CHAPTER 12
A solution has finally has been found. A cure to an irritating nuisance problem that has been plaguing him for years.
He sits in his office contemplating his plan. The plan that seems to be progressing very well at the moment. This plan that will remove a thorn from beneath his saddle. A thorn that has been irritating his skin for several years. After today he figures that she will be gone forever. She will never threaten him ever again.
He doesn't know why he tolerated her existence for as long as he did. For a period of time he was operating under the assumption that someone had evidence against him that could used to bring down his career if harm ever befell her. Then after that guardian was removed from the picture he thought she had the evidence. For several months now he has been looking over his shoulder. Constantly watching out for some act on her part to that would cause his professional destruction.
Then, only after discovering his hired assassin had been blown up in his last attempt to acquire the file, did he realize she had NOTHING! NOTHING usable against him. The damaging file is nothing but confetti. Blown up along with all the evidence against him.
But now, if he were to arrange her killing, her co workers know enough to retaliate.
So he worked out this plan. A fool proof plan. Her DNA or more accurately close relative DNA would be found at a crime scene she would be arrested by the police then taken away. Charged with the murder. Then she is out of his hair. And he is not even connected
BUT someone foiled his scheme. They entered data into her employee file that there was an unknown half sister. This DNA was recorded, documented that it was not hers. It was registered that this person was an unknown to her.
So now he has to go another route. Using his position on the Senate's intelligence committee he orders her be picked up along with her half sister and taken to debrief. The type of debrief that no one returns from. She will claim that she is not whoever they are looking for. No one there will believe her when she tries to tell them she is not a wanted person. She can deny that she is not Kate Beckett. The agents will not believe her.
Perfect. She will be gone. He will not be directly involved. Since she has no file to use against him. He gets off Scott Free.
He receives a text message. "Package picked up"
He knows that they have her. She is in custody. She is en route to the hotel California. She can never leave.
He leans back at his desk Then picks up his telephone and calls his chief of staff into his office
"Yes Senator Bracken. What can I do for you?" Chief of Staff Greg Athens asks
"Greg. My problem is gone. She has been arrested. She is never going to be a problem again"
"That is great senator"
"Yes, it is. So what is on my agenda tomorrow?"
The chief of staff looks at his pad and starts "Well, Sir you are having a breakfast security briefing with the Joint Chiefs then later you meet with the president to discuss the crisis over in…"
William Bracken does not completely register his schedule. He is thinking more about how he has removed Kate Beckett from his life for good this time. She will never be a problem for him ever again.
Back at the 12th
Castle and Beckett exit the elevator. As they pass the desks in the bull pin Castle speaks to Ryan and Esposito and tells them to join them in the conference room. Kate goes to Gate's office "Sir can we talk in the conference room?"
When all five have settled into the chairs, Beckett speaks up
"Sir, the people who murdered my mom are after me again. Over the years we tracked down the killers from the actual trigger man named Dick Coonan to his associate Lockwood. Lockwood is the man who killed Roy Montgomery."
The captain is listening in earnest as Kate describes the events as quickly as she can.
"Then a friend of Montgomery named Michael Smith was maintaining a file on the person who is at the top of all this. This file was protecting me. Last year Cole Maddox was hired to get the file and kill Smith and me to finish off any trace of his involvement. That file is what was blown up at the building with Maddox"
"So detective, if this file is destroyed where does leave you in locating this person?"
"We were able to piece together enough of the file to determine who is at the top. And that top is very high up"
"How high? Who is it detective?"
"Senator William Bracken, sir"
"Are you serious? Senator Bracken is the one responsible for your mother's death and the other killings including Roy Montgomery?"
"Yes, sir and the killing of several others. I did confront him during my suspension and told him if anything happened to me or anyone I cared about the evidence would be released."
"Detective? Do you have sufficient evidence t get an indictment of him?"
Beckett looks down at the table "No sir, we still have not been able to piece together enough of the file to accomplish that, but we are still working on that"
"I assume the file is in a safe place?"
"Yes sir, a very safe place. However there is a new wrinkle. Senator Bracken is on the senate intelligence committee and he has arranged for me to be picked up by them and detained in one of their facilities never to be seen again."
"So are they looking for you right now?"
"They were. Past tense. They picked up my half sister. The one I did not know I had. It was her DNA that was discovered at a crime scene last week. Of course she is denying that she is Kate Beckett. But she looks exactly like me. So they don't believe her."
"Detective that is quite a story. Is there anyway to help this lady or better, get to the bottom of your mother's death and arrest the one responsible?"
"Yes sir. Rick has a plan and with everyone's help I think we can clear the case and put the senator behind bars. FOR GOOD!"