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At first, Tony didn’t notice anything was wrong. People normally obeyed Gibbs, so that wasn’t anything new. When he started noticing obsequious agents hanging off Jimmy’s ever word, he knew something was amiss.
Not that Jimmy wasn’t great, but generally he put people off with his dark humor. Tony himself didn’t feel any compulsion to kowtow to Jimmy so it couldn’t be something in the air, but something was definitely off. He watched carefully to try to figure out what was going on and finally noticed a pattern.
Anyone who drank from the decaf coffee pot seemed to end up crowded around Jimmy waiting for orders. Those who drank from the regular coffee pot would quickly jump to do anything Gibbs demanded. What the hell was going on?
Was the coffee drugged? Tony immediately took a sample of the decaf and a sample from the regular pot and put them in evidence bags to take to Abby. At least, Abby would not be drugged as she only drank Caf-Pow.
He just hoped he was wrong about what was going on. Unfortunately, Abby’s tests did prove that the coffees were each laced with a chemical that made whoever drank it more susceptible to anyone with a certain scent. Jimmy and Gibbs just happened to be wearing something that gave off one of the scents that people were attracted to.
Or did they? Tony noticed them high fiving as they left work for the day together. Had the obsequiousness been imbued in people on purpose by Jimmy and Gibbs?