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00:00Keep him coming, pal. You're doing great.
00:26See, maybe you can help me. I'm looking for a date.
00:31Aren't we all?
00:32It's a little special.
00:33You know him?
00:35Noah. I'm looking at him.
00:48Where have you been all my life?
00:54Talk about a slice of history. The Penny Baker Club.
00:58You know, back in the 40s, all the greats played here.
01:00If these walls could talk, man, the stories they would tell.
01:03Yeah, but the only story we need to hear is about...
01:05Stan Banks, single GSW to the sternum.
01:08I'm calling the time of death between 6 and 8 this morning.
01:11Looks like he tried to defend himself with this.
01:13Obviously, it didn't work.
01:15So, robbery gone wrong?
01:16Well, he still had his wallet, cell, and a room key from the Parksville Arms, so...
01:21Pockets were pulled out indicating the killer searched the body for what we have no idea.
01:26That's weird. He's got an SRO key, but his driver's license has him living on 34th Street.
01:31We'll hit the SRO. See if there's anything we find out about him.
01:34Thanks.
01:35You're looking for a drink, Castle? Because I'm pretty sure the bar's closed.
01:39Actually, I was looking for a clue. I think I found one.
01:42Some homeless guy squat and today's ledger.
01:46He was here this morning.
01:47Well, whoever he is, maybe he saw something.
01:50I'll get patrol units to canvas the area.
01:52Stan's dead?
01:54Well, that's just great. What am I supposed to do with all this crap?
01:58We'll be taking some of it off your hands as part of our investigation.
02:01You know of anyone who's been threatening Stan Lee?
02:03I'm the manager here, not the den mother.
02:05Okay, then. When was the last time I saw him?
02:08Well, this morning. Stan was all smiles. Gave notice he was moving out because his ship was coming in.
02:13What ship?
02:14Oh, I don't know. The Titanic, from the looks of things.
02:17Well, if you can remember anything else, can you please give me a call?
02:19Don't hold your breath, hotshot.
02:22I think she likes you.
02:23I have no idea why Stan was at the Penny Baker Club,
02:26but we've been separated for almost a year, so God knows where he's been.
02:30And when was the last time you spoke with him?
02:32Two months ago, which is crazy,
02:34because there was a time we couldn't go two hours without talking.
02:37But then Stan had to go and find that doubloon.
02:40A doubloon? As in old Spanish coin?
02:42He dug one up on a beach in North Carolina,
02:45and after that he got the bug,
02:47and it only got worse after he saw this stupid documentary about Clyde Belasco, the treasure hunter.
02:52Yeah, that's the fellow who found that something Confederate ship ten years ago.
02:56Stan was so inspired, he quit his accounting job to search for lost antiquities.
03:00I mean, even the last time we spoke, all he could talk about was how he was close to finding a blue butterfly.
03:06A blue... like an insect?
03:09Who knows?
03:11Was he having problems with anyone that you know of?
03:13He had money problems, I know that.
03:15I got a call two days ago from some guy looking for Stan,
03:18said that Stan owed him $10,000, and that he'd better pay.
03:23Or else.
03:25There's nothing in Stan's personal effects about butterflies, blue or otherwise.
03:29Just a bunch of books about mobsters and Manhattan in the 40s.
03:32That's alright, because I got a hit on that threatening money call to Stan's wife,
03:36and it turns out it came from a dry cleaners.
03:38Maybe clothes aren't the only thing they're laundering.
03:40I'll check it out.
03:41Thanks.
03:42Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
03:45Uh, this diary in Stan's stuff, it's also from the 40s,
03:49it sounds like it belonged to a private eye.
03:50Listen to this.
03:51Usually wives turn on the waterworks when shown pictures of their husbands stepping out.
03:55But not this dame.
03:57She wanted payback.
03:58So what's worse, that I pitched woo with a client,
04:01or that I invoiced her for services rendered after?
04:05Cute.
04:06Cute?
04:07I mean, this guy sounds like a hard-boiled P.I.
04:09right out of a Raymond Chandler novel.
04:11I wonder why Stan had this.
04:14Hey, yo, Beckett.
04:15Still got no word on that homeless guy,
04:17but a bodega owner saw a white Mustang parking loading zone
04:19right outside the club for the past three days.
04:21Okay, see if anyone saw those license plates.
04:23Right on.
04:25Um, Beckett.
04:27Can I take this home for the night?
04:29I mean, it might be the key to what Stan was looking for.
04:31You just want to read it because you think it's cool.
04:33Yeah, well, that too.
04:34Okay, just so long as you...
04:38bring it back in the morning.
04:41June 18th, 1947.
04:56The day began like every other,
04:58pulling awake in my office chair with a cream of Kentucky bottle,
05:02a dry throat, and a head that was ringing like church bells.
05:06So?
05:07I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone with the little hair of the dog that bit me.
05:11Damn it, Mr. Flynn.
05:12Why have an apartment when you drink yourself to sleep in the office every night?
05:13That way I'm never late for work.
05:14Say, what gives anyhow?
05:15We have a potential client, so be nice.
05:16I'd like to make next month's rent if you don't mind.
05:17All right.
05:18How do I look?
05:19Like a star.
05:20Just another day on the Isle of Manhattan, until she walked in,
05:22with a case that changed my life.
05:24Wearing T-strap shoes and a country suit, I could tell that redhead was a hick fresh off the cob.
05:39Hello?
05:40My name's Sally McQueen.
05:41I mean, Schofield.
05:42Sorry, I'm a newlywed.
05:43Still getting used to the name.
05:44Joe Flynn, Mrs. Schofield.
05:45So tell me, what has you knocking on my shingle?
05:46I talked my husband into honeymooning up here in the Big Apple,
05:47but not because of the time.
05:48I'm sorry.
05:49I'm sorry.
05:50I'm sorry.
05:51I'm sorry.
05:52I'm sorry.
05:53I'm sorry.
05:54I'm sorry.
05:55I'm sorry.
05:56I'm sorry.
05:57I'm sorry.
05:58I'm sorry.
05:59I'm sorry.
06:00I'm sorry.
06:01I'm sorry.
06:02I'm sorry.
06:03I'm sorry.
06:04I'm sorry.
06:05I'm sorry.
06:06I'm sorry.
06:07I intend to turn up here in the Big Apple, but not because I wanted to climb skyscrapers
06:10and see Broadway shows.
06:12I had myself another reason.
06:15See, I'm looking for my big sister, Vera.
06:18Vera McQueen.
06:19There was bad blood back home, and Vera ran off two years ago, with dreams of being a showgirl
06:24up here in the big city.
06:25Did she send you a wire, postcard, anything with the return address?
06:29Can you find it, mister?
06:32Mama's sick, and doesn't have loan.
06:36Well, of course he can.
06:39For 15 bucks a day, plus expenses.
06:44Only, can we keep this quiet?
06:47Like I said, there's bad blood back home,
06:49and if Vera hears from a stranger that the family's looking for her,
06:53it might push her father away.
06:56Mrs. Scofield, if I'm anything, I'm discreet.
07:03And that's when I saw her.
07:05Looking at that photograph, all I could think was,
07:08what a beautiful doll.
07:13Sally said Vera had dreams of being a showgirl.
07:16Maybe she made it.
07:17Stranger things have happened in this town.
07:24My last stop was the Penny Baker Club.
07:27I was hoping my favorite performer, Satchmo, was blowing,
07:30but no such luck.
07:33Couldn't complain, though.
07:35Because Betsy Sinclair was up there.
07:38And that songbird's got golden pipes.
07:45Whiskey.
07:46I'll be damned if all that walking didn't get the shrapnel in my hip buzzing.
07:50But I knew where to get my medicine.
07:51Say, maybe you can help me.
08:01I'm looking for a date.
08:02Aren't we all...
08:03It's a little special.
08:04You know her?
08:06Noah?
08:06Well, I'm looking at her.
08:08I'm looking at her.
08:09Because there isn't any use.
08:12Where have you been all my life?
08:23What was I thinking?
08:25This dame was trouble on two legs.
08:27I kept telling myself to look away.
08:31She was with Tom Dempsey, for crying out loud,
08:33the most ruthless mob boss New York has ever given birth to.
08:35Dempsey sent over two of his guerrillas.
08:43An Irishman and a Cuban on loan from some Havana mob family.
08:47The boss wants to see you, boyo.
08:50Sorry, boys.
08:52The dance card's full.
08:54This isn't the request, compadre.
09:02You know who I am?
09:04The waiter?
09:05I'll take a whiskey.
09:06The boys here can share a slow gin fizz.
09:08Better watch yourself there, boyo.
09:09Hold your tongue or I'll cut it out.
09:10I'm a wise guy.
09:13I hate wise guys about as much as I hate crumbs eyeballing my girl.
09:17It's rude, uncivil.
09:20That's all right, friend.
09:21The boys are going to teach you some lessons.
09:23Okay, boyo.
09:24First lesson.
09:38Try it.
09:47There I was, covered in the discards of the blue plate special,
09:58asking myself, was it worth it?
10:02It was.
10:04She was worth every punch.
10:05Are you hurt?
10:07What, this?
10:09It's not.
10:10You should see what my face did to the other guy's fist.
10:15So what's your name, tough guy?
10:18Does it matter, doll?
10:19Espera!
10:20What's going on?
10:21You know you're not supposed to leave our site with the boss's hardware on.
10:30The blue butterfly.
10:32It's a necklace.
10:34That's why Stan Banks was killed.
10:36Why am I narrating?
10:48So anything on that threatening call to the dry cleaners?
10:50Yeah, the owner claims he doesn't know anything about Stan or blue butterflies.
10:54However, a guy named Ray Horton rents out a back room.
10:57Turns out Ray is a bookie on parole.
10:59Okay, so maybe Stan was trying to meet Ray at the Penny Baker's
11:02so that he could pay off some debts?
11:03Uh, Stan was not there because of his debt.
11:06He was not even there about a blue butterfly.
11:08He was there about the blue butterfly.
11:12It's a necklace.
11:13A butterfly-shaped centerpiece made entirely of blue diamonds.
11:17Worth about a million dollars easy.
11:19Where are you getting all of this?
11:21From the P.I.'s diary.
11:22So Stan was on a treasure hunt?
11:23Exactly.
11:24Did a little research.
11:25Turns out the blue butterfly disappeared sometime in the 40s.
11:29And rumor has it, it's hidden somewhere in the Penny Baker Club.
11:33If he found it, a million-dollar necklace?
11:35Let's talk about motive for murder.
11:37By the way, Ryan, say boyo.
11:39Boyo.
11:39Boyo.
11:40Boyo.
11:40Boyo.
11:41Boyo.
11:41Boyo.
11:42Boyo.
11:42Anyway, did some searching on the net.
11:45There wasn't a lot there, but I found it supposedly cursed
11:48and at one time belonged to an SS officer's mistress.
11:51After the war, it made its way stateside and into the hands of mob boss Tom Dempsey,
11:57who owned the club, which is why we need to go back.
11:59We do?
12:00Yeah.
12:00You remember the green rod we found in Stan's hand?
12:04Apparently Dempsey's downstairs office was painted shamrock green.
12:08Stan had to have gone down there.
12:09Also, according to the diary, the blue butterfly was kept in a secret safe in Dempsey's office.
12:15It's very possible we missed something.
12:17We never really looked down there.
12:19Okay, Ryan, you see if you can get a hold of the bookie castle and I'll go back to the crime scene.
12:22Okay.
12:23Boyo.
12:24Boyo.
12:24Boyo.
12:25Boyo.
12:25Like a leprechaun.
12:26Castle.
12:26Sorry.
12:28So the PI told Sally that he found her sister here at the Penny Baker Club.
12:32And did Sally go talk to her sister?
12:33Well, no.
12:34Joe could tell that Sally, being an innocent girl from the country,
12:37she was a little bit nervous about dealing with mobsters,
12:39so we offered to go back and make contact with her.
12:40Out of the goodness of his heart, I'm sure.
12:42Can you blame the guy?
12:43I mean, she was gorgeous.
12:44So anyway, Joe tells Sally he's going to go arrange a meeting.
12:47Sally agreed, but again, insisted that Joe not tell Vera that she was looking for her
12:53because of all the animosity back home.
12:56Ah, I was right.
12:59I bet that's where he got the steel rod,
13:02which is probably what he used to pry open the secret safe.
13:05Hate to burst bubbles, Castle, but this hasn't held anything in years.
13:09Looks like Stan was disappointed.
13:11Yeah, he probably would have been, if that was the secret safe.
13:15That's not the secret safe?
13:17Here's a fun fact.
13:18People often kept two safes.
13:20One that was easy to find for minor valuables,
13:23and a second safe that was much harder to locate for the extra specials,
13:27like blue butterflies.
13:28Castle, where's the secret safe?
13:31Coming to that.
13:31So it's five days since Joe and Vera met, and they were very much in love.
13:36After only five days?
13:36Come on.
13:37Well, people didn't waste time back in the 40s.
13:39Matter of fact, they were so much in love,
13:41they risked it all.
13:43So what does that have to do with our secret safe?
13:45It happened backstage, right upstairs.
13:51They were stealing a moment together,
13:53which was dangerous because she was Dempsey's girl.
13:55As they stared into each other's eyes,
13:58Kate's heart quickened.
14:00Did you just say Kate?
14:03Are you picturing the P.I. as you and me as the gangster's mom?
14:06What?
14:08No.
14:09And I didn't say Kate.
14:10I said fate.
14:11Fate's heart quickened.
14:13It's being poetic.
14:16Anyway, as I was saying,
14:18they were just about to kiss.
14:20When?
14:21Oye, chico.
14:22Who's that?
14:23Hey, boyo.
14:24You must be a slow learner.
14:26Here.
14:28There's my baby.
14:33He's with you, Miss Sinclair.
14:35Yes.
14:36And I don't appreciate you lugs
14:37mopping the floor with him the other night.
14:40Not for nothing.
14:41But you need to keep this on the hush-hush.
14:43Dempsey's not too keen about mixed laundry.
14:46Well, then we'll just keep this our little secret,
14:47will you say?
14:48All right, fellas.
14:51You better wise up, Vera.
14:53Dempsey will have you butchered if he finds out.
14:55I mean, he's a hell of a smoocher and all,
14:57but damn it, girl.
14:58Is this yum-yum really worth it?
14:59Here's the cream of my coffee.
15:01You two are a walking fairy tale.
15:03Good Lord.
15:05Come on.
15:11Betsy's right, you know.
15:12Dempsey will scrag us for sure
15:13if he catches us to a little bit.
15:15You gotta get me away from here, Joe.
15:16Away from Dempsey.
15:17Away from all of it.
15:19Oh, yeah, and go where.
15:20We can blow this town, sure.
15:21Only how far are we gonna get
15:22when we're both flat broke?
15:23We're not broke, Joe.
15:26We've got all the money we need
15:27and more around my neck.
15:28All we gotta do is take it away with us.
15:30What, are you daffy?
15:32You got at least two brunos with you
15:33at all times when you're wearing that thing.
15:34It's funny.
15:36Back when I was a cigarette girl,
15:38I'd watch Dempsey coming in
15:39with his girlfriend wearing this thing
15:40around her neck, and I wanted it.
15:42Pretty soon I was his girl, and I had it.
15:45But it's not a necklace, Joe.
15:47It's a diamond noose.
15:48It's getting harder to breathe.
15:49Then we gotta turn that noose into a lifeline.
15:52Question is, how?
15:56When I'm not wearing it,
15:57Dempsey keeps it in a secret safe,
15:59and I know where it is.
16:05And?
16:05And?
16:06And?
16:08That's it.
16:09That was the last entry in the diary.
16:11What do you mean, that's it?
16:12What happened to Joe?
16:14What happened to Vera?
16:15I don't know.
16:16Well, why would you tell a story
16:17when you don't know the ending?
16:18If you wanted a beginning,
16:19and a middle, and an end,
16:20I have 27 novels you can choose from.
16:22Ugh.
16:24Okay, so where is this secret safe?
16:27I don't know.
16:28But I think Stan must have found it.
16:29Maybe that's why he needed that rod.
16:31Pry open a wall or something.
16:33Castle, look at the molding.
16:38What?
16:44It's unlocked.
16:46Stan found it.
16:48That's why he was killed.
16:50But by whom?
16:51Ray Horton.
16:53Salt, battery,
16:54and now you're using a dry cleaner
16:56to front your bookmaking operation.
16:58Whoa, slow your roll.
16:59Man, I'm pro like myself.
17:00Can't be mixed up in bookmaking.
17:03How about murder, Ray?
17:05Is it okay to get mixed up in that?
17:08Stan?
17:09No.
17:09Who killed him?
17:12Me?
17:13Why would I kill my business partner?
17:15Your business partner.
17:16Come on.
17:17It's true, man.
17:18One of my clients hooked us up.
17:20He knew that I was looking to diversify
17:22and that Stan needed financing
17:23to find this lost necklace.
17:25Stan told me he needed 10 Gs for expenses
17:27to buy this old private detective's diary.
17:29So I agreed to back him for half the profits.
17:33Well, that's true.
17:34Then why did you threaten Stan's wife?
17:36Because Stan was ducking me.
17:37I thought I got played.
17:39Then he came up to me two days ago
17:40and he told me what was up.
17:42He said he found the man
17:43with the missing piece of the puzzle
17:44to the blue butterfly.
17:45Who's this man?
17:46I don't know.
17:47But if Stan found the blue butterfly,
17:49that's probably who killed him.
17:50So I traced the diary.
17:54Stan did his research.
17:55He purchased it from the granddaughter
17:57of Joe's old secretary,
17:59a woman by the name of Ruth Hunsaker.
18:01So?
18:02So I spoke to Miss Hunsaker.
18:03She said she might still have
18:05some of the PI's old papers
18:06and they might be able to tell us what happened.
18:08She's going to have her son look for them
18:09and then call me back.
18:10Look, Castle, I admit that Joe and Vera's story
18:13is fun and romantic,
18:14but whatever happened back in 1947
18:16has nothing to do with who murdered Stan.
18:19Uh, I'm not so sure about that.
18:21Our bookie alibied out,
18:23but ballistics came in and we got a match.
18:25The .38 caliber revolver that killed Stan
18:27was used in an unsolved double homicide in 1947.
18:32I knew there was a connection.
18:34Who were the victims?
18:36Uh, some lady named Vero Mulqueen
18:38and a private detective named Joe Flynn.
18:43Murdered.
18:45That's too bad.
18:46How many thought those two crazy kids
18:47were going to make it?
18:48Yeah, not exactly the ending I was hoping for.
18:50I didn't even know ballistics went back that far.
18:52Oh yeah, since the 20s.
18:53Being that it's an old case,
18:54there's not much in the system.
18:56The remains of Joe Flynn and Vera Mulqueen
18:57were found in Flynn's car.
18:59It was parked in the alley of the Penny Baker Club.
19:01Both victims were shot with a .38 revolver
19:03and the car was set on fire.
19:05Only suspect was Tom Dempsey,
19:06but there was never enough evidence to arrest.
19:08You know what, I bet you Dempsey caught the two of them
19:10trying to run away together and he killed them.
19:12But how does Stan's killer
19:13get Dempsey's gun 60 years later?
19:16Unless Dempsey killed Stan,
19:19he'd be, what, like 90 years old?
19:20But it's still possible.
19:22Couldn't have been Dempsey.
19:23He died of a heart attack
19:24four months after Joe and Vera were killed.
19:27Still, we should dig up that 1947 police report.
19:31There could be something in there about the gun
19:33that could shed some light on Stan's murder.
19:34All right, I'll go to the warehouse
19:35and I'll pull up the old case files.
19:36Oh, I want to go.
19:40Uh, okay.
19:42Can I drive?
19:42Okay.
19:45Hey.
19:47So, we did a search of guns Dempsey used to own.
19:50Turns out there was an estate sale
19:51where a treasure hunter named Clyde Belasco
19:53bought all of Dempsey's firearms,
19:54including 238s.
19:56Wait, Clyde Belasco?
19:57Stan's wife said that the two of them
19:59watched a documentary about him
20:01and that inspired Stan to become a treasure hunter.
20:03Well, the connections don't stop there.
20:05Belasco flew in from France a week ago
20:07and I just found an article
20:07that said that he searched for the blue butterfly
20:09for 15 years.
20:11That bookie said that Stan found someone
20:13who had the missing piece of the puzzle.
20:15Maybe Belasco's had someone.
20:18Here it is.
20:21This has been dusted off recently.
20:24Looks like we're not the only ones
20:25interested in this case.
20:27Stan was here.
20:28It had to be.
20:29Think about it.
20:30The diary, the murders.
20:31All we're doing is walking in his footsteps.
20:33This is the next piece of the puzzle.
20:36Huh.
20:37Crime scene photo of Vera and the P.I.
20:40Damn it, Joe.
20:41You're all sad.
20:42Dizzy with a dame and got yourself cooked.
20:44So, Mr. Bogart,
20:45what exactly are we looking for here?
20:47Our 1947 murders
20:49and our present-day murder
20:49have to be connected by more than just a gun.
20:52Somewhere in here is that connection.
20:56Yes, I bought several of Tom Dempsey's revolvers
20:59and by all means, test fire every last one of them as you wish.
21:01We will.
21:02Now, how do you know Stan?
21:04You have to understand that I'm on television.
21:07Articles are written about me
21:08and because of this, the amateurs come a-knocking.
21:10It's an occupational hazard.
21:13And what was the purpose of Stan's visit?
21:15Why, the blue butterfly, of course.
21:18He must have read of my exploits searching for it
21:20and decided to burden me with his preposterous story.
21:23And what story was that?
21:24That he had found an old private investigator's diary
21:27which held missing clues.
21:30You didn't believe him?
21:31Of course not.
21:32When I asked to see the alleged diary, he refused.
21:35And yet he wanted access to all my research
21:37on the Penny Baker Club.
21:38I mean, really, the whole thing was absurd.
21:41He even asked to exit out the back door,
21:44said a car was following him.
21:46It was a white Mustang.
21:48I guess someone else was interested
21:49in the blue butterfly, too.
21:51Feels like we're looking for a needle in a haystack,
21:53except for we can't find the haystack.
21:55Who needs a haystack when the needle is right here?
21:58This is a statement from Joe's secretary, Mrs. Kennard,
22:01was taken right after his death.
22:03Mrs. Florence Kennard, secretary to the victim, Joe Flynn,
22:06attested to bear witness to the following conversation
22:08between both victims on the morning of June 24th, 1947.
22:12I've worked this from every angle, doll.
22:14There's no way we can crack Dempsey's secret safe.
22:16Well, then how are we going to get it?
22:18Easy.
22:18You're going to walk right out the door with it tonight.
22:20How?
22:20No, it was hard enough shaking Dempsey's hatchet man this morning.
22:23It's going to be that much harder
22:24when I'm wearing the blue butterfly.
22:26It'll be a cakewalk.
22:27Trust me.
22:28Especially with our friend Jimmy Doyle hopping us out.
22:31And who's Jimmy Doyle?
22:32He's a prize fighter.
22:33Tonight he's taking on Sugar Ray Robinson
22:35for the welterweight title.
22:36So?
22:37So.
22:38Every clover-loving Irishman worth his salt
22:39will be huddled around a radio tonight
22:41cheering good old Jimmy on.
22:43You're going to wait until a rousing part of the fight.
22:45Then you're going to excuse yourself.
22:46Whoever's assigned to be watching you
22:48surely won't be paying much attention.
22:49That's when you slip right out the back door
22:51where I'll be waiting for you.
22:54Oh, Joe.
22:57It's perfect.
22:58No.
22:59It's crazy.
23:00What are you thinking, Mr. Flynn?
23:02And I can tell you, this Jane's no good.
23:04Now, what do you want about?
23:05Look at me.
23:07I'm a new man.
23:08I'm a better man.
23:09I haven't even had a drink since I met Vera.
23:11And if that's not a minor miracle,
23:12I don't know what is.
23:13You would be better off with a booze
23:15than with this chippy.
23:15And what are you basing a relationship on, huh?
23:19A robbery and a lie?
23:21What lie?
23:23Well, I guess it's time to come clean, huh?
23:26Look, doll.
23:27It's no coincidence I met you in the club that night.
23:29I was hired to come find you, see?
23:30Only I couldn't tell you who.
23:32It's just...
23:33Cut the corners, Joe.
23:34Who hired you?
23:36It was your sister.
23:38Joe, I don't have a sister.
23:41What happens next?
23:45I don't know.
23:46That's the end of the statement.
23:47But if Sally wasn't Vera's sister,
23:48then who was she?
23:49Sally set up the P.I.
23:51It's a classic film noir twist.
23:53But why?
23:54I don't know.
23:54What was Sally up to?
23:55I don't know.
23:56Do you think she was connected to Dempsey?
23:57I don't know.
23:58Isn't this great?
24:00Yo, Beckett.
24:02Hey.
24:02So our uniforms got a line on that homeless guy
24:04who was squatting in the penny bag?
24:05A hot dog vendor ID'd him.
24:07Said the guy goes by the name of Westside Wally.
24:09I put a one-out on the guy.
24:10Great.
24:10That might be the break we need to catch Stan's killer.
24:12Excuse me.
24:13Mm-hmm.
24:14Hello?
24:16What?
24:17When?
24:18All right, I'm on my way.
24:20That was the manager of Stan's residency hotel.
24:22A guy driving a white Mustang
24:24just forced his way into Stan's room.
24:25He's still there.
24:27NYPD, show us your hands!
24:28Show us your hands now!
24:30Turn around slowly.
24:40You're Tom Dempsey.
24:43Yeah, that's me.
24:53Tom Dempsey III.
24:55Dead ringer.
24:58Complete doppelganger.
24:59It's DNA, guys.
25:00It's not a magic trick.
25:01I'm his grandson.
25:03All right, look.
25:04I'm sorry I broke in a door.
25:06I'll pay for the damages.
25:07It's no big deal.
25:08Why am I still here?
25:09Well, we were just curious to see
25:11if you inherited anything else from your grandfather,
25:13aside from his looks.
25:14Yeah, like one of his .38 revolvers
25:16that you used to kill Stan Banks.
25:18Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
25:19That didn't happen.
25:20Look, Stan came to me,
25:22only he told me his name was Nathaniel Jenkins.
25:24He said he was a biographer,
25:26said he wanted to do a story about my grandfather.
25:28He promised not to focus on his underworld dealings,
25:31just on the good stuff.
25:33Like how my granddad was a pillar of the community.
25:35More like a killer of the community.
25:37And so when he made his pitch,
25:38you, wanting to rehabilitate your family name,
25:41cooperated.
25:41Yeah.
25:42I gave him access to all granddad's old papers
25:44and everything was cool.
25:47Until I found out the whole thing was a lie.
25:50And how'd you do that?
25:51There was this singer who used to headline
25:53at my granddad's club,
25:55Betsy Sinclair.
25:57A couple weeks ago, she passed away.
25:58Well, I went there to pay my respects.
26:00And who do I see there?
26:01But Nathaniel chatting up this old guy.
26:03He sees me, jets out the back.
26:05I'm like, what the hell is this all about, right?
26:07So I look in the guest book.
26:09I figured it out.
26:11He'd signed his real name, Stan Banks.
26:14Which is when you figured out
26:15he wasn't really a biographer.
26:16He was just another low-life treasure hunter
26:18looking for the blue butterfly.
26:20And if anybody deserved the blue butterfly,
26:23it was you, right?
26:25So you followed Stan.
26:27And what Stan?
26:27You found it.
26:28You shot him.
26:29I did not shoot him.
26:32Stan, wait, Stan did find it.
26:35Come on, you tell us.
26:36I don't know.
26:37I was not there.
26:38I read in the newspaper that the guy was dead.
26:40I went to his apartment to see what I could find.
26:43And I didn't kill the guy.
26:44But Dempsey's alibi holds up.
26:46He didn't kill Stan.
26:48Well, that's all right.
26:49We've got a break.
26:51You need to finally track down Westside Wiley.
26:52They're bringing him in now.
26:53Great.
26:54Maybe that can shed some light
26:55as to what happened to Stan.
26:56And if he can't, maybe Jerry Maddox can.
26:58Jerry Maddox?
26:59You remember how Tom III told us
27:01that Stan went to Betsy Sinclair's funeral?
27:03I started thinking, why would he go?
27:05To do research.
27:06Right.
27:07But research on whom?
27:08So I stopped by the funeral partner.
27:10Turns out that Stan spent an awful lot of time
27:12with a friend of the deceased named Jerry Maddox.
27:14And get this, Jerry was the old bartender
27:16of the Penny Picker Club.
27:18And probably the last living link to the blue butterfly.
27:21Good job, Castle.
27:22Yeah?
27:23Yeah.
27:26Jerry, this is Detective Beckett, Mr. Castle.
27:29They wanted a word.
27:30Oh.
27:30You want some soup?
27:32It's homemade.
27:33Oh, I don't mind if I do.
27:35That smells delicious.
27:35Uh, no.
27:36Thank you, actually.
27:37We're all right.
27:43Am I hearing I Can't Give You Anything But Love?
27:45That's right, kid.
27:47That's the best version of that tune, too.
27:51Come here to talk music, did you?
27:52Actually, we're here to investigate
27:54Stan Banks' murder, and we were wondering
27:56if you met him at Betsy Sinclair's funeral.
27:58Yeah, he was murdered?
28:00Mm-hmm.
28:00Poor kid.
28:01Did he mention a necklace called the blue butterfly?
28:05Oh, sure.
28:06Asked me all kinds of questions,
28:08uh, where it might be, stuff like that.
28:11But I was just a bartender back then.
28:13I, I wasn't much help.
28:14Hmm.
28:16Now, this might seem an odd question,
28:18but in 1947, do you remember when Vera Mulqueen
28:22and Joe Flynn were murdered?
28:23Of course.
28:24It was a big deal back then.
28:26Dempsey, the fella that owned the club,
28:29shot them in cold blood.
28:31Same year, you remember a woman named Sally Scofield?
28:35She was a redhead.
28:36In 1947, she would have been about 18.
28:39Oh, I think I know who you're talking about.
28:41Now, that's back in 46.
28:43I just got hired at the Penny Baker.
28:53Cigarette?
28:54Cigarette?
28:54Dempsey wasn't dating Vera back then.
28:56He was going with a gal named Priscilla Campbell.
29:01Priscilla had a daughter.
29:03Redhead named Sally.
29:06Sounds like she's the one you mean.
29:08Sad story, what happened.
29:09Not long after Vera caught Dempsey's eye,
29:13he dropped Priscilla and cut her and Sally off cold.
29:17They said it was the curse of the blue butterfly.
29:21Priscilla killed herself with a handful of pills.
29:25And Sally?
29:26A couple months after Vera and that P.I. got whacked,
29:32Dempsey died of a heart attack.
29:34The evening of his funeral,
29:35in walked Sally all dressed up,
29:38ordered a whiskey neat,
29:40slammed it back,
29:42gave me a big old crocodile grin,
29:45said she was free.
29:48Then she strutted all out the door,
29:51and that's the last time I ever saw her.
29:54It's a revenge story.
29:57Sally blamed Vera for the death of her mother,
30:00so she plotted to take her down.
30:01Somehow, she used the P.I. to do it.
30:04She must have been setting them up.
30:06Yeah, but how does any of this help us figure out who shot Stan?
30:11So, Westside Wally.
30:13May I call you Wally?
30:14I prefer Westside.
30:16Of course.
30:17Westside,
30:18we know you were at the Penny Baker Club two days ago.
30:20Yeah, we found your squad.
30:21Whoa, Cagney and Lacey, you can stop right there.
30:24I wasn't living in the club two days ago.
30:25I'd already gotten bought out by the other guy.
30:27Bought out by the other guy.
30:29A few days ago, the other guy comes in,
30:30starts setting up a squad by the bar,
30:31but Westside Wally doesn't do neighbors.
30:33So I said,
30:34hey, Professor, kick rocks.
30:35He wouldn't take no for an answer.
30:37Ended up paying me $400 to relocate.
30:39So again, for the record,
30:40this time I wasn't there.
30:41Easy, easy, okay?
30:42Did you get this guy's name?
30:44I didn't ask, he didn't say.
30:45Can you describe him?
30:46Medium height, medium build, white, 50s.
30:48I called him the Professor
30:49because he spoke like a pretentious jerk.
30:57Hey, it's the Professor.
31:00Clyde Belasco.
31:04We know that you were at the Penny Baker Club, Mr. Belasco.
31:08You paid off a homeless man
31:09so that you could have the place to yourself.
31:13I have a condo on the Upper East Side,
31:15a chateau in Bordeaux,
31:16a chalet in Gestade,
31:18and yet on the word of some vagrant,
31:20you believe that I paid to squat
31:21in an abandoned building?
31:23Me, Clyde Belasco?
31:26Pretty much.
31:26I'd like to see you prove it, sir.
31:31Right, have it your way, Professor.
31:33We will see you at the sentencing hearing.
31:36You can do your TV show from prison.
31:40Wait!
31:42Okay.
31:43I was there, I admit it.
31:44I was at the Penny Baker Club
31:46when Stan was killed.
31:47But I didn't kill him.
31:49Like I said before,
31:50Stan came to me
31:51and asked for my research
31:53on the blue butterfly.
31:55And you said no?
31:56Of course I said no.
31:58I searched for that necklace for 15 years
32:00and now I'm just supposed to help him?
32:02The glory was to be mine.
32:04But you knew he was onto something, didn't you?
32:06Oh, yes.
32:08I could tell he was close, so very close.
32:10Stan knew things about the club,
32:11about the necklace,
32:12that I had never heard before.
32:13So you staked out the club
32:15and when Stan showed, you shot him?
32:16I didn't shoot him, Detective.
32:18Yes, I had a pistol with me
32:20and a bullwhip.
32:21They're my trademarks.
32:22Everyone knows that.
32:24But I brought a mask and gloves as well
32:25because I was simply going to threaten him
32:27and take the prize.
32:28So then what happened?
32:31I was lying in wait.
32:33Stan went downstairs
32:34and when he returned,
32:35he was holding the blue butterfly.
32:39Oh, you should have seen how it sparkled.
32:42Magnificent.
32:44I was about to pounce
32:44when suddenly there was a rag put over my mouth
32:47that had a sweet smell
32:49like it was doused with chloroform.
32:52Chloroform?
32:52Oh, really.
32:54It had to be.
32:55Everything went dark
32:56and when I came to,
32:58Stan was dead.
32:59I searched his body
33:00but whoever knocked me out
33:02took the blue butterfly with them.
33:07God, I hope it's him.
33:09Yeah, but without a confession,
33:10our case is purely circumstantial.
33:12I'm going to see if I can get a warrant
33:13for Belasco's place.
33:14Which place?
33:15The condo, the chateau, or the chalot?
33:18Hi, yeah, this is Detective Kate Beck
33:20at 12th Precinct.
33:20I'm calling for the writing ADA.
33:23Mm-hmm.
33:24Yeah, okay, I'll hold.
33:26Well, it's kind of disappointing.
33:28I was really hoping that
33:29solving Stan's murder
33:30would give us some answers
33:31to what really happened to Joe and Vera.
33:32Yeah, but we already know
33:33what really happened.
33:34Dempsey killed them both.
33:36Well, that's the obvious version.
33:38But what about Sally?
33:39What's her part in all this?
33:41And why would she hire Joe?
33:44Well, I guess we'll never know.
33:46No, something else was going on.
33:48Something we're missing.
33:50Wearing T-strap shoes,
33:52and a country suit.
33:53I could tell that redhead
33:54was a heck off the cob.
33:56Wait, what did you just say?
33:57Well, that's just how
33:58Joe described her in his diary.
34:00No, the part about the shoes?
34:02T-strap.
34:03That's when the strap comes over the...
34:04Yeah.
34:05Can I just call you back?
34:07Okay.
34:09Take a look at this photo.
34:11There's a shoe next to the car,
34:13and look at what kind of shoe it is.
34:15That's a T-strap.
34:17You don't think...
34:18If Vera was at the club that night,
34:19she'd be dressed in an elegant dress and...
34:21And heels.
34:22This isn't Vera.
34:23This is Sally.
34:24Yeah, but it can't be Sally.
34:25The bartender said that he saw her months after the murders.
34:29Unless...
34:29He lied.
34:30That was over half a century ago.
34:32Why would he lie about that?
34:33Beckett, I just realized something.
34:34Huh?
34:35I can't give you anything but love.
34:38What?
34:39That's what was playing when we interviewed the bartender.
34:42Right.
34:43Right.
34:43He said that that was the best version of the song.
34:46It was Louis Armstrong's version.
34:49In Joe's diary, he says his favorite performer is Satchma.
34:51What's Satchma's real name?
34:53Louis Armstrong.
34:54Put it all together.
34:55The answer is clear.
35:00Oh, hello again.
35:03Hello, Vera.
35:05And hello, Joe.
35:07Well, if it isn't Vera Mulqueen and Joe Flynn, back from the dead.
35:17Everything all right, guys?
35:19Everything's peachy.
35:20Thanks, Frankie.
35:21What happened?
35:23Stan figured out the truth?
35:25That you two were alive?
35:26That you murdered two people so you could disappear with the blue butterfly?
35:30So you lured him to the club and then you shot him?
35:32Lady, you got it all wrong.
35:35Stan cornered me at Betsy's funeral and wanted to know how I knew her.
35:38So I lied.
35:39Told him I was a bartender.
35:42Stan was clever.
35:43He was too clever.
35:44He figured us out.
35:45He came here demanding to know where the blue butterfly was.
35:48He threatened to expose us.
35:50It's like a dog after a bone.
35:52So we told him what he needed to know.
35:55We told him where it was.
35:57But we didn't kill him.
35:58Well, come on, you guys.
35:59We know it's you.
36:01You used the same gun from the 47 murders to kill Stan.
36:03Same gun?
36:04Oh, we keep that gun in the...
36:06Join the cabinet drawer.
36:08Don't even think about it.
36:11Put the gun down.
36:14Francis Benjamin Hunsaker.
36:16What have you done?
36:17Wait a minute.
36:18Hunsaker?
36:20It was your mother who sold the diary to Stan.
36:22What diary?
36:23Your diary.
36:25So you read it.
36:26And all this time you were looking for the necklace, too.
36:28That's why I got this crap job.
36:30And for six months, I slowly built trust, gently acquired information.
36:34And then that jerk just waltzes in here and bullies the location of the blue butterfly from you?
36:38Come on!
36:38So when you realized it was now or never, you bushwagged Stan, took the blue butterfly for your cell?
36:44I brought their old .38 only as a precaution.
36:47I was just going to chloroform Stan and steal him.
36:48But you found Clyde Belasco hiding behind the bar.
36:51I pulled the gun.
36:52Stan grabbed for it.
36:53I didn't mean to.
36:57Let's go, Frankie.
36:58You're under arrest.
37:05Hey, Castle.
37:06Guess what we found at Frankie's apartment.
37:14Oh, my.
37:16Oh, my God.
37:19It's beautiful.
37:22It's fake.
37:23What?
37:23We confirmed it with an appraiser.
37:25It's well-crafted costume jewelry.
37:27All this time?
37:28And it's paste?
37:30That's...
37:30Or maybe it's a twist on a twist.
37:33Maybe the real blue butterfly was switched on for this one years ago.
37:36Well, whatever happened, it doesn't change the facts.
37:38We still have one more case to close.
37:43Okay, so now we know that Frankie killed Stan, but there's still two murders that need to be solved.
37:50Sally Campbell and whoever else you put in that car.
37:52It's time you come clean on what happened the evening of June 24th, 1947, the night you disappeared.
38:02Tell them there.
38:02We were all huddled around the radio listening to the Sugar Ray Robinson-Jimmy Doyle prize fight.
38:09I was building up nerve to make my escape.
38:12I was building up nerve to make my escape.
38:14Slowly tired Jimmy Doyle throws a left.
38:16Another left.
38:17He is jabbing.
38:18Here comes Robinson.
38:20The left.
38:20The right.
38:21Another left to the rib kick.
38:22Moxie, I need a powder in my nose.
38:24Are you kidding me?
38:25Can it wait?
38:26No.
38:27Ah, what do you say, boss?
38:29Champ looks stunned.
38:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:31Make it quick.
38:31Sold out.
38:32Proud of the Cleveland Arena.
38:33Burn up their collective feet.
38:35Robinson delivers a left.
38:36The right.
38:37A left again.
38:38Good.
38:38Touches back.
38:39Misses by a mile.
38:40Well, aren't you a picture?
38:49Who are you?
38:50I'm with her.
38:52Put him up.
38:53The guy was Sally's husband.
38:55She'd only hire Joe to get me away from Dempsey so she could exact her revenge.
38:59Now you're going to suffer, Vera, like my mother suffered.
39:02Wait, Sal.
39:03Let me get the ice first.
39:08Lenny!
39:10Let me get the gun!
39:20Joe!
39:21We were hot as a pistol and we had two bodies on our hands and we had to do something.
39:27And Joe had the plan.
39:37No one would be looking for those two.
39:39We needed to disappear.
39:53Obviously, we didn't disappear far enough.
39:56So, are you going to arrest us?
40:02Why would I do that?
40:12Sounds like self-defense.
40:14Besides, we're looking for a woman named Vera.
40:17Not Viola.
40:18And a PI named Joe.
40:20Not a former bartender named Jerry.
40:22We don't know how to thank you.
40:24We don't know how to thank you.
40:27I do.
40:29Answer two questions.
40:32One, if you had the blue butterfly, why didn't you take it?
40:36And two, where has it been all this time?
40:41Well, we were home free, Joe Delface.
40:43Here had herself an epiphany.
40:46This thing really is cursed.
40:48Vera, that's his fancy.
40:49It rocks on a pretty rope.
40:50No, it's more than that.
40:51It's misery.
40:52Joe, we can't.
40:53I got no luck with this thing.
40:57Just you.
40:58But I'll be damned if I let Dempsey get his hands back on it.
41:18Let the bastard spend the rest of his life not knowing his prized possession is right under his nose.
41:23Cursed or not, did you ever consider going back for it?
41:33You don't get it, Joe.
41:36We got four children.
41:39Seven grandchildren.
41:40Two great-grandchildren.
41:43And each other.
41:46What do we need a blue butterfly for?
41:53Do you think we should have told Joe and Vera about the blue butterfly?
41:57Oh, why ruin it for them?
42:00Well, that's the stuff the dreams are made of.
42:06Tell me you love me, Joe.
42:07Always.
42:08Always.
42:08demolish.
42:24All right.
42:24Have a great day.
42:26Bye.
42:30Bye.
42:31Bye.
42:31Bye.
42:32Bye.
42:33Bye.
42:34Bye.
42:34Bye.
42:34Bye.
42:36Bye.
42:36Bye.
42:37Bye.
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