CH3
It had been almost 2 years since that date. That one document had allowed Sullivan to crack open the case he was working.
Jill and Kate had been solving cases, difficult cases ever since. During that time Kate had told Jill everything. From just before her mother's death to the time she had found Jill next to the body of her former owner who had his head cut off.
However even with Jill's help they were never able to figure out whom he was. He just didn't seem to exist. It had always bothered Kate that she couldn't do that one thing for her new 'friend'.
They still had nothing on him after all this time. The only thing they did know was that he had not been killed there. There was little to no blood at the scene. It was a body dump. Except for having a dead body on their hands, well did have since it was 2 years ago, he didn't exist.
"Beckett we got a fresh one. 580 5th Ave., It's a jewelry store." Ryan tells her holding up the post-it note he had it written on.
That got Kate's attention. Maybe a little window shopping while doing her work would be good therapy for her.
Arriving at the scene. "Hey Lanie what have we got?"
"Hey Kate, long time no see." Lanie hadn't seen Kate in almost 2 weeks. "How was your date?"
"He's still alive, so no I didn't shoot him. Not that I didn't want to. Practically the first thing out of his mouth was, and I quote "Do you want to have sex?", end quote" Kate fires off at her supposed friend who had set her up with yet another blind date from hell.
Lanie has the dignity to cringe. "And if you keep doing this to me I'm going to shoot you instead. Just to make the pain go away."
"OK, OK, I get the point. … Truce?" Lanie practically pleads.
"Truce. Who do we have here?" Kate nods to their vic.
"He's a kid, can't be more than 17 years old. No ID, no money, no keys, no phone, not much of anything. Cause of death would be this single gunshot to the chest here. By the look of it I would guess a .357. The bullet is still in him. I can tell you more after I get him home."
Kate steps away from Lanie. "Espo?"
"Seems our vic here decided to rob the place. He brought a knife to a gun fight. The owner over their claims he came and waved it around claiming he was going to cut him up bad if he didn't empty the case into the bag.
The owner reached down and instead of pulling out the case with the gems pulled out a .357 from under it instead. Claims the kid took a swing at him, cut him a little and he fired a single shot.
The ME confirms he has a wound a knife could have caused. We bagged the .357 for ballistics."
"Ryan?" Kate turns to him next.
"We are getting copies of the video footage now. The owner gave us a copy of his license to carry. I'll look into it back at the station."
"What's the owner's name?" Kate asks.
"An Abduct Lyndhurst. He's been here for the last 17 years. I'll look him up when we get back." Ryan tells her.
They team has gathered everything they need and Kate has just left the building. "Kate, there is a jewel in one of the cases that scans tell me is a match to one of the two I still have." Jill softly tells her.
"Are you sure?" Kate whispers back sounding hopeful.
"I am positive. There is however no way of telling if it is actually one of mine, but yes, I'm sure."
"Take me to it." Kate asks.
Jill quietly directs her to the proper case and tells her where in the case it is located.
"Was there something else you wanted to ask detective?" Mr. Lyndhurst asks her.
"This gem here." As Kate does her best to point at it. "May I see it?"
"Of course." And Abduct pulls it out for her to see. "It is just a quartz crystal. If it was a real diamond it would be worth millions. It is tagged as $150, but for you detective I'll let you have it for $110." He offers.
"SOLD!" Kate sounds happy and she is. If Jill is correct it was a small price to pay.
Kate hands over her debit card. "Would you like to look at something to mount it onto?"
"No I already have something I want to see if it will go with in mind." Kate tells him.
"Well if you change your mind or need help mounting it you let me know. I'll give you a discount." He offers.
"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind." And Kate walks out with her purchase.
What Kate does not see is the guy sitting across the street drinking coffee that has watched her buy the gem and has taken a few pictures of her with his cell phone. After Kate leaves in her car he gets up and leaves. Walking a few blocks before hailing a cab and heading home.
Kate meanwhile has made it back to the 12th and gone into the ladies restroom to take her boot off to get to Jill. Taking Jill off her ankle, Kate pulls out the gem and tries to determine if she can attach the gem she just bought.
"It looks like a perfect fit." Kate lays it in place and waits to see if anything happens. Kate twists Jill a little and the gem falls off into her hand below. "Ok, so it will not attach itself. I can't let the jeweler see you to see if he can attach it somehow. And it doesn't look like it would attach like on a ring so I doubt he could do it anyway.
Any clues on how to attach it?" Kate asks her.
"Unfortunately I do not." Jill tells her.
Kate puts Jill back on her ankle and then puts her boot back on. Looking at the gem. "Maybe I can Google it when we get home. Maybe it will give us some clues as to what to try next."
It's getting late and Kate is thinking about going home. "Anything from ballistics yet?"
"Should be ready in the morning." Espo tells her.
"And our shop owner?"
"He comes back mostly clean. Seems burglary downstairs has had a few things on him in the past, but nothing recent. Seems he has been caught selling stolen jewelry in the past." Ryan tells her.
"So he is or used to be a fence for stolen jewelry. When was the last one?" Kate asks.
"The last one is dated, …. Just under 3 years ago."
"Ok check his financials see if he has done anything more recent. Anything on our vic?"
"Lanie is not done with her autopsy yet. Seems they are busy down there. His Juvi record is sealed. We are going to need something to get a peek at it." Espo tells her.
"Well that shouldn't be a problem seeing as how he is dead. Nothing to hide now.
I'm headed home guys, I'll see you in the morning." And Kate heads for the elevator.
Kate picked up dinner on the way home. She was eating it while trying to find something on the internet. Just how do you ask how to attach a gem to a wrist computer. "You sure you don't know anyone who can attach this?"
"I'm afraid I do not. I don't even know how it got off me in the first place." Jill really is sorry. She feels like her memory just isn't what it should be.
"Well this is getting me nowhere. I'm a cop not a computer nerd. …. speaking of which." Kate bends down and takes Jill off her ankle again and looks closely at where the gem goes.
"There are no prongs on the gem and no holes in you to push it into. I don't even see how the other two are held in place. They are just sitting there. Do the lights around them have something to do with it?" Kate isn't really looking for an answer.
"I've got it right here in my hand and I can't help you." Kate slumps dejected.
"If we knew who your previous owner was or where he even lived that might help us."
"I'm sorry Kate, but I have no memory of him." Jill also sounds dejected.
The next morning Kate is back in the 12th a little early as always. However this time Captain Montgomery is in his office with the door closed. And there is someone with him but he has his back to her.
Kate sits down at her desk and turns on her computer to start the day. "Beckett, my office." Roy yells out thru the now open door.
Kate gets up and heads for his office. After entering she can now see who is in his office and her jaw lands on the floor.
"This is Kate Beckett. The best detective in all of New York. Beckett this is, …." Roy stops when he sees the look on her face.
"You're, … You're, ..." Kate can't finish.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Detective Kate Beckett." As he extends his hand.
Kate looks down at his hand. "Yea, it's a pleasure to meet you to." As Kate takes his hand but doesn't shake it, just holds it.
All Kate can see is the smile on his face and those HUGE bright blue eyes that she is drowning in.
"Are you alright detective? You seem a little lost."
Roy is watching the interaction and now also has a big smile. (How do I get these two to see more of each other?)
"Beckett? Beckett?" Roy calls out to her.
"Sir?" Kate asks still holding his hand.
"Have a seat Beckett." Roy tells her.
"Sir, yes sir, thank you sir." Kate tells her and sits while still holding his hand.
"Seems I had a guest early this morning waiting for me out front. He's an old friend. Actually he was, … is one of my best friends. We used to tell each other everything. The things we would do. Probably get arrested for a lot of it these days." Roy jokes.
"Actually if we hadn't been as lucky as we were we would have gotten arrested even back then. …. I really need to get going Roy. Remember I expect to see you and Kate at my place no later than 5:00 tonight at my place.
You and I have a lot to catch up on. And I want to hear all about this beautiful and talented detective you've been telling me about for the last half hour." And he gets up and shakes Roys hand. Or tries to since Kate is still holding his hand.
"OH sorry." Kate turns red and lets go of his hand.
"I'll see you two at 5:00." And he leaves Roy's office.
After he is gone and in the elevator. "That was, …. That was, ..." Kate is still lost.
"Richard Castle, yea. And you're going with me to his house tonight." Roy tells her.
"Oh sir, I don't think, ..." And is cut off by Roy.
"Oh you're going Beckett. You are definitely going. Now I think you have work to do." Roy suggests.
"Yes sir." And Kate heads for her desk in a haze.
Kate is sitting at her desk staring at nothing. "Beckett? … Beckett?" Ryan is standing next to her. Placing a hand on her shoulder, "Beckett?"
Kate jumps. "What have you got?"
"Video from the jewelry store shows the vic approach and threaten him with a knife. Take a swipe at him and cut him a little. While the owner is reaching down for the case his other hand reaches down a little further and pulls out a .357 and shoots him with it.
Ballistics is back and the bullet out of our vic matches the gun the owner used. And his weapon permit holds up.
Looks like a clear cut self defense. Our vic picked the wrong store to rob." Ryan concludes.
"Good, …. Good. Write it up." And Kate goes back to staring out at nothing.
"Beckett, …. Beckett. Shut it down, it's time to go." Roy tells her standing next to her.
"What? … Oh, yes sir." As Kate turns to her computer and shuts it down while Roy stands there grinning.
During the car ride to Rick's place. "You ok Beckett? You seem quiet for some reason." Roy asks her.
"What? …. Oh I'm fine sir. Just fine." Kate is back with him instead of staring out the passenger window.
"I take it you've never meet Rick before now."
"Oh I have once. My mother was a huge fan of his work and she forced me to stand in line one day with her to get her book signed by him. I'm afraid I was more of a whining little kid at the time. Not that I was that young when we went. I just didn't want to be there and I was taking it out on my mother.
Now I wish I hadn't. It was one of the last times we were together." And Kate goes back to staring out the window.
Now Roy is sad. He had a hand in what happened to her mother. Oh he didn't kill her, but he was part of that mess just the same. And he had been trying to atone for that day ever since.
Now if he could just get his hands on a time machine.
The rest of the trip was done in silence. Each lost in their thoughts.
They had finally arrived and Roy parked and got out and waited for Kate. They had to announce themselves in the lobby to gain access to the elevators.
Olympic Tower, 641 Fifth Avenue, between 51st Street & 52nd Street, Apt. 48GH. (48TH floor out of 52 total) Turned out to have 3 bedrooms (21x26 with a separate sleeping room 10x10 and with a kitchenette, and 16x21Master Suite and 15x17 spare bedroom), 3-1/2 bathrooms (1 Jacuzzi tub, 1 tub, 1 shower), Great room (32x25), Galley style Kitchen (9x12), Breakfast nook (9x6) and Library/Office (13x13), 3,303 ft2, Midtown East.
It was located in the Southwest corner of the building with floor to ceiling windows in all the rooms except the kitchen and the Library/Office. Most rooms faced south.
The 52-story Olympic Tower at 641 Fifth Avenue in Midtown is situated between 51st and 52nd Streets and was developed by Aristotle Onasis. Its 226 apartments are located in the top 29 floors and have large windows that offer expansive views of the Manhattan skyline and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Residences also feature varied layouts, 9-foot-high ceilings, enclosed kitchens and elegant bathrooms.
Olympic Tower amenities include elevator attendants, 24-hour concierge service, a gym, a barber, a hair salon, a bicycle room, a fitness center, and – in the event of a power outage – emergency electric power. It also is close to the shops and restaurants along Fifth Avenue and such cultural attractions as the Museum of Modern Art.
Olympic Tower was the city's first major mixed-use tower in midtown when it was built in 1976 at 641 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner at 51st Street.
The 52-story building was the first building erected under the city's Special Fifth Avenue Zoning District regulations that were enacted in 1971.
It has 226 condominium apartments on its top 29 floors, more than 250,000 square feet of office space on floors 2 through 21, retail space and a through-block public arcade.
Bottom Line
Located in the heart of midtown, this slick glass tower has spectacular views and is steps away from Rockefeller Center, Saks Fifth Avenue and St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Description
The bronze-colored-glass Olympic Tower rises without setbacks on its south façade directly across 51st Street from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral.
It has one setback on its north side where it is adjacent to two very handsome former townhouses.
The residential entrance is on the side-street with a large marquee and the entrance to the building's office space is inside the through-block arcade, which has a large, skylit, south-facing, multi-tiered waterfall, 30-foot-high ceiling and a cafe.
The nicely proportioned slab building has attractive very retail space on the avenue.
Until the completion of Trump Tower several blocks to the north, Olympic tower had the highest profile of any mixed-use building on the avenue.
The building has a low wing with its own separate elevator bank accessed from the arcade near 52nd Street.
Amenities
The building arguably has the finest residential location in midtown and it also has elevator attendants, 24-hour concierge services, a gym, a barber, a hair-dressing salon, a bicycle room, a fitness center, a concierge, emergency electric power and some duplex apartments.
There is very good public bus service and the building is not far from the Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd Street.
The building does not allow pets.
