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  • 5/20/2025
Castle Season 3 Episode 6

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00:00I hate this case.
00:01I know, isn't it great?
00:31What about Ashley? I mean, shouldn't I tell him?
00:34Darling, in matters of the heart, it's best not to overthink things.
00:37That's your advice, Mother, with your track record?
00:40What chasm of doom has she led you to by way of her tips on romance?
00:44As it happens, we were discussing secret admirer etiquette.
00:49You have a secret admirer?
00:51No, I don't.
00:52You don't?
00:53No, I don't.
00:54You don't?
00:55No, I don't.
00:56No, I don't.
00:57You have a secret admirer etiquette.
00:59You have a secret admirer?
01:00I always thought it was silly, but now I'm kind of intrigued.
01:03And there is no need to tell Ashley.
01:06How exactly does a secret admirer express his admiration?
01:11He left a note in my locker.
01:13As you walked down the hall, a shard of sunlight glanced off your rope of flaxen hair and set it aglow.
01:19And I was enchanted.
01:21Oh, that's so poetic.
01:23Under the rope of flaxen hair is my French braid, which I only wore after gym class,
01:26which means he saw me in the hall on the first floor between fourth and fifth period.
01:30Wait a minute, what are you doing?
01:31Narrowing down suspects.
01:32You can't do that.
01:33No, you don't.
01:34That'll ruin the secret.
01:35No, it's like a mystery novel.
01:36You don't just go to the last page, do you?
01:39Yes.
01:40You do?
01:42Well, you shouldn't.
01:43It's not, you can't.
01:45The joy doesn't come in knowing who did it.
01:49The joy comes in the journey and allowing the ending to blossom like some magnificent Himalayan blue poppy.
01:56Okay, okay.
01:59I'll let him stay secret.
02:01Mark my words.
02:02You'll thank me.
02:06Castle.
02:09So our victim is Linda Russo.
02:11She's a customer relations worker at a cable company.
02:14Maybe someone was unsatisfied with their service.
02:16Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
02:18You sure?
02:19Yeah.
02:21Sanitation workers found her body under a couple of boxes.
02:23She lives two blocks away over at 24th and 10th.
02:27Looks like she was on her way home.
02:29Hey, Laney.
02:30Hey.
02:34What?
02:36Uh, it's nothing.
02:38No, what?
02:41Well, she just looks so peaceful.
02:43There's nothing peaceful about what put her here.
02:45She's strangled.
02:47With rope.
02:48So it appears.
02:51Castle, do you have a theory that you would like to share with the class?
02:54It's just a pretty blonde girl.
02:56Strangled.
02:57Laid out like she was asleep.
03:01That was four years ago.
03:02Yes, but he was never caught.
03:04This is his M.O. and she is certainly his type.
03:07I researched him for when it comes to slaughter.
03:09Yeah, well then you should know that he killed his victims inside their apartments, not in alleyways.
03:14And he posed them in a funereal pose with their hands clasped in front of them.
03:18Maybe he's switching up his act.
03:20Or this just could be a crime of opportunity where a young woman was murdered.
03:27Mrs. Russo, did your daughter ever talk to you about being followed?
03:31No.
03:32Nothing like that.
03:33Can you think of anyone that might have wanted to harm her?
03:35Any relationship problems?
03:36She wasn't even dating.
03:38Pretty much all she did was work.
03:40At the cable company, right?
03:42Did she have any issues with anyone there?
03:45There was a man at her office.
03:47What was his name?
03:48She didn't say.
03:50But he stared at her a lot, like some pervert.
03:58That was quick.
03:599-1-1 has that effect on her.
04:01What'd you find?
04:02I pulled all the files on all his past murders, just like you asked.
04:05I believe that was my idea.
04:07Yeah, but only listen when it comes from her.
04:09Anyway, you were saying?
04:11He choked them using a three-strand twisted quarter-inch rope.
04:15Based on the fibers found embedded in the skin, we know that the rope was green and white nylon.
04:21I don't remember that.
04:23Those details were never made public.
04:25Now check this out.
04:29The marks are identical.
04:31I found the exact same green and white fibers.
04:34It is him.
04:36The triple killer is back.
04:38For those of you living in a cave four years ago,
04:41the triple killer, or 3XK, got his nickname by strangling three women in a week,
04:45dropping out of sight for a month, and then killing three more.
04:48Then he disappeared.
04:49I served on the task force that investigated those six murders.
04:52An FBI profile was as close as we came to IDing the suspect.
04:56Feds say he's a white male, 25 to 45 years old.
04:59Could be me.
05:00With a dysfunctional relationship with his mother.
05:01Still me.
05:02He has a menial, unimportant job.
05:04Definitely you.
05:05Just for that, I based my next book on Esposito.
05:07He'd learn their habits and then gain access to their apartments
05:10by disguising himself as a security guard or a repairman,
05:13and then he strangled them.
05:15And he posed their bodies as if they were lying in a coffin.
05:17What do you think that's all about?
05:19Probably reenacting some terrible early trauma.
05:22Two final points.
05:24The triple killer seems to be back after four years.
05:26There must be a reason.
05:28Maybe he just got out of prison or returned to town.
05:30He may have altered his MO.
05:32But let's assume that he's working on the same clock.
05:34Three murders, one week.
05:36Based on Linda Russo's time of death,
05:38we're already into day three.
05:40Let's move on his people.
05:45Hey, that perf the mom told us about?
05:47Linda's colleagues knew who he was right away.
05:49Paul McCardle.
05:50He works at her office as a horticultural technician.
05:52A what?
05:53You know, he's the guy who waters the plants,
05:55dusts the fake ficus, or at least he was
05:57until he quit yesterday.
05:59That's interesting timing.
06:00I see domestic complaints by the double digits.
06:03Filed by his wife.
06:04Ex-wife.
06:05They were divorced last month
06:06after being married for four years.
06:08So in a way, he did just get out of prison.
06:10It gets even better.
06:11Linda's neighbors said they remember
06:12seeing a red Sentra parked outside her apartment
06:14a few days ago, the same vehicle McCardle has.
06:16Let's get him in here.
06:19So what's this about?
06:20Linda Russo.
06:21Where were you two nights ago between 6 and midnight?
06:24Oh.
06:25I was bowling with some buddies at Galaxy Lanes.
06:27So why did you decide to abandon your career
06:29as a horticultural technician?
06:31I just wanted to move on.
06:32Because you used that job to watch Linda,
06:34stalk her, and once she was dead, why stick around?
06:36That is not true.
06:37I'm innocent here.
06:38Well, you don't look innocent.
06:39No, as a matter of fact,
06:40you give new meaning to the phrase
06:42sweating a suspect.
06:43Okay, yeah, I perspire a lot.
06:45Okay, I have a medical condition.
06:47Well, that's the least of your problems, Mr. McCardle.
06:50Your fixation with Linda Russo was well known,
06:52as was your history of violence against women.
06:54Your car was seen outside of her apartment,
06:57and now she's dead.
06:58I never touched her.
07:00I had a thing for Linda, okay?
07:02I had a thing for Linda,
07:03and I parked out in front of her place.
07:05But I haven't been anywhere near there in three days, okay?
07:08Not since that guy threatened me.
07:09What guy?
07:10I got rousted by some security guy,
07:13and he told me to move on.
07:15And it really freaked me out,
07:16and I haven't been back there since.
07:17I swear, that's the truth.
07:20So Sweaty Von Sweat's a lot?
07:22His alibi is holding.
07:23The manager of Galaxy Lanes
07:24hasn't thrown gutter balls from five until close.
07:26What about the security guard?
07:28Ryan checked into that.
07:29Turns out that there's only one building
07:30on Linda's block that uses guards,
07:32and according to the security company,
07:33no incident report was ever filed
07:35against McArdle or his vehicle.
07:36So McArdle was lying.
07:38Maybe not.
07:39You know, in the past,
07:40the triple killer posed as a security guard.
07:42Maybe our guard wasn't a guard after all.
07:44Maybe it was the triple killer
07:46moving McArdle off of his turf.
07:48Well, whoever he is, he's sticking to his schedule.
07:51We have a second victim.
08:02Her name's Kim Foster, 28, an interior designer.
08:05Same rope marks on her neck, same everything.
08:08When did she die?
08:09Uh, based on liver temp, I'd say sometime last night,
08:12probably early evening.
08:13Neighbor saw a gas repairman leave at 745.
08:16No doorman on the building,
08:17so triple killer calls Kim Foster on the intercom,
08:20says he wants to check a gas leak.
08:21She buzzes him in.
08:23Let me check the incoming caller IDs.
08:24I don't get it.
08:25Why did he return to the old M.O.?
08:27Nostalgia.
08:28He killed Linda Russo in an alley.
08:30She didn't have a doorman either.
08:31Why didn't he just kill her in her apartment
08:33like all the others?
08:34Well, maybe she was special somehow.
08:36Vic's last incoming call was at 735 from the front door.
08:40She must have let him in, and boom,
08:41he just overpowered her.
08:42Maybe it wasn't that easy.
08:43Look at those throw pillows.
08:45What's wrong with them?
08:46Well, Kim Foster's an interior designer.
08:48These pillows have been arranged
08:49with a barbarian-like gracelessness.
08:51Like a man would do it, so she put up a fight.
08:53He struggled right here on the couch.
08:55And then he reset the pillows to cover it up.
08:57He's out of practice, so he's not so neat.
09:01Yep!
09:02What?
09:03Found a penny.
09:04Out of the circumstances, is this still lucky?
09:06Wait, I think I found something, too.
09:11A fence.
09:12Think it belonged to the killer?
09:13Well, maybe it's been here for weeks.
09:15I'm gonna have to get CSU to process this area.
09:20Sir, uh, Mr. Townsend wants a word.
09:24Bring him in.
09:27Cal.
09:28Good to see you.
09:29Good to see you.
09:31How's Marie?
09:32Uh...
09:34She's okay.
09:38We're split up now.
09:40I'm sorry to hear that.
09:43Um...
09:45Reporters.
09:47They keep coming to my door and asking me how I feel about...
09:52the man who killed my daughter,
09:54and might be on the loose again, and I'm, you know...
09:58After Sarah died and all through the investigation,
10:00you were always straight with me, and I just need to know, you know...
10:03I mean, what they're saying.
10:06Is it true? I mean...
10:08Is he back?
10:10Yes.
10:11Cal, we got leads.
10:12We got good leads, and we're doing all we can to chase them down.
10:16If we make an arrest, you'll be the first to know.
10:20I promise you.
10:27Heh.
10:31Sarah would have been 29 next week.
10:37Don't let him do this to another family.
10:58Hey.
10:59Hey.
11:00There's no news from CSU on the name tag.
11:02Not that I was expecting any.
11:04Makes you wonder why he didn't pull that whole gas leak routine on Linda Russo.
11:08I know why. The answer's in here.
11:11A transcript?
11:12From four years ago.
11:13I took a look at calls made to the triple killer tip line,
11:16and this one stood out for me.
11:17It's from May 21st, 2006,
11:19which was a week after the sixth murder.
11:21A woman called and left a message,
11:23but she was too afraid to leave her name.
11:25She did mention that she lived at 24th and 10th.
11:28Same corner as Linda Russo.
11:30She was riding an elevator with a cable repairman
11:32who so creeped her out that she got off a floor early just to get away from him.
11:35Yeah, but cable guy and creepy, that's a job requirement.
11:37Except he wasn't a cable guy.
11:39She said he wasn't carrying the right tools.
11:42And working for a cable company, Linda Russo would know that.
11:45Which is why I took a look at Linda Russo's phone records from four years ago.
11:48She's the one who made the call to that tip line.
11:50So Linda Russo was special.
11:52When she got off a floor early, he knew that she made him, so he dropped out of sight.
11:56Which also explains why he attacked her outside.
11:59He knew there was no way she'd let him into her apartment.
12:03Linda Russo saw his face, and he came back four years later.
12:07That's a special kind of ruthlessness.
12:09Yo, CSU's got a partial on that name tag.
12:12We got a match.
12:15The man that we're looking for is Marcus Gates.
12:1842, 6 foot tall, 180 pounds, with light brown hair.
12:21He also has a snake tattoo running down his left arm.
12:24A print match ties him to Kim Foster's murder.
12:27Now prison psych evaluation calls Gates a brutal, highly intelligent sociopath.
12:32He's done time for manslaughter and attempted murder.
12:35His last conviction was for breaking a bottle over a man's head in a bar, almost killing him.
12:40For which Gates served four years in Sing Sing.
12:44He just got out last month.
12:46No known address, no family.
12:48His mother died when he was four years old.
12:50And he was placed in a series of foster homes since then, so he will not be easy to find.
12:54Listen, four years ago, this guy took the lives of six women because we didn't stop him.
12:59We know who the triple killer is.
13:01We know he's out there targeting his third victim.
13:05Let's get him before he gets her.
13:15Hey, Dad.
13:16Hey.
13:17Hey.
13:18Must be quite a case of us keeping you out this late.
13:20Oh, you know, someone died, someone else did it.
13:23Secret admirer?
13:25As a matter of fact, it is.
13:26Figure out who it was yet?
13:27I took your advice and decided it's better not knowing.
13:29And he left another note in my locker.
13:31He said if I like the rose, I should show him by wearing it at school tomorrow.
13:34Isn't that sweet?
13:36Well, is that a good idea?
13:39Oh, what would your boyfriend actually think?
13:42I get a feeling it's not Ashley who has the problem.
13:45I'm just not sure it's smart to go wearing some flower when you don't know who it's from.
13:50Your school is not exactly Fort Knox, all right?
13:53Anyone could have put that note in your locker.
13:55Your secret admirer could be some pervert watching you from afar with high-powered binoculars.
14:01I'm going to bed now.
14:03Good night.
14:05Good night.
14:06Could you lock your windows for me, please?
14:08Yes.
14:09Please?
14:10I'm gonna check, make sure they're locked.
14:13No, I had it all set up.
14:15I was on this pilot.
14:16I don't understand your system.
14:17I'm messing up my system.
14:18Hey, guys.
14:19Any news on Gates?
14:20My system is efficient.
14:22And, uh, I already went through this one.
14:24It's on your stack.
14:25It's part of my system.
14:26Your system is dumb.
14:27So, nothing?
14:28No.
14:29We tracked down an uncle in Jersey, but he hasn't seen Gates in 20 years.
14:33So I'm on the phone with Sing Sing to chase down prison associates.
14:36Detective Beckett, you still there?
14:38Yes, I'm still here.
14:42Okay.
14:43And is he still doing time?
14:45First-time drug offender.
14:46Got it.
14:47Thanks.
14:48Jelly Tyson?
14:49It's Jerry Castle.
14:51When Gates got released, he gave all of his stuff to Jerry Tyson, a fellow inmate.
14:55So if the two of them were friends, Jerry might be able to tell us where we can find Gates.
15:02Now it's Jerry.
15:05I got three months left in this hellhole.
15:08All I want to do is do my time, get out, and go see my girl.
15:11And it's never going to happen if Gates gets wind that I talk to cops.
15:15He won't.
15:16You don't know that.
15:18He's got reach in here.
15:21He'll have me taken out.
15:23Here's the deal, Jerry.
15:24Whether you talk to us or not, I'm willing to sit here all day.
15:27So it's going to look like you're spilling your guts to us.
15:33All right, but I want to be back in my cell in two minutes.
15:35Fair enough.
15:36Were the two of you friends?
15:37Whatever that means in here.
15:40I work in the kitchen.
15:41I snuck him fruit so he could make pruno.
15:43And in return, he agreed to protect you?
15:45And now he's gone, and I'm in here going it alone.
15:47Have you kind of ever known dreams of what he'll do and where he'll go once he gets out?
15:50Gates ever talk to you about that?
15:53I remember him talking about some strip clubs.
15:56And, um, there's a place he liked to go drinking.
15:59Um, in the meatpacking district.
16:01What was it called?
16:03Hog something.
16:05Something about hogs.
16:21I just did some recon.
16:22He's at the bar nursing a beer.
16:23How many in there?
16:24Five total.
16:25Gates the bartender, waitress, two drunks.
16:27He may be armed.
16:28We take him quick.
16:29Don't give him a chance to get any hostages.
16:32It's him!
16:33Let me see your hands!
16:34Let me see your hands!
16:35Right now!
16:36Put your hands up!
16:38Put your hands up!
16:39Hands in the air right now!
16:40You armed him, man!
16:41Put your hands in the air and get on your knees while you're at it!
16:45Wow.
16:46Brought out the old guy, huh?
16:47Can only mean one thing.
16:48You want me in a bad way, right?
16:50Shut up.
16:51Hey, don't forget to read me my rights.
16:53It'd be a shame to get turned loose on a technicality.
16:55Let's go.
17:04Cold.
17:05Implacable.
17:06The triple killer remains at ease.
17:09Calm in the lair of his enemy with a resting heart rate of 50.
17:13Set to match wits with his interrogators.
17:17I just wanted to bring a literary flair to the moment, you know.
17:22The bartender told us where Gates lives.
17:24He's had to put him in a cabin more than one occasion.
17:26Ryan's got a warrant and he's searching his place right now.
17:28We can't count on circumstantial evidence to carry this case.
17:30We need to get this guy to run his mouth.
17:33The only hard evidence we have on him is Kim Foster's murder.
17:35Pin him down on where he was when she died.
17:39Castle.
17:42Not this time.
17:47Mr. Gates, I'm Detective Beckett.
17:52Not my type.
17:54But I would make an exception.
17:58Do you know a Kim Foster?
18:04It doesn't ring a bell.
18:06Have you ever seen this woman before?
18:11She has nice hair.
18:12Have you or haven't you seen her?
18:17New York City.
18:19Big place. I mean, I could have passed her on the street, I guess.
18:21I'm actually talking about a more intimate interaction.
18:23Have you ever been in her apartment?
18:25I've been to a lot of apartments.
18:29This building is at 35th and 8th.
18:32She lived in 301.
18:34Were you ever in that particular unit?
18:36No.
18:37Well, then perhaps you can explain to me how we found this name tag with your fingerprint on it lying next to her body.
18:45As a matter of fact, I can.
18:47Can we hear this?
18:48I work at the Empire Prop House.
18:51And?
18:52And they rent props for movies and TV shows.
18:55I know what a prop house is.
18:57So that's my job.
18:58I stock props.
19:01Tons of name tags just like this one.
19:03I bet I've touched a hundred of them.
19:05We'll run that down and see if he's real.
19:06Run it.
19:07There's no record of you having this job.
19:11They pay me under the table.
19:13Oh.
19:14Maybe you can get me for tax evasion.
19:17This prop house where you say you work, do they have uniforms there?
19:21Sure.
19:22Like gas company uniforms?
19:24Any kind of uniform you can think of, they got it.
19:27And have you ever taken any of these uniforms home?
19:30Do you have any in your possession?
19:34Are you guys searching my place?
19:35Yes.
19:36So if there are any uniforms there, you may as well tell me.
19:39Wow.
19:40I'm gonna want to see the search warrant.
19:44What for?
19:45It's my legal right.
19:47And I'm done talking till you show it to me.
19:49So you better get with affirmative action back there and come up with a new game plan.
19:55He wants the search warrant to get a peek at our cards.
19:58How is that giving him a peek?
19:59The warrant lists ropes, uniforms, and other personal effects belonging to Kim Foster, Linda Russo, and the other six triple killer victims.
20:05We're looking at the warrant he can gauge where we are in our investigation.
20:07That's not giving him a peek, that's showing him our whole hand.
20:10He'll know we think he's the triple killer.
20:12He already knows.
20:14Yo. Empire prop.
20:16Confirmed that Gates works in their warehouse and had access to those tags.
20:19He clocked out at 7.02 the night of Kim Foster's murder.
20:22Now, Empire is in Lincoln Square, which means that he had enough time to get to her apartment and push the intercom button by 7.35.
20:30Show him the warrant.
20:32Odds are he will lawyer up to try to stop him.
20:39How is she supposed to do that?
20:42I don't think she can.
20:43I don't think she can.
20:57Turns out you got a lot more on your mind than just Kim Foster.
21:00I see the names of seven other women here.
21:06Ryan.
21:07Tell me you got something.
21:08Not so far.
21:09No rope, no uniform, nothing that ties him to any of the victims.
21:12Keep looking.
21:14The thing is, this name tag is the probable cause for bringing me in.
21:18But I've explained the fingerprint, and by now I'm sure you've checked out my story.
21:22Actually, we're still verifying that.
21:25I know how this works. You do not have probable cause to hold me.
21:29Is that right? Can we hold him?
21:31Only in the movies.
21:32He can just walk out of here.
21:33Unless she catches him in a line, gives her cause to keep him.
21:38I want to leave now.
21:40Okay, fine.
21:42You can do that.
21:44Second that you lawyer up and leave, you become the focus of a major investigation.
21:48It will disrupt your life in ways you can't even imagine.
21:50I'm already the focus.
21:51Yeah, well, you don't have to be.
21:55Look, the truth is, we don't have any evidence that connects you to those murders.
21:59It all boils down to Kim Foster.
22:02Even if your fingerprints got on this name tag by accident,
22:05with your record, you still look like a suspect to us.
22:07So Kim Foster's a problem for you.
22:09But you can get that problem out of your way.
22:11You said you've never been to her apartment.
22:14Where were you at 735 last night?
22:19What's in that for me?
22:20If your alibi checks out, then we move on.
22:24We go after the real killer.
22:28I left work at 7. I walked home like I always do.
22:30I got home maybe 7.30 and I stayed in all night.
22:34And you're sure about that?
22:36Absolutely.
22:38This is off of a traffic cam across from Gates' apartment.
22:41Well, this is it. This will prove that he was lying.
22:43At 7.35, he was on his way to Kim Foster's apartment.
22:47Wait, whoa, whoa, Pat. Stop, stop, stop there.
22:51That's him. 7.31.
22:53No, that can't be.
22:54It is. Look. Same sideburns.
22:58And there's a snake tattoo.
23:00Well, then he slipped out the back and went to Kim's.
23:02How would he get from 101st to Midtown?
23:05And change clothes in four minutes.
23:08I don't know, but he did it.
23:10Can we enhance this video?
23:11You can enhance it all you want.
23:12It doesn't change the facts. We gotta cut him loose.
23:14Sir, I just...
23:15I don't like this any more than you, detective.
23:17But he alibis out.
23:21Well, looks like we had it all wrong. You're free to go.
23:24With this triple killer fella running around,
23:26you all better keep your loved ones close.
23:32I sure hope you catch him.
23:35Put a surveillance detail on him.
23:38I don't want that son of a bitch out of our sight.
23:49Oh, don't you look adorable this morning.
23:51I meet my secret admirer today.
23:53Well, I can just picture the scene.
23:56You and your secret admirer agree to meet in the cafeteria.
23:59You scan the array of pimply faces. Which one is his?
24:02Your secret admirer uses the prearranged signal
24:04of a double helping of mashed potatoes on his plate.
24:07He's handsome.
24:09Charming in an asexual, non-threatening kind of way.
24:11Nice try.
24:12But it'll be so much more mysterious.
24:15Listen to this.
24:20If you want to meet, I'll be at Strawberry Fields at five o'clock.
24:23I hope you'll be there too.
24:24No. No, no, no.
24:25No, you're not going.
24:27Before, you were practically forcing me to find out who it is.
24:29Not in the park. Not by yourself.
24:31But I've been there a million times.
24:32No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
24:34The first note you got.
24:37Rope of flaxen hair. Rope. Flaxen. Flaxen is blonde.
24:40Dad, I'm a redhead.
24:41You're totally overreacting.
24:42I'm meeting my secret admirer and that's all there is to it.
24:48Richard, darling, she's right. You are being utterly irrational.
24:52It's like when I was doing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
24:54and I thought my understudy was trying to poison me.
24:57Oh, yeah. The daily blood tests I paid for.
24:59Wait, she did poison you.
25:01The Swiss chocolate she gave you was a laxative.
25:03It added a certain urgency to my performance.
25:05But the point is, you indulged my paranoia.
25:08So, therefore, I am going to be in the park five o'clock at a discreet distance
25:11to make sure that Alexis's secret admirer is not an axe murderer.
25:17You're welcome.
25:21Tell me you've arrested Gates.
25:22Not even close.
25:23I mean, I don't know how, Castle, but he killed Kim Foster and he's going to do it again.
25:27There's been no developments? Usually you call me with news.
25:33You called to seek my counsel.
25:35I wouldn't say it exactly like that.
25:38No, no, no. You were hoping I had some wild theory,
25:42some sort of penetrating insight that would lead us to a breakthrough.
25:46Well, do you?
25:51No, I've got nothing.
25:52I just need some piece of evidence. I mean, someone that he talked to. Anything.
25:57What if Gates confided in Jerry about the previous murders?
26:00Yeah, well, Jerry's not going to talk to us. He got beaten up in the prison yard this morning
26:03and he thinks that Gates had something to do with it.
26:05Sounds like Gates is afraid of what Jerry Tyson knows.
26:09Get the hell away from me.
26:11Listen, Jerry, we just need a little more information on Marcus Gates.
26:15Hey, don't you guys get it? I'm a dead man, thanks to you.
26:18Not if we get you out. The D.A. has agreed to get you an early release and police protection.
26:23Gates knows about my girlfriend, Donna Gallagher. He could get to her, too.
26:26Well, then we'll make sure he doesn't.
26:29We gotta move on this, Jerry.
26:32Last chance.
26:36Okay. I'll do it. I'll take the deal.
26:39We need to know. Did Gates ever talk to you about attacking women?
26:44There was this one time he told me about this chick, Sarah, down in Soho.
26:49That could be Sarah Townsend.
26:50He told me about how he busted into her place and things got out of control.
26:53But it must have been pretty bad, because Gates said he was worried that the cops were after him.
26:56So he bust a bottle over this guy's head to get himself locked up.
27:00That way he'd be under the radar for a while.
27:03It's a good start.
27:05My name's Detective Ryan, and I'm your new best friend.
27:09This motel's under surveillance.
27:11For your own safety, you cannot leave or use the phone.
27:14Right now, you and I need to go over everything Gates ever said to you, even if it seems stupid or unimportant.
27:20Jerry's story squares with the fact Sarah Townsend was Gates' sixth victim, and she lives in Soho.
27:24What about a assault with a deadly bottle?
27:25In the pits, too. It came a week after Sarah's death.
27:27Looks like Gates sent himself up the river on purpose.
27:29Still not enough to arrest him, is it?
27:31No, but if Jerry has more tidbits like that, it may help us get there.
27:34Yo, we can't locate Donna Gallagher. She's not picking up her cell.
27:37Sir, where's Gates now?
27:38At his apartment. Surveillance says he hasn't left the building.
27:40Contact Donna's friends and family. Find out where she is.
27:42I told Jerry we'd keep her safe.
27:45Can't you just arrest this guy? I mean, you know he did these things.
27:48He has an alibi. We can't put him at the murder scene.
27:53He used partners sometimes. You know that, right?
27:56Partner?
27:58We never ran across anything about a partner.
28:00Oh, yeah. He said a partner helps him get away with things.
28:03Though I get the idea he never used the same partner twice.
28:07Jerry said that Gates used a partner.
28:09A partner. That's why he has an alibi.
28:11I tell you guys to arrest Gates, I know how he killed Kim Foster.
28:17Gates said he walks home every night at the same time, right?
28:21So this traffic cam footage from the day before...
28:23Wait, there he is. There he is.
28:24Okay, that's Gates on the right. Night of Kim Foster's murder.
28:27On the left, Gates from a night earlier.
28:30What's wrong with this picture?
28:32He's too short.
28:33So, either Gates shrank...
28:35Or this is his fault.
28:36He wore Gates' clothing.
28:37Gates would have had access to wigs and disguises from the prop house.
28:40That's how Gates can be at two places at once.
28:42Wait.
28:44What's that?
28:46Uh, it's a reflection from...
28:48From sweat.
28:49Sweaty bone sweats a lot.
28:50That's Paul McCardle. That's why he was watching Linda Russo.
28:53He's the partner.
28:54He was working with Gates.
28:56I'm gonna put an APB out on McCardle.
28:57You better add Marcus Gates to that list.
28:59Sir?
29:00When officers busted into his place, all they found was a ring.
29:03Gates is gone.
29:07Got uniforms searching the area. No sign of Gates.
29:10Maybe he's going after Donna. That way, he could punish Jerry, too.
29:13We got any leads on the whereabouts?
29:14Esposito's talking to her friends right now, but she's still in the wind.
29:17So is Paul McCardle.
29:19The car's gone, and he has two ex-wifes. He has no idea where he is, either.
29:22But I did find out how he and Gates are connected.
29:24They were in a foster home together.
29:26So McCardle could be with Gates.
29:28Yeah.
29:30Beckett.
29:31One of Donna's neighbors just told me she's house-sitting at her cousin's.
29:33Do you have an address?
29:34Yeah, but so does Gates.
29:36Some guy dressed as a messenger said he had a delivery for Donna.
29:39Get there now.
29:42Katie!
29:45Get off!
29:48I'll have to see you talk your way out of this one.
29:52I'm sorry.
29:53I'm sorry.
29:54I'm sorry.
29:55I'm sorry.
29:56I'm sorry.
29:57I'll have to see you talk your way out of this one.
30:00I'll try not to disappoint you.
30:02We found the same kind of rope in your pocket as was used by the triple killer.
30:09Last I checked, man's allowed to carry rope.
30:14I think you wanted to get caught, Marcus.
30:18There's nothing left for you out here, but in prison, people fear you.
30:23You're a shot-caller.
30:25You wanted to be king again.
30:28All that's left for you to do is to clear the air of all these murders and be done with it all.
30:42Let's try.
30:46This guy's never gonna give it up.
30:47Sir, I need leverage, and I don't have any.
30:49There's no witnesses. There's no proof that connects him to any of the murders.
30:52The only thing that I've got him on is an assault charge.
30:54Hey.
30:55We just got a hit on McArdle's APB. He's at St. Benjamin's Hospital.
30:58Maybe Keith's got to him.
30:59Sir, if I can get McArdle to roll...
31:00Go.
31:01Yeah.
31:02Uh, yeah, I'm...
31:03Okay, fine, Cass, I'll go.
31:04Just stay out of his way.
31:05And Ryan?
31:07Get me something I can break him with.
31:12Excuse me.
31:13I'm Detective Ryan.
31:14I'd like a word with Mr. McArdle.
31:16You can't have one. He just got out of heart surgery.
31:18What for?
31:19A congenital valve defect.
31:21Would that cause excessive sweating by any chance?
31:23Well, among other more serious symptoms.
31:25He's been in dire need of surgery for over a year.
31:27So why get it now?
31:28Well, he finally came up with the money.
31:30It's kind of a costly procedure.
31:31How costly?
31:32About $100,000.
31:34Who footed the bill?
31:36That's confidential information.
31:38You spoke to his ex-wife?
31:39She didn't even know he was here.
31:41She hated the guy.
31:42So who sold the flowers?
31:44Beckett.
31:45McArdle's surgery had nothing to do with Gates.
31:47In fact, Gates sent him to get well flowers.
31:50Which means he cares about his foster brother.
31:52That's your leverage.
31:54You still need us to wait and talk to McArdle?
31:57No.
31:58Tell Jerry his girlfriend's fine
32:00and he doesn't have to worry about Gates anymore.
32:03You keep coming back for more.
32:05I look for that in a woman.
32:08We found Paul.
32:10He's at St. Benjamin's.
32:11We know that he pretended to be you
32:12the night of Kim Foster's murder,
32:13and I'm gonna get him to testify against you.
32:17You don't know Paul.
32:18Well, then we'll go another way.
32:20I'll charge him with accessory to murder.
32:23You can't do that.
32:24Actually, we can.
32:25Sing Sing might have been a picnic for you,
32:26but how long do you think Paul is gonna survive in there?
32:36Paul didn't know what was going on.
32:39He only did what I told him.
32:41The only way to prove that
32:43is by telling me the whole story.
32:46Only if Paul gets immunity
32:50and I want that in writing.
33:04Is that him?
33:06That's him.
33:10Mr. Gates, did you kill Kim Foster?
33:15Yes. I killed all of them.
33:19I want their names.
33:20Linda Russo.
33:21Before that, it was Sarah Townsend.
33:24Five other women.
33:31Gates confessed everything.
33:33We need to chalk one up with the good guys.
33:35Why the long face?
33:36Because if this were a book,
33:37I still wouldn't understand the operation.
33:40Valve replacement.
33:41It's no big deal. My dad had one.
33:42Yeah, it is if you don't have the money.
33:43Who paid for it?
33:44I'm guessing Gates did.
33:45Maybe he stashed away some money from before prison.
33:48Yeah, but he was out of prison for a month.
33:49Why wait till now to do McArdle's operation?
33:52Well, he needed McArdle
33:53helping with Linda Russo and Kim Foster.
33:56I guess.
34:00Packing up?
34:01Oh, just getting stuff together.
34:03All that stuff from prison?
34:05I didn't accumulate a lot of stuff,
34:07you know, even in the slammer.
34:08You're right about Gates.
34:09He did try to go after Donna, but she's okay.
34:12And Gates?
34:13He confessed. It's all over.
34:16Thank God.
34:18Aren't you gonna ask what happened?
34:21To your girlfriend, Donna,
34:23you didn't ask about her,
34:24you just asked about Gates.
34:25Doesn't make any sense unless...
34:28she was supposed to die.
34:31I don't know what you're...
34:32And McArdle didn't get the money for the surgery
34:34until after you got out of prison.
34:37He's removing all evidence he was even there.
34:39It was him all along.
34:40He's the real triple killer.
34:43Ugh!
34:47Guilty as charged.
34:53Excellent work, detective.
34:54Thank you, sir.
34:55I hope you say the same to Castle.
34:56Where is he, by the way?
34:57I thought that they would be back by now.
34:59Maybe he and Ryan went out for a cold one.
35:01After a day like today, that's what I'm doing.
35:03Care to join me?
35:04Yeah, yeah, I'd love to.
35:05Let's hit it.
35:07That story about Gates getting arrested,
35:09that was your story, wasn't it?
35:11You were afraid you were gonna get caught,
35:12so you hid in prison.
35:13Too bad you didn't figure that out sooner.
35:15Too bad you didn't leave sooner.
35:16Cops would be here any minute.
35:17Looks like Detective Ryan called the precinct
35:19just before you got here.
35:20There won't be anybody missing me for a while,
35:21but by the time they do, I'll be long gone.
35:23You won't get far.
35:25They already have your name, know your face.
35:27Changed those.
35:28I've done that before.
35:29It's part of the fun of it.
35:30Fun like setting up Gates?
35:32Paul McArdle.
35:33was the only person in the world
35:34that he cared about once I learned that.
35:36The rest was easy.
35:37You never know when you need one of these.
35:39Besides, Gates liked prison.
35:41You taught Gates everything he needed to know
35:43to take the fall for the triple killer murders.
35:45After that, all you had to do was pay for Paul's surgery
35:47and you could walk away scot-free.
35:49That's a beautiful plan.
35:51Undone by a duffel bag.
35:53I'm not undone.
35:54I'm right here.
35:55I'll relocate.
35:56I'll start over.
35:57It must eat you alive,
35:58knowing that you came so close.
36:00But this is a winner-take-all type of game.
36:03Oh, Jerry.
36:05Shooting.
36:07It's not your style.
36:10You really don't know me at all, do you?
36:12Always not complicated.
36:15You were raised by a single mother.
36:18She was blonde.
36:19Well, she was beautiful,
36:21but she never wanted you.
36:24When you were what?
36:2612?
36:27When you were what?
36:2912, I'm guessing?
36:30She died suddenly?
36:32Let's say, drug overdose.
36:34You go into foster care, the bad kind.
36:38You have so much hate.
36:41So much hate towards your mother for abandoning you
36:44that you kill these women to get back at her.
36:47But you leave them looking peaceful
36:48because as much as you hated your mother,
36:51you loved your mother.
36:53Am I getting warm?
36:56You're drawn to death.
37:00You like to be around it,
37:02because it thrills you.
37:03Now, where does that come from?
37:05Your own suppressed impulses?
37:12How close to death do you want to get?
37:19Huh?
37:22Don't say anything you shouldn't.
37:26Hello?
37:27Darling, I just wanted you to know,
37:29your conspiracy theories are completely unfounded.
37:33My conspiracy theories?
37:35Uh-huh.
37:36Alexis' secret admirer is Ashley, her boyfriend.
37:40Oh, that's great, thanks.
37:41And he's a very charming young man, too.
37:44He's a very charming young man.
37:47Oh, that's great, thanks.
37:48And he's a very charming young man.
37:50So anyway, no need to worry, all's well that ends well.
37:55Richard?
37:58I love you.
38:03I don't think there's anything more to say.
38:17I don't think there's anything more to say.
38:44Castle?
38:45Clear, he's gone.
38:46I'm fine, Ryan needs an ambulance.
38:48No, I don't.
38:49Hey, what happened?
38:51I'm so glad that you're okay.
38:53He's the triple killer.
38:54He set Gates up to be a copycat.
38:56I know.
38:57I did the math when you and Ryan
38:58didn't come back from talking to Jerry.
39:00How did you know to come here?
39:02Your mom called.
39:03She said that you told her that you loved her,
39:05and she figured something must be terribly wrong.
39:08I figured she might.
39:11Good girl.
39:13Copy.
39:23Here you go.
39:27Thanks.
39:32Tell me something, Castle.
39:33Why did he let you live?
39:37To punish me.
39:40To make me pay for ruining his plan.
39:45Now he's gonna kill again
39:46all because I couldn't stop him.
39:50I feel so...
40:00I know the feeling.