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Castle Season 5 Episode 7
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00:00Those eyes, lots of smiles, smiles in my eyes.
00:07Testing, testing.
00:09One, two, three, testing.
00:11Ah!
00:13Damn it!
00:15Sorry, man.
00:16Sorry, man.
00:17Yo, hit it!
00:18What?
00:18The review from last night's show.
00:20You want to hear it?
00:21Only if you like being called the next Nirvana.
00:23Dude, he's not kidding.
00:26Holy Shem's future is now.
00:27They're about to explode just like one of singer Keith Blue's signature screams.
00:32Yeah!
00:34You hear that?
00:35Take it off, baby!
00:37Hey, hey, where's James?
00:38They're comparing him to the edge.
00:39He's probably still asleep.
00:40Let's go wake his ass up.
00:42Oh, my God.
00:43Is this real?
00:45Get back!
00:46All right, let's get to the guy.
00:48Wakey, wakey, Jim Bomb.
00:49Come in with the camera.
00:50Come on.
00:53I seriously hope his junk is not flapping in the breeze like last time.
00:57Come on.
00:57Help!
01:04Help!
01:05Help me!
01:06Help me!
01:07Help me!
01:21Ryan, get rid of the cameras.
01:23Yeah, I'll take care of it.
01:25Hey, officer.
01:27We need to lose these cameras.
01:28You know that.
01:29No press allowed.
01:30They're not press.
01:31They're shooting some kind of movie.
01:32No, they're filming a documentary about the band.
01:35And you are?
01:36I'm Hank Rogers.
01:37I'm Hank Rogers.
01:37I'm one of the roadies.
01:39You knew the victim.
01:40All right.
01:41Well, I'm going to need a statement.
01:42Okay?
01:42Are you kidding me?
01:43They're in here, too.
01:44I asked him to leave, but he said that the director told him to shoot all this.
01:48How'd you like to try to film with a cracked lens, huh?
01:50All right.
01:50Huh?
01:51Aspo, just go get their director.
01:52Tell him to get the crew out of here.
01:54Yes, visitor.
01:54Someone don't get their coffee.
01:58What's this?
02:00They are making a documentary on the band.
02:02Yeah, just ignore them.
02:05Richard Castle.
02:06Novelist.
02:07My latest, Frozen Heat, in stores now.
02:10Have you met, uh, Nikki Heat's inspiration, Detective Began?
02:13Lainey, what else do we know?
02:14The victim is James Swan.
02:16He's the lead guitarist of Holy Shemp.
02:18They must be Three Stooges fans.
02:20Based on lividity, I'd say the time of death is between 12 and 2 a.m.
02:26Look at that.
02:28Observe.
02:29An unheated call to vigilance.
02:31So that's the murder weapon.
02:33It's a Gibson Les Paul.
02:3559 flametop, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm rarely mistaken.
02:43It's hot.
02:44Tell me about this guitar.
02:45The flametop is his favorite.
02:47Last night after the show, I tuned it, and I dropped it off to this trailer.
02:51He likes to compose on it.
02:53All right.
02:53Well, what time was that at?
02:55It's around 11.30.
02:56All right.
02:57Was he alone at the time?
02:59Yeah.
03:00Yeah.
03:00We chatted for a second.
03:02He was always really nice to me.
03:04It was all about the music of him.
03:06Was there anyone hanging outside the trailer?
03:08Maybe someone you didn't recognize?
03:11Saw a white van.
03:13Went around the block a couple of times.
03:15Did you get a plate number?
03:16I'm sorry.
03:17It's dark.
03:18All right.
03:19Um, don't go anywhere.
03:23No, I...
03:24You can't pull your funding.
03:25Yo.
03:26You the director?
03:28Yeah.
03:28Yeah, no.
03:30You...
03:30Look, we are sitting on gold here.
03:32Okay?
03:32This is part rock doc, part...
03:34This is a crime scene.
03:35You gotta get these cameras out of here.
03:37All right.
03:38Look, I gotta go.
03:40Just call me if you can get that thing.
03:43Look, you gotta help me out here.
03:44Okay?
03:45I've been following these guys nonstop for three months.
03:48Not anymore.
03:49Police procedure.
03:49Sorry.
03:50And if you've been following the victim 24-7, I'm gonna need to see that footage.
03:53No, detective.
03:55Look, I'm in a spot here.
03:59Hey, James Swan was that band.
04:03With him gone, no one is gonna care about these guys or wanna see this film.
04:08So, unless I can reinvent it as some kind of thriller, you know, a hunt for the murderer, people love that stuff.
04:14Listen to me.
04:16A guy's dead here.
04:17So, if you don't get rid of these cameras, I'm gonna break one over here.
04:19Wait a second.
04:20Sorry.
04:20Yeah, go ahead.
04:22Oh.
04:23Great.
04:24Okay, hang on.
04:24I'm gonna give you to a detective.
04:26Yeah.
04:34Hello?
04:35This was a crime of passion.
04:37There was an argument.
04:39Things got heated.
04:40The killer grabbed the nearest heavy object and felled, poor Mr. Swan, at the tragically young age of...
04:46How old was he?
04:4727.
04:48Wow.
04:49Another one for the club.
04:51What club?
04:5227 Club.
04:53Memberships include some of the greats.
04:55Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janice Joplin.
04:58The list is extensive.
04:59Castle, we kind of need a different list.
05:01Like, who might have been in this trailer last night?
05:05I think I know where to start.
05:06Later.
05:07Go, go, go, go.
05:13Get out of here.
05:22Oh, my God.
05:24The guy was a total genius.
05:30I followed the band for six months trying to meet him.
05:34A couple weeks ago, James and I got together.
05:36And every night since, I'd meet him in his trailer right after the show.
05:39So you were in his trailer when it happened.
05:45I guess.
05:45I mean, I, um, I don't remember anything.
05:48I'm sorry.
05:49How can you not remember?
05:51I passed out.
05:52I guess I partied a little too hard during the show.
05:58I'm sorry.
05:59I'm sorry.
05:59I don't want to help.
06:00Listen, miss.
06:01Butterfly.
06:02Butterfly.
06:02This is very important.
06:04Do you remember anything about that night?
06:07Anything at all?
06:08In his trailer, I heard a horse.
06:15Um, a horse as in winning?
06:19No, I heard the sound of horse hooves crunching in the snow, like crunch, crunch, crunch.
06:28Okay, can we, uh, just focus on what happened just before you passed out?
06:33Did he seem like he was upset?
06:34Did he seem like he had been fighting with anyone?
06:36Actually, the opposite.
06:37He'd been complaining a lot about the other guys in the band recently, you know?
06:41The arguments and the tension.
06:43The last night, he seemed happy, you know, like, like he'd found some kind of piece.
06:55I don't know if that girl could swing a guitar with enough force to kill anyone, but I still
06:59got to check her clothes for blood spatter.
07:01I'm more interested in what the band members were fighting about.
07:03Hey, what are you guys doing here?
07:05Huh?
07:05Get out of here now.
07:06This is a police investigation.
07:08You have no right to be here.
07:09Uh, actually, that's not true.
07:13I'm sorry, Detective, but it's out of my hands.
07:21City Hall has decided it's good PR.
07:23Wait, what about the case?
07:24They're going to compromise the investigation.
07:25I feel the same way as you do, but a decision has been made, and I expect you to comply with
07:30it.
07:31Fine, then just have them stay out of my way.
07:36Hi.
07:37Uh, welcome.
07:39I'm Captain Gates, head of the 12th precinct.
07:44In cooperation with the NYPD's public affairs division, I am happy to grant you full access
07:50to the department.
07:50I think you will find everyone here more than accommodating.
08:09Welcome.
08:11Welcome.
08:12Come on.
08:13What's the big deal?
08:14It'll be fine.
08:14What, Castle, what I do here, this is mine.
08:18And just because they want to invade my privacy, it doesn't mean that I have to help them do
08:22it.
08:24Okay.
08:25Well, that may be, but these cameras, they're not going anywhere.
08:29They're going to see something.
08:31I just want them to see what I see.
08:36Well, then why do you need our alibis?
08:37Because we understand that there was some tension between Mr. Swan and the band.
08:41Of course there was tension.
08:42You spend every second together, it's not always going to be pretty.
08:44We've been together for five years.
08:46Like, if you had any idea of the kind of crap that you go through trying to make it in this
08:49business, it has a way of bonding people.
08:52We're making them really, really sick of each other.
08:54Hey, we looked out for James.
08:55He was a middle-class kid from Ohio.
08:57He didn't know what the hell he was getting into with his life.
08:59Yeah, well, we're still going to need statements about where you were last night.
09:05Fine.
09:05I was in my trailer.
09:06I went there right after the show.
09:07Me too.
09:08We were all in our trailers.
09:09All right, well, we have reports that there was a white van in the area.
09:12Did James ever mention anything about that?
09:14No.
09:16You did think someone was following him?
09:17Yeah, it was a month ago, right around the time we played Ithaca.
09:20He was acting all paranoid.
09:22He was talking about hiring extra security.
09:23Did he say who he was afraid of?
09:25No, but he hadn't brought it up recently, so I just assumed everything was normal until
09:29he pulled that stunt yesterday.
09:30Yeah.
09:31What happened yesterday?
09:32He blew off our one o'clock band meeting.
09:34We didn't see him again until sound check at six.
09:36The guy never missed a band meeting.
09:37Did he say where he was going?
09:39No.
09:40But I do know this.
09:41The camera guy that was following him said that James ditched him on purpose.
09:45So whatever he was doing, he didn't want anyone to know.
09:49Yo, you guys got a sec?
09:53So, uh, I've been going through the documentary footage of our victim.
09:57Check this out.
09:57Most guys will tell you that they, uh, they learned to play guitar themselves, but I had
10:04a mentor, and the guy was incredible, and much better than I'll ever be.
10:09What's he think of the band?
10:10You know, we lost a touch a ways back.
10:18There.
10:19You see that guy?
10:20That was taken over a month ago.
10:22These are more recent.
10:26All right?
10:28But, just move that.
10:30There we go.
10:31Boom.
10:32Boom.
10:33Boom.
10:34Boom.
10:35Yeah, looks like our Vic had a stalker.
10:37Check out this one.
10:38This is from yesterday.
10:41Look what he's leaning against.
10:43A white van.
10:44We've got you now, you son of a bitch.
10:46I'm sorry, can I even say, son of a bitch?
11:01So, we blew up the picture of the white van, wide enough to get a license plate.
11:05It's registered to an address somewhere around here.
11:08Make it right up ahead.
11:09No, I'm going another way.
11:10There's only one way.
11:11No, there's a different way.
11:12There's a back way.
11:12There's no back way.
11:13Trust me.
11:13Trust me.
11:14I know how this might look, but we actually make a pretty good team, because we each have
11:19different strengths.
11:21It's true.
11:22For example, I'm former military, which makes me an expert marksman.
11:26I'm usually first through the door.
11:27Well, yeah, but somebody's got to know which door to go through.
11:30I'm a little bit more circumspect than my partner here.
11:35I'm kind of like the nerve center of the team.
11:37I'm definitely the physical one.
11:38I stay in six shape.
11:39Boom.
11:40Have you been to the gun show?
11:41I'm just kidding.
11:42Seriously, though, I'm in six shape.
11:44Dude, your shirt is really tight.
11:46Did you change it?
11:48I spilled something.
11:51Yeah.
11:52It is.
11:57Slow approach.
12:05Stay close.
12:06I think he saw us.
12:18I got this.
12:27Let's go check out the van.
12:28What do we have here?
12:37Uh-oh.
12:41Pretty sure that ain't ketchup.
12:43Hey, is that our stalker?
12:45Ex-stalker.
12:46He won't be seeing daylight anytime soon.
12:48LT, could you please take him to the interrogation room?
12:50You should watch from observation while I tear this guy apart.
12:53So, uh, we like this guy?
12:56We found blood-stained overalls in his van.
12:58We sent him to be tested to see if they match the blood from our Vic.
13:01Oh, they match.
13:02Trust me, bro.
13:03You don't have to worry about this creep hurting anyone ever again.
13:06That's a gift from me to you.
13:08You're welcome, America.
13:08Come on out of the nasty things in your van, Joe.
13:16I miss anything?
13:17No, they're just getting started.
13:19Hey.
13:20Gasoline?
13:20You wanted to do nasty things to James Swine.
13:23I don't know what you're talking about.
13:24No, I think you do.
13:26I'm going to give you a second to get your facts straight.
13:30Ooh, the timeout.
13:31That's a classic.
13:33Interrogation?
13:34It's really an art form.
13:36I mean, Detective Beckett here?
13:37She is a master.
13:38I have watched her crack countless cases in this very room.
13:42Remember that guy who killed his gardener because he cut his roses too short?
13:47Mm-hmm.
13:48Found your overalls.
13:49You had swan's blood all over him.
13:51It's not his blood.
13:52It's my blood.
13:54I cut myself when I was working on my van.
13:56Oh, come on, Joe.
13:56What do you think was stupid?
13:58We've got you on video following him for weeks.
14:01We've got your van at the crime scene.
14:04So why don't you cut the innocent crap right now?
14:07You want me to admit it?
14:08I admit it.
14:09I followed him.
14:10I did.
14:11I was just planning to grab him.
14:13And that's when your plan went sideways.
14:16You tried to drag him to your van, but he didn't want to go.
14:20That's not how it happened.
14:21And that's when you got mad.
14:22That's not how it happened.
14:22That's when you got mad.
14:23And that's when you busted his head open.
14:26I didn't kill anybody.
14:27I just...
14:29I just...
14:31I just want my little girl.
14:35Your little girl?
14:39My daughter.
14:41She quit her job to become a groupie.
14:44Threw her whole life away.
14:46I was afraid she was going to get pregnant.
14:48Or worse.
14:52All I wanted to do was grab him.
14:55I wanted to scare him a little.
14:56I wanted him to stay away from her.
14:58Your daughter?
14:59Yes.
15:00I haven't seen her in weeks.
15:03I don't even know if she's alive.
15:06Does she go by the name of Butterfly?
15:10Yes.
15:11I think we can help you find her.
15:14If it's okay with my partner.
15:17Well, looks like our stalker was telling the truth.
15:20Pre-lim shows that the blood on his overalls was his.
15:24Sorry, partner.
15:25Huh.
15:26Well, at least grabbing the guy up wasn't a total bust.
15:29I don't know.
15:29Seems to be the definition of a total bust.
15:31Well, it would have been if I hadn't just spoken to him and holding.
15:34Seeing as how he was tailing our victim,
15:37he knew exactly where Swan was on the afternoon of his death.
15:39Great.
15:40Where?
15:40He was in a bank in Soho,
15:42and then he went into a residential building
15:43on the corner of Lafayette and Brune.
15:45Yes, but why?
15:46Swan eluded his cameraman to go on a clandestine errand.
15:50An errand so important, he missed a band meeting.
15:53He was acting erratically, went to the bank right beforehand.
15:56This all points to one thing.
15:57Drugs.
15:57Drugs.
15:58That's an interesting theory, but that is pure speculation.
16:00Actually, it's not.
16:02Pure speculation would be Swan purchasing thermonuclear technology
16:05to have a scientist make him an amplifier
16:07that went all the way to 12.
16:08This, musicians buying drugs,
16:11that's just Monday morning's crossword.
16:16I'll pull a list of tenants, see if anyone pops.
16:20Lainey's got something she wants us to see.
16:22Lainey?
16:22Who's Lainey?
16:26Uh, Lainey is our medical examiner,
16:31and she works at the morgue,
16:33and she's got information that she wants us to see,
16:37and we are keeping her waiting.
16:38Still a little steady.
16:40Certainly she could tighten that up, but she's getting better.
16:43Victim's blood panels came back.
16:45Let me guess.
16:46Drugs.
16:47Nope.
16:48This was one clean, living rock star.
16:52In fact, it's not what he put in his body,
16:55it's what he didn't.
16:56James had no antibodies for polio.
16:59He never had the polio vaccine.
17:01Well, everyone born since the early 1960s got that vaccine.
17:04That's what I thought.
17:05He also had no antibodies for tetanus, measles,
17:08whooping cough, all standard immunizations.
17:11What else?
17:13Isn't that enough?
17:14Lainey, usually if you have something like this for me,
17:17just call me over the phone.
17:19Well, I thought it was worth the trip.
17:21Ryan, can you look into our Vic's medical records?
17:30I want to find out why he was never vaccinated.
17:33All right.
17:34Okay.
17:35I think I figured out why James Swan went to that building.
17:37He knew a guy who lived there, a Sam Spear.
17:40Dude has an outstanding lawsuit against our Vic.
17:42What kind of a lawsuit?
17:44Well, he claims that James stole one of the band's songs from him,
17:46and James must have thought he had a case
17:48because when he stopped at a bank on his way to see this guy,
17:50he took out $25,000 in cash.
17:52Sounds like he's trying to settle out of court.
17:54Yeah, and I'm guessing it didn't pan out.
17:56Sam Spear bought a ticket to last night's show.
17:58So he was at the theater right before Swan was killed.
18:01Time to pay this guy a visit.
18:03No, no, no, no, no.
18:04I got this.
18:06You stay here and work on your little research project,
18:07you be in the nerve center and all.
18:09Castle?
18:10How you coming?
18:11No, I'm good.
18:13Wait up.
18:17It's not this one.
18:18Spear's in 3M.
18:23You know, Detective Beckett is not an unfriendly person.
18:26She's just got walls.
18:29Let's call them layers.
18:32Layers upon layers of, well, walls.
18:35But once you scale those walls, the effort is worth it.
18:39Castle, keep your boys down, please.
18:42I ain't already had one guy bowling me today.
18:44Element of surprise is key.
18:45You see, I can be circumspect.
18:47Folks would be lost without me.
18:49He went to Rome.
18:56It's 3M.
18:56Spear's place.
18:57Drop your weapon!
18:58You ready?
18:59Let it go right now!
19:00Get in!
19:01Nobody moves!
19:05Get your hands up!
19:06Oh, yeah, yeah!
19:07I'm going to have you see your head!
19:08What is this?
19:10Drop your weapon!
19:10Drop your weapon!
19:12Is this a bad movie?
19:15I'm just composing the score.
19:18This is all a misunderstanding.
19:19Let's review.
19:20You sued James Swan over a song.
19:23Then he came to see you about it yesterday.
19:24A few hours later, he was killed right after a show.
19:27What?
19:27A show that you attended.
19:29But we worked all that out.
19:30He was going to give me half the publishing for that song.
19:33I was going to drop the complaint as soon as the papers were signed.
19:35That doesn't explain the 25 grand he brought.
19:37It would be pretty stupid to kill off an employer in this job market.
19:40You were writing songs for him.
19:41Yeah, here.
19:42Uh, look.
19:45I already started.
19:46I got pretty far on that one.
19:47Let's see that.
19:48It's cool.
19:49I do like the vocal line on this.
19:52You read music?
19:54What, you think because I'm a cop I can't sing?
19:55No, I think you can't sing because I've heard you sing.
19:57That karaoke machine was busted.
19:58I'm going to sing for y'all later.
19:59If this was just about writing songs, why all the secrecy?
20:02He never said, but I had my theories,
20:04especially because this new stuff was such a musical departure for him,
20:08as I'm sure you noticed.
20:08He's taking the music in a new direction,
20:12but he didn't want the rest of the band to know.
20:14Of course.
20:16Swan was going solo.
20:17It makes sense.
20:18The director said that Swan was a creative force behind the group,
20:21that if he left the band, they would flounder.
20:22What if one of the other members found out and confronted him?
20:25And they argued and things got ugly?
20:26Right.
20:26He wasn't about to stay,
20:28and they weren't about to let him play George Michael to their Angela Briesley.
20:31Angela who?
20:31Exactly.
20:32So they pick up a guitar and wham.
20:38That's what I do.
20:40It's not bad.
20:41It gives it weight.
20:41Yeah.
20:42Those lips,
20:58those eyes,
21:00black smile was blind and eyes.
21:04Your mouth made promises,
21:08but your heart was filled with lies.
21:12Got yourself a new guitarist.
21:33Trying someone out, yeah.
21:34Well, that was fast.
21:35Though I guess you had this audition lined up already, didn't you?
21:38What are you talking about?
21:39Come on, Keith.
21:40You knew James was going solo.
21:43Is that true, man?
21:44No, of course not.
21:45How would I know that?
21:46We met with a woman from the record label.
21:47She says that she's your girlfriend.
21:50She said that she had a meeting on the books with James
21:53about making some changes and that there were rumors that he wanted to leave the band.
21:57All those years struggling side by side.
22:01Now, success finally at hand.
22:04He wanted to take all the glory for himself.
22:06I know I'd be mad.
22:07I'm not going to stand here and let you accuse me of killing one of my best friends, all right?
22:16You hear that sound?
22:18Kind of like horse hooves crunching on snow.
22:21Just like what Butterfly heard in Swan's trailer.
22:25Look, we know he's got a temper, so if we can get him angry enough...
22:28Actually, why don't you talk to Keith yourself?
22:31Why?
22:31Because I want to give you room to operate.
22:34Install your stuff.
22:37You got this.
22:40She's got this.
22:48Really? You got to film this, too?
22:49They can film whatever they want, Keith.
22:51You signed a release.
22:52You're lucky the cameras weren't rolling when you killed James Swan.
22:57Look, I already said I didn't kill him.
22:59Yeah, and you also said that you didn't know that he was going solo
23:01and that you didn't see him after the show.
23:04But I have a witness that places you in his trailer at the time of death.
23:10All right, look, I did go to his trailer, okay?
23:12But it was like you said.
23:12I heard rumors that he was cutting out on us.
23:14I went to see if it was true.
23:15And then after that, you lost control.
23:17No, we just talked, okay?
23:19And James denied it.
23:20He said that he wasn't leaving.
23:21And he said he was working out something that'd be good for all of us.
23:23And what exactly was a something?
23:26Look, I used to think I knew that dude,
23:29but he hasn't been the same since Ithaca.
23:30I am telling you something happened.
23:31Keith, I'm not talking about Ithaca.
23:33I am talking about what happened in that trailer.
23:36We talked.
23:37I left.
23:37I went back to my trailer for the rest of the night.
23:40I was with this girl.
23:41You can ask her.
23:42What's her name?
23:44I don't remember her name.
23:46A phone number, then.
23:48Anything so I can get a hold of her.
23:49They come to me.
23:52Keith, you're going to have to do a lot better than that.
24:00Okay.
24:01All right.
24:03I may not remember her name,
24:05but I can prove that we were together that night.
24:08Well, they were together, all right.
24:17Tommy Lee's got nothing on this guy.
24:19I like to check on the case every once in a while.
24:21No point in chaining myself to that desk
24:23when all the action is right out here.
24:26If you want action, check this.
24:27This is inappropriate workplace behavior.
24:31This is Evans, sir.
24:32Our suspect's alibi hinges on this.
24:35Oh.
24:36Oh.
24:37So does this story pan out?
24:39Yeah, it seems like he's covered
24:40for the entire time of death window.
24:41I hope you're not going on the time stamp on this video.
24:44That could be faked, you know.
24:45It's not the only thing on this video being faked.
24:48TV's on in the background, sir.
24:49And that is the news,
24:50which means I can verify the time stamp using that.
24:53Okay.
24:54Good job.
24:55Everyone, keep it up.
24:57No.
24:58Too easy.
24:59So it looks like we're back to square one, huh?
25:02Oh, I wouldn't say that.
25:04I was looking into our Vicks medical records,
25:05my little research project.
25:07Turns out he has no records.
25:10Birth, medical, student transcripts, nothing.
25:13The first time James Swan pops up
25:15was when he was 17
25:16when he was hospitalized
25:17for a car accident in Ithaca, New York.
25:20Why does Ithaca keep coming up?
25:21Because that's where he's from.
25:23I checked the address in the ER records,
25:26traced it to a 20-acre compound
25:28owned by the Church of Worldly Enlightenment.
25:30Whoa, guys, wait a second.
25:31I've read about this place.
25:33It's a cult.
25:34That's why he doesn't have any vaccinations,
25:35and that's why he doesn't have a family.
25:37He grew up in a cult.
25:38The only way to leave was to escape.
25:40The compound is walled,
25:41and the cult practices strict obedience.
25:44Everyone tattoos the word serve on the forearm.
25:46Serve.
25:48Remember James' tattoo?
25:50Observe.
25:51He must have added the O and the B
25:53sometime after he got out.
25:54But when the band played Ithaca,
25:56maybe somebody recognized him.
25:57Which is why he was afraid
25:58that someone was following him.
25:59James had reason to be afraid.
26:01John Campbell, the cult's leader.
26:03A guy's a total psycho with a violent past.
26:06He did ten years for murder before stuff.
26:07Well, I can tell you where he was.
26:09I checked passenger manifests.
26:10Let me see that.
26:11Or all the nearby airports.
26:14He flew into JFK two days ago.
26:17Yep.
26:17Wait a second.
26:18That's the day Swan died.
26:21So John Campbell was in town
26:22with a few days to kill.
26:27See what I did there?
26:29That was good.
26:30Use that.
26:30Don't use the part where I said see what I did there.
26:32Cut that out.
26:33Do a heartbeat to black.
26:34Musical sting.
26:35Ba-da-da-ba-da-da-da-da.
26:40Hey.
26:41Are we close on locating Campbell?
26:43Well, his picture is out to all patrol cars citywide,
26:46and I've sent his photograph
26:47to all the hotels in our database.
26:48Yeah, but the trouble is,
26:49he uses aliases in order to stay off the DEA's radar.
26:52Well, why's the DEA interesting?
26:53The Church of Worldly Enlightenment
26:55isn't just your friendly neighborhood cult.
26:57It's also a 20-acre pot farm
26:59run by the 300-plus members,
27:01all for Campbell's personal profit.
27:03Why don't the feds shut him down?
27:04They've tried something about
27:06freedom of religious expression.
27:07Can we get anything else on the cult
27:09that can help us find him?
27:10Detective Beckett's working an angle right now, sir.
27:12Hey.
27:28Any luck?
27:29Yeah, I just got off the phone with Colt Watch,
27:30and they're gonna hook us up with someone else
27:32who escaped Campbell's compound.
27:37I was a kid.
27:39Drifting.
27:40Campbell promised me meaning.
27:43A spiritual focus.
27:45But in return, he took away everything.
27:48Caroline, are you worried about these cameras?
27:50Because if you want to have them gone...
27:51No.
27:52Mm-mm.
27:53I want the world to know
27:54what a monster this man is.
27:57How did Campbell react when James Swan escaped?
28:00I was furious.
28:01He used to love James.
28:03That's why it was such a betrayal when he left.
28:05I heard Campbell swear he'd get revenge,
28:07no matter how long it took.
28:08Hey, guys.
28:10I think I got something.
28:12The manager of the Widmark Hotel
28:13said that Campbell checked in two days ago.
28:15Did you send a patrol car?
28:16He checked out the next morning,
28:18but guess who came to visit him
28:19soon after he arrived there?
28:21James Swan.
28:22When?
28:235 p.m., the same night that Swan was killed.
28:25He killed James.
28:26I knew it.
28:27James was running from Campbell.
28:29Why would he agree to meet with him?
28:30To buy his freedom.
28:32Let me guess, for $25,000?
28:34That's right.
28:35Do you have any idea where we could find Campbell now?
28:37If he is in town,
28:38he might be at this youth hostel.
28:41He recruits there.
28:43That's where I first met him.
28:44All right.
28:45Let's go get him.
28:45I'm okay.
28:55Where was that, Sam?
28:58Excuse me?
28:59What are you doing?
29:00What are these cameras for?
29:02We're looking for John Campbell.
29:06Uh, no, sorry.
29:08There's no one here by that name.
29:09Uh, excuse me, that's a private room,
29:16and you can't go back there.
29:17Excuse me.
29:18Mr. Campbell?
29:19We have a few questions about James Swan.
29:25Mr. Campbell, where were you between midnight and 2 a.m.
29:27the night that James Swan was killed?
29:30I was in my hotel room.
29:32Can anyone vouch for that?
29:33Well, I was meditating.
29:35Solitude's a very important part of my evening ritual.
29:37So that'd be a no.
29:38So what are you doing in town?
29:40Working for my church.
29:43Fundraising, recruiting mostly.
29:45Fundraising?
29:46Interesting term for making James Swan pay for his freedom.
29:50It's no secret that James and I had met.
29:53But he certainly didn't need to buy his freedom.
29:55We're all free.
29:56Mr. Campbell, we know that James had 25 grand in cash with him
29:59when he went to see you,
30:01and that he no longer had that money once he left.
30:03James may have made a donation to the church,
30:05but I make it a point not to discuss those matters.
30:09Okay, so then why don't we discuss Ithaca?
30:12About a month ago, James and his band had a concert there,
30:16and he said that afterwards he was concerned that someone was coming after him.
30:19Now, I think that that someone was you.
30:22I'm sorry, but I had no idea James was in town last month.
30:25I don't think that's accurate.
30:26I think that you're upset with him for cutting the cord with your church,
30:28and so you started tracking him.
30:30That's not true.
30:30He gave you a donation so that you would leave him alone.
30:33That's not true.
30:34But that wasn't enough, was it?
30:35You wanted revenge.
30:36No.
30:36So you followed him to his trailer,
30:38and then you killed him in a fit of rage.
30:41Enough!
30:45Now, if you have a solid case here, then arrest me.
30:48Otherwise, we're done.
30:51You contact me again,
30:52and I will sue you for religious persecution.
30:54Sir, we're sure it was Campbell.
31:06He had motive, and he met with our victim the day that he died.
31:08And he was lying through his teeth about Ithaca.
31:11That's where Swan got on his radar.
31:12Do you have any proof of that?
31:13No, not yet, but we're checking public records and police reports
31:16from when the band was in Ithaca to see if there's a link to Campbell.
31:20Well, I'm sure the DEA will be delighted if you could help get some info.
31:24Oh, excuse me.
31:25Yeah.
31:28Gates.
31:30Oh, no, no, no.
31:31DVDs will be fine.
31:34Well, I appreciate it, Mr. Midas.
31:36Okay.
31:40Our film director.
31:41As you know, it's important that this project reflects well on the precinct.
31:46As I'm sure it will.
31:48But we did have a number of officers watching a sex tape earlier.
31:52Still, to ensure that the conduct of my people meets the highest possible standard,
31:58Mr. Midas is sending over all the precinct footage for my review.
32:01All the footage, sir?
32:03Is there a problem, detective?
32:04Yeah, no.
32:05No, of course not.
32:05Okay.
32:19Well, she confirmed it.
32:22That's a missing piece.
32:23You should tell Beckett.
32:24Unless you want to.
32:31What?
32:32Ah, no, no.
32:32You brought her home.
32:33No, but you were the one who uncovered the cult thing, right?
32:37I mean, this guy broke the whole case wide open.
32:39Yeah, but this guy was the guy who came up with the 25 grand, right?
32:42Yeah, but this guy...
32:43Hey, Tank, on cash.
32:44Is there something you guys want to tell us or not?
32:47You want to?
32:48Yeah, go ahead.
32:49All right.
32:50Well, we were going over police records for the night that our Vic was in Ithaca,
32:53but we found something else.
32:54A missing persons report was filed by John Campbell the day after the band left town.
32:58Someone went missing from the cult?
33:00Yeah.
33:00A guy named Buck Cooper.
33:02We checked with Caroline, our cult watch contact.
33:05Turns out that Buck was Swan's best friend from his days back in the cult.
33:08So that's what happened in Ithaca.
33:11I mean, Swan went back to the compound to break out his friend.
33:15That's the real reason Campbell went after him.
33:16So the 25 grand wasn't for Swan's freedom.
33:19It was for his friends.
33:20This guy's testimony could help us nail Campbell.
33:23We've been looking for him, but he's not in the system.
33:25But Caroline was supposed to send over a photo.
33:28There it is.
33:31Boom.
33:32Check it out.
33:33We know that guy.
33:35It's the roadie I talked to at the crime scene.
33:37Well, the key to taking down Campbell's been under our nose the whole time.
33:39I know I should have said something earlier.
33:43It's just James told me to keep my head down, and then all of a sudden he was dead.
33:47I didn't know what to do.
33:48It's okay, Buck.
33:49You're safe now.
33:50I owe that man my wife, and now I'm never going to get a chance to repay him.
33:55Actually, you might be able to.
33:58You could help us nail Campbell for his death.
34:02I wish I could, man.
34:04Lord knows that man's done some terrible things.
34:07The trouble is, killing James isn't one of them.
34:12When Campbell took the money from James, he promised not to bother us anymore.
34:16I needed to hear that myself.
34:18I needed to look him in the eyes.
34:20You were with Campbell when James was killed.
34:23So then Campbell couldn't have killed James, but then who did?
34:25I wish I knew.
34:26Did he say anything to you when you were in his trailer?
34:33He said that he was ready to make things right for me.
34:37Uh, make things right?
34:40Didn't he already do that?
34:41Yeah, I thought so.
34:43James got me out of the cult.
34:44James got me away from Campbell.
34:46He even gave me a job in his band.
34:47All I ever did for the guy was teaching me how to play guitar.
34:53You were his teacher?
34:56Most guys will tell you they learned to play guitar themselves, but I had a mentor.
35:01And the guy was incredible.
35:03Much better than I'll ever be.
35:05What's he think of the band?
35:09You know, we lost touch a ways back.
35:12And sometimes I wonder what he's up to.
35:15Don't you see?
35:21Everything we need to solve this murder is right there in that clip.
35:25Do a hard fade to black, musical sting.
35:28Buck Cooper was James Swan's musical mentor, right?
35:35That's why when the filmmaker asked James about his past,
35:38he automatically thought of his good friend Buck Cooper and how much he owed him.
35:42Which is when he decided to rescue Buck from the compound
35:44and bring him on tour.
35:46But Buck as a roadie didn't seem fitting.
35:48I mean, he was a better musician than James was.
35:50By James' own account.
35:51That's what James meant when he told Buck he wanted to make things right.
35:54He was talking about bringing Buck into the band.
35:56Exactly.
35:57That was the change in direction he kept talking about.
36:00It's why he told Keith it would be good for all of them.
36:02Because Buck is a great musician.
36:04Only Swan didn't really mean all of them,
36:06because if Buck was in, then someone else was out.
36:09But who?
36:10Esposito, do you still have that sheet music
36:11that the Swan commissioned from the songwriter?
36:13It's right here.
36:14Perfect.
36:15I'm working on the song.
36:17See, these are run-of-the-mill power chords.
36:19You'd have to be pretty good to play them.
36:22Especially this part.
36:23Yeah, I can play that.
36:34That's good news, Zeke.
36:35Because we just so happen to have your bass guitar.
36:39Right here.
36:42Thank you, L.T.
36:53Very fine.
37:06I can't play it.
37:08That doesn't prove anything.
37:09No.
37:10But this does.
37:13This is a dry cleaning ticket
37:14that we found in your trailer
37:16for clothes that you dropped off yesterday.
37:18There are still flecks of James Swan's blood on them.
37:23Do you know what it's like
37:32to play all those crappy street fairs?
37:35Live on nothing but ramen noodles,
37:36sleep in a van for 14 months?
37:38And then he calls me to his trailer after the show
37:40and tells me that I'm out?
37:42I admit, I might not be the world's greatest bass player.
37:45No, but you sure can handle a guitar.
37:47Come on, man.
37:48I didn't mean to kill him.
37:50We're finally about to hit it big,
37:51and he wants to peep-vest me?
37:53For some roadie?
37:55I just...
37:57I just lost it!
38:00Come on!
38:02No!
38:07You know, Pete Best was a drummer.
38:10I think Stu Sutcliffe would have been
38:12a more apt comparison.
38:13I really appreciate what you guys did for James.
38:19And I'm always going to appreciate that,
38:22and I know he does, too.
38:27You know, I, uh, have something for you.
38:32I think James would have warned you to have it.
38:35Base line is a little tricky.
38:37I think you might be able to handle it.
38:38Hey.
38:42So it's true?
38:43About Zeke?
38:44Yeah, I'm afraid so.
38:47This has not been a good week.
38:49Hey, um...
38:51I want to let you know,
38:52uh, we need a new bassist,
38:54obviously.
38:55And I'm on my way to meet some guys right now,
38:57but I guess
38:58James thought you were pretty good.
39:00So, if you want to come audition...
39:04Well, thanks, Keith.
39:07Yeah.
39:08Yeah, man.
39:08Listen up, everyone.
39:10I, uh,
39:11just wanted to commend all of you
39:13on a job well done,
39:15as I always do
39:16at the end of every case.
39:18It's what makes
39:19catching the killer worthwhile.
39:21Which is strange,
39:21because you think it would be
39:22catching the killer,
39:23but no, it's...
39:25Uh, sir?
39:25Uh, I'm sorry.
39:26Sir, about the, uh,
39:28the footage that you were reviewing,
39:29are you still working on that?
39:31No, I got through it.
39:33In fact,
39:34Detective Beckett,
39:35Mr. Castle,
39:36my office, please.
39:50I'm sure you both know why you're here.
39:52Sir, if you could just let us explain...
39:54Oh, you better.
39:55Because I don't find this very funny.
39:59Uh, I am proud to say
40:00that I have the, uh,
40:02highest rate of solving crimes
40:03here in New York City.
40:05That's due to,
40:05in no small part,
40:07to my five police officers
40:08and detectives
40:09who take their work
40:10rather seriously.
40:12Uh, they live here
40:14at the precinct.
40:15They dedicate their entire lives.
40:17Uh, we are a close-knit family.
40:19Would you call that behavior
40:20appropriate for a police precinct?
40:23Uh, I...
40:24They're just...
40:24No.
40:25You're damn right.
40:26Just what kind of PR debacle
40:27are you trying to inflict on me?
40:29I'm sorry, sir.
40:30That's the, uh, footage
40:31that you're talking about?
40:32That...
40:32That's it?
40:33That's not enough?
40:34Is there something else
40:35I should be looking for?
40:36Like, something on that tape
40:38they say is missing?
40:39No.
40:39No.
40:39Not even...
40:40No, there's nothing we know about.
40:41No, there's...
40:41Oh, for the love of...
40:42What kind of foolishness
40:44is going on out there?
40:47I'm gonna need all of this tape.
40:48You understand?
40:49All of it.
40:50Think of all the dreams
40:51we've been chasing
40:53Driving through the sunshine
40:57Driving through the rain
40:59Backing on the road again
41:03Drive away, drive away
41:07Can't you hear it calling?
41:09Roll away, roll away
41:11It's a brand new tournament
41:14Drive away, drive away
41:17Can't you hear it calling?
41:20Roll away, roll away
41:22It's a brand new day
41:24Anyone can see my heart chasing
41:27See, I told you I could sing
41:30Now the wait is over
41:32Now the wait is over
41:33It's us against the world
41:34And it's us against the world
41:35When I think of all the time
41:36I've been wasting
41:37I've been wasting
41:39I never would have made it
41:42Come on
41:43On my own
41:44Look
41:45I know I'm not the easiest person
41:47on the planet
41:47to get to know
41:48but you guys have been patient
41:49and I've got something
41:51to show you
41:52It's a secret
41:53Actually, Castle
41:54doesn't even know about it
41:55It's this place
41:56that I love to go to
41:57and once you see it
41:59I think you guys
41:59will understand me
42:00a whole lot better
42:01All the way to the back
42:06On my own
42:08I never would have made it home
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