As soon as they hang up on the call from Fallon, Rick and Kate look to one another as Kate begins
"Castle. If Lance was not killed by Zack, his partner …"
"…and don't forget his brother in law"
"…then who…? And why?"
"That leaves us with one possible conclusion" Castle remarks with a silly grin on his face "He was killed by a…"
She once more has a tone of mirth in her voice "If you say ghost, I am sending you back home"
His voice turns into a whine, a small whine, but a whine none the less "Kate. Lance came to the tower, no one was seen going in and later he was thrown into the gears and no one went in before you and me"
"He has to have something in his past that came back to get him…and just because no one saw someone enter the building, does not mean no one did"
"We need to start doing some deeper research on our victim" Castle finishes the thought
The couple leaves the coffee shop and head out to their car and are continuing to the police station as they had originally planned. During the trip Kate and Rick have returned to their usual theory building
"And Castle, Don't forget the knife wounds… so there must be someone else who had a motive to kill him"
"We need to get that research from Joy as quickly as possible and do a little deeper digging on the residents on the cape and what all transpires around here after dark"
"Yeah and who might be involved"
They drive in silence for a minute when Rick remarks "Who locally has reason to kill Lance?"
"No one even knew he was here…no local knew anyway" Beckett continues "I think we need to dig much deeper into the victim's past. Look into his finances, past relationships…current relationships"
"Fallon should have all that information already. The Department of Homeland Security runs extensive background checks on all their agents, and keeps doing updates all the time in case there is some change in their status"
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As they pull into the station and get out of the car, Beckett looks back at the side of the vehicle "Castle…will you please remove those ridiculous Scooby Doo signs from our car? The people probably think we are crazy lunatics…well you anyway"
"Not until we solve this…or maybe I can change it. I will get a 'Ghost Wrangler's' sign inste…"
Kate cuts him off the best way she knows how. She grabs him by the jacket lapels and gives him one of her best kisses "we will talk about this later" She turns away from him leaving him speechless on the parking lot.
After stepping a few feet from him, she looks over her shoulder "you coming Castle?"
"Uh…yeah" and he begins to move once again
Once they enter the station she they head down to the back depths of the station and after her husband stumbles in they close the door, Castle steps up behind his wife and pulls her close, the room stops for just a moment as she leans back into her man's embrace and she closes her eyes
In her mind, this feeling has become so much more important than chasing the bad guys
"Castle…" her voice seemed angry, but it really wasn't. She knew she started this out on the lot and he wants to finish it now
"Sorry" He comments as he starts to pull back "I just wanted to…"
She stops him from pulling back by grabbing his hands and holding him tight "That is not what's happening "she remarks
"I just…I'm just enjoying our vacation so much"
"Enjoying VACATION?" I think we have been working on a case ever since we have been here"
"Yeah, but we have made it fun for you letting you put that silly sign on the van and chase ghosts and your joy rubs off on me"
"There are a few other things I would love to rub…"
Before Castle can finish his remark the door opens and Chief Brady walks in. The officer quickly realized that he might should have knocked first
"Am I interrupting something?"
Both Castle and Beckett respond at the same moment "No"
Kate pulls back up and turns around so that her and Castle are facing the police chief "Do you have something for us, Chief?"
"Roger Yancy and his dad are here. I had them taken to the conference room"
"Thanks" Beckett responds "Will be right out"
The chief smiles toward the couple "Take your time" and her turns to leave and remarks under his breath "I will lock the door on my way out" and he pulls the door closed
Rick and Kate let out a gentle laugh and follow the chief toward the conference room
Once the two arrive at the room, Beckett opens the door and the pair step in "MR. Yancy" Kate directs her introductions toward the father "I am Captain Beckett of the NYPD and this is Mr. Castle" She indicates her husband "We are working with the parks department and the local police investigating the death of a Federal Agent in the lighthouse a few days ago"
The older man seems a little put out as he responds "I know who you are and I know Mr. Castle's work and that you are married. What do you want with my son?" He is obviously on the defensive
Kate decides that she must put on her homicide detective face "As I said we are looking into the death of a Department of Homeland Security agent and we believe your son may be a material witness"
The father calms down somewhat "He is not a suspect?"
"No. He is not even a person of interest. As I said we believe him and his girlfriend might have been witnesses to the events immediately surrounding the death"
The is silence in the room then the man look toward his son "Do you know what this officer is talking about? Did you witness something?"
No really wanting to admit to his dad about going into the lighthouse the young man stays quiet"
The father is becoming a little agitated "ROGER! Tell them what they want to know"
The boy raises his head and tries to not make eye contact with anyone in the room "Me and Mandy were on the lot…and…well…we…" he is trying to not tell his dad about the parking and teen activity going on there
"Son tell me what happened" The senior Yancy tells his son
"I grabbed a glo stick and told Mandy I was going to fire it off in the tower. She begged me not to but I just wanted to have a little fun"
"Roger, you knew what it meant to do that. Right?" Castle asks
The boy drops his head once more "Yes sir" he raises his head then finishes "But we didn't' do anything. In fact none of the kids were doing that. It had become a game with us."
Beckett responds "Tell us what happened"
"I went to the tower, turned off the beacon and went to the top. Just as I snapped the stick a man was there. He scared the crap out of me. He pulled out a badge and said he was a federal agent. I thought he was going to arrest me for being in the lighthouse so I ran"
"Did you drop the glo stick?"
"Yes. I think so. I didn't have it when I got back to the car"
"Then what happened?" Beckett questions
"We peeled out of there as fast as we could"
"Did you see anyone else around?"
"I did see a car pulling in just as we got back to thre main road"
"Do you know who it was?"
"No. But…" she stops in his statement
"Roger, what are you not telling us?" Beckett once more asks using her best mothering voice "you might have important information to help this"
"I heard Mandy gasp as the car blew past us. She might know something"