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  • 5/21/2025
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!
00:18Oh my God!
00:19Oh my God!
00:20Oh my God!
00:21Oh my God!
00:22Oh my God!
00:23Oh my God!
00:24Oh my God!
00:25Oh my God!
00:26Oh my God!
00:27Oh my God!
00:28Oh my God!
00:29Oh my God!
00:30Oh my God!
00:31Oh my God!
00:32Can you believe my old grade school shirt still fits?
00:41Oh, like a glove, yes.
00:42A shirt, no.
00:43You look like the Incredible Hulk.
00:44Nice, Dad.
00:45Yeah, that's what you get when you talk to him while he's riding.
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?
00:58After fifth grade.
00:59She emailed me she was coming to town to check out FIT, so I told her she could spend the
01:03night.
01:04I asked you.
01:05What was I writing?
01:11Incredible Hulk.
01:13Gracie!
01:16Look at you, green-tailed girl.
01:18Look at you!
01:20Hi.
01:21Hi.
01:23Uh, you remember Graham and my dad?
01:26Sure, hey.
01:27Been forever.
01:28Thanks again for letting me crash with you guys.
01:30Yeah.
01:32So, your room in the same place?
01:34Yeah, same place, same old room.
01:36You know, everything's the same.
01:38Almost.
01:47Looks like someone's not in Kansas anymore.
01:50What happened to the little hairband, the knee socks?
01:55Ah, Beckett.
01:58Excellent timing.
02:00She used to be so adorable.
02:02I mean, what makes a girl, a little girl who used to play hopscotch and buy little ponies
02:07suddenly pierce her eyebrow?
02:09It's like she's been assimilated by the leather overworlds.
02:12You're probably romanticizing it.
02:14And is anything ever really the way that we remember it in grade school?
02:17Well, to be honest, beyond some baking soda volcanoes and sweaty palms, I have very little
02:22memory of it at all.
02:23You?
02:24Mine are mostly orthodontic.
02:26Braces?
02:27You mean you weren't born with that dazzling smile?
02:29The only thing dazzling was how long it took my parents to pay for it.
02:34Body's in pretty good shape for a floater.
02:36Must not have been in the water too long.
02:38Well, if the river's as cold as my nose, I'd ballpark it within the last 12 hours, at most.
02:43No ID, but he looks early 40s.
02:45He's got a Navy tattoo on his arm and a nasty crush injury along his temporal line.
02:50Any chance he went overboard?
02:52Classic indicators point to deliberate blunt force, so I'd say no.
02:55This was no boating accident.
02:59Then we better close the beaches.
03:02No boating accident?
03:04Chief Brody?
03:05Hooper?
03:07Seriously?
03:09I'll zip his prints over to the precinct for an ID, but for what it's worth, I did find this.
03:15A gambler's anonymous medallion.
03:17Four years without a bet.
03:19Ah.
03:20Uh, what?
03:21The East River? A G.A. chip?
03:23Relapsed gambler gets in too deep with his book, he ends up floating in the drain.
03:28Are you kidding me? You just went from gambler's anonymous to mob hit?
03:32This is the most celebrated body depository this side of the Jersey wetlands.
03:35Mark my words, this guy has mob ties.
03:39Case closed.
03:42No mob ties.
03:43Are you sure?
03:45Good work.
03:46According to his fingerprints, his name is Donald Hayes.
03:49Navy veteran, served in Desert Storm, and he's been a dock worker since 94.
03:52Somehow still employed as one.
03:55Our victim, Donnie Hayes, currently clocked in and on duty at the Eastside docks.
04:00Which either means he's an incredibly dedicated zombie.
04:03Or he's a suspect in our murder.
04:08Donnie?
04:10Mr. Hayes?
04:14Donald Hayes.
04:17What's the matter? You forget your own name?
04:21Police! Don't move!
04:27The man said don't move.
04:29Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
04:32You just cops?
04:33Just cops?
04:34I guess that makes you just under arrest for murder.
04:39First name Grant, last name Viro.
04:43I didn't kill anybody.
04:44Then why'd you run?
04:45I thought yous were Union.
04:46Oh, so we're not the only ones who have a problem with you killing Donnie for his Union card?
04:50What are you talking about? I bought that card.
04:52Do you really expect us to believe that you bought Donnie's card, assumed his identity, and thought no one would notice?
05:00Guy spent 16 years working over on the Westside.
05:03So I switched the Eastside docks so no one who knew Donnie would catch on.
05:07So what does a Union card go for nowadays?
05:09Since buying someone else's is illegal.
05:11Sucker cost me 25 grand.
05:13Oh, come on, Viro.
05:15Dock workers rake in over six figures a year.
05:18Why would Donnie trade it in for so little?
05:20Unless he had a gun to his head, in which case it'd be a bargain.
05:23There were no guns.
05:24I needed a job. Donnie needed cash.
05:27For what?
05:28He didn't say. And I didn't care.
05:33Beckett.
05:34I was right about the blunt force trauma.
05:36A single blow caved in the ridge here along Donnie's squamozal suture.
05:40And whatever did the damage was kind enough to leave this shard of red glass embedded in his skull.
05:45Maybe a heavy vase or bottle?
05:48I'll have forensics take a look at it, see if they can find a match.
05:51Based on levidity and water temp, I've narrowed time of death to between 4 and 6 a.m. this morning.
05:57What happened here on the shoulder?
05:59Buckshot.
06:00I found several double-eyed pellets lodged in the flesh of his left arm.
06:05So someone conked him on the head and shot him?
06:07That's where it gets weird.
06:08Scarring indicates the pellets have been there about 2 to 3 weeks.
06:11And he just left him in there?
06:12Well, he certainly didn't seek treatment.
06:14Could have been he was in something illegal or scared of whoever shot him.
06:18Or both.
06:19Don't forget Viro. His alibi cleared.
06:22And we tracked down his personal check for $25,000, endorsed and deposited by Donnie last month.
06:27Viro paid Donnie with a check?
06:29Not lobby enough for you, Castle?
06:30CSU's still combing Donnie's place, but no broken red glass, no signs of foul play, and no next of kin either.
06:37What about the Gambler's Anonymous chip? Any sponsor?
06:39Yeah, but he says he hasn't heard from Donnie for months.
06:42So then maybe Castle was right.
06:43If Donnie was desperate enough to sell his union card, then maybe he fell off the wagon and got in over his head.
06:48Yeah, to the tune of $25,000.
06:50Yo, that'd be lowballing it, bro.
06:53Donnie's account shows that he deposited Viro's check about a month ago,
06:58adding it to his existing balance of $125,000, all of which, wait for it, is now gone.
07:04Gone?
07:05All of it?
07:06Except for the remaining balance of $6.23, all the $150,000 was spent in one giant check made payable to a Wilbur Pittorino,
07:14listed here as owning several properties, as well as a waste management business in Garfield, New Jersey.
07:19Oh, waste management.
07:21Any priors?
07:22Yeah, back in 1977, Billy Pitt spent ten years in federal for assault and racketeering.
07:27And what?
07:28Racketeering.
07:31As well as shaking down business owners where he operated his, uh, bookmaking operation.
07:35His what now?
07:36Bookmaking operation.
07:37Oh, so an ex-gambler dumps his life savings on an ex-con ex-bookmaker and ends up exed out?
07:44Sounds like Donnie was late with his $150,000 for Billy Pitt, and he ended up paying for it with his life.
07:50I think I just said that.
07:53You know, you might have gotten a little grayer, Mr. Pitt, but it seems to me you haven't changed much at all.
07:58Must be all them Pilates classes.
08:04Do you recognize this check?
08:06Of course, it's from Donnie Hays, so?
08:08So I'm wondering if Donnie didn't owe you more money, and you didn't flash back to your old racketeering days.
08:12Tap the brakes, sweetie.
08:13Whatever the hell you dragged me down here for, I'm going to pay you back.
08:16Donnie didn't owe you more money, and you didn't flash back to your old racketeering days.
08:19Tap the brakes, sweetie.
08:20Whatever the hell you dragged me down here for, I'm going to pay you back.
08:22I want to tell you right now that I paid my tab with Johnny Law a couple lifetimes ago, and he's got nothing on me since.
08:27This guy is gold.
08:29You don't believe me? Why don't you ask...
08:32Donnie.
08:34Is this about Donnie?
08:35He was found dead in the East River this morning.
08:38Now back to the money. What was it for? Was it a payment, or was it a gift?
08:42A purchase.
08:43For?
08:44He bought my bar downtown. He loved the place.
08:47Really? Enough to drop everything and dump his whole life savings into it?
08:51Kid was practically raised in the joint by his grandfather, Leo the Legend.
08:55Leo the Legend? You heard of the guy?
08:57Said he's the best bartender since the days when gay men happy.
09:00He was the only father Donnie knew.
09:02And where do I find Leo?
09:03Resting in an old silver shaker behind the bar.
09:05Leo was kind of a bar historian, and when he kicked in 97, we figured, hey, why not make him part of it?
09:12Ashes behind the bar.
09:13Which is why Donnie decided to buy the... what is it called?
09:17The Old Haunt.
09:18The Old Haunt. Don't tell me you've never been to the Old Haunt. It's legendary. All the great writers drank there.
09:22We're cops. We go to cop bars.
09:24You're lost.
09:25Donnie was there every night anyhow. We were all the family he had.
09:29So what prompted the sudden sale? I mean, it seemed like Donnie had to gather money pretty quickly.
09:33The bar had been weighing down my ledger sheets for years.
09:36I had an offer for one of them T.J. McChucklenuts franchises when Brian, my bartender, put together some investors and made an offer of his own.
09:43I was going to sell it to him, and then Donnie outbid him.
09:46And how did Brian feel when Donnie bought the place?
09:49He wasn't thrilled about it, but at least he wasn't working for T.J. McChucklenuts.
09:54We need to swab the shard of glass and found trace amounts of alcohol.
09:58A container of alcoholic beverage, a resentful bartender...
10:02And given the location of the old haunt, a potential crime scene just two blocks away from the river.
10:07Convenient for all your body-dumping needs.
10:10So, Castle, can I buy you a drink?
10:13Why, Detective Beckett, I thought you'd never ask.
10:16So how well do you know this bar, Castle?
10:19Oh, I haven't been here in years. Not since Alexis, but I wrote most of my first novel in one of these booths.
10:24Oh, okay. Well, that explains a lot.
10:27It's sold over three million copies.
10:29No, I mean, why you're so excited?
10:31It's loaded with history. First as a blacksmith, then as a bordello.
10:35It only became a bar during Prohibition as a speakeasy, and it was one of the best.
10:39I swear you can still feel the vibration of every notorious episode of glamour and debauchery in its walls.
10:45Oh, easy, Castle. It's just a bar.
10:47No, no. T.J. McChucklenuts is just a bar.
10:49The old haunt is the last of a dying breed of proud institutions standing up to ruthless gentrification.
10:55It's a classic...
10:57What are you doing?
11:00Well, I'm not going to get much out of Brian looking like a cop.
11:02Undercover. I like it.
11:05You might want to pop one more button, just in case.
11:17This is how a bar should smell.
11:19Mmm, yeah. Stale beer.
11:21Yeah, I'd write in more bars if there were more bars like this.
11:25Hey.
11:28Nice to see you, Eddie. It's been a long time.
11:30Thank you for remembering.
11:32Come over here. Check out the Wall of Fame.
11:34Who is that handsome devil just two over from Hemingway,
11:37directly above the infamous booth where Inhaler Bullets was born?
11:41Oh, my goodness, Castle. You were so cute back then.
11:44Back then?
11:47Wow.
11:53A lot of memories.
11:55That's Old Leo, which would make that young Donnie.
11:58But I don't see any red bottles.
12:03What are you looking at?
12:05Nothing.
12:06Welcome to the old haunt, folks.
12:08Is Donnie here by any chance?
12:11Not yet, but he will be.
12:13And he won't mind one bit that you're sitting in his regular spot.
12:16You know, I knew this place felt right for a reason.
12:18I'm Kate. I'm one of his old friends.
12:22And this is Rick.
12:25Brian.
12:27And any old friend of Donnie is a new friend of mine.
12:30Tell me, Brian,
12:33you don't by any chance carry a liqueur?
12:36It's really delicious, and it comes in this red bottle.
12:41Oh, yeah, that red bottle we shared down in that little cantina.
12:45Do you know if I have it?
12:48Red, huh?
12:50Let's see. No red here.
12:52Just your standard brown, green, and clear.
12:55Let me check the other end of the bar.
12:56Did you see that?
12:57How could I miss it?
12:58Can't you see we're together?
13:00Undercover?
13:02No, his reaction when I mentioned Donnie.
13:05I don't think he knows.
13:07Maybe he's just a good liar.
13:08Ah, no luck.
13:09Maybe I could interest you in a blue vodka?
13:11Oh, no, thank you.
13:12Way too early for vodka.
13:14Think about it, folks. I'll be back in a sec.
13:16Actually, Brian, we're not really here for a drink.
13:22How could Donnie be dead?
13:23I was just with him last night.
13:25What time was that?
13:264.30 a.m.
13:27I locked up on my way out,
13:29and Donnie went to do the books in the office like always.
13:33Are you sure he was alone when you left?
13:35Positive.
13:37This is crazy. That guy was like a brother to me.
13:39Even though he bought the bar off Monday night?
13:41You know about that?
13:42I mean, he didn't even offer you to be a partner.
13:44That doesn't sound very brotherly to me.
13:46Hey, any beef I had with Donnie was short-lived.
13:49We hashed it out.
13:50So now you're just stealing from him.
13:51What?
13:52What?
13:53Couldn't help but notice your trick with the fruit, Brian.
13:55You pretend to ring up a drink,
13:57you stuff the money in the till,
13:58and you keep track of it
13:59by throwing pieces of fruit into the sink.
14:01Cherries are 10, limes, what, 20?
14:04At night's end, you tally up your fruit
14:06so you know how much to put into your tip cup
14:08before you lock the register.
14:09So what happened, Brian?
14:11Donnie catches stealing?
14:12Things get physical?
14:13Over an extra 30 or 40 bucks?
14:15It's not even stealing, it's skimming.
14:17Donnie understood.
14:18The owner understood.
14:19We'd all been family long enough.
14:21Donnie knew I had to get creative
14:22to make my rent once in a while.
14:24I'd like to see his office.
14:25Sure.
14:26It's in the basement.
14:28The basement?
14:30I've never seen this.
14:32No one knew it was there
14:33until the flood of 98.
14:34Billy Pitt pulled up the old linoleum,
14:36and there it was.
14:43A hidden basement.
14:45How cool is this?
14:47Did I say cool?
14:50Make that an awesome, perfect place for a murder.
14:54No one can hear you scream.
14:56No one can help you carry the body up the stairs either.
14:59Maybe somebody marched Donnie at gunpoint
15:01down to the river and killed him there.
15:02The killer had a gun.
15:04Why would he use a bottle?
15:05Don't ruin my story with your logic.
15:09It smells like fresh paint.
15:11Donnie had been putting in a lot of work
15:12to fix the place up.
15:14New brass rail, refurbished wood on the bar.
15:20You find something?
15:25These are buckshot holes.
15:33Oh.
15:39You own a shotgun, Brian?
15:41No.
15:42C.C.U.'s gonna comb this place from top to bottom.
15:44Blood, buckshot, broken red glass.
15:46So if you have something to say...
15:47Look, if a shotgun was fired down here,
15:49everybody in the bar would know about it.
15:51Not if it was after hours.
15:52We're talking about two or three weeks ago.
15:54Did Donnie have a beef with anyone then?
15:57You said two weeks ago?
16:00Yeah, it was a couple weeks ago.
16:02I was closing up a loan.
16:03I had just done my cash drop down in the basement safe,
16:06and I came off, and some guy was knocking on the door.
16:09Pickup Pete.
16:10Pickup Pete?
16:11Big hit with the ladies?
16:13No, he drives a pickup.
16:15Gun rack?
16:17Yeah, regular upstate redneck.
16:19Anyway, he said that he dropped his wallet in the booth,
16:22so I let him in.
16:23Next thing you know, he's got his hands all over me.
16:25He's pushing me against the bar.
16:26All of a sudden, the basement door pops open,
16:28and he sees Donnie like Hemingway's ghost.
16:31Guess I missed him down there.
16:33But I'm glad he showed up when he did.
16:35He grabbed a baseball bat, chased Pete out,
16:37he smashed his taillights,
16:39put a few dents in the pickup for good measure
16:41before the jackass could drive off.
16:43Donnie told me to go home and to forget about it.
16:45He said that Pete was 86 for life.
16:47That was the last time we talked about it, until last night.
16:50And what happened last night?
16:51Pete showed up again.
16:53Donnie wasn't having any of it.
16:54He just threw that trash out.
16:56Next time, it wouldn't be the truck he used the bat on.
16:59So Donnie, 86, Pete for life.
17:01Looks like Pete was in the basement.
17:08Pickup Pete, a.k.a. Pete Mucha.
17:12He's got a couple of dismissed domestic assault charges,
17:15and he is also the proud owner of a Remington 870 shotgun.
17:20And Ryan and Esposito are bringing him in now.
17:23Speaking of, the Castilian.
17:26For?
17:27Well, the old haunt just reminded me
17:29of 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 going to buy a whole bar?
17:39My way of giving back.
17:41Yeah, to your ego.
17:42The ego.
17:43Smoke all the plates.
17:45Let me go, I'm perfectly fine.
17:47Pickup Pete, I take it.
17:49Yeah, 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.
17:59Come on.
18:03The castle.
18:05Just have a wee drawbridge to let you in.
18:08Congratulations, Pete.
18:10You're our drunkest murder suspect this year,
18:12and that includes St. Patrick's Day.
18:14What did I win?
18:16Well, that depends on you, Pete.
18:18You 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?
18:27City's 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.
18:43You like hunting, do you?
18:44Wait a minute.
18:46You 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.
18:55Donnie 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?
19:07What'd you really do last night, Pete?
19:11Whoa! Hey!
19:13Why 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?
19:20Look, he trashed my truck, so what?
19:23He 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 and he peeled off the cool ground like it was nothing.
19:37Donnie gave you $1,000?
19:39He had plenty more.
19:41I asked him, would you score a lotto?
19:43And he was all like, yeah, sort of.
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.
19:59Pete's alibi holds. He 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 had enough cash on hand to peel off the G like it was nothing.
20:08Not to mention all the repairs he made to the bar.
20:10Maybe he was skimming too.
20:12If he was skimming that much, there'd have to be someone he wasn't paying.
20:15A supplier? Distributor?
20:17Why don't you guys go back to the old haunt and take a look at Donnie's ledgers.
20:20Let's find out where that money was coming from.
20:22Here you go, detective.
20:26So CSU processed that bar in basement and 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.
20:37I don't get it. Donnie 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 could have cost Donnie his liquor license for good.
20:48Probably why he shelled out for Pete's truck damage too.
20:51I don't see how. His personal account isn't the only thing that's tapped out.
20:55The old haunt was barely breaking even. Operating at a loss most days. There's no way he was throwing money around.
20:59Yet he was. I'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.
21:12Nothing petty about that.
21:13There'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 with a place that sells Picassos and Rembrandts?
21:28His business was barely breaking even. He was on the verge of losing everything.
21:31And with his union card gone, it looks like he found something else to sell.
21:33Yeah, but what? What does a dock worker have that's valuable enough for 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 and 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' 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. Now 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. This is Richard Castle.
22:11We were wondering if you recognize this man.
22:14Ah yes, Donald Hayes. We don't get many dock workers here, as you might imagine.
22:18What's this about?
22:20He was murdered.
22:21Murdered? Good Lord.
22:23We understand that he put an item up here for auction. We were wondering what it was.
22:27Are you familiar with a man by the name of Jimmy Walker?
22:29Sure, everybody knows Jimmy Walker.
22:31No, not the actor who played JJ on Good Times.
22:33No, the former mayor of New York.
22:36Took office in 1926, went by the nickname Bo James.
22:40Famous for being a corrupt politician, renowned womanizer, and 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.
23:01Donald 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 Donald get it?
23:22Left to him by his grandfather, Leo,
23:24who apparently was given it as a gift when he returned from World War II.
23:29There you have it.
23:31And where's that bottle now?
23:33It was sold for $26,000 to an internet millionaire named Jeffrey McGuigan.
23:38A red glass bottle at $26,000.
23:42That is one expensive murder weapon.
23:48How did you say this guy made his millions?
23:50Internet gaming. One's about 50 sites.
23:52The guy spent $26,000 on a bottle of whiskey. He could treat himself to a nice a digs.
23:56What's his motivation?
23:58All I know is that this is about a body's throw away from the river.
24:03Speedy walk my ass.
24:05And you're not even speedy walk.
24:07We're here about a purchase that was made at Hagen and Grams.
24:09Is there a Jeffrey McGuigan here?
24:11I go by Magoo. It's my street name.
24:14Seriously, you're Jeffrey McGuigan?
24:15Magoo. And yeah, I've purchased a ton of crap at that place.
24:18Come on in.
24:20So, this piece of crap we're looking for, Magoo, is a priceless red bottle of scotch.
24:27Now, it had a price, all right. But it was pretty tasty.
24:30Tasty? You 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. Magoo, let's see that bottle.
24:39Seriously? You're just gonna walk into my crib and start bossing me around?
24:42Well, I don't see it here. You didn't happen to break the bottle over something?
24:48What is this about? You 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, you better quit stalling and show us where it is.
25:06Yeah, okay, cool. I'm not stalling.
25:09Great.
25:14You were throwing it out?
25:16It's in the blue bucket. I recycle.
25:21Well, it's still intact. Unless 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. That may change.
25:31Okay, Castle. Let's go.
25:32Just a second.
25:34Greatness, little uncultured pile. It doesn't deserve... Did you hear what he said? Root 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.
25:57Yeah, upside his head.
25:59Okay, so maybe Leo gave a bottle to a relative or a friend, and once Donnie learned how much it was worth, he went after it.
26:05And got more than he bargained for.
26:08I'm going to do a little research on Leo.
26:10See what we can dig up on Mayor Walker and his mystery whiskey.
26:13Research.
26:15I'm going to do that, too.
26:17Yeah.
26:38It'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. Rick'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. I thought it was a little too on the nose.
27:02I need a drink.
27:05H2O. Dirty.
27:07Tap water it is.
27:09So, where's your dark shadow?
27:11She went out with some people she met at FIT. I was not invited.
27:15I don't know whether to be delighted or outraged.
27:17Me neither.
27:19She's really defensive, and she makes fun of everything that's important to me.
27:22I keep 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.
27:31I haven't changed.
27:33Oh, please. Look at you. You 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? When 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. You know what? I think someone needs a virgin mojito.
27:58Grab me some more mint. It's in the fridge.
28:00He isn't looking at you, kid.
28:02And you.
28:05You could have told me you booby-trapped it.
28:07Oh, yeah, so that's just how I protect my stash from G-men and mobsters.
28:11At least help me reload them.
28:13Right.
28:16Reload.
28:19Reload.
28:22Beckett?
28:23I think I know how Donnie was shot.
28:26Take a trip with me to a simple yet dangerous time.
28:29Castle, CSU already swept through this entire basement, and we were just tucked in with my laptop.
28:34We?
28:36Josh and I. He was helping me research.
28:38Anyway, a dangerous time when prohibition was law, and bootleggers, the lawless,
28:44often go into extreme measures to protect their liquid treasure.
28:47Can you get to the point?
28:48Yes. You remember when Donnie jumped up and rescued Annie from Pickup Pete?
28:52She said she completely missed him when she was down here doing her safe drop.
28:55It was late. She was tired. I can relate.
28:58Well, maybe he wasn't down here at all.
29:01Buckshot wall.
29:04Wall directly opposite. Help me move the shelf.
29:07And what exactly are we hoping to find?
29:09The truth. Same thing Donnie was hoping for.
29:12In all the stories that Leo ever told as bar historian, what if he saved one story just for Donnie?
29:19A story that Leo himself could never verify because the trapdoor to the basement wasn't discovered until after he died.
29:23When Billy Pitt decided to sell the bar and T.J. McChuckle Nuts was going to buy it,
29:27Donnie realized he had to find out before it was too late.
29:31Find what?
29:33Donnie sold his union card and bet his life savings that Bo James...
29:38Come.
29:41Help me.
29:42There we go.
29:43That Bo James' secret stash really exists.
29:47Are you pushing?
29:48I am pushing.
29:55Okay. That's...
30:00Wow.
30:04Oh, Castle.
30:06This is where Donnie was when Annie made the drop.
30:12Donnie pulled on this door?
30:15Whoa.
30:16Donnie pulled on this door and blam, said the lady.
30:19Do you hear that?
30:21Rushing water.
30:23If that water leads to the East River, then that's probably where Donnie was killed.
30:34What are you doing?
30:36We're going to need a light, right?
30:39Not so fast, Indy. We're also going to need breathable air.
30:44So.
30:50Torture be more fun.
30:53This must be part of the old sewer system.
30:55Probably used these as access tunnels during Prohibition. It's incredible, isn't it?
30:59Yeah, aside from the fact that it's...
31:03Damp, cramped, dark, and we are almost certainly walking in rat poop.
31:08Awesome.
31:09Don't forget the chuds.
31:10Chuds?
31:11Cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers. These sewers are crawling with them.
31:14You know, I kind of figured you're more for an alligator in the sewer type of guy.
31:19Is alligators doing it?
31:24What is this?
31:28Whoa.
31:29This looks like an old passageway that was bricked up a long time ago.
31:34Yeah, until Donnie got at it.
31:36Mayor Walker's moniker.
31:381919, that's when Prohibition started.
31:41Best time capsule ever.
31:45Imagine Donnie's joy when he realized that Leo's legends were true.
31:49$26,000 a bottle of Cares Brian was skimming.
31:52There's got to be a hundred bottles of scotch on these walls.
31:55Take one down and pass it around.
31:57Hey, that's evidence. There's already a lot that's been taken.
32:01That's fairly recently, too.
32:03These bottles are caked with dust and the empty spaces are relatively clean.
32:08There's our murder weapon.
32:11Hopefully there were some prints on it.
32:13There's probably blood mixed in there, too, in case you were thinking of tasting it.
32:17Come on, I'm not that desperate.
32:20So someone else finds out about Donnie's treasure, follows him down here,
32:25and then takes a picture of it.
32:27Someone else finds out about Donnie's treasure, follows him down here,
32:31surprises him, the fight 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.
32:45Look at this. All the way down.
32:47And it travels all the way...
32:52This tunnel has everything.
32:54Scotch vault, private murder nook, convenient sewage disposal.
32:59I bet you this water leads straight to the East River.
33:04It's fairly bright. Someone's been here in the past few hours.
33:09Police! Don't move!
33:16Stop! NYPD!
33:18This way.
33:25Where did he go?
33:27He was right in front of us. I heard him.
33:33This is a dead end. He couldn't have gotten past us.
33:35There's no other way he could have gotten out.
33:37So how did he get away?
33:43What do you mean, gone?
33:44He was right there in front of us, and then nothing but a brick wall.
33:49And there's no way this guy could have gotten past you two and snuck out through the old haunt?
33:52No, it was too narrow.
33:53Brian, the bartender, and a handful of regulars were still upstairs.
33:55They sweared. No one came out before we did.
33:57We think that our spirit-loving mayor didn't want to be seen going back and forth from his favorite speakeasy,
34:02so he had a back-way entrance built to his stash.
34:05Hidden from view. And, trust me, we looked.
34:08Yo. Just got off the phone with Laney.
34:10She confirms the blood on the broken bottle is Donnie's. It's definitely a murder weapon.
34:14But we run The Prince, 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? How?
34:24There's got to be another access point from the tunnel to the East River sewer line.
34:29The Sewer Bureau's map doesn't have anything.
34:31It's like Con Ed doesn't even know those tunnels exist.
34:34That'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. There are whole stations underground no one's seen for decades.
34:44Basically, 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.
34:55This 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.
35:16You can still 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.
35:25The man could grab himself a bottle, come and go without ever being seen.
35:28But come and go from where? Where did he start from?
35:31Here's where our tunnel ends and our killer vanished.
35:33There'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.
35:51You 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 Beau James Whiskey
36:00that someone was trying to make their way back to the mayor's stash,
36:02just like we are.
36:06Going once.
36:07Going 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? There's $1,200.
36:20Do I hear $1,250? $1,250 there.
36:23$1,300.
36:29$1,300 in the back.
36:31Do I hear $1,350? $1,350.
36:35$1,350.
36:41Do I hear $1,400?
36:48It's just a sad case of Donnie trusting the wrong guy.
36:51He told Heisler about the Beau James stash and Heisler got greedy.
36:54He convinced Donnie that the whiskey would fetch a better price
36:57if he sold a bottle at a time.
36:59So Donnie left his stash where he found it.
37:01And that gave Heisler enough time to figure out where it was hidden.
37:04When Donnie caught him in the vault,
37:06Heisler panicked, hit him with a bottle.
37:08Yo, we figured out how Heisler disappeared on you in the tunnel.
37:11Secret passageway.
37:13Basically.
37:14He had a hidden entrance that could only be opened from the other side.
37:17The CSU followed him from the street to the abandoned sewer to the tunnel,
37:20just like Mayor Walker had drew it up.
37:22Here's three cases that Heisler hadn't gotten around to selling yet.
37:25That 26 Gs of pop,
37:28you're looking at just under a cool million.
37:30How might I acquire one of these for myself?
37:34Castle, 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.
37:49Look at you.
37:50Isn't it cool?
37:51Gracie 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.
37:58Well, Alexis looks good in everything.
38:00I'm glad you two reconnected.
38:02We just had to get to know the new S's.
38:04Neither of us are ten anymore.
38:06Thanks for letting me crash at Shea Castle.
38:08It reminded me of the good old days,
38:10before our life got too real, you know?
38:12I do know.
38:13I'm gonna walk her to the train.
38:16Bye.
38:17Graham's waiting downstairs.
38:19Thanks for the warning.
38:22Wow, I remember that face.
38:24It's that one I got my tattoo.
38:28You got a tattoo?
38:32Where?
38:33Just heard from the D.A. Castle.
38:34Apparently, since all of these bottles used to belong to Beau James
38:37and he used to be our mayor,
38:38it's her opinion that they are owned by the city.
38:41But she says if you're willing to make a generous donation
38:43to the NYPD Widows and Orphans Fund,
38:45you can have one of Beau James' best for your very own.
38:48This is early Christmas, baby.
38:53I was not expecting this.
38:55Are you crying?
38:56Yes.
38:57I don't know what to say.
38:59Try and let me get my checkbook.
39:00Yes, of course.
39:01Of course.
39:02But I...
39:03I will only accept this if you all share it with me.
39:05Twist my arm.
39:06No.
39:07Not here.
39:08Um...
39:09At the Old Haunt.
39:10We will toast to Donnie with his family.
39:12Yeah, what about that place?
39:13What happens at the Old Haunt?
39:14It's gonna go back to the bank,
39:15which means that T.J. McChucklenucks is gonna get another shot at it.
39:17Oh, I wouldn't worry about the Old Haunt.
39:20You bought it, didn't you?
39:23So are you joining us?
39:25You know, I'd love to.
39:27It's late, and I've got a lot of paperwork.
39:29It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday.
39:31It's 9.15, actually.
39:32The regular crowd shuffles in.
39:36There's an old man sitting next to me
39:39Making love to his tonic and gin
39:46He said, son, can you play me a memory?
39:50I'm not really sure how it goes
39:53But it's sad and it's sweet
39:55And I knew it complete
39:57When I wore a younger man's clothes
40:00Sing us a song, you're the piano man
40:04Sing us a song tonight
40:06Well, we're all in the mood for a melody