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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