A/N : Not much action in this one but everything gets tied up. Once again I really appreciate everyone that has viewed, reviewed, faved and followed this story.

Disclaimer : Andrew Marlowe, David Amann, ABC/Disney and the rest of the writers are responsible for Castle. I just enjoy coming up with scenarios for their creations.

For the second time Beckett and Castle enter the interview room to the waiting Sorizo. The differences this time are that Sorizo is shackled to strong points on the table in front of him which was likewise bolted to the floor. He also has a smartly dressed, young male lawyer next to him and Sorizo is looking at the couple defiantly as they enter. The pair of them take seats opposite Sorizo and take a moment as Beckett carefully sets the rather thick file folder on the table between them. She opens the folder and takes out several photos and sheets of paper and sets them out on the table for all to see.

In the observation room, Ryan, Esposito and Captain Gates look at each other and then turn to watch the scene on the other side of the of the glass. The scene of their friends/colleagues/subordinate/annoying dilettante wannabe cop, depending on the individual's point of view, as they start their task of confronting the now much more sinister Sorizo.

Beckett studies what she's displayed on the table for a moment as Castle looks at Sorizo in the eye with revulsion. Looking up from the table she fixes Sorizo with her own calm and determined gaze. A gaze that leaves no doubt that she has her man and there is nothing that Sorizo can say to get out of it, even with the suit of a lawyer sitting next to him.

It's the suit that is the first to speak with a condescending air, "Detective, my client has taken my advice and is refusing to speak."

"That's all right counsellor. We don't need him to. The DA just wanted us to give him an opportunity to confess so that there could be a shorter trial. We have all the evidence we need to convict him. Convict him of the kidnapping, unlawful detention and repeated rape of Julie Carmody. Convict him of being an accessory to multiple counts of kidnapping by the human trafficking gang he became associated with AND convict him as an accessory to the murder of Samuel Carmody," completes Beckett with the same cool gaze into the eyes of the lawyer.

Castle continues just as seriously as his partner, "Besides all the physical evidence we collected at his residence, which includes all his computer equipment that the NYPD techs are having a field day going through." He pauses to look at Sorizo mockingly, "You know Paul for a guy so adept at hacking other people's computers our techs are having no trouble at all getting into yours. We have the testimony of one Hertzog Jellich, a member of the human trafficking gang and the murderer of Samuel Carmody." Castle taps the photo of a man on the table in front of him. The same bearded, tattooed and short haired man that had held the girl hostage and threatened Castle at the warehouse. "Not to mention the testimony of Julie Carmody."

Sorizo's now less defiant and glassier eyes flick to Beckett as she resumes, "Let's start with where we came into this and the murder of Samuel Carmody. After the joint NYPD/FBI raid of the warehouse where the human trafficking gang were operating CSU tested the ballistics of all the weapons found there. A match was found with one of the 9mm Glock hand guns recovered there," she indicates to a photo of the gun on the table between them. "A match with the slug taken from the shoulder of Samuel Carmody which our ME determined was shot into him just before he was killed. Crushed to death behind a dumpster that was hit by a van. The same van whose damage CSU linked to the murder scene and was found at the same warehouse," indicating to another photo on the table showing a close up of the smashed front of the van. "Fingerprints on the gun matched Hertzog Jellich who was one of the many members of the human trafficking gang captured in the raid. Unlike Paul here, faced with a murder charge and feeling no particular loyalty to an outsider like Paul, he's been more than co-operative in outlining Paul's involvement in Sam's murder."

Demonstrating how in sync the couple are Castle takes up the narration without a missed beat, "Jellich has outlined how Paul approached the gang about a month ago and offered his services as a hacker. How, after being initially suspicious of him, that he proved his usefulness by hacking DMV databases and giving them the contact details of several single, isolated young women. Details he obtained by hacking into modelling agency websites, which the gang used to target and then kidnap. How, after working with them for two weeks, he brought to their attention that Sam Carmody was investigating their operation and was a threat. How, knowing Sam was following him, he deliberately lured Sam to a meeting with the gang in Hamilton Heights, so they could take care of him. It took some clever interrogation by Detective Beckett of Jellich but in the end he admitted to also being the driver of the van that crushed Sam."

"It also helped that CSU found his DNA in the van. He also admitted that you were right there, in the passenger seat of the van, as it rammed those dumpsters, crushing Sam to death. And guess what? There was your DNA right there in the van as well," interjects Beckett. "I'll admit we were lucky. The gang had wiped the van for prints and Jellich told us they were about to dump and burn it but we raided them first."

Castle continues, "The motive, or should I say motives, are obvious. Firstly you wanted to hide your involvement with the human traffickers. Secondly, and the real reason you approached the gang in the first place, you needed to get rid of Sam before he found out what you did to his sister."

"You almost broke her Paul, but on hearing what you did to her brother she's somehow found the strength to tell us everything," adds Beckett pointing at the written statement on the table in front of them. "How that a month after moving here, to pursue her dream of becoming a model, she just happened to run into you. A college friend of her brother Sam that she'd met a couple of times before back in California when visiting her brother."

"Bit of a coincidence that," interjects Castle this time. "In a city of millions of people you just happen to run into the sister of your college buddy. It's almost like you followed her out here. Almost as if during those brief encounters with her in California that you'd become obsessed with her and decided to follow and stalk her when she came to New York."

"Stalk her and then, when she finally turned you down and was getting ready to tell her brother about your unwanted attention, you decided that you needed to have her all to yourself," continues Beckett the contempt plain in her voice. "So you kidnap her and imprison her in the basement of your grandparents' old house, which they'd conveniently left you when they died."

"According to your financials, you weren't as hard up for cash as you led Sam or us to believe," adds Castle with his own contempt. "Looks like, with the money your grandparents left you, the money you were getting from the kidnappers for your services and the money you conned out of Sam that you were doing pretty well for yourself."

"When Sam turned up looking for Julie and came to you for help you were in the prime position to send him on all sorts of wild goose chases. Conning him out of his money while all the time you were the one responsible for her disappearance. Did you feel powerful Paul? Having Julie so completely under your control while you strung along her brother and kept tabs on his search for her. Draining him of money so that he'd eventually be forced to go home," adds Beckett looking into Sorizo's eyes. Eyes that had gone from glassy to calculating.

"But that wasn't working out. Sam just wouldn't let it go wouldn't give up and so you needed another way. Sam had become suspicious of you and you found out so you decided to get rid of him and that's where your new friends the trafficking gang came in. Or rather that was the reason you contacted the gang in the first place. You knew that you couldn't string Sam along forever so you intended for the gang to get rid of Sam all along. Then you would be sure to have Julie all to yourself," says Castle as he leans back in his chair with a look of confidence at the creature in front of him as he puts together his motives.

"That's speculation," interjects the lawyer.

"I think you'll find that a jury will find it very plausible counsellor," reposts Beckett. "Plus it's not speculation when we have our victim's own notes and photos corroborating that he had found out about your client's involvement with the trafficking gang and keeping that and the fact that he was holding Julie Carmody against her will quiet were all the motive he needed for Sam's murder. He was just as responsible as if he was behind the wheel of that van."

"Then there was the little performance you put on for us when we discovered you at Sam's apartment," continues Castle tapping another photo on the table. "Turns out Sam had his apartment wired to check if anyone entered it when he wasn't there. Almost as if he'd become suspicious that someone might try and break in and steal the information on his computers. Turns out he was right because here we have you with our dead suspect, Gregori Motaravich, entering Sam's apartment just after Sam's murder and then leaving later with the missing hard drives. But what I find really interesting is that in the first photo you are carrying Sam's backpack. The same backpack he was wearing when he was killed and was taken by his killers. The same backpack we found at the gang's warehouse and which had both Sam's blood and your fingerprints all over it. "

Beckett taps another photo, "Then you return later, just before we arrive, because you couldn't access the information on the hard drives and your new friends needed you to double check that there was no information on their human trafficking operation at Sam's place. I bet you thought we wouldn't be able to identify Sam so you had all the time in the world to search. You had to try and find the means to access the drives you'd already taken because even with your supposed superior hacking skills you couldn't get past Sam's hardware block." The disparaging of his hacking skills brought a very slight reaction of anger to Sorizo's eyes. Beckett's lips quirked in satisfaction at that, "After we caught you the first time and then you bailed yourself out you contacted the gang and told them that if they followed us we might lead them to Sam's information on them. That's how they knew to follow us to Sam's garage in Hamilton Heights. That adds a charge of conspiracy and accessory to the attempted murder of a police officer to the list by the way."

"Not to mention a renowned mystery writer as well," adds Castle for good measure.

Sorizo's face was now showing contempt at the couple in front of him despite the litany of evidence that had just been laid out in front of him. This just reinforces Beckett and Castle's conviction of Sorizo's sociopathic nature and that they are dealing with a true monster. He still hadn't said a word and looked like he had no intention to. His lawyer, on the other hand, seeing a sure loser in front of him, decided to speak up.

"Is there a deal we can make?"

Beckett fixes the lawyer with a look that says 'Are you serious' and responds, "No counsellor, no deals. As we said we are only here to give your client the opportunity to confess. Also, to show your client that there is no way he is getting away with all that he has done. So, last chance Paul. Want to confess?"

Sorizo just stares back at the detective defiantly but also thanks to her keen reading skills she can tell that he is seething inside at being caught. Beckett gathers up the evidence from the table and as she and Castle stand she gives a parting shot, "No Paul? Well, enjoy the rest of your life behind bars. At least Julie Carmody will have the comfort knowing that you will be forever out of her life and that you'll be locked up for eighty times longer than she was."

"And maybe some nice lifer will show you the same hospitality that you showed her," finishes Castle as the couple leave interrogation.

Outside they are met by Captain Gates, Esposito and Ryan. "So no confession Detective," states Gates.

"No Sir, but as I told him we don't need it and I didn't expect one. Not from someone like him. We've all we need to put him away and give some small amount closure to Julie Carmody," responds Beckett as they all walk towards her desk.

"How did he find the trafficking gang in the first place when your victim and the FBI couldn't?" asks Gates.

"That's probably the only thing he can tell us for sure. We can only speculate that during his hacking attempts for Sam he somehow found information on the gang, which he didn't give to Sam and so decided to contact them both for some cash and a means of getting rid of him," supplies Castle.

Gates gives Castle one of her looks which indicates that she'd rather hear any speculation from a sworn detective, then turns to Beckett, "Well done Detective. It's a good thing that you were able to discover his true involvement with this."

"We wouldn't have put it together if it wasn't for Castle. He kept looking at the evidence on the SD card but I think he even had his suspicions about Sorizo from our first interview with him," replies Beckett giving an appreciative look at her fiancé walking next to her.

"I just remember now that I got this feeling when Sorizo looked at that picture of Julie during the interview. That there was something predatory about it I couldn't place it at the time. I didn't have the full story. I'm just glad that we were able to rescue Julie and bring justice for Sam," says Castle with a slight amount of satisfaction.

"Yes, well thank you Mr Castle for your assistance. I'm glad you can occasionally contribute positively to Detective Beckett's team," and with that Gates turns on her heels and walks off to her office.

"Damm, I should have had my phone recording. I think that's one of the few times she's paid me a compliment since I gave her that creepy doll," says Castle with surprise at the receding form of the Captain.

"Yeah, she must be slipping bro," comments Esposito and he and Ryan share a grin with their friend before moving off to their own desks.

Beckett likewise smiles at the comment and sits at her desk as Castle takes his. She looks at him and says, "You also didn't tell her that, after the trial, you've arranged for Julie to go back to her aunt in Arizona and to see one of the best therapists there. All at your own expense."

Castle looks sheepishly at his fiancé, "I should have known that you'd find out about that."

Beckett gives him her patent look that says 'Ya think!' but inside she is proud of him. That he would be so caring and selfless for someone he's barely met is just a further reason why she loves him.

"Anyway, after what she's been through it's the least I can do. Of course, now that the case is solved and once all the paperwork is done, you know what that means?" asks Castle with a warning look.

"What?" asks a puzzled Beckett.

"Now there is no excuse for you not to talk to my mother's acting class," says Castle reminding her of that hasty promise of hers.

Beckett pauses and in a disbelieving tone responds, "How bad could it be?"

A/N : I don't think I missed anything here. I should have tied it all up. There is just one last chapter left. Just an epilogue really and then we're done. Thanks again for reading.