26th arrest; wake in sweat you've come to steal my life away

[thiswallinside]

accidental video | backdated to about midnight last night
Hey, look it's the obstacle course.

Oh, wait. Is there supposed to be red paint scraped from the tire walk toward the entrance?

Strewn along that path are a few items. A gun, a shoe, a bag -- look at all those files spilled out of it. Also the NYPD badge that doesn't hold any weight in the City but makes its owner feel a little safer, somehow.

Guess it didn't really work this time. That paint is definitely of the blood variety.

text | about 10 hours after the video broadcast
This message has been automatically released because Kate Beckett has not made check-in with her device in 12 hours...

Regardless of whether I've left the City or been otherwise compromised, there remain a few things to be sorted. Justin, you should check my desk, third drawer. There are directives for how to move forward in the department in my absence.

Castle, you'll want the safe in the kitchen cupboard. If you hadn't already found it; I'm sure you're able to guess the combonation. It will give you full access to my device, computer and files.

[ooc: Evidence to be found; crime scene can obviously be said to be Beckett's abduction, given items left behind and the note. Her directives to Justin leave him in administrative charge, and it's up to him how long to wait to seek out new chiefship. Feel free to poke through Beckett's private entries upon collection of her device, etc. PM me for questions!]

Comments

[trapdoor-spider.livejournal.com]

"I don't think they're going to notice and by the time they do, it will be too late."

He notices the surprise. He expects it even.

[cuffyoutwice.livejournal.com]

Right, great. He actually has a point, now.

"You can't just-- take people and go through them like toys, or merchandise. You can't play with lives like this."

[trapdoor-spider.livejournal.com]

"Can't I?" He's chuckling a bit at her. "Tell me Chief Beckett, do you support scientific experimentation on animals when the results and work will lead to advances that will benefit the entire world?"

[cuffyoutwice.livejournal.com]

She shuts right up, aware that he has a point and yet still very sure that he is still wrong.

"That's-- different."

Great, yeah. Really won that one, way to make Team Human look worthy. Plus side, maybe he'll deem her stupid and let her go.

[trapdoor-spider.livejournal.com]

"Somehow I think from your side of the bars, it's the same regardless of your species."

Not so much really. Good try though.

[cuffyoutwice.livejournal.com]

"At least lab rats get mazes to occupy their time."

She won't even try; he won't let her win this one, and she refuses to keep banging her head against the wall, here. "And don't talk back or feel complex emotions."

Okay, so maybe she will keep trying.

[trapdoor-spider.livejournal.com]

Myrnin moves over to a stack of books, gets several and slides them through the bars in the cell. "If I give you a candle will you attempt to burn the place down?"

[cuffyoutwice.livejournal.com]

After a glance (yes, she's really thinking about it) around her cell, Kate shrugs. "Wouldn't burn."

[trapdoor-spider.livejournal.com]

"Very well."

He passes a fat candle through the bars. "Better now you've got your maze?"

[cuffyoutwice.livejournal.com]

She takes it gingerly, and there's this moment where she considers what kind of damage it would do to him. Could she get it back in his face fast enough to give her some kind of opportunity to get out?

Or would it just piss him off and bring her death more quickly?

[trapdoor-spider.livejournal.com]

[More than likely it'd piss him off. If she were already out then it might buy her a minuscule amount of time. Hot wax is an irritation but not much more.]