Chapter 2
When they got to the briefing room Ranger Walker
was surprised to find his wife there. "As you can see,"
his superior remarked, "the district attorney's office is
cooperating fully in this matter and he's asked the rangers'
service to do likewise." His superior turned to the other
three people in the room "Rangers Cordell Walker, Jimmy
Trivette, I'd like to introduce to you U.S. Marshals William
James Walker, Twenty Arrows, and their executive assistant
Francine Walker. Francine has a video that she will play for you
explaining the current situation, and as I have said the rangers'
service wants to be of whatever assistance they can be in this
matter. Shall we be seated?"
The two bewildered rangers sat down. Trivette reached over the
table extending his hand. The two marshals quickly shook it. When
Francine Walker took his hand the young ranger grasped it with
his other. "You don't know what a pleasure it is to meet
you!" he remarked. "I have read all your books, and my
VCR machine records every episode of "Morgan,
U.S. Marshal"!"
The beautiful dark haired woman smiled. "Thank you!"
she remarked. "It's simply my way of filling the boredom
while my husband is out in the field. Turning his adventures into
fiction seems to lighten them, somewhat."
Alex Walker straightened up, her face brightening. "You're
Jane Birch?" she gasped.
The other woman nodded. Francine Walker cleared her throat.
"Well, we'd better get on with this," she remarked.
"I'm sure my husband and Twenty Arrows want to get into the
field."
She picked up a remote. "Please," she said, "if
you have any questions do not hesitate to interrupt me. The
importance of this situation makes it imperative that everyone
understands what is going on and how important it is that we
succeed in our endeavors.
The current situation began five years ago in Ireland. Two
priests broke their vows and exposed a pedophile ring working
within the church. One of the men exposed was Peter
O'Shaughanessey. He was tried and convicted but as he was being
transported to prison he was rescued by four of his five sons who
he had trained to be his personal army, among other things.
O'Shaughanessey then proceeded to kill the two priests who had
exposed his operation, the social worker who had gotten his fifth
son to testify against him, and, the boy himself. He didn't
simply kill them, he butchered them. he left a note saying that
those who betrayed the law of God and exposed the secrets of his
church had to be put to death.
He then went on a four month killing spree. Any anti homosexual
he could get to he killed. Things finally got so hot for him in
Ireland he fled to England, conducted a reign of terror there for
several months, then fled to Canada, where he operated for only a
short time before coming to The United States. Here he made
contact with The Left Hand Of God, a group of defrocked priests,
sympathetic to his cause. We have been tracking him ever since.
Fifteen months ago we got lucky. A transvestite was arrested for
having relations with minors over the internet. He knew he was
going to do really hard time with some really nasty neighbors. So
he gave us some pertinent information in exchange for much more
pleasant living conditions. Sometimes you have to make deals with
the devil.
O'Shaughanessey had been financing his operations by stealing
historical artifacts and selling them to a transvestite collector
in Japan who is a diplomat and whose family protects him, and
won't let the Japanese government prosecute him. The informant
told us it was they who had stolen the artifacts you've
recovered, and that they were going to make a raid on another
federal building to steal the artifacts stored there. We
increased security at the building and that very night The
O'Shaughanesseys hit it. They were ordered to surrender but the
old man opened fire. In the exchange two Marshals were killed,
the senior O'Shaughanessey and his two oldest sons. But the two
youngest sons, Peter and Shawn escaped, though both wounded. The
next day we received a phone call from Peter announcing that we
had killed everything he loved for stupid junk that no one
should've been killed for, and that we would pay.
Ever since then a few days after The O'Shaughanesseys would
successfully make a delivery to Shakona they would attack U.S.
Marshals. In the first five months three marshals were killed.
Then The O'Shaughanesseys started a horrifying new tactic.
Instead of attacking marshals they started attacking members of
their families! The two sons of a marshal in Miami, Florida were
found in a warehouse sexually tortured and then brutally
butchered. Peter O'Shaughanessey left a note on the wall written
in their blood, that said "You killed all I love, caused one
I love to betray his own. From now on you will pay with those you
love." Since that time three more children of marshals have
been murdered. You interrupted O'Shaughanessey's last shipment
and they've been delayed. But as soon as they get more artifacts
and deliver them they'll conduct their particular kind of
celebration.. We have to stop them before they can do so! We have
one lead. The O'Shaughanesseys have been associated with Harold
Fife, just their kind of associate. He has been busted several
times for running kiddie porn studios. He's somewhere in Dallas.
We need to find him, quickly , and we also need to tag the
artifacts, at the Texas Ranger Museum, and the artifacts at the
local museum, as we believe one of these locations is The
O'Shaughanessey's next target.
Ranger Walker, we would like you to assist Marshal Walker, Ranger
Trivette, we would like you to assist Marshal Arrows. Your
primary mission will be to find the known suspect while the two
Walkers concentrate on security at the two possible sites that
might be hit. We will set up an operational headquarters at a
safe house used by the Marshals here in Dallas. That's all,
gentlemen! Any questions?"
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