. "Male"@en . "Alive"@en . . "Ron Brandt, who used the alias of Sal Martino, was a fake hostage, unknown to the others in the bank robbery on New Amsterdam Bank and Trust on Lex who included Castle and his mother Martha. Brandt works in military contractors and his connections saved him from prosecution for domestic abuse. Because of that, his wife Tanya and son Connor faked their deaths and went into hiding. A week before the events of \"Cops & Robbers\", Ron assaulted his former mother-in-law Agnes for his family location and upon learning of the safe deposit box they use to communicate through a middleman, Father McCaskey, their local priest, killed her and stole her key. Then, using his connections, he hired mercenaries, who called themselves Trapper John, Dr. Howser, Dr. Huxtable, and Dr. Quinn, to rob and empty out the safe deposit box while he posed as a hostage. He pretended to take a restroom break, when in reality he was taking a look at the contents of the safe. Once he had the information he needed and was returned to the hostages, he faked a seizure, which was strengthen by a medical bracelet he had on him. Afterwards, he was extracted by Kate Beckett, disguised as an EMT, he contacted his mercs, instructing them to make their exit. After binding the hostages in the backroom safe, the robbers attempted to blow a hole into an abandoned subway system, unaware that Ron supplied them with defective C4, which detonated prematurely, killing them. Ron founds his family's address on the letters and made his way to Ithaca. At the same time, Beckett's team got onto him and were able to warn the local police in Tanya and Connor's area about Ron's presence in time to intercept him as he tried to leave with Connor."@en . . . . . "280"^^ . . . "Sal Martino"@en . "Ron Brandt, who used the alias of Sal Martino, was a fake hostage, unknown to the others in the bank robbery on New Amsterdam Bank and Trust on Lex who included Castle and his mother Martha. Brandt works in military contractors and his connections saved him from prosecution for domestic abuse. Because of that, his wife Tanya and son Connor faked their deaths and went into hiding. Once he had the information he needed and was returned to the hostages, he faked a seizure, which was strengthen by a medical bracelet he had on him."@en . . . "Ron Brandt"@en . "Ron Brandt"@en . . . . . .