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Chapter 4

Kate and Rick's Loft

SoHo, New York

Castle moved about the kitchen pouring the coffee and setting Kate's yogurt and coffee out along with her cereal that she just couldn't give up after the baby was born. Castle turned and saw Baby RJ looking at him from the baby musical chair as he tried to pick up the bottle that was empty right next to him in the chair. "Huh, still hungry little guy. Well maybe mommy can feed you before she leaves for work."

"Mommy would, but mommy needs to eat herself before leaving for work." Kate answered coming over and kissing Baby RJ on the head and making silly noises before walking over to the breakfast bar and picking up the coffee. "Oh thanks babe. I need this."

"I figured you needed it after all the punishment you put me through." Castle answered with a smile on his face. He leaned in close to her. "Espeically when you did that move….."

Kate shoved a spoon full of cereal into Castle's mouth to quiet him. "Little ears babe."

Baby RJ laughed at the sight as mommy and daddy giggled along with him. Kate's phone began to ring and she fished it out of her pocket. "Captain Beckett?"

Castle looked over at his wife and then turned back to the stove where he was waiting on his breakfast to finish cook, when he heard Kate behind him. "Hold on Russell. Babe, Jennifer needs to talk to you."

"Why didn't she call my phone?" Castle asked coming back over.

"She wanted to clear it with me first." Kate answered as she handed the phone over. "I still have to figure out their punishment."

Castle nodded his head as he took the phone. "Yeah Russell?"

"I take it the talk went fine last night?" Russell asked from her desk at the precinct.

Castle smiled. "You could say that. What's up?"

Russell sighed. "Hey our victim Clarissa Donaldson took a trip to the Caribbean last year, specifically the Turk and Caicos Islands."

"You are thinking she has account in the islands somewhere?" Castle asked.

"Yeah." Russell answered. She took a breath and looked around. "I know this a stretch but can you…."

"Yeah, I'll call my contact down in the Caymans and see what he can find out." Castle answered. He looked at Kate who was giving him a look. "I'll call you when I find out something."

"Thanks Castle." Russell said finishing the call.

Castle handed the phone back to his wife. "I'm doing it from home babe, besides I could check on that vacation we said we take."

"Oh you mean the little beach house, and private island?" Kate said with a sly smile.

Castle nodded as he stepped around the island and took her in his arms. "You and me, while our family and friends watch the baby for a few days."

"That sounds delight…." Kate started to say when her phone rang again. She looked at it and in a disgusted sigh set it down. "IA. I have to go and sign paperwork for that Officer involved accident."

"We'll continue this later." Castle said with a smile.

"Yes we will." Kate answered. She gave Castle a quick peck before giving her son one and heading towards the door. "Baby you keep an eye on daddy ok?"

Castle scoffed. "How much trouble can I get into waiting for a phone call?"

Baby RJ just looked around the room as Kate rolled her eyes as she left the loft.

12th Precinct

Manhattan, New York

"I'm just saying bro, Aaron Rodgers hasn't been the same since he broke his collar bone." Esposito said coming off the elevator and into the bullpen. "Tom Brady is still putting up mad numbers and he had an ACL tear."

"But he still puts up big numbers." Ryan answered as he approached his desk. He set his stuff down. "The only reason he had an off year last year, he was without his main target last season. Morning Russell."

"But they still have plenty of talent at the receiver position, so it shouldn't have made a difference." Esposito replied as he set his stuff down. "Morning Russell."

"Morning, and maybe you boys can stop the sports talk and focus on our murder case." Russell replied with a smile on her face. As she got up and walked to the murder board, she tossed a look to Esposito. "And Espo, despite the talent, the reason Aaron Rodgers struggled last season, is because Jordy Nelson could stretch the field, and the rest of the receiver corps can't do what Jordy does."

Ryan laughs as Esposito just smiled and shook his head. Russell smirked and turned back to the board. "Anything turn up on the canvass?"

Esposito shook his head. "Every dumpster, trash bin, recycling bin, sewer and homeless person shopping cart has been checked in a four block radius around the scene. It's not there."

Russell sighed and looked at the board. She studied it for a moment. "Ryan go through the victim's emails again and look for anything about past relationships."

Ryan nodded as Russell got up and turned to Esposito. "Espo, you still got a friend in Homeland right?"

Esposito nodded and looked at the board. "You want me to see if she traveled down to the Caribbean besides the once you have on the board?"

Russell nodded. "Yep, because I have a feeling she has down it."

"Right, what about the sister?" Esposito asked pointing to the elevator as the sister was escorted off the elevator and into one of the small conference rooms by a officer.

"I'll handle it." Russell said going to her desk drawer and retrieving her note pad. She sighed and started towards the room. She quickly turned around. "If Castle calls, come and get me right away."

Ryan and Esposito nodded as Russell nodded to the officer and walked on in. "Ms. Donald, I'm Detective Jennifer Russell. I am so sorry about your loss?"

"Thank you." The sister answered shaking Russell's hand after getting up to her feet. She sat back down as Russell took her seat. "Do you have a idea who did this?"

"Not yet, but it's still early in our investigation." Russell answered as she flipped opened her notebook and looked at the sister. "I have a few questions for you. When was the last time you spoke to your sister?"

"The night before she died. She called me up telling me about the visit she had planned." The sister answered as she took a breath and wiped away the tears from her eyes. "We generally visit each other, and this month it was her turn to come and see me. She was looking forward to it."

Russell nodded and made notes of this. "What about boyfriend or somebody special? We were told she was seeing someone, but it wasn't that serious."

The sister shrugged her shoulder. "Well my sister didn't talk much about her dating life, but to be honest detective, she slept around with pretty much anybody if she got something out of the deal."

"Why do you say that?" Russell asked.

"My sister was the baby, and when our parents died, it cut her pretty deep." The sister explained. She shifted on her chair. "But later on we come to find out that mom had an affair with her boss. Clarissa took it pretty hard, but we found out at the funeral that mom slept with her boss to get a key promotion. So Clarissa just took an example off mom."

Russell noted this and wrote it down. She looked at the sister. "We had someone accuse your sister of sleeping with him and demanding forty thousand dollars for a spot in the school where she works, but the money doesn't appear anywhere in her bank accounts. Do you know where she may have deposit that?"

The sister shook her head. "No sorry detective, but I do remember a trip she took last year though to the Caribbean. She said it was a business trip, but I didn't believe her."

"Why not?" Russell asked.

"Because she flew on a private jet out of Jersey." The sister answered.

"Did she say who?" Russell asked.

The sister shook her head. "All she said it was somebody big and important in the highest levels of the city."

Russell looked at the sister as said that. In the bullpen, Kate had arrived and walked to her office to see what needed to be done. The report from IA in her hand cleared her officer of any wrong doing, so she filed it in her desk drawer, and the emails were mainly administrative. So she decided to check on the murder investigation. She walked out as Russell was going back to her desk. "What did the sister have to say?"

Russell took out her notepad. "She didn't know who our victim was sleeping, with but it didn't shock her that Clarissa was sleeping around for money. Turns out the mother did the same thing for a promotion."

Kate nodded as she turned back to the murder board. "What about her emails?"

Ryan came over shaking his head. "Besides the one account, nothing has shown, and phone and text messages aren't any different either."

Kate nodded and looked at the board. "So it rest on the travel to the Turks and Caicos?"

"And St. Lucia, St. Barts and the Grand Caymans." Esposito said coming on over holding up a print out. "Got in contact with my buddy from DHS; turns out our victim has traveled to each of those places at least once. But get this, every flight always seemed to refuel at the Grand Caymans."

"She must have an account there." Russell replied as her cell phone rang. "Russell."

"Hey its me Castle, put me on speaker." Castle stated as he pulled up the email on the computer. When he heard the noise in the background, he pulled up the info he had received. "Listen, Russell asked me to get in touch with my contact in the Grand Caymans, and he told me something very interesting?"

"What's that babe?" Kate asked listening in on the phone call.

"She made five deposits all with the last two years into the bank where he works." Castle answered as he looked at the email he had received. He heard the scribbling of notes. "Somehow I think you knew this already?"

"No she took five trips down there, but all her flights went through the Grand Caymans though." Esposito stated as he looked at the team.

Kate looked at the board. "Babe how much is in there?"

"With interest a little over three hundred thousand dollars." Castle replied as he looked at the email. He read it over a little bit more. "He also said she came in with a gentlemen about 45 to 50 years old. Looked pretty cozy together."

"He didn't happen to give you a name did he Castle" Ryan asked.

Castle laughed. "Ryan this is the Grand Caymans. My contact was lucky he got me this."

Russell sighed. "Anything else Castle?"

"He'll see if he can find the footage and send me a shot." Castle replied.

"Alright thanks babe." Kate replied as she leaned over the desk. "Love you."

"Love you too." Castle answered before hanging up the call. He looked at baby who was playing on the floor in front of the desk. "Let me call around to my friends at some of the private airport bud and see what they can tell me."

Back at the precinct, the team looked at the board pondering the information that Castle had given him. Kate took a breath. "Alright so the sister said highest levels within the city. So I am wondering if it might be city government."

"Could be police or fire department too boss." Esposito replied to the question posed by Kate.

"One way to find out. Cross reference names on the list and see who took flights to the islands that weekend." Ryan added in.

Russell shook her head. "And we wouldn't get too far with them before their lawyers ask us how we found about them?"

Kate nodded her agreement. "She is right. We need to find out another way. Ryan what about security footage?"

"Techs have it and are cuing it up now." Ryan replied as he looked at the group. He heard his phone beep and pulled it out. "Hey a unit is holding someone that tried to use sell victim's cellphone and us her credit cards. They are bringing them in now, with the murder weapon."

"Where was it?" Russell asked.

"We'll find out when they bring in the suspect. Ryan, Esposito you talk to who ever that unit brings in." Kate ordered. She turned to Russell. "You get with the techs and pour over that security footage."

The team nodded and went about the work.

Kate and Ricks Loft

SoHo, New York

Castle typed away on the keyboard as Baby RJ looked on from his play chair perched next to his chair. Castle looked down and smiled at his son who seemed interested in what he was doing. "Daddy is writing his next greatest work, because if he doesn't soon, daddy's bosses will come and hurt him."

"You have no idea." Maria reported from the entrance to their office as she set the phone down on the desk and took her seat. "That was Gina. She needs the next chapters for Derek Storm and Nikki Heat by Friday."

"I just sent her the finished transcript to Storm now, and Nikki Heat book is at the presses." Castle complained as he looked down at Baby RJ. "This is why daddy procrastinates on his writing."

"Well, I am just passing along the message." Maria said chuckling from her desk. She looked at Castle and Baby RJ. "I did stress you were also busy being a parent to a 3 month old too, but she didn't want to hear it."

"I deal with her later than." Castle commented chuckling. He heard his computer beep. He opened up the email and clicked on the attachment. His face went white as a ghost. "Hey Maria, call Gina and Paula, tell them not to expect anything else from me today. Then take the rest of the day."

"What's going on?" Maria asked nervously.

"I have to go to the precinct." Castle answered as he picked Baby RJ out of his play chair and carried him towards the living room. Maria looked on in concern.

12th Precinct

Manhattan, New York

Ryan and Esposito walked into the interrogation room and looked at the disheveled man sitting in the chair across from them. Esposito took a seat. "Leonard Wilkins. You been with us before, mainly for petty crimes, but you are looking at the big time here. Murder of a young woman."

"I didn't kill anyone." Leonard stated from the chair opposite of him. His white gnarly hair and beard caked with dirt and grime. "All I was trying to do was get something to eat and sell the purse and phone after I found it near city hall in a dumpster."

"Really, then why are your fingerprints on the knife found in the purse?" Ryan asked. He set the photo of the knife in front of the person.

"I took the knife out and decided to keep it for protection. Some I know people kill over prime sleeping spots in the city." Leonard remarked. He eyed up both Esposito and Ryan. "I can prove to you I didn't kill this person you are talking about."

"Then prove it to us." Esposito stated.

"Talk to Ms. Jenkins at the corner of 1st Avenue and E St." Leonard remarked as he looked at both Ryan and Esposito. "She gave me some food."

Ryan and Esposito both got up and proceeded into the observation room where Kate was waiting. She looked at Ryan and Esposito. "What do you think?"

"He's not our guy." Ryan stated as he looked into the observation room. He sighed. "He mainly sticks around the government area and the lower east side."

Esposito nodded his agreement. "I have to agree Captain. We'll still verify his alibi though."

Kate nodded as Russell came into the observation room. "Hey Captain, Castle is here, and we have a problem."

Kate sighed. "One second. Ryan, you and Esposito go confirm Leonard's alibi, while I talk…"

Castle came into the observation room with the baby stroller. "Hey guys, this couldn't wait until you came out."

"Babe what is going on?" Kate asked as she eyed her husband and the stroller. "And why did you bring RJ with you?"

"Didn't want to leave him with Maria who is dealing Paula and Gina but that isn't important." Castle replied as he pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket. He passed it over. "I got a security frame still of the man that the victim came in with when she opened up the account and the next four times she stopped over in the Grand Caymans. Kate we know him."

"We do?" Kate said in amazement as she looked at the paperwork. She looked up in shock. "Deputy Mayor Sheldon Baxter?"

Castle nodded. "The mayor's deputy mayor on school safety."

"And the person who just slapped a injunction on us viewing the security footage from the school." Russell stated as she looked at the team. "Citing fears of a security leak of cliental identities."

"So he was having an affair with our victim?" Ryan asked.

"Appears so." Castle answered. He looked at his wife. "The question is why is he so worried about what is on that security footage?"

"The other question is what is he hiding?" Kate added in as she looked at the paper again.

Additional note: Next update the team investigates its new lead, and learns why the victim did what she did.