NCIS, Episode: Civil War

She came in all cock of the walk for her first case as the new liaison at the agency right after Tony’s mind was still on the death of Boone from execution. Gibbs’ mood wasn’t good, but he capitulated to the female director’s whim with looks of previous past times under the covers Tony knew had been going on from his own background checks when he was thinking of hiring on. Funny thing that, Gibbs always spoke about the sanctity of those in marriage when he was still married to Stephani while he worked the Eastern Europe office with Shepard and it was right after Shepard left to start her rise in the agency. Gibbs suddenly came out with his Rule 12: Never Date People You Work With. This at the same time Steph bashed his head in with a golf club and divorced him with comments of infidelity.
Shepard also had a block of time where she worked in an out of the way location for six months not long after the breakup of their team, and a visit to one of the orphanages after that before heading back to work.
Tony wondered if Ms. Daveed actually knew her supposed brother in Russia working for their “father” wasn’t related to her at all…. But not his monkeys at the moment soon might be though.

Their first case with Ms. Daveed was to a museum where a recently dug up grave had a modern soldier in it as opposed to the Civil War soldier. Ms. Daveed tried to force him to let her drive, he calmly stated before the person that released the vehicles out that she showed her license to drive agency vehicles legally so that if something happened, the agency insurance would cover everything.
Huffing she demanded the passenger seat and was forced to buckle up as the truck wouldn’t start unless all passengers had done so. Complaining all the while about how things were better where she came from.

Upon arrival, they gathered up the equipment they would need with Ms. Daveed taking nothing and saying she was just there to watch with a smug look. Though McGee did look in curiosity at the new tablet Tony grabbed from its charger in the back of the truck. It wasn’t something he had seen before and when asked, Tony told him it was a present from the Miami lab for them to test out there. Something that worked great for them and the fibbies and Fornell had been interested in how well it would work for a federal team. Fornell had “volunteered” them knowing how well his good buddy got along with tech things, which got a snort of amusement from Tim.

Once inside they saw Gibbs was already talking to the woman who had opened the coffin on camera. Tony had Tim check just how old the catches were that she opened up and further told him to check the links holding them to the coffin against the new tablet. Which turned out to check fingerprints over the airwaves to the federal databanks, with just a scan. Throwing him the special tape to do the link test with. Suddenly getting a nervous woman who was trying to interfere with their checking the coffin and getting Gibbs in her face for it. To the point he had to cuff her with the flex cuffs behind her back and read her her rights after Tim came up with her prints on the upper links that connected them to the coffin. She was yelling and bitching about how everything the bastard owned was hers by rights as he led her out of the room. Tony continues to check and print the buttons on the civil war uniform then matches them on the fingerprint tablet to her again.
Tim getting photos of the man’s terrified face as Tony bagged his hands that showed he had dug into the coffin lid to try and get out. His cell battery dead as he had continually tried to dial out to 911 beside him on his chest. They got pictures of every little thing in that coffin, before Ducky had the body taken away for him to finish going over at the morgue. And by the time they got back to the yard she had rolled over on her accomplices, so the case was over and done with but the paperwork. The tablet was now cleaned and properly put back on its charger, so it was ready to be used again in the field.

If Ms. Daveed’s comments against him and his agency and country ever got to him, Tony never vocalized it, but he did send the report of the actual birth certificate on Eli’s second son to the Director with it blatantly being CC’d to the man designated as Uncle Paddington over at MI-6 Head of Government.

Ms. Daveed went back home to Israel with her liaison post closed by the second day after the e-mail went out. No one understood the pale looks the new director gave Tony afterwards, or why she was suddenly so nice to him after letting everyone know before that first case with Daveed that she couldn’t stand him.

Fin
3/30/2026