Dr. Young takes Lanie in with him to the lab and tells her what he thinks about doing with her processed blood sample he just withdrew from her arm as they walk.

"Dr. Parish, I think that by taking your blood sample and "cleaning" it up to remove any traces of this disease there might be a chance to extend Ms. Castle's life. I'm not sure that this will be a cure, but if my theory is correct it will be able to give her a few more days then we can dig into finding an answer for her treatment. I won't lose anyone to this terrible disease."

"Dr. Young, how long will it take to clean up my sample?" Lanie hopefully asks.

"By the time I get this to the lab, maybe about four hours. So, before lunch. Dr. Parish, I know that you are a pathologist but you're still a doctor. Could you go and check on her and tell me about her condition whether it has progressed or not?"

"Yes, I will Dr. Young. I'll be back soon."

Lanie leaves the doctor and heads back up to Alexis' new room. She was moved to ICU about an hour ago when her doctor found out that she's not contagious. Arriving at the floor she checks the patient room assignment board behind the nurses that are completing updates on patients charts and turns in the direction of her room. The first thing she sees is Rick dabbing the sweat off of her body with a cool wet cloth. She's drenched so much that the hospital gown she's wearing is almost transparent.

"Rick, any changes?" She asks.

"No. She's about the same from when her doctor left over two hours ago. She's having nightmares though that much is obvious."

"That's to be expected. Her body is going through a lot right now."

They both look at the teenager hoping that she can be saved. He really can't think anything less because if he does, he's given up on her.

"Rick, this might be a little premature to say but I think that Dr. Young might be able to give Alexis a few more days."

Rick almost gives himself whiplash when he turns to face her with a questioning look. She explains what the doctor is trying to attempt and then he's looking so happy at this news. But she then sees his face frown when she tells him that this might not be able to do anything at all. But she has faith in the doctor's ability.

Time slowly moves on and Lanie returned back to Rick after she updated Dr. Young. She's falling asleep in the chair by the side of Alexis' bed and wakes suddenly when Dr.'s Young and Allen rush in.

"Dr. Parish, Mr. Castle we have finished with the sample and are ready to introduce it into Ms. Castle. Could you kindly step away from the bed please?" Dr. Young requests.

They both do and meet at the foot of her bed and watch his every move. The process only takes a few seconds to administer the cleaned blood and then once it's done the waiting game begins once again. Both doctors leave and head back to the lab.

Xx

Jerimiah Jones stares intently at the computer screen in front of him. He knew that the cops would attempt to disable his Zombie cookie and everything played out the way it was supposed to. Their system was down through out the whole network. Essentially, they were in the dark and that gave him the opportunity to catch up on a little casual reading. He'd been about ten pages into this detective Beckett's personnel file and wondered what this writer had meant to her. Since he had Carte Blanche within their system he had read the personal notes from her late Captain Notes that were not accessible to anyone but the Captain. And there was no fear of that ever happening again. He was thinking that by the notes that were left by her Captain that his thoughts were that there was more to Castle than just his researching her cases and NYPD procedure for his books. No, there was something more there. And he would find out what it was. He read more about her history and he knew that they were more than partners. He had gone behind her back and looked into her mother's murder and she called him out on it threatening to end their partnership. But he told her that he had new information and she needed to see what he had found. She did and then Jeremiah had realized two items of importance, she was a driven person. Someone whom he did not want to have on his tail and her mother's case was never solved. She was the driving force that kept the case alive, well her and the writer.

He sat back in his chair and thought how he could use this information to his benefit. He knew that if he dangled a carrot in front of her he'd get her off his back so he decided to do just that. His network of assets runs into places that she could only dream about getting a lead for her mother's case. He picked up the phone and made a call.

"Jones here, I need everything and I mean everything about Johanna Beckett. Give me something that her daughter can't possibly know about her. Oh, and something else, get me everything on the names Richard Alexander Rodgers, or Richard Edgar Castle. Spare no cost going into files that no one has access to."

"Yes, sir." The line goes dead.

He starts to read again and gets to when the detective was shot. The case was unsolved and still is. He makes a mental note to look into this himself. He keeps reading and finds out that her new Captain and the detective don't really see eye to eye. The Captain is a by the book former IA detective and he knows that looking into her file would be entertaining and a diversion but it's not what he needs to do now. He shuts down the computer with the thought of returning to it later. Now he needed to do a little sightseeing. First stop would be the 12th and then 1PP. He'd know by now that they were working feverishly to find out what the hell happened with their network. It would be months before they could even run a plate number or a history of arrests on a suspect.

Xx

Kate Is watching in awe as the 12th tries to get back up on their feet. She had realized that a majority of their work here relied on computers and it was their way of life, they had become too dependent on them. But with technology, as it is there was only one way to go… forward. Since the computer network was still down the officers and detectives reverted back to older ways. Everything that was usually done by a computer was now entered by hand on paper. Esposito had finally given up on walking back and forth more than eight blocks from the precinct to make a cell phone call. He was able to ask the detective Seavers in Secaucus to print him out his copy of the crime scene that he had filed. He told him that he would be over within the hour. Just before he had hung up, Seavers told him that if he didn't get the first one he sent him via email, that he'd send it again. Javi told him that the NYPD was crippled by a virus and the whole network was down. The drive was a quick one. He had the report and Seavers conversation floats back in his head.

"Detective, are you telling me that the NYPD is in the completely in the dark? That there is someone who can do just about anything they want to with any file within the system and you are helpless to stop it?"

"That about sums it up."

"Detective maybe the answer you are looking for is the one that was overlooked. You know, the obvious reason is the one that we dismiss the most. This just might be the key. Tell your IT department that the answer might be staring them right in their faces and they don't even know it."

"You might be right! I really need to go. Thanks again for this report detective Seavers."

Javi parks on the street next to the 12th and heads up the stairs to his floor. He needs to see Kevin and Tori and tell them what he thought, he had an idea.

Xx

Both of Rick's hands were occupied. His right thumb was repeating the circular motion over his daughter's knuckles while his left was gently caressing the side of her cheek. Her temperature had gone down considerably but she was still burning up. He looked down and that's when he noticed it. Her eye lids started to flicker and she was rolling her head from side to side.

"Alexis, pumpkin, come on I need you to open your beautiful eyes for me."

She was trying, that much he could see so, he kept telling her to come back to him.

"Alexis, baby come on just find the strength to open them I know you can do it!"

It was the word he had been wanting to hear since this whole ordeal started…

"Daddy?"