali David?"
"Tali and I had been working on a cure for the plague and Scarlett fever. I have always been fascinated by the dark ages diseases. So we created a gene that would not be able to be cured by regular antibiotics but by what we had developed."
"Is it true that Miss David took your creation and sent it to Agent DiNozzo-Bull?"
"If she did I had no knowledge of it."
"No further questions your honor."
"Well as of right now we are half and half." Marissa said into Jason's ear piece.
"Just wait we are just getting started.
"Ms. Scuito, tell me about your relationship with Agent Gibbs." Attorney Jackson said.
"Gibbs always liked me but he had always had a special bond with Tony. Tony always had Gibbs six. After Tony died, I thought I could move up into Gibbs favorite spot but truth be told I don't think Gibbs ever got over the death of Tony. It was like he took all that attention and placed it on Deanna, Tony's wife. I was always jealous of that. I wanted Gibbs to myself." Abby answered.
"Did Ziva and Tali David rope you into helping with their plan? With Ziva to frame Deanna for the murder of her husband and with Tali to murder her sister?"
"I will admit I did help Ziva. But I had no idea that Tali was going to try and murder her sister. We were trying to help the world not kill another federal agent."
"No further questions your honor."
"Bull we just lost 2 of our jurors. They are siding with Tali." Marissa worried.
"It's ok Marissa. They haven't heard anything yet." Jason reminded her.
"I would like to call to the stand Tali David." Davenport said.
"Miss David what made you want to become a Mossad Officer?"
"I wanted to be just like my mom."
"Ah yes your mother. Who was also an NCIS agent at one point. Tell me, your mother poisoned you from a young age with evil thoughts of NCIS and your siblings."
The jury and Jason could see that Tali was getting extremely angry.
"You had anger issues. The only reason you went to NCIS headquarters and wanted to be an agent on Gibbs 'team' would be to find out the layout of headquarters."
"Objection, leading" Jackson said.
"Overruled, proceed counselor."
"No." Tali said as she gritted her teeth.
"Oh really? So can you explain to us why Agent Fornell from the FBI and his team found firearms and explosives at your apartment? Or why there was a layout of NCIS?"
"My mother trained me in firearms. She wanted me to kill my sister by her contracting the plague. Once she was dead I was to shoot my brother at Tonya's funeral. While everyone was at the funeral I was going to sneak into NCIS, hide the bombs so that after everyone came back I could detonate them and do away with my mother's problems once and for all." Tali said. She didn't want to admit it but she had no choice she was caught.
"Tell me what you hear on this recording?" Davenport asked.
My mom had my dad and his new wife murdered. She had paid to have this guy named Tanner kill them off.
"How did you get that?" Tali questioned.
"Is it true that your mother had hired someone to take out your father and his new wife? Or maybe this will jog your memory."
My mother's plan was to get rid of the girl my daddy truly loved and for me to be the only DiNozzo kid. My mom was a bit on the sneaky side. She had even said, if she couldn't have Tony DiNozzo, no one should. That was the main reason she hired this Tanner to take Tony out. Then she wanted me take his daughter out as ransom to get her name cleared before she died.
"Is any of this true Miss David?"
"Yes, it is all true."
"No further questions." Davenport said sitting back down.
"I would have thought all of our jurors would find Tali guilty after that, but we still only have four." Marissa said. Jason's mind was starting to come up with a plan.
"Miss David," Jackson started "Tell me why you would want to kill your brother and sister?"
"It's their fault my father Tony DiNozzo didn't want to be in my life, he wanted to be their father not mine."
"Your mother told you a lot about your father new found family. Tell the court what Ziva David would tell you while you were growing up."
"She always told me that my daddy left us because NCIS wanted him. He could've said no but that bitch Deanna Carter was the big one that pulled him away. It's her and the twins fault he never came back to us. My mother had a picture of my father and would always tell me that was my Aba which is Hebrew for daddy. I was told when she died this week, she died with the picture of my father in her hand. She loved my father and would never do anything to hurt him." Tali said.
"No further questions." Jackson said taking his seat.
"We will take a 2-hour lunch break." The judge announced.
"How are we looking Rissa?" Jason asked.
"We are half and half." Marissa answered.
"I think I know how we can get the rest of this jury on our side." Jason said working up his master plan.
The team met back at the NCIS office which was acting as the makeshift TAC office.
"I think we need to put Gibbs and Tonya on the stand. If Gibbs tells them what it was like to work with Tony and how it really hurt him when Ziva never came back to the states. Tonya will you come with me for a moment." Jason said leading his daughter to the elevator. As the elevator went to go down he flipped the switch.
"I have a plan but I want to make you aware of it or else it will never work." Jason said.
"Ok dad. You know whatever plan you have up your sleeve I am willing to do. Anything to get Tali behind bars. What is it?"
What has Bull got up his sleeve and will they be able to pull it off and sway the jury in their favor? New chapter up soon! Please review!
