Castle Season 2 Episode 14
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00:00There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people.
00:03Psychopaths and mystery writers.
00:05I'm the kind that pays better.
00:06Who am I?
00:07I'm Rick Castle.
00:08Castle.
00:09Castle.
00:09I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:12Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine.
00:14Detective Kate Beckett.
00:15Beckett.
00:16Beckett.
00:16Nicky Heath.
00:17The character he's basing on you.
00:18And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:21I'd be happy to let you spank me.
00:23And together we catch killers.
00:25Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch.
00:27Turner and Hooch.
00:28You do remind me a little of Hooch.
00:30Oh, excuse me, baby.
00:34Oh, sweet home.
00:38Can we get midnight from the kennel now?
00:40We'll get them as soon as we're settled, okay?
00:42I'm hungry.
00:44Then mommy gets situated, then I'll make you a bowl of hot cereal, okay?
00:47Okay.
00:47Come here.
00:50Honey, you said you were going to wash the dishes before we left.
00:55Didn't you make the bed before we left?
00:57Someone's been sleeping in our bed.
00:59Someone's been sleeping in my bed, too.
01:01And he's still there.
01:02What?
01:04Baby, go wait in our room.
01:05Is he asleep?
01:06Oh, yeah?
01:13That's what I'm talking about.
01:14Dolly, must you talk so loud, some of us are still waking up.
01:18What's all the excitement about?
01:20Only the New York Ledger's annual ten most eligible bachelor's list.
01:24And guess who's on it?
01:26Who?
01:27I don't know, but he must be the president of the really good-looking club.
01:30Huh.
01:31Ranked number nine.
01:32Weren't you number seven last year?
01:33Yes.
01:34And thank you for boarding out my shortcomings once again, Mother.
01:36It's my job.
01:37Luckily, all my friends are beyond print media.
01:39What about this is embarrassing?
01:41Nothing.
01:42It's a secret dream of every 16-year-old to have their father crowned with the most available
01:46hotties of the year.
01:47Well, according to this, your father may not be on the market.
01:51You didn't read the blurb here?
01:52Mm-hmm.
01:53Though claiming to be single, Richard Castle is rumored to be romantically involved with
01:58NYPT detective Kate Beckett.
02:00What?
02:00The inspiration for Nicky Heath, the heroine of his latest best-selling novel, Bachelor
02:05number nine, may not be eligible for next year's list.
02:10Where did they get that?
02:12I didn't see anything like that in my interview.
02:14Detective Beckett is not going to love this.
02:18Well, maybe she'll just laugh it off.
02:21How is it for a man who is surrounded by women that you know so little about us?
02:26Speak of the devil.
02:27Okay, either Beckett's calling because there's a dead body or because she read the article.
02:32Pray for murder.
02:37Good morning.
02:40Dead body.
02:41I'm good.
02:42No one else had access to you.
02:43You're a maid?
02:44No.
02:45Anybody like that?
02:45Okay.
02:47Okay.
02:49And your daughter's school, they knew about you guys when I was at home?
02:57What?
03:07What, what?
03:10Sue, what have we got?
03:11Your guess is as good as mine.
03:13John Doe, no ID.
03:15Approximate time of death is between nine last night and one this morning.
03:18The family found him after returning from vacation.
03:21Apparently, he made himself quite at home.
03:23How so?
03:24Well, we found his food in the fridge, toiletries in the bathroom, even some of his clothes in
03:28the dryer.
03:29A real life Goldie Lines.
03:30It looks as though he even slept in the parents' bed.
03:33Well, of course.
03:34That one was too hard and Baby Bear's bed was just right.
03:38Looks like he struggled.
03:39Unsuccessfully.
03:40Here, you see that?
03:42It's a needle mark from a syringe.
03:44Probably was injected with something that stopped his heart.
03:46I'll run toxicology.
03:47As soon as I can pinpoint a COD, I'll give you a call.
03:50Great.
03:51Mm-hmm.
03:53Hey.
03:55You know who kills with syringes?
03:57Mad doctors and B-movie Nazis.
03:59Why not just use a gun?
04:00Guns are loud.
04:02I've seen squatters in abandoned buildings, but nothing like this.
04:05And then someone sneaks in and kills him with a needle.
04:07Weird.
04:08Mm-hmm.
04:09How are the Dyson's doing?
04:10Mom and Dad are pretty shaken up.
04:11A little girl doesn't really know what's going on.
04:13Did anyone know they were leaving town?
04:15Uh, just people from work, daughter school, stuff like that.
04:18We're running it down.
04:18Hey, check this out.
04:20Dyson's found this in the kitchen.
04:22Says it's not theirs.
04:27This is here.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Weird, huh?
04:31Why would he take pictures?
04:32So he could put everything back the way he found it.
04:35He was hoping nobody would know that he was here.
04:37Almost as though he was hiding?
04:38All right, have a tech pull the memory card.
04:40See if any of the deleted photos can tell us who he is.
04:44Ooh, she is going to kill him.
04:45He's dead.
04:46So, Castle, is it true you're finally off the market?
04:50Guys, seriously, if you believe a word, I swear I would make you...
04:54Montgomery's up to speed.
04:55Anything back from the Dyson's workplace or the kids' school?
04:59I ran background checks on everyone who knew the family was going to be out of town.
05:03So far, everyone's come back clean, but I'm going to keep digging.
05:05Anything on the canvas?
05:06A whole lot of nothing.
05:07No doorman on the building.
05:08None of the Dyson's neighbors noticed anything out of the ordinary.
05:11Shocker.
05:11I've lived in my spot eight years.
05:13I couldn't pick my neighbors out of a lineup.
05:14Well, that's Manhattan for you.
05:16Nobody notices anything unless it affects them directly.
05:18Unless it's in the paper.
05:19Excuse me.
05:20Beckett.
05:22Great.
05:23Okay, good.
05:24Got a hit off of John Doe's fingerprints.
05:26Douglas Bishop.
05:27He's in the system.
05:31Douglas Bishop.
05:32Arrested once, ten years ago.
05:35Misdemeanor, drunken disorderly.
05:37Charges were dropped.
05:39Besides that, he's clean.
05:40All right, find the next to Ken.
05:41After they ID the body, maybe they can tell us what the hell he was doing in that apartment.
05:46I got the results back from the lab.
05:49He was injected with an anesthetic.
05:50Ketamine.
05:51Special K?
05:53He was killed by a club drug?
05:54Not in this dose.
05:56Whoever shot up Mr. Bishop was not looking to get him high.
05:59Gave him enough to put down a horse.
06:02The victim's sister is here?
06:04I'm Detective Beckett.
06:05Thank you so much for coming down.
06:08Is that him?
06:11Is that Doug?
06:12Doug, that's what we'll need you to verify.
06:24None of this makes any sense.
06:26I mean, why would Doug be living in these people's apartment?
06:29He's got his own place out in Hoboken.
06:30Is it possible that your brother was in trouble, that he was hiding from someone?
06:34No.
06:35Everybody loved Doug.
06:37Did he owe anybody money or have any financial problems?
06:41Not that I know of.
06:42I mean, his hours at the travel agency got cut back, but he was getting by.
06:48Travel agency?
06:49Maybe that's how he knew the Dysons were in town.
06:51But if he were in trouble, he would have raided his scuba fund.
06:55Yeah.
06:56He was always saying that someday when his ship came in, he was going to get himself a little
07:00scuba shop down in Jamaica.
07:03Doug was saving up for it.
07:04He would put a portion of his paycheck in an account every month.
07:08When was the last time you saw your brother?
07:10Not since the holiday party.
07:14Doug's agency threw it out by the airport, which is where Stan works, so we all went.
07:19You just never think something like this is going to happen, so you don't wait time.
07:26Okay, thank you.
07:30That was a travel agency.
07:32If Doug was hiding from someone, he wasn't doing a very good job.
07:36Apparently, he hasn't missed a day of work until yesterday.
07:39What about the Dysons trip?
07:40They booked it through a different agency.
07:42The scuba fund?
07:43Didn't touch it.
07:44So he wasn't in hiding.
07:46He didn't owe anybody any money, and he had no discernible way of knowing when the Dysons
07:50would be out of town.
07:51Hey, Beckett.
07:52The Geeks managed to pull deleted photos from our squatter's memory card.
07:57Care to take a look?
07:58Stuff on counters, inside cabinets.
08:00That's not the Dysons' place.
08:02He's done this before, but in other apartments.
08:04Maybe he does it for the thrill.
08:06Maybe someone found out and got mad.
08:08Yeah, but he'd still have to know when they were away.
08:12Unless Doug Bishop isn't our squatter.
08:15That's definitely not Doug Bishop.
08:17Who's he?
08:19He's probably our killer.
08:20What kind of psychopath takes pictures of himself and his murder weapons?
08:38Some killers keep trophies.
08:40In his defense, he did delete these photos.
08:4345 with a silencer.
08:45Wonder what he had lined up for this.
08:46Nothing good.
08:47Has CSU pulled the prints off of the camera and personal effects?
08:50Yeah, they don't match Doug Bishop in the non-assistant.
08:52Which means he doesn't have a record.
08:54Well, if Doug wasn't our squatter, what was he doing in the Dysons' apartment?
08:57He had to have known the squatter somehow.
08:59This squatter was so meticulous about putting things back.
09:01Why did he leave all this for us to find?
09:03You're right.
09:03It makes no sense.
09:05What?
09:05No grand theatrical theory to spin for us?
09:09Honestly, I got nothing.
09:11More importantly, we don't have any prints or leads.
09:13How are we going to catch a ghost?
09:15By finding out how he haunts.
09:17If we can figure out how the squatter knew his marks were out of town,
09:20find something that connects him to the other places that he stayed,
09:23then maybe we can narrow down the field.
09:24We'll keep going through these.
09:25With any luck, we'll find something that can tell us whose apartments these are.
09:28Okay, great.
09:34Hey.
09:42Hey.
09:42What are you doing?
09:43I'm looking to see you won the game last night.
09:45Oh, we won.
09:46Do you even know what game I'm talking about?
09:47Sure I do.
09:49It's a big game.
09:52Okay, Castle, what's going on?
09:54Yo, Becky, check this out.
09:56I took a picture of the inside of someone's medicine cabinet.
09:58You can almost make out the name on these prescription bottles.
10:01Have IS take a look at it, see if they can enhance the photo.
10:04Oh, God.
10:10He went through my medicine cabinet?
10:13Please tell me he didn't go through my diary.
10:15We're not sure, Miss Langford.
10:16Are you sure you don't recognize him?
10:18Yeah, I'm positive.
10:20And you don't know the Dysons?
10:22No.
10:22The only person that knew I was even out of town was my mother.
10:25Everyone else thought I was on sick leave.
10:27You won't tell my boss that, will you?
10:30Did you notice anything unusual when you returned?
10:32Oh, that totally explains it.
10:36What?
10:37My faucet.
10:38For weeks, I've been asking my super to fix my leaky faucet, but he never came.
10:41And then when I got back, it was fixed, so I just assumed that he finally did it.
10:45But then later, when I saw him on the stairs, he didn't even know what I was talking about.
10:49The squatter fixed your sink?
10:50Yeah, and there was this bottle of, um, like, weird strawberry champagne in the fridge,
10:56and I just assumed that one of my friends had left it during a dinner party I had before I left.
11:02But none of my friends would have bought such a...
11:06Cheap bottle of booze.
11:06Exactly.
11:08So he makes repairs, leaves hostess gifts.
11:12He's the gentleman's squatter.
11:13Who killed a man, so don't make him out to be the house guest of the year.
11:16Thank you for coming in, Miss Langford.
11:18By the way, that photo in the paper, did you know justice?
11:23You're much better looking in person.
11:25There's a picture of you in the paper?
11:27So are you the detective girlfriend?
11:30I'm sorry, the what?
11:31He is such a catch.
11:35Don't.
11:36Show me.
11:37Now.
11:39Romantically involved?
11:40Rumored to be.
11:42What did you tell them?
11:43Nothing.
11:43Why would I do that?
11:45Do you have any idea what this does to my reputation?
11:47Your reputation?
11:48What about my reputation?
11:49I am just as upset as you are.
11:51I'm on your team.
11:52This is sharded journalism, and I am two seconds away from canceling my subscription.
11:56My subscription.
11:56Do you have any idea how hard it is to be a female cop?
12:00The last thing I need is for you to give them more ammo to...
12:03Yes, the New York Ledger, please.
12:04What are you doing?
12:05Langford said that the only person who knew she was on vacation was her mother, but that's
12:08not true.
12:09If she was actually pretending to be sick, the last thing she'd want is newspapers piling
12:12up at her front door.
12:13She had the papers held.
12:14Yes, your subscription department, please.
12:16Anyone with access to vacation hold information would know exactly who's out of town and for
12:21exactly how long.
12:22Yes, I would like to verify vacation hold information on two of your subscribers, please.
12:29Who am I?
12:30I, I, I sometimes forget I'm not actually a cop.
12:34I don't.
12:36Hi, this is Detective Kate Beckett with the NYPD.
12:39I'd like to speak with your supervisor, please.
12:41I can't really say he looks familiar, but you've got to understand, we have hundreds of employees.
12:46Well, how many of them had access to vacation hold information?
12:49Well, you've got about a dozen subscriptions and another handful in billing, and of course
12:53the newspaper boys themselves.
12:55I'm going to need to see a list of their names.
12:57Sure, follow me.
13:07Donna.
13:09Richard, what are you doing here?
13:12You're not mad about number nine, are you?
13:13I told my editor to keep you at seven.
13:15No, no, it's not that.
13:16I don't care about that much.
13:19It's, I just, why did you say I was dating Detective Beckett?
13:22Oh, well, I just assumed.
13:25You kept bringing her up during the interview.
13:26No, I didn't.
13:27Sure you did.
13:28You went on and on about her.
13:30Beckett said the funniest this, she's the best that.
13:32Really?
13:33I did that?
13:34Last year all you did was talk about yourself.
13:35Well, Donna, I am very, very single.
13:38Really?
13:39Because if you aren't involved, Bachelorette number three asked about you this morning.
13:43Did you see her?
13:45No.
13:46Or are you one of those people who never goes below the fold?
13:49Oh, I go below the fold.
13:50It's just lately I've been very busy with my second Nikki Heat novel, and I never, oh my
13:54God.
13:55Mm-hmm.
13:56Amanda Livingston.
13:58So do you want her number?
13:59Because she wants yours.
14:00Hey, we got a match.
14:07Nikki Carlson, delivery boy.
14:09Both the Dysons and Michelle Langford are on his route.
14:11Delivery boy.
14:12Knew it.
14:13Anyway, he didn't show this morning.
14:14Another carrier had to cover.
14:16You know, there's no address on this application.
14:18Do you have one on file?
14:19No, he never gave us one.
14:20And now I know why.
14:22It says there that payday is tomorrow.
14:24Does Nikki do direct deposit, or does...
14:26Pick up his own check?
14:27Like clockwork.
14:28Payroll comes in at 10 o'clock in the morning.
14:31Nikki's here at 10.01.
14:34Delivery boy with a silencer and syringes full of ketamine?
14:37His job's just a front for whatever business he's really in.
14:40Here's a list of all of the vacation holds on his route.
14:44He could be squatting at any one of them.
14:46He's armed, so make sure your teams use extreme caution.
14:49Castle and I'll set up at the paper in case he shows.
14:51If he's out there, we'll find him.
14:52It's ironic, you know.
14:53People put in vacation holds to avoid break-ins.
14:56Good use of irony.
14:58So who's your friend at the paper?
15:02Oh, Donna Vincennes.
15:03She's the one who wrote the blurb about us.
15:05There is no us.
15:07I know that.
15:08Did you tell her that?
15:10Yes, I did.
15:11Which worked out actually really well for me.
15:14As it turns out, most eligible bachelorette numero tres.
15:17Very interested in meeting me.
15:20Once the infotainers get a hold of her with me,
15:22they're going to forget all about you and I.
15:24I can just see the headlines now.
15:26Nine meets three at dinner for two.
15:30Believe it or not, there's a lot of women in this town
15:32who like the idea of being romantically linked to me.
15:34I have no life.
15:49No, Mr. Bishop has no life.
15:51That's why he's on my table.
15:52I need a date.
15:56What?
15:57A date.
15:58A guy.
15:59A man.
16:01You're always trying to set me up with people,
16:02so here I am.
16:03I'm game.
16:04What do you got?
16:06Okay.
16:07What's gotten into you?
16:08I get so wrapped up in work.
16:10All I want to do is go home where it's quiet,
16:12and I'm so tired of quiet.
16:14I want loud.
16:18Okay.
16:19I have the perfect prescription for you.
16:26A Braddocker?
16:28No, no, baby.
16:29That's Brad Decker.
16:30That firefighter I wanted to set you up with?
16:32Is he cute?
16:33He was Mr. July in last year's New York Firefighters calendar.
16:37July, huh?
16:39Mm-hmm.
16:39They always put the really hot ones in the summer months.
16:43Exactly.
16:44Well, then, should we say around eight?
16:46All right.
16:47Me, too.
16:49Good night, Amanda.
16:52Sorry I missed dinner.
16:53There's quiche if you're hungry.
16:55Sweet.
16:56Or savory, actually.
16:58So, that was your day.
17:02I had a truly great day.
17:04I got pulled out of class and called to the vice principal's office.
17:07Why?
17:07What did she want?
17:08You.
17:10Here's her number.
17:11Her number?
17:12Oh, and my German teacher, Fräulein Sonnenberg, wanted me to tell you,
17:15Auf Deutsch, du Habs, sex abuse.
17:18She's two years from ordering off the senior menu, but here's her number, too.
17:22Fräulein Sonnenberg?
17:23Too old?
17:24That's okay, because my friend Sloan thinks they're real choice.
17:27She's 17, but she'll be legal in three months.
17:29Hey, maybe we could double.
17:31Oh, you hate me a little bit right now, don't you?
17:35Just a little.
17:36What did I say?
17:38Oh, I'm sure she'll be fine with it.
17:41Maybe even a little flattered.
17:45Flattered.
17:46It looks good.
17:47Eat that.
17:5210-15.
17:53Mickey's a no-show.
17:54Patience, Castle.
17:56Hey, have you ever heard of Drago?
17:58Yeah, it's on the Ledger's top ten most romantic restaurants.
18:03It's pricey and impossible to get a table, unless you know someone.
18:07Why?
18:08Just looking for a place to go.
18:10What, like on a date?
18:11Yes, on a date.
18:13Why do you sound so surprised?
18:15No, I just never figured you for a Drago kind of girl.
18:19Really?
18:20What kind of a girl do you figure me for, Castle?
18:22I...
18:24Oh, there's your boy.
18:27Mickey Carlson, I'm...
18:28Hey!
18:29Hey!
18:36Mickey Carlson, you're under arrest for the murder of Douglas Bishop.
18:45This is the ketamine that you used to kill Doug Bishop?
18:48Whoa, no, no, that's not mine.
18:49Pretty smart not using the gun, Mickey.
18:51That would have been too messy.
18:53That's not my gun.
18:54Look, I didn't kill anybody, I swear.
18:55I'm not a criminal, all right?
18:56I was just squatting there.
18:57Well, technically, squatting is a crime.
18:59Yeah, a victim is crime, especially the way I do it.
19:02If you didn't kill Doug Bishop, then how did he end up dead in the Dyson's apartment?
19:06A guy from the maintenance apartment must have killed him.
19:08And who are the Maitlands?
19:09People's apartment I stayed in before the Dyson's.
19:11Okay, why don't you start from the beginning and take us through it from there?
19:14Maitlands put a week hole on their paper, which I was psyched about.
19:18Because they live on East 27th, which has amazing Indian restaurants.
19:21So I pick the lock, I start taking pictures, so I can return everything to its original state.
19:25So I'm taking pictures when I find these syringes on the table.
19:28Kind of weird, but I'm thinking maybe one of the Maitlands must be diabetic or something, right?
19:31So I keep going, then bam, it hits me.
19:34What's a gun with a silencer doing out on the bed?
19:37And next to it, I see all this gear.
19:41Gear?
19:42Mountain climbing equipment?
19:43At this point, I've seen enough.
19:44I decide to get out of there.
19:46But just as I'm grabbing my stuff, I hear the door unlock.
19:50And I barely reach the closet in time.
19:51I could see them through the slats.
19:53It was three of them.
19:53It was this guy, a plain-looking dude, and a tough-looking S.O.B. man.
19:59He had a scar on his face, looked like a crescent moon.
20:02A crescent moon.
20:03I know, right?
20:04It's crazy.
20:05Anyway, they head into the back.
20:07I take the opportunity to grab my stuff and get the hell out of there.
20:10I end up at the Dysons.
20:11Take a load off, I get comfortable.
20:13When out of nowhere, the front door opens and him and his friend come in.
20:17Who, crescent moon Scarface?
20:18No, the other guy, the plain one.
20:20They grab me and demand that I give them their phone back.
20:23Their phone.
20:24Are you making this up as you go?
20:27No, no, no.
20:27See, in my race to get out of the maintenance, I must have grabbed one of their jackets, which
20:30had their phone in it.
20:32But I don't know how they knew.
20:34They knew their phones have GPS.
20:35They could track it on the web.
20:36Huh?
20:37Well, I didn't want their phone, and I tried to give it back.
20:40The guy pulls out a syringe that's ready to stab me with it.
20:42But thank God for Doug.
20:44Oh, man.
20:45Doug says, I didn't sign up for murder.
20:47Then they start arguing.
20:49And then the syringe guy says, we've got three mil on the line.
20:52He's seen too much.
20:54Next thing I know, they're fighting.
20:55So I ran out of there.
20:57I'm just saying, it's a really good story.
21:00Come on, mysterious bad guys, crescent-shaped scars, Heidi in a closet?
21:04It sounds like fiction, because it probably is.
21:07No, that's too bad.
21:08That's a nice guy.
21:09So was Jeffrey Dahmer.
21:10Didn't stop him from eating people.
21:11Where are we on these Maitlands?
21:14They're on a cruise ship.
21:15We're getting the ship's security to track them down right now.
21:17Right.
21:17Have them tracked faster.
21:18I need their permission to get them into place.
21:20Can't we just get a word?
21:21On the word of a possible murder suspect?
21:23Not exactly probable cause.
21:25But once we disprove Mr. Carlson's story, we'll be able to press charges for murder.
21:33Beckett.
21:33Oh, hi, Brad.
21:36Uh, I, no, no, no, no.
21:39It's not too last minute.
21:40Actually, my plans for tonight just fell through.
21:43Who's Brad?
21:45Must be Laney's friend.
21:47You know him?
21:47Yeah, met him once.
21:49Good guy.
21:51Fireman.
21:51He was in the FDNY calendar.
21:54Chiseled good looks.
21:56Rock hard abs.
21:58Oh, and get this.
21:59Once during a fire, after saving the parents and the kids,
22:02Egy went back in for the puppies.
22:06Did she just flip her hair?
22:08I'm telling you, bro.
22:09Puppies.
22:10Okay.
22:10Guess them every time.
22:12Puppies.
22:17Yes, Mr. Maintenance?
22:18What?
22:18Oh, great.
22:19You're smiling.
22:20Thank you very much for your cooperation.
22:21So?
22:21Goodbye.
22:22Hey.
22:23We got the maintenance.
22:24We're good to enter.
22:25They're calling the super right now.
22:26Okay, let's go.
22:32Stay out here, please, sir.
22:38We'll check the back.
22:39Okay.
22:46Surprise, surprise.
22:48Nothing here to verify Mickey's version.
22:50Wow, look at this.
22:54Did you find something?
22:55Yeah, it's an old-fashioned dumbwaiter.
22:56You don't see these around anymore.
22:58Genius, too.
22:59The maintenance have converted it into a hidden stereo component cupboard.
23:02I bet they have an RF remote somewhere.
23:04We're not here to admire the place, Castle.
23:06How can you not?
23:08I mean, look at this place.
23:09This apartment is pre-war, late 1800s.
23:12Oh, you see this molding?
23:14That's the original wood.
23:16Gorgeous.
23:16I bet the bathrooms have marble wainscoted.
23:18Look, you're such a metrosexual.
23:21Yes, well, better than being a pinup boy.
23:24So you heard?
23:25And it's pinup man, Castle.
23:27Pinup man.
23:28Yes, well, have fun with your hose jockey
23:30whilst I go out with Nuevo York's most eligible bachelorette number three.
23:34Oh, I guess that means she must be slumming it.
23:37Her being number three and you being a lowly number nine.
23:40What number were you again?
23:41Oh.
23:43Place is clear.
23:44No gun, no ketamine, no mountain climbing equipment.
23:47There is nothing here.
23:49Yes, there is.
23:50An icebox, circa the late 1800s.
23:53You see, before the invention of modern household refrigeration,
23:57people used to keep their perishable items in a box that held ice.
24:01Hence, an icebox.
24:03It's not an open house, Castle.
24:05All of the maintenance were very clever.
24:06They converted this into a cupboard.
24:08Meanwhile, it's right next to their fridge.
24:10I did not expect that.
24:18Crescent-shaped scar.
24:22Looks like there was some truth to Mickey's tale after all.
24:24His name is Anton Francis.
24:35Mr. Francis here, not wanting to waste such a sinister-looking scar,
24:38decided to round out the stereotype with a laundry list of criminal activity,
24:42including fencing stolen property, stick-ups, and a smashing grab.
24:46Do we have time of death?
24:46Yes, between 1 and 4 a.m. this morning.
24:49We drooled out Mickey Carlson.
24:50We verified that he stayed in a homeless shelter last night.
24:52So if Mickey was telling us the truth,
24:54then Doug and Mr. Francis clearly got more than they bargained for.
24:57All by the murderous hand of their partner,
25:00the guy who killed Doug with the syringe,
25:02our mysterious third man.
25:05Let's get photos of all of Anton's known associates and former cellmates.
25:08If Mickey saw his face, he should be able to ID him for us.
25:12So how does a man like Douglas Bishop with no criminal record
25:15get involved with hardened criminals?
25:17Simple.
25:18They needed him.
25:19It seemed convenient to me that the Maitlands were out of town
25:22when all this went down.
25:23So I did some digging.
25:24Turns out that cruise they're on,
25:26they wanted in a contest.
25:28Only there is no contest.
25:30A phony award letter?
25:31Yeah, when they got that and the tickets,
25:33they figured Wila could get to us in the mouth.
25:36So guess where the tickets came from?
25:38Doug Bishop's travel agency.
25:39So the cruise was just a scam to get the Maitlands out of town.
25:43The letter says that the cruise had to be this week.
25:45Why this week?
25:46And why the Maitlands?
25:47Well, unless our bad guys are into pre-war architecture,
25:50there's really nothing in that apartment that's worth anything,
25:52except for the audiovisual equipment, which was still there.
25:55Why go through so much trouble to get in the Maitlands apartment?
25:57Maybe what they wanted wasn't in the Maitlands apartment.
26:01Maybe they were going to rob someone else, but just needed access.
26:03The audiovisual equipment.
26:08Access?
26:08The Maitlands live on the second floor.
26:13Running perpendicular to them and whatever's below is the old dumbwaiter shaft.
26:18In Gathering Storm, I had Derek Storm climb up the dumbwaiter shaft
26:21to bypass the Czech assassin in order to save the Swiss ambassador's daughter.
26:25Maybe our bad guys are using the dumbwaiter
26:27to bypass the security of whatever's below them.
26:30Which would explain the ropes and the climbing gear.
26:32So what's below the Maitlands apartment?
26:37A picture.
26:40I have the largest section of reptiles in the city.
26:44They're my speciality.
26:46My pleasure.
26:48Okay.
26:49Bye-bye.
26:50Ah, how is it?
26:52Can I, uh, can I help you?
26:54And you're sure nothing was stolen?
26:56Yeah, I mean, what is there to steal?
26:58There's a dumbwaiter's been opened recently.
27:03It was open.
27:04Mickey told us his attacker, said there was millions at stake.
27:07Mr. Dupree, what's on the other side of that wall?
27:0928th Street, Eastside Bank and Trust.
27:12A bank heist.
27:13It looks like the plan was to cut into the back wall
27:15to get into the bank vault on the other side.
27:17We called the bank manager, the FBI,
27:19but our guys never made it that far.
27:21What went wrong?
27:22We don't know.
27:23It could have been greed, panic.
27:25It looks like our victims might have been betrayed by their partner.
27:30In the old days, you killed your partners after you got the money.
27:32Any leads on this, uh, third man?
27:34No.
27:34We had our squatter take a look at mugshots of Anton Francis' associates,
27:38and we didn't find him.
27:39What if the connection to the third man isn't through Scarface?
27:42What if it's through Doug?
27:43The travel agent?
27:44I thought we went through him.
27:44We did.
27:45We checked his family, his friends, his co-workers.
27:48But not his clients.
27:49Think about it.
27:49Maybe that's it.
27:50The third man books a trip through Doug.
27:54Doug starts talking.
27:55Tells him about his dream of owning a scuba shop in the islands.
27:58The third man senses his frustration.
28:00That's his in.
28:01He tells Doug, it'll be easy.
28:04It's a victimless crime.
28:05Nobody will get hurt.
28:06Insurance will pay.
28:08Knowing the whole time, if the police investigate,
28:10they'll track the tickets back through to Doug, not to him.
28:13The third man remains invisible so long as Doug is dead.
28:16That almost makes sense.
28:17Let's run Doug's client list for the past six months.
28:20If anything pops, we'll show it to Mickey.
28:22Okay.
28:22You know, maybe I should cancel tonight.
28:25You're going to cancel on the guy that risked his life for a bunch of puppies?
28:28Sir, you know about my date?
28:30Yes.
28:31And despite what you might think,
28:32the world's not going to end just because you disappear for a night.
28:35And if it does, I'm sure that those two can handle it.
28:39Yeah.
28:39Yeah.
28:39Go ahead.
28:40Yeah.
28:40I need the overtime.
28:41Okay, but call me if anything turns up.
28:44Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:45Have fun.
28:47You see how ready she was to cancel on that date?
28:50I think it's a two, you casting?
28:51Yeah.
28:52Why do you care?
28:53I'm just saying.
28:54Look out.
28:54There's, uh...
28:55Neither of those.
29:02Hmm?
29:03Hmm.
29:04Look.
29:05Oh, you're good.
29:10Hey, I know that this can be weird for you,
29:14how parents aren't supposed to date.
29:17I know you date, Dad.
29:18I know you probably do other things that I am not going to think about
29:21and that we'll never, ever mention.
29:23Fair enough.
29:24So, what's wrong?
29:27I don't know.
29:28I mean, I'm not going to be here forever,
29:30and then who's going to look after you then?
29:32That's Lorette number three.
29:33Oh, slow down there.
29:36Let's not go by in rings anytime soon.
29:38It's just a date.
29:39I know.
29:40And she seems nice and all,
29:40but if that's who you date,
29:43I mean, are you really going to find happiness
29:44with the kind of person who's a number on a list?
29:46Well, I already have.
29:49You're number one on mine.
29:51Look, it's my job to worry about you,
29:53not the other way around.
29:55I'll be fine.
29:56Yeah.
29:57That's what you said when you tried to deep fry a turkey,
30:00and we all know how that turned out.
30:01I just don't want you to get hurt
30:03or burn your eyebrows off again.
30:12I'm glad they grew back.
30:13They're finally matching.
30:25I've heard this place is impossible to get into.
30:28Ricky!
30:29Frankie!
30:30Nice to see you again.
30:32And you.
30:32Your table will be ready momentarily.
30:35Castle?
30:35Castle?
30:39Beckett.
30:43I take it you two know each other.
30:51Yeah, Brad.
30:52This is Richard Castle.
30:53We work together.
30:54Uh, Amanda.
30:55This is Kate Beckett.
30:56We work together.
30:56Hi.
30:57Nice to meet you.
30:59Uh-huh.
30:59What are you doing here?
31:00You knew that I was coming here.
31:02I knew you wanted to come here.
31:03I didn't think you could get a table last minute.
31:05You got a table last minute.
31:06Yeah, I've got connections.
31:07So do I.
31:09City health inspector.
31:10Wow.
31:11Nice abuse of power.
31:13So, Richard, you a cop too?
31:15No, he's a novelist who's been shadowing me on my murder case.
31:18Oh, I do a little more than shadowing.
31:20Your table is ready.
31:27So you two work in a homicide?
31:29Um, a double homicide.
31:30It's actually a rather tricky case because the killer is...
31:34I like to call him the third man.
31:36Very mysterious.
31:37Sounds like one of your books.
31:39Yeah, it kind of does.
31:40Anyway, he and his two partners...
31:42We're gonna rob a bank.
31:44Only he turned on the other two and killed them before they even finished the job.
31:48I mean, it doesn't even make any sense.
31:49Since usually you'd wait until you got the money before you double-crossed your partners.
31:53I mean, they didn't even have the right equipment to rob a bank.
31:55Well, I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually.
31:58You know, speaking of great mysteries, I saw an incredible play off-Broadway the other night.
32:01I just wish I could figure out what they were doing with the ketamine.
32:04Maybe it had something to do with the pet store.
32:08You gonna eat that?
32:10It's just not like there's really anything to steal there.
32:12Unless the pet store was just a front for something else.
32:18Waiter, could I have another glass of wine, please?
32:21In which case, the owner might have been lying when he said that nothing was stolen.
32:25You wanna have sex with me later?
32:27I'm sorry, would you mind if I made a telephone call?
32:30No.
32:31Thanks.
32:35Um, nothing's robbed by the front, right?
32:39Pardon me.
32:44Have you got something?
32:45I was just having Ryan and Esposito run something down for me.
32:48It's a pet shop?
32:48Yes.
32:49How did you know?
32:50I was thinking the exact same thing.
32:51It's probably a front person.
32:53Okay, so they're gonna dig up everything they can on the owner.
32:55It could be that he's hiding something.
32:56All right.
32:58Well, I should get back to this date.
33:01How's yours going?
33:01Great.
33:02Yours?
33:02Fantastic.
33:03Well, I'll, uh, see you.
33:07Pheasant is amazing.
33:14I'm sorry.
33:15That's a station.
33:16Yeah.
33:17Go ahead.
33:20What's your part of me?
33:22Bathroom again?
33:22So what'd they find out?
33:34Yo, you ran the pet shop owner, Noel Dupree.
33:37You came up clean.
33:38Really?
33:39What about in the past couple of days?
33:41Anything unusual?
33:41Day before yesterday, Customs has them taking possession of half a dozen African gray parrots,
33:47four baboon spiders, and two black-tailed pythons, all from South Africa.
33:53Wait a minute.
33:53Did you just say black-tailed pythons are from South Africa?
33:57Yeah.
33:58Why?
33:58Because black-tailed pythons, also known as Indian rock pythons, are not indigenous to that
34:02area.
34:03Why would they be coming from Africa?
34:04Why do you care about some other freaking snakes on a mother freaking plane?
34:07Because as a murder mystery novelist, I'm highly paid to think like a bad guy.
34:11Here are a few fun facts about snakes.
34:14They are cold-blooded, they swallow huge amounts, and they digest their food very slowly.
34:19Perfect for smuggling.
34:20And it wouldn't be the first time if these snakes are coming in from South Africa.
34:24There are two things in abundance in South Africa.
34:27Racial hatred and diamonds.
34:29Smuggling diamonds and live snakes.
34:32Mickey's attacker said that there were millions at stake.
34:34And the dumbwaiter goes right down into the pet store.
34:36That's why the maintenance trip had to be this week.
34:38They knew the shipment was coming in.
34:40And then the ketamine...
34:41Was to dope the snakes so they could take them up the shaft without a fight.
34:43And then when we came to the store...
34:44The owner couldn't say a word.
34:46Otherwise, he'd implicate himself in smuggling.
34:47So we find out who robbed him.
34:48We find the third man.
34:50Do they know they're finishing each other's sentences?
34:52Have uniforms pick up the owner.
34:54We'll meet you at the store.
34:59What do we tell them?
35:00This is gonna be awkward.
35:05We'll be okay.
35:06Looks like it's just...
35:07Is the owner in custody?
35:18Wife said he was here working late.
35:20Place looks closed.
35:21Okay.
35:21Castle, hold my purse.
35:24Follow me.
35:24Ready.
35:36Let's go.
35:43Room all clear.
35:45You two.
35:46I won't beat it!
35:51I won't beat it!
35:52I won't beat it!
35:53I won't beat it!
35:54Get down!
35:55Get down!
35:56I didn't know you were to please.
35:58Hey.
35:59You okay?
36:00Oh, yeah.
36:01Hey, it takes a lot more than that to scare me.
36:03What about a big, hairy spider on your shoulder?
36:05Yeah, that would do it.
36:10Get in!
36:11I didn't know you were the police.
36:20I have a right to defend my store.
36:22Defend from who, Mr. Dupree?
36:25According to customs, you took possession of two black-tailed pythons.
36:30Which is not a crime.
36:32No.
36:32But black-tailed pythons are indigenous to India, so why ship them in from South Africa?
36:37My supplies are there.
36:39There's nothing illegal about my business.
36:41Then where are the snakes?
36:43They weren't in the store, and we didn't find any invoices indicating that they were sold.
36:47You know what we did find?
36:48A color grader, a UV lamp, and a carat weight scale.
36:51All tools of the diamond trade.
36:53So what happened, Mr. Dupree?
36:55Because we think someone broke into your store, came down the dumbwaiter shaft, and stole your shipment of diamonds.
37:02Now, that's your problem.
37:03My problem is that they left two bodies behind.
37:06Okay, fine.
37:11You don't want to implicate yourself.
37:12I get it.
37:13So I'm simply going to ask, who knew about the shipment?
37:19Come on, Mr. Dupree.
37:20Don't you want us to find them?
37:22Who knew?
37:23Who did you tell?
37:24I told no one.
37:25Mr. Dupree?
37:25I picked up my cargo at the airport personally, and I locked him in my office.
37:33The next day, they were gone.
37:34Do you recognize either of these men?
37:41No.
37:42I've never seen any of them in my life.
37:45It's the truth.
37:46Robbing a smuggler is almost a perfect crime.
37:50And the victim can't go to the police without admitting his own crime.
37:53Someone knew that shipment was coming in.
37:55Someone had it planned.
37:58Where are we on Doug's client list?
38:00We ran every client Doug ever had, and we got nada.
38:02Just to be thorough, we showed their DMV photos to Mickey.
38:05None of them were our mysterious third man.
38:07Well, it had to be.
38:08Someone Dupree would never expect.
38:09Someone connected to his pet store in some capacity.
38:12An old employee, perhaps?
38:13He would have to know when the shipment was coming in.
38:15Yeah, someone who knew his timetable.
38:19Maybe someone Dupree had sent to the airport previously to pick up the shipment.
38:23Out to the airport.
38:24What was that?
38:25Run all of the paperwork from Dupree's last shipment.
38:27Customs, Fish and Wildlife, the shipping company, everything.
38:31I want to know who knew what and when.
38:32You think someone at the airport caught on to Dupree's smuggling?
38:35Decided to rob him instead of reporting?
38:37Not only that, I think I know who.
38:40Mr. and Mrs. Kopech, thank you for coming in so late.
38:43Please.
38:44Sorry it took so long.
38:46Stan was at work when you called.
38:47All right.
38:48You said that the last time that you saw your brother was at the agency's party around where Stan works?
38:55That's right.
38:56Could you refresh my memory, Mr. Kopech?
38:58Where is it that you work?
38:59It's late.
39:00Could you just please tell us what you found out?
39:02Well, I didn't really put everything together until I remembered your wife's story about the party at the airport.
39:12What's this?
39:13It's a customs form, Mr. Kopech.
39:16Authorizing the release of cargo to a Mr. Noel Dupree signed by you.
39:22Yeah.
39:23So?
39:24I work for customs.
39:25What's the big deal?
39:26What's going on, Stan?
39:27I have no idea.
39:29Sure you do.
39:30When you realized what Mr. Dupree was doing, smuggling diamonds, you said to yourself,
39:34why should I give him up to those ungrateful bastards?
39:37Why not just take care of it myself?
39:39Stan.
39:39Then all you needed to do was pull the import permits from Fish and Wildlife to determine when the next shipment would be.
39:45But you needed someone with connections to fencing stolen goods.
39:50And so you contacted Anton Francis, a con man and an old high school buddy who'd been in and out of jail for years.
39:57The easy score was money to his ears, but you needed to get the Maitlands out of town for a couple of days first.
40:03And that's when your brother-in-law, Doug, came in.
40:05What did you do, Stan?
40:07Did you play on his dreams?
40:09Tell him he could finally afford that scuba shop he always wanted?
40:12Stan.
40:12Stan, what did you do?
40:14Nothing, nothing.
40:15I don't know.
40:15Mrs. Kopech, your husband killed your brother.
40:18That's real.
40:19Stan.
40:19They're lying.
40:20That's ridiculous.
40:21We have a witness, Mr. Kopech.
40:24The squatter you tried to kill identified you from a photo array less than an hour ago.
40:29Oh, God.
40:30No, no, it wasn't supposed to happen like this.
40:33No one was supposed to get hurt.
40:34Doug, he just, he wouldn't listen.
40:38I didn't mean, Anton, he came after me.
40:43That was self-defense.
40:44I'm not, I'm not a killer.
40:45We have two bodies that prove otherwise.
40:48It just got out of hand.
40:50Things just spun out of control.
40:52Get him away from me.
40:53I mean, it's...
40:54On your feet.
41:01I did it for us.
41:02It was all for us, baby.
41:09And you guys thought I made the whole thing up?
41:12I believed you the whole time.
41:15So, what happens to me now?
41:17Go back to the holding cell or am I headed to the tombs?
41:19Neither.
41:20For your cooperation in the apprehension of Stan Kopech, the ADA has agreed to a deal.
41:25Five years probation for all your sins.
41:26No jail time?
41:27You have a shot at a second chance, Mickey.
41:29Don't blow it.
41:30I won't.
41:32Hey, thanks for everything.
41:35Really, thank you.
41:36All right.
41:41Oh, man.
41:42I can't wait to go home and just slip into a warm bath and...
41:45I...
41:46Don't.
41:47Please, don't.
41:48I was just going to say I'm starving.
41:52We left the restaurant before I had a chance to finish my entree.
41:54Yeah, well, it wouldn't have mattered if you did.
41:56Portions there were tiny.
41:57Yeah.
41:59You know, Remy's is open all night.
42:01They've got those burgers.
42:03Oh, those shakes.
42:10Oh, why not?
42:11So, how did your date go?
42:17She was kind of boring.
42:18Didn't talk much.
42:20Mr. July?
42:22A little self-absorbed.
42:24Looked it.
42:24Really?
42:25You can tell.
42:26Some people just don't know how to behave on a date.
42:29Especially on a first date.
42:30Exactly.
42:31A little self-absorbed.
43:01A little self-absorbed.
43:03A little self-absorbed.
43:05So, you can tell.
43:06A little self-absorbed.
43:07There's no self-absorbed.
43:07So, I was able to say,
43:08for 1-2-8-4-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-4-1-2-1-1-1-2-1-3-2-1-1-2-1-2-1-1-2-1-2-1-2-2-1-1-2-2-1-1-2-1-2-3-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-2-2-1-3-1-2-4-2-2-1-2-1.
43:17So, I knew it was going to be a little bit.