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Castle Season 2 Episode 14

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