Rick was getting unnerved every time he picked up an item in the grocery store. The people beside him whispered and the number grew. He reached the checkout counter. The line was long a boring so Rick was doing his writer trick of making up stories just like he did when Alexis was little. 'Alexis' the thought gave him a pain in the gut or maybe it was gas from the mystery meat tacos Espo brought.
Rick's mind was on little else until one woman's voice screamed out.
"It is Him!"
Rick quickly saw he was surrounded by screaming and clawing women. An off duty police officer saw what was amounting to a near riot situation called in backup. Poor Rick was being ripped to shreds. LT arrived and quickly hustled Rick out the back into a waiting NYPD patrol vehicle.
"Rick what caused this?" LT asked driving him back to the loft.
"I don't really know I was minding my own business and standing in line then a riot appeared." Rick said.
There was TMZ reporters at the scene.
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Kate bored flip on the TV and there was a news chopper pictures of outside of the Pathmark supermarket on 5th and Chelsea.
Kate wrote on the iPad.
"Pathmark 5th and Chelsea…?"
"Mom, that's where Dad goes to shop." Alexis said,
"A Riot…!" Kate wrote.
"Riot…? There has to be some sort of mistake that place never has any problems." Alexis stated.
The door opened and LT dragged Rick in and he was covered with scratches and bite marks and bruises!
"Rick www what happened to you?" Kate said rushing to him.
If he is injured she will use her 20 mins on him.
Kate shouldered him into the bedroom then removed the shoes and the rest of the rags which his clothes had become.
She tended to his wounds these were not normal wounds. She applied antibiotic cream and bandages.
Alexis frustrated with not knowing what was happening. She flicked on Closed Captioning.
Her face grew grim when she read that Her Father was the cause of a near riot and NYPD had to be called.
Rick had hit the news waves again but this time not as the way he would like.
"Kate it was like something out of the Birds but instead of birds. It was all these woman biting and clawing. The sound of Caw Caw Caw as they ripped into me! It was horrible Kate." Rick said.
"I am sure it was" Kate said as she was lying next to him. There was barely any place that did not have some sort of injury to the skin.
"Kate if it is all the same to you would you mind I hired a personal shopper?" Rick asked.
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The search for the spotter was going slow Detective Esposito was given the command of the task force and was sitting at Kate's desk since all the reports were there.
"Don't get to comfortable in that chair Espo. She is coming back and the Lt will want her chair." Ryan said.
"Yeah of course now. Why are you here?" Espo asked.
"Oh we finally got the name of the shooter of the bomb maker Steven Grabnuer Age 40 wanted in professional hits in 40 countries and last hit attributed to him was in Detroit where under the name of William Younger was seen leaving the plane area to go to the baggage area. His nickname was "the shark" because of the way he devoured his victims." Ryan said.
"Is that all?" Espo asked looking at all this paperwork.
He hated paperwork almost as much as he hated bad guys.
"No we have the bank accounts which 100,000 were transferred and guess where it originated?" Ryan teased.
"Dubai?" Espo asked.
"Yes you have a winner! It was from the Bracken account we discovered in the Maddox affair." Ryan said.
"So that links the shooter to the Xe Corp too! This is great Ryan, what about the spotter?" Espo asked.
"Nothing yet but the facial recognition software borrowed by the FBI has not finished yet." Ryan said.
"Ok keep me updated I will go inform the Captain." Espo said.
"Yeah better you than me. She creeps me out!" Ryan said leaving.
Espo rose and knocked on the Captain's door.
"Come in Det. Esposito. What do you have to report?" The captain looking obviously tired asked.
"Sir we have identified the shooter of the bomb maker it was 'the Shark'." Espo said.
"The professional killer wanted in 40 countries?" Gate asked.
"Yes Sir and tracing this payment it lead back to the Xe Corp." Espo said.
"Thank you Det. Is that all?" The Captain asked.
"Yes Captain." Espo said.
"Send this information to the US attorney's office immediately. They are arranging the corporate officers of the Xe corp." Gates said.
"Yes Sir it has already been sent." Espo said.
"Good keep me informed Task force commander Esposito." Gates said. "Dismissed Det."
"Yes Sir" Espo said and headed back to his office.
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The judge was hearing evidence in the arrangement of the four chief operating officers of the Xe Corp.
They were being brought up under criminal conspiracy and terrorism charges. The judge seeing the evidence against them ordered them remanded to custody and the bailiffs to take them to jail.
"You will never keep me there" Carmine said to the judge as she was hustled out of the courtroom.
Getting into the transport the strike team which had been set up for this purpose attacked the convoy. The 3 members of the conspiracy were killed the only one to escape was Carmine Bracken. She left with the strike team and was whisked out of the country to an unknown destination.