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  • 6/3/2025
Castle Season 2 Episode 14

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00:00I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I?
00:02I'm Rick Castle.
00:03Castle. Castle.
00:04I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:06Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine.
00:09Detective Kate Beckett. Beckett. Beckett. Nicky Heath.
00:11The 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.
00:28Oh, excuse me, baby.
00:29Ugh.
00:32Oh, sweet home.
00:33Can we get midnight from the kennel now?
00:35We'll get them as soon as we're settled, okay?
00:37I'm hungry.
00:38Then Mama get situated, then I'll make you a bowl of hot cereal, okay?
00:41Okay.
00:42Come here.
00:45Honey, you said you were gonna wash the dishes before we left.
00:50Didn't you make the bed before we left?
00:52Someone's been sleeping in our bed.
00:54Someone's been sleeping in my bed, too.
00:56And he's still there.
00:57What?
00:58Baby, go wait in our room.
01:00Yes, yes, Lee.
01:08Oh, yeah!
01:09That's what I'm talking about!
01:10Dally, must you talk so loud, some of us are still waking up.
01:13What's all the excitement about?
01:15Only the New York Ledger's annual ten most eligible bachelor's list, and guess who's on it?
01:21Who?
01:22I don't know, but he must be the president of the really good-looking club.
01:25Huh.
01:26Ranked number nine.
01:27Weren't you number seven last year?
01:28Yes!
01:29And thank you for boarding up my shortcomings once again, Mother.
01:31Eh, it's my job.
01:32Luckily, all my friends are beyond print media.
01:34What about this is embarrassing?
01:36Nothing.
01:37It's the secret dream of every 16-year-old to have their father crowned one of the most available hotties of the year.
01:42Well, according to this, your father may not be on the market.
01:45You didn't read the blurb here?
01:47Mm-hmm.
01:48Though claiming to be single, Richard Castle is rumored to be romantically involved with NYPT Detective Kate Beckett.
01:55What?
01:56The inspiration for Nicky Heath, the heroine of his latest best-selling novel.
02:00Bachelor, number nine, may not be eligible for next year's list.
02:05How?
02:06Where did they get that?
02:07I didn't see.
02:08I didn't see anything like that in my interview.
02:10Detective Beckett is not going to love this.
02:14Well, maybe she'll just laugh it off.
02:17How is it for a man who is surrounded by women that you know so little about us?
02:22Speak of the devil.
02:23Okay, either Beckett's calling because there's a dead body or because she read the article.
02:27Pray for murder.
02:32Good morning.
02:35Dead body.
02:36I'm good.
02:37No one else had access to you, right?
02:39Your maid?
02:40No.
02:41Anybody like that?
02:42Okay.
02:43Okay.
02:44And your daughter's school, they knew about...
02:48They knew about you guys around town?
02:51What?
02:52What, what?
02:53Sue!
02:54What have we got?
02:55Your guess is as good as mine.
02:56John Doe, no ID.
02:57Approximate time of death is between nine last night and one this morning.
03:12The family found him after returning from vacation.
03:15Apparently he made himself quite at home.
03:17How so?
03:18Well, we found his food in the fridge, toiletries in the bathroom, even some of his clothes in the dryer.
03:23A real life Goldiline.
03:24Mm-hmm.
03:25Yeah, it looks as though he even slept in the parents' bed.
03:26Well, of course.
03:27That one was too hard and baby bear's bed was just right.
03:28Looks like he struggled.
03:29Unsuccessfully.
03:30Here, you see that?
03:31It's a needle mark from a syringe.
03:32Probably was injected with something that stopped his heart.
03:33I'll run toxicology as soon as I can pinpoint a COD.
03:34I'll give you a call.
03:35Great.
03:37Mm-hmm.
03:38Hey.
03:39You know who kills with syringes?
03:40Mad doctors and B-movie Nazis.
03:41Why don't you just use a gun?
03:42Guns are loud.
03:43I've seen squatters in abandoned buildings, but nothing like this.
03:46And then someone sneaks in and kills him with a needle.
03:49Weird.
03:50Mm-hmm.
03:51How are the Dyson's doing?
03:52Mom and Dad are pretty shaken up.
03:53I'm not sure.
03:54I don't know.
03:55I don't know.
03:56I don't know.
03:57I don't know.
03:58I don't know.
03:59I don't know.
04:00I don't know.
04:01I don't know.
04:02I don't know.
04:03I don't know.
04:04I don't know.
04:05Mom and Dad are pretty shaken up.
04:07Little girl doesn't really know what's going on.
04:08Did anyone know they were leaving town?
04:10Uh, just people from work, daughter's school, stuff like that.
04:13We're running it down.
04:14Hey, check this out.
04:15Dyson's found this in the kitchen.
04:17Says it's not theirs.
04:22This is here.
04:24Yeah.
04:25Weird, huh?
04:26Why would he take pictures?
04:27So he could put everything back the way he found it.
04:30He was hoping nobody would know that he was here.
04:32Almost as though he was hiding.
04:33All right, have a tech pull the memory card.
04:35See if any of the deleted photos can tell us who he is.
04:39Ooh, she is gonna kill him.
04:40He's dead.
04:41So, Castle, is it true?
04:42Are you finally off the market?
04:45God, seriously.
04:46You'd be the word.
04:47Yes, I swear.
04:48I would make you...
04:49Montgomery's up to speed.
04:50Anything back from the Dyson's workplace or the kids' school?
04:54I ran background checks on everyone who knew the family was gonna be out of town.
04:58So far, everyone's come back clean, but I'm gonna keep digging.
05:00Anything on the canvas?
05:01A whole lot of nothing.
05:02No doorman on the building.
05:03None of the Dyson's neighbors noticed anything out of the ordinary.
05:06Shocker.
05:07I've lived in my spot eight years.
05:08I couldn't pick my neighbors out of a lineup.
05:09Well, that's Manhattan for you.
05:11Nobody notices anything unless it affects them directly.
05:13Unless it's in the paper.
05:14Excuse me.
05:15Beckett.
05:18Great.
05:19Okay, good.
05:20Got a hit off of John Doe's fingerprints.
05:21Douglas Bishop.
05:22He's in the system.
05:23Douglas Bishop.
05:24Arrested once, ten years ago.
05:25Misdemeanor, drunken disorderly.
05:26Charges were dropped.
05:27Besides that, he's clean.
05:28All right, find the next to Ken.
05:29After they ID the body, maybe they can tell us what the hell he was doing in that apartment.
05:38I got the results back from the lab.
05:40He was injected with an anesthetic.
05:41Ketamine.
05:42Special K?
05:43He was killed by a club drug?
05:44Not in this dose.
05:45Whoever shot up Mr. Bishop was not looking to get him high.
05:47Gave him enough to put down a horse.
05:48The victim's sister is here.
05:49I'm Detective Beckett.
05:50Thank you so much for coming down.
05:51Is that him?
05:52Is that Doug?
05:53That's what we'll need you to verify.
06:12None of this makes any sense.
06:16I mean, why would Doug be living in this room?
06:19You know, what do you think?
06:21I mean, why would Doug be living in these people's apartment?
06:24He's got his own place out in Hoboken.
06:25Is it possible that your brother was in trouble, that he was hiding from someone?
06:29No. Everybody loved Doug.
06:32Did he owe anybody money or have any financial problems?
06:36Not that I know of.
06:38I mean, his hours at the travel agency got cut back, but he was getting by.
06:43Travel agency. Maybe that's how he knew the Dysons were to town.
06:46But if he were in trouble, he would have raided his scuba fund.
06:49Yeah. He was always saying that someday when his ship came in,
06:53he was going to get himself a little scuba shop down in Jamaica.
06:57Doug was saving up for it.
06:59He would put a portion of his paycheck in an account every month.
07:03When was the last time you saw your brother?
07:06Not since the holiday party.
07:09Doug's agency threw it out by the airport, which is where Stan works, so we all went.
07:14You just never think something like this is going to happen, so you don't wait time.
07:19Okay, thank you.
07:25That was a travel agency.
07:27If Doug was hiding from someone, he wasn't doing a very good job.
07:31Apparently, he hasn't missed a day of work until yesterday.
07:34What about the Dysons trip?
07:35They booked it through a different agency.
07:37The scuba fund?
07:38Didn't touch it.
07:39So he wasn't in hiding.
07:41He didn't owe anybody any money, and he had no discernible way of knowing when the Dysons would be out of town.
07:46Hey, Beckett.
07:47Geeks managed to pull deleted photos from our squatter's memory card.
07:52Care to take a look?
07:53Stuff on counters?
07:55Inside cabinets?
07:56That's not the Dysons' place.
07:57He's done this before, but in other apartments.
07:59Maybe he does it for the thrill.
08:01Maybe someone found out and got mad.
08:03Yeah, but he'd still have to know when they were away.
08:07Unless Doug Bishop isn't our squatter.
08:10That's definitely not Doug Bishop.
08:12Who's he?
08:14He's probably our killer.
08:15What kind of psychopath takes pictures of himself and his murder weapons?
08:33Some killers keep trophies.
08:35In his defense, he did delete these photos.
08:3845 with a silencer?
08:40Wonder what he had lined up for this.
08:41Nothing good.
08:42Has CSU pulled the prints off of the camera in personal effects?
08:44Yeah, they don't match Doug Bishop in the non-assistant.
08:47Which means he doesn't have a record.
08:49Well, if Doug wasn't our squatter, what was he doing in the Dysons' apartment?
08:52He had to have known the squatter somehow.
08:54This squatter was so meticulous about putting things back.
08:56Why did he leave all this for us to find?
08:58You're right.
08:58It makes no sense.
09:00What?
09:00No grand theatrical theory to spin for us?
09:04Honestly, I got nothing.
09:06More importantly, we don't have any prints or leads.
09:08How are we going to catch a ghost?
09:10By finding out how he haunts.
09:11If we can figure out how the squatter knew his marks were out of town,
09:15find something that connects him to the other places that he stayed,
09:18then maybe we can narrow down the field.
09:19We'll keep going through these.
09:20With any luck, we'll find something that can tell us whose apartments these are.
09:23Okay, great.
09:24Hey.
09:37Hey.
09:38What are you doing?
09:38I'm looking to see you won the game last night.
09:40Oh, we won.
09:41Do you even know what game I'm talking about?
09:42Sure I do.
09:43It's a big game.
09:47Okay, Castle, what's going on?
09:49Yo, Becky.
09:50Check this out.
09:51I took a picture of the inside of someone's medicine cabinet.
09:53You can almost make out the name on these prescription bottles.
09:56Have IS take a look at it.
09:57See if they can enhance the photo.
10:04Oh, God.
10:06He went through my medicine cabinet?
10:08Please tell me he didn't go through my diary.
10:10We're not sure, Miss Langford.
10:12Are you sure you don't recognize him?
10:13Yeah, I'm positive.
10:15And you don't know the Dysons?
10:17No.
10:17The only person that knew I was even out of town was my mother.
10:20Everyone else thought I was on sick leave.
10:21You won't tell my boss that, will you?
10:25Did you notice anything unusual when you returned?
10:29Oh, that totally explains it.
10:31What?
10:32My faucet.
10:33For weeks, I've been asking my super to fix my leaky faucet, but he never came.
10:37And then when I got back, it was fixed.
10:38So I just assumed that he finally did it.
10:40But then later, when I saw him on the stairs, he didn't even know what I was talking about.
10:44The squatter fixed your sink?
10:45Yeah.
10:47And there was this bottle of, like, weird strawberry champagne in the fridge.
10:52And I just assumed that one of my friends had left it during a dinner party I had before I left.
10:57But none of my friends would have bought such a...
11:01Cheap bottle of booze.
11:02Exactly.
11:02So he makes repairs, leaves hostess gifts.
11:07He's the gentleman's squatter.
11:08Who killed a man, so don't make him out to be the house guest of the year.
11:11Thank you for coming in, Miss Langford.
11:13By the way, that photo in the paper, did you know justice?
11:18You're much better looking in person.
11:20There's a picture of you in the paper?
11:22So are you the detective girlfriend?
11:25I'm sorry, the what?
11:26He is such a catch.
11:28Don't.
11:31Show me.
11:32Now.
11:34Romantically involved?
11:35Rumored to be.
11:37What did you tell them?
11:38Nothing.
11:39Why would I do that?
11:40Do you have any idea what this does to my reputation?
11:42Your reputation?
11:43What about my reputation?
11:44I am just as upset as you are.
11:46I'm on your team.
11:47This is sharded journalism, and I am two seconds away from canceling my subscription.
11:51My subscription.
11:52Do you have any idea how hard it is to be a female cop?
11:55The last thing I need is for you to give them more ammo to...
11:58Yes, the New York ledger, please.
11:59What are you doing?
12:00Langford said that the only person who knew she was on vacation was her mother, but that's
12:03not true.
12:04If she was actually pretending to be sick, the last thing she'd want is newspapers piling
12:07up at her front door.
12:08She had the papers held?
12:09Yes, your subscription department, please.
12:12Anyone with access to vacation hold information would know exactly who's out of town and for
12:16exactly how long.
12:17Yes, I would like to verify vacation hold information on two of your subscribers, please.
12:24Who am I?
12:25I sometimes forget I'm not actually a cop.
12:29I don't.
12:31Hi, this is Detective Kate Beckett with the NYPD.
12:34I'd like to speak with your supervisor, please.
12:36I can't really say he looks familiar, but you've got to understand, we have hundreds of employees.
12:41Well, how many of them had access to vacation hold information?
12:44Well, you got about a dozen in subscriptions, and another handful in billing, and of course,
12:48the newspaper boys themselves.
12:50I'm going to need to see a list of their names.
12:52Sure, follow me.
13:02Donna.
13:04Richard, what are you doing here?
13:07You're not mad about number nine, are you?
13:09I told my editor to keep you at seven.
13:11No, no, it's not that.
13:11I don't care about that much.
13:14It's, I just, why did you say I was dating Detective Beckett?
13:16Oh, well, I just assumed.
13:20You kept bringing her up during the interview.
13:21No, I didn't.
13:22Sure you did.
13:23You went on and on about her.
13:25Beckett said the funniest this, she's the best that.
13:28Really?
13:28I did that?
13:29Last year, all you did was talk about yourself.
13:30Well, Donna, I am very, very single.
13:33Really?
13:35Because if you aren't involved, Bachelorette number three asked about you this morning.
13:38Did you see her?
13:40No.
13:41Or are you one of those people who never goes below the bold?
13:44Oh, I go below the full.
13:45It's just lately I've been very busy with my second Nicky Heat novel and I never, oh my
13:49God.
13:51Amanda Livingston.
13:53So do you want her number?
13:54Because she wants yours.
14:00Hey, we got a match.
14:02Nicky Carlson, delivery boy.
14:04Both the Dysons and Michelle Langford are on his route.
14:06Delivery boy.
14:07Knew it.
14:08Anyway, he did show this morning.
14:09Another carrier had to cover.
14:11You know, there's no address on this application.
14:13Do you have one on file?
14:14Well, he never gave us one.
14:15And now I know why.
14:17It says there that payday is tomorrow.
14:19Does Mickey do direct deposit or does...
14:21Pick up his own check?
14:22Like clockwork.
14:23Payroll comes in at 10 o'clock in the morning.
14:26Mickey's here at 10.01.
14:29Delivery boy with a silencer and syringes full of ketamine?
14:32His job's just a front for whatever business he's really in.
14:35Here's a list of all of the vacation holds on his route.
14:39He could be squatting at any one of them.
14:41He's armed, so make sure your teams use extreme caution.
14:44Castle and I all set up at the paper in case he shows.
14:46If he's out there, we'll find him.
14:47It's ironic, you know.
14:48People put on vacation holds to avoid break-ins.
14:51Good use of irony.
14:52So who's your friend at the paper?
14:57Oh, Donna Vincennes.
14:58She's the one who wrote the blurb about us.
15:00There is no us.
15:02I know that.
15:03Did you tell her that?
15:05Yes, I did.
15:06Which worked out actually really well for me.
15:09As it turns out, most eligible bachelorette numero tres.
15:12She's very interested in meeting me.
15:15Once the infotainers get a hold of her with me, they're gonna forget all about you and I.
15:19I can just see the headlines now.
15:21Nine meets three at dinner for two.
15:25Believe it or not, there's a lot of women in this town who like the idea of being romantically linked to me.
15:29I have no life.
15:44No, Mr. Bishop has no life.
15:46That's why he's on my table.
15:49I need a date.
15:51What?
15:52A date.
15:53A guy.
15:54A man.
15:56You're always trying to set me up with people, so here I am.
15:58I'm game.
15:59What do you got?
16:01Okay.
16:02What's gotten into you?
16:03I get so wrapped up in work.
16:05All I want to do is go home where it's quiet and I'm so tired of quiet.
16:09I want loud.
16:13Okay.
16:14I have the perfect prescription for you.
16:21A Braddocker?
16:23No, no, baby.
16:24That's Brad Decker.
16:25That firefighter I wanted to set you up with.
16:27Is he cute?
16:28He was Mr. July in last year's New York Firefighters calendar.
16:32July, huh?
16:34Mm-hmm.
16:35They always put the really hot ones in the summer months.
16:38Exactly.
16:39Well, then, should we say around eight?
16:41All right.
16:41Me too.
16:43Good night, Amanda.
16:47Sorry I missed dinner.
16:48There's quiche if you're hungry.
16:50Sweet.
16:51Or savory, actually.
16:53So, that was your day.
16:55I had a truly great day.
16:59I got pulled out of class and called to the vice principal's office.
17:02Why?
17:02What did she want?
17:04You.
17:05Here's her number.
17:06Her number?
17:07Oh, and my German teacher, Fräulein Sonnenberg, wanted me to tell you,
17:10Auf Deutsch, du Habs, sex appeal.
17:13She's two years from ordering off the senior menu, but here's her number two.
17:17Fräulein Sonnenberg?
17:18Too old.
17:19That's okay, because my friend Sloane thinks it's your real choice.
17:22She's 17, but she'll be legal in three months.
17:24Hey, maybe we could double.
17:27Oh, you hate me a little bit right now, don't you?
17:31Just a little.
17:32What'd I could say?
17:34Oh, I'm sure she'll be fine with it.
17:36Maybe even a little flattered.
17:40Flattered.
17:41I'm just gonna eat that.
17:4710-15.
17:48Maggie's a no-show.
17:49Patience, Castle.
17:51Hey, have you ever heard of Drago?
17:54Yeah, it's on the ledger's top 10 most romantic restaurants.
17:58It's pricey and impossible to get a table, unless you know someone.
18:02Why?
18:03Just looking for a place to go.
18:05What, like on a date?
18:06Yes, on a date.
18:08Why do you sound so surprised?
18:10No, I just never figured you for a Drago kind of girl.
18:14Really?
18:15What kind of a girl do you figure me for, Castle?
18:17I, it, oh, there's your boy.
18:22Mickey Carlson, I'm, hey!
18:24Hey!
18:31Mickey Carlson, you're under arrest for the murder of Douglas Bishop.
18:34This is the ketamine that you used to kill Doug Bishop?
18:43Whoa, no, no, no, that's not mine.
18:44Pretty smart not using the gun, Mickey.
18:47That would have been too messy.
18:48That's not my gun.
18:49Look, I didn't kill anybody, I swear.
18:50I'm not a criminal, all right?
18:51I was just squatting there.
18:52Well, technically, squatting is a crime.
18:54Yeah, a victim is crime, especially the way I do it.
18:57If you didn't kill Doug Bishop, then how did he end up dead in the Dyson's apartment?
19:00A guy from the maintenance apartment must have killed him.
19:03And who are the Maitlands?
19:04The people's apartment I stayed in before the Dyson's.
19:06Okay, why don't you start from the beginning and take us through it from there?
19:10Maitlands put a weak hole on their paper, which I was psyched about, because they live on
19:13East 27th, which has amazing Indian restaurants.
19:16So I pick the lock, I start taking pictures, so I can return everything to its original state.
19:20So I'm taking pictures when I find these syringes on the table.
19:23Kind of weird, but I'm thinking maybe one of the Maitlands must be diabetic or something, right?
19:27So I keep going, then bam, it hits me.
19:29What's a gun with a silencer doing out on the bed?
19:32And next to it, I see all this gear.
19:36Gear?
19:37Mountain climbing equipment?
19:38At this point, I've seen enough.
19:39I decide to get out of there.
19:41But just as I'm grabbing my stuff, I hear the door unlock, and I barely reach the closet in time.
19:46I could see them through the slats.
19:48It was three of them.
19:49It was this guy, a plain-looking dude, and a tough-looking SOB man.
19:54He had a scar on his face, looked like a crescent moon.
19:57A crescent moon.
19:58I know, right?
19:59It's crazy.
20:00Anyway, they head into the back.
20:02I take the opportunity to grab my stuff and get the hell out of there.
20:05I end up at the Dyson's.
20:06Take a load off, I get comfortable.
20:08When out of nowhere, the front door opens, and him and his friend come in.
20:12Who, crescent moon scarfing?
20:13No, the other guy, the plain one.
20:15They grabbed me and demand that I give them their phone back.
20:18Their phone?
20:19Are you making this up as you go?
20:22No, no, no.
20:22See, in my race to get out of the maintenance, I must have grabbed one of their jackets, which had their phone in it.
20:27But I don't know how they knew.
20:29You knew their phones have GPS.
20:30They could track it on the web.
20:31Huh?
20:32Well, I didn't want their phone, and I tried to give it back.
20:34The guy pulls out a syringe that's ready to stab me with it.
20:37But thank God for Doug.
20:39Oh, man.
20:40Doug says, I didn't sign up for murder.
20:42Then they start arguing.
20:44And then the syringe guy says, we've got three mil on the line.
20:47He's seen too much.
20:49Next thing I know, they're fighting.
20:51So I ran out of there.
20:52I'm just saying, it's a really good story.
20:55Come on, mysterious bad guys, crescent-shaped scars, hiding in a closet?
20:59It sounds like fiction, because it probably is.
21:02That was too bad.
21:03That's a nice guy.
21:04So was Jeffrey Dahmer.
21:05Didn't stop him from eating people.
21:08Where are we on these Maitlands?
21:09They're on a cruise ship.
21:10We're getting the ship's security to track them down right now.
21:12Right, have them track faster.
21:13I need their permission to get into the place.
21:15Can't we just get a word?
21:16On the word of a possible murder suspect?
21:18Not exactly a probable cause, but once we disprove Mr. Carlson's story,
21:22we'll be able to press charges for murder.
21:28Beckett.
21:30Oh, hi, Brad.
21:31I, uh, I, no, no, no, no, no, it's not too last minute.
21:35Actually, my plans for tonight just fell through.
21:38Who's Brad?
21:39Hmm, must be Laney's friend.
21:42You know him?
21:42Yeah, met him once.
21:44Good guy.
21:46Fireman.
21:46He was in the FDNY calendar.
21:49Chiseled good looks.
21:51Rock-hard abs.
21:52Oh, and get this.
21:54Once during a fire, after saving the parents and the kids,
21:58Egy went back in for the puppies.
22:01Did she just flip her hair?
22:03I'm telling you, bro.
22:04Puppies.
22:05Okay.
22:05Guess them every time.
22:07Puppies.
22:12Yes, Mr. Maitland?
22:13What?
22:13Oh, great.
22:14You're smiling.
22:15Thank you very much for your involvement.
22:16So?
22:16Goodbye.
22:17Hey.
22:18We got the maintenance.
22:19We're good to enter.
22:20They're calling the super right now.
22:21Okay, let's go.
22:28Stay out here, please, sir.
22:33We'll check the back.
22:34Okay.
22:34Surprise, surprise.
22:43Nothing here to verify Mickey's version.
22:46Oh, wow.
22:46Look at this.
22:49Did you find something?
22:50Yeah, it's an old-fashioned dumbwaiter.
22:51You don't see these around anymore.
22:53Genius, too.
22:54The Maitlands have converted it into a hidden stereo component cupboard.
22:57I bet they have an RF remote somewhere.
22:59We're not here to admire the place, Castle.
23:01How can you not?
23:03I mean, look at this place.
23:04This apartment is pre-war, late 1800s.
23:07Oh, you see this molding?
23:09It's the original wood.
23:11Gorgeous.
23:12I bet the bathrooms have marble wainscoted.
23:14You're such a metrosexual.
23:16Yes, well, better than being a pinup boy.
23:19So you heard?
23:20And it's pinup man, Castle.
23:22Pinup man.
23:23Yes, well, have fun with your hose jockey
23:25whilst I go out with Nuevo York's most eligible bachelorette, number three.
23:29Oh, I guess that means she must be slumming it.
23:32Her being number three and you being a lowly number nine.
23:35What number were you again?
23:36Oh.
23:38Place is clear.
23:39No gun, no ketamine, no mountain climbing equipment.
23:43There is nothing here.
23:44Yes, there is.
23:45An icebox, circa the late 1800s.
23:48You see, before the invention of modern household refrigeration,
23:52people used to keep their perishable items in a box that held ice.
23:56Hence, an icebox.
23:58It's not an open house, Castle.
24:00Oh, the maintenance were very clever.
24:01They converted this into a cupboard.
24:03Meanwhile, it's right next to their fridge.
24:05I did not expect that.
24:13Crescent-shaped scar.
24:17Looks like there was some truth to Mickey's tale after all.
24:19His name is Anton Francis.
24:30Mr. Francis here, not wanting to waste such a sinister-looking scar,
24:33decided to round out the stereotype with a laundry list of criminal activity,
24:37including fencing stolen property, stick-ups, and a smashing grab.
24:41Do we have time of death?
24:41Yes, between 1 and 4 a.m. this morning.
24:44It rules out Mickey Carlson.
24:45We verified that he stayed in a homeless shelter last night.
24:47So if Mickey was telling us the truth,
24:49then Doug and Mr. Francis clearly got more than they bargained for.
24:52All by the murderous hand of their partner,
24:55the guy who killed Doug with the syringe,
24:57our mysterious third man.
25:00Let's get photos of all of Anton's known associates and former cellmates.
25:03If Mickey saw his face, he should be able to ID him for us.
25:07So how does a man like Douglas Bishop with no criminal record
25:10get involved with hardened criminals?
25:12Simple.
25:13They needed him.
25:14It seemed convenient to me that the Maitland's were out of town
25:17when all this went down.
25:18So I did some digging.
25:19Turns out that cruise they're on,
25:21they wanted in a contest.
25:23Only there is no contest.
25:25A phony award letter?
25:26Yeah, when they got that and the tickets,
25:28they figured Wiley could get towards the mouth.
25:31So guess where the tickets came from?
25:33Doug Bishop's travel agency.
25:34So the cruise was just a scam to get the Maitlands out of town.
25:38The letter says that the cruise had to be this week.
25:40Why this week?
25:41And why the Maitlands?
25:42Well, unless our bad guys are into pre-war architecture,
25:45there's really nothing in that apartment that's worth anything,
25:47except for the audio-visual equipment, which was still there.
25:50Why go through so much trouble to get in the Maitlands apartment?
25:52Maybe what they wanted wasn't in the Maitlands apartment.
25:56Maybe they were going to rob someone else, but just needed access.
25:59The audio-visual equipment.
26:03Access?
26:03The Maitlands live on the second floor.
26:08Running perpendicular to them and whatever's below
26:10is the old dumbwaiter shaft.
26:13In Gathering Storm, I had Derek Storm climb up the dumbwaiter shaft
26:16to bypass the Czech assassin in order to save the Swiss ambassador's daughter.
26:20Maybe our bad guys are using the dumbwaiter
26:22to bypass the security of whatever's below them.
26:25Which would explain the ropes and the climbing gear.
26:28So what's below the Maitlands apartment?
26:30A picture.
26:36I have the largest selection of reptiles in the city.
26:39They are my speciality.
26:41My pleasure.
26:43Okay. Thank you. Bye-bye.
26:45Ah, how is it?
26:47Can I, uh, can I help you?
26:49And you're sure nothing was stolen?
26:51Yeah, I mean, what is there to steal?
26:56This dumbwaiter's been opened recently.
26:58It was open?
26:59Mickey told us his attacker, said there was millions at stake.
27:02Mr. Dupree, what's on the other side of that wall?
27:0428th Street, Eastside Bank and Trust.
27:07A bank heist.
27:08It looks like the plan was to cut into the back wall
27:10to get into the bank vault on the other side.
27:12We called the bank manager, the FBI,
27:14but our guys never made it that far.
27:16What went wrong?
27:17We don't know.
27:19It could have been greed, panic.
27:21It looks like our victims might have been betrayed by their partner.
27:24In the old days, you killed your partners after you got the money.
27:27Any leads on this, uh, third man?
27:29No.
27:29We had our squatter take a look at mugshots of Anton Francis' associates,
27:33and we didn't find him.
27:34What if the connection to the third man isn't through Scarface?
27:37What if it's through Doug?
27:38The travel agent?
27:39I thought we went through him.
27:39We did.
27:40We checked his family, his friends, his co-workers.
27:43But not his clients.
27:44Think about it.
27:44Maybe that's it.
27:46The third man books a trip through Doug.
27:49Doug starts talking.
27:50Tells him about his dream of owning a scuba shop in the islands.
27:53A third man senses his frustration.
27:55That's his in.
27:56He tells Doug, it'll be easy.
27:59It's a victimless crime.
28:00Nobody will get hurt.
28:01Insurance will pay.
28:02Knowing the whole time, if the police investigate, they'll track the tickets back through to Doug,
28:07not to him.
28:08The third man remains invisible so long as Doug is dead.
28:10That almost makes sense.
28:12Let's run Doug's client list for the past six months.
28:15If anything pops, we'll show it to Mickey.
28:17Okay.
28:18You know, maybe I should cancel tonight.
28:20You're going to cancel on the guy that risked his life for a bunch of puppies?
28:23Sir, you know about my date?
28:25Yes, and despite what you might think, the world's not going to end just because you disappear for a night.
28:30And if it does, I'm sure that those two can handle it.
28:34Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
28:35Yeah, I need the overtime.
28:37Okay, but call me if anything turns up.
28:39Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:40Have fun.
28:42You see how ready she was to cancel on that date?
28:45I think to do you, Cassie?
28:46Yeah, why do you care?
28:48Just saying.
28:49Look out, there's a...
28:54Neither of those.
28:57Hmm?
28:58Hmm.
28:59Look.
29:02Oh, you're good.
29:05Hey, I know that this can be weird for you.
29:09You know, parents aren't supposed to date.
29:12I know you date, Dad.
29:13I know you probably do other things that I am not going to think about and that we'll never, ever mention.
29:18Fair enough.
29:19So, what's wrong?
29:22I don't know.
29:23I mean, I'm not going to be here forever, and then who's going to look after you then?
29:27That's Lorette number three.
29:28Oh, slow down there.
29:31Let's not go by in rings anytime soon.
29:33It's just a date.
29:34I know.
29:35And she seems nice and all, but...
29:36If that's who you date, I mean, are you really going to find happiness with the kind of person who's a number on a list?
29:41Well, I already have.
29:44You're number one on mine.
29:46Look, it's my job to worry about you, not the other way around.
29:50I'll be fine.
29:51Yeah.
29:52That's what you said when you tried to deep fry a turkey.
29:55And we all know how that turned out.
29:56I just don't want you to get hurt.
30:00Or burn your eyebrows off.
30:02Again.
30:07I'm glad they grew back.
30:10They're finally matching.
30:20I've heard this place is impossible to get into.
30:23Ricky!
30:24Frankie!
30:24Nice to see you again.
30:27And you.
30:28And your table will be ready momentarily.
30:30Castle?
30:34Beckett.
30:43I take it you two know each other.
30:46Yeah, Brad.
30:47This is Richard Castle.
30:48We work together.
30:49Uh, Amanda, this is Kate Beckett.
30:51We work together.
30:51Hi.
30:52Nice to meet you.
30:53Huh?
30:54What are you doing here?
30:55You knew that I was coming here.
30:57I knew you wanted to come here.
30:58I didn't think you could get a table last minute.
31:00You got a table last minute.
31:01Yeah, I've got connections.
31:03So do I.
31:04City health inspector.
31:05Wow.
31:06Nice abuse of power.
31:08So, Richard, you a cop too?
31:10No, he's a novelist who's been shadowing me on my murder cases.
31:13Oh, I do a little more than shadowing.
31:15Your table is ready.
31:17So you two work in a homicide?
31:23Um, a double homicide.
31:25It's actually a rather tricky case because the killer is...
31:29I like to call him the third man.
31:31Very mysterious.
31:32Sounds like one of your books.
31:34Yeah, it kind of does.
31:35Anyway, he and his two partners...
31:37We're going to rob a bank.
31:39Only he turned on the other two and killed them before they even finished the job.
31:43I mean, it doesn't even make any sense.
31:45Since usually you'd wait until you got the money before you double-crossed your partners.
31:48I mean, they didn't even have the right equipment to rob a bank.
31:51Well, I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually.
31:53You know, speaking of great mysteries, I saw an incredible play off-Broadway the other night.
31:57I just wish I could figure out what they were doing with the ketamine.
31:59Maybe it had something to do with the pet store.
32:01You're going to eat that?
32:05It's not like there's really anything to steal there.
32:07Unless the pet store was just a front for something else.
32:13Waiter, could I have another glass of wine, please?
32:16In which case, the owner might have been lying when he said that nothing was stolen.
32:20You want to have sex with me later?
32:22I'm sorry, would you mind if I made a telephone call?
32:25No.
32:26Thanks.
32:30Um.
32:31The bathroom's right by the front, right?
32:34Pardon me.
32:39Have you got something?
32:40I was just having Ryan and Esposito run something down for me.
32:43The pet shop?
32:43Yes.
32:44How did you know?
32:45I was thinking the exact same thing.
32:46It's probably a front person.
32:48Okay, so they're going to dig up everything they can on the owner.
32:50It could be that he's hiding something.
32:51Right.
32:53Well, I should get back to this date.
32:56How's yours going?
32:56Great.
32:57Yours?
32:57Fantastic.
32:58Well, I'll, uh, see you.
33:00The pheasant is amazing.
33:09I'm sorry.
33:10That's a station.
33:11Yeah.
33:12Go ahead.
33:15What's your part of me?
33:17Bathroom again?
33:17So what'd they find out?
33:29Yo, we ran the pet shop owner, Noel Dupree.
33:32He came up clean.
33:33Really?
33:34What about in the past couple of days?
33:36Anything unusual?
33:36Day before yesterday, Customs has him taking possession of half a dozen African gray parrots, four baboon spiders, and two black-tailed pythons, all from South Africa.
33:47Wait a minute, did you, did you, did you say black-tailed pythons are from South Africa?
33:52Yeah, why?
33:53Because black-tailed pythons, also known as Indian rock pythons, are not indigenous to that area.
33:58Why would they be coming from Africa?
33:59Why do you care about some other freaking snakes on a mother freaking plane?
34:02Because as a murder mystery novelist, I'm highly paid to think like a bad guy.
34:06Here are a few fun facts about snakes.
34:09They are cold-blooded, they swallow huge amounts, and they digest their food very slowly.
34:14Perfect for smuggling.
34:15And it wouldn't be the first time if these snakes are coming in from South Africa.
34:19There are two things in abundance in South Africa.
34:22Racial hatred and diamonds.
34:24Smuggling diamonds in live snakes.
34:27Mickey's attacker said that there were millions at stake.
34:29And the dumbwaiter goes right down into the pet store.
34:31That's why the maintenance trip had to be this week.
34:33They knew the shipment was coming in.
34:35And then the ketamine...
34:36Was to dope the snakes so they could take them up the shaft without a fight,
34:38and then when we came to the store...
34:39The owner couldn't say a word, otherwise he'd implicate himself in smuggling.
34:42So we find out who robbed him.
34:43We find the third man.
34:45Do they know they're finishing each other's sentences?
34:47Have uniforms pick up the owner.
34:49We'll meet you at the store.
34:54What do we tell them?
34:55This is gonna be awkward.
35:00We'll be okay.
35:08Is the owner in custody?
35:14Wife said he was here working late.
35:15Place looks closed.
35:16Okay.
35:16Castle, hold my purse.
35:19Follow me.
35:30Ready.
35:31Let's go.
35:31Room all clear.
35:40You too.
35:44I want beating!
35:45Drop it!
35:45Drop it!
35:46Drop it!
35:46Drop it!
35:47Drop it!
35:47Drop it!
35:48Drop it!
35:48Drop it!
35:49Get down!
35:50Get down!
35:50Get down!
35:51I didn't know you want to please!
35:52Hey, you okay?
35:55Oh, yeah.
35:55Hey, it takes a lot more than that to scare me.
35:57What about a big, hairy spider on your shoulder?
36:00Yeah, that would do it.
36:05Get in there!
36:12I didn't know you were the police.
36:15I have a right to defend my store.
36:17Defend from who, Mr. Dupree?
36:20According to customs, you took possession of two black-tailed pythons.
36:25Which is not a crime.
36:27No.
36:28But black-tailed pythons are indigenous to India, so why ship them in from South Africa?
36:32My supplies are there.
36:34There's nothing illegal about my business.
36:36Then where are the snakes?
36:38They weren't in the store, and we didn't find any invoices indicating that they were sold.
36:42You know what we did find?
36:43A color grader, a UV lamp, and a carat weight scale.
36:46All tools of the diamond trade.
36:48So what happened, Mr. Dupree?
36:50Because we think someone broke into your store, came down the dumbwaiter shaft, and stole your shipment of diamonds.
36:56Now that's your problem.
36:58My problem is that they left two bodies behind.
37:01Okay, fine.
37:06You don't want to implicate yourself.
37:08I get it.
37:08So I'm simply going to ask, who knew about the shipment?
37:11Come on, Mr. Dupree.
37:15Don't you want us to find them?
37:17Who knew?
37:18Who did you tell?
37:19I told no one.
37:20Mr. Dupree...
37:20I picked up my cargo at the airport personally, and I locked him in my office.
37:28The next day, they were gone.
37:33Do you recognize either of these men?
37:36No.
37:37I've never seen any of them in my life.
37:40It's the truth.
37:41Robbing a smuggler is almost a perfect crime.
37:45And the victim can't go to the police without admitting his own crime.
37:48Someone knew that shipment was coming in.
37:50Someone had it planned.
37:53Where are we on Doug's client list?
37:55We ran every client Doug ever had, and we got nada.
37:57Just to be thorough, we showed their DMV photos to Mickey.
38:00None of them were our mysterious third man.
38:02Well, it had to be someone Dupree would never expect.
38:05Someone connected to his pet store in some capacity?
38:07An old employee, perhaps?
38:08He would have to know when the shipment was coming in.
38:10Yeah, someone who knew his timetable.
38:14Maybe someone Dupree had sent to the airport previously to pick up the shipment.
38:18Out to the airport.
38:19What was that?
38:20Run all of the paperwork from Dupree's last shipment.
38:22Customs, Fish and Wildlife, the shipping company, everything.
38:26I want to know who knew what and when.
38:27You think someone at the airport caught on to Dupree's smuggling?
38:30Decided to rob him instead of reporting?
38:32Not only that, I think I know who.
38:34Mr. and Mrs. Kopech, thank you for coming in so late.
38:38Please.
38:39Sorry it took so long.
38:41Stan was at work when you called.
38:42Oh, right.
38:43You said that the last time that you saw your brother
38:46was at the agency's party around where Stan works?
38:50That's right.
38:51Could you refresh my memory, Mr. Kopech?
38:53Where is it that you work?
38:54It's late.
38:55Could you just please tell us what you found out?
38:57Well, I didn't really put everything together
39:00until I remembered your wife's story about the party.
39:04At the airport.
39:07What's this?
39:09It's a customs form, Mr. Kopech.
39:11Authorizing the release of cargo to a Mr. Noel Dupree signed by you.
39:17Yeah.
39:18So, I work for customs.
39:20What's the big deal?
39:21What's going on, Stan?
39:22I have no idea.
39:24Sure you do.
39:25When you realized what Mr. Dupree was doing,
39:28smuggling diamonds, you said to yourself,
39:30why should I give him up to those ungrateful bastards?
39:32Why not just take care of it myself?
39:34Stan.
39:34Then all you needed to do was pull the import permits
39:37from Fish and Wildlife to determine when the next shipment would be.
39:40But you needed someone with connections
39:43to fencing stolen goods.
39:45And so you contacted Anton Francis,
39:47a con man and an old high school buddy
39:49who'd been in and out of jail for years.
39:52The easy score was money to his ears,
39:54but you needed to get the Maitlands out of town
39:56for a couple of days first.
39:57And that's when your brother-in-law, Doug, came in.
40:00What did you do, Stan?
40:02Did you play on his dreams?
40:04Tell him he could finally afford that scuba shop he always wanted.
40:07Stan, what did you do?
40:09Nothing, nothing.
40:10I don't know...
40:10Mrs. Kopech, your husband killed your brother.
40:13That's...
40:14Stan!
40:14They're lying.
40:15That's ridiculous.
40:16We have a witness, Mr. Kopech.
40:19The squatter you tried to kill
40:20identified you from a photo array less than an hour ago.
40:24Oh, God.
40:25No, no, it wasn't supposed to happen like this.
40:28No one was supposed to get hurt.
40:30I'm...
40:31Doug, he just...
40:32He wouldn't listen.
40:33I didn't mean...
40:35Anton, he came after me.
40:37He...
40:38That was self-defense.
40:39I'm not...
40:39I'm not a killer.
40:40We have two bodies that prove otherwise.
40:43It just got out of hand.
40:45Things just spun out of control.
40:47Get him away from me.
40:48I mean, it's...
40:49On your feet.
40:55I did it for us.
40:59It was all for us, baby.
41:04And you guys thought I made the whole thing up?
41:07I believed you the whole time.
41:10So, what happens to me now?
41:12Go back to the holding cell,
41:13or am I headed to the tombs?
41:14Neither.
41:15For your cooperation in the apprehension of Stan Kopech,
41:17the ADA has agreed to a deal.
41:20Five years probation for all your sins.
41:21No jail time?
41:23You have a shot at a second chance, Mickey.
41:24Don't blow it.
41:26I won't.
41:27Hey, thanks for everything.
41:30Really, thank you.
41:31All right.
41:36Oh, man.
41:37I can't wait to go home
41:38and just slip into a warm bath and...
41:40I am...
41:41Don't.
41:42Please, don't.
41:43I was just going to say
41:45I'm starving.
41:47We left the restaurant
41:48before I had a chance to finish my entree.
41:49Well, it wouldn't have mattered if you did.
41:51The portions there were tiny.
41:52Eh.
41:54You know, Remy's is open all night.
41:56They've got those burgers.
41:58Oh, those shakes.
42:05Oh, why not?
42:06Mm-hmm.
42:09So, how did your date go?
42:12She was kind of boring.
42:13Didn't talk much.
42:15Mr. July?
42:17A little self-absorbed.
42:19Looked it.
42:19Really?
42:20You can tell.
42:21Some people just don't know
42:22how to behave on a date.
42:23Especially on a first date.
42:25Exactly.