" A New Year, Same Old Murder Routine"
Chapter one
You would think with the start of the New Year, the 12th precinct it would be very quiet accept for the usual drunks, sleeping it off on the same old park benches, stairs or alley ways.
But this wasn't the case for Scott Freeman, real estate investment lawyer for Lehman Brothers. He wanted to spend his New Year's Eve, down town watching the Ball fall in Times Square, but instead he wound up in the morgue, with a 22 special in his stomach and face. Along with leaving a wife Susan and child age ten behind in the wake of his death.
And any type of ghosts that was left in his closet from over the years.
With his body having to been found at the water front harbor, some ten miles from JFK airport. It was a local fishing boat coming in with there usual haul, noticed the body floating on the top of the water, while one of the fisherman pulled in the body with his net.
It was at this point having to be an early morning, with the start of the new year. Sergeant Javier Esposito having been called to the scene, with L.T. working the watch.
The both of them pulled up in the Precinct car, along with the crime scene unit already arriving, along with his "not" so call favorite medical examiner Sidney Perlmitter on the scene, and checking the remains.
When Perlmitter saw the both. "His name is Scott Freeman, A Real Estate Investment lawyer, and it's your job to find out why, he was shot in the first place." While talking to the both with his usual sarcasm that Esposito could never stand, along with Ryan and Captain Kate Beckett, along with Richard Castle and his insults.
"Before I begin, who was it, that found the body in the first place?" Esposito asked to no one in particular, until the captain of the fishing boat "Blue Dolphin" came up with his partner that had pulled in the dead body.
Captain Elroy Jenkins has been fishing in the harbor waters for almost 20 years, has never seen anything like it, along with his partner Dobson Carey in his late forties, his other part time job, working for the postal service ten years as a clerk sorting mail.
Carey gives his report to Esposito, telling him that he mostly found the body face down, but when he was able to pull up the body from the Hudson, his face had been shot to be a real mess.
"Is there anything else that your able to remember?" He asked with conviction.
"Nope!" He says very quickly.
"And what about yourself, Captain Jenkins?" While watching out for his facial expression.
"Nothing at all Sergeant Esposito!, so if you excuse me, I have to turn in my fishing haul to get paid for the day." He walks away with a chuckle, while he grabs his partner to leave.
"Something just does not fit with those two L.T., anyway let's get out here to give a report to watch Commander Anderson, I just don't need to be calling Captain Kate Beckett into this case.
"I agree, Javier at this time of the morning." They leave the scene.
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Meanwhile at a local Geisha House strip club , China Town, on Canal Street, local loan pool shark Harry Win Duck, was counting his inventory of laundering large hundred dollar bills collected from his clients having "IOU'S" owed to him at a 40 % mark up.
The Geisha House was some what quiet for now, after having a very busy night with the local customers wanting a piece of the action. Alot of money was made for the New Year's, with this being 15 years, now that Harry Win Duck has been very successful as the owner, as well for the Geisha House, along with his partner, who is now dead after finding out that he has been stealing from the profits for the past year.
He needed to find out from his sources, on whether or not the deed was done or not, to be rid of the menace that he did not need with the start of the New Year.
He goes to call his right hand man Wo Ling to come into his up stairs office, on whether the errand that he had asked was done at all.
Wo Ling has been a part of the organization for the better part of ten years, has only been in prison once for shooting a police officer up in Albany, while getting a 15 year jail sentence, he was able to get off with good behavior, with actually serving only eight of those years.
"Is it done, Wo Ling?" He asked to make sure.
"Excellent!, now go upstairs, to take care of yourself with your favorite Geisha lady." He says with a huge grin on his face.
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Captain Kate Beckett having just gotten up from a late night with her husband Richard Castle from a night at the Trump Towers, and still are for the next hour before checking out.
She hated that feeling of having a very foggy brain at the moment, after all of the late night champagne that her ruggedly handsome husband was feeding her all night long to get a real buzz and into her inner soul, he calls it at times.
Castle was currently acting like Rook, after check mating his queen maiden, while she tries to sober him up with a quick shower, and head on home for the rest of the day.
But it was about to change, when Javier Esposito decided to call her in the first place, after a second and third bodies were found inside there home. Susan and Scott Jr. were found smothered to death in there beds , with no clue as to who did it and why?