Alexis had returned back to the loft. She had an idea that Kate would try to find out who she was by trying to record her voice, but Alexis had anticipated her move even before she entered the her cruiser. She had the best spy gear that money could buy. The voice altering microphone she had placed on her throat had done the trick. Now it was on to other tasks. She needed to set up a dinner date with her friend Paige. Getting information from her would be tricky but it was a job she knew that needed to be done to move forward with her plan. But it would have to be done very carefully.

Paige had just sat down to her microwaved meal. Sticking her fork into the cardboard like Salisbury steak, she thought back to Alexis's visit the other day. She needs something, but she was not too sure what it was. She was her friend and would do anything for her, but not seeing her for almost 5 years she had her a little suspicions. Finishing her sad excuse for a meal she cleaned up her place setting and made her way over to the living room, turned on the TV to get in her favorite show..."Bones"

While in the loft, Alexis thinks back to the bank bombing and what Kate's last words to her were before her father had died. "I promise you that they will be okay!" these words haunted her ever since that day. And it was the reason she had become what she was now.

Paige's phone rang and she answered it only to hear Alexis' voice on the other end. "Hey, Paige how are you?" She answered with "Alexis I am great how are you?"

Alexis tells her "I'm doing well, you know I was thinking about us and catching up on Monday of this upcoming week, do you have any plans?"

Paige knows there is something Alexis is not saying out loud on purpose. So she tells Alexis that Monday would be a great day to meet. She asks where and what time, Alexis responds with "How about 6 p.m. at Le Cirque on 151 east 58th street?" She agrees but needs to let her know that she is not made of money and before she can make that statement Alexis says "It will be my treat okay?" agreeing, the date is set.

The CSU division of the 12th precinct has been working tirelessly on trying to recover any clue that would revel the identity of the person on the tape that Detective Beckett had sent over to them. They were all hesitant about placing the call to her and let her know that they had come up with nothing. The only thing they actually had was that the recording she had whoever was speaking on the tape was well prepared for being recorded. Whoever this was had a type of miniature scrambling device. They decided that the senior CSU team member would tell the the lowest person on the totem pole to tell her the news. So it was CSU Roberts that drew the short straw. Picking up the phone he called her cell phone. "Beckett" came the answer

"Hello Detective Beckett this is CSU Tech Roberts"

"What can I do for you Roberts?"

"I have some news about that tape you sent to us."

"Oh." Kate said

"Well, Detective we ran every type of voice recognition and background noise search on this tape and the only thing we were able to come up with is the fact that the person knew that you would be recording them and had a device that altered the their voice patterns to make it appear that all you would hear is static."

Kate thought to herself "What the fuck!" She demands the tape be reevaluated and the results are sent directly to her. She is not going to be made a fool of by this person dressed in black.

Roberts unwillingly agrees and hangs up the phone. He thinks he dodged a bullet or so he thinks. Little does he know that he has now become the go to guy for calling the detectives in the 12th for reports that they need information for. The joys of being the newbie.

Alexis was one to give anyone anything they wanted but first she would take the time to make sure that they deserved it in the first place. Standing on the roof of an apartment building near Hell's Kitchen she watched patiently as Carol the wife and Sam the husband were interacting after his hard day at work. He must have had a bad day because he walked right past his two loving children and after paying them no attention opened the refrigerator door and took out a beer and a bottle of whiskey and proceeded to set up a boilermaker for himself. Carol knew what was coming next. Once the drinking started the beating would start shortly after because something that he brought home from work would set him off here in the house, the kids or maybe it was the way he did not like the way the house looked when he got home.

Carol had hoped that this night that the kids would not be the victims of his wrath tonight. But she would always be a protective mother and place herself between his displeasure and the children.

Alexis had watched the scene unfolded right in front of her eyes and regretted what she was going to do next. Firing a light weight carbon fiber cable from her perch on the rooftop across the way to the other apartment building the spear had hit it's mark. Wedged between the window jamb and the brick to the cable she tugged on it to make sure the strength was there. Attaching a pulley she coasted across the street below. Landing in through the open window she rolled and stood upright. Undetected is what she was hoping for and she had achieved it. Sam had already had way too much to drink. Her goal was a serious one. It was to keep the children from harm. God knows that Sam had come home in a bad mood almost every night. Alexis had hidden herself adjacent to to the bedroom wall leading into the living room.

Sam had already took 5 or 6 good swings at Carol and at least 3 connected. Looking from her hidden spot near the alcove she noticed the threat. Carol had at least a a black eye forming and then decided that this was the final straw. Moving out from behind the alcove she threw two jabs to his throat and one kick to his groin. Relentlessly she struck him and before she knew it he was laying on the floor clutching his throat. Rolling through the window she grabbed the window sill and then fell gracefully to the cables that supplied power to the building. Dropping to street level about 5 floors below she started walking east towards eighth avenue. Disappearing into the night she made her way back to the loft and tried to steady herself.

Dropping her keys into the dish by the entry door of the loft she peeled off her tight leather coat. A little relaxed she thought about the events that had unfolded at her last encounter. Hoping that Sam had received the message she had sent him and thought about his actions towards his loving family. If need be she would do it all over until he understood. She slipped into the gentle spray of the shower to erase what she had just done from her mind and body.

They were assigned to investigate an assault that had happened around 11pm last night in Hell's Kitchen. Questioning the assignment since there was no dead body involved the three detectives thought their time was better spent solving a more serious crime than a domestic squabble. Captain Gates was a new to the precinct and she was a no nonsense type of cop from IAB. This was her first position commanding detectives in a homicide squad. She would not take any assignment lightly. Due to the fact that Special Victims Unit was stretched pretty thin she volunteered her detectives. They were dispatched to investigate what happened last night and there was to be no argument.

Arriving at the residence of Carol and Sam Peterson she gently knocked on the entry door. Waiting to answer the door Carol had opened it up but it only went to the extent of the chain that stopped the door from opening completely. Kate noticed her black eye right away, "Hello Mrs. Peterson my name is detective Beckett and were here about a domestic issue that happened around 11 last night"

"Come in detective" The door closes and once the chain is slid off the door reopens again giving them full access to the apartment.

"I am not too sure that I know what you are talking about"

"Are you sure about that Mrs. Peterson? It doesn't take a genius to see what has happened to your right eye."

"My husband has a little temper."

"A little temper? I'd hate to see him when he is enraged. Are your children here Mrs. Peterson, I'd like to speak to them."

"Yes, they are in the living room. Kids" she yelled.

"Yes mom"

"Come in here please"

"Okay"

The children come into the kitchen and Carol tells them to answer Kate's questions.

Kate starts out with "Hi kids I am Detective Beckett how are you doing today?"

They both say that the are doing fine.

"I need to ask you two about last night okay?" They nod yes.

"Who can tell me what happened here last night?"

Both children look to each other and then to their mother not knowing what to tell her.

"Kate restates her question but adds "And I want the truth."

Ryan and Espo have just finished their sweep and without speaking to Beckett they let her know that something is up just by facial expressions. Moving back into the kitchen behind her they let her question the children.

"So kids what happened here last night?"

The boy speaks first "It was so cool you should have seen it" She flew into our living room window and somersaulted onto the floor and hid behind that wall" He pointed to the wall near the dining room.

Kate looked lost "people can't fly"

The girl stated "people might not fly but this girl could."

"Girl? she was a female?"

"Yup, she was really skinny and had big arm muscles!"

"Okay what happened next."

"She hid by the wall until daddy walked into the dining room. He had just punched mommy about 6 or 7 times and she was on the floor crying, holding her head. She moved almost like she wasn't even there the next thing we saw was daddy lying on the floor holding his throat and his man parts."

Kate laughed a little at the man parts comment. "Okay, you two what was this girl wearing?"

They both said "She was dressed in black. Everything she wore was black we never saw her face because she had it covered too." Then the boy further describes her coat "She wore a coat like the one they wore in the movie The Matrix. It was really long."

Kate was worried about this and called to Espo to check the exterior of the building. He did and 10 minuets later he showed her what he found. It was a spear made of high strength aluminum. Attached to the spear was about 50 feet of carbon fiber line.

"Yo Beckett, this stuff is way to advanced. I have never seen anything like this. This line here it can probably lift up a car it's that strong, who has stuff like this?"

"I don't know but I know now that I want to find out"

Thanking Mrs. Peterson for her time they all depart and head back to the 12th.

Kate had a shiver run down her spine, she thinks that she might know who this is but she can't really make it known yet. Getting back to the homicide floor Gates stick her head out and asks about the Peterson investigation.

Kate replies with "Sir it was just a simple case of domestic battery and the wife refuses to press charges."

"Okay, Detective while you were gone we had two more body drops so Esposito and Ryan will take the case that's uptown and Detective Beckett you take the one in midtown. They get the addresses for their next cases and head out. But there is something that is gnawing at Kate about the Peterson case...