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Castle Season 3 Episode 12

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00:01:16Come on, Gina.
00:01:17I'm not having this conversation with you again.
00:01:20Well, I gotta go. I'm at work.
00:01:22It is show work.
00:01:24What's up, Castle? How's it going?
00:01:26You want my advice?
00:01:27Never sleep with someone you work with.
00:01:30What?
00:01:32What do you mean?
00:01:33Trust me. It doesn't end well.
00:01:35Who knows?
00:01:37Everyone knows.
00:01:38Everyone knows what?
00:01:40Nothing.
00:01:42On my way.
00:01:44You okay, Castle?
00:01:45You seem upset.
00:01:46No, no, I'm fine.
00:01:48Why?
00:01:49Okay.
00:01:52The murder is here?
00:01:53At Drake's magic show?
00:01:54Yep.
00:01:55I've been coming here since I was 13 years old.
00:01:57This place is a paradise for boys.
00:02:00Whoopee cushions, magic tricks, fake vomit.
00:02:03It's not just for boys, Castle.
00:02:05My grandfather was an amateur magician,
00:02:06and I used to come here almost every Sunday afternoon
00:02:09when I was that age, too.
00:02:11I never pegged you for a magic fan.
00:02:14You know any good tricks?
00:02:16I do this one thing with ice cubes.
00:02:20According to his water-soaked wallet,
00:02:22the victim's Zalman Drake, the shop owner.
00:02:25His assistant, Eliza Winter, found him in the tank
00:02:28when she opened up the store this morning.
00:02:30Any signs of forced entry?
00:02:31Nope.
00:02:32You know, it is beyond me
00:02:33why people think this is entertaining.
00:02:35I see a guy hanging upside down in a water tank.
00:02:37I think you are a fool.
00:02:39You know, the milk cans and the water torture tank,
00:02:42they were real game-changers in the magic world.
00:02:44They were the first presentation
00:02:46of real life-and-death consequences.
00:02:48As the magician held his breath, so did the audience.
00:02:51Well, this magician would have had to hold his breath
00:02:538 to 10 hours if he wanted to take a bow.
00:02:55So you're saying between 12 and 2 a.m.?
00:02:58Looks that way.
00:02:59Particular hemorrhaging in his eyes indicate drowning.
00:03:03Failed escape attempt?
00:03:04Well, there's no redness around his ankles
00:03:06where he was hanging.
00:03:07Doesn't look like he struggled to get out.
00:03:09I have a feeling he was dead before he hit the water,
00:03:11but I won't know for sure until I get him back to the lab.
00:03:13Maybe there's another reason he struggled.
00:03:16Suicide note.
00:03:17It says he was in financial trouble
00:03:19and couldn't bear the thought of losing his family's shop,
00:03:21so he was going to kill himself.
00:03:23Mr. Drake did not kill himself.
00:03:25How do you know?
00:03:27I just know.
00:03:28Is it true, though?
00:03:29Was he going to lose his shop?
00:03:30No.
00:03:31I mean, yes.
00:03:32But 2 weeks ago, he told me that everything was fine,
00:03:35that he had worked it all out.
00:03:37Any idea how?
00:03:38Was there a windfall or an investor?
00:03:40He didn't say.
00:03:41Would he have been able to place himself in that tank?
00:03:44Absolutely.
00:03:45But he wouldn't have.
00:03:47Not Zalman.
00:03:48He loved and respected magic too much.
00:03:52Ms. Bazzito, there's no signature here.
00:03:56I'll have CSU run it for prints.
00:03:57Have them run the tank and the entries and exits as well.
00:04:00Okay.
00:04:01When was the last time you saw him?
00:04:03Yesterday morning.
00:04:04He left right after lunch, and he was gone the rest of the day.
00:04:07Did he say where he was going?
00:04:10Was it normal for him to leave the shop in the middle of the day?
00:04:12Yeah.
00:04:13He would do that sometimes.
00:04:15Did you notice any changes in his behavior?
00:04:17Anything unusual going on in his life?
00:04:20This past month, he was gone more often.
00:04:23All he'd say was that he was working on something.
00:04:27But he looked a little tired, like he hadn't been sleeping.
00:04:30Can you think of any reason for the change?
00:04:32Yes.
00:04:33Last month, right before all this started,
00:04:36a guy came into the shop and attacked Mr. Drake.
00:04:39He pushed him right through a display case.
00:04:41He said he better watch his back, and he was going to sue him for all he was worth.
00:04:48I will hold.
00:04:49So court records show that a lawsuit was filed against Zalman Drake a month ago.
00:04:54They're pulling it up now.
00:04:55Hey.
00:04:56Hey.
00:04:57On the campus area around the magic shop,
00:04:58one of the neighbors said she saw an old white van pull up to the shop around midnight,
00:05:01and then heard the gate roll up.
00:05:03Okay, you guys look into that,
00:05:04and let's find out where Zalman was disappearing to.
00:05:06I'd like to know what he was doing all the way up until the moment that he died.
00:05:09What about his next of kin?
00:05:10Only surviving relatives are brother and Poughkeepsie.
00:05:12We haven't reached him yet.
00:05:13All right, thank you guys.
00:05:15Poughkeepsie?
00:05:16Hey.
00:05:17X-ray specs. Got them at the magic shop.
00:05:21I can see you naked.
00:05:23Really?
00:05:24How do you like my navel ring?
00:05:27Looks like somebody has a secret.
00:05:29Secret?
00:05:31What secret?
00:05:32I can understand a guy not wanting to share.
00:05:34I mean, some things are personal.
00:05:37How'd you find out?
00:05:39Dude, everybody knows.
00:05:41It's all over page six.
00:05:47Looks like an unhappy ending for the publisher and the mystery writer.
00:05:50Apparently, he and ex-wife slash girlfriend slash publisher Gina had some words,
00:05:56loud words, at Le Cirque, and she stormed off.
00:05:59That's what he was talking about this morning.
00:06:02What I don't understand is why he would try to hide it from us.
00:06:04I mean, we're like family.
00:06:06Maybe he's afraid of what we might think.
00:06:10So it turns out a lawsuit was filed against Zalman Drake by a Jerome Aspinall.
00:06:16And get this.
00:06:17The judge threw it out yesterday.
00:06:19Maybe Jerome decided to take justice into his own hands.
00:06:23What was he suing him for?
00:06:24Zalman Drake?
00:06:25I was suing him for slander, defamation of character, ruin of my life.
00:06:29And how did Zalman do that, Jerome?
00:06:31In my friggin' mind.
00:06:32In front of like 300 people.
00:06:34During a magic performance?
00:06:35Yeah, it was like this mind-reading, card tricks, levitation at this she-she charity ball.
00:06:39My in-laws bought a table, and I figured free food, some entertainment,
00:06:42maybe later he'd get lucky.
00:06:43Turns out, not so lucky.
00:06:44Did you elaborate on that?
00:06:45Yeah, this magician Zalman Drake gets on stage, makes this rich dude disappear and reappear.
00:06:50And I'm like, oh, that's cool.
00:06:51Then he asks for volunteers.
00:06:52My wife raises my hand and says, go out there, it'll be fun.
00:06:55So I do.
00:06:56Drake says, stand across from me and think good thoughts.
00:06:58So I do.
00:06:59He looks at me, concentrates, puts his fingers on my forehead, and he goes,
00:07:02you're thinking of Rita and your trip to Atlantic City last weekend.
00:07:05Who are you?
00:07:06Yeah, but I was trying not to.
00:07:08Because here's the kicker.
00:07:09Your wife's name isn't Rita.
00:07:11Right.
00:07:12So now I'm living in a motel in Long Island City, my father-in-law fired me,
00:07:16and Rita won't even talk to me because my wife found her number and called her.
00:07:19Where were you last night between 12 and 2?
00:07:22Why did she ask me that?
00:07:23Well, she wants to know if you have an alibi.
00:07:25For what?
00:07:26Zalman Drake was murdered last night.
00:07:32Justice is served.
00:07:35When he read your mind, did it take him very long?
00:07:39No, no.
00:07:40No.
00:07:41Didn't think so.
00:07:42Jerome, we have a witness who says you went to his shop,
00:07:45attacked, and threatened Zalman Drake.
00:07:47When they dropped your lawsuit yesterday,
00:07:49did you decide to take the law into your own hands?
00:07:51Did you go to the magic shop and murder Zalman?
00:07:53No, I didn't go anywhere last night except for O'Lanahan's at 57th and 7th,
00:07:56because thanks to Zalman Drake,
00:07:58I no longer have a wife or a mistress to go home to.
00:08:02Carol Zalman did it.
00:08:03Must have looked at something from Jerome's pocket with a receipt from his weekend of sin.
00:08:07Like this?
00:08:09You had your hand in my pocket and I didn't even feel it?
00:08:12Do it again.
00:08:24What?
00:08:26Hey, Ryan.
00:08:28Any luck narrowing down Zalman's whereabouts yesterday?
00:08:31Not yet, but I did check into Jerome's whereabouts last night.
00:08:35The barkeep at O'Lanahan's said he was there till closing and called him a cab.
00:08:38So the only thing he killed last night were his brain cells?
00:08:41And a forensic sweep of the water tank came up negative
00:08:44for any prints on the operating apparatus of the Zalmans.
00:08:46So either he committed suicide...
00:08:48Or the killer wore gloves.
00:08:49Not the whole time.
00:08:50According to the lab, there were fingerprints all over that suicide note
00:08:53and they weren't Zalman's or Jerome's.
00:08:55Did you get a match?
00:08:56Yeah, to a Charles Chuck Russell.
00:08:58A lowlife street magician with three arrests and two convictions.
00:09:01One for arson and another on an explosives charge.
00:09:04Did he know our victim?
00:09:05Yeah, apparently Zalman is some big muckety-muck with the American Magicians Guild.
00:09:08They have a code of professional conduct and Chuck broke it.
00:09:11He was reckless with pyrotechnics in his act, injured his assistant,
00:09:14so Zalman had him kicked out.
00:09:16He hasn't been able to book a gig since.
00:09:18Where can we find him?
00:09:19So, I have Brenda's watch here.
00:09:21She wants me to make her husband disappear.
00:09:23That's a felony. I can't do that.
00:09:25But I can make the watch disappear.
00:09:28Give it up.
00:09:31Thank you, Brenda.
00:09:34Dollar.
00:09:37I'm down on ramen and tap water tonight.
00:09:39Think of you.
00:09:40What about you?
00:09:41You got a little something for the United Magicians College Fund?
00:09:44As a matter of fact, I do.
00:09:45We need to talk to you about Zalman Drake.
00:09:48Abracadabra.
00:10:04Alakazam, jackass.
00:10:15Why am I here?
00:10:17You recognize this?
00:10:18That's a baggie and that's a letter.
00:10:21Next.
00:10:22Careful, Chucky. Next could be a murder charge.
00:10:25Your fingerprints are on it.
00:10:26So?
00:10:27So, I find it strange that someone else's fingerprints are on another guy's suicide note.
00:10:32What are you talking about?
00:10:33Your old friend, Zalman Drake.
00:10:36Zalman?
00:10:39Yeah, that's him.
00:10:41He killed himself?
00:10:42Man.
00:10:44We found him drowned in the water torture trick in his shop.
00:10:47You must have thought you were pretty clever, staging it to look like a botched escape.
00:10:50Well, I didn't stage anything.
00:10:52I had nothing to do with it.
00:10:54Well, then maybe you can explain your prints on that.
00:11:01Alright.
00:11:03No, wait.
00:11:05Okay, listen. I gave him this note.
00:11:07You gave him a suicide note?
00:11:09Not that note. The other note on the paper. The one you can't see.
00:11:14Hold it under a blacklight.
00:11:18It's an invoice for services rendered.
00:11:21What kind of services?
00:11:23He wanted me to get him something.
00:11:25Something illegal.
00:11:29C4? Explosives?
00:11:31Ironic, right?
00:11:33He wants explosives from me when that's what he got me booted for.
00:11:36But he promised to get me reinstated in the Guild and I wanted the work.
00:11:42Whoever wrote this note probably thought they took a blank piece of paper.
00:11:45Whoever being not me.
00:11:47You provided him with enough C4 to blow up half a city block.
00:11:51What was it for?
00:11:52Maybe it was for a magic trick.
00:11:54Come on.
00:11:55No, listen. Zalman didn't just run the shop and do corporate gigs.
00:11:58He was also this genius trick designer.
00:12:01Rumor has it he was creating cutting edge illusions for the hottest guy out there.
00:12:06And who is the hottest guy out there?
00:12:08Tobias Strange?
00:12:10He's the Johnny Depp of magic.
00:12:12I saw him in Vegas. He made a Ferrari disappear.
00:12:14Why would anybody want to do that?
00:12:15Yeah, he's in town. I saw him perform a couple of weeks ago.
00:12:17Awesome, awesome show.
00:12:19Yeah, we loved it.
00:12:21We?
00:12:23Yeah.
00:12:24You my buddy?
00:12:26Ray?
00:12:27You have a buddy named Ray who you went with to a magic show?
00:12:30Yeah.
00:12:31What about it?
00:12:32Okay, guys. Hold Chuck on an explosives trafficking charge
00:12:35and let's see if this Johnny Depp of magic knows what his trick designer was really into
00:12:39and why it required so much C4.
00:12:45Voila.
00:12:49Pull it tight.
00:12:50All the way.
00:12:51Make sure it's locked.
00:12:54Okay, guys. Thirty seconds.
00:12:56Starting now.
00:13:03Excuse me.
00:13:06Oh, my God.
00:13:07Get it open.
00:13:08You can't.
00:13:11Where is he?
00:13:12Hey, this is a private rehearsal.
00:13:14Who the hell let him in here?
00:13:16All access pass.
00:13:19Zalman has been the heart of the New York magic community
00:13:21since he inherited the shop from his dad.
00:13:24It's a huge loss.
00:13:25I understand that he worked for you.
00:13:27Used to. We parted ways last month.
00:13:30Why?
00:13:31I heard from one of my vendors that he might be working for someone else.
00:13:34So I confronted him.
00:13:36Turns out he was poached.
00:13:37Do you know by whom?
00:13:38He didn't say.
00:13:39Look, Zalman had been my exclusive designer and engineer for 15 years.
00:13:44He created some of my most famous tricks.
00:13:47If he had any stage presence, he would have been a world-class magician himself.
00:13:51Well, it must have been very upsetting to have him leave after all those years.
00:13:55Didn't that put some of your trade secrets at risk?
00:13:58I think you've had accusation, Mr. Castle.
00:14:00Of course I was upset.
00:14:02But I never doubted his discretion.
00:14:04Mr. Strange, did any of your illusions require the use of an explosive?
00:14:08The term smoke and mirrors isn't metaphoric in our business, detective.
00:14:11Much of misdirection depends on flashes of light.
00:14:14What about C4?
00:14:15The key to making something look dangerous is to have complete control over the outcome.
00:14:20C4 is too volatile and unpredictable.
00:14:23It kills.
00:14:24Any idea what Zalman would be using it for?
00:14:26Nothing magical, I assure you.
00:14:29Have you checked his workshop?
00:14:30We haven't come across a workshop.
00:14:33Probably where he's been disappearing to every day.
00:14:35Do you know where it is?
00:14:36Ah, you know how magicians are about secrets.
00:14:39But whatever he was working on, he would probably find there.
00:14:43It's an age-old story.
00:14:44Magician at the top of his game.
00:14:46Angry that his trick designer has jumped ship for the competition.
00:14:50Kills him instead of letting his trade secrets fall into enemy hands.
00:14:53It's magic, Castle. Not the Cold War.
00:14:56Well, if it's not the Cold War, why does Zalman need military-grade explosives?
00:15:00I don't know, Hal. We don't even know if it really was murder.
00:15:02I mean, for all we know, it could have actually been a suicide.
00:15:07It's Laney.
00:15:08Let me guess. It wasn't a suicide.
00:15:12Beckett.
00:15:16It took you too long enough. Where were you? Europe?
00:15:19Traffic.
00:15:20Girl, you could have used the gumball.
00:15:21Dressed to the nines in a big hurry.
00:15:24So, where are you going, and who's the lucky victim?
00:15:27I'll tell you what, Castle.
00:15:29You tell me what's going on between you and Gina, and I'll tell you where I'm going tonight.
00:15:33What are you talking about?
00:15:35He and his girlfriend had a big fight at Le Cirque. It was in the paper.
00:15:38Can we talk about the victim, please?
00:15:39Okay.
00:15:41No water in the lungs.
00:15:43He wasn't drowned?
00:15:44Nope, but he was asphyxiated, which sometimes presents the same way.
00:15:49Bruising.
00:15:50Like someone held their hand over his nose and mouth.
00:15:53He was murdered before he was put into the tank.
00:15:55And then his killer took what he thought was a blank piece of paper and typed out the suicide note.
00:15:59But why kill him that way? I mean, why make it look like a suicide?
00:16:03Cover up the murder.
00:16:04The murder or something bigger involving explosives?
00:16:09We gotta find that workshop.
00:16:17You are the picture of a civilized evening at home.
00:16:21And you are a caveman. Darling, we are your family. Why didn't you tell us about this?
00:16:26Have you spoken to her? You know, since your PDA.
00:16:29My...
00:16:30Public display of anger.
00:16:31He says you were fighting, Dad. What about?
00:16:34Well, if you must know...
00:16:36Yes?
00:16:37We were fighting about how much we've been fighting.
00:16:40If you don't mind, I'd really like to change the subject.
00:16:45What am I, six?
00:16:47At least pull out a twenty.
00:16:50Wow.
00:16:53Hey, I was thinking...
00:16:54Come on, Castle. Keep up.
00:16:56Where are we going?
00:16:57Zalman's workshop.
00:16:58You found it? How?
00:17:00In his soggy wallet was a soggy MetroCard. Ryan ran it through the automated fare database.
00:17:05He was traveling from a subway stop near his magic shop to the last stop out in the Bronx.
00:17:10So we're canvassing the neighborhood. Do we need vests?
00:17:12No. No vests. Remember that power outage a couple weeks ago, shut down the subway?
00:17:16Yes.
00:17:17Well, I looked into Zalman's financials.
00:17:19He hired a town car that day with his credit card, and we now have his address.
00:17:34You sure this is the place?
00:17:36This is where they dropped him off.
00:17:38Well, it looks abandoned. Bricked up.
00:17:41Look, look, look. Footprints.
00:17:44Yes, to nowhere.
00:17:46That's what he wanted us to think.
00:17:53Open Sesame.
00:18:03Zalman's Fortress of Solitude.
00:18:07Wow, Castle. My grandfather would have loved this place.
00:18:11Look, he has a guillotine.
00:18:15And an iron maiden.
00:18:17He even had a zig-zag box.
00:18:21You know, you would have liked my grandfather.
00:18:24In fact, you remind me of him a little.
00:18:28I'm flattered.
00:18:31Wheelchair traps?
00:18:32Yeah, and they look fairly fresh.
00:18:35Maybe he had a visitor.
00:18:36Yeah.
00:18:39They look recent.
00:18:41These papers are dated the day he was killed.
00:18:44I'm going to have to get CSU to sweep this whole place.
00:18:52I'm going to have to get CSU to sweep this whole place.
00:18:55I'm going to have to get CSU to sweep this whole place.
00:18:59Is this an accident or art?
00:19:06Castle, take a look at this.
00:19:10The pages are ripped.
00:19:12He didn't want anyone to know what he was working on.
00:19:18Zalman?
00:19:21Who the hell are you?
00:19:23Best trick ever.
00:19:29NYPD, keep your hands where I can see them.
00:19:34Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on? What are you doing here?
00:19:38Zalman?
00:19:39Edmund. Edmund Drake.
00:19:41His brother from Poughkeepsie?
00:19:43You're a twin.
00:19:44Yeah.
00:19:46Can I put my hands down?
00:19:48Uh, yeah.
00:19:50Why were you hiding the iron maiden?
00:19:52It's the entrance from the other room.
00:19:54I'm Detective Beckett. We're here about your brother.
00:19:57Where am I? Where is it?
00:19:59You don't know.
00:20:01Mr. Drake, I'm sorry to tell you, but your brother is dead.
00:20:10Are you kidding me?
00:20:12He is an identical twin who wears glasses.
00:20:15That's the worst disguise since Clark Kent, and you believe him?
00:20:18I have no reason not to. Look at him. He's devastated.
00:20:21It's an act. Don't you ever go to movies?
00:20:25It's probably Edmund who's dead.
00:20:27And that dude in the next room is Zalman.
00:20:29I bet he killed his brother to take over his life.
00:20:32As an accountant in Poughkeepsie?
00:20:35Well, I...
00:20:39I knew something was wrong when he called me a couple of days ago.
00:20:43What did he call about?
00:20:45Money.
00:20:46He said someone was paying him a half a million dollars,
00:20:49and he and he and I helped to hide it.
00:20:51Hide it how?
00:20:52To make sure that the government never found out where it came from.
00:20:55The way he was talking, it sounded like he'd gotten involved in something illegal.
00:20:58And what were you doing at his warehouse?
00:21:01I just had this feeling yesterday that something was terribly wrong.
00:21:05And when I tried to reach him, I couldn't.
00:21:07I drove down to the city.
00:21:09I think it was a twin thing, you know?
00:21:11All our lives we've had this connection.
00:21:14Yeah, of course. Twin thing.
00:21:16Tell me, Mr. Drake, given your legacy,
00:21:20why didn't you ever get into the family business, too?
00:21:23I didn't have the passion or the skill.
00:21:27Zalman and I, we did have an act together as kids.
00:21:39He would disappear up on stage,
00:21:41and then I would appear in the back of the audience.
00:21:44I guess it was only amazing to people who didn't know we were twins.
00:21:48You're being modest.
00:21:50I'm sure you fooled a lot of people.
00:21:52Mr. Drake, the activities that your brother was involved in,
00:21:56if you looked through his things,
00:21:58do you think you would be able to determine what he was doing?
00:22:00Zalman was a brilliant engineer,
00:22:02and I'm afraid my brain just doesn't work that way.
00:22:06He was someone special, you know?
00:22:08Light of a room.
00:22:10Look, Detective, I don't know what he got mixed up in,
00:22:13but I just know he didn't deserve to die.
00:22:19I can't believe you're letting him just walk out of here.
00:22:21If this was a movie...
00:22:23It's not a movie, and what am I supposed to charge him with?
00:22:25Being a twin?
00:22:27Being an evil twin in a magic murder.
00:22:29A half-a-million-dollar payment
00:22:31that he's hiding from the government bricks of C-4?
00:22:34That doesn't sound like magic to me.
00:22:37Beckett.
00:22:39CSU is just finishing their initial sweep.
00:22:42So far we haven't been able to find anything
00:22:44to indicate who Zalman might have been working for
00:22:46other than Tobias Strange,
00:22:48but CSU did find some trace residue of C-4 explosives
00:22:51on the workbench.
00:22:53And what about the tracks?
00:22:55You were right. They are from a wheelchair.
00:22:57The tracks are pretty distinctive.
00:22:59We're running down to make a model now.
00:23:01Yeah, well, with any luck, Professor X will turn out
00:23:03to be Zalman's mystery client.
00:23:05All right, thanks.
00:23:07What about this?
00:23:09Zalman gets in over his head.
00:23:11He lures his brother down here, suffocates him,
00:23:13sticks him in a tank, so it looks like he's dead.
00:23:15Zalman, as Edmund, inherits his own magic shop,
00:23:18collects his own insurance,
00:23:20all the while takes Edmund's wife and children
00:23:23who love him as his own.
00:23:26It's Dead Ringer!
00:23:28Are you still talking?
00:23:30Edmund is Zalman.
00:23:32Couldn't be more wrong.
00:23:34I ran the prints on our victim. He is Zalman.
00:23:36Satisfied, Castle? More like disappointed.
00:23:38Well, maybe this will cheer you up.
00:23:40Old man hair.
00:23:42Rabbit fur. It came from his teeth and throat.
00:23:45So he was killed by a rabbit
00:23:47who did not want to be pulled out of a hat.
00:23:49Your guess is as good as mine.
00:23:51In the process of trying to determine
00:23:53how Zalman was asphyxiated, I also discovered
00:23:55the presence of a low dose of organophosphates
00:23:57in his nose and throat.
00:23:59Organophosphates?
00:24:01It's found in hydraulic fluids, jet engine oil,
00:24:03insecticides, nerve agents.
00:24:05Nerve agents?
00:24:07Along with the C4, our magician's sounding more like a terrorist.
00:24:09The amount is too small to indicate
00:24:11that he was working with them directly,
00:24:13but he definitely was exposed to them recently.
00:24:15Oye, chica. I was in the hood,
00:24:17and I thought that we should talk about the...
00:24:19Tests. That you had me run.
00:24:21Um, they're in the back. I'll go get them.
00:24:23Yeah. Thanks.
00:24:25What tests?
00:24:27Different case. Hey, I was just about to call you.
00:24:29You know those wheelchair tracks
00:24:31that you found at Zalman's workshop?
00:24:33Well, they had a sawtooth pattern
00:24:35unique to one brand of tire made for electric wheelchairs.
00:24:37We called a half a dozen specialty shops
00:24:39and we cross-referenced recent purchases
00:24:41with the mailing list of the magic shop.
00:24:43Did you get a match? Yeah.
00:24:47Thaddeus Magnus.
00:24:49He's a professional government protester.
00:24:51He's got multiple arrests for civil disobediences
00:24:53and, get this, dreads a white van.
00:24:55Government protester, civil disobedience.
00:24:57You mix that in with C4 and nerve agent?
00:24:59You're looking at Tim McVeigh.
00:25:01You have an address?
00:25:03Thanks.
00:25:05Nice work.
00:25:09That was close.
00:25:11No, this...
00:25:13is close.
00:25:19How does a guy in a wheelchair lift someone into a tank of water?
00:25:23Mr. Magnus!
00:25:25NYPD, open up!
00:25:27Maybe the wheelchair is an act.
00:25:29In every magic story,
00:25:31there's an unexpected twist
00:25:33where things aren't always what they seem.
00:25:35It's an obligation of the genre.
00:25:37What?
00:25:39NYPD, we need to ask you a few questions about Zalman Drake.
00:25:43Zalman Drake of Drake magic.
00:25:47End of an era.
00:25:51I hear it was a failed escape.
00:25:53More like a successful murder.
00:25:55He was asphyxiated before he was lowered into the tank.
00:25:59You mean he was really murdered?
00:26:01Guess whose van was spotted outside his shop
00:26:03right about when he died.
00:26:05Do not touch that, please.
00:26:07It took me five years to build it.
00:26:09What was he working on for you?
00:26:11What were the explosives for?
00:26:13Explosives? What are you talking about?
00:26:15Now look,
00:26:17Zalman was my friend.
00:26:19He didn't work for me.
00:26:21I worked for him.
00:26:23Making specialty items for those tricks he designed.
00:26:25Nothing explosive.
00:26:27Just...
00:26:29things like that.
00:26:31Doesn't change the fact you were at his store when he died.
00:26:33Does it look like I could have
00:26:35lifted him into a tank?
00:26:37Maybe you borrowed a set of legs.
00:26:39Maybe these are someone else's.
00:26:41Stop it!
00:26:43If anyone killed him, it was those guys he met.
00:26:45What guys?
00:26:47The guys he was working for.
00:26:49I was there at the warehouse when they called.
00:26:51I went there to pick up a check for some work I did on the job.
00:26:53They wanted to meet him.
00:26:55Told him to go to the store after closing.
00:26:59Zalman asked me to drop him off.
00:27:03He said to hear he's dead.
00:27:05I didn't know it was murder.
00:27:07The job that you did for him, what was it?
00:27:09Wanted me to make him a
00:27:11mechanical arm, you know, something to
00:27:13trigger a switch remotely.
00:27:15Theoretically, what could it trigger?
00:27:17Anything! Turn on a light,
00:27:19ring a bell. Set off a bomb?
00:27:23Look, I swear, I thought he was joking.
00:27:25About what?
00:27:27He said this was his greatest magic trick ever.
00:27:29Said he was getting
00:27:31going to need a fortune
00:27:33to get away with murder.
00:27:39Do you really think someone would hire
00:27:41a magician to help him get away with murder?
00:27:43I mean, it's brilliant, really.
00:27:45Magicians are masters at misdirection.
00:27:47If they can manipulate audiences,
00:27:49they can manipulate witnesses.
00:27:51They could even make people testify to things that never happened.
00:27:53It's so hard to believe that a person with that much
00:27:55respect for magic would use his skills to kill.
00:27:57He needed to save his shop,
00:27:59and a million dollar payday was too good to be true.
00:28:01It was. Instead of a payday, he got whacked.
00:28:03Well, the people who hired him probably figured
00:28:05it was safer to kill him than run the risk
00:28:07of having an attack of conscience
00:28:09and rat them out.
00:28:11Okay, so without evidence, how are we going to find them?
00:28:13By finding out exactly who they hired
00:28:15Solomon to kill. We know he was working
00:28:17on a trick involving C4
00:28:19and a remote triggering device.
00:28:21Well, whoever he killed went out with a bang.
00:28:23There can't have been that many deaths in the Tri-State
00:28:25area in the last couple of weeks where someone was
00:28:27killed by an explosion.
00:28:29Where are we with ATF and the fire department?
00:28:31We're supposed to get their reports in the morning.
00:28:33Okay. Meantime, let's see what we can dig up ourselves.
00:28:39Do you know how many explosions there are
00:28:41in New York City every week?
00:28:43Steam pipe explodes.
00:28:45Gas stove explodes.
00:28:47Unhappy couple explodes.
00:28:51But did you explode in a rather ritzy restaurant
00:28:53with, uh...
00:28:55Speak of the devil.
00:29:01You're not going to answer that?
00:29:05Answer what?
00:29:07Ooh, well done.
00:29:09Of course, making your phone disappear
00:29:11doesn't make your problem disappear.
00:29:13No.
00:29:15Hey, come on, kiddo.
00:29:17What's going on with you two, really?
00:29:19Nothing's going on.
00:29:21No, nothing at all. Everything is fine.
00:29:23Everything is...
00:29:25just fine.
00:29:29It's ordinary.
00:29:31Problem is, I... I don't want ordinary.
00:29:33I want...
00:29:35Magic.
00:29:37Yeah.
00:29:39You know, the problem is, is
00:29:41we just aren't in love.
00:29:43Neither one of us wants to admit.
00:29:47Organophosphates.
00:29:49It wasn't a nerve agent.
00:29:51It was jet oil.
00:29:53Zalman was at an airport.
00:29:55What? I...
00:29:57I gotta go.
00:29:59Now you see him, now you don't.
00:30:01Hey, I think I figured out
00:30:03who Zalman was paid to kill.
00:30:05Billionaire philanthropist Christian Dahl.
00:30:07How did you...
00:30:09Organophosphates, jet oil, airport.
00:30:11It's like we could be twins.
00:30:13Connection.
00:30:15Conjecture.
00:30:17What we know now is that Dahl took off
00:30:19from Teterboro Saturday afternoon
00:30:21intending to set a transatlantic speed record in his jet.
00:30:23Apparently something went wrong
00:30:25and the plane broke up midair.
00:30:27Witnesses out on an oil tanker on Long Island Sound
00:30:29claim to have seen a white flash and smoke in the sky.
00:30:31Well, a midair explosion would account
00:30:33for all the C4 that Zalman bought from Chuck.
00:30:35And Magnus' remote triggering device.
00:30:37Well, whoever would a Christian did
00:30:39probably killed Zalman to cover up a crime.
00:30:41Except all we have now is speculation.
00:30:43Yo, let's get off at the FAA.
00:30:45This is footage of the takeoff.
00:30:51Okay, there's Dahl getting on his jet
00:30:53for the transatlantic flight attempt.
00:30:55Looks like he's doing his pre-flight.
00:30:59Look at that.
00:31:01It matches the outline on the wall in Zalman's workshop.
00:31:05He was painting a decal.
00:31:09Zoom in on that guy.
00:31:11It's Zalman Drake.
00:31:15He's dressed like a caterer.
00:31:17Probably so he can get past security.
00:31:21He delivered something.
00:31:23Yeah, explosives and a triggering device.
00:31:25This was a murder for hire.
00:31:27Skip ahead and freeze it.
00:31:29He planned for Christian Dahl's plane
00:31:31to break up over the Atlantic.
00:31:33It's the perfect crime.
00:31:35No evidence, no body, no killer.
00:31:39You're crazy. I've never even tried anything like this.
00:31:41Yeah, okay. Yeah, me too.
00:31:43Who was that? Coast Guard.
00:31:45Just seeing if they found the plane's data recorder.
00:31:47Did they? Did they what?
00:31:49Hey, guys, where are you and Christian Dahl?
00:31:51This guy is unbelievable.
00:31:53He became a billionaire
00:31:55by always being exactly in the right place
00:31:57at exactly the right time to invest
00:31:59in whatever stock, product, or idea
00:32:01was just about to hit.
00:32:03Did he have any enemies, anyone that was threatening him?
00:32:05No, all the people I talked to loved him.
00:32:07He gave away more money than Oprah,
00:32:09and he gave a lot of money to research into the occult.
00:32:11He was an avid loverist.
00:32:13He flew across Europe in a hot air balloon.
00:32:15He even drove a dog sled in the Iditarod.
00:32:17Well, with that much going for him,
00:32:19he had to have had a couple of haters.
00:32:21Just one, and she had both motive and opportunity.
00:32:25Naomi Weldon?
00:32:27Naomi Weldon Dahl,
00:32:29Christian's wife and former fashion model.
00:32:31Apparently, a month ago,
00:32:33Christian caught her having an affair,
00:32:35and according to their prenup,
00:32:37if he divorced her, she wound up with nothing.
00:32:39And if he dies, she inherits billions.
00:32:41Where was this photo taken?
00:32:43Huh, you noticed.
00:32:45The Dahl Foundation benefit six weeks ago?
00:32:47And the entertainment for the evening was?
00:32:49Zalman Drake.
00:32:51You know, Drome did say Zalman made someone disappear that night.
00:32:53Naomi sees his performance
00:32:55and wonders if Zalman can make her husband disappear forever.
00:32:57And with billions on the line?
00:32:59Half a million is just chump change.
00:33:01When they told me that Christian's plane disappeared,
00:33:03that's exactly what I thought.
00:33:05That your husband's death was no accident.
00:33:07Christian was a perfectionist,
00:33:09and he was superstitious.
00:33:11He did three background checks before he married me.
00:33:13You and your husband
00:33:15had an airtight prenuptial agreement.
00:33:17Standard when two high-profile people marry.
00:33:19And if you left the marriage
00:33:21or had an affair,
00:33:23you'd be leaving the marriage without spousal
00:33:25or child support.
00:33:27Those were the terms.
00:33:29I have my own career. I can take care of myself.
00:33:31But you were having an affair.
00:33:33Whether or not I had an affair
00:33:35If you're implying that I murdered my husband
00:33:37to be with someone else,
00:33:39you're mistaken.
00:33:41I wouldn't kill anyone.
00:33:43Not even to inherit a fortune?
00:33:45Well, then the joke would be on me.
00:33:47There is no fortune.
00:33:49All of Christian's accounts have been frozen.
00:33:51You mean you're in probate?
00:33:53No. I mean frozen.
00:33:55Why?
00:33:57You'll have to ask the district attorney's office.
00:33:59God knows they wouldn't tell me.
00:34:01That was the D.A.
00:34:03At the time of his death,
00:34:05our billionaire investment guru was being investigated
00:34:07by the S.E.C.
00:34:09They thought that he was making his money the old-fashioned way.
00:34:11By stealing it.
00:34:13All of his amazing stock returns were falsified.
00:34:15The whole thing was a Ponzi scheme.
00:34:17As it turns out,
00:34:19they were a couple of weeks away from indicting Christian Dahl
00:34:21for massive fraud.
00:34:23He was gonna lose everything
00:34:25and face 50 years in federal prison.
00:34:27If I were him, I'd want to disappear, too.
00:34:29And what better way to disappear...
00:34:31...than being a magician?
00:34:33Christian Dahl is on the plane doing his pre-flight check.
00:34:35Zalman leaves the plane.
00:34:37Dahl taxis to the runway
00:34:39and takes off.
00:34:41Well, he had to have gotten off at some point.
00:34:43Otherwise, it would have been a suicide mission.
00:34:45You don't need a magician for that.
00:34:47Unless...
00:34:51...that isn't Christian Dahl.
00:34:53It looks just like him.
00:34:55Tell me.
00:34:57Not you.
00:34:59Christian Dahl was on the cockpit.
00:35:01They switched out real Dahl for dummy Dahl.
00:35:03Magnus didn't build a triggering device for an explosion.
00:35:05The arm he built was for doing the pre-flight check.
00:35:07The whole thing's an automaton.
00:35:09That's the magic trick.
00:35:11He made it look to the world like Christian Dahl was still on the plane.
00:35:13The same way Tobias Strange made it look like he was still in the cabinet
00:35:15when the swords went in.
00:35:17And then he used the catering box to get the dummy on board
00:35:19and Christian Dahl off.
00:35:21Then who's piloting that plane?
00:35:23Christian Dahl.
00:35:25Only not from the cockpit.
00:35:27See?
00:35:29Zalman puts the box in the van. There's probably a console inside there
00:35:31linked to the plane's avionics.
00:35:33Dahl takes off remotely, flies out over the Atlantic...
00:35:35And then he detonates the explosion
00:35:37and everyone thinks that he's dead because everyone's seen him on board.
00:35:39Only Dahl is very much alive
00:35:41and there's only one person in the world that knows it.
00:35:43Zalman.
00:35:45And as long as he's alive, he's a threat to Dahl.
00:35:47So Dahl has to tie up that one loose end.
00:35:49But he can't risk anyone knowing that he's still alive.
00:35:51So Dahl has to kill Zalman himself.
00:35:57What?
00:36:01Nothing. So what do we do now?
00:36:05Well, it's four days since the accident.
00:36:07Christian Dahl's probably in some non-extradition country
00:36:09with a chunk of his fortune by now.
00:36:11Yeah, probably.
00:36:13Unless...
00:36:15Unless what?
00:36:17Well, Dahl does everything publicly.
00:36:19The guy lost being famous. Everyone thinks he's dead.
00:36:21A guy like that...
00:36:23No, it's crazy.
00:36:25Castle, crazy's exactly what we need right now.
00:36:31Castle, this is crazy.
00:36:33Crazy, but in character.
00:36:35Look at the kind of guy Christian Dahl was.
00:36:37How he loved the limelight.
00:36:39His fascination with life after death.
00:36:41You think a guy like that is going to miss the opportunity to attend his own funeral?
00:36:43Would you?
00:36:45Not a chance.
00:36:47Okay, so if he's here, how do we find him?
00:36:49Well, he'll be in disguise, of course.
00:36:51Look for an anomaly.
00:36:53Someone who's trying to fit in,
00:36:55yet sticking to the outskirts.
00:36:57Someone who isn't engaging in conversation,
00:36:59but at the same time,
00:37:01eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
00:37:03Someone who's...
00:37:05Got long hair, a beard, and $1,000 shoes?
00:37:09Yeah, that'll work, too.
00:37:13Mr. Dahl.
00:37:17Should've stayed dead, bro.
00:37:19So I fake my own death.
00:37:21So what? That's not a crime.
00:37:23What are you going to charge me with?
00:37:25Littering the Atlantic?
00:37:27I'll stand in line behind PP.
00:37:29The charge is premeditated murder.
00:37:31We figured out your little trick.
00:37:33Zalman performed for your charity event.
00:37:35He made you disappear, giving you the inspiration to pull the ultimate escape.
00:37:37You knew he needed money,
00:37:39so you made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
00:37:41But you never planned on paying him, did you, Mr. Dahl?
00:37:43No, you planned on using his desperation
00:37:45over the loss of his family's life.
00:37:47To make people think that he committed suicide.
00:37:49Staging a shooting is too cumbersome.
00:37:51Too many questions.
00:37:53Where'd the gun come from?
00:37:55So you used what you had on hand
00:37:57to get rid of the only person on Earth
00:37:59who knew you were still alive.
00:38:01Once he was gone, you'd be free and clear.
00:38:03Is this what you do
00:38:05when you can't solve a crime?
00:38:07Concoct fantasies?
00:38:09The rabbit hair that lined your gloves
00:38:11was found on our victim.
00:38:13You called Zalman,
00:38:15met him at his shop,
00:38:17put your gloved hand over his mouth,
00:38:19and then you smothered him.
00:38:23If you think I'm afraid of you or the SCC,
00:38:27I will beat your pants off
00:38:29and enjoy every minute of it.
00:38:33Assuming
00:38:35you can find me once I'm out on bail.
00:38:39It's not me that you should be scared of, Mr. Dahl,
00:38:41or the SCC.
00:38:43You should be afraid
00:38:45of what you've become.
00:38:47If you're done with your lecture or your petty threats,
00:38:49I'd like to see my...
00:38:55My lawyer.
00:38:57Something wrong, Dahl?
00:38:59No.
00:39:03Christian?
00:39:05How are you doing that?
00:39:09Doing what?
00:39:13Ah!
00:39:17Is he having flashbacks?
00:39:19Do you see him?
00:39:21Who?
00:39:23He was right here.
00:39:25Oh, God.
00:39:27You can't be here.
00:39:29You're dead!
00:39:33You're dead.
00:39:37I killed you.
00:39:43Oh.
00:39:47Alakazam, jackass.
00:39:55How did you know that would work?
00:39:57I didn't.
00:39:59Just knew he'd lawyer up, so I figured, why not take a shot?
00:40:01Your grandfather would be proud.
00:40:03Thank you so much, gentlemen.
00:40:05Always a pleasure to lend a hand to the NYPD.
00:40:07I might add this one to my repertoire.
00:40:09A tribute to your brother.
00:40:11Thank you, detective.
00:40:13Mr. Castle.
00:40:15So what's going to happen to Drick's magic shop?
00:40:17Tobias and I were discussing that.
00:40:19Zalman put his life on the line for us,
00:40:21so we'd like to find a way to keep it alive.
00:40:23Maybe we can put a solution out of our collective heads.
00:40:25Good night.
00:40:27Bye.
00:40:29Hey, could you, uh...
00:40:31Oh, yeah.
00:40:33So, where's Esposito?
00:40:35Huh. Take a wild guess.
00:40:37Blaney?
00:40:39Does he still think that none of us know?
00:40:41Oh, let's let him keep thinking that a while longer.
00:40:43The bubble bursts soon enough.
00:40:45Not if you're in it with the right person.
00:40:47Thanks.
00:40:53Excuse me, I need to take this.
00:40:55Yeah.
00:41:09No.
00:41:11No.
00:41:13What I'm saying is...
00:41:15it's over.
00:41:33Heading out?
00:41:35Yeah. It's late.
00:41:37Motorcycle boy?
00:41:39I really wish you would stop calling him that.
00:41:41Dr. Motorcycle boy?
00:41:43He's on shift tonight.
00:41:45I was going to see if I could catch the comfort food truck.
00:41:49You want to come?
00:41:51Macaroni and cheese?
00:41:53Warm biscuits? Hot chocolate?
00:41:55How could I say no?
00:41:57Hey, I wanted to say thanks for, um...
00:42:01not mentioning that article or asking what was going on.
00:42:03Not a problem.
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00:43:31And we now have his address.
00:43:43You sure this is the place?
00:43:45This is where they dropped him off.
00:43:47Well, it looks abandoned.
00:43:49Bricked up.
00:43:51Look, look, look. Footprints.
00:43:53Yes, to nowhere.
00:43:55That's what he wanted us to think.
00:44:02Open sesame.
00:44:12It's Almond's Fortress of Solitude.
00:44:22Wow, Castle.
00:44:24My grandfather would have loved this place.
00:44:26Look, he has a guillotine.
00:44:29And an iron maiden.
00:44:31He even had a zigzag box.
00:44:35You know, you would have liked my grandfather.
00:44:39In fact, you remind me of him a little.
00:44:42I'm flattered.
00:44:49Wheelchair tracks?
00:44:51Yeah, and they look fairly fresh.
00:44:53Maybe he had a visitor.
00:44:55Yeah.
00:44:58They look recent.
00:45:00These papers are dated the day he was killed.
00:45:03We're going to have to get CSU to sweep this whole place.
00:45:09Is this an accident or art?
00:45:16Castle, take a look at this.
00:45:20The pages are ripped.
00:45:22He didn't want anyone to know what he was working on.
00:45:28Zalman?
00:45:31Who the hell are you?
00:45:33Best trick ever.
00:45:39NYPD. Keep your hands where I can see them.
00:45:44Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on? What are you doing here?
00:45:48Zalman?
00:45:49Edmund. Edmund Drake.
00:45:51His brother from Poughkeepsie?
00:45:53You're a twin.
00:45:54Yeah.
00:45:55Can I put my hands down?
00:45:57Uh, yeah.
00:45:59Why were you hiding in the Iron Maiden?
00:46:02It's the entrance from the other room.
00:46:04I'm Detective Beckett. We're here about your brother.
00:46:06So am I.
00:46:08Where is it?
00:46:09You don't know.
00:46:11Mr. Drake, I'm sorry to tell you, but your brother is dead.
00:46:20Are you kidding me?
00:46:22A medical twin who wears glasses?
00:46:25That's the worst disguise since Clark Kent, and you believe him?
00:46:28I have no reason not to. Look at him. He's devastated.
00:46:31It's an act. Don't you ever go to movies?
00:46:36It's probably Edmund who's dead.
00:46:38And that dweeb in the next room is Zalman.
00:46:39I bet he killed his brother to take over his life.
00:46:43As an accountant in Poughkeepsie?
00:46:46Well, I...
00:46:48I knew something was wrong when he called me a couple of days ago.
00:46:52What did he call about?
00:46:54Money.
00:46:56He said someone was paying him a half a million dollars, and he needed my help to hide it.
00:47:00Hide it how?
00:47:02To make sure that the government never found out where it came from.
00:47:04The way he was talking, it sounded like he'd gotten involved in something illegal.
00:47:08And what were you doing at his warehouse?
00:47:10I just had this feeling yesterday that something was terribly wrong.
00:47:14And when I tried to reach him, I couldn't.
00:47:16I drove down to the city.
00:47:18I think it was a twin thing, you know?
00:47:20All our lives we've had this connection.
00:47:23Yeah, of course, twin thing.
00:47:25Tell me, Mr. Drake, given your legacy,
00:47:29why didn't you ever get into the family business, too?
00:47:32I didn't have the passion or the skill.
00:47:35Zalman and I, we did have an act together as kids.
00:47:45Hmm.
00:47:47He would disappear up on stage,
00:47:50and then I would appear in the back of the audience.
00:47:53I guess it was only amazing to people who didn't know we were twins.
00:47:57Wow, you're being modest.
00:47:59I'm sure you fooled a lot of people.
00:48:02Mr. Drake, the activities that your brother was involved in,
00:48:05if you looked through his things,
00:48:07do you think you would be able to determine what he was doing?
00:48:10Zalman was a brilliant engineer,
00:48:12and I'm afraid my brain just doesn't work that way.
00:48:15He was someone special, you know?
00:48:17The light of a room.
00:48:19Look, Detective, I don't know what he got mixed up in,
00:48:22but I just know he didn't deserve to die.
00:48:28I can't believe you're letting him just walk out of here.
00:48:31If this was a movie...
00:48:33It's not a movie, and what am I supposed to charge him with?
00:48:35Being a twin?
00:48:37Being an evil twin in a magic murder.
00:48:39A half-a-million-dollar payment that he's hiding
00:48:41from the government bricks of C-4?
00:48:44That doesn't sound like magic to me.
00:48:47Beckett.
00:48:49CSU is just finishing their initial sweep.
00:48:52So far we haven't been able to find anything to indicate
00:48:54who Zalman might have been working for,
00:48:56other than Tobias Strange.
00:48:58But CSU did find some trace residue of C-4 explosives on the workbench.
00:49:02And what about the tracks?
00:49:04You were right. They are from a wheelchair.
00:49:07The tracks are pretty distinctive.
00:49:09We're running down to make a model now.
00:49:11Yeah, well, with any luck, Professor X will turn out to be Zalman's mystery client.
00:49:14All right, thanks.
00:49:16What about this?
00:49:18Zalman gets in over his head.
00:49:20He lures his brother down here, suffocates him,
00:49:22sticks him in a tank so it looks like he's dead.
00:49:24Meanwhile, Zalman, as Edmund,
00:49:27inherits his own magic shop, collects his own insurance,
00:49:30all the while takes Edmund's wife and children,
00:49:33who love him, as his own.
00:49:36It's Dead Ringer!
00:49:37Are you still talking?
00:49:38Edmund is Zalman.
00:49:40Couldn't be more wrong. I ran the prints on our victim.
00:49:43He's Zalman.
00:49:44Satisfied, Castle?
00:49:45More like disappointed.
00:49:47Well, maybe this will cheer you up.
00:49:49Old man hair.
00:49:51White rabbit fur. It came from his teeth and throat.
00:49:54So he was killed by a rabbit who did not want to be pulled out of a hat.
00:49:58Your guess is as good as mine.
00:50:00In the process of trying to determine how Zalman was asphyxiated,
00:50:03I also discovered the presence of a low dose of organophosphates in his nose and throat.
00:50:08Organophosphates?
00:50:09It's found in hydraulic fluids, jet engine oil, insecticides, nerve agents.
00:50:14Nerve agents?
00:50:15Well, along with the C4, our magician's sounding more like a terrorist.
00:50:18The amount is too small to indicate that he had been working with them directly,
00:50:22but he definitely was exposed to them recently.
00:50:24Oye, chica! I was in the hood and I thought that we should talk about the...
00:50:27Tess!
00:50:29That you had me run.
00:50:30They're in the back. I'll go get them.
00:50:33Yeah. Thanks.
00:50:35Where's Tess?
00:50:36Different case. Hey, I was just about to call you.
00:50:38You know those wheelchair tracks that you found at Zalman's workshop?
00:50:41Well, they had a sawtooth pattern unique to one brand of tire made for electric wheelchairs.
00:50:45We called a half a dozen specialty shops that stock that tire,
00:50:48and we cross-referenced recent purchases with the mailing list of the magic shop.
00:50:52Did you get a match?
00:50:53Yeah.
00:50:56Thaddeus Magnus. He's a professional government protester.
00:50:59He's got multiple arrests for civil disobediences, and get this, dreads a white van.
00:51:03Government protester, civil disobedience, you mix that in with C4 and nerve agent?
00:51:08You're looking at Tim McVeigh.
00:51:10You have an address?
00:51:12Thanks.
00:51:13Nice work.
00:51:18That was close.
00:51:20No. This...
00:51:23is close.
00:51:26How does a guy in a wheelchair lift someone into a tank of water?
00:51:32Mr. Magnus. NYPD. Open up.
00:51:35Maybe the wheelchair is an act.
00:51:38In every magic story, there's an unexpected twist where things aren't always what they seem.
00:51:43It's an obligation of the genre.
00:51:45What?
00:51:46NYPD. We need to ask you a few questions about Zalman Drake.
00:51:50Zalman Drake?
00:51:52Zalman Drake of Drake magic.
00:51:57End of an era.
00:52:00I hear it was a failed escape.
00:52:02More like a successful murder.
00:52:04He was asphyxiated before he was lowered into the tank.
00:52:08You mean he was really murdered?
00:52:10Guess whose van was spotted outside his shop right about when he died.
00:52:14Would you just not touch that, please?
00:52:16Took me five years to build it.
00:52:18What was he working on for you?
00:52:21What were the explosives for?
00:52:22Explosives? What are you talking about?
00:52:25Look, Zalman was my friend.
00:52:28He didn't work for me. I worked for him.
00:52:31Making specialty items for those tricks he designed.
00:52:35Nothing explosive.
00:52:37Just things like that.
00:52:40Doesn't change the fact you were at his store when he died.
00:52:43Does it look like I could have lifted him into a tank?
00:52:46Maybe you borrowed a set of legs.
00:52:48Maybe these are someone else's.
00:52:51If anyone killed him, it was those guys he met.
00:52:54What guys?
00:52:55The guys he was working for.
00:52:57I was there at the warehouse when they called.
00:52:59I went there to pick up a check for some work I did on the job.
00:53:02They wanted to meet him.
00:53:04Told him to go to the store after closing.
00:53:08Zalman asked me to drop him off.
00:53:12Next thing I hear, he's dead.
00:53:14I didn't know it was murder.
00:53:16The job that you did for him, what was it?
00:53:19Wanted me to make him a mechanical arm,
00:53:21something to trigger a switch remotely.
00:53:24Theoretically, what could it trigger?
00:53:26Anything. Turn on a light, ring a bell.
00:53:29Set off a bomb?
00:53:32Look, I swear, I thought he was joking.
00:53:34About what?
00:53:36He said this was his greatest magic trick ever.
00:53:39Said he was getting paid a fortune to get away with murder.
00:53:49Do you really think someone would hire a magician to help him get away with murder?
00:53:52I mean, it's brilliant, really. Magicians are masters at misdirection.
00:53:56If they can manipulate audiences, they can manipulate witnesses.
00:53:59They could even make people testify to things that never happened.
00:54:02It's so hard to believe that a person with that much respect for magic would use his skills to kill.
00:54:07He needed to save his shop, and a half a million dollar payday was too good to be true.
00:54:11It was. Instead of a payday, he got whacked.
00:54:13Well, the people who hired him probably figured it was safer to kill him
00:54:16than run the risk of having an attack of conscience and rat them out.
00:54:19Okay, so without evidence, how are we going to find him?
00:54:22By finding out exactly who they hired Solomon to kill.
00:54:25We know he was working on a trick involving C4 and a remote triggering device.
00:54:30Well, whoever he killed went out with a bang.
00:54:32There can't have been that many deaths in the tri-state area in the last couple of weeks where someone was killed by an explosion.
00:54:38Where are we with ATF and the fire department?
00:54:40We're supposed to get their reports in the morning.
00:54:41Okay. Meantime, let's see what we can dig up ourselves.
00:54:47Do you know how many explosions there are in New York City every week?
00:54:52Steam pipe explodes. Gas stove explodes.
00:54:56Unhappy couple explodes.
00:54:59But did you explode in a rather ritzy restaurant with...
00:55:02Aha! Speak of the devil.
00:55:09You're not going to answer that?
00:55:12Answer what?
00:55:14Oh, well done.
00:55:16Of course, making your phone disappear doesn't make your problem disappear.
00:55:20No.
00:55:22Hey, come on, kiddo.
00:55:24What's going on with you two, really?
00:55:26Nothing's going on.
00:55:28No, nothing at all. Everything is fine.
00:55:30Everything is...
00:55:33just fine.
00:55:36It's ordinary.
00:55:38It's ordinary.
00:55:40Problem is, I... I don't want ordinary.
00:55:44I want...
00:55:45Magic.
00:55:48Yeah. You know what the problem is?
00:55:50We just aren't in love.
00:55:52Neither one of us wants to admit.
00:55:56Organophosphates.
00:56:01It wasn't a nerve agent. It was jet oil.
00:56:03Zalman was at an airport.
00:56:05What? I...
00:56:06I gotta go.
00:56:08Now you see him, now you don't.
00:56:10Hey, I think I figured out who Zalman was paid to kill.
00:56:13Billionaire philanthropist Christian Dahl.
00:56:15How did you...
00:56:18Organophosphates, jet oil, airport.
00:56:21It's like we could be twins.
00:56:23Connection.
00:56:24Conjecture.
00:56:25All we know right now is that Dahl took off from Teterboro Saturday afternoon
00:56:29intending to set a transatlantic speed record in his jet.
00:56:32Apparently something went wrong and the plane broke up midair.
00:56:35Witnesses out on an oil tanker on Long Island Sound claim to have seen a white flash and smoke in the sky.
00:56:40Well, a midair explosion would account for all the C4 that Zalman bought from Chuck.
00:56:44And Magnus' remote triggering device.
00:56:46Well, whoever would have Christian did probably kill Zalman to cover up a crime.
00:56:49Except all we have now is speculation.
00:56:51Yo, let's get off at the FAA. They're sending over footage of the takeoff.
00:57:00Okay, there's Dahl getting on his jet for the transatlantic flight attempt.
00:57:05Looks like he's doing his pre-flight.
00:57:09Look at that.
00:57:10It matches the outline on the wall in Zalman's workshop.
00:57:14He was painting a decal.
00:57:18Zoom in on that guy.
00:57:21It's Zalman Drake.
00:57:24He's dressed like a caterer.
00:57:26Probably so he can get past security.
00:57:30He delivered something.
00:57:31Yeah, explosives and a triggering device.
00:57:33This was a murder for hire.
00:57:35Skip ahead.
00:57:37And freeze it.
00:57:38He planned for Christian Dahl's plane to break up over the Atlantic.
00:57:41It's the perfect crime. No evidence, no body, no killer.
00:57:48I've never even tried anything like this.
00:57:50Yeah. Okay. Yeah, me too. Bye.
00:57:52Who was that?
00:57:53Coast Guard.
00:57:54I was just seeing if they found the plane's data recorder.
00:57:56Did they?
00:57:57Did they what?
00:57:58Hey guys, where are you and Christian Dahl?
00:58:00This guy is unbelievable.
00:58:02He became a billionaire by always being exactly in the right place
00:58:05at exactly the right time to invest in whatever stock, product or idea was just about to hit.
00:58:10Did he have any enemies? Anyone that was threatening him?
00:58:12No, all the people I talked to loved him.
00:58:14He gave away more money than Oprah and he gave a lot of money to research into the occult.
00:58:18He climbed Everest. He flew across Europe in a hot air balloon.
00:58:21He even drove a dog sled in the Iditarod.
00:58:23Well, with that much going for him, he had to have had a couple of haters.
00:58:26Naomi Weldon?
00:58:27Naomi Weldon Dahl, Christian's wife and former fashion model.
00:58:32Apparently, a month ago, Christian caught her having an affair
00:58:35and according to their prenup, if he divorced her, she wound up with nothing.
00:58:39And if he dies, she inherits billions.
00:58:42Where was this photo taken?
00:58:43Ah, you noticed. The Dahl Foundation Benefits Foundation.
00:58:47It's a non-profit organization.
00:58:49It's a non-profit organization.
00:58:51It's a non-profit organization.
00:58:53Ah, you noticed. The Dahl Foundation Benefits six weeks ago.
00:58:57And the entertainment for the evening was?
00:58:59Zalman Drake.
00:59:00You know, Drome did say Zalman made someone disappear that night.
00:59:02Naomi sees his performance and wonders if Zalman can make her husband disappear forever.
00:59:07And with billions on the line?
00:59:09Half a million is just chump change.
00:59:10When they told me that Christian's plane disappeared, that's exactly what I thought.
00:59:13That your husband's death was no accident.
00:59:16Christian was a perfectionist and he was superstitious.
00:59:19He did three background checks before he married me.
00:59:22You and your husband had an airtight prenuptial agreement.
00:59:26Standard when two high-profile people marry.
00:59:29And if you left the marriage or had an affair, you'd be leaving the marriage without spousal or child support.
00:59:35Those were the terms.
00:59:37I have my own career. I can take care of myself.
00:59:40But you were having an affair.
00:59:42Whether or not I had an affair is none of your affair.
00:59:45If you're implying that I murdered my husband to be with someone else, you're mistaken.
00:59:50I wouldn't kill anyone.
00:59:51Not even to inherit a fortune?
00:59:53Well, then the joke would be on me.
00:59:56There is no fortune. All of Christian's accounts have been frozen.
01:00:00You mean you're in probate?
01:00:01No. I mean frozen.
01:00:03Why?
01:00:04You'll have to ask the district attorney's office.
01:00:07God knows they wouldn't tell me.
01:00:10That was the DA.
01:00:11Apparently, at the time of his death, our billionaire investment guru was being investigated by the SEC.
01:00:17They thought that he was making his money the old-fashioned way.
01:00:20By stealing it.
01:00:21All of his amazing stock returns were falsified.
01:00:24The whole thing was a Ponzi scheme.
01:00:26As it turns out, they were a couple of weeks away from indicting Christian Dahl for massive fraud.
01:00:31He was going to lose everything and face 50 years in federal prison.
01:00:35If I were him, I'd want to disappear too.
01:00:37And what better way to disappear...
01:00:39Than hire a magician.
01:00:40Bingo.
01:00:41Christian Dahl is on the plane doing his pre-flight check.
01:00:44Zalman leaves the plane.
01:00:47Dahl taxis to the runway and takes off.
01:00:50Well, he had to have gotten off at some point.
01:00:52Otherwise, it would have been a suicide mission.
01:00:54You don't need a magician for that.
01:00:58Unless...
01:01:01That isn't Christian Dahl.
01:01:03It looks just like him.
01:01:05Dummy.
01:01:06Not you.
01:01:07In the cockpit.
01:01:09They switched out real Dahl for dummy Dahl.
01:01:11Magnus didn't build a triggering device for an explosion.
01:01:14The arm he built was for doing the pre-flight check.
01:01:16The whole thing's an automaton.
01:01:17That's the magic trick.
01:01:19He made it look to the world like Christian Dahl was still on the plane.
01:01:21The same way Tobias Strange made it look like he was still in the cabinet when the swords went in.
01:01:25And then he used a catering box to get the dummy on board and Christian Dahl off.
01:01:29Then who's piloting that plane?
01:01:31Christian Dahl.
01:01:32Only not from the cockpit.
01:01:34He had it rigged to fly via remote control.
01:01:36See?
01:01:37Zalman puts the box in the van.
01:01:39There's probably a console inside there linked to the plane's avionics.
01:01:42Dahl takes off remotely, flies out over the Atlantic...
01:01:44And then he detonates the explosion and everyone thinks that he's dead because everyone's seen him on board.
01:01:49Only Dahl is very much alive and there's only one person in the world that knows it.
01:01:53Zalman.
01:01:54And as long as he's alive, he's a threat to Dahl.
01:01:56So Dahl has to tie up that one loose end.
01:01:58But he can't risk anyone knowing that he's still alive.
01:02:00So Dahl has to kill Zalman himself.
01:02:08What?
01:02:11Nothing. So what do we do now?
01:02:15Well, it's four days since the accident.
01:02:17Christian Dahl's probably in some non-extradition country with a chunk of his fortune by now.
01:02:21Yeah, probably.
01:02:23Unless...
01:02:25Unless what?
01:02:27Well, Dahl does everything publicly.
01:02:29The guy lost being famous.
01:02:30Everyone thinks he's dead.
01:02:31A guy like that...
01:02:33No, it's crazy.
01:02:35Castle, crazy's exactly what we need right now.
01:02:40Castle, this is crazy.
01:02:42Crazy, but in character.
01:02:43Look at the kind of guy Christian Dahl was.
01:02:45How he loved the limelight.
01:02:47His fascination with life after death.
01:02:49You think a guy like that is going to miss the opportunity to attend his own funeral?
01:02:52Would you?
01:02:53Not a chance.
01:02:55Okay, so if he's here, how do we find him?
01:02:58Well, he'll be in disguise, of course.
01:03:01Look for an anomaly.
01:03:03Someone who's trying to fit in, yet sticking to the outskirts.
01:03:08Someone who isn't engaging in conversation,
01:03:10but at the same time eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
01:03:13Someone who's...
01:03:14Got long hair, a beard, and thousand-dollar shoes?
01:03:20Yeah, that'll work too.
01:03:23Mr. Dahl.
01:03:27Should've stayed dead, bro.
01:03:31So I fake my own death.
01:03:32So what? That's not a crime.
01:03:34What are you going to charge me with? Blittering the Atlantic?
01:03:37I'll stand in line behind PP.
01:03:39The charge is premeditated murder.
01:03:41We figured out your little trick.
01:03:43Zalman performed for your charity event, he made you disappear.
01:03:46Giving you the inspiration to pull the ultimate escape.
01:03:48You knew he needed money, so you made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
01:03:51But you never planned on paying him, did you, Mr. Dahl?
01:03:54No, you planned on using his desperation over the loss of his family's legacy
01:03:58to make people think that he committed suicide.
01:04:01Staging a shooting is too cumbersome.
01:04:03Too many questions, where'd the gun come from?
01:04:06So you used what you had on hand.
01:04:08To get rid of the only person on Earth who knew you were still alive.
01:04:12Once he was gone, you'd be free and clear.
01:04:16Is this what you do when you can't solve a crime? Concoct fantasies.
01:04:21The rabbit hair that lined your gloves was found on our victim.
01:04:25You called Zalman, met him at his shop, put your gloved hand over his mouth,
01:04:29and then you smothered him.
01:04:33If you think I'm afraid of you or the SEC,
01:04:37I will beat your pants off and enjoy every minute of it.
01:04:44Assuming you can find me once I'm out on bail.
01:04:49It's not me that you should be scared of, Mr. Dahl, or the SEC.
01:04:53You should be afraid of what you've become.
01:04:56If you're done with your lecture or your petty threats, I'd like to see my...
01:05:00My lawyer.
01:05:02Something wrong, Dahl?
01:05:04No.
01:05:08Christian?
01:05:11How are you doing that?
01:05:13Doing what?
01:05:21Is he having flashbacks?
01:05:24No.
01:05:26Is he having flashbacks?
01:05:29Do you see him?
01:05:30Who?
01:05:31He was right here.
01:05:33Oh, God.
01:05:35You can't...
01:05:36You can't be here.
01:05:39You're dead!
01:05:42You're dead, I...
01:05:47I killed you.
01:05:56Alakazam, jackass.
01:06:05How did you know that would work?
01:06:07I didn't. I just knew he'd lawyer up, so I figured why not take a shot?
01:06:11Your grandfather would be proud.
01:06:13Thank you so much, gentlemen.
01:06:14Always a pleasure to lend a hand to the NYPD.
01:06:17I might add this one to my repertoire.
01:06:19A tribute to your brother.
01:06:22Thank you, Detective.
01:06:23Mr. Castle.
01:06:24So what's going to happen to Drake's magic shop?
01:06:27Tobias and I were discussing that.
01:06:29Zalman put his life on the line for us, so we'd like to find a way to keep it alive.
01:06:33Maybe we can put a solution out of our collective heads.
01:06:36Good night.
01:06:37Bye.
01:06:39Hey, could you, uh...
01:06:40Oh, yeah.
01:06:42So, where's Esposito?
01:06:45Huh, take a wild guess.
01:06:46Laney?
01:06:47Laney.
01:06:48Can you believe they still think that none of us know?
01:06:49Oh, let's let them keep thinking that a while longer.
01:06:51They'll bubble burst soon enough.
01:06:53Not if you're in it with the right person.
01:06:55Thanks.
01:07:01Excuse me, I need to take this.
01:07:02Yeah.
01:07:22No.
01:07:23No.
01:07:24What I'm saying is...
01:07:27It's over.
01:07:45Heading out?
01:07:46Yeah, it's late.
01:07:48Motorcycle boy?
01:07:49Motorcycle boy?
01:07:51I really wish you would stop calling him that.
01:07:53Dr. Motorcycle boy?
01:07:55He's on shift tonight.
01:07:56I was going to see if I could catch the comfort food truck.
01:08:02You want to come?
01:08:04Macaroni and cheese?
01:08:05Warm biscuits?
01:08:06Hot chocolate?
01:08:07How could I say no?
01:08:10Hey, I wanted to say thanks for, um...
01:08:13not mentioning that article or asking what was going on.
01:08:23Not a problem.
01:08:49You're welcome.
01:09:19You're welcome.