Kate took in the sight of the Cartwright house once again and she felt nothing but anger at how much pain this place had caused her sister. It, or more accurately, it's residents, was responsible for Beth becoming Alice.

"We searched this place already Kate. Not sure what exactly we'll find." Jacob asked, since the house looked deserted.

"I know that, but dad, we have to look. Even if we don't find anything new, we need to be sure that we didn't miss anything." Kate said and Jacob nodded.

"Okay, let's get started." Jacob agreed as they head onto the property.

"Let's start with the basement." Kate said and Jacob nodded as they headed downstairs.

"There's nothing down here." Jacob said as they looked around.

"I thought the lead crow would know that not everything is as simple as it looks." Kate said as she managed to find the hidden door.

"A secret room." Jacob said.

"This has to be where Beth was being held." Kate said.

"We don't even know if she was here." Jacob said, trying to assuage his guilt.

"She was here dad. We were so close to getting her back that day, but we gave up." Kate said and Jacob knew she was right.

"But we won't this time. When I get back to Gotham, I'm going to start searching for the former owner of this place. We find him, we find out if he really held Beth here and if he did, we find out where she is now." Jacob said and Kate nodded.

"We'll find her Kate." Jacob said, seeing the nervous look on Kate's face.

"I'm not worried about whether or not we'll find her." Kate said.

"Then what are you worried about?" Jacob asked.

"What she'll be like when we do. There's a good chance that we won't like who we find." Kate said.

"I know. But right now, we need to focus on finding her. Once we do, then we can worry about what to do. Even if that means doing something neither of us want to do." Jacob said.

"I know." Kate said, since she was already planning on putting Alice in Arkham when she caught her, since even she may be her sister, Kate was not going to let her emotions blind her from her duty. Not again. Plus, the doctors at Arkham could help her. Though she already knew of one she needed to have fired immediately when she got back to Gotham.

Anyways, she was brought out of her thoughts when her phone rang and she saw it was Luke.

"I need to take this." Kate said and Jacob nodded.

"Luke, what is it?" Kate asked.

"I found out who paid to have the DNA tests faked." Luke said.

"Hold on a second, I'm gonna put you speaker so my dad can hear you." Kate said as she did that.

"What's going on?" Jacob asked.

"My friend Luke Fox is the guy I told you about. He found out who paid to fake the DNA test results." Kate said.

"Who did it?" Jacob asked immediately.

"It was your wife sir. From what I saw, every person who was involved in the cover up received a very generous payment from bank accounts registered to Catherine Hamilton." Luke said, shocking Jacob that his wife would do that.

"Are you sure about this Luke?" Kate asked, since she knew the impact this revelation would have on her family, but she knew it had to be done.

"Positive. I double checked to be sure." Luke said and Jacob sighed.

"Thank you Mr. Fox. Please keep this to yourself until I've had a chance to confront Catherine about this." Jacob said.

"Yes sir." Luke agreed as he hung up.

"I'm so sorry dad." Kate said.

"Why would she do it? She knew how important Beth is to me and how broken up we both were about her death. If it wasn't for her, we might've found Beth. She'd be home with us right now." Jacob said angrily.

"I think we've found everything we can from this place. Why don't we go home so you can get some answers from Catherine." Kate said and Jacob nodded.

"You're back." Catherine said happily when she saw her husband and stepdaughter enter the penthouse, but neither of them looked happy to see her.

"Yes I am and I know what you did." Jacob said.

"What do you mean?" Catherine asked nervously.

"We know that the bone fragments in Beth's grave came from a deer, we know that someone paid to have the results faked and we know that it was." Kate said.

"How could you do that. You know how much finding Beth meant to me, especially since there's a good chance that she's still alive. I broke the first rule of parenthood. I abandoned my child because of you. So tell me, why did you do it?" Jacob asked angrily.

"You and Kate were both in a downward spiral. You wouldn't go to work and Kate wouldn't go to school, neither of you would sleep or eat, you weren't living your lives. I thought that the only way for you two to move on was to let you believe that she was dead." Catherine said tearfully as Jacob just glared at her hatefully.

"I'm gonna stay in a hotel tonight." Jacob said as he walked out of the room.

"I'm guessing you feel the same way as your father?" Catherine asked.

"I'm pissed beyond belief about what you did, but I can understand why you did it." Kate said, shocking her.

"You do?" Catherine asked.

"Yeah, I do. You were trying to help us move on with our lives. I mean, it doesn't make what you did any less wrong, but you did it for what you felt were the right reasons." Kate said, since while she was beyond furious at Catherine, the guilt of her death had forced Kate to look at things in a new way and she understood now why Catherine had done what she had done.

"Thank you Kate?" Catherine said.

"Don't thank me and don't think that just because I understand why you did it means that I forgive you for it. You've got to earn that." Kate said and Catherine nodded as Kate also walked out of the penthouse, leaving Catherine devastated at what had happened to her family and knew that she had no one to blame for it then herself.