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Castle Season 1 Episode 5

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00:00Mama said lift your head from the sieve of your hands
00:30Mama said lift your head from the sieve of your hands
00:40Mama said eventually this hurtin' will end
00:51Mama said lift the hands
01:04What can't they find Porsche between 9-5?
01:17between 9 and 5.
01:18Well, Early Bird gets the caller.
01:19Yeah.
01:23He was here before I was.
01:26Oh, finally.
01:27You are here.
01:27You are going to love this.
01:30Come on, show's over.
01:32Active crime scene.
01:33We appreciate cooperation.
01:38Awesome, right?
01:39My first cold case.
01:41Come on, that's a little funny.
01:43Not so much funny as true.
01:45She's frozen solid.
01:47What was the temperature last night?
01:48Mid-40s.
01:50It wasn't exposure.
01:51Site's active.
01:52Boys tell me there's no way she was here last night.
02:02She's melting.
02:04Maybe we should be looking for Ruby slippers.
02:07Yeah, while you're at it,
02:07why don't you look for some flying monkeys?
02:09Maybe they left her here.
02:10So what do you got for me?
02:12There are pieces of plastic on her body
02:13from the garment bag.
02:15So she was inside the bag?
02:16Mm-hmm.
02:17Other than that,
02:17it's going to take a while for her to thaw.
02:19I can tell you she hasn't been here long.
02:22Maybe a couple hours.
02:23What about security?
02:25Chainlink.
02:26A pair of bolt cutters took care of that.
02:28Looks like our guy was hoping
02:28she'd disappear into the concrete pour.
02:30A few more feet and she would have.
02:32It's kind of odd,
02:33taking the trouble to freeze a body
02:34and then dumping it.
02:35We've got two personality types working here.
02:38A killer who freezes a body is a keeper.
02:40He wants a souvenir.
02:41But a guy who dumps a body?
02:43Doesn't want to be reminded of the crime.
02:47All right, I'm going to go check out the fence.
02:50Mm-hmm.
02:51Get a close-up of her face.
02:52Don't want to run her through missing persons.
02:55Oh, cool.
02:55Like on the Discovery Channel
02:56where you plug the photo
02:57into a facial recognition database?
03:00Yeah.
03:01Just like that.
03:02Yes.
03:04Welcome to the department's
03:06official facial recognition database.
03:08By hand?
03:12That's like life before TiVo.
03:14Maybe you could download an app
03:15on that phone with you
03:16or you could just...
03:16There are a lot of missing people.
03:19One way or another,
03:20we eventually find them.
03:21Some end up dead,
03:22some turn up in a double-wide
03:24with a stripper named Trixie
03:25outside Atlantic City.
03:27And some just don't turn up.
03:30Dana Sullivan.
03:32Mm-hmm.
03:32Her and her boyfriend leave a club.
03:34He's a couple steps behind her
03:35because he gets a call on his cell phone.
03:37She turns a corner
03:37just a few seconds before he does.
03:39And when he comes around,
03:40she's gone.
03:41The street's totally empty.
03:43No traffic, no nothing.
03:44In a matter of three feet,
03:46she literally just disappeared.
03:49People don't disappear
03:50off the face of the Earth.
03:51Sure they do.
03:52Quantum physics,
03:53alien abduction,
03:54Schrodinger's cat.
03:55One minute,
03:56you're getting a hot dog in the park.
03:57Next, you're fighting off sleaze stacks
03:59on the far side of a dimensional rift.
04:00I don't buy it.
04:01There's got to be an explanation.
04:03A story that makes everything make sense.
04:06Okay, Castle.
04:08What's her Jane Doe story?
04:09Well,
04:10I don't know how it starts,
04:12but I know how it ends.
04:13Frozen at a construction site.
04:15So,
04:15flying monkeys aside,
04:17what's the first question?
04:19How did she get there?
04:20Considering she was frozen solid,
04:22she had to have been kept pretty close.
04:23Not necessarily.
04:25Here is the site.
04:26Her body might not have been kept
04:27as close as you might think.
04:29It takes a long time
04:30for a frozen body to thaw.
04:32What,
04:32you freeze a body once
04:33for one of your books?
04:34No,
04:35but I cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving.
04:37It was a 28-pounder.
04:38It took all night to unfreeze.
04:39She's a person, Castle,
04:40not a turkey.
04:41Just making a point.
04:46Beckett?
04:48Okay,
04:49I'm on my way.
04:51Lainey's got an ID.
04:53You'll take care of these.
04:55Hey, Ryan,
04:56can you, uh,
04:57thanks.
05:01Melanie Cavanaugh,
05:0234,
05:03time of death.
05:04Turns out COD
05:05was blunt force trauma
05:06to her head.
05:09How'd you get her ID?
05:10Her fingerprints
05:11were in the system
05:12for
05:12misdemeanor drug possession.
05:14She doesn't look like a junkie.
05:16No,
05:16she's in pretty good shape
05:17considering.
05:18Judging the lack of frost
05:20and tissue degeneration,
05:21I'd say wherever she was stored,
05:22the temperature rarely varied.
05:24Like a freezer?
05:24Freeza do the job.
05:26How long has she been dead?
05:27Well,
05:27considering how long
05:28she's been like this,
05:30factoring decomposition,
05:32I'd say she probably
05:33was frozen within 24 hours
05:34of being killed.
05:36What do you mean
05:37how long she's been like this?
05:39According to the records
05:40I pulled,
05:41this woman's been missing
05:42for over five years.
05:54She had a troubled childhood.
06:02Drug problems
06:03in her teens and 20s.
06:04I don't know.
06:06How do you know?
06:08I read the case file.
06:09She kicked the habit,
06:10met and married
06:11Samuel Cavanaugh.
06:12She worked in a restaurant,
06:14he managed to bank,
06:15they have two kids.
06:16When did you read the case file?
06:17That,
06:17when you were
06:19in the little girl's room.
06:20I was gone for like a minute.
06:21Speed reader.
06:22Something I picked up
06:23from my years
06:23stranded in the New York
06:24Public Library.
06:30Would you like
06:30the Eclipse notes
06:31or in this case
06:32the Castle notes?
06:34Castle,
06:34how do you know
06:35you didn't miss
06:35something important?
06:36Like after Melanie
06:37disappeared,
06:37her husband waited
06:38a day before
06:39he called the cops?
06:40A day?
06:41That doesn't make any sense.
06:42Until you get
06:42to the third paragraph.
06:44Before Melanie was married,
06:45she was what is now
06:46referred to as
06:47a runaway bride.
06:48According to her husband,
06:49she ran away
06:49a whole two weeks
06:50before their wedding day.
06:51Mm-hmm.
06:52Then she came back
06:53three years happily
06:54ever after.
06:55She disappears again,
06:56comes back.
06:58Latherins repeat
06:58three times,
07:00no indication
07:00of where she went.
07:02Well, she must have
07:03had a reason
07:03for running away.
07:04Hmm.
07:05I'm not judging her.
07:06Some people love
07:07the institution,
07:08hate the day-to-day.
07:10Are you one
07:11of those people, Castle?
07:13I guess I just
07:14haven't met
07:14the right girl.
07:17So, that's why
07:19her husband
07:19didn't call the cops.
07:21She'd done it before.
07:22Seemed reasonable
07:23to the detective
07:24at the time.
07:25There's no evidence
07:25of foul play,
07:26so the detective
07:27just closed the case.
07:32Five years,
07:32and her husband
07:33thought she just
07:33ran away.
07:34Guess it's time
07:35to tell him
07:35his runaway bride
07:36finally came home.
07:43Who is it?
07:44New York City
07:45Police Department.
07:46Can I help you?
07:50Detective Beckett,
07:51are you Samuel Cavanaugh?
07:53Who?
07:54Samuel Cavanaugh,
07:55our records indicate
07:56that he lives here.
07:57You must have
07:58the wrong apartment.
07:599-1-7?
08:00Yeah, but I live here
08:01and my name is Roger,
08:02it's not Sam.
08:04Do you know
08:04any Samuel Cavanaugh?
08:05No.
08:06What's this about?
08:07How long have you
08:08lived here?
08:08About eight months.
08:10Well, it's been five years,
08:11you could have moved.
08:12Well, hey,
08:13I hate to break it to you,
08:14but if you're looking
08:14for the guy who lived
08:15here before me,
08:16he didn't move.
08:17He was murdered.
08:19I, wait.
08:24Hey, Beckett.
08:25Yeah?
08:26Samuel Cavanaugh,
08:27shot outside a grocery
08:27store about a year ago.
08:29Small caliber,
08:30double tap to the chest,
08:30wallet and valuables missing.
08:31Pushlub's wife disappears,
08:33four years later,
08:33he gets shot in a mugging.
08:34Yeah, what are the odds?
08:35Long, unless they're connected.
08:38What, four years
08:39between murders?
08:40One's a popsicle,
08:41one just got popped?
08:42How could they possibly
08:42be connected?
08:43Maybe he and his wife
08:44got into something
08:45they couldn't get out of.
08:46Maybe something to do
08:47with her drug habit.
08:48So some scowl waits
08:49four years to finish the job.
08:51Maybe he finally figured out
08:52what happened to his wife
08:53and was about to go
08:54to the police with it.
08:56I don't believe it.
08:58Give me 250 pages,
08:59I bet I could make you.
09:00We're solving a murder castle,
09:03not writing a book.
09:05I would call it
09:05a chill runs through her veins.
09:07Ooh, I liked it.
09:08Huh?
09:09Bam, said the lady,
09:10not the best seller for me.
09:12What happened to the kids?
09:13Living with Melanie's parents
09:14up in White Plains.
09:15Well, looks like
09:16I'm going to White Plains.
09:18Candace, the construction site,
09:19someone must have seen something.
09:21Yeah, the foreman said
09:21that they have a problem
09:22with the homeless at night,
09:23so I figured I'd go down there later
09:24and try to catch them
09:25at the site.
09:27Homeless, White Plains,
09:28Homeless, White Plains.
09:31They're both kind of creepy.
09:34Hi.
09:36Whoa!
09:42Did I scare you?
09:44Mr. Davidson?
09:46Yes, ma'am.
09:47That's me.
09:49I'm Detective Kate Beckett.
09:52Is there somewhere
09:53we could talk?
09:54Yes, why don't we go inside?
09:57Girls don't play
09:58in the street, okay?
09:59All right, Grandpa
10:00will be out in a minute.
10:02I think we've both known
10:04for a while now
10:05that Melanie
10:07was not going to come home.
10:10What do you remember
10:11about the days leading up
10:12to her disappearance?
10:13Well, we talked to her
10:15a couple days before.
10:16My wife did, I mean.
10:17Everything seemed fine.
10:19She didn't indicate
10:20in any way
10:20that she was leaving?
10:21No.
10:23We're aware
10:23your daughter
10:24had some issues.
10:26That had nothing to do
10:27with what happened here.
10:28How do you know?
10:30You know,
10:30now you sound like
10:31the cop who first
10:31had the case.
10:32Convinced she'd run away,
10:33convinced she was still
10:34on drugs.
10:35But you didn't think that.
10:37Melanie
10:37wasn't the greatest
10:40of moms,
10:41but
10:42she loved her kids.
10:46She would've
10:46never left them.
10:47What about her husband,
10:48Sam?
10:49He thought it was drugs, too.
10:52You know,
10:52he waited over a day
10:53before he reported
10:54her missing?
10:55She had run off before.
10:57Look,
10:57I'm not going to sit here
10:58and deny that.
10:59But if Sam thought
11:00our daughter was in trouble,
11:01why didn't he report
11:02her missing right away?
11:03Why didn't he call for help?
11:04Even if she'd gotten locked up,
11:06she'd been better off than...
11:08Oh,
11:08what the hell's the difference?
11:09I mean,
11:10the time to ask these questions
11:12was five years ago.
11:13But the cop who was on the case
11:15then didn't want to ask them.
11:16Sounds like they were
11:17pretty unhappy
11:18with the original investigation.
11:20Yeah,
11:20well,
11:20from where I stand,
11:21they had every reason to be.
11:23The guy whose case it was,
11:26you know him?
11:27No.
11:27Detective Sloan
11:28was before my time.
11:29He's still around?
11:30Well,
11:31if you count being
11:32a sheriff in Jersey,
11:33then yeah,
11:33he's still around.
11:35Melanie Cavanaugh.
11:37So she was finally found
11:38after all these years,
11:39huh?
11:40She wasn't found.
11:42Her body was.
11:44Oh.
11:46Sorry to hear that.
11:48You know,
11:49from the moment
11:49I took that case,
11:51I figured it was
11:51going to end bad.
11:53Her parents led us
11:54to believe that
11:54you were pretty sure
11:55that she'd run off.
11:57Her being found dead
11:57and her run off
11:58aren't exactly incompatible,
12:00not with her history.
12:02Her parents also believe
12:03your investigation
12:03never made it past
12:04her history.
12:05I was on a missing person,
12:06not a murder.
12:07You have a dead body.
12:08All I had was
12:09a woman with a drug habit
12:11and a history of
12:12disappearing.
12:13And a husband
12:14who didn't report
12:15her missing
12:15for over a day.
12:17Don't you dare play
12:18Monday morning quarterback
12:19with me.
12:20Look, sweetheart,
12:21he cooperated.
12:22He voluntarily allowed
12:23CSU into their apartment.
12:26I mean,
12:26anything I asked,
12:27he did.
12:27Did you know
12:27he was murdered too?
12:30Gunned down
12:31on the street
12:32over a year ago.
12:33Look,
12:33what do you want from me?
12:35We had reports
12:35of her in Philly
12:36with a meth head
12:37ex-boyfriend.
12:38I mean,
12:39it was what it was.
12:40But you didn't even
12:40go down to check it out.
12:42Didn't need to.
12:43Had reports.
12:44Right,
12:44from her husband's
12:46best friend,
12:47Charles Weiler.
12:48So?
12:49He's not exactly
12:50an impartial observer.
12:51The guy owned
12:52his own business.
12:52He had a family.
12:53He was a war vet.
12:54Saw no reason
12:55to doubt his word.
12:56Plus,
12:57Philly's a pretty long drive.
12:59She was only
13:00missing back then.
13:02No, Sheriff.
13:02She was already dead.
13:04You just didn't
13:04know it yet.
13:08I ever disappear?
13:09Make sure this guy's
13:10not on my case.
13:12I hate cops like him.
13:14Guys like him,
13:15things only make sense
13:16if they fit in a box.
13:17So they make them fit
13:18and murderers go free.
13:20Is that what happened
13:21to your dad?
13:23My dad?
13:24I noticed your watch.
13:27Your dad's, right?
13:28That's why you're wearing it?
13:33Beckett?
13:39You find a witness?
13:42Yeah.
13:43Homeless guy.
13:44A couple of bucks
13:45jogged his memory.
13:46Says this, uh,
13:47dented yellow truck
13:47pull up to the site.
13:48Heavy set guy
13:49pulls a large bag
13:50out of the back.
13:50When he comes out,
13:51he doesn't have
13:51the bag anymore.
13:52How'd you find this place?
13:54Guy else remembered
13:54the word storage
13:55written on the side
13:55of the truck.
13:56We searched all
13:57the storage places
13:57on the west side
13:58and found out
13:58this one uses yellow trucks.
14:00Mm-hmm.
14:00So who owns the trucks?
14:02According to DMV,
14:03Albert Boland.
14:05What body?
14:06I don't know
14:07what you're talking about.
14:08A witness saw someone
14:09driving one of your
14:10yellow trucks
14:11and dumping the body.
14:12You're lying.
14:13No one saw.
14:13Ouch.
14:14Wow.
14:15Maybe you should have
14:16tried denying it, person?
14:18Let me help you.
14:19Melanie Cavanaugh,
14:20mother of two,
14:21wife of Sam Cavanaugh.
14:23Okay.
14:24Look, I dumped her.
14:26But I swear I never...
14:26You didn't kill her, right?
14:27That's right.
14:28I found her.
14:29Uh-huh.
14:29I never even knew
14:30she was here.
14:30What do you mean, here?
14:32Sixth floor.
14:34Renters were in arrears.
14:36We usually give them
14:36three months
14:37and then we cut the locks
14:37and we sell their belongings.
14:39Only this time,
14:39all I find is a freezer
14:40plugged into a light outlet,
14:42which, by the way,
14:43is totally illegal.
14:44You don't think it was illegal
14:45to store a dead body
14:46in a freezer?
14:47You think I knew?
14:48When I opened it up,
14:49I nearly had a heart attack.
14:51You could have called the cops.
14:53So I could make
14:53the front page of the ledger?
14:54Yeah, that's good for business.
14:55What if it's a mob hit?
14:57I mean, I got a family.
14:58So did she.
14:58Okay, so you find her.
15:01Next logical step,
15:04dump her to a construction site?
15:06I know a guy
15:07who works over there.
15:08So when I find the body,
15:09I figure that's the place, right?
15:12Show us where you found her.
15:13Five years in there.
15:30Nobody deserves that.
15:31How'd they make payments for the unit?
15:34Check?
15:35Code to code?
15:36Cash.
15:37Every six months.
15:38But like I said,
15:39there were three months overdue.
15:40What's the last payment
15:41at two months after
15:42her husband was killed?
15:43We'll have to make payments
15:44when you're dead.
15:45Mm-hmm.
15:47That camera in your office,
15:49you got footage
15:49of the guy who made payments?
15:51That was nine months ago.
15:52We keep maybe
15:53two weeks at a time.
15:55Looks like Sloan was right.
15:56Sam Cavanaugh
15:57didn't have anything
15:57to do with it.
15:58Well, if not Sam,
16:00then who?
16:00You know we have air conditioning.
16:20Hmm.
16:21I'm just trying to figure out
16:22why someone would put
16:23a dead body in a freezer.
16:26Is this a Nikki Heater
16:27Detective Beckett question?
16:29Beckett.
16:29That's right.
16:31The Nikki Heater thing
16:31was about incinerating
16:32a body and a self-cleaning oven.
16:34Mm-hmm.
16:35I mean,
16:35you put things in a freezer
16:37to keep them for later,
16:38but once they're there,
16:39you rarely ever go back.
16:41If I was putting a body
16:42in a freezer,
16:43it'd be because
16:43I was trying to hide it.
16:45Until you stopped paying
16:46for the storage space.
16:47Did I stop
16:48or did something stop me?
16:54It's family moments
16:56like these
16:56I will never forget.
16:58With a good therapist,
17:00hopefully I will.
17:04Mr. Weiler,
17:05the detective investigating
17:07Melanie's disappearance
17:08said that you told him
17:09that she went to
17:10an ex-boyfriend
17:10in Philadelphia.
17:12I only told him
17:13what Sam told me.
17:14Sam told you?
17:16It's where she went
17:16before the wedding
17:17and a few times after.
17:18But you're not sure
17:19that's where she went.
17:20It's the only thing
17:21that made sense.
17:23Melanie was a good person,
17:24but Melanie was troubled.
17:28Sometimes when things
17:29got hard,
17:30she'd go out and score,
17:31you know?
17:32Come home high,
17:33accuse Sam of ruining
17:34her life.
17:35He'd given her everything.
17:38Do you remember
17:39the name of the boyfriend?
17:42Kevin Henson.
17:44If something happened
17:45to Melanie,
17:46he's the one
17:47who'd know what.
17:48Kevin Henson,
17:49Melanie's ex-boyfriend.
17:50He's serving a year
17:50for meth in South Jersey
17:52and went in
17:52just after the last payment
17:53was made on the storage unit.
17:55He stops payment,
17:56storage guy finds her body.
17:57Quite a coincidence.
17:58And he was also
17:59on the outside
17:59when her husband
18:00was whacked.
18:01That sounds like
18:02his work trip
18:02to South Jersey.
18:07You ever been in love,
18:08detective?
18:09I used to do
18:10crazy things.
18:11Like kill someone?
18:14Mel and I,
18:15when we were together,
18:16time just stopped.
18:19But even the first day,
18:20her and me,
18:21we both knew
18:22it was never gonna work.
18:23God knows her folks
18:24were never gonna let
18:25their little girl
18:26end up with some
18:28tatted-up addict.
18:30But sometimes, see?
18:33Sometimes when we are
18:34alone, together,
18:36sometimes we almost
18:38believe.
18:42She was gonna leave Sam.
18:44That's why she came
18:45to see you.
18:46She found out
18:47he was having an affair.
18:48She thought he was
18:56gonna leave her
18:56and get custody
18:57of the kids,
18:57you know,
18:58because of the drugs.
18:59She wanted me to go
19:00with her,
19:00take the kids,
19:01just disappear.
19:02So what'd you do?
19:06Put her on a bus.
19:07You sent her away?
19:08She wanted,
19:09I couldn't give her.
19:12Checked into rehab
19:13the next day,
19:14I thought if I could
19:14get clean.
19:17That's what I was
19:18when she disappeared.
19:19The time I got out,
19:20she was dead.
19:20How could you be sure
19:21she was dead?
19:22She stopped calling.
19:24If she was alive,
19:25she would have called.
19:30An affair certainly
19:31explains a lot.
19:33Sam kills Melanie,
19:34or he and his lover
19:35kill Melanie together.
19:37Well, then who kills Sam?
19:38The lover.
19:39When Sam backs out
19:41after all she's done for him.
19:42It's not like she could
19:42go to the police
19:43if she broke his promise.
19:44How do you come up
19:45with these things, Castle?
19:46I did not come up
19:47with this one.
19:47They did.
19:49Okay, you speak, Guy.
19:51If Sam had a lover,
19:52would his best friend
19:53know about it?
19:55Yes.
20:05Detective.
20:06You lied to us,
20:06Mr. Wyler.
20:07Excuse me?
20:08You don't think
20:09maybe it's relevant
20:09your buddy Sam
20:10had an affair
20:10right about the time
20:11Melanie disappeared?
20:12That was a long time ago.
20:14What's the point
20:14of dragging everybody
20:15through the mud?
20:16Haven't their kids
20:17been through enough?
20:17Don't they deserve
20:18some peace?
20:19What they deserve
20:19is to know
20:20what happened
20:20to their mother.
20:26Elizabeth Forte.
20:28Elizabeth Forte
20:29is her name.
20:30She worked with
20:30Sam at his bank.
20:31Mrs. Forte,
20:37I'm Detective Beckett.
20:38This is Rick Castle.
20:41Why am I here?
20:43Does the name
20:43Samuel Cavanaugh
20:44bring a bell?
20:47What about him?
20:50We found the body
20:51of his wife,
20:53Melanie.
20:54From the looks of it,
20:55she was killed
20:55somewhere around the time
20:56the two of you
20:56were having an affair.
20:57I'm afraid
21:01I don't know
21:01what you mean.
21:03Do you really want
21:04me to start
21:04digging around
21:05in your life,
21:06Mrs. Forte,
21:06because that's
21:07exactly what I will do.
21:08I'll go through
21:09your old phone records,
21:10your credit card statements.
21:12I'll even talk
21:12to your husband
21:13if I have to.
21:14Please.
21:15Please don't do that.
21:18Gary doesn't know
21:18anything about it.
21:19Just walk us through
21:20what you know.
21:25I met Sam
21:26when I got transferred
21:26to the downtown branch.
21:28He was in new accounts.
21:31We were both
21:32pretty unhappy
21:32at the time.
21:33How long was the affair?
21:35Not long.
21:36Six months.
21:37Why did it end?
21:38I realized
21:39I love my husband.
21:40Please.
21:41No one ends an affair
21:42because they realize
21:43they're still in love.
21:43They end an affair
21:44because they're scared.
21:46Scared of taking it
21:47to the next level,
21:47scared of being found out,
21:48scared of ruining their life.
21:51So,
21:53tell us, Elizabeth,
21:54what were you scared of?
21:56Him.
22:02I was scared of Sam.
22:04Why?
22:05He started to ask me
22:06what I would do
22:07if he wasn't with his wife,
22:08if she wasn't in the picture anymore.
22:10And when was that?
22:12A few weeks
22:12before she disappeared.
22:14When I found out
22:15she was missing,
22:16I broke things off.
22:17He became angry.
22:19It got so bad
22:19that I had to transfer
22:20to another branch.
22:24I'm sorry.
22:24You had to, uh...
22:33Five years,
22:35Mrs. Forte.
22:36Five whole years
22:38and you never came forward.
22:41What's it matter?
22:42Sam killed Melanie.
22:43He's dead.
22:44They're both dead.
22:45What's it matter anymore?
22:46How'd you do it, Sam?
23:13Sam?
23:13Run, rebel.
23:35But you'll never defeat
23:37the forces of Voltar.
23:38Ah, death of Voltar!
23:40Death of Voltar!
23:41I sense fear in you.
23:48You sense nothing.
23:52Has anyone seen my purse?
23:55Mom,
23:55we are totally doing battle
23:57on the field of honor.
23:58How old are you?
23:59Old enough to afford
24:00top-line laser tag.
24:02Ha!
24:02I'm dead!
24:04Mom!
24:06Now Voltar
24:06will never rule
24:07the Omniverse.
24:08Well...
24:09Someone in order food?
24:12No.
24:14Better check this out.
24:18Hi.
24:20Hi.
24:22Who is it?
24:23Detective Beckett.
24:24Darling,
24:24are we entertained?
24:26Um...
24:27Dad!
24:29Yeah?
24:30Miners!
24:31Right!
24:31Come on in, please.
24:35Right?
24:35Don't you?
24:36Welcome.
24:37You bet.
24:40You, um...
24:42You remember
24:43my mother, Martha,
24:44and Alexis,
24:45of course.
24:46Hi.
24:47Yes.
24:48Hello.
24:48Hello.
24:51Can I
24:52make you a drink?
24:54Wow.
24:58I feel like
25:00Alfred in the Batcave
25:02for the first time.
25:03Hmm.
25:04Batman fan.
25:05Figures.
25:07Why?
25:08Similar origin stories.
25:09Loss of a loved one
25:10leads to a life
25:11of fighting crime.
25:12Yes, well,
25:12you are the
25:13multimillionaire
25:14crime fighter.
25:15Yeah.
25:15That's, uh,
25:21where I outline
25:22my books.
25:24It's funny.
25:26Looks a lot
25:27like our
25:27murder board.
25:30Yeah,
25:30except mine's
25:31fake.
25:36Yeah.
25:38Something wrong?
25:39I can't
25:42find it.
25:44Find what?
25:45The answer.
25:47It was Sam.
25:48Everything fits.
25:49It's a good ending.
25:50Yeah, but without
25:51proof, it's just
25:52a theory.
25:53And that family,
25:54those kids,
25:55they need more
25:56than just a theory.
25:57They need to know.
25:58I need to know.
26:00Well, you have
26:01an ending.
26:02You want the rest?
26:03You need to work
26:04backwards.
26:04You need to finish
26:05the story.
26:06You have an ending.
26:07You have
26:07your killer.
26:09You just have
26:10to put it
26:11all together
26:12with the facts
26:13at hand.
26:14The facts?
26:16Fact.
26:18They had
26:19two small children.
26:19So?
26:20Based on police
26:21statements,
26:21they didn't have
26:22a babysitter.
26:23With him at work,
26:24she would have
26:25had to have been
26:25with the kids
26:26the day she disappeared.
26:27But Sam said
26:27that she left
26:28later that night.
26:29Which the doorman
26:30was never able
26:30to corroborate.
26:31So if she was there
26:32and she never left,
26:33then...
26:33Then she was murdered
26:34in the apartment.
26:35Yeah.
26:36Another fact.
26:37He lived in Manhattan.
26:38And like most people
26:39in the city,
26:40he didn't own a car.
26:40So,
26:41what is a good husband
26:43to do living in Manhattan
26:44with his wife's body?
26:45He can't leave it
26:46in the apartment.
26:47He can't walk out
26:47the lobby with it.
26:48So the only question is...
26:50How did he get
26:50the body to the storage unit?
26:52He?
26:59I could...
26:59No.
27:01Ooh.
27:01You know what helps?
27:04Yeah.
27:05Sometimes when I'm trying
27:06to figure out
27:06how a character of mine
27:07does something,
27:08I will walk the crime scene.
27:10This one time,
27:11I was trying to figure out
27:12how to throw someone
27:12off the Empire State Building
27:13and that movie
27:14Sleepless in Seattle
27:15had just come out.
27:16So many lonely women
27:17approached me
27:18thinking I was there.
27:18Tom Hanks,
27:19I got laid.
27:19Castle.
27:21Point is,
27:23you want to get
27:24into a killer's head?
27:25Go to where the killer was
27:27and see what problems
27:28he had to face.
27:31Field trip?
27:32They told me
27:33he was shot in a mugging
27:35and now you're telling me
27:36he was killed
27:36here in my apartment?
27:38Not him, his wife.
27:39His wife?
27:41What kind of family
27:42was this?
27:43All right,
27:43so you and I are married.
27:45We are not married.
27:46Relax, just pretend.
27:48I don't want to pretend.
27:49Schedule like it.
27:50Okay,
27:51if we're married,
27:52I want a divorce.
27:53You two like this
27:54all the time?
27:55Yes.
27:55All right,
27:56we're not married,
27:57but they were.
27:58Let's say the doorman's right.
28:00Melanie gets home
28:00about four o'clock.
28:02She'd have to make
28:03dinner for the kids.
28:05Then,
28:06Sam comes home.
28:08Banker's hours
28:09around six o'clock.
28:10Figure kids
28:11have already eaten.
28:12So they're what?
28:14Watching TV
28:14in the bedroom.
28:15In my bedroom?
28:16We're on a roll.
28:17They have a fight.
28:18About the affair.
28:19About Philadelphia.
28:20Things get heated.
28:21And she turns her head.
28:22He whacks her
28:23with something.
28:24A pot.
28:26Or a pant.
28:27Bam.
28:27Fractures her skull.
28:28It's over.
28:29Except the kids
28:29are still in the bedroom.
28:31He's got to figure out
28:32a way of getting her
28:33out of the apartment
28:33without them seeing it.
28:37Hallway bathroom.
28:39You needed to buy time.
28:40Okay,
28:41so he,
28:41um,
28:42he puts the body
28:43in the tub,
28:44closes the door,
28:46and tells the kids
28:47that mom went to the store.
28:48Which,
28:49according to the case file,
28:50the doorman
28:50was never able
28:51to substantiate.
28:52Okay,
28:52so no car.
28:52How does he get
28:53the body
28:53out of the apartment?
28:55Maybe he hailed the cab.
28:57Yeah,
28:58maybe the cabbie
28:59and the doorman
28:59helped him stuff
29:00the body in the trunk.
29:01How much do you tip
29:02for that these days?
29:03The doorman.
29:04Castle,
29:05I'm joking.
29:05What if the body
29:06was already in the freezer
29:08when he took it
29:08out of the apartment?
29:09Freezer?
29:10He'd have needed a truck.
29:12In my building,
29:13if you have something
29:14picked up or delivered,
29:15you have to sign for it.
29:16Yeah,
29:16here too.
29:17Delivery that big,
29:18you have to sign the ledger.
29:19The ledger?
29:19The doorman's ledger
29:20downstairs.
29:27Yeah,
29:28that's my name.
29:31I know it was
29:32five years ago,
29:32Mrs. Marsh,
29:33but the only delivery
29:34that day
29:34was to your apartment.
29:36If you remember
29:36anything at all
29:37about the delivery.
29:39I remember
29:40I had to go downstairs
29:41and sort everything out.
29:43What do you mean
29:43sort everything out?
29:44I told the doorman
29:45I never ordered a freezer,
29:47but the guy
29:48brought it on up.
29:49He loaded it
29:50on the freight elevator
29:51while I was talking
29:51to the doorman.
29:52So what happened
29:53when you were downstairs?
29:55I told the doorman
29:56they got the wrong
29:57apartment again.
29:59And then,
30:00by the time
30:00I got back upstairs,
30:01the guy was gone.
30:03Does this have anything
30:03to do with that
30:04missing woman?
30:06Yeah,
30:06it does.
30:07Yeah,
30:07because I already
30:08told the other cop.
30:09Detective Sloan?
30:10I don't know his name,
30:11but I told him
30:12everything's the same
30:13as you.
30:14I don't get it.
30:14If Sloan had
30:15that woman's report,
30:16why did he just
30:16follow up?
30:17He wasn't looking
30:18for the story.
30:19He'd already written it.
30:24That's the same
30:25kind of truck
30:25we saw inside
30:26Charles Weiler's store.
30:27I must have
30:28a contract with him.
30:30If you wanted
30:30some help
30:31with some heavy lifting,
30:31who would you call?
30:33Your best friend.
30:34We can trace the rental
30:43of the delivery truck
30:44to you,
30:44Mr. Weiler.
30:45If you want,
30:46I can bring the lady
30:46you delivered the freezer
30:47to in to identify you.
30:49Look,
30:49I had nothing to do
30:50with what happened
30:50to Melanie.
30:51You lied about
30:52everything else.
30:52Why not about this?
30:53I never had any reason
30:54to hurt her.
30:55But Sam did,
30:56right?
30:57I mean,
30:58she kept going
30:58back to her ex-boyfriend.
30:59How much can a guy take?
31:06He called me that night.
31:09He said
31:09he needed me
31:12to come over right away.
31:14When I got there,
31:15the kids were asleep
31:15and Melanie was in a tub
31:17in a garment bag.
31:21He said she came at him
31:22and he just snapped.
31:24Here's an idea.
31:25Instead of killing her,
31:28why not just get a divorce?
31:29You don't think I know
31:30how wrong this was?
31:31Why did you take the risk?
31:33Why did you move that body?
31:34Because he made
31:35a very bad mistake.
31:38What about the kids?
31:39Their mom is dead
31:40if he goes to prison.
31:44So you're arranged
31:45for the truck.
31:47He said it could never
31:47be traced back to him.
31:49That's why we sent
31:50the freezer to the old lady.
31:52That's why I rented out
31:52the storage space.
31:54Because we knew the cops
31:55would look at Sam.
31:56You made the payments?
31:58Sam couldn't take
31:59any chances.
32:00He gave me the cash
32:01and I stopped by
32:03twice a year.
32:04For five years.
32:07Seemed a lot easier
32:08than moving out.
32:10Why did you stop paying?
32:12Look, I'm truly sorry
32:13about what happened
32:14to Melanie.
32:15But what was I supposed
32:17to do?
32:17Keep paying for the rest
32:18of my life?
32:20The DA will make sure
32:21of that, Mr. Weiler.
32:32Her body gets dumped
32:33because this guy Weiler
32:34didn't pay a bill?
32:35That's...
32:36You can say it
32:37pretty cold.
32:39Ironic that such a selfish
32:40act ultimately revealed
32:42the truth.
32:43There were people
32:44who knew the truth
32:44all along.
32:46They just chose not
32:46to come forward.
32:48Still, karma comes back
32:49and puts a cap
32:50in her husband's ass.
32:51So all is right
32:52with the world.
33:00I'm going to go talk
33:01to Melanie's parents.
33:03Let them know
33:03how this all shook out.
33:05Want to come?
33:07The woman with
33:08the freezer delivery
33:08told us she talked
33:09to a cop.
33:11Yeah.
33:12Sloan.
33:12Only he didn't list
33:13her name in his report.
33:14He didn't feel
33:15that it was important.
33:16After all,
33:16he didn't believe
33:17he was looking
33:18at a murder.
33:19Right.
33:20So if you're not
33:21investigating a murder,
33:23why would you talk
33:24to the neighbor
33:25about a freezer delivery?
33:29This must be
33:30some freezer.
33:31You mentioned
33:32a police officer,
33:33Mrs. Marsh.
33:34I know it's been
33:35five years between...
33:35I never said
33:36it was five years ago.
33:37When did he come see you?
33:38Last year sometime.
33:40I remember thinking,
33:41why is this cop
33:42asking me questions
33:43about a freezer
33:43I never ordered?
33:44Do you remember
33:45anything about the man
33:46who came to see you?
33:47Uh, he was older.
33:49Uniform?
33:49No.
33:50Plain clothes like you.
33:52He had gray hair
33:53and he walked
33:54with a limp.
33:56Ben Davidson.
33:57Melanie's dad.
34:08You could just
34:09leave it like this.
34:12Sam's dad.
34:15Captain's happy.
34:17Those kids look
34:18pretty happy.
34:21That's the difference
34:21between a novel
34:22and the real world, Castle.
34:25The cop doesn't get
34:26to decide
34:27how the story ends.
34:28The cop doesn't get
34:29to decide how the story ends.
34:30detective Beckett.
34:39Sir, I'm going to have to take you
34:55with me down to the station.
34:56Who is it, honey?
34:57What is it, Ben?
35:01What is it, Ben?
35:14So I'm here because
35:16I question a woman
35:17about a freezer.
35:18Not any freezer,
35:19Mr. Davidson.
35:20The freezer
35:20that your daughter's body
35:22was stored in.
35:22For the moment,
35:26let's assume
35:27what you say is true.
35:30What's the charge?
35:32If Mrs. Marsh's answer
35:33led to Sam's death,
35:34then the charge
35:35would be murder.
35:36I kept going
35:39over everything
35:40Sam said.
35:41Everything he claimed
35:43happened that night
35:44until I came
35:46to the same conclusion
35:47that you both
35:47apparently did.
35:49That Melanie never
35:50left her apartment alive.
35:53Mrs. Marsh's answers
35:54merely confirmed
35:55what I already knew.
35:57That your son-in-law
35:57was a killer.
35:59If you had figured out
36:00what Sam had done,
36:02why not just go
36:03to the police?
36:03He would have gone
36:04to prison for the rest
36:04of his life.
36:05If he'd been convicted.
36:07They didn't have
36:08a body at the time,
36:10remember?
36:11His lawyers
36:12would have put Melanie
36:13on trial,
36:14not him.
36:15So you took matters
36:16into your own hands?
36:20You could certainly
36:21understand how
36:22a father might want to.
36:25How he might follow
36:26his daughter's murderer
36:28one dark night
36:29when he was sure
36:29no other people
36:30would be around.
36:32How he might confront
36:33him with a gun
36:34he brought back
36:34in the war.
36:37He might even
36:38promise forgiveness
36:40in exchange
36:40for the truth.
36:44And hearing his
36:45admission
36:46be overcome
36:50with rage
36:51every time
36:54he brought the girls
36:55to see us
36:55I'd watch the little
36:58piece of my wife
36:59die.
37:00visit from your grandkids
37:03should be life
37:04affirming
37:05not a reminder
37:06of how your only
37:06child was murdered.
37:14Killing him
37:14wasn't the answer.
37:18I never said
37:19I killed him.
37:21I said a father
37:22might be justified.
37:24police told me
37:29Sam was shot
37:29in a robbery
37:30and without evidence
37:33there'd be little
37:33chance that his
37:34killer would ever
37:35be brought to justice.
37:41So I guess
37:41we'll find out
37:42if that's really true.
37:43I'd like to see
37:50a lawyer
37:51if I could.
38:04No sweetie
38:04I just wanted to make
38:05sure I said goodnight.
38:07You got it.
38:07Strawberry
38:08happy face pancakes
38:09on me.
38:10Later.
38:14Alexis missed me.
38:17How did you know?
38:19Spidey sense.
38:24By the way
38:25it was my mother
38:26not my father.
38:33We were supposed
38:34to go to dinner
38:34together.
38:35My mom
38:35my dad and I
38:36and she was gonna
38:37meet us at the
38:38restaurant
38:39but she never showed.
38:42Two hours later
38:43we went home
38:44and there was
38:46a detective
38:46waiting for us
38:47Detective
38:47Raglan.
38:54They found her body.
38:57She had been
38:58stabbed.
39:00A robbery?
39:04No.
39:04She still had her money
39:09and purse
39:09and jewelry
39:10and it wasn't
39:13a sexual assault
39:14either.
39:17They attributed it
39:18to gang violence.
39:20Random wayward event.
39:23So just like
39:24in Melanie's case
39:25they couldn't think
39:26outside the box.
39:29So they just
39:29tried to package
39:30it up nicely
39:31and the killer
39:32was never caught.
39:37Why do you wear
39:38the watch?
39:42My dad took
39:42her death hard.
39:46He's sober now.
39:47Five years.
39:51So
39:51this is for the life
39:53that I saved
39:54and
39:57this
40:00is for the life
40:02that I lost.
40:05So
40:05I guess your
40:08Nikki Heat
40:09has a backstory now
40:10Castle.
40:11I don't know
40:14I did kind of like
40:16the hooker by day
40:17caught by night
40:18thing
40:18but
40:20I guess
40:22a
40:23heavy emotional
40:24angle could work too.
40:26Well
40:26don't bewilder
40:28your audiences
40:29with substance
40:30on my account
40:31Castle.
40:31Until tomorrow
40:35detective.
40:38You can't just
40:38say night.
40:39I'm a writer.
40:41Night is boring.
40:42Until tomorrow
40:43is more
40:44hopeful.
40:46Yeah
40:46well
40:47I'm a cop.
40:50Night.
40:59Night.
41:01Some are
41:15reaching
41:16if you were there
41:18want to rain
41:22from a hero's chair
41:24some are scared
41:29to fly so high
41:32Hi dad.
41:35Well this is how
41:36we have to try
41:37have no envy
41:39no fear
41:41have no envy
41:43no fear
41:47remember
41:47this never happened
41:49I was never here.
41:52You got my word?
41:55Thanks.
41:55if you tell her
42:00I did this
42:01I will make you bleed
42:02understood
42:04good love
42:06the place
42:11we used to call
42:12our home
42:14can't be found
42:16but we're alone
42:17so have no envy
42:18no fear
42:21have no envy
42:24no fear
42:27no fear
42:29to fear
42:29who's
42:31there
42:34I think
42:35ever
42:36can't be a