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Condign - Something's off
DiNozzo stared at their new crime scene with a perplexed look on his face. There was something off about the scene, but he couldn’t put his finger on what exactly it was.
“What’s wrong, Tony?” McGee questioned, not used to Tony just staring. Usually the man was talking a mile a minute while actively working the crime scene.
“Something’s off.”
“Well, it is a crime scene.”
“That’s not it, Probie.” Tony shook his head.
McGee narrowed his eyes at Tony before shrugging and moving back to his job of photographing the scene.
Tony snapped his fingers. He knew what was wrong now. It was the safe.
It was staged like a burglary, but nothing appeared to have been taken from the safe. It had been left wide open, clearly indicating that the robber could have taken stuff from it, if they wanted to. So what was the purpose behind the murder if it wasn’t robbery like they wanted you to think at first?
Tony looked at the things in the safe closer. Maybe the criminal had wanted something to be revealed about the dead guy’s life or something. That’s when Tony realized that the murder had brought condign karma.
The murdered admiral had been secretly running an assassin for hire gig and it was all spelled out in the safe that the murderer had left open for them and everyone else to see. It wasn’t the job of NCIS to publicize crime scenes, but Tony couldn’t help wanting to make sure everyone knew just what this guy had been doing behind the scenes of striving for the greater good of the country as an admiral. It left a sick feeling in his mouth to think that the admiral might have continued assassinating others if it wasn’t for his murderer.