Three days earlier Kate was in the precinct there was nothing going on. Even her mountain of paperwork had become a small mole hill. The Boys were playing paper football. Rick was leaning on their desk kibitzing.
"Oh that was not fair!" Ryan complained when his shot barely missed the edge of the table where his partner in Crime was sitting. Detective Esposito using the ruler which he pulled out of his desk just to show off.
"Just for that" Espo said as he flicked his finger. The paper football spun and landed way short of his partner's side. Ryan snickered. Rick had a good comment to say when his phone rang.
"Hey Pumpkin? What no I have not seen my twitter today. Ok thanks." Rick said to the phone.
"Kate Alexis is sending you an audio file from my twitter account. She said it was important." Rick said walking behind Kate's chair as she opened the email containing the audio file. Clicking on the attachment Kate adjusted the volume on her speakers.
"Good Morning Mr. Castle. My name is the Raven. This is to warn you of several bombs which will be set to explode if tripped. They are spread across the city good luck." The mechanical voice stated.
"Castle could this be a hoax? I mean to your twitter account?" Espo asked.
"I do not know Espo. I know I am popular on Twitter. I am Geek God!" Rick said.
Kate just rolled her eyes. Kate felt wrong on this one.
"Ryan get a copy to the lab, See if they can isolate anything in the back ground." Kate said. Then she stood "Rick, I need to see the Captain."
Rick step aside so she could get to the Captain's office. Kate knocked on the doorframe Gates motioned her in.
"Sir, I think we have a situation…" Kate said as she closed the door.
Go ahead Detective what sort of situation? Gates inquired.
"This kind" Kate said as she pressed play on the recording.
The Captain listened closely.
"So this was placed on Mr. Castle's twitter account?" Gates inquired.
"Yes his Daughter alerted him to this being just posted" Kate said.
"I see and how is young Alexis?" Gates asked.
"She seemed more resilient than we suspected. But she does get jumpy of any kind of threat these days" Kate said thinking of their conversation a few days ago.
"So you believe this is real?" Gates asked.
"Well Sir there is not much to this warning. It alludes to bombs being placed but not triggered. I believe that the bomber is waiting" Kate said.
"Waiting? Detective please explain" Gates said.
"I think he is waiting for someone to blunder into them then causing the explosion. But yet he warns us via Castle's twitter. Perhaps if we can see other posts by this person we might learn something." Kate said.
"I agree there is not much actionable intelligence. However, an alert for people to be looking might be in order. Meanwhile you need to look further into this" Gates ordered.
"Yes Sir" Kate said and turned to leave.
"Ryan you need to look into this person named the Raven and see what other posts has he been doing." Kate said as she returned from the Captain's office.
Rick looked at his partner the look on her face told him everything.
"Espo I need you to alert the bomb squad to be on their toes Gates believes this is real" Kate said.
"Ok Boss" said Espo as he quickly dials the bomb alert center.
"You got it Boss" Ryan said as he swung his chair around.
"What do you want me to do Kate?" Rick asked.
"You could look into bombers we have dealt with before" Kate said. "There is something familiar but I just can not quite place it."
Rick slid next to her and held her hand.
"I know you will figure it out. Right now I have a date down in the archives" Rick said as he dropped her hand then left the floor.
Kate listened to the way the words were used. It was stilted as if the person recording it was reading from a script. Scott Dunn came across her mind. But no he could not be it could he?
"Espo check if Scott Dunn is still in Attica!" Kate ordered. She fervently hoped he was still there.