Skip to playerSkip to main contentSkip to footer
Crime TV Show USA
  • yesterday
Castle Season 2 Episode 5

#CrimeTVShowUSA
🎞 Please join
https://t.me/CinemaSeriesUSFilm
Transcript
00:00You are not going to believe this.
00:28You are so not going to believe this.
00:30What are you doing here?
00:31I can't even believe it.
00:32Believe what?
00:33I can't tell you.
00:34I'm still asleep, aren't I?
00:35I'm dreaming.
00:36I'm having a dream where my book agent has shown up at my house at 7 a.m. to not tell me something.
00:42Okay.
00:43It's not official yet, but you, my dear, are at the top of their list.
00:50And I can't give you any more details than that.
00:52You want some coffee?
00:53I'd love to sit down and not discuss this further.
00:55I will tell you this.
00:57It's a major relaunch of a major franchise, a three-book deal, and they want you.
01:03Heatwave comes out in less than a week.
01:05The book party, which you arranged, is Monday night.
01:07I'm trying to launch my own character.
01:09Why would I want to get involved with somebody else's?
01:11What if I told you the character in question is a certain British secret agent?
01:17You mean it's gonna be...
01:18Shh.
01:19Don't say it.
01:20You'll jinx it.
01:21He's the reason I became a writer.
01:22I know.
01:23I mean, he's the coolest spy ever.
01:24Right?
01:25He's got gadgets.
01:26He's got babes.
01:27He's...
01:28And a payday that is unbelievable.
01:29And they want me for three new books.
01:30Yes.
01:31Now, you're gonna get that because an unanswered phone gives me agita.
01:34It's Beckett.
01:35That body must have dropped...
01:38I'll call her back.
01:42What other details can't you tell me?
01:47Morning, gentlemen.
01:49So what do you got for us?
01:50Caucasian female, early thirties, no purser ID found on the body.
01:54Where is she?
01:56City workers found her when they opened the manhole to check the line.
02:07Something tells me she didn't trip.
02:10Cause of death appears to be blunt force trauma.
02:13She took a nasty blow to the back of the head.
02:16We found traces of blood spatter over there on the sidewalk.
02:19Well, then it couldn't have been a robbery.
02:21A mugger wouldn't bother dragging her body that far just to hide it.
02:23Given the amount of decomposition, I'd say she was killed about two days ago.
02:27Any chance you can narrow that down for us?
02:29Any chance I can get her to the lab first?
02:32I should be able to get you a tighter window, maybe down to six or seven hours.
02:36Alright, thank you.
02:39Ah, good morning.
02:40Look who decided the grace is with his presence.
02:43Did you have something more important to do, Castle?
02:45I got held up at home.
02:46Was that the body?
02:47Yeah, it's on its way to the morgue.
02:48Huh.
02:49What, you wanted us to wait?
02:51Yeah, it's too bad, too.
02:52Sure kind of case, bro.
02:54Yeah?
02:55Yeah.
02:56But it was found down that manhole over there.
02:58Half eaten.
02:59Eaten?
03:00Yeah, it was covered in some kind of green slime.
03:02Whoa.
03:03Yeah, it was creepy.
03:04As if someone or something is down there.
03:07Ah, that's okay.
03:09Very funny.
03:10That's great.
03:11Was there a body down the manhole?
03:12Yeah.
03:13Okay, thank you.
03:14An adult.
03:15Yeah, you should have seen what else was down there.
03:16Two metal canisters with biohazard stickers and yellow powder inside of it.
03:19You opened the...
03:21All right.
03:22Will someone please tell me what's really going on here?
03:24We're gonna check nearby trash cans for the murder weapon.
03:26Uh, what was the murder weapon, by the way?
03:28Some kind of death ray?
03:29Turns your insides out.
03:31Your fingerprints came back negative.
03:36Missing persons didn't have anyone matching her description.
03:41You boys didn't happen to find her purse by any chance.
03:44No.
03:45No purse, no murder weapon.
03:47And we have ourselves a Jane Doe.
03:49Two days and no one steps forward to say she's missing.
03:52Which means she probably lived alone and she didn't have a job where she needed to be.
03:56I can tell you this much, she's an immigrant, probably from Eastern Europe.
04:00Her dental work?
04:01She's got a couple of stainless steel crowns.
04:03We don't use them anymore in the States, but they're still common in the former Soviet bloc.
04:07Uh, we found this scrunched in the bottom of her pants pocket.
04:11Candy wrapper.
04:12It's got some kind of writing on it.
04:14The lettering has diacritical marks on it.
04:16They're accent marks used to represent sounds that are alien to Latin.
04:19I'm going to go with Slavic Cyrillic.
04:22No.
04:23Czech.
04:24And you know the sound.
04:25I almost ordered a Russian bride once.
04:27You know, a Czech mate.
04:30I'm going to run this down.
04:31There can't be too many shops in the area that sell this stuff.
04:36Hey, Perlmutter.
04:37I'm having a book launch party Monday night.
04:38You want to come?
04:39Please.
04:40I'll put you down as a maybe.
04:45This is going to weird you out a little bit, but check this out.
04:48I mean, it just seems like, it seems to bend the space-time continuum.
04:51Look, just when you think there can't be another one.
04:52What does he do?
04:53We hit about a dozen little shops trying to find that candy wrapper,
04:57and he insisted on buying something in every shop.
05:01In every shop?
05:03No wrapper, though.
05:04Something tells me if he decides to put the great candy wrapper hunt in his next book,
05:07he'll give it a happier ending.
05:09Wait, sir?
05:10Sir, uh, next book?
05:13Is he writing another Nicky Heat novel?
05:15The deal was for one book.
05:16I assume that-
05:17You were off the hook?
05:18You know how the mayor feels about Castle.
05:19If the man is going to write another book about you-
05:21I am not Nicky Heat, sir.
05:25Yeah, well, uh, his honor expects your cooperation either way.
05:32Yo, found your candy.
05:33You found it?
05:34Get out of town.
05:35A little grocery on 47th and 9th.
05:37Yep.
05:38I told you we should've checked the West End.
05:40Owner recognized our Vicks picture.
05:42Said she'd come by every couple of weeks to stock up on stuff from back home.
05:45Mmm.
05:46Kinda tastes like soap.
05:48I like it.
05:50Did he give you her name?
05:51No, but he did point us to where he thought she might live.
05:53Apparently there's an SRO not far from where he found the body,
05:56caters to check illegals.
05:57Well, then let's pay her to visit.
05:58Yeah, I know her.
05:59The lady in 5C, Eliska Sokol.
06:01She was a nice person.
06:02She kept to herself, but nice.
06:03Yeah, why anybody would want to kill her?
06:04How long did she live in the building?
06:05About six months.
06:06Never gave you any trouble?
06:07No, I wish all my tenants were like her.
06:08She paid her rent on time every week in cash.
06:09You said 5C?
06:10Yeah, you want to see it?
06:11Yeah, please.
06:12Why don't you guys start knocking on doors?
06:13We'll see if any of the other tenants can shed some light.
06:15Later.
06:16Here it is.
06:17Let me know when you're done.
06:18Thanks.
06:19From what I'm seeing, it's a pretty good bet she lived alone.
06:21She lived alone.
06:22She lived alone.
06:23She lived alone.
06:24She lived alone.
06:25She lived alone.
06:26She lived alone.
06:27How long did she live in the building?
06:28How long did she live in the building?
06:29About six months.
06:30Never gave you any trouble?
06:31No, I wish all my tenants were like her.
06:33She paid her rent on time every week in cash.
06:35You said 5C?
06:36Yeah, you want to see it?
06:37Yeah, please.
06:38Why don't you guys start knocking on doors?
06:39We'll see if any of the other tenants can shed some light.
06:41Hello.
06:42There's not even a telephone.
06:47Something tells me we shouldn't have many visitors.
06:50Hey.
06:53Work calendar maybe?
06:54Keeping track of shifts?
06:55Something passed last Wednesday.
06:59Postcards from home.
07:08Hmm.
07:11If a picture's worth a thousand words, this one says, not a fan.
07:22Scratches go through the paper.
07:24Whoever she is, looks like our Vic hated her.
07:28Could be the feeling was mutual.
07:30Hey.
07:31Hey.
07:32Want a lollipop?
07:33Oh, yes.
07:34Tastes like soap?
07:35A glass.
07:36Sit yourself.
07:37Oh, Dad.
07:38Taylor asked if she could come to your book launch party with me.
07:39Would that be okay?
07:40Sure.
07:41Oh, so.
07:42Taylor likes my stuff, huh?
07:43Not that I know of.
07:44Then...
07:45Oh, you are so dense.
07:46She wants to get dressed up, go to a party, meet boys.
07:47She doesn't care about your little book.
07:48Thanks, Dad.
07:49You really are sulky, you know?
07:50You always think everything's about you.
07:51Here.
07:52What are these?
07:53Oh, them flyers for my play.
07:54I thought you could hand them out when you're signing books at the party tomorrow.
07:59Ah, gee, I was thinking, actually, that I might keep the evening about me.
08:02That's not something to get out of me.
08:03I mean, I don't know.
08:04And then
08:19Gee, I was thinking, actually, that I might keep the evening about me.
08:23See if I plug your book when I'm doing PR.
08:26Will my career survive?
08:29Oh, you know, ever since that little visit from your agent, Paula,
08:31you have been insufferably cocky.
08:34And frankly, I never understood the appeal of...
08:36I'm not... Don't say it! You'll jinx it.
08:39Certain British spy.
08:40Thank you. And I have loved him since I was a kid.
08:43I know. I know. It's a big deal.
08:46Congratulations.
08:46Well, I haven't got the official offer yet.
08:49And it would mean not doing another Nicky Heap book.
08:53Well, I know somebody that you would make very happy.
08:57Oh, please. She'll be thrilled not to have you following her around.
09:01I'm sure the poor girl is counting down the days.
09:03Actually, I'd like to think I've been fairly useful to her, solving cases-wise.
09:07Oh, please. I'm sure she got along fine before you arrived.
09:16K-O-L. Sokol.
09:18No, she doesn't have a social security number. She's illegal.
09:22All right. Notify all precincts, including the boroughs.
09:26So I did a records check on Aliska Sokol.
09:31She didn't have any run-ins with law enforcement, so I asked Central to put her name out on the blotter.
09:35You never know. It might turn something up.
09:37You know, I was thinking about how to track down this mystery woman.
09:41I bet your Parks and Recreation will be able to tell us in which playground this photo was taken.
09:45You see how there's sand at the bottom?
09:46A lot of playgrounds have wood chips, or this green, spongy stuff used to freak Alexis out.
09:51There's also a climbing wall feature in the back here that's not a 75th and Lexington.
09:58Oh.
10:00Great minds think alike, I guess.
10:02The only thing you're going to do is tell me that I should go down there with the photograph.
10:05Wouldn't be a horrible idea.
10:08Oh, look. Asposito's calling.
10:10I wonder what he and Ryan have been doing all morning.
10:15Hello?
10:15Hello?
10:17No, it's just Castle.
10:19A nanny on the playground said she recognized the kid in the photo.
10:21She said she was pretty sure that the family lived in this building.
10:25Oh, just a little bit of a sense.
10:27Can I help you?
10:28I'm Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD.
10:30We were wondering if you recognized anyone in this photograph.
10:34That's Zane Talbot and his mother.
10:38Were there tenants here?
10:40Can I ask what this is about?
10:41We're conducting an investigation into the murder of a woman named Aliska Sokol.
10:45Aliska?
10:47She's dead?
10:48You know her.
10:49She worked here until just a few days ago.
10:52In what capacity?
10:53She started off in the laundry room.
10:56A few weeks ago, we promoted her to client services.
10:58This is a concierge building.
11:00We have a staff of over 75 providing our tenants with round-the-clock attention.
11:04Living in a fancy hotel.
11:06Do you have any idea why Aliska left her job?
11:08She didn't.
11:11She was let go.
11:13There was an incident with one of the tenants.
11:16Mrs. Talbot, actually.
11:20Poor woman.
11:21Do you have any idea who killed her?
11:22We're working on it.
11:24The manager said that there's some sort of an incident.
11:27I suppose you could call it that.
11:29Really, I think the whole thing's gotten blown way out of proportion.
11:32Could you tell us what happened?
11:33It was last Wednesday, I think, and I was with Zane in his room.
11:39She came in to change the towels in his bathroom.
11:41I got up to go answer the phone.
11:43When I came back, the door was closed.
11:46I go in, and she's sitting on the floor playing, I suppose,
11:49but I couldn't really tell because all I could think was,
11:53he's got a lollipop in his mouth.
11:56She'd given him a lollipop.
11:58You just don't do that.
11:59You don't give someone else's child candy without permission.
12:03They could be allergic or diabetic.
12:06Maybe she was just trying to be nice.
12:07You have to understand, we hardly knew this woman.
12:09It wasn't like she was our housekeeper that we saw every day.
12:12I didn't say anything, but I think she sensed that I was unhappy
12:16because she got very flustered and couldn't get out of there fast enough.
12:19Zane seemed to be fine, so I decided to let it go,
12:23but then the more that I thought about it,
12:24the more I realized that that was not the first time
12:28that she had seemed overly familiar with him.
12:33Overly familiar?
12:36Giving him more attention than seemed appropriate.
12:38Did you ever think it might have been cultural
12:40that that might be the way that people are with children in her country?
12:44Of course.
12:46All I did was mention to the manager
12:48that maybe somebody would want to talk to her,
12:50you know, about what's appropriate.
12:52I didn't even know that she had been fired until you told us,
12:55and now she's...
12:57I mean, I feel horrible.
12:59I really do.
13:00I'm sorry.
13:01I'm on call.
13:03Unless there's something else?
13:04No.
13:05No.
13:06I think we have everything we need.
13:07Um,
13:08you don't suppose that her being let go
13:11has anything to do with what happened to her?
13:14Do you?
13:15We can't rule anything out.
13:17It's possible that she was hard-pressed for money
13:20and she got into something that she shouldn't have.
13:22Then it's my fault.
13:23No, Mrs. Talbot,
13:25it's the fault of the person who killed her.
13:28Thank you for your time.
13:30That's pretty nice of you,
13:31letting her off the hook like that.
13:32It's pretty obvious Aliska blames her for losing her job.
13:35Maybe so,
13:35and maybe being let go somehow led to her being killed,
13:38but making that woman feel any worse
13:40won't get us closer to solving the crime.
13:41Hey, got anything?
13:43Just that our Vic used to be married.
13:44Housekeeper I was talking to
13:45said that Aliska mentioned it to her once.
13:47Ryan's running it.
13:48His name is
13:49Theodore Hayek.
13:51Records check came up with a domestic disturbance call
13:53from two years ago.
13:54Abusive ex-husband.
13:55Maybe he came back for an encore performance.
14:00NYPD, we're looking for Theodore Hayek.
14:03Come back here, ma'am.
14:10Theodore Hayek?
14:11Yes?
14:13Step around, please.
14:14We'd like to ask you a few questions.
14:27Ryan, cut him off!
14:28Stay down, buddy.
14:49Let's go!
14:49Whoa!
14:51Theodore Hayek?
14:52You're under arrest.
14:53Mr. Hayek, you've been advised of your rights?
15:01Yes.
15:02And you declined an attorney?
15:04For what?
15:05You're going to deport me either way, yes?
15:07Mr. Hayek, we're not from immigration.
15:11Is that why you ran?
15:13My visa has expired many years before.
15:15Well, we're not interested in your immigration status.
15:17I'm a homicide detective.
15:19Homicide.
15:19We'd like to ask you a few questions about your ex-wife.
15:23Elishka, yes?
15:24What happened?
15:25Tell me.
15:26She was killed three nights ago.
15:28Where were you on Thursday, between 5 and 9 p.m.?
15:42I was home asleep.
15:44I wore double shift and was tired.
15:48Can anyone verify that?
15:50Maybe neighbors, so I don't know.
15:52We have a domestic disturbance complaint from two years ago involving you and your wife.
15:57Would you mind telling us about that?
15:58We were arguing.
16:00Neighbors call police.
16:03What did you argue about?
16:04She wanted to leave me.
16:06I didn't want her to go.
16:08Why did she want to leave?
16:10She said to be with me.
16:13Hurt her.
16:14Because, uh, too much I remind her of Martin, our son.
16:24God took him from us three years ago.
16:27I'm very sorry to hear that.
16:29It tore her heart away.
16:32He was everything to her.
16:33He was so perfect when he was born.
16:37But the sickness was in him even then.
16:39There was nothing we could do.
16:40Except, uh, watch him waste away and away.
17:04This was my family.
17:07We were happy ones.
17:10Now they're gone for me.
17:14Both of them.
17:17Gone.
17:26Kind of puts a whole new perspective on the Talbot incident.
17:31Well, he probably reminded Aliska of her own little boy.
17:34She was trying to be nice to him, and next thing you know, she's out of a job.
17:38Yo.
17:39Ex-husband's alibi checks out.
17:41Neighbor remembers seeing him come home around five.
17:43No surprises there.
17:44He was never our guy.
17:46Okay, guys, let's put ourselves in Aliska's shoes.
17:48She's suddenly unemployed.
17:49She's worried about making rent.
17:51What kind of trouble can she get herself into?
17:52The usual suspects are kind of hard to see with her.
17:55Drugs, prostitution.
17:57Okay, well, there's got to be something else then.
18:00You know what?
18:00Let's go back to the building.
18:01See if there's anyone we missed on the first canvas.
18:03Someone must have seen or heard something.
18:07Thank you so much for your time.
18:09If you can think of anything else, please don't hesitate to call.
18:13Well, that's everybody on our list.
18:15That's all Brian and Esbizito are having better luck upstairs.
18:17Can I ask you a question, Castle?
18:19I already know what you're going to ask.
18:20The dress code for the party is evening cocktail.
18:22If you're stumped, just ask yourself, what would Nikki Heat wear?
18:25When were you going to tell me about the other book?
18:27You heard about that?
18:29So it's true?
18:29Well, it's not a done deal yet.
18:32Well, did it ever occur to you to talk to me first?
18:36Well, frankly, I thought you'd be relieved.
18:38Oh, don't flatter yourself.
18:39Well, I mean, how flattered to even be considered writing a certain British secret agent would
18:42be a very vague opportunity for me.
18:44I was talking about Nikki Heat.
18:46Oh.
18:47Wait a minute.
18:47A certain British secret agent?
18:49Are you...
18:49If they actually offer to me.
18:51They may not.
18:52Yeah, but if they do?
18:54Well, I would certainly consider it.
18:56Like I said, I thought you'd be relieved.
18:59I am.
19:00I mean, I would be.
19:01If they offered it to you.
19:03You sure we talked to 4E last time?
19:06What, the robe lady?
19:07She didn't know our victim wanted us to help her with the ghost in our apartment.
19:09Oh, yeah.
19:10You guys a bust, too?
19:11Yeah, we talked to everybody who wasn't home last time.
19:13Nothing.
19:14Well, that's it, then.
19:15We had everybody in the building.
19:16Yep.
19:19Sorry.
19:19Pardon us.
19:20Sorry.
19:20Sorry.
19:24Did you?
19:25Did you?
19:26It was...
19:27Miss!
19:27She was out of town for our first canvas, but the night of the Vicks murder, she remembers
19:32seeing her arguing with the man in the hallway.
19:34Well-dressed?
19:35Mid-40s?
19:36Doesn't exactly narrow things down.
19:37No, but the Pedro on his belt does.
19:41Rebecca.
19:44What do you think, Castle?
19:45Look like someone we know?
19:48Paging Dr. Talbot.
19:49I admit there's a similarity, but it wasn't me.
19:57Do you really want us to pull you out of here and put you in a lineup?
20:00Because that's exactly where this is headed.
20:02Okay.
20:02This is insane.
20:03I hardly knew the woman.
20:04We did some checking, Dr. Talbot.
20:06Before she worked in your apartment, she also worked at Bryan General.
20:08That's where you see your patients, isn't it?
20:10What exactly was the nature of your relationship with this woman?
20:12There was no relationship.
20:14All right.
20:14We're out of here.
20:15You're coming with us to the precinct.
20:16You meet a nice class of people in a lineup.
20:19You'll be surprised.
20:19Okay, wait.
20:22It was a relationship.
20:26Aliska and I, we were having an affair.
20:34We met when she was working at the hospital.
20:36I was there late one night, and we got to talking.
20:40Anyway, we crossed paths a couple of times after that, and one thing led to another.
20:46God, this is humiliating.
20:50What happened when she found out you were married?
20:52Well, she was upset.
20:56But I convinced her that I just needed some time to figure out how to end things with Melissa.
21:02Which you never intended to do.
21:03And it was good for a while, but she was losing patience, and then she even started paying special attention to Zane, as if she was almost getting ready to become part of his life, and it was just impossible.
21:16Well, then why didn't you just break up with her?
21:18I tried.
21:19She just wouldn't let go.
21:20And then that day, with my wife and the candy, that was the last straw.
21:28Truth is, it was a relief when she got fired.
21:31And so I did.
21:32I went to see her the next day to give her money, and then she started screaming at me, and...
21:38I mean, there was nothing for me to do but to leave, to turn around and walk away.
21:46Where were you on Thursday between 5 and 9 p.m.?
21:49I was here at the office, and I worked late that day.
21:55Excuse me, doctor, but your wife and son just arrived.
21:59You were supposed to have lunch today?
22:01Of course.
22:02Can you just give me one more second?
22:04Of course.
22:07Please.
22:08Just, you check my alibi, do whatever you have to do, but I'm begging you, please leave my wife out of it.
22:13There are no promises, Dr. Talbot.
22:15I am following this investigation to wherever it leads.
22:19Daddy!
22:21Hey, buddy.
22:22Come here.
22:26Detective Beckett, I didn't expect to see you here today.
22:29Um, a clerk misplaced the notes from our first interview, and your husband was very kind to let us go over it all again.
22:38I see.
22:39Happy to help.
22:41Have a wonderful lunch.
22:44Yes, I'll hold.
22:46So you're asking about last Thursday?
22:48That's right.
22:49That was a long day.
22:51We were booked solid from mid-morning on, then stayed late for monthly inventory.
22:54Dr. Talbot, too?
22:55Uh, hi.
22:56Yes, it's Dr. Talbot's office calling.
22:59Him, too.
22:59We wrapped up a little after nine.
23:02You gotta be kidding.
23:03You alibied out?
23:04Oh, come on.
23:05We had him arguing with our Vic on the day of her murder.
23:08It wasn't him.
23:10Hey, Beckett.
23:11Just got off the horn with the 74th in Brooklyn.
23:13Uniform recognized your Vic's name off the blotter.
23:15He thinks from a call he answered about two years back.
23:18What kind of a call?
23:19He doesn't remember exactly, and the incident report was never computerized, but he's fairly
23:23sure someone filed a complaint against her Vic.
23:25That could be almost anything.
23:26Yeah, well, they shouldn't have the file pulled by morning.
23:27Sounds like our Vic isn't as squeaky clean as we've been making her out to be.
23:31Well, whatever the complaint is, I'm gonna need the two of you to pick it up first thing
23:34in the morning.
23:35Well, guys, I got two words to tide you over in the meantime.
23:38Open bar.
23:56This is how the other half lives.
23:58Isn't this great?
24:09You're acting again.
24:10I'm making straight A's, and Dad finished writing another book.
24:13Cherish the moment, kiddo.
24:14If there's one thing I've learned in life, nothing ever lasts.
24:18Hey, it's Nicky Heath.
24:19Hey, it's Nicky Heath.
24:21What's this way?
24:24Nicky Heath, what's this way?
24:25Yeah, I'm going to go.
24:28You cleaned up nice, Detective.
24:35Thank you, sir.
24:36Counsel's going to be happy to see you.
24:39Have you read the dedication?
24:41No.
24:42What does it say?
24:44Go see for yourself.
24:46Excuse me.
24:52What's this here?
24:53That's her?
24:58That's her.
24:59Huh.
25:00It's one hell of a love letter you wrote her.
25:02Jeez, one night in Ibiza, and what do I get a chapter in Stormfall?
25:06A very hot chapter.
25:08And she gets a whole book?
25:09She must be a pretty special girl.
25:12Let me ask you something.
25:13And when she calls you, do you call her back?
25:16Yeah.
25:17Of course you do.
25:18Because she's important to you.
25:19And because it's polite.
25:20Oh, I call you back.
25:22Three buck deal.
25:23And I can't even get you on the phone to let you know you've got an official offer.
25:26There's a...
25:27Yeah.
25:28I don't...
25:28I...
25:29So can I close the deal?
25:31Pa, I'm sorry.
25:33This is a...
25:33This is a big step for me.
25:35I don't know that I'm ready to walk away from Nikki Heath.
25:37What, the one on the page?
25:38The one standing over there in that Hervé Leger dress?
25:41The one on the page.
25:43Oh, Reggie sleeping with her?
25:45No.
25:46Well, what the hell are you waiting for?
25:47Go get it out of your system, and then come down to the office and sign the damn contract, okay?
25:51Okay.
26:01Hey.
26:05Hey.
26:06I...
26:06I was just at the, uh, the dedication.
26:10Wow.
26:12I meant it.
26:13You are extraordinary.
26:17Listen.
26:19I was thinking.
26:23What if the wife got onto the affair?
26:27Melissa Talbot?
26:28A killer?
26:29Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
26:31Uh, well, uh, anything's possible.
26:35I didn't see it that way.
26:37Huh.
26:38You're just saying that because you've never been scorned.
26:40What makes you say that?
26:41Oh, come on.
26:42What man has ever turned you away?
26:46So, any word on a certain British secret agent who shall not be named?
26:51I got the official offer.
26:54Wow.
26:56Congratulations.
26:57I haven't accepted it yet.
26:58But you're going to, aren't you?
26:59What, you think I should?
27:00Yeah.
27:01I mean, is there a reason why you wouldn't?
27:05So you'd be okay if I didn't write another Nikki Heat?
27:08I mean, why wouldn't I?
27:10It's not like I asked you to write the first one.
27:11You know, a lot of people would be flattered that someone chose to write a book based on them.
27:18Flattered?
27:19Yeah.
27:20Do you have any idea how much grief I've had to put up with over this Nikki Heat thing?
27:26Gee, I'm sorry.
27:27I'm not asking you to be sorry.
27:29I'm just...
27:30Just do whatever you want to do.
27:32You always do anyway.
27:33Well, fine.
27:34It's settled then.
27:34Fine.
27:35I'll do the other book.
27:36Great.
27:36Enjoy the party.
27:37Thanks.
27:37I will.
27:38You know what?
27:38Just as well, because there really wasn't enough to the character of Nikki Heat for more than one novel anyway.
27:42Oh, there's plenty to the character.
27:44She just needs a better writer.
27:47Fine.
27:47Fine.
27:47Fine.
28:12What are you doing here?
28:14Castle?
28:14Don't you have bigger, more lucrative fish to fry?
28:17Actually, I just left my sunglasses here yesterday.
28:20Oh, please.
28:20That is the lamest excuse I have ever.
28:26You know what?
28:27While you're at it, don't forget those.
28:31Did you guys get the incident report?
28:33Yeah.
28:35And?
28:36Apparently, Aliska was seen on multiple occasions hanging around some local park, and at some point she walked up to somebody's kid and spoke to him.
28:42Kid's mom thought it was a little odd because she wasn't there with a child of her own,
28:46so mom mentioned it to a patrolman.
28:48Any charges filed?
28:49No, supposedly she was very cooperative and left quietly.
28:52Sounds a lot like the incident with the Talbot boy.
28:54Mm-hmm.
28:54Poor lady.
28:55You got a feel for what she went through.
28:58Sorry to interrupt, but Javik Super's on the phone and wants to know if he can go ahead and rent her apartment.
29:02And she's paid all the way till Friday, but he's got somebody who wants it now.
29:05Tell him to go ahead.
29:06We already have everything we need from the crime scene.
29:08You guys check with the mom who filed the report.
29:10There might be something more to it than we realized.
29:12On it.
29:20You're still here.
29:24Karpowski, did the super say she was paid up to Friday?
29:28That's what he said.
29:30That doesn't make any sense.
29:32That place rents by the week?
29:34She was killed last Thursday.
29:36How could she be paid up through this coming Friday?
29:42Eliska never missed a payment.
29:44Yeah, I found her rent money slid under my door on Friday.
29:48I didn't think anything of it because I didn't know she was dead yet.
29:51Not until you guys showed up the next day.
29:53Now, why would someone pay her rent after she's dead?
29:56Whoever killed her must have figured there'd be less chance she'd be reported missing that way.
30:00Look, I don't want to seem cold or anything.
30:03She was a nice lady.
30:04May she rest in peace.
30:05But can I rent the apartment?
30:07Should I give her stuff to her friend?
30:09Her friend?
30:10Yeah.
30:11A lady who picks up her mail every day.
30:13Someone is picking up her mail.
30:14Yeah.
30:15She's got a cute in her mailbox.
30:16I figure it was a friend, a relative.
30:18What does this friend look like?
30:19Oh, well-dressed, early 40s, blonde hair.
30:24Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
30:26Melissa Talbot.
30:27Super said he remembered her coming in the hallway around lunchtime.
30:32It's already past two.
30:34A threatening letter.
30:37I've been sitting here thinking, what reason would the wife have to want to intercept Aliska's mail?
30:42Maybe she sent her some kind of threatening letter, a keep your hands off my man kind of thing?
30:46She gets impatient, she confronts her, and then Aliska's dead.
30:49Meanwhile, the letter is still en route.
30:51So, Talbot's afraid it'll connect them.
30:54The irony is it never would have connected them.
30:56We don't go through a victim's mail unless there's probable cause in a warrant first.
31:03For what?
31:04For using irony correctly.
31:07Ever since an Alanis Morissette song, people use it when they actually mean coincidence.
31:10It drives me nuts.
31:12Yeah, well, it must be your great grammatical influence over me.
31:15I may be going, but I'm leaving something of myself behind.
31:32Castle?
31:33It's her.
31:34It's Talbot's wife.
31:35Come on.
31:36She's going for the mail.
31:45Mrs. Talbot?
31:47Whoa.
31:48You're not the wife, you're the nurse.
31:50Dr. Talbot is a good man.
31:58I've worked for him for ten years.
32:00I know he had nothing to do with what happened to that lady.
32:05What exactly did he tell you to do?
32:08He kept a little apartment for her, where they would meet.
32:13He gave me a key to the mailbox.
32:18He said he'd sent her a check.
32:20He'd felt bad about the way things had ended between them, and he wanted to give her some money.
32:26Is that what's in here?
32:28A check?
32:30He told me to look for an envelope stamped confidential with an address from New Jersey from his brokerage account.
32:37He wanted me to get the check so no one would be able to put the two of them together.
32:41That's all.
32:42You were helping him cover the affair.
32:44It doesn't mean he killed her.
32:46When you told us he worked late at the office that day, were you telling the truth?
32:52He didn't stay late that night.
32:56He left at six.
32:58So the envelope came from an office parked in Paramus.
33:01Was there a brokerage firm of some kind there?
33:05Trueway Insurance Chromo Diagnostic Lab Systems, Brownby Financial Group.
33:10That would be where the check came from if Talbot was telling the truth.
33:14I got a feeling he wasn't even telling the truth about the affair with Aliska.
33:17He's hiding something.
33:18The answer is in here.
33:20How long before the warrant comes through and we can open it?
33:22A couple of hours at least.
33:23Hey, did you find the mom who filed the complaint?
33:28Found her.
33:29Talked to her.
33:29It all went down pretty much the way the incident report said.
33:32Turns out the reason that the mom first noticed our Vic hanging around the playground was she said she looked kind of familiar.
33:37As it happens, they were both in the same post-delivery ward in the hospital.
33:41Yeah.
33:41Both babies were born on the same day.
33:44Can you believe that?
33:44Both boys, too.
33:45Did she happen to mention one hospital?
33:48Yeah, Bryant General, what?
33:50Bryant General, where Talbot works.
33:52What are you on to, Castle?
33:53I'm not sure, but I wonder if we look into it, we're going to find that the Talbot boy was born at Bryant General on the same day as well.
34:02Would you check that for me?
34:04Did you see that there was a lab at that office?
34:07Yeah, Chromo Diagnostic Lab Systems.
34:10I think I know what's in that envelope.
34:12I'm sorry, I'm confused.
34:14We want to help you in any way that we can, but like we already told you, we barely knew the woman.
34:18She'd only been working in the building a few months.
34:21As it turns out, your paths crossed long before you realized.
34:25Aliska Sokol had a son who was born in the same hospital on the same day as your boy, Zane.
34:31He passed away three years ago.
34:33He died of Neiman-Pick syndrome.
34:35It's a rare congenital disorder.
34:38Oh, my God, that poor woman.
34:42That's probably why she was so attentive to Zane.
34:45They were the same age.
34:46Actually, we think there was more to it than that.
34:48How so?
34:50The incident with the candy that you told us about.
34:52We think she gave that to him to distract him so she could swab his mouth.
34:56Swabbed his mouth?
34:58What for?
34:59She was trying to get a DNA test done.
35:01Why would she?
35:05I mean, I don't...
35:06We got a warrant for Aliska's mail.
35:09Just before she was killed, she sent two mouth swabs to a mail order lab in New Jersey.
35:13One of them was your son's.
35:16The other was hers.
35:20These were the results.
35:24I'm sorry, Melissa.
35:25I'm so sorry.
35:31When the amnio came back, I just didn't know how to tell you.
35:34And I knew you'd just see it through no matter what the test said.
35:38And I thought I'd just put it off and deal with it after the baby was born.
35:41Cameron, I don't understand what you're saying.
35:45Neiman pick.
35:47Our baby had Neiman pick.
35:48No, Zane is fine.
35:50What are you talking about?
35:51No treatment.
35:52It's always fatal.
35:54Usually by age three.
35:58I don't even think it crossed my mind that I could get away with it.
36:01Until I was in the nursery checking on the baby.
36:04You were still in recovery and there they were, side by side, in their cribs.
36:11I just thought, how hard would it be?
36:14No one would suspect.
36:15They all know me around here.
36:16They see me practically every day.
36:18I can change the charts later.
36:21Right now, I just have to switch the tags and pick him up and bring him to you in the room.
36:28And everything would be all right.
36:31He'd be ours.
36:34And you'd never have to know.
36:37Cameron, please tell me you didn't kill that woman.
36:39Please, God, tell me you didn't kill that woman.
36:47Oh, my God.
36:50Oh, my God.
36:51I couldn't let her destroy our lives.
36:53I couldn't let her take him away.
36:54What am I going to do?
37:02Please, someone tell me what am I supposed to do.
37:08After Talbot dumped Eliska's body, he grabbed her keys and went back to her apartment to get rid of anything else that connected the two of them.
37:14That's when he found the paperwork for the lab.
37:16Nice detective work, you two.
37:19Actually, sir, it's Eliska Sokol who deserves the credit for the detective work.
37:24The way we figure it?
37:25She got the job of the hospital cleaning crew solely to get access to the birth records.
37:29She made it her mission to find out the truth.
37:32Even if it cost her life.
37:35Seems so pointless somehow.
37:36Maybe not.
37:43My hands.
37:45They're shaking.
37:46It'll be okay.
37:48We told Mrs. Talbot that you have no intention of taking Zane away.
37:52She knows you just want to be a part of his life.
37:56Hello.
37:58Mrs. Talbot.
37:59Please, call me Melissa.
38:04Won't you come in?
38:06He's beautiful.
38:35He's beautiful.
38:36Yes, he is.
38:47Tell me about him.
38:49My son.
38:51What was he like?
38:55He was a beautiful boy, too.
39:03For you.
39:04For you.
39:06Mama.
39:13Yes, baby.
39:14The wheel came off my train.
39:17Oh.
39:19Give me.
39:29All fixed.
39:31Thank you, Castle.
39:57I, uh, I, uh, I never would have been able to solve this case without your help.
40:07Well, uh, good luck on your new book.
40:12I know that you'll do it proud.
40:14Thanks.
40:14You take care of yourself.
40:28You take care of yourself.
40:32And, well...
40:33My agent.
40:35Oh.
40:36It's the, uh, it's the, uh, station.
40:42I, you know, you better get that.
40:44Yeah.
40:47Beckett.
40:47Hey, Paula.
40:49Ah, really?
40:52First day heatwave sales through the roof.
40:54Oh.
40:54I'm on hold for Captain Montgomery.
40:59Reviews or raves?
41:02Yes.
41:02Yes, Captain.
41:03Would I be interested in doing three more Nikki Heats?
41:06Yes.
41:07I am aware that the mayor is facing a tough re-election this year.
41:11I'm sorry, how much?
41:12No, I, I would love to help the department out in whatever way I could.
41:16No, no, forget the other offer.
41:18For that kind of money, I'll do a dozen Nikki Heats.
41:20He wants me to what?
41:21Oh, well, that was kind of a one-time-only situation with her and me.
41:26Three books?
41:27That would take forever.
41:29You already spoke to the mayor.
41:30I'm gonna kill you.
41:32No, no, no, no, sir.
41:34I wasn't talking to you.
41:35I, uh...
41:35Okay.
41:36No need to thank me, sir.
41:37I am happy to help his honor out in any way I can.
41:41Uh-huh.
41:41Uh, you know what?
41:44I think I'm gonna...
41:46I'm gonna...
41:47I'll call you, I'll call you back.
41:48I had nothing to do with that phone call.
41:52What?
41:57Okay.
41:57I'll be right there.
42:01Where are you going?
42:03That was Esposito.
42:04There's been a murder.
42:10Are you coming or what?
42:11Do you really expect me to believe you had nothing to do with that phone call?
42:19I swear I had nothing to do.
42:20Swear a little harder, Castle.
42:22I don't believe you.
42:22And...
42:30Okay.
42:31I'll be right places.
42:32I know...
42:32I'll see you next time.
42:32I'll see you next time.
42:33Hi.
42:36I'll see you then.
42:43Bye.
42:45Bye.
42:49Bye.
42:50Bye.
42:50Bye.
42:51Bye.