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  • 6/3/2025
Castle Season 2 Episode 17

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00:00There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people.
00:03Psychopaths and mystery writers.
00:05I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I?
00:07I'm Rick Castle. Castle. Castle.
00:09I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:12Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine.
00:14Detective Kate Beckett. Beckett. Beckett. Nicky Heath.
00:17The character he's basing on you.
00:18And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:21I'd be happy to let you spank me.
00:23And together we catch killers.
00:25Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch.
00:27Turner and Hooch.
00:28You do remind me a little of Hooch.
00:39Yeah, Paula, that sounds perfect.
00:41Yeah, cool for you.
00:42Thank you. And to you.
00:45Hey.
00:46Hey.
00:47Ask me why I'm here.
00:48You know, I ask myself that question every day.
00:50That was Paula, my agent, with big news about my book, Heat Wave.
00:54Wanna guess?
00:55Guessing would imply caring.
00:57I'll give you a hint.
00:58The headlines in the trades might read,
01:00Castle bestseller to heat up big screen.
01:06Your book is being made into a movie.
01:08And you are about to be immortalized on the silver screen.
01:12Actually, Nicky Heat is going to be immortalized, not me.
01:15Yes, well, technically, but it's been widely publicized that you are the inspiration.
01:18So, who would you like to play you in the movie?
01:20Whoa.
01:21Are you kidding?
01:22They're really making a Nicky Heat movie?
01:23Dude, did I call it or what?
01:24Oh, congrats, bro.
01:26What do you think?
01:27We and James McAvoy for Detective Rayleigh?
01:31I'm gonna go with Javier by then.
01:32Beckett.
01:34Yes, I'd like to report a murder.
01:36Do you have an address?
01:38Where's the fun in that?
01:42Okay.
01:43Who is this?
01:45Oh, a fan.
01:48Tell me more about this murder, Tracy.
01:50Well, I did it.
01:51And that's all you need to know.
01:54Got it.
01:55Hello?
01:5642nd and Lex.
01:57Let's go into the station.
01:59Yeah, let's go.
02:01According to Tech, a phone call came from the second booth on the end.
02:07Oh, s**t.
02:21Here's his wallet.
02:38You got it.
02:39His name's Alex Peterman, lives in Dobbs Ferry.
02:42So it wasn't a robbery.
02:44He's a personal injury attorney.
02:46Taking the late train home.
02:47Anything other than GSWs?
02:48Nope, just the five shots to the chest from a 45.
02:51Yeah, a 45 makes a pretty loud snap, crackle, and pop.
02:54I find it hard to believe no one heard it on the main concourse.
02:57He must have used a suppressor and waited for the train to pass by.
03:00And let's face it, New Yorkers are famous for their hear-no-evil-see-no-evil attitude.
03:05I'll give you a call with an update once I get him back to the lab.
03:08Hey, quick, who do you want to play in the Nicky Heat movie?
03:10Halle Berry.
03:12See?
03:13Some people are just great at that game.
03:15You know who we could get for you?
03:16Angelina?
03:17No.
03:18Kate Beckett.
03:19Kate Beckinsale.
03:21We'll call you Kate Becks.
03:23Hey guys, where are we on the case?
03:25We got a woman who says that she heard a loud sound around 845.
03:29Sounded like car door slamming.
03:30Then she said she saw a white male, 30s, average height, exiting the waiting room.
03:34Moving very quickly to the 42nd street exit.
03:36Said he was wearing a black coat, black ball cap, sunglasses, and had some sort of beard, maybe a goatee.
03:41Alright, let's see if anyone can corroborate her description and let's make up a sketch, show it to Alex Peterman's family, see if they recognize the killer.
03:52What is it?
03:53He called to report his crime.
03:58And that voice...
04:00It's like he did this for fun.
04:02Hey, you're up early.
04:13Yes, I have a date with Beckett at the morgue.
04:15What nefarious plots are you two hatching?
04:18Ah.
04:19My birthday is coming up.
04:20Ah.
04:23I think you should tell him, Graham.
04:25Sometimes he gives good advice.
04:27Sometimes.
04:28Yeah, maybe you're right.
04:29But, I am not in the mood for any of your cavalier quips.
04:32I'll be serious as a shark attack.
04:34Chet has asked me to move in with him.
04:38I told her that I thought it was too soon.
04:40They've only been dating a few months.
04:42You get to be our age, every minute counts.
04:45To that end, I have made a list of pros and cons.
04:49So far, the pros are winning.
04:51Pro.
04:52He makes me feel young.
04:53Yeah.
04:54I make you feel young?
04:55Oh, darling.
04:57Cons.
04:58I don't want to live in another man's home.
05:01You are not another man.
05:02Besides, I trained you.
05:03Who knows what bad habits Chet picked up along the way, you know?
05:07Mother, whatever you decide, I will support you.
05:09Same way I have since the last man you lived with stole your life savings.
05:16Cause of death is multiple gunshot wounds.
05:19Tox indicates he had a martini about an hour before he died.
05:22Other than that, there is nothing interesting about the body.
05:26So then why the call?
05:27The body isn't interesting, excuse me.
05:30But the bullets are.
05:31Check out the marking on the end of the slugs.
05:33Aftermarket factory stamps?
05:35No.
05:38Those aren't stamps, they're letters.
05:41They're hand etched.
05:46Spell something, they spell...
05:49Kinky.
05:54No.
05:55Nicky.
06:04Nicky Heat.
06:07That's why he called me.
06:08That's why he said he was a fan.
06:11He dedicated this murder to me.
06:14Does he realize she's a fictional character, not a real person?
06:16Obviously, he's delusional.
06:18But given that Nicky Heat is based on Detective Beckett, maybe he's confusing the two.
06:22And we showed Alex Peterman's family the sketch of our suspect.
06:24He did not look familiar.
06:26How are we on forensics?
06:28CSU grabbed about 200 fingerprints, 1,000 fibers, and 60-odd DNA samples.
06:33And that was just from the phone box.
06:34They're working them up now.
06:36After they cleared their backlog.
06:37They cleared their backlog.
06:39Beckett.
06:40Guy on the phone's asking for Detective Heat.
06:49Beckett.
06:51Nicky.
06:52Did you get the first part of my message?
06:54Yes, I did.
06:55Well, the second is at the Central Park Carousel.
07:07And of the second is at the Central Park.
07:09And even there are
08:37He's sending a message.
08:39Nicky will...
08:40What?
08:41Nicky will what?
08:43Thank you, Lainey.
08:45Mm-hmm.
08:46I guess it's official, that guy is a serial killer.
08:50I would think that a serial killer would be like the holy grail for a crime novelist.
08:54I guess it would be, if it weren't for the Nicky Heat of it all.
08:58Feeling a little bit responsible.
09:00Really?
09:01Like, the Beatles are responsible for Charles Manson because of Helter Skelter?
09:04Or is it more like Jodie Foster's responsible for John Hinckley's shooting regularly?
09:07If I hadn't created Nicky Heat...
09:09He would still be killing.
09:10He'd just find another reason why.
09:14Either a UFO just landed on the other side of the park.
09:20Or else the FBI is here to claim jurisdiction over this case.
09:23Maybe they just want to ride on the carousel before the line gets too long.
09:26Rope off a ten-foot circumference around the carousel.
09:30Sweep for prints and trace evidence.
09:32Close off the park entrance at six.
09:34Work up the entire footpath.
09:36Here goes.
09:38Nicky Heat, I presume.
09:40It's Beckett. Detective Kate Beckett.
09:42Yeah, read all about you and Cosmo.
09:44And you must be the celebrity writer tag-along with your castle.
09:48Special Agent Jordan Shaw.
09:50Jordan... Jordan Shaw?
09:52The same Jordan Shaw that broke the Hudson Valley Strangler case back in 1991?
09:55I also play a main game of Scrabble.
09:58Now that we all know each other, I'd like to see the body.
10:01Agent Shaw, my people have already secured the area.
10:04CSU is on the scene, and we are canvassing the park.
10:07So as happy as I am to see the cavalry,
10:09there's really not much left here for you to do.
10:11Detective, the gods in the marble halls
10:13have sent me here to catch a killer,
10:14which I will do with or without your help.
10:16Okay?
10:17Now can I see the body?
10:19That is so going in the movie.
10:21Can you say that again but start from marble halls?
10:24Mimi's pulled us from a trash bin.
10:26Walt is inside.
10:27Nick's name is Michelle Lewis.
10:29According to her business card, she's a dog walker.
10:31There's a print here,
10:32and it's too large to be our victims.
10:35Let's get it to the lab for...
10:36What are you doing?
10:38That print is already in the lab and being processed.
10:41No muss, no fuss, no black powder in your clothes.
10:44Wow, there's an app for that?
10:46That's why I joined the FBI, Mr. Castle.
10:48The toys.
10:50I'm eager to see that body.
10:52Can I take a look at that?
10:54A chance to check it later.
11:00Set up on inside.
11:02Watch your back.
11:03What's going on?
11:04We're setting up the war room.
11:06War room?
11:08Tell me everything you know about Jordan Shaw.
11:10She is like the federal U.
11:11She is good.
11:12She is real good.
11:13She cracked open that Hudson Valley Strangler case
11:15when she was just 25.
11:16I thought they caught him off of a speeding ticket.
11:18Well, don't ask me how,
11:19but she profiled that he drove a U-Go.
11:21They found a girl tied up in the back.
11:23Uh-huh.
11:24Jordan Shaw saved that girl's life.
11:26I've never seen you so excited to meet anyone before.
11:28No, I just...
11:29I don't...
11:30Excuse us.
11:31Watch it.
11:32I have...
11:33Can we go see the war room now?
11:34Here.
11:35All right.
11:36You're running partials, too, right?
11:37Through all databases.
11:38The lab's getting us information as fast as we can follow up.
11:40I thought there was a backlog at the lab.
11:41I have a federal fast pass, so I get to jump the line.
11:44Currently, we are running 35 solid leads
11:46based on DNA prints, trace information.
11:49I thought there was a backlog at the lab.
11:51I have a federal fast pass, so I get to jump the line.
11:54Currently, we are running 35 solid leads
11:56based on DNA prints, trace evidence found
11:59from both crime scenes,
12:00and we're running it through the FBI data matrix.
12:02The matrix also looks for a connection between the victims
12:05in case the killer has a type
12:07or a favorite hunting ground
12:09or isn't killing randomly.
12:10Both Alex Peterman and Michelle Lewis
12:12belong to the same Wessex gym,
12:13but they went to different locations.
12:15They were both members of MoMA.
12:17Oh.
12:18Both adopted their dogs from the same ASPCA.
12:21Wow.
12:22Sounds like it does your job for you.
12:24A machine can correlate, I can't think.
12:27Takes a mind to hunt a mind.
12:29Take this guy.
12:32He calls the police to report his own crime,
12:35likes to kill in heavily populated areas,
12:37and uses bullets as messages.
12:39Now, most of these stalker types
12:40can barely tie their own shoes.
12:42This one's different, smarter.
12:45You almost sound like you admire him.
12:47I admire him the way Robert Shaw admired the shark and Jaws.
12:52The better I know him, the easier it will be to catch him.
12:55It's like when I'm writing.
12:57The killer's voice doesn't sound authentic
12:59unless I understand his motivation.
13:01Well, this guy likes to make a scene.
13:02I wouldn't be surprised if he was also an arsonist.
13:05In fact, I think that's what drew him to the Nikki Heat character
13:07in the first place, her name.
13:09Speaking of Detective Heat...
13:11Whoa, whoa, guys, listen, not that I don't appreciate the royalties,
13:16but why do you need a hundred copies of Heat Wave?
13:18If our killer's obsessed with Nikki Heat, then some of it.
13:22Avery, cliff notes, please.
13:24A real estate tycoon is killed.
13:27Detective Nikki Heat catches the case
13:29and investigates suspects who wanted the man dead.
13:32There's a trophy wife, of course.
13:35Dangerous mobsters...
13:36Sorry, excuse me.
13:38It's a New York Times bestseller
13:40that I don't think it's neat to make it sound quite so dry.
13:43Thanks.
13:45Heat's life is complicated by a reporter named Jameson Rook,
13:48who's following her around for an article he's writing.
13:51Heat and Rook verbally spar,
13:54and in chapter 11, admit their attraction for one another
13:56and have sex.
13:59It's fiction.
14:06In the end, when the killer's revealed, it turns out it's actually...
14:10Whoa, whoa, whoa.
14:12Spoiler alert.
14:14In deference to Mr. Castle's artistic sensitivity,
14:18you can all read the book to find out the identity of the killer.
14:22And if you want me to autograph those for you,
14:24just find a single file line right here.
14:27Or...not.
14:30We got a hit.
14:31That pinky print off the second victim's purse
14:33belongs to a Donald Salt.
14:35Two-time loser.
14:36On parole for a manslaughter conviction in 2005.
14:40They just matched it to the partial pinky print
14:43your team recovered from Grand Central.
14:45Two pinky prints.
14:46So he was at the station and the carousel.
14:48And the purse puts him with our victim.
14:50Let's mount up.
14:57Yeah.
14:58Okay.
14:59Just pulling up now.
15:00Yep.
15:01Got it.
15:02Snot lives in that brick building.
15:06Supervisor says he left work an hour ago,
15:09so he should be home by now.
15:10When the others get here, we'll take him.
15:12What is he doing?
15:14He, um, touches things.
15:17Night vision goggles.
15:19I think I have the newer model, though.
15:21You know, maybe in my third book,
15:22Nikki Heat will cross swords with a good-looking,
15:25yet cold-hearted FBI profiler.
15:28Call it Federal Heat.
15:31Or maybe not.
15:33So how long have you two been sleeping together?
15:40I'm...
15:41We're...
15:42We're not sleeping together.
15:43We...
15:44He just observes me.
15:45Yeah, I've seen how he observes you.
15:47No, she's right.
15:48Aside from my second wife,
15:50this is the most sexless relationship I've ever been in.
15:52I've been profiling people for a long time.
15:54I'm hardly ever wrong.
15:56Well, this time you are wrong.
15:58So if you're not sleeping together,
16:01why do you keep him around?
16:03You know I can hear you.
16:05He's actually proven to be surprisingly helpful.
16:08Hm.
16:09I'll take your word on that.
16:13Put the taser down.
16:21Okay, the team's here.
16:23You stay in the car.
16:25You heard her, Castle.
16:26Stay.
16:27Could you at least crack the window for me?
16:30Alright, let's go.
16:34Move, move, move.
16:38Let's make it quick and bloodless.
16:48Hang on.
16:49Stop!
16:50FBI!
16:51Hey!
16:52See, I'm helping.
16:55Yeah.
16:56Buy you an ice cream later.
16:57Agent Shaw?
16:58We got a problem.
16:59His pinky finger's missing.
17:01Which one of you is Nikki Heat?
17:09Buy you an ice cream later.
17:11Agent Shaw, we got a problem.
17:13His pinky finger's missing.
17:16Which one of you is Nikki Heat?
17:28So I was on one of those internet barter sites,
17:31and I was looking...
17:33It doesn't matter what I was looking for,
17:35but I came across the ad.
17:38Finger Wanted will pay top dollar.
17:41And what's top dollar for a pinky finger?
17:43Five thousand bucks.
17:46Sounds like a real deal.
17:47Hey, you get less than that for a kidney.
17:50So anyway, I emailed him back.
17:51I told him I had everything he wanted.
17:53You gave him the finger.
17:54What more did he want?
17:56He wanted me to have a violent felony conviction
17:59and to be recently paroled.
18:02And you also had to be willing to suffer
18:04through the indignity of a false arrest.
18:06He told me Detective Nikki Heat
18:09will be coming for me.
18:11And it might get physical.
18:14He didn't mention anything about Captain America
18:16with the taser gun.
18:18So he warned you that he would be planting
18:20your print at a murder scene?
18:22Which is why you have an alibi.
18:24I was perched on my favorite bar stool
18:26at McSorley's till closing every night
18:28since that man took my digit
18:30and walked away with it in his cooler.
18:32Is this the man?
18:33I'm not sure.
18:35I didn't really see him.
18:36He had a hat and sunglasses.
18:37Who bandaged your finger?
18:39He did.
18:41He said you'd notice.
18:46Oh, be gentle with me, Nikki.
18:47There's numbers here.
19:03This looks like a code.
19:06Separate digits?
19:07A secret code?
19:08This is like one of my books.
19:10You should have been with me
19:10on the recapitator case.
19:12What, the guy in Phoenix
19:13who switched his victim's heads?
19:15That was your case?
19:16Our techs have run the numbers
19:18through all conventional cryptology.
19:20Can't crack it.
19:21Which means what?
19:22There's either a reference key
19:23that we don't have
19:24or the code itself
19:25is just a random string of numbers.
19:26It's not random.
19:27He bought another man's finger
19:28so he could leave a print
19:29that would lead us directly to this code.
19:31It's how he taunts Nikki.
19:32Are you clever enough
19:33to solve my riddle?
19:34So whatever this reference key is,
19:36he thinks you can find it.
19:38Those numbers could mean anything.
19:40The left-hand column
19:41is less than 300.
19:42Right-hand column
19:43is no more than 260.
19:45And the combination
19:46of the joined pair
19:47most likely yields a word.
19:49Words.
19:50It's heatwave.
19:52When we typeset a manuscript,
19:54it's usually 300 words a page.
19:56And heatwave
19:57is less than 300 pages.
19:59First column is a page number.
20:0279.
20:03Second column is a word.
20:06233.
20:07I.
20:07126.
20:0880.
20:08Will.
20:08145.
20:09204.
20:10Kill.
20:11I will kill.
20:12Hang on.
20:12I'm up-loading the text right now.
20:16I.
20:17Will kill.
20:19Someone else.
20:20Before.
20:21Midnight tonight.
20:22Unless you stop me.
20:27Midnight.
20:28That's eight hours away.
20:29He's putting us on the clock.
20:30He's daring us.
20:31To stop him.
20:32Kicking it old school?
20:41The whiteboard's always worked for me.
20:44I've been going over subway routes.
20:46Trying to see if I can trace a pattern
20:48from Grand Central
20:49to the carousel
20:50to the next location
20:51and so far nothing definitive.
20:52Maybe there's something about
20:53how he chooses his victims.
20:55First a man,
20:56then a woman.
20:57A lawyer and a dog walker?
20:59Let's face it.
20:59There's no pattern there.
21:00There's no way to predict
21:01where he's going to go next.
21:03And it's already
21:03nine o'clock
21:05and we're out of time.
21:08And every murder he commits
21:09in the name of Nicky Heat.
21:13A very wise woman once told me
21:15you can't blame Jodie Foster
21:16for John Hinckley.
21:19But you can blame her
21:20for Mims Island.
21:23The lead just came in now.
21:25Get it to the debrief.
21:26What have you got?
21:31Lab results came back
21:32on that bandage.
21:33Tested positive for formaldehyde,
21:34methanol, and ethanol.
21:36Embalming fluid.
21:38The lab found traces
21:39of formaldehyde at Grand Central
21:41and ethanol at the carousel.
21:43Our killer works at a mortuary.
21:46Or he could be a hospital employee
21:47or a janitor at a morgue.
21:48No.
21:49Castle's theory is more likely.
21:50Bring up all the mortuaries
21:51in the city.
21:52We've got over a thousand
21:54in New York City area alone.
21:55We can't hit all these
21:56before midnight.
21:56Can you cross-reference
21:58mortuary experience
21:58with criminal records?
21:59Or job finder groups
22:00or ex-cons.
22:01Yes.
22:02I can try.
22:06Six names.
22:07Mobilize the troops.
22:07I want every one of these guys
22:08in our custody
22:09before midnight.
22:10I see what you mean
22:12about him being helpful.
22:18Any of these undertakers
22:19look good for it?
22:21They all say the same thing.
22:22We work with dead bodies all day.
22:24We don't need to make more.
22:25He baited us.
22:27Just like with that fingerprint,
22:28we're wasting our time.
22:30He's on the phone.
22:31He's asking for Nicky Heat.
22:32We're tracing the call.
22:37Hello.
22:39Nicky, you were supposed
22:40to stop me.
22:43I wanted you to stop me.
22:45Tell me where you are.
22:48Will you come along?
22:51Yes, just you and me.
22:52We can figure this out.
22:53I can help you.
22:58You just need to trust me.
23:00Tell me something.
23:04How does it feel
23:05to know that you have failed?
23:08Check the stairs.
23:30Get a unit on the roof.
23:31I want eyes on every inch
23:32of the structure.
23:33He was just here.
23:34That body can't be too far.
23:36Over here.
23:38A lot of blood.
23:39Woman's shoe.
23:41Got a broken heel.
23:42Strands of hair.
23:43Looks like she put up a fight.
23:45There's poor shell casings.
23:47There's no way she would have
23:48survived without medical attention.
23:50Then where's the body?
23:52He always leaves the body
23:52where he kills.
23:53And he always kills
23:54in famous places
23:55with lots of foot traffic.
23:57He's changing his MO.
23:59Which makes him more unpredictable,
24:00which makes him more dangerous.
24:01The structure's clear.
24:03There's no body.
24:05Where the hell did he put her?
24:06He put her in his trunk.
24:09That blood trail ends right here.
24:13So he waited,
24:14probably left his car idling,
24:16takes down his victim,
24:17popped his trunk,
24:18put her in,
24:19drove away.
24:19Body on board.
24:20Get the parking attendant
24:21to give us a list
24:22of all the vehicles through here
24:23and the video footage.
24:24You think he used his own car?
24:26No,
24:27but if he stole it tonight,
24:28he might not have time
24:29to switch the plates.
24:30We put out an AP booth.
24:30I'll get my guys
24:31to get a roster
24:32of all the people
24:32I have monthly's on this floor.
24:34My people are already on it.
24:35I got way more people
24:36than you do.
24:37Your captain has a unit
24:37on your apartment.
24:38Go home,
24:39get some rest.
24:40It's not necessary.
24:40No argument.
24:41You're no good to me
24:42if you're burned out.
24:43He roars like an angry,
24:59caged animal.
25:00It's moving towards
25:01the underhatch area.
25:03The blows don't seem
25:04to be entering his hands.
25:05There's no blood that I can see.
25:08Hey.
25:09Hi.
25:10How do you still do a lot?
25:11I can't sleep too much.
25:13On my mind, you know,
25:14decisions to make.
25:16I got one of your
25:17old wedding videos.
25:19Oh, are you kidding?
25:21This guy's a pushover
25:22compared to my ex-husband's.
25:23So the pros outweighed the cons?
25:27Darling,
25:28this was always supposed
25:29to be a temporary situation
25:30and until I got back
25:31on my feet, you know.
25:33Well, the Rogers women
25:34always followed their hearts.
25:36Yeah.
25:39You okay?
25:40This case,
25:42just,
25:43if it wasn't for my book.
25:46What are you gonna do, darling?
25:47Stop writing
25:48because some idiot
25:49has got a screw loose?
25:50No.
25:51It's just,
25:52I never intended
25:54to put her in harm's way.
25:55Let me tell you something
25:56about Kate Beggitt.
25:58That gal can take care
25:59of herself.
26:01Really.
26:01Really.
26:29Castle?
26:39What are you doing here?
26:42What?
26:43So what happened
26:44to your security detail?
26:45I didn't see you
26:46when you went outside.
26:47I sent them home
26:47after I got in.
26:50What?
26:51The windows are locked,
26:52the door is locked,
26:54I'm armed.
26:56So our guy killed
26:57the others
26:58where they were found.
27:00Why not this girl?
27:02Why didn't he just
27:02leave her in the garage
27:03where we'd find her?
27:04He's changing it up.
27:07Or this victim is special.
27:09Oh, no, thanks.
27:10No, no, no.
27:11Agent Shaw said
27:11we need to decompress.
27:13Nothing decompresses
27:14like a 2,000
27:16shot enough to pop.
27:17Oh, well,
27:18special agent Shaw
27:19said so.
27:20What is that
27:20supposed to mean?
27:21Nothing.
27:22I just see the way
27:23that you listen to her,
27:25the way that you
27:25look at all of her
27:26fancy equipment.
27:28Now my murder board's
27:29not enough for you,
27:30now you need a smart board.
27:31Are you jealous?
27:32I'm not jealous,
27:33I'm just embarrassed
27:34the way that you act
27:35like a 10-year-old
27:36all impressed
27:37by her data matrix.
27:38Oh, it collates information
27:39so quickly,
27:40Agent Shaw.
27:41Tell me all about it.
27:42You are ridiculous.
27:43Oh, and then to top it off,
27:44you are now building
27:45theory with her.
27:46So?
27:47So you're supposed
27:47to be building theory
27:48with me.
27:49You're supposed to be
27:50on my team.
27:51Well, I thought we were
27:51all on the same team.
27:52We are,
27:53it's just I think
27:55that if you have an insight
27:56you should run it
27:56by me first.
27:58Fine, I will.
27:59I'll drink your wine.
28:01Thanks.
28:02But I am tired
28:04and I need to go to bed.
28:07Oh, no, I'm not leaving.
28:09I'm here to protect you.
28:12What, with your vast arsenal
28:13of rapier wit?
28:16There is a madman
28:17gunning for you
28:18because of me.
28:19I am not going
28:20to leave you alone.
28:21Okay, fine.
28:22I am too tired
28:23to argue.
28:25But if I see
28:26that doorknob turn,
28:27I will have you know,
28:28Mr. Castle,
28:29that I sleep with a gun.
28:31Understood.
28:51You're still here
29:01and you're making pancakes.
29:03I was hoping
29:03for bacon and eggs,
29:04but your eggs are expired
29:05and your bacon
29:06has something furry on it.
29:08Yeah, well,
29:08I mostly order in.
29:09Figured that
29:10from the styrofoam temple
29:10you've got going on
29:11in the refrigerator.
29:12Coffee's brewed.
29:13I think your filter's broken,
29:14though.
29:15I'll order you
29:15a new one later.
29:16Wow, it looks like
29:17you thought of everything.
29:19Except the paper.
29:19Castle, we don't have time
29:22for the paper.
29:22There's a body out there
29:23that I've got to find.
29:28Looks like it found you.
29:42So, you had just
29:43gotten up, right?
29:45Yeah.
29:46Castle just finished
29:46making breakfast
29:47and he went to the door.
29:48What kind of breakfast?
29:50Uh, I'm sorry?
29:51What kind of breakfast
29:52was he making?
29:54Pancakes.
29:56Wasn't that domestic?
29:58Anyway,
29:59the paper usually arrives
30:00at four
30:01and we were up at seven,
30:02so that means the killer
30:03had a three-hour window
30:04where he could have
30:04left the body there unnoticed.
30:06And exactly what time
30:07did you and Mr. Castle
30:08go to bed last night?
30:10I think we're done here.
30:12Dude,
30:12I see Beckett
30:13in her jammies.
30:16Wine glasses
30:17is on the table.
30:18There's nothing going on
30:19with Beckett and me.
30:20No more than there was yesterday.
30:22Dude,
30:22you made her pancakes?
30:24It's just breakfast.
30:25Pancakes is not just breakfast.
30:28It's an edible way of saying
30:29thank you so much
30:30for last night.
30:31Castle, come on.
30:33We're your friends.
30:34Details.
30:36All right, come here.
30:37There are no details.
30:43I can't even look at you right now.
30:45Witness refuses to cooperate.
30:51Now we know why you took the body.
30:53I know where you live.
30:55This was a threat.
30:56More than that.
30:59He's saying he's disappointed in you.
31:01In his mind,
31:02he gave you fair warning
31:03that he was going to kill again.
31:05If you'd been smarter,
31:07you would have been able to stop him.
31:08He's saying this one is on you.
31:12I'm profiling him, detective,
31:14not agreeing with him.
31:15The guy's a friggin' nut bar.
31:17Don't let him get to you.
31:19Talk about irony.
31:22Do we have an ID on Ervick?
31:24No, not yet.
31:25There's no purse,
31:26no missing persons report file,
31:27the coroner's van's downstairs.
31:29We need to get the body
31:30to the morgue and pull the slugs.
31:31Only four entry wounds.
31:33If the pattern holds,
31:35he should have a four-letter word for us.
31:37It's funny.
31:38I have a four-letter word for him, too.
31:40Why don't you two escort the body
31:42to the morgue
31:42and let me know what you find?
31:43Okay.
31:44Once you're dressed, of course.
31:54Hey.
31:55Heard you two were making pancakes
31:56when the body dropped.
31:57Nothing happened.
31:58All right.
32:01So what do you got?
32:02Letters on the slugs.
32:04B-U-R.
32:06Burn.
32:07Mickey will burn.
32:08Well, that's chilling.
32:09Our victim's fingerprints
32:10aren't in the system.
32:11Do you have anything that can ID her?
32:13Well, I found formaldehyde on her.
32:15Yeah, that's from the killer.
32:16He left it at the other scenes as well.
32:18Not traces.
32:19It was under her fingernails
32:20and her hair.
32:21She worked with embalming fluid.
32:23I also found traces of clay,
32:25polyurethane,
32:26and animal blood.
32:27I don't know who she is,
32:28but I can tell you what she does.
32:29She's a taxidermist.
32:31So cute the way you two do that.
32:36Taxidermy?
32:37Embalming fluid plus animal hair
32:39equals Norman Bates' favorite pasta.
32:41It can't be just a coincidence
32:42that we found embalming fluid
32:44at our first two crime scenes as well.
32:47So the killer and this victim
32:49were connected.
32:51It seems so.
32:52So there's only seven taxidermy shops
32:54in the city.
32:55My guys are running em down right now.
32:56But if there was a connection
32:57between them,
32:58why didn't Comparison Matrix find it?
32:59Maybe it's not as simple
33:00as a work relationship
33:02or going to the same gym.
33:04Like you said,
33:05it takes a mind to hunt a mind.
33:08Yo, we got an ID on our third Vic
33:10named Sandra Keller.
33:12She works at a taxidermy shop downtown.
33:14Any connection between her
33:15and our killer?
33:16A colleague of hers
33:16says she had a run-in
33:17with a guy who maybe matched
33:18our sketch,
33:19a customer whose Bichon Frise
33:21had been killed in the park
33:22by another dog, a Rottweiler.
33:23The customer was heartbroken.
33:25He paid half up front
33:26to have his Mr. Bumpkins
33:27preserved for eternity.
33:28When he came back
33:29to pick up his dog,
33:30he didn't have the fee.
33:31When Sandra refused
33:31to give up stuffed Bumpkins,
33:33the guy went ballistic
33:34and stormed out of the store.
33:36Two nights later,
33:37they had a break-in.
33:38Among the things
33:38that went missing
33:39are this guy's stuffed Bichon Frise
33:41and a bunch of embalming fluid.
33:42That explains why
33:43we found traces of it
33:44at the murder scenes.
33:45He also trashed
33:46the store's computer.
33:47There was no client data,
33:48no name.
33:48My agents interviewed
33:50all of Michelle Lewis's
33:52dog-walking clients.
33:53One couple had to put
33:54their Rottweiler down
33:55because Michelle lost control of it
33:57and it killed another dog.
33:58Mr. Bumpkins,
34:00so grief-stricken,
34:01our killer blames Michelle
34:03and Sandra
34:03for the loss of his best friend
34:05and decides to get revenge.
34:06All this about a dog?
34:08What does this have to do
34:09with Nicky Heat?
34:10The dog's a trigger.
34:11Maybe he was reading the book
34:12when it was killed,
34:13when he snapped,
34:14he somehow blamed Nicky for it.
34:15It seems a little absurd.
34:18You must be a cat lover.
34:19Detective.
34:20He's looking for a reason
34:21to kill.
34:21This is it.
34:22What about our first Vic?
34:24How does Peterman
34:24fit into all this?
34:25Well, he was a personal
34:26injury lawyer.
34:27Maybe our murderer
34:28wanted to file a wrongful
34:29doggy death suit.
34:31According to Peterman's notes,
34:32back in January,
34:33he had a meeting
34:34with a Ben Conrad
34:35over a lawsuit
34:36about a dead dog.
34:38Peterman declined
34:38to take the case, though.
34:40That's the last piece
34:41of our puzzle.
34:41What do you have
34:42on Conrad?
34:42Just a photo
34:45from the DMV?
34:56Catchy son of a bitch.
35:09Yeah?
35:09Okay.
35:13Okay, sweetie.
35:14Mommy's gotta go
35:15arrest somebody, okay?
35:16I'll be home for dinner.
35:17All right, I love you.
35:19Bye.
35:21You're a mom?
35:22Yeah.
35:23And you can holster your gun.
35:24You're both staying here.
35:25What?
35:26No, come on.
35:26This is the final takedown.
35:28You can't let her
35:29do this to us.
35:29No, Agent Shaw's right.
35:31I'm his target.
35:33I can't compromise your team
35:34by walking in the line of fire.
35:35We'll take him down.
35:36We'll still be your caller.
35:38Mm-hmm.
35:39Wow.
35:41She's a mom.
35:42I never would have pegged her for that.
35:43I figured she was a career-driven woman
35:45with no time for a family.
35:47Well, not everybody
35:47makes that choice.
35:49Beckett.
35:49He's calling for you.
35:51Put him on.
35:54Hello?
35:55Oh, you think
35:56you're so smart,
35:57don't you, Nikki?
35:59You think what?
36:00Just because you
36:01found me
36:02that you won.
36:05He knows we're here.
36:07It's over, Ben.
36:09Time to give up.
36:12No, he is not
36:13over.
36:17Ben, listen to me.
36:18You're surrounded.
36:18I need you to put the gun down.
36:21No, I can't do that, Nikki.
36:22Ben, I need you to step outside
36:28of your apartment
36:28with your hands raised.
36:31That's not our game.
36:33One of us has to die.
36:34No one has to die.
36:36Somebody always has to die.
36:43And since it can't be you...
36:47Ben!
36:47We're sending the gun to ballistics,
37:06but given it's a .45,
37:07it's probably the same one
37:08he used on other victims.
37:09And probably the same one
37:10he's going to use on you.
37:12Actually, no.
37:13He was planning something
37:13a little more spectacular.
37:15Cell phones?
37:19He was making a detonator.
37:25Goodbye, Nikki.
37:26Goodbye, Nikki.
37:29He was extracting formaldehyde
37:31from the embalming fluid
37:32he stole to create cyclonite,
37:35a near-military-grade explosive.
37:37Well, when you profiled them,
37:38you said he was probably an arsonist.
37:39They also said he'd like
37:40to make a big scene.
37:42Schematics of the precinct.
37:43He was planning on killing you
37:45and taking the whole station with you.
37:47Nikki will burn.
37:49I can see the poetry in that.
37:51The terrible homicidal poetry.
37:55I just wouldn't have profiled
37:57this guy as suicidal.
37:59I guess once we found him,
38:01it was the only way
38:02he could control the situation.
38:04Well, at least Conrad
38:05saved us the trouble of a trial.
38:06And the best news is
38:08I'm out of your hair.
38:11The best news
38:12is that it's over.
38:14The best news
38:14is that it's over.
38:16Hey, I thought you went to bed
38:33an hour ago.
38:35I couldn't sleep.
38:37I thought the case was over.
38:40It is.
38:41Wrapped up all nice and neat.
38:43It's a good thing, right?
38:45In a book,
38:46that's a good thing.
38:47In real life,
38:48nothing is that neat.
38:52What's got you still up?
38:55Grant.
38:56I can't believe
38:57she's leaving tomorrow.
38:59I mean, yeah,
38:59when she first moved in,
39:00I couldn't imagine
39:01having her around all the time.
39:03But now I
39:04can't imagine her being gone.
39:06It's a fact of life.
39:13People we love leave us.
39:16Unless you chain them
39:17to a radiator,
39:19which for some reason
39:19is a real.
39:21But, uh,
39:24knowing her,
39:26she'll be back
39:27in six months.
39:29Oh, good.
39:30You're both up.
39:31Darling, I need you
39:32to help me decide
39:33on what to take.
39:33Oh, and I need
39:34to get my bags down.
39:35Richard,
39:36could you give us a hand?
39:38A hand.
39:40What?
39:44The bruising pattern
39:45on the second victim,
39:46the killer
39:47used his left hand.
39:49And,
39:50see his handwriting?
39:52Look at the slope
39:52on the four
39:53and the loop
39:53on the six.
39:54Yeah, so he was left-handed.
39:55Well, Ben Conrad
39:56shot himself
39:57with his right hand.
39:59If the man in the window
40:00was Ben Conrad,
40:01he would have shot himself
40:02on the left side.
40:04Ben Conrad didn't
40:04kill himself,
40:05Ben Conrad was murdered
40:06by the man in the window.
40:07Ben's not our killer.
40:08The real killer
40:08was just playing with us.
40:10But the evidence...
40:11No, it was planted there
40:12to lead us to Ben.
40:15He wants us
40:16to think it's over.
40:18He wants us
40:18to drop our guard.
40:20He wants to make
40:20a big scene.
40:23Nikki will burn.
40:26Beckett.
40:27Oh, God.
40:27Montgomery took the detail
40:32off her place.
40:32She's alone.
40:44She's not picking up.
40:45Call the precinct.
40:45Tell them to get over there
40:46right away.
40:47Tell them we were wrong.
40:48Tell them the killer
40:48is still alive.
40:49You lock this door
40:50behind me.
40:51Don't let anyone in.
40:52Captain Montgomery, please.
40:54Yes, tell them
40:54it's an emergency.
41:13Come on, Becky.
41:13Pick up the phone.
41:15Pick it up.
41:15What castle?
41:32It wasn't Ben Conrad.
41:33He's not the killer.
41:34The killer's still alive.
41:35The killer's still alive.
41:37Goodbye, Nikki.
41:38Goodbye.
41:39Goodbye, Nikki.
41:39Goodbye, Nikki.