As he drove they remained silent. But he knew her, and the wheels in her head were turning. He could practically see the smoke coming from her ears so he waited. The situation was not that dire, well for her it may be because she had Demming teaching her the ins and outs of becoming a robbery detective and in his mind, that would get on anybody's nerves. They pulled up to the curb and before Kate could get out in a rush no doubt to talk to her father on the radio, her phone rang.

"Beckett" She answered.

"Officer Beckett, can you talk?"

"Yes, sir." She replied.

I've reviewed your service file. And I was not presented with the information within it until more recently."

"Sir?"

"Officer Beckett, this surprises me."

"What does, sir?"

The fact that you've received nothing but 4.0's on your fitness reports, and you now currently hold 6 academy records that have not been threatened in over 22 years. Too many, I might add. And that you graduated first in your cadet class."

"Sir what are you trying to tell me?"

"Officer Beckett, what I'm trying to tell you is it seems that I might have acted a bit too impulsively by placing you in robbery to train with Detective Demming."

Kate's eyes widened.

"Okay, sir. What do you have in mind?" Kate asked wondering where he was going with his line of questions.

"I think that your instincts are better served in homicide. I finished reading the notations you made in the case file for the 3XK cases. What I read was beyond intuitive and leads me to believe that you have a skill that would be better served in the homicide department. So as of 1600 today, you will be re-assigned to our unit. Report here tomorrow at 0700, Esposito and Ryan will get you set up and they will start working with you."

"I don't know what to say, sir."

"That's easy. Welcome to the 12th precinct Detective Beckett."

"Thank-You sir."

Kate turns to Rick and just stares at him.

"Kate?"

"Rick, Roy just made me a homicide detective."

"Well, at least one good thing came out of all of this mess."

Xx

Jim thinks about it almost constantly. The day he loses his wife. He's been aware of her death now for two days. He could tell her what might happen, but that would leave her living in fear if she ever believed him anyway. She'd always be looking over her shoulder. He can't let this happen to them. He stares at the HAM hoping that it will crackle to life giving him the information he so badly needs to get through this.

She watches him as he unwaveringly keeps his eyes on the radio. She can't figure out why he's so obsessed with this. He spends all of his time there just staring at it. She turns away and heads back to her school work. She has a test to study for and she needs to do well in to bring up her grade point average. She wants to be a lawyer, but with the school, she wants to attend being across the country, she is really giving it some thought. Maybe she'll talk to her mom tomorrow and get her opinion.

Jim startles when he hears his name being called from the radio.

"Katie, is that you?"

"Yeah, dad it's me."

"The connection today is terrible. You sound like you're in a tin can."

"Sorry dad, I'll try to clean it up on my end."

"How's that?"

"Better Katie."

"Dad, there's something I need to tell you. All of my memories about mom have changed. For me, it's like it just happened." Kate looks over to a family picture that she knew had her mom in it, but now it held only her and her dad, her mom was not in it.

"What is it, Katie?"

"Dad something we did that changed the past. Something to make it worse after you tried to save Susan Shaffer."

"Katie, all I did was try to save her, I failed to remember?"

"Dad please don't look at it like that. You tried. But what did you do after you came to at the bar?"

"I came home we talked a little more about school, and then I went to see your mother at the hospital."

"Oh shit, that's it! She wasn't supposed to be there. Remember everything is different now. Everything has changed since Susan's death. Events that did happen then now don't."

"When? Tell me when he kills your mom, is it at the hospital?"

"Dad, it could have been anywhere. We don't know."

"How about I take her away from here Katie, I have to take her away from here, he can't hurt her if I take her away from here!"

"What about the others dad? Who'll save them?"

"I'll warn them. Katie, I'm a lawyer, not a damn cop!

"Dad no one is going to believe you! When we left this alone he only killed three women according to the files. Since everything changed he's now killed, ten women."

"Katie, I gotta do something, hell you don't even know who this guy is…

"No, because…."

"You don't even know what he looks like…"

"Nobody got any…. Hold on, wait a minute…

Kate pulls the copies of the 3XK files from the corner of the desk and starts to sort out the files according to the date her dad is in now.

"Dad, I may not know who he is for sure, but I know where he'll be and what he will do before he gets there!"

"What do you want me to do? Call the cops? No one will believe me."

"Dad, we need to stop him before anything happens. We can do this because we have the upper hand now! Don't you see?"

"Katie, you do remember what happened the last time right? Like I said I'm a lawyer, not a cop."

"Dad they'll believe you if they catch him in the act only you can make that happen, dad."

"Katie, what happens if the radio stops working? What if I can't talk to you?"

"Dad, then just get mom the hell out of there! It's as simple as that. But dad, those other women were not supposed to die. We need to stop him if we don't we'll live with this for the rest of our lives."

After thinking it over Jim answered.

"Katie, I'm not that sure about doing this."

Rick was keeping quiet during the whole exchange he could tell that they were both upset and agitated by the facts that were laid in front of them. So, he asked Jim a simple question to give them time to regroup their emotions and calm themselves down.

"Mr. Beckett, would you do anything humanly possible to save your wife?"

"Rick, I have no doubt in my mind. There's nothing I wouldn't do to save her. I'd give my life for her if it would save her, without even a second thought."

"Your answer tells me that you'd do anything to right a wrong. Now you need to do this for Kate. I know you're not a cop but maybe, just maybe you can save a victim that never had a chance to live a full life. A life that 3XK had robbed her of."

When Rick finished talking Kate was up off her chair pulling him into a passionate and intense kiss. He was not expecting it at first so he tried to escape her hold. After a second he realized that it was her way of thanking him and this was exactly where he wanted her so he responded drawing his tongue over her lower lip and she granted him access to her mouth. Feeling the need to breathe they both parted from the kiss. As she sat back in the chair, he could have sworn that she gave him an encouraging look that this was only the beginning of something more.

"Kate, we can do this. Your dad will be able to set things right again."

Jim hearing more than he wanted to when they were kissing decided that maybe he could try to do this and it would turn out okay. So he spoke directly and clearly.

"Katie, what do I need to do?"