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Castle Season 2 Episode 16

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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.
00:13And I've found mine.
00:14Detective Kate Beckett.
00:15Beckett.
00:15Beckett.
00:16Nikki Heath.
00:16The 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.
00:22And together we catch killers.
00:24Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch.
00:27Turner and Hooch.
00:28Should you remind me a little of the Hoot?
00:58Seven, eight, one, two, three.
01:01Why, uh, Beyoncé this morning?
01:02You got, uh, school dance coming up?
01:05No.
01:06Ashley gave me some of her cheer routine.
01:07She's been on the JV for two years and she wants me to try out for the squad.
01:11Cheerleading?
01:13Yeah.
01:13Why?
01:14Who are you and what have you done with my daughter?
01:16What's wrong with cheerleading?
01:18No, no, nothing's, nothing's, I'm just, I didn't know you wanted to be one.
01:23Me either.
01:25But I watched Ashley practice and it looks like fun.
01:28And my college counselor, Ms. Schaefer, said I need to consider diversifying my activities.
01:33I figure I'm a natural because I root for you all the time.
01:37Oh, I gotta go.
01:39Love you.
01:39Have fun.
01:40Five, six, seven, eight.
01:44Jenny.
01:46So?
01:46Who?
01:47The time you wanted to play hockey because all the cool guys in school were playing it?
01:51Yeah, but I didn't join the team.
01:52Well, no, because you knocked out two teeth in the first practice.
01:57Darling, let Alexis figure this out on her own.
02:01This coming from the woman who just last week told me not to reserve a seat on the space shuttle.
02:07Have to rethink that.
02:09Really?
02:09Mm-hmm.
02:10Big's a female, late 20s.
02:19No ID.
02:21She was fine hanging from the monkey bars by a jogger just after dawn.
02:25Is that honey?
02:27From the smell of it, I'd say it's caramel sauce, but I'll be testing not tasting.
02:31Caramel sauce?
02:32Maybe our killer has a sweet tooth.
02:34Given her state of undress, I'd say it's more likely he had a sexual fetish.
02:37Yeah, I can do the chocolate.
02:38I'll even do the whipped cream bikini, but caramel?
02:41I prefer a slipper to sticky.
02:44Does she know we can hear her?
02:46Bondage cuffs, custom made.
02:49Looks like our killer liked public play.
02:52How can you tell the difference between custom and regular?
02:54The leather is too high quality to be mass produced and it's hand stitched.
02:58No, I mean, how can you tell the difference?
03:04So time of death?
03:05From body temperature, I'd say between 10 and 11 last night,
03:09but I'm pretty sure she was not killed here.
03:11Based on lividity, she spent several hours in the fetal position after she died,
03:16and then was hung here a few hours ago.
03:18Petechial hemorrhaging suggests she was suffocated.
03:21And then there's these.
03:23Was she restrained?
03:25Looks like it.
03:25Rebecca.
03:28Crime seems negative for any signs of a struggle.
03:30I found about a dozen partial shoe impressions,
03:33but the ground's too cold to get any imprints.
03:35But we did find this.
03:38Wheel marks about 18 inches apart.
03:41Rolling suitcase?
03:42Judging by the depth of the tracks, I'd say it was carrying something heavy.
03:46I'm guessing around 105 pounds.
03:48So he killed her elsewhere and then brought her here?
03:51Yeah, which means a crime scene could be anywhere.
03:53Psychology doesn't make any sense.
03:56The crime scene was pretty elaborately staged,
03:58which seems to suggest a significant amount of premeditation.
04:01But the murder itself, suffocation,
04:03might indicate a crime of passion.
04:04The guy covered her in caramel.
04:06You really think we're going to find a logical explanation?
04:09Only a handful of bondage shops in the city do custom work,
04:11so let's take photos of those cuffs, send it out,
04:13see if anyone can ID where it came from.
04:17Only a handful of shops?
04:19Okay, what aren't you telling me?
04:21So much, Castle.
04:23So very, very much.
04:34It's a little creepy doing this with you breathing on my neck.
04:38Oh, sorry bro, I'll do it on mine, but IA checks browser history, so...
04:43Great, thanks.
04:45What does that thing do?
04:47Looks like a potato peeler.
04:50Oh, that is nasty.
04:51And illegal in 12 states.
04:54Yeah, you're right, that is weird.
04:56Okay, thank you.
04:57What's weird?
04:58It's leaning around a SART kit.
04:59There's no signs of sexual assault or activity.
05:02This has all the makings of a sex crime, but there's no sex involved.
05:06Well, maybe our psychopath believes in abstinence.
05:09It's more likely he has a performance problem.
05:11And there's no ID.
05:12Her fingerprints aren't in the system.
05:13Oh!
05:15No, no, no, no, no.
05:16How do you even get in that position?
05:18I don't know, but you should try that with your girlfriend, Honey Milk.
05:21As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to buy this for you right now.
05:23Oh, jeez, how do you even get in that position?
05:26Right? It's not even possible.
05:28Oh, it's possible.
05:30Anything on the canvas?
05:32Nothing yet.
05:33Nothing back from missing persons.
05:36Given that it just happened last night, most likely that can be reported for a couple of days.
05:40What about the cuffs?
05:41We found seven shops in Manhattan that make custom bondage gear.
05:45And while we're waiting to hear back, we're going to buy a gift for Ryan's imaginary girlfriend.
05:50Oh, yeah. When are we going to meet that Jenny?
05:52When the time is right, I'll bring her around.
05:54I don't want you guys scaring her off.
05:56Oh, there she is now.
05:58Hello?
05:59You guys, give him a break. I wouldn't bring my boyfriend around here either.
06:04Boyfriend? Did I miss something?
06:07So, that was Barry from the Love Shackle.
06:11He says the cuff might be theirs, but he'd have to examine them close to the know for sure.
06:15Well, then have evidence pull them and tell them I'm coming.
06:18Oh, field trip to a sex store. I love this case.
06:24Look at him following her. Who's whipped, huh? Me or him?
06:27You, bro. Hands down.
06:39You know, while we're here, we should really pick up something for that new imaginary boyfriend of yours.
06:45Oh, this is Pete?
06:49No. But if you keep talking, I'll put you in one of these.
06:52Hey, guys. Looking for something special?
06:54Yes. No.
06:56Just getting started, huh?
06:58You know how we get a lot of first timers.
06:59We carry everything from bondage 101 all the way up to the more advanced stuff for your pleasure PhD.
07:06But if you're just looking to dip your toe in the water, these little guys are best sellers.
07:12Want to give them a try?
07:13No, thanks. I've already got a pair of my own.
07:20Double cross lap stitch on the seam.
07:24Yeah, this is definitely one of mine.
07:26Can you tell us who ordered them?
07:28Yeah, I remember this kid. Very vanilla.
07:30Then again, it's always the normal looking ones that end up being the most freaky, right?
07:33Do you have a name or a billing address?
07:36Yeah. The cuffs were purchased six months ago by a Tyler Benton.
07:40He had them specially made for his girlfriend. Cute girl, too.
07:43You remember her?
07:44Yeah. Brunette, mid-twenties. That's a lot of questions.
07:47Does she, by any chance, look like this?
07:51Oh, God.
07:53We need to talk to Tyler Benton and find out what he was doing last night.
07:56My guess is killing his girlfriend.
07:57It's Jessica. Jessica Margolis, my girlfriend.
08:17Next week was our one-year anniversary. I was going to propose.
08:20Where were you last night, Mr. Benton?
08:22At the hospital. I'm a first year. I was working a 24-hour shift. You can ask my attending.
08:26Have you ever seen these before?
08:32Yeah, I bought them for Jessica a few months ago. Why?
08:36She was found hanging by them in the park.
08:40You guys like to play?
08:41What? No. We never even used them. They were just supposed to be a joke because of her research.
08:48Research?
08:49I tried to be supportive, but I should have stopped her. I should have pushed her to study something else.
08:54What was she studying?
08:56The sociology of sexual bondage and domination.
09:02She spent months meeting people in that world, trying to understand what made them tick.
09:08And they killed her for it.
09:12And where did you keep these cuffs?
09:14I don't know. At her place, I guess.
09:18Her roommate probably knows the two of them were like attached at the hip.
09:23Jessica and I have been roommates since freshman year.
09:25We've lived together so long, we're practically sisters.
09:29Tyler said that you might know where she kept the cuffs he gave her.
09:33Oh, she showed them to me when she got them, but I never saw them after that.
09:38When was the last time that you saw Jessica?
09:42Yesterday morning.
09:43What about her research? Did she ever talk to you about where she went?
09:47The people involved?
09:48No, she pretty much kept all that to herself.
09:52Detective Beckett.
09:55Excuse me.
09:55So the bed hasn't been slept in and there's no signs of a struggle?
10:04Cell phone person, uh, which means she was somewhere else where she was killed.
10:11Okay, let's put a trace on her cell phone. If she has a GPS locator, we make it lucky.
10:15Right.
10:18Did Jessica ever mention where she was going to be last night?
10:21No. I got in at around 10. It didn't look like she'd been home.
10:26Since Tyler was on call, I assumed she was up at the university working on her thesis.
10:33I wish I could help you, detective. Sometimes she'd work late. She wasn't here last night.
10:37Are you sure about that?
10:38I was here till 11 grading papers. I would have seen her.
10:41As her advisor, how much would you know about the people that she was researching?
10:44She was spending a lot of time with a dominatrix named Mistress Venom.
10:47Mistress Venom? Sounds more like Penthouse Forum than PhD.
10:52Mr. Castle, people who study sex-related fields are often derided within academia.
10:56Jessica was determined not to be held hostage by their little minds.
11:00Venom was Jessica's guide to that world.
11:02If you want to know more about the people Jessica was studying, you'll have to ask Venom.
11:05Kelly, this is detective Beckett and Richard Castle. They need to see Jessica's research.
11:13She kept her notes locked up?
11:14She was the finalist for the Kellerman Fellowship.
11:17When you're competing against other people in the department,
11:19the last thing you want to do is leave your notes lying around.
11:22Well, it looks like a lot of late nights.
11:23When Tyler was on shift, she'd just pull an all-nighter and go visit him on his breaks.
11:27Kelly, did you hear they found her?
11:29Matt.
11:29Tied to the monkey bars on a playground in her underwear.
11:32Matt, um, this is detective Beckett. She's here investigating Jessica's death.
11:36Matt, Jess, and I all started the PhD program at the same time.
11:39I can tell you were close.
11:41I'm sorry, it's just...
11:42Kelly, did Jessica have any enemies in the department?
11:46Anyone in school that she didn't get along with?
11:48Just because we were competing for the same fellowship doesn't mean that we weren't civil.
11:51Not everyone was civil.
11:52In the last few weeks, Jessica was getting these phone calls on her office line.
11:56What kind of calls?
11:57Heavy breathing, moaning, made you want to take a hand sanitizer shower?
12:01Seems a little immature for grad students.
12:04Look, I'm studying the impact of AIDS treatments in inner-city clinics.
12:07Kelly's is about overcoming the glass ceiling.
12:10And Jessica was watching a dominatrix dig her stiletto into some loser's chest.
12:16She was bound to get some grief for it.
12:18Jessica's notes on Venom's sessions are pretty detailed.
12:27She studied these guys like lab rats.
12:29But she only identifies them by nickname, Ladyboy, Pincushion, and Scared Bunny.
12:35You know, if they didn't know what Jessica was doing and one of them found out...
12:39Fear of exposure would be a strong motive to kill.
12:42I wonder what attracted her to all this?
12:44Well, according to her thesis proposal, she became interested in S&M after witnessing a
12:48dysfunctional relationship up close.
12:50Apparently, her dissertation compares the overt expressions of dominance in the dungeon
12:54to more subtle expressions in real-world relationships.
12:58Like who drives.
13:00Hey, I would drive if you would let me.
13:03That actually didn't prove my point like I thought it would.
13:05You know, it says here that Mistress Venom works in a bondage club somewhere in Dungeon Alley,
13:11but it doesn't say which one.
13:12Dungeon Alley.
13:14It's an area between Chelsea and Midtown.
13:17There's a whole slew of fetish clubs there.
13:19Yes, I know where Dungeon Alley is.
13:22I want to know, how do you know?
13:27Vice raided a few of them looking for a reason to shut them down,
13:30but since there's no sexual contact and the acts are all consensual, it was all perfectly legal.
13:35You know, you should moonlight.
13:39Seriously, you would make a fortune.
13:43Come on, haven't you ever wanted to do something with your handcuffs other than arrest criminals?
13:48No. But there is one hot, wild, kinky thing that I do like doing.
14:00Putting killers behind bars.
14:02See? You're already a tease. You're halfway there.
14:07Hey, we tried to trace the creepy calls that Jessica was getting at her office,
14:12but since they were routed through the main switchboard at the college,
14:15there's no way to determine their source.
14:16What about the cell phone?
14:18The day she died, she placed a call to her boyfriend at the hospital,
14:20she placed a call to her voicemail at the office,
14:22and she placed two calls to Lady Irina's house of pain.
14:26Lady Irina's house of pain. That must be where Mistress Venom works.
14:29Did you get an address?
14:30Yeah, an office building on 38th.
14:31Hmm. Conveniently located for all your lunchtime spanking needs.
14:34All right. You guys look through her notes,
14:36see if there's anything that's there that might implicate one of her clients.
14:40Meanwhile, Castle and I will go and meet this Mistress Venom.
14:43Whips, women, and murder.
14:45Sounds like my lucky day.
14:47I'm so glad you're excited by this.
14:50Hi, my name is Kate, and my boyfriend has been a very bad boy.
14:56Yes, that's right. His name's Ricky.
15:00What are you doing?
15:00Actually, a friend of mine recommended a Mistress Venom.
15:03Wait.
15:04Is she available tonight?
15:054 p.m.?
15:06Sure. That's perfect. Thank you.
15:08Okay, that's very funny. Now call her back.
15:10Uh-uh, Castle. This is the perfect way to get Venom without tipping our hand.
15:15What's the matter, Castle? You afraid of a little role play?
15:26Yeah, you better run.
15:27This place looks like a law firm.
15:37What did you think it was going to be? Torture wheels and women in corsets?
15:40Oh, yeah.
15:41That's in the back.
15:42Welcome to Lady Irina's House of Pain. How can I serve you?
15:48Well, answer her!
15:51You see what I have to deal with?
15:52My boyfriend Ricky has an appointment at 4 p.m. with Mistress Venom.
15:56Will you be joining him?
15:57Oh, yes.
15:59I've been dying to watch him squirm.
16:02Mistress Venom would be delighted to have an audience.
16:04Follow me, please.
16:12Hey!
16:13Do you think we could gag him?
16:16Remember, my safe word is apples.
16:18You should bring your new boyfriend here.
16:41Mistress Venom?
16:43Mistress Venom is unavailable.
16:44But I'm Lady Irina. I own this dungeon.
16:48I'm sure we can find another dominatrix to suit your needs.
16:51I'm afraid we can't. I'm Detective Beckett.
16:53I need to speak with her right now concerning a murder investigation.
16:58Who was murdered?
16:59Jessica Margolis, the PhD student who is observing her sessions.
17:05There was no one observing her sessions.
17:06Are you sure?
17:08Positive. Privacy is paramount in my dungeon.
17:10You've never seen this girl?
17:19Of course I've seen that girl.
17:21She wasn't observing Mistress Venom.
17:23She was Mistress Venom.
17:24You've never seen that girl.
17:25You've never seen that girl.
17:36While this explains the marks on her body, Jessica must have been wearing this before she died.
17:41Like cool shoes, these outfits can leave marks for hours after you wear them.
17:45She had three sessions yesterday.
17:47She slept around 7.30.
17:48You really had no idea that Jessica was conducting a sociological experiment out of your dungeon?
17:53No. She came to me about six months ago.
17:56Quickly became one of my most requested domes.
17:58Did Jessica have any clients who were unusually obsessed with her?
18:03Of course. I mean, they all were.
18:05But her clients were submissive.
18:08Killing is an act of dominance.
18:10You and I both know that people aren't that simple.
18:12Men might come here for humiliation and torture, but it's easy to imagine that one of them might have been pushed too far and lashed out.
18:18If she was concerned for her safety, she would have told me.
18:21Do you have a list of Jessica's clients?
18:24Detective, all of the services that we provide here are perfectly legal.
18:29Now, part of that service is protecting the privacy of our client.
18:34I'm not about to betray the trust that they've paid for because you have a hunch.
18:39Oh, I think it's more than just a hunch.
18:40Well, gee, I'm sorry. Unless you have a court order, my hands are tied, so to speak.
18:44You're pretty well versed in law for a dominatrix.
18:47Don't let the leather fool you. I used to be a partner in a law firm.
18:50Wow.
18:51When you dominate and manipulate men in every boardroom and courtroom that you're in,
18:54this just seemed like the natural progression.
19:02It's called Mistress Red.
19:05Excuse me.
19:07My lipstick.
19:08I noticed you couldn't stop staring.
19:14I'm sorry. It's just hypnotic.
19:17It's not you. It's her.
19:19Well, if you're so upset, we could find someone for you to go medieval on.
19:24Like, uh, him, perhaps.
19:27She wants to protect her clients.
19:29What about our girls?
19:30Hey, you the cop?
19:33I'm Detective Beckett.
19:34I'm Mr. Sapphire. So it's true. She's dead.
19:39Yes. I'm sorry.
19:41This weird thing happened last week. I think you should know about.
19:44With one of her clients?
19:45Sort of.
19:46My first-time client came in for a session, but he left just after a few minutes.
19:50I found her in the locker room crying.
19:52Did she tell you why?
19:54No.
19:54This client, do you remember anything about him?
19:57It was a week ago, and I only saw him from behind, but he was wearing one of those medical shirts.
20:02Scrubs?
20:03Yes.
20:03You thinking what I'm thinking?
20:05Jessica's boyfriend discovered her secret identity.
20:07And instead of proposing to her, he kills her.
20:10Jessica was the love of my life.
20:13Why would I want to hurt her?
20:14Because she hurt you.
20:15What the hell are you talking about?
20:17You said so yourself.
20:18You wanted her to stop.
20:21You were gonna make her study something else.
20:23It must have been a real shocker when you realized she wasn't just studying that world.
20:27She was living it.
20:28What the hell is this?
20:34This is crazy.
20:36You're telling me this is real?
20:37You're telling me Jessica was one of them?
20:39Why did you go to the dungeon last week?
20:41Was it to confront her?
20:42The dungeon?
20:42We have a witness who saw you there.
20:44It's completely understandable.
20:46The woman that you loved lied to you.
20:48I could see how you could lose control and go into a jealous rage.
20:52And then, in a panic, decide to stage the body in a manner so unusual we'd naturally assume it was someone in the bondage world.
20:59I never went to a dungeon.
21:01There was no jealous rage because I didn't know.
21:04I was going to marry her.
21:08We just signed a lease to move in together three days ago.
21:12If I was so angry with her, why would I do that?
21:15He was telling the truth about the lease.
21:22Not only did he and Jessica sign the lease, but it was also notarized.
21:26That doesn't mean he didn't do it.
21:27He could have had her sign to help his alibi.
21:29Maybe she was afraid of him.
21:32I've been thinking that his functional relationship she refers to in her research,
21:35there's a passage where she describes subject A as being afraid to tell subject B that she's leaving
21:40because he'd become dangerously codependent.
21:42What if she was describing Tyler?
21:45Maybe that's why she became a dominatrix, to give her the courage to stand up for herself.
21:48We have uniforms combing through hospital security footage.
21:50If Tyler left at any point that night, there should be some trace.
21:52In the meantime, let's just keep digging through those notebooks.
21:55We're going to need more than speculation if we want to file charges.
21:57Great.
22:12Do we need to talk about this?
22:23This is research for a case.
22:25Oh.
22:27And we need to get you some noisier shoes.
22:29Seriously, you made the team.
22:31No, tryouts aren't for another month.
22:33But Ashley let me take her uniform home to see how it fits.
22:35And what do you think?
22:36I think it's totally not me, which is why I kind of like it.
22:41It's not you, so you like it?
22:45Yeah.
22:46You know how in Stormfall, you killed off Derek Storm because you were bored with him?
22:52Yeah.
22:53Sometimes I feel that way about me.
22:55Like I'm hiding inside my comfort zone and maybe it's time to venture out a little.
22:58Well, does that venture have to include pom-poms?
23:02I don't want to look back on high school and feel like I missed out on something.
23:07So promise you'll be supportive.
23:11Yeah, I, uh, I promise.
23:16Go dead!
23:19Woo!
23:20Move, move, move.
23:21Get out of the way, because they're their coat of rain.
23:24What's your face?
23:28You ever want to be a cheerleader?
23:30No.
23:32Did you?
23:33Not me.
23:35Alexis, she wants to try out for the team.
23:37So?
23:38So, you see what they wear?
23:40She wants to join a team?
23:42Why not join mathletes?
23:43Why can't she do both?
23:45Besides, kids try on personalities the way they try on clothes.
23:49It's a way that they figure out who they are.
23:54What are you looking for?
23:54According to the security footage, the boyfriend never left the hospital during his shift.
24:02It wasn't him.
24:03Maybe he faked the footage.
24:05He's an intern, not Jason Bourne.
24:07Oh.
24:08That was my subject B theory.
24:11So Jessica left the dungeon at 7.30 and she was killed sometime between 10 and 11.
24:16If she didn't go home or to the university, then where did she go?
24:20Beckett, something in here you gotta see.
24:26It's one of Jessica's subjects.
24:27She calls him Sam I Am.
24:29Because he has a Dr. Seuss fetish?
24:31Because he's a Sam, a smart ass masochist.
24:35According to her notes, a Sam pretends he wants to be submissive,
24:38but what he actually wants to do is dominate his mistress, usually with passive aggression.
24:41Instead of asking for what he wants, he makes a game out of making the other people upset
24:45so they can be punished.
24:46Really? There's people like that.
24:48Only these Sams can be dangerous, sometimes resorting to threats to provoke their response.
24:53Listen to this. He said Mistress Venom was the one who needed to be punished.
24:57He said he was going to find her, tie her up and drown her, but in something
25:03sweet, like caramel.
25:05Sexual obsession and a description of the crime scene. Sounds like our guy to me.
25:09Yeah, but we only got a nickname.
25:10We have more than a nickname. We have enough to force Lady Irina to turn over a client list.
25:14Judge Markaway, please.
25:17Sounds like someone's going to get punished.
25:27William Carraway, aka Sam Iam, Senior Vice President at Stuart Cabot and Sagansky.
25:33The global consulting firm? No wonder Lady Irina was protecting his identity.
25:38Castle, why don't you sit this one out? I think Mr. Carraway will respond better to a strong
25:42female hand.
25:48Sam Iam, in a box, with a fox. We're going to need some popcorn.
25:54Sit.
25:55First, why don't you tell me why the hell I'm here? I got a board...
25:58I said sit. Down. Now.
26:06Good boy. Your mistress would be very proud of you.
26:10Excuse me?
26:10Mistress Venom.
26:13Lady Irina's house of pain. You like to be tied up, you like to be spanked, but more than anything,
26:19you like to make threats. I don't know what you're talking about.
26:24There is no dominatrix client privilege in New York. And your mistress was very thorough in
26:31documenting your deepest, darkest desires. The thing with the matches? How you liked it messy?
26:37She wrote that down?
26:38She also wrote how you wanted to turn the tables on her. How you threatened to tie her up and drown
26:44her in caramel?
26:45It's fantasy.
26:46But the fantasies weren't enough. And so you had to make your dreams come true.
26:55No, that's not possible.
26:56The more she said no, the more you became obsessed. You didn't want to be the submissive.
27:02You wanted to dominate her, and the ultimate domination is murder.
27:06No, I swear, I didn't even know she was dead.
27:08You were very specific in your threats, and that's exactly how we found her. Do you really
27:11expect me to believe that that wasn't you?
27:13Well, someone must have found out. Someone could have read her notes.
27:15Where were you two nights ago?
27:21Mr. Carraway, where were you?
27:26I was with my wife. It was her anniversary.
27:30His wife confirms it. He was with her at the anniversary party all night.
27:34This staging was way too specific to be just a coincidence. Somebody knew.
27:39Maybe she told someone. Maybe someone had access to the research.
27:43If I'm in the cabinet, it's not Fort Knox. Anyone with access would have read exactly
27:47what we read and could use it to throw us off their trail.
27:50Okay. You and Ryan go back to the dungeon, see if any of the girls swap stories after work.
27:55Meanwhile, Castle and I will go to the university and see who had access to her research.
28:01Okay.
28:01No, Mistress Venom never mentioned him to me or any of her other clients.
28:13Really? Come on. You girls don't share shop time.
28:19You work here long enough and the kinkiest things you could ever imagine.
28:24Or just another day at the office. The only time we trade info is if we share clients,
28:29but Mistress Venom didn't share. Do you mind unstrapping my boot?
28:37Uh, thank you. Mistress Amber?
28:39Yes.
28:40Mistress Scorpion. Okay. Get him confused. I'm sorry.
28:45Okay.
28:45Does she have any clients that might have been suspicious?
28:48Faster.
28:49Is, uh, is there a possibility that she may have mentioned one client's fetishes to another client?
28:56Absolutely not. Lady Irina beats confidentiality rules into our heads.
29:00Mistress Venom wasn't stupid.
29:03Is there a problem?
29:05It's just this knot. It's like an octagonal knot. It's got like eight sides. I've never seen a knot.
29:09Detective Esposito bringing crime to its knees.
29:12Stay.
29:13So, none of the girls claim that they remember Jessica talking about any of her clients,
29:17but I think we might have an explanation as to where she was between the time she left work and
29:21when she was killed. Mistress Scorpion thinks that Jessica might have been working off the books.
29:27Well, if she was, then she was asking for trouble.
29:30Nothing upsets Lady Irina more than some girl trying to screw her out of her 40%.
29:37Hey, Irish. You want to help out your little buddy here? He seems to be all thumbs.
29:47You were her office mate, Kelly. It would have been very easy for you to access her files.
29:55No, it wouldn't. I told you. She was very private about her work.
29:58You mean to tell me she didn't once slip out to the bathroom and just leave her notes sitting on the desk?
30:03If she did, I wouldn't be interested. And the night she was killed, I was in Westchester with my folks.
30:08Does anyone else have access to this office?
30:10The only other person with the key to the office is maintenance.
30:13What about your keys? Did you ever lose them or lend them to a friend?
30:15No. I mean, I gave them to Matt last week because he said he had some papers here.
30:22What, do you think he broke into her filing cabinet and took her research?
30:25That is exactly what I'm thinking. You said it yourself. It's a very competitive program.
30:30And they were both finalists for the same fellowship. This is, uh,
30:34Matt's proposal for starting the effect of AIDS on inner city clinics. Look at the picture.
30:39He's in scrubs.
30:40It wasn't Tyler who confronted Jessica at the dungeon.
30:42It was Matt.
30:43I borrowed Kelly's keys. That doesn't prove anything.
30:47Which is why we took a look at the whole picture.
30:51This is a list of phone calls made from your cell phone to the university switchboard.
30:56Each one coincides with a harassing call to Jessica.
30:58You made those calls.
31:00Look, it was a joke.
31:01How about your little visit to Jessica at the dungeon last week? Was that a joke as well?
31:06She didn't tell anybody where the dungeon was, so how'd you find it?
31:09Did you follow her or the clues in her research?
31:11You were her rival for a fellowship. You needed her out of the way.
31:15And when you read her research, you saw your chance.
31:17Look, I needed that funding, okay? My work is important. I mean, come on.
31:22Seriously, I couldn't let her get that fellowship. And when I saw her research,
31:25I mean, it read like fiction. So I went to the dungeon to find out.
31:29So you broke into her filing cabinet, you copied her research,
31:32and then you followed her to the dungeon.
31:34You're not putting a whole lot of checks in the innocent column here, Matt.
31:39The innocent column. Listen, I threatened her, all right?
31:43But I did not kill her. When I found out that she was Mistress Venom,
31:47I told her that if she didn't withdraw her fellowship application,
31:50I was going to tell her boyfriend.
31:52And when that didn't work, you killed her?
31:54It did work. Jessica withdrew her application the day before she was killed.
31:58How do you know?
31:59Because she blind copied me on an email that she sent to the head of the committee.
32:03We were cool. What she was most concerned about was getting back this research that I copied.
32:08So as soon as she was out of the running, I brought it all back to her apartment.
32:13You know you are morally challenged if your murder alibi is a blackmailing scheme.
32:17Yeah, but if he's telling the truth, then we have no motive.
32:20Well, hello, gentlemen. How was your trip to the dungeon?
32:23Well, we learned that Esposito is not very good with laces.
32:26There were a lot of laces. I loosened them for you.
32:29Yeah, sure.
32:31None of the girls admit to Jessica sharing any of her clients' secrets with them.
32:35Oh, one of them thought that she might have been seeing clients outside of the dungeon,
32:38which might explain the hole in our timeline.
32:39But we ran through her phones and financials again.
32:42We can't find any record of it. How about you? Here you have a suspect.
32:45Had. Matt was telling the truth. Jessica pulled out of the fellowship.
32:49But if he was telling the truth, then where's all the research she brought back to her apartment?
32:56Given her concerns for privacy, she wouldn't just throw it away.
33:00And we know she didn't take it back to the university.
33:02Well, maybe we missed something. Maybe she hid it somewhere.
33:05Or maybe Matt is lying about the research.
33:12So you didn't see a stack of paperwork?
33:14No, I would have noticed that. Maybe she took them up to school?
33:17No, I wasn't there either.
33:19Are you sure Matt's telling the truth?
33:22Most people lie to avoid suspicion. Not a lot of people lie to incriminate themselves.
33:26That night that you came home, did you notice anything different or out of place?
33:30Now that you mention it, I did find something odd.
33:34Earlier today, I was emptying the dishwasher and I found a wine glass with lipstick on it.
33:39It didn't seem like Jessica's shade and it wasn't one of mine.
33:43I put it aside to hand wash it later.
33:49Recognize this shade?
33:53If I'm not mistaken, and I rarely am, that's Mistress Red.
34:00Did you know that lip prints are a lot like fingerprints?
34:11No two are exactly alike.
34:18We found this on a wine glass in Jessica's apartment.
34:24What do you think we'll find when we compare it to your lips?
34:26That stain could have been there for months.
34:28But it wasn't.
34:29We checked with your car service.
34:32They said they dropped you off at 9 p.m. in front of Jessica's place the night she was killed.
34:37You were the last one to see her alive.
34:39What happened that night?
34:40Did you find out who she really was?
34:43That she was studying her clients without their permission?
34:45I mean, if word of that caught out, it would have destroyed your business.
34:49That can't have made you happy.
34:51And you're grasping at straws, and that can't make you happy.
34:56Detective, at this time, I'm exercising my right to legal counsel.
34:59I won't be answering any further questions.
35:09That's right.
35:10Let's go.
35:11Ms.
35:15I'll be at this.
35:17I'm sorry.
35:17I'm sorry.
35:18I'll be at this.
35:19I'm sorry.
35:20I'm sorry.
35:20I'm sorry.
35:21I'm sorry.
35:22I'm sorry.
35:23She's lawyering up.
35:25What'd you guys find in Jessica's apartment?
35:27Well, it looks like we found the crime scene.
35:29Irina was pretty good at cleaning up after herself.
35:31There was no trace or blood evidence,
35:33but the area around Jessica's bedside table lit up like a Christmas tree.
35:37It'd been scrubbed down with bleach.
35:38That's why we didn't find Jessica's research.
35:40Irina got rid of it all.
35:41Yeah, but she didn't quite clean everything.
35:43Once CSU stripped the bed, a swab test revealed dried saliva
35:46in one of her pillows from her screams as she was smothered.
35:49Looks like she'd do anything to protect her business, even kill.
35:52All right, lawyer or not, let's book her.
35:54Let's do it.
36:02Hmm.
36:05Are you straining those noodles or just my patience?
36:08Hmm?
36:09Oh, I'm sorry.
36:11Just this case.
36:13I keep thinking that I'm missing something.
36:15Yeah, me too.
36:16Salt.
36:17Whoa, what?
36:18Hey, don't.
36:19Can you die from sodium poisoning?
36:21Oh, you have a point.
36:24Hey, that smells good.
36:27But I already ate.
36:31Oh, no.
36:32So, did you and Ashley do a cheerleading practice?
36:34Uh, no.
36:36Turns out cheerleading conflicts with my fencing schedule, my violin lessons, and French club.
36:42Cheerleading's more of a lifestyle.
36:44And as much as I'd like to visit, it's not really a place I'd like to live.
36:47I told you she'd figure it out.
36:50Well, we both learned a valuable lesson today.
36:53You learned that you can expand your horizons and grow.
36:56I learned that if that involves short skirts and boys, I'm not gonna like it.
37:00Fair enough.
37:01Fine.
37:02Now that you both learned your lessons, how about starting on the dishes?
37:04You're gonna need a fire hose to clean this up.
37:06No.
37:07I cooked.
37:08Someone else cleans up.
37:10Clean up?
37:11Who washed the pillowcase?
37:13What?
37:14Esposito said CSU didn't find anything until they stripped the bed.
37:17That means there was saliva on the pillow, but not on the pillowcase.
37:20You're right.
37:25Someone washed the pillowcase.
37:27But the washer-dryer cycle would have taken at least an hour.
37:30At which point, the roommate would have been home.
37:32Irina couldn't have gotten out in time.
37:34Only one person could have cleaned the apartment.
37:37I don't understand.
37:39I thought you'd caught the killer.
37:42We thought so too.
37:45If it wasn't her, then who?
37:47It was you, Danielle.
37:49Me?
37:51Why would I kill my best friend?
37:54In her research, Jessica describes being in a dysfunctional relationship.
38:00One, she was scared to leave because the other person had become so dangerously codependent.
38:04At first we thought it was her boyfriend Tyler, but it wasn't, was it?
38:09I don't know what you're talking about.
38:11The research that Matt dropped off?
38:13Her research.
38:14Must have been very hurtful to read all the things that she wrote about you.
38:17Jessica loved me.
38:19She would never hurt me.
38:20Subject B shows all the signs of being a masochist.
38:23Completely dependent for a sense of self.
38:26We know you read the files, Danielle.
38:28That's why you staged her body that way.
38:30No, I didn't read anything.
38:31There was nothing here.
38:32Because you got rid of it all.
38:34You're wrong.
38:35It had to have been you, Danielle.
38:36You were the only one who had time to clean up after yourself.
38:39Judging from her office space, Jessica wasn't the kind of girl to scrub her floor clean with bleach.
38:45Jessica told you she had to get away from you.
38:49She told you she was gonna leave.
38:53She, she was everything to me.
39:03I thought we were family.
39:06But then she wrote those awful things she had no right.
39:12What happened that night?
39:14She said she was gonna move out.
39:18That she was done with me.
39:23I pushed her.
39:27She fell.
39:28Her head hit the table.
39:30She started to scream.
39:32She said, she said she hated me.
39:34I told her to shut up.
39:36I just wanted her to shut up.
39:38And then you put a pillow over her head and you suffocated her.
39:45I didn't mean to kill her.
39:50I just didn't want her to go.
39:52In the end, Castle was right. The murder was a crime of passion.
40:06The cuffs, the caramel were all just theater to throw us off.
40:10I can't help but think that if Matt hadn't copied Jessica's research, Danielle never would have read it.
40:15None of this would have happened.
40:16Now he won't get his precious little fellowship or his degree.
40:18What about Lady Irina? What was she doing at the apartment?
40:20Some of the girls thought that Jessica was working off the book.
40:23So Irina came by to tell her to knock it off.
40:25They had a glass of wine and she left.
40:27She just did it on the wrong night.
40:28Yeah, but why'd she give you such a hard time then?
40:30Because she's a lawyer.
40:32And a dominatrix.
40:37Hey! You made it!
40:46Guys, I want you to meet Jenny.
40:49Jenny.
40:50Hi.
40:51Welcome.
40:52We've heard wonderful things about you.
40:54The same goes for all of you.
40:56I feel like I know you guys already.
40:58You are so much prettier than your picture in Cosmo.
41:01Kevin gave me his copy of Heat Wave.
41:04I could not put it down.
41:06And thanks for being such a great partner.
41:08You know, make sure you keep him safe out there.
41:11You got it.
41:15We have a movie to catch.
41:16I'll see you guys tomorrow.
41:18You guys have a great time.
41:23Damn.
41:24If I had a girl like that, I might be whipped by her too.
41:26Now we know why he didn't bring her around sooner.
41:28So the two of you don't act like idiots around her?
41:31No.
41:32So we wouldn't try to steal her from her.
41:34So what about this imaginary boyfriend of yours?
41:36We gonna see him around here or is he at home tied to a baby?
41:39What's the matter Ricky?
41:41You jealous?
41:42No.
41:43You only get to punish him at night.
41:44You punish me all day.
41:45Well, you deserve it.
41:46What did I do to you?
41:47Let's just start with the first...