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Castle Season 3 Episode 20

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00:00Come on, let me show you my place, huh?
00:15I gotta tweet this.
00:17No one will believe I'm with the terrific neck.
00:19Mm, uh, authentic neck, uh, not terrific, okay?
00:24I mean, uh, we're the best.
00:27I'll bet.
00:28Mm-hmm.
00:28And it smells so good.
00:31It does smell good.
00:34Somebody here?
00:36Dad?
00:37It smells like ribs.
00:38Is that barbecue pizza?
00:39No, we don't do barbecue pizza, all right?
00:41That's for the hacks, like, terrific, Nick.
00:54Nice, crispy.
00:55Just the way you like it.
00:59You eat it.
01:00I'm not hungry.
01:01You've never said no to turkey bacon.
01:05What's wrong?
01:06Nothing.
01:07Something.
01:08Don't make me tong you.
01:10Not even a smile.
01:14Must be serious.
01:15It's Lauren's birthday party.
01:17I'm not going.
01:18What?
01:18You've been talking about that party for weeks.
01:20It's gonna be the party of the century.
01:21Yesterday, Lauren came up to me and, in front of everybody, told me I was disinvited.
01:26It was humiliating.
01:28Why would Lauren do something like that?
01:29She's one of your best friends.
01:30She was one of my best friends.
01:32I have no idea why she's acting like this, and she refuses to talk to me.
01:35Ashley's still invited, and so is everyone else, and it's like I'm a social leper.
01:40Well, Ashley's not gonna go without you.
01:42Just because I have leprosy doesn't mean he should.
01:44Well, I think you should throw a rival party and invite all your friends to that one instead.
01:47The party's tonight, and she's a live band performing.
01:50I can't compete with that.
01:51Well, then I'll call Lauren's mom, and I'll...
01:53You're joking, right?
01:54What, so I can be a leper and a tattletale?
01:57I'm 17.
01:58I can deal with this on my own.
02:00It's just, every instinct in my body is telling me to protect her.
02:05Yeah, but when it comes to teenagers, not even you can protect her.
02:08Lex is gonna have to deal with backstabbers her whole life, but she's intelligent enough
02:12to rise above all of that.
02:13I don't know.
02:14She looked like she was ready to commit murder.
02:17Speaking of murder, I thought Terrific Nicks on the East Side
02:21was number one.
02:22Uh, no, that's authentic Terrific Nicks.
02:24This is just authentic Nicks.
02:25This isn't terrific?
02:26No, just authentic.
02:27It's also not Terrific Authentic Nicks, but that's across the street.
02:30Well, what's the difference?
02:31The difference is this one has a dead body in the oven.
02:35Ooh, okay.
02:38That is really...
02:40Well done.
02:41Another couple of hours, maybe, but luckily for me, he's only half-baked.
02:46Male, mid-40s, that's about as much idea as I can give you
02:49based on the oven setting and the body's core temperature.
02:52I'd say he went in no sooner than 2 a.m.
02:54I'm afraid to ask cause of death.
02:56It wasn't the oven.
02:57The stab wound through the chest says he was dead when he went in.
03:02No sign of forced entry, but running prints on the door handle just the same.
03:06All right, run him on the oven as well.
03:07Who found him?
03:08Uh, Nick Jr.
03:11Authentic Nicks.
03:12Terrific.
03:14No.
03:15I got no idea who he is.
03:17I mean, I open up the oven and bam, there he is.
03:19And who were the last ones here last night?
03:20My dad and me.
03:22Closed around 11.
03:23And then I head up to Kedar Lounge, met up with a lady friend.
03:26And then we came back here to, uh, grab a slice.
03:31And when was that?
03:32I don't know.
03:334.30?
03:34Where's your lady friend now?
03:36She's kind of throwing up a lot, so the paramedics had to take her in.
03:39Oh, but I kept the number.
03:40I, I don't think there's going to be a second date.
03:47Yeah, you're right.
03:48I'm sorry.
03:49I'm going to need a list of all of your employees and delivery staff.
03:52You don't think it's one of our guys in the oven, do you?
03:55As soon as you get me that list, I'll start making phone calls.
03:58Oh.
03:59I don't believe this.
04:01You've got to be kidding me.
04:04Dad, these are the cops.
04:06You must be authentic, Nick.
04:07The one and only.
04:08Nick, I have the proprietor listed as Ralph Carbone.
04:13Yeah, that's me.
04:14Everybody calls me Nick.
04:15Why?
04:15Because that's what everybody calls me.
04:17I can't believe those bastards put a body in my oven.
04:21I'm sorry, Mr. Carbone.
04:22You think that you know who did this?
04:23Yeah, sure.
04:25I bet it was that jackal.
04:27Terrific, authentic, Nick.
04:29Sal Malavolta.
04:30Used to work for us years ago before opening his own lousy pizza shop right across the street.
04:34Stole my friggin' recipes.
04:36It's Sal that done this along with the other two.
04:38The other two?
04:39Yeah, that Fulcher there.
04:41Terrific, Nick?
04:42Vinny Delfino.
04:43And the other dirtbag there.
04:45And authentic, terrific Nick.
04:47Luca Sabolini.
04:48All three of them.
04:49They're thieves.
04:50They live off our name.
04:52And they're not even real Nicks.
04:53I'm the only real Nick.
04:54And your real name is Ralph.
04:55Exactly.
04:57They've been trying to run me out of Dodge for years.
04:58And now it is.
04:59Who's going to buy my pizza now?
05:01Huh?
05:01Hey!
05:02Huh!
05:02You happy?
05:03I'm out of business!
05:04Mr. Carbone, what makes you think that one of them did this?
05:08A few weeks ago, one of them snuck a gallon of soap into my secret sauce.
05:13Cost me a whole day of return pies.
05:16Now look, I may or may not have retaliated.
05:19But if I did, them putting a cadaver in my oven, that's them retaliating back.
05:24Mr. Carbone, that's not a cadaver.
05:26What do you mean?
05:27Mr. Carbone, they probably, they got this from some medical school.
05:30Nope.
05:31This isn't a prank.
05:32This is murder.
05:43We got through to all their employees.
05:45Everybody's accountable.
05:46Laney, what are the chances of getting an ID?
05:48Not hopeful on fingerprints.
05:50We may have to wait for a missing persons report and dental records.
05:53We also started a canvas to see if anybody saw anything last night.
05:55All right, let's get statements off all of the employees, especially the ones with keys.
05:58I'd like to know what they were doing last night.
06:00Shouldn't we look into the other next two?
06:02Come on, bro.
06:03You don't think this is about some kind of pizza rivalry, do you?
06:05Competition to be the best in New York.
06:07Clear animosity.
06:08Carbone said they'd broken it before.
06:10If we are looking into everyone with access, we should look into them as well.
06:13He's right, you know.
06:14Pizza's serious business in this town.
06:16All right.
06:17Great.
06:18You talk to them.
06:19Wait, me?
06:19No, what?
06:20Come on.
06:25You have to admit, a pizza oven, very clever way to get rid of a body.
06:31In At Dusk We Die, I had my psychotic paralegal kill her abusive boss and put him in a pottery kiln.
06:36He was reduced to ashes in a matter of hours.
06:38Of course, you already know this, don't you?
06:41That's probably what our killer planned on doing until Nick Jr. showed up.
06:44Did I hear right you found a body in the oven at Terrific Nicks?
06:46Authentic Nicks.
06:48Authentic Nicks?
06:49Oh, thank God, the wife loves Terrific Nicks.
06:51I didn't have the heart to tell her it now came in full-bodied flavor.
06:54Oh, I liked it.
06:57I liked it.
06:58Hey, so we ran through all of authentic Nicks employees.
07:02They alibied out.
07:03But I did find a bunch of stuff on the other Nicks.
07:06Criminal complaints?
07:07Yeah, dozens of them filed back and forth between all the Nicks over the years.
07:11Bricks through front windows slash delivery car tires.
07:14Ooh, flaming bags of poo.
07:17Yeah.
07:19What, that's it?
07:22Flaming bags of poo?
07:24Soap and secret sauces?
07:25Come on, Castle.
07:26What do you think?
07:26These guys suddenly graduated from frat pranks to murder?
07:31Beckett.
07:32As expected, the body was too badly burned to get any prints.
07:35But I did find this.
07:37You see here where the shin bones should be?
07:40Those are titanium plates.
07:41So killer cyborgs sent from the future, resistance fighters intercept his coordinates, redirect him into a pizza oven, saving humanity.
07:48The plates had serial numbers.
07:50I ran them through the surgical database and got an ID.
07:54Gordon Burns?
07:56Gordon Burns?
07:58Yes, Castle.
07:59Burns.
07:59Go ahead.
08:00Make your joke.
08:01Get it out of your system.
08:02Gordon Burns as in New York Ledger?
08:03You know him?
08:04But not personally.
08:05He was a reporter.
08:06I used to love his work.
08:07Did you find anything else on the body?
08:09A melted cell phone bell clip, but there was no cell phone.
08:13Yeah, it wasn't at the crime scene either.
08:16And that's his wallet.
08:18Credit card, driver's license, that's all melted.
08:26Girlfriend, wife?
08:27Burns is listed as divorce, no next of kin.
08:29He was a war correspondent, an investigative reporter.
08:33What was he doing in a pizza oven?
08:36Maybe his editor knows.
08:37We were friends.
08:39When I became editor of the paper, he was my first hire.
08:43The kinds of stories he wrote, he must have stepped on his fair share of toes.
08:46Not for years.
08:47He'd been out of the game for a while.
08:49Why's that?
08:52His kid was killed in an accident.
08:54She was ten.
08:55After that, he finally gave in to his love affair with a bottle.
08:58We see that you still had him on the payroll.
09:00He did the occasional human interest story for our lifestyle section.
09:03A waste of his talent, but he'd let him make rent, keep his insurance.
09:09Mr. Shaw, was he working on anything recently?
09:13Just a puff piece I had signed him last week.
09:15About what?
09:16The pizza wars.
09:17You know, those authentic, amazing, terrific guys always fighting over which one's the best.
09:23It wasn't Afghanistan, but Gordon was Gordon.
09:26Called a few days ago, said it was much bigger than I thought.
09:29Bigger how?
09:30He didn't say.
09:31But I mean, it's pizza wars.
09:32How big could it be?
09:34Big enough to kill for it.
09:45Let's dig deeper into all of the Knicks.
09:47Terrific, authentic, and otherwise.
09:49And let's also run background checks on all of their employees.
09:51You know, this guy survived Afghanistan, invasion of Iraq, even Tiananmen Square.
09:57To be killed doing a puff piece on pizza?
09:59Looks like being a cop, bro.
10:01You survive a firefight with a dozen armed gangbangers, only to be hit by a car while
10:05writing a speeding ticket on the LIE.
10:08Hey, I ran a trace on Burns' missing phone.
10:10It's either out of battery or turned off.
10:13All right, run LEDs and financials.
10:14I want to find out where he was and what he was doing last night.
10:16On it.
10:18This has to be about something bigger than who has the best pizza.
10:21You know, Burns probably had notes and drafts of his story in his apartment.
10:26If we can find them, we can figure out what he was up to last night.
10:29Let's go.
10:35Doors been kicked open.
10:44Room's clear.
10:44This place is trashed.
10:47I'm going to check with the neighbors, see if anybody heard anything.
10:50Okay.
10:53These drawers have been emptied.
10:55There were files or notes.
10:57They're gone now.
10:59Well, whatever he was working on, someone didn't want us to find it.
11:02You okay?
11:09Yeah.
11:09No, yeah.
11:10Um, I think I met her.
11:13I went to a book signing of his, the one he did on the, uh, Sarajevo snipers.
11:18She was coloring next to him while he was signing books.
11:24He must have been a good writer for you to stand in line.
11:27Yeah, he was.
11:30Come on, let's go get Cecian.
11:32Hey, I got something weird.
11:34Burns' neighbor, she says he's been holding his mail for the last week.
11:38Apparently Burns told her he was going out of the country for a while.
11:40Out of the country?
11:41We know he's been here.
11:42You know, that's the kind of lie that you tell people when you don't want anyone looking for you.
11:45And if he's been staying somewhere else, there's a chance we can still find his notes.
11:48I'm going to get a hold of his editor, find out where he might have been staying.
11:50How's the story about pizza sending somebody into hiding?
11:53Or get them killed.
11:55Beckett.
11:55Hey, just got the Cecian report back.
11:58The back doorknob of the pizza shop was wiped clean.
12:00But they did find Nick's prints all over the pizza oven.
12:03Well, that's to be expected.
12:05I mean, he worked there.
12:06Not authentic Nick.
12:08These prints belong to his neighbor across the street.
12:11Terrific authentic Nick.
12:12So, Nick, or should I say Sal, know this guy?
12:16Yeah, I know him.
12:17It's a reporter doing a story on us.
12:19And what did the two of you talk about?
12:21Who's the real Nick?
12:22And I told him about my grandpa, Nick.
12:24How he was an authentic Ellis Island immigrant who was flipping his terrific dough on Mott Street the very day he arrived.
12:32What else?
12:33That's it.
12:34Why?
12:35Just doesn't seem like a good enough reason to kill.
12:38Kill?
12:38We found your fingerprints, Sal, all over the oven.
12:41You found my prints?
12:43Yeah.
12:44So why don't we back up and you tell us why you killed Burns?
12:48And this time I'll hold the extra cheese.
12:50I can explain.
12:51I was there.
12:53But I didn't kill nobody.
12:55Ralph thought I was soap in his sauce.
12:56So he broke into my place, took all the breakers out of my electrical panel.
13:01Now he's always bragging about his oven.
13:03So I thought I...
13:04Put a body in it.
13:05You know, steal it.
13:07I went over there a couple nights ago to see what I need to get it out.
13:10You're kidding me, right?
13:11I was in O'Meary's on Staten Island last night.
13:14Till closing.
13:16Okay?
13:16It was dark night.
13:17I took third place.
13:18You want to look at somebody?
13:19Look at Ralph.
13:20Why Ralph?
13:21What, do you think he makes that money with his crappy pizza?
13:24He's connected.
13:25That's why I left.
13:27All he cares about is laundering money for his wise guy pals.
13:30You didn't happen to mention this to Burns, did you?
13:32As a matter of fact, I did.
13:36Money laundering?
13:37Whoa!
13:38We ran you through the federal database.
13:40We know about the FBI investigation in the 90s and about your connection to the Spolano crime family.
13:46My connection?
13:48My second cousin once removed.
13:50I've seen him at Thanksgiving once every five years.
13:52And the feds never found anything.
13:54The feds didn't.
13:56But maybe Burns did.
13:57So what happened, Ralph?
13:58Did he threaten to expose you?
14:01You make him disappear until your kids showed up before that oven you're so proud of could finish his job.
14:09I make money with my pizza.
14:11You want to look at my books?
14:12Go ahead.
14:13You're going to find exactly the same thing the feds found.
14:16Nada.
14:17Zip.
14:17Zilch.
14:19Sal put you still up to this.
14:22Right?
14:23Sal someone brought the feds in in the first place trying to shut me down.
14:26You should be looking at him.
14:29Sal had an alibi for last night.
14:32What about you, Mr. Carbone?
14:34I'm at home in bed.
14:35You could ask my wife.
14:36That reporter.
14:37All he asked me about was pizza.
14:43That guy is guilty of something.
14:45Not until we have proof.
14:47Hey, Ryan.
14:48Any luck on where our victim was last night?
14:50Oh, still waiting for info from his bank, but I got his LUDs.
14:54Nothing last night and only a few calls to his editor in the previous days.
14:58A reporter chasing down a story?
15:00No, there should be dozens of calls.
15:01Well, maybe he was making them from wherever he was staying.
15:03Any leads on the girl in the photo?
15:05No, but I got in touch with Burns' ex in Portland.
15:08They hadn't seen each other in years.
15:09Yo, pay dirt.
15:11A canvas Burns' building.
15:13At first, it was all, he's so quiet, he just keeps to himself.
15:16But this other neighbor who just came home said that she saw Burns and another guy having
15:19a knock-down, drag-out yelling match just before he left.
15:22About what?
15:23All she remembers is the other guy yelling,
15:25you try to print that, I swear to God I'll kill you.
15:28Did you get a description?
15:29That'll give you a hint.
15:31He's authentic.
15:32And terrific.
15:33Tell me in Burns argued, so what?
15:38It's a free country.
15:40Free speech doesn't cover death threats, Mr. Sabolini.
15:42Or murder.
15:44I told you I was home last night.
15:45Yeah, you did, but your wife tells us a different story.
15:48It seems she remembers you sneaking out before midnight after you thought she was asleep.
15:53She told us you were off to see that whore mistress of his over in Flatbush,
15:57and when she confronted you about it this morning, you told her that you went into the city
16:01because the store alarm was going off.
16:04We checked.
16:05It wasn't.
16:06So who were you lying to, Luca, me or your wife?
16:10My wife.
16:12I was with Angie last night, you can ask her.
16:14I could, but it doesn't mean I'm gonna believe her.
16:18What were you and Burns fighting about?
16:20He was gonna write something about me.
16:23Destroy everything I've worked for.
16:25I had to stop him.
16:26And what was he gonna write?
16:28About my pizza.
16:29About what makes my fat-free pizza taste so good.
16:36It's made with real cheese.
16:38There's nothing fat-free about it.
16:41You were gonna kill for that?
16:43It's an expression.
16:44Besides, Burns called me last night.
16:45He said he'd consider not running it if I do him a favor.
16:49What favor?
16:50He didn't say what.
16:51I was supposed to stop by today to talk about it.
16:53You said that he called you yesterday?
16:55From where?
16:57Okay, got it.
16:57The incoming call in his cell was from the Hotel Beta in Midtown.
17:02All right, let's go.
17:13Thanks.
17:14Paid in cash.
17:15Signed in under the name Melville.
17:18This guy's definitely flying under the radar.
17:20Castle, there's his computer.
17:21New York's authentic, terrific pizza wars.
17:28Sharp narration.
17:31Delicate prose.
17:33This is not an expose.
17:34It's a puff piece.
17:35I can practically smell the garlic, but there's nothing in there.
17:39That's about anything heavier than pizza.
17:40Or what got him killed.
17:42His most recent notes.
17:44Pizza.
17:45Recipes.
17:46Inter...
17:47What?
17:49Look at that.
17:52That's last night.
17:53He was meeting with someone.
17:54Someone from that phone number just before he was killed.
17:57I'm going to run that down.
17:59You have an app for that?
18:00Yeah, NYPD issue.
18:01We just got it.
18:02Can I...
18:02Come on.
18:04Fine.
18:04You don't get to play my Angry Birds.
18:07And they just came out with a new one.
18:12Johnny Farrell, Swede Anderson.
18:15How do I know those names?
18:17I don't know.
18:18They recognize this person?
18:21That's the woman from Burns' wallet.
18:23Bingo.
18:23Monica Wyatt.
18:24And if she met with him last night, she might be the last person to have seen him alive.
18:28I wonder if they went out for pizza.
18:29A little upscale for the pizza world.
18:36Unless she's a middleman for the money laundering operation.
18:40She transfers the assets out of country into Swiss bank accounts using the names Johnny Farrell and Swede Anderson.
18:46Or she's just a real estate agent and she claims to be.
18:49That's just a cover to avoid scrutiny of the feds.
18:51You had a lot of imaginary friends growing up, didn't you?
18:54Still do.
18:56Hi.
18:57Can I help you?
18:58I can't believe he still had this.
19:01He actually took this on our first date.
19:03And how long were the two of you together?
19:05Just a couple months, but...
19:08God, this had to be three years ago.
19:12I saw him once or twice after his daughter's accident.
19:15He was different.
19:17It's like he just drifted away.
19:19What made you see him last night?
19:21I didn't see him last night.
19:23Well, according to his notes, he met up with you at 10 p.m.
19:25Well, that wasn't a meeting.
19:28That was a date.
19:29But he didn't show.
19:32You said you hadn't seen him in years.
19:33How did you end up on a date?
19:35We bumped into each other on the street the other day.
19:38It was weird because I was in the village and I never go down there.
19:42And he said he doesn't go down there either.
19:43But he was working on a story.
19:46Did he tell you what it was about?
19:49No.
19:51How did he seem?
19:53Worried?
19:54Distressed?
19:55He seemed like himself.
19:57Like his old self.
19:59Like he was onto something.
20:01He'd just come from the Hall of Records.
20:03And whatever he found, he was really excited about.
20:07The Hall of Records?
20:08Yeah.
20:09Ms. Wyatt, do the names Johnny Farrell or Swede Anderson mean anything to you?
20:16I can't say they do.
20:19Monica Wyatt checks.
20:22Her brokerage house says that she complains about commissions more than they'd like.
20:26But other than that, she's clean.
20:28Find anything else in there?
20:29Nope.
20:30The rest is just pizza.
20:32Hey.
20:34I just got through Burns Financials.
20:36Any activity last night?
20:37Yeah, something odd.
20:39At 11.15 p.m., he used his ATM card.
20:42Where?
20:43Not so good neighborhood, about 15 blocks away from Authentic Nix.
20:46But here's the odd part.
20:47He never finished the transaction.
20:49You mean he canceled it?
20:50No, no, he never finished it.
20:52He popped in his ATM card, but then after about a minute of inactivity,
20:56it ate his card.
20:58It's almost as if...
20:59Something happened.
21:00Get ATM surveillance.
21:02Let's find out what.
21:03I'm going to go to the Hall of Records tomorrow morning.
21:05Let's see if we can figure out what Burns was up to.
21:12Well.
21:14What happened?
21:15Alexis decided to crash Lauren's party.
21:19Against our better judgment.
21:21And I take it that the party crashing didn't go so well?
21:25None of this would have happened if Lauren wasn't the most conniving bitch in the entire world.
21:29Whoa.
21:30It's warranted.
21:31When the band was performing, Lauren brought Ashley up on stage with her and she kissed him in front of everyone.
21:37Bitch.
21:37How could she do this to me?
21:38To Ashley?
21:39What did Ashley do?
21:41He was mortified.
21:41He ran off stage and we left.
21:43And he was apologizing a thousand times and said he had no idea that she was going to do that.
21:47It's like she's been trying to break us up this whole time.
21:50It's been her master plan.
21:51No, well, she didn't succeed, darling.
21:53You and Ashley are stronger than ever and she looks like a fool.
21:56Yeah.
21:57I wish that were true.
21:58According to the internet, Ashley cheated on me.
22:01She already posted the pictures of them kissing all over her website.
22:06It's a nightmare.
22:06Where's Beckett?
22:17Uh, Hall of Records, tracking down what Burns was looking for.
22:21Great.
22:22Listen, if I gave you a website, could you have your friends at Tech hack into it and take some pictures down?
22:32Did someone find naked pictures of you again?
22:34No, not me.
22:36It's Alexis.
22:37This is for Alexis.
22:41Yeah, this just got awkward.
22:42What's this about?
22:43Okay.
22:44Mean girl at school kiss ambushed Alexis' boyfriend and then posted the photographic proof on her website.
22:50Alexis.
22:52Very upset.
22:52Hmm.
22:53I could have my friend Tony take care of it, you know, off the record.
22:57Thanks.
22:58And, uh, no need to mention this to Beckett.
23:01You know how she gets with these things.
23:02Things like abusing police resources for your own personal agenda.
23:10What?
23:11That's ridiculous.
23:12No, you don't, no, that's, that's.
23:15So, uh, what'd you find?
23:17Anything on Nick's?
23:18Uh, not exactly.
23:19Burns requested files relating to the 2003 murder of a drug trafficker named Harley Romero,
23:25aka Harley Playful, also known as Handsome Harley.
23:28Judging from those photos, I'm guessing it was ironic.
23:31What's the guy who's been dead for eight years have to do with pizza?
23:33Hmm.
23:34Hey, Ryan?
23:35Yep?
23:35Did you get a chance to look into all the Knicks and their employees?
23:38Oh, yeah, just going over the reports right now.
23:40Mostly minor stuff.
23:41Any drug charges?
23:42No, nothing about drugs.
23:43Romero.
23:44You think maybe it's some kind of mafia tie-in with authentic Knicks?
23:47According to the file, there's no connection to any of the families.
23:50Someone didn't like him.
23:50Says he was shot a dozen times, dumped in an oil drum, and set on fire.
23:55Yeah, word on the street was that a dealer killed him over a turf war.
23:58So why was Burns looking at him?
24:01Yo, bank just sent over surveillance footage.
24:03You guys gotta see this.
24:04Looks like he's running from something.
24:10He's running from something, all right.
24:12Watch this.
24:14He knows he's on camera.
24:16He's trying to tell us something.
24:17He's writing it.
24:20Whoa!
24:21Okay, take it back.
24:28And freeze there.
24:30He's got a knife.
24:31He was trying to send us a message, but he recorded his own murder.
24:34Close up on the face.
24:39Castle, look at that face.
24:42That's Harley Romero.
24:43And he is very much alive.
24:50Why would he stop to write a message?
24:52Why not just keep running?
24:53While that street empties onto a blind alley, maybe Burns thought he couldn't get away.
24:56Any idea what he was writing there?
24:58We're seeing if tech can enhance the image, but we found no connection between this Harley and the pizza joints.
25:02Maybe pizza has nothing to do with it.
25:04Maybe Burns knew Harley from an old story.
25:06No.
25:07I don't recognize him at all.
25:10Did Burns ever mention the name Harley in any of his stories?
25:14Never.
25:15When this guy supposedly died, Gordon was embedded with the 2nd Marine Division in Gulf 2.
25:20Mr. Shah, do the names Johnny Farrell or Sweet Anderson mean anything to you?
25:24Yeah.
25:25They do.
25:26They're both characters from old film noir movies.
25:28Right.
25:29Uh, Johnny Farrell from the movie Gilda, Glenn Ford's character.
25:33And Burt Lancaster played Sweet Anderson in The Killers.
25:35And why would these two names be important?
25:37This guy Harley, what kind of drugs was he dealing?
25:39Heroin.
25:40Why?
25:40Because the only heroine story Burns ever chased was the one that he could never finish.
25:46He brought a high-end distribution ring in New York that sets up shots inside legitimate businesses.
25:50When someone needed product, they used a code word.
25:54Their code happens to be names of characters from film noir.
25:58It's that story that destroyed him.
26:00Why?
26:01Because of the guy who was behind the ring.
26:04It was Cavallo.
26:05Gordon Byrds was gunning for the Prince of Darkness himself.
26:08Who's Cavallo?
26:09It's a street myth.
26:12An urban legend.
26:14Anytime a dealer gets whacked, people always say it's Cavallo, but he's not even real.
26:18Oh, Cavallo's real.
26:20Come on, Sean.
26:21We've all heard the scary stories.
26:22I didn't.
26:23So the story goes that Cavallo was mentored by this badass Colombian drug lord, Kazi the Conqueror,
26:30and eventually he put a bullet to his boss's head, slid all of his kids' throats, and took over the operation.
26:37But, I mean, it's a fairy tale.
26:39Not to Burns.
26:40Not to his daughter.
26:42Burns told me he had a contact that was getting him close to Cavallo.
26:45The next day, he and his daughter are crossing the street.
26:48This car appears out of nowhere.
26:50When he came to, his leg was shattered.
26:52Nina was 20 feet away, bleeding out, and he couldn't even crawl over to hold her.
26:56So don't you tell me Cavallo isn't real.
26:58It sounds like Burns was Ahab and Cavallo was White Whale.
27:03Well, he did sign in to the hotel as Melville.
27:06You know, it's that kind of sly humor that Burns was known for.
27:09And while I am loathe to profile, the name Cavallo, also the Italian word for Horst, might suggest a link back to the Four Knicks.
27:16Hey, Ryan.
27:18When you were in narcotics, when was the first time you heard the name Cavallo?
27:21I don't know.
27:21Probably around, uh, 03.
27:23Around all the time all those dealers were getting whacked.
27:25Well, that's right, when Harley was killed.
27:27So Harley stages his own death, brutally murders his competition, and then starts a whisper campaign on the streets about the new dark prince of heroin.
27:35And a legend is born.
27:36Yo.
27:38Tech was able to blow up and enhance that ATM video.
27:40They're setting it up now.
27:41I still can't make it out.
27:45Mm-mm.
27:46Run it again?
27:47Can you flip it and slow it down?
27:49Yeah.
27:50What are you doing?
27:51What I do best.
27:54Writing.
27:54Okay.
27:55Three.
27:57Six.
27:58S.
27:59That could be a five.
28:00Okay.
28:00S or a five.
28:02W.
28:03One.
28:03Two.
28:04Seven.
28:05It's an address.
28:06B.
28:07A.
28:08S.
28:09Basement.
28:09365 West 127th Street in the basement.
28:13That's three blocks from the ATM.
28:15Police!
28:16Nobody move!
28:17NYPD!
28:20Room's clear!
28:21Somebody moved out in a hurry.
28:23Coffee grinders for cutting.
28:25Envelopes for packaging.
28:26All the earmarks of a well-organized heroin processing house.
28:28Get CSU in here.
28:29Sweep the area.
28:30If anyone saw anything, I want to know.
28:34Looks like your Ahab found his white whale.
28:37Gonna take him under.
28:40Hi, Dad.
28:42Bye, Dad.
28:42Want no kiss?
28:49Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
28:50Alexis, what happened to your face?
28:52Nothing.
28:53That's not nothing.
28:53What happened?
28:55Lauren.
28:56She cornered me in the bathrooms at school,
28:58said I ruined her party,
28:59and then she accused me of hacking into her account
29:02and deleting those pictures she took.
29:03As if.
29:04And then what happened?
29:06Well, I called her a backstabber
29:07and then she scratched me, so I...
29:11You what?
29:13I punched her.
29:15What were you thinking?
29:17I don't know.
29:18This isn't me.
29:18I don't crash parties.
29:20I don't get in fights with people.
29:22But, Dad, she made me so angry.
29:24I know she did, but...
29:26retaliation is not the answer.
29:28You get her back, she gets you back,
29:30and then one day,
29:30one of you ends up dead in a pizza oven.
29:32Is that what you want?
29:34Look, the point is,
29:35you're gonna have to deal with mean,
29:36backstabbing girls your whole life.
29:38You need to learn to be smart enough
29:41to rise above.
29:43Okay?
29:43Okay.
29:46Come here.
29:50Did you kick her ass?
29:52I kind of did.
29:53Good girl.
29:56I should have gotten involved much earlier.
29:59Why?
29:59Lauren would have still found a way
30:01to make Alexis's life miserable.
30:02Lauren isn't a criminal mastermind.
30:04She's just a teenager.
30:05Oh, Cass will never underestimate
30:06the power of a woman on a mission.
30:08No, I don't,
30:09and I have the alimony checks to prove it.
30:11Becky, just hung up with the lab
30:12that traced heroin from the processing house.
30:15Matches most of the dope
30:16being peddled on the Lower East.
30:18Any word on this, Harley?
30:18Sir, if half of the rumors
30:19about this guy are true,
30:20then he's got snitches
30:21all over the force.
30:22I was thinking of holding off
30:24on an APB until we knew more.
30:25Keep me posted.
30:26Yes, sir.
30:27You know, Shaw said that Cavallo
30:29is using legitimate businesses
30:30to distribute product.
30:32You think he could be operating
30:33at one of the Knicks?
30:34Yeah, but I can't get a warrant
30:35for a fishing expedition.
30:37We're gonna have to have
30:38something more concrete.
30:39Yo, CSU swept the tenement basement
30:42top to bottom.
30:43There's not one print anywhere.
30:44Any witnesses see Burns getting chased?
30:46In that neighborhood,
30:47nobody sees nothing.
30:49But one of our uniforms
30:50did find this
30:52in a storm drain near the ATM.
30:54Burns found?
30:56Does it strike anyone else
30:57as strange that a seasoned
30:58war correspondent
30:59would suddenly develop butterfingers,
31:01drop his phone while being checked?
31:03You think he purposely dropped it?
31:04So that whoever chasing him
31:05wouldn't get his phone?
31:06Or what was on it?
31:07The last call he made
31:09was 911.
31:10And he didn't press send.
31:17Outside the drug lab,
31:19he was casing the joint.
31:23That's Monica.
31:25She's involved.
31:26Monica Wyatt, NYPD, open up!
31:35Monica!
31:37Step back.
31:38NYPD!
31:41Monica!
31:43He tried to kill me.
31:46Wendell, it's over.
31:49Monica, who did this to you?
31:50If I tell you then, I bet...
31:52I think we're past that.
31:53Who did it?
31:56Cavallo.
32:04I wasn't lying before about Gordon.
32:07We did date years ago,
32:08and I thought it was real,
32:09but he was just doing it
32:11to get close to Cavallo.
32:12I never imagined that.
32:13What's a midtown real estate agent
32:16doing mixed up with heroin dealers?
32:19Their labs are mobile.
32:21They need new places
32:21for their processing centers
32:23every month or so,
32:24and I had access to all the information
32:25that they needed.
32:26Look,
32:27this is not who I am.
32:29I mean, I never meant for anything.
32:31How did it start?
32:34I had some problems
32:36a few years back.
32:38I owed some people money.
32:40A man came to me,
32:42and he told me
32:43that he could make it all better.
32:46I just had to do a favor for him
32:48every now and then,
32:49and at the time,
32:50that actually sounded harmless.
32:54But this man knew things about me.
32:57I mean, things that nobody
32:58could possibly know.
33:00And I wanted to leave,
33:01but after what happened
33:03to Gordon's kid,
33:04I just...
33:06Gordon found me
33:07a couple days ago.
33:07He said he needed my help.
33:09He said that I could end this
33:11and that we both could be free.
33:13All I had to do
33:14was take him there.
33:16And now Gordon is dead,
33:18and I am next.
33:22Cavallo?
33:23Who is he?
33:24I've never seen him.
33:25Didn't he just try to kill you?
33:26If I knew who Cavallo was,
33:27don't you think
33:28I would have told Gordon?
33:29I've only ever dealt
33:30with Cavallo's right-hand man before.
33:31That's who was here
33:32trying to kill me.
33:33And who is his man?
33:37His name is Harley.
33:42Him?
33:46Harley is Cavallo.
33:49So Cavallo is hiding
33:50right under everyone's noses.
33:51How do I find him?
33:52He finds me.
33:54Monica, Gordon was right.
33:56We can end this,
33:58but we need your help.
33:59We believe that Cavallo
34:01is trafficking drugs
34:02through a pizzeria,
34:03but we need to know which one.
34:05I'm sorry,
34:06I don't know which one.
34:08Yo,
34:09we covered the whole area.
34:11Wherever he was,
34:11he's in the wind.
34:13All right,
34:13why don't you guys
34:14take Monica to the ER,
34:15get her checked,
34:16and then get her over
34:16to narcotics.
34:18Let them talk to her.
34:19One last question.
34:20Johnny Farrell
34:23and Sweet Anderson.
34:25So Gordon got onto this story
34:27in the first place.
34:29He heard somebody
34:30at one of the pizza joints
34:31using those names,
34:31and he knew it was
34:32Cavallo's code.
34:35Those were last week's names.
34:37Do you know this week's names?
34:39No,
34:39but Gordon said
34:40they were from his favorite film,
34:42The Maltese Falcon.
34:42The Maltese Falcon.
34:45You're a sneak!
34:46What the fuck?
34:47I don't care
34:49if those guys
34:49could have recognized you.
34:51Hold it much longer,
34:52there's gonna be
34:52another murder on our hands.
34:53Relax,
34:54we're almost done.
34:55We got two nicks down,
34:56two to go.
34:57Okay,
34:57call you in a bit.
34:58What if I should've used
34:59Sidney Greenstreet's character,
35:00Casper Gutman?
35:01Now there's a guy
35:02who loved his pizza.
35:03Well,
35:03we already put our money
35:04down on bogey,
35:05so let's just play this through.
35:08Slice?
35:10Uh,
35:10no,
35:10pick up actually
35:11for Spade.
35:12Sam Spade.
35:15Of course,
35:15Mr. Spade.
35:16Maybe hold it right here.
35:24Here you go,
35:24Mr. Spade.
35:25We put it on your tab.
35:33Winner,
35:33winner.
35:35Pizza dinner.
35:40Possession,
35:40trafficking,
35:41conspiracy to distribute.
35:43That right there
35:43is 30 years easy,
35:45Sal.
35:4530 terrific,
35:47authentic years.
35:48It's life
35:49if you're an accessory
35:49to Burns' murder.
35:50I had nothing to do
35:51with that,
35:51I swear.
35:52You swear.
35:52So what are you
35:53trying to tell me?
35:54Are you trying to tell me
35:55that Harley
35:56had the idea
35:57to put the body
35:57in your rival's oven?
35:58You're a pizza man,
35:59Sal.
36:00Body in an oven
36:01sounds more like
36:01your speed.
36:02No,
36:03no,
36:03no,
36:03no,
36:03no.
36:03It was him.
36:04It was all him.
36:05So what,
36:05now you're a victim?
36:06Look,
36:08my place was struggling.
36:10He came to me,
36:10he said the man
36:11that he worked for
36:11could help.
36:12All I had to do
36:12was let him use my shop
36:14for a couple of months
36:15and he would make
36:16my dream come true.
36:19Your dream?
36:20Yeah,
36:21he said,
36:21uh,
36:21after it was over,
36:24the man he worked for
36:25would,
36:25uh,
36:27burn down
36:28authentic Nicks.
36:30This ain't me.
36:31I never even smoked
36:34a joint.
36:35All those other Nicks,
36:36the stuff they were doing,
36:37it was driving me crazy.
36:38How did Burns' body
36:39get in the oven?
36:41Harley called me
36:41that night,
36:42said he needed to
36:43throw something
36:43in my oven
36:44overnight
36:45and say what it was.
36:47Yeah,
36:47but you knew
36:48it wasn't a tray of lasagna.
36:49And I said,
36:50no way,
36:50no way,
36:51I never signed up
36:52for cremation services.
36:54I never dreamed
36:55what I turned away
36:57would end up
36:58in Ralph Carbone's oven.
37:01You want our help, Sal?
37:05You want me to put in
37:06a good word
37:07with the DA?
37:08Yeah.
37:10Then help me find him.
37:11Help me find Cavallo.
37:15You can't find him.
37:17He fights you.
37:18That's not helping me, Sal.
37:20You don't get it.
37:21When I run out of product,
37:23I call him.
37:25He delivers.
37:29Make the call.
37:31Harley Romero,
37:48a.k.a.
37:48the legendary Cavallo.
37:50He won't talk
37:51without a lawyer.
37:52With the evidence
37:52from the ATM video
37:53and Sal's testimony,
37:54he's going to need one.
37:55You know what's brilliant
37:56when you think about it?
37:58The unassuming middleman
37:59does all the dirty work
38:00while everyone stays busy
38:01looking for the menacing
38:02mythic overlord.
38:03Who no one ever meets
38:04because he's not really real.
38:06Real or not,
38:07he's gone away
38:07for a long time.
38:09Good work.
38:12Hey.
38:14Narcotics just finished
38:15with Monica Wyatt.
38:16She cooperated fully.
38:17Okay, process her out.
38:19Put a patrol car
38:19outside her building
38:20for the next few nights
38:20just in case Cavallo
38:21has friends.
38:24What's up?
38:25I was just thinking
38:27about Burns,
38:28how close he came
38:29to catching the guy
38:29who killed his daughter
38:30when they come up short.
38:31Well, if it's any consolation,
38:33there's justice now.
38:34Yeah.
38:35He was still bugging me.
38:36Hmm?
38:37The guy is running
38:38for his life.
38:40Why did he ditch his phone?
38:41Well, he probably knew
38:42that he was going to get killed
38:43and he wanted at least
38:44someone to know the truth.
38:45What truth?
38:46It wasn't like there was
38:46a picture of Cavallo on it.
38:48No, you're right.
38:48The only person he had
38:49a picture of was...
38:51Just a few more questions,
39:03Miss Wyatt.
39:07I've been waiting
39:07over an hour.
39:10You know,
39:10the funny thing
39:10about this case
39:11is that nobody
39:13is who they claim to be,
39:14not even you.
39:15Monica Wyatt
39:16says here you moved
39:17to New York in 2002
39:18from L.A.
39:20Yeah, so?
39:20So, we did a little bit
39:22of digging
39:23and the only Monica Wyatt
39:25that we found
39:26was a heroin addict
39:27who was shot point-blank
39:29and then dumped
39:30in the L.A. River.
39:32Six months later,
39:33word of a new
39:34and brutal kingpin
39:35started sweeping the streets.
39:37And you're saying
39:37that's me?
39:40I'm a real estate agent.
39:42Have you seen my apartment?
39:43Oh, yeah, we saw that one.
39:44But all of the other ones
39:47can only be previewed online.
39:49What are you talking about?
39:50Your apartment sales
39:51to Walter Neff,
39:52Frank Chambers,
39:53Richard Harlan,
39:54they're all characters
39:55from noir films.
39:57They aren't real.
39:58You made millions
39:59in heroin holdings,
40:01which you turned into millions
40:02in real estate holdings,
40:03all clean.
40:05All the while,
40:07perpetuating the myth
40:08of Cavallo.
40:09Gordon didn't die
40:09chasing a myth.
40:11Oh, yeah, Gordon.
40:12Well, there's something
40:12that you didn't
40:13completely lie about.
40:14You did meet him
40:15a couple of years ago,
40:16but not as a boyfriend.
40:18He was a pain-in-the-ass reporter
40:20that just kept getting
40:21a little too close.
40:22Until a car came out of nowhere
40:23and killed his daughter.
40:26That got him out of your hair
40:27for a couple of years,
40:28but then he caught your scent
40:29again at Nick's Pizza.
40:31And that forced you
40:32to get rid of him permanently.
40:34And then you fed us Harley,
40:36the sacrificial lamb,
40:37to throw us off your trail.
40:39Harley attacked me.
40:40Oh, yeah, and then he managed
40:41to run down the fire escape
40:43with such incredible speed
40:45that two of New York's
40:47finest detectives
40:48were incapable of seeing him,
40:50never mind catching him.
40:51Beating yourself up.
40:53It's a nice touch.
40:56You know what?
40:57I just realized
40:58all those noir films
40:59that Cavallo draws his names from,
41:01they all have one thing in common.
41:03a femme fatale.
41:08I'd like my lawyer now.
41:18Ah, great.
41:20You're still up.
41:21Couldn't sleep if I wanted to.
41:23That makes two of us.
41:25Is that from Stefanos?
41:27Mm-hmm.
41:28You went all the way
41:28across the bridge for a pizza?
41:30Not for just anyone.
41:31Fresh basil and sausage.
41:35Any updates on, uh...
41:36Um, I called a mediation session
41:40with our school counselor today.
41:43And it turns out
41:44Lauren was just jealous
41:45of all the time
41:46I was spending with Ashley.
41:47She thought I had ditched
41:48our friendship.
41:48So, what'd you do?
41:51We hugged it out.
41:54And are you friends again?
41:55It's too soon to tell.
41:58Hurts like these
41:59take time to heal.
42:03Time.
42:04And pizza.
42:05We hugged it out.
42:06We hugged it out.
42:07We hugged it out.
42:08We hugged it out.
42:09We hugged it out.
42:10We hugged it out.
42:10We hugged it out.
42:11We hugged it out.
42:11We hugged it out.
42:12We hugged it out.
42:12We hugged it out.
42:13We hugged it out.
42:14We hugged it out.
42:15We hugged it out.
42:16We hugged it out.
42:17We hugged it out.
42:18We hugged it out.
42:19We hugged it out.
42:20We hugged it out.
42:21We hugged it out.
42:22We hugged it out.
42:23We hugged it out.
42:24We hugged it out.
42:25We hugged it out.
42:26We hugged it out.
42:27We hugged it out.
42:28We hugged it out.