She should have known something was afoot when she hadn’t heard from Cole for three days. It was, in retrospect, the longest she’d gone without hearing from him since the day they’d met. She was packing up more of Cass’s belongings, systematically moving Kringle from one pile of laundry to another, when her phone buzzed itself off the bedside table. There were texts from her mom and Elijah.

Ziva The Great and Terrible: WTFFFFFFFF

Best Lawyer in New York: HACKING PEOPLE’S FINANCIALS IS ILLEGAL also wow your dad is the actual worst???

She turned to find Hannah standing in her doorway. “Did your phone just blow up?”

“Yep. What’s going on?” Hannah ushered her out into the landing, where Noelle and Mr. and Mrs. Matthews were sitting around a laptop. Noelle scooted over to make a space for Miriam and scrolled back to the top of the email they had been reading. It was from Cole’s private email account, the one he never used with anyone he hadn’t run an FBI background check on. Noelle, Miriam, Hannah, Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, Ziva, Elijah, and Mr. Rodriguez had all been cc’d.

My Carrigan’s Family

I have attached some information I found particularly interesting from Richard’s financials. As you’ll see, the rumors Mimi alluded to are true—Big Dick was using his import business to smuggle cocaine into the country for years. Most recently, he’s been close with some rather violent gentlemen who are helping him run product. He seems to have been dealing more in influence trading than actual cash, using the drugs to make very high up connections. He also seems, from his correspondence, to just kind of like hanging out with these guys.

Anyway, I knew that eventually he would come for Mimi and all of you again, and I wanted you to have what the kids these days call receipts (in this case, actual receipts). I almost leaked all of this to the media, to get back at him and ruin his life. But, it’s not mine to leak. I didn’t want to put you all in the path of that blowback. I still believe he needs to be taken down, so he doesn’t have any power ever again, but that’s not my call. Instead, I am providing copies to each person I think has a vested interest in keeping him in check, and one to Mr. Rodriguez as assurance. I trust his discretion; I hope I’m not wrong.