Kramer left The White Collar offices and looked at his driver.
"Back to our hotel." He ordered. "Yes Sir." the agent driving him responded.
He was embarrassed and in trouble. There was only one way to deal with this. He'd have to find a way to get his friends to help him defeat Pat Riley. Although if anything he had respect for her in that she had chosen to serve the summons papers on him herself, He was angry about this lawsuit but actually proud of the courage of this woman. Never had anyone been served a summons by the plaintiff rather than some court appointed server. Pat was bolder Than expected. She had in essence been acting on the discusions she had over heard. And she personified the kind of law officers his kind hid behind. The organisation he was part of would have plenty to say about what Riley, had done and said this was a matter that could no longer be ignored. The good guys the ones they used to remove competition, were becoming aware of him and his friends.

Back at the white collar office, Reese Hughes was sitting behind his desk. The day had proven interesting, The two new kids had proven they had the fire to be very good agents. the information Riley and Sheridan had brought in From their last D.P.S. case was very tied in with the case Jones and Diana had been working and provided leads that hadn't been noticed before.
Riley and Sheridan had followed Neal home, once he was there they went to their own under construction base. It was clear they were protecting him. aware that Kramer might choose to attack others the two women cared about.

Pat was playing a delaying tactic. The lawsuit was just a mis direct he knew from the number of black dusters and phone calls The two were working a case that they had been put on to, after they had discovered the contents of Steven Foster's Computer

The eight story red brick building that was the current residence of Pat Riley and Kim Sheridan was buzzing with activity. Diana Berigan and Clinton Jones were surprised at the huge room Pat had led them to inside this building that was once The Texas Embassy which had only a year ago Sold at tax auction. This was getting a new lease on life as the headquarters of a law enforcement coalition. Officers who were finding bits of something in the course of their regular case work. The same cops feds and even private investigators, were meeting and talking without higherups and as equals this was something Texas Rangers enjoyed being able to play in any body's turf. No jursdictions no Chest pounding. and hundreds of cops feds and even private investgators.

"O.k. before you come in, you need to know something. Everybody in here isn't here. and you don't talk to anyone about anything said within these walls. This is not fight club but don't talk about anything you hear in here." Pat told Diana and Clinton. They were suddely in a room with local, state, and even other federal and international agents.

"All of us had found pieces of something that we all were disturbed by. There were actions of other law officers with whom we had to work that were unethical , and broke the oath every law officer swore to uphold, when they picked up that badge."

" You come in here then you are even more at risk than if you'd just kept walking."

"What's going on?" Diana asked.

"Well take a look at what we have gotten together and Tell me." Pat replied showing them into the War room.

Kim looked at them. "Are they ready for this?" Sheridan asked .

Berigan looked at her with confusion.

"Once in this room you are risking more than just your own life. Everyone in White Collar could get fired. arrested, or killed. They and their families are in danger And these people we have spotted, since the arrest of Steven Foster led us to something huge."

Diana began looking at files Jones at computer data, the two began to sweat, there were tie ins with closed cases that were shocking. The group Riley and Sheridan were hanging out with were cops agents and others who had found just a bit here and a megabite there. But it added up as they talked with and shared information with others who had found tie in's with even more cases.

"What is this?" Jones asked. As he went over who the group was in was following and who they were most concerned with getting.

"It looks like a major criminal organisation has infiltrated law enforcement at every level and is now running everything." Diana said.

"They use us to remove competition and if we get too close they ruin our lives." The woman at the next terminal added.

"Kelly Trimiere Boston P.D." She greeted.

"Agent Clinton Jones FBI this is Agent Diana Berigan."

"How did you get involved with this?" Jones asked.

"I was working a case a year ago when it was shut down by the brass and a cooperating witness was killed it cost me my home, and family." Kelly replied as she closed her terminal. "I got too close to the truth and bam, was put into a desk job but in my spare time I kept digging Last year my car blew up I was supposed to be inside it. That's when I found out that there was something bigger than just one or two dirty cops in Boston."

Kelly, looked at them she was a very pretty woman with long dark hair and green eyes that glowed from within. dressed in a simple shirt and jeans the running shoes that completed her outfit showed she hadn't been a cop for a long time. Had she been fired or quit because of what she had found?

"This your first time at a round table?" Kelly asked.
Both nodded, as they warily watched Trimier.

"You are going to get an earful tonight."

"We met up with Riley and Sheridan at a cop olympics two years ago. And they had just started a case that led them into the same danger. Riley's Partner before Sheridan Ranger Angie Kilgore was killed at a horse show after a case where Riley and Kilgore busted a corrupt county sheriff."

"That was their first look at the bigger picture." Berigan surmized.

"It was while several of us were talking that a CSI From Pheonix AZ, added his pieces and, an FBI agent From Wisconsin chimed in. Pretty soon we began seeing a very ugly picture." Kelly said.

"So you think this is all connected?" Jones asked.

"What do you think?" Kelly asked.

"There's tens of thousands of cases from all over the country, All of them carry one big red flag. The brass of that agency or department, shut them down because it exposed something bigger. Witnesses disappeared, evidence was lost or destroyed, and the investigating cops or agents ended up reassigned to no where jobs, fired, in prison themselves, or dead."

" How did they get such clout?" Diana asked "Wouldn't someone have noticed?"

"They use others they have the best records and they are great at getting others to throw away their careers through intimidation , bribery or what ever it takes. You have to look at the way they just carefully infiltrated the system." Kelly said "The few that get caught They aren't the top of the organisation. in fact it's believed that these people have their scape goats, the family is held hostage in Witsec or the scapegoats are paid off. There are prisons in the U.S. That have dozens of undocumented inmates they are kept seperate from the general populations. These inmates, were often abused taken from their homes suddenly in the middle of the night by black clad men. So we turn the tables on them Like we are going to do tonight. Kramer called a team from D.C. to kidnap some guy here in New York. That's why we are here all of us are gearing up to get to him first." Kelly replied.

Notes:
Wow! This is a new game two newbies, with a mean streak and cops from all over the coutry with a single case? Is Kramer part of a criminal organisation that had been around from decades? It looks like where the season is going the reason Peter is in Evidence is that Kramer was his mentor and others are thinking his Mentor being investigated as a crook may make him one too. Though I think He'll be cleared.