<span style="font-family:Assistant"><span style="font-size: 15px">When Ziva had crossed the room and now stood beside Gibbs, she finally lowered her gun and put it away. "Why, Agent Gibbs? Three reasons, actually. One, because Ari wanted revenge against our father, and against you. He saw so much of our father in you, and he hated our father. He wanted to start a war and he did not care who got <br/>
hurt in the process. I could not tolerate the idea of so many innocents getting slaughtered as the two of you chased each other around the world for years. Two, because <br/>
you did not need to drop another body."<br/>
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"I am fully aware of your history in law enforcement. And three, because it had to be me. Ari thought that he had me all figured out. He thought I trusted him to keep his word. But his voice gave away his intentions when I spoke to him. I knew he would go to your home. I knew he would come here if he did not find you there. So, I talked <br/>
to Jenny -- Director Shepard. And  I told her that I would do whatever was necessary to keep the treaty intact. So I did." She looked down at her brother's body and then<br/>
back at Agent Gibbs. <br/>
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"He was not always this way. Believe it or not, he was once a good kid. The death of his mother changed him, and when our father recruited him to join the Mossad.. there was no more of that kid I used to know." She cleared her throat and then moved back a little to put a bit of space between them. "Our father trained me to be a killer, Agent Gibbs. He did the same to Ari. It was like brainwashing. He tried to stamp out any humanity that we had inside of us. He tried to turn us into his mindless, emotionless robot soldiers. And Ari gave in to it."<br/>
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"He became just as cruel and insane as some of the others I have seen in the Mossad in the past. But no matter how much our father tried to do the same to me, I would not let him stamp out my humanity. Not entirely.  So, that is why I killed Ari. It was not just about you. It was about doing this for the brother I once loved. </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family:Assistant">I will arrange to have Ari's body shipped back to Israel for burial and my father will handle everything else to do with our customs. Once Ari's body is back home, I will be banned from returning there again, for going against the Mossad and killing him."<br/>
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"If I try to return to Israel for anything, they will shoot on sight. So I will go to Paris. It is where Ari and I had planned to meet when this was over. When I was still uninformed of what was really going on. We had planned to start over and try to have a normal life. I have never been there and have always wanted to see it." Ziva pulled out her phone and called the Director. She and Jenny had a quick conversation, and then she hung up. "The Director is on her way back here, along with the police. They are going to want to question you for a few minutes."<br/>
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"And when that is done, you can go back to Bethesda and check on Agent Todd. The security cameras here will tell the Director, and my father, and the police, everything that they need to know."</span></span>