Which Doctor?
Lanie Parish arrives at the morgue before the body from the docks. She steps off the elevator and walks up to the doors to the autopsy room. The room lights are already on. She figures that someone has already beaten her to work this morning. When she opens the door and enters she is shocked to see Jim on the floor unconscious. She runs over to verify that he is alive then calls for help on the house phone.
She keeps an eye on him until the paramedics arrive and they begin treatment. When the uniformed police arrive, Lanie gives them her report of finding him on the floor. They ask her if he has any drug problems. She emphatically says no that Jim is as straight as they come. Working in the morgue gives you a new sense of the bad things that can occur from drug and alcohol abuse.
After the paramedics transport Jim, Lanie finally looks around the lab. She notices that the evidence that he was processing yesterday evening is scattered all over the table. She remembers that it was organized and mostly bagged before she left last night. She now is wondering if he was attacked and that the attack is connected to the case they are working on. It is then that se sees a syringe on the floor. This was not the type syringe that the paramedics use in treatment of patients.
She calls over to the CSU lab and asks them to get over to the morgue that there seems to have been a break in. They need to treat the morgue as a crime scene and collect evidence. While waiting for the investigators, she dons an exam gown and gloves then steps up to the cooler where the bodies are kept. All the doors are closed, but she opens them one at a time. Each section that contains a body and it has been disturbed. They normally put a cover over each body even while they are closed up in the cooler. Each body has been uncovered and it appears were examined by someone, the drawer was then closed back.
During her checking, the transport crew shows up with the victim from the storage container. Lanie has them put the body in one of the empty coolers without removing it from the body bag. She will have to get to him later after she deals with the current situation.
When the CSU team arrives Lanie tells them what she is suspecting has happened. She tells them that the technician was found unconscious on the floor this morning and the evidence boxes were in disarray along with the cadavers in the coolers were disturbed. She shows them the syringe that she wants collected as evidence. She tells them that she thinks that there was a break in and they need to gather evidence.
She begins an inventory of cases they have at that moment. There is nothing in any case that would seem to warrant an attack of an employee or search of the morgue.
Lanie's mind is completely engrossed into what has happened here when her cell phone rings. Caller ID says "Beckett"
Lanie punches answer "Hey Sweetie, I can't talk right now. We had a break in overnight here at the lab"
Kate is on the other end of the line "WHAT? What happened?"
"My technician Jim was unconscious on the floor when I arrived. I think he was drugged. The lab has been tossed and the bodies were examined by someone. I can't tell if anything is missing, but I am still working on it. So can I call you back later?"
Lanie listens for a moment "OK, Come on over. I will be right here. Bye"
One of the CSU techs walks up to Lanie. "I heard you tell the caller that Jim had been hurt and he was unconscious. Is he going to be OK?"
"I haven't talked to the hospital yet, but after Beckett gets here I will try to find out"
"Detective Beckett is coming by? How is she now that her and her shadow finally got together?"
"They are really great together. If you stay around for a very few more minutes, I am sure you will see them"
Lanie's phone rings again. It's the hospital "Doctor Parish. Yes, he is my assistant. How is he? Fantastic! What was it? OK. Got it. Thanks. Tell him I will be by to see him later. Thanks. Bye"
Lanie hangs up her phone just in time to hear the doors to the morgue bang open and Kate and Castle come flying in
"You two are an accident looking for a place to happen"
"Sorry Lanie. Are you OK?" Kate asks
"Oh, I'm fine. I just got word on Jim. He is going to be fine. He had been dosed with Ketamine"
"Special K? So someone has been in the lab?"
"It looks that way"
"Castle looks around "So Lanie, do you know exactly what happened?"
"Not real sure why, but someone is looking at my cases and messing with the evidence. Look at my tables"
Beckett and Castle are looking around the lab at the mess someone made of the evidence boxes and bags.
"Lanie, do you have any high profile cases working right now?"
"No the only case I have of any importance is the fatality fire from yesterday. That is the one I was called out on while I was at your place. That is the case Jim was cataloging when I left him last night."
Castle is looking at the table while he girls are talking. He notices the wallet and driver's license are lying on the table.
Looking at the name on the license "Are you talking about Charles Bourke?"
Lanie looks back to Castle "Yes. Uh No, the first name wasn't Charles it was Calvin I think Calvin Burke was the victim's name".
Kate looks at Lanie "Doctor Calvin Burke?"
"Yes, he was a therapist I think. Why?"
Kate looks over to Castle. "Rick doctor Burke was the therapist I told you about. The one who helped me tear down the wall between us" Kate looks over to Lanie "Are you sure it was Doctor Burke?"
"Well, the victim was found in doctor Burke's office on the 4th floor of the building. They said that it was his office. And that was the location of the source of the fire"
Kate looks away. "This is terrible. I wanted him to meet you" looking back to Castle. "He helped me so much to get us together. Lanie, I want to see him?"
"Sweetie, are you sure you want to do that?"
"Yes, Lanie, I need to tell him good bye and introduce him to Castle" Kate grabs Rick's hand
Dr. Parish walks over to the cooler and opens the door. She pulls the tray out then removes the cover from the cadaver. As she steps away from the drawer, Kate walks up with Rick's fingers firmly intertwined with hers not yet looking at the body. When Beckett finally looks down, a frown appears on her face then she has more of a question look in her eyes "Lanie, I don't know who this is, but this is NOT Dr. Calvin Burke"