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Castle Season 5 Episode 9
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00:00Well, the weather outside is frightful
00:04But this fire is so delightful
00:08And since we've no place to go
00:12Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
00:16Well, it doesn't show signs of stopping
00:20And I brought some corn for popping
00:24Honey? What is that?
00:26Let it snow, let it snow
00:32Let it snow
00:34Aha! Found it!
00:38Glad you should toss that. It's getting kind of gross
00:40Toss cookie, Angel?
00:42No way! You made this for me in first grade with your chubby little hedge
00:46Darling, could you pick me up an extra bottle of Aquabit for our glue?
00:50An extra bottle of 100 proof? You're not tampering with our secret holiday recipe
00:54No, no, no, I'm just going to make an extra large batch to take with me Christmas Eve caroling
00:58Oh, it'll be after our Christmas dinner
01:00You don't mind, do you?
01:02But it's Christmas Eve, that's when we open the gifts
01:04Maybe we can open them in the morning
01:06Morning? Mornings are for stockings
01:08Well, I think what Alexis is trying to say is that she has other plans, too
01:13Well, just with a couple of friends, it's...
01:15What friends? What plans?
01:17What's happening to our family tradition?
01:19Dad, I think you're kind of overreacting
01:23I am not overreacting
01:29It's one night out of the year
01:31Is it too much to ask to stick to the program?
01:33Well, maybe your program should evolve a little
01:35It is evolving, I invited you, didn't I?
01:37You are still coming, right?
01:39Yeah, I mean, if I don't have to work
01:41But look, okay, no presents
01:43Remember we promised
01:45It's just, it's a little too stressful this first year
01:47No presents, I'm flexible
01:49There are certain aspects to this that are time-honored
01:51The heart, the beating heart
01:53Behind the Christmas holidays
01:55And now Santa is dead?
01:57When will it end?
01:58I hate to break it to you, Castle, but there is no Santa
02:00Well, not anymore
02:01You gotta admit, with that beard and that belly
02:04He looks like the real deal
02:05If by the real deal you mean an overweight man in a red suit
02:08Who is hopefully carrying ID?
02:10Yeah, along with lots of candy cane wrappers
02:14Though I don't think that ID of his is gonna do you much good
02:18Kris Krinkle, address, North Pole
02:21That's cute
02:22Maybe he's the real Santa, like in Miracle on 34th Street
02:25Yeah, but with no happy ending
02:27This Santa fell out of the sky around 9.30
02:30From an aircraft?
02:31Maybe, but it wasn't a commercial plane, I can tell you that
02:34With the fall from high altitude
02:36We'd see severe frostbite on his eyes and his face
02:39Hey, sorry to talk with the family
02:41They didn't see or hear any planes overhead
02:43That doesn't make any sense
02:44He had to have fallen from somewhere
02:46I'm sorry, are we overlooking the obvious here?
02:49He hit some turbulence, slipped out of his sleigh, and fell to his doom
02:52Santa, lying there dead
02:54You gotta ask yourself, what kind of world do we live in?
02:55A world in which there is no Santa, and people don't fall out of nowhere
02:59Can you check with air traffic control and find out what flights were in the area?
03:03Sure, bah humbug
03:06So was the fall cause of death?
03:08Looks like it, but I won't know for sure until I get him back to the morgue
03:11Well Santa or no, he sure is committed
03:14And you're saying there's nothing in his wallet that indicates a break in character?
03:18Nope, except for these boots
03:20They are definitely not from the North Pole
03:23They're custom made from a leather shop in Queens
03:25Got a pair of motorcycle boots there
03:28Hopefully they'll have a record of who this man is
03:33Hey, so I heard from air traffic control, but you're not gonna like the news
03:37They have no record of anyone flying over the park during the time our guy hit the ground
03:40How is that even possible?
03:42Santa had a sleigh in stealth mode
03:43No, I mean after 9-11, how is it possible that someone can just fly over Manhattan?
03:48Sightseeing choppers do it all the time
03:50There was just one time
03:51Took a midnight loop around the Statue of Liberty with this Latin
03:57Publisher
03:58No, he's right
03:59There's a Manhattan flight corridor which doesn't require you to radio in if you stay under 1,300 feet
04:04My mother-in-law is a licensed pilot
04:07As she keeps reminding me
04:08Part of a larger effort to make me feel inferior
04:13I'm sorry, did I just say that out loud?
04:16Sounds like she's staying with you, Captain
04:18One day soon your in-laws will visit too
04:21And when they do, thank hotel
04:24Lord, I hate the holidays
04:27Yet another quality she has in common with the Grinch
04:30So if we don't know where our Santa fell from, do we at least know who he is?
04:33Hopefully we will soon
04:34You need Ralph's the dealer of that boot store in Queens
04:36They're getting him to open up the shop and check his invoices
04:38Laney's got something for us, can you keep us posted on the boots?
04:40Yeah
04:48You're taking this one kinda hard, bro
04:49He's a symbol of childhood innocence
04:51Makes me wonder what this means for the future
04:54It means there's gonna be one less guy dressed up as Santa
04:56Hey, so, uh, we're coming up on Christmas Eve
05:01Gonna keep the tradition going?
05:02You, me, a six pack, Madden on the big screen
05:06You know, I, um, I think Jenny has other plans this year
05:11Remember how you asked if that fall was what killed him?
05:21Well, it wasn't
05:22I pulled this out of his back
05:24And that is a .38
05:26Do you still think he fell off his sleigh castle?
05:27No
05:28Clearly he was shot out of it
05:30Talk about a war on Christmas
05:32Or he was just shot in an aircraft and pushed out
05:34So we have anything else?
05:35Just this
05:36Embedded in his suit
05:38A chip of paint
05:39Or some kind of enamel
05:40Cherry red
05:41From a sleigh?
05:42I don't know yet
05:43I'm sending it down to the lab for analysis
05:46Probably from a sleigh
05:47Are we any closer to figuring out who he is?
05:49We are now
05:50Name's Edmund Smith
05:51Lives in the Bronx
05:53Got his ID from that boot shop
05:55I'm sorry, you just came all the way down here to give me this
05:59Yeah, I mean, you told me to keep you posted
06:01You did play that, right?
06:03You know what?
06:04Uh, Castle and I are gonna go and check out the place
06:07And see what there is to see
06:09Mmm, Javi, since when did you start wearing cologne to work?
06:17You know, well, it's the holidays and I've got places to be, to be able to see
06:22How about you?
06:23Okay, I see where this is going
06:26I'm gonna stop you right there
06:27I already have plans for Christmas Eve
06:30I'm hanging out with my girlfriends
06:32Oh, that's cool
06:35Maybe afterwards you and I can-
06:36Javi, let's not be one of those sad, desperate holiday hookups
06:41But when all this dies down
06:43If you still want to get together
06:45Just give me a call
06:57I don't think he's home
06:58NYPD, is there a super or someone that can let us into this apartment?
07:02Yeah, um, we have a key
07:03Tim, can you grab Ed's key?
07:06Did, uh, something happen to Edmund?
07:11So when was the last time you saw him?
07:13Well, it must have been last night, around five
07:15Uh, I saw him leave with his costume bag
07:17I figured he was going on a job
07:19Ed was a professional Santa
07:29Looks like he took his job pretty seriously
07:31No, he lived it, really
07:32I mean, volunteering at the rec center and the shelter
07:35He was always here for Tim and the kids
07:37He even helped with our lawsuit
07:39He was a Santa and a lawyer?
07:41No, um, we lost our house
07:43And he was just trying to help us out
07:45He was like that
07:46Sounds like he got involved in a lot of people's lives
07:48Do you think he made any enemies along the way?
07:51I didn't think so
07:52But then last week
07:53I heard this man pounding on Ed's door
07:55Shouting cuss words
07:56Did you see who it was?
07:57I did
07:58I looked out
07:59It was an older, tough-looking dude
08:02When he saw me, he said
08:03You tell Ed if I see him again, I'll kill him
08:06So I told Ed
08:08How did he react?
08:09Well, he told us not to worry
08:10But you could tell he was pretty shaken up
08:12You think you could describe him?
08:13You know what?
08:14I don't have to, that's him
08:18I don't know whoever he is, he's a pilot
08:21According to the tail number on that Cessna
08:23The plane is registered to a David Dunn
08:26Guy's got priors too
08:27Drunken disorderly, assaults
08:29Where do we find him?
08:30Well, this just lists his place of employment
08:321215 Canal Street, second floor
08:33Wow!
08:34Someone takes Christmas seriously
08:35Well, you should say our place
08:36Our tree is a 15-foot noble fir
08:38We have our garland shipped in from some lake
08:39I can't pronounce by the Canadian border
08:40And wait till you see my train set
08:41Yeah, can't wait
08:42Hi
08:43Merry Christmas
08:44We're looking for David Dunn
08:45Oh, Dave's in the big room
08:46Teaching a class
08:47What is it you do here exactly?
08:48We make magic
08:50Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
08:52Hi. Merry Christmas. We're looking for David Dunn. Oh Dave's in the big room
08:57teaching a class. What is it you do here exactly? We make magic.
09:03Santa's cool?
09:20And I bet you one Santa is missing
09:33This is crazy. I did not kill Edmund.
09:37Trust me, you're gonna have to do a lot better than that to come in, sir.
09:39You can start by telling us when you last flew your plane.
09:42Not for weeks. You can check.
09:43We intend to. Now, where were you at 9.30 last night?
09:46I was at the Harlem Ute Center, handing out gifts to kids.
09:49I wasn't anywhere near Edmund.
09:51But you did engage in some unsanta-like behavior at his apartment.
09:56Is that what this is about?
09:58That was nothing.
10:00He threatened to kill him, and now he's dead. I wouldn't call that nothing.
10:04I can explain that, okay?
10:05See, Edmund took one of my best gigs. It was a print ad for Cartier.
10:09I was their go-to Santa.
10:11You know, this year they wanted to go more warm and cuddly.
10:14Well, look at me. I'm warm. I'm cuddly.
10:16But no, they chose Edmund, so...
10:18Yeah, I drank too much peppermint schnapps and went over to his place and popped off.
10:21I'm not proud of it.
10:23But that was all I did.
10:24Did you see him again after that?
10:26No. You have to understand.
10:27When I first met Edmund five years ago, he was at a low point in life.
10:31I raised him up. I taught him everything I knew.
10:33I turned him into a world-class Santa, and now I'm losing gigs to him?
10:38Maybe that's it. Maybe it's time to hang up the fluffy red jockstrap.
10:43Is that a metaphor, or do you really...?
10:45When Edmund was killed, he was wearing his Santa suit.
10:48Do you know if he had a job last night?
10:50You have to ask his agent.
10:51Santa's have agents?
10:52Yeah, mostly we used the Bellson Holley agency.
10:55You said Edmund was at a low point in his life.
10:57What did you mean by that?
10:59I just think he became a Santa to turn his life around.
11:02And it worked, too.
11:03Turned his life around? Is he in trouble of some sort?
11:06All I know is back when I met him, Edmund was a totally different guy.
11:10David Dunn's alibi I checked out.
11:12The Harlem Youth Club said that he was there last night.
11:15The Cessna's been parked in a hangar for over a month.
11:17Did you find out what Santa job Edmund was doing?
11:19His agency said he wasn't booked on any gigs last night.
11:21So why was he wearing a Santa soon? How did he end up dead?
11:23Well, if this was a story, it would all come back to Edmund's character,
11:26why he became a Santa in the first place.
11:28Turns out it's a mystery all by itself.
11:30I've been looking into this guy and checking.
11:32That is Santa five years ago.
11:35Meet James Edmund Smith.
11:37He was a private equity manager at some big firm.
11:40That's the same guy.
11:41What happened?
11:42Dedication to his craft.
11:44Like De Niro in Raging Bull.
11:45To be a Santa?
11:46It's pretty extreme, I know, and I'll tell you this much.
11:48He didn't go all Santa for the money.
11:50Back in the day, he used to pull down a half a mil a year.
11:52As Santa, he made a tenth of that.
11:54Make that much as a Santa? Maybe I should switch jobs, huh?
11:56What, gain 200 pounds and have a bunch of rugrats sitting on your lap with dirty diapers?
12:00Yeah, thanks for that visual.
12:01Oh, here's another thing.
12:02I pulled Edmund's financials.
12:04And the night he was killed, he withdrew two grand from his ATM.
12:08You didn't have that money on him when we found him as well, it was empty.
12:11All right, take a look at the ATM footage and see if anyone was with him.
12:14He might have been robbed.
12:15Uh, robbed and then launched into space?
12:18And how is that less plausible than your slang?
12:21I think you mean less plausible.
12:22What about his phone records?
12:24Made a bunch of calls to some lawyer in Brooklyn, but here's the interesting one.
12:27Last phone call he ever made was to his ex-wife.
12:29Mrs. Gloss.
12:30Gwen Harwin.
12:31I went back pretty far on his phone records. He hasn't called up for at least three years.
12:34So, he pulls out two grand, calls his ex-wife, and a couple of hours later he ends up dead.
12:38Let's bring her in.
12:39He called me to say that he wanted to stop by.
12:42It was the strangest thing.
12:44When he showed up, I didn't recognize him, you know, he's just gone.
12:47I'm sorry to ask you this, Ms. Harwin, but where were you last night at 9.30?
12:51It's quite all right, I understand.
12:53I was hosting a benefit for the food bank.
12:56Why did Edmund come to see you?
12:58To apologize.
12:59Apologize for what?
13:01For the way he walked out in our life.
13:04We were good together, at least I thought we were.
13:08Twelve years of marriage, of building a life together, and then five years ago, Christmas Eve,
13:14We went to a party, and afterwards we stayed up to watch It's a Wonderful Life.
13:18And the next morning he left, with just the shirt on his back, and no explanation.
13:24But why would he visit you now?
13:26He wanted me to know how sorry he was for the way he left, in case anything happened to him.
13:33What did he mean by that?
13:35I don't know what he meant. I didn't even know who this man was.
13:38He seemed very nervous and very on edge.
13:42Did he give you any indication of what he was afraid of, or who might have been after him?
13:47After he left, I went to the window to watch him get into the cab.
13:51And as the cab pulled away, there was a man on a motorcycle who was following him.
13:55We're going to need you to give us a description of that motorcycle, along with its rider.
14:01Early Christmas present from Jenny?
14:03Something like that. Would you mind not touching it?
14:06Ooh! Well, well, well.
14:10Now I see what you and Jenny got planned for Christmas Eve.
14:15Y'all gonna be getting busy.
14:17Huh?
14:19Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!
14:23Uh...
14:25I take it this is your idea of working the Santa case?
14:28Detective Esposito, you're supposed to be digging up that ATM footage.
14:32And you are...
14:33Chasing down that lawyer that our victim had been calling him, sir.
14:36Okay, then. Let's finish up this hoochie-coochie thing and get on with it.
14:39Yes, sir.
14:41That's all busted.
14:42Oh, chicka-bomb.
14:43Baa!
14:44How does a guy on a motorcycle connect to Edmund landing in the park?
14:48Nothing connects. Why does a man watch a Christmas movie then walk out on everything and become Santa?
14:52Unless the key to Edmund's story is it's a wonderful life.
14:56You remember in the movie George Bailey tried to commit suicide on Christmas Eve and was saved by an angel.
15:00Which in our story is David Dunn.
15:02We're casting choice, I know.
15:04But what if Edmund was trying to jump off a metaphoric bridge, you know, to start over?
15:08As a Santa?
15:09Yes!
15:10Yeah, that's where it falls apart.
15:13Actually, it looks like Edmund was way more than just a Santa.
15:16I finally got a hold of that lawyer that he'd been calling.
15:19She'd actually filed a suit on behalf of his neighbors, the Cabots, who'd lost their home to a predatory lender, Suncove Funding.
15:25Something about illegal practices and forged documents.
15:28Anyway, it's a class action suit representing 43 families with millions of dollars at stake.
15:32But why was Edmund calling the lawyer?
15:34She had been working on contingency. She's already lost tons of money pressing the case, so she wanted to drop the suit.
15:39But Edmund begged her not to. In fact, he asked her to hold off just a few days. Maybe he could turn things around.
15:45How?
15:46Well, he didn't say. But she told him the only thing that would turn things around was a check for 25 grand.
15:50What do we know about this company that Edmund was up against?
15:52Suncove, it's a fly-by-night. They made their money, then they folded.
15:56Gates actually has a friend at the SEC trying to dig up some information on them.
15:59Can you check with the fraud division, see what they know about Suncove?
16:02Yeah, you got it.
16:03Speaking of It's a Wonderful Life, I was thinking tomorrow night perhaps we should have a Christmas movie marathon.
16:10Or some other kind of marathon that makes life wonderful.
16:16Um...
16:17What?
16:18Castle, look, I know how much the holidays mean to you, and I know that you love Christmas, but I can't make it tomorrow.
16:25What?
16:26The precinct is short-staffed, so I'm gonna have to work.
16:29How?
16:30What?
16:31Don't...
16:32Don't you have seniority?
16:34Don't...
16:35How can this happen?
16:36Yeah.
16:37Look, I...
16:38I couldn't tell Gates.
16:39She doesn't know about us, okay?
16:41So...
16:42Look, I'm sorry.
16:43I know that you're disappointed.
16:44No, I...
16:45No.
16:46It's not your fault.
16:47I know.
16:48It's...
16:49It's okay.
16:50I'm...
16:51I gotta get out of here anyway.
16:52I gotta deal with Alexis.
16:53Gonna do some Christmas shopping.
16:54Okay, have fun.
16:55Okay.
16:56And don't get me anything.
16:57Right.
17:03Hey.
17:04So, uh...
17:05I pulled this from the ATM footage.
17:07Edmund was alone and took out the cash, but he did get into a cab.
17:11Any idea where he was going?
17:12Yeah, I traced the taxi using the medallion.
17:14The cabbie said that he took Edmund to Hohokas Field.
17:16It's a small airfield out in Jersey.
17:18Is that where he got on the plane?
17:19You'd think, but no.
17:20The cabbie said that Edmund had him wait so he could go meet somebody.
17:23Then he got back in the cab, they left the airfield, and the cabbie dropped him off in Long Island City.
17:26That doesn't make any sense.
17:28How'd he end up in the air if he went to Long Island City?
17:30I have no idea, but the person he met with at the airfield might.
17:34So, you, uh, pulled the Christmas shift again.
17:38You know, you shouldn't be an eavesdropping buddy.
17:43Esper, does that look cherry red to you?
17:46It does.
17:47Just like the paint chip we found on Edmund.
17:52This lock's been tampered with.
17:56Looks like it was forced open.
18:03There's fresh blood here.
18:05And lots of it.
18:06Looks like we just found our crime scene.
18:08Yeah.
18:09Looks like the blood is a match to Edmund, but so far there are no prints.
18:18Looks like the cockpit's been wiped.
18:19If Edmund came down here and then he went back to Long Island City, then how the hell did he end up in this chopper?
18:24Well, whoever was with him's gotta have the answer to that.
18:26Let's start with who owns this thing.
18:27Well, according to the airfield manager, Mr. Mudge belongs to a Chuck Ames, but he's on vacation in Hawaii.
18:33Hi, Mr. Mudge. I'm Detective Kate Beckett.
18:36Now, is anyone else authorized to fly that bird?
18:39Not that I'm aware of.
18:40Looks like just about anybody can have access to this airfield.
18:43There's no checkpoints?
18:44No cameras?
18:45Never needed any until now.
18:46The point is, if someone did get onto this property, how hard would it be for them to fly that chopper out of here?
18:50Anybody with a helicopter rating could take it up.
18:52R-44 is easy.
18:53You don't even need a key to start it.
18:55So then we're looking for someone that knew the ins and outs of this airport, along with the fact that that chopper was gonna be here.
18:59Maybe even someone who knew that Chuck Ames was gonna be in Hawaii.
19:02We're gonna need Mr. Ames' contact info, along with the names of all of your employees and everyone who's flown through here in the past year.
19:09Hey, I got Christmas lights to hang.
19:11Yeah, and we have a murder to solve.
19:13Now, is there any way to know where the chopper flew last night?
19:16Is there a flight recorder, GPS system?
19:18Again?
19:19She's a low-tech bird.
19:20Do you have a record of the fuel that was in the tank?
19:24Fuel log says it was full.
19:26Which means we can figure out how far the chopper flew by how much fuel was used.
19:30It was down about a fifth of a tank.
19:31The R-44 burns about four or five miles per gallon, so flew about 45 miles.
19:37That's almost exactly how far it is to Long Island City and back.
19:40Edmund took the cab there and must have gotten in that chopper.
19:42Okay, let's check all the heliports in Long Island City and find out where.
19:45I mean, it's bad enough Santa has been murdered.
19:53This will be the first Christmas Eve in 18 years we haven't spent together.
19:57I mean, it sets a grim precedent.
19:59Dad, you're being dramatic.
20:00What?
20:01You can see your friends anytime.
20:02Well, what if it's just one person and he's not really a friend?
20:08Oh.
20:09Oh, a new guy.
20:12Okay.
20:13Well, does this non-plural non-friend have a name?
20:16It's Max.
20:17Max.
20:18I met him at the annual Bad Poetry contest right before Thanksgiving.
20:21I see.
20:22Well, bring him along.
20:23I would love to meet this bad poet.
20:25Meet my dad on Christmas Eve?
20:27Yeah.
20:28That's way too much pressure.
20:29Pressure to what?
20:30Eat, drink, and be merry?
20:31It'll be...
20:32Max is going to London with his family on Christmas Day.
20:34I won't get to see him until after break.
20:36We just want to go ice skating in the park.
20:38Yeah.
20:39Of course.
20:40Of course.
20:41Go.
20:42Have a great time.
20:43Besides, you'll be with Beckett.
20:45Right.
20:46Oh, and...
20:47Don't worry.
20:48I'll be home in bed before Santa comes.
20:54Right.
21:03Oh, Captain Gates.
21:04Yes?
21:05What is it?
21:06To make sure that you got this before you took off for the holidays.
21:09Oh.
21:10Well, thank you, Mr. Castle.
21:11Oh, I'm sorry.
21:12I don't have anything for you.
21:13Please, just being here each day is a gift.
21:16I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate all that you do.
21:19You and Detective Beckett.
21:21Mr. Castle, I am on my way uptown to meet my mother-in-law to have tea and eat those tiny freaking sandwiches.
21:27So why don't you just say what's on your mind?
21:29I'm just so worried about Detective Beckett.
21:32I mean, she works so hard.
21:34Don't you think she deserves a little holiday?
21:36Isn't there someone else who could take that Christmas Eve shift?
21:38First of all, how I schedule my people is not your concern.
21:42And having said that, Detective Beckett volunteered to take the shift.
21:45Uh, when did she do that?
21:49Earlier today, she came to me and asked to take Detective Elton's shift.
21:53He has a family, and she doesn't.
21:55Okay, then.
21:57Problem solved.
21:58Problem solved.
21:59Okay, so that narrows it down to five heliports in Long Island City.
22:06One is a police station, one's a hospital.
22:08They'd both be monitored.
22:09So that leaves helipads at Bancorp Building, One West Hotel, and Case Commerce Building.
22:15Case Commerce.
22:16Case Commerce.
22:17The candy canes.
22:21Case Commerce CC.
22:23That's where Edmund was.
22:25Let's find out why.
22:28Hey, Kessel, you coming?
22:30Yeah, sure.
22:32Ah, you can't escape it.
22:34Christmas is everywhere.
22:36So much pressure to have a good time.
22:38Are you okay?
22:39Why wouldn't that be?
22:40Case Commerce, there it is.
22:42Hi.
22:43Wait, what's going on here?
22:45Looks like a heist occurred at the office Christmas party last night.
22:48A heist?
22:49Well, I didn't notice anything was missing until this morning, and that's when I called you people.
22:53So you didn't happen to have a Santa working your party, did you?
22:55Yes, we did.
22:56Did he look like this?
22:59Yes, he was our Santa. Why?
23:01Looks like our Santa was a little more naughty than us.
23:09No, I never saw him before last night.
23:11And I wasn't aware he'd stolen anything.
23:13But given what we do here, I suppose it could have been a lot worse.
23:16And what is it that your company does, Mr. Case?
23:18Investment services, asset management mostly.
23:21Given the amount of client and account information, we'd be a gold mine for identity thieves.
23:26None of those systems were touched.
23:28So what do they steal?
23:29A clock from his office and back.
23:31I'm sorry, did you just say clock?
23:33Not just any clock detective, an early Thomas Tillage.
23:35Oh.
23:36Legendary clockmaker from the restoration period.
23:38That must have been worth a great deal.
23:40I had it appraised at 30,000.
23:41Wow.
23:42How big was it?
23:43It's about this size.
23:44Small enough to fit in his sack.
23:46You know, it's hard enough imagining one of my guests being a thief, but Santa?
23:49Are you sure that nothing else is missing?
23:51Positive, why?
23:52Well, because our evidence suggests that your Santa left by helicopter, which was waiting on your helipad.
23:57Why would he take a helicopter?
23:59You didn't hear anything from the party?
24:00No, but the music was loud and the back wall is soundproofed.
24:03Was there anything else that was special about this clock?
24:05Not that I'm aware of.
24:07Okay, I'm gonna get one of my detectives to come down and interview your staff.
24:10In the meantime, could I have a list of all of the party attendees?
24:13Sure.
24:14Of course.
24:15We'll also pull elevator footage to make sure that there weren't any uninvited guests.
24:1930,000.
24:20That's a little more than the Cabot's needed for their lawsuit.
24:25Maybe our Santa's Robin Hood stealing from the rich to give to the poor.
24:28Yeah, but why would he use a helicopter to steal this?
24:31I mean, he could have just stuffed it in his sack and ho-ho-ho'd out of there.
24:35It has to be about more than just the clock.
24:37Well, if there were a couple more clocks on his workbench, maybe this one's significant somehow.
24:42Okay.
24:43What's your theory?
24:44Uh, treasure map inside.
24:46No.
24:47No.
24:48The clock was commissioned by a secret society to count down the end of days.
24:52A secret society of Santas were the guardians of time.
24:56Oh.
24:57Oh, that's good.
24:58Okay.
24:59Putting aside the mystery of the helicopter, let's say it is about the clock.
25:03How did Edmund know about it?
25:04Nobody from the office recognized him.
25:06Well, maybe he worked the party before.
25:07Sorry, bro.
25:08I checked.
25:09He hasn't, but he sure was determined to work it this year.
25:12The agency had booked another Santa to work that party, but someone from Case Commerce called about a week ago to cancel.
25:18Let me guess.
25:19No one actually called from Case.
25:20Ding, ding.
25:21And when he arrived, they assumed he was the Santa they'd hired.
25:24Kind of a brilliant scam, really.
25:26You have access to high-end homes and businesses.
25:28And who's going to distrust Santa?
25:29Uh, his partners, apparently.
25:32No one are among thieves.
25:33Even Santa thieves.
25:34Right.
25:35Have robbery send that photo to pawn shops and auction houses.
25:38If his partners try to cash in, I want to know.
25:40Absolutely.
25:43A man leaves his life in a high-paid job to become the neighborhood saint,
25:47only to get shot dead after stealing a clock that's worth less than your average car.
25:52And then he gets thrown out of a helicopter that he didn't even need to be in in the first place.
25:56It makes no sense.
25:57Given everything that we know about this guy, this is completely out of character.
26:01Well, sometimes people do inexplicable things.
26:04There's an explanation for everything.
26:10Is there?
26:13You volunteered to take Eldon's shift.
26:16Don't pretend.
26:17If you aren't ready, why not just tell me?
26:21I'm sorry, Kessel, I didn't mean to...
26:23You didn't mean to what?
26:25Christmas means something different to me than it does to you.
26:28It's Christmas.
26:29I mean, how can it be different?
26:32Kessel, every winter, as soon as that chill rolls in, I'm right back there in that alley.
26:37January 9th, we still haven't taken our Christmas decorations down.
26:41And by the time my dad and I did, it was like we were putting Christmas away forever.
26:45We haven't opened those boxes since.
26:52I didn't know.
26:53That's why every year my dad goes up to his cabin.
26:57And ever since I became a rookie, I have taken the Christmas shift.
27:01Because I know that there are families out there that are celebrating together in their homes, and I am keeping watch.
27:06And that is my tradition.
27:08And that is important to me.
27:10It's as important as your tradition is to you.
27:12And I'm sorry, Kessel.
27:15I thought I could let that go, but I...
27:18I understand.
27:29Beckett?
27:30Yeah, so I got a custodian who was up on the roof last night for a smoke.
27:33Did he see anything?
27:34It's not what he saw, it's what he found.
27:36The place was cleaned earlier in the day, but when he got up there, there was trash blown all over the helipad.
27:40Probably from the rotor wash when it took off.
27:42What kind of trash?
27:43Kind of looked like someone had been waiting for someone.
27:46Soda can, candy wrappers, and an empty pouch of pipe tobacco.
27:51Pipe tobacco?
27:53Now who do we know that smokes a pipe and flies?
27:57Remember, when you go out there, Santa does not enter through the chimney, he enters through the heart.
28:06What about through a helicopter?
28:09What are you doing?
28:27Merry Christmas to all.
28:39You all good night.
28:48I already told you where I was.
28:50It wasn't in a helicopter.
28:51Yeah, about that.
28:52We checked the photos from the Harlem Youth Club.
28:55The Santa that was there was not you.
28:57Where were you that night, really?
28:59Let me help you.
29:00I just got off of the phone with Chuck Ames,
29:02the guy that owns that helicopter,
29:04and he said that you've rented it from him before.
29:06So I know the guy. So what?
29:08You got no proof that I was in that helicopter that night.
29:11That's because you wiped it down when you brought it back,
29:13but you took something with you, didn't you?
29:17We found this in your apartment.
29:22Care to revise your statement?
29:24Let me help you again.
29:26Edmund figured out a way to make a quick score for you both.
29:29He worked the party, and you were the getaway flyer.
29:33And then when he got back into the chopper,
29:35you decided you wanted it all for yourself.
29:37All what? All he had was a damn clock.
29:40Not just any clock.
29:42A Thomas Tillage worth $30,000.
29:45That crap is worth $30,000?
29:47You didn't know that?
29:49No. And I didn't kill him.
29:51Come on, Dave. You just admitted to being there.
29:55All right. I was there.
29:58Ed said he'd pay me $2,000 to fly the chopper to that building,
30:01wait while he loaded something on and take off.
30:03And it wasn't no clock.
30:05He wanted to know how much extra weight the chopper could handle.
30:08What was he planning on taking?
30:09For $2,000. I didn't ask.
30:11I just flew to the helipad and waited.
30:12And all of a sudden, here comes Edmund running out on the roof with the clock yelling,
30:16go, go, go. Next thing I know, we're taking fire.
30:19Someone was shooting at you?
30:20Hell, yeah. They nailed Edmund just as he boarded the chopper.
30:23Did you see who it was?
30:24No, it was dark. I just cowboyed the hell out of there.
30:28But poor Ed. I kept yelling to him to close the damn door.
30:31But when I turned back, he was already dead.
30:35Chopper banked hard before I knew it.
30:38He was gone.
30:39Well, if Dave was telling the truth, the shooter was in that building.
30:44Not just in the building.
30:45The only access to the helipad is through case commerce,
30:48which means our killer was at the party.
30:50Okay, but what was Edmund doing?
30:52What was he planning on stealing that weight so much?
30:54And why would he take that stupid clock?
30:56It makes no sense.
30:57It makes even less sense now.
30:58We were running through elevator security footage,
31:00and we found one person who went up to the party who wasn't on the guest list.
31:04The neighbor kid, Tim Cabot?
31:06And look what he's holding.
31:07A motorcycle helmet.
31:09So he was the one that followed Edmund on the motorcycle that night.
31:12Kid's got a record, too.
31:13B&E, assault, possession.
31:15Hey, but what the hell was he doing there?
31:17I think I may have an answer.
31:19Remember that class action suit against Sunco funding?
31:21Yeah.
31:22My contact at the SEC dug these up.
31:25Sunco's original articles of incorporation showing the name of the account signatory.
31:29Look familiar?
31:30James Edmund Smith.
31:32The victim.
31:32Santa is the shark who built those people out of their homes?
31:37He has more blood on his hands than that.
31:39Tim Cabot's father died in a car crash,
31:41fell asleep at the wheel working three jobs to pay his inflated mortgage,
31:45courtesy of Edmund Smith.
31:47That was Christmas Eve five years ago.
31:48The Christmas that Edmund walked out on his life.
31:51So, so it's a tale of redemption.
31:55Edmund moves next door to the family whose lives he destroyed,
31:58dedicating his life to repairing theirs,
32:00never telling them who he really is.
32:03But what if Tim found out?
32:06Then it's a very different tale.
32:10Oh.
32:11I'm sorry, Mrs. Cabot,
32:12but we need to speak to your son.
32:13Your mom doesn't know, does she?
32:17But you do.
32:18You knew who he was
32:19and how he ruined your lives.
32:23Yeah.
32:24Yeah, I knew.
32:25Tim, what?
32:26It was Ed, Mom.
32:27He was Sunco.
32:28He's the one who bled us dry.
32:29Ed?
32:30Our Ed?
32:30You must have been pretty angry when you found out.
32:32Hell yeah, I was angry
32:33when he told me I wanted to kill him.
32:37But I didn't.
32:38Wait.
32:39He told you?
32:40Yeah.
32:41Last week.
32:42He asked for my forgiveness
32:43and he said he wanted to make things right.
32:45The lawyer was going to drop the lawsuit,
32:47but Ed said he couldn't sit by anymore.
32:48He knew where there was evidence
32:49that could win our case.
32:50But he needed my help.
32:51What kind of help?
32:56I'm good with locks, right?
32:58He needed me to slip into the party
32:59with the waitstaff
33:00and Jimmy opened the storage room door and back.
33:02And why didn't you tell us this before?
33:03Because I couldn't get in trouble again.
33:05I need to be here for my mom.
33:06What was in the storage room?
33:08Files.
33:09Boxes of them.
33:11Edmund said that they were
33:11the original unaltered loan docs from Suncove.
33:15They were the evidence he needed
33:16to set things right.
33:18One of his old partners must be at Case Commerce.
33:20He recognized Edmund
33:21and realized he was going after those files.
33:23And that's why he needed the helicopter.
33:25He couldn't exactly cart them at the front door.
33:27And with the cops all over the building,
33:29it would have been risky
33:29for the killer to destroy them.
33:31Which means they're still there.
33:32Along with our killer.
33:33I tried to stop them,
33:41but they had a warrant.
33:42What the hell is this all about?
33:44We were about to ask you the same thing.
33:49I'm telling you,
33:50I've never seen those files in my life.
33:52So then what were they doing
33:53in your office storage space, Mr. Case?
33:55I don't have the slightest idea.
33:56Are we really going to play this game
33:59where you deny things
34:01that you and I both know are true?
34:03Like you telling me
34:04that you didn't know Edmund.
34:06We ran a background check.
34:08You and Edmund were business associates.
34:11So why would you claim
34:12that you didn't know him
34:13unless you were hiding something?
34:15Like your involvement with Sunco funding?
34:17Did the two of you talk about
34:18how much money you could make
34:19if you could just bend the rules?
34:21How easy it would be
34:23to forge documents
34:24to put people into mortgages
34:25that they couldn't afford
34:26and how you could make a quick buck
34:28by selling them off to investors?
34:30There's nothing in those files
34:31that can implicate me
34:33and nothing to tie me
34:34to Sunco funding
34:35or to that man's death.
34:38That clock that was stolen,
34:40where did it come from?
34:41I'm not sure.
34:42I'll have to ask my decorator.
34:43Don't bother.
34:43We already have documents
34:44that prove it belonged to the Cabots.
34:47Who are the Cabots?
34:48One of the families
34:49whose house you stole.
34:50They put that clock up
34:51as collateral against a loan
34:53and when they couldn't make the payments,
34:55Sunco funding kept it
34:57and that connects you to Sunco.
35:05When you saw Edmund that night,
35:07you realized that he was going
35:09after the files
35:09because he was going to blow
35:11the whistle on Sunco.
35:12You knew that Edmund could implicate you
35:14so you killed him.
35:15No, you're wrong.
35:16The U.S. Attorney's Office
35:18would freeze your assets.
35:19They would seize all of your money.
35:21You were going to lose everything.
35:24Now that is motive,
35:25that is opportunity,
35:26and that is enough
35:27for any jury to convict you.
35:29I did not kill Edmund.
35:33But I know who did.
35:37She was here.
35:39She stopped by the party.
35:41You must be kidding me.
35:42Why would I kill him?
35:43Because he couldn't live with himself
35:45any longer with what he had done,
35:46which meant that he was going to take away
35:48the one thing that he left you
35:50after the divorce,
35:51your lifestyle,
35:52paid for by Sunco profits.
35:54He didn't come to you
35:55to apologize that night, did he?
35:58He came to warn you
35:58because he knew
35:59that if he blew the whistle on Sunco,
36:01he used to lose everything.
36:03This is absurd.
36:03You knew where he was going
36:04and you knew why,
36:05so you followed him to the rooftop
36:07and then you shot him.
36:08I was at the benefit.
36:09We know you were at Case Commerce.
36:11We have a witness.
36:12You killed Edmund.
36:13Edmund.
36:13Edmund.
36:13Edmund.
36:13Edmund.
36:13Edmund.
36:18When he left me,
36:27he told me he never wanted to hurt me.
36:30That's what people always say
36:31right before they hurt you.
36:35Yes, he left me my lifestyle.
36:38Five years later,
36:38he shows up on my doorstep
36:40telling me again
36:41how he doesn't want to hurt me.
36:47You know what the worst part is?
36:49Just for a moment
36:50when he stood there that night,
36:51I was happy to see him.
36:55You've got to admire the guy.
36:57Sacrificed everything
36:58to redeem himself.
36:59It's too bad a pass.
37:01Still, those files
37:02are on their way
37:02to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
37:04Now the Cabot's have a real shot
37:05at getting back what they lost.
37:07Along with the 42 other families,
37:09all because of Edmund.
37:12Oh.
37:13Speaking of people
37:14having the home stolen.
37:16Is that your mother-in-law again, sir?
37:17Detective,
37:18if you happen to receive
37:19a report of a homicide
37:21tonight at my address,
37:22do me a favor.
37:23Ignore it.
37:24Yes, sir.
37:26Well, Castle,
37:26looks like you might have been right.
37:28Maybe there is a Santa Claus after all.
37:30Whether there's a Santa Claus or not,
37:32that's not why I love Christmas.
37:34When I was a kid,
37:35no matter how bad things got,
37:37my mother always managed
37:38to make Christmas Eve magical.
37:40Every year,
37:40she would put on
37:41the Nutcracker Suite.
37:44And I thought,
37:44if she can do that
37:45in our tiny apartment
37:46when money was tight
37:47and we were alone,
37:48give me hope
37:49that things could get better.
37:51I love that feeling,
37:52that sense of hope.
37:54It's crazy, you know.
37:56On the shortest,
37:57darkest days of the year,
37:58people of all faith
37:59celebrate the light.
38:01Plus, who doesn't love presents?
38:02Merry Christmas.
38:15You too.
38:31Yeah.
38:32What you still doing here?
38:34Shouldn't you be at home?
38:35Stuff in your wife's stocking?
38:38I think I'm ready, Javi.
38:40For what?
38:41Sex?
38:41No,
38:42for what sex leads to.
38:44We were putting up the tree
38:45the other day.
38:46Jenny says to me,
38:48it just doesn't feel like
38:49Christmas without kids.
38:52She wants to try.
38:54But I come to work.
38:56I watch the news every day.
38:58It seems like the world
38:59is falling apart.
39:01How am I supposed
39:02to bring a kid into that?
39:03The world's always
39:03falling apart, bro.
39:05It's just the beginning of time.
39:07But having kids,
39:09making a family,
39:10that's what keeps it together.
39:13So go home.
39:15Make a baby.
39:17You ready?
39:19Yeah.
39:21Thanks, bro.
39:22Merry Christmas.
39:25Merry Christmas.
39:26Merry Christmas.
39:38Mm-hmm.
39:39Mother,
39:40the gloob is excellent,
39:41and
39:41everything
39:43looks excellent.
39:46Just like always.
39:47Oh, Richard.
39:51Richard, darling,
39:51you don't have to look
39:52so miserable.
39:53She's right, Dad.
39:54We know how much
39:55this tradition means to you,
39:56so we both decided
39:58to cancel our plans.
40:01We're here all night,
40:02like always.
40:03I love you both so much
40:09that you would do that
40:10for me.
40:12But I was wrong
40:13about tonight.
40:16There's some place
40:16I need to be.
40:20Dad, I...
40:20Go.
40:21Go, go, go.
40:22Okay.
40:24Oh.
40:25Uh, I was just
40:35coming to see you.
40:35I was coming to see you.
40:37What about your shift?
40:38I got Karpowski to cover.
40:40What about your
40:40family tradition?
40:43Um...
40:43I was just thinking
40:44it's time for a new tradition.
40:46Me too.
40:48Oh, for God's sakes,
40:49Richard.
40:50Invite the girl in.
40:52Right.
40:52Would you?
40:53Yeah.
40:55It's beautiful.
41:14Merry Christmas.
41:18I didn't get you anything.
41:20What?
41:25Miss Cabot.
41:28I'm Detective Esposito.
41:30I have something
41:31that I think
41:32belongs to you.
41:39We found out
41:40that your husband
41:40put that up for collateral
41:41against the mortgage
41:42on your house.
41:43I haven't seen this
41:44for so long.
41:46It was handed down
41:46through his family
41:47for generations.
41:49I think that's why
41:49Edmund took it.
41:50He wanted you
41:51to have it back.
41:51I don't know.
41:51I don't know.
41:51I don't know.
41:52I don't know.
41:52I don't know.
41:52I don't know.
41:52I don't know.
41:53I don't know.
41:53I don't know.
41:54I don't know.
41:59Wait.
42:01Why don't you come inside?
42:02We're just having dinner.
42:09Okay.