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  • 5/20/2025
Castle Season 3 Episode 6

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00:00And you can't even see, I'm lonely without you. I've gone crazy and dizzy, I'm nothing without you.
00:30What about Ashley? I mean, shouldn't I tell him?
00:41Darling, in matters of the heart, it's best not to overthink things.
00:44That's your advice, Mother, with your track record?
00:47What chasm of doom has she led you to by way of her tips on romance?
00:51As it happens, we were discussing secret admirer etiquette.
00:56You have a secret admirer?
00:57I always thought it was silly, but now I'm kind of intrigued.
01:00And there is no need to tell Ashley.
01:03How exactly does a secret admirer express his admiration?
01:08He left a note in my locker.
01:10As you walked down the hall, a shard of sunlight glanced off your rope of flaxen hair and set it aglow.
01:15And I was enchanted.
01:17Oh, that's so poetic.
01:19I figure the rope of flaxen hair is my French braid, which I only wore after gym class,
01:23which means he saw me in the hall on the first floor between fourth and fifth period.
01:27Wait a minute, what are you doing?
01:28Narrowing down suspects.
01:29No, you can't do that. No, that'll ruin the secret.
01:32No, it's like a mystery novel. You don't just go to the last page, do you?
01:36Yes.
01:37You do? Well, you shouldn't. It's not, you can't.
01:41The joy doesn't come in knowing who did it.
01:45The joy comes in the journey and allowing the ending to blossom like some magnificent Himalayan blue poppy.
01:53Okay, okay. I'll let him stay secret.
01:57Mark my words, he'll thank me.
02:03Castle.
02:05So our victim is Linda Russo.
02:07She's a customer relations worker at a cable company.
02:10Maybe someone was unsatisfied with their service.
02:13Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
02:14What?
02:16Oh.
02:17Sanitation workers found her body under a couple of boxes.
02:20She lives two blocks away over at 24th and 10th.
02:23Looks like she was on her way home.
02:26Hey, Laney.
02:27Hey.
02:31What?
02:32Uh, it's nothing.
02:35No, what?
02:37Well, she just looked so peaceful.
02:40There's nothing peaceful about what put her here. She's strangled.
02:43With rope?
02:44So it appears.
02:47Castle, do you have a theory that you would like to share with the class?
02:50It's just a pretty blonde girl, strangled, laid out like she was asleep.
02:57That was four years ago.
02:59Yes, but he was never caught. This is his M.O. and she is certainly his type.
03:04I researched him for when it comes to slaughter.
03:06Yeah, well then you should know that he killed his victims inside their apartments, not in alleyways.
03:11And he posed them in a funereal pose with their hands clasped in front of him.
03:15Maybe he's switching up his act.
03:17Or this just could be a crime of opportunity where a young woman was murdered.
03:24Mrs. Russo, did your daughter ever talk to you about being followed?
03:28No, nothing like that.
03:30Can you think of anyone that might have wanted to harm her? Any relationship problems?
03:33She wasn't even dating. Pretty much all she did was work.
03:37At the cable company, right? Did she have any issues with anyone there?
03:42There was a man at her office.
03:44What was his name?
03:45She didn't say. But he stared at her a lot, like some pervert.
03:55That was quick.
03:569-1-1 has that effect on her.
03:58What did you find?
03:59I pulled all the files on all his past murders, just like you asked.
04:02I believe that was my idea.
04:04Yeah, but only listen when it comes from her.
04:06Anyway, you were saying?
04:07He choked them using a three-strand twisted quarter-inch rope.
04:11Based on the fibers found embedded in the skin, we know that the rope was green and white nylon.
04:17I don't remember that.
04:19Those details were never made public. Now check this out.
04:25The marks are identical.
04:27I found the exact same green and white fibers.
04:30It is him. The triple killer is back.
04:35For those of you living in a cave four years ago, the triple killer, or 3XK,
04:39got his nickname by strangling three women in a week, dropping out of sight for a month, and then killing three more.
04:44Then he disappeared.
04:45I served on the task force that investigated those six murders.
04:48An FBI profile was as close as we came to IDing the suspect.
04:52Feds say he's a white male, 25 to 45 years old.
04:55Could be me.
04:56With a dysfunctional relationship with his mother.
04:58Still me.
04:59He has a menial, unimportant job.
05:01Definitely you.
05:02Just for that, I based my next book on Esposito.
05:04He'd learn their habits and then gain access to their apartments by disguising himself as a security guard or a repairman,
05:10and then he strangled them, and he posed their bodies as if they were lying in a coffin.
05:14What do you think that's all about?
05:16Probably reenacting some terrible early trauma.
05:19Two final points.
05:21The triple killer seems to be back after four years. There must be a reason.
05:25Maybe he just got out of prison or returned to town.
05:27He may have altered his MO.
05:29Well, let's assume that he's working under the same clock.
05:31Three murders, one week.
05:34Based on Linda Russo's time of death, we're already into day three.
05:37Let's move on his people.
05:42Hey, that perv the mom told us about?
05:44Linda's colleagues knew who he was right away. Paul McCardle.
05:47He works at her office as a horticultural technician.
05:50A what?
05:51You know, he's the guy who waters the plants, dusts the fake ficus, or at least he was until he quit yesterday.
05:56That's interesting timing.
05:58Any domestic complaints by the double digits?
06:00Filed by his wife.
06:01Ex-wife. They were divorced last month after being married for four years.
06:04So in a way he did just get out of prison.
06:06It gets even better. Linda's neighbors said they remember seeing a red Sentra parked outside her apartment a few days ago.
06:11The same vehicle McCardle has.
06:13Let's get him in here.
06:16So what's this about?
06:17Linda Russo. Where were you two nights ago between six and midnight?
06:20Oh. I was bowling with some buddies at Galaxy Lanes.
06:24So why did you decide to abandon your career as a horticultural technician?
06:27I just wanted to move on.
06:29Because you used that job to watch Linda, to stalk her, and once she was dead, why stick around?
06:33That is not true. I'm innocent here.
06:35Well, you don't look innocent.
06:36No, as a matter of fact, you give new meaning to the phrase, sweating a suspect.
06:40Okay, yeah, I perspire a lot. Okay? I have a medical condition.
06:44Well, that's the least of your problems, Mr. McCardle.
06:47Your fixation with Linda Russo was well known, as was your history of violence against women.
06:52Your car was seen outside of her apartment, and now she's dead.
06:55I never touched her.
06:57I had a thing for Linda, okay? I had a thing for Linda, and I parked out in front of her place.
07:01But I haven't been anywhere near there in three days, okay?
07:04Not since that guy threatened me.
07:06What guy?
07:07I got rousted by some security guy, and he told me to move on.
07:12And it really freaked me out, and I haven't been back there since.
07:14I swear, that's the truth.
07:17So Sweaty Von Sweat's a lot? His alibi's holding.
07:20The manager of Galaxy Lanes hasn't thrown gutter balls in five until close.
07:23What about the security guard?
07:24Ryan checked into that.
07:25Turns out that there's only one building on Linda's block that uses guards.
07:28According to the security company, no incident report was ever filed against McCardle or his vehicle.
07:32So McCardle was lying.
07:34Maybe not.
07:35You know, in the past, the triple killer posed as a security guard.
07:38Maybe our guard wasn't a guard after all.
07:40Maybe it was the triple killer moving McCardle off of his turf.
07:44Well, whoever he is, he's sticking to his schedule.
07:47We have a second victim.
07:55TRIPLE KILLER
07:59Her name's Kim Foster, 28, an interior designer.
08:02Same rope marks on her neck, same everything.
08:05When did she die?
08:06Uh, based on liver temp, I'd say sometime last night, probably early evening.
08:10Neighbor saw a gas repairman leave at 745.
08:13No doorman on the building, so triple killer calls Kim Foster on the intercom,
08:17says he wants to check a gas leak.
08:19She buzzes him in.
08:20Let me check the incoming caller IDs.
08:22I don't get it. Why did he return to the old MO?
08:24Nostalgia.
08:25He killed Linda Russo in an alley.
08:27She didn't have a doorman either.
08:29Why didn't he just kill her in her apartment like all the others?
08:31Maybe she was special somehow.
08:34Vic's last incoming call was at 735 from the front door.
08:37She must have let him in and boom, he just overpowered her.
08:39Maybe it wasn't that easy. Look at those throw pillows.
08:42What's wrong with them?
08:43Well, Kim Foster's an interior designer.
08:45These pillows have been arranged with a barbarian-like gracelessness.
08:48Like a man would do it, so she put up a fight.
08:51He struggled right here on the couch.
08:52And then he reset the pillows to cover it up.
08:54He's out of practice, so he's not so neat.
08:58Kim!
08:59What?
09:00Found a penny.
09:01Out of the circumstances, is this still lucky?
09:03Wait, I think I found something too.
09:09Fence. Think it belonged to the killer?
09:11Maybe it's been here for weeks. I'm going to have to get CSU to process this area.
09:17Sir, Mr. Townsend wants a word.
09:22Bring him in.
09:25Cal.
09:26Good to see you.
09:29How's Marie?
09:30Uh...
09:32She's okay.
09:36We're split up now.
09:38I'm sorry to hear that.
09:41Um...
09:43Reporters.
09:45They keep coming to my door and asking me how I feel about...
09:48The man who killed my daughter and might be on the loose again.
09:51And I'm, you know...
09:54After Sarah died and all through the investigation, you were always straight with me.
09:57And I just need to know, you know...
09:59I mean, what they're saying.
10:01Is it true? I mean...
10:03Is he back?
10:05Yes.
10:07Cal, we got leads. We got good leads.
10:09And we're doing all we can to chase him down.
10:12If we make an arrest, you'll be the first to know.
10:15I promise you.
10:17I promise you.
10:28Sarah would have been 29 next week.
10:34Don't let him do this to another family.
10:47Hey.
10:48Hey.
10:49There's no news from CSU on the name tag.
10:51Not that I was expecting any.
10:53Makes you wonder why he didn't pull that whole gas leak routine on Linda Russo.
10:57I know why.
10:58The answer's in here.
11:00A transcript?
11:01From four years ago.
11:02I took a look at calls made to the triple killer tip line, and this one stood out for me.
11:06It's from May 21st, 2008.
11:09And it says,
11:10I took a look at calls made to the triple killer tip line, and this one stood out for me.
11:14It's from May 21st, 2006, which was a week after the sixth murder.
11:18A woman called and left a message, but she was too afraid to leave her name.
11:21But she did mention that she lived at 24th and 10th.
11:25Same corner as Linda Russo.
11:26She was riding an elevator with a cable repairman who so creeped her out that she got off a floor early just to get away from him.
11:32Yeah, but cable guy and creepy, that's a job requirement.
11:34Except he wasn't a cable guy.
11:36She said he wasn't carrying the right tools.
11:38And working for a cable company, Linda Russo would know that.
11:41Which is why I took a look at Linda Russo's phone records from four years ago.
11:45She's the one who made the call to that tip line.
11:47So Linda Russo was special.
11:48When she got off a floor early, he knew that she made him, so he dropped out of sight.
11:52Which also explains why he attacked her outside.
11:55He knew there was no way she'd let him into her apartment.
12:00Linda Russo saw his face, and he came back four years later.
12:04That's a special kind of ruthlessness.
12:06Yo, CSU's got a partial on that name tag. We got a match.
12:12The man that we're looking for is Marcus Gates.
12:14Forty-two, six foot tall, a hundred and eighty pounds with light brown hair.
12:18He also has a snake tattoo running down his left arm.
12:21A print match ties him to Kim Foster's murder.
12:24Now prison psych evaluation calls Gates a brutal, highly intelligent sociopath.
12:29He's done time for manslaughter and attempted murder.
12:33His last conviction was for breaking a bottle over a man's head in a bar, almost killing him.
12:37For which Gates served four years in Sing Sing.
12:42He just got out last month.
12:44No known address, no family.
12:46His mother died when he was four years old, and he was placed in a series of foster homes since then.
12:50So he will not be easy to find.
12:52Listen, four years ago, this guy took the lives of six women because we didn't stop him.
12:57We know who the triple killer is.
12:59We know he's out there targeting his third victim.
13:03Let's get him before he gets her.
13:13Hey Dad.
13:14Hey.
13:15Must be quite a case of us keeping you out this late.
13:17Oh, you know, someone died, someone else did it.
13:20Secret admirer?
13:22As a matter of fact, it is.
13:23Figure out who it was yet?
13:24I took your advice and decided it's better not knowing.
13:26And he left another note in my locker.
13:28He said if I like the rose, I should show him by wearing it at school tomorrow.
13:31Isn't that sweet?
13:33Well, is that a good idea?
13:36Oh, what would your boyfriend actually think?
13:39I get a feeling it's not Ashley who has the problem.
13:42I'm just not sure it's smart to go wearing some flower when you don't know who it's from.
13:47Your school is not exactly Fort Knox, alright?
13:50Anyone could have put that note in your locker.
13:52Your secret admirer could be some pervert watching you from afar with high-powered binoculars.
13:58I'm going to bed now.
14:00Good night.
14:02Good night.
14:03Could you lock your windows for me, please?
14:05Yes.
14:06Please?
14:07I'm going to check and make sure they're locked.
14:11No, I had it all set up. I was in this pile. I didn't understand your system.
14:14I'm messing up my system.
14:15Hey guys, any news on Gates?
14:18My system is efficient.
14:19And, uh, I already went through this one.
14:21It's on your stack.
14:22It's part of my system.
14:23Your system is dumb.
14:24So, nothing?
14:26No. We tracked down an uncle in Jersey, but he hasn't seen Gates in 20 years.
14:30So I'm on the phone with Sing Sing to chase down prison associates.
14:33Detective Beckett, are you still there?
14:36Yes, I'm still here.
14:39Okay, and is he still doing time?
14:42First time drug offender. Got it, thanks.
14:44Jelly Tyson?
14:46It's Jerry Castle.
14:48When Gates got released, he gave all of his stuff to Jerry Tyson, a fellow inmate.
14:51So if the two of them were friends, Jerry might be able to tell us where we can find Gates.
14:59Now it's Jerry.
15:01I got three months left in this hellhole.
15:04All I want to do is do my time, get out, and go see my girl.
15:07And it's never going to happen if Gates gets wind that I talk to cops.
15:12He won't.
15:13You don't know that.
15:15He's got reach in here.
15:18He'll have me taken out.
15:19Here's the deal, Jerry. Whether you talk to us or not, I'm willing to sit here all day.
15:25So it's going to look like you're spilling your guts to us.
15:30All right, but I want to be back in my cell in two minutes.
15:32Fair enough. Were the two of you friends?
15:33I guess. Whatever that means in here.
15:37I work in the kitchen. I snuck him through so he could make pruno.
15:39And in return, he agreed to protect you?
15:41And now he's gone, and I'm in here going it alone.
15:43If you can't have ever known, dreams of what he'll do and where he'll go once he gets out.
15:46Gates ever talk to you about that?
15:50I remember him talking about some strip clubs, and, um, there's a place he liked to go drinking.
15:55Um, in the meatpacking district.
15:57What was it called?
15:59Hog something. Something about hogs.
16:14Let's do some recon. He's at the bar nursing a beer.
16:17How many in there?
16:18Five total. Gates the bartender, waitress, two drunks.
16:21He may be on. We take him quick. Don't give him a chance to get any hostages.
16:26It's him!
16:27Let me see your hands! Let me see your hands!
16:29Right now! Right now!
16:31Put your hands up!
16:32Hands in the air right now!
16:34You earned it, man! Put your hands in the air and get on your knees while you're at it!
16:39Wow.
16:41Wow. You brought out the old guy, huh?
16:43I only mean one thing. You want me in a bad way, right?
16:46Shut up.
16:47Hey, don't forget to read me my rights.
16:49It'd be a shame to get turned loose on a technicality.
16:51Let's go.
16:59Cold. Implacable. The triple killer remains at ease.
17:04Calm in the lair of his enemy with a resting heart rate of 50.
17:08Set to match wits with his interrogators.
17:12I just wanted to bring a literary flair to that moment, you know.
17:17The bartender told us where Gates lives.
17:19He's had to put him in a cabin more than one occasion.
17:21Ryan's got a warrant and he's searching his place right now.
17:23We can't count on circumstantial evidence to carry this case.
17:25We need to get this guy to run his mouth.
17:27The only hard evidence we have on him is Kim Foster's murder.
17:30Pin him down on where he was when she died.
17:34Castle.
17:36Castle.
17:39Not this time.
17:44Mr. Gates, I'm Detective Beckett.
17:48Not my type.
17:50But I would make an exception.
17:55Do you know a Kim Foster?
18:01Doesn't ring a bell.
18:03Have you ever seen this woman before?
18:08She has nice hair.
18:09Have you or haven't you seen her?
18:14New York City. Big place. I mean, I could have passed her on the street, I guess.
18:18I'm actually talking about a more intimate interaction. Have you ever been in her apartment?
18:22I've been to a lot of apartments.
18:26This building is at 35th and 8th.
18:29She lived in 301.
18:31Were you ever in that particular unit?
18:33No.
18:34Well, then perhaps you can explain to me how we found this name tag with your fingerprint on it lying next to her body.
18:42As a matter of fact, I can.
18:44Can we hear this?
18:45I work at the Empire Prop House.
18:48And?
18:49And they rent props for movies and TV shows.
18:52I know what a prop house is.
18:54So that's my job. I stock props.
18:57Tons of name tags just like this one. I bet I've touched a hundred of them.
19:01We'll run that down, see if he's real.
19:03Run it.
19:04There's no record of you having this job.
19:08They pay me under the table.
19:09Oh.
19:11Maybe you can get me for tax evasion.
19:14This prop house where you say you work, do they have uniforms there?
19:18Sure.
19:19Like gas company uniforms?
19:20Any kind of uniform you can think of, they got it.
19:24And have you ever taken any of these uniforms home? Do you have any in your possession?
19:31Are you guys searching my place?
19:32Yes.
19:33So if there are any uniforms there, you may as well tell me.
19:36Wow.
19:37I'm going to want to see the search warrant.
19:41What for?
19:42It's my legal right.
19:43And I'm done talking until you show it to me.
19:46So you better get with affirmative action back there and come up with a new game plan.
19:51He wants the search warrant to get a peek at our cards.
19:54How is that giving him a peek?
19:56The warrant lists ropes, uniforms, and other personal effects belonging to Kim Foster, Linda Russo, and the other six triple killer victims.
20:02We're looking at the warrant, he can gauge where we are in our investigation.
20:04That's not giving him a peek, that's showing him our whole hand.
20:07He'll know we think he's the triple killer.
20:09He already knows.
20:11Yo, Empire prop.
20:12Confirmed that Gates works in their warehouse and had access to those tags.
20:16He clocked out at 7.02 the night of Kim Foster's murder.
20:19Now, Empire is in Lincoln Square, which means he had enough time to get to her apartment and push the intercom button by 7.35.
20:28Show him the warrant.
20:29Odds are he will lawyer up but try to stop him.
20:37How is she supposed to do that?
20:39I don't think she can.
20:49Turns out you got a lot more on your mind than just Kim Foster.
20:52I see the names of seven other women here.
20:58Ryan.
20:59Tell me you got something.
21:00Not so far.
21:01No rope, no uniform, nothing that ties him to any of the victims.
21:04Keep looking.
21:06The thing is, this name tag is the probable cause for bringing me in.
21:10But I've explained the fingerprint, and by now I'm sure you know where it is.
21:15But I've explained the fingerprint, and by now I'm sure you've checked out my story.
21:19Actually, we're still verifying that.
21:22I know how this works. You do not have probable cause to hold me.
21:26Is that right, Kim Yolden?
21:28Only in the movies.
21:29He can just walk out of here.
21:30Unless she catches him in a lie and gives her cause to keep him.
21:35I want to leave now.
21:37Okay, fine. You can do that.
21:41Second that you lawyer up and leave, you become the focus of a major investigation.
21:45It will disrupt your life in ways you can't even imagine.
21:47I'm already the focus.
21:48Yeah, well, you don't have to be.
21:52Look, the truth is, we don't have any evidence that connects you to those murders.
21:56It all boils down to Kim Foster.
21:59Even if your fingerprint's gone on this name tag by accident,
22:02with your record, you still look like a suspect to us.
22:04So Kim Foster's a problem for you.
22:06But you can get that problem out of your way.
22:08You said you've never been to her apartment.
22:11Where were you at 735 last night?
22:16What's in that for me?
22:17If your alibi checks out, then we move on.
22:21We go after the real killer.
22:25I left work at 7. I walked home like I always do.
22:27I got home maybe 7.30 and I stayed in all night.
22:31And you're sure about that?
22:33Absolutely.
22:35This is off of a traffic cam across from Gates' apartment.
22:38Well, this is it. This will prove that he was lying.
22:40At 7.35, he was on his way to Kim Foster's apartment.
22:44Wait, whoa, whoa, Pat. Stop, stop, stop there.
22:48That's him. 7.31.
22:50No, that can't be.
22:51It is. Look. Same sideburns.
22:55And there's a snake tattoo.
22:57Well, then he slipped out the back and went to Kim's.
22:59How would he get from 101st to Midtown?
23:02And change clothes in four minutes.
23:05I don't know, but he did it.
23:07Can we enhance this video?
23:08You can enhance it all you want.
23:09Doesn't change the facts. We gotta cut him loose.
23:11Sir, I just...
23:12I don't like this any more than you, detective.
23:14But he alibis out.
23:18Well, looks like we had it all wrong. You're free to go.
23:21With this triple killer fella running around,
23:23you all better keep your loved ones close.
23:29I sure hope you catch him.
23:32Put a surveillance detail on him.
23:35I don't want that son of a bitch out of our sight.
23:46Oh, don't you look adorable this morning.
23:48I meet my secret admirer today.
23:50Well, I can just picture the scene.
23:53You and your secret admirer agree to meet in the cafeteria.
23:56You scan the array of pimply faces. Which one is his?
23:59Your secret admirer uses the prearranged signal
24:01of a double helping of mashed potatoes on his plate.
24:04He's handsome.
24:06Charming in an asexual, non-threatening kind of way.
24:08Nice try.
24:09But it'll be so much more mysterious.
24:12Listen to this.
24:17If you want to meet, I'll be at Strawberry Fields at five o'clock.
24:20I hope you'll be there, too.
24:21No. No, no, no. No, you're not going.
24:24Before, you were practically forcing me to find out who it is.
24:26Not in the park. Not by yourself.
24:28But I've been there a million times.
24:29No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
24:31The first note you got.
24:34Rope of flaxen hair? Rope? Flaxen? Flaxen is blonde.
24:37Dad, I'm a redhead.
24:38You're totally overreacting.
24:39I'm meeting my secret admirer, and that's all there is to it.
24:45Richard, darling, she's right. You are being utterly irrational.
24:49It's like when I was doing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
24:51and I thought my understudy was trying to poison me.
24:54Oh, yeah, the daily blood tests I paid for.
24:56Wait, she did poison you.
24:58The Swiss chocolate she gave you was a laxative.
25:00Added a certain urgency to my performance.
25:02But the point is, you indulged my paranoia.
25:05So, therefore, I am going to be in the park five o'clock at a discreet distance
25:08to make sure that Alexis's secret admirer is not an axe murderer.
25:14You're welcome.
25:18Tell me you've arrested Gates.
25:19Not even close.
25:20I mean, I don't know how, Castle, but he killed Kim Foster and he's gonna do it again.
25:24There's been no developments? Usually you call me with news.
25:30You called to seek my counsel.
25:32I wouldn't say it exactly like that.
25:35No, no, no. You were hoping I had some wild theory,
25:39some sort of penetrating insight that would lead us to a breakthrough.
25:43Well, do you?
25:47No, I got nothing.
25:49I just need some piece of evidence. I mean, someone that he talked to. Anything.
25:53What if Gates confided in Jerry about the previous murders?
25:56Yeah, well, Jerry's not gonna talk to us. He got beaten up in the prison yard this morning
25:59and he thinks that Gates had something to do with it.
26:01Sounds like Gates is afraid of what Jerry Tyson knows.
26:05Get the hell away from me.
26:07Listen, Jerry, we just need a little more information on Marcus Gates.
26:10Hey, don't you guys get it? I'm a dead man, thanks to you.
26:14Not if we get you out.
26:15The DA has agreed to get you an early release and police protection.
26:19Gates knows about my girlfriend, Donna Gates.
26:21If he found my girlfriend, Donna Gallagher, he'd get to her, too.
26:23Well, then we'll make sure he doesn't.
26:26We gotta move on this, Jerry.
26:29Last chance.
26:33Okay. I'll do it. I'll take the deal.
26:36We need to know.
26:38Did Gates ever talk to you about attacking women?
26:41There was this one time he told me about this chick, Sarah, down in Soho.
26:46That could be Sarah Townsend.
26:48He told me about how he busted into her place and things got out of control.
26:51But it must have been pretty bad, because Gates said he was worried that the cops were after him.
26:54So he bust a bottle over this guy's head to get himself locked up.
26:58That way he'd be under the radar for a while.
27:00It's a good start.
27:03My name's Detective Ryan, and I'm your new best friend.
27:07This motel's under surveillance.
27:09For your own safety, you cannot leave or use the phone.
27:11Right now, you and I need to go over everything Gates ever said to you,
27:15even if it seems stupid or unimportant.
27:17Jerry's story squares with the fact Sarah Townsend was Gates' sixth victim, and she lives in Soho.
27:21What about assault with a deadly bottle?
27:23It fits, too. It came a week after Sarah's death.
27:25Looks like Gates sent himself up the river on purpose.
27:27It's still not enough to arrest him, is it?
27:29No, but if Jerry has more tidbits like that, it may help us get there.
27:31Yo, we can't locate Donna Gallagher. She's not picking up her cell.
27:34Sir, where's Gates now?
27:36At his apartment. Surveillance says he hasn't left the building.
27:38Contact Donna's friends and family. Find out where she is.
27:40I told Jerry we'd keep her safe.
27:43Can't you just arrest this guy? I mean, you know he did these things.
27:46He has an alibi. We can't put him at the murder scene.
27:51He used partners sometimes. You know that, right?
27:53Partner?
27:56We never ran across anything about a partner.
27:58Oh, yeah. He said a partner helps him get away with things.
28:01Though I get the idea he never used the same partner twice.
28:05Jerry said that Gates used a partner.
28:07A partner? That's why he has an alibi.
28:09I tell you guys to arrest Gates, I know how he killed Kim Foster.
28:15Gates said he walks home every night at the same time, right?
28:18So this traffic cam footage from the day before...
28:20Wait, there he is. There he is.
28:22Okay, that's Gates on the right. Night of Kim Foster's murder.
28:25On the left, Gates from a night earlier.
28:27What's wrong with this picture?
28:29He's too short.
28:31So, either Gates shrank...
28:33Or this is his partner.
28:35Or this is his partner.
28:37He wore Gates' clothing. Gates would have had access to...
28:39Wigs and disguises from the prop house.
28:41That's how Gates can be at two places at once.
28:43Wait. What's that?
28:46Uh, it's a reflection from...
28:49From sweat! Sweaty bone sweats a lot!
28:51That's Paul McCardle. That's why he was watching Linda Russo.
28:54He's the partner. He was working with Gates.
28:57I'm gonna put an APB out on McCardle.
28:59You better add Marcus Gates to that list.
29:01Sir?
29:02According to his place, all they found was a rope ladder
29:04going down to the rooftop of the building next door.
29:06Gates is gone.
29:10Got uniforms searching the area. No sign of Gates.
29:12Maybe he's going after Donna.
29:14That way, he could punish Jerry, too.
29:16We got any leads on the whereabouts?
29:18Esposito's talking to her friends right now, but she's still in the wind.
29:20So is Paul McCardle.
29:22The car's gone, and he has two ex-wife.
29:24Has no idea where he is, either.
29:26But I did find out how he and Gates are connected.
29:28They were in a foster home together.
29:30Get photos of Gates and McCardle
29:32to airport, bus, and train stations.
29:36Beckett. One of Donna's neighbors just told me
29:38she's house-sitting at her cousin's. Do you have an address?
29:40Yeah, but so does Gates.
29:42Some guy dressed as a messenger said he had a delivery for Donna.
29:44Get there now.
29:46Katie!
29:50Get up!
29:54I'll have to see you talk your way out of this one.
29:56I'll try not to disappoint you.
29:58We found the same kind of rope
30:00in your pocket as was used by the triple killer.
30:06Last I checked, man's allowed to carry rope.
30:10I think you wanted to get caught, Marcus.
30:14There's nothing left for you out here,
30:16but in prison, people fear you.
30:20You're a shot-caller.
30:22You wanted to be king again.
30:24All that's left for you to do
30:26is to clear the air of all these murders
30:28and be done with it all.
30:38Let's try.
30:42This guy's never gonna give it up.
30:44Sir, I need leverage, and I don't have any.
30:46There's no witnesses. There's no proof that connects him
30:48to any of the murders. The only thing that I've got him on
30:50is an assault charge.
30:52We just got a hit on McArdle's APB.
30:54He's at St. Benjamin's Hospital. Maybe Keith's got to him.
30:56Sir, if I can get McArdle to roll... Go.
30:58Yeah. Uh, I...
31:00Okay, fine, Cass, I'll go. Just stay out of his way.
31:02And Ryan?
31:04Get me something I can break him with.
31:08Excuse me.
31:10I'm Detective Ryan. I'd like a word
31:12with Mr. McArdle. You can't have one.
31:14He just got out of heart surgery.
31:16What for? A congenital valve defect.
31:18Would that cause excessive sweating
31:20by any chance? Well, among other more serious
31:22symptoms. He's been in dire need of surgery
31:24for over a year. So why get it now?
31:26He finally came up with the money. It's kind of
31:28a costly procedure. How costly?
31:30About $100,000.
31:32Who footed the bill?
31:34That's confidential information.
31:36You spoke to his ex-wife? She didn't even know he was here.
31:38She hated the guy.
31:40So who sold the flowers?
31:42Beckett. McArdle's surgery had nothing to do
31:44with Gates. In fact, Gates
31:46sent him to get well flowers.
31:48That means he cares about his foster brother.
31:50That's your leverage.
31:52You still need us to wait and talk to McArdle?
31:54No.
31:56Tell Jerry his girlfriend's fine and he doesn't have
31:58to worry about Gates anymore.
32:00You keep coming back for more.
32:02I look for that in a woman.
32:06We found Paul. He's at St.
32:08Benjamin's. We know that he pretended to be you the night
32:10of Kim Foster's murder and I'm gonna get him to testify
32:12against you.
32:14You don't know Paul.
32:16I'll go another way.
32:18I'll charge him with accessory to murder.
32:20You can't do that.
32:22Actually we can. Sing Sing might have been a picnic for you
32:24but how long do you think Paul is gonna survive
32:26in there?
32:34Paul didn't know what was going on.
32:36He only did what I told him.
32:38The only way to prove that
32:40is by telling me the whole story.
32:42Only if Paul
32:44gets immunity.
32:46I know about that
32:48in writing.
33:00Is that him?
33:02That's him.
33:06Mr. Gates,
33:08did you kill Kim Foster?
33:10Yes.
33:12I killed all of them.
33:14I want their names.
33:16Linda Russo,
33:18before that it was Sarah Townsend,
33:20five other women.
33:26Gates confessed everything.
33:28We need to chalk one up
33:30to the good guys. Why the long face?
33:32Because if this were a book, I still wouldn't understand
33:34the operation.
33:36Valve replacement. It's no big deal. My dad had one.
33:38Yeah, at least if you don't have the money, who paid for it?
33:40I'm guessing Gates did.
33:42Maybe he stashed away some money from before prison.
33:44Yeah, but he was out of prison for a month.
33:46Why wait till now to do McArdle's operation?
33:48Well, he needed McArdle
33:50to help him with Linda Russo and Kim Foster.
33:52I guess.
33:56Packing up?
33:58Oh, just getting stuff together.
34:00All that stuff from prison?
34:02You accumulate a lot of stuff, you know, even in a slammer.
34:04You're right about Gates.
34:06He did try to go after Donna,
34:08but she's okay.
34:10And Gates? He confessed. It's all over.
34:12Thank God.
34:14Aren't you gonna ask what happened?
34:18To your girlfriend, Donna,
34:20you didn't ask about her, you just asked about Gates.
34:22Doesn't make any sense unless
34:24she was supposed to die.
34:28I don't know what you're...
34:30And McArdle didn't get the money for the surgery
34:32until after you got out of prison.
34:34He's removing all evidence he was even there.
34:36It was him all along. He's the real triple killer.
34:44Guilty as charged.
34:50Excellent work, detective.
34:52Thank you, sir. I hope you say the same to Castle.
34:54Where is he, by the way? I thought that they would be back by now.
34:56Maybe he and Ryan went out for a cold one.
34:58After a day like today, that's what I'm doing.
35:00Care to join me?
35:02I'd love to. Let's get in.
35:08That story about Gates getting arrested,
35:10that was your story, wasn't it?
35:12You were afraid you were gonna get caught, so you hid in prison.
35:14Too bad you didn't figure that out sooner.
35:16Too bad you didn't leave sooner. Cops will be here any minute.
35:18Looks like Detective Ryan called the precinct just before you got here.
35:20There won't be anybody missing me for a while,
35:22but by the time they do, I'll be long gone.
35:24You won't get far.
35:26They already have your name, know your face.
35:28Changed those. I've done that before.
35:30What's it been? Fun like setting up Gates?
35:32Paul McCardle was the only person in the world
35:34that he cared about once I learned that.
35:36The rest was easy.
35:38You never know when you need one of these.
35:40Besides, Gates liked prison.
35:42You taught Gates everything he needed to know to take the fall
35:44for the triple killer murders.
35:46After that, all you had to do was pay for Paul's surgery
35:48and you could walk away scot-free. That's a beautiful plan.
35:50Undone by a duffel bag.
35:52I'm not undone.
35:54I'm right here. I'll relocate. I'll start over.
35:56It must eat you alive
35:58knowing that you came so close to catching me.
36:00But this is a winner-take-all type of game.
36:02Ah, Jerry.
36:04Shooting.
36:06It's not your style.
36:10You really don't know me at all, do you?
36:12Always not complicated.
36:16You were raised by a single mother.
36:18She was blonde.
36:20Well, she was beautiful, but...
36:22she never wanted you.
36:24When you were what?
36:2612, I'm guessing?
36:28She died suddenly. Let's say...
36:30drug overdose.
36:32You go into foster care, the bad kind.
36:34You have so much hate.
36:38So much hate towards your mother for abandoning you
36:40that you kill these women
36:42to get back at her.
36:44But you leave them looking peaceful because as much as you hated
36:46your mother,
36:48you loved your mother.
36:50Am I getting warm?
36:52You're drawn
36:54to death.
36:56You like to be around it
36:58because it thrills you.
37:00Now, where does that come from?
37:02Your own suppressed impulses?
37:08How
37:10close
37:12to death
37:14do you want to get?
37:16Huh?
37:18Don't say
37:20anything you shouldn't.
37:24Hello?
37:26Darling, I just wanted you to know
37:28your conspiracy theories are completely
37:30unfounded.
37:32My conspiracy theories?
37:34Uh-huh. Alexis' secret admirer
37:36is Ashley, her boyfriend.
37:38Oh, that's great. Thanks.
37:40And he's a very charming young man.
37:42He's a very charming young man.
37:44He's a very charming young man.
37:46Yeah, and he's a very charming young man.
37:48So anyway, no need to worry.
37:50All's well that ends well.
37:52Richard?
37:56I love you.
38:00I don't think there's anything more to say.
38:16Castle?
38:40Castle?
38:42Clear. He's gone. I'm fine.
38:44Ryan needs an ambulance. No, I don't.
38:46Hey, what happened?
38:48I'm so glad that you're okay.
38:50He's the triple killer. He set Gates up to be a copycat.
38:52I know.
38:54I did the math when you and Ryan didn't come back from talking to Jerry.
38:56How did you know to come here?
38:58Your mom called.
39:00She said that you told her that you loved her
39:02and she figured something must be terribly wrong.
39:04I figured she might.
39:06Good girl.
39:14Here.
39:20Here you go.
39:24Thanks.
39:28Tell me something, Castle.
39:30Why did he let you live?
39:34To punish me.
39:36Make me pay for ruining his plan.
39:38Now he's gonna kill again
39:40all because I couldn't stop him.
39:42And I feel sorry.
39:52I know the feeling.