A/N: Happy Friday! Can you believe the summer is almost over...blah. I am going to try and keep up my schedule through the school year, but if I falter, it's because I have a lot of work to do. But don't fret, I have a couple more weeks to go, so things should stay on track for now.

Chapter 10: Revenge Plot

"Cecile and Cyrus McLeod are two elderly members of the Helping Hands retirement community, in North Caroline. Who are you?" Chin Ho Kelly asked the man before him as he walked into the unfamiliar interrogation room and stopped, looking up from his tablet at the man who was not who he claimed to be.

"My name is Cyrus McLeod, it's common enough," the man answered and his accent was thick and European but not quite Scottish.

"As far as we can tell, no it's really not that common. And the credit cards you've been using and billing to an address in North Carolina have been frozen and are under investigation because Cyrus McLeod has no recollection of the cards or the photographs of you he'd been shown, nor does he or his wife recognize your partner in this identity theft. So I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and ask you one more time; who are you?" Chin asked as he read off the tablet in his hands. "And who is your partner?"

"She's a nurse," the man answered, avoiding the initial question.

"In the army," Chin added as he looked up.

"Navy," the man corrected and realized his mistake at once.

"And you were an officer as well," Chin said with a smirk on his face. "Mr. George Collins?"

The man blanched slightly in colour at the address.

"An officer with a discharge that wasn't as honourable as you would have liked, because you'd been caught posing as other people to gain access to classified information and put sensitive intelligence and personnel in danger. People like Hewitt Westbrook," Chin accused as he revealed the amount of information and identification they had already uncovered.

"Who?" The man asked.

"The man you stabbed in the chest with medical precision, in the ship's dining room," Chin answered. "Did you learn the anatomy from your nurse friend?"

"I didn't stab anybody," George Collins gasped at the accusation. "Sure, I stole the identities and I profited from it, but I've never killed anyone."

"Oh no, because Phoebe is the one with the medical training. Is she the one who killed a man with a champaign flute and such precision?" Chin asked, his voice raised above a yell.

"No, she didn't, it wasn't her. Okay, she didn't kill anyone either, not even the girl in the washroom," George answered in a panic.

"Then who did and why are you helping them?" Chin asked much calmer now.

"Look, if I tell you, they'll kill me and Phoebe as well," George said and shook his head.

"You're in custody, they can't get at you and you'll be staying in a very secure location for your crimes," Chin explained as if it needed to be said.

"Clearly these guys are ready to wait. Look at how long they waited to get at Hewitt and Janice. I knew Hewitt in the service, sure, and he was an upstanding young man, and sure when he'd caught me he couldn't believe what I was doing, but I knew I'd get caught one day. He should have stay away from Janice, though, that was his downfall," George said and lowered his eyes.

"You knew that murder was the plan and you and Phoebe went along with it? I can put you up on accessory charges, hell, with my sway I could see you charged with the murders right now. Is that what you want, all to protect someone else?" Chin asked.

"If I tell you, and with your, so called, sway, can you protect Phoebe?" George asked.

"Yes," Chin answered.

"Can you keep her out of prison? I'll take the blame for all of it, just don't let her give birth in prison, please," he pleaded.

Chin raised a skeptical eyebrow to the conman before him.

"It's not a lie. We found out she was pregnant just before we got the call for this operation. I'd been out of the life for a long time and she'd managed to hold down an honest job at a hospital back home, for just as long. We just couldn't say no to them because of what they knew about us and how deep we were involved before, and because they'd threatened to kill us if we didn't cooperate," George explained.

"And what do these men have on you?" Chin asked.

"Ken and Dick smuggle people. Phoebe would check them out and I'd forge their documents. Dick met Janice when they were children, and went to school together until he joined the Navy," George began to tell his story and fidgeted with his cuffs. "I stole intel for Dick so that he could move the merchandise and that's how I was caught and discharged in the first place. Ken knew Hewitt in the service as well and tried to get him on board with their operation, because Hewitt had access to a lot of transportation methods, but Hewitt was an honest, upstanding, man and turned the crew over to the authorities. He met Janice in the court room when he testified against her, then, fiancé."

"Dick and Janice were engaged?" Chin asked and again he was very skeptical.

George nodded. "He went to prison and she jumped ship, but he got out and so did Ken, and when they went looking for Janice, even though she had sent letters to end everything, they found her in love with the enemy. Hewitt and Janice just got married a little over a year ago and Dick had been planning his revenge long before he even knew that she betrayed him."

"So why is she dead?" Chin asked.

"She sullied herself by marrying the man who couldn't fall in line with their business model," George answered with a sigh. "He's always been over the top and terrifying like that. A true psychopath. He could sway anyone with his charm, be anyone he wanted to be, and when he didn't get his way... I saw him once break a man's fingers, one by one, because the man wouldn't sell him a cow."

"Where are these men now?" Chin continued his line of questioning.

"On the ship, disappeared, long gone since the two new guys onboard are cops, I don't know the plan. I just know that I was there to cause a distraction and make them rock solid identities," George said with a shrug. "I don't know the plan, I swear, I just know that I had a part to play, so did Phoebe and now that they are bound to get caught, I'm as good as dead if they find me."

"What was Phoebe's role in all of this?" Chin asked darkly.

"It was her job to make sure Janice took the art class and we made a scene outside the lavatory while Kenneth went to make sure that Janice was dying," George confessed. "We were in the full swing of our act when the little server snuck by, and we were being shuffled away and detained while Ken snuck out all bloodied. He got away with it though, or you wouldn't be here," George answered.

"So Dick killed Hewitt?" Chin asked.

"Yes, that was the plan all along. Phoebe taught him all the anatomy she knew. She was suspicious when he wanted to learn and kept coming around our place in London. Why doesn't he just take a class?, she'd ask. At first, that was all we were there for, and last month, he told us he needed us on this ship. We were too afraid to say no, knowing what we'd just found out."

"And you ran this morning for one last ditch effort to save yourselves?" Chin asked.

"Yes," George admitted. "We needed off the boat and all we'd have to do, as the tourists in the grand plan, was to miss the departure and fly away from Hawaii to disappear again."

"You weren't expecting the involvement of Five-O?" Chin continued his line of questioning.

"Who?" George looked at him questioningly.

"The governor of Hawaii has an elite task-force. We're called Five-O," Chin explained and watched the man very carefully for signs of his tells. "We have full immunity and means in this island chain, so we're above the law on that ship and have ways to take over where we need to," he finished as the man before him listened carefully.

"Well, I hope you're just the oversight that they need to end Ken and Dick's reign of terror. They are back at their business, based out of Dublin. Does your reach span that far?" George asked.

"If we catch them in Hawaii, it will," Chin answered and saw relief appear on George's face.