Castle Season 2 Episode 13
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00:00I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I?
00:02I'm Rick Castle.
00:03Castle.
00:04Castle.
00:05I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:07Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine.
00:09Detective Kate Beckett. Beckett. Beckett.
00:11Nicky Heath.
00:12The character he's basing on you.
00:13And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:16I'd be happy to let you spank me.
00:18And together we catch killers.
00:20Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch.
00:22Turner and Hooch.
00:23You do remind me a little of Hooch.
00:30Come on.
00:55Meet the late Jack Coonin.
00:56Why was that name familiar?
00:57Because it probably crossed over all our desks a dozen times in the last few years.
01:02Aggravated assault, ADW, arson.
01:04Coonan had a heavy rep. Word is he's an enforcer for the Westies.
01:07Okay, remind me who are the Westies again.
01:10Irish Mafia out of Hell's Kitchen.
01:12They deal in cargo theft, counterfeiting, extortion.
01:15And public urination on St. Patrick's Day.
01:17Our boy Coonan also had a home security system, 12-gauge hollow point.
01:22That thing could stop a Kodiak in Kevlar. Who did he think was coming through the door?
01:26Well, whoever it was left him leaking from about 30 holes that don't normally appear in a healthy 35-year-old male.
01:32Nine millimeter sig still in his waistband.
01:35Didn't even have time to pull it out.
01:36This guy was armed and ready.
01:39Whoever got him was very, very good.
01:41Ninja assassin.
01:42Ninja assassin? Isn't that kind of redundant?
01:45Aren't all ninjas by definition assassins?
01:47Fine. Webster and Roger are ninja. Assassination implied by definition.
01:52Scales the building, slips in through this window, and then hides himself, I don't know,
01:55about.
01:56Hey, look at this.
01:58Our victim's a Johnny Vong fan.
02:00Someone actually bought those tapes?
02:02What?
02:03Who's Johnny Vong?
02:04Come on, you're kidding me.
02:05Every insomniac in New York knows who Johnny Vong is.
02:07His infomercial runs all night.
02:09Most people think you gotta have money to make money.
02:12But that's not true.
02:13Look at me.
02:14When I come to this country, I come with nothing.
02:17I come on boat.
02:18And now, I own a boat.
02:19I own a boat.
02:20Your friends might tell you.
02:22I'm sorry.
02:23Do you guys mind if we finish dealing with the dead guy on the carpet?
02:28Beckett.
02:29Cell phone.
02:30Looks like it took a direct hit from the knife.
02:32Have Tech fold the SIM card.
02:34I want to know who Coonan was talking to before he died.
02:36Ryan?
02:37Did my brother suffer?
02:50Yes.
02:52Thank you for your honesty.
02:58I guess you could have lied to me.
03:01No, I couldn't.
03:02I've been on your side of the table and when I was,
03:05what I needed most was the truth.
03:07I, uh, I built schools in Afghanistan.
03:11I don't give kids over there a fighting chance.
03:14I get all this recognition.
03:16Here's my big brother Jackie.
03:18The guy who taught me to fight for the little guy.
03:23What does he get?
03:24Worse than he deserved.
03:26I make no excuses for the things my brother did,
03:28but growing up, we were on our own a lot.
03:31Jackie was the toughest kid on the block.
03:33That's what first brought him to Rourke's attention.
03:36Finn Rourke?
03:37Hmm.
03:38He runs the Westies.
03:40What did he actually do for Finn?
03:42Jackie never said.
03:44But whatever it was,
03:48pretty sure it got him killed.
03:51Castle.
03:52These Westies can be pretty rough.
03:54So you sure you don't want to stay in the car?
03:56No way.
03:57Okay.
03:58Keep your mouth shut and try to butch up a little.
04:00Hey!
04:01Hey!
04:02Fight!
04:03Fight!
04:04Fight!
04:05Fight!
04:06Fight!
04:07Fight!
04:08Fight!
04:09Fight!
04:10Fight!
04:11Fight!
04:12Fight!
04:13Fight!
04:14Fight!
04:15Fight!
04:16Fight!
04:17Fight!
04:18Fight!
04:19Fight!
04:20Fight!
04:21I'm looking for Finn Rourke.
04:22Is that right?
04:23Well, as far as I'm concerned, you and your wife there can keep looking.
04:35This is the part where I tell you that one phone call from me and the Department of Health will be down here.
04:40You'll be shut down for 30 days, I guarantee it.
04:43Do you really want to do that to your boss?
04:45It's not like I'm asking you to cough up.
04:47Come on now.
04:48Can't hear the game.
04:49Tommy.
04:50Point for the pretty boy, huh?
04:51Saddle his stomach.
04:52Oh!
04:53Thanks.
04:54Mr. Rourke, I'm Detective Kate Beckett.
04:55I'm here about Jack Coonan.
04:56And so we are.
04:57When did you last see Jack Coonan?
04:58I don't remember.
04:59In fact, none of us remember.
05:03I think you'll find the Department of Health take a very liberal attitude to more established
05:11establishment.
05:12And this is the part where I tell you to pound sand, Detective.
05:18Ah!
05:19Oh!
05:20Oh!
05:21Oh!
05:22Oh!
05:23Oh!
05:24Oh!
05:25Oh!
05:26Oh!
05:27Oh!
05:28Oh!
05:29Oh!
05:30Oh!
05:31Oh!
05:32Oh!
05:33Oh!
05:34Oh!
05:35Oh!
05:36Oh!
05:37Oh!
05:38Oh!
05:39Oh!
05:40Oh!
05:41Oh!
05:45Step away.
05:51Are you okay?
05:52Me?
05:56Ah, no.
05:57I'm good.
06:00Mario Mendoza, also known as Trucho.
06:04You did four years upstate for distribution in Queens and you just got off of parole.
06:09Congratulations.
06:10I've got a dead Westie on my hands,
06:12and it looked like you were about to join, so...
06:15You want to tell me what you were doing in Finn Rourke's back room?
06:18Can I be real with you?
06:20Oh, please do.
06:21I had too much to drink, and I accidentally fell.
06:24You fell?
06:25I fell.
06:26Well, then how'd you get that mouse on your eye?
06:28I ran into the wall.
06:30How'd you burn your hand?
06:32After I ran into the wall and I fell,
06:35I put my hand out on the grill just to break my fall.
06:40Well, thanks for keeping it real.
06:43Look, I get it, the whole street code thing and all,
06:47but in my experience, Mario,
06:48guys like you end up catching another case sooner or later,
06:51and when you do,
06:51wouldn't you like to have a detective on your side?
06:56No, thanks.
06:59I'm good.
07:05He was my caller from back in the day.
07:07Guy ran dope for the Latin Kings.
07:09Latin Kings?
07:10It's a violent street gang.
07:11They mostly peddle girls and drugs.
07:13Yeah, Chucho's their blade man.
07:15Real handy with the knife.
07:16We never popped him for murder,
07:17but I met plenty of folks with fingers missing.
07:20So was there bad blood between them?
07:22Yeah, they're like the Hatfields and McCoys of Hell's Kitchen.
07:25So the Westies figure that the Latin Kings killed Kunin,
07:28and they snatch their blade guy
07:29and bring him in for a little enhanced interrogation.
07:31Which no one wants to admit to.
07:32Uh-huh.
07:33Look, my experience,
07:34if Finn went all get more on him,
07:35it was for a reason.
07:37You got a Westie with holes in him?
07:38Chucho's probably your guy.
07:40He's right.
07:41We found Chucho's vehicle in an alley
07:42behind a little bodega in Rico Park.
07:44It's a big dope spot.
07:45And he left his little letter opener
07:47tucked behind the driver's side sun visor.
07:49That's not it.
07:57You didn't even look.
07:58Sure I did.
07:59It's a stiletto, four-inch Damascus blade,
08:02and it's way too small to make these wounds.
08:03Well, maybe he used a different knife.
08:06Just how tall is this true Chucho?
08:08He's, um, five-six.
08:11Standing on his toes.
08:12And he's not your guy.
08:14Thrust angle on these wounds
08:15indicate Kunin's killer was over six foot.
08:17Well, maybe instead of using a stiletto,
08:20he was wearing stilettos.
08:23Excuse me.
08:26Beckett.
08:29Hey.
08:30Hey.
08:31You okay?
08:32Yeah, thanks.
08:33Yeah, I'm fine.
08:38Tech's got some hits off of Kunin's phone.
08:40Maybe they can shed some light.
08:41Thank you, Lainey.
08:42Mm-hmm.
08:47The last call that Kunin made
08:50was to a New York landline.
08:51Because of the damage to the sim,
08:53it's missing the last two digits of the phone number.
08:55Well, that's 99 possibilities.
08:57We better get dialing, Ryan.
08:58I'm looking at you.
08:58Well, no, the numbers are off
08:59from the same phone tree.
09:01Here's where it gets interesting.
09:02They all trace back to the New York office
09:04of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
09:06What's an Irish street thug doing
09:08talking to the FBI?
09:18My program is idiot-proof.
09:20Look at me.
09:21I never went to college.
09:23You're back at the FBI just here.
09:27Wasn't that DVD supposed to be booked in
09:28as possible evidence?
09:30Uh, yeah, but, you know,
09:32I thought there might be something...
09:33Put it back.
09:35Okay.
09:36I appreciate your coming down, Agent Forrest.
09:39Most of your FBI colleagues
09:40would expect the locals to come to them.
09:42Most of my colleagues worry about hair products
09:44and press conferences
09:45when they should be out catching bad men.
09:47I take it you're not from around these parts?
09:49No, sir. I'm not.
09:51But for my many sins,
09:53the Bureau has transferred me here to New York.
09:55How did you come into contact with Jack Kunin?
09:58He reached out to us about a week ago.
09:59And you signed him on as an informant?
10:01Nope.
10:03Why not?
10:04Because all there were were overtures.
10:05And I wasn't about to trade the family cow
10:07for a bunch of magic beans.
10:09You didn't trust him?
10:10When a case like Kunin reaches out to the Bureau,
10:13it's usually because he crossed his bosses.
10:14And he's hard up to trade them into the Bureau
10:16for a quick trip into the waiting arms of Witsack.
10:19Who was Kunin offering up?
10:21Never found out.
10:22Well, whoever it was must have gotten wind of it.
10:24And then killed Kunin
10:25before he had a chance to deliver them to the FBI?
10:27The Westies are a bit like the rogue state of Iran
10:30in the great state of Texas.
10:33They're not too shy
10:34in handing out the death penalty.
10:36And talking to the FBI
10:37is definitely a capital offense.
10:39We need to talk to Finn Rourke again.
10:42An angel visited Jackie's home
10:45two nights ago.
10:48Same angeless
10:49took the Pharaoh's firstborn.
10:51Now I know so many things
10:54you don't know
10:54the angel of death.
10:57But trust me, Lance,
10:58he knows you.
11:01So,
11:02here's to the darling Jackie.
11:05Huh?
11:05He's up in heaven now.
11:07He can be sure
11:07he broke in
11:09when there was in Vespers.
11:10Come to honor the dead, I hope.
11:25If not,
11:26I'll thank you
11:27to move my way out of this place.
11:28You're lying.
11:30You know exactly
11:31what happened to Jack Kunin.
11:34That once over
11:34that you gave Trucha
11:35was just a piece of theater
11:37to throw them all off
11:38just like your eulogy.
11:41Now you be careful, detective.
11:42Or else what?
11:44You'll kill me
11:45just like you killed Kunin
11:46after he went to the feds about you?
11:48Enough!
11:50I'm not of you
11:50slandering like this.
11:53Not tonight.
11:54I got it straight from the FBI.
11:57Jack reached out to them
11:58just before he died.
12:02He turned on you, didn't he?
12:04You don't know
12:05what you're talking about, Boyle.
12:07Jackie Kunin was loyal
12:08to his last breath.
12:10He died in a state of grace.
12:13Even if what you say is true,
12:14you can be sure
12:15Jackie wasn't talking
12:16to the Gs
12:17about any of us.
12:18How can you be so sure?
12:19You've heard of me.
12:26You've heard of me.
12:27You've heard I'm a gangster
12:28and a thief.
12:31Surely.
12:33You've heard I killed men.
12:36Would you answer me this, detective?
12:38Have you ever heard
12:39Finn Rourke running drugs?
12:41Someone was bringing it in here.
12:47I sent Jackie to find the bastards behind it.
12:52Find them
12:52and punish them
12:54according to our rules.
12:57Only they punished him instead.
13:01Oh, yeah.
13:03That's it, sis.
13:07Now,
13:08if you've probable cause,
13:10I suggest
13:11you arrest me now.
13:12If not,
13:14I'll remind you
13:15this is a private party
13:17and I'll thank you
13:18to get the hell
13:19out of my place!
13:30Another.
13:41Give her a minute, Castle.
13:43She can't just follow us out.
13:44It'd be too obvious.
13:45You noticed her?
13:47I'm a homicide detective.
13:48If there's one thing
13:49I know how to spot,
13:50it's a lady looking
13:51to unburden herself.
13:55She's looking for us.
13:57No, no, no.
13:57Don't honk deep throat.
13:58You'll spook her.
14:08Hi.
14:09I'm Molly.
14:10Hi, Molly.
14:11I'm Kate.
14:12Can we maybe give you
14:13a lift somewhere?
14:14Anywhere but here.
14:18Of course I knew
14:19Jack's reputation.
14:22It's part of what
14:23attracted me to him.
14:26What?
14:27You telling me
14:28you never had a thing
14:29for bad boys, Kate?
14:31No comment.
14:32So Jack never mentioned
14:33going to the FBI?
14:34Jack never discussed business.
14:37But I knew he wanted out.
14:40We talked about
14:41going somewhere far away.
14:43Last week,
14:44Jack warned me
14:45he might get there first.
14:47Jack saw this coming?
14:49We spent every night together.
14:51He couldn't get to sleep
14:52without me next to him.
14:53But last week,
14:55he wouldn't even
14:56let me come over.
14:57Anybody but Jack.
14:59And I'd have thought
15:00he had something going
15:01on the side.
15:02That never crossed your mind?
15:03I don't know.
15:03I don't know.
15:04I don't know.
15:05This is the last thing
15:15Jack ever gave me
15:17on the last night
15:18I ever spent with him.
15:21Jack said if things
15:22broke bad,
15:23he wanted me to give this
15:24to the police.
15:27And how do you know
15:28it's to a bus locker?
15:29It's always to a bus locker.
15:31TSA tore most of them out,
15:33but a few terminals
15:35still have them.
15:36And this one is the closest
15:37to Coonan's apartment.
15:38Wait, wait, no, no, no.
15:38Wait, don't do that.
15:39What?
15:40Well, once you open it,
15:40then we'll know.
15:41Could be an alien corpse
15:43in there.
15:44Ark of the Covenant.
15:46Or Johnny Vong DVDs.
15:48You gotta be kidding me.
15:49This is what Coonan
15:50wanted to give to the feds?
15:51Hold on.
15:56No.
15:59This is.
16:01Heroin.
16:10That was so cool just now.
16:12You like that?
16:13Yeah, it was very
16:13mammy vice.
16:18Coonan wasn't going
16:19to the feds to rat out
16:20his Westie pals.
16:21He was looking to rat out
16:22the drug dealer
16:23Finn Rourke sent him to find.
16:25Only the dealer flips the script.
16:26Knives Coonan before
16:27he can close the deal
16:28with the feds.
16:28So then we find the dealer
16:29and we find the killer.
16:31These boxes say the DVDs
16:32were packaged in Hong Kong.
16:34Someone must be slipping
16:35the heroin in before they shipped.
16:36Which means someone
16:37on this end had to know
16:38which boxes contain the drugs.
16:39And which boxes contain
16:40the secret path
16:41to financial independence.
16:42What?
16:45It had to be someone in Johnny Vong's organization.
16:50Yeah!
16:52I don't care if you're a busboy.
16:54I don't care if you wear
16:55the green apron
16:56and serve fancy coffee
16:58to a jerk
16:58talking on his Bluetooth.
17:00I was like you once.
17:02Then I discovered
17:04the one secret
17:05that changed my whole life.
17:06Who out there
17:07is ready?
17:08This place reminds me
17:09at my second wedding.
17:11Ha-ha!
17:13Yeah!
17:15Who is ready to close
17:16escrow on a new life?
17:19Come on!
17:20Ha-ha!
17:21Yeah!
17:22Don't even think
17:23about taking them off.
17:24If you do,
17:24I will pepper spray you.
17:25You're our winner!
17:26Wow!
17:27Thank you!
17:28Thank you!
17:28Mr. Vong?
17:30Thank you!
17:31Mr. Vong,
17:32I'm Detective Kate Beckett
17:33with the NYPD.
17:34I'd like to ask you
17:35a few questions.
17:36Sure, sure, sure.
17:37We believe that
17:38one of your employees
17:39was smuggling heroin
17:40into the country
17:41using your supply chain.
17:43Smuggle what?
17:43Smack.
17:45Would you mind
17:46if we looked in here?
17:47What?
17:47Wait!
17:52Ooh, ooh.
17:54Heroin trafficking.
17:56That's good for
17:56a ten-year prison bid.
17:58So I don't blame you
17:59for running.
17:59This is all
18:00a big mistake.
18:02I never do drugs.
18:04Drugs, it's for losers.
18:05I'm a businessman.
18:06I try to help people
18:07achieve their goals.
18:09So long as their goals
18:10are to blow 300 bucks
18:11on your bogus
18:11real estate system.
18:12No, listen.
18:13I offer you
18:1430-day money-back guarantee.
18:16If you don't start
18:17building wealth by then,
18:18I refund all your money.
18:19No questions asked.
18:21Could I make that offer
18:21if this was some kind of scam?
18:23Man, there's a point.
18:24Shut up.
18:25You don't think you...
18:26No.
18:27Look, here's the deal.
18:29I'm not a dope cop.
18:31I'm a homicide detective,
18:32so usually I don't even bother
18:34with your sort of an operation,
18:35but my problem
18:36and yours
18:37is the fact
18:38that you had
18:38Jack Coonan killed
18:40in order to hide
18:41your heroin smuggling.
18:42Wait, Jack Coonan's dead?
18:44Whoa.
18:45Careful there, Johnny.
18:46Your accent's
18:47starting to fade a little.
18:49Look,
18:50I didn't come over
18:51on a boat, okay?
18:52I've never even been to Laos.
18:53I'm from Danville, California.
18:55And this whole
18:56Johnny Vong thing?
18:57No one wants to buy
18:58a real estate system
18:59from a Harvard MBA.
19:00I'm gonna show them
19:01an idiot with a Rolls Royce
19:02and they'll knock down doors.
19:03So I played Johnny Vong.
19:04People want all that
19:05Horatio Alger crap,
19:07so that's what I give them.
19:08All that and heroin.
19:09How exactly did you know
19:10Jack Coonan?
19:11Look,
19:12whatever you think you know,
19:14I promise you
19:15I didn't kill Coonan.
19:17You have to believe me.
19:18Do I?
19:19Nothing about you is real.
19:21No.
19:21I needed money
19:27to take the program national.
19:29He needed a way
19:30to get product
19:30into the country.
19:32Stupid,
19:33but once you make
19:34a deal with the devil,
19:35you belong to him.
19:37Who do you belong to?
19:38Who are you working for?
19:40He'll kill me.
19:40I can protect you.
19:41You can't.
19:43Nobody can.
19:44You don't know
19:45what he's capable of.
19:46You don't believe me?
19:46Ask Jack Coonan.
19:47Look, Mr. Vong,
19:48I got to...
19:48No.
19:48I'll take my chances
19:50in prison.
19:53I'd rather lose
19:53ten years of my life
19:54than all of it.
19:57Whoever he's working for
19:59scares him a lot more
19:59than prison.
20:00There has to be a way
20:01to get it out of him.
20:03We could force him
20:03to watch Paris Hilton videos.
20:05Do you want me
20:05brought up on charges?
20:06Jacket.
20:07Hey, Lainey.
20:08What are you doing here?
20:10It's about the Coonan case.
20:12This is Dr. Clark Murray.
20:14He's a forensic pathologist.
20:16I asked him to consult.
20:17I'm Detective Kate Beckett.
20:19This is Richard Castle,
20:20the novelist.
20:21We've met.
20:26Note the rectangular bruising
20:28around these wounds.
20:30Here and here.
20:32Caused by the hilt of the knife,
20:33striking with force enough
20:34to compress the skin.
20:36And as a result,
20:37the injuries penetrate deeper
20:38than the actual length
20:39of the blade.
20:40He's also honed
20:41the blade so fine,
20:43it's brittle enough
20:43for bits to break
20:44when it strikes bone,
20:45which is why slivers of blade
20:47were found inside
20:48both of his victims.
20:50We now know
20:51those slivers come
20:52from the same murder weapon.
20:54Wait, two victims?
20:56How many people has he killed?
20:58Five that we know of.
20:59So we're looking at a serial.
21:01Oh, yes and no.
21:02We believe we're dealing
21:03with a professional,
21:05someone with extensive
21:05military training.
21:06A contract killer.
21:07I use tomographic reconstruction
21:10of Kunin's wounds
21:11to generate a 3D model
21:13of the blade used.
21:15It's a special operations group knife,
21:18the kind favored by special forces
21:19in Gulf War I.
21:21He kills with a single blow,
21:24using these other wounds
21:25to camouflage the skill
21:27with which the initial stroke
21:28was delivered.
21:31The very same method
21:32and the very same weapon
21:33that the killer employed
21:35ten years ago.
21:37Lainey.
21:44I'm so sorry.
21:46Detective Beckett,
21:48there is no doubt
21:50in my mind
21:50that Jack Kunin
21:53was killed by the same man
21:55who murdered your mother.
21:55I am the investigator
22:07of record on this case.
22:08You had no right
22:09to withhold evidence from me.
22:11Well, what did you expect?
22:12The last time Castle
22:14tried to talk to you
22:14about your mother's murder,
22:15you bit his head off.
22:17Please, Lainey.
22:18I noticed
22:19the wound similarity.
22:22I've reached out
22:23to Dr. Murray.
22:24I held off from telling you
22:25until I knew
22:26the evidence was rock solid.
22:28Beckett,
22:28we came to you
22:29the moment we were sure.
22:31Beckett,
22:32I'm going to have a word with you.
22:33poor man's painkiller.
22:51I know your mother's murder
22:52was the reason you became a cop.
22:54And I know how you almost
22:56lost yourself
22:56trying to solve her case
22:57the first time you tried.
22:59I figured sooner or later
23:00when you were ready
23:01you would want to
23:02take another run at it.
23:04I just never expected
23:05a killer to come around
23:06and sucker punch you like this.
23:09Kate, listen to me.
23:11You're the finest homicide
23:12I've ever trained,
23:13bar none.
23:15And I want you to stay
23:16on this one if you can.
23:17If you're up to it.
23:20But I wouldn't be doing
23:21my job as your captain
23:21if I didn't ask.
23:22Can you handle this?
23:31I'm sorry, sir.
23:33I can't.
23:40Beckett.
23:42Kate.
23:52Katie.
24:04Okay, Dad.
24:06Go ahead.
24:07Go ahead.
24:07So, what have you found?
24:26I don't know yet.
24:28But enough to scare you?
24:30Yeah.
24:30I didn't sleep well
24:34that whole first year
24:35after you got out
24:36of the academy.
24:37I'd hear sirens in the night
24:38and imagine you off
24:39in the darkness someplace.
24:42I had nightmares
24:43where it swallowed you whole.
24:50Dad, I don't want
24:51to lose this one.
24:53Your mother always said
24:56that life never delivers
24:58anything that we can't handle.
25:00I mean, she lived by that,
25:02you know.
25:03Called it
25:04Johanna's immutable law
25:05of the universe.
25:07And for years,
25:08I thought she was wrong
25:09because I couldn't handle
25:12losing her.
25:14Now,
25:14I can almost hear her whisper,
25:17I told you so.
25:19One of Mom's favorite words.
25:22Look,
25:24she was a devout believer
25:25in the truth.
25:26And if she were here right now,
25:28she'd tell you
25:28the truth can never hurt you.
25:31You know,
25:31this may be
25:32your mother's way
25:33of reaching out to you, Katie.
25:36And reminding you
25:37that the truth
25:38is still your weapon to wield.
25:42Not theirs.
25:47Hey.
25:52Hey.
25:54Come in.
26:00Hang in there, kiddo.
26:02Thank you, Martha.
26:04Leftovers in the fridge.
26:06Upstairs if you need us.
26:09Please.
26:13I will do anything
26:14that you need.
26:15Including nothing
26:16if that's what you want.
26:20What I want
26:20is to find
26:21my mother's killer.
26:23Well,
26:24then we need
26:24to break Johnny Vaughn.
26:26So let's break him.
26:30I owe you
26:31an apology,
26:31Mr. Vaughn.
26:33Apparently,
26:34in my haste,
26:34I forgot to read you
26:35your Miranda rights.
26:37You're free to go.
26:38No,
26:39I remember distinctly.
26:40You read them to me.
26:41And I waved them all.
26:42You did.
26:43She did.
26:43You remember, right?
26:44Sorry, man.
26:45It's a rookie mistake.
26:46No, wait.
26:47You can't.
26:48You can't do this.
26:49If I walk out of here now,
26:50he'll think I'm cooperating
26:51with the cops.
26:52I'll be dead by morning.
26:56Yes, you will.
26:58Or you can tell me
26:59who you're working for
27:00and I will protect you.
27:02Dick Coonan.
27:09I work for Dick.
27:13You're telling me
27:14Jack Coonan's brother
27:15is a drug trafficker.
27:17He comes off
27:18like Jimmy Carter,
27:19but it was all a scam
27:20to funnel money
27:20to the warlords
27:21with the poppy fields.
27:22Sure,
27:23he'd build a few schools
27:24so he had pictures
27:25for his donors,
27:26but most of their money
27:28funded his cartel.
27:28So he had access
27:29to all the dope he wanted.
27:31He just needed a way
27:32of getting it
27:32into the country.
27:33You couldn't get an aspirin
27:34from Cobbled New York
27:35without somebody
27:36knowing about it.
27:36Not since 9-11.
27:37All I had to do
27:38was let him package
27:39your drugs
27:39at my factory
27:40in Hong Kong.
27:42He'd pick up
27:42the dirty shipments
27:43once they cleared customs.
27:44And he had the Latin kings
27:45put it on the street.
27:46Perfect system.
27:48Perfect until Trucho
27:49caught a case of stupid
27:50and started selling
27:50in the West East territory.
27:52And then that's
27:52what brought Jack
27:53sniffing around.
27:54Jack threatened
27:55to give him to the feds
27:56unless he quit.
27:56So Dick killed
27:57his own brother?
27:58Oh, no.
28:00Jack had been
28:00with the West East
28:01a long time.
28:02He'd grown eyes
28:03in the back of his head.
28:04Dick hired a professional.
28:07What's his name?
28:09He called him Rathborn.
28:11How do I find him?
28:15Ask Dick Coonan.
28:16So, any progress
28:25on the son of a bitch
28:25you killed my brother?
28:27We're close.
28:27We think that Jack
28:28was killed after Rourke
28:29asked him to hunt down
28:30a drug dealer.
28:31Turns out the Westies
28:32have done a pretty good job
28:33with the war on drugs
28:34these past few years.
28:35Talk about zero tolerance.
28:37The punishment for dealing drugs
28:38in their neighborhood
28:39is death.
28:39But when he tracked down
28:41this dealer for some reason,
28:44Jack didn't have the heart
28:45to kill him.
28:47That is so, Jackie.
28:49He always led with his chin.
28:50Went through life
28:51like he was expecting
28:52to win the Good Sportsman Award
28:54on trophy night.
28:54Cut the crap, Coonan.
28:57We know all about
28:58your heroin triangle.
29:02Afghanistan, Hong Kong,
29:05New York.
29:06And we also know
29:07that you hired an assassin
29:08named Rathborn
29:09to kill your brother
29:10before he went to the feds
29:11about you.
29:15Prove it.
29:22Are you okay?
29:40Are you okay?
29:40Are you okay?
29:45Ten years
29:46since we came home
29:48and found that detective
29:49waiting for us.
29:52Ten years
29:54since we crossed
29:55that yellow tape
29:56and went into that alley
29:57and every time
29:57I crossed the tape
29:58at a crime scene
29:59I think of that night.
30:02That's what makes you
30:03such a good cop.
30:08What if I let her down?
30:10Do you know why
30:19I chose you
30:19as my inspiration
30:20for Nikki Heat?
30:22No.
30:23Why?
30:25Because you're tall.
30:31Now go in there
30:32and do your job.
30:33I have forensic accountants
30:36digging through
30:37your organization,
30:38Mr. Coonan.
30:39If there's evidence
30:40of heroin trafficking,
30:41they will find it.
30:43But that's not
30:44your biggest problem
30:45right now.
30:47Hiring an assassin
30:48like Rathborn
30:49shows premeditation
30:50and that makes this
30:51a special circumstance case
30:53which qualifies you
30:54for the needle.
30:55Now, I am willing
30:59to take the special
31:00circumstance allegations
31:01off the table
31:02if you give me Rathborn.
31:06The only special
31:07circumstance here,
31:09Detective,
31:09is your complete
31:10lack of evidence
31:12against me.
31:13I have Johnny Volk.
31:17The guy with
31:18the phony accent
31:19and the real estate scam?
31:23Is that the best
31:24you can do?
31:27Are you really willing
31:28to bet your life
31:29that Vaughn can't
31:29hold his mud,
31:31Mr. Coonan?
31:32Give me the killer
31:33and I will put the DA
31:35in the mood
31:35for a second degree plea.
31:38When we first met,
31:41you told me you'd been
31:42on the other side
31:43of this.
31:44Remember?
31:46Now,
31:47could that be
31:49why you seem
31:50so eager
31:51to get your hands
31:52on this mysterious
31:53assassin?
31:54Because if I had to guess,
31:56I'd say that
31:57someone close to you
31:58was murdered
31:59and you think
32:00Rathborn had something
32:01to do with it.
32:03But I don't have to guess,
32:05do I?
32:07Because it's all over
32:08your face.
32:11That still doesn't change
32:12the fact that you're
32:13guilty of murder.
32:14I don't have to guess,
32:15but I don't have to guess.
32:15Maybe not.
32:17But for the low,
32:19low price
32:19of transactional immunity,
32:22I can give you
32:24the closure
32:24you've been seeking.
32:26You get Rathborn
32:27and I walk.
32:30And that detective
32:31is my final offer.
32:35Transactional immunity, Paul,
32:37and I'm inclined
32:37to give it to him.
32:38Rathborn has killed five
32:41that we know of,
32:42including the mother
32:43of one of my people.
32:45It's one of our own, Paul.
32:47I remember that used
32:48to mean something
32:48in this town.
32:56Well?
32:58He went for it.
32:59The district attorney
33:00is going to offer
33:00Coonan immunity
33:01if he gives us Rathborn.
33:03I hope you know
33:03what the hell you're doing.
33:06Describe him.
33:07About my height?
33:10Just so average,
33:11he's almost invisible.
33:12How did you meet?
33:14We're in the service together.
33:16They said he'd been killed
33:17back in a training exercise
33:19in 95,
33:19but about a year ago,
33:21I'm sitting at a bar
33:23and I glance across
33:24and I'm looking at a ghost.
33:26Turns out he'd actually
33:27been recruited back then,
33:28not killed,
33:29to do the bad stuff,
33:32the ghost.
33:32What the government's
33:32like to deny.
33:34How'd you hire him?
33:35He'd given me the number
33:36to his answering service
33:37in the Caymans.
33:38Then they provided me
33:39with a single-use
33:39email address,
33:41numbered account,
33:42emailed him the name
33:43of his target,
33:43wired him the money,
33:44and waited.
33:45Okay.
33:46Here's the deal.
33:48You're going to contact
33:49Rathborn with a contract
33:51on Vong.
33:52You're going to tell him
33:53that the police are
33:54taking him to the DA's office
33:55for a deposition,
33:56that he can't make it
33:56there alive.
33:57It doesn't work like that.
33:59He wants his money up front.
34:01It's a hundred grand.
34:02Non-negotiable.
34:03A hundred grand.
34:04The city is never
34:05going to agree to that.
34:06Look, you want to
34:07catch your killer?
34:08The price is a hundred grand.
34:09I can't just shoot
34:10that kind of money
34:10out into space
34:11without any hope
34:12of getting it back.
34:13You can't.
34:14I can't.
34:15This one's on me.
34:15Castle.
34:16Do we have a deal?
34:17We do.
34:19But my client's immunity
34:20kicks in the moment
34:21Rathborn accepts the contract.
34:23Once the wire transfer
34:24is complete.
34:24As soon as Rathborn
34:32takes the job,
34:34your part is done.
34:35And I walk.
34:36And you walk.
34:41Rathborn has taken the bait.
34:43Now for today's performance,
34:45the role of Johnny Vong
34:46will be played
34:47by Officer Clayton Lee.
34:48We are about to die.
34:49Salute you.
34:50Ryan and Esposito
34:51will escort Lee
34:52to the DA's office
34:53via a prearranged route.
34:55We'll have plane clothes
34:56in place
34:57on every corner
34:58and mid-block
34:59and there will also be
35:00air support
35:00for what it's worth.
35:02Not a whole lot.
35:03No one even knows
35:03what Rathborn looks like.
35:04Well, you shouldn't be
35:05too hard to spot.
35:06Yeah, he'll be the one
35:07who's trying to kill you.
35:08All right, let's go, everybody.
35:11Be advised,
35:12we are southbound Lafayette
35:13approaching Wirth.
35:15Roger on Wirth.
35:15Let me know
35:16when you clear the intersection.
35:18We're through the intersection.
35:19continuing eastbound Wirth.
35:21It's a solid plan.
35:24We're entering
35:25the parking garage.
35:30Eyes out.
35:31This guy's supposed
35:32to let close-up work.
35:49be advised,
35:54we are now on foot.
36:04Rathborn's making his move.
36:05Stop it!
36:13Stop it!
36:14Don't move!
36:14What the hell's wrong with you?
36:17It's a phone.
36:19Disregard, disregard.
36:20It's not him.
36:22We must have spooked him.
36:24Rathborn didn't show.
36:24I let her down.
36:41No, you didn't.
36:42Rathborn's in the wind.
36:43Dick Coonan's about to walk.
36:48I missed something.
36:50Could have been me.
36:50Rathborn could have checked
36:53the routing number,
36:54realized the money
36:54was coming from
36:55my account,
36:56not Dick's.
36:57I was arrogant.
36:59I don't think you were arrogant,
37:00Castle.
37:00I thought what you did
37:01was sweet.
37:02And I will pay you back.
37:03Negative, Ghost Rider.
37:05Small price to pay
37:05for a shot at your mother's killer.
37:11Her killer?
37:13What?
37:13Coonan said it was
37:16a hundred grand
37:16to catch her killer.
37:18And you never told him
37:20it was your mother
37:20that was murdered?
37:22There was no Rathborn.
37:24That was just a cover.
37:25It was you.
37:30Clever, girl.
37:34All right.
37:37Now here's what's gonna happen.
37:39We're just gonna stroll
37:40on over to the elevator
37:41together.
37:43Nice and easy.
37:46That'll never happen.
37:48You make a sound
37:49and you attempt to signal
37:50you so much
37:51as clear your throat.
37:52And I'll put a round
37:53in this man's liver
37:54and he will die slowly.
37:57In inconsiderable pain.
37:59Ugh!
38:01Let's go.
38:02Let's go.
38:02What?
38:10No pithy remarks
38:11from the peanut gallery?
38:13Not so funny
38:14facing your own death,
38:15is it?
38:16Oh, no, Dick.
38:17You tell me.
38:18As to my check,
38:19this was a police station.
38:21You knew before
38:22I arrested you,
38:23didn't you?
38:23You knew my mom
38:24was your victim.
38:25It wasn't personal, okay?
38:27She was just another job.
38:28She was my mother
38:29who hired you
38:31to kill her.
38:33Forget it.
38:33You'll never touch him.
38:35He'll bury you.
38:36Tell me who.
38:37No, no, no!
38:38Sir!
38:39I need him alive.
38:40That's right.
38:41You do need me.
38:41Now back him off
38:42or Castle dies.
38:44Sir, back off.
38:46Please.
38:47You know I can't do that.
38:49Hey!
38:50You wanna learn
38:50who ordered the head
38:51on your mommy?
38:52You better make sure
38:52I make it outta here.
38:53Roy,
39:02please.
39:08That's right, Roy.
39:10Nice and easy.
39:12Nice and easy.
39:13Come on!
39:29Stay with me.
39:36Come on!
39:38Stay with me!
39:39No, come on!
39:41Stay with me!
39:42One, two, three,
39:43five, six, seven, eight.
39:46More than friends
39:51I always pledge
39:53cause friends
39:54they can't go.
39:58People change
39:59as does everything
40:01I wanted to grow.
40:05I just want to grow.
40:08I just want to grow.
40:08I just want to grow.
40:08I just want to grow.
40:10I just want to grow.
40:31Montgomery's post-incident evaluation.
40:32post-incident evaluation.
40:34You come off like Steven Seagal.
40:36Should I be flattered or insulted?
40:38Both.
40:42I didn't know what you felt like, so...
40:44I got...
40:46sushi, got some Italian, got some Thai...
40:50I'm gonna even grab some hot dogs.
40:54It wasn't your fault, you know.
41:02I overstepped.
41:06I came down here to say that I was sorry.
41:08And that I'm through.
41:12I can't shout at you anymore.
41:14If it wasn't for me...
41:16If it wasn't for you, I would have never found my mom's killer.
41:20And someday soon, I'm gonna find the sons of bitches who had Kunin kill her.
41:24And I'd like you around when I do.
41:28And if you tell anyone what I'm about to say,
41:31there's gonna be another shooting, but...
41:34I've gotten used to you pulling my pigtails.
41:39I have a hard job, Castle,
41:41and having you around makes it...
41:43a little more fun.
41:50Your secret's safe with me.
41:54Give me something to echo in my unknown future.
42:00Yeah, I see you, my dear.
42:04The air comes near.
42:08I'm here.
42:10But now...