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  • 6/3/2025
Castle Season 2 Episode 19

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00:00There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people, psychopaths and mystery writers.
00:05I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I?
00:07I'm Rick Castle.
00:08Castle.
00:09Castle.
00:10I 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 the Hoot.
00:55Sorry! Sorry!
00:56What the hell is wrong with you?
00:57I'm sorry! Can't you see I'm driving here?
00:59I'm driving!
01:00I'm driving here!
01:01I'm driving here!
01:04initial impact size is 14 inches what are you doing we're setting the practical application
01:33of science at school i'm focusing on forensics specifically the physics of spatter pageants
01:39oh what's wrong we usually do all your science projects together you remember the volcano we
01:46made the flatulent robot ew i'm sorry dad i just got excited about it and you weren't here
01:53it's okay i can help you finish yeah
01:59beckett yeah um i can stay home go ahead i'll be fine without you
02:09point five severe concussion
02:16i guess i don't have to ask about cause of death he's not even my first death by fallen object this
02:21month two weeks ago an investment banker took a frozen sausage to the head from a 10th floor
02:26window ledge that's a pretty old building maybe it just fell maybe i got a little help from someone
02:31there's markings here on the stone what a chisel or a crowbar i found marks up on the parapet as well
02:37i got csu dusting it for prints that's a long way to go for a murder who'd want to drop a gargoyle on
02:41someone unless someone wants to make it look like an accident i'd have to make sure our victim stood
02:46there for long enough had someone tampered with the front door lock when you guys arrived give that
02:50man a prize yeah we had to pop the lock to get in the building super says our victim's name is will
02:55medina he's got an apartment up on four and guess who's got the keys i do
03:03place looks like a museum well that's because mr medina was the associate curator at the new york
03:09history museum yeah that would explain this but i thought a hundred inch flat screen would be the
03:14ultimate bachelor accessory well he wasn't a total bachelor what makes you think that
03:20the second toothbrush in the bathroom the scented candle in the tub pair of high heels under his bed
03:25all suggesting that he was in a casual but steady relationship hmm nicely played however i do think
03:32you misjudged the relationship only slightly eat pray love judging from the condition i'd say she's read it
03:40more than once meaning that she's a woman on the other side of a search for identity a romantic
03:45someone who wouldn't be satisfied with just a casual relationship and who's to say that that book
03:50isn't his i love that book neighbor on two says the front door worked just fine at seven o'clock
03:57which means that the killer must have tampered with it after then beckett calendar check out today's date
04:03ct 530 1127 avenue of the americas 530 that's two hours before the murder it's an office building
04:11downtown let's check it out after we finish our sweep okay you know we might want to swing down by the
04:15museum see if any of his colleagues can shed some light on who might want to drop a gargoyle on
04:19mr medina's head either you're being a good copper you just want to go to the museum they have dinosaurs there
04:25oh man i love this place when alexis was little we used to come here every sunday we would run around
04:36here for hours pretending like we were safari in africa or looking for dinosaurs in china you know
04:42castle sometimes i forget that you have such a capacity for pure innocence in your life yeah plus
04:48it was a great place to pick up chicks and then you open your mouth and you ruin it hi i need to speak
04:53with someone about will medina i just can't believe will's dead dr reeds how long did you and mr
04:58medina know each other two years the first thing i did when i got the job as museum curator was to
05:03hire him away from the u.s geographic institute to lead the conchule expedition conchule the legendary
05:09mayan king what you see here represents the single most important archaeological find in mayan history
05:16his burial chamber where he was entombed with a dozen of his mummified slaves so kind of like a mayan
05:22king tut exactly you know the exhibit opens in less than a month i i can't imagine having to do it
05:27without will he's the one that discovered the site when was the last time you saw mr medina 4 30 today
05:33and how well did the two of you know each other why i'm gonna have to contact his next of kin his
05:39parents are both dead and i believe he was an only child and what about his girlfriend last i heard
05:45himself
05:56so
05:58so
06:04so
06:08so
06:10what are you doing mommy's over 2000 years old exposure to air and unfiltered environment could
06:38be catastrophic sorry i i didn't i didn't know this rachel it's okay he's with the police rachel
06:43walters is our mummification expert she worked with will did something happen to him um he was
06:50killed earlier tonight but that's not possible were the two of you close only professionally
06:56stanford doesn't mean anything it's just a terrible accident actually we believe he was
07:03murdered it wasn't murder it was the curse detective beckett mr castle rupert bentley
07:12our co-financier of the expedition i'm sorry did you say curse tell them stanford tell them what
07:18was written at the entrance to the burial chamber all who gaze on the face of the mayan king shall
07:24be struck down by his wrath mine king this mine king that very one they all looked inside
07:32and they were all dead there were other incidents all easily explainable one of our grad students
07:38nicole graham was mauled to death by a jaguar outside the dig site and professor fisher died of dengue
07:43fever which is common in that region as are curses written above grave sites it's how they kept people
07:49from robbing them for thousands of years well i can assure you that whatever killed mr medina was very
07:53human do you know if he had any enemies will was passionate nothing could stop him from getting
07:59what he wanted it's what made him such a great archaeologist but it also rubs some people the wrong
08:05way what do you mean the indigenous mayans he worked with claimed that he tricked them into revealing the
08:09location of the burial site he'd received death threats and how do you know that i'd received one too
08:15it's written in ancient mayan
08:20this is just like the one that we found in medina's apartment what does this say death awaits the robber
08:29of graves
08:45as a lot they didn't find any fingerprints on either one of the death threats which means all we've
08:54got to go on is the postmark so we're looking for an angry mayan who mailed a death threat from spanish
09:01harlem three days ago how tough can that be well i called the mexican embassy and asked them to put
09:05their feelers out to the indigenous rights community you never know you might get a decent tip you know
09:10this guy medina when he was a grad student he walked into the amazon nothing but a backpack and
09:15some satellite images he walked out a month later with the golden head of yash pak this guy is like
09:22indiana jones but with space age technology oh which would have been such a better movie than that
09:26last one hey thank you hey did you guys get lucky with the mysterious ct eight people with the initial ct
09:31work out of 1127 avenue of the americas none of them have heard of medina and there's a coffee shop
09:36on the ground floor maybe he met ct there but none of the waitresses recognized medina's photograph
09:40anything on the girlfriend no one from the museum can even verify that medina had a girlfriend
09:45and that second set of prints that we found at his apartment doesn't match anything in our system
09:50so far this case is nothing but dead ends you know why why because castle's cursed
09:56you had to tell them did you yes yes i did well gentlemen you'll be happy to know i don't believe
10:07in curses seriously bro i saw a special on tv a bunch of the guys who found king tight's tomb
10:13ended up dying under weird circumstances yes and there was an explanation for that evidence shows
10:19that some toxins were released when they opened the sarcophagus well didn't you say that that mummy
10:23smelled kind of funny like yes but then you did gaze upon the face of the mummy
10:28you guys there is no curse now
10:36paper cut
10:39yes the curse gave me a paper cut
10:44this thing starts small and they snowball
10:46yeah i will always said the mala suerte viene the tres en tres bad luck always comes in threes
10:53threes like celebrities they always die in threes
10:56living in the dark ages here
10:59why don't you guys check with laney and see if she found anything okay
11:02medina's cell phone it was in his jacket pocket
11:12doubt gargoyle attack is covered under his warranty
11:16get it the phone warranty
11:18i'll have tech pull the sim card
11:20speaking of gargoyles we found trace amounts of a substance by the chisel markings
11:24it was probably on the killer's clothes and was transferred to the statue when he pushed it over
11:29what is it
11:29the lab says they've never seen anything like it
11:31it's a mixture of mostly organic compounds including trace amounts of pollen
11:36medina's apartment's not far from the park maybe our killer cut through there on his way to do the deed
11:41nice idea but this pollen is from a particular kind of calabash that only grows in the lowlands of the yucatan peninsula
11:47where the dig site was
11:49oh it gets better
11:50we found trace amounts of the same pollen on both death threats
11:55it's a good chance whoever sent this is your killer
11:58and it's unlikely he would still have trace amounts of pollen on him
12:02unless he had been in the yucatan sometime in the last few days
12:06uh yes we'll hold
12:08why is this taking so long
12:11how many mayans from the yucatan lowlands could possibly have blown into the new york area in the last
12:15few days
12:16tsa computers are down
12:17oh well that's reassuring
12:20you know castle this conchal was no joke
12:22legend has he personally conducted hundreds of human sacrifices
12:25you know why his burial chamber was so hard to find right
12:28because his own people buried it so they couldn't come back from the grave and get them
12:31yes yes yes scary mummy i get it
12:34thank you sir
12:35you okay
12:40yeah
12:41yeah it's an old chair that's all
12:43just uh keep telling yourself that
12:44hi there
12:46yes
12:47okay uh great could you fax it over right away
12:51thanks
12:51tsa reports that a mayan named chakate arrived in jfk four days ago on a tourist visa
12:57chakate chakate ct
12:59his visa application puts his home address right in the middle of our pollen zone
13:03i'm guessing that guy was not glasgowan in high school
13:09this is a local address let's go get him
13:11can i drive no
13:12can we call you mr t
13:18it's tay chakate
13:21you've got quite a resume mr tay
13:24according to the mexican embassy you were arrested in 2007 for assaulting a group of tourists
13:29they were trespassing on sacred mayan soil
13:33you sent two of them to the hospital
13:35things got out of hand but that's not why i'm here is it
13:37sending death threats through the u.s. mail is a felony
13:41and so is murder or as your ancestors like to call it
13:44human sacrifice
13:45i don't know what you're talking about
13:48does this jog your memory
13:51medina refused to see me when i went to the museum
13:56i sent that because he left me no other choice and he needed to be told that the museum must return the artifacts that they stole from my people
14:04those items weren't stolen your government made a deal with the museum but not with us
14:09the mayans are not a dead race there are seven million of us in mexico and central america the direct descendants of con shoal
14:17his remains and all that was buried with them belong to us
14:20is that why you sent the death threat to medina it wasn't a threat it was a reminder
14:25of the fate that awaited him if he did not return what he stole
14:28where were you last night between seven and eight
14:31i didn't kill him i didn't need to
14:35i guess all who suffer from the mummy's curse
14:38are doomed to die
14:40hey beckett
14:44looks like chikate isn't our ct after all
14:48he was uptown meeting with a telemundo reporter about the injustice of the exhibit at 5 30
14:53he didn't finish until after 8. well what about the pollen
14:56turns out the area where the expedition was camped would have been covered with the stuff
14:59laney says it's a safe bet that there's traces of it all over the exhibit
15:02okay but let's hold him on the death threats i got a feeling he knows more than he's letting on
15:06contents of medina's phone
15:07there's nothing interesting in the call list or the calendar but
15:10we hit the girlfriend jackpot with the photos
15:12he's sleeping with a mummy
15:14yeah what
15:15no oh sorry you have to flip to the last one
15:19bam
15:20that's rachel walters
15:23no one at the museum knew they were seeing each other
15:25maybe she's got something to hide
15:26like murder
15:28it started after we got back from mexico
15:40why did you lie to everyone
15:42i didn't want to get fired
15:44why would stanford fire you
15:45because he and will hated each other
15:47why
15:49stanford blamed will for nicole's death
15:51the girl who was killed in mexico
15:53stanford put will in charge of all the grad students
15:56he wanted will to teach them how to survive in such a hostile environment
15:59when nicole died stanford was devastated
16:02he felt will had betrayed his trust letting her go alone to the jungle at night
16:07ever since we got back stanford's been trying to get rid of will
16:10but he can't because will's the one who discovered the burial chamber
16:14do you think he would have gone as far as murder to get rid of will
16:17stanford told me that will is the one that should have died that night
16:24not nicole
16:25the fact that will and i didn't get along doesn't mean i killed him
16:29not getting along with someone is a lot different than blaming him for a girl's death
16:33you thought he should have done a better job watching over her
16:36no i thought he shouldn't be sneaking into the jungle to have sex with her
16:39that's why she was out there the night she died
16:41only will stood her up and she paid the price
16:44and how do you know this
16:45i caught them together two days before she died
16:48i told him to break it off
16:50he was her boss
16:51but he refused
16:52that girl had a bright future
16:54and his carelessness took it from her
16:57where were you when medina was killed
16:58right here working
17:00you check with security
17:01ask the staff
17:02i'm basically living here until the exhibit launches
17:05great then we'll know where to find you in case your alibi doesn't check out
17:07thank you
17:08what happened to will wasn't the curse
17:12it was karma
17:14do you believe that people get what they deserve
17:20well if they do then i must have done something pretty terrible to be punished with you
17:25funny
17:25mr castle
17:27detective
17:28seen on the uag campaign
17:31do you dare see
17:33the mummy of the mayan king
17:35tasteful
17:37come on detective
17:39you've got to give people what they want
17:41they are eating the curse up
17:43ever since the story broke
17:45ticket pre-sales have jumped
17:4620 percent
17:47what about when people come and see the mummy
17:49and then they get hit by a car
17:50or slip on a banana peel
17:52then they're going to sue you
17:54i have to make a call
17:56i have to make a call
18:01okay thanks bill
18:02did you get a confirmation on stanford's and rachel's alibis
18:05museum security has them both logged in but i haven't been able to find anyone who could definitively state that stanford or rachel were there during the hour we've taken to kill will and get back to museum
18:14yo i think i found something
18:16turns out our victim deposited ten grand into his bank account four days before he was killed
18:20where do you get that kind of money unknown but he withdrew the same amount the morning he died
18:24ten thousand in ten thousand out sounds like he's laundering money to me
18:26okay you guys check with the bank first thing in the morning let's see where that money came from
18:38what happened i don't know i was gonna make a coffee and the cappuccino machine started shaking
18:44and just as i hit the deck he exploded
18:46you could have been killed
18:47i know
18:49oh very okay very funny yes you got me
19:03i'm castle i don't believe in curses
19:06what did you get the bomb disposal to rig something up
19:10yeah it was all flash and no damage
19:12and the chair
19:13i just pulled a couple of screws and let gravity do the rust
19:16thank castle
19:18i'm not cleaning this up
19:25better clean this up
19:30that was so mean
19:31oh i knew the whole time
19:32oh sure you did
19:33you know there are some mysteries that science can't explain like stonehenge and deja vu
19:38and some curses are real like the scottish play
19:41oh here we go
19:43there's no one more superstitious than an actor
19:46scottish play are you talking about macbeth
19:48no darling
19:49you never say the name
19:51macbeth
19:52no
19:53to do so
19:56is to invite grave misfortune
19:57no i am serious
19:58you know i didn't i didn't know it at the time
20:00i was in my high school drama class i said the name i wasn't thinking
20:03for the next two days
20:05nothing went right
20:06i mean lady macbeth twisted her ankle the three witches caught pneumonia
20:10finally the director said all right this is what you have to do
20:12i had to run around the outside of the theater building counterclockwise knock on the door until someone let me in
20:19mm-hmm
20:21well i'd love to stand around and tell scary stories all day because i'm really good at it
20:25but i have a date with a murder investigation
20:28that's lucky your father doesn't believe in the curse
20:31why
20:32because he's going into a building full of guns
20:34i heard that
20:36hey guys what'd you find out at medina's bank
20:39well it turns out the deposit and the withdrawal were both made in cash
20:42the bank manager remembers the withdrawal because he had to personally authorize
20:45the bank manager was pretty sure medina was with somebody at the time so i pulled a surveillance video revealing this shining example of thuggery
20:52any idea who he is
20:53do you wanna
20:54no bro you caught it
20:55you sure
20:56yeah sure go ahead
20:57you know whenever you guys are done being cute
20:58no he didn't
21:03yeah he did
21:04aruba is nice this time of year
21:06meet mr norton grimes
21:07who recently had the privilege of doing two years for drug trafficking at branklin correctional
21:11that's what the money was for mexico is cocaine central
21:14what better way to sneak drugs into the country other than inside an archeological shipment
21:18medina was in bed with a drug trafficker got him killed
21:20you know there's a current address here
21:22let's say we go see if he's awake
21:23okay
21:25come on castle let's go
21:27can i drive
21:28are you kidding
21:29you're cursed
21:39i got two uniforms posted out back in case he decides it's a rabbit
21:42castle you sure you don't want to stay in the car
21:44we don't want the curse to get you
21:45i'm good to go
21:46okay
21:47ready
21:48ready
21:53hey what pd
21:54martin grimes police show me your hands
21:57police doggy
21:58good doggy
21:59whoa
22:00he got me
22:01he got me
22:02castle run
22:03god
22:04police
22:05oh my god
22:06you
22:07police
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22:40police
22:41It's Lainey.
22:43Okay.
22:46Right.
22:48Well, what does that mean?
22:50What?
22:51Are you sure?
22:52What?
22:53Thanks.
22:54What?
22:55What'd she say?
22:56Nothing.
22:57It was not nothing.
23:00Okay, fine.
23:02The lab identified the substance found on the gargoyle,
23:04and it was a combination of sodium nitrate iron oxide,
23:07decomposed hemp fibers, and vetted tissue.
23:10I'm sorry, what?
23:12Ancient human tissue.
23:14Mummified tissue?
23:16Like mummy flesh?
23:18Which means at some point, our killer came into contact
23:21with the mummies and somehow transferred the substance
23:24onto his or her clothing before killing Medina.
23:27Or maybe the mummy himself has risen from the grave
23:30and is roaming New York seeking vengeance.
23:34I'm kidding.
23:38Sort of.
23:39You know, if Medina was trafficking drugs for Grimes
23:43through the sarcophagus,
23:45then maybe Grimes got the substance on himself
23:47when he went to get the drugs out.
23:54Do you mind flying solo on this one
23:57while I head home and change my clothes?
23:59I think I can manage.
24:01Hey, Castle.
24:03Watch out for the mummy.
24:05Really?
24:06Dog attack?
24:07Ice and lunatic.
24:08Yeah, it was so like a little bonus, wasn't it?
24:09Had to mess with the curse, didn't you?
24:10Trying to be funny.
24:11You know what kind of hell I'd catch if Castle got eaten
24:12in the line of duty?
24:13Don't tell me you really believe in that stuff, sir.
24:15You know what I believe in, Detective?
24:16You know what I believe in, Detective?
24:17That there's no upside in screwing with things
24:18that you can't explain.
24:19First year of homicide, right?
24:21My partner tackles the suspect through the window
24:23of a gypsy smoke shop.
24:24Owner is furious.
24:25Threatens all kinds of hexes on our houses
24:27if we don't personally go and clean it up.
24:28Then we tell her to take it up with the city.
24:30Two hours later, my partner drops dead.
24:32Heart attack.
24:33And you think it was the hexes?
24:34No.
24:35Man ate bacon with every meal.
24:36But next week,
24:37you know what I'm gonna do?
24:38I'm gonna do it.
24:39I'm gonna do it.
24:40I'm gonna do it.
24:41I'm gonna do it.
24:42I'm gonna do it.
24:43I'm gonna do it.
24:44I'm gonna do it.
24:45I'm gonna do it.
24:46I'm gonna do it.
24:47I'm gonna do it.
24:48I'm gonna do it.
24:49But next morning,
24:51went over there,
24:52fixed that window.
24:53And you know why?
24:54Because there's no upside
24:56in screwing with things you can't explain.
24:58And don't you ever forget it.
24:59Okay.
25:03You know, if our boy Grimes
25:04saw the face of the mummy,
25:05it's likely he's cursed too.
25:06Yeah, well, I'd rather suffer a thousand curses
25:08than go up against Beckett in the box.
25:10Lady, you got the wrong guy.
25:11I dropped out of the drug game
25:13after I left the joint.
25:14That's funny.
25:15Because I've got
25:17surveillance photos showing
25:19you taking $10,000 in cash from Will Medina
25:21the day that he was murdered.
25:24And given your rap sheet,
25:26I don't think it would be too difficult
25:27to convince a jury that you were involved.
25:29Okay, okay, hold on.
25:31I didn't murder anyone.
25:33And I don't smuggle drugs anymore.
25:35I use my connections to get a new gig.
25:37Antiquities.
25:39Really?
25:41And why would Will Medina
25:43be buying antiquities from you?
25:45Not buying, selling.
25:47I met him at a museum fundraiser last year.
25:49I gave him my card.
25:50I told him I'm always interested in rare items
25:52that may need a new home.
25:53He gave me a call a few weeks later.
25:55He said he had a box of ink and arrowheads.
25:57It's just been sitting on the shelf
25:58since the 1940s.
25:59I found him a buyer,
26:00and we made a nice little profit.
26:02And what were you buying this time?
26:04A mummy.
26:06A mummy?
26:07Who would want a mummy?
26:10A collector in Taipei.
26:11So I stopped by the museum.
26:13I thought he would say no,
26:14but he jumped at the opportunity.
26:16Did he ever think that somebody
26:18noticed this missing mummy?
26:19He said all the attention was being paid
26:21to the mummy of the Mayan king,
26:23not to slave girl number six.
26:25She was destined for the storage room
26:27in the basement,
26:28so it'd be years before anyone went looking for her,
26:30at which point her disappearance,
26:32it could never be linked to him.
26:34And this $10,000 was a down payment?
26:36Of a quarter million dollar payout.
26:38But then you showed up
26:39and you took it back.
26:40Why?
26:41My client changed their mind.
26:43Guess they didn't like the mummy.
26:45Why not?
26:46I don't know.
26:48All I know is they sent someone down
26:49to the museum to take a look.
26:51Who did he send?
26:52I have no idea.
26:53I swear,
26:54whatever they told him turned my client off.
26:57Maybe the mummy was too short.
26:58Maybe it didn't have enough teeth.
27:00These private collectors are very particular.
27:03They want exactly what they want
27:05and nothing else.
27:07Selling mummies?
27:08How stupid does he think we are?
27:09I know.
27:10The drug story is a hell of a lot more plausible,
27:12but it just doesn't seem to be Medina's style.
27:14There's one way to find out.
27:15Take samples from this mummy sarcophagus.
27:17You ever test positive for drugs?
27:19Grimes is lying.
27:20Most likely I'm a murderer.
27:21Great, thanks.
27:22Hey, what are you doing home?
27:32Facing my mortality?
27:35All this curse stuff has got me thinking
27:37if something were to happen to me,
27:39you'd take good care of Alexis, right?
27:41Of course.
27:42Better than you took care of me.
27:43Oh, please.
27:44You turned out fine.
27:46Look, look, look.
27:47The chances of this curse being real are almost non-existent.
27:50You know that.
27:51Maybe.
27:52What kind of father would I be
27:54if I didn't do everything I could
27:56to make sure I stick around?
27:57Well, then I think maybe we should try
27:59to figure out a way to reverse the curse.
28:03You know, the mummy equivalent
28:04of my running around the theater.
28:06Someone at the museum must know that.
28:11You've become very wise in your old age.
28:14Watch it, Buster.
28:16I'm afraid there's nothing in the literature
28:18about reversing the curse.
28:21Hey.
28:22Castle, what are you doing here?
28:24Oh, nothing.
28:25Just waiting for you.
28:26Detectives, you hear
28:27talk about reversing the curse as well?
28:29No, I'm here to see a man about a mummy.
28:31So, no luck with the curse, huh?
28:33Look on the bright side, Castle.
28:34You die, your book sale skyrocketing me.
28:36Great.
28:37What did Beckett mean, see a man about a mummy?
28:38Which mummy?
28:39The one Grimes said Medina was trying to sell.
28:41Fill me in.
28:43Spare no detail.
28:44Well, in some ancient cultures,
28:45instead of burning...
28:46Fast forward a little bit.
28:47Detective, this is a significant archeological find.
28:50You can't just walk in here and open it up.
28:51I've got a warrant that says otherwise.
28:53This is preposterous.
28:54Tell that to the drug dealer in my lockup
28:56who is doing business with your associate curator.
28:59Please.
29:00I just have to reiterate how fragile these mummies are.
29:03They should only be handled in a controlled environment.
29:05Don't worry.
29:06It's just a simple swab test.
29:07I promise I won't damage anything.
29:09My God.
29:20It's gone.
29:22I'm not saying I believe, but where's the mummy?
29:28The CSU field test shows that there's no drug residue inside the sarcophagus.
29:45And all the other mummies are accounted for.
29:47No drugs in them either.
29:48Well, if it wasn't the drugs, then what's so special about the missing mummy?
29:51Well, maybe Grimes was telling the truth.
29:53Maybe Medina was trying to sell it.
29:54And then when Grimes wouldn't buy it, he sold it to someone else?
29:57Except that one of the researchers swears it was in its sarcophagus
30:00the day after Medina was killed.
30:02Well, that could only mean one thing.
30:03Please don't say that it's walking among us seeking revenge.
30:06Okay. Don't say I didn't warn you.
30:08This place is gigantic.
30:09They have over 30 million specimens down here.
30:11We've got a canine unit coming in to help,
30:13but finding this mummy might be like finding the lost Ark.
30:16If it is even still here.
30:18All right, have CSU sweep the area
30:20and see if they can get any prints off of the sarcophagus.
30:22Whoever stole the mummy must have left some evidence behind.
30:25Disaster! PR disaster!
30:28I really hope the press doesn't hear about this.
30:31Ten bucks says he calls the press
30:33as soon as we're out the front door.
30:35You don't think he could have orchestrated this whole thing
30:38just to generate interest in the exhibit, do you?
30:40Murdered Medina just to boost ticket sales? No.
30:42That would make this Scooby-Doo.
30:44And I'm not Velma.
30:45Velma? Are you kidding?
30:47You're Daphne.
30:48You're hot, smart, not aggressively brainy,
30:50but long legs, short skirt.
30:51Stop.
30:52Fine. Now.
30:53Got it.
30:57No, he didn't know anything about how to reverse the curse,
30:59but I've decided it's okay.
31:01I was just overreacting.
31:02It's like you said,
31:03the chances of there actually being a curse
31:05are virtually nonexistent.
31:12That was weird.
31:13The elevator just stopped.
31:16Mother?
31:20Okay.
31:22No reason to panic.
31:26Small reason to panic.
31:30Hello?
31:31There is no curse.
31:41There is no curse.
31:42There is no curse.
31:43There is no curse.
31:46All right.
31:47What do I do if the elevator falls?
31:49Okay.
31:50I think I'm supposed to jump in here.
31:51No.
31:52Lay on the ground.
31:53Castle?
31:58What are you doing?
32:02That was...
32:03That whole thing.
32:04Then the light, the light,
32:05and then the whole thing.
32:06I thought the elevator was gonna fall.
32:08That wasn't you, was it?
32:09Because that wasn't funny.
32:10No, no.
32:11I'm not that cruel.
32:12It's an old elevator.
32:14You know what?
32:15Let's get maintenance up here
32:16and tell them not to let anyone on here
32:17before it's fixed.
32:18Are you okay?
32:19Yeah.
32:20No, yeah.
32:21I'm gonna splash some water on my face
32:23and then throw up a little bit.
32:33Rogue archaeologists, Mayan death threats,
32:35drug dealers claiming to deal in antiquities,
32:37and missing mummies.
32:40There's gotta be a story that makes
32:42all of this make sense.
32:49What?
32:50Nothing.
32:51Castle?
32:52If something were to happen to me,
32:53I want you to watch out for Alexis.
32:57She looks up to you.
32:58And if her boyfriends get frisky,
32:59you can shoot them.
33:01Nothing's gonna happen to you.
33:03But if it does...
33:09Okay.
33:12And would you also go into my closet
33:13and get rid of my porn collection
33:14before she finds it?
33:15Don't worry, bro.
33:16I got you covered on that.
33:17We hit a home run
33:18with the prints from the sarcophagus.
33:20One pop that doesn't belong
33:21to anyone who works at the museum.
33:22But according to the background check,
33:24he does work at 1127 Avenue of the Americas.
33:27The address on Medina's calendar.
33:28At a company called Bio Inc.
33:30And here is the best part.
33:31His name is Charles Taylor.
33:33CT?
33:34I spoke to the guy two days ago
33:36and he insisted he'd never met Medina.
33:39Lied right to my face.
33:40No, no.
33:41I didn't lie.
33:42I swear to you,
33:43I don't know Will Medina.
33:44You didn't see him two days ago at 530.
33:46No, you got the wrong guy.
33:47But you admit that you're in the basement
33:48of the New York History Museum?
33:51No.
33:53Charles, we have your fingerprints on a sarcophagus
33:55so you can either start telling us the truth now
33:57or after spending an afternoon in the holding cell
33:59entertaining a mess addict
34:00through the violent phase of his withdrawal.
34:02I might have been down there.
34:05When?
34:08Okay.
34:09Holding cell it is.
34:10Five days ago.
34:13And Medina?
34:14Look, I heard he was dead.
34:15I didn't want to get mixed up in that.
34:17I...
34:18I was only sent there to check out the mummy.
34:20The mummy?
34:21Yeah.
34:22I was sent by a private collector to examine it.
34:24I was just telling you the truth.
34:26Medina was trying to sell the mummy.
34:27This is getting good.
34:28This collector, where is he from?
34:29Taipei.
34:30I've done testing for him before.
34:32Uh...
34:33Hominid skulls.
34:34Uh...
34:35Mammoth tusk.
34:36He asked me to carbon date the mummy to make sure it was real.
34:38And was it?
34:41It's complicated.
34:42We'll try and keep up.
34:43As soon as an organism dies, it stops taking in new carbon.
34:46Specifically, we focus on carbon-14,
34:48which starts to decay in the body as soon as it dies.
34:50And by examining the rate of decay,
34:51we can actually date the age of the dead organism with incredible accuracy.
34:54When I tested the mummy,
34:55I took samples from the sarcophagus,
34:56the cloth the mummy was wrapped in,
34:58and a small piece of bone.
34:59And then I ran them through a mass spectrometer,
35:01and...
35:02that's when things got weird.
35:05Define... weird.
35:08The samples from the sarcophagus and the cloth dated at over 2,000 years old,
35:11but the piece of bone was too young to date,
35:14meaning that it was less than 500 years old.
35:17How much less?
35:19I have no idea.
35:20500 years is as low as the test goes.
35:23Are you saying that the mummy Medina was trying to sell was a fake?
35:26Well, all I know is that there was a discrepancy,
35:28and I called him and I told him that,
35:30and he didn't believe me.
35:31He insisted on coming to the office to see me.
35:34The night he died.
35:38Beckett.
35:39Uniforms just found your mummy.
35:41Where?
35:42In the dark corner of the museum basement.
35:44Someone was doing their best to make sure it was never found.
35:46Medina's buyer rejected the mummy because it wasn't real,
35:49and then when Medina started asking questions, he was killed.
35:52And now someone's trying to make it disappear.
35:54I think we need to take a closer look at that mummy.
35:57Your carbon data was right.
35:59This girl's body is definitely less than 500 years dead.
36:02How much less?
36:04She died four months ago.
36:05If she's been dead for four months,
36:06why does she look just like the other mummies?
36:08Because whoever mummified her knew what they were doing.
36:11Her blood's been drained.
36:12There's an incision on her left side,
36:14which her killer used to remove her organs
36:16before starting the desiccation process.
36:18How did she die?
36:19Blunt force trauma.
36:20Someone hit her in the back of the head.
36:22She never saw it coming.
36:23And then do you have any idea who she is?
36:25No.
36:26And I was unable to get a usable fingerprint.
36:28We don't need them.
36:30She died four months ago.
36:33I know exactly who this is.
36:49Dental records confirm that the body is Nicole Graham,
36:52the first victim of the curse.
36:54Who thought this girl was killed by an animal in the jungle?
36:56Turns out they never actually found the body.
36:58Just her bloody clothes and a piece of scalp.
37:00It seemed obvious to the Mexican authorities what had happened.
37:03Instead, somebody killed her and turned her into a mummy?
37:05Hell of a way to get rid of her body.
37:06Hide it in plain sight.
37:07Ship it out with the other artifacts.
37:09And no one would have ever found out
37:10if Medina hadn't decided to sell the wrong mummy.
37:13When the collector refused it,
37:14Medina must have decided to take a closer look.
37:16And then that suspicion must have tipped off our killer
37:19who had to murder Medina in order to keep the secret safe.
37:21It makes sense, but who's our killer?
37:23The only person with the skill to mummify a body.
37:28What's going on?
37:30Four words.
37:31Eat.
37:32Pray.
37:33Love.
37:34Kill.
37:35Little friendly advice.
37:36Next time you kill someone,
37:38skip the part where you prove only you could have covered it up.
37:40Kill someone?
37:41What are you talking about?
37:42We're talking about Nicole Graham.
37:44You killed her in Mexico and then you mummified her body
37:46in order to cover it up.
37:47What?
37:48No, Nicole was killed in a jaguar attack.
37:50Except they never found her body.
37:51But we did.
37:53And so did Medina when he discovered the discrepancy
37:55in the carbon dating.
37:56And that's when you knew that you had to kill him.
37:59That's insane.
38:00What happened, Rachel?
38:02Did you find her in the jungle making time with your man?
38:05Little girls gone wild jealousy turned deadly.
38:08No, Nicole and I were friends.
38:10And whoever told you she was sleeping with Will was lying.
38:13Sure, she had a crush on him, okay?
38:15We all did.
38:16But she backed off when she realized that Will was interested in me.
38:20But Stan... Stanford.
38:23Stanford was the one who was jealous.
38:26Ask any of the women down there.
38:28He had a thing for Nicole ever since she joined the program.
38:30You'd always see him standing around watching her.
38:32It was creepy.
38:33You were the expert, Rachel.
38:35You were the only one who knew how to do it.
38:37No, I wasn't.
38:38Everything I know about mummification I learned from Stanford Raines.
38:42Look, detective, mummifying a body is a hands-on process.
38:46I promise you whoever did that to Nicole left behind some DNA.
38:49I'm happy to provide a sample.
38:51Why don't you see if Stanford wants to do the same?
38:57Stanford Raines?
38:58Yes.
38:59You're under arrest for the murder of Nicole Graham.
39:02And don't forget Will Medina.
39:04You had to kill him too when you caught him sniffing around her mummy.
39:07Only way to protect your secret.
39:08You can't be serious.
39:09Serious enough to get a warrant for your DNA.
39:11This is the part where you say,
39:14and I would have gotten away with it too
39:16if it weren't for you meddling kids.
39:24Is he actually running away?
39:26Yeah, it's primal instinct.
39:29Fight or flight.
39:30Should we run after him?
39:32No need.
39:41Still say there's no curse?
39:58Ruh-roh.
40:02Once Stanford got out of surgery, he confessed to everything.
40:07How he lured Nicole into the burial chamber and how they fought when she refused to celebrate with him.
40:13So what happened to the mummy he swapped for Nicole's money?
40:15The body was so fragile that all Stanford had to do was strip off the wrapping and stomp it into dust.
40:20And then he rewrapped Nicole's body, stuffed it in the sarcophagus, sealed it up tight, and by the time it got to the U.S., months later, mummification process was complete.
40:28And when Stanford decided to kill Medina, he just used one of the pry bars from the museum to tip the gargoyle.
40:34And hoped that Medina's death would be blamed on the curse.
40:37Three members of the expedition dead, one on the way to jail.
40:40Sounds like the curse is real to me.
40:42Speaking of which, I have a deal to propose.
40:47I spoke to the D.A. and he's agreed to drop the felony threat charges based on your cooperation.
40:56What kind of cooperation?
41:02Tell him how to reverse the curse.
41:05Why should I?
41:07Because, thanks to us, Mr. Bentley has agreed to send the entire collection back to the Mexican Museum after the exhibit ends.
41:14Why would he agree to that?
41:16Well, let's just say he's got a little public relations problem right now and he could use all the good publicity he can get.
41:32That's all I have to do.
41:34And one more thing.
41:37I wouldn't say no to a ride to the airport.
41:40Let's go.
41:42You're in a good mood.
41:46The curse has officially been lifted.
41:49How'd you manage that?
41:50You don't want to know.
41:52But I didn't defeat all the way home just to make sure.
41:55Jaywalking?
41:56Mm-hmm. You've walked under a ladder.
41:58What murderous experiments are you performing on tomatoes now? Stabbing? Fileting?
42:02Dicing for a salad.
42:04Wanna help?
42:05I would love to.
42:08So, I was thinking maybe this weekend we could go to the museum. It's been a while.
42:14Yeah.
42:15How about the zoo?
42:18That sounds great.
42:20What's the difference between cursed and clumsy?
42:27I'll get a bandaid.
42:29Get to it.