Captain Gates fumed as the boys entered her office the stench of fear washed off both of them as they stood at attention.
"At Ease Detectives, You are hereby doing only one thing. Find this man!" Gates said holding up the mug shot of Rogan O'Leary.
"Yes Sir we know of this low life…" Espo said.
"Sir, why are we looking for this low life?" Ryan asked.
"This guy has committed fraud against one of our own Detective Beckett. He needs to be brought to justice." Gates said.
"Sir this guy was given immunity for his testimony in the Stanton Hill case…Did he commit another crime?" Espo said.
"Yes I believe he has. Go bring me the Stanton Hill murder case. I want to review it and you look over your notes. Find me this man now Detectives!" Gates said.
"Hey Espo" Ryan said as he was talking to his partner after exiting the Captain's office.
Yeah Bro? Espo responded looking through his notes as Velazquez passed by with the file on the Stanton Hill case.
"Hey Velazquez Hold up. Let me look at that file." Ryan said.
"Ok It is your funeral…Gates will not like me being held up." Velazquez said.
"I'll be just one moment. I have to check on something that was in my notes. Yep I thought so I'll be right back go ahead Velazquez take it to the Captain and thanks." Ryan said.
"Bro, where are you going?" Espo asked.
"To the evidence box, I think something needs to be given to trace that they did not process before." Ryan said as he dashed down the stairs not willing to wait for the cranky elevator.
Ryan got to the evidence box and found the item tagged it then left it with the trace tech. By the time he returned to his desk the results of the trace was back.
"Hey Bro get this Rogan's fingerprint and one of a known fugitive are on the same piece of evidence." Ryan said.
"The guy lied to us. There was another person involved…He violated his plea agreement!" Espo said.
"Lets go get him I found the address where he was last time, Espo" Ryan said.
"Ok lets go" Espo agreed as they got their coats and headed out.
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Once in the car Espo started talking.
"So Bro what do you think this Fraud low life did to Beckett?" Espo queried his partner.
"I have no idea…But the Captain wants him brought in we will bring him in and squeeze him for who else was involved in the Stanton Hill Murder case. The wealthy philanthropist was murdered in a scam and one of the partners went to jail the other which Rogan knew about got away until he screwed up and got Captain's Gates attention." Ryan said.
"Yeah he will rue the day he got Gates' attention." Espo said fist bumping his partner.
"Yeah guess who the mystery person is?" Ryan asked showing Espo a picture of the perp and Martha Rogers.
"Who is that William Small? What a con name is that! Wait that is Mrs R. He was the guy who robbed her blind? Small world…" Espo said pulling up the car to the brownstone.
"Espo you go around to the back I will go up and knock." Ryan said.
Espo hid in the bushes next to the screen door in the back of the brownstone. He signaled his partner he was ready.
Ryan with his NYPD badge displayed prominently knocked on the front door.
"NYPD open up!" Ryan loudly said.
There was some scuffling Ryan heard and he counted to ten. The screen door slammed open and a bedraggled Rogan O'Leary came dashing out.
"Hold it right there scum bag" Espo said tackling the fleeing suspect.
"Hey Guys I didn't know that …" Rogan said after Espo got him upright and Ryan read him his rights as they placed him in the squad car.
"Ok Rogan go ahead and complete that sentence You did not know what?" Espo asked glancing at his partner.
"Look you got to help me the Press have been hounding me for the past few hours I can't find a place to rest before they find me." Rogan complained.
"Oh we will help you alright with a nice quiet jail cell. That should suit you…" Ryan said as Espo smirked and they fist bumped together.
"So Rogan what is a low life like you is making the press interested in you? Did you rob a bank?" Espo asked.
"No much worse I married Baby…" Rogan said.
"Baby whose baby? Are you talking about a real young child? You sick freak no wonder the Press wants you! You are disgusting!" Ryan said with much contempt.
"No not that kind of Baby I mean Kit Kat type baby…" Rogan bemoaned his fate.
Wait a minute does this Kit Kat have green eyes which change to brown or gold and stands about 5'9" and wears incredibly high heels? Espo asked.
"Yeah that is Kit Kate…" Rogan said.
"Kit Kate you mean Beckett? You are married to Beckett! Bro do you think Castle knows?" Ryan asked.
"Bro he must…Rogan were you with Castle?" Espo asked.
"The tall dude dresses funny like in too good suits has blue eyes and friends with the guy who holds my paper? That Person? I never saw him!" Rogan said.
"Oh well in that case you would not mind if we called him to verify?" Ryan asked.
"Please don't he scares me…Well not him but his friends do…Just take me in and I will tell you everything! Don't let him or his friends get to me…" Rogan said.
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They drove up and pulled Rogan out of the seat and he immediately began to run while he was handcuffed. Espo was too fast and caught up with him after about 30 ft. Espo was not kind and face planted him in the street. Ryan caught up.
"Why did you run?" Ryan asked holding tight to Rogan's wrists.
This time there would be no slip ups. The boys wrangled him into the interrogation room. Espo kept an eye on him as Ryan went to report to the Captain.
Ryan knocked at the Captain's door.
Yes Detective? Gates asked.
"Sir we caught Rogan O'Leary as requested. He is in interrogation room three. Er Sir he told us he is married to Beckett? Is that true Sir?" Ryan asked.
"Good Work Detective and I wish it was not true but he is listed in the NY registrars as her Husband…Don't ask me the particulars." Gates said. "I will sit in on your collar. I have to make a phone call first."
"Ok Sir we will be waiting for you." Ryan said leaving the office.
Gates dialed Mr. Castle's phone and it went to voicemail. She sighed and left a message for him to call the precinct. She got up and was going to have to have the distasteful task of interviewing this known fraud.
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Meanwhile Kate and Rick were discussing all the steps they took in bringing Bracken down. Both McCord and Shaw were spellbound as Rick twisted it into a lurid tale of intrigue and suspense. It was better than one of his novels. Rick glanced down and noticed the precinct was calling. He would call back after the FBI left which looked more and more unlikely.
Kate looked down at Rick phone then got her eye back up. It must have been Gates. She thought no one else knows of the fraud yet.
"Ok well this is great we will put him away for sure with this evidence. However, we are troubled. Mr. Castle and Ms. Beckett can you tell us what you were doing going into a known Mob social club in Little Italy yesterday?" Shaw asked.
Kate looked at Rick and him at her then they both spoke at once.
"Well you see we were…" Kate and Rick said.
"Please Mr. Castle you talk first…I mean it is cute that now you think and speak at the same time but understand it is hard to understand. So Rick would you please continue…" McCord asked.
Ok here is the deal…We learned that when we got to the registrar's office to apply for the marriage certificate that there was one on file already done by a Rogan O'Leary someone Kate had not seen in about 12 years. It was totally bogus… It would have taken our lawyers about a month to clean this up… Rick said.
"Our wedding is set for tomorrow…So we needed it quickly… We learnt Rogan had been a bad boy and owed some mobster a lot of money. We went there to plead for the chance to square it away. It would not do if Rogan ended up dead it would be weeks before we could get married and again we are on a tight schedule." Kate said.
"So this 100,000 we traced to your account was for what to assume the loan?" Shaw asked suspiciously.
"Yes it is exactly what it was for. You can check with my CFO he handled the transaction." Rick said.
"Also in the transaction Rogan would have signed the annulment papers freeing Kate to marry on time. It would have worked if the Press did not find us. In the melee Rogan slipped away and the Press have been hounding us ever since." Kate bitterly said.
The two FBI agents were stunned. It was something out of a French farce but yet they look perfectly honest. Both the profiler and McCord could not see any deception.
"You do know your actions might have been construed that you intended to place a hit on Bracken…That could be the reason there has been probing attacks on the perimeter. They are looking to kill you before your assassin kills him." Shaw calmly said.
"Bracken's men are here? No Rick we have to lead them away!" Kate said. "I could not bear it if Martha or Alexis got hurt over me."
"Wait no one is going anywhere. You are secure here you go off somewhere else and they might follow. We have a perimeter. You are perfectly safe." Shaw said.
"I'm ordering a Helicopter to get my family to safety. Kate your Dad's cabin…?" Rick said.
"Yeah Rick it is in Aunt Theresa's name they would never link it. Beside you know she is up there too." Kate replied.
"Ok I will go inform the others we are pulling out." Shaw said.
Rick went upstairs and explained the reasoning and as the helicopter arrived they boarded. Rick almost cried when Alexis hugged him and told him that she loved him.
Rick watched as the helicopter took out to sea. It was below radar until it got to the CN coast then it popped up in the area of New Haven and then it was a straight flight to the final destination.
The FBI had a car brought in and exited the front as Kate and Rick ran down the beach to the shed placing the leathers on Kate fired up the bike. Rick got them away from the house unseen. In the rushed move Rick's phone sat ringing on the table. Rick had swapped with Alexis without even knowing it.