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  • 5/23/2025
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!
00:30Can 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.
01:23Hey.
01:24Hey.
01:25Hey.
01:26Hey.
01:27Hey.
01:28Hey.
01:29Hey.
01:30Hey.
01:31Hey.
01:32Hey.
01:33Hey.
01:34Hey.
01:35Hey.
01:36Hey.
01:37Hey.
01:38Hey.
01:39Hey.
01:40Hey.
01:41Hey.
01:42Hey.
01:43Hey.
01:44Hey.
01:45Hey.
01:46Hey.
01:47Hey.
01:48Hey.
01:49Looks like someone's not in Kansas anymore.
01:50What happened to the little hairband, the knee socks.
01:54Oh, Becca, excellent timing.
01:59She used to be so adorable.
02:02I mean, what makes a girl, a little girl who used to play hopscotch at My Little Pony
02:07suddenly pierce her eyebrow?
02:08It's like she's been assimilated by the leather overworlds.
02:12probably romanticizing it.
02:14And is anything ever really the way that we
02:16remember it in grade school?
02:17Well, to be honest, beyond some baking sort of volcanoes
02:21and sweaty palms, I have very little memory 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
02:31it 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,
02:40I'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
02:47and a nasty crush injury along his temporal line.
02:50Any chance he went overboard?
02:52Classic indicators point to deliberate blunt force,
02:54so I'd say no.
02:55This was no boating accident.
02:59We better close the beaches.
03:02No boating accident?
03:04Chief Brody?
03:05Hooper?
03:07Seriously?
03:09I'll, uh, zip his prints over to the precinct for an ID,
03:12but for what it's worth, I did find this.
03:15Gambler's Anonymous medallion.
03:17Four years without a bet.
03:19Ah.
03:20Uh, what?
03:22The East River?
03:23A G8 ship?
03:24Relapsed gambler gets in too deep with his book,
03:26he ends up floating in the drink.
03:28Are you kidding me?
03:29You just went from Gambler's Anonymous to mob hit?
03:32This is the most celebrated body depository
03:34this side of the Jersey wetlands.
03:36Mark my words.
03:37This guy has mob ties.
03:39Case closed.
03:42No mob ties.
03:43Are you sure?
03:46Good work.
03:47According to his fingerprints, his name is Donald Hayes.
03:49Navy veteran, served in Desert Storm,
03:51and he's been a dock worker since 94.
03:53Somehow still employed as one.
03:55Our victim, Donnie Hayes, currently clocked in and on
03:59duty at the East Side docks.
04:01Which either means he's an incredibly dedicated zombie.
04:04Or he's a suspect in our murder.
04:08Donnie?
04:10Mr. Hayes?
04:14Donald Hayes.
04:17What's the matter?
04:18You forget your own name?
04:21Police!
04:22Don't move!
04:27The man said don't move.
04:29Wait a minute.
04:31Wait a minute.
04:32You just cops?
04:34Just cops?
04:35I guess that makes you just under arrest for murder.
04:40First name Grant, last name Viro.
04:43I didn't kill anybody.
04:44Then why'd you run?
04:45I thought you was with Union.
04:46Oh, so we're not the only ones who
04:48have a problem with you killing Donnie for his Union card.
04:51What are you talking about?
04:52I bought that card.
04:53Do you really expect us to believe
04:54that you bought Donnie's card, assumed his identity,
04:57and thought no one would notice?
05:01Guy spent 16 years working over on the West Side.
05:04So I switched the East Side docks so no one
05:06who knew Donnie would catch on.
05:07So what does a Union card go for nowadays?
05:09Since buying someone else's is illegal.
05:12Sucker cost me $25,000.
05:14Well, 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
05:22it'd be a bargain.
05:23There were no guns.
05:24I needed a job.
05:25Donnie needed cash.
05:27For what?
05:28He didn't say, and I didn't care.
05:30Beckett.
05:31I was right about the blunt force trauma.
05:33A single blow caved in the ridge here
05:36along Donnie's squamozo suture.
05:38And whatever did the damage was kind enough
05:40to leave this shard of red glass embedded in his skull.
05:43Maybe a heavy vase or bottle?
05:46I'll have forensics take a look at it,
05:48see if they can find a match.
05:49Based on Levitity and Waterton, I've
05:51narrowed time of death to between 4 and 6 AM this morning.
05:55What happened here on the shoulder?
05:56Buckshot.
05:57So someone conked him on the head and shot him?
05:59That's where it gets weird.
06:01Scarring indicates the pellets have been there
06:03about two to three weeks.
06:04And he just left him in there?
06:05Well, he certainly didn't seek treatment.
06:07Could have been he was in something illegal
06:09or scared of whoever shot him.
06:11Or both.
06:12Don't forget Viro.
06:13His alibi cleared, and we tracked down his personal check
06:16for $25,000, endorsed and deposited
06:19by Donnie LaFontaine, who's been on the run
06:21for the last three years.
06:22I'm going to have to go back to work on that.
06:24I'm going to have to go back to work on that.
06:26Endorsed and deposited by Donnie last month.
06:28Viro paid Donnie with a check?
06:29Not lobby enough for you, Castle?
06:31CSU is still combing Donnie's place,
06:32but no broken red glass, no signs of foul play,
06:36and no next of kin either.
06:37What about the Gambler's Anonymous chip?
06:39Any 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,
06:46then 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
06:57about a month ago, adding it to his existing
06:59balance of $125,000, all of which, wait for it,
07:03is now gone.
07:04Gone?
07:05All of it?
07:06Except for the remaining balance of $6.23,
07:08all the $150,000 was spent in one giant check made
07:10payable to a Wilbur Pitterino.
07:13Listed here as owning several properties,
07:15as well as a waste management business
07:17in Garfield, New Jersey.
07:19Oh, waste management.
07:20Any priors?
07:22Yeah, back in 1977, Billy Pitt spent 10 years in federal
07:25for assault and racketeering.
07:27And what?
07:28Racketeering.
07:31As well as shaking down business owners where he operated
07:33his bookmaking operation.
07:35His what now?
07:36Bookmaking operation.
07:38Oh, so an ex-gambler dumps his life savings
07:41on an ex-con ex-bookmaker and ends up exed out?
07:45Sounds like Donnie was late with his $150,000 for Billy Pitt,
07:48and he ended up paying for it with his life.
07:51I think I just said that.
08:01You know, you might have gotten a little grayer, Mr. Pitt,
08:03but it seems to me you haven't changed much at all.
08:06Must be all them Pilates classes.
08:12Do you recognize this check?
08:13Of course, it's from Donnie Hays, so?
08:15So I'm wondering if Donnie didn't owe you more money
08:17and you didn't flash back to your old racketeering days.
08:19Tap the brakes, sweetie.
08:20What the hell you dragged me down here for?
08:22I want to tell you right now that I paid my tab
08:24with Johnny Law a couple of lifetimes ago,
08:26and he's got nothing on me since.
08:28This guy is gold.
08:29You don't believe me?
08:30Why don't you ask Donnie?
08:34Is this about Donnie?
08:35He was found dead in the East River this morning.
08:38Now back to the money.
08:39What was it for?
08:41Was it a payment, or was it a gift?
08:42A purchase.
08:43For?
08:44He bought my bar downtown.
08:46Loved the place.
08:47Really?
08:48Enough to drop everything and dump his whole life savings
08:50into it?
08:51Kid was practically raised in the joint
08:53by his grandfather, Leo the Legend.
08:55Leo the Legend?
08:56You heard of the guy?
08:57Said he's the best bartender since the days
08:58when gay men happy.
09:00He's the only father Donnie knew.
09:01And 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,
09:10we 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.
09:19Don't tell me you've never been to the Old Haunt.
09:20It's legendary.
09:21All the great writers drank there.
09:23We're cops.
09:23We go to cop bars.
09:25You're lost.
09:26Donnie was there every night anyhow.
09:28We were all the family he had.
09:30So what prompted the sudden sale?
09:31I mean, it seemed like Donnie had
09:32to gather money pretty quickly.
09:34The bar had been weighing down my ledger sheets for years.
09:37I had an offer for one of them TJ McChuckleNuts franchises
09:40when Brian, my bartender, put together some investors
09:43and made an offer of his own.
09:44I was going to sell it to him, and then Donnie outbid him.
09:47And how did Brian feel when Donnie bought the place?
09:49He wasn't thrilled about it, but at least he wasn't
09:51working for TJ McChuckleNuts.
09:55We need to swab the shard of glass
09:57and found trace amounts of alcohol.
10:00A container of alcoholic beverage,
10:01a resentful bartender.
10:02And given the location of the Old Haunt,
10:05a potential crime scene just two blocks away from the river.
10:08Convenient 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.
10:17So how well do you know this bar, Castle?
10:19Oh, I haven't been here in years, not since Alexis.
10:21But I wrote most of my first novel in one of these booths.
10:24Oh, OK, well that explains a lot.
10:27It's sold over 3 million copies.
10:29No, I mean, why you're so excited?
10:32It's loaded with history.
10:33First as a blacksmith, then as a bordello.
10:35It only became a bar during Prohibition as a speakeasy,
10:38and it was one of the best.
10:39I swear you can still feel the vibration
10:41of every notorious episode of glamor
10:43and debauchery in its walls.
10:45Oh, easy, Castle.
10:46It's just a bar.
10:47No, no, TJ McChucklenuts.
10:48It's just a bar.
10:49The Old Haunt is the last of a dying breed.
10:52Proud institutions standing up to ruthless gentrification.
10:55It's a classic.
10:58What are you doing?
10:59Well, I'm not going to get much out of Brian
11:01looking like a cop.
11:02Undercover.
11:04I like it.
11:05You might want to pop one more button, just in case.
11:08Oh, yeah.
11:17This is how a bar should smell.
11:19Yeah, stale beer.
11:21Yeah, I'd write in more bars if there
11:22were more bars like this.
11:28Nice to see you, Eddie.
11:29Been 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
11:39Inhaler Bullets was born?
11:41Oh, my goodness, Castle.
11:42You were so cute back then.
11:45Back then?
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?
12:04Nothing.
12:06Welcome to the Old Haunt, folks.
12:09Is Donnie here by any chance?
12:11Not yet, but he will be.
12:12And he won't mind one bit that you're
12:14sitting in his regular spot.
12:15You know, I knew this place felt right for a reason.
12:18I'm Kate.
12:19I'm one of his old friends.
12:22And this is Rick.
12:25Brian.
12:26And any old friend of Donnie is a new friend of mine.
12:30Tell me, Brian, you don't by any chance carry a liqueur?
12:35It's really delicious.
12:38And it comes in this red bottle.
12:41Oh, yeah, that red bottle we shared down
12:44that little cantina in Tiananmen.
12:48Red, huh?
12:50Let's see.
12:51No red here, just 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?
13:01Undercover?
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.
13:14Well, think about it, folks.
13:15I'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 AM.
13:27I locked up on my way out, and Donnie
13:30went 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.
13:37That guy was like a brother to me.
13:39Even though he bought the bar off him under you?
13:41You didn't 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, you stuff the money in the till,
13:58and you keep track of it by throwing
14:00pieces 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?
14:13Things get physical?
14:14Over an extra $30 or $40?
14:16It's not even stealing. It's skimming.
14:17Donnie understood.
14:18The owner understood.
14:20We'd all been family long enough.
14:21Donnie knew I had to get creative to make
14:23my rent once in a while.
14:24I'd like to see his office.
14:26Sure.
14:27It's in the basement.
14:28The basement?
14:32I've never seen this.
14:33No one knew it was there until the flood of 98.
14:35Billy Pitt pulled up the old linoleum, and there it was.
14:38A hidden basement.
14:45How cool is this?
14:48Did I say cool?
14:51Make 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.
15:00We marched Donnie at gunpoint down to the river,
15:02killed him there.
15:02Killer had a gun.
15:04Why would he use a bottle?
15:05Don't ruin my story with your logic.
15:09Smells like fresh paint.
15:11Donnie been putting in a lot of work to fix the place up.
15:14New brass rail, refurbished wood on the bar.
15:20You find something?
15:24Oh, these are buckshot holes.
15:31You own a shotgun, Brian?
15:33No.
15:34CCU's going to comb this place from top to bottom.
15:36Blood, buckshot, broken red glass.
15:38So if you have something to say.
15:39Look, if a shotgun was fired down here,
15:41everybody in the bar would know about it.
15:43Not if it was after hours.
15:44We're talking about two or three weeks ago.
15:46Did Donnie have a beef with anyone then?
15:49You said two weeks ago?
15:52I don't know.
15:53I don't know.
15:54I don't know.
15:55I don't know.
15:56I don't know.
15:57I don't know.
15:58Two weeks ago?
16:00Yeah, it was a couple weeks ago.
16:02I was closing up a loan.
16:04I 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?
16:12Big hit with the ladies?
16:13No, he drives a pickup.
16:16Gun 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 here comes 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.
16:56Said the next 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 Vayner.
17:09Pickup 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.
17:23I think 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?
18:27The cities 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.
18:53The 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.
19:02Is that why you came back and you killed him?
19:04Because 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!
19:13Why would I kill the guy?
19:15Maybe because he trashed your truck.
19:17You were too drunk to shoot straight the last time you came after him with a shotgun.
19:20Shotgun?
19:21Look, 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.
19:31And 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, sorta.
19:46You can ask my repair guy.
19:48I 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 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
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.
20:37I don't get it.
20:39Donnie got shot down here and he didn't do anything wrong.
20:41Why didn't he report it?
20:43I don't think any new bar owner wants to struggle with the cops.
20:45Even an accidental shooting on the premises
20:47could have cost Donnie his liquor license for good.
20:49Probably why he's shelled out for Pete's truck damage, too.
20:52I don't see how.
20:54His personal account isn't the only thing that's tapped out.
20:56The old haunt was barely breaking even.
20:58Operating at a loss most days, there's no way he was throwing money around.
21:00Yet he was.
21:02I've got invoices here.
21:04One for the new brass rail
21:06and one for the new wood for the bar,
21:08each totaling close to six grand.
21:10Both of them are stamped petty cash paid in full.
21:12What's so petty about that?
21:14There's nothing in there about him winning the lotto.
21:18Actually, maybe there is.
21:21A consignment receipt from Hagen & Graham Auction House?
21:24Why is a guy like Donnie doing business
21:26with a place that sells Picassos and Rembrandts?
21:28His business was barely breaking even.
21:30He was on the verge of losing everything.
21:32And with his union card gone, it looks like he found something else to sell.
21:34Yeah, but what?
21:36What does a dockworker have that's valuable enough
21:38for a place like Hagen & Graham's to be interested?
21:40Something that wasn't his.
21:42Now, here's a place that honors history
21:45and values craftsmanship.
21:47You'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,
22:00and now they should just call it Times Square Land.
22:05So sorry to have kept you waiting.
22:07I'm Stephen Heisler, Associate Director.
22:09I'm Detective Kate Beckett. This is Richard Castle.
22:12We were wondering if you recognized this man.
22:15Ah, yes, Donald Heis.
22:17We don't get many dockworkers here, as you might imagine.
22:19What's this about?
22:21He was murdered.
22:22Murdered? Good Lord.
22:24We understand that he put an item up here for auction.
22:26We were wondering what it was.
22:28Are you familiar with a man by the name of Jimmy Walker?
22:30Sure, everybody knows Jimmy Walker.
22:32No, not the actor who played J.J. on Good Times.
22:34No, the former mayor of New York.
22:37Took office in 1926, went by the nickname Bo James,
22:40famous for being a corrupt politician,
22:42renowned 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.
23:17Do you have a picture of this bottle of Scotch?
23:20Where did Donnie 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.
23:29And there 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, once about 50 sites.
23:53The 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.
24:10Is there a Jeffrey McGuigan here?
24:12I go by McGu. It's my street name.
24:14Seriously, you're Jeffrey McGuigan?
24:16McGu. And yeah, I've purchased a ton of crap at that place.
24:18Come on in.
24:22So 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. But it was pretty tasty.
24:31Tasty? 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, McGu. Let's see that bottle.
24:39Seriously? You'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. I'm not stalling.
25:09Great. Yeah.
25:15You were throwing it out?
25:17It's in the blue bucket. I recycle.
25:21Well, it's still intact.
25:23Unless 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...
25:37Did 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 chardonnay'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 shot at 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,
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 going to do a little research on Leo.
26:10See what we can dig up on Mayor Walker and his mystery whiskey.
26:13Research.
26:16I'm going to do that, too. Yeah.
26:39It's called the sidecar.
26:41One of the best drinks to come out of the prohibition era.
26:43A 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.
26:53Rick's Cafe American.
26:55Mother, that's perfect.
26:57I was trying to come up with a boogie reference myself.
26:59All I could think of was Castle Blanca.
27:01I thought it was a little too on the nose.
27:03I need a drink.
27:05H2O. Dirty.
27:07Jack water it is.
27:09So, where's your dark shadow?
27:11She went out with some people she met at FIT.
27:13I 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.
27:30I haven't changed.
27:32Oh, darling, please.
27:34Look at you. You are tall, beautiful, sophisticated.
27:37You have a glam gram, and...
27:40him and a boyfriend.
27:43Did it ever occur to you that might be rather intimidating to a girl from Kansas?
27:47Intimidating?
27:49When 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.
28:00Hands are looking at you, kid.
28:02And you.
28:04Oh!
28:06You could have told me you booby-trapped it.
28:08Oh, yes. That's just how I protect my stash from G-men and mobsters.
28:11Hmm. At least help me reload them.
28:13Right.
28:16Reload.
28:19Reload.
28:22Beckett?
28:24I think I know how Donnie was shot.
28:28Take a trip with me to a simple yet dangerous time.
28:31Castle, 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 pick-up Pete?
28:54She said she completely missed him when she was down here doing her safe-drop.
28:57It was late. She was tired. I can relate.
29:00Well, maybe he wasn't down here at all.
29:02Buckshot wall.
29:05Wall directly opposite.
29:07Help me move the shelf.
29:09And what exactly are we hoping to find?
29:11The truth. Same 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 to the basement wasn't discovered until after he died.
29:26When Billy Pitt decided to sell the bar and T.J. McChucklenuts 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 exists.
29:51Are you pushing?
29:52I am pushing.
29:59Okay. That'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.
30:23If 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.
30:41We're also going to need breathable air.
30:43So...
30:49Torch would be more fun.
30:52This must be part of the old sewer system.
30:54Probably used these as access tunnels during Prohibition.
30:57It's incredible, isn't it?
30:58Yeah. Aside from the fact that it's...
31:03Damp. Cramped. Dark.
31:05And we are almost certainly walking in rat poop.
31:08Awesome.
31:09Don't forget the chuds.
31:10Chuds?
31:11Cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers.
31:13These sewers are crawling with them.
31:15I kind of figured you more for an alligator in the sewer type of guy.
31:19There's alligators down here?
31:24What is this?
31:28Whoa.
31:29Looks like an old passageway that was bricked up a long time ago.
31:34Until Donnie got at it.
31:40Mayor Walker's moniker.
31:411919. That's when Prohibition started.
31:45Best time capsule ever!
31:48Imagine Donnie's joy when he realized that Leo's legends were true.
31:53$26,000 a bottle. Who cares if Brian will skim it?
31:56There's got to be a hundred bottles of scotch on these walls.
31:59Take one down and pass it around.
32:01Hey! That's evidence.
32:03There's already a lot that's been taken.
32:07Fairly recently, too.
32:09These bottles are caked with dust and the empty spaces are relatively clean.
32:15There's our murder weapon.
32:18Hopefully there were some prints on it.
32:20There's probably blood mixed in there, too.
32:22In case you were thinking of tasting it.
32:24Come on. I'm not that desperate.
32:26So someone else finds out about Donnie's treasure.
32:29Follows him down here.
32:31Surprises him.
32:33The 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...
32:51This tunnel has everything.
32:53Secret scotch vault.
32:55Private murder nook.
32:57Convenient sewage disposal.
32:59I bet you this water leads straight to the East River.
33:04It's just fairly bright.
33:05Someone's been here in the past few hours.
33:09Police! Don't move!
33:16Stop! NYPD!
33:18This way.
33:24Where did he go?
33:26He was right in front of us. I heard him.
33:32This is a dead end. He couldn't have gotten past us.
33:34There's no other way he could have gotten out.
33:36So how did he get away?
33:42What do you mean, gone?
33:43He was right there in front of us and then nothing but a brick wall.
33:48And there's no way this guy could have gotten past you two and snuck out through the old haunt?
33:51No, 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.
34:12It'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.
34:41Looks like old subway lines. There are whole stations underground no one's seen for decades.
34:44So 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.
34:55This place could use a little gentrification.
34:57Or at least a copy machine.
34:59It's a pre-World War II archive section, Castle.
35:01Half of this probably hasn't been seen in over 70 years.
35:05Floresi, 1920.
35:07That's about when Prohibition was getting started.
35:09You see how much nicer the neighborhood was back then?
35:12You think that little box there might be the old haunt?
35:14Yeah, that's where it would be. Not long after its bordello phase.
35:17Still see the little garter belts.
35:19Okay, there's a sewer line running under it that wasn't on the newer map,
35:22so that's got to be our tunnel.
35:24Which would put Walker's Whiskey right about here.
35:26The 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.
35:38Any of which our killer could have access to get away from us.
35:41So 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,
35:55only it says here someone checked this one out just two weeks ago.
35:59And I'll bet a bottle of Beau James Whiskey
36:01that someone was trying to make their way back to the mayor's stash,
36:03just 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? There's $1,200.
36:21Do 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.
36:34$1,350 in the front.
36:39$1,350.
36:45Do I hear $1,400?
36:52It's just a sad case of Donnie trusting the wrong guy.
36:55He told Heisler about the Beau James stash and Heisler got greedy.
36:58He convinced Donnie that the whiskey would fetch a better price
37:01so Donnie left his stash where he found it.
37:03And 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.
37:16He had a hidden entrance that could only be opened from the other side.
37:18The CSU followed him from the street to the abandoned sewer to the tunnel,
37:21just like Mayor Walker had drew it up.
37:23Here'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.
37:31How might I acquire one of these for myself?
37:35Castle, I told you, they're evidence.
37:37Yes, but who's to say that today's evidence can't be tomorrow night, Cap?
37:39That would be me.
37:41I'm sure it'd be a few months before we could figure out where this and the rest of this stuff belongs.
37:44Montgomery.
37:50Look at you.
37:51Isn't it cool? Gracie 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.
37:58She has a really good eye.
38:00Well, Alexis looks good in everything.
38:02I'm glad you two reconnected.
38:04We just had to get to know the new S's.
38:06Neither of us are ten anymore.
38:08Thanks for letting me crash at Shea Castle.
38:10It reminded me of the good old days, before life got too real, you know.
38:14I do know.
38:15I'm gonna walk her to the train.
38:17Bye.
38:19Graham's waiting downstairs.
38:21Thanks for the warning.
38:23Wow, I remember that face.
38:25It's that one I got my tattoo.
38:28You got a tattoo?
38:32Where?
38:33Just heard from the D.A. Castle.
38:35Apparently, since all of these bottles used to belong to Bo James and 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 to the NYPD Widows and Orphans Fund,
38:45you can have one of Bo James' best for your very own.
38:48This is early Christmas, baby.
38:51I was not expecting this.
38:53Are you crying?
38:55Yes.
38:56I don't know what to say.
38:57Try and let me get my checkbook.
38:58Yes, of course.
38:59Of course.
39:00But I, I will only accept this if you all share it with me.
39:03Twist my arm.
39:04No.
39:05Not here.
39:06Um.
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, which means that T.J. McChucklenucks is gonna get another shot at it.
39:15Oh, I wouldn't worry about the Old Haunt.
39:18You bought it, didn't you?
39:21So, are you joining us?
39:24You know, I'd love to.
39:25It's late, and I've got a lot of papers.
39:27It's nine o'clock on a Saturday.
39:29It'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 something.
39:47He 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, and I knew it complete.
39:57When I wore a younger man's clothes.
40:00Oh!
40:01Sing 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.