Marty walks into the kitchen to get Monty food. He can feel everyone watching him.

"Monty is hungry."

"What about you? Did you eat?" Callen asks.

"Not hungry."

Callen accepts that. If tomorrow, he still won't eat; then they may have to force him or threatened him with an IV. But they will cross that bridge if and when they come to it. "Come sit down and let Monty eat in peace."

Marty walks to the table unsure of anything. He wants to take his dog, run away and never look back. But he can't do that, he knows that running from your problems doesn't make them go away. He sits between Callen and Kensi looking at his hands.

"Marty," Kensi begins gently using his first name in hopes it will help him to stay calm. "Who's Amanda?"

Marty head snaps up at her. "How did you hear her name?"

"From you, when you walked in the room you said. 'Amanda wanted to.' Wanted to what? Who is she?

Marty didn't want to answer her. He knows that he opened this window into his past. But that doesn't mean he wants them to look through it.

"I know you don't want any of this. But you need to face it is happening. We can't do this without you. These files are cold hard facts. It has nothing to do with the people or the emotions involved." Sam stated playing hard ball.

Sam knows that they can't treat Deeks like a victim. That is pity and no one ever wants that. If playing hardball will get Deeks out of his funk, then that is what he is willing to do.

"Langston." Marty says quietly. "Her name is Amanda Langston and she was the prosecutor."

"What was it that Amanda wanted to do?" Nate asks.

"Charge Him with attempted murder for going after us with the shotgun."

"Then why didn't she?" Sam asks.

"It would have been a gamble and one that she could lose. You know the saying only fight the battles you know you can win. If she tried to charge him with the attempted murder and lost she could also lose on the other charges."

"Why did Amanda think that she would lose on the attempted murder charge?" Eric questions.

"Because he didn't hurt us with the shotgun. The defense attorney Derek Zucker would have made that his whole defense. Amanda didn't want to risk it with my safety or my life. I hated Derek almost as much as I hated my father; he was a total jerk of lawyer. They got along great. My mother was in a coma since that day. She was life support, the doctors had said that there was no hope that she will wake up. She had no brain activity. But Derek would not allow the plug to be pulled, because then murder would be added to the charges." Marty ramble on trying to get it all out in the open as quickly as possible.

Eric quickly runs Derek Zucker's name.

"'Derek Zucker was disbarred and arrested in 1990. Served 2 years for witness tampering. No current location."" Eric reads.

"Does it say what case he tampered with?" Callen asks.

Eric looks quickly through the info. "No, but the judge behind his disbarred was Judge Henry."

Sam looks directly at Deeks. "Do you know?"

"Yes, it was my case. He tried to keep me from testifying against my father. Without my testimony to say what really happened that day, Derek could claim anything he wants as a defense."

"But the evidence wouldn't support that." Eric points out.

"The evidence wouldn't matter. It never did. The whole trial would have rested on the testimony of the 11 year old victim." Nate brought up.

"After it was over Amanda told me what he tried to do. Without me, Derek could use the whole it was stranger who hurt Gordon's wife and only child. The evidence doesn't support it but it also doesn't disprove that theory."

"What did Zucker try to do?" Kensi asked.

"He called one of the worst Social Workers he knew. One who doesn't believe that Children should be seen or heard; that they just exist." Deeks started.

"I have had a few of those." Callen admits.

"She picked me up from school around 10 in the morning and took me back to her office where I sat in a room much like our interrogation room at the boatshed. I stayed there for almost 12 hours while she was trying to come up with a place for me. She had decided that the best place for me was juvenile hall. Actually that is where she places all her kids. As we were leaving her office Amanda shows up with a court order signed by Judge Henry stopping it."

"Where did you live after the shooting?" Nate interrupts.

"At first with one of the investigating officers; Matthew Hunter. That was before and during the trial. After the trial was over, I moved in with Amanda. I lived with her for about 2 months. After Amanda it was Judge Henry. I lived with him 90 percent of the time until I moved out when I decided to become a lawyer. The other 10 percent of the time was shared between Matthew and Amanda."

"How does a Social Walker get away with something like that?" Nell asks.

"Who is going to stop her?" Deeks countered. "The children in her care are there because they have nowhere to go and no one to care. Her name is Gretchen McNaulty. She went to prison for her treatment of the children in her care and new homes were found for every one of the children she put in juvenile hall. Reindeer's daughter Michelle; the one that is in the Navy was one of those children. Michelle was only 6 when her parents died in a car accident. The day after the accident Gretchen put Michelle in juvie. Gretchen's downfall was that she tried it with me and Judge Henry had her investigated."

Nate watches Deeks for signs that all this is getting too much for him to bear. "Okay that is enough for now. Why don't we go in the back room and talk while they work."

Deeks nods. "Monty." He calls.

Monty gets up from the floor in the kitchen and follows his owner back into the room.

"WOW! All I can say is wow!" Eric comments after Deeks leave the room.

"I agree completely." Callen adds. "We will get whoever stole those files and make them pay for putting him though this. Eric, Nell track down everything you can find on Derek Zucker and Gretchen McNaulty."