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Castle Season 4 Episode 18 - Full
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00:01Welcome to A Night You Dance, America's favorite dance competition with your host, Brad Melville.
00:09Hey, hey, hey. Good evening, America. It's dance-off time, and the theme is Latin.
00:19As always, tonight's challengers were hand-picked by the judges.
00:23Max, are you looking forward to watching these two rumba?
00:26I'm looking forward to Santino redeeming himself for his samba-inspired solo dance last week. Pathetic.
00:33It was like a terrible dream my dog would have after eating the leftovers of my Brazilian dinner.
00:39Well, then, you know our semifinalists.
00:42Our match-up is Santino versus Odette.
00:47Can the arrogant bad boy best America's sweetheart?
00:50Let's get right to it.
00:52Tonight's elimination dance between Santino and Odette will mean the end of the road for one of them.
00:58One will be eliminated on Monday's results show.
01:01The other will be guaranteed a spot in the final two.
01:05Ladies and gentlemen, Santino and Odette!
01:08Odette, are you in there?
01:31Yes.
01:32Yes, who I ran into at the beauty parlor today.
01:38Mother, I'm at a critical juncture.
01:40Una Marconi.
01:42Una Marconi, the theater critic?
01:43I thought I might invite her to dinner, ask her to give a little mention to my acting school, put it into one of her columns.
01:51It would be invaluable publicity.
01:52Yes, well, that would depend on the mention.
01:54You aren't forgetting her blistering review of your performance of Maggie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, are you?
02:00That was 1983.
02:01I think I'm over it.
02:03Martha Rogers as Maggie the Cat is more of a helpless kitten, mewing and flapping her hands when she doesn't get her way.
02:10You memorized it?
02:11I couldn't help it.
02:12You walked around the apartment quoting it for months.
02:15Mother, I'm just saying, maybe it's not a good idea to ask an important favor of someone who's been so unkind to you in the past.
02:23The operative word here is past.
02:27I think I can rise above.
02:29Besides, my acting school is more important to me than some old grudge.
02:33Well, it's very mature of your mother.
02:35If Tennessee Williams knew what crimes Martha Rogers had committed against this audience in his name, he would have her arrested for assault.
02:45Rising above.
02:49Come on, Castle.
02:50How mean can this critic be?
02:51I'm just afraid that she's going to get her heart broken, you know?
02:54I mean, you know my mother.
02:55On the exterior, she's a tough cookie.
02:56But underneath all that bravado, gooey center.
03:01Hey, lady.
03:02So who's her victim?
03:03Odette Morton.
03:04Cause of death is a single GSW to the heart.
03:07Probably a nine millimeter.
03:08She died instantly.
03:09The bullet went right through her.
03:11Well, unless our killer used a silencer, someone must have heard the shot.
03:14Not necessarily.
03:16According to the stage manager, this area clears out once taping starts.
03:19Plus, the opening pirate techniques could have covered a gunshot.
03:22Well, that's assuming that she was shot just as the show started.
03:25It looks like she was.
03:26Yeah.
03:26The makeup girl finished with Odette at 2.45.
03:30Taping starts at 3, and she was discovered at 3.04.
03:3319 minutes.
03:34That's not a very big window.
03:35All right, see if the crew saw anyone near this room around that time.
03:38You got it.
03:39Hey, Rye.
03:40Can I get a list of all the guests that were invited to tonight's taping along with anyone
03:43that checked in at security?
03:44Already on it.
03:45But that's not the only way in here.
03:47There's an exit door to the alley down the hall.
03:49The crew guys like to prop it open so they can go out for a smoke.
03:52So either our killer got lucky and found an unlocked door.
03:54Or this was an inside job.
03:56That gives my vote.
03:57Odette was a lock to win this thing.
03:59I bet it was one of her backstabbing rivals that did this.
04:02What?
04:03I watched the show.
04:04Odette was my favorite contestant.
04:06She was an heiress raised by her rich grandpa, a party girl headed down the wrong path,
04:10then a brush with death made her wake up and change her bad girl ways.
04:14That's a great story.
04:16Except for the ending.
04:17I gotta say, Dr. Parrish, I never figured you for a fan of a night of dance.
04:20I'm not.
04:21Exactly.
04:22It's just...
04:24When I was young, more than anything, I wanted to be a prima ballerina.
04:27If I wasn't dancing, I was thinking about dancing.
04:30So what happened?
04:31The girls came along when I was 13.
04:33Not that many top-heavy ballerinas out there.
04:36Well, I think there should be.
04:37Of course you do.
04:38That's not what I meant.
04:40Although...
04:41Does Odette have any next to kin?
04:43Um, Paul Morton, her brother.
04:44Okay, great.
04:45Bring him down here and talk to the rest of the contestants.
04:47I want to see if anyone is taking this competition just a little too seriously.
04:51Do we understand that you and Odette were rehearsing your dance most of the day?
04:54How does she seem?
04:55On edge.
04:56We both were.
04:57I mean, one of us was about to be eliminated, which is why I can't believe she just left
05:01rehearsal at 11 and took off for half an hour.
05:03To do what?
05:04She wouldn't say.
05:05But everything was riding on this dance.
05:07She told me she had to meet a friend.
05:09She asked me to cover if anyone was looking for her.
05:10Um, do you have any idea why she was being so secretive?
05:17The producers don't like us to leave the studio on show day, so it must have been important.
05:21Well, the NYPD thanks you for your cooperation.
05:25You too.
05:29Damn.
05:30Did you see that?
05:31Mm-hmm.
05:32She acted like I didn't even exist.
05:34You don't.
05:35Not since you put that ring on your finger.
05:36Get used to being invisible to single women.
05:43I've never seen her happier than these past couple months.
05:45I can't believe that my sister's dead.
05:48We understand she had some difficulties in the past.
05:51A few years ago, our grandfather passed away.
05:54You know, Odette took it hard.
05:55She quit school.
05:57She broke off her relationship with a nice guy.
05:59Started hanging out with a bad crowd.
06:00What kind of bad crowd?
06:02Partiers.
06:03Druggies.
06:03She was arrested several times, but after the accident, she left all of that behind.
06:08That was her brush with death?
06:09It was a train derailment last year.
06:12Odette was on board.
06:13She made it out alive, but it scared the hell out of her.
06:16She turned her life around.
06:18Six months of dance training, and the next thing that I know, she's auditioned for a night of dance and been accepted.
06:23She finally found a direction in life.
06:26She was so close to realizing her dream.
06:28Was there anyone in Odette's old life that could have come back to cause trouble for her?
06:32Not that I'm aware of.
06:33What about on the show?
06:35Anyone she didn't get along with?
06:36She did mention someone.
06:38Another contestant.
06:40I think she said his name was Eddie.
06:45Detective Beckett, they're waiting for you.
06:49Detective Beckett.
06:50As co-creator and executive producer of Night of Dance, I've instructed my staff to provide you with anything and everything you need to help solve this terrible murder.
06:59Anything.
07:00Absolutely anything.
07:01Thanks.
07:02Now, Odette told her brother that there was someone on the show that she didn't get along with.
07:06Eddie Gordon.
07:06But he's not here anymore.
07:08Last week, Eddie and Odette performed a Bob Fosse-inspired number for the Elimination dance-off.
07:13We voted and sent Eddie home.
07:15He was upset.
07:16How upset?
07:17Well, you have to understand.
07:18All the contestants are cast on this show to tell their unique yet familiar stories.
07:24Odette was the poor little rich girl and Eddie was the kid from the wrong side of the tracks.
07:28We cast Eddie to bring the drama.
07:30Eddie brought the drama, and not just for the cameras.
07:33He was furious when we sent him packing, and we all got an earful about it.
07:37He was so rude.
07:39I had to call security.
07:40Was he threatening?
07:41Let's just say I was relieved when he was gone.
07:45Ironic, really.
07:46How so?
07:46Well, according to the rules, when a contestant is unable to continue, the last eliminated dancer returns to take his or her place.
07:53And that dancer is Eddie Gordon.
07:55Let me tell you something about Miss Sweet and Innocent Odette.
07:59She threw me under the bus tonight.
08:01She blew off rehearsals all week, then messed up her footwork, and blames it on me.
08:05Where I'm from, we know what to do with lying bitches like that.
08:09That was Eddie's exit interview.
08:12Contestants are encouraged by producers to speak freely.
08:15He certainly took their advice.
08:16Eddie's got a record back home in Rochester, and one of the assistants at a night of dance says they remember seeing him in the studio the afternoon Odette was murdered.
08:23Okay, so Eddie was eliminated, but he knew that if Odette was out of the running, he'd be asked to return and take her slot.
08:30So he went back and eliminated Odette.
08:33Permanently.
08:33E&E robbery, you're pretty busy up in Rochester, Eddie.
08:50Yeah, but that was a long time ago.
08:52When I started dancing, I gave up thug life.
08:54Yeah, well, that didn't stop you from going off on the judges when you were eliminated.
08:57Me going home was the wrong call, and I said so.
08:59Maybe I said it loud, but that don't make me no killer.
09:01Now that Odette can't finish the competition, the last eliminated contestant will be asked to return, and that's you, Eddie.
09:07Like my daddy used to say, the universe works in mysterious ways.
09:10And maybe you decided to give the universe just a little shove.
09:14So what were you doing at the studio on show day?
09:17I went by early to see my boy Santino.
09:19Give him support on his big day.
09:20You got an answer for everything, don't you, Eddie?
09:22And you know what else you got?
09:22You got motive and opportunity.
09:24And I was across town when that mess happened, meeting my agent.
09:27But last week, something was going on with Odette.
09:31Something that didn't have nothing to do with dancing.
09:34What do you mean?
09:35She was out of it.
09:36Missing easy steps.
09:38She said she'd go into the ladies' room, then be gone for half an hour.
09:40What do you think she was doing?
09:41I know what she was doing.
09:43I saw her go out the back door.
09:45Meet some guy in the alley.
09:47They talk real serious for a minute.
09:50Then she handed him a roll of bills.
09:52Looked like three grand.
09:53Easy.
09:53You get a good enough look at this guy?
09:55You think he can provide us with a sketch?
09:57Yeah.
09:58I can do that.
10:00Hey, so Eddie Gordon spoke the truth.
10:02He was meeting with his agent when Odette was shot.
10:04So maybe he was also telling the truth about the guy he saw Odette with in the alley.
10:08Well, he gave us a sketch.
10:09Pretty generic, though.
10:11Handsome Caucasian dark hair.
10:13You know, that missing half hour when Odette left rehearsal the day she was shot,
10:17maybe she was with him.
10:18I'll have uniforms circulate the sketch around the studio to see if anybody recognizes him.
10:22Okay, so if Odette had straightened up after the train accident,
10:25what was she doing behind the stage door secretly giving some guy a roll of bills?
10:29Could be a drug deal.
10:30Maybe Odette was falling back into old habits.
10:32Any recent withdrawals in her bank statement?
10:34Yeah, not for that amount of money.
10:35But check out these credit card payments.
10:39For the last six months, Odette's credit card spending was pretty much steady.
10:42And then about a month ago, it suddenly shot up.
10:45No kidding.
10:46The cards were maxed out over 100 grand in charges?
10:49Well, she's spending all that money on.
10:50Thank you for coming in, Mr. Lynchburg.
10:52You were Odette's business manager as well as the executor of her grandfather's estate?
10:57And now I have the unfortunate task of handling Odette's estate as well.
11:02And who inherits her share of the family trust?
11:04Per Odette's wishes, it goes to the Graham Morton Foundation.
11:07It's a charitable organization.
11:10You know, I noticed a pretty big spike in her spending over the last month.
11:13Do you have any idea what that was about?
11:14I'm sure you know that after Odette's grandfather passed away three years ago, she went through a bad period.
11:20Yeah, her brother filled us in.
11:21Parties, drugs.
11:23A particular concern to me during that time was her spending.
11:26Odette would get drunk and spontaneously buy a car or put a bid down on a new apartment.
11:32She paid for a friend's nose job.
11:34Just whatever struck her fancy.
11:36But then after the train accident last year, all that stopped.
11:39It was refreshing to those of us who cared about her.
11:43I was worried that last month's credit card charges indicated that she might have been backsliding.
11:48What was she buying?
11:50Clothing, mostly.
11:52The bulk of the charges were over two days at one particular Fifth Avenue department store.
11:56I'd like to see the original receipts.
11:58Of course.
11:59This is the weirdest spending spree I have ever seen.
12:02Odette spent tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, but nothing in her size according to these receipts.
12:07Everything's in size four.
12:09And I went through her apartment.
12:10I didn't see a hundred grand with the new clothes.
12:12Maybe she hit them.
12:13Sounds to me like fuel gas cards, Kim.
12:15What do you mean?
12:16Your parents put you on a strict allowance, but they give you a gas card so you can fill your car.
12:20Well, you fill your friend's cars and they give you cash.
12:24Some of my buddies in boarding school nearly doubled their allowance.
12:27Uh-huh.
12:28Not me, of course.
12:31De-
12:31Don't tell my mother.
12:35So, Odette needed cash in her hurry to say maybe pay off some guy in an alley.
12:38But the monthly stipend from her family trust wasn't enough to cover it.
12:41So she charges the clothes, sells them to her friends, instant cash flow.
12:44Which is still not enough.
12:45The cards max out, the money train stops, and she can't make payment to whoever she owes.
12:49She ends up dead.
12:50Yeah, but do you guys think that Odette actually had one size four friend willing to pay a hundred grand for a bunch of peg jeans and a faux rabbit purse?
13:00Did you say rabbit?
13:04Jasmine?
13:05We need to talk.
13:10Where'd you get the back?
13:11A friend gave it to me.
13:12Your friend, Odette Morton?
13:14We talked to the salesperson, Jasmine.
13:16She said that you were with Odette when she dropped a hundred grand on clothes for you.
13:20Odette was very generous.
13:21She's also very dead, and I know a blackmail scheme when I hear one.
13:24Maybe Odette had something going on in her life she wanted to keep secret.
13:27You found out about it, told her the price for your silence was a closet full of fancy duns.
13:31But why would I kill her?
13:32Maybe she couldn't give any more.
13:34You got frustrated.
13:35You killed her.
13:35Maybe she decided to come forward herself.
13:37Accused you of blackmail.
13:38You killed her.
13:39Jasmine, these are just off the top of my head.
13:41We can finish off this conversation in the precinct.
13:42Wait.
13:47Last month I was here working late, and I happened to see Odette walk by my desk real fast, like she was upset.
13:52Next thing I know, here comes Brad Melville, like he's looking for her.
13:55Brad Melville?
13:56The show's host?
13:57Why would the host of A Night of Dance be looking for a contestant?
14:00Aren't they not supposed to fraternize?
14:01That's why I followed him.
14:02Brad and Odette were in the stairwell having a fight.
14:04About what?
14:05I'm not completely sure.
14:07But when I bluffed Odette that I was going to tell Max about her and Brad, she got really nervous.
14:10She offered to buy me some stuff I wanted if I'd keep quiet, and I thought that sounded like a good deal.
14:15But that's it.
14:16I would have never hurt Odette.
14:18You'll have to pardon me if I don't take yet your word.
14:20Look, if anyone had a reason to murder Odette, it was Brad.
14:23Just listen.
14:24I recorded the two of them.
14:27We had a deal.
14:28And I'm willing to stand by it if you are.
14:30I have worked too hard to get where I am.
14:32If anyone finds out about this, Odette, I swear I'll kill you.
14:34If Max Renfro found out that Brad Melville was in a relationship with one of the contestants, what would happen?
14:41She'd be thrown off the show, and he'd be fired.
14:44Motive for murder?
14:45Anyone?
14:46If anyone finds out about this, Odette, I swear I'll kill you.
14:51That is completely not what it sounds like.
14:53What it sounds like, Brad, is you threatening Odette Morton's life a few weeks before she was murdered.
14:57But I was trying to protect her.
14:59Protect her how?
15:01I knew about Odette's troubled past, the drugs, the DUIs.
15:04But I also believed her when she said she was clean now and that dancing was all she cared about.
15:09Are you trying to say that that wasn't true?
15:10What I'm trying to say is, two months ago, I walked into makeup early one morning and found Odette shooting up.
15:18Are you sure about this?
15:20100% positive.
15:21If Max knew she was using, she would have been eliminated on the spot.
15:25But you never told Max.
15:26Odette promised she would clean up.
15:28I gave her a second chance, but I also kept an eye on her.
15:31Then a month ago, I caught her again.
15:33I told her I was going to Max, that she was on her own.
15:36And did you?
15:36No, because Odette threatened me.
15:39She said that if I went to Max and told him what I'd seen, that she'd go to him and tell him that I was the one that let her off the first time.
15:46Max would have fired me for keeping a secret that big from him.
15:49I'd be off the show.
15:50I'd be Brian Dunkelman.
15:53Who's Brian Dunkelman?
15:54Exactly.
15:56So, if Odette went down, she was taking you with her.
16:00Brad was right about her shooting up.
16:02Found these hidden in a false bottom underneath her jewelry box.
16:05No wonder CSU missed it when they went to her apartment.
16:07Could be speed.
16:07Yeah, except I just got off the phone with Lainey, and she said that preliminary talk screen results show that Odette wasn't using drugs, at least one of the usual ones.
16:17So what the hell's in this bottle?
16:18And so I said to Sir Lawrence, Larry, that is the second best performance of Othello I have ever seen.
16:32But I'm afraid no one can improve the Orson Welles interpretation.
16:37Larry, I said, you've simply been outdone.
16:39Oh.
16:40Wow, what did Olivier say to that?
16:43He said, my dear girl, you have the makings of a theater critic.
16:48And so here I am.
16:50Yes, indeed you are.
16:52Oh, by the way, I don't know if I told you that recently I opened my own acting school.
17:01Martha, how wonderful.
17:04How good of you to share your years and years of experience with a new generation.
17:12Yes, we are very proud.
17:15And I was wondering, perhaps you might consider stopping by and sitting in on a class or two, and then if you felt so inclined, mentioning our little school in one of your wonderful columns.
17:27I'd be happy to do that. You just tell me where and when.
17:32Well, that's lovely.
17:34I just hope you're not teaching your students your little trick of tilting your head before delivering an important line of dialogue.
17:43I don't do that.
17:44Well, you did it when you played Maggie the cat.
17:47Oh, and you fluttered your hands like little bird wings.
17:50I kept waiting for you to take off.
17:53Who wants pie? Alexis, would you thank you?
17:57I believe that was the year that I was nominated for a Tony.
18:01Well, perhaps the American theater wing is more tolerant of head tilting and hand fluttering than I am.
18:09Oh, Martha, I'm just teasing.
18:12You can't possibly still be upset about that old review.
18:16Let's not say anything we'll regret.
18:19That was no review.
18:20That was a hatchet job.
18:22It was vicious and it was uncalled for.
18:24And it was also accurate.
18:27Rise above.
18:28Rise above.
18:29You know what, I rescinded my request.
18:32There is no way I would accept your endorsement of my school now if you begged me.
18:37Fat chance of that.
18:40Just remember, Martha, those who can't do, teach.
18:45And those who can't teach become theater critics.
18:50Scott, come on.
18:55Great.
18:58Could have been worse.
19:02It couldn't have been worse.
19:03My mother exposed her gooey center and Una Marconi drove a stake through it.
19:07Well, tell her I feel her pain.
19:08Thanks, I will.
19:09Anything new on the case?
19:10Yeah, Eunice found the cafe that Odette went to at 11 a.m. the day that she was killed.
19:15Scoring drugs off her mystery man?
19:16More like scoring a fat-free latte.
19:19She met up with a friend for a coffee.
19:23Suzanne Steiner.
19:24A friend?
19:25Leaving the studio on show day was a very big deal.
19:27What was so important that it couldn't wait?
19:29According to Suzanne, she just wanted to talk about old times.
19:31Hey, we got a fax from the lab.
19:33That clear vial of liquid that we found at Odette's apartment, it wasn't illegal drugs.
19:37It's insulin.
19:39Odette was diabetic?
19:39Not according to her doctor.
19:41He said he hasn't seen her in over a year.
19:43Well, maybe she developed it recently, or maybe she went to a new doctor.
19:46Then why not just tell Brad Melville the truth?
19:48That it wasn't speed, it was insulin.
19:49Then why bother buying jasmine half of Fifth Avenue to keep it quiet?
19:55Well, I think I can help with that.
19:57CSU report is back in Odette's place.
19:58They only found one set of prints, and they were not Odette's.
20:02They belonged to a woman named Barbara Landau.
20:05Who the hell is Barbara Landau?
20:06Not someone who would run in Odette circles.
20:08She was raised in foster care and was a high school dropout.
20:11So she was staying with Odette?
20:13We need to talk to her.
20:14That's going to be tough.
20:15Officially, Barbara Landau has been dead for over a year.
20:18Here's her death certificate.
20:20She died of blunt force trauma from injuries suffered in a train collision.
20:23That's right.
20:24The same train collision that Odette survived.
20:27Or did she?
20:30You see that picture of Odette?
20:32Well, this is Barbara.
20:37They're identical.
20:39But that's impossible.
20:40Impossible?
20:41Or the explanation to everything?
20:43The dramatic change in Odette after the accident.
20:46The need to hide being a diabetic because Odette was not a diabetic.
20:50Odette Morton didn't survive that train crash.
20:53Barbara did.
20:55And like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Barbara Landau walked away from the wreckage of that train and stole Odette Morton's life.
21:01The End
21:05Twin girls are born and put up for adoption.
21:12Odette goes to a wealthy, loving family.
21:14Barbara, not so lucky.
21:16She gets bounced around from one foster home to the next, always knowing deep inside that she was meant for something better.
21:21Then, one day, the two of them meet on a train bound for Miami.
21:26The connection is instantaneous.
21:28In two days, they learn everything there is to know about each other.
21:30And Barbara can't help but think, if only I had landed in the lap of luxury like Odette, I could have been anything I wanted to be.
21:36Are you suggesting that Barbara purposefully caused the derailment to take over Odette's life?
21:42With what? Her crazy Wiccan powers?
21:45Oh.
21:46Wow, that would be an incredible twist.
21:48But no, no.
21:49The accident happens.
21:51Odette is killed.
21:52Barbara survives.
21:54And in the midst of all the chaos and rubble, she sees her chance.
21:59She switches identification with Odette and she changes her destiny in one move.
22:04Barbara builds herself a better future, a perfect life.
22:09Until she was murdered a year later.
22:11Yeah, well, separate twin stories never end happily.
22:14Except the parent trap.
22:16Let's have to sit back.
22:17Odette and Barbara were not biologically related.
22:20Barbara has no living family we could find.
22:22Well, if they're not related, how can Barbara look so much like Odette?
22:26I don't know.
22:27But we do have an address for her former place of employment, strip club in Midtown.
22:31We've been operating on the theory that Odette was murdered because she was Odette.
22:34But what if she was murdered because she was really Barbara?
22:37Find out everything you can about Barbara.
22:39In the meantime, I'm going to re-interview Odette's brother, Paul.
22:42Is he a person of interest now?
22:43I'm just having trouble believing that Barbara managed to fool Odette's own brother for over a year.
22:49He's going to have to convince me that he didn't know.
22:51Well, that sounds like something better done one-on-one, mono-a-mono.
22:54Meantime, I want to take a ride downtown with the boys, check out that strip club.
22:57Sorry, Castle.
22:58Three's a crap.
22:59What's up?
23:05Why are you freezing out a boy like that?
23:06I'm going to try an experiment.
23:07I'm in Castle, along with messed things up.
23:10Here.
23:12Wear my wedding ring.
23:13What?
23:13Get that thing away from me, man.
23:15It's a mood killer.
23:16Just wear it when we're at the club.
23:17What for?
23:18See, I've been talking to all my married guy friends.
23:19They say that your theory is way off.
23:22Wearing a wedding ring gets them more attention from women, not less.
23:25So?
23:26So, wear the ring.
23:28I want to see if women still flirt with you and ignore me.
23:32So you don't want Castle to come because all the women would flirt with him.
23:36I want to know if it's just the ring that's repelling members of the fairer sex.
23:39It's not the ring, bro.
23:40It's you.
23:42See, once you've been married for a little while and you're feeling a little bored and unsatisfied,
23:46the ring will get you love from the ladies.
23:48They'll want to take you away from all that so that you can be bored and unsatisfied with them.
23:52Why not now?
23:53Well, because now you're all blissfully happy with your wife and whatnot.
23:57You have the stink of honeymoon phase all over you.
24:01No woman wants to be around that.
24:03How long does it last?
24:04It's hard to say.
24:06But knowing you and Jenny, probably forever.
24:09Oh, yeah, Barbie.
24:22All she wanted was to be a dancer on Broadway.
24:25She used to talk about it a lot, huh?
24:27More than that, she got a makeover, changed her hair.
24:31And then two years ago, she got her nose done, even though her nose looked fine before.
24:34Back in the day, did Barbara have trouble with anybody?
24:38Say, a customer, maybe a boyfriend?
24:40Boyfriend, yeah.
24:42Jason.
24:44Could this be him?
24:45That's him.
24:46Jason Bagwell.
24:48Do you know where we can find Jason?
24:50He lived over in Alphabet City.
24:52He was always running some scam.
24:54Borrowing money from Barbara for some new business venture and never paying her back.
24:59But she loved him.
25:01Crazy love, you know?
25:02Oh, yeah, I do.
25:04Well, you've been very helpful, Chantel.
25:06Thank you for your time.
25:08If you wanted, you could come back later.
25:10My show starts at 8.
25:11I could probably get...
25:12It's got to get home to the little woman, Chantel.
25:14But we do thank you for your time and your cooperation.
25:18All right.
25:22What's wrong with you, man?
25:24Why you got through salt in my game like that?
25:25You can't pick up on honeys while wearing the eternal symbol of my love and commitment to Jenny.
25:30Did I just say that out loud?
25:31Mm-hmm.
25:32No wonder women won't flirt with me.
25:34I'm a lost cause.
25:35A man in love with his wife.
25:38Enjoy it, my friend.
25:39A lot of men would switch places with you.
25:42Not me.
25:43Mm-mm.
25:44Other men.
25:45Guys.
25:45Unhappy single guys.
25:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:47Just give him a ring back and you can go get Chantel's phone number.
25:53What the...
25:54Ow.
25:56What?
25:58It's stuck.
26:01The guys are out picking up Barbara's ex-boyfriend.
26:04I thought I'd use the time to follow up on what they learned at the club.
26:07Starting with the fact that Barbara Landau did get plastic surgery.
26:11Here is her old DMV photo.
26:13She's a pretty girl.
26:14Exactly.
26:15Plastic surgery didn't make her look more beautiful.
26:17It just made her look more like Odette Morton.
26:20You remember her accountant, Samuel Lynchburg, told you that Odette paid for her friend's nose job?
26:25And you think Barbara is that friend?
26:27You think they knew each other?
26:28I know it.
26:29Lynchburg's assistant confirmed that Odette paid for Barbara's surgery plus expenses.
26:33And I'm guessing you have a theory as to why?
26:35You know Odette loved to party.
26:38Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that all that constant carousing does not come without consequences.
26:44Like arrests, community service hours, waking up in a strange hotel room with some girl's panties on your head.
26:50That's...
26:50Forget that partner.
26:53Here is Odette doing her community service hours for her second DUI in 2010.
26:58Here's Odette at a bridal shower with friends.
27:02So?
27:02So according to the timestamps, these photos were taken on the same day within 20 minutes of each other.
27:07So it was really Barbara at the soup kitchen.
27:10Odette would do the crime, but she didn't want to do the time.
27:13So she created a faux-dent to do her dirty work for her.
27:17A job that I bet paid very well.
27:19Maybe a wild night on the town brings Odette to the strip club where she sees Barbara.
27:24All of Barbara.
27:25And she realizes with a little work, Barbara could be the perfect double for her.
27:30Doing all the unpleasant jobs that Odette simply couldn't be bothered to do.
27:34Community service hours, drug tests.
27:36And with a little training and some surgical tweaks, Barbara could do even more.
27:39Like meetings with Odette's business manager or boring luncheons with her Aunt Margaret.
27:44Nobody in Odette's inner circle could have known about the ruse.
27:46So that when the train crashed, Barbara saw her chance to go from understudy to leading lady and she took it.
27:51Okay, so that explains the transition, but we still don't know who killed her.
27:53Maybe we do.
27:55It would have to be someone that knew Odette was actually Barbara when he saw her on TV.
28:00Someone who was looking to cash in on her new life.
28:03Someone like Barbara's boyfriend, Jason.
28:05I'm telling you this is crazy.
28:08I didn't kill anybody.
28:11Here's what I think happened.
28:13You realize that Barbara didn't die in that train accident.
28:16She was alive.
28:18And living as Odette Morton, which meant she was very rich.
28:20You knew her secret and you wanted to be rich too.
28:22Barbara wasn't the kind of girl to claw her way into the good life and then be taken advantage of by the likes of you.
28:27She rejected you.
28:28So you shot her.
28:29This is why I didn't come forward.
28:32I knew you'd suspect me.
28:33We suspect people with motive, Jason.
28:36You got it wrong.
28:37Barbara came to me.
28:39Two weeks ago, she showed up on my doorstep and told me the whole story.
28:43Barbara had everything she could want.
28:45A perfect life.
28:47Why would she risk it all by getting in touch with you?
28:51Because she missed me.
28:55And Odette's life wasn't as perfect as Barbara thought.
28:59Barbara was lonely and she wanted to get back together.
29:03She told me she had found out some stuff about Odette.
29:06Um, secrets from her past.
29:08What kind of secrets?
29:09I don't know.
29:09But she said if anyone found out, it would all be over for her.
29:12Do you think this secret got her count?
29:16She said she could use it to her advantage.
29:20She just needed more information.
29:22Information was, was leverage.
29:24It would protect her.
29:25But she had to move fast.
29:26And she didn't move fast enough.
29:31Barbara had been dancing since she was a little kid and all she ever wanted was to be a star on Broadway.
29:38And she was so close.
29:41So it wasn't something from her own past that got Barbara killed.
29:44It was something from Odette's.
29:46Okay, so a week before her death, Barbara, as Odette, is acting odd.
29:56She's missing rehearsals.
29:58She seeks out her ex, tells him that Odette's perfect life isn't so perfect.
30:02And that there's something in Odette's past that's a problem.
30:04Right, so she needs information.
30:05So where does she go?
30:07Suzanne Steiner.
30:09Remember Barbara made her coffee the day she died.
30:10She wanted to talk to Suzanne about old times.
30:12I'm not sure what help I can be.
30:15Odette seemed fine the day that I saw her.
30:18Mm-hmm.
30:19Oh, I keep forgetting that she wasn't Odette.
30:22Her resemblance was remarkable.
30:24You said that she wanted to reminisce.
30:26How close were the two of you?
30:27My dad was the butler in her grandfather's home for 20 years, so we practically grew up together.
30:32And what did she want to talk about?
30:34Well, she asked about her grandfather.
30:35Well, Odette's grandfather.
30:37Mm-hmm.
30:37She talked about how close they had been.
30:39And then she asked about the day that he died.
30:43He died in his sleep, didn't he?
30:45Yeah.
30:45Yeah, he was 98.
30:47It was odd that she asked because I wasn't there.
30:52But she was.
30:53Odette was.
30:54Along with my father.
30:56And when I reminded her of that, she asked about my dad.
31:00She said she wanted to catch up with him.
31:03Do you know if the two of them ever spoke?
31:05Well, I gave her his number, but I'm not sure what happened.
31:08It's not coming off.
31:15It's like it soldered itself under my hand.
31:17Maybe it's possessed.
31:18You know, like some kind of cursed object from a Stephen King story?
31:20How can I tell my wife that I'm not wearing my wedding ring because I lent it to Esposito
31:24as an experiment to see if strippers would flirt with me?
31:28Maybe she'll see the humor in it.
31:31You're not a chance.
31:31So, Charles Carson, former butler to Odette's late grandfather.
31:36No record, but get this.
31:39His name rang a bell.
31:40So I looked up the guest list from Wednesday's taping, and he's on it.
31:44Odette called in a last-minute ticket request for Mr. Carson.
31:47So he was at the show?
31:48Yes.
31:49Security hasn't gone through it.
31:50But after that, no one remembers seeing him.
31:53Okay.
31:53So Suzanne said that Fodette wanted to talk about the day her grandfather died.
31:58What if this was the secret that Barbara was on to?
32:01What if Graham Morton didn't die of natural causes, and she felt somehow Charles Carson here
32:04had something to do with it?
32:06We need to see Graham Morton's autopsy report.
32:08Based on my reading of the coroner's report, I can see why Graham Morton's death was ruled
32:13natural causes.
32:14However...
32:15Ooh.
32:16There's a however.
32:17A very big however.
32:18Tell him.
32:19There were some anomalies I found suspicious.
32:21Evidence of petechiae in both eyes, fresh bruising on the right side of Mr. Morton's nose,
32:25which could have happened if, say, someone was holding a pillow over his face.
32:30All in all, I think there's ample evidence that Mr. Morton was murdered.
32:36Ample?
32:37Murdered.
32:39I am just so proud.
32:40Dad, work.
32:41Founders.
32:42Right.
32:43One more thing.
32:44When I requested the file be sent over, the clerk told me that I was the second person
32:47this week to ask for it.
32:49Odette Morton was there on Tuesday.
32:52So Barbara realized Odette's grandfather was murdered, and must have thought Carson the
32:56butler had something to do with it.
32:57And then when Carson figured out that Barbara knew too much, he killed her.
33:00We're gonna bring him in first thing in the morning.
33:02And arrest him for a double murder.
33:03Good morning.
33:10Speak for yourself.
33:12Oh, Richard, I really messed up.
33:15Just let my ego get the better of me.
33:18Now Una Marconi is never gonna endorse my school.
33:21She'll probably write something negative just out of spite.
33:24Well, there is a chance you can still turn this around, but are you willing to apologize
33:29to someone who doesn't really deserve it?
33:30Darling, I don't think a simple apology is gonna get me out of this.
33:33And in the wise words of Don Vito Corleone, you need to make her an offer.
33:39She can't refuse.
33:42And if there's anything I can do to help, you let me know.
33:46I will.
33:47I will.
33:52Mr. Carson, you worked for Graham Morton for over 25 years.
33:56I understand that you were very close with his grandkids.
34:00Well, as close as one could be, while still maintaining the employer-servant relationship.
34:06So when the victim called you and invited you to the night of dance taping on Wednesday,
34:10you said yes?
34:11I was delighted.
34:13She asked me to meet her afterwards, said that she had a question for me, but of course,
34:17as you know, they canceled the show, and I didn't find out until the next day what had
34:20happened.
34:21I had no idea that that girl wasn't Odette, and no idea why she wanted to talk to me.
34:31She wanted to talk to you about the day that Graham Morton died.
34:35Why would she care about that?
34:37It seems she had some evidence that Mr. Morton didn't die of natural causes.
34:42I don't understand.
34:43Are you saying that he was murdered?
34:45You were at the house that day, weren't you?
34:48Oh, good Lord.
34:49You don't think that I had...
34:50You were the person closest to him.
34:52You had ample opportunity.
34:54We've seen the will.
34:55He left you a generous bequest.
34:58I would never have hurt Mr. Morton.
35:04But that woman, the woman who pretended to be Odette, she might be right about his death.
35:10In fact, it's possible that she believed that I knew something.
35:14Tell me.
35:15How did Mr. Morton die?
35:18Was he smothered?
35:20Why would you ask that?
35:23The month he died, there was tension in the household.
35:25Odette was seeing someone of whom Mr. Morton did not approve.
35:30Do you know who?
35:30No, but he ordered her to break it off.
35:33And of course, that day, Odette was crying.
35:35She spent most of the morning in her room.
35:37And about one o'clock, Mr. Morton said that he wanted to take a nap.
35:40So I cleared the bed of all the pillows.
35:43He preferred a flat surface.
35:45Now, a few moments later, there was a commotion down in the kitchen.
35:48Odette had put a sandwich in the toaster oven too long, and it had caused a small fire.
35:53We put it out, and then I went back upstairs to check on Mr. Morton, and he was dead.
35:58And that's when I noticed it.
36:02Noticed what?
36:03A pillow on the bed.
36:06And I was sure that I had taken them all off.
36:09So I'd fly to Odette about it, but she said my mind was playing tricks on me, so I let it go.
36:15Mr. Carson, when you were in the kitchen, was there ever a moment that Odette was out of your sight?
36:20No.
36:23I knew she was innocent.
36:24She wasn't innocent.
36:26She was a distraction.
36:27Odette got you down to the kitchen while her accomplice went and murdered her grandfather.
36:31And then when Barbara Landau figured out the truth, the accomplice murdered her too.
36:42Thank you for coming in, Mr. Lynchburg.
36:45Mr. Lynchburg, being the Morton family financial advisor,
36:49that must give you pretty good insight into their personal lives, right?
36:53Looking at what people spend their money on, you get to know folks pretty well.
36:57And how well did you know Odette?
37:00As well as any of my clients.
37:02And given the lectures that I gave her about her lifestyle, maybe more so.
37:06We understand about the time her grandfather died, Odette was dating someone.
37:11Someone her grandfather didn't approve of.
37:13Well, that's not surprising.
37:15The two of them rarely saw eye to eye.
37:16This boyfriend, do you remember who he was?
37:20No.
37:20Why?
37:21Well, because we think that he conspired with Odette to kill her grandfather,
37:24and then he killed Barbara when she was on the verge of figuring it all out.
37:27You're sure you don't remember?
37:29Huh.
37:29Well, we just spoke with Odette's brother, and he remembers.
37:33In fact, he remembers it being you.
37:35He said that the two of you wanted to get married, but Odette's grandfather threatened to cut her off.
37:41Now, a girl like Odette, she can never be happy living off a meager six-figure salary like yours.
37:47She needed to inherit, but that old man refused to die.
37:51So she convinced you to go upstairs and smother him to death with a pillow while she created a distraction in the kitchen.
37:58Problem solved.
37:59Except, once she had her money, she left you.
38:02Went back to her partying lifestyle.
38:04She used you.
38:05There wasn't anything you could do about it.
38:06At least not without admitting to the murder.
38:09You can't prove that.
38:10His death wasn't even ruled a homicide.
38:12No, but Barbara Landau's was.
38:13Uniforms found this 9mm in the dumpster behind your offices.
38:21Ballistics match.
38:22This is the same gun that was used to kill Barbara Landau, and it's got your fingerprints all over it.
38:37Last month, when her credit card bills were so high, I thought she was slipping back into her old ways.
38:42And I said to her, we didn't risk everything to get this money so you could let it ruin your life.
38:50And she looked at me, and it tells she had no idea what I was talking about.
38:56In that moment, I knew that she wasn't my Odette.
39:00Well, that's how she got onto you.
39:01So this Barbara told me that if I kept her secret, she would keep mine.
39:05She thought we were even.
39:06She thought that she could just take the place of Odette.
39:09What was I supposed to do?
39:13Just let some dirty stripper live in her house and wear her clothes and blackmail me?
39:18Odette deserved better.
39:19What's going on?
39:37I was just thinking how we rely on dreams to keep us going in life and how sad it is when they become the things that tear us down.
39:43Yeah, well, that might be the case for Barbara Landau, but not for everyone with dreams that didn't come true.
39:50I mean, take Lainey, for instance.
39:52She wanted to be a dancer.
39:54She became a doctor.
39:55That's not so bad, is it?
39:57Hmm.
39:58What about you?
40:00I mean, I know you became a cop because your mother was murdered, but there had to be something before that.
40:04What did little Kate Beckett want to be when she grew up?
40:07At Stanford, I was pre-law.
40:09So your dream was to argue a case before the Supreme Court?
40:13Mm-hmm.
40:13Yep, I was on my way to becoming the first female chief justice.
40:17Wow.
40:19Not bad.
40:20Ah!
40:27You know what?
40:29Ooh, I'm late for my stripper date.
40:31Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
40:32I cannot go home again without that ring on my finger tonight.
40:35My couch has a loose spring.
40:36My back.
40:37Hey, did you try soap?
40:38Yeah.
40:38Yeah, it was the first thing we did.
40:39Cooking spray.
40:40I didn't think about cooking spray.
40:40Where are we going to find cooking spray?
40:41Here.
40:48Silk.
40:50That might work.
40:53Oh, yeah.
40:54I think it's coming.
40:57At least it's off my finger.
41:07Una, thank you so much for stopping by.
41:10Thank you, Martha.
41:11And I'll be sure to find a few inches of column space to mention your little school.
41:16Oh, good. Thank you. I really appreciate that, dear.
41:18Oh, Richard, good. You're just in time to say goodbye to Una.
41:21Oh, nice to see you again.
41:22It's lovely to see you as well.
41:24And I look forward to hearing from you.
41:27Hearing from...
41:28Well, I know you're in a hurry, dear.
41:30And I'll call you. We will have lunch.
41:32Yes, bye-bye.
41:36All's well that ends well.
41:38Mother, why would Una Marconi be looking forward to hearing from me?
41:41Well, you did say if there is any way that you could help...
41:44That you should let me know exactly what did you promise her without asking me first.
41:48That you would read her novel.
41:51Oh, Mother.
41:52And critique it and give it to your publisher.
41:55It is the inspiring story of a young woman's journey from department store clerk to world-renowned Broadway star.
42:02Chick lit?
42:03Mother, this is really not my...
42:05Oh, and darling, when you give her your thoughts, do be kind.
42:07Because it's always been her dream to be a novelist.
42:10Be kind.
42:16For you, Mother, I can be kind.
42:20Please.
42:24I'll talk to you in a second.
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