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  • 6/4/2025
Castle Season 2 Episode 23

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00:01There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people.
00:04Psychopaths and mystery writers.
00:06I'm the kind that pays better.
00:07Who am I?
00:08I'm Rick Castle.
00:09Castle.
00:10Castle.
00:11I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:13Every writer needs inspiration.
00:14And I've found mine.
00:15Detective Kate Beckett.
00:16Beckett.
00:17Beckett.
00:18Nicky Heath.
00:19The character he's basing on you.
00:20And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:22I'd be happy to let you spank me.
00:24And together we catch killers.
00:26Make a pretty good team, you know.
00:27Like Starsky and Hutch.
00:28Turner and Hooch.
00:29You do remind me a little of Hoot.
00:59A scream pierced the air, falling only on the deaf ears of the dead.
01:14Really?
01:15A little too over the top.
01:16I think you've been writing too long not to know that it's I before E except after C.
01:22Ever heard of spellcheck?
01:23Yes, of course.
01:24She's got red hair.
01:25She's wise beyond her years.
01:26And she's about to tell her dad what she thinks of the latest chapter of his new book.
01:29I loved it.
01:30Especially the part with Nicky and Rook in the aircraft carrier.
01:33Awesome.
01:34I bet you're embarrassing me.
01:35I do have one note though.
01:37This new character, the robbery detective?
01:41Schlemming?
01:42What about him?
01:43Seems like it kind of came up out of nowhere.
01:45Yeah, well I can't argue about that.
01:47He's coming off a bit like a doofus.
01:49You think?
01:50I think you should lose him.
01:51If only it was this easy.
01:55Thank you for your help, sweetie.
01:56I am so behind on my deadline.
01:58That's because you always find new ways to procrastinate.
02:02Or they find me.
02:03Hello, Mother.
02:04Oh, hi guys.
02:05I can't stay.
02:06I'm just picking up a dress.
02:07Chet's taking me to the theater this evening.
02:10What are you seeing?
02:11A new Petrovsky play, Edge of Awakening.
02:14Wait a minute.
02:15Didn't you audition for that?
02:16Uh-huh, yes.
02:17That wonderful actress Mad Vance got my part the way she usually does.
02:20She's not even really your friend.
02:22It's nice that you go and support her.
02:23I know.
02:24And I have to go soon because it's closing.
02:27The critics are saying it's a train wreck.
02:29Oh, there's the Martha Rogers I know.
02:34Ah, it's Beckett.
02:35Please tell me there's been a murder, otherwise I'll have to continue writing.
02:46People always say they want to die in their sleep.
02:48What you want is a good, clean shot to take you out before you know what hit you.
02:51Not this poor guy.
02:53Bullet missed the heart.
02:55He didn't die for quite a while.
02:57Looks like he was reaching for the phone to call for help.
02:59Until our doer took that to his head.
03:02Probably didn't want to risk the neighbors hearing a second shot,
03:05and so he grabbed the nearest thing and finished him off.
03:08There's blood spatter on the clock.
03:10Must have been knocked off the nightstand during the attack.
03:121034.
03:13At least we know what time the festivities started.
03:16There's no signs of forced entry.
03:17He probably left this open so he could get a breath of fresh air.
03:21And there's no security cameras either.
03:23And I didn't see any on the way in.
03:25Cleaning lady found him this morning.
03:26She said that usually Wilder would have left for work by the time she got here.
03:29Wilder?
03:30Damien Wilder?
03:31Yeah, you know him?
03:32I know of him.
03:33This is a photo from one of his ad campaigns.
03:36He runs a line of boutique men's skin care products.
03:39You mean like bathroom stuff?
03:40He's got a toner.
03:42Totally alcohol free.
03:43Fantastic.
03:44He's got a shaving cream that is ridiculous.
03:47I'm good with the drugstore stuff, man.
03:48No, no, no, no.
03:49Hang on.
03:50This stuff will change your life.
03:52It's hot.
03:53It's hot.
03:54It's hot?
03:55It's hot.
03:56It's hot.
03:57Why did they do that?
03:58Magic of Modern Chemistry.
03:59It's like getting shaved from a barber.
04:00Matter of fact, that's the tagline.
04:02Barber in a can.
04:03Huh.
04:04That's probably expensive, huh?
04:05It's 50 bucks a pop, but it's so worth it.
04:07Absolutely.
04:08Totally, yeah.
04:09Guys, a man has been murdered here.
04:12And we're honoring his legacy.
04:15Huh.
04:16It's like sex in the city.
04:17Only with boys.
04:18Maybe you guys can check in with the neighbors, see if they saw or heard anything.
04:22Oh yeah, I'll lower it.
04:23Yeah, I'm on it.
04:24Come on, Castle.
04:25Let me show you what I found.
04:26Something was stolen from these cases.
04:31Hmm.
04:32Those are humidity controls.
04:33Well, whatever it was was very valuable because the killer passed up the plasma TV and the Blu-ray player.
04:41Robbery gone wrong?
04:42Looks that way, doesn't it?
04:44And then, there's this.
04:46Is that an E or an O?
04:51Murdero.
04:52Is that Spanish for murder?
04:53Murder.
04:54The killer was French.
04:55The thing I don't get about it is why would a thief take the time to write a message out of our Vic's blood?
05:01Especially that message.
05:02I mean, we know it's murder.
05:04A dead body's gonna have a giveaway.
05:05So, we're still canvassing, but I thought you'd want to hear this.
05:08Neighbors said she was on her treadmill last night listening to music.
05:11So she didn't hear the shot?
05:12No, but she did open her back door to let the cat in, and she saw someone hopping over the fence on their way out of Wilder's yard.
05:18Did you get a description?
05:19Yeah.
05:20A foot disappearing over the fence.
05:21Did you get a time at all?
05:2210.52 on the button.
05:24It was still on her alarm box.
05:25She forgot she'd set it when she opened the door.
05:27So now we know what time last night's festivities ended at 10.52.
05:30Alright, have CSU sweep for prints and fibers and make sure they hit the backyard as well.
05:34We got it.
05:50Deming?
05:51Castle.
05:56Do you guys use, uh, boards down in robbery?
05:59Sure, yeah.
06:02I'll come back tomorrow.
06:03It'll be full of all sorts of murdery stuff.
06:06Beckett asked me to assist in the investigation, so...
06:09Really?
06:10Yeah, because of the robbery component.
06:12Of course.
06:14I tracked down Wilder's next to Ken, his cousin Blake.
06:16He's in the interview lounge.
06:21You know how he got in the business he did?
06:23Acme.
06:24As a teenager he added something terrible.
06:27When he asked me to lend him money to start up a business, I was happy to do it.
06:31I...
06:33He was...
06:34One of the good ones.
06:35I mean, why somebody would do something like this, I...
06:37Blake.
06:40We were hoping that you could help us with something.
06:43The display cases in the living room were broken into and their contents were missing.
06:47Well, that's where he kept his books.
06:50He was a collector.
06:51Rare printings, signed first editions, things like that.
06:53The bills could run into the thousands, even tens of thousands.
06:57So it was robbery?
06:59Somebody killed him to take his books?
07:01Well, it's possible there's another motive.
07:02We found a message written on the wall.
07:05That's odd.
07:06We're still working on that.
07:07What we could really use your help on is with the missing books.
07:10Did he have a catalog of his collection?
07:12Sure.
07:13Damien looked to me to help him out with the business side of things.
07:15The insurer he used is a friend of mine.
07:17He'll have a catalog.
07:18Well, as far as we know, the only thing missing were the books.
07:20Which suggests the perpetrator went there knowing what he was looking for.
07:23Could be he had an opportunity to case the apartment.
07:26Well, the kitchen, I mean, Damien had the entire thing renovated.
07:29The place was crawling with workers for weeks.
07:33Killed for a fortune and stolen books.
07:36So I'll run the work crews and see if anybody has priors.
07:39Thanks, Tom. I appreciate your help on this.
07:41I'll let you know if anything turns up.
07:46I'm not sure why everybody's jumped to the conclusion that this murder was about the stolen books.
07:49Maybe because they're missing.
07:51The message on the mirror suggests an intention to kill.
07:54A motive of some kind.
07:56Stealing books? Just a crime of opportunity.
07:59And now who's jumping to conclusions?
08:01I just hate to see anybody waste their time.
08:04The key here is the message, not the books.
08:07I think we should pursue both lines of investigation.
08:09He's your boyfriend.
08:11Excuse me?
08:12I'm sorry, am I jumping to conclusions again?
08:14It's none of your business.
08:16Yo.
08:17I ran a background check on Wilder.
08:21I found this incident report he filed with the police three days ago.
08:24Somebody vandalized his apartment.
08:26Poured red paint all over his stoop.
08:28Yeah, it turns out that his company was being picketed by animal rights protesters.
08:32But all of his stuff is labeled, no animal testing.
08:34The problem was with one of his subcontractors who was doing some of the manufacturing for him.
08:37Wilder didn't even know about it.
08:40That's what the message was.
08:42It wasn't misspelled, it was unfinished.
08:45They were writing murderer.
08:47So you think that one of the animal rights activists killed him?
08:49Sure, one of them had enough with the fake blood, decided I'm going to send a message using the real thing.
08:54Maybe we should pay Wilder's office a visit and find out more about those protesters.
08:57We were looking for another manufacturer to replace the one we'd been using.
09:15But apparently we weren't doing it fast enough for these protesters.
09:29Mr. Wilder wanted to do the right thing.
09:32He really did, he just needed a little more time.
09:35The paint-throwing incident at Damon's house Thursday night was the last draw.
09:39He scheduled a press conference for this morning.
09:40He hadn't told anybody, but he was planning to announce a substantial donation to the animal rights movement
09:46as a sign of the company's good faith.
09:49They got everything they wanted, but they killed him anyway.
09:52Well, to be fair, Ms. Jenkins, we don't know that definitively.
09:56The incident on Thursday, was that the first time that Mr. Wilder had been targeted personally?
10:01Usually they just pick it outside the building.
10:03It got so bad we actually hired a private security firm for a while
10:07to run down some of the threats we got in the mail.
10:10Is there a chance we could take a look at the information they developed? It could be helpful.
10:13Of course. Yeah, Daphne will put it together for you.
10:16We'll also need to see a copy of Mr. Wilder's date book for the last couple weeks.
10:20Absolutely. Anything you need.
10:23Here you go, sir.
10:26I cannot believe that you asked for samples.
10:29She said anything we needed.
10:30Besides, it's not for me, it's for Ryan and Esposito.
10:32Don't you mean Charlotte and Miranda?
10:34Wait a minute, that would make me Carrie.
10:36You're so metrosexual for even knowing that.
10:38I only watched that show out of the corner of my eye when my mother had it on.
10:42So did not come out right.
10:44According to these notes from the private security firm,
10:47most of these folks seem like average, everyday tree-hugging vegetarians.
10:50I mean, so far the worst any of them has done is break into a lab to free a bunch of mice.
10:55You come up with anything?
10:56Here are a handful of recent entries in Wilder's calendar for someone named Natasha.
11:01Could be someone that he started dating.
11:03Hey.
11:04Hey.
11:05So I ran the workman who renovated your vic's kitchen, and one of them popped.
11:09Meet Jake Cabresi.
11:10Two of the apartments he worked on in the past year were later robbed.
11:13He was a person of interest in both investigations, but neither of them made.
11:16Sounds like someone we should talk to.
11:18Oh, we're running down his whereabouts.
11:19Aha!
11:20Meet Lance Newman, arrested five times for violent agitation.
11:24His favorite tool of protest?
11:26The bucket of fake blood.
11:27Isn't fake blood kind of a staple with these types?
11:30Last month he painted the word murderer on a congressman's car because he voted against a fishing ban.
11:34When the driver tried to stop him, Newman bashed him in the side of the head with his paint bucket.
11:38You know, I'd like him more if we could find something that would connect him with our vic.
11:42You mean like the string of violent letters he wrote to Wilder?
11:46Sent to his home address?
11:48Nice job, Castle.
11:49Let's go pick him up.
11:50Yeah.
11:51Let's.
11:56You've got the wrong guy.
11:58Last Thursday night someone pours fake blood all over Wilder's stoop.
12:02Three days later he ends up dead.
12:03It does not take a genius to make the connection.
12:05Yeah, but I didn't kill him.
12:07Look, I told you.
12:08Already.
12:09I went to the movies Sunday night.
12:10Yes, yes, yes.
12:11We have someone running down that alibi.
12:12What about Thursday?
12:13You got one for them too?
12:14Thursday?
12:15I don't remember.
12:16Well then how about you spend the night in lockup?
12:18It might refresh your memory.
12:22Last Thursday I went over there with the paint.
12:24Bam!
12:25So you admit that it was you who vandalized Wilder's apartment?
12:28Yes!
12:29Yes!
12:30Okay.
12:31I threw paint on his stoop.
12:33Which is then when I heard him fighting with someone inside.
12:35A woman.
12:36They were throwing stuff and I thought they were going to kill each other.
12:40Did you see who she was?
12:41No.
12:42I just heard them yelling.
12:43And what exactly did you overhear?
12:45She said something about being humiliated and he said something about a gun.
12:51A gun?
12:52You put a gun to my head.
12:54I think it was.
12:55Okay, now you're just making stuff up.
12:57Well, Mr. Newman, good thing you used the automated ticket booth at the theater Sunday night.
13:07Your alibi checked out.
13:08Really?
13:11Really.
13:12Okay, thanks.
13:15Check this out.
13:16According to his calendar, Wilder had dinner with this Natasha person Thursday night.
13:21Could be that she's the person our animal loving friend was talking about.
13:24I thought you said that he was making all that up.
13:27That was...
13:28That was Wilder's assistant on the phone.
13:31Apparently, Wilder and Natasha Piper had started dating recently.
13:36The girl from the print heads?
13:38Yep.
13:39And she said she was a real piece of work.
13:40Tore up a set at a photo shoot a couple weeks ago because they had the wrong bottled water for her.
13:44Well, it seems like a good bet she was the one fighting with Wilder Thursday night.
13:47Yeah, it could be she went back on Sunday to get one last word in.
13:50I should pick her up in the morning.
13:52Hey.
13:53Hey, how did things go with the workman?
13:55Well, found him sitting in his garage on a couple Gs worth of stolen power tools, but the night of the murder turns out he was watching his kids in a play at church, so...
14:04Yeah, it's been that kind of a day.
14:05Yeah.
14:06You ready to go?
14:07Ready.
14:08Thought we were knocking it off for the night.
14:11We are.
14:12We're just, um, sharing a cab.
14:14Good night, Castle.
14:16Good night.
14:17Good night.
14:22Hey, how was the play?
14:27Oh, awful.
14:28Well, that must have made you happy.
14:30You know what the worst part was?
14:32It's badness made Madger's performance all that much better.
14:37She was wonderful, she was like a revelation.
14:41Oh, Mother, I'm sorry.
14:45You know, I went into the theater thinking, eh, she kinda snaked that part out from under me, but then I...
14:51I hate to admit it, she deserved to get it.
14:53I'm sure you would have been terrific in that role.
14:55Oh, you are so sweet.
14:59But you know something, darling, in life, you just have to accept the fact that not everything is going to go your way.
15:13Thank you so much for coming in, Miss Piper.
15:15Thank you so much for coming in, Miss Piper.
15:45So why did you do it?
15:47You seriously think I did this?
15:49I read about it in the paper, but he did have it coming.
15:53Can you believe that that little toad was cheating on me?
15:56Me.
15:58Okay, so why don't we just start from the beginning?
16:01Where were you the night that he was killed?
16:03On Sunday, I was in the Hamptons.
16:05I took the jitney out in the morning and sat next to Perez Hilton, of all people.
16:09He blogged all about it.
16:10You can check yourself.
16:12Well, we have a witness who says that Mr. Wilder argued with a woman in his apartment on Thursday.
16:17Was that you?
16:18No, that wasn't me.
16:19So it probably means that he was with her.
16:22The bitch that he was two-timing me with, the one from the motel.
16:25What motel?
16:26Oh, he did blog about it.
16:28You two ate at the Southampton Grill.
16:30I love that place.
16:30Castle.
16:34What motel?
16:35The one in Jersey that I followed him to Thursday morning.
16:38I was right.
16:39He was cheating on me.
16:41With who?
16:41I don't know.
16:43He went up to the corner room on the second floor.
16:45I didn't stick around to watch.
16:46So you can't be sure that it was a woman that he was meeting with?
16:49No, but why else would he be there?
16:51And just for the record, she's got to be some kind of dirty skank, because that place was a dump.
16:55A cheap skank at a run-down motel is actually a better lead than an angry ex-girlfriend.
17:05And a much better lead than a store in books.
17:07What was that?
17:09I said, my, don't you gentlemen look clean-shaven today?
17:14Yeah, that was some sweet stuff, bro.
17:15My face never felt so hard.
17:16It was smooth in the can.
17:17Okay, guys.
17:18Got it.
17:19Comes out hot.
17:20Case?
17:21Oh, yeah.
17:22Nothing unusual and wildest finance.
17:24So let's just call records were clean, too.
17:26No calls except the places you would expect.
17:28Ballistics report came back negative.
17:29No unusual fibers or fingerprints in the apartment or backyard, either.
17:32All right, talk to the neighbors again.
17:33Find out if any of them remember seeing him with a woman Thursday night.
17:39I'm wondering why a man as wealthy as Wilder would choose a cheap motel in Jersey to have a tryst.
17:46Maybe there's more going on than just a tryst.
17:54His name is Damien Wilder.
17:59I've never seen him before, but I wasn't on duty.
18:02Benny was.
18:03Well, I'd like to talk with Benny.
18:05So would I.
18:06He didn't show up for work today, which is why I'm here covering on my day off.
18:09Do you have contact info for him?
18:11The corner room, second floor.
18:13Who stayed in there last Thursday?
18:14Let's see.
18:16Take cash up front four nights.
18:19Name was Scarlett O'Hara.
18:20Scarlett O'Hara?
18:25She's a fictional character.
18:27It's that kind of place.
18:31Okay, thanks.
18:34Benny's roommate said that he came home from a shift, packed a bag, and left in a hurry.
18:38Is it just me or is the timing a little suspicious?
18:40I'm going to put a want out for him in the system.
18:42He's got to be out there somewhere.
18:43You know, the clerk said our mystery woman rented the room for four nights.
18:46Wilder's calendar was pretty packed the whole time.
18:48It's hard to figure him getting back out there to see her.
18:51So why did she rent it for that long?
18:53What was going on out there?
18:55Breaking news.
18:55Guess what just turned up for sale online?
18:58A first edition catcher in the rye and a sign for whom the bell tolls.
19:02I take it those are both items in Wilder's collection.
19:04Bingo!
19:05The site belonged to a rare book dealer.
19:07It goes by the name of Lucas Canby.
19:09He's got a jacket for dealing in stolen property.
19:11And last month he was arrested for assaulting another book dealer at an auction that didn't go his way.
19:16So he's got a history of violence in possession of our Vick's property.
19:20Care to sit in while I get him to confess to Wilder's murder?
19:22Don't mind if I do.
19:30You care to sit in while I get him to confess to Wilder's murder?
19:32$50,000 worth of books goes missing from a dead man's apartment.
19:41It turns up in your possession.
19:43You can see how that's a problem, can't you, Lucas?
19:45You want to explain what happened?
19:47Sure.
19:48But you'll never believe me.
19:50Try us.
19:52I bought them from some guy in the park.
19:55In the park?
19:57Near the 76th Street entrance.
19:58This homeless-looking guy had them laid out on a blanket.
20:02Didn't have a clue what they were worth.
20:04Gave him $100 for the whole lot.
20:06Man, was I feeling lucky that day.
20:08Yeah, that's how I felt when I followed that leprechaun to his pot of gold.
20:11Mm-hmm.
20:12I didn't steal those books, and I most certainly didn't kill anybody.
20:16It was this homeless guy.
20:18Had to be.
20:18Really?
20:19Hmm.
20:19You expect us to believe that he broke into Wilder's apartment, killed him for $50,000 worth of books just to sell it to you for $100?
20:26Doesn't add up, pal.
20:27Where were you Sunday night?
20:29Home.
20:31Alone.
20:33Well, I wouldn't worry.
20:34You won't be alone in your cell.
20:36Rikers is overcrowded these days.
20:38Let's have CSU take samples from Lucas' apartment and office, run them against what they recovered.
20:49Might be something that puts him at the crime scene, yeah.
20:51In the meantime, we should check on his story about the homeless guy just in case.
20:55It's a nice day to be out in the park.
20:57How about you, hot dog?
21:02They're supposed to be finding that homeless guy.
21:04I don't know how they're going to do that when all they can do is make googly eyes at each other.
21:06Beckett's a good cop.
21:07She can canvas and make googly eyes at the same time.
21:09Maybe we should call the motel, see if Benny's turned up.
21:11I just called ten minutes ago.
21:12Besides, chances are this book guy that Deming's got in the lockup did it.
21:15Oh, don't say that.
21:17What?
21:18Oh, you wanted to be the one to crack it, not Deming, right?
21:22Well, the guy is not even homicide.
21:24Doesn't that bug you?
21:25Just a little?
21:25Maybe a little.
21:27But that's not why it bugs you, is it?
21:30Yo, just heard back from the phone company.
21:32Only one call came into the motel room during the four days that it was rented to Scarlett O'Hara.
21:36Oh, let me guess.
21:37Rhett Butler, right?
21:38Rhett Butler?
21:38Can I see what I did there?
21:40Call lasted two minutes.
21:41Came in around the same time that Wilder's exit he went up to the room.
21:44The only one who would have known Wilder was there would have been the woman planning to meet him.
21:47Maybe she called to say she was running late.
21:48Yeah, well, here's the money part.
21:50The call came from Wilder's company.
21:54He was having an affair with someone from work.
21:55Yeah, but unfortunately, the way that they route the calls,
21:58we're only able to narrow it down to an extension on the third floor of his building.
22:01Well, we can rule out all the men, since we know Scarlett was a woman.
22:03Yeah, most likely it was the woman that Wilder was fighting with in his apartment.
22:07There's got to be a way we can figure out who it was.
22:10We can do a sound line up.
22:11Sound line up?
22:12Yeah, we'll bring the guy who overheard the argument,
22:13have him listen to voice samples from all the women on the third floor,
22:15see if he recognizes any of them.
22:16You can do that?
22:18We don't even need to bring any of the women in.
22:19He's patching the voicemail system, pull samples from there.
22:22You guys, if this works, I'll keep you both in shape for a year.
22:27Deal?
22:27Mm-hmm.
22:28Yep.
22:36You found him?
22:37Tixie.
22:37Yeah, we got lucky.
22:39Apparently, Marty the Junkie here is a permanent fixture in that part of the park.
22:43He's panhandling right about where Lucas said he bought the books.
22:46Which Marty's already admitted to selling it to him for a hundred bucks.
22:49Has he admitted to breaking into Wilder's apartment?
22:51Well, that's where things get interesting.
22:53His alibi for the break-in is solid.
22:54He picked up a few extra bucks at his soup kitchen cleaning up after hours.
22:58Claims he found the books in a garbage can.
23:00Says he saw somebody dumping them there a couple hours after a murder.
23:03Which, pretty good bet, that is our killer.
23:05I'm going to sit him down with a sketch artist now.
23:07Come on, Marty.
23:13Any leads on our mystery woman?
23:14Actually, yes.
23:18Hey, you've reached Katie Marks.
23:19I'm not at my desk right now.
23:20Leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
23:23It's not her.
23:24Okay.
23:26Now we'll cue to the next one.
23:28So did Marty the Junkie say you got a good look at who it was at Tasta Books?
23:30Pretty good.
23:31Yeah.
23:33Hopefully one of these two leads will pan out.
23:35Yeah.
23:37Hopefully.
23:38I'm going to go and check on that sketch.
23:44Okay.
23:44How about this one?
23:45Hi, this is Jane.
23:47I'm awake from my desk, so please leave a message.
23:50No dice, huh?
23:51I can't hear you call right now.
23:54So leave your name and number and I'll get back to you.
23:57The next one.
23:58Only three more.
24:01Hi, this is Lisa Jenkins.
24:02If you've reached this, that means I'm out of the office.
24:04Please leave a message.
24:05That's her.
24:06Lisa Jenkins.
24:10That's the woman we interviewed.
24:11You sure?
24:12Yeah, I'm positive.
24:15Remember our deal, Castle?
24:17It was Lisa Jenkins.
24:19Wilder was fighting with Lisa...
24:21Yeah, right.
24:23What?
24:24You know, it's Marty's sketch of the man he saw tossing the books.
24:29Wilder's cousin, Blake.
24:30So we have a witness who says that he heard Lisa Jenkins in a knock-down drag-out with Wilder.
24:40And another one says that he saw Wilder's cousin dumping his books.
24:44But what we don't have from either suspect is motive.
24:47Easy.
24:49Lisa's affair with Wilder went south.
24:51They could no longer work to get the side-by-side, and she didn't want to have to quit her job.
24:55Detective Deming?
24:57Could be anything.
24:58I don't know, maybe Blake didn't like the fact that Wilder grew up to be more successful than him.
25:03Maybe he was sick of getting beat at golf.
25:06Golf? Really?
25:08To be honest with you, I'm not that concerned about a motive right now.
25:11I've got an eyewitness that saw him tossing his cousin's prize book collection the night of the murder.
25:16I have a witness, too.
25:17That heard Wilder fight with someone three days ago. It doesn't mean anything.
25:20Guys.
25:20At least I have a motive.
25:21Yeah, but you can't put your suspect.
25:23Did I miss the bird when you put him on?
25:24Guys!
25:26This isn't a competition.
25:27We've got two good suspects.
25:29Seems to me that we should bring them in and see what they say.
25:35Okay, fine.
25:37Damien and I had an argument at his apartment on Thursday night, but I was not having an affair with him, and I never went to New Jersey to meet him in any motel.
25:44Our witness said that he heard things being thrown, and that Wilder said something about having a gun to his head.
25:51No, no. He was talking about the protesters.
25:54You see, Damien was unhappy because it was taking so long for us to find a new manufacturer, and as head of production, he felt that was on me.
26:01I didn't think it was fair, and things got a little heated.
26:06Could you tell us where you were Sunday night?
26:09I was out for dinner with some friends.
26:12After dinner?
26:13Can you be a little more specific?
26:15Yeah, I can be a lot more specific.
26:17Let's say between 10.34 and 10.52.
26:21I was home.
26:23Alone.
26:24Though I did step out at some point.
26:28My neighborhood has alternate side of the street parking, and I had to move my car, find a different space.
26:34Did anyone see you?
26:35Not that I know of.
26:37And what time was that?
26:39Uh, 10.15, maybe?
26:41You live, what, 10 blocks down Lex from where Wilder lived?
26:45At that hour, that drive would take you two minutes?
26:48I suppose.
26:50I've never really timed it.
26:53Did you see how squirrely she got when you asked her where she was Sunday night?
26:56I'll have Esposito talk to her doorman.
26:58There might be security cam footage that might nail down how long she was gone from her apartment.
27:05Can I sit in?
27:07Yeah, right.
27:08I can't believe that you guys are dragging me down here on the word of some bum,
27:17and then accusing me of murdering my own cousin.
27:20Well, believe me, you'd like nothing more than to be able to rule you out.
27:24Tell me again, you said you were meeting some friends for a drink some night?
27:26Yeah, at McDougan's after 11.
27:29That's about a block away from your cousin's place.
27:31Yeah.
27:32And you say you were at home until you went out to meet your friends?
27:34Yes.
27:36Are you sure about that?
27:37Because I'm going to talk to your doorman.
27:40I don't have one.
27:40Well, I'm going to talk to your neighbors.
27:42I'm going to check your credit card receipts.
27:44If you weren't home when you say you were, I'm going to find out about it.
27:47All right, all right, fine.
27:47I didn't go straight to the bar.
27:49I went to a newsstand and bought some cigarettes, all right?
27:51My friends think that I quit.
27:53But every once in a while I get a craving that I can't put off.
27:56So I went to the ATM, I got some cash, I bought a pack, smoked a few, threw the rest away.
28:01What time was that?
28:03I don't remember.
28:05Well, your ATM will.
28:06You can take a seat.
28:08Excuse us.
28:08You had a newsstand corner at 32nd and Lex.
28:16Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
28:17I'll hold.
28:20Ah, there she is, leaving her building.
28:23Well, time stamp says 1018.
28:25Which would give her plenty of time to jump in her car, get down to Wilder's place by 1034.
28:30Well, we know that the killer left the crime scene at 1052, so the question is, when did she get back?
28:37Yeah, I've got it, thanks.
28:39So the bank confirmed Blake's ATM withdrawal.
28:42And?
28:431039 p.m.
28:45Right smack in the middle of our timeline.
28:47So that means it wasn't him.
28:49Oh, here she is coming home.
28:51Let me just rewind it a little bit.
28:53And what does the timestamp say?
28:561047.
28:58That's inside our timeline.
29:00That's impossible.
29:01It wasn't her either.
29:04I was so sure.
29:05Tell me about it.
29:08You know what, guys?
29:09It's late.
29:10Why don't we just call it a night?
29:13Night.
29:18Hey there.
29:19Hi.
29:20What are you doing here?
29:21Oh, Chet had one of his ghastly political functions.
29:24I needed my stationery.
29:26I'm writing a note to Madge to tell her how brilliant her performance was.
29:29Oh, don't do that.
29:30Why not?
29:31Mother, she's your rival.
29:33You should be crushing her, not giving her comfort.
29:37Are you all right?
29:39Yes.
29:44No.
29:47Give Madge my best.
29:48Oh, good.
29:56We're just in time.
29:56Looks like we caught a break on our Scarlett O'Hara.
29:58You found her?
30:00Found the next best thing, the clerk who checked her into the motel.
30:03Police picked him up at Atlantic City for charges of disorderly conduct.
30:07Morning, sunshine.
30:12Why did you leave town in such a hurry, Benny?
30:14I was feeling lucky.
30:16Wanted to get to the craps table fast as I could.
30:18Did you have a good time down there, Benny?
30:20Dude.
30:20I appreciate you guys inter-rejecting with the police down there on my behest.
30:26Well, we wanted to talk with you.
30:27Oh, I'm happy to help.
30:29One favor, though.
30:30Could you not talk so loud?
30:32My head is killing me.
30:33Last Thursday, you were on duty when a Scarlett O'Hara checked in.
30:41Yeah, I think I remember.
30:43What did she look like?
30:45I would have done her.
30:47Anything else?
30:49Um, she was small for her size.
30:53Do you recognize this man?
30:55Yeah.
30:56That guy's a total nut bar.
30:59Last week, think it was Thursday, matter of fact.
31:02He pulls into the motel in a fancy foreign job.
31:05He goes straight up to the corner room on the second floor.
31:08A couple minutes later, he charges down.
31:10Starts asking me all the same questions you were asking me.
31:13Who rented the room?
31:15What did she look like?
31:17He didn't know?
31:18That's what I said.
31:19I told him.
31:20If he had to ask me whose room it was,
31:23he shouldn't be going in there in the first place.
31:25He stomped off, got in his car, he left.
31:28Boom.
31:29Never saw him again.
31:30And you won't either.
31:32He was murdered Sunday night.
31:34With that kind of attitude, this is not surprising.
31:38Well, if I've answered all your queries to your satisfaction, am I free to go?
31:41Just one more query, if you don't mind.
31:43According to the Atlantic City Police,
31:45you were arrested in the diamond lounge of a strip club
31:48for trying to set a rodeo clown on fire.
31:51That was a misunderstanding.
31:52My question is, how does a $9 an hour hotel clerk pay for a $500 an hour VIP lounge?
31:58I wanted crafts.
32:00Like I said, I was feeling lucky.
32:03Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
32:05That's a Damien Wilder bag.
32:07Who?
32:08That's the guy who was killed.
32:09Where'd you get that?
32:10Where'd you get it, Benny?
32:12Please, just not so long.
32:13Where did you get it?
32:14I found it in the room.
32:16Scarlett O'Hara's room?
32:18After check-out on the fourth day, I went up there on account of she never returned the key.
32:22The room was like nobody had even been there.
32:24The bed was made.
32:25Towels were on the rack.
32:26I gave it a quick once-over.
32:28Figured I'd tell housekeeping not to bother going in.
32:31I found the bag under the bed.
32:33And what was in it?
32:35What was in it?
32:37Ah!
32:38There was money.
32:40Lots of it.
32:41How much?
32:4475 grand.
32:46Fair.
32:47Did you blow it all, Benny?
32:49It was the best three days of my life.
32:52A duffel bag full of cash, an anonymous hotel room, and an angry Wilder.
32:56All of that adds up to only one thing.
32:59Blackmail.
33:00It's the only scenario that makes sense.
33:01So the blackmailer contacts Wilder with instructions to meet at the motel at a certain time.
33:07Probably to show him proof of whatever it is she has against him.
33:10But she doesn't want him to know who she is or that she works at his company.
33:13So she calls into the room, makes her demands by phone.
33:16He confronts the clerk trying to figure out who it is that's extorting him.
33:18At some point in time, Wilder returns to the room with a duffel bag full of cash, puts it under the bed as instructed.
33:23Only Benny makes off with the money before the blackmailer's had a chance to pick it up.
33:26Making for one angry blackmailer.
33:28Angry enough to kill.
33:35Nope, not her either.
33:37Man, this dead guy had a lot of good-looking babes working for him.
33:40Any of them are Scarlett O'Hara?
33:41Not her or her, but I'd do her.
33:46Not her who I would not do.
33:48Not her, I would maybe do her.
33:53Hey, look!
33:55It's her!
33:56You're sure this is the woman who rented the room?
33:58Yes.
34:00Rebecca Strong.
34:01She's a lab tech at the company.
34:04Oh, she's got cruel eyes.
34:07I bet she enjoyed watching Wilder suffer.
34:09What did she say?
34:16What was I thinking?
34:17I should have stayed out of it.
34:18It's cry talk.
34:19There's not a girl alive who hasn't heard it from a sobbing, heartbroken girlfriend.
34:23What should you have stayed out of, Rebecca?
34:25The blackmail?
34:26You tried to do the right thing?
34:31Well, who wouldn't listen?
34:33Did you have an accomplice?
34:34It was just me.
34:36Well, then what is this all about?
34:40Benzophiosopheme!
34:42I'm sorry, I didn't get that one.
34:45Benzophiosopheme.
34:46That's not cry talk.
34:47It sounds like a chemical compound.
34:49You work in product testing, right?
34:51Were they using benzophiosopheme in a company product?
34:55Is there some kind of problem with it?
34:57Is that what the blackmail was about?
34:59So then when you said that you were trying to do the right thing,
35:01did you approach your superiors about the problem?
35:03Yes.
35:04And did Wilder do anything about it?
35:05No.
35:06He came out with a product that has benzophiosopheme in it anyway.
35:10Exactly.
35:11Well, how bad is this stuff?
35:12It can cause capillary damage if you use it long enough.
35:16So then you figured if they weren't going to listen to you, why not cash in on it?
35:20And then you threatened to make it public if Wilder didn't give you $75,000.
35:26Yes.
35:27Well, you were in over your head, Rebecca.
35:29I know.
35:30And I want to make things right if I can.
35:32It's too late for that now.
35:33What if I gave it back?
35:34You killed a man.
35:35I still have the money.
35:37You still have the money?
35:37I killed a man?
35:39Damien Wilder.
35:39I didn't kill Mr. Wilder.
35:42You have the money?
35:43It's still in the double bag that I got from under the bed.
35:46Wait, the money from the motel room?
35:48$75,000!
35:50Well, then the money that Benny found.
35:54Where did it come from?
35:57$75,000.
35:58It was in her hall closet, just like she said it'd be.
36:01Two blackmail payoffs?
36:02I don't get it.
36:03Rebecca must have missed the second duffel bag under the bed when she went to pick up the money.
36:07Which is why Benny found it when he went back there later.
36:09Yeah, but we looked through Wilder's financials with a fine-tooth comb.
36:12There was nothing in there to suggest that he pulled that kind of cash.
36:15It's hard to imagine he had it just lying around.
36:18What would happen if Wilder didn't pay the blackmailer?
36:20Well, that would mean letting the capillary damage issue go public.
36:23What if he didn't care?
36:24What if he wanted to do the right thing and pull the product,
36:27even if it meant a huge financial hit and possible litigation?
36:30Then anyone with a financial stake in the company would have incentive to keep that from happening.
36:35And the surest way to do that would be to kill Wilder and pay off the blackmailer.
36:39So the cousin would have company stock worth a fortune from when he lent Wilder the startup money.
36:43Yeah, but we know he didn't do it.
36:45And then Lisa Jenkins could be looking at criminal liability if it got out that she let a dangerous product go to market.
36:50Yeah, but we know she didn't do it either.
36:51Well, something doesn't make sense here.
36:53Castle.
36:54Hey.
36:56Uh-uh. Come here.
36:59Hey.
37:00Uh, what's wrong, guys?
37:05Menzophilosophy.
37:08Oh, no. Not the shave cream.
37:10Yeah, and the shave cream.
37:11It says here right on the can.
37:13Ah!
37:13That's how they get it to come out hot.
37:15Might as well just be shaved with napalm, bro.
37:18Well, she said it only does damage long term.
37:20You guys have only used it the one time.
37:22I'm still on my first can.
37:23Could have ended up with irreversible capillary damage.
37:27I pers-
37:28The timeline's wrong.
37:30Exactly.
37:31There wasn't time to do any damage.
37:32No, for the murder.
37:33What are you talking about?
37:36What is she talking about?
37:37I don't know.
37:38Where are you going?
37:39Wilder's apartment.
37:40I know who did it.
37:42I know who killed him.
37:43Who?
37:43Who?
37:43I just shot Damien Wilder in the chest.
37:57And he's bleeding out.
37:59It's dark.
38:01But I still managed to sop up some of the blood.
38:04And I head over here to start writing the message implicating the protesters.
38:11But it takes longer than I thought it would because I keep having to go back in order to get more blood.
38:17And then all of a sudden I hear a noise out the back.
38:19So I stop and I think to myself, you know what?
38:24I better get the hell out of here.
38:25Hold on.
38:25You're forgetting about the bludgeoning part.
38:27I walk out the front door and I let it lock behind me.
38:31I race across the street.
38:33I hail a cab and it's about 1040.
38:36Yeah, but now you're forgetting about the stolen books.
38:38The noise outside.
38:39You're thinking there was someone else.
38:41Someone who had no idea that Wilder had already been shot.
38:44Someone who came in through the back into the bedroom and in the dark found a heavy object and bludgeoned him in his bed.
38:52Two killers.
38:53So it's the second killer who steals the books.
38:56And then getting those books out of this display case takes a few minutes.
39:02After which it's out the door and it's 1052.
39:06Giving the first killer more than enough time to get home where she can be seen by, let's say, a security camera.
39:11And the second killer wouldn't appear to be involved if he was, say, buying cigarettes when the gunshot went off.
39:18Lisa and Blake came here separately to kill Wilder and by doing that they both inadvertently alibied each other out.
39:25They both knew it was their only chance to stop Wilder before he stepped forward.
39:29The press conference he had called was not about animal rights.
39:33He was about to announce a product recall.
39:35And they each decided they couldn't let that happen.
39:38They both killed him and they both paid the blackmailer, which means they both had to raise a lot of money and not a lot of time.
39:49We found withdrawals from bank accounts, money market funds, even 401ks, all of it totaling $75,000 from each one of them.
39:57They didn't cover their tracks because they didn't think anyone would get onto the blackmail and come looking.
40:01It turns out Blake was leveraged in debt up to his eyeballs.
40:03If the company stock had taken a hit, the whole house of cards would have fallen.
40:08And her?
40:09She didn't want to serve time.
40:10She's the one who sat on initial reports that there were problems with the shaving cream.
40:14Poor Wilder.
40:15Tried to do the right thing and gets himself killed.
40:17Mm-hmm.
40:18Castle and Deming were right about the two of them all along.
40:20Nice of you to give them both the satisfaction of taking down their suspect.
40:24Well, it's the least I could do.
40:26Male vanity being what it is.
40:33Hey.
40:42Hey.
40:44So listen, thanks.
40:46Thanks for your help on this one.
40:48Oh, you know, same team.
40:55Guess we'll see you around.
40:57Yeah.
41:03One murder, two killers.
41:10That's something you don't see every day.
41:11Yeah.
41:12That's definitely another one for the record books.
41:14You guys seen Beckett?
41:15I wanted to congratulate you.
41:16She doesn't want to crack this one open.
41:18I think she's in the back processing the charges.
41:20Thanks.
41:24Oh, bank all night.
41:26No, but net, though.
41:26All that bank.
41:27I need your help.
41:29Don't leave me down here.
41:36I will buy myself.
41:43And if I fall in clash and fear,
41:48At least three points know that I'm trying.
41:52And as I crawl, let's listen to her.
41:58Yeah, they remind me I'm surprised.
42:02And I've been hurt.
42:05Yeah.