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  • 5/26/2025
Castle Season 3 Episode 13

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00:00Previously on Castle
00:04Ten years since we came home and found Detective Raglin waiting for us.
00:09It was my mother. She had been stabbed.
00:12Three people were killed the same way her mother was, right about the same time.
00:15We believe we're dealing with a professional.
00:17A contract killer.
00:18I caught him.
00:19The man who killed my mom.
00:23Somebody paid him to do it.
00:24Who hired you to kill her?
00:25Forget it. You'll never touch him.
00:27But I had to shoot him.
00:30Before I could find out who.
00:34Someday soon I'm gonna find who had Coonan kill her.
00:38And I'd like you around when I do.
01:00Detective Peckett
01:25Peckett.
01:26Detective Peckett?
01:28Yeah.
01:30This is John Raglin.
01:33I was the lead investigator on your mother's homicide twelve years ago.
01:38I remember you, Detective Raglin.
01:42Listen, I...
01:46We need to talk about your mother's case.
01:50There's something you don't know.
01:52There's a coffee shop at Fourth and Main.
01:54Meet me there in an hour.
01:56Just you.
01:58No cops.
02:01No.
02:08Peckett.
02:09Hey.
02:10Good morning.
02:14Can we talk for a second?
02:22That's him.
02:30Lady, what part of no cops didn't you understand?
02:33He's not a cop.
02:34Well, who the hell is he then?
02:36He's someone I trust.
02:40More coffee?
02:48Tell me what I don't know about my mom's murder.
02:53Everybody drinks their coffee out of cardboard cups these days.
02:57Or those plastic travel mugs.
02:59But there's...
03:00There's something about the way ceramic warms your hands.
03:06It's weird.
03:09The things you notice.
03:13I just got the long face from the doc.
03:16Lymphoma.
03:18Six months.
03:20Sorry to hear about that.
03:21Every year around the holidays, they run that Christmas carol on local TV.
03:26When I was a kid, I remember Jacob Marley scared the hell out of me.
03:31Forced to drag that chain around in The Next World.
03:35I wear the chain I forged in life.
03:37I made it link by link.
03:43I hid a lot of sins behind my badge.
03:47I hid a lot of sins behind my badge.
03:51And now I gotta carry them.
03:54But your mother's case, that one was a ton.
03:57Why?
03:59Because you wrote it off as random gang violence when you knew it wasn't?
04:03I did what I was told.
04:05And I kept quiet because I was afraid.
04:10About a year ago, there was a hostage standoff in your precinct.
04:13You killed a hitman named Dick Coonan.
04:15It was a big deal in the papers.
04:19People noticed.
04:20Who hired Coonan to kill my mom?
04:22You need some context here.
04:25This thing started about 19 years ago, back before I ever knew who Joanna Beckett was.
04:3119 years ago, I...
04:35I made a bad mistake.
04:38And that started the dominoes falling.
04:42And one of them was your mom.
04:45Everybody on the ground, now!
04:50Back away from the window, away from the window!
04:52You're hit.
04:53I'm fine, it's not my blood.
04:57One Lincoln 40, I have shots fired on Fourth and Main.
05:01I need backup and an ambulance.
05:03One Lincoln 40, repeat, your last transmission.
05:05You're broken.
05:06One Lincoln 40, repeat.
05:09Dispatch to One Lincoln 40, repeat.
05:12Dispatch to One Lincoln 40, One Lincoln 40, are you there?
05:17One Lincoln 40,
05:20please be advised, this is now a homicide.
05:40Retired NYPD cop gunned down in front of one of my people,
05:43which means I'm going to have to do a damn press conference.
05:46Tell me you didn't come down here without backup.
05:49Sir, I...
05:50We were backing her, Captain.
05:51We were just down the block when it happened.
05:53Yeah, uh-huh.
05:57What the hell am I going to do with you?
06:00You're going to let me work this case.
06:02You're too close to it, it's all over your face.
06:03You're thinking, what was Raglin going to tell me before he died,
06:06when you should be thinking how you're going to catch the guy that killed him.
06:08Sir, Raglin was killed because he was going to tell me something about my mother's case.
06:13Nobody knows it better than I do.
06:14Yeah, but I know you.
06:16You're going to want to pick up those scissors and run around the house with them.
06:19But I'm telling you now, walk, don't run.
06:21Go where the evidence leads, not the other way around.
06:25Do you read me?
06:26Yes, sir.
06:29Loud and clear.
06:34Found a bullet embedded in the boot.
06:35.338 Magnum, fairly exotic anti-personnel round.
06:39Can you show me the trajectory?
06:40Yes, right over here.
06:51All right, I make the building across the street, fourth floor.
06:54Esposito?
06:55Yeah, I'll lock it down.
06:57Somebody had to have seen something in there.
06:59Ryan, I am betting that Raglin's murderer followed him here.
07:02Can you check with his neighbors, see if anyone was hanging around his place this morning?
07:05Got it.
07:10Hey.
07:11Hey.
07:12You good?
07:13Yeah, I think I got it all off my hands.
07:16It's different when it happens right in front of you.
07:17Close enough to watch the lights go out.
07:21Yeah.
07:23When I saw the blood on your shirt, I thought you'd been shot.
07:31Um, I'm gonna go to the 12th.
07:34How about I drop you off at your place?
07:36Not a chance.
07:39Okay.
07:41Okay.
07:52Yo, so I checked out the fourth floor.
07:54There's no prints, no casings, no witnesses.
07:56But the good news is, it's a secure building.
07:58The only way in or out is through the lobby.
08:00And nobody gets through the lobby turnstiles without a key card.
08:02So our shooter had a card.
08:04Yeah, they're sending over a list of all their employees.
08:06They're also downloading surveillance video from the lobby.
08:07Hey, so I, uh, talked to the neighbors.
08:10Raglin was a widower.
08:12No next of kin that I could find.
08:14Super said he didn't really even have visitors.
08:16Except for every once in a while,
08:18his buddy would come over to watch a Yankee game.
08:20Gary McAllister, Raglin's old academy classmate.
08:23Get a hold of McAllister.
08:25See if he'll come in.
08:26I want to talk to him.
08:27You got it.
08:2919 years ago.
08:31What's that?
08:33Raglin started telling us about something that happened 19 years ago.
08:35My mom's murder weapon.
08:37It was 12 years ago.
08:39It's not making any sense.
08:41You know, I sacrificed my best years
08:43and worst marriages to this damn city.
08:46You'd think that'd be enough, but it never is.
08:49Had to gobble up my best friend, too.
08:52When was the last time you saw John Raglin?
08:54A week ago.
08:56He told me he was dying.
08:58What else did he tell you?
09:00Isn't that enough?
09:02I don't get it.
09:04Raglin was retired by the time you come on the job.
09:05What do you want with you?
09:07Raglin was helping me with a cold case
09:10that I was working on.
09:12I believe he was killed to keep him quiet.
09:14Look, Raglin seemed to think that the case
09:16had something to do with something he did 19 years ago.
09:19What was he into back then?
09:21What was he into?
09:23John Raglin was no angel.
09:25New York was a different city back then
09:27and I'm here to tell you kid gloves
09:29didn't get it done out there.
09:31You police a damn theme park.
09:33I'm looking to start some
09:35half-assed truth commission you can count me on.
09:37I'm not trying to tarnish Raglin's memory.
09:39I'm trying to find his murderer.
09:47I told him not to get involved with that guy.
09:49With who?
09:51Vulcan Simmons.
09:53Vulcan Simmons?
09:55He runs half the drug trade in New York.
09:57Raglin liked to play the ponies.
09:5919, 20 years ago would be about the time
10:01he had a string of bad luck.
10:03He was hot up for money.
10:05And then he wasn't.
10:07Word was he got well working
10:09as a dope courier for Simmons.
10:11Moving product across town
10:13in his patrol car.
10:15Now Raglin worked homicide for four years
10:17and I know Simmons put people in the ground.
10:20So in my case,
10:22I take a hard look at Vulcan Simmons.
10:25Assault, attempted murder, extortion,
10:27possession with intent, witness, intimidation.
10:31Well it looks like it just dries up.
10:32Nobody's booked him in years.
10:34So what does that mean?
10:36He found religion?
10:38Means he got smart.
10:40Swimming in deeper waters.
10:42Guess he's come a long way since Washington Heights.
10:44Wait, what?
10:46You said Washington Heights?
10:48Back in the day, Simmons used to run
10:50the drug trade in Washington Heights.
10:52My mom and a group of her colleagues,
10:54they put together this campaign
10:56called Take Back the Neighborhood.
10:58They were trying to get drug dealers
11:00off the streets in Washington Heights.
11:02Take Back the Neighborhood,
11:04that campaign would have cost him.
11:06That hit man, Coonan, we know that he was into dope.
11:08Maybe that's how Simmons got in contact with him.
11:10So Simmons hires Coonan to kill them all,
11:12including your mother,
11:14and pays his old friend Raglin
11:16to write off their homicides as random gang violence.
11:18There would have been no way
11:20to trace the murders back to him.
11:22Until Raglin threatens to reveal his role in the conspiracy
11:24and Simmons has him silenced.
11:26We'll have him in the box before lunch.
11:28You painted since the last time I was here.
11:30You'd have been about 16,
11:32wrestling some pimplic kid
11:34in the back of his daddy's wagon,
11:36wondering if you were gonna give it to him or not.
11:38Hey, that's enough.
11:40He's sweet on you.
11:42Makes him brave.
11:44What was your association with Detective John Raglin?
11:46Raglin, Raglin, Raglin, Raglin.
11:49Thirsty cop, right?
11:51Couldn't pick a winner to save his life.
11:54Well, Detective, our association, as you put it,
11:56exceeded the statute of limitations.
11:58Many moons ago.
12:00There is no statute of limitations
12:02on murder, Mr. Simmons.
12:04And here begins what is known as
12:06the initial confrontation.
12:08During this phase of the interrogation,
12:10the interrogator may invade the suspect's personal space
12:12in order to increase his discomfort.
12:14You want to invade my personal space.
12:16Look at me.
12:2212 years ago, Joanna Beckett
12:24led a big take-back-the-neighborhood campaign
12:26in Washington Heights.
12:28That must have pissed you off.
12:30This would be theme development,
12:32presenting the crime through the eyes of the suspect.
12:35Joanna Beckett was murdered,
12:37along with two of her colleagues.
12:39They were professional hits carried out on your orders.
12:42And you had your pet homicide detective,
12:44John Raglin, bury them.
12:51Look at her face.
12:54Tell me you don't remember her.
12:58You know, Detective Beckett,
13:01I think I do remember her.
13:04Bled out in an alley like a trash she was.
13:09Mr. Simmons, you better watch it.
13:11Rich bitch from uptown on Safari in the Heights.
13:16Somebody should have warned her
13:18not to feed or tease the animals.
13:21You.
13:23If they had, she might not have gotten even.
13:25From what I hear, though,
13:27she was pretty tasty.
13:29Beckett!
13:31Back off, Castle!
13:33Remember your old life.
13:35Vulcan't savor it.
13:37Because I'm gonna take it all away.
13:39Stand down.
13:41Beckett, that's enough. Stand down.
13:46You want some, too? Come on.
13:48That's enough!
13:50I have to kick that son of a bitch loose now.
13:52You realize that?
13:54Sir, you heard him.
13:56He as much as confessed to the murder.
13:58He's playing you.
14:00And you let him get under your skin
14:02acting like a damn rookie.
14:04We've got nothing to tie him to Raglin's murder
14:06or your mother's.
14:08You're off this case.
14:10No, sir, you can't do that.
14:12Not now.
14:13I just did.
14:14No.
14:15I just did!
14:17Now you go home.
14:25Beckett?
14:26Kate?
14:27You two, Castle, clear out.
14:29What did I do?
14:31I don't need you playing Nancy Drew on this.
14:33As of this moment, you two are running point
14:35on Raglin's homicide.
14:37Uh, Captain,
14:39my partner and I don't wish to be insubordinate.
14:41We respectfully decline the assignment.
14:43What does it say on my badge?
14:45Captain.
14:47Now read the fine print.
14:49It says get your ass out there and solve Raglin's murder
14:51before I bust you both back down to traffic.
14:53Yes, sir.
14:54Yes, sir.
14:56Yes, sir.
15:02What if it had been you?
15:06I didn't know you were home.
15:08I heard about the shooting on the news.
15:10Could have been you.
15:12You know that, don't you?
15:14Yeah, but I'm fine.
15:16It wasn't me.
15:18Richard, this isn't one of your books.
15:20You don't know the ending.
15:22You were just lucky yesterday.
15:24You're overreacting, Mother.
15:26Why would you ask me something like that?
15:29Think about how much you love Alexis
15:31and that is how much I love you
15:33and don't you dare ask me where this is coming from.
15:39You have gotten through most of your life
15:41on your wit and charm
15:43and no small amount of talent,
15:45but that is the real world out there
15:47and you can't charm your way out of a bullet.
15:52You think I should quit?
15:53I think you should be honest with yourself
15:55about why you're doing this.
15:58You have written 22 novels before you met her
16:01and you didn't need to spend
16:03every day in a police station
16:05in order to finish them.
16:08It's not about the books anymore.
16:14So you think the Simmons hired the sniper?
16:16If I find the sniper, we can ask him.
16:18I figure he had to disassemble his rifle, right?
16:20Break his weapons,
16:21down to a less conspicuous shape
16:23in order to get it through the lobby,
16:25something to fit inside of a briefcase.
16:27Everyone in that lobby is carrying a damn briefcase.
16:29He should be a detective.
16:33We can't come up empty on this one.
16:35I know, bro.
16:38Oh, that wasn't an accident.
16:42He just lifted her keycard.
16:44Not so much for the card telling us who the sniper was.
16:46Wait a minute.
16:48He's not wearing gloves.
16:49So what? He didn't touch any printable surfaces.
16:51Yeah, but he touched her.
16:53We could print a dead body, right?
16:55So why can't we print a live one?
16:57She's probably showered by now.
16:59Not necessarily. It's Saturday.
17:01It's barely afternoon. Come on.
17:12Hey, Castle.
17:14Hey.
17:16Where's Josh?
17:17Oh, he's in Africa.
17:19He's saving the world.
17:21I brought you some...
17:23I just thought, after everything,
17:25you might want to...
17:28Here.
17:34That's really sweet.
17:36You want to come in?
17:38Sure.
17:43Wow.
17:45Nice.
17:48You know, I was thinking on the way over here.
17:51All the best cops,
17:53Dirty Harry, Cobra,
17:55the guy from police academy who makes the helicopter noises,
17:57they all have one thing in common.
17:59Plucky sidekick?
18:01That. And they do their very best work
18:03after they've been booted off a case.
18:05Is that what you came all the way over here to tell me?
18:07Montgomery booted us off the Raglin murder.
18:10But he didn't say anything about your mother's case, did he?
18:13Here's my plan.
18:15I sneak back into the city.
18:17I get to the station wearing a hat.
18:19Montgomery always takes a coffee break
18:2115 minutes after the hour.
18:23I get your mother's file wearing soft shoes.
18:25The south entrance says...
18:27What?
18:29Come on, guess I gotta show you something.
18:37You know, I sometimes forget
18:39that you live with this every day.
18:42Josh know about this?
18:45No.
18:48When did you start?
18:50Over the summer.
18:52When you were in the Hamptons.
18:55And how far have you gotten?
18:57Well, aside from my mom,
18:59there was also Diane Cavanaugh, Jennifer Stewart.
19:01They volunteered for her from time to time
19:03for the justice initiative.
19:05And then the fourth victim was Scott Murray.
19:07He was a document clerk at the courthouse.
19:09You know, Castle, up until today,
19:11I'd always run this on the theory
19:13that they got killed because of a legal case
19:15that they were working on.
19:17And they found a file just before she was murdered.
19:19And that file went missing.
19:21Well, your mom must have had
19:23personal papers, appointment book,
19:25something that could tell you
19:27what she was working on before she died.
19:29No, I went through all of that nine years ago.
19:31There's nothing.
19:33Yeah, but a lot's happened since then.
19:35Maybe you missed something.
19:37So the guy who touched my arm was a murderer?
19:39Figures.
19:41Why do I attract all the creeps?
19:43I dated this one guy, Craig, for like two months.
19:45And I thought, like, he was the one.
19:47And then one night, his roommate answered the phone
19:49and told me that Craig had died.
19:51And I was, like, devastated.
19:53And me and the roommate, we scattered his ashes
19:55throughout Central Park, the whole thing.
19:57And I worked through the stages of grief
19:59with my life coach and a lot of random guys.
20:01And I was getting into acceptance
20:03when I ran into Craig at a bar.
20:05He had baked his own dress.
20:07Unbelievable.
20:09I know, right?
20:11All he had to do was say he didn't want us to date anymore.
20:13And it's not like I'm some psycho.
20:15Looks like we got a lift.
20:17There's nothing in her appointment book.
20:19Not that I can make sense of, anyway.
20:22She had her own system, like my dad,
20:24and I could never figure it out.
20:26Oh, you were adorable.
20:28Did your mom take these?
20:30Yeah, about three weeks before she died.
20:38Oh, I don't get to see you in action?
20:40Trust me, Castle, it was not pretty.
20:42Well, now I have to see it.
20:44Oh.
20:50Hmm.
20:52What?
20:54Uh, there's 24 exposures on this roll,
20:56but there's only 20 pictures.
21:03What is it?
21:05An empty street.
21:14Castle, this is where my mom was murdered.
21:20I don't understand.
21:22I mean, these pictures were developed
21:24a week before she was killed.
21:26Why would she be taking photos of that alley?
21:28I don't know.
21:30I always thought it was just a convenient place
21:32for the killer to attack.
21:34I mean, it was dark, it was secluded.
21:36What if there was more to it than that?
21:38What if she was looking into something
21:40that happened in that alley when they killed her?
21:41Well, I'd have to go into the old archives and reports,
21:43and Captain Montgomery won't let me back
21:45into the precinct right now.
21:47I'll go.
21:54Hal Lockwood, male, white, 32.
21:56Record's clean.
21:58According to this, Lockwood's never had
22:00so much as a traffic citation.
22:02Credit history only goes back about two years.
22:04Got to be a cover ID.
22:06Huh.
22:08His credit card's active.
22:09Shows Lockwood's checked into
22:11a corporate suite in Midtown right now.
22:14Hey!
22:16Hey!
22:18Clear!
22:20Clear!
22:27Looks like we just missed him.
22:29Yo, look at this.
22:32He's been watching her.
22:34Ryan and Esposito traced your sniper
22:36to a corporate suite in Midtown.
22:38He's been on you since Raglin's murder.
22:40This isn't just a kook with a deer rifle
22:42and a copy of Catcher in the Rye.
22:44This guy's a professional, highly trained
22:46and well-funded, maybe part of a team.
22:48So we gotta let Castle know.
22:50He does.
22:52He's back at the 12th.
22:54I caught him in the men's room
22:56poking through some old reports.
22:58You want to tell me about that?
23:00You really want to know?
23:01Listen, I'm gonna have to put a detail on you.
23:03But I need you to stay home.
23:05If this sniper is after me,
23:07the safest place in the city is the 12th.
23:09You gotta let me have this, Roy.
23:11Let me come back and work on my mom's case.
23:13No.
23:15I'm sorry.
23:17Absolutely not.
23:20CSU analyzed the capsules
23:22we found in Lockwood, Sweden.
23:24Found they contain a highly concentrated
23:26form of an anti-anxiety drug
23:28called prozepam.
23:29That fits.
23:31A good sniper fires between heartbeats.
23:33Back in Special Forces,
23:35some of the guys would use anti-anxiety measures
23:37to slow down their heart rate.
23:39Gives them more time to shoot.
23:41These didn't come from any commercial lab.
23:43They were hand-ground by someone on the street,
23:45someone very good with chemicals.
23:47Someone like Vulcan Simmons.
23:49I thought the same thing, but check this out.
23:51Dealers sometimes use symbols like these
23:53to mark their products.
23:55These symbols don't belong to Simmons.
23:57They're the brand of a street pharmacist
23:59named Chad Roderick.
24:01You must be one lucky guy.
24:03You've been arrested for possession of pseudofedrin,
24:06possession of forged triplicate prescriptions,
24:08and the manufacture of a controlled substance,
24:11but never convicted.
24:13Those were all misunderstandings.
24:15I'm just a college student
24:17with my father's lawyer on speed dial.
24:22You know why you're here?
24:24No, but I'm going to guess
24:26it has something to do with class resentment.
24:27I bet it's a special treat
24:29for you to interrogate above your station.
24:31You're here because you sold these
24:35to him.
24:38But we're not dope cops, Chads.
24:40These, we don't care about.
24:42Him, we want.
24:50I'm afraid I can't help you.
24:52You guys can't arrest me.
24:54You don't have proof of anything.
24:56Oh, we're not going to arrest you, Chad.
24:59We're just going to detain you
25:01for a while in lockup.
25:03Yeah, we've got a parolee in there.
25:05Sex offender.
25:076'1", a couple bills and change.
25:10They call him Peppermint,
25:12and he'd just love to meet
25:14a handsome young man of your station.
25:16We know you sold custom blend prosipam,
25:18which is a controlled substance,
25:20but we're running a special today.
25:23All we want to know
25:25is how we can find him.
25:27Or you can go to lockup
25:29and meet your new friend.
25:31Listen.
25:34I sold those two weeks ago,
25:36but not to him.
25:38I've never seen this guy before in my life.
25:40Who bought the pills?
25:42Jolene. She's one of my regulars.
25:44Tell me about her.
25:46Blonde, 30s.
25:48I think she lives somewhere in Brooklyn.
25:50Last name?
25:52I don't know.
25:54Thanks.
25:59Have you talked to Montgomery?
26:01Yeah.
26:03Castle, there's something I need you to do.
26:07Name it.
26:09Go home.
26:11Forget it.
26:13Fear does not exist in this dojo.
26:15Look, I signed up for this when I put that badge on.
26:17You didn't. It's not your fight.
26:19The hell it isn't.
26:21I don't hang around you just to annoy you.
26:23I have scenes in the middle of the night
26:25to satisfy some morbid curiosity.
26:27If that's all this was,
26:29I would have quit a long time ago.
26:31Well, then why do you keep coming back, Rick?
26:38Look, I may not have a badge,
26:41unless you count the chocolate one
26:43that Alexis gave me for my birthday.
26:46I'll tell you this.
26:48Like it or not,
26:50I'm your plucky sidekick.
26:51Plucky sidekick always gets killed.
26:54Partner, then.
27:00Okay.
27:02What'd you find?
27:04You remember what Raglin said
27:06back at the coffee shop
27:08about this thing going back 19 years?
27:10Turns out before your mother,
27:12there was another murder in this alley
27:14back when it was the back entrance
27:16to a club called Sons of Palermo.
27:18It was a mafia hangout.
27:19It was a big deal,
27:21after an FBI agent by the name of Bob Armand
27:23was killed in the alley behind it.
27:25It says Armand was working undercover in the mafia.
27:27Somehow the mob got onto Armand.
27:29He was the old family remedy.
27:31Summary execution.
27:33The NYPD arrested a mob enforcer
27:35in Armand's murder,
27:37a guy by the name of Joe Pogatti.
27:39He later pled guilty.
27:41And guess who the arresting officer was?
27:43Officer John Raglin.
27:45Your mother was a civil rights attorney.
27:47Did she ever mention Armand's murder
27:49to you?
27:51I bet Pogatti could shut some light on it.
27:53I didn't kill Bobby Armand.
27:55Then why'd you plead guilty?
27:57Because I don't like needles.
27:59Detective Raglin places you
28:01in the alley at the time of the murder.
28:03Yeah, I was in that alley with Bobby.
28:05I was the only witness to his murder.
28:07But it wasn't a hit.
28:09It was a kidnapping that went sideways.
28:11Three guys in ski masks
28:13rolled up in a van and said
28:15they wanted to take me on a tour of the city.
28:17Bobby tried to stop them.
28:19But he didn't get the end of it.
28:21Were the guys from a rival family?
28:23No. No way.
28:25We had a truce going back then
28:27because there was this ghost crew out there,
28:29professional kidnappers,
28:31targeting members of all five families.
28:33Look, I was in that alley with Bobby.
28:35But no one else could have known that.
28:38It was a blind alley.
28:40And the only other people in it
28:42when Bobby was shot
28:44were the people who shot him.
28:46So you tell me, detective,
28:47how could Raglin have known I was there?
28:49You're saying Raglin was one of the kidnappers?
28:55There was a lawyer
28:57named Joanna Beckett.
28:59Are you familiar with her?
29:01She was murdered in the alley
29:03about seven years into your incarceration.
29:05You look just like her, you know.
29:08I first walked in here,
29:11it was like I was looking at a ghost.
29:14The way she talked,
29:15the way she talked about you,
29:17I should have known you'd become a cop.
29:20I sent letters
29:22to every lawyer I could find.
29:25And your mother was the only one
29:27who wrote me back.
29:29The only one willing to take a chance on me.
29:32She didn't care that I was a thug.
29:34All she cared about was the truth.
29:36Yeah, she came to visit me here.
29:38She said you'd look into my case.
29:40Later I found out she was murdered.
29:43Don't get your hopes up.
29:45You yourself killed chasing this thing.
29:47Take it from me,
29:49there's nothing more dangerous out there
29:51than a killer with a badge.
29:57We'll talk about the definition
29:59of a direct order later.
30:01Right now, I just want to hear what you found.
30:03Okay, so here's what we know so far.
30:0519 years ago, Raglin and at least two other cops
30:07were kidnapping mobsters for ransom.
30:09Things went south when they tried
30:11to snatch Joe Polgatti.
30:13They mistakenly killed an undercover fed
30:15and in most cases,
30:17they pinned Armand's murder on Polgatti.
30:19And then seven years later,
30:21my mom and a group of her colleagues
30:23tried to put together an appeal for Polgatti.
30:25Now the cops knew that if the case got overturned,
30:27they would all be exposed.
30:29So they hired Dick Coonan to kill all of them.
30:31And Raglin wrote off their homicides
30:33as random gang violence.
30:35And that would have been the end of it.
30:37But Raglin found out he was dying,
30:39decided he wanted to come clean,
30:41so they had to silence him too.
30:43Polgatti said that there were three kidnappers
30:45and you know who one of them is?
30:47Raglin's old academy buddy, Gary McAllister.
30:49How do you know that?
30:51I pulled the dispatcher's log from the archives.
30:53There was another unit backing Raglin
30:55when he arrested Polgatti.
30:57A one-man patrol unit.
30:59Officer Gary McAllister.
31:01Get that son of a bitch.
31:03Vulcan Simmons had nothing to do with this.
31:06But as a former cop,
31:08you knew that he fit the part
31:10and so you used him to throw us off
31:12when the truth is that you and Raglin
31:13were involved in murder and kidnappings.
31:17Listen, it's easy for you to sit in judgment now,
31:19but you weren't there.
31:21We did what we thought we had to do.
31:23And you did plenty.
31:25Kidnapping.
31:27Cover-ups.
31:29You killed the fed and then you pinned it on Polgatti.
31:31You want me to tell you about Joe Polgatti?
31:33About the people he put in the hospital?
31:35The ones he put in the river?
31:37He and the rest of those jackals
31:39fed in this city for decades,
31:41but you couldn't touch them
31:43and this part I want you to know,
31:45because this part I'm not ashamed of
31:47because at least we tried to do something.
31:49It wasn't pretty and it wasn't legal,
31:51but it was right.
31:53Kidnapping people for ransom was right?
31:55We called it incarceration.
31:57Yeah, we grabbed them off the street
31:59and we'd take them somewhere and we'd tune them up.
32:01We put the fear of God into them,
32:03at least for a while.
32:05But we knew we couldn't hold them forever.
32:07So we said bill.
32:10And I'm here to tell you that we set it high.
32:11If those bastards wanted back on the street,
32:13they were going to have to pay for their way.
32:15When my mom put together that appeal for Polgatti,
32:17you got worried that she'd get on to you
32:19and so you hired de Koon to kill her.
32:21No.
32:23And then when Raglin grew a conscience,
32:25you had him killed too.
32:27No, I didn't have anything to do with that.
32:29That was, that was somebody else.
32:31Who?
32:33Somebody you'll never touch.
32:35Who?
32:38You don't understand, detective.
32:39You woke the dragon.
32:41And this is so much bigger than you realize.
32:46And I'm done talking.
32:48I want a lawyer.
32:50He's afraid of someone and it's not a cop.
32:54We got to find that shooter.
32:56I think we got a lead on him.
32:58According to Roderick, a woman named Jolene
33:00bought those capsules that we found
33:02in Lockwood's corporate suite.
33:04Girlfriend?
33:06Probably. All we got is blonde, 30s, lives in Brooklyn.
33:07So we fed her descriptors in the DMV database.
33:09Got it narrowed down to two women,
33:11Jolene Granger and Jolene Anders.
33:14Okay, you guys take Jolene Anders,
33:16we'll take Granger.
33:18You call me when you get her.
33:20Roger that.
33:38Jolene Granger, NYPD.
33:42Jolene?
34:08Esposito.
34:10Jolene Granger is dead.
34:12We're on our way.
34:20Come here!
34:22Esposito.
34:24Esposito!
34:27So what do you got?
34:29What you heard was a flashbang.
34:31Lockwood must have grabbed him.
34:33Only thing we've recovered so far are the cell phones.
34:35He dumped both of their phones.
34:37So we can't GPS track them.
34:39We couldn't find Jolene's cell phone either.
34:41Lockwood must have gotten rid of it.
34:43Because her phone was a link to him.
34:45She'd call him on it.
34:47There's got to be a cell phone bill around here somewhere.
34:54I want to congratulate you both.
34:57I don't know how you found my place,
34:59but I've been doing this kind of work for a while now.
35:02No one's ever come that close to me.
35:04My problem is that your investigation
35:07has gone further than I expected.
35:09And now in order for me to finish my job,
35:11I need to know exactly
35:13what you know about me and my employer.
35:20Now, I got a lot of respect for you guys.
35:26What I do.
35:28Now, I'm gonna make you a deal.
35:31You tell me what I need to know,
35:33one pro to another,
35:34and I will put a bullet in your brain.
35:37You don't.
35:39You jerk me around.
35:42And you will be begging me to
35:44before this night is up.
35:56Let's go with option B.
35:58Oh yeah.
36:00We're definitely gonna jerk you around.
36:05What's her account number?
36:075892-639-1199.
36:11All right. If we can figure out her mother's maiden name,
36:14they'll email us the password.
36:16I need everything you can get on Jolene Granger,
36:18specifically her mother's maiden name.
36:29Listen, assclown.
36:31I was in Catholic school for 12 years.
36:34They used to do this to me for talking to clowns.
36:36Dead Lockwood.
36:38Yeah, you know, they always start off with bravado,
36:40and the begging comes later.
36:42See, this is ice cold water.
36:44It'll burn like hell when it hits his lungs,
36:46and he'll lose consciousness right away.
36:48But all this stops when you tell me
36:50how much the gobs know!
36:52Lockwood, what would have been
36:54one of the last numbers she called?
36:56Got it. 917-555-0176.
37:00I need to check on this.
37:02So you've done it again.
37:04Bought a SWAT team from a block away.
37:06Warned Lockwood.
37:09We call in the cavalry, and they're both dead.
37:13I'm open to dumb ideas here.
37:16Good, because I got one.
37:17He's not buying a castle.
37:48I'm sorry.
38:10That was amazing.
38:14The way you knocked him out, I mean,
38:15it was...
38:19Let's go. Yeah.
38:28Okay!
38:33Don't tell this jackhole anything.
38:35I'm sorry, bro. I can't watch this.
38:37Listen to me.
38:39You're too late.
38:41The cops already know all about
38:43me and your mom.
38:46Shoot out one of his kneecaps.
38:48No!
38:50Hey!
38:52Come on!
39:15No!
39:46Come on!
39:52You okay?
39:57Never better.
40:13Hey there, Chuck Norris.
40:15Hey.
40:20How's the hand?
40:22Uh, excruciating.
40:27How's Ron and Esposito?
40:29Mild hypothermia.
40:31Wounded pride.
40:33Guess which one I'll heal first.
40:43Grab my back in there?
40:46Always.
41:09We booked you as John Doe.
41:10You sure as hell aren't Hal Lockwood.
41:13Who hired you?
41:24Put a lot of people in this place.
41:30Some of them want to kill me.
41:32Others never been treated so fairly
41:34in their lives.
41:36So they form this attachment
41:38to me. It's like I'm their favorite
41:40school teacher.
41:44Some of those people might visit you
41:46while you're in here.
41:48Like the ghosts that visit Scrooge.
41:52And after some time with them,
41:54you might find yourself a changed man.
41:59So I will be back here
42:01week after week
42:04to ask you who hired you.
42:06Till that miracle occurs.
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