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The detective inside Katherine Beckett immediately comes to the forefront and the job takes over

"Was it when the van we were in arrived in that he reacted?" Beckett questions

Lillian looks at Beckett "What time did you come in?"

Rick answers "Our group arrived here about noon"

"No. It was a later trip. I think it was about three in the afternoon"

Kate looks at her husband "Isn't that when Sara and Brett came in with his family and the others…"

Castle finished the statement "the other guests from the Hamptons"

Kate looks back to Lillian "Was there anything else happening earlier that day or early in the week?"

"He was not having anything going on until the other day…he uh…he seemed to get upset when that last load of guests arrived. He suddenly seemed scared about something. When the SUV pulled-in and the guests started getting out he couldn't seem to get away from, the lobby fast enough. That is when he hurt his back. He slipped off the ladder and rushed out of the lobby and down the hall. When I caught up with him, he said that he had hurt his back. That is when I told him I could help it out with a little massage"

"Can you think of anything else that would explain what is happening or was he having any other issues with guests or employees here at the hotel?"

The woman seems to pause as if trying to think of anything

"No…I don't think so. I can't think of anything that might be happening"

"OK. We will need to talk some more later" Beckett comments "You can go…and again I am sorry about your loss"

The dejected woman moves back down the hall toward the main lobby

"Beckett. It looks like someone in that last load of passengers spooked him. I wonder of his killer is in that group" Rick tells his wife

"We need to get a list of passengers on that bus and see who it might be that got him so riled…and don't forget your girlfriend is the widow of the murder victim"

"Funny Kate! But you know what? The very fact she was on the bus might have been the key to his actions. He probably did not know she was coming here. It might just be a coincidence"

"True" Beckett responds as she turns to look around the room one more time

After securing the room by locking the door and placing a makeshift security tape over the door jam, Castle and Beckett are moving back toward the main level of the hotel

Castle whispers just under his breath to his wife "You know a nice full body massage does sound good…doesn't it?"

Smiling back "You have a one track mind, Castle!"

"Only when it comes to my wife"

She never turns her head but he can see a smile when she whispers softly "later"

Once they arrive back to the main area of the hotel, they ask for an office or small room to use for them to do their notes and to interview anyone that might be a witness or a suspect.

Once they set up in the room, Beckett contacts the local police chief to give him the information they have gathered. The officer seems honestly pleased with the level of detail that Kate has provided and in her opinion of the facts of the case

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Detectives Ryan and Esposito are pulled between the possibilities that the murdered man was simply just in the wrong place at the wrong time

"If out victim was just moving in and knew no one else in the city, then he is probably not the intended target" Ryan considers

"Looking at all the facts, it would appear that is the situation" Esposito closes the file in front of him "We need to let Beckett know that there is a killer from here in play"

As he picks up his phone to dial Beckett's cell Ryan's desk phone rings. Esposito waits for the call to finish and is glad he did when Kevin gives him the information he just received

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There is a knock on the door of the office where Kate and Rick are working. "Come in" Rick responds looking toward the entry

When the door opens, they see the bride to be on the other side with tears in her eyes

"Come in Sara" Beckett says

Castle stands as the women enters

Through her tears Sara ask the question "Is it true? Is my husband…? My former husband…? My dead husband the man that was found…dead? Is it true?"

"Yes, I am afraid it is true "Beckett responds "Sara, we need to ask some tough questions about what happened…I mean what happened in The Hamptons. When your...? When Kirk was killed. What happened back then?"

Castle indicates for her to sit down at the table between him and Beckett. She slowly lowers herself into the chair "I…uh…he had gone out fishing, he told me and when he didn't come home by the next day, I called the Coast Guard. They sent out a search vessel"

"They found him or rather his body?" Beckett asks

"No not right away. It was uh…" she seems to try to remember "it was two days. They found the boat adrift. The sails were torn. They said it looked like he was trying to raise the main sail and a wind caught the boom. It swung around. They found blood and scalp tissue on the boom"

Always being the detective, Beckett asks the obvious "didn't they test the tissue for DNA?"

She again seems to be thinking about the answer "No. They only did a blood test and determined it was his blood type and never went any further I guess"

"So it could have been anyone's blood that matched the type?" Castle comments toward his wife

She nods her head in agreement. She then looks at Sara "Tell me the truth. Did you know he was still alive?"

"NO!" she replies emphatically "I thought he was dead' There is a pause while she seems to try to come up with what she wants to say "He was my high school sweetheart" she looks at Castle "Rick, I came after you, remember? I would not have done that if I actually thought Kirk was still alive. I loved him"

This little comment about going after Castle reminds Kate about a barely dressed woman standing on Castle's porch holding a bottle of wine and looking at Rick like he was fair game

"OK Sara, say I believe you. Why would Kirk have faked his own death and moved to a small hotel in Colorado?"

Castle and Beckett can see a flash of red cross her face

"Sara, what is happening? What are you not telling us?"

She stands and walks around the table. She finally stops and turns back to the pair "You remember when you discovered the secret about the boat? The hidden compartment for body dumping?"

Beckett responds "Yeah"

"About a month after he died,…or rather vanished, I was looking thru some paperwork and found a envelope filled with money. A lot of cash"

"How much cash?" Castle asks

"Twenty-five thousand dollars"

Beckett questions "Do you know where it came from?"

"No, but I also found a note that said something about finishing what he was paid to do"

"Do you have any idea what that meant?" Beckett also asks

"No, but it was dated a few days before he went out on the boat and then vanished"

Castle continues his line of questions "Sara, did you know that he was dumping bodies for the mob?"

"NO!" she is emphatic in her answer "I would have never gone along with something like that"

Kate looks at Rick then back to Sara "So, they never found his body?"

"No, after several days the Coast Guard called off the search. They said he probably was struck in the head by the boom, went overboard, and the body carried out to sea or…" she trails off not wanting to mention the possibility that he was eaten by sharks

Seeing that she seems truly emotionally hurt by this Beckett tells her to go ahead and go back to her room.

After she leaves the room Kate looks at her husband "If she is telling the truth that was hard on her"

"I was not in the Hamptons during that time, so I did not know the details"

"But you heard later?"

"Yeah, then I know Sara sold the boat fairly quickly. I assumed she did not want to have it around as a bad memory"

The two sit quietly looking over their notes when Castle looks up and as if she reads his mind speaks "WHAT?"

"What if Brett did it?"

She has a larges question on her face "Brett? Why would he kill Kirk?"

"He is getting ready to marry Sara and having her husband now alive would be a problem"

"Brett did not know Kirk so how would he know?"

"I am sure Sara has shown pictures to Brett, or he saw the photos at her house. If he figures that she might be meeting up with her old husband here then…"

"OK Castle, I get it. But I really do not think that Brett would murder Kirk? He did not even know the man"

"The new girlfriend said that he became nervous when the bus arrived with Sara and Brett on board. He must have seen them and knew that he was going to be found out. He confronted Brett. Told him he was going to get his old wife back and was murdered"

"I just think that is a stretch" Kate responds

"Fine" Rick comments just as Beckett's phone rings. Caller ID is '12th precinct'

"Beckett" she listens for several seconds "Really?" she looks at her husband "If you get more information, let us know…thanks Ryan"

"The guys cannot find any reason for our victim to be murdered but they did find a connection that might be a reason for Kirk to be the intended target"

"Yeah What?"

The ballistics on the bullet. It matches ballistics from several of the bodies they found on the island off the coast of Long Island"

"The island that Kirk was dumping bodies for the Irish mob"

Rick looks at his wife who is almost laughing