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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? I'm Rick Castle. Castle. Castle. I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:11Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine. Detective Kate Beckett. Beckett. Beckett. Nikki Heath.
00:16The character he's basing on you. And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:21I'd be happy to let you spank me. And together we catch killers.
00:24Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch. Turner and Hooch.
00:28You do remind me a little of Hoot.
00:55Sorry! Sorry! What the hell is wrong with you?
00:57Can't you see I'm driving here?
00:59Oh!
01:00I won't know what you kar-
01:25is 14 inches.
01:29What are you doing?
01:31We're studying the practical application of science
01:33at school. I'm focusing on forensics.
01:35Specifically, the physics of spatter patterns.
01:39Oh. What's wrong?
01:42We usually do all your science projects together.
01:44You remember the volcano we made?
01:46The flatulent robot?
01:47Ew. I'm sorry, Dad.
01:49I just got excited about it and you weren't here.
01:53That's okay. I can help you finish.
01:54Yeah.
01:58Beckett?
02:00Yeah. Um...
02:02I can stay home.
02:04Go ahead. I'll be fine without you.
02:08Point five.
02:10Severe concussion.
02:16I guess I don't have to ask about cause of death.
02:18He's not even my first death by fallen object this month.
02:21Two weeks ago, an investment banker took a frozen sausage to the head from a tenth floor window ledge.
02:26It was a pretty old building. Maybe it just fell.
02:29Maybe I got a little help from someone. There's markings here on the stone.
02:31What, a chisel?
02:33Or a crowbar.
02:34I found marks up on the parapet as well. I got CSU dusting it for prints.
02:38That's a long way to go for a murder. Who'd want to drop a gargoyle on someone?
02:41Unless someone wants to make it look like an accident.
02:43I'd have to make sure our victim stood there for long enough.
02:46Had someone tampered with the front door lock when you guys arrived?
02:48Give that man a prize. Yeah, we had to pop the lock to get in the building.
02:52Super says our victim's name is Will Medina.
02:55He's got an apartment up on four, and guess who's got the keys?
02:58I do.
03:02This place looks like a museum.
03:04Well, that's because Mr. Medina was the associate curator at the New York History Museum.
03:09Yeah. That would explain this.
03:11But I thought a hundred-inch flat screen would be the ultimate bachelor accessory.
03:15Well, he wasn't a total bachelor.
03:16What makes you think that?
03:17The second toothbrush in the bathroom.
03:21The scented candle in the tub?
03:23The pair of high heels under his bed, all suggesting that he was in a casual but steady relationship.
03:28Hmm.
03:29Nicely played.
03:30However, I do think you misjudged the relationship only slightly.
03:34Eat, pray, love.
03:36Judging from the condition, I'd say she's read it more than once.
03:40Meaning that she's a woman on the other side of a search for identity.
03:43A romantic.
03:44Someone who wouldn't be satisfied with just a casual relationship.
03:48And who's to say that that book isn't his?
03:51Oh, I love that book.
03:53A neighbor on two says the front door worked just fine at seven o'clock.
03:56Which means that the killer must have tampered with it after then.
03:59Beckett, calendar.
04:01Check out today's date.
04:04CT 530, 1127 Avenue of the Americas.
04:07530, that's two hours before the murder.
04:09It's an office building downtown.
04:11Let's check it out after we finish our sweep.
04:12Okay.
04:13You know, we might want to swing down by the museum.
04:15See if any of his colleagues can shed some light on who might want to drop a gargoyle on Mr. Medina's head.
04:20Either you're being a good cop or you just want to go to the museum.
04:23They have dinosaurs there.
04:25Oh.
04:26Oh man, I love this place.
04:33When Alexis was little, we used to come here every Sunday.
04:35We would run around here for hours pretending like we were safari in Africa or looking for dinosaurs in China.
04:41You know, Castle, sometimes I forget that you have such a capacity for pure innocence in your life.
04:46Yeah.
04:47Plus it was a great place to pick up chicks.
04:49And then you open your mouth and you ruin it.
04:51Hi.
04:52I need to speak with someone about Will Medina.
04:54I just can't believe Will's dead.
04:56Dr. Reince, how long did you and Mr. Medina know each other?
04:58Two years.
04:59The first thing I did when I got the job as museum curator was to hire him away from the U.S. Geographic Institute to lead the Conchul expedition.
05:06Conchul?
05:07The legendary Mayan king.
05:10What you see here represents the single most important archaeological find in Mayan history.
05:15His burial chamber, where he was entombed with a dozen of his mummified slaves.
05:19So, kind of like a Mayan king tut?
05:22Exactly.
05:23You know, the exhibit opens in less than a month.
05:25I can't imagine having to do it without Will.
05:27He's the one that discovered the site.
05:29And when was the last time you saw Mr. Medina?
05:314.30 today.
05:32And how well did the two of you know each other?
05:35Why?
05:36I'm gonna have to contact his next of kin.
05:38His parents are both dead and I believe he was an only child.
05:41And what about his girlfriend?
05:43Last I heard he was single.
05:57The last time he was dead.
05:58He was a child.
05:59The only Alzheimer's wonder my son was dead.
06:01But that was when he was dead.
06:02But that was old.
06:03And, he's still alive.
06:04And, you know, he was young.
06:05He wasпри enterprises and other people knew everything.
06:06But he was fear of being slʃ은.
06:08And he was not dead.
06:10He was unable to die.
06:11And he was unable to die.
06:12He was a man to die.
06:13And, he had to die.
06:14And he's a friend of men.
06:15He killed his parents.
06:16He killed his children.
06:17And he killed him.
06:18And he killed him.
06:19He killed himself and they killed him.
06:20What are you doing?
06:33His mummy is over 2,000 years old.
06:36Exposure to air in an unfiltered environment could be catastrophic.
06:39Sorry, I didn't know this.
06:41Rachel, it's okay. He's with the police.
06:43Rachel Walters is our mummification expert.
06:46She worked with Will.
06:47Did something happen to him?
06:48Um, he was killed earlier tonight.
06:52But that's not possible.
06:54Were the two of you close?
06:55Only professionally. Stanford...
06:58Doesn't mean anything.
06:59It's just a terrible accident.
07:01Actually, we believe he was murdered.
07:03It wasn't murder.
07:06It was the curse.
07:09Detective Beckett, Mr. Castle, Rupert Bentley,
07:12our co-financier of the expedition.
07:14I'm sorry, did you say curse?
07:16Tell them, Stanford.
07:18Tell them what was written at the entrance to the burial chamber.
07:22All who gaze on the face of the Mayan king shall be struck down by his wrath.
07:26Mayan king?
07:28This Mayan king?
07:30That very one.
07:31They all looked inside, and they were all dead.
07:34There were other incidents?
07:35All easily explainable.
07:37One of our grad students, Nicole Graham, was mauled to death by a jaguar outside the dig site.
07:42And Professor Fisher died of dengue fever.
07:44Which is common in that region, as are curses written above grave sites.
07:48It's how they kept people from robbing them for thousands of years.
07:51Well, I can assure you that whatever killed Mr. Medina was very human.
07:54Do you know if he had any enemies?
07:56Will was passionate.
07:58Nothing could stop him from getting what he wanted.
08:00It's what made him such a great archaeologist, but it also rubbed some people the wrong way.
08:05And what do you mean?
08:06The indigenous Mayans he worked with claimed that he tricked them into revealing the location of the burial site.
08:11He'd received death threats.
08:12And how do you know that?
08:14I'd received one, too.
08:19It's written in ancient Mayan.
08:24This is just like the one that we found in Medina's apartment.
08:26What does it say?
08:28Death awaits the robber of graves.
08:42That's a lot.
08:51They didn't find any fingerprints on either one of the death threats.
08:53Which means all we've got to go on is the postmark.
08:57So we're looking for an angry Mayan who mailed a death threat from Spanish Harlem three days ago.
09:02How tough can that be?
09:03Well, I called the Mexican embassy and asked them to put their feelers out to the indigenous rights community.
09:08You never know.
09:08You might get a decent tip.
09:09You know this guy Medina?
09:11When he was a grad student, he walked into the Amazon.
09:14Nothing but a backpack and some satellite images.
09:16He walked out a month later with the golden head of Yash Pak.
09:20This guy is like Indiana Jones, but with space age technology.
09:24Oh, which would have been such a better movie than that last one.
09:26Hey, thank you.
09:27Hey, did you guys get lucky with the mysterious CT?
09:29Eight people with the initial CT work out of 1127 Avenue of the Americas.
09:34None of them have heard of Medina.
09:35And there's a coffee shop on the ground floor.
09:37Maybe he met CT there, but none of the waitresses recognized Medina's photograph.
09:41Anything on the girlfriend?
09:42No one from the museum can even verify that Medina had a girlfriend.
09:46And 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.
09:52Hmm.
09:53You know why?
09:53Why?
09:54Because the castle's cursed.
10:00You had to tell them, did you?
10:01Yes.
10:02Yes, I did.
10:04Well, gentlemen, you'll be happy to know I don't believe in curses.
10:08Seriously, bro.
10:10I saw a special on TV.
10:12A bunch of the guys who found King Tut's tomb ended up dying under weird circumstances.
10:16Yes, and there was an explanation for that.
10:17Evidence shows that some toxins were released when they opened the sarcophagus.
10:22Well, didn't you say that that mummy smelled kind of funny?
10:24Well, yes, but there's...
10:25And you did gaze upon the face of the mummy.
10:33You guys, there is no curse.
10:36Ow!
10:38Paper cut.
10:39Hmm.
10:40Yes, the curse gave me a paper cut.
10:44These things start small, and they snowball.
10:46Hmm.
10:47Yep.
10:47My will always said,
10:49la mala suerte viene de tres en tres.
10:52Bad luck always comes in threes.
10:53Threes like celebrities.
10:54They always die in threes.
10:57Living in the dark ages here.
11:00Why don't you guys check with Lainey and see if she found anything, okay?
11:02Mm-hmm.
11:03Medina's cell phone.
11:11It was in his jacket pocket.
11:13Dal gargoyle attack was covered under his warranty.
11:16Get up, the phone warranty.
11:18I'll have tech to pull the SIM card.
11:20Speaking of gargoyles,
11:22we found trace amounts of a substance by the chisel markings.
11:24It was probably on the killer's clothes
11:26and was transferred to the statue when he pushed it over.
11:29What is it?
11:30The lab says they've never seen anything like it.
11:31It's a mixture of mostly organic compounds,
11:35including trace amounts of pollen.
11:37Medina's apartment's not far from the park.
11:39Maybe 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
11:45that only grows in the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula.
11:48Where the dig site was.
11:49Oh, it gets better.
11:50We found trace amounts of the same pollen
11:53on both death threats.
11:56It'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.
12:07Uh, yes, we'll hold.
12:10Why is this taking so long?
12:12How many Mayans from the Yucatan lowlands
12:13could possibly have blown into the New York area in the last few days?
12:16TSA computers are down.
12:17Oh.
12:18Well, 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
12:30so they couldn't come back from the grave and get them.
12:31Yes, yes, yes.
12:33Scary mummy.
12:34I get it.
12:34Thank you, sir.
12:40You okay?
12:40Yeah.
12:41Yeah, it's an old chair, that's all.
12:43Just, uh, keep telling yourself that.
12:46Hi, you there?
12:47Yes.
12:48Okay.
12:49Uh, great.
12:50Could you fax it over right away?
12:51Thanks.
12:53TSA reports that a Mayan named Chakate
12:55arrived in JFK four days ago on a tourist visa.
12:58Chakate?
12:58Chakate?
12:59CT?
12:59His visa application puts his home address
13:01right in the middle of our pollen zone.
13:06I'm guessing that guy was not Glasgow Island in high school.
13:09This is a local address.
13:10Let's go get him.
13:11Can I drive?
13:12No.
13:16Can we call you Mr. T?
13:19It's Tay.
13:21Chakate.
13:22You've got quite a resume, Mr. T.
13:24According to the Mexican embassy,
13:25you were arrested in 2007
13:27for assaulting a group of tourists.
13:30They were trespassing on sacred Mayan soil.
13:33You sent two of them to the hospital.
13:35Things got out of hand,
13:36but that's not why I'm here, is it?
13:38Sending death threats through the U.S. mail
13:40is a felony.
13:41Oh, and so is murder,
13:43or as your ancestors like to call it,
13:45human sacrifice.
13:47I don't know what you're talking about.
13:48Does this jog your memory?
13:53Medina refused to see me when I went to the museum.
13:56I sent that because he left me no other choice,
13:59and he needed to be told
14:01that the museum must return the artifacts
14:03that they stole from my people.
14:05Those items weren't stolen.
14:06Your government made a deal with the museum.
14:08But not with us.
14:10The Mayans are not a dead race.
14:12There are seven million of us
14:13in Mexico and Central America,
14:15the direct descendants of Khan Shoal.
14:17His remains and all that was buried with him
14:19belonged to us.
14:20Is that why you sent the death threat to Medina?
14:22It wasn't a threat.
14:24It was a reminder
14:25of the fate that awaited him
14:27if he did not return what he stole.
14:29Where were you last night between seven and eight?
14:31I didn't kill him.
14:33I didn't need to.
14:36Because all who suffer from the mummy's curse
14:38are doomed to die.
14:43Hey, Beckett.
14:45Looks like Chikate isn't our CT after all.
14:48He was uptown meeting with a Telemunda reporter
14:50about the injustice of the exhibit at 5.30.
14:54He didn't finish until after 8.00.
14:55Well, what about the pollen?
14:56Turns out the area where the expedition was camped
14:58would have been covered with this stuff.
15:00Laney says it's a safe bet
15:01that there's traces of it all over the exhibit.
15:02Okay, but let's hold him on the death threats.
15:04I got a feeling he knows more than he's letting on.
15:06Content's in Medina's phone.
15:08There's nothing interesting in the call list
15:09or the calendar,
15:10but we hit the girlfriend jackpot with the photos.
15:13He's sleeping with a mummy?
15:15Yeah. What?
15:16No.
15:17Oh, sorry.
15:18You have to flip to the last one.
15:20Bam.
15:22That's Rachel Walters.
15:23No one at the museum knew they were seeing each other?
15:25Maybe she's got something to hide.
15:27Like murder?
15:39Started after we got back from Mexico.
15:41Why did you lie to everyone?
15:43I didn't want to get fired.
15:44Why would Stanford fire you?
15:46Because he and Will hated each other.
15:48Why?
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
15:58in such a hostile environment.
16:00When Nicole died, Stanford was devastated.
16:03He felt Will had betrayed his trust,
16:05letting her go alone to the jungle at night.
16:07Ever since we got back,
16:08Stanford's been trying to get rid of Will.
16:10But he can't,
16:12because Will's the one who discovered the burial chamber.
16:14Do you think he would have gone as far as murder
16:16to get rid of Will?
16:17Stanford told me that Will is the one
16:23that should have died that night,
16:24not Nicole.
16:27The fact that Will and I didn't get along
16:29doesn't mean I killed him.
16:30Not getting along with someone
16:31is a lot different than blaming him
16:32for a girl's death.
16:33You thought he should have done
16:34a better job watching over her.
16:36No, I thought he shouldn't be sneaking
16:37into the jungle to have sex with her.
16:39That's why she was out there the night she died.
16:42Only Will stood her up,
16:43and she paid the price.
16:44And how do you know this?
16:46I 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.
16:53That girl had a bright future,
16:55and his carelessness took it from her.
16:57Where were you when Medina was killed?
16:59Right here, working.
17:00You check with security,
17:01ask the staff.
17:02I'm basically living here
17:04until the exhibit launches.
17:05Great, then we'll know where to find you
17:06in case your alibi doesn't check out.
17:10What happened to Will wasn't the curse.
17:12It was karma.
17:14Do you believe that people get what they deserve?
17:21Well, if they do,
17:22then I must have done something pretty terrible
17:23to be punished with you.
17:25Funny.
17:27Mr. Castle?
17:28Detective?
17:30Seen our new ad campaign?
17:32Do you dare see
17:33the mummy of the Mayan king?
17:37Tasteful.
17:38Come 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 20%.
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?
17:53Then they're going to sue you.
17:54I have to make a call.
18:00Okay, thanks, Bill.
18:02Did you get a confirmation on Stanford's and Rachel's alibis?
18:05Museum security has them both logged in,
18:07but I haven't been able to find anyone
18:09who can definitively state that Stanford or Rachel
18:11were there during the hour it would have taken
18:12to kill Will and get back to the museum.
18:14Yo, I think I found something.
18:17Turns out our victim deposited 10 grand
18:19into his bank account four days before he was killed.
18:21Where did he get that kind of money?
18:22Unknown, but he withdrew the same amount
18:24the morning he died.
18:2510,000 in, 10,000 out.
18:26Sounds like he was laundering money to me.
18:28Okay, you guys check with the bank
18:29first thing in the morning.
18:30Let's see where that money came from.
18:32No!
18:32Wait!
18:39What happened?
18:40I don't know.
18:40I was going to make a coffee
18:42and the cappuccino machine started shaking
18:45and just as I hit the deck, it exploded.
18:48You could have been killed.
18:48I know!
18:59Oh, very, okay.
19:01Very funny.
19:02Yes, you got me.
19:04No, I'm Castle.
19:05I don't believe in curses.
19:08What, did you get the bomb disposal
19:09to rig something up?
19:10Yeah, it was all flash and no damage.
19:13And the chair?
19:13I just pulled a couple of screws
19:15and let gravity do the rust.
19:17Night Castle.
19:21I'm not cleaning this up!
19:26Better clean this up.
19:30That was so mean.
19:32Oh, I knew the whole time.
19:33Oh, sure you did.
19:34You know, there are some mysteries
19:36that science can't explain,
19:37like Stonehenge and Deja Vu.
19:39And some curses are real,
19:40like the Scottish play.
19:42Oh, here we go.
19:44There's no one more superstitious
19:45than an actor.
19:47Scottish play?
19:48Are you talking about Macbeth?
19:49No, darling!
19:50You never say the name.
19:52Macbeth!
19:52No!
19:52To do so is to invite grave misfortune.
19:58No, I am serious.
19:59You know, I didn't know it at the time.
20:01I was in my high school drama class.
20:02I said the name.
20:03I wasn't thinking.
20:04For the next two days, nothing went right.
20:07I mean, Lady Macbeth twisted her ankle.
20:09The three witches caught pneumonia.
20:11Finally, the director said,
20:12all right, this is what you have to do.
20:13I had to run around the outside
20:15of the theater building counterclockwise,
20:17knock on the door till someone let me in.
20:18Well, I'd love to stand around
20:23and tell scary stories all day
20:24because I'm really good at it.
20:25But I have a date
20:26with a murder investigation.
20:30It's lucky your father
20:31doesn't believe in the curse.
20:32Why?
20:33Because he's going into a building
20:34full of guns.
20:35I heard that.
20:38Hey, guys,
20:39what did you find out at Medina's bank?
20:40Well, it turns out the deposit
20:41and the withdrawal
20:42were both made in cash.
20:43The bank manager remembers the withdrawal
20:45because he had to personally authorize it.
20:46The bank manager was pretty sure
20:47Medina was with somebody
20:48at the time,
20:49so he pulled a surveillance video
20:50revealing this shining example of thuggery.
20:53Any idea who he is?
20:54Do you want to?
20:55No, bro, you caught it.
20:56You sure?
20:56Yeah, it sure is.
20:57Go ahead.
20:57You know, whenever you guys
20:58are done being cute.
21:03No, he didn't.
21:04Yeah, he did.
21:05Aruba is nice this time of year.
21:07Meet Mr. Norton Grimes,
21:08who recently had the privilege
21:09of doing two years
21:10for drug trafficking
21:10at Franklin Correctional.
21:12That's what the money was for.
21:13Mexico is cocaine central.
21:15What better way to sneak drugs
21:16into the country
21:17other than inside
21:17an archeological shipment?
21:18Medina was in bed
21:19with a drug trafficker.
21:20Got him killed.
21:21You know, there's a current address here.
21:23Let's say we go see if he's awake.
21:24Okay.
21:27Come on, Castle, let's go.
21:28Can I drive?
21:29Are you kidding?
21:30You're cursed.
21:39I got two uniforms posted out back
21:41in 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.
21:46I'm good to go.
21:47Okay.
21:48Ready?
21:53NYPD!
21:54Norton Grimes, police!
21:55Show me your hand!
21:58Police, doggy.
21:59Good doggy!
21:59Whoa!
22:00Ow!
22:00He got me!
22:01He got me!
22:01Castle, run!
22:03Come on!
22:04Police, police!
22:05Oh, my God!
22:06Oh, my God!
22:06You're sorry.
22:07Police, okay, come on!
22:09Okay, police!
22:10Okay, police!
22:12Okay, police!
22:12What is your...
22:16Right this way, Mr. Grimes.
22:24I could have been killed.
22:25But you weren't.
22:27Look, you go through enough doors,
22:29at some point you're gonna find a dog on the other side.
22:31Yes, but it didn't happen at some point, did it?
22:33It happened today,
22:33right after I gazed into the face of the mummy.
22:35Okay, I admit that the timing was a little troublesome,
22:37but I promise you there is no curse.
22:40Beckett.
22:40Oh, hey, it's Lainey.
22:44Okay.
22:47Right.
22:49Well, what does that mean?
22:51What?
22:52Are you sure?
22:53What?
22:53Thanks.
22:54What?
22:55What'd she say?
22:56Nothing.
22:57It was not nothing.
23:01Okay, fine.
23:02The lab identified the substance found on the gargoyle,
23:05and it was a combination of sodium nitrate iron oxide,
23:08decomposed hemp fibers, and red tissue.
23:11I'm sorry, what?
23:13Ancient human tissue.
23:15Mummified tissue?
23:17Like mummy flesh?
23:18Which means at some point,
23:20our killer came into contact with the mummies
23:23and somehow transferred the substance
23:25onto his or her clothing
23:26before killing Medina.
23:27Or maybe mummy himself
23:30has risen from the grave
23:31and is roaming New York seeking vengeance.
23:35I'm kidding.
23:39Sort of.
23:40You know,
23:41if Medina was trafficking drugs
23:43for Grimes through the sarcophagus,
23:46then maybe Grimes got the substance on himself
23:48when he went to get the drugs out.
23:50Do you mind flying solo on this one
23:58while I head home and change my clothes?
24:00I think I can manage.
24:02Hey, Castle.
24:05Watch out for the mummy.
24:06Really?
24:13Dog attack?
24:14Ice and run to kill.
24:15Yeah, it was so light little bonus, wasn't it?
24:17Had to mess with the curse, didn't you?
24:18I'm trying to be funny.
24:20You know what kind of hell I'd catch
24:21if Castle got eaten in the line of duty?
24:22Don't tell me you really believe in that stuff, sir.
24:24You know what I believe in, Detective?
24:26That there's no upside
24:27in screwing with things that you can't explain.
24:29First year of homicide, right?
24:31My partner tackles a suspect
24:32through the window of a gypsy smoke shop.
24:34Owner's furious.
24:35Threatens all kind of hexes on our houses
24:37if we don't personally go and clean it up.
24:39And we tell her to take it out with the city.
24:42Two hours later, my partner drops dead.
24:44Heart attack.
24:46And you think it was the hexes?
24:47No.
24:48Man ate bacon with every meal.
24:50But next morning,
24:52went over there, fixed that window.
24:53And you know why?
24:55Because there's no upside
24:56in screwing with things you can't explain?
24:58And don't you ever forget it.
25:00Okay.
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.
25:15That's funny.
25:16Because I've got surveillance photos
25:19showing you taking $10,000 in cash
25:21from Will Medina the day that he was murdered.
25:24And given your rap sheet,
25:26I don't think it would be too difficult
25:28to convince a jury that you were involved.
25:30Okay, okay, hold on.
25:32I didn't murder anyone.
25:33And I don't smuggle drugs anymore.
25:35I use my connections to get a new gig.
25:38Antiquities.
25:40Really?
25:41And why would Will Medina
25:43be buying antiquities from you?
25:46Not buying, selling.
25:48I met him at a museum fundraiser last year.
25:50I gave him my card.
25:51I told him I'm always interested in rare items
25:53that may need a new home.
25:54He gave me a call a few weeks later.
25:55He said he had a box of Incan arrowheads.
25:58He's just been sitting on the shelf
25:59since the 1940s.
26:00I found him a buyer
26:01and we made a nice little profit.
26:03And what were you buying this time?
26:06A mummy.
26:07A mummy?
26:09Who would want a mummy?
26:11A collector in Taipei.
26:12So I stopped by the museum.
26:14I thought he would say no.
26:15But he jumped at the opportunity.
26:17Did he ever think that somebody
26:19noticed this missing mummy?
26:20He said all the attention was being paid
26:22to the mummy of the Mayan king.
26:24Not to slave girl number six.
26:26She 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,
26:33it could never be linked to him.
26:35And this $10,000 was a down payment?
26:37Of a quarter million dollar payout.
26:39But then you showed up
26:40and you took it back.
26:41Why?
26:41My client changed their mind.
26:44Guess they didn't like the mummy.
26:45Why not?
26:47I don't know.
26:48All I know is they sent someone down
26:50to the museum to take a look.
26:51Who did he send?
26:52I have no idea.
26:53I swear.
26:55Whatever they told him turned my client off.
26:57Maybe the mummy was too short.
26:59Maybe it didn't have enough teeth.
27:01These private collectors are very particular.
27:04They want exactly what they want
27:05and nothing else.
27:07Selling mummies?
27:09How stupid does he think we are?
27:10I know.
27:10The drug story is a hell of a lot more plausible,
27:13but it just doesn't seem to be Medina's style.
27:15There's one way to find out.
27:16Take samples from this mummy sarcophagus.
27:18You have a test positive for drugs.
27:20Grimes is lying.
27:21Most likely I'm a murderer.
27:22Great.
27:22Thanks.
27:30Hey.
27:32What are you doing home?
27:33Facing my mortality.
27:34All this curse stuff has got me thinking
27:38if something were to happen to me,
27:40you'd take good care of Alexis, right?
27:41Of course.
27:42Better than you took care of me.
27:44Oh, please.
27:45You turned out fine.
27:46Look, look, look.
27:47The chances of this curse being real
27:49are almost non-existent.
27:51You know that.
27:52Maybe.
27:53What kind of father would I be
27:54if I didn't do everything I could
27:57to make sure I stick around?
27:58Well, then I think maybe we should try
28:00to figure out a way to, um,
28:02reverse the curse.
28:04You know, the mummy equivalent
28:05of my running around the theater.
28:07Someone at the museum must know that.
28:12You've become very wise in your old age.
28:15Watch it, Buster.
28:17I'm afraid there's nothing in the literature
28:19about reversing the curse.
28:21Hey.
28:22Castle, what are you doing here?
28:24Oh, nothing.
28:25Just waiting for you.
28:27Detectives, you here to talk
28:28about reversing the curse as well?
28:29No, I'm here to see a man about a mummy.
28:32So, no luck with the curse, huh?
28:34Look on the bright side castle.
28:35You die, your book sales skyrocket.
28:36Great.
28:37What did Beckett mean,
28:38see a man about a mummy?
28:39Which mummy?
28:39The one Grimes said Medina was trying to sell.
28:42Fill me in.
28:43Spare no detail.
28:44Well, in some ancient cultures,
28:46instead of burning a berry...
28:47Fast forward a little bit.
28:48Detective, this is a significant
28:49archaeological find.
28:50You can't just walk in here
28:51and open it up.
28:52I've got a warrant that says otherwise.
28:54This is preposterous.
28:55Tell that to the drug dealer
28:56in my lockup
28:57who was doing business
28:58with your associate curator.
29:00Please.
29:01I just have to reiterate
29:02how fragile these mummies are.
29:04They should only be handled
29:04in a controlled environment.
29:06Don't worry.
29:06It's just a simple swab test.
29:08I promise.
29:08I won't damage anything.
29:09My God.
29:21It's gone.
29:23I'm not saying I believe.
29:27But where's the mummy?
29:28The CSU field test shows
29:44that there's no drug residue
29:45inside the sarcophagus
29:46and all the other mummies
29:47are accounted for.
29:48No drugs in them either.
29:49Well, if it wasn't the drugs,
29:50then what's so special
29:50about the missing mummy?
29:52Well, maybe Grimes
29:52was telling the truth.
29:53Maybe Medina was trying to sell it.
29:55And then when Grimes
29:56wouldn't buy it,
29:57he sold it to someone else?
29:58Except that one of the researchers
29:59swears it was in a sarcophagus
30:01the day after Medina was killed.
30:03Well, that could only mean one thing.
30:04Please don't say that
30:05it's walking among us
30:06seeking revenge.
30:07Okay, don't say I didn't warn you.
30:09This place is gigantic.
30:10They have over 30 million
30:11specimens down here.
30:12We've got a canine unit
30:13coming in to help,
30:14but finding this mummy
30:15might be like finding the lost ark.
30:18If it is even still here.
30:19All right, have CSU sweep the area
30:21and see if they can get any prints
30:22off of the sarcophagus.
30:23Whoever stole the mummy
30:24must have left some evidence behind.
30:26Disaster.
30:27PR disaster.
30:29I only hope the press
30:30doesn't hear about this.
30:32Ten bucks says he calls the press
30:34as soon as we're out the front door.
30:36You don't think he could have
30:37orchestrated this whole thing
30:38just to generate interest
30:39in the exhibit, do you?
30:40Murdered Medina just to boost
30:42ticket sales?
30:42No.
30:43That would make this Scooby-Doo.
30:44And I'm not Velma.
30:45Velma?
30:46Are you kidding?
30:47You're Daphne.
30:48You're hot, smart,
30:49not aggressively brainy,
30:51but long legs, short skirt.
30:52Stop.
30:52Fine.
30:53Now.
30:53Got it.
30:56No, he didn't know anything
30:58about how to reverse the curse,
31:00but I've decided it's okay.
31:02I was just overreacting.
31:03It's like you said,
31:04the chances of there actually
31:05being a curse
31:06are virtually non-existent.
31:12That was weird.
31:13The elevator just stopped.
31:17Mother?
31:17No reason to panic.
31:26Small reason to panic.
31:30Hello?
31:38There is no curse.
31:42There is no curse.
31:43There is no curse.
31:44All right.
31:47What do I do
31:48if the elevator falls?
31:49Okay, I think I'm supposed
31:50to jump in the air.
31:52No.
31:53Lay on the ground.
31:58Castle?
31:59What are you doing?
32:02That was...
32:02That was...
32:03That whole thing.
32:04Then the light...
32:05The light and then
32:06the whole thing.
32:07I thought the elevator
32:08was going to fall.
32:09That wasn't you, was it?
32:10Because that wasn't funny.
32:11No, no.
32:11I'm not that cruel.
32:13It's an old elevator.
32:15You know what?
32:15Let's get maintenance up here
32:16and tell them not to let
32:17anyone on here
32:18before it's fixed.
32:19Are you okay?
32:19Yeah, no, yeah.
32:21I'm going to splash
32:22some water on my face
32:24and then throw up
32:25a little bit.
32:33Rogue archaeologists,
32:34Mayan death threats,
32:36drug dealers claiming
32:37to deal in antiquities
32:38and missing mummies.
32:39There's got to be a story
32:42that makes all of this
32:43make sense.
32:49What?
32:51Nothing.
32:52Castle?
32:52If something were
32:53to happen to me,
32:54I want you to watch out
32:54for Alexis.
32:57She looks up to you
32:58and if her boyfriends
32:59get frisky,
33:00you can shoot them.
33:02Nothing's going to happen
33:03to you.
33:04But if it does...
33:05Okay.
33:12And would you also
33:13go into my closet
33:14and get rid of my porn
33:14collection before she finds it?
33:16Don't worry, bro.
33:17I got you covered on that.
33:18We hit a home run
33:19with the prints
33:20from the sarcophagus.
33:21One pop that doesn't
33:22belong to anyone
33:22who works at the museum.
33:23But according to
33:24the background check,
33:25he does work at
33:261127 Avenue of the Americas.
33:28The address on Medina's calendar.
33:29At a company called Bio Inc.
33:31And here is the best part.
33:32His name is Charles Taylor.
33:34C.T.
33:36Spoke to the guy
33:36two days ago
33:37and he insisted
33:38he'd never met Medina.
33:40Lied right to my face.
33:41No, no, I didn't lie.
33:42I swear to you,
33:43I don't know Will Medina.
33:44You didn't see him
33:45two days ago at 5.30.
33:47No, you got the wrong guy.
33:48But you admit that
33:49you're in the basement
33:49of the New York History Museum.
33:52No.
33:53Charles,
33:54we have your fingerprints
33:55on a sarcophagus
33:56so you can either start
33:56telling us the truth now
33:57or after spending an afternoon
33:59in the holding cell
33:59entertaining a mess addict
34:00through the violent phase
34:01of his withdrawal.
34:04I might have been down there.
34:06When?
34:08Okay.
34:09Holding cell it is.
34:10Five days ago.
34:14And Medina?
34:15Look, I heard he was dead.
34:16I didn't want to get
34:16mixed up in that.
34:17I was only sent there
34:19to check out the mummy.
34:20The mummy?
34:21Yeah.
34:22I was sent by a private collector
34:23to examine it.
34:25I was just telling you the truth.
34:26Medina was trying to sell the mummy.
34:28This is getting good.
34:29This collector,
34:29where is he from?
34:30Taipei.
34:31I've done testing for him before.
34:33Hominid skulls,
34:34mammoth tusk.
34:36He asked me to carbon date the mummy
34:37to 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,
34:45it stops taking in new carbon.
34:46Specifically,
34:47we focus on carbon-14,
34:48which starts to decay in the body
34:49as soon as it dies.
34:50And by examining the rate of decay,
34:52we can actually date the age
34:53of the dead organism
34:53with incredible accuracy.
34:55When I tested the mummy,
34:56I took samples from the sarcophagus,
34:57the cloth the mummy was wrapped in,
34:59and a small piece of bone.
35:00And then I ran them
35:01through a mass spectrometer,
35:02and that's when things got weird.
35:07Define weird.
35:09The samples from the sarcophagus
35:10and the cloth dated
35:11at over 2,000 years old,
35:12but the piece of bone
35:13was too young to date,
35:16meaning that it was
35:17less than 500 years old.
35:18How much less?
35:20I have no idea.
35:21500 years is as low as the test goes.
35:23Are you saying that the mummy
35:25Medina was trying to sell
35:26was a fake?
35:27Well, all I know
35:28was that there was a discrepancy,
35:29and I called him
35:30and I told him that,
35:31and he didn't believe me.
35:32He insisted on coming
35:33to the office to see me.
35:35The night he died.
35:38Beckett,
35:39the uniform's just found your mummy.
35:42Where?
35:43In the dark corner
35:44of the museum basement.
35:45Someone was doing their best
35:45to make sure it was never found.
35:47Medina's buyer rejected the mummy
35:48because it wasn't real,
35:49and then when Medina
35:50started asking questions,
35:51he was killed.
35:53And now someone's trying
35:54to make it disappear.
35:54I think we need to take
35:56a closer look at that mummy.
35:58Your carbon dater was right.
35:59This girl's body
36:00is definitely less
36:01than 500 years dead.
36:03How much less?
36:04She died four months ago.
36:06If she's been dead
36:07for four months,
36:07why does she look
36:08just like the other mummies?
36:09Because whoever mummified her
36:11knew what they were doing.
36:12Her blood's been drained,
36:13there's an incision
36:14on her left side
36:14which her killer used
36:15to remove her organs
36:16before starting
36:17the desiccation process.
36:18How did she die?
36:20Blunt force trauma.
36:21Someone hit her
36:22in the back of the head,
36:22she never saw it coming.
36:23And then do you have
36:24any idea who she is?
36:25No.
36:26And I was unable
36:27to get a usable fingerprint.
36:29We don't need them.
36:31She died four months ago.
36:34I know exactly who this is.
36:35Dental records confirm
36:51that the body
36:52is Nicole Graham,
36:53the first victim
36:53of the curse.
36:54Who thought this girl
36:55was killed by an animal
36:56in the jungle?
36:57Turns out they never
36:57actually found the body,
36:59just her bloody clothes
37:00and a piece of scalp.
37:01It seemed obvious
37:02to the Mexican authorities
37:02what had happened.
37:03Instead somebody killed her
37:04and turned her into a mummy?
37:06Hell of a way
37:06to get rid of a body.
37:07Hide it in plain sight,
37:08ship it out
37:09with the other artifacts.
37:09And no one
37:10would have ever found out
37:11if Medina hadn't decided
37:12to sell the wrong mummy.
37:13When the collector refused it,
37:15Medina must have decided
37:16to take a closer look.
37:17And then that suspicion
37:18must have tipped off
37:19our killer
37:19who had to murder Medina
37:21in order to keep
37:21the secret safe.
37:22It makes sense,
37:23but who's our killer?
37:24The only person
37:25with the skill
37:25to mummify a body.
37:29What's going on?
37:30Four words.
37:32Eat, pray, love, kill.
37:36A little friendly advice.
37:37Next time you kill someone,
37:39skip the part where you prove
37:40only you could have
37:41covered it up.
37:41Kill someone?
37:42What are you talking about?
37:43We're talking about
37:44Nicole Graham.
37:45You killed her in Mexico
37:46and then you mummified
37:46her body in order
37:47to cover it up.
37:48What?
37:49No, Nicole was killed
37:50in a jaguar attack.
37:51Except they never
37:51found her body.
37:52But we did.
37:53And so did Medina
37:54when he discovered
37:55the discrepancy
37:56in the carbon dating.
37:57And that's when you knew
37:58that you had to kill him.
38:00That's insane.
38:01What happened, Rachel?
38:03Did you find her
38:04in the jungle
38:04making time with your man?
38:06Little girls gone wild
38:07jealousy turned deadly.
38:09No, Nicole and I
38:10were friends.
38:11And whoever told you
38:11she was sleeping
38:12with Will was lying.
38:14Sure, she had a crush
38:15on him, okay?
38:16We all did.
38:17But she backed off
38:18when she realized
38:18that Will was interested
38:19in me.
38:21But Stam...
38:22Stamford.
38:24Stamford was the one
38:25who was jealous.
38:26Ask any of the women
38:28down there.
38:29He had a thing for Nicole
38:29ever since she joined
38:30the program.
38:31You'd always see him
38:32standing around
38:33watching her.
38:33It was creepy.
38:34You were the expert, Rachel.
38:35You were the only one
38:37who knew how to do it.
38:38No, I wasn't.
38:39Everything I know
38:40about mummification
38:41I learned from
38:42Stamford Raines.
38:43Look, Detective,
38:44mummifying a body
38:44is a hands-on process.
38:46I promise you
38:47whoever did that to Nicole
38:48left behind some DNA.
38:49I'm happy to provide
38:50a sample.
38:51Why don't you see
38:52if Stamford wants
38:53to do the same?
38:53Stamford Raines?
38:59Yes?
39:00You're under arrest
39:00for the murder
39:01of Nicole Graham.
39:03And don't forget
39:03Will Medina.
39:04You had to kill him, too,
39:05when you caught him
39:06sniffing around her mummy.
39:07Only way to protect
39:08your secret.
39:08You can't be serious.
39:10Serious enough
39:10to get a warrant
39:11for your DNA.
39:13This is the part
39:14where you say,
39:15and I would have
39:16gotten away with it, too,
39:17if it weren't for you
39:17meddling kids.
39:18Yes.
39:23Is he actually
39:26running away?
39:27Yeah, it's
39:28primal instinct.
39:30Fight or flight.
39:31Should we run after him?
39:32Eh, no need.
39:44Oh!
39:44Oh!
39:45Oh!
39:45Oh!
39:49Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:51Oh!
39:53Oh!
39:58Still say there's no curse?
40:03Ruh-roh.
40:06Once Stanford got
40:07out of surgery,
40:07he confessed to everything.
40:09How he lured Nicole
40:10into the burial chamber
40:11and how they fought
40:12when she refused
40:12to celebrate with him.
40:14So what happened
40:15to the mummy
40:15he swapped for Nicole's money?
40:16The body was so fragile
40:18that all Stanford had to do
40:19was strip off the wrapping
40:20and stomp it into dust.
40:22And then he rewrapped
40:22and then he rewrapped Nicole's body,
40:23stuffed it in the sarcophagus,
40:24sealed it up tight,
40:25and by the time it got to the U.S.
40:26months later,
40:27mummification process was complete.
40:29And when Stanford decided to kill Medina,
40:32he just used one of the pry bars
40:33from the museum to tip the gargoyle
40:34and hoped that Medina's death
40:36would be blamed on the curse.
40:37Three members of the expedition dead,
40:39one on the way to jail.
40:40Well, it sounds like the curse
40:42is real to me.
40:43Speaking of which,
40:45I have a deal to propose.
40:50I spoke to the D.A.
40:52and he's agreed to drop
40:53the felony threat charges
40:54based on your cooperation.
40:56What kind of cooperation?
41:02Tell him how to reverse the curse.
41:04Why should I?
41:07Because, thanks to us,
41:08Mr. Bentley has agreed
41:09to send the entire collection
41:11back to the Mexican museum
41:13after the exhibit ends.
41:15Why would he agree to that?
41:17Well, let's just say
41:17he's got a little
41:18public relations problem right now
41:20and he could use
41:20all the good publicity he can get.
41:22That's all I have to do.
41:34Hmm?
41:36And one more thing.
41:37Hmm?
41:38I wouldn't say no
41:39to a ride to the airport.
41:41Let's go.
41:45You're in a good mood.
41:47The curse has officially
41:48been lifted.
41:50How'd you manage that?
41:51You don't want to know
41:52but I didn't defeat
41:54all the way home
41:55just to make sure.
41:56Jaywalking?
41:56Mm-hmm.
41:57You've walked under a ladder.
41:59What murderous experiments
42:00are you performing
42:01on tomatoes now?
42:01Stabbing?
42:02Filet-ing?
42:03Dicing for a salad.
42:05Want to help?
42:08I would love to.
42:09So, I was thinking
42:11maybe this weekend
42:12we could go to the museum.
42:14It's been a while.
42:16Yeah.
42:17How about the zoo?
42:19That sounds great.
42:20What's the difference
42:25between cursed and clumsy?
42:28I'll get a band-aid.
42:29Okay.