Castle Season 3 Episode 10

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00:00You've made your point, Andy.

00:06So they closed the machine shop and turned it into an expresso bar.

00:09That doesn't make you a bad provider.

00:14Look, this is crazy.

00:15It's the East River.

00:16The only thing you're gonna catch out here is a cold.

00:17Oh my God!

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00:35Oh my God!

00:36Can you believe my old grade school shirt still fits?

00:42Like a glove, yes.

00:43A shirt, no.

00:44You look like the Incredible Hulk.

00:45Nice, Dad.

00:46Yeah, that's what you get when you talk to him while he's writing.

00:49Well, Gracie's gonna love it.

00:51It'll crack her up when she sees it.

00:53Gracie.

00:54Little cutie whose family moved off to, I wanna say, Kansas?

00:58She's in fifth grade.

00:59She emailed me she was coming to town to check out FIT, so I told her she could spend the

01:02night.

01:03I asked you.

01:04What was I writing?

01:05Incredible Hulk.

01:06Gracie!

01:07Look at you, green-tailed girl.

01:08Look at you!

01:09Hi.

01:10Hi.

01:11Uh, you remember Graham and my dad?

01:12Sure.

01:13Hey, it's been forever.

01:14Yeah.

01:15So, your room in the same place?

01:16Yeah.

01:17Same place.

01:18Same old room.

01:19You know, everything's the same.

01:20Almost.

01:21Hey.

01:22Hey.

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01:47sogenanIt looks like someone's not in Kansas anymore.

01:49What happened to the little hairband and knee socks?

01:57Ah, beckhet.

01:58Excellent timing.

01:59She used to be so adorable.

02:02What makes a girl, a little girl, who used to play hopscotch and My Little Ponies, suddenly

02:07pierce her eyebrow?

02:08It's like she's been assimilated by the leather overalls.

02:12probably romanticizing it. And is anything ever really the way that we

02:16remember it in grade school? Well, to be honest, beyond some baking sort of

02:20volcanoes and sweaty palms, I have very little memory of it at all. You? Mine are

02:24mostly orthodontic. Braces? You mean you weren't born with that dazzling smile? The

02:29only thing dazzling was how long it took my parents to pay for it. Body's in

02:34pretty good shape for a floater. Must not have been in the water too long. Well, if

02:38the river's as cold as my nose, I'd ballpark it within the last 12 hours, at

02:42most. No ID, but he looks early 40s. He's got a Navy tattoo on his arm and a

02:47nasty crush injury along his temporal line. Any chance he went overboard?

02:51Classic indicators point to deliberate blunt force, so I'd say no. This was no

02:56boating accident. Then we better close the beaches. No boating accident? Chief Brody?

03:04Cooper? Seriously? I'll zip his prints over to the precinct for an ID, but for

03:12what it's worth, I did find this. A Gambler's Anonymous medallion. Four years

03:18without a bet. Ah. What? The East River? A G.A. chip? Relapsed gambler gets in too

03:25deep with this book, he ends up floating in the drink. Are you kidding me? You just

03:29went from Gambler's Anonymous to mob hit? This is the most celebrated body

03:34depository this side of the Jersey wetlands. Mark my words, this guy has

03:38mob ties. Case closed. No mob ties. Are you sure? Good work. According to his

03:47fingerprints, his name is Donald Hayes. Navy veteran, served in Desert Storm, and

03:51he's been a dock worker since 94. Somehow still employed as one. Our victim, Donnie

03:56Hayes, currently clocked in and on duty at the Eastside docks. Which either means

04:02he's an incredibly dedicated zombie. Or he's a suspect in our murder.

04:08Donnie? Mr. Hayes?

04:14Donald Hayes. What's the matter, you forget your own name?

04:21Police! Don't move!

04:23The man said don't move. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You just cops? Just cops?

04:34I guess that makes you just under arrest for murder. First name Grant, last name

04:42Viro. I didn't kill anybody. Then why'd you run? I thought you was with Union. Oh, so

04:47we're not the only ones who have a problem with you killing Donnie for his

04:50Union card. What are you talking about? I bought that card. Do you really expect us

04:54to believe that you bought Donnie's card, assumed his identity, and thought no one

04:57would notice? Guy spent 16 years working over on the west side. So I switched the

05:04Eastside docks so no one who knew Donnie would catch on. So what does a Union card

05:08go for nowadays? Since buying someone else's is illegal. Sucker cost me 25

05:13grand. Well come on, Viro. Dock workers rake in over six figures a year. Why

05:18would Donnie trade it in for so little? Unless he had a gun to his head, in which

05:22case it'd be a bargain. There were no guns. I needed a job. Donnie needed cash.

05:26For what? He didn't say, and I didn't care.

05:32Beckett, I was right about the blunt force trauma. A single blow caved in the

05:38ridge here along Donnie's squamozo suture, and whatever did the damage was

05:42kind enough to leave this shard of red glass embedded in his skull. Maybe a

05:46heavy vase or bottle? I'll have forensics take a look at it, see if they can find

05:51a match. Based on Levitity and Waterton, I've narrowed time of death to between

05:554 and 6 a.m. this morning. What happened here on the shoulder? Buckshot. I found

06:01several double-eyed pellets lodged in the flesh of his left arm. So someone

06:06conked him on the head and shot him? That's where it gets weird. Scarring

06:09indicates the pellets have been there about two to three weeks. He just left

06:12him in there? Well he certainly didn't seek treatment. Could have been he was in

06:16something illegal or scared of whoever shot him. Or both. Don't forget Viro. His alibi

06:22cleared, and we tracked down his personal check for $25,000, endorsed and deposited

06:26by Donnie last month. Viro paid Donnie with a check? Not lobby enough for you,

06:30Castle? CSU's still combing Donnie's place, but no broken red glass, no signs of foul

06:35play, and no next of kin either. What about the Gambler's Anonymous chip? Any

06:39sponsor? Yeah, but he says he hasn't heard from Donnie for months. So then maybe

06:42Castle was right. If Donnie was desperate enough to sell his union card, then maybe

06:46he fell off the wagon and got in over his head. Yeah, to the tune of 25 grand. Yo,

06:50that'd be lowballing it, bro. Donnie's account shows that he deposited Viro's

06:56check about a month ago, adding it to his existing balance of $125,000, all of which,

07:01wait for it, is now gone. Gone? All of it? Except for the remaining balance of $6.23,

07:08all $150,000 was spent in one giant check made payable to a Wilbur Pitterino, listed here as

07:14owning several properties, as well as a waste management business in Garfield, New Jersey.

07:19Oh, waste management. Any priors? Yeah. Back in 1977, Billy Pitt spent 10 years in

07:25federal for assault and racketeering. And what? Racketeering. As well as shaking down

07:32business owners where he operated his, uh, bookmaking operation. His what now?

07:36Bookmaking operation. Oh, so an ex-gambler dumps his life savings on an ex-con, ex-bookmaker,

07:42and ends up exed out? Sounds like Donnie was late with his $150,000 for Billy Pitt,

07:48and he ended up paying for it with his life. I think I just said that.

08:01You know, you might have gotten a little grayer, Mr. Pitt, but it seems to me

08:04you haven't changed much at all. Must be all them Pilates classes.

08:12Do you recognize this check? Of course, it's from Donnie Hazel. So I'm wondering if Donnie

08:16didn't owe you more money and you didn't flash back to your old racketeering days. Tap the break,

08:20sweetie. Whatever the hell you dragged me down here for, I want to tell you right now that I

08:23paid my tab with Johnny Law a couple lifetimes ago, and he's got nothing on me since. This guy

08:28is gold. You don't believe me? Why don't you ask Donnie? Is this about Donnie? He was found

08:35dead in the East River this morning. Now back to the money. What was it for? Was it a payment or

08:41was it a gift? A purchase. For? He bought my bar downtown. Loved the place. Really? Enough to drop

08:48everything and dump his whole life savings into it? Kid was practically raised in the joint by

08:53his grandfather, Leo the Legend. Leo the Legend? You heard of the guy? City's best bartender since

08:58the days when game and happy was the only father Donnie knew. And where do I find Leo? Resting in

09:03an old silver shaker behind the bar. Leo was kind of a bar historian, and when he kicked in 97,

09:10we figured, hey, why not make him part of it? Ashes behind the bar. Which is why Donnie decided

09:15to buy the, what is it called? The Old Haunt. The Old Haunt. Don't tell me you've never been to the

09:20Old Haunt. It's legendary. All the great writers drank there. We're cops. We go to cop bars.

09:25You're lost. Donnie was there every night anyhow. We were all the family he had. So what prompted

09:30the sudden sale? I mean, it seemed like Donnie had to gather money pretty quickly. The bar had

09:34been weighing down my ledger sheets for years. I had an offer for one of them T.J. McChuckelnuts

09:39franchises when Brian, my bartender, put together some investors and made an offer of his own.

09:44I was going to sell it to him and then Donnie outbid him. And how did Brian feel when Donnie

09:48bought the place? He wasn't thrilled about it, but at least he wasn't working for T.J. McChuckelnuts.

09:55We need to swab the shard of glass and found trace amounts of alcohol.

09:59A container of alcoholic beverage, a resentful bartender. And given the location of the Old

10:04Haunt, a potential crime scene just two blocks away from the river. Convenient for all your

10:08body dumping needs. So Castle, can I buy you a drink? Why, Detective Beckett, I thought you'd

10:15never ask. So how well do you know this bar, Castle? Oh, I haven't been here in years. Not

10:21since Alexis, but I wrote most of my first novel in one of these booths. Oh, okay. Well,

10:25that explains a lot. It's sold over three million copies. No, I mean, why you're so excited? It's

10:32loaded with history. First as a blacksmith, then as a bordello. It only became a bar during

10:36prohibition as a speakeasy, and it was one of the best. I swear you can still feel the vibration of

10:41every notorious episode of glamour and debauchery in its walls. Oh, easy, Castle. It's just a bar.

10:47No, no, T.J. McChucklenuts, it's just a bar. The Old Haunt is the last of a dying breed.

10:52Proud institutions standing up to ruthless gentrification. It's a classic...

10:57What are you doing? Well, I'm not going to get much out of Brian looking like a cop.

11:02Undercover. I like it. You might want to pop one more button, just in case.

11:17This is how a bar should smell. Yeah, stale beer. Yeah, I'd write in more bars if there were more

11:23bars like this. Nice to see you, Eddie. It's been a long time. Thank you for remembering.

11:32Come over here. Check out the Wall of Fame. Who is that handsome devil just two over from

11:36Hemingway, directly above the infamous booth where Inhaler Bullets was born?

11:41Oh, my goodness, Castle. You were so cute back then. Back then?

11:53A lot of memories. That's Old Leo, which would make that young Donny.

11:58But I don't see any red bottles.

12:03What are you looking at? Nothing.

12:06Welcome to the Old Haunt, folks. Is Donny here by any chance? Not yet, but he will be.

12:12And he won't mind one bit that you're sitting in his regular spot.

12:15You know, I knew this place felt right for a reason. I'm Kate. I'm one of his old friends.

12:22And this is Rick. Brian. And any old friend of Donny is a new friend of mine.

12:30Tell me, Brian, you don't by any chance carry a liqueur? It's

12:36really delicious. And it comes in this red bottle.

12:41Oh, yeah. That red bottle we shared down that little canteen.

12:48Red, huh? Let's see. No red here. Just your

12:53standard brown, green and clear. Let me check the other end of the bar.

12:56Did you see that? How could I miss it?

12:58Didn't you see we're together? Undercover?

13:02No, his reaction when I mentioned Donny. I don't think he knows.

13:07Maybe he's just a good liar. Ah, no luck.

13:09Maybe I could interest you in a blue vodka? Oh, no, thank you. Way too early for vodka.

13:14Well, think about it, folks. I'll be back in a sec.

13:16Actually, Brian, we're not really here for a drink.

13:21How could Donny be dead? I was just with him last night.

13:25What time was that? 4.30 a.m. I locked up on my way out,

13:29and Donny went to do the books in the office like always.

13:33Are you sure he was alone when you left? Positive.

13:36This is crazy. That guy was like a brother to me.

13:39Even though he bought the bar off Monday night? You know about that?

13:42I mean, he didn't even offer you to be a partner. That doesn't sound very brotherly to me.

13:46Hey, any beef I had with Donny was short-lived. We hashed it out.

13:49So now you're just stealing from him? What?

13:52What? Couldn't help but notice your trick with

13:54the fruit, Brian. You pretend to ring up a drink, you stuff the money in the till,

13:58and you keep track of it by throwing pieces of fruit into the sink.

14:01Cherries are 10, limes, what, 20? At night's end, you tally up your fruit

14:06so you know how much to put into your tip cup before you lock the register.

14:09So what happened, Brian? Donny catch you stealing? Things get physical?

14:14Over an extra 30 or 40 bucks? It's not even stealing, it's skimming. Donny understood.

14:18The owner understood. We'd all been family long enough.

14:21Donny knew I had to get creative to make my rent once in a while.

14:24I'd like to see his office. Sure. It's in the basement.

14:28The basement? I've never seen this.

14:32No one knew it was there until the flood of 98. Billy Pitt pulled up the old linoleum,

14:36and there it was. A hidden basement.

14:44How cool is this? Did I say cool?

14:50Make that an awesome, perfect place for a murder. No one can hear you scream.

14:56No one can help you carry the body up the stairs either.

14:59Maybe somebody marched Donny at gunpoint down to the river and killed him there.

15:02Killer had a gun. Why would he use a bottle? Don't ruin my story with your logic.

15:09It smells like fresh paint. Donny been putting in a lot of work

15:12to fix the place up. New brass rail, refurbished wood on the bar.

15:20You find something?

15:25These are buckshot holes.

15:30You own a shotgun, Brian? No.

15:41CCU's going to comb this place from top to bottom. Blood, buckshot, broken red glass.

15:45So if you have something to say... Look, if a shotgun was fired down here,

15:49everybody in the bar would know about it. Not if it was after hours.

15:52We're talking about two or three weeks ago. Did Donny have a beef with anyone then?

15:56You said two weeks ago? Yeah, it was a couple weeks ago.

16:02I was closing up a loan. I had just done my cash drop down in the basement safe,

16:05and I came off and some guy was knocking on the door. Pickup Pete.

16:10Pickup Pete? Big hit with the ladies? No, he drives a pickup.

16:15Gun rack? Yeah, regular upstate redneck.

16:18Anyway, he said that he dropped his wallet in the booth, so I let him in.

16:22Next thing you know, he's got his hands all over me. He's pushing me against the bar.

16:25All of a sudden, the basement door pops open, and here comes Donny, like Hemingway's ghost.

16:31Guess I missed him down there. But I'm glad he showed up when he did.

16:34He grabbed a baseball bat, chased Pete out, he smashed his taillights, put a few dents in the

16:39pickup for good measure before the jackass could drive off. Donny told me to go home and to forget

16:43about it. He said that Pete was 86 for life. That was the last time we talked about it,

16:48until last night. And what happened last night?

16:51Pete showed up again. Donny wasn't having any of it. He just threw that trash out.

16:55Said the next time it wouldn't be the truck he used the bat on.

16:58So Donny, 86, Pete for life. Looks like Pete returned the favor.

17:08Pickup Pete, aka Pete Mucha. He's got a couple of dismissed domestic assault charges, and he is

17:15also the proud owner of a Remington 870 shotgun. And Ryan and Esposito are bringing him in now.

17:22What do you think of the Castilian?

17:26Four.

17:27Well, the old haunt just reminded me of how vital tavern culture is in this town.

17:31I thought, why not open up a little tavern of my own?

17:35So, instead of buying a drink, you're gonna buy a whole bar?

17:39My way of giving back. Yeah, to your ego.

17:42The ego. Smoke Hall, please.

17:45Let me go, I'm perfectly fine. Pickup Pete, I take it.

17:48Yeah, we found him getting tossed out of a bar in town.

17:51And just like the shotgun in his truck, he's a little loaded.

17:56Well, maybe a murder charge will sober him up.

17:58Yeah, come on.

18:03The castle. Just have a wee drawbridge to let you in.

18:08Congratulations, Pete. You're our drunkest murder suspect this year,

18:12and that includes St. Patrick's Day.

18:14What did I win?

18:15Well, that depends on you, Pete. You know my name, and did you just say murder?

18:20Your driver's license says you're from up in Cortland.

18:23Well, they don't have any bars up there.

18:25Where'd you get 86 from them, too?

18:27Cities where I work, you know? Like drywall, like pipe setting.

18:31And I do some of my best pipe playing after work, if you know what I mean.

18:40You own a shotgun, Pete. You like hunting, do you?

18:44Wait a minute. You after me for murdering a two-point buck?

18:49Nah, we're after you for your little dust-up at the old hunt two weeks ago.

18:52The old hunt? That's where I was last night.

18:56Donnie wouldn't let me in because of that bitch bartender.

18:59For the record, she came on to me.

19:01Is that why you came back and you killed him?

19:03Because you were drunk and angry and he wouldn't let you in?

19:06Donnie's dead?

19:08What'd you really do last night, Pete?

19:11Whoa, hey! Why would I kill the guy?

19:15Maybe because he trashed your truck.

19:16You were too drunk to shoot straight the last time you came after him with a shotgun.

19:19Shotgun? Look, he trashed my truck, so what? He more than paid for the damages.

19:25He what now?

19:26After he pounded my truck, I started calling the cops.

19:29Well, he calmed down real fast and out came this fat wad

19:32and he peeled off the cool ground like it was nothing.

19:37Donnie gave you a thousand dollars?

19:39He had plenty more.

19:41I asked him, would you score a lotto?

19:43And he was all like, yeah, sorta.

19:46You can ask my repair guy. I pay with Donnie's cash.

19:52Don't go anywhere. I'm gonna make a call.

19:55Don't worry, we're gonna get this guy.

19:58Pete's alibi holds.

20:00He was sleeping it off at a friend's apartment over in Murray Hill.

20:02It's weird that a guy who had only $6.23 in his bank account

20:05had enough cash on hand to peel off a G like it was nothing.

20:08Not to mention all the repairs he made to the bar.

20:10Maybe he was skimming too.

20:11If he was skimming that much, there'd have to be someone he wasn't paying.

20:15Supplier? Distributor?

20:17Why don't you guys go back to the old haunt and take a look at Donnie's ledgers?

20:19Let's find out where that money was coming from.

20:22Here you go, detective.

20:26So CSU processed that bar in basement

20:28and there's no indication of any broken red glass

20:30and the only blood they found was under the buckshot.

20:33So it wasn't our murder scene?

20:35Well, looks like Donnie left that bar alive.

20:37No, I don't get it.

20:38Donnie got shot down here and he didn't do anything wrong.

20:41Why didn't he report it?

20:42The last thing any new bar owner wants is trouble with the cops.

20:45Even an accidental shooting on a premises

20:46could have cost Donnie his liquor license for good.

20:48Probably why he's shelled out for Pete's truck damage too.

20:51I don't see how.

20:52His personal account isn't the only thing that's tapped out.

20:55The old haunt was barely breaking even.

20:57Operating at a loss most days.

20:58There's no way he was throwing money around.

21:00Yet he was.

21:01I've got invoices here.

21:03One for the new brass rail and one for the new wood for the bar.

21:07Each totaling close to six grand.

21:09Both of them are stamped petty cash paid in full.

21:11Nothing petty about that.

21:12There's nothing in there about him winning the lotto?

21:17Actually, maybe there is.

21:20A consignment receipt from Hagen and Graham auction house?

21:24Why is a guy like Donnie doing business

21:25with a place that sells Picassos and Rembrandts?

21:27His business was barely breaking even.

21:29He was on the verge of losing everything.

21:30And with his union card gone,

21:31it looks like he found something else to sell.

21:33But what?

21:34What does a dock worker have that's valuable enough

21:36for a place like Hagen and Graham's to be interested?

21:39Maybe something that wasn't his.

21:42Now, here's a place that honors history

21:44and values craftsmanship.

21:46You're pretty into this whole preserving history stuff, huh?

21:50I think just lately I've been noticing the changes.

21:52You mean in Alexis's goth friend?

21:54No, I was thinking more along the lines of Times Square.

21:57You know, once it had a real New York grit and character.

22:00Now they should just call it Times Square Land.

22:05So sorry to have kept you waiting.

22:06I'm Stephen Heisler, associate director.

22:08I'm detective Kate Beckett.

22:09This is Richard Castle.

22:11We were wondering if you recognize this man.

22:15Ah yes, Donald Hayes.

22:16We don't get many dock workers here, as you might imagine.

22:19What's this about?

22:20He was murdered.

22:21Murdered?

22:22Good lord.

22:23We understand that he put an item up here for auction.

22:25We were wondering what it was.

22:27Are you familiar with a man by the name of Jimmy Walker?

22:30Sure, everybody knows Jimmy Walker.

22:31No, not that who played JJ on Good Times.

22:33No, the former mayor of New York.

22:37Took office in 1926.

22:38Went by the nickname Bo James.

22:40Famous for being a corrupt politician, renowned womanizer,

22:43and also openly defiant of prohibition.

22:45Ah, so you do know him.

22:47What does the former mayor have to do with this?

22:49Donald had an item that once belonged to him.

22:51You see, Mayor Walker was rumored to have had a private liquor collection

22:54thought to contain one of the finest whiskeys ever distilled.

22:57Unceremoniously dumped into the sewers by federal agents when they ran him out of office.

23:00Donald came in with the sole surviving bottle.

23:03An 1875 St. Miriam Rock of Scotland.

23:07I knew what it was the moment I saw the J.W. pressed into its wax seal.

23:12An 1875 St. Miriam, that is the holy grail of scotches.

23:15I would kill for just a taste of it.

23:18Do you have a picture of this bottle of scotch?

23:21Where did Donnie get it?

23:22Left to him by his grandfather, Lear,

23:24who apparently was given it as a gift when he returned from World War II.

23:30And there you have it.

23:31And where's that bottle now?

23:32It was sold for $26,000 to an internet millionaire

23:36named Jeffrey McGuigan.

23:38A red glass bottle at 26 grand.

23:42That is one expensive murder weapon.

23:48How did you say this guy made his millions?

23:50Internet gaming.

23:51One's about 50 sites.

23:52The guy spent 26k on a bottle of whiskey.

23:54He could treat himself to nicer digs.

23:56What's his motivation?

23:58All I know is that this is about a body's throw away from the river.

24:02Speedy walk my ass.

24:05And you're not even speedy walk.

24:06We're here about a purchase that was made at Hagen and Grams.

24:09Is there a Jeffrey McGuigan here?

24:11I go by McGu.

24:12It's my street name.

24:13Yeah.

24:14Seriously, you're Jeffrey McGuigan?

24:15McGu.

24:16And yeah, I purchased a ton of crap at that place.

24:18Come on in.

24:21So this piece of crap we're looking for, McGu,

24:26is a priceless red bottle of scotch.

24:28Now it had a price, all right.

24:29But it was pretty tasty.

24:31Tasty?

24:32You describe a 135-year-old bottle of scotch as tasty?

24:35I mean, you know, after I mixed in a little repair.

24:37Yeah, okay, McGu.

24:38Let's see that bottle.

24:39Seriously?

24:40You're just gonna walk into my crib and start bossing me around?

24:43Well, I don't see it here.

24:45You didn't happen to break the bottle over something.

24:48What is this about?

24:50You know, I may have dropped out of Cornell when my company went public,

24:53but I still know my rights.

24:55That bottle that you purchased might have been used to commit murder.

25:00So unless you want to learn your Miranda rights,

25:03you better quit stalling and show us where it is.

25:06Yeah, okay, cool.

25:08I'm not stalling.

25:09Great.

25:14You were throwing it out?

25:16It's in the blue bucket.

25:18I recycle.

25:21Well, it's still intact.

25:24Unless a sliver of glass came out when it hit.

25:26Man, nobody hit anybody.

25:28Yes, we'll keep mixing root beer with fine scotch.

25:30That may change.

25:31Okay, Castle.

25:32Let's go.

25:34Greatness, little uncultured pile.

25:36It doesn't deserve...

25:36Did you hear what he said?

25:38Root beer.

25:39If I was 15 years younger, I'd give that kid such a pinch.

25:42Same glass, but the shard in Donnie's head is way too big to have come from this bottle.

25:47Which means it can't be the only remaining bottle in the world.

25:50Clearly not.

25:52Which means I still have a shard of getting a taste.

25:54Which means that Donnie came across a second bottle.

25:58Yeah, upside his head.

25:59Okay, so maybe Leo gave a bottle to a relative or a friend,

26:02and once Donnie learned how much it was worth, he went after it.

26:05And got more than he bargained for.

26:08I'm gonna do a little research on Leo.

26:10See what we can dig up on Mayor Walker and his mystery whiskey.

26:13Research.

26:16I'm gonna do that too.

26:17Yeah.

26:28It's called the Sidecar.

26:40One of the best drinks to come out of the prohibition era.

26:42A time when getting a drink meant secret doors, gangsters, and bootleggers.

26:47Oh, Rick, I'm loving this idea.

26:49You know, our town could use a throwback joint.

26:51Oh, perfect name for it.

26:52Rick's Cafe American.

26:55Mother, that's perfect.

26:57I was trying to come up with a bogey reference myself.

26:59All I could think of was Castle Blanca.

27:00I thought it was a little too on the nose.

27:02I need a drink.

27:05H2O.

27:06Dirty.

27:07Jack water it is.

27:08So, where's your dark shadow?

27:11She went out with some people she met at FIT.

27:13I was not invited.

27:14I don't know whether to be delighted or outraged.

27:17Me neither.

27:18She's really defensive, and she makes fun of everything that's important to me.

27:22Keep looking for the Gracie I knew, but she's just not there anymore.

27:25Well, you're not the same girl you were back then, either.

27:28You know, maybe she's just responding to how you've changed.

27:30I haven't changed.

27:32Oh, darling, please.

27:33Look at you.

27:34You are tall, beautiful, sophisticated.

27:37You have a glam gram, and him, and a boyfriend.

27:43You know, did it ever occur to you that might be rather intimidating to a girl from Kansas?

27:47Intimidating?

27:48When I asked where she got her gloves, she said it was a place I wouldn't go to.

27:51Now, you took that as an affront, and she was just probably being self-deprecating.

27:55Mm-hmm.

27:56You know what?

27:56I think someone needs a virgin mojito.

27:58Grab me some more mint.

27:58It's in the fridge.

28:00Hands are looking at you, kid.

28:02And you.

28:05You could have told me you booby-trapped it.

28:07Oh, yeah.

28:08So that's just how I protect my stash from G-men and mobsters.

28:12At least help me reload them.

28:13Right.

28:16Reload.

28:22Beckett?

28:23I think I know how Donnie was shot.

28:25Take a trip with me to a simple yet dangerous time.

28:30Castle, CSU already swept through this entire basement,

28:34and we were just tucked in with my laptop.

28:36We?

28:37Josh and I. He was helping me research.

28:39Anyway, a dangerous time when prohibition was law,

28:43and bootleggers, the lawless,

28:45often go into extreme measures to protect their liquid treasure.

28:48Can you get to the point?

28:49Yes.

28:50You remember when Donnie jumped up and rescued Annie from pickup Pete?

28:54She said she completely missed him when she was down here doing her safe drop.

28:57It was late.

28:58She was tired.

28:59I can relate.

29:00Well, maybe he wasn't down here at all.

29:03Buckshot wall.

29:06Wall directly opposite.

29:07Help me move the shelf.

29:09And what exactly are we hoping to find?

29:11The truth.

29:12Same thing Donnie was hoping for.

29:14In all the stories that Leo ever told as bar historian,

29:18what if he saved one story just for Donnie?

29:21A story that Leo himself could never verify

29:23because the trapdoor of the basement wasn't discovered until after he died.

29:26When Billy Pitt decided to sell the bar

29:27and T.J. McChocolate Nuts was going to buy it,

29:29Donnie realized he had to find out before it was too late.

29:33Find what?

29:35Donnie sold his union card and bet his life savings that Bo James...

29:40Come.

29:43Help me.

29:44There we go.

29:45That Bo James' secret stash really existed.

29:51Are you pushing?

29:51I am pushing.

29:54Hey.

29:58Okay.

30:00That's...

30:03Wow.

30:07Oh, Castle.

30:09This is where Donnie was when Annie made the trap.

30:16Donnie pulled on this door and blam said the lady.

30:19Do you hear that?

30:21Rushing water.

30:24If that water leads to the East River,

30:25then that's probably where Donnie was killed.

30:34What are you doing?

30:36We're gonna need a light, right?

30:40Not so fast, Indy.

30:41We're also gonna need breathable air.

30:44So.

30:50Torch would be more fun.

30:53This must be part of the old sewer system.

30:55Probably used these as access tunnels during Prohibition.

30:57It's incredible, isn't it?

30:58Yeah, aside from the fact that it's...

31:02damp, cramped, dark,

31:05and we are almost certainly walking in rat poop.

31:08Awesome.

31:08Don't forget the chuds.

31:10Chuds?

31:11Cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers.

31:13These sewers are crawling with them.

31:14You know, I kind of figured you're more for an alligator in the sewer type of guy.

31:18There's alligators down here?

31:24What is this?

31:27Whoa.

31:28This looks like an old passageway that was bricked up a long time ago.

31:33Yeah, until Donnie got at it.

31:39Mayor Walker's moniker.

31:401919.

31:42That's when Prohibition started.

31:44Best time capsule ever!

31:47Imagine Donnie's joy when he realized that Leo's legends were true.

31:51$26,000 a bottle. Who cares? Brian will skew me.

31:54There's got to be a hundred bottles of scotch on these walls.

31:58Take one down and pass it around.

32:00Hey, that's evidence.

32:02There's already a lot that's been taken.

32:05It's fairly recently, too.

32:08These bottles are caked with dust, and the empty spaces are relatively clean.

32:13There's our murder weapon.

32:16Hopefully there were some prints on it.

32:18There's probably blood mixed in there, too.

32:22In case you're thinking of tasting it.

32:24Come on, I'm not that desperate.

32:26So someone else finds out about Donnie's treasure, follows him down here, surprises him,

32:33fight breaks out, and the killer grabs the only weapon available.

32:37Striking the fatal blow.

32:39And it looks like our killer dragged the body right back out the same way.

32:44Look at this. All the way down.

32:47And it travels all the way...

32:51This tunnel has everything.

32:53Secret scotch vault.

32:55Private murder nook.

32:56Convenient sewage disposal.

32:59I bet you this water leads straight to the East River.

33:03It's just fairly bright.

33:05Someone's been here in the past few hours.

33:09Police! Don't move!

33:15Stop! NYPD!

33:22Where did he go?

33:23He was right in front of us. I heard him.

33:29This is a dead end. He couldn't have gotten past us.

33:31There's no other way he could have gotten out.

33:33So how did he get away?

33:38What do you mean, gone?

33:40He was right there in front of us, and then nothing but a brick wall.

33:45And there's no way this guy could have gotten past you two and snuck out through the old hall.

33:47Brian, the bartender, and a handful of regulars were still upstairs.

33:50They sweared. No one came out before we did.

33:52We think that our spirit-loving mayor didn't want to be seen going back and forth from his favorite speakeasy,

33:57so he had a back way entrance built to his stash.

34:00Hidden from view. And, trust me, we looked.

34:02Yo. Just got off the phone with Lainey.

34:05She confirms the blood on the broken bottle is Donnie's.

34:07It's definitely a murder weapon.

34:08But we run the prints, and we still came up empty.

34:10No matches to anyone at the old haunt or in our search.

34:12So we're gonna have to go back and look.

34:14But we run the prints, and we still came up empty.

34:16No matches to anyone at the old haunt or in our system.

34:18It took 70 years to find a way down to those tunnels from the old haunt,

34:21and somehow our killer finds another way in?

34:23How?

34:24There's gotta be another access point from the tunnel to the East River sewer line.

34:29Sewer Bureau's map doesn't have anything.

34:31It's like Con Ed doesn't even know those tunnels exist.

34:33That's because these are modern sewer lines.

34:36Any of the old sewer lines that didn't get patched in when the new ones were built,

34:39they just got bricked up and abandoned.

34:40Looks like old subway lines.

34:41There are whole stations underground no one's seen for decades.

34:43So basically we need to take a look at an old sewer map,

34:46and once we figure out where our killer disappeared to,

34:48we might be able to find some witnesses on the other end.

34:50Then let's find that map.

34:54This place could use a little gentrification.

34:57Or at least a copy machine.

34:58It's a pre-World War II archive section, Castle.

35:01Half of this probably hasn't been seen in over 70 years.

35:04Floresi, 1920.

35:06That's about when Prohibition was getting started.

35:09You see how much nicer the neighborhood was back then?

35:11You think that little box there might be the old haunt?

35:13Yeah, that's where it would be.

35:14Not long after its bordello phase.

35:16Still see the little garter belts.

35:18Okay, there's a sewer line running under it that wasn't on the newer map,

35:21so that's got to be our tunnel.

35:23Which would put Walker's Whiskey right about here.

35:25Man could grab himself a bottle, come and go without ever being seen.

35:28But come and go from where?

35:29Where did he start from?

35:31Here's where our tunnel ends and our killer vanished.

35:32There's one, two, three sewer lines that branch off on that point.

35:37Any of which our killer could have access to get away from us.

35:40So if we can figure out exactly where the three sewers end,

35:44we can subpoena traffic cams around the time the killer got away.

35:47Maybe get an ID.

35:49Or maybe we won't need any of that.

35:52You said no one has laid eyes on these maps in over 70 years.

35:54Only it says here someone checked this one out just two weeks ago.

35:58And I'll bet a bottle of Bo James Whiskey

36:00that someone was trying to make their way back to the mayor's stash just like we are.

36:06Going once, going twice.

36:09Sold to the gentleman in the back.

36:11Next up, we have a marvellous 1955 Chateauristie Vogue Blanc.

36:15And we'll start the bidding at $1,200.

36:18Do I hear $1,200?

36:19There's $1,200.

36:20Do I hear $1,250?

36:22$1,250 there.

36:23$1,300.

36:29$1,300 in the back.

36:31Do I hear $1,350?

36:32$1,350.

36:33$1,350.

36:43Do I hear $1,400?

36:50It's just a sad case of Donnie trusting the wrong guy.

36:53He told Heisler about the Bo James stash and Heisler got greedy.

36:56He convinced Donnie that the whiskey would fetch a better price

36:59if he sold a bottle at a time.

37:00So Donnie left his stash where he found it.

37:02And that gave Heisler enough time to figure out where it was hidden.

37:05When Donnie caught him in the vault, Heisler panicked, hit him with a bottle.

37:09Yo, we figured out how Heisler disappeared on you in the tunnel.

37:12Secret passageway.

37:14Basically.

37:15He had a hidden entrance that could only be opened from the other side.

37:18CSU followed him from the street to the abandoned sewer to the tunnel,

37:21just like Mayor Walker had drew it up.

37:22Here's three cases that Heisler hadn't gotten around to selling yet.

37:27That 26 Gs of pop, you're looking at just under a cool million.

37:31Just how might I acquire one of these for myself?

37:35Castle, I told you, they're evidence.

37:36Yes, but who's to say that today's evidence can't be tomorrow night, Cap?

37:39That would be me.

37:40I'm sure it'd be a few months before we could figure out

37:42where this and the rest of this stuff belongs.

37:44Montgomery.

37:50Look at you.

37:51Isn't it cool?

37:52Gracie took me shopping in this place I never even knew existed.

37:54And it's right down the street from here.

37:56They had the greatest stuff.

37:57She has a really good eye.

37:59Well, Alexis looks good in everything.

38:01I'm glad you two reconnected.

38:02We just had to get to know the new Ss.

38:05Neither of us are 10 anymore.

38:07Thanks for letting me crash at Shea Castle.

38:09It reminded me of the good old days before life got too real, you know?

38:13I do know.

38:14I'm gonna walk her to the train.

38:17Bye.

38:18Graham's waiting downstairs.

38:19Thanks for the warning.

38:22Wow, I remember that face.

38:25It's that one I got my tattoo.

38:27You got a tattoo?

38:31Where?

38:31Just heard from the DA Castle.

38:33Apparently, since all of these bottles used to belong to Bo James

38:36and he used to be our mayor,

38:37it's her opinion that they are owned by the city.

38:40But she says if you're willing to make a generous donation

38:42to the NYPD Widows and Orphans Fund,

38:44you can have one of Bo James' best for your very own.

38:46This is early Christmas, baby.

38:52I was not expecting this.

38:53Are you crying?

38:54Yes.

38:55I don't know what to say.

38:56Try and let me get my checkbook.

38:58Yes, of course.

38:59Of course.

38:59But I...

39:00I will only accept this if you all share it with me.

39:03Twist my arm.

39:04No.

39:05Not here.

39:07At the Old Haunt.

39:08We will toast to Donnie with his family.

39:10Yeah, what about that place?

39:11What happens at the Old Haunt?

39:12It's gonna go back to the bank,

39:13which means that TJ McChucklenucks is gonna get another shot at it.

39:15Oh, I wouldn't worry about the Old Haunt.

39:19You bought it, didn't you?

39:21So, are you joining us?

39:23You know, I'd love to.

39:24It's late, and I've got a lot of papers.

39:27It's nine o'clock on a Saturday.

39:28It's 9.15, actually.

39:30The regular crowd shuffles in.

39:34There's an old man sitting next to me.

39:37Making love to his tonic and gin.

39:44He said, son, can you play me a memory?

39:47I'm not really sure how it goes.

39:50But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete.

39:53When I wore a younger man's clothes.

39:55Oh!

39:57Sing us a song, you're the piano man.

39:59Sing us a song tonight.

40:01Well, we're all in the mood for a melody.

40:03We've got a...

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