YES I did pull the original Chapters one and two. They will come back at the end
Please Forgive me
Trapped in a Prison
She screams at the top of her lungs
"HELP!"
"LET ME OUT OF HERE!"
"SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!"
Her words are dying without ever passing thru the walls. No sound penetrates the cell surrounding her. No one hears her screams. She is alone. Totally and completely alone. No one can hear her. No one can see her. No one can help her. No one can ever help her.
Inside this room there are no books to read. She has no television to watch. She has no radio to listen to. She is surrounded by four blank white walls. She is in isolation. Total and complete isolation
Trapped in this prison. A prison with padded walls. A bed bolted to the floor. A combination toilet with built in sink on top. The mirror above that is built into the wall is a stainless steel plate polished so she can see her own reflection. At least she can see her reflection to assure herself that she is who she believes she is. She can see her own hazel eyes. She can see her own long auburn hair she knows who she is. She has not changed. She is still who she knows exactly who she is. She is not someone else.
They think she is someone else. They keep calling her by someone else's name. Not her name. Her name is…? Wait, what is her name? Why can't she remember her name? They keep calling her someone else. That's not right. Her name is not that other name. Her name is…? Wait! What is my name? Why can't I remember my name? It has been my name all my life. The name that belongs to me. The other name they call me does not belong to me.
She looks in the mirror. Yes, the face she sees is her face. Not someone else's face. Her face. The face belongs to…? What is my name? Why can't I remember my name?
There is a sound at the door. Someone is there. The door opens and a man enters carrying a tray. A food tray
"Help me! Please Help me! They won't let me go. Why are they keeping me? I didn't do anything. PLEASE! Help me! PLEASE!"
"Now we have talked about this many times. You are here because you had a breakdown and you think that you are someone else. Now until we can get this all worked out we must keep you here"
"I don't want to be here. I just want to go home. Please! Can I just go home?" there is pleading in her voice. Begging!
"We will let you go home as soon as all the other memory things are fixed. So here is your dinner. You need to eat. You have not eaten very well since you have been here"
With trembling in her voice "I'm not hungry. I want to go home. Please, I just want to go home."
"Now you know until you get well, you have to stay here. Now what is you name?"
"My name is…" There is a moment of understanding in her voice "Beckett. My name is Kate Beckett. Please call my dad. He will tell you who I am"
He places the tray on holder on top of the sink. He reaches over to her shoulder and touches her gently. See now that wasn't hard" Then he turns and leaves the room. Outside he rejoins another orderly "We seem to be getting thru to her She no longer claims that she is that Angie Cooper cover name. It has taken this long. That girl is really screwed up"
"Yeah. I don't know what kind of operations they send these agents on but they always come in here completely messed up. They go so deep undercover they even forget their real name."
"True, but the drugs we have in their food normally gets them to snap out eventually"
"But this one is strong. She finally admits that her real name is Kate Beckett"
Castle and Beckett enter the make shift interrogation room and Kate starts thinking "So Rick, how do we help these women?"
"Smith told me information about the hotel in Delaware where the women are being kept. It is a real hotel that accepts real tourists. So I think we go there and check in. Then look around before we pull the plug on their little operation."
"How will we get into the prison?"
"Smith said there are codes used to get into the secure area. A person tells them they are planning a wedding reception and simply ask to see the Cactus Ballroom. Since there is no Cactus Ballroom, the staff let you into the secure area. Smith said it was several levels underground and well guarded"
Kate thinks for a moment before answering. "This sound like a plan. A plan from one of your books, but still a plan."
Beckett and Castle are now sitting at a desk in the interrogation room at the medical isolation facility. The longshoremen are being brought into the adjoining isolation room one by one to be questioned. So far each man has told the exact same story. They walked by the container and smelled something, looked in and saw the dead agent and then called the port police.
Beckett is not exactly buying the tale they are telling. The information that they are giving seems made up. It sounds like they planned what to say down to the last word. "Rick, are you buying their stories?"
"No. How can five men who work on the docks not know why this one container was separated from all the others? Every one of the containers is numbered and the computer tracks the shipper, the carrier and the final destination along with the scheduled contents. Why is it that that this one container seems to have NO tracking data in the computer? It just seems to have shown up without proper documentation"
It looks like this Dennis O'Leary is the ring leader of this group. He's the one with the smart mouth and sidesteps all our questions."
At this moment the door opens into the room and Agent Mark Fallon walks in "Good morning you two"
Castle and Beckett both turn at the greeting "Hello Agent Fallon" Ricks speaks
"Mr. Castle, I am pleased to see you have joined our little party. Have either of you found anything new?"
Kate answers "Not from this group yet. We are getting ready to question the longshoremen who found the body. Rick thinks that they know more than they are telling. He feels that this container could not have arrived without someone on the docks knowing. But right now it is all just conjecture. We have no other evidence to back it up"
"We need something to jump start the men to get one of them to open up. Then the rest should follow suit. But Agent Fallon, I also have something that might be of help here"
Rick shifts in his chair toward where Fallon has placed himself "A Mr. Michael Smith has been in contact with me. He is a man that I have had dealings with in the past. His information has proven to be of benefit before and I believe he may be spot on with this."
Rick continues "Mr. Smith contacted me after Kate was shot. He had information about the involvement of Senator Bracken in Kate's mother's murder and the attempts on Kate's life. I think he may be connected to one of these agencies that appear to exist only under the vale of secrecy"
"Are you referring to CIA? NSA?"
"NSA. But he did know that she was one in a set of twins who Bracken had picked up and taken to a secure rehab facility in Delaware thinking he was getting Kate out of the way".
"So that's why Bracken was so panicked. He thought Detective Beckett was gone and then she showed up at the press conference?"
"Exactly. So when Smith called me this morning he told me that the one woman is an agent with NSA and she was working on a possible terrorist case involving a virus of some kind. Before she could be debriefed Bracken had her picked up and taken to the facility in Delaware."
Fallon asks "Why don't you two go to Delaware and see what you can find and I will work on the men from the docks and see if one of them wants to talk"
Beckett starts picking up her files "Great. Then Castle and I will go there and see what we can dig up on that end"
"Remember Detective. You are the incident commander and you have all authority. If you need additional resources, all you have to do is order them up"
"Understood Agent Fallon" Kate answers as she and Rick get up and leave leave the room