Rick, Kate, and their newfound friend Detective Drake, also known as Stake, are covering the room inch by inch. With the knowledge these three possess they will not miss any important detail

Rick and Kate start in the bedroom. Since he does have a bit of a history, albeit it very ancient history, he does know what evidence to look for to determine if the victim was alone or possibly entertaining some company in the hours prior to his death.

Kate checks out the bedroom while he begins in the bathroom looking for proof of there being a lady and he does find that proof. He finds an open box of condoms. He checks to see how many are missing to determine how entertained the victim might have been.

He also finds an extra, hotel issued, toothbrush standing in a glass on the bathroom counter. Another proof of a second person using the facilities. He is looking around for a woman's suitcase or at the least a cosmetic bag, but one is not located

He moves out to the bedroom where his wife is searching. "Find anything babe?" Kate asks without even looking up as if she has gained a sixth sense of her husband's presence

"Just that our victim did have a lady guest in the hours prior to his demise"

"I wonder if she came with him?"

"There is no other evidence of her presence such as clothes, garment bag, or even a cosmetic's bag. Was there anything here?"

"No" Beckett responds as she is opening the bedside drawers "What proof, then, do you have of a woman's company?"

Pointing his thumb at the bathroom door "Open box of condoms with two missing"

"So he came prepared?"

"I would agree except this was a new box…probably bought right here in the gift shop. This IS a FULL service hotel after all"

His remark gives a Kate a small smile "I wonder if that service included furnishing the entertainment"

"You know that is possible since he did drop a lot of cash here for this little shindig"

"True" Kate responds "But he still might have brought them from home"

"No. Probably not"

Beckett looks at her husband "And why would that be?"

"He would have just dropped a handful in his suitcase. Planning ahead so as to not need to spend time purchasing a new box interrupting a passionate moment"

Kate stops and walks back to her husband. She gets right in his face "And where is this little bit of knowledge coming from?"

He feels her hot breath on his face

"UH…I…Uh…Ancient history?"

"Not recent events?"

Gulp "NO!"

"It better be long ago ancient history…since you have not required that particular item be packed for a trip in a very, very longtime"

After a poignant moment of silence she starts to smile

"OH! I see what you're doing…you're trying to push my buttons…well it's not working"

She turns her back to him and resumes her searching "Seems to be working just fine"

Before Castle can react to her tease, Detective Drake enters the room "Have you found anything?"

Beckett responds first "Nothing of interest in the bedroom so far but the bathroom had a few items of interest"

Then Castle answers "He had a guest. There is an extra toothbrush in the bathroom and an open box of condoms"

Stake looks into the bathroom door toward the counter "We will get the Crime Lab to try and pull DNA from the toothbrush. What about the condoms? Anything special about them? You know neon colors or…?"

Beckett almost wants to laugh seeing the hard cop, former military trying to drop a note of humor into the conversation

Rick responds "No just plain protection" then looking at his wife who seems to be trying not to laugh

/\/\/\/\/\/\

Detectives Ryan and Esposito have looked around the offices of CI Software and it appears that the break in appears to be nothing be a routine burglary. Desks were ransacked. Desk top computers stolen.

Ryan has been interviewing the office staff. He is talking to Rod Brady, a senior programmer "Was there classified programs on any of the machines?"

"No. The computers were set up almost like the old dumb terminals. For two reasons. One an event like this and nothing important is taken and two no one can copy from the servers to a local flash drive or disk"

"There terminals had no ability to copy data and take it?" Esposito joins the conversation

"No. These machines could not even send or receive e-mail. They could only talk to the servers"

Ryan glances around the room "Where are the servers? We did not see any other systems inside the offices"

"Oh! They are kept safe in a bank vault up on the top floor of this building"

"How are you protecting the data from sniffers? The hackers can listen in on the copper wires of a network" Ryan points out

"The feed is fiber and it is scanned regularly and certified to be tap free"

"Can we go see them and make sure all is well?"

"We will need the authorization of one of two people"

"I assume Charles Ivy is one of them?" Esposito remarks "And he is dead. so who else can open the vault?"

The young programmer seems nervous "The Chief Technical Officer. She is the only other person with the codes to get in"

"And what is her name and where can we find her?"

"Her name is Nancy Hopkins and we tried to find her but she is not answering her phone"

Ryan looks at the young man "Where does she live?"

"I will call our HR director and get that for you"

"Thank you"

After the call is made to HR and they are waiting for the answer, Ryan continues his canvas "does Nancy have a husband, boyfriend, partner?"

"Uh not that I know about. She keeps pretty much to herself. Most of her times is spent with Mr. Ivy working on plans for new software or upgrades to what we have already released"

The phone rings with the call from HR and Rod answers and begins writing notes

While waiting, Ryan looks back to Esposito "So what is this? Is it tied to the death of Ivy? Is it a data breach or just a plain old B&E"

"Good question"

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

The HR department has provided the address of Nancy Hopkins. They arrive on her floor of a nice loft apartment in midtown

"Must pay well to write software for the government" Esposito comments as they knock on the ornamented door

"A lot of these computer geeks make tons of money "He points at the well-trimmed hallway "and they get to live like this"

"Yeah"

After several minutes with no answer, Ryan goes to find security to have them open the door. It takes several minutes of conversations about warrants and illegal searches but the two detectives convince the building manager that they are only checking on her wellbeing and not looking for evidence in a crime

The door is opened and the two detectives enter to find a well-cared for living area. Nothing seems out of place.

They check out the entire unit and find no evidence of possible problems

Ryan comes out of the bedroom and speaks to the manager "Does she have a boyfriend?"

"Why" The manager asks

"There are men's clothes in the closet and shaving supplies on the counter. She seems to have a regular man here"

"We pride ourselves in being discrete for our tenants and try to keep their privacy a top priority"

"Well we are concerned about her safety right now since their business has been broken into and she seems to be missing and her boss has been murdered in Westchester where he was at a reunion"

The manger reacts to that statement "HER BOSS? Charles Ivy?"

"Yes" Esposito notices the manager's response "What do you know?"

"Her boyfriend is or rather was Mr. Ivy"