Sorry for the delay.
I have had one giant case of writer's block.
I am not totally happy where this story is headed but we ill try to fix it before someone
Important gets killed

Kate Beckett has disconnected the call from her partners in the City.

They all sit in silence for a moment when Drake remarks "You work with Javier Esposito?" with a tone of envy

Beckett seems surprised by the question "Yeah. He is one of my lead investigators. Why?"

Drake seems to think for a minute as if he has to decide what he can or cannot say "Was he in the service?"

"Yeah. He does not say a lot but his personnel file says he was in Special Forces. He doesn't like to talk about it but I do know he was a sniper"

Castle pretends to not know about the reputation "Did you know him?"

"Not personally. He was well known though. He was one the heroes in the teams. Every unit wanted him and his spotter doing over watch when they were on a mission. He seemed to be able to spot the bad guys and take them out protecting our guys. He saved a lot of soldiers" His face seems to drift to another time "I wish I had him with me a time or two"

Rick and Kate can read each other's mind thinking about what was being said. A man, Drake, being impressed by a man that Rick and Kate have worked with for years who has a lot of history that Javi never uses for his personal benefit and especially wishing Esposito had been on the team when he went in to save the orphans

"We always knew he was special "Beckett remarks "but just not that much. Thank you detective for that information" then she looks at her husband who visually acknowledges the comment

Changing the subject Castle remarks about the current set of information "If Nancy was not in his room then who was? Who did the toothbrush belong to?"

Drake finishes the questions "And what does this all have to do with the break in and theft at CI Software?"

"We need to find the connection between Ivy and the people behind Gordon's fake armored cars" Kate remarks

"Did you say FAKE armored car?" Drake seems shocked

Beckett answers "Yeah. There was a fake armored car show up and this is not the first one"

"What do you mean?" Drake seems truly worried

"We had a crashed fake car a couple of weeks back"

"Crashed how?"

"We had a man stroke out while driving the truck and crashed into a bridge in New York. When we investigated, it turned out that the truck was fake. A salvaged truck frame with a false body attached painted to look like a legitimate armored car from the local service. We tracked the truck box and the frame, but nothing ever panned out. Every lead ended in a dead end"

"Was he an American?"

That specific question draws a look from Beckett "No. Actually he was not an American, but we also could find no evidence leading up to who he was or from where"

Drake looks off in the distance "He was murdered"

"No. Dr. Parish confirmed that he died of a stroke"

Rick and Kate suddenly see a change in their fellow investigator. It appears he is going back to his service days. The man looks around as if making sure no one is listening

"Listen. What I am going to tell you is classified and if any one were to discover I told you this we would all be in big trouble. In fact we might all just vanish without a trace"

Castle and Beckett are mesmerized and frightened at the same time but naturally Castle wants to know "What are you talking about?"

Drake motions the couple to follow him to a secluded back hallway where he looks back to the area they just left. Again like he believes they are being watched

"When we were in training for a special assignment at Fort…" He halts in his description of the specific location "tasked with assisting and training a group of military Special Forces from Europe. They would not tell us where. But they all had accents like the Baltic States. They were working on an operation involving bringing down a drug cartel"

"What does that have to do with an armored car in New York?"

"We came up with the idea of creating a vehicle the cartel would not even look at twice"

"Like how?" Kate asks

"The drug cartels handle a huge amount of cash and they put it into banks that tend to look the other way when asked where the money came from. Drug money comes in to the bank in bags just like a regular transaction then are picked up by the armored cars and taken out of the country.

Beckett finishes the thought "Therefore laundering the cash"

"They have it all in cash. So, the higher ups had the agents build a transport vehicle that looked like an armored truck the banks used to move money. We helped train the men"

"What was the plan?" Beckett asks

"It was a Trojan Horse. The government agents pulled up to the bank and pretended to be from the cartel to pick up the cash. The cartel did not know the money was taken until weeks later. They had lost millions of dollars, putting a dent into their business"

"Do you think the break in at CI software is related?" Castle asks

Drake looks around again "CI software made more than just anti-virus software"

"Software like what?"

"To be able to create software preventing break-ins, you have to know how to do the break in's"

"Are you saying that Charles Ivy was making software to fool the cartels into thinking the money had been deposited in the off-shore accounts?"

"Not just that. The malware was a sniffer program. It monitored the money coming in and told the government what bank the money was deposited in"

"So, what do you think…" Castle starts "The Cartel's came after Ivy and his company?"

Kate continues Rick's thought "That would be like them to punish anyone who was involved"

Rick adds "So they steal the hard drives to get the information as to who was involved…

Kate continues the thought "…and what happened to their money"

"And take out anyone involved"

Castle and Beckett respond together "The Cartel killed Ivy"

Silence fills the room then Kate starts back up "We need to find the woman he spent the night with. She may have seen the killer"

Drake adds "She might also have been taken somewhere and killed"

"I think we will start with my old classmates. I will contact the coordinator and get the list of attendees and we can start"

Beckett's phone rings again. Caller ID is Esposito "Hey Espo. What's up?"

After a brief pause "WHAT? WHO? WHEN?"

She listens and then turns to the other two men "NSA showed up and took my team off the investigation at CI Software. An Agent Ron Blackwell took all the evidence and shut us down"

Drake look at Kate "Did you say Ron Blackwell?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"That was the name of my CO. When I was discharged, he tried to get me to join a private security contractor"

Castle looks at his wife "What if he is not really NSA?"