It was a really beautiful day outside, the sun was shining and the threat of rain was not forecast until Friday. Rick and Kate were sitting outside in midtown café drinking lattes it was six months since hearing the song 3XK had left them. They both knew that the other shoe was going to drop but neither knew where or when. This bothered Castle more than ever knowing that Jerry Tyson had gotten away twice and he got away with every possible file connecting him and Kelly Nieman to any of his or her crimes. Kate threw a wave to her dad as he was walking up the street. They had started to meet at this café on a regular basis catching up on what was going on in their lives, if there was a case that they were working on that was giving them trouble sometimes and with Jim's law training he had helped them with a way to get around a dead end line of questioning. Kate loved these moments with her dad as he was always trying to help.
3XK had his spotting binoculars trained on Jim Beckett as he walked up the street. He saw Kate as she waved to him and he knew that it was time to set his final plan into motion. Without hesitation, he had his finger on a small key fob device. When he pushed the button this was the beginning of the end for Jim Beckett. He watched as he stopped mid-step and fall to the ground clutching his chest. Kate jumped up from the table and ran to her dads side. Castle was looking in the other direction and did not see what had happened to Jim. Turning around and seeing what had happened he dialed 911 for an ambulance giving the dispatcher all the information he could. He rushed over to where Kate was holding her father, not knowing what else to do, so he tried to make them both as comfortable as he could.
It seemed like an eternity before the ambulance had arrived. Castle ran over to the rig and assisted the medics with the stretcher. Rolling it over to the scene, he was heartbroken at what he was witnessing. Kate was now officially an orphan. Sure she was a grown woman but losing both parents in such a short time was nothing he could imagine. He would be silent and not try to pry into anything about what had happened to her today but, he would just wait for her to open up to him. Giving any and all of his support to her.