NCIS, Article IV Nuremberg Defense, Paul Simon song quoted

He had made a promise
One of many in his lifetime
One that the others on his team
Didn’t understand
As they welcomed this deceiver
Into their bosom
This Bathsheba
Who had already betrayed them
To her king, Eli.

He never even tried to work with her
Just “coughed” into his hand
And walked away to HR and Delores
To take a sabbatical to “heal”
Now that her brother had been killed
By Bathsheba’s hand

Heading off to the hometown of his partner
And first “probie” as a federal agent
To sit at her freshly dug grave
And renew the promises he had made to her
And she to him under those blue lights
Not so long ago in the hospital

His quiet paperwork
For agency to international agency transfer
Being processed as his apartment was now in a pod
England called to him now
As it had so long ago
The media he had liaised with
For the agency he would soon be done with
Getting the fact that the profiler for a terrorist
That tried to take out the sitting President
Was now happily sitting as a liaison at his old agency
Doing agent work instead of working as a liaison
So, the cases worked
by the agency would now be thrown out
Then quoted the Nurenburg Defense Laws
Passed down after the Nazi trials of the 40’s
That said a person would still be guilty
If they followed an illegal order of that crime
Quoted the Oath he took as an agent
Right afterwards
Highlighting the crime of what was happening there
All of which was printed in full in each newspaper
And media print he had liaised with
For all to read

He was in England by the time
The new leadership at his old agency fell
But like Kate’s Song by Paul Simon
His thoughts dwelled
In England
Away from it all.

Fin
3/27/2026