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Factious
Gibbs was off relaxing in Mexico, but for everyone else work went on as normal. In Tony’s case that meant being stuck in the middle of his factious coworkers and even director as Director Shepard ordered him to seduce an arms dealer’s daughter while still leading the team. Of course, Ziva and McGee regularly ignored him and as he wasn’t around enough to enforce any kind of discipline with the undercover operation he was running, it quickly became untenable.
He tried to go to Director Shepard about it, but she ignored his complaints and the team continued to deteriorate. Tony desperately worked overtime, barely sleeping as he did the work of four people during the day and ran an undercover operation at night. He wasn’t sure how he managed it, but somehow he kept the solve rate the same as when Gibbs was leading despite his exhaustion growing deeper and deeper.
