Cognoscente

Thunder sounded. Lightning flashed. Rain poured down outside the window. The electricity flickered and then died.

Tony cursed as did the vast majority of NCIS. They were supposed to have backup generators to prevent things like this. Tony hoped that at least one cognoscente was looking into this and working to restore their power.

Pretty soon everyone was pulling out their phones and texting anybody they could think of to get updates. Those with laptops happily continued working until the laptops ran out of battery as well.

Even phones were running out of battery leaving a bunch of grumpy employees stuck at the Navy Yard while the geeks tried to figure out what was wrong. The last update Tony had heard was that someone was systematically blocking them from getting power from the power plant. They'd get one issue resolved only to have to fix another one.

Most teams had been sent to work from home or somewhere else as the lack of power seemed to be limited to NCIS headquarters. Gibbs refused to do that with his team. Instead they were stuck trying to make progress on cold cases in the dark while waiting for a new case to come in.

Gibbs knew this power outage was targeted and that something major was going down and he was determined to figure out what it was.