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Castle Episode Guide
Episodes 001–052
Last episode aired Monday March 21, 2011
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Contents
Season 1 1
1 Flowers for Your Grave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Nanny McDead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3 Hedge Fund Homeboys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4 Hell Hath No Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5 A Chill Goes Through Her Veins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6 Always Buy Retail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
7 Home Is Where the Heart Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
8 Ghosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
9 Little Girl Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
10 A Death in the Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Season 2 43
1 Deep in Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2 The Double Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3 Inventing the Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4 Fool Me Once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
5 When the Bough Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6 Vampire Weekend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7 Famous Last Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8 Kill the Messenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
9 Love Me Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
10 One Man’s Treasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
11 The Fifth Bullet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
12 A Rose for Everafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
13 Sucker Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
14 The Third Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
15 Suicide Squeeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
16 The Mistress Always Spanks Twice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
17 Tick, Tick, Tick ... (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
18 Boom! (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
19 Wrapped Up in Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
20 The Late Shaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
21 Den of Thieves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
22 Food to Die For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
23 Overkill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
24 A Deadly Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Season 3 137
1 A Deadly Affair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
2 He’s Dead, She’s Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
3 Under the Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
4 Punked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
5 Anatomy of a Murder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6 3XK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
7 Almost Famous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
8 Murder Most Fowl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
9 Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
10 Last Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
11 Nikki Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
12 Poof! You’re Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
13 Knockdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
14 Lucky Stiff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
15 The Final Nail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
16 Setup (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
17 Countdown (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
18 One Life to Lose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Actor Appearances 201
II
Season One
Flowers for Your Grave

Season 1
Episode Number: 1
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired: Monday March 9, 2009

Writer: Andrew W Marlowe
Director: Rob Bowman
Show Stars: Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Mont-
gomery), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle),
Monet Mazur (Gina Cowell), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Stana
Katic (Det. Kate Beckett)
Guest Stars: Brian Avers (Harrison Tisdale), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Seamus
Dever (Kevin Ryan), Stephen J. Cannell (Himself), James Patterson
(Himself), Dan Castellaneta (Judge Markway), Keir Dullea (Jonathan
Tisdale), Colby French (NYPD Cop)
Production Code: n/a
Summary: Richard Castle is called in to help police after two murders look very
similar to murders from his books.
A sand-colored landscape. A bead of

red rolls like a teardrop... Wait! This is no
landscape. It’s a body. Something dark
and red crashes down onto the body –
rose petals are dropped by a gloved hand
and land on naked skin.
Meanwhile, at a crowded Manhattan
rooftop party, famous author and infa-
mous playboy Richard Castle celebrates
the release of his latest novel, Storm Fall
– the final installment in his best-selling mystery series.
Castle’s publisher (and second ex-wife) Gina scolds the author as she is certain he killed the
billion-dollar Storm franchise to punish her. She also knows that he’s been having writer’s block
and has been unable to get started on a new book. Gina threatens to demand the return of
Castle’s advance if he doesn’t submit a new manuscript within three weeks. ”I already returned
that advance,” Castle quips, ”I spent it divorcing you.”
Back at the scene of the crime, Detective Kate Beckett studies the naked, rose-petal-covered
corpse of 24-year-old Alison Tisdale. Beckett learns that the victim was a graduate student in
Social Work. As there were no signs of struggle, Beckett surmises that Alison knew her assailant.
Medical Examiner Lanie Parish reveals that Alison was shot twice in the chest with small caliber
bullets. The murder scene gives Beckett an uncanny sense of deja-vu... But why?
Castle approaches his mother Martha and teenage daughter, Alexis. Castle asks Martha if
she mentioned his writer’s block to Gina. Martha dismisses the allegation, then quickly leaves
to chat up a Silver Fox. Castle confides to Alexis that he killed the Storm franchise because the
stories had become too predictable, much like these publishing parties. That’s when he turns to
discover Beckett standing there, flashing her badge at him.
In an interrogation room down at the precinct, Castle tries to flirt with Beckett and fails
miserably. When she shows him pictures of the Tisdale murder scene, Castle realizes it matches
a scene from one of his books, Flowers For Your Grave, and that the murder of another recent
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victim, small claims lawyer Marvin Fisk, matches a similar incident from his book Hell Hath No
Fury.
Castle returns home to find his mom singing with the silver fox on piano. His daughter Alexis,
meanwhile, is trying to study for a test in the kitchen. When Alexis asks about his interrogation,
Castle says that someone is killing people like he does in his books, but what he can’t figure out
is why the killer would emulate his lesser works.
At the precinct, Beckett hands out dog-eared copies of Castle’s books, asking Ryan and Espos-
ito to familiarize themselves with the fictional murder scenes. Ryan and Esposito tease Beckett
for owning the copies. But Beckett’s unflappable and convinced that clues to the next murder
can be found somewhere in the pages of Castle’s writing.
Becket and some uniformed cops haul in the boxes of Castle’s fan mail they got from his pub-
lisher. She learns from Esposito that the Tisdale crime scene was negative for DNA and prints,
just like the Fisk crime scene. She then sees Castle talking with her boss, Captain Montgomery,
and learns that he’s offered to assist in the investigation. Much to her chagrin, Montgomery
thinks it’s a good idea.
Beckett and Castle sift through his fan mail, she wonders why he’s there, as it’s obvious he
doesn’t care about the victims or that the murderer is aping his books. Castle claims he’s there
for the story, because there’s always a story. He then ”reads” Beckett and spins out her life story
– despite her wealthy upbringing, she became a cop because someone she loved was murdered,
and the killer was never caught. ”There’s always a story,” asserts Castle. And that’s when Beckett
unearths a fan letter covered with disturbing childish pictures of the Tisdale and Fisk murders.
Castle and Beckett discover prints on the letter but the system’s backlogged and, apparently,
it’ll take a week to identify the prints. Castle pulls out his cell phone and calls the mayor, calling
in a favor to get their results in an hour. Beckett lectures Castle about protocol as a call comes
in – another similar murder has taken place.
They find a woman face down in a rooftop pool, wearing a yellow evening gown and a tiara.
Castle recognizes it as the murder from his Death of a Prom Queen. According to forensic evi-
dence, the victim was killed and posed – just like the others. Castle points out that the victim’s
dress is yellow, though in his book, the garment is blue. Beckett gets a call. They got a match for
the print – Kyle Cabot of Brooklyn.
As they pull up to Cabot’s apartment, Becket tells Castle to stay in the car. The cops enter
Cabot’s place and discover creepy drawings and a plethora of Castle’s books. In the bedroom,
they find a mural of Rick Castle photos, a bloody blouse with two bullet holes and a 22-caliber
gun. And in a hallway closet, they discover Kyle Cabot chanting, ”Get out of my house, get out of
my house!”
At the precinct, Beckett, Castle, and Montgomery watch Kyle rocking and forth in the interro-
gation room. Apparently, Kyle suffers from pervasive developmental disorder, which can manifest
itself in an obsession with a single subject. Additionally, they have evidence connecting him to
all three victims – Tisdale was his social worker and the other two victims were customers at his
diner. To everyone else but Castle, it’s a seemingly open-and-shut case.
Castle runs the scenario by pals James Patterson and Stephen J. Cannell at their weekly
poker game. The writers laugh at the obviousness and insist there must be more – like a character
who thinks the kid’s innocent and keeps digging until he finds the truth. Meanwhile, Beckett
locates Alison Tisdale’s notes on Cabot and discovers that he had been progressing. She begins
to have doubts about Cabot’s guilt.
The next day, Beckett arrives to find Castle sitting at her desk, perusing her papers. But
before she can protest, he hands her a gift-wrapped copy of Storm Fall, followed by a kiss on
the cheek. Smiling, she watches him go... until she realizes he stole her case files. Beckett finds
Castle at the New York Public Library and arrests him on charges of felony theft and obstruction
of justice. Unfazed, Castle points out that the rose petals in the Tisdale murder were the wrong
kind – grandiflora, not hybrid teas – which means the obsessive Kyle Cabot is innocent.
Castle then surmises that the real killer set Cabot up to take the fall. Because Alison Tisdale
was the only victim who had any real knowledge of Kyle’s obsessive condition, Castle figures out
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that she was the intended target. He just has to figure out why. At the precinct, Beckett, going
over the evidence again, comes to the same conclusion: Alison Tisdale was the intended victim.
Castle and Beckett interview Alison’s father, the multi-millionaire Jonathan Tisdale, in his
office. When Castle asks what would happen to Tisdale’s money if something were to happen to
him, Tisdale says that it would go to his charitable foundation, which is overseen by his son.
On their way out, Castle points out signs that Tisdale is dying of cancer. Beckett agrees
and they both head over to interview Tisdale’s last remaining heir, his son Harrison. Harrison
confirms that his father was dying, but says he had nothing to do with his sister’s murder. He
tells them he was out of the country during all three murders and pulls out his passport to prove
it.
Afterward, Beckett teases Castle that he was wrong about his hunch, but then admits she
thinks Harrison is lying. He didn’t ask for the dates of the other murders, didn’t even check his
calendar. Innocent people do not prepare alibis.
Harrison’s alibi, however, checks out – his credit card company confirms he paid for three
round-trip tickets on the dates of the three murders. Castle then suggests that Harrison could
have used a forged passport to return.
Castle and Beckett obtain a secure a search warrant and try to intercept Harrison before he
can get rid of any evidence. Meanwhile, Harrison races home and starts shredding evidence.
Beckett and Castle pull up to the apartment. But as Castle gets out, Beckett handcuffs him
to the car. She’ll take care of it from here. After she leaves, Castle pulls a handcuff key from his
wallet – but promptly drops it!
As Castle struggles to reach the key, Beckett and company storm Harrison’s apartment – only
to find it empty. Castle spots Harrison escaping, uncuffs himself and chases after the suspect.
Beckett follows, only to discover Harrison holding a gun to Castle and using him as a human
shield. But Castle not only keeps his cool, he actually manages to figure out the story behind
Alison Tisdale’s murder: Harrison didn’t just kill Alison for money, he also wanted to punish their
father for preferring Alison to him. And with that, Castle elbows Harrison and knocks his gun
away. Beckett leaps on him and quickly cuffs him, then shoves Castle for being reckless. ”The
safety was on!,” Castle exclaims as Beckett stares at him, amazed. ”You could have told me,” she
replies.
As the cops lead Harrison off, Castle bids farewell to Beckett. There’s something between these
two, but since the case is over they’ll probably never see each other again. And they’re both a
little sad about that.
Back at home, Castle taps away at his computer. Finally inspired, he’s writing again. The next
morning, Montgomery tells Beckett that Castle is basing the main character of his next set of
novels on her – and that he’s asking to do more research. When a stunned Beckett asks for how
long, Montgomery says it’s up to him – and nods over Beckett’s shoulder to Castle, now standing
in the doorway and grinning. It seems that this partnership won’t be ending anytime soon.
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Nanny McDead
Season 1
Episode Number: 2
Season Episode: 2

Writer: Barry Schindel
Director: John Terlesky
Show Stars: Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Nathan
Fillion (Richard Castle), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Tamala Jones
(Lanie Parish), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery),
Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Jon Huertas (Tony Esposito)
Guest Stars: Len Lesser (Elderly Man), George Newbern (Howard Peterson), Lony’e
Perrine (Bethany), Jason Brooks (Mr. Harris), Ken Lerner (Lawyer), Ea-
mon Hunt (Frank Garrison), Ama’ri (Nanny Kid), Jayne Brook (Clau-
dia Peterson), Claudia Choi (Video Tech), Sarah Drew (Chloe Richard-
son), Michael Graziadei (Brent Johnson), Melinda Page Hamilton (Di-
ana Harris), Rodney J. Hobbs (Worker)
Summary: Castle and Beckett work together to solve the murder of a nanny found
dead spinning in the dryer of an upscale New York apartment build-
ing’s laundry room.
A woman’s body is discovered tum-

bling around inside a clothes dryer in the
basement of an Upper West Side apart-
ment building.
At the precinct, Castle is lectured by
a lawyer about signing papers that waive
all his legal rights in exchange for the op-
portunity to accompany Beckett on her
rounds. As Castle kvetches, Beckett gets
a call – it’s a new case. Castle hurries to
sign the paper as Beckett leaves without him.
Beckett arrives at the 86th Street crime scene to find Ryan and Esposito in the building’s
basement laundry room. Apparently an elderly female tenant opened a dryer and discovered a
young woman’s body inside. The girl was a nanny and worked in Apartment 12F.
Beckett finds Castle waiting for her on the 12th floor, having been told about the case by
Captain Montgomery. He gives her a quick background on the dead nanny – her name was Sara
Manning and she had been working for the Peterson family for about two years. ”The doorman’s
a huge fan of my work,” he explains.
Castle and Beckett interview the nanny’s former employers, Claudia and Howard Peterson.
Sara had been taking care of their 8-year-old son, Justin. After Sara failed to pick up Justin from
school, Claudia tried to call her, but got no answer so she took a cab to get her son. When they
arrived home, the police were already there.
Castle asks if Sara had a boyfriend. ”Brent,” replies Howard, ”but they broke up.” Claudia
doesn’t have the Manning family’s contact info, but she offers Sara’s jacket and bag to them. In
the elevator, Beckett digs through the purse and jacket, but can’t find Sara’s cell phone.
They return to the precinct to find Montgomery, Esposito, and Ryan studying the video in
which Sara is seen entering with a laundry basket and exiting at the basement. A few minutes
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later, she gets back upstairs. Forty minutes after, she enters the basement for a second time and
is never seen again. The only other person seen riding the elevator is the elderly woman that
discovered Sara’s body. The cops conclude that the killer must have used the stairwell or already
been in the basement when Sara arrived.
As Ryan and Esposito run social security numbers on all the building’s workers, Castle won-
ders why they don’t run the numbers for the neighbors. He then proceeds to spin a gripping
tale about the potential for a stalker neighbor. The cops hang on his every word and afterwards,
Montgomery decides they should run numbers on all the tenants, too.
At the morgue, Lanie Parish explains that Sara was killed by a blow to the back of the head,
and then struck her temple on the edge of the folding table. They also learn that Sara had sex
shortly before her murder and the man wore a condom.
At the precinct, the cops are skeptical of the sexual predator theory – rapists don’t ordinarily
wear condoms. There’s also still no word on the missing cell phone. Esposito, however, has gotten
the service provider to ”ping” the phone. It’s near or inside the apartment building.
Looking at the phone records, Beckett notices dozens of calls to Sara from the same number
in the past two months. She also sees that Sara stopped returning the calls a week before they
stopped. The calls were from Brent Johnson, her ex-boyfriend.
Castle and Beckett interrogate Brent, who admits that Sara and he split but claims it was
mutual. When he’s confronted with the threatening voicemails he left, Brent finally admits that he
was dumped. However, he has an alibi for her murder – he was at work. He found out about Sara’s
death through a mutual friend from college, Chloe Richardson, who nannies in the building for
another family and had referred Sara to the Petersons.
As the two approach a playground in Central Park, Castle reminisces about the times he
spent there with Alexis when she was little, which surprises Beckett as she never figured Castle
for ”Mr. Mom.”
They spot Chloe with the little girl she’s babysitting, Becca. Beckett tells Chloe that Brent
thought Sara was seeing someone. Chloe eventually reveals that Sara had started staying late
for the Petersons – but only on the nights Howard Peterson was home.
Afterwards, Castle chides Beckett for not asking Howard Peterson more questions when they
first spoke to him. But Beckett says she always waits until she has more information before she
interviews her primary suspect. This way, the alleged perp is tied to more specific answers.
Beckett confronts Howard with the information from Chloe. At first he denies it, but after
some prodding from Castle, Howard admits to having an affair. Except it wasn’t with Sara. In
fact, Sara would stay late to cover for him; he would call the apartment from his cell phone to
make sure everything was okay. They can verify it all with his phone records. Esposito then tells
Becket that Sara’s ex-boyfriend’s alibi checks out. Now all they have is a cheating husband with
a possible alibi. That’s when Ryan jumps in: ”Guess who wasn’t where they said they were the
day Sara Manning was killed?” The answer, it turns out, is Claudia Peterson.
Castle and Beckett question Claudia. The day her son’s school tried to reach Claudia at her
office, her assistant said she wasn’t there. Claudia confesses she was actually at her lawyer’s
office, getting ready to serve her cheating husband with divorce papers.
At home, Castle studies the elevator camera videos. Sara Manning appears on two monitors
– riding to the basement with the laundry basket and, the second time, riding down to put the
clothes in the dryer. He notices there’s a 5 second difference in the time stamp for the two trips.
Why would it take her 5 more seconds to travel the same distance? Castle and Beckett then ride
the elevator with Castle timing their ride from the basement. When the doors open, they’re on
the 15th floor. That’s where Sara was coming from when she went down to the basement to put
the clothes in the dryer. But that makes no sense. The Petersons live on 12.
Surmising that whoever wore the condom must live on the 15th floor, Castle starts knocking
on doors. An elderly man answers, but Castle’s looking for someone younger. Just then, a door
opens down the hallway and a woman, Diana Harris, exits an apartment with Becca, the little
girl in the park whom Chloe Richardson baby-sits.
As Beckett and Castle question Diana, her husband Ian saunters in from the bedroom. Diana
suddenly remembers that Ian was home the day of Sara’s murder. Castle and Beckett both notice
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Ian’s anxiety. Castle then asks to use their bathroom.

In the bathroom, Castle pokes through the Harris’s medicine cabinet and finds a box of con-
doms. Ian Harris tells Castle that he was sleeping in the bedroom, so he can’t say for sure if
Sara stopped by. That’s when Castle surreptitiously dials a number and a phone begins to ring
somewhere in the apartment. Diana, now noticing Ian’s anxiety, gets up to find Sara’s phone in
the bedroom.
Back at the precinct, Ian Harris confesses to having sex with Sara, but he swears he never
hurt her. He tells them that Sara left his apartment about 10 minutes before Chloe got back from
the park.
They review the elevator footage and see Sara getting on at 12:48. Then they see Chloe getting
on at 12:54. So it looks like Ian Harris was telling the truth: There’s no way he could have gotten
down to the basement and back upstairs in time to see Chloe. That’s when Beckett notices Becca
isn’t with Chloe in the elevator tape. As Castle notes, coincidences don’t just happen – not when a
murder is involved. Chloe would have known from Sara’s schedule that she’d be in the basement.
Beckett and Castle visit Chloe’s apartment. Her roommate Bethany claims Chloe had to go
baby-sit. Castle then notices a photo in Chloe’s room – Ian and Becca Harris with Chloe – Diana
Harris having been cropped out of the photo. Clearly, Chloe is in love with Ian.
Castle and Beckett arrive at the apartment building and find Esposito and Ryan waiting. The
doorman sure both Chloe and Ian Harris are upstairs, though no one’s answering. Upstairs, they
find Ian Harris passed out on his living room floor and Diana and Becca locked in the bedroom,
safe. The doorman then calls – a tenant saw a girl in the laundry room... and she has a knife.
In the laundry room, Beckett finds Chloe sitting in front of a dryer, holding a butcher knife.
Chloe tells them she and Ian had been having an affair... and that she’s pregnant with his
baby. When she found out that Sara was sleeping with Ian, Chloe killed her in a jealous rage.
Explaining that she can empathize with Chloe’s heartbreak, Beckett’s able to convince Chloe to
put the knife away.
Later, Castle compliments Beckett on the sisterhood act she ran with Chloe, but Beckett says
that it wasn’t an act. What Ian Harris did has consequences – and, unfortunately, he’ll be able
to just walk away. Castle doesn’t think so. He sees a big, messy divorce in Ian’s future.
At home, Castle writes on his laptop about discovering Nikki Heat’s heart was broken – clearly
inspired by what Beckett said. Alexis stops by to ask if they caught the culprit and if Castle was
right about who the killer was. In fact, Castle tells her, he wasn’t. Alexis chides Castle and
reminds him that it’s fun to be surprised sometimes. As she exits, she thanks him for having
been her nanny. ”No sweat, kiddo.”
Castle pauses in his writing and reaches into a desk drawer. He pulls out a cherished photo
of 4-year-old Alexis strolling in the park, hand in hand with him, and smiles at it.
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Hedge Fund Homeboys

Season 1
Episode Number: 3
Season Episode: 3

Writer: David Grae
Show Stars: Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Molly
Quinn (Alexis Castle), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Ruben Santiago-
Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers),
Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Jon Huertas (Tony Esposito)
Recurring Role: Molly C. Quinn (Alexis Castle)
Guest Stars: Peggy Dunne (Mrs. Heller), Anita Finlay (Margo Falcigno), Charlie Finn
(Ian Yankman), Jesse D. Goins (Spencer’s Lawyer), David A. Kimball
(Mr. Kendall), Patrick O’Connor (Chris Markum), Steve Talley (Kent
Scoville), Drew Van Acker (Donny), Caitlin Dulany (Mrs. Kendall),
Creagen Dow (Max Heller), Jamie Chung (Romy), Nolan Gerard Funk
(Brandon), Kunal Sharma (Spencer), Julia Nickson (Mrs. Lee)
Summary: The son of a once wealthy family is found dead in Central Park. As
Castle and Beckett are working on the investigation his friends are
trying to stop them. Castle isn’t sure he can trust Martha to be left
alone while he chaperones Alexis’ class on a field trip to Washington
DC.
The prow of a rowboat drifts across the lake in Central Park. The lifeless body of a teenage
boy lies in the boat. His shirt is covered in blood.
During breakfast at the Castle house, Martha prepares herself for an Introduction to Life
Coaching class at the New School. Alexis asks Castle if he wants to be a chaperone on her
upcoming class trip to Washington D.C. But Castle is wary of leaving Martha alone in the loft,
especially after the last party she threw. ”There were lime shards embedded in the walls.” Castle
gets a call. There’s been a murder.
Castle and Beckett arrive at the Central Park crime scene to learn that the victim is Donny
Kendall, 18, a senior at Redding Prep. According to Lanie, the lack of blood indicates he was
shot elsewhere then dragged to the boat. Beckett asks Ryan and Esposito to organize a perimeter
walk to see if they can locate the murder site. Beckett wonders why the teen was buried at sea
as Castle quips that Vikings believed you needed a vessel to reach Valhalla – along with booze, a
good horse, and a sacrificial woman.
At the Kendall apartment, Castle and Beckett interview Donny’s parents. The last time either
of them saw Donny was when he left for school the day before. Apparently, Donny spent most
nights eating out or at someone else’s house. Mr. Kendall lost his job when Lehman Brothers
went under last year and the changes it forced in the family lifestyle hit Donny rather hard.
Castle and Beckett speak with Redding Prep’s headmaster, Chris Markum, who explains that
when the Kendalls could no longer afford tuition, the school put Donny on scholarship. And
though Donny was one of their brightest students, he had been having trouble lately. Markum
has no clue as to why Donny would have been in Central Park at night, but suggests they talk to
Donny’s friends.
Castle and Beckett interview Donny’s friends – Romy, Max, Brandon, Amanda, and Spencer.
The five claim they hung out with Donny after school, but that everyone went home around five.
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Beckett confides to the kids that she went to Yorke Prep and understands the need to protect
your friends, but that the truth will eventually come out. The kids admit that Donny fell apart
after his family lost their fortune, including supporting his drug habit by dealing in the park.
As they walk through Central Park, Beckett tells Castle that she never went to prep school.
Castle’s impressed with her chutzpah. At a park bench by a paved pathway, they meet Ryan,
who points out a gelatinous pool of blood on the grass, where Donny was likely murdered. Castle
figures if the shooter had been a drug dealer working that area, he returned later to move the
body so the cops wouldn’t pin the death on him.
At the precint, Esposito has a female witness who was walking her dog in the park when she
heard a shot and saw a white guy fleeing the scene. After looking through a book of mug shots,
she identifies the man as a known drug dealer named Kent Scoville.
In the interrogation room, Scoville confesses that he sold drugs to Donny the previous night.
He then goes further to say he sold to Donny and to his friends.
At the prep school, the kids confess that they were in the park with Donny when he was shot.
The tell Beckett and Castle that Donny was accosted by a drug dealer asking for a couple of
hundred dollars. When Donny didn’t have the cash, the dealer pulled out a gun and shot him.
The kids ran off in panic. But they got a pretty good look at the guy, particularly Romy. In the
lineup room, Romy points out Scoville as Donny’s shooter.
The next morning, Alexis awakens to find Castle watching her. He asks if she’s done drugs.
She hasn’t. In fact, she hasn’t gotten into any trouble. As if to reassure him, she adds that if she
ever got into trouble, her friends would bail her out. This gets Castle thinking.
At the precinct, Castle poses a question to Beckett and company – why didn’t Donny’s friends
just give him the money? But the cops think Scoville is the culprit. Why would the kids peg the
wrong guy for Donny’s murder? Simple, answers Castle, because one of the kids did it.
Castle and Beckett re-interview Scoville. He confides that Donny regularly sold drugs for
him... as did the other kids as a goof. Scoville claims he was hanging out with his friends when
he heard a shot, but he didn’t see anything. Furthermore, he doesn’t own a gun nor does he have
any firearms convictions.
Beckett and Castle meet with Romy and her parents in their apartment. Beckett asks to see
Romy’s wallet. She pulls out several hundred dollar bills – enough to pay the alleged drug dealer.
Then Romy confesses to playing Russian Roulette with her friends and what they thought with
an empty gun. But, somehow, a bullet was accidentally left in the gun. Romy tells them that Max
shot Donny.
The pair head to Max’s apartment, only to find he’s out. His mother thinks he went to the
park. Beckett gets a call – the authorities have found Max dead in the park, the victim of an
apparent suicide.
The next day, Castle wakes to find Alexis staring him. She confesses that she lied, that she
recently jumped a turnstile in order to catch a train. But Castle isn’t angry; he’s relieved that
this is the worst thing she’s done. Alexis is so upset that she decides to ground herself for a week
– but only after the D.C. trip.
When Castle arrives at the precinct, Beckett is filling out paperwork that dismisses the homi-
cide charges against Scoville. According to the ballistics, the same gun used to kill Donny was
the one Max used on himself. Castle points out that having the presence of mind to move Donny’s
body after the shooting is more consistent with a cold-blooded killer. Would a cold-blooded killer
suddenly feel guilty enough to commit suicide?
At the morgue, Lanie points to an abrasion on Max’s right index finger, which implies that
someone may have ”helped” him pull the trigger. And considering Max had a blood alcohol level
of 0.28, he may not even have been conscious. In other words, Max was murdered.
Beckett theorizes that someone must have wanted Donny dead, so while they were all playing
Russian roulette, that person put a bullet in the gun without Max knowing it. Whoever did that
is the real killer.
Beckett drills Spencer. It was his gun and his bullets. But Spencer says that when Max was
killed he was at his father’s club, The Century, with Brandon.
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At the Redding Prep cafeteria, Brandon corroborates Spencer’s story. He pulls out his cell
phone and shows them a video of the group playing Russian Roulette. He explains that the
friends took videos just for laughs and that their cell phones automatically synced up their
videos. In the video, Beckett and Castle see Max shoot Donny.
Castle and Beckett head to the precinct’s roof to catch some fresh air. Beckett thinks it was
smart of Brandon to keep that video in his cell phone, which strikes a chord with Castle – Why
did the kids keep filming the game after the first few rounds? It’s because they knew what was
going to happen.
Amanda is questioned next. She vehemently denies knowing anything was going to happen
that night to Donny. Furthermore, she admits that Donny broke up with her, but it was only
because she had hooked up with Brandon. This sets off alarm bells. Castle asks Amanda if it
was Brandon who told her to shoot the video that night. Surprised to realize this, she says that
it was.
Castle and Beckett confront Brandon, telling him that Spencer has now admitted that he made
up Brandon’s alibi. But Brandon is unfazed. On the night of Max’s murder, Brandon claims he
was out for a walk, but since he knew they wouldn’t believe it, he asked Spencer to cover for him.
He challenges them to prove otherwise.
At the precinct, they discuss how they can prove Brandon and Max were together on the night
of Max’s death. Esposito jokingly bemoans the fact that Max didn’t take a video of Brandon killing
him. If he’d even been near him, notes Castle, their phones would have synced up. On hearing
this, Beckett grabs Max’s phone, checks its sync history and finds the proof they’ve been looking
for.
Castle and Beckett confront Brandon. At first, he’s adamant in his innocence, but he soon
crumbles under the weight of the evidence. Ironically, if Brandon hadn’t moved the body, they
might never have figured it out.
The next morning as Alexis is packing for her trip, Castle shows up with a packed bag. He’s
decided to chaperone her trip after all, much to Alexis’ delight.
As Martha rushes them along, the doorbell rings and Castle opens it to find a group of people.
He suspects the worst, but Martha assures him that this is simply her ”life coaching class.”
Taking her word for it, Castle and Alexis continue out. Then they hear the pop of a champagne
bottle and the sound of cheers from inside the loft... Alexis grabs Castle and drags him down the
hallway, as they head off on their trip.
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Hell Hath No Fury

Season 1
Episode Number: 4
Season Episode: 4

Show Stars: Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Jon Huertas (Tony Esposito), Susan Sul-
livan (Martha Rodgers), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben Santiago-
Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett),
Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish)
Guest Stars: Jonathan Banks (Bruce Kirby), Tim Barraco (Delivery Guy), Michael
Reilly Burke (Frank Nesbit), Bruno Campos (Calvin Creason), Carla
Greene (Aide), Amy Hathaway (Attorney), Jon Huertas (Javier Espos-
ito), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Joshua LeBar (Jason Bollinger),
John Prudhont (Jeff Horn), Ron Roggé (Wolkowski), L.T. Tolliver (NYPD
Uniform Officer), Lisa Waltz (Laurie Horn), Alicia Ziegler (Tiffany),
Tony Aaron (II) (NY City Pedestrian), Mark Casimir Dyniewicz (NY City
Pedestrian)
Summary: The investigation behind a body found wrapped in a rug on the side-
walk leads Castle and Beckett deep inside the world of New York City
politics. The partners discover a world of expensive escorts, arrogant
tycoons, corrupt investigators, and the effects of betrayal.
While dumpster diving for apartment

furniture, two guys discover a body rolled
inside a rug. Meanwhile, Castle com-
plains about the precinct’s terrible cof-
fee. Beckett points out that he is trying
to avoid the fact that his book – Storm
Fall – is being released. A call comes in
about the body and the two of them head
to the scene.
The victim is Jeff Horn, a prominent
NY City Councilman who was in the middle of a highly contested re-election campaign. Because
his wallet, money and jewelry are all missing, the authorities assume it was a robbery gone bad...
but wonder why the robbers would bother wrapping the body in a rug.
As Esposito and Ryan search the dumpster and canvas the area, Becket and Castle break the
news to the victim’s devastated widow, Laurie Horn. Laurie tells them that her husband attended
a campaign event the night before and said he was planning to work late at the office and would
probably sleep on his couch that night.
Castle and Beckett follow up with Horn’s campaign manager – Frank Nesbit – who confirms
that Horn was at the fundraiser, but reports that Horn never returned to the office. And to
further complicate matters, neither the fundraiser nor the campaign office were located near
where Horn’s body was found. Beckett asks about any possible enemies of Horn and learns that
the deceased was in a highly-charged public feud with hotel developer Calvin Creason.
After investigating Creason, Beckett and Castle learn that the rug Horn was wrapped in was
a signature rug from his Midtown hotel. Under interrogation, Creason denies murdering Horn.
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Creason divulges that he was a major contributor to Horn’s campaign opponent, Jason Bollinger.
And since Horn was behind in the polls, Creason was waiting for Horn to be voted out of office.
In other words, he had no motive.
As Castle and Beckett head off to question Bollinger, they learn why Creason was so confident
in his candidate. Early in the campaign Bollinger commissioned ”opposition research” on Horn
and discovered that his opponent was having an affair. Bollinger obtained photographic proof of
the affair but, since he was winning the race, decided not to use it. Beckett demands to see the
photos and is referred to Bruce Kirby, the private investigator who was hired to do the research.
Beckett and Castle learn from Bruce Kirby that Horn was seeing a high-priced call-girl from
an exclusive Web-based escort service.
At the precinct, the cops discuss the difficulties of tracking down a website. Many are located
out of state, which makes obtaining warrants and ownership information difficult. In the midst
of the discussion, Castle calls the escort service and requests a date with the girl. As Beckett
yells at Castle, a delivery man arrives with the espresso machine that Castle has ordered for the
precinct.
Castle meets Tiffany, the call girl, at a local hotel restaurant. Beckett shows up and questions
the girl about Horn, discovering that he had recently gotten violent with her, accusing her of
exposing their affair. She denied it, but someone was blackmailing Horn with evidence of the
relationship. He was desperate to discover who, because he couldn’t afford to keep paying.
Castle suggests a scenario... if the Councilman found out the identity of his blackmailer and
confronted him, that confrontation could have led to his murder. Maybe the blackmailer killed
the Councilman and dumped the body in a way that implicated Creason. Their first stop is the
Bollinger campaign, as they try to find out who had access to the photos. Bollinger gives them a
list, but has other things on his mind. Laurie Horn has taken over her husband’s campaign and
is already up in the polls. He wouldn’t release the photos, they’d only make Laurie Horn look
even better.
Trying to figure out where the payoff money might have come from, Castle and Beckett re-visit
Frank Nesbit, Horn’s campaign manager. Nesbit hands over the campaign’s ledgers to see if any
of the payoff money came from campaign funds. The police trace the payments to an account
recently opened by Bruce Kirby, the P.I. who took the photos. Kirby is arrested.
Kirby, confronted with the evidence, admits to the blackmail but not the murder. Since the
campaign wasn’t using the pictures, he thought he’d make a buck. His alibi is terrible – when
Horn was murdered, Kirby was actually waiting to meet with him... to receive a payoff. He’d
offered to surrender all the prints and negatives for a huge sum, one he thought Horn could
never afford – $250K. Shockingly, Horn had agreed. Beckett and Castle note that Horn was not
that wealthy of a man, and wonder where he planned to get the money. After some research,
Castle discovers that Horn’s wife, Laurie, came from money.
While examining Laurie’s finances, the pair discover she recently unloaded $300,000 worth
of stock. Castle and Beckett interrogate Laurie and learn that her late husband had forged her
consent on the stock sale document... and that she found out. When Laurie confronted her
husband, she discovered his awful ”indiscretions” and the blackmail. She knew it was just a
matter of time until the information became public. But she says she couldn’t have killed him,
she was at home with their daughters the night her husband was killed. Then Beckett tells Laurie
they discovered the $250,000 at her house when they served a search warrant.
Hearing this, Laurie breaks down. She reveals that having spent her life working with Nesbit
to build up her husband for national office, she was not going to let him throw all of that away.
And she was certainly not going to be one of those humiliated women who stands by her husband
while he performs his Kabuki-theater act of public contrition. She enlisted Nesbit, who knows
his political career would be irreparably damaged by these revelations, in her plot to ensure that
everything they’d worked for would not simply be thrown away. She made the call for Jeff to meet
the ”blackmailer” and Nesbit met him there to kill him. At the Horn campaign offices, Esposito
and Ryan arrest Nesbit after a brief chase. As Castle, Montgomery and Beckett discuss the case,
Castle gets a call from Alexis. He’s supposed to be at a bookstore reading from his new book right
now!
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As Castle reads from Storm Fall, many audience members weep openly. He’s distracted, how-
ever, by Beckett. She cleans up well when she’s out of her cop clothes.
After the reading, Beckett makes fun of his overly dramatic reading. Then Martha comes over,
telling Castle that the book seems to be doing quite nicely. ”Let’s just hope Nikki Heat does this
well.” Nikki Heat? Turns out that’s the name of Castle’s new character, the one he’s basing on
Beckett. As Beckett angrily argues with Castle about the name, we end our episode.
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A Chill Goes Through Her Veins

Season 1
Episode Number: 5
Season Episode: 5
Originally aired: Monday April 6, 2009

Writer: Charles Murray (II)
Director: Bryan Spicer
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Jon Huertas (Tony Esposito), Tamala
Jones (Lanie Parish), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben Santiago-
Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett) Recurring
Role:
Guest Stars: Channon Roe (Kevin Henson), Charles Malik Whitfield (Charles Wyler),
Peter Jason (Sheriff Sloan), Bill Smitrovich (Ben Davidson)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a women found frozen
and tangled in steel bars at a construction site. The case leads them
to looking into an old case and also has Beckett thinking about some
memories from her past.
A woman’s frozen body is discovered,

covered in a garment bag and tangled in
the rebar of a construction site.
Having gotten the early morning
phone call about the body, Beckett straps
on her gun, slides on a man’s watch and
clips her badge to her belt. Lastly, she
slips on a silver necklace with a ring on
it and tucks it way under her shirt so it’s
unseen.
Beckett arrives at the construction site to discover Castle already there. Lanie is busy examin-
ing the body in the crossbars. She won’t be able to get any prints or DNA until the body thaws, so
Beckett has a CSU Tech take close-up pictures to run through their missing persons database.
Castle is excited to see how high tech the operation is.
Back at the precinct, Beckett shows Castle the missing persons ”database” – a large stack of
files. It’s a daunting task. As they go through the files, Ryan explains that he thinks the body
had to have been kept close to the site. Castle disagrees and says, ”It takes a long time for a body
to thaw. Just like a turkey.” As they start to go over this, Beckett gets a call – Lanie has identified
the victim.
Melanie Cavanagh, the victim, was killed by blunt force trauma to the head. Also, judging
from the lack of frost and tissue degeneration, Melanie’s corpse was likely stored in a freezer.
And she’s been missing for over five years!
Castle and Beckett learn that Melanie had been a runaway bride, disappearing for weeks at
a time, which is why her husband, Samuel, waited a day after her final disappearance before
calling the police. He thought Melanie had simply skipped town again.
Beckett and Castle decide to break the news of her body being found to Samuel. But when
they arrive at his apartment, they discover Samuel doesn’t live there anymore. In fact, according
to the new tenant, Samuel Cavanagh was been murdered eight months before.
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They run background on Samuel and discover he was shot outside a grocery store with a
small caliber gun, his wallet and cash were missing. The couple’s two children are now living
with Melanie’s parents in White Plains.
They arrive at the home of Ben and Julie Davidson to tell them the bad news. The parents
are saddened but relieved to finally have answer. Even though Melanie had a troubled past, they
were sure she never would have left her kids voluntarily. Still, Ben remains angry that Samuel
waited a whole day before reporting Melanie missing and laments that the detective covering the
case, Clay Sloan, didn’t ask the right questions.
Beckett and Castle meet with Sloan, who is now a sheriff in New Jersey. He’s not surprised
Melanie was found dead, considering her history of drug abuse – he had received reports of her in
Philadelphia with a meth-head ex-boyfriend. Beckett notes that the reports came from Samuel’s
friend, Charles Wyler. Sloan counters that he had no reason to doubt Wyler’s word.
They meet Esposito and Ryan at a storage facility. Esposito found a homeless guy who claims
that the previous night he saw a heavy-set guy at the construction site pulling a large bag out of
a dented yellow truck with ”storage” written on its side. So Esposito and Ryan searched all the
storage places on the West Side and found the one using yellow trucks.
Beckett and Castle head into the storage facility and speak with the owner, Albert Bolland.
Bolland admits to dumping the body but says he found it in one of his storage spaces after the
renter stopped paying. Because he thought the body was a mob hit, he didn’t call the cops.
Bolland takes them to the storage unit, where they find a freezer containing remnants of the
garment bag. Bolland says a guy paid the rent every six months in cash. The last payment had
been made nine months ago – two months after Sam’s death.
At home, Alexis finds Castle staring into his freezer. He asks his daughter why anyone would
stash a dead body in a freezer. Alexis figures it’s because they were trying to hide it. But then
why would they stop paying rent on the storage space? Alexis wonders if they stopped paying
willingly or whether something stopped them.
Beckett and Castle visit Sam’s best friend, Charles Wyler, at his store. He’s surprised to hear
Melanie’s been found dead. He says it was Sam who told him Melanie was in Philadelphia with
her ex-boyfriend, Kevin Henson – he’s who she always ran off to. If anyone would know what
happened to Melanie, Henson would.
At the precinct, Beckett hands Montgomery a mug shot of Henson. It turns out he started
serving a one-year jail term just after the last payment was made on the storage unit. And
Henson had been out of jail when Sam got whacked.
Beckett and Castle head to prison to question Kevin Henson. He tells them Melanie did come
to see him a month before her disappearance. She’d found out Sam was having an affair, so she
wanted Henson to take her and the kids away and just vanish. Unable to make that commitment,
he put her on a bus and sent her home and never heard from her again.
They visit Wyler again, who admits Sam was having an affair, but refuses to name the girl-
friend. It’s only after Beckett threatens to prosecute Wyler as an accessory that he talks – he was
sleeping with Elizabeth Forte, a co-worker at Sam’s bank.
Castle and Beckett question Elizabeth Forte. She admits to having an affair with Sam, but
claims she broke it off after six months. Sam had started asking what she would do if Melanie
was out of the picture. When Melanie disappeared, Elizabeth broke it off with Sam. She never
told anyone and now that Sam’s dead, she didn’t think it was important.
Later that night, Beckett stares at her murderboard, frustrated by her inability to figure out
exactly how Sam killed Melanie. She now has a strong theory as to why Sam did it, but she can’t
prove it.
Beckett visits Castle at his loft. She tells Castle that she can’t crack the case, but feels
Melanie’s family needs to know the facts. Castle, sensing Beckett is talking about more than
this one case, suggests they try working backwards from the ending – if Melanie was home tak-
ing care of the kids that day and never left the apartment, then she must have been killed there.
But how did Sam get her body to the storage facility without being noticed?
At Sam and Melanie’s old apartment, Castle and Beckett try to imagine what happened the
day of the killing. Melanie and Sam were probably having an argument in the kitchen. Sam would
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have struck her on the head with a pan, fracturing her skull and killing her. He probably then
would have hidden her body in the hallway bathroom. But how did he get the body out of there?
Castle surmises Melanie must have already been in the freezer when Sam moved her from the
apartment.
Castle and Beckett check the doorman’s ledger and find a signature for the one delivery made
that day. They then talk to the tenant who signed for it, Delores March. Even though it was five
years ago, Delores remembers the delivery well, because she never ordered a freezer. By the time
she straightened things out with the doorman, the deliveryman had already come and gone. She
already had told all this to the detective investigating the case.
Beckett and Castle visit the company listed on the delivery ledger, where they discover trucks
identical to the ones at Charles Wyler’s store. Clearly, Charles Wyler helped his friend Sam move
Melanie’s body.
Wyler sits in the interrogation room, looking defeated. They’ve traced the rental of the delivery
truck to him. So Wyler comes clean: Sam called him to the apartment that evening; there, he
found Melanie in the tub, stuffed inside a body bag. Wyler agreed to help Sam with a cover-up
because he felt bad for their two kids. So he rented the truck and the storage space, and made
regular payments on Sam’s behalf.
As the pair is wrapping up the case with Captain Montgomery, Castle notices a telling omis-
sion in the original report – Detective Sloan didn’t list an interview with Delores. And if Sloan
were only investigating a missing persons case, as he claims, why would he talk to the neighbor
about a freezer delivery?
They pay another visit to Delores, who reveals that the detective spoke to her not five years
ago but last year. She remembers that he was older, wore plain clothes and walked with a limp.
Castle and Beckett realize that she’s describing Ben Davidson, Melanie’s father.
Beckett and Castle sit inside Beckett’s car in front of the Davidson home. They can see Ben
Davidson through the dining room window, setting the table with the help of his granddaughters.
Castle suggests they leave it be, but as she opens the car door, Beckett notes that, unlike a
novelist, a cop doesn’t get to decide how a story ends.
At the station, Ben admits that, upon interviewing Delores about the freezer, he came to the
same conclusion they did: Sam killed Melanie. He decided not to go to the police because they
didn’t have a body at the time, and he knew Sam’s defense lawyers would have put Melanie’s
past on trial. While not admitting to Sam’s killing, Ben says he could understand why a father
might want to seek revenge. He then asks to see a lawyer.
Afterward, Beckett tells Castle that, when she was young, her mother had also been killed.
The cops ruled it the result of gang violence, and just like in Melanie’s case, they never looked
outside the box for a more complicated answer. Beckett’s father took it pretty hard, but he’s been
sober five years now. So Beckett wears her father’s watch to remind herself of the life she saved
and her mother’s ring to remind herself of the life she lost.
At home, we see Beckett run through her morning routine in reverse, stashing her gun and
badge, and putting away her father’s watch and mother’s ring inside the jewelry box – a photo of
her father and mother in happier times atop the box.
Meanwhile, in the precinct record room, Castle sits down at a table with a Johanna Beckett’s
case file. He opens it and begins to read it.
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Always Buy Retail

Season 1
Episode Number: 6
Season Episode: 6

Writer: Gabrielle Stanton, Harry Werksman
Director: Jamie Babbit
Show Stars: Jon Huertas (Tony Esposito), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Seamus
Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Mont-
gomery), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Molly Quinn (Alexis Cas-
tle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle)
Guest Stars: Darby Stanchfield (Meredith), Dohn Norwood (Charles Oni), Aldis
Hodge (Azi), Nikki Micheaux (Michelle), Kwabena Darkwah (African
Man), Asia De Marcos (Yoga Manager)
Summary: Castle and Beckett look into the Vudon religion when an immigrant
is found tortured in a ritualistic killing. Meanwhile on the homefront
Castle must deal with the possible homecoming of Alexis’ mother, his
first wife.
A dead man, somewhere in New York City, is holding a burning candle. He’s surrounded by a
red cloth and a glass bowl filled with blood.
Meanwhile, in the loft, Castle is rolling around in bed with his ex-wife Meredith. As they
reminisce about the good times – and the good sex – they’ve had, Meredith blurts out that she’s
moving back to the city. Castle tenses... not too pleased about this.
Esposito runs down the crime to Castle and Beckett – the victim is an unidentified African-
American male in early-20s who suffered multiple stab wounds. Castle recognizes the red flannel,
the candle and the bowl of blood as part of a Vodun ritual. He tells them to check the victim’s
mouth, where they find a white fabric bundle containing an odd-looking silver charm, along
with a mysterious symbol drawn in red ink on the fabric. Despite his knowledge, Castle doesn’t
recognize the symbol.
Beckett accompanies Castle to his loft to go over the Vodun research he did for his sixth Derek
Storm novel. Annoyed that Castle’s only research source seems to be his own book, Beckett
makes for the door, only to run into Michelle, an attractive African-American woman – Castle’s
other source.
Michelle explains that the symbol is a vever, a representation of the one who can open the
crossroads to the spirit world. The charm is an offering to a Vodun saint, in this case Ogun – who
is usually called upon to help find something that’s been lost. Apparently the man was murdered
because he had something the killer desperately wants. And he’s not going to stop until he finds
it.
Just then, Beckett gets a call from Ryan. They found a female murdered in the same ritual-
istic fashion. At an Upper Westside apartment, Castle and Beckett discover Darcy Cho, a young
lawyer, lying on flannel cloth and dead from multiple stab wounds. Same paraphernalia as the
first murder and a charm in her mouth, as well. Beckett also finds a shredded purse lying on
the floor next to the body. Studying Darcy’s pose, Castle is sure the murderer is still asking the
spirits to guide him. In other words, he didn’t find what he was looking for.
At Marlowe Prep, Alexis gets called into the principal’s office and finds her mother there.
Meredith has bad news for Alexis – her grandfather has passed away. Before Alexis can protest,
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Meredith whisks her away. Outside, Meredith explains that she had lied simply because she
needed some Alexis time – they’re going shopping.
A match on the man’s fingerprints comes in from the INS database – the victim has been
identified as Jamal Buonsi, a Nigerian national enrolled as an exchange student at NYU. His
student visa had expired a year ago, but he’d secretly decided to stay. Esposito checks with the
family Jamal lived with when he was in school and discovers that their 13-year-old son had been
keeping in touch with Jamal. Esposito hands over Jamal’s cell phone number, noting it’s billed
to an address on East 3rd street – right near Darcy Cho’s law firm.
At a rooftop courtyard, Beckett and Castle reach an apartment. They hear music and muffled
voices speaking in a foreign tongue coming from inside. An African man in his 20’s answers
Beckett’s knock, but tries to slam the door shut after she identifies herself as NYPD. Beckett
bursts in with her gun drawn. No one in the small apartment admits to knowing Jamal Buonsi,
even though his cell phone was billed to their address. Castle then notices a piece of red flannel
peeking out from under one of the beds. He also notices paraffin candles and a glass bowl.
Castle and Beckett interrogate Azi, the man under whose bed they found the paraphernalia.
But Azi claims the items are not his. Beckett gets Azi to tell her who does own the items –
Charles Oni. Apparently, Oni also owns the apartments and the businesses where the Nigerian
immigrants work. Furthermore, Oni made Azi show him how to invoke the spirits using the
Vodun objects.
At the precinct, Beckett discovers that the apartment is registered to a ”Robert Burnett” with
a P.O. box in Jersey. Also, according to Esposito, no one at the law firm ever heard of Jamal
Buonsi, nor was there anything suspicious in Darcy’s client list.
Just then, Meredith barrels into the precinct. She’s allegedly there to drop off Alexis, but she’s
really there to get a look at Castle’s latest inspiration – Beckett. Meredith sees the photo of the
purse on the murder board and notes that the bag is a knock-off. This helps Beckett put it all
together: Cho most likely bought her knock-off purse in a stall owned by Charles Oni on Canal
Street, the same stall where Jamal worked.
At the loft, Martha complains to Castle about Meredith. Has he considered how disruptive it’s
going to be having Meredith back in New York? What’s more, Martha made a few calls and found
out the reason Meredith wants to relocate to New York is because she can’t get any work in Los
Angeles. Martha thinks it’s insulting that Meredith thinks she can waltz into New York and start
taking Broadway roles away from ”real” theatre actors.
The team descends upon Canal Street with a search warrant for Charles Oni’s stall. They
break into the shuttered stall to find it ransacked. Esposito notices a large Vodun sign in red
chalk on the floor. It’s different from the one found in the victims’ mouths. Castle recognizes it
as the symbol for death. In other words, Charles Oni has been marked for death.
Amongst the wreckage, they find a bunch of shredded purses, their linings cut out. Looks like
somebody was trying to smuggle something in the bags, but what? The only person who could
say for sure is Charles Oni. Becket has Esposito and Ryan call and put Oni’s name on the No
Fly List.
Suddenly Beckett notices Castle crossing the street and waving his hands, like he’s lost his
mind. It turns out he’s waving at the display window of an electronics store, where a large flat-
screen TV is broadcasting the view from across the street, including Oni’s stall.
Thinking the trashing of Oni’s store may have been captured on tape, the group approaches
the electronics store’s manager. However, he can’t show them the video from the previous day
because someone came in and bought the camera in the display window. The manager describes
him as a tall black man with an accent. Not Charles Oni, but someone else. Luckily, the manager
has a surveillance photo of the guy.
Across the street, Esposito gets a call – the TSA just pulled Charles Oni from a security line
at JFK, where he was trying to flee to Nigeria.
At the precinct, Beckett and Castle interrogate Oni. He initially refuses to talk, until Beck-
ett shows him the surveillance photo. Oni’s fear is palpable. Demanding protection, Oni finally
reveals the man in the photo’s name: Mukhtar Baylor. Baylor is a former Nigerian secret police
officer known as the Butcher of Benin. He traffics in drugs, women, and whatever makes him
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money. Oni reveals that Baylor is looking for counterfeit passports and visas hidden inside the
linings of the fake purses. He needs the documents to get his brother out of Africa before he’s
arrested by Nigerian officials for drug trafficking.
They head to a downtown warehouse where Baylor runs his operation. Beckett leads a TAC
team inside, with Ryan and Esposito trailing. A moment later, Castle follows, sporting a custom
bulletproof vest. The Tac-team moves silently through the warehouse. But... in the middle of this,
Castle gets a loud ring. He’s got a text from his daughter.
Sheepishly, Castle heads outside and dials his cell. But instead of Alexis, Meredith answers.
She’s found an ideal condo and might need Castle to co-sign the mortgage. While Castle is trying
to get off the phone, he spots an SUV approaching – and Mukhta Baylor is driving! Castle chases
after the car as Baylor peels out.
Much to Beckett’s chagrin, Castle fails to get the SUV’s license plate number and can’t even
recall the exact color. Inside the warehouse, they find bolts of red flannel, glass bowls, knives
and weapons, jars filled with liquid and, more curiously, yoga brochures and schedules. And,
intriguingly, Castle finds the video camera from the electronics store.
At the precinct, they sit in front of a TV monitor, scrolling through the videotape. In the image’s
background, they can see Jamal working at Oni’s stall across the street. Beckett notices Darcy
Cho stopping by, after which Jamal disappears into the back of the stall and re-emerges with the
purse.
As Beckett starts to fast-forward through the tape, Castle spots another woman stopping to
buy a similar purse. She has a yoga mat and a cup of take-out coffee. Beckett regards the stack
of yoga brochures they found at the warehouse and realizes that Baylor must be looking for this
woman too. They rush out to track her down before Baylor gets to her.
At the Blissful Buddha Yoga Studio, the manager identifies the woman as Diana Edwards and
tells them another cop had come looking for her just a few minutes before. Beckett realizes it
must be Baylor.
They race to Diana’s apartment to find her safe but wary. Beckett empties Diana’s purse and
rips out the lining to discover a passport inside. As Beckett is calling it in, Castle spies Baylor
coming through the front door, armed with a handgun. Baylor opens fire just as Castle leaps
to push Beckett out of the way. Diana runs into her bedroom as Beckett and Baylor exchange
gunfire. With Beckett and Castle huddling behind the kitchen island, Baylor offers an ultimatum
– give up the passport or die.
Trapped without a clear view of Baylor, Beckett realizes she only has two bullets left in her
gun. Castle pulls out a champagne bottle and shakes it vigorously to uncork it. Baylor hears a
loud pop and, mistaking it for a gunshot, he leans out to return fire. But Beckett is ready for him
and takes him down with one shot to the shoulder and one to the leg. Later, as the paramedics
wheel Baylor out and the police take Diana Edward’s statement, Beckett begrudgingly admits to
Castle that he saved her life.
At home, Alexis confides to Castle that Meredith is driving her crazy. Just then, Meredith
enters with exciting news – she’s been offered a role in a new indie film! Unfortunately, she now
has to postpone her move to New York. She’s saddened that she won’t be moving back, but it was
an opportunity she couldn’t turn down. After Meredith sweeps out, Alexis gives her dad a look
and Castle admits that his business manager offered him a great investment opportunity in a
small, artsy independent film. Plus, Meredith was perfect for the part. It was an offer he couldn’t
refuse. Alexis nods, noting that raising one parent is hard enough – She doesn’t know what she’d
do if she had to raise two. As they share a smile about it, Castle pulls her into a hug.
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Home Is Where the Heart Stops

Season 1
Episode Number: 7
Season Episode: 7

Writer: Will Beall
Director: Dean White
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett)
Guest Stars: Catarina Scorsone (Joanne Delgado), Nick Chinlund (Evan Mitchell),
Joseph C. Phillips (Mayor), Patrick Bauchau (Caine Powell)
Summary: Beckett and Castle investigate numerous cases involving murders and
home invasion jewel heists.
A woman is discovered stuffed inside

a safe on the Upper East Side.
Castle and Beckett meet Ryan at the
Upper East Side apartment and learn
that there was no sign of forced entry –
just like the three previous home inva-
sions. According to Lanie, the victim, Su-
san Delgado, received a close range gun-
shot wound before she was put in the
safe. The thieves removed her wedding
ring, as well as her finger, using a bolt cutter.
At the precinct, the cops try to connect the four recent home invasions – each occurred in
different high-end neighborhoods, targeting wall safes and expensive jewelry. The thieves have
been speeding up their timetable... and are becoming more violent. This is their second murder.
Looking over the facts of all the cases, Castle believes the home invaders must somehow know
their victims.
They interview Susan Delgado’s daughter, Joanne. She’s not familiar with any of the other
victims nor can she think of any suspicious friends or acquaintances. When she learns that her
mother’s murder was the fourth such event, Joanne becomes hysterical. Beckett, also having lost
her mother to a violent crime, calms her down. She promises Joanne they’ll catch the murderers.
Later, Castle wonders out loud what Alexis would do if he were to die. Beckett figures he’s
trying to get her to talk about her mother’s death, but she won’t bite.
In the bullpen, Esposito and Ryan update Montgomery. The victims did not know each other.
However, according to the forensics report, they found brass shavings in the lock mechanism on
the front door of Delgado’s house – meaning someone used a bump key to break in. Esposito
once busted a guy who specializes in bump keys – Evan Mitchell. And, lo and behold, Mitchell
was released from jail two weeks before the first heist took place.
They grab Mitchell and find a pistol in his waistband with the serial numbers filed off. Mitchell
claims he was at a bar the night before, drinking with his pals. And he’s got thirty witnesses to
back him up.
Afterwards, Beckett learns that the ballistics from Mitchell’s gun don’t match the bullet that
killed Mrs. Delgado. Furthermore, Mitchell was being arraigned on an unrelated burglary charge
the same day the thieves first struck. He’s not their guy.
Beckett heads to the firing range to decompress. Castle shows up, offers words of support
and asks to borrow the insurance photos of the stolen jewels. He also learns some shooting tips
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from Beckett, but he’s terrible. She makes him a deal –she’ll let him borrow the photos if he can
hit the center ring in any of his next few shots. Castle smiles and nails all his shots.
At home, Castle pores over the photos of the jewels and realizes the stuff is so high-end,
you couldn’t use a normal fence to pawn it. You’d want someone with impeccable taste and
connections to top buyers. Martha surmises that Castle wants to ask his old buddy Caine Powell,
the model for the jewel thief in his book Storm Rising, about the goods. Unfortunately, they
haven’t spoke since Castle blew Powell’s cover by thanking him on the acknowledgements page.
Nevertheless, Castle pays a visit to his old source’s home– where he discovers a state-of-the-
art workbench filled with enormous gems, uncut diamonds and even a few showpieces. Powell
also has news clippings of big jewelry heists, including the latest string of home invasions. Castle
starts to wonder if Powell is the thief when the man, graying but still dangerous, emerges from
the shadows and punches him out.
When Castle comes to, Powell offers him a glass of wine and claims all is forgiven – by the
time his cover was blown, Powell was ready to retire. On seeing the insurance photos, Powell
declares the jewelry the kind one dusts off only for special occasions, and he deduces that the
thieves probably knew about the goods by moving ”among their victims.” But Powell says he’ll
need to visit the crime scene for any further insights.
The two slip into Susan Delgado’s apartment so Powell can try to glean more info about the
thieves. But Powell is stunned by the trail of blood heading to the safe. Thieves in his day had a
code of conduct, not like these ”gentlemen.” Powell hears a noise and motions for Castle to turn
off his flashlight. The door opens and Beckett comes in with her gun drawn. Castle stands there,
hands raised... but Powell is nowhere to be found.
Back at the precinct, Beckett lectures Castle about disturbing her crime scene. Unperturbed,
Castle asks to speak alone with Evan Mitchell. Powell’s comment about a code of conduct and
how he often ran into other thieves during break-ins makes Castle think Mitchell might know
more than he’s saying. Under the guise of seeking information for his latest book, Castle gets
Mitchell to admit he met one of the thieves, a ”shot-caller” who bragged he had ”eyes inside” high
society. Mitchell then provides Castle with a description.
Beckett and Castle present Joanne Delgado with a sketch of this shot-caller. She doesn’t
recognize him. Neither, unfortunately, did the families of the other victims. Joanne does reveal,
however, that her mother only wore her jewelry for special occasions, such as fundraisers, envi-
ronmental causes, and so on.
Back at the precinct, the cops write out the names of charitable organizations below a list
of the victims’ names, looking for an organization common to all four victims. Castle spots it:
M.A.D.T. – the Metropolitan American Dance Theater.
At a ballroom being readied for a M.A.D.T. event, Castle and Beckett interview Anne Greene,
the company’s director. Greene assures them her employees go through extensive background
checks. Nevertheless, she agrees to provide a list of all employees who have access to donor
records. She’s not as forthcoming, however, about her donors, as most cherish their anonymity.
To get that list, Castle and Beckett will need a court order.
At the precinct, Beckett types up a court order. A dubious Castle asks if she noticed how
M.A.D.T.’s board members consist of half the judges in town. Fortunately, Castle has tickets to
their upcoming fundraiser. They don’t have to ask who the donors are because they’ll all be there.
Lanie helps Beckett dress for the ball. Nothing seems right. As Beckett starts complaining
that the event is just to humiliate her, a package arrives from Castle. The plain gift card simply
reads: Bibbitty-Bobbity Boo! Beckett opens the box and finds a gorgeous dress.
At Castle’s apartment, Beckett shows up in her beautiful new dress and Martha is suitably
impressed. She dashes off and presents Beckett with an expensive necklace to complement the
dress.
Outside the event, Castle and Beckett make a splashy entrance on the red carpet. Dozens of
people stare as Castle ushers Beckett into his glamorous world.
At the gala, Castle meets Rachel Maddox, the charity’s Head of Development, and her boyfriend,
Paul. Rachel surprises Castle by asking about Alexis – she explains that they try to know as much
as possible about their donors so they can match their interests with the appropriate programs.
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Castle heads over to Beckett to share this discovery and takes her out on the dance floor,
claiming it’s the only place where they won’t be overhead. Castle then sees Powell chatting up
Anne Greene. Castle heads over up and accuses Powell and Greene of being the home invaders.
But it turns out the only thing they’re guilty of is inviting Martha to start the auction. As Martha
auctions off a first edition and a date with Castle, he turns away in shock – only to spy Paul,
Rachel Maddox’ boyfriend, taking pictures of the bejeweled crowd.
After a background check turns up a long list of felonies, Castle and Beckett arrest Paul.
During his interrogation, Paul confesses that he was working for Karl Nadir, a violent criminal
he befriended at Green Haven Prison. After they both got out, Nadir found Paul and, threatening
violence against Rachel, forced Paul to help him rob the rich.
Off Paul’s tip, Beckett, Ryan and Esposito head for Nadir’s apartment, while Castle is forced
to stay in the car outside. The cops storm into Nadir’s one-bedroom apartment, where they find
incriminating gear. Unfortunately, the only sign of the perp is a warm coffee mug. As Beckett
steps into the apartment hallway, she spots Nadir running away and chases after him.
Outside, Castle waits impatiently in Beckett’s unmarked car when Nadir’s body lands on the
hood! Nadir’s face matches the police sketch, which happens to be on the dashboard. Castle and
Nadir wrestle, and Nadir punches Castle in the face. Then, just as Nadir is reaching for his gun,
Beckett steps on his grasping hand, her gun pointed at his head.
The next morning, Beckett meets with Joanne and returns one of the stolen items – a locket
containing a photo of Joanne and her mother. Beckett also extends an offer to talk anytime.
Afterwards, Beckett stops by the loft to return Martha’s necklace, only to find Castle making
eggs for Alexis and Martha. Castle pulls up a chair and insists Beckett stay for breakfast. She
did save his life after all. And, Martha notes, they’ve only heard Castle’s side of the story. Beckett
smiles at this. She takes a seat and begins to tell about the night before.
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Ghosts
Season 1
Episode Number: 8
Season Episode: 8

Writer: Moira Kirland
Show Stars: Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Ruben
Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Molly Quinn (Alexis Cas-
tle), Jon Huertas (Tony Esposito), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Nathan
Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett)
Guest Stars: Dan Catellaneta (Judge Markway), Joseph C. Phillips (Mayor), Jillian
Armenante (Susan Mailer), Alex Carter (Michael Goldman), Joanne
Kelly (Lee Wax)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a woman found drowned
in motor oil in a motel bathtub. They seek the help of a true crime
journalist who might have a connection to the victim.
In the bathroom of a ratty Single Room Occupany (SRO) hotel, a rusty tub brims with dark,
viscous liquid. An object slowly breaks the surface, revealing itself to be the dead body of a
woman.
Castle, Beckett, Esposito, Ryan, Montgomery, and Martha are in Castle’s loft playing a heated
game of Texas Hold ’Em. Beckett, thinking she has a winning hand, puts all her chips into the
pot. The other cops go crazy. Castle glances down at his hand: It’s a full house, but to save
Beckett face, he folds. The boys cheer as Beckett sweeps in her winning. Then she gets a call:
there’s a homicide down on Henry Street. As Castle rushes to join them, Martha checks his cards
– surprised to see what he folded on.
At the SRO, Beckett, Castle, Ryan, and Lanie stand over the tub of black liquid, staring at the
body floating inside. Esposito holds up an empty can of 10W-40 motor oil.
Beckett and Castle talk with the jaded night clerk. He’s no help, except to say whoever rented
the room paid cash for a five-day stay. They were supposed to be out that night, but when he
went to make sure the place was empty, he found the woman in the tub. If she had any guests,
he couldn’t say.
At the morgue, Lanie downloads to Castle and Beckett: the victim is an unidentified female,
early-40s, wearing a wedding ring without an inscription. She was first knocked out with a hit
to the head before drowning in the oil. Tox screens are negative for drugs, alcohol and recent
sexual activity. But one of the glasses of wine tested positive for Remian, a sleeping pill. Lanie
also found a Metro-North ticket stub – the victim was from out of town.
At the precinct, Esposito gets off the phone: the Irvington PD in Westchester logged a call
from a Michael Goldman, wanting to report his wife, Allison, missing last night. The clothing and
description match.
Beckett and Castle pay Goldman a visit. He’s shocked to hear Allison’s body had been found
in an SRO. He says she was working part-time at a clothing boutique, Lehane’s, in Manhattan.
He’s certain she wasn’t having an affair – they had no secrets between them.
Esposito, however, discovers that Allison never worked at Lehane’s. As they start brainstorm-
ing a possible adultery scenario, Michael Goldman shows up with Allison’s death certificate: It
indicates that Allison died in 1963, when she was three months old. In other words, Allison
wasn’t the person she said she was.
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At Castle’s loft, Alexis and Martha are shocked to hear that the victim had been living under
an assumed name for 20 years. Martha is sure Allison must have been a criminal of some kind.
She also chides Castle for letting Beckett win the poker game. His explanation: He didn’t want to
take all Beckett’s money in front of her friends. As Castle gets an earful from Martha and Alexis,
the precinct calls. They’ve found something.
At the precinct, Castle finds Becket, Esposito, and Ryan gathered round Allison’s laptop.
Ryan discovered e-mail correspondence between Allison and someone named Lee about meeting
on Tuesday – the day of Allison’s murder. Cyber tracked the e-mail down to a true-crime writer
named Lee Wax. Castle’s never heard of him. Hypothesizes that maybe he got tired of writing
about other people’s murders and decided to commit one of his own.
As Castle and Beckett ride the elevator to Wax’s apartment, Beckett hands Castle a wad of
money – her poker winnings from the other night. Beckett won’t take it. She knows he threw his
last hand and wants a rematch. Castle invites her to play with his ”Gotham City crew”: Captain
Montgomery, the Mayor, and Judge Markway. Beckett’s unfazed and agrees to it.
They reach Lee Wax’s apartment, only to discover the door ajar. They enter it and find a pair
of 6-foot folding tables covered with clippings and photos, including several photos of Allison
Goldman. All of a sudden, a pretty young woman shows up at the door. It’s Lee Wax. She’s
surprised to hear that Allison was murdered. When they ask about her seemingly unhealthy
infatuation with Allison, she explains that she’s ghostwriting a memoir with her. Why would
Allison be writing a memoir? Lee looks at them, thrown. Didn’t they know who Allison was? In
answer, Castle picks up and shows Beckett a FBI ”Wanted” poster with Allison’s face on it –
Allison Goldman was a wanted fugitive.
Castle and Beckett get the run-down from Lee Wax: Formerly known as Cynthia Dern, Allison
had been wanted on charges of domestic terrorism. In 1989, she and two accomplices, Jared
Swanstrom and Susan Mailer, bombed an oil tanker in protest of the Exxon Valdez spill. The
ship’s captain, Sam Pike, was paralyzed in the explosion.
But why was Allison coming forward now? According to Wax, Allison/Cynthia wanted to write
a memoir to tell her side of the story – of how, on finding the Captain on board, she tried to
dissuade Susan Mailer from setting off the bomb – to no avail. She was also hoping for a big
payoff.
In the meantime, Lee met with Allison three times a week, and paid her a few hundred dollars
every Friday from a small publisher’s advance. Lee swears she never tipped anyone off to Allison,
though she admits some of the sources she spoke to may have wanted to see Allison dead. As
the interrogation is ending, Lee flirtatiously asks Castle to keep her in the loop. She still plans
on finishing the book, especially now that it’s changed from a memoir to a true crime book.
Castle, Beckett and Montgomery study a bulletin board displaying the clippings from Lee’s
studio. Susan Mailer was vaporized in the explosion and Jared Swanstrom was sent to prison for
15 years. But Allison Goldman, aka Cynthia Dern, remained a fugitive for almost two decades
only to be killed recently. Who would hold a grudge for 20 years?
They pay a visit to the house of the captain injured in the explosion, Sam Pike. Captain
Pike sits in a wheelchair, connected to a breathing apparatus. Beckett and Castle interview his
wife, Eleanor. She admits they spoke to Lee Wax several times, but that Wax never revealed that
Cynthia was involved. Eleanor admits that she’s bitter: The settlement they received didn’t cover
all their medical costs. In fact, their son, Adam, has had to work since he was a teenager to help
cover their medical bills.
Beckett and Castle talk to Adam Pike as he refinishes the surface of a small motorboat in the
backyard. He claims he didn’t know that Cynthia lived nearby. When they tell him Cynthia was
drowned in motor oil, he’s thrown. But he has an alibi: every Tuesday night, he works at a local
bar.
Beckett thinks that Adam killing Cynthia would make Castle happy – it’s very Shakespearean.
But Castle doesn’t want to believe Adam did it. If he were writing the story, he’d give the Pike
family a happier ending. Esposito approaches with the FBI files on the tanker bombing. Three
days after the attack, they arrested Jared Swanstrom at a motel where he’d been hiding out
with Cynthia. An anonymous caller tipped the FBI to Swanstrom’s whereabouts. But the caller,
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described in the files as ”young and female,” never collected the reward. Could Cynthia have
given up her friend to the cops? Maybe, all these years later, Swanstrom finally went after his
revenge.
Beckett and Castle talk to Jared Swanstrom, now working as a janitor. He claims he hasn’t
seen Cynthia in twenty years. When they tell him Cynthia was the one who called the cops on
him, Swanstrom is surprisingly understanding, explaining that Cynthia had wanted to escape to
Canada but that he wouldn’t go because he was guilt-ridden. According to Swanstrom, he built
the bomb with a three-minute timer, but when Cynthia got back in the car that night, she told
him the bomb had blown early. He’s the reason Susan Mailer is dead.
At home, while reading Lee Wax’s manuscript, Castle discusses the case with Martha and
Alexis. It’s obvious to them that someone is lying about what really happened on the night of the
explosion. But who?
Beckett enters the bullpen with her morning coffee to find Castle at her desk with Lee Wax’s
manuscript. Castle called the book’s publisher and found out they’d been thinking about drop-
ping the book: They wanted a true crime tell-all, but all they were getting was ”sanitized, re-
morseful boohooing.” Now that Cynthia’s murder is all over the media, Lee Wax is sitting on a
potential best seller. People have killed for a lot less.
Before they can pursue that theory, Beckett gets a call. Adam Pike’s alibi fell apart – he called
in sick to work on Tuesday night and they found a Metro-North train schedule in his trash.
In interrogation, Adam denies killing Cynthia. But Beckett gets him to admit that he followed
Lee Wax around until she led him to Cynthia. Adam wanted to look Cynthia in the eye and tell
her that her blood money wouldn’t buy her forgiveness. Blood money? Adam says that his family
had been receiving money in the mail every month – and the first envelope contained a note that
said, ”Please forgive me.”
Adam admits that he was at the SRO the night Cynthia was killed. He spent a long while
trying to get up the courage to go and knock on the door where Cynthia was. But then someone
got off the elevator and knocked on the door first. He didn’t get a good look at the killer, but he
heard talking and can say for sure that it was a woman. Castle can hardly contain himself – it
looks like Lee Wax is the killer, just as he suspected.
Beckett and Castle interrogate Lee Wax. Lee swears she didn’t murder Cynthia. She says her
publisher was only about to drop the book because Lee decided Cynthia was lying and only telling
the parts of the story that made her look good. What’s more, Cynthia never mentioned donating
any money to the Pikes. As well, Lee has an alibi for the night of Cynthia’s murder: She was out
to dinner with her publisher until after midnight.
Afterwards, Castle tells Beckett that if he were writing a memoir, he would start with the most
generous thing he ever did. If the object of Cynthia’s memoir was to gain sympathy, why didn’t
she tell Lee Wax about her anonymous donations to the Pikes? Castle thinks the money may
have been coming from someone other than Cynthia.
During the poker game with Judge Markway, the Mayor and Captain Montgomery, Castle and
Beckett discuss the case. According to Captain Pike, he heard two women arguing just before
the explosion. If we assume Cynthia’s lying, then maybe it was Susan who wanted to save Pike;
she could have run back toward the ticking bomb to try to shut it down, while Cynthia ran for
cover. But where is the money coming from?
Meanwhile, Beckett, who’s holding a winning hand, raises Castle two hundred. As the other
men urge Beckett to ”make Castle cry,” she discreetly decides to fold and save him face. As Castle
collects his winnings, the Mayor quips that Castle always manages to rise from the dead. This
gives him an idea: What if Susan Mailer didn’t die in the explosion after all?
Castle and Beckett sit with Eleanor and Adam. An ashamed Eleanor hands them several of
the envelopes that the anonymous donations came in. The most recent ones have postmarks
from Lititz, PA.
Beckett and Castle pay a visit to the Lititz Post Office, where they show the clerk a photo of
Allison/Cynthia. He’s never seen her before. But when they show him a photo of Susan Mailer
and Castle explains that she may now have a scar and walk with a limp. The clerk recalls that a
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woman, Mary Wright, comes in every month and buys a money order to send to her relatives in
New York.
They haul Mary Wright in for interrogation and discover she’s Susan Mailer. She looks similar
to the 20-year-old photo, but is now scarred around her neck and lower cheek. Susan tells them
that on the night of the bombing, she went to run back and deactivate the bomb, while Cynthia
ran off. When the bomb exploded, Susan was thrown overboard; a med student friend took her in
and nursed her to life. She then started a new life as Mary Wright, and sent money every month
to the Pikes.
One day, Susan saw an Internet posting from Lee Wax seeking info on Cynthia. She started
a correspondence with Wax, pretending to be an old friend, and soon figured out that Wax was
in contact with Cynthia. Susan called Cynthia and confronted her about her lies, threatening to
turn herself in if she went through with the book. Cynthia insisted they meet to talk about it.
When Susan got to the hotel room, she quickly realized that Cynthia intended to kill her. She
was going to drug Susan with sleeping pills in her wine and then drown her in the tub – making
the whole thing look like a guilt-ridden suicide by Susan. In the fight that followed, Cynthia hit
her head and lost consciousness. Wanting it all to be over, Susan pushed her into the tub and
drowned her.
Lee Wax shows up at the station, having heard they’d made an arrest. Castle lets her know
that he’s aware that Lee purposefully let her interview subjects know that Cynthia was alive.
Clearly, she was hoping that one of them would call the cops on Cynthia, or possibly, do some-
thing worse. That way, with Cynthia exposed, Lee could rip up her contract with Cynthia and
turn the book from a memoir into a best-selling true crime story. Lee answers that even if that’s
true, she didn’t do anything illegal. It may not be illegal, replies Castle, but it’s slimy. And one
day soon, he promises, he’ll be writing about her and what she did.
Afterwards, Castle passes Beckett her ”winnings” from the other night. He knows she knew
her hand to let him save face. Deciding to finally play for real, Castle and Beckett sit down for a
break-even game of poker. Castle offers to play for clothing, but Beckett says they’ll be playing
for gummy bears. The episode ends as we watch Beckett shuffle the deck and start to deal.
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Little Girl Lost

Season 1
Episode Number: 9
Season Episode: 9
Originally aired: Monday May 4, 2009

Writer: Elizabeth Davis
Show Stars: Jon Huertas (Tony Esposito), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Su-
san Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Ruben
Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Nathan Fillion (Richard
Castle), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle)
Guest Stars: Todd Waring (Dave Ellers), Julian Acosta (Alfred Candela), Francis
Capra (Juan Restrepo), Judy Reyes (Theresa Candela), Bailey Chase
(Will Sorenson)
Summary: Beckett is called in to work with the FBI when a 2 year old girl is
missing. Castle vies for Beckett’s attention when he finds out that the
FBI Agent in charge of the case is Beckett’s ex.
In New York’s meatpacking district, Beckett finds Castle waiting with two cups of coffee out-
side an apartment building. She complains about the cover art for his forthcoming Nikki Heat
book – mainly, the fact that Nikki’s naked! She’s not naked, counters Castle. She’s holding a gun
”strategically.”
They enter an apartment bustling with uniforms and techs taking crime scene photos. Cap-
tain Montgomery breaks the situation down: 2-year-old Angela Candela was abducted from the
apartment that morning. The Feds requested Beckett take part in the task force.
On hearing the name of the special agent in charge – Will Sorenson – Beckett reacts. When
Montgomery asks if working with Sorenson is going to pose a problem, Beckett assures him it
won’t. Then she turns to see the girl’s parents, Alfred and Theresa Candela, standing with FBI
Agent Will Sorenson. The two detectives lock eyes and Castle immediately can tell there’s history
between them.
Sorenson hands Beckett a photo of Angela, an adorable 2-year-old girl clutching a stuffed
bunny. Her dad, Alfred, got up with Angela at around seven that morning, planted her in front
of the TV with a juice box and some cereal and headed into the next room, his art studio. He was
listening to his iPod and didn’t hear when she was taken.
In the kitchen, the Candelas show the investigators a jimmied window and a kitchen floor
that’s covered in dirt from the alley. When asked, the parents can’t think of anyone who might do
this. Sorenson notices a look on Beckett’s face and steps close – a little too close to be professional
– promising her that this case will ”end better.”
At the precinct, Beckett admits to Castle that she and Sorenson dated for six months. They
met during a previous kidnapping case.
Ryan fills Castle and Beckett in on the parents. Married ten years, Theresa is a fund manager
and Alfred is a small-time artist. Angela is their only child and was adopted. Alfred says he
and Angela had the same morning routine every day. Which, according to Beckett, must mean
someone either got very lucky or they already knew the routine. All of a sudden, her cellphone
rings: The Candelas just received a ransom call.
In the Candelas’ living room, Beckett, Castle and Sorenson huddle with Alfred and Theresa
while they listen to a recording of the call. The caller demands $750,000 within 24 hours. It’s the
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Candelas’ entire savings. Beckett asks if there’s someone who can help them get their finances
together. Theresa’s sister, Nina, is a CPA and can help.
Finding himself alone with Sorenson, Castle asks why Sorenson requested his ex-girlfriend
for the task force. Sorenson claims he did it because Beckett is the best in the city. But Castle’s
not buying it.
Sorenson turns the tables, wondering why, out of all the detectives in New York, Castle chose
to shadow Beckett. Castle quips that maybe it was fate. Just then, Beckett shows up with the
Candelas’ financial records. The ransom is indeed all the money they have. Sorenson figures
whoever made the demand must know the Candelas well enough to know what they’re worth.
Sorenson asks Theresa if she can think of anyone who might be holding a grudge against the
family. Alfred suggests Doug Ellers. A former co-worker, Ellers was fired by Theresa and blamed
her for his ensuing divorce, which resulted in Ellers’ wife taking both his kids.
Beckett and Sorenson interrogate Doug Ellers. Sorenson plays a threatening voicemail Ellers
left for Theresa, but Ellers swears he would never kidnap or hurt a child.
Afterwards, Castle suggests that Ellers is innocent. Sorenson disagrees. They argue until
Beckett calls it a draw, saying that Ellers is probably innocent but when a child’s life is at stake,
you have to question everything you think you know.
Castle arrives home to find Martha in his office, ”life coaching” one of her sad-sack clients.
After the client leaves, Castle grabs her ”Life Coach” name plaque and carries it into the kitchen,
which he suggests is a better location for her coaching sessions. Castle mentions the kidnapping
and admits he’s feeling a need to give Alexis a hug. Perfectly understandable, retorts Martha,
because parents and their children are like peas in a pod. This gives Castle an idea.
At the Candela apartment, Beckett notifies Sorenson that Ellers’ alibi pans out. They share a
moment of intimacy that culminates in a passionate kiss. When they part, they discover Castle
standing there. ”Justice never sleeps,” he quips. Castle offers his new theory: Angela may have
been kidnapped by her birth mother. As they look into it, Ryan gives them some relevant in-
formation: The birth mother, Lucia Gomez, recently went to the adoption agency requesting to
contact her daughter’s adoptive parents.
Beckett and Sorenson question Lucia Gomez. She says she doesn’t regret giving up her baby.
They show her the petition she filed with the adoption agency and she says it’s a forgery. When
they ask about the father, Lucia says he was in Iraq when she had the baby, but that he was
”cool with it.” When did he return from the war? Two months ago.
When Beckett and Sorenson approach birth father Juan Restrepo, he takes off running. For-
tunately, Castle, Ryan, and Esposito are there to intercept him. When questioned by Beckett,
Juan says he only wanted to see his daughter and make sure she was okay, since he never got a
chance to see her when she was born.
Back at the precinct, they learn that Juan’s alibi checks out. Frustrated, Beckett walks off,
declaring that she’s not going to lose this one. Castle learns from Sorenson that she’s referring to
the previous missing-child case. Even though they caught the kidnapper, the child was already
dead. Just then, they get word that there’s been another ransom call.
At the Candela apartment, they prepare the money for drop-off: seventy-five packs of hundred
dollar bills placed inside a green backpack. The phone rings and the kidnapper demands that a
civilian, not a cop, make the drop – or they kill the girl.
Sorenson wants to make the drop, but Alfred won’t allow it. He insists on following the kidnap-
per’s instructions to the letter. Castle volunteers to make the drop. Over Sorenson’s objections,
Beckett gives the go-ahead. As much as she hates to admit it, Castle is their best shot.
As they’re wiring Castle for the drop-off, a concerned Beckett asks if he’s up for it. Castle is
flattered and assures her it’s going to be okay.
While in radio contact with Beckett and Sorenson, Castle carries the green backpack to a
designated mailbox, under which he finds a cell phone. A text message directs Castle to a building
on 1st Street. Ryan and Esposito tail him discreetly.
Inside the building, Castle finds a crowd milling in the lobby. As instructed, he leaves the
backpack next to a shoeshine stand and walks away. Ryan and Esposito scope the crowd. Sud-
denly, Ryan spies an Asian male carrying the green backpack. Esposito closes in and tackles the
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guy. But he opens the backpack to find– only newspaper. And then, he sees a girl with another
identical green backpack. Ryan stops her and checks her backpack as well, only to find more
newspaper.
At the apartment, they explain to the Candelas that the kidnappers posted an ad on Craigslist
seeking participants with green backpacks for a ”performance piece.” However, Castle was able
to slip the mailbox cell phone into the backpack with the ransom. So far, they’ve traced it to a
twenty-block radius on the Lower East Side. Soon after, however, Sorenson receives word that
they lost the signal. The kidnappers must have found the cell phone and taken the batteries out.
At home, Castle scrolls through photos he took of the Candelas’ apartment, looking for a clue
that they might have missed. Alexis sees a photo of Angela’s stuffed animals on her bed and
she and Castle reminisce about all the stuffed animals she used to have. Alexis notices another
photo of Angela with the stuffed bunny, wonders if Castle thinks the bunny has something to do
with the case. Castle looks at the photo, thinking–
Castle awakens Beckett as he comes into Angela’s bedroom and starts searching for the
stuffed bunny. He explains to Beckett that when Alexis was small, she couldn’t sleep without her
stuffed monkey, so much so they’d have to make sure to bring it on vacations. Now Castle can’t
find Angela’s stuffed bunny. He surmises that the person who took Angela must have known her
well enough to take the bunny, too. Beckett notes that they lost the cell phone’s signal right after
telling the Candelas that they were tracking it.
Beckett discreetly approaches Sorenson, asks for Theresa’s sister’s address. It’s on the Lower
East Side, the same area where they last tracked the phone. Coincidence?
They head to Nina’s apartment and find Angela in a playground nearby, clutching her stuffed
bunny as Nina watches over her. When Nina sees Beckett, Castle, and Sorenson approaching,
she turns to run, only to find Ryan and Esposito closing in behind her.
When they return Angela home, an ecstatic Alfred runs and hugs his daughter. But Theresa
stays at the table, stone-faced. She admits that she had Nina climb through the kitchen window
and take Angela. Why? Because Theresa was planning to divorce Alfred, but didn’t want to pay
alimony or let Alfred have custody of Angela. The kidnapping would have proven Alfred an unfit
custodian of their child, in addition to making it so that she didn’t have to pay alimony.
At the precinct, Sorenson asks Beckett if she’s willing to give their relationship another shot.
But Beckett can’t commit. Sorenson asks her to think about it and walks away. Castle confides
to Beckett that he sees why it didn’t work out: Sorenson and Beckett are too much like each
other.
He then asks if she wants to grab a drink to celebrate closing the case, but Beckett turns him
down – she’s got a date. When Castle asks with whom, Beckett quips that they call it a ”private
life” for a reason. As she walks off, she tells Castle that maybe there’s more Nikki Heat in her
than he thinks.
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A Death in the Family

Season 1
Episode Number: 10
Season Episode: 10

Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Jon
Huertas (Tony Esposito), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Tamala
Jones (Lanie Parish), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Mont-
gomery), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers)
Guest Stars: Joe Marinelli (Jimmy Moran), Ron Althoff (Heavy), Catherine Chris-
tensen (FBI Agent), Rachel Leah Cohen (Annoyed Woman), Kari Cole-
man (Julia Hammond), Scott Connors (Agent Debney), Jackie Geary
(Maggie Dowd), Rey Herrera (Mario Guerrera), Drew Osborne (Owen),
Matt Riedy (Attorney), Carrie Southworth (Courtney Morantz), Robert
Picardo (Clark Murray), Ion Overman (Candace Robinson), Bailey
Chase (Will Sorenson), DeLane Matthews (Jacey Goldberg), Robert
Costanzo (Sal Tenor), Gary J. Wayton (Doctor Leeds)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a plastic surgeon. Mean-
while, Alexis has her first prom and Castle snoops around Beckett’s
past and it’s up for a surprise.
We open on the windshield of a blue

Mercedes covered in parking tickets. A
”Final Violation” sticker stuck to the
driver’s-side window, a tow truck begins
to lifts the car up. Inside, a male body is
strapped into the front seat – the head en-
cased in a plastic bag, wrapped with duct
tape at the neck.
In his loft, Castle sits across from
Clark Murray, a top forensic pathologist.
Castle is showing Murray morgue photos of a stabbing victim – Beckett’s mother, Johanna. Even
though the case has been cold ten years, Castle is hoping Murray will find some vital clue that
had been previously missed. Murray reminds Castle that the odds of finding a killer after ten
years are astronomical.
After Murray leaves, Martha admonishes Castle, telling him that he needs to let Beckett know
what he’s doing. Suddenly, Alexis comes running in to announce that Owen has asked her to
the Junior-Senior prom. Castle gives his blessing, but only if Alexis promises to stay out past
her bedtime and have a good time. Martha is appalled that Castle is letting Alexis go out with
someone he’s never met.
At the impound lot, CSU photographers take pictures of the blue Mercedes as Castle and
Beckett approach. Despite Castle’s request, Beckett refuses to run a background check on
Alexis’s date. Ryan and Esposito tease Castle that if they had a daughter Alexis’s age, they’d
never let her out of the house.
They identify the victim as Dr. Joshua Leeds, a plastic surgeon. The few hundred dollars in
his wallet indicates it wasn’t a robbery and the bag over the head indicates it was personal. Lanie
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estimates Leeds has been dead a week and, before he died, his fingernails were removed and
each finger was broken. In other words, he was tortured.
Leeds’ fiancée, Courtney Morantz, identifies the body. She’s devastated – they were getting
married in a month. She says Josh was never in contact with any criminal elements. Right
before he disappeared, he was heading out to meet Courtney for a cake tasting. He never showed
up and didn’t answer his cell phone. What’s more, Courtney has no idea how his car could have
wound up on 133rd Street, since he worked in Midtown and always took the Midtown tunnel to
the L.I.E.
Ryan and Esposito return from their canvas with nothing to report. Locals only remember
seeing the car after it got the tickets. Esposito reports that Courtney’s story checks out. So how
did Dr. Leeds end up on the street in Harlem?
On their way to Leeds’s office, Castle asks Beckett whether she’s ever given thought to re-
opening her mother’s case. Beckett warns Castle that if he touches her mother’s case, then their
partnership is over. It took her a year of therapy for Beckett to realize that if she didn’t let the
case go, it would destroy her.
Castle and Beckett visit Dr. Leeds’s office and interview his three nurses: Mario Guerrera,
Julia Hammond, and Maggie Dowd. The staff maintains that Leeds left the office like normal the
day he disappeared. None of his patients ever had medical complications, although recently one
patient, Jacey Goldberg, had begun threatening to ruin Leeds’s life when he refused to give her
a fourth facelift.
In the bullpen, Esposito and Ryan rundown the background on Goldberg. Her husband had
her committed the previous month to Bellevue for psychiatric treatment for her plastic-surgery
obsession and Dr. Leeds testified in support of her commitment. She was released three days
before the doctor went missing.
Beckett and Castle question Jacey Goldberg. She’s shocked at the allegation that she mur-
dered Leeds. She threatened to ruin him, not kill him. Plus, she has an alibi: On the day Leeds
was murdered, Goldberg was in the hospital, getting more plastic surgery.
At the precinct, Beckett and Montgomery work the murder board. If Leeds had a history of
turning people down, Montgomery wonders whether there’s someone else out there he pissed off.
But considering the CSU on the car came black clean, Beckett thinks a professional must have
done it. Could Goldberg have hired someone to do the job? By breaking his fingers, someone was
definitely trying to send a message.
At a clothing boutique, Alexis steps out of a dressing room wearing a prom dress and feeling
just a little awkward. When Castle tells her she looks great, she growls at him in frustration and
heads back inside. Confused, Castle looks to his mother. Martha explains that body-image issues
are an intrinsic part of being a woman. When Alexis emerges from the dressing room again – this
time looking youthful, sweet and demure – they all agree that she looks prefect.
Ryan and Esposito scour Dr. Leeds’s office and find nothing incriminating. The only thing he
kept locked up was his checkbook. Ryan, however, discovers a medical file stashed among Leeds’
wedding files – a casefile with all the patient’s personal information blacked out.
They ask Leeds’s senior nurse, Julia, to examine the file. She doesn’t recognize it, nor can
she identify the procedure in question, but the patient was a male in his mid-fifties. She says
that Leeds never operated without her. On the date of the procedure, March 18th, Leeds was
supposed to be attending a panel on reconstructive surgery. Why would he lie?
In the bullpen, Castle and the cops talk about what they’ve learned about the mystery patient.
According to the hospital, the operation lasted nine hours. However, neither the assisting nor the
anesthesiologist was with the hospital or were Leeds’ regular people. And the hospital patient
information says they can’t find any files at all on the operation. It looks like a dead end, until
Castle suggests they try the one department where nothing ever falls through the cracks: Billing.
Beckett finds out that the patient’s hospital bills were paid promptly via wire transfer. She has
Esposito check the account number and he learns that the account belongs to the U.S. Attorney’s
Office. Therefore, the patient was likely in Witness Protection program and had significant threats
made against them. All of which means, they have to find the witness before the killer does.
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Because it’s an ongoing Federal investigation, the Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge, Candance
Robinson, refuses to reveal the name of the witness despite Beckett and Castle’s best arguments.
Afterwards, Castle offers an idea: Since Robinson’s office deals almost exclusively with organized
crime, another way to find the witness’s identity could be to simply ask the mob. And it just so
happens Castle knows a guy, a capo with one of the other crime families, who owes him a favor.
Castle meets his mob contact, Sal Tenor, at an old dive bar. Tenor is sure the witness is Jimmy
”the Rat” Moran, a former underboss for the Spolano family. Rumor has it Moran turned state’s
evidence a few months back.
At the precinct, Beckett offers to use her government sources to locate Moran. When Castle
asks if she’s referring to her ex-boyfriend, FBI Agent Will Sorenson, Beckett wonders why that
might be a problem. It’s not a problem for him, Castle replies, but then again, he’s not the one
Sorenson wants to get back together with.
Beckett approaches Sorenson as he’s leaving work and hands him a rainbow sprinkle dough-
nut. Sorenson wonders why she’s ”sugaring him up.” Beckett explains she needs to talk to Jimmy
Moran. Sorenson replies that he doesn’t work organized crime cases, but Beckett knows he can
pull some strings.
At Castle’s loft, Owen arrives to pick up Alexis for their prom date. Castle busts out his video
camera and starts filming, much to Alexis’s chagrin. After they leave, Castle gets a call from
Beckett. Sorenson got the U.S. Attorney’s Office to agree to a meeting with Moran.
Castle and Beckett sit in her car, waiting in a parking garage. Castle notes the cliché nature
of the meeting. And true to form, a black Suburban SUV with tinted windows pulls up. Sorenson
ushers Beckett and Castle into the backseat, where they meet Jimmy ”The Rat” Moran, his face
obscured by a ski mask.
When Moran he finds out the way Dr. Leeds was killed, he starts to freak out. The bag and
duct tape are his MO. They’re sending him a message. And if they got to the doctor, they’ll soon
get to him. He demands the Feds get him out of here.
Beckett and Castle return to the precinct and share the bad news: They scared Moran so
much, he now refuses to testify in the Federal case. Suddenly, Montgomery steps out of his
office, looking grave. On the way back to the FBI safe house, someone pulled up next to the SUV
and opened fire, hitting both Moran and Sorenson.
At the hospital, they learn that the shooter, wearing a mask, pulled up in a late-model sedan
with dealer plates and opened fire with Teflon bullets. Sorenson is still in surgery, though Moran
is going to survive.
Castle gives Beckett a pep talk, noting that what’s so extraordinary about her is she never
gives up and that’s why she’s going to find out who did this and make them pay. Just then, they
get word: Looks like Sorenson is going to be okay.
It’s late and the front door of Castle’s loft opens to reveal Alexis and Owen arriving home from
their prom date. They share a sweet, awkward kiss and then Owen leaves. When Alexis turns
around, she sees her Dad nearby, happy to see her home. Castle realizes time is flying and soon
Alexis will go to college, get married, have kids, and he’ll only see her on holidays. Alexis promises
she’ll always be her dad’s little girl.
Castle shows up at the precinct to find Beckett at the murder board. She’s been there since
four in the morning. Beckett figures the mole was someone they’d spoke to, possibly the Leeds’
fiancée and Leeds’ staff. But the fiancée has an alibi for the previous night and her phone records
don’t indicate any calls to unknown numbers. Beckett asks her guys to check the staff records
again. She and Castle head off to interview Dr. Leeds’ nurse, Mario Guerrera, since he has a
suspicious sounding alibi.
Beckett and Castle arrive at Leeds’s office and have begun interviewing Mario when they get
a call from Esposito. He called the nursing schools again and this time, he asked them to fax
pictures. The Maggie Dowd that works in Dr. Leeds’ office doesn’t match the picture faxed over
from her nursing school – they’re two different people.
Castle then notices Dr. Leeds’ business cards at the reception desk – Dr. Leeds is affiliated
with St. Marcus Hospital, the same hospital where Jimmy Moran is recuperating. If Maggie has
a hospital ID, she could be there now, looking to finish the job.
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At the hospital, we find Maggie Dowd dressed in hospital scrubs and holding a clipboard. She
makes her way to a hospital room protected by two Federal Agents. They check her ID and let
her through.
Maggie crosses to the bed where Jimmy ”the Rat” Moran lies half-conscious. She pulls out
a syringe and we see a flicker of panic in Jimmy’s eyes. His EKG starts to speed up. As Maggie
injects the sodium thiopental into Jimmy’s IV tap, she relays a message from Junior: ”Go to hell.”
But as Maggie turns around, she discovers Beckett, Castle, U.S. Attorney Robinson, and the
FBI Agents there. They arrest her for the murder of Dr. Leeds and the attempted murder of Jimmy
Moran.
At the precinct, Beckett finishes interrogating ”Maggie” and hands her off to Robinson. Beckett
tells Montgomery that ”Maggie” – real name Carla Dante – is turning state’s evidence against the
Spolanos. She’d been killing for the family for five years. She had been hoping to find pictures of
Moran at Leeds’s office and when she didn’t, she went after Leeds. When he wouldn’t talk, she
killed him.
Meanwhile, at his loft, Castle is meeting with Murray again to discuss the Johanna Beckett
case. Murray tells Castle that he noticed the first stab was a low-angle thrust to the kidney,
which would have sent Johanna’s body into shock. This was a targeted killing, not a random
killing like the police concluded. In addition, Murray checked the City M.E. files and found three
other similar stabbings around that time.
Afterwards, Castle stands looking out the window. Martha insists he tell Beckett about the
new findings. The information could lead to her mother’s killer. Castle tells Martha that Beckett
swore they’d be through if he ever opened the file. But Martha insists that Beckett needs to know.
At the hospital, Beckett sits bedside next to Sorenson. They’re joking and sharing a rainbow
sprinkle doughnut. Just then, Castle shows up, asks to speak with Beckett. Out in the corridor,
she notices Castle’s seriousness and asks if something’s wrong. ”It’s about your mother,” he
responds. And off Beckett’s look, we end the season.
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Season Two
Deep in Death
Season 2
Episode Number: 11
Season Episode: 1
Originally aired: Monday September 21, 2009

Show Stars: Stana Katic (Kate Beckett), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Jon
Huertas (Javier Esposito), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Seamus De-
ver (Kevin Ryan), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Ruben Santiago-Hudson
(Captain Roy Montgomery), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle)
Guest Stars: Robert Gant (Ron Bigby), Dmitri Boudrine (Ilya), Elizabeth Ho (Amy
Saunders), David Bowe (Max Haverstock), David Meunier (Sasha),
Laurel Holloman (Sandy Allen), Stephen J. Cannell (Himself), Michael
Connelly (Himself)
Summary: Castle has a lot going on. He’s trying to finish his new novel Heat
Wave and trying to figure out how to fix things with Beckett. They
find themselves working together to solve the murder of a man found
tangled in tree limbs.
Castle poses for a photo shoot while

Beckett is interviewed by Amy Saunders
about her role as Castle’s inspiration.
Beckett sees Montgomery and demands
that he remove Castle from the force.
Montgomery tells Beckett that Castle is
good publicity and insists that he stay.
Castle sees Beckett and tells her that he
had nothing to do with the photo op.
Beckett tells him that she doesn’t care
anymore. Beckett tells Castle that she is still annoyed that he looked into her mother’s mur-
der. Amy suggests that she tag along with Beckett and Castle for her story. Montgomery says
that he thinks it’s a good idea.
Castle, Beckett, Ryan and Esposito arrive at the crime scene. They find Lanie Parish with the
victim in a tree. Ryan sees that the victim’s name is John Allen and he is in the insurance agency.
The detectives see that it wasn’t a suicide and Parish says that there are signs of strangulation.
Beckett tells Castle to take Amy back to the morgue with Dr. Parish.
While in the car, Parish scolds Castle for investigating Beckett’s mother’s murder. Castle tells
Parish that he found three other identical murders and had to tell her. Suddenly the car crashes
and armed, masked men steal the victim’s body.
Parish and Castle return to the station and tell the team what happened. The detectives
wonder who would steal a body. Castle makes some suggestions, but Beckett tells him he is no
longer needed. Castle reminds her that he is a witness and she agrees to let him stay for one last
case.
Beckett and Castle go to John Allen’s house and tell his wife that he is dead. She says she has
no idea why he would have been in that part of town. She says he just got back from a training
seminar in Albuquerque. She says he was working late recently. Castle asks if she is sure he
was working. Mrs. Allen is upset by Castle’s insinuation, but Castle persists. He asks if John got
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any late night calls. She remembers that Max, an ex-employee who was fired, called him late at
night several times looking for money. Mrs. Allen asks where her husband’s body is so she can
say goodbye. Beckett tells Castle that the case doesn’t make any sense. She calls the team and
has them investigate the former employee.
Castle returns home and his daughter asks if he is alright. She tells him that Beckett called
them and told them what happened. Castle’s mom asks if he was able to fix things between him
and Beckett. Castle tells her he has a plan.
Esposito brings Max to the station. Castle and Beckett tell him that John was murdered and
Max is shocked. Max complains about how they were downsized and how he used to call John to
complain. Beckett asks if he killed John because he fired him. Max tells her that they were both
fired on the same day.
Esposito finds out that Max’s story checks out. They then wonder what else John lied about
and how he paid his bills. Beckett gets a call and learns that John’s body was found again. The
detectives arrive at the scene and see that John’s organs were cut out.
Parish finds that the cuts were sloppy and there were traces of cocaine. Beckett suggests that
he was a drug mule, but Castle doesn’t buy the story. Parish points out that the organs were cut
out post-mortem. She reminds them that John was strangled to death. Ryan tells the team that
he found out that John was living off credit cards for the last six months. Ryan then gets a call
and tells the team that they were unable to retrieve any prints at the scene.
Castle watches Parish examine the glove that was found at the scene. They find a print inside
and see that it matches a parolee named Luther. Meanwhile, a group of men go through bags of
bloody cocaine. A flash bomb is thrown through the window and Beckett and the team storm the
building.
Beckett and Castle talk to Luther and his men’s lawyer. The lawyer tells Beckett to cut a deal
in exchange for information. The detectives talk to the men and they say that they saw John’s
body in the tree and knew they had to get their drugs back. They suggest they find out who John
owed money to in order to find out who killed him.
The detectives pick up a man named Ron Bigby who they learned introduced John to the
world of being a drug mule. Ron is brought to the station and he tells the detectives about how
John tried to gain money by gambling, but racked up debt instead. Ron says the man John owed
money to was described to him as a tattooed Russian mob man in Chinatown. Castle suggests
he go undercover in Chinatown to try to find the Russian.
Castle attends his poker game and asks his friends if they know about a Russian run poker
game in Chinatown. Castle’s friends tell Castle not to get involved, but Castle assures them he’ll
be fine.
Beckett and the team take Castle to Chinatown. Beckett tells Castle not to stay any longer
than he needs to as he exits the van. Castle walks down an alley and is let into the building after
being frisked. Castle looks around the room and finds the tattooed Russian. He then notices that
there is more than one tattooed Russian. Castle continues to look around and decides to join
a table. Beckett is upset that Castle is going against the plan. Castle tells the men that he is
a writer and he is just doing research for his new book. Castle looks at the men’s hands and
Beckett tries to find something that would explain the bruise marks on John’s neck. Castle tells
the men about the character in his book that is based on John’s story. The detectives then notice
that one of the men has a prosthetic finger and figure he is the killer.
Beckett decides she needs to get Castle out of the room. Sher hikes up her skirt, messes up
her hair and walks into the club. She fakes a Russian accent and convinces the bouncers to let
her in. Castle goes all in on his hand and ends up winning. He takes his chips and tries to leave
the room, but is stopped by a gun. Beckett walks in and laughs off the accusation that Castle is
a cop. Beckett fights off the man with the gun and orders Castle to call for backup.
Castle waits for Beckett back at the station. Castle asks how John’s wife is and Beckett tells
her she is coping. Castle thanks Beckett for saving his life and adds that they make a good team.
He tells her that he knows she is afraid to look into her mother’s death. He tells her that they
can do it together. Beckett tells him that she might not be ready to catch her mother’s killer. He
tells her that he dredged up her past for his own benefit, not hers. Castle gets up and leaves.
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Castle returns home and his daughter sees that he is writing again. She tells him that her
date was late and they missed the movie. She asks why boys feel they need to justify everything
instead of just saying they are sorry. Castle thanks her and gives her a hug. Castle then goes
to Beckett and tells her he is sorry. He says he violated her trust and even though they’re never
going to see each other again, he thinks she needs to know that he is very, very sorry. She tells
him she will see him tomorrow.
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The Double Down

Season 2
Episode Number: 12
Season Episode: 2

Writer: David Grae
Show Stars: Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Susan Sul-
livan (Martha Rodgers), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Mont-
gomery), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett),
Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish)
Guest Stars: Brennan Elliot (Jason Cosway), Diana-Maria Riva (Detective Roselyn
Karpowski), Matt Barr (Trevor McBoyd), Shanna Collins (Rina), Tor-
rey DeVitto (Sierra Goodwin), Paul Diaz (Young Man), Arye Gross (M.E.
Perlmutter), Jon Fleming (Will James), Jason E Kelley (Event Orga-
nizer), Candice Patton (Young Woman), Jeffrey Pierce (Wyatt Monroe),
Julian Sands (Teddy Farrow)
Summary: Castle and Beckett compete against Ryan and Esposito to see who can
solve their murder case first. A few twists make the two teams work
together to figure things out.
Castle and Beckett watch the action

as the station erupts in chaos. Suspects
fight each other and run through the
halls. Castle asks what it is about full
moons that bring out the crazies.
The team investigates the death of
Ashley, a couple’s therapist. In the room,
there are two plates with Chinese take
out food. Esposito reports that the credit
card used on the receipt to pay for the
food doesn’t match any card in Ashley’s wallet. Castle says if this case was on one of those
high tech forensic shows, they would stick an electrode into one of the brains of the fish in the
aquarium so they get a fish eye view of what happened.
Doctor Parish arrives and says Ashley was shot several times by a small caliber gun. They
find the message, ’Your Out of Time, How Does That Make You Feel, Psycho the Rapist,’ written
on Ashley’s face. Castle says that the killer has horrendous grammar and points out that ’your’
should be ’you’re.’
Beckett meets with Ashley’s husband Jason. He says Ashley was working late on her cases.
He says he was watching a game with his friend when she died. Jason says he realized he didn’t
say ’I love you’ to his wife before she died.
Esposito and Ryan arrive at a nearby park where a man was shot in the back. They find no
ID, but a witness recognized him as a resident of a nearby apartment building.
Castle tells Beckett he is upset that the killer didn’t use proper language when he wrote on
Ashley’s face. Esposito and Ryan return to the station and tell her the person who was killed at
the park was a man named Frank Anderson. Castle tries to ask for details, but they shut him
out. Castle tells them if they want help, he knows where to find him. Esposito and Ryan tell
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Castle they will probably solve their case before he solves his. They agree to wager on who solves
their case first. Esposito tells Castle not to let Beckett know about their bet.
Castle tells Martha about his bet which disgusts her. Alexis tells Castle that she is going out
on ice cream later with her boyfriend Owen to celebrate his birthday.
The detectives bring in Brandy, the woman who dined with Ashley the night she died. She says
that Ashley is her best friend. Brandy tells the detectives that she had drinks with friends after
she met with Ashley. Ashley wanted legal advice on how to get a restraining order on someone
after an incident she had on Friday.
Esposito and Ryan get a lead on their case. They tell Castle that gang kids are known to hang
out in the park where Anderson was found killed. Castle tells the detectives that he doesn’t think
the gang killed Anderson because they knew they would get caught. Castle boasts about the
progress of his case. Beckett and Castle get on an elevator to meet with Al Ross, one of Ashley’s
patients who has a history of violence. Castle sees the other detectives approaching and quickly
presses the close door button. Beckett asks him why he did that, but he pretends he doesn’t
know what she is talking about.
Castle and Beckett meet with Ross, who works as a butcher. They inform him of Ashley’s
murder. Ross says his employees can confirm that he was at work at the time of Ashley’s death.
Ross says he heard someone yelling at Ashley before his session.
They learn that the patient scheduled to meet with Ashley before Ross is a man named Evan
Hinkle. Beckett orders Detective Roselyn Karpowski to bring him to the station. Karpowski gives
Castle some cash to add to the bet with Esposito and Ryan.
Castle becomes nervous when he sees the detectives bring in a tall white man. Ryan says
that the man is a mugger who was found with a gun with the same caliber bullets used to kill
Anderson. They agree to up the bet where the loser has to shave his head and wear a dress to
work.
They bring Hinkle to the station. He says that he smothered his first wife with love and caused
her to leave. They ask him what the screaming was about last Friday. He says he didn’t meet
with Ashley and canceled his appointment to go to the hospital. Hinkle says that Ashley didn’t
charge him because she had lunch with her husband that day.
Beckett tells Castle that she found out that Ashley had lunch with Jason Friday and made
a scene at the restaurant. They figure that Jason was the person who Ashley wanted to get
a restraining order on. Beckett says that Jason’s alibi of meeting with friends doesn’t seem
too solid. Beckett notices that Castle is secretly meeting with other officers and taking money.
She asks Castle what the money is for. Esposito and Ryan walk in upset after they learn that
the bullet found on Anderson doesn’t match their suspect’s gun. Beckett tells them she knows
they are betting on their cases. Castle says that he is sorry. Karpowski tells Beckett that Jason
recently took out a life insurance policy on his wife. Beckett tells Castle that she wants to add
$100 to the bet.
They bring Jason to the station. He tells the detectives the life insurance policy was his wife’s
idea. He admits that he had a fight with his wife. Jason says he was at the basketball game
sitting in the row right behind the player’s bench with his friend when his wife died. Esposito
and Ryan go to the break room and order last night’s basketball game. The camera pans and
shows Jason in the crowd.
Castle sees a dress at his apartment. Alexis catches him as he puts the dress in front of him
to see how it looks. Alexis says that a girl named Talia approached Owen during their date and
told him they spent the camp together even though he doesn’t remember.
Beckett tells Castle that Esposito and Ryan have a break in their case. They suspect Ander-
son’s son in law of the murder. They get a call and take off. Later, the detectives learn that the
son in law has an alibi at the time of Anderson’s death. Parish tells the detectives that their cases
might be connected. She says that she found compounds from the same body of water on both
victims. Castle suggests that both victims were exposed to the aquarium. They figure that the
water pump kicked the compounds into the air. They suspect that the killer murdered Ashley
then transferred the compounds to Anderson when he robbed him.
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Beckett and Castle meet with the victims families and inform them that there might be a
connection. Anderson’s daughter looks at a list of Ashley’s patients and recognizes the name
Grovner. She says that Grovner got in a fight with her father. They learn that Anderson reported
Grovner for child abuse. Afterwards, Ashley testified against Grovner in court. The detectives
figure that since they are both working on the same case, the bet is off.
The team suits up to raid Grovner’s apartment. They find him reading a book in the alley.
Grovner asks if he is getting punked. He shows the police his electronic ankle bracelet that he is
forced to wear after he busted parole. He tells the detectives he is not their guy.
Castle hears his mom and Alexis fighting in his apartment. He enters and finds out that
Martha is just rehearsing. Castle tells them about his case. Martha says that you can find a
connection between anyone if you look hard enough. Alexis says that Talia made up her story of
spending camp with Owen just to get closer to him.
Beckett tells Castle that the case reminds her of her mom’s case. She says that even though
what matters is that she lost a loved one, she still wants to know why. Esposito and Ryan report
that the compounds found on the body doesn’t match the aquarium. Beckett asks them to switch
cases. Castle figures that the case might be similar to the Hitchcock movie, Strangers on a Train.
They wonder if Jason and Anderson’s son in law, Eric killed for each other.
Beckett and Castle meet with Jason at his work. They ask him what he did during the two
hours after the basketball game. He says he stopped and bought a slice of pizza then went home.
Jason jumps on a ferry to go home. They wonder if Jason and Eric met on the boat.
Beckett says that the connecting evidence is circumstantial. The detectives agree that the
bet is back on and the team who gets a confession first wins. Jason tells Beckett that the jury
will never convict him. Beckett and Castle enter the other interrogation room and tell Eric that
Jason just confessed. Eric admits that the murders was Jason’s idea. After they are arrested, the
detectives argue who won the bet.
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Inventing the Girl

Season 2
Episode Number: 13
Season Episode: 3
Originally aired: Monday October 5, 2009

Writer: David Grae
Show Stars: Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito),
Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Kate Beckett), Molly
Quinn (Alexis Castle), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Mont-
gomery), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan)
Guest Stars: Adey Adeyemo (NYPD Officer), Matt Barr (Trevor McBoyd), Shanna
Collins (Rina), Torrey DeVitto (Sierra Goodwin), Paul Diaz (Young Man),
Jon Fleming (Will James), Jason E. Kelley (Event Organizer), Candice
Patton (Young Woman), Jeffrey Pierce (Wyatt Monroe), Julian Sands
(Teddy Farrow), Eric Shackelford (Lower Eastsider)
Summary: It’s fashion week and Castle and Beckett get to see what happens in
the background as they investigate the murder of a model.
After a night out during NY’s Fashion

Week, a woman undresses to jump in a
fountain. She convinces her boyfriend to
join her. After the fountain momentarily
ceases, they notice a dead woman in the
middle of the plaza.
The next morning, Martha rehearses
for a play audition with Alexis and Cas-
tle. Castle gets a call about a murder. He
arrives at the scene and meets the team.
Lanie says that the woman died from a stab wound to her back. They also find that the victim’s
shoes are missing. Castle sees that the woman is wearing too much make up and figures that
she was a model. Beckett finds that the woman is wearing a wristband for a party thrown by
Teddy Farrow. Lanie sees that the woman was also wearing a Teddy Farrow designed dress.
Beckett and Castle head to the backstage of Teddy’s show. He tells Castle and Beckett that
the woman is Jenna McBoyd who was supposed to walk for him that day. He says that he saw
her last night at his party. He says that Jenna was a rising star who he considered to become the
face of his campaign. He says that she became paranoid the last few weeks. Wyatt, the fashion
photographer, asks for help in order to take better shots. Castle loses focus and flirts with one
of the models. Teddy says that Jenna’s best friend is Sierra, who is now being fitted in a dress.
Teddy informs the team that Jenna was wearing designer shoes at the party.
A model asks Castle to autograph a magazine where he is the cover story. She asks him if she
remembers her and says that her name is Rina. She gives him her number and asks him to call
her.
Sierra is saddened that Jenna was found killed. She says that Jenna was a lock to become the
new face of Teddy’s campaign. She says that Jenna’s husband, Travis is going to be devastated.
They bring Travis to the station. He says that he tried to report Jenna missing, but the police
told him to wait 48 hours. Beckett asks if there was anyone who would want to hurt Jenna. He
says that he filed several reports that Jenna was being followed by a obsessive fan.
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Later, Esposito and Ryan show Beckett and Castle anonymous letters written by Jenna’s
stalker. They discover that it was mailed at a SOHO post office. They see that there are no direct
threats in any of the letters. The letters include photos taken of Jenna while she was in her
apartment.
Castle returns home with a stack of magazines. Alexis says that she read the article and the
writer loves him, his character and book. Alexis says that Martha got a part in the play, but as
the role of a crazy grandma who dies in Act I offstage. Castle receives a call from the model he
met earlier and tells Alexis about her. He says that her name is Rina and that she knew him from
somewhere. Alexis recognizes the name and says that Rina used to babysit her. Castle says that
he remembers a straggly hair girl named Katrina. Alexis says that she is the same person. Castle
says that they live in a small and cruel world.
Castle and Beckett go to Lanie’s lab for an autopsy report. Lanie finds that Jenna was killed
between 2 and 5 am. She says that Jenna was in a fight where she was slapped very hard. The
cause of death was from a long sharp four sided object.
Esposito and Ryan go to the building across the street from Jenna’s apartment. They discover
cigarettes and a empty package that contained a digital camera memory card. Lanie says that
Jenna had alcohol in her system and a form of speed known to be used by models for weight
loss.
Beckett wonders why Jenna had a stalker. Castle finds a magazine open to his article sitting
on top of Beckett’s desk. She says that she thinks that it was a fluff piece. Castle says that the
writer made her look like a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Angelina Jolie. Castle sees that
Beckett is upset. She insists that she is not. Esposito and Ryan tell Castle that they know that
he got a model’s phone number. Castle says that they should not talk about Rina like a piece of
meat because she could be someone’s daughter or babysitter.
The detectives learn that a print found on the package matches a man named Willy James.
They go to the man’s apartment and are let in by the landlord. They see that Willy James had
Jenna’s comp card that Beckett explains is used by agencies to sell models. The detectives won-
der how Beckett knew what a comp card is. Ryan finds a camera with a telephoto lens. They see
that the memory card matches the package they found at the rooftop. A man walks in and asks
if he can help them.
They bring Willy James to the station. He says that he was working at Atlantic City when
Jenna was killed. Esposito and Ryan tell Beckett that the manager of the casino just verified
Willy James’s alibi.
Beckett tells Travis that Willy James did not kill Jenna. She assures him that they will find
the person who killed his wife. Travis says that Jenna was stressed with the stalker and work.
She says that Jenna got in a fight with the photographer. She says that Jenna got a test shoot
and thought that the photographer purposely made her look bad.
Beckett and Castle meet with Wyatt, the photographer, while he is shooting a party being
thrown by Farrow. He explains that Jenna was awkward during his shoot and he rescheduled
another session. He says that he was at a Zack Posen party the time Jenna died.
Teddy Farrow is introduced to speak to the audience. He says that they lost Jenna McBoyd
this week. He says that they should carry on with the show. He introduces the new face of the
brand, Sierra. Castle tells Beckett that Sierra seems too happy to take over for Jenna. Castle
suspects that Sierra killed Jenna in order to get a career making campaign. Castle sees Rina
and introduces her as Alexis’s former babysitter to Beckett. Rina says that Sierra was Jenna’s
frenemy. She says that Sierra was known to lie to models. She adds that Sierra crushed up a
speed pill and put it in another model’s drink. Just before she goes, Rina asks Castle to call her.
Beckett wonders if Sierra drugged Jenna.
Esposito and Ryan arrive at the party to show Beckett photos they recovered from Willy
James’s memory card. They figure that he was Jenna’s stalker. The detectives ask Castle if his
model girlfriend is there. Beckett says that Castle won’t touch Rina since she was his babysitter.
The detectives say that they also found naked photos of Sierra on the card.
The detectives bring Sierra to the station. Esposito reports that Will James just confessed
that Sierra hired him to take stalker photos of Jenna and supply Sierra with speed. Beckett tells
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Teddy her theory that Sierra wanted to do anything to get a job.

Beckett asks Sierra if she killed Jenna. They ask her where she was during the time when
Jenna died. Sierra says that Jenna went to Wyatt’s place. She says that it was an open secret
that in order for models to get good photography sessions with Wyatt, they had to sleep with him.
Sierra says that Jenna told her that she had a plan to give Wyatt what he wanted.
The team learns that Wyatt has no criminal record, but lives next to the fountain where Jenna
was found dead. The detectives report that witnesses saw Wyatt leave the Zack Posen party at
11pm and arrived at the Teddy party at midnight. They figure that Wyatt lied to them about his
alibi.
They go to Wyatt’s apartment. Castle looks around and finds shoes that Jenna was said to
be wearing. Beckett finds a four sided photography trophy she suspects was used to stab Jenna.
She sees that he had two and the second one is missing.
They bring Wyatt to the station. He admits that Jenna came over the night she died. Wyatt
states that Jenna had a change of heart and wanted to work as a team. He says that she came
over and asked him to detail their deal. Beckett wonders if Jenna was trying to record her
conversation. Wyatt says that he suspected that something was wrong, so he grabbed her phone
and found that she was recording their conversation with a phone. He says that they got in a
fight where she took off with his trophy. Wyatt says that the evidence that will clear him is on
the phone. Beckett says Jenna’s purse and phone was never found.
Beckett wonders why Wyatt would leave Jenna’s shoes and her body near his apartment if he
killed her. Beckett figures that Wyatt is telling the truth.
At Castle’s apartment, Martha tells her son that she feels old. She says that she liked when
she was a young star. Castle tells Martha that she is still beautiful and traded her youth for
wisdom. Castle gets a call from Rina and asks her if they are still on for their date. Martha says
that Alexis told her about Rina. She advises that Rina is too young for him. Castle says that it is
not what she thinks.
At the station, Beckett says that Jenna bought a new phone at Sunshine Electronics. She
says that the phone had GPS which allowed them to locate it. They play back the recording. They
hear Jenna and Wyatt get into a fight. Next, they hear Jenna leave the apartment. They hear
Jenna ask someone if he/she follow her. Jenna is slapped just before she is killed.
Beckett and Castle meet Travis in the interrogation room. They play the recording that con-
tains Travis’s voice. He admits that he followed Jenna because he thought that there was some-
thing going on between Wyatt and his wife. He says that Jenna came out of Wyatt’s apartment
with her clothes and makeup messed up. Travis says that it didn’t seem like he was himself. He
blames Teddy for Jenna’s death. He says that Teddy was feeding Jenna’s mind with lies. Beckett
orders Travis to confess and threatens to play the tape. Travis says that he stabbed Jenna in
the back with the trophy that he took from Wyatt. Beckett says that Jenna wasn’t going to leave
him. She plays the audio of Jenna. They hear Jenna attempting to record Wyatt just before he
caught her. Beckett tells Castle that she spoke to Teddy and he is going to blackball Sierra and
Wyatt out of the industry.
Beckett says that she doesn’t feel a sense of victory and asks Castle what Nikki Heat would
do. Castle says that Nikki would run a hot bath and read a book. Castle says he would let her
have a copy of Heat Wave, but his publisher doesn’t want it to be leaked. Beckett asks why he let
the reporter get a copy. Castle figures that Beckett has been upset since she hasn’t had a chance
to read the book. She says that Nikki was inspired by her and that she deserves to read it. Castle
tells Beckett that she will have a copy by tomorrow. Esposito and Ryan send Beckett a photo of
her when she was a model at 17. She says that she was young and thought that it would make
more money than waitressing. She says if they tell Castle, she will kill them.
Back at home, Martha is pleased to say that she just signed a contract for the play where she
dies on stage instead of off. There is a ring at the door and Castle says that it is Rina. She arrives
and asks Alexis if she is ready for a High School Musical marathon. Castle says that she thinks
if Jenna had a friend, she might be still alive today.
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Fool Me Once
Season 2
Episode Number: 14
Season Episode: 4

Writer: Alexi Hawley
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Molly
gomery), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish),
Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Guest Stars: Will Beinbrink (Steven Fletcher), Tyler Hoechlin (Dylan Fields),
Stephanie Faracy (Patty Schultz), Chet Grissom (Agent Gray), David
Ramsey (Jim Wheeler), Frank Gallegos (Kurt Lopez), Ilene Graff (Gayle
Finnegan), Jennifer Riker (Sue Vaughn), Kahlil Joseph (Bank Man-
ager), Kathleen Rose Perkins (Elise Finnegan), Robert Pine (Gerry
Finnegan)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the mysterious death of an Arctic ex-
plorer during an expedition. The investigation leads them in many in-
teresting directions including Park Avenue and the CIA. Things really
gets frustrating when Castle wonders if the killer is fooling all of them.
A teacher asks his class to take their

seats for a video presentation by Fletcher,
an artic explorer. They receive a live feed
from Fletcher, who is in his tent during
a storm. There is a noise that concerns
Fletcher. The class sees a figure with a
gun shoot and kill Fletcher.
A young man named Dillon arrives at
Castle’s apartment to give Alexis a vio-
lin lesson. Castle is hesitant to let him
in since he is a good looking replacement for her Alexis’s old teacher Olga. Martha arrives and
introduces herself. Dillon brings Alexis to her room so they can practice.
Castle gets a call about a murder. He goes to the classroom where he meets with Ryan and
Beckett. They play him Fletcher’s last video. They see that Fletcher was faking his artic trip and
was actually in an apartment with props.
The detectives meet with Mr. Wheeler, the teacher. He says that the school agreed to fund
Fletcher’s trip in exchange for weekly video reports. Wheeler says that they raised $50,000 for
Fletcher. Castle says that that would cover a lot of pemmican, which he explains is a high fat
and protein food that is commonly used during expeditions.
Wheeler says that Fletcher was in the school two weeks ago just before he was supposed to
take a flight. Ryan finds that the location of the building that Fletcher was in. They go to the
apartment and find that the door was unlocked, which means that the victim left it that way or
the killer had a key. Beckett says that he thinks that Fletcher was a squirrel, meaning that he
hid his belongings. Castle sees the mock scene and says that it reminds him of Capricorn One
with a winter twist. Parish says that Fletcher was shot once in the face with a large caliber bullet.
Beckett says that face shots indicate that the killer was angry.
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Castle sees that Fletcher had a lot of research material. Ryan finds a box full of passports
in the airport. They figure that Fletcher was not the victim’s real name. Parish says that she
thinks that the shooter was a tall person. Castle says the fact rules out the classroom kids, but
Esposito and Ryan joke that the kids might have shot Fletcher while one of them stood on the
other’s shoulders while they wore a trench coat.
Back at the station, Castle asks Beckett if he read his book. Beckett admits that she hasn’t
gotten to it yet. Castle is upset that she didn’t read it since she practically begged him for it.
Castle sees that she is pushing his buttons.
Ryan reports that Fletcher didn’t have any visitors. Esposito says that the real Fletcher is
a Hawaiian man. Montgomery arrives and says that the private schools want the case solved
quickly and quietly. Beckett learns that one of Fletcher’s aliases scammed a woman named Patty
Shultz. They see that Shultz was a mental patient.
They bring Shultz to the station and ask her about Fletcher. Shultz asks if they are arresting
them since she killed him in her mind. She admits that she constantly wishes that she killed
him by using a belt sander. Shultz says that Fletcher conned her when he offered to freeze her
and her cats after she died. Beckett realizes that she is not the killer and thanks her.
Castle tells Beckett that he admires Fletcher because he is a master story teller. The detectives
learn that Fletcher was engaged to a rich socialite named Elise Finnegan.
Beckett and Castle meet with Elise’s family and informs them about Fletcher’s real identity.
Mr. Finnegan says that Fletcher insisted on paying for the wedding. Elise says that Fletcher
wasn’t interested in her money.
Beckett tells Castle that she can’t believe how naive Elise is. Beckett learns that there is no
match on Fletcher’s identity using fingerprints.
Back at the station, the detectives learn that Fletcher scammed one of the people who sent
out a Nigerian prince fishing email. The team is impressed at the man’s skills. The team rattle off
scam movies that they loved like House of Games, Catch Me If You Can, Ocean’s Eleven, Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels, and The Sting. Beckett says she hates con movies because it is not real.
Beckett explains that Fletcher scammed the kids. Castle wonders if Fletcher was just greedy,
why he would write back to the kids. Beckett starts to leave and says she has plans. Castle asks
the detectives who Beckett is dating. The detectives wonder if Castle has feelings toward Beckett,
but Castle says that he doesn’t since she doesn’t even like con movies.
In her apartment, Beckett lights several candles and gets in a tub. She picks up Castle’s book,
Heat Wave, and reads it while sipping on a glass of wine.
Castle returns home and hears a violin playing. He listens intently and wonder what is going
on up in Alexis’s room. Dillon leaves her room and says goodbye. Castle says that he doesn’t
trust Dillon. Castle says that he liked Olga better. Castle tells Alexis that they don’t really know
Dillon and that they should vet him before he continues teaching. Alexis asks Castle why he is
ruining her chance to enjoy playing.
The next day, Castle calls Beckett and tells him that he thinks he cracked the case. Castle
says that he thinks that Elise’s father killed Fletcher after he found out that he was a scam artist.
The detectives learn that Elise’s father owned a handgun that matches the caliber.
Beckett and Castle go to the the Finnegan house. Beckett checks Mr. Finnegan’s gun and sees
that it hasn’t been fired or cleaned in a while. Finnegan admits that he hired a private investigator
and found out that Fletcher was a fraud. He says that he threatened to expose him, but Fletcher
told him that he was in love with Elise and done with his cons. Fletcher said that he was willing
to sign a prenuptial agreement since he thought love was more important than money. Finnegan
explains that he didn’t want to tell Elise that he knew. He says that his detective has photos of
Fletcher.
Castle and Beckett meet with the PI and see a photo of Wheeler meeting with Fletcher. They
go to his classroom and show him the photo. Wheeler admits that he figured out that the photos
Fletcher sent to the kids were photoshopped. Wheeler says since the kids were learning, he also
wanted to make a little extra money. Wheeler insists that he didn’t kill Fletcher. He asks Castle
and Beckett if they spoke to Fletcher’s partner. They take a closer look at the picture and see
Elise.
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Beckett and Castle meet with Elise and tell her they know she was in on the scam. Elise
says that Fletcher was in the CIA agent in a top secret case. She says Fletcher was working with
Wheeler because the students were sons and daughters of foreign diplomats. Castle is impressed
at the story.
Castle bets Beckett a dollar that the story is true. He calls his friend from the CIA and leaves
him a message. Castle says Agent Grey is a killing machine. Out of nowhere, Grey arrives. He
says that he got a hold of Castle’s new book and saw that it had a steamy sex scene. He asks
them to talk in a more secure place. He tells the detectives that he never heard of Fletcher or
Wheeler. While Castle hands Beckett a dollar, Grey disappears.
Alexis arrives and drags Castle in the interrogation room. She says that she learned that
Castle called Julliard to check on Dillon’s credentials. She tells him to trust her since she is not
a little girl anymore.
Beckett and Castle go to the Finnegan apartment and see that Elise doesn’t want them there.
They tell her that Fletcher was not in the CIA. They notice that Elise is hiding from her. Elise’s
friend, Sue, announces that Fletcher is still alive. Castle says that this is the best case ever. Elise
plays a message from Fletcher that instructs her to meet him.
Beckett and Castle meet with Parish in the morgue. She says she can’t positively identify
the body because the prints don’t match anyone. They wonder if they actually saw Fletcher die.
Beckett says she hates the case, but Castle says that it is great. They review the tape and don’t
receive positive proof that Fletcher was shot. Esposito learns that Fletcher’s credit card was used
to by a plane ticket to Indonesia. Esposito then learns the other aliases credit cards were used
to purchase other plane, train and bus tickets. Beckett figures that Fletcher really loved Elise.
They go to the Finnegan apartment and discover that Elise just left. Beckett notices an en-
gagement flyer on the table. They realize the backgrounds are similar to the ones they found
at Fletcher’s apartment. Mrs. Finnegan says Elise’s friend Sue is the graphic designer who pro-
duced the flyers. Castle figures Sue met Elise to get information, then gave it to Fletcher so Elise
would fall in love with him. They figure Fletcher really fell in love and wanted out of the scam.
Sue found out, killed Fletcher, and faked the phone call to complete the scam. Mrs. Finnegan
says Elise had money at the bank.
Meanwhile, Elise meets Sue in front of the bank. Sue tells her that a million is enough to
run away with Fletcher. After Elise returns, the bank manager tells Elise that she forgot her
phone. Sue tells Elise that Fletcher wants Sue to take the money to a safe house. Elise hands
Sue a briefcase. Sue jumps in her car, opens the case and sees that it is full of newspapers.
Beckett, Castle and the detectives arrive to arrest her. Ryan finds a computer with an audio
editing program loaded with Fletcher’s voice.
After the case, Beckett tells Castle that she has to work late because of her paperwork. After
Castle leaves, Beckett grabs her book and runs into the bathroom to read it. Castle surprises her
and tells her what page the sex scene is on. After Castle leaves, Beckett turns to the page and
reads.
Castle returns home and hears an awful violin rendition of the song ABC. He sees that Martha
is being given lessons by Dillon. Castle apologizes to Alexis for how he acted and asks her to be
patient with him since he never had a teenage daughter. Since Margret is practicing violin, they
decide to go out for dinner.
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When the Bough Breaks

Season 2
Episode Number: 15
Season Episode: 5

Writer: René Echevarria
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Molly
gomery), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish),
Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Guest Stars: Griffin Cleveland (Zane Talbot), John Brantley Cole (Uniform), Reed Di-
amond (Dr. Cameron Talbot), Jeff Doucette (Super), Arye Gross (M.E.
Perlmutter), Elaine Hendrix (Melissa Talbot), Debi Mazar (Paula Haas),
Ivo Nandi (Teodor Hajek), Heather Pennington (Hero Witness), Timi
Prulhiere (Talbot’s Nurse), Diana-Maria Riva (Det. Roselyn Karpowski),
Francisco Viana (Manager)
Summary: Castle’s book agent approaches him with a career changing opportu-
nity, but taking it would mean the end of his relationship with Beckett.
Will the murder of an unidentified woman found dead in a manhole be
their last case together?
In the morning, Castle’s book agent

Paula rings his buzzer. She announces
they have an opportunity to restart a
book series starring a British superspy.
Castle admits that he was his inspiration
for writing. He gets a call from Beckett.
At the scene, the detectives find a
woman in a sewer drain. The medical
examiner Perlmutter reports the woman
was killed by blunt force trauma to the
head two days ago. Beckett figures it wasn’t just a robbery since the killer dragged the body into
the drain. Castle arrives at the scene just as the body is being driven away. Since he wasn’t there,
the detectives make up causes of death including she was eaten by a monster and that she was
shot by a death ray.
At the station, Perlmutter tells Castle and Beckett he didn’t find any identification on the
body. He suspects the woman was from the Eastern Bloc since she had metal fillings. He gives
them a candy wrapper he found in her pocket. Castle looks at the wrapper and sees it has Czech
writing on it. He explains to Beckett he almost ordered a bride online, a Czech Mate. Castle
invites Perlmutter to go to a football party at his house, but he declines.
Later, Beckett tells Roy she went store to store with Castle to look for the candy wrapper. Roy
says her she might be in another book. He explains since the Mayor likes him and is letting him
stay with the squad. Esposito and Ryan find the candy lollipop and bring it back to the station.
They tell Beckett that the store owner recognized the woman and directed them to an apartment
building.
The detectives meet with the landlord who recognizes the woman as a tenant named Aliska
Sukol. He says the woman kept to herself. He says she paid her rent on time using cash. Beckett
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and Castle are let in the apartment. Beckett figures she lived alone and didn’t have many visitors.
She finds postcards from home. Castle notices a picture behind the dresser with a boy and a
woman with her face scratched out.
Later at home, Castle offers Alexis some candy and warns her it tastes like soap. Alexis
informs him that Taylor would like to go to the book release party with her. Martha explains that
Taylor is not really a fan, but just wants an opportunity to dress up. Martha says she doesn’t find
the appeal in a British super spy. Castle says if he took the job it would mean that he couldn’t
do another Nikki Heat book. Martha says if he takes it, Beckett will be relieved.
At the station, Castle suggests the Parks and Recreation will be able to find which park the
picture is in. Beckett says she already figured that. She informs Castle she already sent Ryan
and Esposito to the park with the picture.
The detectives go to a building they were informed is where the woman from the picture lived.
The concierge tells them that the people in the picture are Zane Talbot and his mother. They
inform him about the death of Aliska. He explains Aliska worked in the building in the client
services department. The concierge explains that Aliska was let go after an incident with Mrs.
Talbot.
They meet with the Talbots. Melissa Talbot says she was upset that Aliska gave her son a
lollipop without asking her. She says she was going to let it go, but it seemed like she was
overfamiliar with Zane. She brought the incident to the manager, but she didn’t know she was
fired. Melissa asks if they think her being fired has to do with her death. Beckett says Aliska
might have been desperate after she lost her job. Melissa blames herself, but Beckett assures
her the killer is the only one to blame.
Downstairs, the detectives learn Aliska was married to a man named Teodor Hajek. Ryan
discovers that Teodor had a record of domestic disturbance. They find Teodor working at a
restaurant. After they announce themselves, Teodor runs. Esposito is able to tackle him allowing
Beckett to arrest him.
They bring Teodor to the interrogation room. Teodor figures he is going to be deported, but
Beckett says she is not interested in that. They inform him of Aliska’s death which upsets him.
He says he working when Aliska was murdered. They ask him to elaborate on the domestic
disturbance case. He says they got in a fight after she wanted to leave him. He says she was
upset because their son got sick and died. He shows them a picture of Aliska, his son and him.
He says he can’t believe his family is now gone.
Esposito and Ryan report that Teodor’s alibi checks out. Beckett orders the team to return
to Aliska’s building to ask around. Beckett asks Castle about his next book. He says he thinks
it will be a big opportunity to write a story about a British super agent. Beckett asks him about
Nikki Heat and figures his next book has nothing to do with her. The detectives tell Beckett they
spoke to everyone in the building. They see a young woman leave her room and realize they didn’t
speak to her.
They bring her to the station and learn she saw Aliska talk to a man in his forties. She gives
a description to a sketch artist. They see the picture closely resembles Dr Cameron Talbot.
Beckett and Castle meet with Cameron. He denies he was at Aliska’s apartment. After they
threatened to bring him to the station, he admits he was having an affair with Aliska. He says
after she found out he was married, she was upset, but held on since she was promised that
his marriage was going to end. Cameron says he was relieved when Aliska was fired. He says he
visited her to give her money, but she was angry. They ask him where he was when Aliska died.
He says he was working late.
A nurse arrives and says his wife and son are there to have lunch. They enter the room and
are surprised to see Beckett. Beckett explains that Cameron helped them find some notes. The
nurse confirms Cameron’s alibi.
Karpowski tells the other detectives that Aliska has a police incident report about her. She
says the file will be pulled by the morning. Castle tells them to attend his party. Later that night,
Castle signs several books. Beckett arrives and the press recognize her as Nikki Heat. Roy asks
her if she read the book’s dedication. Paula tells Castle that Beckett must be special to have her
own book. Paula tells him he has an official offer to take over the superspy series. She asks him
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to meet her the next morning to sign the contracts. Beckett reads the dedication which says, ’To
the extraordinary KB and all my friends at the 12th.’
Beckett tells Castle she is honored at the dedication. Castle says he meant it. Castle asks
her if Melissa knew about the affair. Beckett says it is possible. He says she is just saying that
since no man ever turned her down. He informs him he was given the official offer to take over
Ian Flemming’s works, but hasn’t accepted it. Beckett nervously asks him why he didn’t yet.
Castle tells Beckett a lot of people would be flattered to have a book written about them. Beckett
says she got a lot of grief over it and tells him to do whatever he wants. Castle says there is
probably no more to write about Nikki Heat anyways. Beckett says there is probably plenty, but
her character needs a better writer.
The next day, Castle arrives at the station and looks for Beckett. She arrives and asks what
he wants. He says he left his sunglasses. Esposito and Ryan tell Beckett that Aliska approached
a woman’s kid and was reported to the police. Aliska was let go without an arrest. Beckett asks
them to get more information.
Karpowski reports that Aliska’s apartment was paid up until next Friday. Castle thinks it
is strange since the apartment rents out by the week. They go to the apartment and learn the
landlord was slipped an envelope of cash. They wonder if the killer paid off the rent just to make
it appear like she didn’t disappear. The landlord asks them if he should give Aliska’s belongings
to her friend. He explains someone picked up her mail everyday. He says that woman was well
dressed and in her forties. They figure Melissa was picking up a letter.
Castle and Beckett stake out in their car. They wonder if Melissa sent a threatening mail to
Aliska and is waiting for it to arrive. Beckett says it is ironic that the mail by itself wouldn’t
connect Melissa to Aliska since they are not allowed to open mail without probable cause and
a warrant. Castle thanks her for using irony correctly. He explains it drives him nuts since the
Alanis Morissette song came out when people started to use the word ironic when they actually
mean coincidence. She says it must be the great grammatical influence he has on her. They spot
a woman go to Aliska’s building and grab her mail. They approach her and realize it is Talbot’s
nurse.
Castle and Beckett bring her to the station. She says she is sure Cameron didn’t have anything
to do with Aliska’s death. She admits Cameron rented a room for Aliska and gave her the mail
key. She says she was sent there to pick up a check that he sent her. She says she was going
to cover up his affair. She confesses she lied about Cameron’s alibi. The detectives wait for a
warrant to open the mail. Esposito and Ryan report that the woman who reported Aliska at the
park recognized her from the hospital since they both delivered their baby at the same day. Castle
figures the hospital is the same one that Cameron works at. He asks the detectives to check if
Zane was born at the same hospital at the same day.
The detectives bring the Talbots to the station and inform them about the death of Aliska’s
child. Castle says Aliska gave Zane candy so she could obtain a DNA swab. Beckett tells them
Aliska sent in a test to the lab to see if it matches her. Cameron admits he knew that their real
son was going to have a terminal defect. He confesses he switched babies at the nursery. Melissa
starts to panic after she realizes that her husband killed Aliska.
Beckett gives Roy her report. Castle says that he believes Aliska worked for the Talbot apart-
ment building just to check if she was related. Later, they bring Teodor to the Talbot apartment.
Beckett assures him that Melissa knows he has no intention to take Zane away. Melissa intro-
duces herself and brings him to meet his son. Melissa asks Teodor to tell her about her son. He
gives her a picture. Zane asks her mom to fix a toy, but Teodor fixes it.
Later, Beckett thanks Castle for his help in the case. She wishes him good luck on his new
book. Castle puts out his hand and tells her to take care of herself. They both get calls at the
same time. Paula tells Castle that the Nikki Heat book is successful and there is an offer to do
three more. Castle says he would be happy to write them. Beckett learns that she is assigned to
work with Castle for three more books. After Beckett gets angry at Castle, he tells Paula he will
call her back. Beckett gets a call, learns that there was another murder, and asks Castle to come
with her.
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Vampire Weekend
Season 2
Episode Number: 16
Season Episode: 6

Writer: Terri Miller
Director: Karen Gaviola
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett),
Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Ruben
Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Seamus Dever (Kevin
Ryan), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Guest Stars: Rob Arbogast (Morlock), Anita Barone (Janice Freeman), Emily Bicks
(Paige), Jim Gleason (Dr. Barry Frank), Amy Hill (Alma), Phil LaMarr
(Dr. Holloway), Erin Sanders (Rosie Freeman), Samantha Shelton
(Vixen), Glenn Taranto (Douglas Lawson), Robin Thomas (Alan Free-
man), Cole Coleman (Vampire / Goth Club Patron)
Summary: It’s close to Halloween, and a man is found murdered in a graveyard -
with a stick through his heart, and sporting fangs. Castle and Beckett
track the murderer to a vampire cult, all the while Castle is trying on
costumes for his Halloween party - costume mandatory!
Castle dresses up as a space cow-

boy for Halloween. He bursts through the
door with toy guns drawn and is sur-
prised to see Alexis. She tells him there
are no cows in space and he wore the
costume a few years ago. She says she
doesn’t want to go out for Halloween.
Castle sees Alexis’s school project to take
care of an egg and suggests she name it
Zac Eggfron, but she says she named it
Feggin which is short for fake egg. Castle gets a call from Beckett.
Beckett and Castle go to the graveyard and examine a man who was staked through the heart
after he hit his head on a gravestone. Lanie says the victim has high quality veneers put in. At
the lab, Castle tries to stop Lanie from pulling out the stake by warning if he is a real vampire,
he will come back to life. Lanie ignores his advice and pulls out the stake. Lanie says she found
synthetic hair on the body. Beckett figures it must have taken a lot of force to push the stake
into his heart. Castle says he knows the best fangmaster in town.
Castle brings Beckett to a costume shop. He asks Beckett if she wants to try out a costume for
a slutty nurse for the Halloween party, but she declines. She says she never even said she was
going to his party. He introduces Beckett to Barry Frank, who is a dentist that works in the shop.
He recognizes the victim as a man called Crow and later learn the man was named Matthew.
Castle and Beckett are let in Matthew’s apartment by his landlord. Castle discovers that
Matthew was drawing a graphic novel. Beckett sees that he went to Barker’s school of design.
The landlord says Matthew got in a fight with a woman who had long black hair. She says the
girlfriend was supposed to be famous. Castle looks in his computer history and finds a website
about a woman named Vixen. They find that Vixen runs a coven called Den of Iniquity. Ryan says
he had a girlfriend that was into vampire lifestyle, but the deal breaker was when she wanted to
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have sex in a coffin. They ask Ryan if they can contact her to find out about the next meeting for
the vampire club.
Castle and Beckett enter the club and find Vixen drinking blood from a woman’s wrist. They
ask her if she knows Crow. She says she does and asks if he is in trouble. They inform her they
found him with a stake through his heart. She gets upset and wonders who would kill Crow.
Vixen admits Crow was one of her lovers. She says she got into a fight with Crow because he
was seeing someone named Daemon, but made up with him. He says Daemon fell in love with
Matthew and his art. She explains the graphic novels he wrote is based on a man named Morgan
Lockerby. She says Morgan really believed he was a vampire and hung out in graveyards at night.
Beckett asks Castle why people are into vampires. Castle explains people are looking for a
place to fit in. She says she doesn’t get the fascination with the macabre. Castle says something
probably happened to them when they were younger. Esposito reports that Matthew’s last name
is Freeman and has family in Connecticut. She orders them to look for Daemon and Morgan.
Before she makes a call to Matt’s parents, she tells Castle she hates informing people about lost
loved ones.
Later, Beckett meets with Matthew’s parents Al and Janice and his sister Rosie. They explain
that Matt dropped out of school and changed after he got into vampire culture. Janice says
Matthew started to become moody. The last time they spoke to Matt, he sounded upset.
Esposito says that Morgan was committed to a mental hospital by the state, but he escaped.
Esposito asks Beckett if she is going to Castle’s party and she says she hasn’t decided yet.
Esposito says if she wants to see his costume, she has to show up. Castle tells Beckett that
Matthew’s graphic novel isn’t that bad. Castle recognizes Morgan’s picture as one of Matthew’s
characters named Morlock. As Beckett gets close, Castle says she smells like cherries. Esposito
says there is no trail of Morgan. Castle looks at the graphic novel and sees Morlock on one of
the streets of New York. They go to the location and use the comic as a guide. They find a coffin
in a room. After Beckett and Castle coordinate to open the coffin at the same time, Castle is
frightened even though it is empty. After Esposito makes fun of Castle’s reaction, Morlock drops
down and attacks Castle. They break a glass window which causes a ray of light to enter the
room. Esposito declares that Morlock is really a vampire after he sees the sun burn his skin.
Morlock is brought to the station. Lanie says Morlock isn’t a vampire but has Porphyria which
causes extreme photosensitivity. She says his condition also explains his mental state. Beckett
asks Morlock if he knows Crow, which causes him to mumble something about spots and burying
someone. Beckett says they found smudges on the stake that was used to kill Matthew. Later,
Beckett learns that there was india ink found on the stake. Castle explains that india ink is used
by comic book artists for lettering. Then figure Daemon was the person who lettered the graphic
novel.
Castle returns home to carve pumpkins with Alexis. They ask Martha if she wants to join
them, but she says she is off to a masquerade ball. Alexis asks Castle if she can go to a senior
party with Paige and he agrees. He says if anything uncomfortable happens, give him a call.
Alexis asks him to watch Feggin while she is gone. She explains her teacher won’t allow the eggs
be alone.
Beckett talks to a psychologist Doctor Holloway about Morgan. He explains they have to sep-
arate Morgan’s fantasy and reality in order to get information from him. After Holloway examines
Matthew’s drawings, he says it appears like the story is more about the woman since she is
depicted as an angel.
Castle brings the egg to the station and explains he is watching it for Alexis. He says he is egg-
sitting while Alexis and Paige go to a senior party. Esposito call Beckett and inform her that they
found Daemon shot dead and his apartment ransacked. He reports that Daemon is a werewolf.
Later, Lanie says Daemon is wearing a costume. Esposito discover that Daemon’s real name
is Jonas Westfall and that he is a grad student studying forensic science. Lanie says Jonas
was killed just before Matthew was killed. They see that Jonas was going to a party before he
died. Castle discovers a broken bottle of india ink and figures the same person killed Jonas and
Matthew. Beckett finds a box full of stakes. Castle wonders if Morlock killed him, but Lanie says
Jonas died during the day time which eliminates him as a suspect. Lanie sees an envelope taped
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under the table and figure he was hiding it.

In the envelope, Castle finds a report about a woman who was buried and had her face recon-
structed by Jonas. They realize the woman is the same person that Matthew drew as the angel.
They see that the sketches of the woman was drawn two years before her body was discovered.
They figure Matthew knew the woman before she died. Castle gets a call from Alexis. She says
that Paige might have drank too much. Castle goes to the party, picks up Paige and takes her
home. Paige says she doesn’t want them to call her parents or they will murder her. Castle insists
they call.
Beckett shows the family the drawing of the woman that Matthew drew. They tell her Matthew
drew the woman for years and called her his own personal ghost. Matthew’s sister says the
woman appeared in Matthew’s nightmares. They ask them if they know if Matthew experienced
anything traumatic, but they don’t know. After Beckett asks for his earlier drawings, the sister
tells Beckett to look at the work that Matthew submitted in his school application.
Esposito tells Beckett that Jonas also called the police about the woman from the drawings. He
says the bullet that killed Daemon matches the bullet that killed the woman. Esposito says they
haven’t identified the woman yet. Beckett says that it is strange that Matthew would remember
anything since he was only two when the woman died. Ryan returns with Matthew’s portfolio.
He shows her a drawing of two trees which is the same place where the woman’s body was
found. Beckett figures Matthew remembered the murder when he was two. Beckett asks the
detectives to run a background check on the family. They come back and learn that Matthew’s
dad, Alan, was married to a woman named Elizabeth Dryden who disappeared from New Jersey
then married his current wife Janice, who was Matthew’s nanny. Beckett figures that Alan lied
to them when he said he didn’t recognize the woman from Matthew’s picture, who is Matthew’s
mom. Castle remembers seeing Elizabeth Dryden’s grave at the graveyard.
They detectives figure that Daemon recognized Elizabeth in one of Matthew’s drawings. Later,
Matthew realized his father was lying to him about his mom. They wonder if Matthew brought
his dad to the graveyard to confront him about his mom’s death.
They bring Alan to the station and accuse him of killing his son. Alan admits he lied to
Matthew about his mom. He says there was no evidence that linked him to Elizabeth’s murder.
Castle says he is surprised he married his nanny, Janice, but Alan explains she was supporting
them when he was being accused of Elizabeth’s murder. Alan says Matthew was nine when he
first drew his mother’s face. He explains they lied to him about his mom ever since. Beckett says
they are testing a gun found in his house that is the same caliber as the one that killed Elizabeth.
She shows him Matthew’s picture and says he witnessed his mother’s murder. Outside the office
Janice asks Castle how long they plan on keeping them. Castle sees spots on Janice’s coat and
wonder if Morlock was trying to tell them about the killer. She compares Morlock’s mumbling to
Paige’s drunk talk and explains they both need to be translated.
Castle brings Janice to Morlock’s cell. He springs up and accuses Janice of murdering Matthew.
Later, Beckett explains to Alan what happened. Janice killed Elizabeth to have Alan to herself.
After Matthew and Jonas met and discovered they both drew Elizabeth’s face, Matthew asked
him to hide the evidence that they discovered. Janice killed Jonas using the same gun she used
to kill Elizabeth. Matthew went to his mom’s grave to lay down flowers. Janice took the stake from
Jonas’s room, then used it to kill Matthew in hope the police would blame his vampire lifestyle.
Beckett explains that Janice killed Matthew because he was a constant reminder of what she
did.
Alan reunites with his daughter then takes her home. Castle hopes the incident will not
destroy her. Beckett asks Castle why he is fascinated with murder. Castle tells her a story about
when he walking on the beach when he was a kid. He says he found his housekeepers’s sons
body washed ashore. Castle explains the police never found out what happened. Beckett realizes
he just made up the story after Castle starts to smile.
At home, Alexis tells Castle that Paige sabotaged their science project to get back at her. She
says she killed Feggin. Castle says if she gets an F on her project, he will still love her then tells
her to get ready for the party. Castle goes to the party as Poe while Esposito dresses up as an
Iraq vet. Beckett arrives wearing a trench coat. Castle anticipates that she is going to reveal a
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sexy outfit, but after she undoes her belt, a green alien pops out that scares Castle.
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Famous Last Words

Season 2
Episode Number: 17
Season Episode: 7
Originally aired: Monday November 2, 2009

Writer: Jose Molina
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana
Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Susan Sullivan
(Martha Rodgers), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Jon Huertas (Javier
Esposito), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery)
Guest Stars: Robert Curtis Brown (Ian Busch), Bernardo De Paula (Franco Mar-
quez), Erin Foster (Sky Blue), Arye Gross (M.E. Perlmutter), Brianna
Haynes (Hayley Blue), Jesse Head (Zack Metzger), Anne Ramsay (Bree
Busch), Clayton Rohner (John McGinnis), Rashawn Underdue (Tony),
Dominic Prietto (Hot Guy in Hayley Blue Music Video), Erik Saari
(Creepy Guy on Bus)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of rock star on the rise, in
which the body is found like a scene from her latest music video.
Alexis tells Castle a website is saying her favorite musician, Hayley Blue is dead. Castle gets
a call from Beckett. He arrives at the scene and finds Hayley’s body hanging upside down from a
fire escape. Perlmutter, the ME says Hayley died from a broken neck then her body was moved
there. Beckett hears music and sees Hayley had an MP3 player repeating a song performed by
Hayley’s former band. They figure the killer wanted to send a message.
Castle returns to the station and finds Alexis there. He inform her of Hayley’s death. Alexis
asks if she died from an overdose and explains she was on them, but went into rehab. Ryan
plays the video of Hayley’s song and shows the detectives a scene showing Halye hanging upside
down just like the crime scene. Alexis says Hayley wrote the song about an obsessed fan who was
stalking her. After listening to the lyrics, they figure Hayley put out a restraining order. Esposito
discovers the stalker is named Fran Marquez. Castle orders Alexis to go back to school. Beckett
tells Castle it is refreshing to see him not act like a twelve year old and like a father instead.
Castle asks her if it makes her want him, but she says the twelve year old is back. Beckett calls
the rehab center to find where Hayley stayed after she was released.
Castle and Beckett meet with Hayley’s producers Bree and Ian. They explain they took Hayley
in because she wanted out of a life of drugs. They ask the team it is too bad that Hayley was killed
by an obsessed fan, but Beckett informs them they haven’t charged Marquez yet. The couple says
after Hayley scavenged for jewelery for cash, they figured she relapsed. They inform the team that
Hayley has a drug using sister named Sky.
Beckett gets a call from the other detectives and learn that Fran packed up and jumped on a
bus. The police pull over the bus. Beckett boards the vehicle and asks the passengers to put up
their hands. Beckett locates Franco then arrests him.
The police bring Franco to the station. He says he would never kill Hayley because she was
his soulmate. He explains he tried to run because he knew they would suspect him. He asks him
where he was and he says he was listening to Hayley’s final concert that was posted online. He
plays them a song where Hayley sings ’death, she grows near’ and tells them he figures Hayley
knew she was going to die last night.. Franco says he saw Hayley fighting with Zack, her guitarist.
Esposito tells Castle and Beckett that Zack has a record of domestic violence. Castle says Zack
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doesn’t look like a killer and asks Beckett if he looks like one. She says he kills her patience.
Ryan reports that Hayley went to a police station to ask for help, but later disappeared.
Castle and Beckett meet with Zack and ask him where he was when Hayley died. He says
he was at a gig. Zack says after Hayley went solo and found out they were holding auditions to
replace her, she sent them a cease and desist letter. He says he is upset they can’t continue to
use their original name, the Blue Pills. Beckett gets a call and learns Sky is coming downtown to
identify Hayley’s body. At the station, they find Sky drunk while she is yelling at her dead sister’s
body. Sky confesses she thinks she might have killed Hayley.
Sky explains she told Hayley to drop dead since she was an a**. Beckett asks her the last time
she saw her sister. She says Hayley caught her selling a bracelet. She says Hayley was looking for
her to tell her something. Hayley offered her to join her to form a team, but she refused to work
with her until she got clean. Hayley says she suspects Hayley was using drugs since she saw her
give money to her drug dealer Tony. Beckett learns that Hayley was clean when she died. They
bring in Tony who tells them Hayley wanted a gun.
Beckett learns Perlmutter found gunpowder residue on Hayley’s hand. Beckett figures Hayley
shot at her attacker, but the attacker overpowered her, killed her, hung her body from a fire
escape, then applied lipstick on her to make the scene similar to her music video. Beckett asks
Castle if he has any theories of what happened and he jokes that he suspects Alexis killed her
since she has no alibi.
At home, Castle asks Alexis if she would tell him if she killed anyone. Martha tells Castle that
Alexis is watching Hayley’s final concert on her laptop. Castle says it seems dark since Hayley
sang about death. Alexis says Hayley was being symbolic. She explains Hayley was into tarot
cards where the death card means transformation and change. Martha compares the song to
the Beatles, but Alexis doesn’t want to hear it. Alexis receives an update on a website and learns
that Sky is going to be hired as the Hayley’s former band’s new lead singer. Castle figures the
band is able to use their original name since after Hayley died, the rights went to Sky. They see
that John McGinnis, Hayley’s former manager who got her first hooked on drugs, is reforming
the band. Castle figures John had the most to gain from Hayley’s death.
The police bring John to the station. He says he was in Philly when Hayley was murdered.
Beckett tells him they know he has a record of drug selling. John says he made Hayley into a star.
He says he is upset Hayley walked away from her. John says since the band is back together,
everyone is happy. Beckett asks him if he killed her for profit. John asks them to arrest him so
he can get the publicity. Beckett wonders if John is bluffing since he knows he is screwed. Ryan
reports that John called Zack the day before Hayley died.
Beckett and Castle go to meet Zack and find him fighting with Sky. Zack says Sky went crazy
while they practiced. Zack says he didn’t kill Hayley since he was at a gig. Beckett tells him they
know he took three half hour breaks. She asks him why John called him. Zack admits John knew
Hayley wanted to get back with her sister. John’s plan was to get the band together by drugging
Sky and using her to convince Hayley. He says Sky was too wasted, so he went to Hayley himself.
He says Hayley was writing songs in a coffee house, but freaked out every time she got a phone
call. He says he saw Death was on the caller ID.
The team wonders who was considered Death to Hayley. Because of the lyrics, Castle figures
Death is a woman. He explains in tarot cards death is equal to change. Beckett asks who could
represent change and Castle jokingly figures Hayley hated Obama. They figure since Bree sent
Hayley to rehab, she was the biggest change in her life. They hear Sky crying. She explains she
was singing her sister’s words and hearing her voice.
At the station, Ryan tells Beckett that he found credit card trail showing that Bree was at
a pharmacy. Esposito gives Beckett the receipt which shows Bree bought the same red lipstick
that was put on Hayley when she was dead.
The police go to Bree’s studio and she admits she saw Hayley the night she died. She says
she left Hayley a message to pick up her stuff at the house. She says Hayley came by and offered
her some drugs to force her stay and finish her record. Beckett tells Bree that Hayley was clean.
Castle sees a wall panel that looks newer than the other ones. Behind the panel, they find a
bullet hole.
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They bring Bree to the station. Beckett tells her she suspects she grabbed on Hayley while
she shot off her gun and accidentally broke her neck. Bree says she didn’t kill her and won’t lie
that she did.
Castle and Beckett look for Sky at a warehouse Zack told them she would be. They find Sky
in the corner shivering while having withdrawal. She says John offered her a bonus of a place
where she can do drugs, but she refused to sign.
At home, Castle updates Alexis on the case. Alexis listens to one of Hayley’s last songs. Castle
hears Hayley sing that someone who helped her stepped across her threshold. Castle figures they
have the wrong killer. Castle plays the song to Beckett. She realizes they have the wrong person.
Later, Beckett and Castle tells Bree she is free to go after she signs some paper work. They bring
Bree and Ian to a room and tell her Hayley helped them find their killer. They play her song and
inform him about the hidden meaning of a father figure, betrayal and violation in the song. Bree
says she took a sleeping pill the night Hayley died. Beckett says they got her phone record and
suspect Ian stole her phone and texted Hayley to meet him at the studio posing as Bree. Ian says
Hayley was the one who seduced him. Beckett tells Ian it was smart to stage the crime scene like
the stalker video, but he won’t get away with it.
Beckett informs the team that Bree filed for divorce after she found out what he did to Hayley.
She says Perlmutter found gunshot residue found on Ian’s coat. Later, Sky holds a memorial
concert in honor of her sister.
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Kill the Messenger

Season 2
Episode Number: 18
Season Episode: 8

Writer: Terence Paul Winter
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Show Stars: Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Sea-
mus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Mont-
Guest Stars: Jill Andre (Lenanne Wellesley), Rod Damer (Bartender), Josh Daugh-
erty (Trent Wellesley), Arye Gross (M.E. Sidney Perlmutter), Jeff Har-
lan (Frank Davis), Gregg Henry (Winston Wellesley), Taneka Johnson
(Edwina), Judy Kain (Sara), Sonya Leslie-Shepherd (Valerie Thomp-
son), Ron Melendez (Jeff Dilahunt), Mark Moses (Blake Wellesley), Ian
Salmon (Cab Driver), Hattie Winston (Sally Niedermeyer)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a bike messenger and the
past of a prominent family figures into the investigation.
A bike messenger recklessly weaves in

and out of traffic. A masked man in a car
crashes into the messenger and steals his
bag.
At the apartment, Alexis helps Martha
set up her a profile for a social site.
Martha asks Castle which picture she
should put up and shows him several old
photos of herself. Castle suggests she use
a recent photo, but she ignores his ad-
vice. Castle gets a call from Beckett who reports there is a dead body.
Castle arrives at the scene before Beckett. He describes the victim as Caleb Schimansky, but
stumbles during his presentation. Esposito says several witnesses reported the suspect’s plates.
Ryan says they ran the plates and found it was stolen a few hours ago.
At the station, Beckett updates Roy on the case. Beckett says she doesn’t know what was in
the messengers bag. Castle jokes and says he thinks the messenger was carrying either nuclear
launch codes or Dick Cheney’s soul on the way to the devil. After Beckett sees that Roy is
distracted, he admits their budget is under review and they might lose detectives.
Esposito learns the bag contained a package that was sent by a man named Shakir who is on
the terrorist watch list. They see the package was going to be sent to a police precinct. They raid
the apartment of Shakir and discover an elderly lady named Sally Niedermeyer. They figure the
messenger company wrote down the wrong name. Beckett asks what was in the package that
was sent to the police. She says the package came from her nephew Brady who gave it to her
before he went to prison several years ago. Sally says Brady called and asked her to deliver the
package to Roy, the person who arrested Brady. Beckett informs Sally that Roy is their boss.
Beckett informs Roy about the package. He says that Brady confessed he killed a woman
ten years ago. Esposito reports that Brady was shanked and died in prison this morning. Roy
orders Esposito to contact Brady’s wife. Paigely, the bike messenger’s sister, arrives to meet with
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Beckett. Castle watches as Beckett tells her the bad news. Roy says he is not okay since Paigley’s
brother died trying to deliver a package to him.
The detectives play the phone call that Brady made to instruct Sally to deliver the package.
They then listen to the call Brady made to Val, his wife. They hear that Brady was concerned for
their lives. Beckett reports that their is no witnesses on Brady’s attack since he was killed in the
prison yard. Ryan reports that Brady’s son has appointments with a doctor every Tuesday due
to a respiratory problem.
At home, Martha tells Castle she has been bombarded by endless friend requests. She says
people who she doesn’t want to reconnect with are wasting her time. She sees that her high
school sweetheart Chet sent her a message to meet. Castle informs her that Chet expects that
she looks younger.
Back at the station, Esposito says Val and her son Jared are at the station. Val asks Beckett if
they have any idea who killed Brady. She explains that the package was Brady’s insurance policy
that would prove he was innocent. Val admits that her family was receiving monthly payments
in exchange for Brady confession of guilt. She says they needed the money to help Jared with his
illness. Val says she is not sure if Brady knew who the killer was.
The police review the facts of the case. Since the payments to Val stopped last month, they
wonder if Brady wanted to turn in the evidence to punish the person he made a deal with.
They suspect someone from the prison was working with the person who killed Brady and the
messenger. Beckett suggests they look at the murder case that happened ten years ago. Castle
says when he writes, the hardest part is the beginning, but once that it is figured out, everything
else comes easy. He says all mysteries have motive, opportunity, and a cover up.
The team looks over the old murder case involving a young woman named Olivia. They wonder
if someone killed her and made it look like a robbery. They see that Olivia went to a high society
club called Pierson the night she was killed. They learn a waitress reported seeing Olivia arguing
with a man at the club.
Perlmutter tells Beckett and Castle that he looked at Olivia’s ME analysis. He doesn’t think
Olivia was killed by a baseball bat that Brady confessed to using. He suggests he exhume the
body to take a better look. Beckett learns that Olivia was arguing with a man named Jeff Dil-
lahunt who is a millionaire.
The team meets with Jeff. He remembers meeting Olivia and thought she was a party girl. Jeff
says Olivia wanted him to escort her to a family reunion for the Wellesley’s. Castle recognizes
the name as an influential family in which one of them became a Senator. Castle says another
Wellesley is looking to take over his father’s old seat. Jeff says he went clubbing the night that
Olivia was murdered. He says he was arrested for intoxication and spent the night in jail. Jeff
explains that all of the Wellesley’s dressed similar during the event, which means they have
several suspects who match the person spotted arguing with Olivia.
Roy reports that the police chief is upset their case closure rate has dropped. Esposito and
Ryan state the prison warden is refusing to release the staff roster. The detectives bring in the
waitress and ask her if she recognizes any of the Wellesley family members. She says since the
event took place a decade ago, she only remembers the person got so angry while arguing with
Olivia spilled wine on himself. Beckett and Castle take a closer look at the photo and find a man
with a stain on his shirt, Trent Wellesley.
The team meets with Trent at the Pierson Club. After learning the detectives were there,
Leanne Wellesley who was married to the Senator, says her ring was stolen. Trent admits that
he asked Olivia to leave since she was trying to chat up his family after Jeff left. Trent says that
since his dad died when he was young, his family had to live off handouts from the rest of the
family. The team learns that Trent is trying to protect his uncle Winston who took care of his
family. He explains that Winston just went through a bad break up at the time. He says he seen
Winston with the Olivia before.
The team meets with Winston who says that he met Olivia at a cocktail party. They tell him
that they know he was talking to Olivia the night she died. Winston says he was at home when
Olivia died. The bartender informs Winston that his car is ready. Winston says he has to help his
brother with his Senate campaign.
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Roy and the team ask Olivia’s aunt if they can exhume Olivia’s body. The aunt says Olivia’s
mom died from cancer. After the aunt learns Olivia is going to be buried the same way, she agrees
to let the police exhume the body. The aunt says Winston paid for Olivia’s funeral. Later, Roy is
able to get the prison work roster.
Blake, the Wellselley who is running for Senator, arrives at the station and tells Roy that he is
willing to cooperate with the police. He requests that they ease up on the impromptu interviews.
He asks if the interviews take place at his office. Roy says his detectives will conduct their
investigations as they see fit. Blake says he can get the commissioner on the phone in a minute.
Roy says tells him to say hi for him and that he would like a raise. After Blake leaves, Castle says
what he witnessed was awesome.
Back home, Martha works on accepting and ignoring friend requests. She tells Castle that
using the old photo was a bad idea. Castle says 1980’s Martha was pretty great, but present day
Martha is spectacular. Castle suggests she look up Chet’s profile. She is surprised that Chet also
used an old photo.
At the station, Perlmutter receives Olivia’s coffin. He warns the team that after he opens it,
they can expect a terrible smell because of the decomposition. After they lift open the coffin,
they see it is full of sand bags. Beckett learns that the funeral was open casket and the body
was removed after the ceremony. Castle is impressed how the killer had contingency plans for
their contingency plans. He compares the killer to a supervillain. Castle asks if they can open
the coffin drawer which usually contains belongings. They find a picture of Olivia’s mother wear-
ing a Casper Wellessly while working the phones at his campaign office. The detectives discover
that Casper had his sons Blake and Winston worked at the same campaign office where Olivia’s
mother worked. They wonder why Blake and Winston failed to mention they crossed paths with
her. The detectives bring in a prison guard named Patterson who recently made large cash de-
posits.
Beckett and Castle meet with Winston and tell him they know he paid for Olivia’s funeral. He
admits he is Olivia’s father. He says he was on the verge of telling everyone just before she was
tragically killed. They accuse him of hiding Olivia’s body.
Back at the station, Esposito and Ryan report that Winston’s alibi the night when Olivia died
checked out. Winston was with a man named Stanley Winston. They figure Winston was lying
about being Olivia’s father since he is gay. The police wonder who Winston was protecting. They
team brings in Winston and Blake. Blake says he never saw Edna, Olivia’s mother, after the
summer he met her. Blake asks Winston why he kept Edna’s secret. Winston explains they were
in a middle of a campaign and the secret would cost him the election. The team learns that
Lenanne Wellesley, Blake and Winston’s mother, also knew the secret.
The team meets with Lenanne at the club. She says she told Olivia that Winston was her
father. They ask her what happened to Olivia the night she died. Lenanne says that Olivia an-
noyed her with questions ten years ago. Lenanne admits she ordered Frank Davis, her assistant,
to take care of Olivia. Roy confronts Frank in front of the club area. Roy informs Frank they
know he hired a guard to monitor Brady’s calls and someone to kill him. Roy arrests Frank. At
the station, they discover that Frank was the the family’s clean up man. They learn that after
Lenanne lost her mental capacity, Blake was granted power of attorney and didn’t provide Frank
with enough money to pay off Blake. Frank stopped paying Blake, found out that he had evidence
of Olivia’s murder, stole Lenanne’s ring, sold the ring, then funded Blake’s murder and the theft
of the package. Beckett says the three closed cases put them above their quota just in time for
their review. Castle watches as Beckett updates Paigely on the case.
At home, Castle tells after Blake learned about Brady’s deal, he pledged $20 million dollars to
a children’s fund that will take care of Blake’s son. They see Martha getting ready to go out with
Chet. She explains she just wants to have fun with Chet. She tells them not to wait up for her.
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Love Me Dead
Season 2
Episode Number: 19
Season Episode: 9

Show Stars: Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben
Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Susan Sullivan (Martha
Rodgers), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett),
Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Guest Stars: Michaela McManus (Scarlett Price), J.B. Smoove (Norman Jessup),
Jonathan LaPaglia (John Knox), Charles Chun (Paul Cho), Na-
talie Cohen (Escort), Chris Conrad (Husband), Shari Headley (Nicole
Cameron), Ray Laska (Dan Tonelli), Danny Nucci (Gilbert Mazzara),
Nancy Young (Arguing Wife)
Summary: The murder of an Assistant District Attorney thrusts Castle and Beck-
ett into the world of ex-cons and escorts. But when Castle’s desire
to help a vulnerable call girl endangers the case, Beckett is forced to
decide between honoring promises and putting a killer behind bars.
Matters are complicated even further when Castle’s daughter shares a
potentially explosive secret with Beckett instead of her father.
While a couple argues, a body crashes

on top of their car. At home, Castle over-
hears Alexis tell someone about someone
who is going to freak out. Castle gets a
call and meets with Beckett at the scene.
He asks her if she keeps secrets from
her dad and she admits she does. Cas-
tle explains he wants to be cool dad and
wait until Alexis wants to talk to him. The
team finds that Roy is there. He explains
the victim was Jack Buckley the assistant DA. Esposito and Ryan say Buckley’s jacket was
torn during a fight. They wonder why Buckley was on top of a parking garage since he took the
subway. The detectives report that Buckley was divorced to a woman who now lives in California.
At Buckley’s office, Scarlett, the secretary, brings in the last cases that Buckley was work-
ing on. She says he was upset the past couple days. Another staff member named Nicole says
Buckley got in an argument with a man the police brought in. Nicole says the officer was named
Frank Curtis. Later, Beckett reports the man brought in was John Knox. Castle sees he has a
long criminal record.
In the interrogation room, Knox asks the team what they want. Beckett says Buckley is dead.
Beckett says she knows he was charged with attempted homicide, but Knox says he was never
convicted. Castle asks Knox if he works out since it would have taken a lot of strength to throw
Buckley off a building. Knox says Buckley was upset when he lost the case against him, brought
him in to rattle him, but it was nothing to kill him over. Beckett asks if he has an alibi. Knox says
he was at an AA meeting in which they can confirm with his sponsor Reverend Daniel Miller.
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Ryan updates Roy on the case. He says Knox’s alibi seems solid. He finds that Buckley made
an extra trip before work the day he was killed. Esposito says someone was demanding to talk to
Buckley at his apartment. Esposito shows Roy a still shot from a security camera. Castle looks
at the photo and recognizes him from the case files Scarlett gave to him. They learn the man is
Norman Jessup who was busted for a bank robbery. Esposito says the conviction was overturned
two weeks ago over a technicality. Soon after, Buckley filed a intent to retry Jessup.
Beckett and Castle find Jessup getting beat up in a bar fight. Jessup is accidentally punched
in his face. Beckett handcuffs Jessup and takes him to the station. Jessup says the guy in the
bar started the fight. Jessup says he had no idea his buddies were going to rob a bank when
he was busted. Beckett asks how he felt about Buckley’s intent to retry. Jessup says he felt like
he was going to cry since prison is not fun. Jessup figured if he could talk to Buckley, he would
turn him around. Jessup admits he followed Buckley until he got his courage up to talk to him.
Jessup says he was at the bar when Buckley was killed. Castle asks if he followed Buckley during
his unknown trip before work. Jessup says Buckley argued with an Asian man outside a fancy
apartment.
Castle and Beckett are directed to the apartment by Jessup. He asks if he can take off the
handcuffs then removes it himself. He explains that he was always good with locks. He shares
he applied to locksmith schools, but they wouldn’t let him in since he is a felon. Castle gets in
the back seat where Jessup shows him how to get out of the handcuffs. Just before they pull up
to the building, Beckett gets a call from Alexis who asks to meet her later. Beckett explains to
Castle that Alexis only wants some advice.
Beckett learns that the only Asian in the building is Paul Cho who happens to be Buckley’s
brother in law. Cho says he hasn’t seen Buckley in months, but Beckett says he is lying to him.
Cho admits he was attacked by a man in a ski mask. The man ordered him to tell Buckley to
back off Danton. He says he told Buckley about the message which upset him. He admits he
has a fondness for call girls. The team figures that Danton is a pimp. The team wonders since
Buckley was investigating the escort service, the pimp found out that one of his family members
was a client, used him to send a message, then killed him after he wouldn’t back down. Beckett
asks Cho to call the escort service and send a girl.
The team waits and meets the call girl who is Scarlett from Buckley’s office. They bring her to
the station. Scarlett says Buckley was a client of the escort service, but they spent most of their
time talking. She says since Buckley found a law book in her bag, he offered her an internship
position in his office. Castle asks who Danton is, but she doesn’t know. She explains that Danton
set up his organization to protect himself.
Roy says he can’t believe Buckley was seeing prostitutes. Castle thinks it didn’t make sense
that Buckley was seeing prostitutes from the business he was investigating. Beckett wonders if
Danton wanted to blackmail Buckley, but it backfired. Beckett asks Castle to sign the charges
against Jessop, but he refuses. Beckett calls the jail and tells them to release Jessop.
Castle finds Scarlett after she broke her heel. He asks her why she works as a prostitute. She
says she went to New York in a broke down car. She thought things were going to be perfect,
but she was robbed the first day she got there. Later, the friend she was supposed to stay with
fell through. She explains after another friend told her about the work, she didn’t think her life
could get any worse. Scarlett thanks Castle for listening, then leaves. Beckett tells Castle she is
going to meet Alexis. Castle asks if he can come along, but she says no.
Castle meets with Martha and asks her what Alexis’s secret is. Martha says Alexis recognizes
that Beckett is strong and independent. Alexis comes home and tells Castle that Beckett is really
nice. Castle says if she doesn’t want to talk, she doesn’t have too. Martha asks why he didn’t
ask her and Castle explains that cool dads don’t pry, but they can go behind her back and ask
Beckett.
Esposito and Ryan talk to Gilbert Mazzara from the Vice department. He informs the detec-
tives that Danton’s real name is Dan Tonelli and he arrested him several years ago. He says
Danton is currently in jail after Buckley put him in there. They wonder if Danton is still running
things from prison. Gilbert explains the call girl ring could have been passed to another person
while using the same name. Gilbert says he has tried to make arrests, but Danton evaded him
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Castle tells the detectives about how Alexis is keeping a secret. The detectives make Castle
worry by suggesting she dropped out of school or is on drugs. Beckett and Castle meet with Dan.
They see that Buckley asked to make a deal and wonder what he gave in return. Dan is surprised
that Buckley is dead. Dan laughs after they say they suspect Danton killed Buckley. He explains
Danton and Buckley were the same person. Dan says he gave up his client list and girls for the
reduced sentence.
Castle figures Buckley’s position was the reason why the new Danton was not busted. Castle
wonders if Buckley thought he was above the law. Beckett wonders why a masked man would
threaten Cho. She figures someone else took over the business. Beckett plans on talking to
Scarlett since she probably knows what happened.
The team goes to Buckley’s office and learns that Scarlett has been fired, but is still in the
office packing her stuff. They tell her they know she knew that Buckley was Danton. Scarlett
says she would be killed if she talked. She says the new Danton used to work for Buckley. Castle
and Beckett assures her she will be protected. Scarlett says she can’t pursue her legal career
without Buckley, but Castle tells her she can do it herself. Castle says Beckett will make sure
Scarlett will not be known as the person who identified Danton. She says the new Danton is
John Knox.
As they drive, Castle thinks a prosecutor turned pimp would make a great character for a
book. Castle figures Buckley hired John Knox as an enforcer in exchange for dropping his case.
They suspect Knox wanted more which started the feud and resulted in Buckley’s death. Beckett
wonders if Knox sent out someone else to kill Buckley since he has an alibi.
Beckett and Castle meet with Knox outside a club. He meets with two girls then walks away.
Beckett says she can’t arrest Knox unless they have a reason. Castle goes home and finds Scarlett
beat up in his hallway. He lets her in and advises she go to a hospital. She explains a client in the
publishing business gave her his address. He asks if Knox hurt her. He tells her to get out from
under Knox’s thumb. Scarlett gives Castle a kiss, but he pulls back. He tells her she is safe at
his house. She says Knox killed Buckley then shows him a photo of her with the Reverend. She
explains the Reverend is a client who Knox is blackmailing. Castle takes Scarlett to the hospital.
The next day, Castle tells Beckett that he thinks Knox killed Buckley, then shows her the pic-
ture. After she asks where he got the picture, Castle explains Scarlett met her at his apartment
and gave him the photo. Esposito says Knox is not at his apartment. Castle worries about Scar-
lett, calls and learns that a man checked her out last night. Castle gets a call from Scarlett who
says she thinks someone is going to kill her. The team arrives at the source of Scarlett’s phone
call. Becky asks Castle to stay behind her. In a room, they hear Scarlett scream before several
shots are fired. The police break in the door and find Scarlett with a gun over Knox’s body. She
admits she killed Knox. She explains Knox attacked her after she grabbed his gun.
Later, Castle asks Beckett if Scarlett will be okay. She says she doesn’t know. She explains
girls in the industry come from abused homes. Jessup is brought to the station. He tells Castle
and Beckett that he found a locksmith college that will take him, but he needs a letter of recom-
mendation from a police officer. Beckett refuses to write one, but Castle asks her to have a heart.
After Beckett says she can’t watch Jessup 24 hours a day, Castle remembers that Scarlett was
beat up when surveillance was on him. Jessup looks at the bolt of Knox’s room and explains the
lock wasn’t used since the door was not destroyed. Castle and Beckett figure Scarlett was not
the hostage. They suspect Scarlett became Knox’s partner, played as a victim, then killed him.
Meanwhile at a cafe, Scarlett receives a call from a client and sets up an appointment. Castle
calls and asks for girl. After she asks him what kind of girl, Castle asks for one who has Scarlett’s
similar story of coming to New York. Scarlett realizes Castle is on the other line. Scarlett explains
she needed to take a couple jobs to reestablish herself. Castle says he is disappointed in her
misuse of her intelligence. The police arrive and arrest Scarlett.
At home, Alexis gives Castle a hug and thanks him for trusting her. Castle says he knew she
would talk to her when she was ready. Alexis explains her school is holding a foreign exchange
program with France. Although Beckett encouraged her to go, she decided not to. Alexis says she
wants to go to Oxford for college. Castle asks her if she knows it is in England, but she is already
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One Man’s Treasure

Season 2
Episode Number: 20
Season Episode: 10

Writer: Elizabeth Davies
Director: Helen Shaver
Show Stars: Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy
Montgomery), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beck-
ett), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito),
Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan)
Guest Stars: David Appelbaum (Clerk), Ana Ayora (Young Woman), Link Baker
(Officer), Matt Champagne (Andy Berman), Nick Jaine (Forensic IT
Guy), Perrey Reeves (Helen Parker), Alex Skuby (Charlie DePetro), Abi-
gail Spencer (Sarah Reid), D.B. Woodside (Lance Carlberg), Anthony
DiRocco (Sam Parker / Jake Holland), Mohammad Kavianpour (Dry
Cleaning Delivery Guy)
Summary: When a murdered man is found stuffed in the garbage chute of an
apartment building and two women arrive to ID his body – one his
wife and the other his fiancé – Castle and Beckett have their hands full
keeping the women from killing each other as they work to peel back
the layers of the victim’s double life. Was it a jilted woman, corporate
espionage, or a much darker secret that led to his demise?
As a woman throws away a pizza box

in her apartment, she sees the body of
a man in the garbage chute. Meanwhile,
Castle plays with a toy helicopter in the
apartment while Martha practices lines.
Alexis asks Castle if he signed her per-
mission slip to volunteer at the police
station. She says Beckett volunteered to
give her the orientation. Castle gets a call
about the murder case.
In the basement of the apartment building, Parish briefs the detectives about the body. She
says the dead man was shot in the chest at close range. Beckett sees that Castle is plugging his
nose because of the trash. He explains he has an acute sense of smell. Ryan finds the man’s
wallet and discovers the man’s name is Sam Parker who lived in Connecticut. Esposito reports
that the man was shot next to the trash chute then shoved down. Esposito finds a two liter bottle
that was used as a silencer.
Castle asks Beckett if she is okay showing Alexis around. The other detectives inform Beckett
and Castle that Sam’s wife is coming in to identify her husband. Beckett tells a woman in the
morgue she is sorry for her loss. Sam’s wife arrives and is surprised to see another woman there.
The other woman explains she is Sam’s fiance. Castle tells the dead man he is so busted.
Beckett tells Roy about the situation. Beckett suggests they talk to the fiance, Sarah Reed
first. Sarah explains she knew Sam as Jake Holland. Sarah realizes that Jake lied to her. She
says a friend from work introduced them. She says she was supposed to have dinner with him,
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but he didn’t show up. Before she went to the morgue, she says she learned that there was a
body at the station and found it was her fiance.
Beckett tells Sam’s wife Helen that Sam met Sarah in his office. Helen says Sam started at
his new job, New York Recycle, six months ago. She explains Sam was a waste reduction and
energy efficiency consultant and took the job in the city after he was passed over for a promotion
at his old job Connecticut Solutions. She says he planned on moving to the city if his job went
well. She explains that since she had two kids, she spent all day watching them.
Castle tells Esposito and Ryan that Sam treated the women that they were his one and only.
Beckett informs the team that both women have soft alibis. Beckett says she doesn’t understand
why Sam changed his identity before having an affair. Castle believes Sam was wanting two wives
which is two too many for him.
Castle makes Alexis an organic lunch to take to the station. He is surprised to see her dressed
so grown up. At the station, Beckett shows Alexis the property room which contains items that
will not be used for evidence. She explains they need to categorize then move everything into
storage. Beckett apologizes that the work is menial, but explains they are short on man power.
Ryan and Esposito brings items from Sam’s apartment to the station. They play a voicemail
on his cellphone that has a message from a man named Charles Depetro as he threatens to tell
Helen what is happening. They learn that Charles is Helen’s brother.
Beckett and Castle bring in Charles who says he didn’t know Sam had a fiance until his sister
told him. He explains he left the message since Sam owed him $20,000 to pay for his home
mortgage. He says Sam didn’t pay him a cent since he told him he was getting paid less in his
new job.
Ryan reports that Charles was working late when Sam was killed. Castle wonders why Sam
took a less paying job. Beckett and Castle meet with Sam’s boss, Lance Carlberg, in his office of
New York Recycle. He says at the time he was hired, he called Sam/Jake’s references and received
glowing recommendations. Lance says he will send over Sam’s resume. He says he knew that he
was romantically involved with Sarah and thought they had a solid relationship.
Back at the station, Beckett calls the references and sees that they are all out of service.
Castle and Beckett visit Alexis and sees that she is handling her work very well. Alexis says she
found a book of old photos and would like it to be returned to the owner’s family, but Beckett
says it is hard to track down the owner since there is no case number attached. Beckett tells her
she will give her a list of detectives who might recognize the photos.
Sarah meets with Beckett and Castle and tells them she recognized Helen. She explains she
saw Helen waiting in her car outside of Sam’s apartment. Beckett and Castle visit Helen and
see the car she drives is exactly like Sarah described. Helen says she never went to visit Sam
and suggests Sarah might be the one who is lying. She says she received a lot of hang up calls
recently and Sarah called after Sam died to see when the funeral was taking place and asked for
items including a pen.
At the station, Esposito tells Castle and Beckett that the customers of Sam’s old company,
Connecticut Solutions, was being taken by New York Recycle. He explains the new company
developed a new technology that brought in new business. Castle wonders if Sam made up the
fake references since he figured he wouldn’t be hired if NYR knew that he worked for its rival.
Ryan learns that Sam’s reference numbers were set up by Sam’s old company. They figure that
Sam was sent to the NYR as a spy to learn their secrets.
Castle and Beckett inform Lance about their theory. Lance says they have a new battery
recycling technology that Sarah worked on. Castle wonders if Sam got close to Sarah in order
to learn how the technology worked. Beckett asks if they can take a look at Sarah and Sam’s
computers to see if there is any leak of information. Outside of the office, Sarah asks Beckett if
the rumors are true. Sarah figures that Sam never loved her.
Back at the station, the tech tells Esposito and Ryan that Sam was sending emails to the
CEO of Connecticut Solutions, Andy Berman. Beckett and Castle bring in Andy who admits he
was communicating to Sam. He says Andy wanted to meet and explain New York Recycle’s new
technology. Andy admits he was going to pay Sam a million dollars to get himself planted in
the company and report back with the formula for the new technology. He says Sam gave them
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incomplete chemical formulas in the past, which failed. Andy says he went to meet Sam, but
turned around when he saw that the building was surrounded by police. After Beckett accuses
Andy of killing Sam instead of paying him, Andy asks for a lawyer.
The other detectives tell Beckett that Helen and Sarah were arrested and want to speak to
her. At the home, Sarah says she was looking for her grandfather’s fountain pen that Sam had.
Sarah says she found the pen and suspects Helen never looked after she asked for it. Beckett
looks in Sarah’s purse and finds that there is nothing else taken. Sarah accuses Helen for being
the cause of Sam’s ulcers. Beckett orders the women to calm down.
The next day, Castle sees Alexis off as she goes back to the property room. He finds Beckett
still working on the case. Beckett says she thinks the drive to Connecticut was a long distance
just to reclaim a pen. She also says that she found that Sam didn’t have any ulcers. After Beckett
reports that Sarah was told that Sam/Jake had a doctor’s appointment every Tuesday, Castle
wonders if he was seeing another woman. Esposito and Ryan inform the team that the doctor
had no record of seeing either Sam or Jake. Ryan says that Sam went to different destinations
after he was picked up and used the doctor’s appointment as a cover story.
Castle visits with Alexis who says she ran into a dead end with the photos. She explains
she wants the pictures to get back to the family. After Castle suggests she will retire from law
enforcement soon, Alexis thanks him for a new lead she just thought up.
Esposito and Ryan report that a destination that Sam went to belonged to a single mother
named Laura Branston. They see that Laura was posing as Sarah Reed. After Beckett and Castle
bring in Sarah, she admits she was hired by Lance after he suspected that Sam was a spy.
Sarah says she was supposed to plant a laptop with fake formulas in his apartment. Castle and
Beckett tell Sarah that Sam made her and discovered where she really lived. Beckett accuses
Sarah of already knowing that Sam knew her double life then killed him. Sarah says she was at
her daughter’s dance recital when Sam was killed.
Beckett wonders if Sarah’s pen is special. Later, Beckett and Castle search through Sam’s
home office. Castle wonders if Sarah disposed of evidence at the scene. He discovers that the
paper shredder is still turned on. After they assemble several photos that were shredded, they
see that Sam photographed New York Recycle workers who switched labels on containers of
recycled batteries then loaded on a boat to be dumped in the ocean.
The detectives bring in Lance and accuse his company of dumping the batteries in the ocean.
Beckett tells him he sold his customers a false bill of goods. Beckett shows Lance a gun they
found in his dumpster that matches the gun used to kill Sam.
Beckett and Castle tell Helen about her husband. They explain that Lance tried to bribe Sam
not to talk after he learned that the company was dumping the dangerous chemicals. After Sam
refused to take the bribe, Lance shot and killed him.
The next day, Castle informs Beckett that the EPA is shutting down New York Recycle after
Lance was charged with murder. Beckett gets a call and learns a woman is coming up to pick up
the photos that Alexis found. Alexis tells Castle that she spoke to a retired officer who recognized
the owner of the photos. Beckett commends Alexis and says the photos are important since the
daughter lost her mom. Beckett asks Alexis to hand over the photos to the victim’s daughter.
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The Fifth Bullet

Season 2
Episode Number: 21
Season Episode: 11
Originally aired: Monday December 7, 2009

Writer: David Grae
Show Stars: Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Nathan
Fillion (Richard Castle), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Susan Sulli-
van (Martha Rodgers), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Mont-
gomery), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Guest Stars: Anne Dudek (Emma Keane), Marc Blucas (Jeremy Chadwick), Phil
LaMarr (Dr. Holloway), J.P. Pitoc (Darius Langley), Marisa Ramirez
(Angelica Fink), Carlo Rota (Bahir Harun), Dahlia Salem (Tory Westch-
ester), Rider Strong (Rocco Jones), Eltony Williams (Officer Marino),
Desiree Taylor (Attendant), Courtney Geigle (Driver)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate an art dealer that is shot in his gallery,
but the bullet is inexplicably missing from the crime scene. To add to
that, the only witness suffers from amnesia.
Beckett finds Castle playing with a dog

at the crime scene. She tells him they
make a good couple. They see a body of
a gallery owner named Victor Fink. Beck-
ett wonders if Fink’s killer knew he was
in the gallery working late or planned to
meet him. Lanie says Fink gave a fight
before he was shot twice in the back by
a 9mm. Becket meets with Darius Lang-
ley, Fink’s assistant. He says he takes art
classes at Tisch where he was when Fink died. Langley says he will give her a contact list. Ryan
says they found four bullets and five shells. Castle wonders where the fifth bullet is.
At the station, Castle suggests the fifth bullet was made of ice, but Beckett doesn’t want to
hear his theory. Esposito and Ryan tell Beckett that Fink last got a call from a cell phone located
in Bahrain. An officer tells Ryan that they have someone who doesn’t remember anything.
Beckett and Castle meets with Mrs. Fink and ask her who could have hurt her husband. Mrs.
Fink says Rocco, Fink’s old assistant, was fired recently and replaced by Langley. She explains
Rocco made several threats. Esposito tells Castle that Ryan is working on a mugging case in
which the victim doesn’t remember who he is.
Ryan informs the man he has an inhaler which probably makes him an asthmatic. Castle
introduces himself to the victim. Ryan sees that the victim has a book with a 9 mm bullet lodged
in it.
Castle asks Alexis if she would like a dog to help her carry her books. Alexis says she doesn’t
want to scoop poop. Martha returns home and admits she spent the night out. Castle tells Martha
he figures she reconnected with her high school sweet heart Chet. Martha tells him about her
night out and says she feels great.
At the station, the team finds the victim doesn’t have his prints in the system. Ryan confirms
the bullet matches the ones found at the gallery. As Beckett gets up, he bumps into Castle who
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spills coffee on her. Castle, Beckett visit as Holloway, the psychiatrist, informs the victim his
episodic memory has been affected which can keep his memories hidden forever. He explains the
physical trauma combined with mental probably caused the amnesia. Castle has the victim sign
a piece of paper after he figures that his procedural or muscle memory is still intact. They see his
signature starts with the letter J, but the rest is illegible. They figure they should call him Jay.
Esposito brings in Rocco who admits he painted forgeries for Fink. He admits he sold the
painting to a diplomat named Bahir Harum from Bahrain. Esposito and Ryan bring Jay to the
gallery to attempt to jog his memory. Langley gives Esposito a record of all of Fink’s sales. At the
station, Esposito wonders if Harum killed Fink after he learned he scammed him. Roy informs
Beckett they put in a State Department request to interview Harum. Beckett asks to keep Jay at
the station.
Ryan sets up a couch for Jay to sleep. Jay says he is terrified someone tried to kill him.
Beckett tells him they are going to release his photo to the media the next day. Jay worries no
one will recognize him.
At the apartment, Alexis tells Castle that Martha broke up with Chet. Martha says that Chet
is not the man she thought he was. Castle asks what happened, but Alexis tells him to back off.
Martha says she is eating ice cream to go through the five flavors of grieving.
Ryan tells Beckett that Jay is being tested for his cognitive abilities. Beckett says they have to
ID Jay to find out what happened. She sees that his picture is on the news. Castle and Beckett
see that Jay is not an artist as he produces a poor picture of him. A woman walks in and gives
Jay a hug and kiss. Ryan explains the woman is Tory Westchester, Jay’s wife. Castle sees that
Jay is crying. Tory tells Jay she will get through his amnesia. She says Jay’s real name is Joel.
Jay has trouble breathing and uses his inhaler. Tory admits she has eight cats and isn’t really
married. Later, Ryan reports that Tory has been in several mental facilities.
Harum arrives at the station. Beckett tells the team to see if Harum has any reaction to Jay.
Harum admits he knew Fink’s work were fake. He explains his friend’s wives in Bahrain are
shallow. He adds the women only care about labels and he uses that fact to make money. He
says he met with Fink after he called him, but was told to leave after he got in an argument with
Jay. Beckett says she is not done with her questions, but he says he is. Esposito says they found
video showing Harum at the time Fink died.
Beckett and the team goes over the evidence they have on Jay. They see that there is gun
powder residue on his clothes. Castle grabs a plastic bag and explains it will tell them who Jay
is. Castle figures Jay had a bag since he had a dog. They go to the kennel and find the dog that
was on the street the night Fink died. They learn that the dog belonged to Jeremy Preswick.
Beckett informs Jeremy about his life and that he has an ex-wife named Emma. Ryan brings in
Emma who is thanked by Jeremy. He tells her it must be weird for her to come out and help
him. Beckett asks Emma where Jeremy works and he says he doesn’t. Emma explains Jeremy
is crazy smart, had a business, then sold it. Jeremy asks Emma why they split up and she says
they were both jerks. Jeremy says he doesn’t recognize her, but she is gorgeous. Emma explains
she hasn’t spoken to Jeremy in over a year.
Beckett takes the team to Jeremy’s apartment in which he doesn’t recognize. Castle finds a
wallet and tells Jeremy he doesn’t think he was mugged. Castle sees a large collection of books
including his mystery series. Castle sees a Taglia, which is an expensive painting. Emma explains
Jeremy was supposed to sell the painting after their divorce and gave her half of the money. She
is surprised he kept it. Beckett finds a 9mm with five bullets missing.
At the station, Beckett asks Lanie if it is possible that Jeremy shot Fink. Lanie says the
wounds on Fink’s wrists indicate that he turned the gun on Jeremy then shot. Castle remembers
that Jeremy was in a fugue state and wonders if he dropped off the gun then went back out.
After arresting Jeremy, he thanks Beckett for telling him who he is. Jeremy asks them to tell him
if they figure out why he shot Fink.
Castle tells Beckett he can’t believe Jeremy is going to be convicted for a murder he doesn’t
remember. Beckett says the smoking gun is enough to convict. Castle says he wants to know
the motive. They return to Jeremy’s apartment and find Emma getting prescriptions for Lucy,
Jeremy’s dog. Emma says she thought there could be a second chance with Jeremy. She says it
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was like they first met. Emma explains Jeremy was forced to buy the Taglia since he smudged it
with his thumb at an artist’s studio. After Emma notices that the thumb print is not there, Castle
and Beckett realize it is a fake. They figure that it is the connection between Fink and Jeremy.
Beckett and Castle meet with Harum as he is loading his car. Harum explains he has diplo-
matic immunity. Beckett asks Harum’s driver if he has his license since he is double parked.
After the driver says everyone in New York double parks, Beckett says he is resisting arrest, then
searches the car. Inside, they find the original Taglia painting. Beckett tells Harum he could ei-
ther cooperate or have the State Department called. Harum admits he asked Fink to obtain the
Taglia. He says he was sent away, but was sold the painting later by Darius Langley.
The team brings in Langley and tells him they have a report by Jeremy’s super who said he
was bribed to be let in his apartment. Langley confesses he switched the painting in Jeremy’s
apartment with a fake. Beckett and Castle tell him they know he took on his roommates identity
in order to land the job at the gallery. They tell him they also know his real name is George
Heller and has two other felonies for forgery and counterfeiting. They describe their theory that
Fink found out about his real identity which forced him to shoot Jeremy and Fink. Beckett tells
George that they know he bribed the super twice. She explains the second time was when he
planted the gun after he learned Jeremy lost his memory.
Later, Castle and Beckett release Jeremy and return his painting. Castle asks Emma if they
are back together and Emma says what matters is they like each other. Ryan asks how long
he thinks they will last. At home, Martha shows Castle a dead flower and explains it is a bou-
tonniÃ¨re she gave Chet durin prom. She says Chet is asking for a second chance and she is
afraid of what is going to happen. Castle advises she make new memories.
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A Rose for Everafter

Season 2
Episode Number: 22
Season Episode: 12
Originally aired: Monday January 11, 2010

Writer: Terri Edda Miller, Alexi Hawley
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana
Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Seamus Dever
(Kevin Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Susan Sullivan (Martha
Rodgers), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery)
Guest Stars: Joe Nieves (Boyd Gamble), Brian Patrick Mulligan (Justice of the
Peace), Brady Smith (Greg Murphy), Kevin Herrera (Waiter), Mimi
Kuzyk (Sheila Blaine), Graham Beckel (Uncle Teddy), Kimberly Estrada
(Lisa Bloomfield), Gina Hiraizumi (Laurie Hill), Ryan Alosio (Mike
Weitz), Deborah Strang (Ruby Osiris-Schwartzman), Alyssa Milano
(Kyra)
Summary: Castle and Beckett are called to a wedding to investigate the mur-
der of a bridesmaid. Castle realizes that the wedding is from a former
girlfriend Kyra. Everyone’s feelings are compromised, since Kyra has
doubts about who she is marrying, Castle’s feelings may not be as ob-
jective in the case and Beckett picks up the connection between them,
making her a little jealous and have poor judgement.
At a hotel before a wedding, the knock

on the door of a bridesmaid named So-
phie. After they have a maid open the
door, they see that the bed hasn’t been
slept in. The party finds the body of So-
phie in a closet.
At the apartment, Castle has Alexis
duct tape him so he can test how Nikki
heat can escape in the situation in his
upcoming book. While he is restrained,
Alexis takes money from his wallet so she can go out shopping with Martha. While on the chair,
Castle gets a call from Beckett, but is unable to take it.
The detectives examine Sophie’s body in her room. Lanie says Sophie was choked and her
earring was yanked out of her lobe. Lanie reports Sophie was killed earlier that morning. Ryan
states that the bride and groom are named Greg and Kyra.
Back at his apartment, Castle struggles to free the tape off of his mouth by using a garbage
can lid.
While Beckett questions Greg and Kyra, she learns that they slept in separate rooms last
night. Greg says Sophie is the person who introduced each other, but they haven’t kept in touch
over the years.
Castle finally arrives at the hotel after freeing himself. Esposito notices Castle has duct tape
stuck on his pant leg. After Beckett tells Castle she doesn’t think about getting married, he
doesn’t believe her. After meeting the bride, Castle realizes the case involves his ex-girlfriend
Kyra.
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Kyra and Castle flirt while they remember the last time they saw each other. Lanie shows
Beckett several odd shaped abrasions found on Sophie’s back. Castle wonders why Kyra changed
her mind about them getting married. After she introduces Castle to Greg, he recognizes him as
Kyra’s ex-boyfriend. Castle tells Beckett that Kyra is the woman that got away from him.
While interviewing the wedding party, Ryan learns Sophie was hesitant in coming to the
ceremony. They see that one of the guests, Mike, is missing. The guests report they saw Mike
with Sophie last night, but haven’t seen him since. Beckett orders the team to put an APB on the
missing person. Castle has the team review the footage taken by video cameras given to the party.
They watch as Sophie slipped away during a speech after she received a call that originated from
the hotel lobby. They review surveillance video and see the call came from a drug dealer that
Ryan recognizes as Boyd Gamble.
As Beckett and Kyra ride down an elevator, Kyra admits she still reads Castle’s books. Kyra
says she knows that Castle dedicates his books to people he cares about.
After the detectives bring Boyd to the station, he admits Sophie asked him to sell her roofies.
Castle meets with Shiela, Kyra’s mother, who he explains didn’t approve of his relationship with
Kyra. The team finds Mike locked in a supply closet. He tells the team that Sophie drugged and
trapped him.
Mike says Sophie flirted with him and spiked his drink with roofies. He states Sophie seemed
like she was determined to sleep with him, but he now realizes it was too good to be true.
Beckett catches Ryan and Esposito chowing down on the wedding food. She orders them to
find out as much as possible about Sophie. Castle goes to the reception hall and finds Kyra
tasting the cake. Kyra says if things gone as planned that day, she would be dancing with her
husband by now. After Castle reminds her she asked for space in their relationship, Kyra tells
him that she didn’t mean it to be taken as forever. After Beckett tells Castle they are ready to
leave, she sees he still has feelings for Kyra. Later, Castle explains he met Kyra in college. Beckett
describes Kyra as being different than his other ex-wives by being real.
Lanie reports she found traces of metal on Sophie’s back that she sent to the lab. Lanie asks
Beckett if she is jealous about Kyra and Castle’s past relationship, but she denies she is.
Esposito and Ryan tell Beckett that Castle dedicated his second novel to Kyra. The team
wonders who stole Mike’s keycard and entered his room. In his room, they see that the door to
the adjacent room is open. After they discover Sophie’s missing earring, Greg enters and asks
what they are doing in his room.
At the station, Greg insists he didn’t kill Sophie. He says he came to his room, passed out in
his room drunk and found Sophie in his bed. He says he would never cheat on Kyra especially
with Sophie. Greg admits he slept with Sophie a couple of times before he was with Kyra. He
says he pushed Sophie away after he discovered her in bed with him. After Greg demands Castle
to leave the room, Beckett tells him to talk to the other detectives. Later, Beckett is forced to let
Greg go since she doesn’t have evidence for murder. Beckett tells Castle he is too close to the
case and Kyra to think of her as a suspect. She suggests he stay away until the case is closed.
At his apartment, Castle looks over old pictures of him with Kyra. Martha catches him and
warns him his relationship with her is like a loaded gun. Kyra calls and asks him to meet with
her at their special place which is a rooftop. Kyra and Castle reminisce about their time together
when they were in love. Kyra says Greg told her about his past with Sophie. Castle tells her he
doesn’t want to see her get hurt, but she says it is too late. While they hug, Kyra says she missed
him and gives him a kiss.
The next day, Castle confesses he saw Kyra last night, but Beckett says she already knows
since she had Kyra followed and photographed. Castle insists they only kissed. Esposito says
there is no physical evidence that ties Greg to the murder. After Ryan reports Sophie arrived
a day before the pre-wedding reception, they wonder what she was doing. While the detectives
question the guests, they learn Sophie went on a shopping spree before she died. Later, Beckett
sees Sophie paid for her dress and flight in cash. The detectives watch video showing Greg’s
Uncle Teddy help Sophie try on her bridesmaid dress and pay for it.
Greg becomes upset after Beckett and Castle bring in Teddy for questioning. They inform him
that Teddy has been paying Sophie’s expenses including rent for the past few months. Greg tells
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the team Teddy has been supportive of the marriage and has even filed the wedding license and
written the pre-nuptial agreement.
Later, Beckett and Castle bring Teddy files from his law firm. They tell him they know he
has been stealing from Greg’s trust fund he was supposed to receive after he was married. They
tell him they suspect he was trying to prevent the wedding from taking place in order to stop
Greg from learning he burned through his money. Castle and Beckett suggest he used Sophie to
break up the wedding since he knew they had a past relationship. Beckett brings out Sophie’s
video camera that was found in Teddy’s luggage. They tell him that they also found his platinum
tie-tack that matches the wounds found on Sophie’s back. Greg is accused of choking Sophie
after she failed in seducing Greg in order to stop the wedding.
Later, Castle plays Kyra the video which shows Greg turn down Sophie’s advances while
declaring his love for Kyra. Castle tells Kyra that Greg is a good and honorable man who loves
her. Kyra says she loves Greg too, but it doesn’t mean she won’t think about him from time to
time. Before they say goodbye, Castle tells Kyra he is glad he worked on her case. After she tells
Beckett that Castle is all hers, Kyra leaves to marry Greg. At the ceremony, Beckett catches the
bouquet.
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Sucker Punch
Season 2
Episode Number: 23
Season Episode: 13

Writer: Will Beall
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Show Stars: Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers),
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Stana Katic (Det.
Kate Beckett), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Tamala Jones (Lanie
Parish) Recurring Role:
Guest Stars: Jay R. Ferguson (Dick Coonan), Patrick St. Esprit (Emmett Forrest),
Eddie Shin (Johnny Vong), Robert Picardo (Dr. Clark Murray), Scott
Paulin (Jim Beckett), James Cosmo (Finn Rourke)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the death of an Irish mobster, but while
on the case they uncover what may be an international drug smug-
gling operation, as well as the killer may be involved in the murder of
Beckett’s mother.
A group of painters work in an apart-

ment. One of the men notices blood leak-
ing from the ceiling. The team arrives
to investigate. Ryan states the victim is
Jack Coonan who has a long criminal
record. Esposito says Jack worked for
the Westies which is an Irish mafia. They
see that Coonan was armed heavily, but
he was stabbed several times before he
could draw his weapon. Castle wonders if
a Ninja Assassin killed Coonan by scaling the wall and entering through the window. Castle is
surprised that Coonan purchased a video by Johnny Vong, who is a real estate telemarketer.
Lanie finds a cellphone that was stabbed during the attack.
Beckett and Castle meet with Jack’s brother Dick at a law firm and informs him of his death.
Dick says Jack worked for Fin Rourke, who is the boss of the Westies.
Castle and Beckett go to the Westies hang out which is a bar. Beckett asks a bartender to talk
to Fin as he bites on a pickled egg. Since Castle thinks he is being threatened, he eats an egg,
but quickly spits it out. Beckett meets with Fin who tells her to leave. In the backroom, Beckett
finds a badly beaten man. The man looks over to Fin and says he is fine.
At the station, the beaten man, Mario Mendoza, is questioned why he was in Fin’s back room.
Mario says he fell, ran into a wall and accidentally burned his hand. Beckett offers to help Mario
if he gets busted again, but he declines.
Another detective tells the team that Mario’s weapon of choice is a knife and he works with
a rival gang called the Latin Kings. Beckett wonders if the Westies believe Mario killed Coonan.
Esposito and Ryan report that they found a knife in Mario’s car. Later, Lanie reports the knife
doesn’t match Coonan’s stab wounds. She says the stab wounds indicate the killer was over six
feet tall, which doesn’t fit Mario. Castle realizes that Lanie is bothered by something.
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Ryan tells the team that Coonan called a New York land line before he died. He says the
damage on the phone prevents them from knowing the last two digits of the number. Ryan says
all the numbers belong to an FBI office.
Beckett catches Ryan watching the Vong video. Beckett and Castle bring in Agent Forest from
the FBI. He explains Coonan came in to talk, but he didn’t trust him. Beckett figures Coonan
messed up with his boss and wanted to trade information for witness protection.
At the bar, Fin addresses the crowd who is there to pay respects to Coonan. Beckett and
Castle arrive at the bar. Beckett informs Fin that Coonan reached out to the FBI, but Fin says
Coonan was loyal. Fin says he sent Coonan to take out the people in his gang who were selling
drugs. Coonan orders Castle and Beckett to get out. As Castle walks out, he notices a woman
who is watching him.
Beckett tells Castle that she realizes that the woman wanted to unburden herself. The woman
introduces herself to the team as Molly. At the station, Molly says Coonan wanted out of the
gang. She explains Coonan knew his death was near. Molly gives Beckett a key that Jack gave to
her before he died.
The detectives go to the bus station and open a locker. Inside, Beckett finds heroin hidden
in Vong DVDs. At the station, Castle sees the DVDs were packaged in Hong Kong. They figure
someone in the U.S. knew which boxes the drugs were hidden. Beckett suspects someone in
Vong’s organization sent the product.
The team attend a seminar where Vong speaks to a group of investors. Esposito realizes
that Ryan is a believer of Vong’s methods. After Beckett asks him about drugs, he runs, but is
apprehended.
At the station, Vong assures the detectives he is a businessman. Vong is surprised that Coo-
nan is dead. Vong admits he has been playing a character since no one wants to buy products
from a Harvard MBA. Vong promises he didn’t kill Coonan. He explains he made a deal with
someone to bring in product in exchange for seed money for his business. Vong says he can’t say
who he works for since he will kill him.
Lanie introduces the team to Clark Murray a forensic pathologist. Castle says he already
knows Clark. Clark explains they found slivers of the blade in several victims. He gives them a
model of the knife and explains it is used by the military. Clark says the assassin kills with one
blow and hides his skill by stabbing the victim several other times. Clark informs them the killer
is the same person who murdered Beckett’s mother.
Lanie admits she noticed the wound similarity and only came to her when they were sure. Roy
brings Beckett to his office and offers her a drink. He tells her he knows her mother’s murder
was the reason why she became a cop. He asks her to stay on the case if she can. Beckett says
she can’t handle the case then walks out of the station.
Beckett meets her dad in a diner and tells him about the most recent case. Her father says
her mother used to think life never gave them anything they can’t handle. Later, Beckett meets
with Castle and his family at his apartment. Martha drags Alexis upstairs to leave them alone.
Beckett says she wants to find his mother’s killer. They figure they need to get Vong to talk.
In the prison, Beckett tells Vong he is free to go since she forgot to read him his Miranda
rights. Vong says his boss will think he cooperated with the police. After Beckett offers to protect
him in exchange for telling her who he works for, Vong says Dick Coonan is his boss.
Vong says Dick set up a drug running operation when he was stationed in Afghanistan. Vong
says Dick moved the drugs to Hong Kong where he shipped it to the Latin Kings who sold it on
the streets. Vong says Coonan found out that Dick was selling the drugs in the Westies territory
and threatened to take him to the Feds. Vong says Dick hired a professional named Rathbourne
to take out Coonan.
Beckett and Castle meet with Dick at his office. They tell him that the Westies had a policy
not to sell drugs. Beckett tells Dick she knows about his drug running operation and his hit on
his brother. Dick asks Beckett to prove her case.
Kate brings Dick to the police station. Beckett says she has been thinking about her mother’s
murderer for ten years. She says she is afraid she is going to let her mother down. Castle tells
her to interrogate Dick.
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Beckett tells Dick that if she gives up Rathbourne, she will drop the death penalty. After
Beckett informs him that they have Vong, he laughs. Dick figures Beckett believes Rathbourne
killed her mother. Dick offers to give up Rathbourne in exchange for immunity.
Roy gets on the phone and tells the DA about Dick’s deal. He explains Rathbourne murdered
five people including the mother of one of his detectives. Roy informs the team the DA went with
the deal.
Dick tells the detectives that Rathbourne looks like an average guy and is as tall as he is. He
says he contacted Rathbourne by emailing him, wiring him money then waited. Beckett instructs
Dick to hire Rathbourne again to take out Vong. Castle says he is willing to fund the money for
the transaction. Beckett tells Dick he can walk after Rathbourne takes the job.
Later, Beckett briefs the team about the operation. She states Rathbourne has taken the bait.
Detective Lee is set to play the part of Vong. She says Esposito and Ryan will escort Lee to the
DA’s office. They figure they might have trouble since no one knows what Rathbourne looks like.
Esposito and Ryan take Lee to a parking garage. They take down a man who they suspect is
Rathbourne, but see he only has a phone. Esposito figures they spooked Rathbourne since he
didn’t show up.
Later, Beckett says she let her mother down. Castle wonders if Rathbourne figured out that
the money came from him. Since Beckett never told Dick that her mother was killed, she figures
that Rathbourne never existed and Dick is the murderer. As Beckett confronts him, Dick takes
down a guard, steals his gun and jams it in Castle’s side. Dick instructs them to exit with him.
Dick explains Beckett’s mother’s murder was just another job. Roy notices that Dick has taken
Castle hostage and pulls out his gun. Beckett instructs Roy to lower his weapon since she needs
to know who hired Dick. Castle uses his head to break Dick’s nose. Beckett takes the shot and
hits Dick in the chest. Beckett tries to revive Dick as the other detectives arrive, but he is dead.
Later, Beckett tells Castle he comes off like Steven Seagal in Roy’s report. Castle brings Beckett
food and admits he overstepped in the case. He says he is done shadowing her, but she tells him
if it wasn’t for him, she would never found her mother’s killer. Beckett admits she enjoys having
around, but instructs him not to tell anyone.
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The Third Man

Season 2
Episode Number: 24
Season Episode: 14

Director: Rosemary Rodriguez
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Su-
san Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Ruben
Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Guest Stars: Kortney Nash (Simone Dyson), Corey Mendell Parker (Reggie Dyson),
Christie Lynn Smith (Melanie Kopek), Senta Moses (Michele Lang-
ford), Rick Gonzalez (Mickey Carlson), Shania Accius (Candace Dyson),
David Appelbaum (Clerk), Sarah Brown (Amanda Livingston), Yuri Ann
Cho (Hostess), Jon Curry (Stan Kopek), Scott Elrod (Clyde Dekker),
Michael Enright (Noel du Preez), Siena Goines (Donna Vincennes)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a dead man found in a
family’s house that just returned from vacations. Meanwhile, Castle is
elected as one of New York’s 10 most eligible bachelors.
The Dyson family returns home from a

vacation. They realize that someone has
been in their apartment while they were
away. The father finds a dead body in his
daughter’s bed.
Meanwhile, Castle is happy that he
is in the paper’s most eligible bachelor
list. Martha reads the blurb that states
Castle is romantically linked to Beckett,
which surprises them. The girls think
that Beckett will be upset at the story. Beckett calls and tells Castle they have a dead body.
Castle arrives at the Dysons’ apartment and tries to get a feel if Beckett knows about the list.
Beckett tells Castle that the victim slept in all three beds just like Goldilocks. Lanie shows him
a syringe injection site in the back of the victim’s neck. Ryan finds a camera that shows photos
of the apartment. They figure the man wanted to put the place exactly like he left it to avoid the
owners from suspecting he used it.
Back at the station, Castle tries to hide the paper from Beckett. They identify the body as
Douglass Bishop who was previously charged with a crime of drunk and disorderly that was
later dropped. Lanie tells the team that Douglass was injected by a lethal dose of ketamine.
Douglass’s sister Melanie and her husband Stan arrive and identify the body.
The couple says it doesn’t make sense that Douglass stayed at the apartment since he had a
place of his own. Melanie says Douglass worked at a travel agency, which makes Castle figure
how he knew the home owners were out of town. Melanie and Stan say Douglass was saving
money to set up a scuba shop in Jamaica. Melanie says the last time he saw her brother was at
a holiday party at the airport where Stan works.
Later, Beckett tells Castle that Douglass didn’t miss a day at work before he died, his sav-
ings are untouched and the travel agency was different than the one used to book the family’s
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vacation. Ryan recovers deleted photos from Douglass memory card and sees images of different
apartments, a silenced pistol and a syringe. The team notices a reflection of a man who is not
Douglass. Beckett suspects the man is their killer.
The team wonders why the killer left the camera. Beckett figures if they find out how the
squatter knew the home owners, they can find the killer. Castle distracts Beckett as she looks
through the paper. Esposito finds a name on one of the prescription bottles photographed by the
squatter.
Beckett and Castle meet the owner of the prescription, a woman named Langford, and tell her
the squatter went to her house. She says she left on a vacation, came back, and saw that her
faucet was fixed, but not by her super. She says she also found a bottle of strawberry champagne
in her fridge. Castle suggests the man is a gentleman squatter. Langford tells Castle the picture
in the paper doesn’t do him justice. She surprises Beckett by asking her if she is the detective
girlfriend.
Beckett becomes upset after reading the blurb in the paper. Castle describes the story as
shoddy journalism and threatens to cancel the subscription. Castle gets a revelation and calls
the paper. He figures someone with vacation hold information knew when residents were away.
Beckett and Castle meet with the subscription manager to get a list of employee names. Castle
meets with Donna, the reporter who wrote the bachelor list. Donna says she assumed he had a
thing for Beckett since he kept on complimenting her during their interview for the story. Castle
insists he is single and she tells him the bachelorette number 3, Amanda Livingston, wants his
number.
Beckett finds a match of a delivery boy to the person on one of the photos. She says the
employee named Mickey Carlson didn’t show up for work that morning. The manager says Mickey
never gave him his address, but he comes in to pick up his paycheck like clockwork.
Back at the station, Beckett figures the delivery job is just a front for Mickey’s real job. Castle
tells Beckett that his friend Donna wrote a blurb about them. Castle says a bacherlorette is
interested in him.
Beckett tells Lanie she has no life and needs a date. She asks her to hook her up since she is
tired of living a quiet life. Lanie gives her a number for a firefighter named Brad who was featured
on a calender.
Castle asks Alexis how her day went. She says her vice-principal and her German teacher
want to go on a date with him. Castle figures that his daughter hates him a little.
At the paper, Castle and Beckett see that Mickey hasn’t shown up yet. Beckett asks him about
a hard-to-get-into restaurant she wants to go to for a date. They spot Mickey, but he runs after
Beckett identifies herself. Beckett catches up with him and arrests him.
At the station, Mickey tells the team neither the gun or syringe belongs to him. He insists he
was just squatting in apartments. He explains he broke in an apartment that belongs to a family
named the Maytlans, took photos, and became concerned after he discovered the pistol, syringe
and mountain climbing gear. He says he hid as three men including Douglass, a plain man, and
a scar faced man entered the apartment. He says he quickly grabbed his stuff and went into the
Dyson apartment. Later, the men burst into the apartment and ordered him to return a phone
that he accidentally grabbed from the Maytlan’s apartment. Mickey states the plain man wanted
to kill him, but Douglass said he didn’t sign up for murder. The men argued about a three million
dollar payout which gave him an opportunity to escape.
Castle tells Beckett he believes Mickey’s story. Ryan gets on the phone to get permission to
enter Maytlan’s apartment. Ryan states the Maytlans are off on a cruise. Beckett gets a call from
Brad who asks her to go on a date. Esposito describes Brad as a heroic good looking man.
The team enters the Maytlan’s apartment. Castle is impressed at the layout and the details.
Castle is amazed that the Maytlan’s converted an old dumb waiter into an entertainment center
cabinet. Castle tells Beckett that he knows about her date with the pinup boy. Castle opens the
fridge which contains a man who was shot dead. Beckett notices the man has a crescent shaped
scar that matches a man that Mickey described.
At the station, Ryan says the dead man was Anton Francis. Ryan says Anton was responsible
for a laundry list of crimes. He says Mickey’s alibi in which he stayed at a homeless shelter
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checked out. Castle wonders who the third man was. The team discovers the Maytlan’s cruise
was set up as a phony contest provided by Douglass’s travel agency. They figure it was a scam
to get the Maytlan’s out of the apartment. They wonder what the men wanted in the apartment.
Castle figures the old dumb waiter provided them access to another location below the Maytlan’s.
The team learns there is a pet shop under the apartment. They arrive and see that the dumb
waiter was open. Dupree, the owner, says there is a bank next door.
Beckett tells Roy that the bank heist never got to the point in which they entered the building.
Castle wonders if the third man is one of Douglass’s clients. He shares his theory that the man
learned about Douglass’s dream of owning a scuba shop, then offered him to be part of the heist.
Beckett wonders if she should cancel her date, but Roy advises she go and let Ryan and Esposito
work overtime for her.
At home, Alexis helps Castle pick out a tie for his date. Alexis says she wants to make sure
someone takes care of him after she leaves. Castle tells her it is his job to watch over her, not the
other way around. Alexis reminds him of when he tried to deep fry a turkey and burned himself.
Castle takes Amanda to the same restaurant that Beckett is at with her date. Castle tells
Beckett he didn’t think she was able to get a table there. At their separate tables, Beckett and
Castle talk about their current case. They both wonder if the pet store was a front for something
else. Brad and Amanda both realize their dates are preoccupied. Castle and Beckett meet and
admit they were thinking about the pet shop.
After Beckett gets a call from the station, Castle excuses himself from his date to get an
update. Esposito and Ryan tell them that Dupree, the owner, received two black tailed pythons
from South Africa. Castle figures that since the pythons are not indigenous in Africa, they were
used to smuggle diamonds. Beckett and Castle figure the Special K was used to sedate the snakes
and bring them back up to the apartment. They believe if they find out who robbed Dupree, they
will find their third man. Before they leave, Beckett and Castle see that Brad and Amanda have
joined each other for dinner.
The team assembles at the pet shop. After they enter, Dupree shoots past Castle and hits a
glass enclosure. Castle insists he wasn’t scared, but freaks out after he sees a large spider is on
his shoulder.
At the station, Dupree says he didn’t know they were the police. They ask him about the
python since they are not in the store. Castle tells him they found equipment that is usually
used by diamond traders. Beckett asks who knew about the diamonds, but Dupree says he told
no one. Beckett shows Dupree pictures of Douglass and Anton, but he doesn’t recognize him.
They figure someone from the airport knew about the shipment.
Beckett and Castle bring in Stan and Melanie. Beckett tells Stan she knows he works for
customs. They accuse him of stealing the diamond since he knew Dupree’s smuggling schedule
and Anton was his high school classmate. They tell him they know he had Douglass set up the
trip to get the Maytlans out of town. Castle says Mickey identified him as the third man. Stan
defends his actions by saying things got out of control. Stan insists to Melanie he did it for them.
Beckett and Castle tells Mickey that the ADA will give him probation for his help. They tell
him not to blow his second chance. Beckett says she can’t wait to go home. Castle says he didn’t
get a chance to eat, but Beckett says the portions were tiny. Castle asks Beckett to go out to grab
some burgers and shakes. Castle and Beckett tell each other their dates were terrible.
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Suicide Squeeze
Season 2
Episode Number: 25
Season Episode: 15
Originally aired: Monday February 8, 2010

Writer: Jose Molina
Director: David M. Barrett
Show Stars: Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben
Rodgers), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett),
Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle)
Guest Stars: Don Franklin (Tommy Zane), Vanessa Martinez (Lara Blanco), Chan-
dra West (Maggie Vega), Ray Wise (Bobby Fox), Dayo Ade (Anton Wade),
José Zúñiga (Alfredo Quintana), Julio Oscar Mechoso (Mario Sanchez),
Rebeka Montoya (Ana Rivera), Joe Torre (Himself)
Summary: Castle and Beckett will cross paths with the former Yankees skipper,
Joe Torre while investigating the murder of a baseball star found dead
after a trip to Cuba. Meanwhile, Alexis has a genealogy project that
makes Castle consider the identity of his unknown father.
A pitching machine continues to

launch balls even after the batter is dead.
At the apartment, Martha tests Alexis’s
psychic abilities. Alexis explains she is
writing a school paper about genealogy
that includes stories about her ancestors.
After Castle’s phone rings, Alexis accu-
rately predicts that it is Beckett.
At the scene, Esposito says although
the victim didn’t have a wallet, he recog-
nizes him as Cano Vega. Esposito explains Cano is usually his first pick in his fantasy baseball
league. After the team reminisces about their fathers, Castle says his relationship with his is
complicated. Perlmutter reports that Cano was beaten to death by a bat. Esposito wonders if
Castle is going through a Mama Mia situation.
In front of the Vega house, Bobby Fox, Vega’s manager, addresses the press about Cano’s
death. Inside, the team asks Cano’s widow, Maggie, about her husband’s whereabouts. Cano’s
former teammate, Tommy Zane, says Cano was at his club before he died. Tommy explains Cano
was his business partner. Maggie says the Cuban community loved him until Cano traveled to
Cuba where he met Castro. Fox comes in and says he thinks Alfredo Quintana killed Cano.
At the station, Ryan shows Beckett and Castle a column that Quintana wrote about how Cano
betrayed his people and should be reminded of Castro’s brutality. After Quintana is brought to
the interrogation room, he refuses to aplogize for writing his column. He states that he was with
his family when Cano was murdered. Beckett tells him he incited violence with his column.
Beckett tells Roy that she doesn’t think Quintana killed Cano. Castle tells Roy that his family
consists of charlatans and mind readers. Esposito reports that the blood trail from the scene
ended at the curb, which means the killer got into a vehicle. He says the tire tracks matched
tracks found in another case involving a baseball attack. Esposito says the vehicle belonged to a
man named Anton Wade. Castle says he senses that Anton is their killer.
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The team brings in Anton to the station. He admits that he found Cano dead after he called
him to meet him at the baseball field. He says Cano wanted to pay off his debt that he owed
him in the manner he always does, through an envelope full of cash. He says Cano wanted two
hundred grand a few months ago. Anton explains he wouldn’t want to kill someone who owed
him money and this last payment would clear his debt.
Castle wonders why Cano went to a loan shark for money. Beckett figures that Cano’s trip
to Cuba and the cash he wanted after he returned are related. Esposito and Ryan report that
Anton’s shoes only shows that he only stepped on Cano’s blood, but didn’t kill him. Roy suggests
they look into Cano’s trip to Cuba.
Castle and Beckett meet with Bobby Fox at his agency. Joe Torre says hello to Castle. Beckett
can hardly contain herself after she is introduced to the legendary baseball manager. Before he
leaves, he tells Castle to say hello to his mother for him.
Bobby tells Beckett and Castle that Cano wanted to help the people in Cuba. Bobby says
after Cano came back, he was upset and wanted to give his payment back to the tourism board.
Bobby explains how he smuggled Cano while he was in Barcelona to the States. He says they
were caught by a man called El Pulpo who he bribed with a Rolex. Bobby describes Bobby’s club
as a money pit.
Castle speculates that Cano was sent by the State department to assassinate Castro. At the
ME’s office, Perlmutter tells the team that the first swing hit Cano in his genitals. Perlmutter
shows old wounds on Cano that matches the punches from a man wearing a baseball champi-
onship ring. Castle wonders if Cano got into a fight with Tommy.
At the apartment, Alexis tells Castle that Martha’s family timeline goes back to the Mayflower.
She asks if he is bothered that he doesn’t know who his dad is. She explains there is a whole
chunk of the family tree that is missing. Castle explains how he met a girl, had a great time, then
lost her. Castle says he likes not knowing who his father is since he might be an astronaut, a
Nobel prize winner, or the inventor of whip cream.
Beckett and Castle visit Tommy as he holds a party to celebrate Cano’s life. They inform him
they found that he got in a fight with Cano. Tommy explains that Maggie thought Cano was
having an affair and asked him to look into it. Tommy says he saw him with a Cuban girl before.
Tommy describes how Cano saw him leave his house after assuring her Cano wasn’t having an
affair, then got in a fight with him. Tommy shows Beckett the picture of the woman that was with
Cano.
Esposito and Ryan wonder if Cano wanted the money because of the girl. Castle wonders if
Maggie wanted to kill Cano so she would get all of his money instead of going through a messy
divorce.
Castle and Beckett confront Maggie with their suspicions since she thought he was having an
affair. Maggie tells them to check the security tapes to confirm that she was home. Maggie gives
them a note containing an appointment date with a woman named Lara the night before he died.
Maggie says she doesn’t know who Lara is.
Beckett orders the team to post Lara’s picture and canvass the ballpark. Roy reports that
Cano got in a fight with the Cuban Consulate who took him to the island, Mario Sanchez.
Beckett and Castle ask Mario about Cano. Mario says Cano came up to him and started a
fight with him while he was dining. Mario says he followed Cano everywhere while he was in
Cuba. He says Cano seemed guilty while he talked to the locals. Mario says a girl named Lara is
what interested Cano the most.
Beckett and Castle wonder how Lara was in the city if she was in Cuba. Esposito reports that
the woman in the picture with Cano was identified as a waitress named Anna. He says Anna
escaped Cuba six months ago.
Anna tells Beckett and Castle that Cano wanted to talk to her about how she escaped Cuba.
Anna says she told Cano that her family knew a man who boated her to Jamaica then flew from
there. He says the man who set up the escape was Alfredo Quintana. Beckett figures Alfredo lied
to them.
Alfredo is brought to the station and tell him they saw that he recently received a two hundred
thousand dollar deposit in his foundation bank account. Beckett asks him where Lara is. He
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admits that Cano had an apartment for Lara.

The police raid the apartment and find it empty. The team notices a dirty footprint and blood
in the sink. Perlmutter reports that the blood belonged to Cano. He also says that he found
baseline chalk on the print.
Castle speculates if the Cuban government sent a spy to kill Cano. Ryan reports that they
spotted Lara enter the Cuban consulate. Beckett and Castle meet with Mario and tell him they
know Lara is there. Mario says Lara seeks safe return to Cuba. Beckett instructs him to hand
over Lara or she will bring a search warrant. Lara is brought into the room.
At the station, Lara insists he didn’t kill Cano. She says she was afraid that the man who
killed her father and entered the apartment. She explains Vega and her mother were engaged
before he defected. She says her mother was thrown in prison where she gave birth. She says
while Cano was in Cuba, he sent her a message that he wanted to get her out. Lara explains her
mother didn’t change her mind, like Cano always thought, but the Cuban government punished
her as an example to other potential Cuban defectors. Lara says she hid when the man entered
the apartment. Lara describes Bobby as the man who she hid from.
Castle and Beckett meet with Bobby in his office. They tell him that they know that he lied
when he told Cano that his fiance changed her mind and stayed in Cuba. The team figures that
Bobby was unable to bring her along. Castle and Beckett tell him that they know that El Pulpo
was the person who sent Lara’s mother to jail. They figure that Cano found out the truth and
called to meet Bobby. Beckett tells Bobby they found Cano’s blood in his car and on his shoes.
Bobby calls his secretary to contact his lawyer. Beckett arrests Bobby for Cano’s murder.
At the station, Castle wonders where Lara is going to stay. They bring Lara to Maggie and
explain that she is Cano’s daughter. She says Cano was afraid how she would react to know he
had a daughter. She says Cano hoped that they can be a family. Maggie holds Lara’s hand and
tells her she is welcome there.
After Castle returns home, Alexis tells him she was waiting for him. She explains his dad can
be anything except for his dad. She brings out a pair of baseball gloves and while using a deep
voice asks him to play catch in the apartment. Castle tosses the ball and breaks a vase.
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The Mistress Always Spanks Twice

Season 2
Episode Number: 26
Season Episode: 16

Writer: Kate Sargeant
Director: Rob Bowman, Thomas J. Wright
Show Stars: Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Ruben
Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Jon Huertas (Javier Es-
posito), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Su-
san Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle)
Guest Stars: Dina Meyer (Lady Irena), Azita Ghanizada (Mistress Sapphire), Tom
Schanley (William Carraway), Paul Schackman (Barry), Angel Parker
(Receptionist), Keiko Agena (Kelly), Devon Gummersall (Matt Haley),
Gil McKinney (Tyler Benton), Juliana Dever (Jenny), Vanessa Motta
(Jessica), Amy Gumenick (Danielle), Mark D. Espinoza (Professor
Stevenson)
Summary: A half-naked woman is found in a park hanging by bondage cuffs and
covered in caramel sauce. It’s off to the underground world of sexual
domination for Castle and Beckett to look for the killer.
A woman runs through the park and

rests at a bench then sees a dead woman
dripping in goo hanging from the monkey
bars.
At home, Alexis tells Castle that she is
going to try out for the cheerleading team.
She says after watching her friend Ashley
practice she thought it was fun. She also
says she wants to diversify her activities.
Martha advises Castle to let Alexis figure
her out what she wants to do on her own.
The team investigate the scene. Lanie reports that the woman was found covered by what
she thinks is caramel sauce. Beckett finds custom made bondage cuffs that held up the woman.
Lanie says she thinks the woman died from suffocation last night. She also finds band marks on
her legs. Esposito and Ryan find wheel marks near the monkey bars which they figure is from
a rolling case that was used to move the body there. Castle is surprised to hear that Beckett is
well aware of sex shops in the city.
At the station, Lanie reports that the woman didn’t show any signs of sexual activity. Esposito
and Ryan watch promotional videos from sex shops. Ryan says he will introduce her girlfriend
Jenny when the time is right. Ryan gets a call from a shop owner named Barry who says he
might have sold the restraints.
Beckett and Castle arrive at the shop and browse. Barry shows them a pair of fuzzy cuffs, but
Beckett says she has her own. Barry looks at the restraints and remembers that the buyer was a
man named Tyler Benton who had a girlfriend. After Beckett shows him the picture of the victim,
Barry recognizes her.
In the interrogation room, Tyler identifies the victim as Jessica his girlfriend who he was going
to propose to. Tyler says he was working a 24 hour shift at the hospital last night. Castle asks
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him if he used the restraints and he explains that he bought it for her research in sexual bondage
and domination. Tyler says Jessica has a roommate who she is close with.
At Jessica’s apartment, Danielle the roommate says she was like her sister and they lived with
each other since they were freshman in college. She says Jessica kept her research to herself.
Esposito and Ryan say Jessica’s bed doesn’t seem like it was slept in. The roommate says she
assumed that Jessica was at the university working on her thesis.
Beckett and Castle meet with Jessica’s counselor who says she worked with a woman named
Mistress Venom. He introduces the team to Kelly who shows them Jessica’s research notes for
her thesis. Kelly explains the departments are competing for a scholarship. A colleague named
Matt tells Kelly that the police found Jessica’s body. Kelly says Jessica received calls from a
person who breathed heavily into the phone. Matt says he didn’t agree with Jessica’s work.
The team takes Jessica’s notes to the station to study. Beckett finds that Jessica started her
research after she witnessed a dysfunctional and co-dependent relationship. Beckett says she
knows about S & M shops. Castle asks Beckett if she has ever wanted to use her handcuffs for
fun. Beckett says she likes to put killers behind bars better. Ryan reports that Jessica recently
called a sex shop called Lady Irena’s. Beckett calls the shop and schedules an appointment for
Castle.
Beckett and Castle arrive at the dungeon and see that it is set up like a law firm. After the
receptionist asks if they have an appointment, Beckett plays the more dominant role in the
relationship and says she would like to watch Castle squirm. They are taken to the back room
where they find a layout of whips and chains. Lady Irena says Mistress Venom is not available.
They inform her about Jessica’s death and say that she was observing Venom’s sessions, but
Irena says no one was watching her work. After Beckett shows the picture of the victim, Irena
says Jessica was Mistress Venom.
The team figures that Jessica had marks on her legs because she was wearing a dominatrix
outfit. Irena says she didn’t know that she was doing a research paper. Irena says she is not
willing to give a list of Jessica’s clients unless she has a court order. Venom admits that she used
to be a partner at a law firm. Irena tells Castle she knows he is staring at her lipstick.
Another dominatrix named Mistress Sapphire tells Beckett that a new client made Jessica
cry. She says the client was wearing medical scrubs. Castle wonders if Tyler killed his girlfriend.
At the station, Tyler says he didn’t know that Jessica worked as a mistress. Castle tells him
that they have a witness that spotted him, but he denies it was him. He says he signed a lease
for a new place three days ago.¡.P¿
Later, Beckett confirms that Tyler signed a lease. Castle wonders if Jessica that she was in a
dysfunctional relationship with Tyler.
At home, Alexis catches Castle doing research on dominatrix web sites. Castle sees that Alexis
is dressed up in a cheerleading outfit. She explains she borrowed the outfit from Ashley and she
likes it even though it is not like her. She compares her change to how Castle was bored with his
character and killed him off. She says she wants to venture out and asks for his support.
Castle tells Beckett that Alexis wants to try out for the cheerleading team, but she says she
is not concerned. Beckett says according to hospital security tapes, Tyler never left the building.
Esposito and Ryan report that Jessica had a file on a man called Sam I Am who pretended
to be masochistic. Beckett reads that Sam made threats to Venom and wanted to cover her in
something sweet. Beckett calls to get a court order to find out who this man is.
The detectives bring in an executive named Richard Caraway who they identify as Sam I
Am. Beckett suggests she talk to Richard herself. Beckett enters the interrogation room and
commands Richard to sit down. She tells her that she knows that he likes to make threats. She
shows him the picture of Jessica and he says he didn’t know she died. Beckett asks where he
was when Jessica died. Richard says he was with his wife for their anniversary party.
The team confirms Richard’s alibi. Beckett figures that the staged scene was way to specific
to be a coincidence. Castle wonders if someone had access to Jessica’s research and recreated
the scene.
Esposito and Ryan go to the dungeon and ask the girls if Jessica shared details about her
clients. The girls inform them that Irena insisted they stick with the rules. Ryan learns that the
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other girls suspected that Jessica was working outside of the business.
Beckett and Castle ask Kelly if she saw Jessica’s work. Kelly says she let Matt borrow her
keys to the office one day since he had to pick up some papers. Castle looks at Matt’s work and
sees a picture of him in scrubs.
The team brings in Matt for questioning. He admits he borrowed Kelly’s keys, but he didn’t
kill her. Beckett shows Matt his phone record indicating he was the one making calls to Jessica.
Beckett share their suspicions of doing whatever it takes to win the scholarship. Matt admits he
followed Jessica to the dungeon since he thought her research was fake. He says he threatened
to tell her boyfriend what she was doing if she didn’t withdraw her name from the scholarship
competition. He says Jessica pulled her name the day before she died. He says he brought
Jessica’s research back to her apartment.
Esposito and Ryan return and report that Jessica might have seen clients outside of the dun-
geon. Beckett confirms that Jessica pulled out of the fellowship. Castle wonders where Jessica’s
research is.
Castle and Beckett ask Jessica’s roommate Danielle if she noticed anything strange. She says
she found a wine glass with some lipstick. Castle and Beckett recognize the shade as the same
worn by Irena.
Irena is brought to the station and is told by Beckett and Castle they know she was dropped
off at Jessica’s apartment. Irena invokes her right of legal counsel. Esposito and Ryan report
that they found that Jessica’s bed side was scrubbed down with bleach. Ryan says they found
saliva on the pillow he suspects was used to smother Jessica. Beckett orders the detectives to
book Irena.
At home, Castle tells Martha he thinks he is missing something in the case. Alexis tells Castle
that cheerleading conflicts with her already busy schedule. Castle admits he never like the idea
of her being a cheerleader.
Castle returns to the station and tells Beckett he wonders who washed the pillowcase in
Jessica’s room since the investigators only found saliva on the pillow itself. Beckett figures that
the washing and drying cycle would have run until Danielle came home.
The team meets with Danielle and tell her that they think that her relationship with Jessica
is the one that she mentioned in her research paper. Beckett tells her that the papers that Matt
dropped off must have hurt her. Danielle says Jessica loved her. Beckett accuses her of staging
Jessica’s scene to frame one of her clients. Castle tells Danielle that Jessica told her that she
was going to leave. Danielle admits she was angry at Jessica because of her writings. Danielle
confesses that she pushed Jessica down and suffocated her with her pillow.
Beckett reports to Roy and the rest of the team that the caramel and the cuffs were a cover
up. They figure that Irena visited Jessica to knock off any business outside of the dungeon.
Ryan’s girlfriend Jenny arrives and is introduced to the team. She tells them that Ryan has
spoke a lot about them. Esposito and Castle figure that Ryan hasn’t brought over his girlfriend
earlier since he was afraid they might steal her.
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Tick, Tick, Tick ... (1)

Season 2
Episode Number: 27
Season Episode: 17

Show Stars: Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Ruben
Ryan), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beck-
ett), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle)
Guest Stars: Andrew Rothenberg (Donald Salt), Leonard Roberts (Federal Agent Ja-
son Avery), Dana Delany (Special Agent Jordan Shaw)
Summary: Castle & Beckett team up with the FBI to hunt down a cunning and
elusive serial killer, that is playing by Castle’s book ”Nikki Heat”.
Castle tells Beckett that his Nikki Heat

movie is going to be made into a movie.
Esposito and Ryan congratulate him, but
Beckett isn’t excited. Beckett gets a call
and gets a report on a murder from some-
one who says he is a fan.
The team traces the call, goes to the
scene and finds a dead body in a nearby
phone booth. They see that the victim is
Alex Peterman who still has his money on
him. Lanie reports that Alex was killed by several shots by a .45. Ryan and Esposito report about
a witness who saw a loud noise and a man who had a black cap on. Beckett tells Castle that the
murderer sounded like he had fun.
At home, Martha asks Castle and Alexis advice with Chet and moving in with him. Castle tells
her whatever she does, he will support her.
At the morgue, Lanie shows the team letters that were written on the bullets. He sees that
it spells the word, ’Kinki’, but Beckett thinks it is something different. Beckett figures that it
actually spells out, ’Nikki’, which explains why the man said he was a fan.
In the office, Ryan reports that a man is on the phone looking to speak to Detective Heat.
The man tells him the second part of his clue is at the carousel. The team goes to the scene and
discovers a dead woman on a ride with a bullet wound in her chest.
Lanie reports that the woman was shot four times with a .45. She figures the killer was left
handed. She says the letters on the slugs spell out the word, ’will’.
Castle blames himself for the murders since he created the Nikki Heat character. They see the
FBI arrive and a woman who gives out orders. She introduces herself as Jordan Shaw who Castle
recognizes as the person who broke the Hudson Valley Strangler case. Castle is enthralled at her
talent and her technology as she scans and sends a fingerprint found on a pair of handcuffs to
the lab. Castle tries to follow Jordan, but Beckett holds him back.
At the station, Beckett tells Castle the FBI is setting up a war room for their killer. After
Beckett asks him what he knows about Jordan, he compares her to a federal version of her.
Beckett realizes that Castle is excited to watch Jordan work. They enter the office where Castle
plays with Jordan’s computer board display. Jordan says she thinks the killer was an arsonist
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since he was drawn to Nikki Heat’s name. Jordan brings in a box of Nikki Heat novels, passes it
out to the team before an agent named Avery gives a brief synopsis that ends with Nikki and the
reporter who is following him having sex.
Avery reports that the pinkie prints found at the scenes belong to a man named Donald Saul.
Jordan drives Beckett and Castle to Saul’s apartment building. While they wait for the backup,
Castle goes over a new book idea about Nikki crossing paths with a federal agent. Jordan asks
Beckett how long they have been sleeping with each other, but Beckett says they are not. After
the rest of the team arrives, Jordan leads the team to the alley where they spot Saul with a bag
of groceries. Castle, who is waiting in Jordan’s car, uses a stun gun and takes down Saul. They
see that Saul is missing his pinkie finger.
At the station, Saul says he answered an ad put up by a man who was looking to buy a pinkie
finger for five thousand dollars. The man told him that Nikki Heat will be looking for him which
made him figure that he had to find an alibi. He says the man bandaged him up and left her a
message. Beckett unwraps the bandage and finds a numeric code.
Avery says their cryptologists can’t crack the code. They figure they need a key to find the
answer. Castle figures his novels are the key to the page number and word count code. Avery
loads up the message that the killer will strike again at midnight unless they stop him.
Castle finds Beckett looking over her evidence on her white board. Beckett figures they can’t
predict the next murder. Castle notices that the FBI are highly active. Avery reports that they
found chemicals that Jordan and Castle figure are from a mortuary. After they narrow down the
number of undertakers with criminal records, they narrow it down to six.
After the police brings in the undertakers, Beckett gets another call from a person who says
she was supposed to stop him. He asks her how it feels to know that she failed.
The team goes to the scene and finds a woman’s shoe and a strand of hair next to four shell
casings. Beckett figures that the man put the victim in the trunk of his car. Jordan orders her
team to look for the vehicle using surveillance video. She orders Beckett to go home and get some
rest.
At Castle’s apartment, Martha says she can’t sleep since she is still trying to decide to stay
with Chet or not. Castle tells her he never intended to put Beckett in harm’s way with his book,
but Martha assures him she can take care of herself.
At Beckett’s apartment, she hears footsteps, pulls out a gun and finds Castle at her door with
a bottle of wine. Beckett tells Castle she sent her security detail home after she got back home.
As they review the case, Castle figures that the killer is changing his ways. Beckett tells Castle
he is acting a little boy while watching Jordan work. She tells him he is supposed to be part of
her team and would appreciate if he go over his theories with her before Jordan. After Beckett
says she wants to go to bed, Castle insists he stay and watch out for her.
In the morning, Beckett finds Castle making breakfast. Castle goes out to grab the paper and
finds the body of a dead woman leaning against the door.
Ryan and Esposito question Castle and Beckett and wonder what is going on between them.
Ryan asks Castle to elaborate on what happened, but he says there are no details.
Jordan figures that the killer was disappointed at Beckett for not finding him and wanted to
put blame of the death on her.
At the morgue, Lanie reports that the word on the slug is, ’burn’. Which makes the message,
’Nikki will burn.’ Since there is evidence of embalming fluid and animal parts on the latest victim,
Beckett and Castle figure that the woman was a taxidermist.
The team wonders if the latest victim and the killer is related. Esposito and Ryan report that
they identified the victim as Sandra Keller, who worked downtown. They say she got into a recent
argument with a man who lost his dog. They say the man trashed the business’s computer data
and deleted all of the customer data. Jordan wonders if the killer snapped while reading a Nikki
Heat novel. They later learn that the first victim was a personal injury lawyer who declined a case
regarding a dead dog owned by a man named Ben Conrad. Avery loads up Conrad’s photo from
the DMV and figure he is their main suspect.
Jordan gets off the phone with her child just before arriving at Conrad’s apartment. Jordan
suggests they stay on the street while they conduct their raid. Conrad calls Beckett and tells
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them they haven’t won even though they found him. Beckett sees Ben in the window with a gun
in his hand. Beckett tries to convince him to drop the gun, but he says one of them has to die.
He puts the gun to his head before he steps out of the window and shoots himself in the head.
In the apartment, the team sees that Conrad was working on making a bomb using embalming
fluid to make a near military grade explosive. They see schematics of the precinct and figure he
was planning on blowing it up. Jordan says she didn’t figure that the killer would commit suicide.
At home, Alexis finds Castle looking over the case. Castle explains everything was wrapped up
nicely. Alexis says she can’t imagine Martha leaving them. Castle suspects that she will be back
in six months. After Martha asks Castle for a hand, he gets a revelation. He figures that the killer
was left handed, but Ben killed himself with his right. He figures the real killer planted evidence,
wanted them to drop their guard and is now after Beckett. Castle calls Beckett, but she is in the
shower.
Castle tells Martha to call Roy while he heads to Beckett’s apartment. Castle arrives at Beck-
ett’s building and informs her that the killer is still alive. Beckett hears the voice of the killer tell
her goodbye just before a bomb in her apartment explodes.
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Boom! (2)
Season 2
Episode Number: 28
Season Episode: 18

Show Stars: Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Sea-
mus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Mont-
Guest Stars: Leonard Roberts (Special Agent Jason Avery), Mary-Pat Green (Erin
Murphy), Dameon Clarke (Scott Dunn), Isaiah Mustafa (Team Leader),
Dana Delany (Special Agent Jordan Shaw)
Summary: The second part of the story begun in ”Tick, Tick, Tick. . . ,” after Beck-
ett’s apartment is blown up it confirms that the serial killer is still
alive. He taunts Castle, Beckett and Agent Shaw to catch him.
After the bomb explosion, Castle en-

ters Beckett’s apartment and finds her in
the bathtub. Beckett asks him for a towel,
but it is on fire. Castle ends up handing
over his jacket to cover her naked body.
She explains she jumped into the tub just
as the bomb exploded.
While she is being patched up by the
paramedics, Jordan tells Beckett she is
off the case, but she protests. Jordan
agrees to let her in, but only if she plays by her rules and allow security watch over her.
Later in the burned up apartment, Jordan finds the blast seat and cyclonite, which was the
same material found in Ben Conrad’s apartment. Castle figures Ben was already shot by the real
killer by the time they raided his apartment. The team goes back to Ben Conrad’s apartment and
find a secret compartment containing a fake beard and clothes that made the killer look exactly
like the victim. They figure that Ben was held and set up. Beckett figures the killer was in the
hidden closet while they brought out Ben’s body. Beckett gets a call from the killer who says she
is supposed to be dead. On the other end, she hears a woman scream just before she is shot
several times.
The team finds the body of Gloria Rodriguez shot in the alley. Jordan wonders if the she was
killed the woman out of anger. Beckett figures that the killer was watching her in her apartment
and at the scenes. Jordan figures the man is a chameleon and dressed as a police officer.
At the station, Beckett suggests they create a sketch and find the guy, but Castle is concerned
they might go on another dead end. Since the killer was related to Ben Conrad’s life, Jordan
figures they treat him as the first victim.
Castle returns home and tells Martha and Alexis that Beckett safely escaped the bomb. The
next day, Castle learns that Jordan is updating the mayor on the case. Castle suspects that Ben
was single since he deeply loved his dog. After Beckett remembers that Ben was a Knicks fan,
she figures that he had to watch the games outside of his apartment since he has no television.
They figure that the killer met up with Ben at a sports bar.
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Beckett and Castle goes to a bar and learn that Ben usually watched the games by himself.
She remembers when Ben struck up a conversation with a man. Beckett learns that a cab
dropped off a man at the West Village the day that Ben and the man talked.
At the station, Jordan profiles the killer as a show off who is probably in an organization like
Mensa. She says the killer was literate and gives Beckett and Castle a list of potential periodicals
that he read. FBI agent Avery enters in his profile into a database and finds seventeen hits. One
of the agents finds that a man named Chris Doherty recently got a license even though he was
supposed be dead several years ago.
A tactical team enters Doherty’s house and finds several pages hanging from the ceiling on
fish hooks. Beckett sees a collage of her face pasted on the wall. She sees old newspaper clippings
and figures that their suspect killed before. Castle finds a book he signed to a man named Scott
and a fan fiction manuscript called Dead Heat. Jordan finds another manuscript detailing the
suspect’s murders that he committed in Seattle before setting up another man for the crimes.
After Avery says he can’t find any prints, Jordan wonders if he burned his fingertips since he
likes to play with fire.
The team waits in the apartment for the killer to arrive. In the surveillance van, Jordan tells
Beckett that her unorthodox partnership with Castle works for her. Beckett asks her how she
manages traveling around hunting down serial killers. She says she feels better that her husband
tucks in her daughter. Jordan tells her team to back off a sniper on the roof, but learns that he is
not one of their guys. Jordan instructs Beckett and Castle to stay in the van. As the team enters
the building, Beckett chases the man after he runs down the fire escape. She comes face to face
to the suspect, points her gun, but a mother is in her line of sight. The man runs into the subway
and pushes down bystanders before he enters a train that speeds away. Jordan goes over the
subway video and find that the man is Scott Dunn who has a record that includes arson. Jordan
tells Beckett she is off the case since she left the van. Beckett states her case to Roy, but he says
Jordan has jurisdiction. After Roy tells her to go home, she say she has none. Castle informs her
that she is welcome to stay in his spare bedroom. Roy orders her to go home. At the apartment,
Beckett admits she is too close to the case. She asks Castle if he regrets Heat Wave. Castle says
the killer would have chosen another author to base his murders on.
After Jordan gets in her car, she finds Scott in her backseat with a gun.
Martha returns home and is surprised to see Beckett cooking breakfast. Castle wakes up
and hears Beckett’s story about how her mother would cook breakfast in the weekends. Martha
enthusiastically hugs Alexis as if they haven’t seen each other in months. Beckett gets a call and
learns that Jordan never made it home the other night.
Avery brings Beckett and Castle to Jordan’s abandoned car and finds only her purse. They
see blood splatter and figures Scott was punched in the nose. Beckett gets a call from Scott and
is informed that Jordan is safe. He tells her that the story is about them and not Jordan. He
tells her to meet him alone or Jordan will die. Scott sends her a video through email that shows
Jordan alive. Avery notices an image in the background that he determines is the Whitestone
Bridge. They analyze the noise and find that a subway that belongs to the IRT Pelham Line runs
near the hideout. They figure that Scott is inside abandoned building.
At the scene, Castle wonders if they are being set up. He compares the scenario to Princess
Leia when she escaped the Death Star, which was too easy. Avery says he has to risk it to save
his partner. He leads a tactical team towards a room that shows two heat signatures while Castle
and Beckett watch from the surveillance van. Castle tells Beckett that he doesn’t think Scott is
there since this is not how he would write it. He says if it was him, he would watch close by and
blow up the building after everyone entered. Beckett asks him where he would watch and he
says from the adjacent building.
After Beckett and Castle enter building, Beckett gives Castle a gun. They find Jordan tied
up and Scott looking at the building through binoculars. Beckett tells Castle she wants to draw
Scott away while he saves Jordan. After Beckett announces herself, Scott says he is glad she
came.
Beckett orders Scott to drop his gun. He orders her to drop her gun or he would blow up the
building. Beckett says the team is no longer in the building since she knew where he was. After
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Beckett says she won, Scott drops the detonator and runs. Castle frees Jordan and tells her that
Beckett was bluffing. Beckett chases after Scott into the basement. He pounces on her and takes
her gun. Castle fires and shoots the gun out of his hand. Jordan steps on his gun while Beckett
cuffs him. Scott calls Beckett Nikki Heat, but she says that is not her name. Beckett commends
Castle for his shot, but he confesses he was aiming for his head.
At the station, Beckett learns that Scott is being sent to jail. Beckett tells Jordan that she
learned a lot from her. Jordan describes Beckett’s actions as heroic. Jordan says Scott sort of
faced Nikki since the character is part her and part Castle. Castle returns Beckett her father’s
watch that he got repaired.
At the apartment, Castle finds Martha and Alexis eating take out meals. Martha says she is
going to divide her time between her family and Chet.
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Wrapped Up in Death
Season 2
Episode Number: 29
Season Episode: 19

Director: Bill Roe
Show Stars: Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Nathan
Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Molly Quinn
(Alexis Castle), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Ruben Santiago-
Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery)
Guest Stars: Steve Cell (Charles Taylor), Erick Avari (Rupert Bentley), Gil Birming-
ham (Cacaw Te), Kevin Foster (Will Medina), Currie Graham (Stanford
Oakes), Navi Rawat (Rachel Walters), Al Vicente (Norton Grimes), Omid
Zader (Cab Driver)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of Will Medina, the assis-
tant curator of the Natural History Museum. The museum’s personnel
believe his death is related to the curse of the ancient mayan tombs.
After a man tries his key into his

apartment, he notices rocks fall just be-
fore a gargoyle crushes him.
At the apartment, Castle finds Alexis
doing a school science project on spatter
patterns. Castle asks if he can help, but
she says she can handle it. Castle learns
about the case.
At the scene, the team finds chisel
marks on the gargoyle. After Castle won-
ders if the victim was kept at the spot long enough to kill him, he learns that the key lock
was tampered with. The team learns the man was Will Medina, an associate curator of the His-
tory museum. Castle thinks that Will was a bachelor, but Esposito and Beckett say they found
scented candles and a second toothbrush in the bathroom. Castle recommends they go to the
museum and admits he wants to see the dinosaurs.
At the museum, Castle and Beckett meet with Dr. Raynes who worked with Will. He tells
them about Kan-Xul, the Mayan king exhibit that will open soon. Raynes says Medina was the
person who discovered the artifacts. Castle finds a hat and pretends he is Indiana Jones. After he
opens a casket, a mummification expert named Rachel Walters scolds him. The museum curator,
Bentley, says that Medina’s death was not an accident since a warning was written at the tomb.
He explains the people who looked at the face of the Mayan king will die. The museum team
goes over the numerous deaths that plagued the expeditionary team. Raynes says he got a death
threat from Mayan indigenous right groups and shows them a card containing hieroglyphics that
is similar to one found at Medina’s.
At the station, Castle compares Medina to Indiana Jones, but with space age technology.
Beckett finds no lead to Medina’s girlfriend. Esposito and Ryan figure that case is going bad
since Castle has been cursed after he opened the casket and looked at the Mayan king. Castle is
skeptical, but becomes worried after he gets a paper cut.
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Lanie gives Esposito and Ryan Medina’s cell phone. Lanie says she found a trace amount of
a rare pollen that originates from the dig site on the gargoyle. She reports she found the same
compound was also found on both death threat letters.
Esposito and Ryan tell Castle that the Mayan’s buried Kan-Xul because they didn’t want him
to come back to life. Castle sits on a chair that quickly collapses. Beckett learns that an activist
named Cacaw Te arrived through JFK a few days ago. They bring in Cacaw Te and ask him about
the death threats. He says he urged Medina to return the remains of Kan-Xul. He explains that
Mayans are not a dead race and the curse is real.
Ryan reports that Cacaw Te has an alibi since he was with a newspaper reporter. Esposito
states that he found pictures of Medina’s girlfriend on his phone. Beckett recognizes the woman
as Rachel Walters.
At the station, Rachel says she didn’t admit her relationship with Medina since she didn’t
want to get fired. She says Raynes blamed the death of another researcher named Nicole on
Medina, wanted him gone, but he couldn’t get rid of him since he was the one who discovered
the site. At the museum, Raynes says that Medina stood the researcher up for a date and left her
in the jungle where she was killed by a jaguar attack. Raynes told Medina and Nicole to break it
off, but they refused.
At the station, Esposito finds that Medina deposited and withdrew a large amount of cash
before he died. Castle screams after the espresso machine blows up on him. He says he thinks
he is cursed. The team laughs at him and admits they set up the machine and the chair to fall
down on him.
Esposito and Ryan report about Medina’s large cash withdrawal and deposit at a bank. They
review the tape and see that Medina was with a drug runner named Norton Grimes. They wonder
if Medina got in the drug trade and got himself killed. After the team raids the Norton’s place, a
dog attacks Castle and forces him to jump on top of a car.
At the station, Beckett learns that they found mummified tissue on the gargoyle. Castle won-
ders if the mummy rose from the grave and sought vengeance. Beckett wonders if there was
tissue on the drugs that was transferred from the casket to Grimes.
Beckett gives Grimes a photo that shows him with Medina before he died. Grimes insists he
only works with antiquities now and was looking to do business with Medina. He says Medina set
him up to sell a mummy to a buyer in Taipei. He explains that the $10,000 was a down payment
for a quarter million deal. He says the money was given back since the owner sent an investigator
who didn’t like what he saw. Roy orders Beckett to test the casket for drugs to check if Grimes is
lying.
Castle tells Martha he is worried if the curse is real. Martha suggests they find a way to reverse
the curse. She advises he go to the museum and find a way.
Beckett finds Castle while he asks Bentley how to reverse the curse. Beckett tells the curator
that she needs to test the casket for drugs. They lift the lid and see that the mummy is gone.
Esposito finds no traces of drugs in the sarcophagus. Bentley says the incident is a disaster.
Castle and Beckett wonder if Bentley set up the incidents to boost ticket sales.
While Castle is talking to Martha on the phone, the elevator stops just before the lights turn
off. Castle bangs on the doors and tells himself there is no curse. Castle lays on the ground to
save himself, but the door opens where Beckett sees him. Beckett explains that the elevator is
old and they need to call maintenance.
While Beckett reviews the evidence, Castle asks her to watch over Alexis if something happens
to him. After she agrees, he tells her to get rid of porn collection in his closet before Alexis finds
it.
Esposito reports that they found the prints of a man named Charles Tyler at the museum. In
the interrogation room, Charles admits he was hired to investigate by Grimes’s buyer. He says
he carbon dated the mummy and found that the cloth was old, but the body was less than 500
years old. Roy says they found the mummy in a corner of the museum.
Lanie reports that the woman they found was killed less than four months ago by blunt force
trauma to the head. She says the person who killed her knew how to mummify bodies. Castle
says she knows who the victim is.
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Beckett and Castle report to Roy that dental records confirm the body belonged to Nicole
Graham whose body was never found in the jungle. They bring in Rachel, give her the paper
she wrote about the mummification and accuse her of killing Nicole. Rachel insists that Nicole
backed off after she told him that she was with Medina. Rachel says Raynes taught her how to
do the mummification process and he was jealous that every woman wanted to be with Medina.
Castle and Beckett try to arrest Raynes at the museum, but he runs. He trips on the stairs where
he is arrested.
At the station, Beckett and Castle review the case with Roy. Medina lured Nicole to the jungle
and killed her after she refused to celebrate the find with him. In New York, Raynes used a pry
bar from the museum to tip over the gargoyle and kill Medina.
Beckett and Castle go to the jail and tell Cawa Te they will drop the threat charges in exchange
for him telling them how to break the curse. She informs him that the museum will send the
artifacts back to Mexico after the exhibit ends. Cawa Te agrees and whispers to Castle how to
reverse the threat.
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The Late Shaft

Season 2
Episode Number: 30
Season Episode: 20

Writer: David Grae
Show Stars: Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Susan Sullivan
(Martha Rodgers), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier
Esposito), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett),
Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle)
Guest Stars: Fred Willard (Hank McPhee), Bill Bellamy (Mickey Reed), Tom Berg-
eron (Bobby Mann), Beth Broderick (Barbara Mann), French Stewart
(Zach Robinson), Nika Williams (Angel Santana), Sydney Walsh (Patty
DeLuca), Dan Cortese (Howard Weisberg), Michael Cummings (Burt),
Nicholle Tom (Cindy Mann), Brittany Belt (Kayla), Kelly Carlson (Ellie
Monroe), Amy Aquino (Janine Marks)
Summary: Castle appears on a late-night talk show to promote his new book,
Heat Wave. In a commercial break the host Bobby Mann whispers to
Castle, ”They want me dead”. The next day he is found dead of natural
causes and it’s up to Castle to convince Beckett to investigate the case
as a murder. Meanwhile, Castle is seduced by Ellie, the guest star to
appear on the show the night he died.
A talk show host named Bobby Mann

host gives a monologue at the start of
the show. He asks Hank for assurance in
which he receives. Castle goes to the back
where he is put into makeup. He meets
an actress named Ellie who says she ad-
mires her work. Later during the show,
the host brings out Castle and announces
that his book is going into paperback and
will be made into a movie. Castle’s family
and the detectives watch as Ellie and Castle flirt with each other. After the show, Bobby whispers
to Castle that they want him dead.
At home, Castle suggests Alexis to pack light during her orientation. Martha tells Castle that
Bobby died from a heart attack last night.
Castle tells Beckett that Bobby told him he suspected he was gong to die. Beckett says a dog
walker saw Bobby collapse on the street. Castle says he learned that Bobby drove out with his
car, which is now missing. Castle urges she have Lanie take a look at Bobby’s body.
Lanie brings Castle Bobby’s contents that was found when he died. He finds a piece of gun
stuck to a piece of paper with the word Tory on it. He sees that Bobby was trying to change the
word,’boys,’ to something else in his signature goodbye line. Lanie says she found Bobby was
on powerful MAO inhibitors in which interacted with balsamic vinegar that he was given and
resulted in his death. Lanie says Bobby was murdered.
Beckett figures that the killer is smart to have known what to use to kill Bobby. Esposito
reports that Lanie was poisoned from 1:30 to 4:30 in the morning. Ryan says Bobby’s car is not
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sending a signal.
Beckett and Castle meet with Bobby’s producer and say they are doing routine investigations.
She says Bobby was acting paranoid and locked himself in his office the other day. Castle and
Beckett ask Hank if he noticed that Bobby was concerned about his life. Hank introduces Mickey,
who follows Bobby with his own talk show. Hank says Bobby wanted to meet with his ex-wife.
At the station, Ryan reports that Bobby had six ex-wives. He says that the doorman reported
seeing Bobby go through the door of the apartment lobby that houses a woman named Cindy last
night. At the station, Cindy insists the last time she saw Bobby was during their divorce trial.
Cindy says Bobby might have seen his other ex, Barbara. Barbara admits that she saw Bobby.
She says Bobby was acting strange and asked her if she thought he was a good person. After she
told him he was a lousy husband, he left.
Ryan reports that Bobby left Barbara’s apartment before the time he was poisoned. Ellie calls
Castle and asks him out on a date. He tells Beckett that since Ellie figured they were upset to be
Bobby’s last guests, she called him to comfort each other. Beckett figures that they are going to
have sex, but Castle says probably not. Ellie meets with Castle and has sex.
The next day, Beckett figures that Castle got laid last night. The team wonders where Bobby
went after he got into his car. Castle looks up reports on twitter and reads about a fan who noticed
Bobby drive into a parking lot. Esposito and Ryan report that Bobby drove to the apartment of
Mickey Reed. Beckett wonders why Mickey lied about not meeting with Bobby.
Castle and Beckett meet with Mickey as he changes the look of the set before he takes over
Bobby’s time slot. He admits he lied since he didn’t want the tabloids to know that they got into
an argument before he died. Mickey seems surprised that they think he is a suspect. Mickey says
Bobby was angry and told him that he knew what he did.
After meeting with Roy, the president of the network tells Castle that they are banned. Roy
says another network broke the story that they are conducting a murder investigation. The team
learns that Bobby headed towards the theater district after he left Mickey’s. After looking at the
piece of paper that was found on Bobby, they figure that Bobby was killed at the Comedy Factory.
At the club, Ryan and Esposito meet with Angel Santana who was the person who Bobby
wanted to see. Angel says someone wrecked her bike by scratching the words, ’Late Night Bi***’
on it. They figure it was done by Bobby. Angel says Bobby wanted to book her, but she went on
Mickey’s show instead.
Castle arrives at the station feeling tired after spending a night with Ellie. Beckett says they
have not idea why Bobby was acting paranoid. Castle gets a call from a Heat Wave producer and
learns that Ellie might get the part. Beckett tells Castle that she thinks that Ellie is throwing
herself at him to get his recommendation for the part of Nikki Heat. Esposito and Ryan show the
team a picture of Bobby with an intern named Kayla. They show them a message that Bobby will
be dead if they find out about their relationship.
Castle and Beckett ask Kayla if she was blackmailing Bobby, but she insists she was in love
even though they were together for three weeks. She says they kept the relationship was a secret
since they didn’t want her mom to find out. They learn that Kayla’s mom is Mrs. Marks, who is
the producer. After the team sees that Mrs. Marks is surprised and angry at the news, they figure
she is not the killer.
At the station, Ryan reports that Bobby spent 100 thousand on a kitchen renovation that
never happened. Ryan says a criminal/detective named Zack Robinson was paid off after he
tried to blackmail him. Ryan says Zack is no where to be found.
While Castle hangs out with Ellie in bed, she sees that he is concerned. He tells her that he
has a friend who thinks she is only with him because of the part in the movie. Ellie becomes
defensive and says it is hard being a woman in Hollywood. After she runs off crying, Castle gets
angry at Beckett.
Castle returns to the station and sees that they picked up Zack. Castle informs Beckett that
Ellie started crying after he confronted her about her plan to sleep with him for the part. Zack
tells Beckett and Castle that he never saw the picture before. Zack insists that the payment he
received was payment after Bobby hired him. After they threaten him to charge him with murder,
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he says Bobby paid him to spy on the president of the network, Howard Weisberg. He says he
delivered the recording to Bobby before he died. They wonder what Bobby heard.
After they recover the recordings in Bobby’s office, they hear Weisberg discuss how Bobby is
getting too old and they need to do something to get a younger audience. Weisberg says Mickey
is ready to step into Bobby’s spot if he goes away. After they interrogate Weisberg, he insists he
was with a woman named Ellie at a hotel when Bobby died.
Beckett questions Ellie and confirms Weisberg’s alibi. Castle gets a revelation and figures he
knows who killed Bobby.
The team meets with Hank and asks him about Bobby’s idea book in which he scratched
off the word boy and changed it to posse, gang or crew. They tell him that they know that the
network was looking to hire Angel to replace him so the show can appeal to the younger crowd.
Beckett tells him they know he bought balsamic vinegar before Bobby died. Hank admits that
he was upset that Bobby was going to replace him. Hank confesses he hung out with Bobby and
gave him a drink spiked with balsamic vinegar.
After the case, Castle tells Beckett he can’t hang out since he is going on a date. Beckett
is disappointed that he wants to be with Ellie after using him. Castle admits that he is going
out with Alexis since she is coming back from her trip. At the apartment, Ellie visits Castle and
apologizes. Castle says he enjoyed being used. Castle tells him she is a better actress than he
thought. Alexis arrives and says she misses him.
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Den of Thieves
Season 2
Episode Number: 31
Season Episode: 21

Writer: Will Beall
Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish)
Guest Stars: Michael Trucco (Det. Tom Demming), Aaron D. Spears (Ike Thorn-
ton), Marcus Scribner (Tim Thornton), Bruno Amato (Fred Cana), Eric
Betts (Paul Finch), Merrin Dungey (Monica Finch), Scott Cohen (Lt.
Stan Holliwell), Michael Ironside (Victor Racine), Abby Brammell (Carol
Thornton)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a thief. While investi-
gating the murder they learn that Esposito may have a personal con-
nection to the suspect’s killer. In the meantime, Robbery Det. Tom
Demming is assigned to the case and hits it off with Beckett, making
it hard for Castle to work together the case.
At the gym, a man notices Beckett as

she works the heavy bag. He approaches
her and offers to steady her bag. He holds
on while she punches and kicks. Beckett
gets a call from the station.
At the apartment, Castle teaches
Alexis how to play Texas Hold ’Em.
Martha arrives and asks them to deal her
in. Castle gets a call from Beckett about
a case.
The team discovers Paul Finch duct taped, tortured and electrocuted in his car. Esposito
reports that his wife is coming in. He says Paul was a thief, but didn’t commit a crime in a while.
Since the victim’s eyes were closed, they suspect the killer knew Paul. Beckett finds a metallic
symbol under the tire.
Paul’s wife, Monica, reports that Paul planned to meet one of his old crew mates even she
insisted he didn’t. Finch describes Paul as a good man.
The team wonders why Paul came out of retirement to possibly commit a bank robbery where
a safe deposit box was broken into. A detective named Todd arrives, who Beckett recognizes as
the guy at the gym and Esposito sees as his old friend from his old squad, the 54th. Todd says
the bank robbery needed at least two people. Todd reports that a tunnel was dug into the bank
where nothing else was touched other than the box.
Beckett and Todd meet with the owner of the safe deposit box owned by Fred who says he had
stamps in the box. Fred says he has been busy working as a private security guard. Fred says
there was sentimental value in the stamps. After Esposito learns that Fred is there, he tells the
team that Fred used to be a bagman for Victor Racine, the man who killed his partner.
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Esposito describes how his partner Ike didn’t come into work while they were investigating
Victor. Later, Internal Affairs suspected that Ike went to work for Racine. Afterwards, they found
Ike’s bloody belongings, the police shut down Victor Racine’s investigation. He figures that Fred
held something for Racine.
Todd reports that Paul’s car was wiped down clean. Castle states that Fred has an alibi.
Beckett, Todd and Castle meet with Mr. Racine and ask him where he was last night. He says
he was home and has bodyguards who can attest to that. Racine suggests they look for Paul’s
associate.
Todd commends Beckett for her good play. Todd and Beckett figure that Racine doesn’t know
who Paul’s partner was. Castle wonders if Beckett has a thing for Todd.
Lanie asks Beckett if there is something going on with her and Todd. Lanie finds a print on
Paul that matches a man who is dead. Lanie sees that the prints belong to Esposito’s partner,
Ike.
Esposito is in disbelief that Ike went to work with Racine. Roy brings in an officer from Internal
Affairs named Hollowell who says they had an informant who confirmed that Ike was working
with Racine. Hollowell asks Esposito if Ike contacted him, but he insists he didn’t know was
going on and is willing to take a lie detector test.
Esposito tells Ryan that he understands why Hollowell is questioning him. Esposito shows
Ryan a metal symbol of the 54th squad that he and Ike used to carry. Ryan figures that the
symbol found at the scene was a piece of the same symbol that was broken off.
Beckett and Castle accuse Ike’s wife, Carol, that she knew that Ike is still alive since she
hasn’t found a new man. She denies it, but the team doesn’t believe her. After Esposito passes
the polygraph, he offers to talk to Carol since he was good friends with her. Todd arrives and
says he is reviewing bank video to see if he can find Paul’s partner. After Beckett leaves, Todd
asks Castle if anything is going on with him and Beckett. Castle gives him the go ahead.
At home, Castle suggests to Alexis to develop a poker face when playing. After Alexis goes
over her winnings in the form of chores, she sees that Castle is upset. He says he is not used to
losing.
Ryan and Esposito visit Carol and her child, Tim. After Ryan takes Tim to look at his baseball
cards, Esposito asks her where Ike is since he killed a man. He reports that Ike’s fingerprints
were on Paul’s body. Carol begs Esposito not to find Ike since she is close.
In the morning, Castle brings in coffee to the gang while Beckett and Todd review the tape,
but learns that Todd already brought some in. They notice that Paul was accompanied by his
wife Monica and Ike while he cased the bank. The team figures that Ike worked with Paul.
After Monica is brought in to the station, she doesn’t believe that Ike killed Paul since he
helped him out in the past. Monica admits that they were looking for Racine’s ledger in the safe
deposit box, but it was not there.
Hollowell informs the team that Racine put out a hit on Ike. Esposito and Ryan rush to
Carol’s house since she is in danger. They arrive at the house and find it empty. Ryan wonders
how Racine got to them since the house was being surveyed. While Esposito leaves, he notices
Ike on the chair with a gun. He tells Esposito that he sent his family away where Racine can’t
find them. Ike says there is a dirty cop on the payroll, but it isn’t him. He says he went away to
build up evidence on Racine. Ike says he knows where the ledger is. Ike shows Esposito that he
still has his metal squad tag intact. Esposito wonders if Todd is the dirty cop since he was in the
same squad.
Esposito shares his suspicion that Todd chose to take the case in order to manipulate the
investigation. Beckett suggests they pull Todd’s sim card to see if he contacted Racine. Beckett
suggests she distract him while they take his cellphone. In the gym, while Beckett spars with
Todd while Esposito, Ryan and Beckett break into his locker and steal his phone. While the tech
is away, the detectives scan Todd’s sim card. Back at gym, Beckett is able to knock Todd down,
but he sweeps her. Beckett asks her what he does for fun. He figures that Beckett suspects that
Todd is working for Racine and ask her to ask him about his alibi.
Later, Beckett informs the team that Todd was coaching a basketball game for underprivileged
youth in which Esposito confirms. After Esposito leaves, Ryan asks him to join him while he
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meets with Ike. Esposito says he needs to go alone, but needs his backup if things go wrong.
Castle figures that if they find out who IA was speaking to during Ike’s investigation, they will
find out who the dirty cop was. Roy says he will work on finding out.
Ike and Esposito go to Racine’s office to obtain the ledger. Back at the station, the team learns
that there was no informant who ratted out Ike during Hollowell’s investigation.
At Racine’s office, Esposito and Ike cut into Racine’s safe and steal his ledger. Hollowell arrives
and points his gun at the detectives and admits he is working for Racine. Hollowell orders them
to hand over the journal. Hollowell tells them what the official story will be. Esposito grabs Ike’s
gun hidden behind his back and fires while Hollowell fires. The detectives find Hollowell wounded
as he tries to escape and arrest him. The team finds that Ike was shot, but will be fine.
The team goes over their fabricated story that Esposito was with them while they responded
to a call by an anonymous citizen. Ike is brought out of his cell while Racine is brought in to
booking. Todd tells Ike that he is free to go. Ike’s family arrives to greet him.
After the case, Castle watches as Todd flirts with Beckett.
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Food to Die For

Season 2
Episode Number: 32
Season Episode: 22

Writer: Terri Edda Miller
Director: Ron Underwood
Show Stars: Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana
Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Susan Sullivan
(Martha Rodgers), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier
Esposito), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery)
Recurring Role: Arye Gross (M.E. Perlmutter)
Guest Stars: Ronnie Alvarez (Juan), Michael Trucco (Det.Tom Demming), Erin
Cahill (Cecily Burkett), Ryan Dobson (Balthazar Wolf), Allison Dun-
bar (Sandra Meyers), Richard Gleason (Wesley Slade), Max Greenfield
(David Nicolaides), Colin Kim (Spike), Suzy Nakamura (Jennifer Wong),
Benny Nieves (Domingo Verdugo), Julie Gonzalo (Madison Queller),
Rocco DiSpirito (Rocco Dispirito)
Summary: A dynamic restaurateur, finds herself mixed up in the murder investi-
gation of a former contestant in a reality Tv show called Kitchen Wars.
The restaurateur is a high school friend of Det. Beckett’s; she shares
an attraction to Castle. Meanwhile, Beckett’s relationship with Det.
Demming continues to grow.
Castle bounces into the precinct car-

rying two cups of coffee. One is for him;
the other is for Beckett, who isn’t at her
desk. That’s because she’s laughing her
way down the hall, a hot cup of java al-
ready in hand and Detective Tom Dem-
ming at her side. Castle overhears them
plan a dinner date. But before he has
time to drown his sorrows in that extra
cup of coffee, the phone rings. Sometimes
murder can be such a nice little distraction.
Balthazar Wolf, head chef at a restaurant called Q3, was frozen solid when liquid nitrogen was
poured on him. Wolf’s boss was Madison Queller, an old high school friend of Beckett’s. Madison
says Wolf usually worked non-stop, but had been disappearing for a few hours each day over the
past few weeks. Castle is intrigued by Madison, probably because she knows some secrets about
Beckett. For instance, she used to love watching reruns of ’Saved by the Bell.’ Hey, who didn’t?
David Nicolaides and his girlfriend, Cecily Burkett, say David’s family took in Wolf a long
time ago and helped him get his start as a chef. Wolf’s success on a cooking show furthered his
career, but he was still in financial trouble. Wolf asked David to buy out his portion of a diner
they inherited. The mystery regarding money continues when it’s revealed that Wolf gave $5,000
to a co-worker in need. Apparently, that was just a small portion of the large amount of cash he
was carrying in a backpack.
Wolf wanted out of his contract with Q3. Madison had an insurance policy that would cover
her if the chef died. This makes her a prime suspect. It also give Beckett a reason to crash
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Madison’s dinner date with Castle, just as they were enjoying a meal prepared by celeb chef
Rocco DiSpirito. Beckett could have at least waited until the pumpkin gnocchi was served. It’s
to die for! Guess turnabout is fair play, as Beckett’s dinner date with Detective Demming was
interrupted, too. They were having Chinese takeout, in case you were wondering.
Madison thinks the reason Beckett broke up her date is personal. She says, ’You’re hot for
Castle. You want to make little Castle babies.’ Beckett cringes when she hears this because she
knows Castle is watching and listening behind the interrogation room window. Love it!
After offering to help out with the case, Demming tells Beckett that her murder victim was in
trouble with a bookie. But Wolf made good on his debt and was able to get back an engagement
ring he put up as collateral. But who was it for? And where is the ring now? Castle thinks he
knows the answer to at least one of those questions.
Wolf hid the engagement ring in a special cake he baked. It’s why he was working late the
night he was killed. For the past two weeks, he’d spent hours sitting in a café watching the
woman he loves at work across the street. He was trying to gather up the courage to propose.
Who is this mystery woman? It’s Cecily Burkett, Wolf’s foster brother’s girlfriend.
Cecily is pregnant with Wolf’s baby. She loved him, but couldn’t handle his irresponsible,
philandering ways. David was solid and dependable, so she made a choice to stay with him and
tell him he was the baby’s father. But when David discovered the truth, he killed Wolf.
It seems to Castle that all this could have been avoided if Cecily had followed her heart. We
know he was talking about the case, but don’t you think the same sentiment applies to a certain
homicide detective and/or mystery writer, too? We sure hope Castle does, because it doesn’t look
like Detective Tom Demming is going anywhere anytime soon.
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Overkill
Season 2
Episode Number: 33
Season Episode: 23

Writer: René Echevarria
Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Guest Stars: Julie Blum (Lisa Jenkins), Ella Thomas (Natasha Piper), Paul Carafotes
(Lukas Canby), Stephen Full (Benny), Monica Garcia (Cleaning Lady),
Jennifer Hall (Rebecca Strong), Jim Hoffmaster (Clerk), Melanie Lewis
(Daphne), William R. Moses (Blake Wilder), Michael Trucco (Det.Tom
Demming), Kasey Mahaffy (Lance Newman)
Summary: A robbery-homicide prompts Beckett to invite Det. Demming to as-
sist on the case; the investigation becomes a competition for Beckett’s
attention, since both men race to solve the case.
In the room of a man named Damian,

a maid discovers his dead body in the
bed.
Alexis tells Castle that she read his
new book. She suggests he lose his new
robbery detective character. Martha says
she is going out with Chet to see a play
that she unsuccessfully auditioned fort.
Castle gets a call about the case.
At the scene, Lanie says the victim was
shot and left to die before he was finished off by bludgeoning. Castle recognizes Damian as a
cosmetic and skincare retailer. Beckett shows Castle a glass case that was broken into. She
shows him the word, ’Murdere,’ that was written on the mirror with blood. Ryan reports that a
witness saw someone late last night.
At the station, Demming tells Castle he was brought into the case. Damian’s cousin Blake
says that Damian kept rare books in the case. He says Damian had people come in and out of
the house recently since he was remodeling.
Castle tells Beckett that the message is more important than the books, but she has her
doubts. Castle asks Beckett if she is seeing Demming, but she tells him it is none of his business.
Esposito reports that Damian was a target of animal rights protesters. Castle wonders if the
killer was interrupted when he/she was about to spell the word, ’murderer,’ on the mirror.
At the company, Damian’s co-workers claim that Damian planned to stop treating animals
inhumanely and wanted to make a donation to animal rights groups. One of the workers says
they hired a private security company to protect Damian.
At the station, Beckett finds that Damian was going to meet with a woman named Natasha.
After Demming says he has a lead, Castle says he has one that looks even better since this
person, Newman, wrote threatening letters.
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At the station, Newman admits he threw paint at Damian. He says he saw Damian and
another woman get into an argument. Newman states he heard Damian say the woman put
a gun to his head. Beckett learns that Newman used an automated ticket printer at a movie
theater that places him away from the murder scene.
Beckett learns that Damian was dating a model named Natasha Piper, who is known to have
tantrums. Demming and Beckett make plans to go out later.
After Castle comes home, Martha says the person who took her part did a great job.
The next day, Natasha is brought into the station where she shows that she doesn’t cares
that Damian died. She says Damian got everything that he deserved since she suspects he was
cheating on her. She says when Damian was killed she was in the Hamptons with Paris Hilton in
which she blogged about. Natasha says she followed Damian to a cheap motel, but didn’t confirm
he was with a woman.
Esposito and Ryan are told to check with Damian’s neighbors to see if they noticed Damian
with a woman.
At the motel, the owner tells Castle and Beckett that Benny, the employee, who checked in
Damian called in sick.
At the station, Demming reports that he found someone named Lukas Canby who has one of
Damian’s rare books and has a record of violence. He asks Beckett if she wants to sit in while he
gets Lukas to confess.
In the interrogation room, Lukas claims that he purchased the books at the park from a
homeless man who didn’t know what he had. Lukas claims he was home alone when Damian
was killed. Beckett asks Demming to check up on the homeless man. Castle tells Ryan he doesn’t
think Demming and Beckett will work well together since they have goo goo eyes for each other.
Esposito reports that Damian’s mystery woman’s motel room got a call from his company. Ryan
and Esposito suggest they have Newman listen to voicemail greetings from Damian’s company to
see if he can recognize the woman who got into an argument with Damian.
Beckett and Demming bring in Marty the junky who admits that he sold the books. They
report that they believe Marty found the books in the dumpster.
Later, Newman identifies the voice of Lisa Jenkins, the woman who Castle and Beckett met
earlier at the company, as the person who got into an argument with Damian. Demming reports
that Marty gave a sketch of the person who dumped the books that fits the description of Blake.
Beckett reviews the case to find the motive for either Blake or Lisa. Demming says he doesn’t
care about motive now that they have a witness who spotted Blake dump the books. After they
argue, Beckett suggests they bring both of them into the station.
Lisa tells the team that Damian blamed her for hiring the company that conducted animal
cruelty. She says she was at home during Damian’s murder, but had to move her car in the
middle of the night. Demming and Beckett bring in Blake who says he went out drinking the
night that Damian was killed. He admits he went to the ATM and a news stand where he bought
cigarettes.
Castle reviews surveillance tapes that shows Lisa leave the building before Damian was killed.
Demming reports that the ATM record shows that Blake withdrew cash within the time line. They
watch the tape that shows Lisa return before Damian was killed. They figure neither of them fits
their murder timeline.
The next day, Beckett tells Castle they found Benny who was picked up for disorderly conduct
in Atlantic City. They ask him about the woman who checked in the motel room. He says he
recognizes Damian as the person who asked him who checked in the room. The team figure
Damian had no idea who the woman was. Beckett wonders how Benny was able to afford his
extravagant night. They see that Benny has a Damian Wilder bag. He admits he found the bag
with $75,000 grand under the bed in the woman’s room.
The team wonders if Damian was a victim of blackmail. Beckett and Castle wonder if the
blackmailer contacted Damian anonymously. They suspect Damian arrived at the motel and
demanded to know who checked out the room. Later, Damian left the cash under the bed, but
Benny took it first. They suspect the blackmailer expected the cash, found it missing, became
angry and killed Damian.
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Benny looks over photos to try to identify the person who rented the room. He points out
the photo of Rebecca Strong, a lab tech. At the company, Rebecca starts to cry and claims that
she tried to do the right thing. She says Damian came out with a product that had benzo-
phyosopheme that can cause capillary damage with over exposure. She admits she blackmailed
Damian by threating to go public with the harmful report. She asks if she can give back the
money since she claims that she didn’t kill Damian. She says she got the money from under the
bed at the motel room.
Demming brings back the money that Rebecca blackmailed from Damian. The team wonders
where the second bag of money came from. The team wonders if Blake or Lisa killed Damian to
protect themselves and the company. Beckett looks over the timeline and says it is all wrong.
She says she knows who killed Damian.
At the apartment, Beckett shares her suspicion that there were two killers. The team figures
that Lisa and Blake alibied each other. They wonder if Damian was planning a press conference
to pull the harmful product and was killed because Blake would have lost money in the company
stock and Lisa would have faced criminal charges for sitting on the harmful report on the skin
products. At the station, Beckett tells Roy that both Castle and Demming were right. Later, Castle
gets upset after he sees Beckett and Demming kiss.
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A Deadly Game
Season 2
Episode Number: 34
Season Episode: 24

Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Jon
Huertas (Javier Esposito), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Molly Quinn
(Alexis Castle), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Ruben Santiago-
Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish)
Guest Stars: Michael Trucco (Det.Tom Demming), Michael Connelly (Himself),
James Patterson (Himself), Stephen J. Cannell (Himself), Mitch Pileggi
(Hans Bremel), Monet Mazur (Gina Cowell), Rick Worthy (Jason Fenn),
Melissa De Sousa (Liz Fenn), Ian Reed Kesler (Hugo Morrison), Allison
McAtee (Andrea Fisher), David Starzyk (Lee Copley), Lucia Sullivan
(Melinda Farraday), Dean Cates (Roger Farraday)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate what appears to be the assassination of
an intelligence operative. Meanwhile, Beckett continues her romance
with Demming, jeopardizing her relationship with Castle. Forcing them
to finally face down their feelings for each other.
Castle is having trouble finishing his

latest book, ’Naked Heat.’ Catchy title,
right? He’s been avoiding the phone calls
of his publisher/ex-wife, Gina, like the
plague. Castle is also bummed to learn
that Alexis is bailing on their weekend
plans in the Hamptons to start a summer
program at Princeton. The fact that his
little girl will be staying in a coed dorm
certainly doesn’t cushion the blow.
Time for Plan B – as in Beckett! Yes, Castle asks her to join him for a getaway weekend at the
beach. Beckett believes he’s working awfully hard to see her in a swimsuit. Castle begs to differ.
He says, ’If you are not comfortable in a swimsuit, you can just skinny dip.’ He’s so thoughtful.
He’s also out of luck since Beckett is still dating Detective Tom Demming and, of course, there’s
a murder that needs solving.
Roger Farraday is a player in a high-end fantasy spy game. Correction: He ’was’ a player.
Farraday is shot dead in a park. At the Spy Ventures office, Hugo Morrison, the employee who
acted as Farraday’s handler, says his last mission was a bus locker drop with a player named
Andrea Fisher. Long Island housewife Andrea says that their joint mission was the first time
she’d ever met the victim and that afterwards, Farraday told her he had an additional mission to
deliver a briefcase.
Castle and Beckett discover the briefcase was not part of the Spy Ventures game. Hugo Mor-
rison was selling fake ID’s for side money and used the unwitting Farraday to make his delivery.
After the mission, Farraday called to say that a dark sedan was following him, but Hugo thought
he was just being paranoid. But it’s not paranoia if someone’s really after you.
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Beckett and Castle believe they’ve been looking at the case all wrong. Whoever killed Farraday
wasn’t involved in the spy fantasy, but used the game to cover their crime. Farraday’s business
partner, Lee Copley, recently went bankrupt and was spotted driving a dark sedan just hours
before the murder. However, Copley alibis out because he was sleeping with Farraday’s wife at
the time of the crime. Adulterer, yes. Murderer, no.
Beckett and Castle look into Farraday’s financials again. He made a transfer of ten grand
to Spy Ventures to pay for Andrea Fisher’s spy-cation. Andrea admits to having an affair with
Farraday, but begs Beckett and Castle not to tell her husband. Beckett says her hubby already
knows. Why? Well, he found out about his wife’s affair and killed Farraday in cold blood. Another
case closed. But will it be Castle’s last?
Fellow writers James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Stephen J. Cannell point out one pos-
sible reason why Castle hasn’t been able to finish his book. They fear Beckett has become more
of a distraction than a muse. Later, Castle tells Beckett that he’s going to the Hamptons not just
for the weekend, but for the entire summer.
Beckett doesn’t believe Castle’s departure will be forever. Esposito gives her reason to think
again. He says, ’Why do you think he’s been following you around all this time? What... research?
The guy’s done enough research to write 50 books. Look, whatever the reason is, I’m pretty sure
it doesn’t include watching you be with another guy.’ Like we said, this has Beckett thinking
twice about things, as she abruptly ends her relationship with a heartbroken Demming.
Interrupting a bon voyage bash for Castle, Beckett says, ’This past year working with you...I’ve
had a really good time.’ She obviously has more to say, but their chat is interrupted when Castle’s
publisher/ex, Gina, comes into the station. Much to everyone’s surprise, Beckett learns that Gina
will be spending the summer with Castle at the beach. She’s going to supervise his writing, but
the way they are acting, we get the sense they’ll be mixing business with pleasure.
Beckett looks like she’s been punched in the gut as she watches Castle and Gina walk away,
arms cupped around each other’s backs. Beckett needs to heave a Hail Mary pass before Castle
walks out of her life forever. She timidly asks, ’See you in the fall?’ Fortunately, Castle turns and
reassuringly says, ’See you in the fall.’ Whew!
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Season Three
A Deadly Affair
Season 3
Episode Number: 35
Season Episode: 1

Show Stars: Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Su-
san Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy
Montgomery), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Espos-
ito), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle)
Guest Stars: Michael Rady (Evan Murphy), Charlene Amoia (Ana Marie), Gino
Cafarelli (Dean Carbino), Justice Gamble (bartender), Lisa O’Hare
(Kitty Canary), Craig Gellis (Earl Moreland), Meghan Ashley (Fire
Breather), Erin Cervantes (Burlesque Dancer), Ethan Erickson (Xan-
der Foyle), Carolyn Ordonez (Maya Santori), L.T. Tolliver (Uniform),
Ashley Watkins (Burlesque Dancer)
Summary: Beckett hasn’t heard from Castle since he left for the Hamptons
months ago to finish writing his second Nikki Heat novel, ”Naked
Heat.” The most Beckett, Ryan and Esposito have seen of Castle is
a bookstore standee of him advertising an upcoming book signing. So
when Beckett and her team burst into a shadowy apartment on the
trail of a murderer, the last thing they expect to see is the real-life
Castle standing over a dead woman’s body holding a gun. As Castle
protests his innocence, Beckett has no choice but to arrest him on
suspicion of murder.
The scene opens with Nick Castle in a

room of mirrors and he is being shot at.
He runs out the door and Kate Beckett is
there with her gun too. She tells him to
drop his weapon and get on the ground
now. There is a gun shot and the show
flashbacks to three days earlier, where
Kate walks into the station and sees De-
tectives Ryan and Esposito try balance an
egg. She tells that it is impossible to do,
but they tell that Nick was able to do it.
They walk over to Kate’s desk and ask if
she called him yet and she tells that Nick
has his own life and that he has not called. They reassure her that he is probably busy trying to
finish his book. The phone rings but it is not Nick, but a new case. Kate and the rest of the team
enter on scene and Chloe Whitman is the victim. She fell from the top of the building and Kate
sees that Nick is going to be at book signing Friday at 7:00 PM. She tells that they need to get
into the apartment.
They go inside the apartment and see that the girl was shot and that she fell backwards out
the window. Kate sees that it wasn’t a robbery because all the money is still there. Kate sees that
her bags are half packed as well. Esposito tells that Chloe had a boyfriend, Evan Murphy and
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that they are tracking him down now. Kate meets with Evan and she asks if there was anyone
violent. He tells that she was a teacher. Kate tells that Chloe had her bags packed and asks if
he knows anything of that. He doesn’t. Lanie Parish enters and shows that she retrieved a note
from Chloe’s hand and it is an address. They investigate it and Ryan tells that the apartment is
registered to a Mia Santore. He tells that she doesn’t have any priors or anything. They enter and
see that the door was kicked in. The apartment has been tossed and in the bedroom, they see a
silhouette of someone. They enter and order the man to drop the weapon. It is Nick Castle. They
tell him to put the gun down and he tells that it is all a misunderstanding. Kate tells Nick that
he is under arrest for murder.
At the station, Kate enters the interrogation room and Nick asks if they remodeled. Kate tells
that he knows his rights and Nick tells that Kate looks good. He tells that the girl was dead
before he got there and Kate asks why he didn’t call. Nick tells that he was going to but then
they showed up. They go back and forth talking about their so-called relationships and Kate is
jealous of Nick. She gets back on topic and asks why Nick put his prints on the gun and he tells
that he thought the killer has come back and he picked it up to defend himself, but it turned
out to be them and, referring to Ryan, ’Annie Oakley’. Ryan tells Captain Roy Montgomery that
he almost shot Nick. Captain Montgomery walks into the interview room and tells that he wants
a quick word with Kate. Nick tries to say hello, but Captain Montgomery is not happy. He tells
that CSU came back on the gun and it is no match on the gun that Nick doesn’t match. Kate
tells that Nick is free to go.
At Nick’s home, Alexis Castle and Martha Rogers are watching a penguin hit another penguin
in the water. Nick comes in and Martha tells him that he has to watch a video. He tells them
maybe later. Martha tells that he looks like someone smacked him into an ice hole. He tells
that he stopped by the precinct and tells that Mia, the girl that made the sculpture for him was
murdered. Martha asks how everyone and she tells that Alexis is in crisis. Alexis tells that her
boyfriend from the Youth Program has not called back and says that if he really cared, he would
have called. Nick tells that he probably hasn’t called because he is afraid if Alexis has changed.
Martha tells that is stupid. Nick tells that he’ll something to make things right and Alexis tells
that maybe he missed his chance. Kate is at the station and she is thinking about Nick. Esposito
rolls in his chair up to her desk and tells that they don’t know who Mia is or why she was killed.
Ryan rolls up and tells that Ballistics came back and says that the victims were shot by the same
gun. Kate tells that she is going to talk to Lanie to see if there is any connection. Nick goes up to
Mia’s apartment and finds a spot of blood on the floor. Back at the station, Kate meets with Lanie
and she tells that both girls have tattoos. Chloe has a rose and Mia has a mermaid. However,
Lanie finds #227 on Chloe’s hand and cab receipts in Mia’s pocket. Esposito tells that they got
a hit on the phone records and both victims got a call from Todd McKutchin. Kate tells that she
is on her way. They enter the home of Todd McKutchin and there is a man above him. They tell
him to get his hands in the air and to turn around. It is Nick again.
Kate asks why he is there and how he did it. He refuses to give up his resources and then Kate
grabs his ear. He admits that he dialed *69 on the phone and that he went into Mia’s apartment
unauthorized. Ryan and Esposito are confused on why a vending machine vendor, a sculpture,
and a teacher have any connection. Kate tells that she wants to know everything. Nick asks what
he can do and Kate tells that if he wanted to come back, he should have done it sooner. Nick tells
that he was waiting for her to call him and says that it is fate that keeps bringing them together
again on a case. He tells that he has to follow the universe. She allows him to work on the case
with her as long as he plays by her rules. At Nick’s home, Alexis tells that her boyfriend called
but she didn’t pick it up. She tells that she doesn’t want to call back because it will make it seem
like she was waiting for his call. Nick tells that Alexis could get a new boy friend and Alexis tells
that he is not good at this. He agrees.
At the station, Nick arrives with coffee and Kate tells that she is meeting with Todd’s fiancé
shortly and will be able to find some answers. They make a bet on who will solve the case quicker
and Nick tells that if he wins, Kate has to take him on has her partner. If Kate solves it first,
then Nick is to leave the policing to the real police. They agree on the terms and Nick asks what
happens if Ryan and Esposito solve the case first. They laugh. Ryan and Esposito walk over and
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ask what is going on. Kate tells that Nick was apologizes for not calling her. They tell that the
blood that was found in Chloe’s apartment was Todd’s. Captain Montgomery enters and tells
Kate that Todd’s fiancé is here. Anna-Marie, Kate, and Nick meet and she tells that Todd went
to a man for money. They meet with Mr. Kirby, the man who gave Todd money, and he tells that
Todd paid up in full with his debt already. They are all sitting around trying to figure out the
case and Nick asks about Todd’s financial records as well as Chloe’s and Mia’s. They rush to
all the get them. They match up that on the same time all three victims deposited $9000 into
their bank accounts and on the same day and place at restaurants and bars. Kate tells that this
doesn’t mean that Nick won the bet.
Kate is writing more info on the board and Nick is admiring her. Ryan tells that the deposits
were made in cash and it is hard to trace. Esposito comes in and tells that they couldn’t run the
credit cards either, but every card swipe machine has an ISP so that they can trance the amounts
received and got an address. Kate tells that Nick is going on a road trip with her and Nick takes
the address from Esposito’s hand. Kate and Nick arrive at the location and there is a key pad
outside. Kate types in the #227 and the door opens. She tells that it was written on Chloe’s arm.
They enter and it is a circus with alcohol. Nick sees a dancer on stage and is intrigued. They talk
to the bartender and he tells that Ms. Kitty will be able to answer the questions. He tells that
Kitty is the girl dancing on stage. They meet with Kitty and she can’t believe that all three people
are dead. Earl, Kitty’s husband, sits down next to them and tells that he will get everything they
need. Kitty tells that everything was going smoothly until Evan, Chloe’s boyfriend, came in and
threatened her and told that he knew what she was doing there.
Kate and Nick meet with Evan again and he admits yelling at her and that he didn’t tell the
police at first because he knows how police work. He tells that he didn’t kill anyone and tells that
he is innocent. Kate and Nick exit and Kate asks Esposito and Ryan to get a search warrant to
search Evan’s home and Ryan hands over the list of employees and regulars. Nick recognizes on
of the men from Mia’s sculptures. It is Xander Doyle and he is weapons distribution and lives in
the Bouire. They have Xander at the station and he tells that Mia wanted a gun for protection. He
tells that he spelled all the signs that she was cooking up METH. Kate and Nick go to Lanie and
she tells that it isn’t drugs and tells that the main ingredient is missing and that is the finished
product. Kate gets a call from Ryan and he tells that they found the murder weapon at Evan’s
home. They meet with Evan and he tells that he did not do it. He tells that he wants a lawyer.
Kate tells Ryan to call the DA to see if they can cut a deal. Nick goes through Chloe’s purse
and pulls out money. He tells Kate to look at the serial numbers. Kate realizes that they are
the same. Nick tells that they know all the parts that the victims played but one ingredient is
missing. At the same time, both Nick and Kate tell that they know who the killer is. Meanwhile,
Kitty and Earl are cleaning out the club and getting the bags of money together. Kate and her
team enter with Nick and tell Kitty to get away from the money. Nick sees Earl in the mirror and
grabs Kate before she is shot. Earl and Kitty run and Kate tells Nick to stay there. He asks what
he does if they come back and Kate gives him her gun. Kate leaves and Nick sees that Kitty is
running out the door. He pursues her and enters the room of mirrors. Suddenly the mirrors are
shot and Nick runs for the door. Kate is there and tells Nick to get on the ground. Nick aims his
gun at Kate and they both fire at the same time, but they weren’t aiming at each other. Kitty and
Earl were behind them. Both Kitty and Earl are alive and taken into custody.
At the station, Captain Montgomery is impressed with them and asks how Nick got Kate’s
gun. Kate tells that Nick won the bet and it was fair and square. He tells that she doesn’t have
to do it but it is clear that she does. Esposito comes up to Kate and asks how much sooner
she knew it was about counterfeiting before Nick. She smiles. At home, Alexis is talking to her
boyfriend and he asks who called first. Martha tells that it doesn’t matter, just as long as she is
happy. Nick agrees.
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He’s Dead, She’s Dead

Season 3
Episode Number: 36
Season Episode: 2

Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Tamala
Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett)
Guest Stars: Rick Ravanello (Steve Adams), David Gianopoulos (Albert Moreno),
Paige Rowland (Loreen Carter), Rachel Boston (Penny Marchand),
Kieren Hutchison (Cody Donnelly), Bess Armstrong (Paula Casillas),
Bre Blair (Toni Johnston), Evan Helmuth (Nick Johnston), Mercedes
Masöhn (Marina Casillas)
Summary: Beckett and Castle look for the killer of a famous psychic while debat-
ing whether extrasensory abilities are real or not. When a letter arrives
from the victim predicting her death they must determine who actually
wrote the letter – the victim or the killer.
The scene opens with a girl walking

in the home of Vivien Marchand and she
is calling her mom. She stops when she
sees blood on the ground and calls her
cell phone. She tracks the phone down
and finds her mother’s body in the sofa
bed. At Richard Castle’s house, Alexis
and Richard gawk at Martha’s ring that
Chip gave to her when he proposed to her.
She tells that she doesn’t know if he is the
one that she wants to marry or not and Alexis tells that she doesn’t have to marry him. Richard
gets a call for another case. He arrives at Vivien’s home and tells that he knew the victim and
that he learned a lot from her being a medium and everything. Kate Beckett tells that she doesn’t
believe in any of the Medium and Psychic stuff and she meets with Vivien’s daughter, Penny.
They talk about what type of enemies that Vivian might have had and Beckett tells about the
initials T.J. that were found in the calendar book. Penny doesn’t know what that means. At the
station, a detective tells that the Cassias Family are there to identify the man coming out of the
apartment of Vivien. Albert Moreno, the leader of a big crime unit is the main suspect.
At the home of Albert Moreno, Kate and Nick meet with him and he admits to meeting with
Vivian and that he was up set about the fact that she told him to invest into something that
turned out to be a flop. He says that he did not kill her and it turned out that Vivian was right
when she told Albert that he would find true happiness because he met his soul mate. They exit
and Richard is trying to get Kate to believe that Vivien knew what she was talking about when
she told Albert to invest in that investment that flopped so that he could meet his soul mate. She
tells that it is only coincidental. She tells that she doesn’t believe in any of that fairy tale stuff.
They get back to the station and she tells that the alibi for Albert checks out, but her gut instinct
is telling her different. Richard tells that Kate won’t believe in fairy tales but her gut has magical
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powers. Scully find out that Vivian did a lot of research on the people who she saw. Richard tells
that she would have to do research because of different things that she has to do. Richard tells
that he does research when he writes to make sure that it is accurate, but she tells that it is not
psychic. He tells that it is but she blows him off and they leave.
Richard goes home to find Alexis and Martha playing on the Wedgie Board to communicate
with the dead but Martha tells that she doesn’t need the spirits to tell her that it is over. Alexis
thinks that she is jumping the gun and tells that love takes work. They tell that love is about
romance and Alexis tells that they went back with the bad relationships. Back at the station,
Richard asks about the status of Vivien’s ’Dirty Dozen’ list and he tells that Vivien was exagger-
ated her involvement in the police. But, Richard tells that police are not going to admit to hiring
a psychic to the police investigations. She tells that it is just a coincident. In the examination
room, the medical examiner tells that the ice-pick was brand new. He continues to say that there
has to be no psychic ability there. Suddenly Esposito comes in and gives a letter that was in the
mail outlining the prediction of Vivian’s murder by Vivian herself. However, Kate is unconvinced
and tells that it is a coincidence as well. She tells that the killer has enough time to write the
letter and to mail it off. Richard asks why she thinks that and Kate tells that they don’t even
know that Vivien wrote them because it is not signed. Esposito tells that Vivien often didn’t sign
her predictions. Steve Adams is out of prison and is carrying a grudge over the fact that Vivian
put him away for killing his wife. They released him from prison with a tracking anklet. Kate sees
that he was at Vivien’s place the time of the murder. Steve is brought in for questioning.
They sit down and Steve tells that he didn’t kill Vivian because when he got to her place, the
no one answered the door. He tells that he pounded on the door. He tells that he contacted the
reality show host of ’You Ruined My Life’ and they wanted to video tape when he was going to
confront Vivien. Richard tells that some of the letter that Vivian wrote mentions a loud pounding
from far away. She tells that it is still coincidental. Richard is at home when Martha walks in.
She tells that she had a horrible day and tells that she went to go tells Jet that it is over and
finds out that he had a stroke and he died. She spent all day and that the children told her that
she was the love of Jet’s life. They have asked her to do the Eulogy and she doesn’t think they
can. At the station, they watch the footage of Steve and Vivien yelling at each other and Penny
comes into the station. Kate tells the officers to turn it off and says hello. Penny tells that she
had a vision like her mom and tells that Kate is going to be saved by someone named Alexander
and that she needs to stay close to him. She has no clue what to do.
Kate and Richard meet with Mr. Donnelly and he is pitching an idea to Richard when Kate
walks in. Kate asks him about where he dropped off Steve and when. He tells that he did so and
then got a call from Vivien herself. She told that if he buried the tape, she would let him film the
killer up front. He gets the crew together and when he went to call her back, she didn’t answer.
Richard and Kate brain storm and Scully comes in and says that the cab driver took them to a
Nick and Toni Johnston. They arrive at the place and Toni answers the door. She starts to panic
as if she already knows the news. They ask why Vivien came and visited Toni. She tells that she
has an affair with her husband’s boss. Nick, Toni’s husband and that Vivien tells that the guy
who she had the affair with Emilio Cassias. The autopsy file of Emilio Cassias shows that it could
be Selenium. Too much of it could be poisonous. Kate and Richard start to build their hypothesis
and feel that they have it right. Esposito tells that Nick left work early and they start to debunk
the ’theories’ that Vivien had visions. Richard tells that the answers lie with Nick.
Kate and Richard meet with Nick and Kate tells that she is not dumb and that she knows
there is more. Nick tells that he didn’t kill Emilio and that he only had a heart attack. Penny
comes in and tells that she knows who murdered her mother. She tells that she had a vision
of her mother who told that they need to ask the Masons. Ryan and Esposito are in the office
and they are discussing the case. Richard says that now that they have the Freemasons on their
list, they have a whole new list to go through. Kate tells the others to ignore him. They tell that
a restaurant that the Cassias’ were at and it turns out that it is the Masons. They meet with
the Cassias’ again and eventually get Mrs. Cassias’ to not only confess about the murder of
Vivien, but also her husband for cheating on her. After getting the confession, Richard asks if
it is possible the part of the prediction of the knocking from far away could have been Nick. He
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asks Kate what Penny meant by Alexander and he tells that his middle name is Alexander by
birth and that he only changed recently. Martha and Richard get back from the funeral service
and Martha tells that she is thankful that Richard wrote the Eulogy. She tells that she feels bad
because of the entire false love that she shows Jet and Richard tells her to check the Wedgie
Board and he messes with it and moves it to yes. She tells that she raised a wonderful son.
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Under the Gun

Season 3
Episode Number: 37
Season Episode: 3

Guest Stars: Jason Beghe (Mike Royce), Sophina Brown (Gayle Carver), Keith
Robinson (Random Pierce), James Handy (Clifford Stuckey), Brian
Krause (Father Arron Roe)
Summary: When a coded document hidden by a murdered bail bondsman gets
Castle’s imagination running wild, Beckett must steer the case back
to the violent felons who populated their victim’s world – only to dis-
cover that maybe Castle’s crazy theories aren’t so crazy after all. Com-
plicating matters is the surprise arrival of Beckett’s ex-partner (now a
bounty hunter). As the two reunite over a history that Castle has no
part of, Castle is forced to watch the relationship take a turn towards
the romantic.
The scene opens with a man walking

into a building. He has a gun. At home,
Alexis brings Richard Castle breakfast in
bed and he wants to know what the catch
is. She tells that she wants a Vespa and
that all her friends have one. Castle tells
that he will think about it. He gets a call
from Kate Beckett. He is about to eat the
breakfast that Alexis made for him, but
she stops him and tells that he doesn’t
do good at crime scenes on a full stomach. Richard arrives at the crime scene and Deon Carver,
a bail bonds employee, is lying dead. Beckett tells that he was hit on the head with a trophy
before Deon could use the gun that he registered. She tells that she is having Ryan and Esposito
looking around for more clues. They radio in and tell that they didn’t find anything. Suddenly
the radio receives feedback and they find a surveillance bug. At the station, Kate says that the
bug is actually a commercial device and that anyone can buy one. Esposito ran the shoe print
found on scene and is waiting for results. Kate tells that they need to get on it. Richard asks how
Kate feels about Alexis feels about wanting a Vespa and she tells that she is going through her
wild stage.
Ryan tells that they found Carver’s wife and Lani tells that she found something weird. It
is like a complex code and it is possible that someone would kill him over it. Kate and Castle
meet with Brooke Carver and she tells that Deon had a good heart but he wasn’t stupid. Castel
shows the cryptic message and Brooke tells that she has never seen it. Esposito comes over and
a waitress told that Random Pierce and Deon and the waitress tells that they were yelling at each
other and Random told Deon that if he didn’t give it to him, then he would take it. They go to the
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home and the last known address for Random Pierce and Kate and Castle yell at a boy climbing
down the draining pipes. It is Random. He jumps down and runs away. Kate and Castle run after
him and a car speeds up next to Random and cause him to tumble over the car. The man gets
out and tackles him. It is Mike Royce, bounty hunter. Kate remembers him from the training
academy and Royce is her ex-partner.
At the station, Kate asks how Royce got the bounty on Random and that if he is not a suspect
in the murder, he would love to collect his bounty. Kate meets with Random and he tells that he
wasn’t running, but he was jogging. He dodges every question and then reacts to the news that
Deon Carver was found dead. He tells that he was shoplifting during the murder. Kate comes out
to find Royce telling stories from her past and she tells that was a long time ago. Ryan comes
over and tells Kate that Random’s alibi checks out and tells that he can be taken away. Kate tells
to let Royce take him. Royce thanks her. Castle talks to Esposito and asks why Kate and Royce
aren’t partners anymore and Esposito tells that Castle needs to ask her that and pulls out the
secret code and wonders what it means. Kate walks over and tells that there is a man named
Clifford Stuckey who was in the office of Deon Carver before. Ryan and Esposito visit Clifford
Stuckey, the man who owns the apartment that Random broke into and he is an old man. He
is taken to the station and he tells that he was at Carvers’ office because he wanted to drop the
charges on Random if he will only tell him that he is going to be good from now on. Kate tells
that he is too late and that Random is back on his way to jail. As Clifford walks by the board,
his eyes fall on the code that was in Carver’s sock. Castle and Kate walk into Lani’s examination
room and she tells that she found that someone performed last rights on Carver.
Castle wakes up the next day and tells that Alexis is going to have to earn the money herself
and then she could get the Vespa. Martha tells that he just opened the window to trouble.
This scares Castle and he asks Kate how wild was her wild phase and she tells that he doesn’t
want to know. Father Arron Roe enters and he tells that he has never been to Carvers place.
Castle recognizes his shoes and says that the same shoes were at the murder scene. Father
Roe confesses that he was there but that Carver was already dead. He has talked to inmates in
prison because they were framed and he didn’t want that to happen to him. He tells that he was
at Mass and couldn’t have killed Carver. He tells that Carver and him were talking about his wife
Brooke and his marriage and how they constantly fight. In the station, Royce is there showing a
photograph of Kate when they were partners. She laughs and Royce asks her out on a date. She
agrees. Esposito tells Kate that Brooke Carver ordered the bug to be put in Deon’s office. Kate
and Castle visit Brooke and she admits that they were fighting and that she ordered the bug to be
put there and that she was expecting to hear that Deon was cheating but instead she heard that
he was talking about her and how much he loved her. Ryan and Esposito tell that Father Arron
and Brooke have alibi and there is a connection to Stuckey and Lloyd, a cellmate that who died
in prison of a heart attack. Stuckey and Lloyd were arrested for the same crime. The reason why
Random broke into Stuckey’s apartment was because the jewels that were stolen, have never
been found. Castle tells that he knows what the paper is and he tells that it is a treasure map.
Father Arron and Kate and Castle meet and he tells that Lloyd came clean to him and told
that there was a map to buried gems and that Deon was cut into the deal. Deon told that he had
figured out the map and that they were told that they had 24 hours to give up the map or bodies
were going to stack up. Ryan and Esposito question Stuckey and he runs. Ryan and Esposito
are too slow. At the office, Castle places Adult Diapers and Prune Juice on Ryan and Esposito’s
desks. Royce arrives and asks if Kate is ready. She tells Castle that sometimes it is good to take
some time off. At a bar, Royce and Kate meet for drinks and she tells that she should have been
on Stuckey before. Kate tells that Royce taught her how to be a cop. She tells that she caught the
man who killed her mother and he told that someone paid him, but she had to shoot him before
he could tell her who. Castle looks at the map and Alexis comes in and tells that she tells that it
is a puzzle maybe. Castle thinks it is a folding map to read what you want when it is folded. They
fold it and read the words ’Under the Gun’. Back at the bar, Royce tells that he has to be going
and Kate gets a call. It is Esposito and he tells that Royce never dropped Random off in central
lockup. Kate looks up and sees Royce disappear and leave.
At the station, Kate can’t believe that Royce was in on the scam and Ryan brings the file of the
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jewelry heist and Royce was part of the investigation. Royce calls Kate and she tells him to turn
himself in. He tells that he didn’t mean for it to go down like this and she tells Royce that she
was in love with him and that he was the only one who understood her. She tells that she dreamt
that he was her hero and she tells that she is going to catch the killer, get the score, and make
him realize that he ruined the chance. She hangs up the phone and asks if it was long enough
to get the trace and all are shocked to hear the words that Kate told Royce. Kate tells that it was
all an act to get the trace, but it is clear that it was not just an act. They get to the place and
find Random handcuffed to the radiator. He tells that Royce went out and that he fooled both
of them. Random tells that Carver’s wife wanted in and Father Arron didn’t like that. They go to
Carver’s office and they tell that the conversation that Brooke heard was not on how much he
loved her, it was the details of the treasure. They see that Brooke has cemetery brochures and
that the treasure is there.
They arrive at the cemetery and they find the grave. Brooke is there and soon Stuckey and
Royce are there and they are aiming their guns at each other. Castle is the one that has to dig
for the treasure and then throws dirt in the air. The crooks get arrested and Royce tells Kate to
do what she has to do and offers his handcuffs to her. She tells that he is under arrest. Castle
asks if anyone wants to know if the treasure is there. Turns out there was no treasure and Kate
and Castle look at the map and says that they were looking in the wrong spot. They go digging
again and the scene shows a grubby Castle walking in and telling that they found the treasure
but they had to return it to the rightful owners. Alexis tells that she is not going to get the Vespa
and Castle tells that he can buy himself one and let her borrow it.
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Punked
Season 3
Episode Number: 38
Season Episode: 4

Writer: David Grae
Recurring Role: Ken Baumann (Ashley)
Guest Stars: Muse Watson (Ivan Podofski), Eugene Shaw (Joe), Victor Webster (Josh
Davidson), Eden Riegel (Rachel Goldstein), Ramon De Ocampo (Owen
Peterson), Thomas Kopache (Abe Sandrich), Andrew Leeds (Adam
Murphy), Jen Lilley (Julia Foster), Ian Nelson (Troy Kenworth), Jim
Piddock (Henry), Randal Reeder (Roland D’Andre)
Summary: Castle and Beckett look into the murder of a young mathematician
gunned down with a 200-year-old bullet, sparking some wild theories
by Castle about a time-travelling killer. When their investigation un-
covers a tricked-out DeLorean and a suspect in Victorian clothing, is
it possible Castle’s crazy idea has some validity?
The scene opens with two police of-

ficers on horseback riding through the
park. They approach a dead body. At
the house, Castle makes a new thing
for breakfast, a smorelet, a graham
cracker, marshmallows and a chocolate
bar wrapped inside of an egg. However,
Alexis is grossed out and leaves out the
door. Castle wants to know why she left in
a hurry and Martha tells him that Alexis
is in love. Castle is floored by the news and thought that he was Alexis’s go-to-guy. Castle gets
a phone call from Beckett alerting him another murder. Castle arrives on scene where the body
from the beginning and he is only left in his underwear. Castle jokes and tells that he has the
same type of boxers. Esposito and Ryan come up and tell that the body belongs to Daniel Gold-
stein. He has a downtown address and a downtown job, but the murder scene is not downtown.
Beckett gets up to leave and Castle jokes again and asks if it is a thong for her. She ignores him.
Back at the station, Daniel’s sister, Rachel, is there and she tells that Daniel was a math
genius brother and a bit of a dork, worked on Wall Street at an accounting firm. Ryan tells that
they found a print on Daniel’s wallet. They meet with a felon named Roland D’Andre. He is not
talking but Beckett wants to know why a gun matching the bullet hole in Daniel matches the
45mm that was found in his apartment and why he through her detective through a wall. Ryan
tells Esposito that a nice turtleneck will cover the neck brace. Esposito wants D’Andre to fry and
she tells that he will as soon as Lannie verifies that the bullet is a 45mm, but the unregistered
gun that D’Andre has is not the murder weapon. She tells that the bullet was 200-years-old.
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Castle’s brain starts moving and says that it is possible that Daniel is was killed by a time-
traveling killer. Castle talks about his theory and tells that he needs the time machine. Ryan
tells that it couldn’t be a time traveling killer. The bullet would have been brand new. Castle tells
that time travel causes rust. Abe Sandwich, ballistics expert comes in and tells that Antique guns
can be fired. Beckett tells that they still can’t find the clothes and tells Esposito that D’Andre is
not the killer. However, Captain Montgomery comes over and tells that he will get the max for
assaulting an officer. Castle suggests that the killer showed up naked and needed the clothes,
like the Terminator. Beckett tells that she and Castle are going to Daniel’s work and Esposito
and Ryan are going to search.
Beckett doesn’t know why someone would steal close and Castle wonders why Alexis has not
told him yet to tell that she is in love with someone. Beckett tells Castle to leave it alone or Alexis
will date someone horrible. They arrive at Berman Rose, the place where Goldstein worked,
and meet with Adam Murphy. He says that the Daniel checked out around 9:30 PM. Daniel’s
assistant, Julia Foster, tells that everything was going fine that day except for phone calls from
angry clients. They’d tell that Daniel created a financial product that many people invested and
it tanked. Many people of their money and many were upset. Meanwhile, Ryan and Esposito are
looking at web sites of antique gun collectors and the different investors and one individual to
sticks out. Ivan ’Yosemite Sam’ Padowski, a gun collector and investor is on their list now and
Beckett and Castle look at him and agree that he looks like Yosemite Sam. They meet with him
and find out that he left a threatening message but claims that he would never do that. Beckett
tells that they’re going to run Ballistics on his collection of antique guns.
Esposito comes up to Beckett and tells that they got a hit on the parking ticket and that
Daniel’s car is a Delorean. Castle rehashes his time traveler theory. Ryan and Esposito check
out the Delorean and see that Daniel had all the fixings to the original. A homeless man pushes
a cart and Ryan sees that he has Daniel’s clothing that were on him. It is a Victorian-style shirt
with a blood stain on the chest. The man says that he found them in the trash and tries to fight
off them. He rams an already hurt Esposito and Ryan takes him down and arrests him. He asks
if Esposito is alright and he says that he is. At the labs, gunshot residue is found on the rest of
Goldstein’s clothing and it suggests that he also had a weapon that he fired. Castle is starting
to believe that Daniel had a different life. At the park, they find another round bullet and Castle
determines that they were 40 paces away and had an old-fashioned duel because of the clothing
that he was wearing and that they stood and fired at each other at the stroke of midnight and
had a duel.
Castle has an old fashioned gun and returns home with it. He is going to scare Alexis for fun,
but instead finds Ashley, her friend, is actually Alexis’s boyfriend. They are caught kissing and
they freak out at the gun. Castle tells that he is not going to do anything and Alexis is upset
that he barged in as he did. Alexis tells that she will call Ashley later and he tells Castle that he
respects Alexis. Castle likes Ashley. The next day at the station, Castle tells of his close encounter
with Alexis’s new boyfriend Ashley and Beckett tells that they have no leads now. Ryan comes in
and tells that Daniel met with Troy Kenworth’s, son of Charles Kenworth and that Castle thinks
that Troy wanted to get revenge. However, when Beckett interviews him, Troy tells that he was
thankful to Daniel for getting him a job with a secret steam-punk society. They go there and they
get in. Castle tells that steam-punk is part of a subculture which embraces the simple things of
the past and mixes in things from the future. They talk to Mr. Peterson they say that they were
using antique guns and Peterson tells that they fired the dueling pistols. Beckett verifies that
they were fired resently and then sees Adam run away at the party and they chase after him.
Ryan and a newly rested Esposito arrive at the party and open the door. Esposito is tackled by
Adam.
Adam tells that he was in a duel with Daniel over Julia, Daniel’s assistant. They wanted to
make Julia like one of them and so they staged a duel. He tells that Daniel had the numbers
calculated and there was no way that the bullets her going to reach them. Beckett and Castle
kind of believe Adam’s manslaughter plea and go and test fire the antique guns for accuracy.
They cannot hit the targets and agree that it was manslaughter. Afterward, Castle is in futuristic
gear and Alexis walks up to him and asks what it feels like when you are in love. However, Alexis
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keeps answering her own question and Castle doesn’t get in a word. She tells Castle that she
loves him and leaves. Immediately afterward, Beckett shows up and she tells that the bullet that
hit Daniel, didn’t match any of them. There was a third shooter. At the park, they find Adam’s
lead ball and Ryan tells that he did kill a squirrel. Beckett judges where the third shooter would
have been in the park and they find clothing fibers on the tree. They know who the killer is and
the murder weapon.
They go to Steam-Punk Society and talk with Troy Kenworth. He is taken into custody and
confesses to the crime that he got tired of looking at Daniel’s smug face. Castle and Beckett
tell that the case is closed and Captain Montgomery tells if they heard about what happened to
Esposito. Ryan wheels Esposito in and he is in a full upper back brace and everything, but it is
a trick and Esposito tells that he is fine. A man named Josh comes in and Beckett’s knows him
and they are acting friendly. Castle drills him and asks about him and Beckett. They walk off
arm and arm and all men are puzzled. Later on, Alexis tells that she is thankful for his help and
she tells that they need to go a date. She tells that he will always be her Go-To-Guy and Castle
realizes that it is a pity date, but he will take it.
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Anatomy of a Murder
Season 3
Episode Number: 39
Season Episode: 5

Guest Stars: Monet Mazur (Gina Griffin), Nathan Lam (Rabbi), Cynthia Frost (Tova),
John Kassir (Mr. Dreyfus), William Allen Young (Jerry Camden),
Michael Cassidy (VI) (Greg McClintock)
Summary: When pallbearers lose control of a casket at a funeral, the deceased
and a second unknown woman tumble out of the casket. The victim
turns out to be a doctor at County Hospital. Now it’s up to Beckett
and Castle to determine if the world of bed-hopping physicians cre-
ated murderous jealousy or if the doctor’s work outside of the hospital
got her killed. Gina attempt to bond with Alexis puts a strain on her
relationship with Castle.
The scene opens with a funeral tak-

ing place. The men take the coffin away
and a woman’s body falls out. Martha and
Alexis are looking at nail polish and talk
about the fact that Gina is taking them
for a Spa Day. Gina in and Alexis tells
that they have a lot to talk about includ-
ing her new boyfriend Ash. She tells that
Taylor Swift’s ’Mine’ was playing when
they kissed and Castle covers his ears.
She tells that Taylor Swift is coming to concert, but the tickets are really expensive. Gina asks if
Castle remembers their song and he tells it was ACDC. Castle asks why he can’t come and then
his phone rings. It is Beckett and Gina tells that he already has plans.
Castle arrives on the scene and the victim is Dr. Valerie Monroe, an intern to a medical facility.
Lanie tells that she can’t see any marks except for one on her neck but can’t rule it out until
the autopsy is done. Castle tells that the killer was smart because the Jewish tradition needs to
get the body in the ground quick and if it wasn’t for the trip, they would have never found her.
Esposito visits with the funeral home manager and he doesn’t know how the body got into the
coffin and tells that there was a break in. The cops didn’t come because nothing was stolen. At
the station, Castle has Monroe’s phone and Beckett thinks he is playing. He tells that the last
internet search on her phone was for a hotel in New York. Castle gets mail and it is a pair of
Taylor Swift tickets. He tells that they are for Alexis and her new boyfriend. Ryan walks up and
tells that the funeral break-in story checks out.
Castle and Beckett visit Lanie in the autopsy room and she tells that a blunt object hit her
head but what really killed her was that an empty syringe was put into her carotid artery. This
caused her to have an air embolism. Lanie tells that someone with medical training must have
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been the killer. Beckett and Castle arrive at the hospital and Castle has it in his mind that based
on the medical dramas, there are doctors having sex in a break room. Beckett tells that doesn’t
happen. They meet with the director of the hospital and he tells that Monroe was in a private
room talking to one of the nurses and when they came out, the nurse was shaken up. They are
instructed to meet with McClintock and Castle is certain that Nurse McClintock is going to be
a hot woman. However, when they meet McClintock, it is a smooth-talking male nurse named
Gregg that has a thing for the women doctors. Greg tells that he was no where near the murder
scene and that the argument that he had with Monroe was that of the fact that she accused him
of flirting with the female residents. He tells that he saw her leaving with a stranger.
Castle goes back to the station and Ryan tells that Greg was friendly with all the doctors and
bought them nice things, but never slept with any of them. Castle wants to know the purpose of
buying girls nice things if you are not sleeping with them. At the same moment Beckett enters
and Captain Montgomery tells that Gregg’s information about the unknown person was correct
and they got a photograph from the security camera. Castle goes home and is about to show
Alexis that he got Taylor Swift tickets to her when Alexis tells that Gina gave her front row
tickets with backstage access. She leaves and Castle tells Gina that he bought tickets for Alexis.
Gina is offended and tells that she wanted to something special for Alexis and that was all, but
instead, Castle had to ruin her moment for her and let her be the hero for once. At the station,
Montgomery tells Beckett to go home but Esposito enters and tells that Monroe was spending a
lot of nights in the hotel room of Cesar Calderon, a known drug lord that has been out of the
business for a while.
Castle and Beckett go to the hotel room of Cesar Calderon and a man named Manuel answers
the door. He tells that no one named Cesar Calderon stays there, but upon hearing that Castle
is with Beckett, Cesar invites them in. Beckett tells that at Valerie Monroe has been murdered.
He is shocked and tells that he was in his hotel all night long. He tells that his relationship with
Monroe was strictly professional and she was his private doctor. They show the picture of the
mystery man and Manuel recognizes him as a man that Monroe met with. Beckett and Castle go
to the Amelia’s Café and they wait around for the mystery man. Beckett asks how the surprise
went and Castle tells that Gina bought tickets to Taylor Swift too. Their mystery man shows up
and it is Leonard Maloney of the Attorney General’s office. He tells that Monroe was working for
him as an undercover to investigate misappropriation of funds at the hospital. She uncovered
something new and going to meet with him to give it to her. This would explain the search for the
hotels in New York.
Montgomery wants to know what is in the part of New York that is so important. There is a
women’s prison there and Beckett gets on phone to get visitor logs. Castle goes home and has
invited Gina over to apologize to her about being upset for the tickets. She forgives him and
they kiss. At the station the next day, Beckett tells that Gregg was making weekly visits to the
women’s prison to visit an inmate named Amy Porter. Esposito enters and tells that Amy Porter
has just had a stroke and that they are moving her to County, the same hospital Gregg works
at. Castle and Beckett rush there and find out that Amy Porter died when she was having an
MRI. They ask to see the body and find out that the bodies have been switched and that Gregg
planned a prison break. At the station, they tell Montgomery that Gregg was friends with the
doctors to be able to get the documentation for the medical treatments to allow for her to escape.
The drugs that he smuggled were for her to simulate death and when she was rescued by Gregg,
he gave her something that woke her out of the sleep. Castle sees letter written from Gregg to
Amy stating their love. Beckett asks where they could go and Castle suggest the place where Amy
and Gregg first met. This is at a Burgeropolis restaurant in New Jersey.
They are trying to figure out the plan of action to do next when suddenly, Montgomery tells
that the troopers who staked out the Burgeropolis caught Amy and Gregg and are bringing them
in. Castle is happy because that was his idea. They meet with Gregg again and he tells that he
had to release Amy from prison. Beckett tells that they are more interested in the murder of
Valerie Monroe. He tells that he didn’t kill her and they tell that he had an accomplice that did
the job because the talk that they had, was really about the fact that she was onto Gregg and
the drugs that he was smuggling into the prison. He tells that was only the time that he moved
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faster and moved up the date of the prison break. He tells that she was talking about a bracelet
that her boyfriend gave her. They tell that Monroe didn’t have a bracelet on and Gregg tells that
she did when he saw Monroe.
They look at the picture of a car that was seen driving by late at night near the scene of the
crime and they see that in the crime scene photos, she is not wearing a bracelet but when she
met with the U.S. Attorney General, she did. Castle and Beckett recognize the bracelet and go to
the hotel of Cesar Calderon again. When they enter, they tell that it is his car and that he killed
Monroe because the nylon fibers that were found on Monroe’s body match up with the carpet
that is inside of Calderon’s Coupe de Ville. Cesar tells that he gave Monroe the bracelet and tells
that he was in his hotel suite when Monroe was killed. However, he realizes that Manuel was
not inside with him and that he gave the keys to him that evening. Manuel admits that he killed
Valerie Monroe when he saw that she was working with the Attorney General’s office to get to
Cesar. He tells that Cesar was blind with love and that he had to do something to protect his
brother. He tells that he took the syringe and used his skills that he learned and murdered Dr.
Monroe.
Castle and Martha are at home when Alexis gets home from the Taylor Swift concert. She
says that it was amazing and thanks Castle. She tells that Gina told that the tickets were from
both Gina and Castle. Martha tells that it was a nice gesture She tells that it was romantic that
Gregg went as far to bust his girlfriend out of prison. She questions Castle and asks if he would
break Gina out of prison and tells that is true love there. Beckett and Castle go to Gregg and Amy
jail cell and Beckett tells that they re-evaluated her case and there were a lot of holes in it. The
Attorney General is confident that she will get released and as for Gregg, he will get probation.
They give them some Burgeropolis food as a nice gesture. Esposito tells that what they did and
tells that if Castle was ever in prison, he would run away. Beckett walks up and tells that she’d
get Castle out.
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3XK
Season 3
Episode Number: 40
Season Episode: 6

Writer: David Amann
Director: Bill Roe
Guest Stars: Anne Marie Howard (Linda Russo), Lee Tergesen (Marcus Gates),
Michael Mosley (Jerry Tyson), Brian Klugman (Paul McCardle), Joe
O’Connor (Cal Townsend), Mark Berry (Warden John Peck), Ciel Turich
(Bike Messenger), Ping Wu (Dr. Lee)
Summary: When a beautiful woman is found dead in an alley, all clues point to
her being a victim of the notorious Triple Killer. The Triple Killer, or
3XK, terrorized New York City four years ago, then mysteriously dis-
appeared. Now he’s back. In a deadly battle of wits, Castle and Beckett
race against time to stop 3XK before he claims his next victims.
The scene opens with a woman walk-

ing and suddenly a man follows her.
Martha and Castle talk to Alexis about
her secret admirer and she tells that she
is going to figure it out and pinpoint who
the secret admirer is. Castle tells her to
not and wait to be surprised. She agrees
with him. Castle gets a call and it is an-
other murder. Linda Russo, a cable com-
pany worker, is found murdered and Cas-
tle sees something familiar. He tells that it looks like the M.O. from a killer 4 years ago. Beckett
talks to Mrs. Russo and she tells that she doesn’t know who would have wanted to kill her
daughter, but tells that a man was following her a couple of times and that he was working as
a person who waters plants. Beckett gets a 911 text from Lanie. She tells that the same rope
marks that were found on Linda Russo, were the same ones found on all the women involved in
the homicide of other women 4 years ago. The Triple Killer is back and he is killing.
Captain Montgomery briefs the staff and tells them that they are looking for a killer that killed
six people 4 years ago and that he is coming out of hiding. Det. Ryan tells Beckett that the guy
stalking Linda was Paul McCardle. He tells that he quit last month. Beckett and Castle meet with
a very sweaty Mr. McCardle, to which he says that he has a medical condition. He tells that he
was bowling all night at the time of the murders. He tells that he was following her, but tells that
a security guard told him to move on. Esposito tells that Paul’s alibi checks out and Montgomery
comes up and tells that they have a second victim. They go to Kim Foster’s home and neighbors
say that a gas man was leaving. Castle notices that the pillows are not arranged perfectly and
tells that there was a struggle. They look in the cushions and Beckett finds a name tag with Vince
written on it. At the station, Cal Townsend comes in and tells that he and his wife are split up
and tells that reporters keep coming to his door and he asks if the killer that killed his daughter
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is back or not. Captain Montgomery tells that they have a lead and tells that he will let him know
when they make the arrest.
Castle is wondering why the killer didn’t stick to his original M.O. and Beckett tells that the
transcripts on the hot-line shows that Linda Russo called in a suspicion after telling that there
was a man dressed like a cable man, but didn’t have the right tools. This is why Linda Russo
was special and that would explain why she was attacked. Marcus Gates is the print match and
Beckett tells that he was in prison for countless of things and was released last month. Castle
arrives home to find Alexis admiring a rose that her secret admirer sent and she tells that the
note said that if she liked the rose, to have her wear it. Castle tells her not to do it and tells that
she doesn’t know if there are going to be repercussions to this. Castle goes into the station and
Beckett tells that Marcus had a cellmate named Jerry Tyson. They go to meet with Jerry and he
tells that he is not going to tell them anything because he tells that Marcus has reach even in
prison, but Beckett tells him that she has all day and it is going to look like he was talking for a
long time anyway to the cops. Jerry tells that Marcus liked to hang out at a bar.
The team assembles there and Marcus comes out. They tell him to get on the ground and
Castle gets into it too much. At the station, Castle is narrating the character of Marcus in an
author type of speech. Capt. Montgomery tells that they are going to have to get Marcus to run
his mouth and they are searching his home. Beckett starts to interview Marcus and he is very
calm with everything she is asking she shows pictures of the victims and he denies knowing any
of them. Behind the glass, Montgomery tells Castle that Beckett needs to make sure that Marcus
doesn’t lawyer up and that it is near to impossible that he wound not. She tells Marcus that
they are searching his home and he tells that he will wait until they can prove it with a warrant.
Montgomery tells Bennett to show the warrant and try to make him stick around. However,
Bennett makes Marcus want to leave and she tells that he can leave but just tell where he was
during the murder. He tells that he was home.
They look on the surveillance cameras and it shows him going in. Beckett doesn’t want to
believe it, but Montgomery tells that they have to let him go. Marcus walks out smugly and tells
the staff to watch out for their loved ones since there is a killer on the loose. Back at Castle’s
home, Alexis tells that she is going to meet her secret admirer and Castle thinks that is a bad
idea. Martha reassures that everything will be fine. Bennett calls Castle and tells that she has to
go visit Jerry again and get him to talk. At the prison, Jerry finally rolls on Marcus and makes
a deal. They get him out of prison and Ryan sits with Jerry and he asks why they can’t arrest
Marcus already. Jerry mentions that Marcus used partners sometimes. They take a look back at
the surveillance video and find out that he did not walk into the building, but find out that Paul
McCardle is the partner. Montgomery tells that Marcus is gone as well. They track down Donna,
Jerry’s girlfriend, and Beckett tells Esposito to go to her quickly. Inside he finds Marcus trying
to kill Donna. Esposito asks how he is going to get out of this one.
At the station, Beckett tells that they found the same rope as the killer and he tells that it is
not a crime to carry rope. Bennett asks for some more leverage and they find out that Paul is in
the hospital. Castle and Ryan go to the hospital and find out that he has just had heart surgery
and that he is not going to be conscious. They call to Beckett and she has her leverage. She goes
in the interrogation room and tells that they are going to charge Paul with accessory to a crime.
He tells that he will confess if they give Paul immunity. He records his voice while Cal Townsend
watches. Later, Castle and Ryan go to where Jerry is staying and they tell the news. Castle picks
up on something and before Ryan could react, he is hit unconscious. Jerry grabs the gun and
ties up Castle. Back at the station, Beckett gets ready to leave and Montgomery tells that he is
going out.
Back with Castle and Jerry, Castle tells that Jerry kills blonds because his own mother was
and that there were possible memories that you never wanted to handle. Jerry reads Castle too
and asks how close he wants to come to death. Castle’s phone rings and it is Martha. She tells
that the secret admirer was really Ashley, Alexis’s boyfriend. Castle says I love you and Jerry
tells that it is time to say goodbye. Jerry leaves and Beckett arrives barely missing him. She
runs upstairs to find Castle alive. She asks why he was kept alive and he tells that it was for
punishment because he has to live with the fact that he couldn’t catch him. She tells that she
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Almost Famous
Season 3
Episode Number: 41
Season Episode: 7

Director: Felix Enriquez Alcalá
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Jon
Huertas (Javier Esposito), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben
Rodgers), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett)
Guest Stars: Corey Saunders (Derek Brookner), Christina Vidal (Jamie Ruiz),
Samantha Quan (Kathleen Park), Mary Page Keller (Rebecca Dal-
ton), Austin Highsmith (Camille Roberts), Philip Anthony-Rodriguez
(Michael Grant), Kelsey Gunn (Sarah Lieberman), David Barry Gray
(Bert Kramer), Clint Glenn (Hans Von Mannschaft), Blake Gibbons
(Billy Grimm), Gideon Emery (Lloyd Saunders), Sam Doumit (Mandy
Carson), Adriana DeMeo (Bella Lombardo), Leandro Cano (Bouncer)
Summary: An ”Officer Down” call turns out to be a male stripper dressed like
a cop. Castle and Beckett explore the world of male strip clubs and
struggling actors, all people in pursuit of fame. They need to deter-
mine if the murder was because of the victim’s dreams of stardom or
something more sinister.
The scene opens with a police offi-

cer responding to a domestic violence call
and tells that he has a warrant for the
person’s arrest. Suddenly the door opens
and the officer is dragged inside. The next
day, Martha and Alexis are yelling and
Castle tells that he was dreaming of bikini
girls until they woke him up. Alexis tells
that she accidently let it slip that she was
auditioning for ’Grease’. He tells that she
is not going to let up. Suddenly Castle gets a phone call, it is Beckett and they have a case. Castle
arrives on scene and finds a police officer on site dead. However, upon close inspection, Beckett
discovers that he is not a cop, but a stripper with a tequila filled pistol. They find the guy’s car
and find a wallet inside. The victim was Derek Brookner. They find an address to where he was
last at possibly.
They arrive at the residence and a hung-over woman answers the door. They think that Castle
is another stripper and they tell that they are the real police officers. They are surprised to hear
that the stripper that came over was killed and Beckett tells that everyone is going to the station.
At the station, Ryan is trying to interview one of the girls whose face is always in the trash can
while Castle and Beckett interview the other two girls. One of the girls tells that the bachelorette
has a thing for cops. Castle mentions that he is a sort of a cop. Castle determines that the girls
were taking pictures as well. They look at the pictures and they find out that Derek had a visitor
come by that he knew. Camille Roberts is the girl that is in the picture that was talking to Derek
and she has a record. They bring in Camille and Ryan tells that they found a business card for a
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Jesse Mandalay. Beckett tells that she didn’t get over the fact that her and Derek broke up and
Camille tells that she couldn’t believe that Derek was stripping. She tells that Derek has another
gig that he said he had to quit because it was going to kill him. They look at Derek’s acting ability
and Beckett tells that Ryan and Esposito need to go to ’Mucho Men’ to find out more. Meanwhile,
Lannie tells that she found blonde hair and it tested for testosterone and steroids.
Ryan and Esposito visit Mr. Saunders and he tells Ryan that he could use him for stripping
but tells Esposito that he doesn’t need him. Esposito tells that they are from the NYPD and they
tell that Derek is dead. Mr. Saunders tells that Derek did the rich people parties and bachelorette
and tells that Derek worked at the Package Store, a male strip club. They look at the site and
Beckett tells that there is only one way to find out if their long-haired guy. She calls for Castel
and they go to the strip club. Meanwhile back at the office, Esposito starts doing reverse push
ups and Ryan asks what he is doing. He is upset that Saunders didn’t want him in the stripping
business. Back at the strip club, they are looking for Hans and Beckett tells that he is up next.
Firemen enter the stage and Beckett tries to get Hans’ attention. It is not working so Castle
sprays them with a fire extinguisher and gets Beckett in the back of the head with it too. In
the dressing room, Hans has a thick German accent, however when they mention that Derek is
dead, his Jersey accent comes out and he tells that he had nothing to do with it. He tells that
they share costumes all the time. He asks if they asked his girlfriend and tells that Derek used
to
Rebecca Dalton is the woman who has been sending the flowers and they tells that she is
rich and Castle tells a plot of a scenario and Beckett tells him to go and thanks for the story
and tells that they need to just ask Rebecca some questions. Castle asks how Alexis did and
she is narrowed down for the part of Sandee and Martha is sporting her ’Grease’ outfit. Alexis
tells that she is off to bed. Castle tells that Martha is great to Alexis. The next day, Castle and
Beckett get to Rebecca’s and Michael Grant, Rebecca’s attorney, answers the door. She tells that
they never hid things from each other and that Derek asked for $25,000 and that is what ended
the relationship. She tells that she hired a Private Investigator. She has pictures and Beckett
recognizes a man. After watching Derek’s acting video for ’Most Dangerous Criminals’ and the
man in the picture is Michael Grimm. They discover that the woman that Derek met was setting
him up for murder.
They visit the bike shop of Billy Grimm and she asks if he heard of Derek and he tells that
he doesn’t. She threatens him that she will get everyone checking the VIN numbers and he tells
that Derek came over with a donation of $25,000. Beckett tells that he extorted the money and
shows the picture of Billy’s girlfriend and Derek. She tells that she told Derek to give a donation
to get Billy off his back. Billy grabs her arm and looks like he is going to hit her, but he tells
that it was the most romantic thing to do. They want to know how a struggling actor could come
up with the money and Castle sees a withdrawal slip from a different bank. The bank sends
over the surveillance and Beckett sees that it is not a different person. Jessie Mandelay is Derek
Brookner. The account was from Sunfire Limited and the only person they can trace the money
to is a fake person. They meet with a woman who has had business with Jessie Mandelay and
they tell her that she was swindled and she is not too happy.
Beckett and Castle go to the developer and he tells that Jessie Mandelay tried to steal his
property and they ask if anyone else called him and Beckett tells that she needs some brochures.
Beckett and Castle tells that Derek’s partner is the one who killed Derek and Beckett gets a call
and it is Esposito and the real owner of the bank account is Rebecca Dalton. They get ready to
bust to crook and they go to Rebecca’s house. Beckett talks about failed businesses and they tell
that Derek took $25,000 from the account and tells that her lawyer created a scam and funneled
money to his offshore account. Michael tells that he is not saying another word. Later, Castle
tells the end of the case to Martha and Alexis comes in and tells that she didn’t get the part.
Martha springs into action and tells that it is the best thing to happen and rejection allows the
actor to live. She runs off to buy ice-cream to ease the pain. She admits that she didn’t want the
part and tells that she gave it up and the director offered the position of Stage Manager.
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Murder Most Fowl

Season 3
Episode Number: 42
Season Episode: 8

Writer: Matt Pyken
Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy
Montgomery), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Susan Sullivan (Martha
Rodgers), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Recurring Role: Ken Baumann (Ashley)
Guest Stars: David Dean Bottrell (Byron H. Singer), Ever Carradine (Mirielle Lef-
court), Claudia Choi (CSU Photo Tech), Presciliana Esparolini (Teresa
De La Torre), Gattlin Griffith (Tyler Donegal), Rick Hearst (Dr. Elliot
Lefcourt), Paul Eric Jerome (Robert Kincaid), Christopher May (Arthur
Sansone), John Pyper-Ferguson (Dean Donegal), Carmen Argenziano
(Mario Rivera), Steve Rizzo (Thomas Mestrick)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of an NYC subway worker
found shot in Central Park. But, while investigating the murder they
uncover the abduction of a young boy as well. The team must deter-
mine the motives behind the high stakes kidnapping in order to save
the young boy’s life.
The scene opens with bikers riding

and one crashes next to a dead body. At
Castle’s, Alexis is watching a rat for her
boyfriend. Martha doesn’t like the rat and
Castle goes to visit a dead body. Beckett
and Castle go to the scene and Lanni tells
them that the victim is Leonard Levitt and
he has two gun shots in his back and one
in his chest. Castle picks out a feather
out of Leonard’s pocket and tells that it
was over something involving birds. At the station, Ryan and Esposito tell about the fact that
Leonard worked for the transit company. Castle and Beckett return to Lanni and she tells that
the one gunshots in Leonard’s front were given from 150 feet. However, the two in the back are
close range.
Ryan and Esposito go to investigate the home of Leonard and they find that he had a different
life. Beckett and Castle talk about Leonard to Mr. Rivera, the manager, and he tells that it is
horrible that Leonard got shot. He tells them to talk to Arthur Sansone. They go up to him and
he is devastated. He tells that Leonard was a hero and that he fought for the installation of a
system to shut down the tunnel lights whenever he was working on them to avoid electrocution.
At the station, Ryan and Esposito pull up that Mr. Rivera was being investigated because Leonard
called the transit tip line to tell that Rivera was selling old bulbs to Costa Rica. They bring him
in and he tells that he is doing that but tells that he didn’t kill Leonard over it because he was
working the whole night.
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Esposito comes in and tells that Leonard had an appointment for BHS the day he was killed.
They figure out that the initials stands for Byron H. Singer and tell that he bought the equipment
for Leonard to spy. They meet with Bryan and he says that he saw Leonard is a liar. He tells
that he saw Leonard and, what Castle and Beckett thinking, a lover. However, it was birds that
Leonard was with. Bryan tells that he wants to be able to have on record that he found the birds
first. Castle goes home and sees Martha on the coffee table and Alexis looking on the floor. She
has lost her boyfriend’s rat. They look in the closet but don’t find the rat. Castle sees a camera
and gets a good idea. Martha tells that she is going to check into a hotel as Castle leaves. He
arrives at the park with Beckett and tells that Leonard was watching something and that he had
to be in a tree to get a good view. They look up from a tree that had a fresh dip and they find that
there is a camera. On the film, there are pictures of a man abducting a child. This just turned
into a kidnapping case as well.
Beckett updates everyone else and tells them that they need to find the boy right away. Castle
tells wonders if the parents were there and tells that he should have been in school somewhere.
Ryan tells that he will go to work on doing so. Castle suggests that they enlarge a piece of the
picture to see if there is a reflection in the mirror. Meanwhile, Esposito asks a vendor if he saw
a car and he tells that it was a Blue Saturn and it was in his normal spot. They get to know the
make of the car, but there are a lot. Ryan tells that the school records and other things are a
no go too. Castle and Beckett look at the enhanced photos and they are no use as well. Castle
recognizes the socks that the boy is wearing and tells that he plays for a soccer team. They look
up the records and find out the boy’s name is Tyler Donegal and they have to find him out quick.
Ryan comes up and tells that he is a janitor and that the divorce he had was bad. Esposito tells
that Mr. Donegal has everything to lose.
Tyler’s mother tells that Dean never misses work when she comes in and is asked about her
son and the fact that Dean missed work. Beckett asks her if Dean ever took Tyler to any hangouts
and she tells that they didn’t go anywhere besides his cabin. After the interview, Castle tells that
Alexis got lost one time and after a while, Montgomery tells that they didn’t find anything at
Dean’s apartment. They get a hit on Dean’s credit card and find out that he bought a room
for the night at a motel next to the cabin. They bust in and Dean tells that he is waiting for
instructions from an unknown source to be able to get Tyler back. He tells that if he talks to the
police, Tyler is dead.
They take him back to the station and they think that Dean is the one wanting to kidnap his
son. He tells that he doesn’t know where Tyler is. Ryan enters and tells that his gun is a 9mm but
it is the wrong gun. He tells that he wants his son back. His wife runs up and they start fighting
about the whole thing and Montgomery tells that they are trying to find Tyler. He gets a text from
the killer and it is a video. He tells that he shouldn’t forget to feed ACE. He gets another text for
him to meet him on a steet, the same one that has elevator access to all the offices. Beckett tells
that Dean should’t go, but Montgomery tells that they are fine. At the station, Beckett and Nick
tells that ACE stands for a subway line. The last stop is Canal Street, the same place where Dane
works. They find out that they are holding Tyler in the Subway tunnel.
The team goes with Dean to have him go through the motions to get access to the upper
levels. As he gets on, two men with guns get on too. They go to the top really quick and they get
onto the elevator too. Meanwhile, Beckett and Castel see where they are hiding Tyler and they
barge in and get the boy out. With Dean’s situation, they start to take the elevator down and
they are stopped on the Lobby because of Montgomery and his team. They arrest everyone and
at the station, Castle tells that the crooks took the financial files from the office and then tried
to escape with them through the Subway. Back at the house, Alexis’s boyfriend comes back and
she tells that she lost his pet rat. He tells that he doesn’t care and only cares about her. At the
very end, Martha screams and Castle tells that he found the rat.
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Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind

Season 3
Episode Number: 43
Season Episode: 9

Writer: Shalisha Francis
Director: Bethany Rooney
Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Tamala Jones (Lanie
Parish), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito)
Guest Stars: Karl T. Wright (Dr. Chuck Vaughn), Lyle Lovett (Agent Westfield), Lance
Henrickson (Benny Stryker), Jeanette Brox (Ayyana Holder)
Summary: Castle’s latest theory is alien abduction after an astrophysicist’s death
is found to be from explosive decompression. A well known alien ab-
duction expert gets involved in the case. To complicate things more, a
government agent wants to shut down their investigation.
The scene opens with a guard inspect-

ing a car and finds a woman dead. Castle
is doing a crossword in pen and Martha
tells that he is brave. Alexis comes in
and Castle tries to get her attention, buy
Martha tells that she is talking to Ashley.
Alexis gets off the phone and tells that
Ashley’s parents want to meet Castle for
dinner. Castle and Beckett meet for the
case and Castle tells of his dilemma of
needing to meet with Ashley’s parents. Beckett tells that he needs to tread lightly. They get
to the crime scene and find Marie Subbarao, an astrophysicist who Castle thinks that has been
abducted by aliens after Marie is diagnosed by Lanii that she died of explosive decompression. In
other words, she died from being in outer space without a suit. Castle’s theory is starting to get
bigger, but Beckett tells that there is always an explanation for it. Esposito tells that a cigarette
bud was found by the car tire and will offer some sort of an explanation as to what or who killed
Marie. At the station, Castle is still thinking that it is alien abduction. They find out that Marie
was last leaving her work place and they go in to investigate.
Castle and Beckett visit with Marie’s assistant, Ayyana Holder and Marie’s boss, Chuck
Vaughn. Ayyana tells that Marie said that something ’life changing’ and that she wasn’t her-
self. When Castle asks about the decompression issue and what could have done that, Chuck
tells that they have a decompression chamber to get people used to being in space. Beckett asks
if anyone wanted to harm Marie and Ayyana tells that Marie was having issues with her ex-lab
partner, Ted Carter. At the station, Ryan and Esposito meet with Ted Carter and he tells that he
didn’t know about Marie. They tells of their suspicions and Ted tells that he got home around
9PM and stayed in. Castle shows that Marie had a life altering experience and that it is possible
that she was abducted. Beckett and Castle are interrupted by Esposito that the Decompression
Center at the lab came up clean. This only heightens Castle’s curiosity. Castel and Beckett are
called into Lannii’s examination room and she tells that she found something in her body. It is
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a tube of some sort. Castle tells that it looks like the tracking capsule that is in the book that
Marie was reading.
Later at the house, Alexis tells that Ashley’s parents want to have dinner along with Castle
and Martha. He tells that it is no problem and hopes that he doesn’t embarrass Alexis. Castle
goes back to the station and asks Beckett tells that the tube must be a piece of the chamber.
Ted’s alibi checks out and Espositio walks up and tells that Marie made a phone call to Benny
Striker, the author of the UFO book. Beckett can’t make the connection between the two until
Esposito tells that they worked together a while back until Marie got him fired from the project
when he started talking about the UFO stuff. They visit him at a meeting of other ’believers’ and
Beckett shows her badge. He tells that he was at a book signing and Benny tells that Marie called
him because she picked up on traffic using a radio telescope and that she was finding that she
was missing time. Benny tells that the government was trying to stop Marie and they finally did.
Beckett and Castle go to Marie’s work again and this time all of the furniture is gone from Marie’s
office. Ayyana tells that some men from the government told her that they had to take all of it.
Beckett is beginning to think that there might be a cover-up.
They go back to the station and wonder if Marie was working on something secret. Esposito
tells that he searched the other Decompression Chamber and it is clean too. The only other
thing is a vacuum sealer. She tells him to locate them. Esposito is not happy and tells Castle
to hurry up and prove it is aliens. They get news that Marie got off at the Jersey Turnpike and
Castle finds out that there is an observatory there. They go to the observatory and they find out
that Marie was looking at a regular telescope and that she deleted the data. As they drive back,
the car breaks down. Their cell phones and watches stop working. Suddenly, there is a bright
light about them. Castle wakes up in a room and there is a man asking if he has it. Beckett is
in another room and she tells that she is a NYPD detective. They tell that they are out of her
league. Beckett asks who killed Marie and Castle makes light of the situation and start to talk
about every conspiracy. They inject them with something and Castle and Beckett wake up and
she is confused. They go back to the station and Captain Montgomery is upset that they were
interrogated by Agents of some unknown agency. Ryan tells that the agents were monitoring
them with bugs and Beckett tells that they need to find what the agents were looking for first.
Beckett remembers that Ted received some things from Marie.
Ted comes by the station and shows that it was only a few of his things. A CD drops out
and it is unmarked. Beckett puts it in her computer and it is footage of what Marie saw. It is
something that looks like a UFO. Castle makes a show of it and Ryan and Esposito are shown the
mysterious object. Beckett talks to the bugs that the agents set and tells that she has what the
want. They call immediately and the head guy, Agent Westfield, comes into the station. Beckett
tells that they have something and shows the pictures from the CD. He is not interested. He tries
to leave and Beckett demands to know what is going on. He comes clean and tells that it is a
satellite that Marie saw and that they fear that she sold it to the Chinese and that is who killed
her. Meanwhile, Castle meets with Ashley’s parents and they start the small talk. Castle calls
Beckett when announcing that being out of character is what he studies for his book. He tells
that Marie was out of character and that if she was a Spy, she would have not done that. Beckett
tells that Marie had Sodium in her system. The whole time, Ashley’s parents look at him strange.
They go to the observatory and realize that the signatures don’t match. Marie was only inter-
cepting the signals and Dr. Vaughn drugged her to find out how much she knew. Esposito calls
and tells that Dr. Vaughn is gone. Beckett calls up Agent Westfield and he comes and tells that
the Chinese owns Dr. Vaughn and they find him in Chinatown. They get Ung Ku is the murder
suspect. They arrive and Castle tells that they probably have cyanide pills to use before getting
caught. They enter and Beckett sees workers. Castle tells that Beckett will shoot in Chinese and
he tells that he learned it from a tv show. They find Dr. Vaughn and Ung in the middle of the
alley and Ung is about to kill Dr. Vaughn. Both men are taken into custody and Castle sees
Ung’s mouth move and thinks it is cyanide pills. Agent Westfield says that this never happened.
Outside both men will spend the rest of their lives in prison. Castle gets a call from Alexis and
tells that Ashley’s parents found him fascinating and tells that they are going camping. Beckett
doesn’t tell Castle what Agent Westfield told her, but that doesn’t stop him from guessing.
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Last Call
Season 3
Episode Number: 44
Season Episode: 10
Originally aired: Monday December 6, 2010

Writer: Scott Williams
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito),
Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy
Montgomery), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Susan Sullivan (Martha
Guest Stars: Rand Holdren (Pete Mucha), Alexandra Barreto (Annie Swift), Chris
Mulkey (Wilbur Pittorino), Jillian Clare (Gracie), Sam Page (Brian El-
liott), Oliver Muirhead (Steven Heisler)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a dockworker turned bar
owner whose body is found floating in the East River. In the process
of the investigation they uncover a secret buried since the days of
Prohibition.
The scene opens with a man fishing

and he pulls out a dead man from the
river. Meanwhile, Castle is writing and
Alexis comes in and tells that her old
grade-school shirt still fits and tells that
her old friend Stacey is coming over to
stay the night. There is a knock on the
door and it is Stacey. She is dressed in
Goth clothing and has piercings. Alexis is
shocked and they go upstairs. Castle gets
a call from Beckett and has to investigate a murder. He arrives on scene and tells that Stacey
changed. Beckett tells that happens. They get to the body. The victim is Donnie Hayes. Lanni
tells that Donnie was murdered and dumped into the East River and that he has a navy tattoo.
She found a gambler’s anonymous coin. At the station, Esposito tells that Donnie worked as a
dock worker and Ryan tells that apparently, he still does. They go to the docks and find a Grant
Viro who has been clocking in Donnie at the docks. Grant tells that he bought the card from him
for $25,000.
Beckett and Castle visit Lannii and she tells that the blunt force that killed Donnie was a red
glass object and she gives Beckett the evidence. Beckett sees a scar on Donnie’s arm and Lannii
tells that it is buckshot and that it is 2 weeks old. Ryan tells that Viro paid Donnie with a check
and Esposito tells that Donnie added that to the $125,000 that he had in the bank. All that was
withdrawn was written to Wilbur Pittorino. They pull up a Wilbur’s alias, Billy Pitt, and he has a
record for mafia activity. Castle is relishing in this. Beckett meets with Wilbur Pittorino/Billy Pitt.
He tells that Donnie bought ’The Old Haunt’, a bar that is famous and where Donnie’s father,
Leo ’The Legend’, had. Ryan, the bartender, made an offer but Donnie outbid him. Beckett offers
Castle a drink and they go to ’The Old Haunt’. They arrive there and Castle gloats about writing
there years ago. They meet with the bartender, Ryan. Beckett tells Castle that Ryan doesn’t know
about Donnie. She flashes her badge and tells him the news. Castle asks how Donnie felt about
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Ryan skimming from the till and adding to his tips. Ryan tells that Donnie knew about it and
didn’t care. Ryan tells that he saw Donnie in the basement last.
They go down into the basement and Castle is excited. Beckett finds the buckshot in the wall
and Ryan tells that there was an angry customer 2 weeks ago. They go back up top and talk
to a waitress. She tells that ’Pick-up Pete’ was here and Donnie kicked him out for life. But, 2
weeks ago, Pete came back and Donnie smashed in his truck as well. At the station, Beckett tells
that ’Pick-up Pete’ is Pete Moocha. Castle isn’t really paying attention and is trying to figure out a
good name for a bar. He is interested in buying one. Ryan and Esposito come in and tell that they
found Pete in a bar. They interview him and in his drunkenness, he tells that he got paid $1,000
from Donnie after their fight. The alibi for Pete checks out and they wonder how Donnie afforded
all the repairs to the bar if he was in debt. Beckett theorizes that Donnie was skimming as well
and not paying investors. Ryan and Esposito go to the bar again and look over the financials.
Esposito finds an auction receipt for $10,000.
Beckett and Castle visit the auction house and speak to the associate director, Steven Hiesner.
He tells that Donnie had the last surviving bottle of Jimmy Walker’s prohibition days of St. Miriam
Scotch Whiskey. It was sold at auction for $26,000 to a Jeffery McQuigen. Beckett and Castle
visit his home and they meet Jeffery the millionaire. He is only in his early 20’s and they are
shocked. Jeffery tells that he drank the scotch and it was tasty. Castle is insulted and when
Jeffery pulls it out of the recycling, Castle wraps it in a cloth ceremoniously. They take it back
to Lannii and she tells that it is the same glass, but different bottle. Castle is shocked to think
that there is another bottle out there and that he might be able to get a taste. Beckett tells that
she is going to do some research on Jimmy Walker and Castle tells that he is going to do some
’research’ too. This consists of him mixing drinks. Martha tells that Castle should open the bar
and Alexis comes in and tells that she needs a drink of water and tells that Stacey changed too
much and Martha tells that Alexis needs to accept her. Alexis goes in the fridge and the fruits fall
out. Castle booby-trapped it. She asks for his help to reload it and Castle gets an idea and calls
Beckett and tells her to meet him at the bar.
Beckett arrives and tells that Josh and her were tucked in and she tells that he was helping
her with her research. Castle tells that there is something hidden. They move the shelf, and find
a secret passageway to former Mayor Jimmy Walker. They open a door that has an old style
revolver. When Donnie pulled the door open, that is how he got the buckshot in the arm. They
walk inside and find Jimmy Walker’s stash of St. Miriam Scotch Whiskey. Castle tries to get a
taste of the broken bottle found inside and Beckett tells that it is covered in blood. They find that
there are drag marks that leads to a sewage disposal that leads to the river. There is a noise and
Beckett and Castle chase a guy, but are confused when he disappears out of thin air at a dead
end. They go to the station and Montgomery tells that they are going to need an old map of the
sewers. They go to the library and find the map and the sewer extensions. The book was checked
out recently.
Beckett and Castle go to the auction house and Steven Hiesner was the one who killed Donnie
for the bottles of St. Miriam Scotch Whiskey. Back at the station, they rool in the remaining stash
of the liquor and Montgomery tells that they are evidence. Alexis and Stacey come into the station
and Alexis is dressed a little different too. She tells that Stacey told her of a store and it had a
lot of cool things. She tells that she is going to take Stacey to the train station. Beckett comes up
behind and tells that she remembers that stage. It was right before she got her tattoo. Castle is
intrigued and is interrupted with Montgomery telling him that he can have a bottle if he gives a
donation. He tells that he wants to celebrate with his friends and they all walk out singing ’Piano
Man’ by Billy Joel.
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Nikki Heat
Season 3
Episode Number: 45
Season Episode: 11

Writer: David Grae
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Seamus
Dever (Kevin Ryan), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Ruben Santiago-
Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett)
Guest Stars: Juan Alfonso (Delivery Man), Rene Ashton (Amelia Weiss), Randall
Batinkoff (Brad Williams), Jon Briddell (Richard Weiss), Thomas Cal-
abro (Scott Donner), Lenny Citrano (Lead Lawyer), John L. Cur-
tis (Desk Clerk), Juliana Dever (Jenny Duffy-O’Malley), Schae Harri-
son (Uniform Cop), Tymberlee Hill (Julie Taylor), Stephen Macht (Bill
Wellington), Adam O’Byrne (Mr. Rubens), David Parker (Duke Jones),
Laura Prepon (Natalie Gray), Sahlima (Vicky Rubens), Melody Thomas
Scott (Tonya Wellington), Kelly Thiebaud (Chloe Graves), James An-
drew Walsh (Desperate Man)
Summary: Castle’s novel ”Heat Wave” is being turned into a movie, and the Hol-
lywood hottie cast as the movie’s lead, Natalie Rhodes, shows up at
Beckett’s invitation to better understand the character she’s going to
play. As our threesome investigates the murder of a high-class match-
maker, Natalie goes to extremes in the name of ”character research,”
transforming herself into the spitting image of Beckett – much to Cas-
tle’s delight and Beckett’s dismay.
The episode opens with Castle watch-

ing an audition piece by actress Natalie
Rhodes for the part of Nikki Heat, a char-
acter based on his book ’Heat Wave’. He
tells Alexis that he doesn’t think that she
is good for the part and Alexis disagrees,
saying that she gets into the part re-
ally well. Martha says that Natalie did an
amazing job in her other movies. Castle
gets worked up and Beckett calls. Alexis
says that a murder will do him some good. Castle arrives on scene and Ryan shows Castle an
engagement ring. Castle teases him, pretending that Ryan is proposing to him. Ryan states that
he is going to propose to his girlfriend. Castle asks him how and tells him that it has to be
extravagant. Beckett comes over and says that it is not the way to do it.
The crime scene victim’s name is Stacey Collins, and Esposito says that she was at a party in
her honor. Suddenly a limo drives up and Natalie Rhodes emerges. She says that she is going to
shadow Beckett to get into character for her part as Nikki Heat. Castle introduces himself and
Natalie doesn’t bat an eye. Ryan comes up and freezes. At the station, everyone is gawking at
Natalie. Natalie offers to sign autographs and take pictures. Castle is not happy that Natalie is
shadowing Beckett and says that she is not right for the part of Nikki Heat. Meanwhile Ryan tells
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Esposito that Natalie is on his 5 list, the 5 celebrities that he would make an exception for. While
discussing the case, Beckett gives a line to Natalie that she writes down, but when Castle gives a
line, she shuts it down. As the team interviews people, they discover that Brad Wilson, Stacey’s
boyfriend, was arguing with her and he also drives a silver Boxster, the same car that one couple
mentioned seeing the victim getting into.
Beckett interviews Brad and he says that he didn’t kill Stacey and didn’t trash her office.
Natalie watches and Castle asks how Natalie liked ’Heat Wave’ and she says that she has not
read the book. She says that the director changed things for the screenplay and she didn’t want
to be confused. Back in the interrogation room, Brand says that he was at a diner bar and
Esposito says that the alibi checks out. Beckett gets a text that they found a key and Castle
smirks that it could be the ’key’ to their investigation, but again, he gets only weird glances.
Natalie tells Beckett that she thinks that she is catching on to some of Beckett’s traits and is
getting into the character. Esposito comes up and says that they have news. Duke Jones is
someone that Stacey has been seeing and according to Stacey’s account, she has been paying
him money each month. They get to the office of Duke Jones and he says that he was working
as a private investigator for Stacey, and that one of her clients’ retaliated. For an alibi, he claims
that he was with his neighbor.
Beckett calls Esposito and tells him to look into some of the old clients of Stacey. Natalie tells
Castle that she is having a hard time getting the character of Nikki Heat right. Castle asks her if
she really stayed in the crawl space for a week. She says that she did for a month. Castle starts
to see her dedication to her craft. They find the lock to match the key they found, it is in the back
of a Jukebox. They find a bag full of money. Natalie informs that the bags have serial numbers
and they can check the registry for the owner. The owner of the bag turns out to be a Tanya
Wellington, who was invited to the victim’s party but declined. Beckett says that she is going to
invite the Wellington’s to the precinct for an interview. As Beckett stands up, Natalie mimics her
and Esposito, Ryan and Castle are surprised. Beckett interviews Tanya but she has lawyers and
refuses to reveal anything of value. Later, Castle watches more of Natalie’s tape and reconsiders
her for the part.
Castle gets in the office the next day and Natalie takes Beckett’s coffee. She then gives Castle
an update before Beckett can. She is really getting into the character now. Beckett takes Castle to
the side and says that Natalie stole her coffee and soon it will be her soul. Castle says that Natalie
is only trying to get into the character. Ryan comes in and says that they got the name of the
victim’s angry client, Bill Wellington. Stacey hired Duke to get Chloe, his assistant, to sleep with
Bill Wellington and break the pre-nup agreement so that Tanya wouldn’t be left with nothing. It
cost Bill $100 Million. They bring him in and Beckett informs him that Stacey engineered the
entire thing and he says that if he knew about that, he would have killed Stacey and his ex-wife.
However, he was in Hong Kong on the night Stacey died. Ryan and Esposito come in and reveal
that Duke and Chloe have fled. A package arrives and Natalie signs for it.
Meanwhile, Ryan and Esposito are trying to find Chloe and the bellman at the hotel says that
her name is Greta Morgan. He clarifies that Duke Jones was with her before. Beckett says that
she knows who Chloe’s real name is and Natalie comes in dressed like Beckett and with brown
hair. The real Beckett is freaked out and says that they are going to have to concentrate on the
case tomorrow. In the hall, Natalie tells Castle that she is going to do research. She takes the
elevator down with Castle and says that she needs to do research on him if she is going to get
into the role. They kiss and Beckett sees the entire thing. The next morning, Castle comes in
and gives Beckett her coffee. Ryan’s girlfriend Jenny runs away from Ryan and she says that she
hates him. He says that Jenny discovered he wasn’t playing darts with Esposito and she now
thinks that he is sleeping with Natalie.
Esposito says that Greta is using Stacey’s card and they figure out that Stacey and her were
going to do the same thing they did to Bill Wellington to other men. Natalie asks Beckett if Castle
is gay and Beckett spits her coffee out and says that he is not. From a distance, Beckett, Castle,
and Ryan watch Natalie getting more into the character of Nikki Heat. Esposito comes up and
says that he found Greta Morgan. They sit down with her and she says that Stacey was the one in
charge. Beckett asks her for names of the men they were swindling and she is silent until Natalie
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hits the table and demands the names. Greta says that they are Rich Weiss and Scott Donner.
Both men have alibis, but Scott’s doesn’t hold up. They go to speak with Scott Donner, but after
a moment he puts a gun to his head. Natalie is the one that talks Scott down and Beckett arrests
him. At the station, Natalie leaves and Jenny comes in and Ryan apologizes. He takes this as his
chance to propose and makes it intimate and romantic. She says yes.
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Poof! You’re Dead

Season 3
Episode Number: 46
Season Episode: 12

Writer: Terri Edda Miller
Director: Millicent Shelton
Guest Stars: Chadwick Boseman (Chuck Russell), Brett Cullen (Christian Dahl),
Carrie Genzel (Naomi Dahl), Henry Hayashi (Lawyer), Jeff Hephner
(Edmund / Zalman Drake), Vanessa Lengies (Eliza Winter), Gilles
Marini (Tobias Strange), Sahlima (Vicky Rubens), Lenny Schmidt
(Jerome Aspenall), Adrian Sparks (Thaddeus Magnus), Natalie Cohen
(Magician’s Assistant), Dylan Saccoccio (Stage Hand)
Summary: When the owner of historic Drake’s Magic Shop in New York is found
drowned in Houdini’s famous water torture tank, Castle and Beckett
must delve into the world of magic, magicians and their secrets to find
his killer. As part of their investigation, Castle & Beckett meet master
magician Tobias Strange. Meanwhile, the magicians aren’t the only
ones keeping secrets, as a new romantic relationship is revealed for
Esposito and Lanie.
The scene opens with a woman walk-

ing into a magic shop and finds a man in
the water tank. Esposito wakes up next
Lanii and she tells that she has to go and
Esposito tells that he does too. He takes a
picture of her as he leaves. Castle is talk-
ing to Gina on the phone and tells that
he is working when Esposito walks up.
Castle tells him never to sleep with some-
one he works with. They arrive at Drake’s
Magic Shop where the crime took place and Castle tells that a magic shop is where every young
boy likes to hang out. Beckett tells that she hung around them too because of her grandfather.
The proprietor of the magic shop, Zelman Drake, was the man at the beginning. Eliza Winter,
Drake’s assistant found him. Lani tells that Zalman died from drowning, but won’t know for sure
yet. Esposito finds a suicide note that tells that he killed himself because he was losing the shop,
but Eliza tells that Zalman would never kill himself. Eliza tells that a guy came in the shop earlier
that week and attacked Zalman telling that he was going to sue him.
At the station, Ryan and Esposito walk up and Ryan tells that a white van pulled up around
midnight to the shop and Beckett tells them to look into and asks about any relatives and he
tells that he has someone in Poughkeepsie. Castle pulls out some X-Ray glasses that he got from
the magic shop and tells that he can see Beckett naked and she asks how he likes her naval ring.
Castle has a look of surprise. Ryan is sitting next to Esposito and tells that everyone has secrets.
Thinking that Ryan knows about Lanii and him, he asks what he means. Ryan shows him the
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paper with Castle and Gina on it. He tells that they are on the rocks and wonders why he didn’t
tell them about it. Esposito is relieved to know that Castel doesn’t know about him and Lanii
either. Beckett tells that a Jerome Asponoff was the man that got into the fight and is perusing
Zalman in court. They have him come into the station and he tells that he was at an event and
Zalman read his mind. He was thinking of Rita and last Saturday night and his wife was there
and her name is not Rita. Jerome lost his wife and mistress, but tells that he didn’t kill him. He
was at a bar all night. Castle tells that Zalman must have found a receipt that gave away the
information.
They get out of the interrogation room and ask Ryan if there are any updates. Ryan tells
that Jerome’s alibi checks out and that there were no fingerprints on the tank. Esposito comes
in and tells that there were fingerprints all over the suicide note that were not Zalman’s. They
belong to Charles Chuck Russell. Zalman had Charles kicked out of a Magicians Guild for using
explosives. They find Charles at a park doing tricks. Beckett flashes her badge and Charles tries
to use a puff of smoke to disappear. Beckett knows the trick and opens the box which Charles
was standing on and finds Charles. They take him to the station and they tell that Zalman is
dead. They tell that his prints are all over the suicide note. He gave a note that was written in
invisible ink. Charles tells that Zalman wanted C4. He tells that he doesn’t know what it was for
and tells that Zalman wasn’t just a magician; he was a creator of illusions as well. Charles tells
that he was probably making tricks for the best in town, Tobias Strange. Castle tells that he is
the best and Esposito tells that Tobias is in town. He slips out ’we went to see it’ and then covers
his tracks and says that he took his friend ’Ray’ with him. Beckett wants to know why the trick
required so much C4.
They go to the rehearsal of Tobias and Beckett distracts one of the girls holding a rope. She lets
go of the rope and knives with bloody tips come out through the front. They panic, but Tobias is
not there. He shows up behind Beckett and Castle and demands to know who let them in. Castle
and Beckett talk to Tobias and he tells that he thought Zalman was working for someone else and
he confronted him about it. He tells that Zalman was poached. Beckett asks if he uses explosives
in his act like C4 and Tobias tells that C4 kills and would never want to use it. He asks if they
have searched Zalman’s workshop and tells that he can’t tell because he doesn’t know where it
is. Beckett and Castle get a call from Lanii and she tells that Zalman was murdered before he
was in the water by someone putting their hand over his mouth. Castle gets home and Martha
and Alexis want to know what Gina and him were fighting about. He tells that they were arguing
about arguing too much. He tells that he doesn’t want to talk about it and tries to wow Alexis
with a coin behind the ear trick. She tells that she is not 6 anymore and tells that he should have
made it $20 and then turns the coin into $20. Castle is impressed!
The next day, Castle gets into the station and Beckett tells that she found the workshop. They
go to an abandoned warehouse and Beckett finds a secret passage. They enter and Beckett tells
that her grandfather would have loved the place. They find wheelchair tracks and they are fresh.
Suddenly the Iron Maiden opens and out comes what looks like Zalman. However, it is his twin
brother, Edmund. They tell him that his brother has been murdered. At the station, Beckett and
Castle talk to Edmund and Castle thinks that it is really Zalman trying to play his ’twin’ brother.
He tells that Zalman told that he got $500,000 for a magic trick and Castle still doesn’t believe
that Edmund is who he says he is. However, Lanii confirms that the dead guy in the magic shop
is Zalman. She found some rabbit fur in Zalman’s teeth and throat. Organophosphates were
found and were exposed recently. Esposito enters and almost gives away them seeing each other.
He tells Beckett that Thadius Magnus is the man in the wheelchair. They go to his house and
they tell that his wheelchair marks were found in his workshop. Thadius tells that he designed
props for him to be able to do the tricks and one in particular with the C4 to help him get away
with murder. He made a mechanical arm for him and thought that he was joking.
At the station, they figure out that something has to happen to make him want to use the
magic to get away with murder. At his house, Martha talks to Castle and asks what is going on
between Gina and him and he tells that he doesn’t want ordinary and is not in love. He sees an
article of Billionaire Christian Dahl and runs to the station. When he gets there, Beckett already
knows. However, it is all speculation. They watch the video of the flight and Zalman pulls up
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dressed as a caterer. He delivers something and realizes that he delivered explosives. Beckett
figures that Christian’s prenuptial agreement only Naomi Weldon Dahl would have nothing. After
she was caught cheating, she has motive. They meet with her and she tells that Christian is
broke because his accounts are frozen. Beckett gets off the phone with the SEC and turns that
the whole millions were a scheme. They watch the video again and realize that Zalman had a
dummy that looked like Christian was still on the plane. Zalman was killed by Christian. They
need to find him and Castle and Beckett know where he is going to be because of his egotistic
attitude. They go to Christian’s funeral service and find Christian there in disguise.
They take him to the station and they tell that he committed murder. Christian laughs and
tells that it is not true. Christian tells that he is not afraid of them and tells that they are not going
to find him once he posts bail. Suddenly Christian starts to see Zalman in and tells that he is
dead because he killed him. He confesses and Beckett says ’Alakazam Jackass’. They arrest him
and Tobias and Edmund come out and it was Edmund who tricked Christian into confessing.
Gina calls again and Castle tells that it is over. Beckett overhears the conversation. She gets her
things and Castle asks if she is meeting ’motorcycle man’ and she tells that she is not. She asks
Castle to join her for dinner and he tells that he will. He thanks Beckett for not mentioning the
article or asking what was going on with him and Gina. She pulls out some flowers out of thin
are and tells that it is not a problem.
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Knockdown
Season 3
Episode Number: 47
Season Episode: 13

Writer: Will Beall
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest Stars: Ajay Vidure (CSU Tech), Chryssie Whitehead (Kathy Moore), Joel Polis
(John Raglan), Brian Norris (Chad Rodrick), Scott Paulin (Jim Beckett),
Jonathan Adams (Vulcan Simmons), Brian Goodman (Dave McCallis-
ter), John Kapelos (Joe Palumbo), Max Martini (Hal Lockwood)
Summary: Old wounds are reopened when the retired lead detective on Beckett’s
mother’s homicide case contacts her with new information, but then
is gunned down right in front of Beckett before he can tell her what
he knows. The investigation into his death leads back to a decades-
old conspiracy that may hold the answer to who was behind Beckett’s
mother murder and why. With the stakes and emotions running high,
Castle and Beckett take their partnership to the next level.
The scene opens with a man loading

a revolver. He puts it to his throat. The
scene changes to Beckett exercising at
home when her phone rings. It is Detec-
tive Raglan, a former police officer that
worked on her mother’s murder case a
long time ago. Raglan puts the bullets
back in the case and out of the gun and
tells Beckett that he needs to talk to her
because there are some things about her
mother’s case that he needs to discuss. He tells her not to bring any cops. Beckett goes to Cas-
tle’s home and asks to talk to him. They go to a café and sit down with Raglan. He tells that the
entire thing started 19 years ago. Suddenly Raglan is shot. Beckett calls for an ambulance, but
Castle tells that it is too late. Beckett tells that it now a homicide.
Lt. Montgomery arrives on scene and asks if Beckett went with backup and Ryan and Esposito
come up and tell that they had her back. However, Montgomery reads right though this. He tells
that he is taking her off the case because she is too close to it. She tells that she is not and that
she wants to find the shooter like everyone else. She goes inside and sees the shot pattern of
the bullet and guess that it is from a building on the 4th floor. She asks if Castle is alright and
he tells that he thought that Beckett was shot because of the blood on her shirt. At the station,
Esposito tells that no one gets into the building without a keycard and that they are sending
over the surveillance videos and everyone with keycards. Ryan comes up and tells that Raglan
didn’t have any family. The only friend, Gary McAlister, is the only visitor and he was Raglan’s
old Academy friend too.
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McAlister comes in and Beckett starts to ask him about what Raglan wanted to say. He tells
that he last saw him yesterday and McAlister tells that Raglan was no angel and that New York
was a different city. He tells that Vulkan Simmons. McAlister tells that Raglan was a dope runner
for Simmons. He tells them to look at Simmons. Beckett finds the background and Ryan tells
that Simmons worked Washington Heights. The hitman, Coonan, was hired to try to take Beckett
out to what they feel is on Simmons orders. Esposito tells that they will get him. They bring in
Simmons and he is all smiles at the fact that they can’t charge him. Beckett shows a picture
of her mother and he tells that he remembers her as white trash and that she deserved to be
killed. Beckett loses it and slams Simmons against the 2-way mirror and cracks it. Ryan and
Esposito tell her to stand down and Montgomery sends Beckett and Castle home. He tells Ryan
and Esposito to jump on the case. They try to decline and he tells that it is an order.
At the house, Castle has Martha talk to him about the reason why Castle continues to go
with Beckett and that he could have been the one to be shot. He tells that he does it more then
for just getting ideas for his book. Ryan and Esposito see a man knock a girl down and grab
her arm. They see that the man took her keycard. Ryan sees that he isn’t wearing gloves and
that the girl has probably hasn’t showered yet. Meanwhile, Castle goes to Beckett’s and tells that
Montgomery kicked them off of the case involving Raglan and not the one involving her mother.
He tells that he will sneak into the station and grab her files. Beckett shows that she has that
covered and shows that she has a clue board. She tells that her mother was killed along with 3
other people who worked with her. Just before her mother was murdered, she requested a court
file that has gone missing.
Ryan and Esposito have the girl there and she has the fingerprint of the man on her arm. Back
at the house, Castle and Beckett are looking at pictures of Beckett. Castle pulls out negatives
to an empty street. They get the pictures up and it is where her mother was murdered. Beckett
needs to look at old files and Castle tells that he will get them. At the station, Ryan and Esposito
pull up a match for the fingerprint. Hal Lockwood is the shooter and he has no criminal record.
They get a hit on his credit card and they find that he is in a motel. The SWAT team enters to
find the motel room empty. However, they find that Lockwood has been following Beckett around.
Montgomery goes to Beckett’s and tells that she is to stay in her house because there is a hit
out on her. He asks why Castle was at the station bathroom looking at old files. At the station,
Ryan tells that the killer was using anti-anxiety drugs and realizes that he was calming himself
down so that he can be perfect with his shooting. Ryan tells that one drug dealer has this blend,
Chad Roderick. They bring him in and tell that he doesn’t care about the drugs, he just wants
Lockwood. Chad tells that he gave the drugs to his contact Jolene.
Castle goes to Beckett’s and she tells him to go home. However, he tells that he is there for
her as her partner and will not go. They discuss the files that Castle got and found out that the
place used to be a mob hangout where FBI Agent Arman was murdered. The police found that
Pogatti, a mobster, did it and the arresting officer was Raglan. They visit Pogatti in the prison
and he tells that there were cops who posed as Kidnappers and would kidnap mobsters and hold
them for ransom. He tells that Raglan was involved with it and he tells Beckett that she needs
to stay out of it or she is going to get herself killed. They take the news to Montgomery and tell
that McAlister was involved in the kidnappings as well. Montgomery wants him in there now.
They have him in quickly and he tells that it was needed because the mobsters always got what
they wanted and there was no consequence. He tells that they were doing a service. However, he
didn’t kill Raglan and did not hire Coonen and Beckett asks who is involved and McAlister won’t
tell. He tells that Beckett awoke a dragon.
Ryan and Esposito have two addresses to check out and as they leave, Lockwood follows right
behind. Beckett and Castle enter the house of Jolene and find her strangled. She calls Ryan and
Esposito and they tell that they are on their way, but a flashbang drops and explodes. Beckett
talks to Montgomery and he tells that all they found were Ryan and Esposito’s cell phones.
Castle and Beckett search for a phone bill. Meanwhile, Ryan and Esposito are awoken in a dark
space with Lockwood filling a tub of water with ice. He asks if they are going to talk or go out
slowly. They tell that they are going to give Lockwood problems. Back at the apartment of Jolene,
Castle gets into her computer, but needs her mother’s maiden name. Back at the dark hideout,
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Lockwood is dunking Ryan’s head underwater and Ryan tells that he went to Catholic school
and they used to do it to him all the time. Back at Jolene’s, they get Lockwood’s number.
They arrive there and they see a guard. Castle and Beckett get out and pretending to be a
couple. The guard walks out and Beckett reaches for her gun. Castle stops her and kisses her.
She stops for a second and then starts to kiss Castle again. The man turns to walk away and
Beckett knocks him out. Inside, Esposito tells that he will talk. He tells that the police already
know about Esposito and Lockwood’s mom. Lockwood tells the guard to shoot out one of Ryan’s
kneecaps. Suddenly, Beckett comes in and kills one of the guards. Lockwood lines up his sites
and Castle jumps on him from above and saves Beckett’s life. The ambulance comes and Beckett
tells that he will be alright. She thanks him. Later that day, Beckett visits Lockwood in prison
and tells that she will be there every week until he talks and tells who hired him to kill her. She
walks off and the episode ends.
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Lucky Stiff
Season 3
Episode Number: 48
Season Episode: 14

Director: Emile Levisetti
Guest Stars: Clare Carey (Noreen Hixton), Skoti Collins (John Hixton), Rachel
Melvin (Nicole Hixton), Alastair Duncan (Reginald Easley), John
Hemphill (Tom Walters), Joe Reegan (Shawn York), Gregory Alan
Williams (Jim Van-Eps), Josh Wingate (Greg Page), Brian Michael
Jones (Ty Page), Wilmer Calderon (Marvin ”Oz” Osminkowski), Ned
Bellamy (Logan Meech), J. Salome’ Martinez Jr. (Todd Shipley)
Summary: The brutal murder of a lottery winner has Castle and Beckett up to
their eyeballs in suspects, envious and angered by the victim’s sudden
move from the poorhouse to the penthouse. As the precinct buzzes
with fantasies of what our cops would do if they won the lottery,
Martha struggles with the reality of such a decision when she sud-
denly inherits money she feels she doesn’t deserve.
The scene opens with an old man com-

ing home and he finds a few hundred
dollar bills on the ground. He sees that
his door has been opened. He walks in
and finds a man dead on the floor. Mean-
while, Castle gets some books in the mail
from his publisher for back cover quotes.
Martha gets a check in the mail from her
dead boyfriend’s attorney. It is for $1 Mil-
lion. Castle goes to the station for the
murder case and tells Beckett about the check that she got. She says that there was a mur-
der. The victim is lottery winner, Jay Hixton and Beckett says that the gunshot wound didn’t
come from the weapon at the place. The money that was in the safe is gone. Castle asks what
everyone would do with that money. Esposito says that he would buy a Ferrari. Reginald Easley,
the man who found Hixton, says that $100,000 was in the safe. He says that Hixton flaunted his
money around. He says that there is a dye pack that has a 3 minute timer. Beckett asks when
he last the victim and Reginald says that he saw him before Hixton had dinner with his wife.
They meet with Hixton’s wife and teenage daughter, Nicole. They tell that they moved to New
York from Florida because everyone wanted a piece of it. They got divorced because Hixton went
weird and Nicole got hooked on drugs. However, Hixton made a turn around and bought a soup
kitchen to help out less fortunate. She says that they were supposed to have dinner, but he
canceled. He said that something had happened and that he had to do something. Castle says
that the butler did it. Castle asks Beckett what she would do with the millions and she says that
she hasn’t thought of it. They get to the soup kitchen and the manager says that Hixton was a
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great man. He says that there was one guy that was talking to him and they knew each other.
They have a suspect. However, the serial number on the gun was filed down. Esposito comes in
and says that Todd Shipley is the person with the bag. Ryan and Esposito sit down with the guy
and he says that he found the bag when it went off. He says that he asked Hixton where his car
was and Hixton told him that someone had taken it. They check Todd’s alibi and it checks out.
They get a hit on the Escalade that Hixton owned and it is headed off the coast. They find Sean
York and there is no trace of the money. Castle asks Ryan what he would do with the money and
he says that he would buy a winery. Castle says that everyone thinks about what they would do
and Montgomery says that he would buy a big boat. Beckett meets with Sean and he says that
Hixton gave him the Escalade because Sean told him that he was down on his luck. He says that
Hixton signed over the deed and everything. He has an alibi that checks out and Beckett says
that the signature of Hixton’s is real on the deed of the Escalade. They try to settle the time line
and there are still a few gaps. Castle asks if he spent any money on his credit cards and Esposito
says that no charges were made on Hixton’s 32 credit cards and tells of the expenses, including a
mausoleum for his dead neighbor and a spot on the moon. Castle says that Hixton’s spot is right
next to his. Ryan comes up and says that he found a camera. A man is photographed a man and
Beckett asks him to look him up. Castle tries to get Beckett to tell what she would do with the
money and Beckett tells Esposito to look up the finances. He says that Hixton was paying 20,000
Meech Industries. Beckett knows the man involved and says that he is a scam artist.
Beckett and Castle meet with Logan Meech and he says that Hixton was investing in his
company. He says that he saw Hixton last night because he wanted a gun for protection. He
said that his past was coming back to get him. Grey and Ty Page, career criminals were put into
prison because Hixton testified against them. They were released a month ago. Later, Martha
comes in with bags of shopping bags and says that she is going to give back the money. Castle
gets a call from Beckett and tells him to meet her. They have found Greg Page’s car and Ryan
and Esposito are there too. Esposito says that Ryan’s fiancé has done a number on him. Ryan
says that he knows about him and Lanie. Beckett asks what the wild spending got Castle and
he says that he learned that money isn’t everything. They see a man approach the car and they
throw him on top of it and ask where the Page brothers are. He says that they are upstairs.
They go upstairs and see that they are making a rap album. They stop the music and talk
to them. They have $60,000 in their bag. One of the brothers says that Hixton hired them to
take care of Nicole’s drug dealer, Oz. They tell that they beat him up really good for it and told
him to back off. They hear an explosion and run out and see that the Page brother’s car is on
fire. Beckett meets with Nicole and Noreen and she admits that she went back. Esposito says
that Oz has a club and has bodyguards. Castle says that there is a way to slip under the radar.
Beckett walks in with Castle and tells Martha that they are only doing undercover work. Martha
says that she is struggling with spending the money. Beckett uses Castle’s quote about money
not changing a person. Beckett says that she is driving and Castle says that it is a vehicle that
shouldn’t be taken lightly. She grabs the keys from him.
They arrive at the club and Beckett gets into the undercover work and Castle is turned on.
He orders drinks while Beckett gets Oz’s attention. She sits down next to him and asks for some
drugs. He shows her his supply and she slams Oz on the table and kicks his guard in the groin.
At the station, Beckett says that they are going to pin Oz for murder. Oz says that he didn’t
kill Hixton and that he was going to do something, but saw that an old guy was there. Castle
says that it was the butler. Ryan comes up and says that Reginald has a history of disappearing
when things get stolen from his owner’s houses. They go back to Hixton’s place and sees that the
door is open. They enter with guns drawn and Reginald is packing up Hixton’s things. They tell
that they know of Reginald’s past and Reginald says that he did steal two books from Hixton’s
’Dickens Collection’ and then had a change of heart and was coming back to return them. He
says that his bad luck would have become his. Reginald says that Hixton let it slip that Hixton
stole the ticket.
Beckett tells Castle at the station that there is no evidence and Montgomery says that the per-
son that Hixton stole the ticket from had motive. They find the neighbor’s information, because
they feel that he was the one that Hixton took the ticket from. Hank Walters was the neighbor
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and he died the day of the drawing. They find out that Walters had a son. They meet with him
and he says that he would never do such a thing and that Walters has another son. The birthday
matches the remaining numbers on the ticket. They sit down with Sean York, definitely a fake
name. He says that he was entitled to that money and approached Hixton about it at the soup
kitchen. He got the Escalade, but it wasn’t enough. He followed Hixton and then approached him
with the gun and it went off. Castle leaves and Beckett asks about the questions. Castle gets
home and Martha says that she is going to be opening the Martha Roger’s School of Acting. She
says that she is going to commission for a portrait to be painted of her former boyfriend and have
his legacy live on forever. Castle says that he knows what Beckett would do with the millions. He
rushes over there and says that she would make her mother’s legacy live on. They are starting
a scholarship under Joanna Beckett’s name to offer a free ride to law school. Beckett says that
he can’t stay out of her personal life. She thanks him for that and the episode ends with them
planning the fundraiser.
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The Final Nail

Season 3
Episode Number: 49
Season Episode: 15

Show Stars: Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Jon Huertas (Javier Esposito), Tamala
Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett),
Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers)
Guest Stars: Alicia Coppola (Amber Patinelli), Andrea Bogart (Callie Langston),
Efrain Figueroa (Ray Salazar), Jason Wiles (Damian Westlake), Tom
Irwin (Simon Campbell)
Summary: Castle and Beckett find themselves on opposite sides of the case when
Castle’s old school friend emerges as the prime suspect in his own
wife’s murder. As they work to solve the crime, Castle comes to realize
that one of two terrible things must be true. . . Either Detective Beckett
is about to arrest an innocent man for murder, or his old friend is a
cold-blooded killer.
The scene opens with two men com-

ing back from playing basketball. They
walk into the house and find a woman
dead with nails from a nail gun in her
face. Beckett, Esposito and Ryan arrive
on scene and Esposito tells that he bets
Castle would love to be where they are be-
cause it is a rich person home and they
are usually freaky murders. They enter
and Esposito illustrates his point. The
victim is Vicky Westlake, wife of Damian, who found her body. She walks into another room
to find that Castle is there already. She chastises him for not calling her about the murder and
Castle tells that he just got there. He tells that Damian is an old friend of his and that he called
him and told that he needs to talk. They talk to him and Castle blocks Beckett’s questions to-
ward Damian. He tells that he didn’t kill his wife. He tells that Vicky had a fight with one of the
contractors and told him that he was fired. He tells that he needs to contact Vicky’s ex-husband
and kids.
Castle and Beckett go outside and she tells that Castle can’t interfere when she is questioning
a potential suspect. Castle is upset that Beckett would think that Damian killed his wife. She
tells that everyone is a victim to start off. Castle tells that he won’t get in her way. Esposito and
Ryan come out that Damian was tense and aggressive during their basketball game and it is
possible that Damian killed his wife earlier. Ryan and Esposito talk to Amber, Vicky’s assistant.
She tells that a contractor named Morris was the one fired and Vicky caught him. Ryan and
Esposito go back to the station and tell that Morris’s truck was outside. Morris tells that Vicky
told him to come over and she told Morris that she is sorry and that the ring was there. Beckett
tells that Morris’s alibi checks out and Beckett goes back to Damian as the prime suspect. Castle
tells that Damian is not the killer and that he was the one who gave Castle a chance when he was
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15 and publishing his first novel. Beckett tells that she understands Castle’s loyalty, but she has
to go with facts. Vicky isn’t the fist family member that Damian lost. His father was murdered
and Damian was pegged as the prime suspect.
Castle and Beckett argue and Beckett tells that Castle is wrong about not telling her about
Damian’s father being murdered. Beckett tells Castle that he is too close to this murder and he
needs to go home. She tells Esposito and Ryan to bring in Simon, Vicky’s ex-husband. Mean-
while, Castle goes and visits Damian and asks about his dad’s murder and he tells that the cops
suspected him, but he was out of the country. Beckett meets with Simon and he tells that he and
Vicky had a good marriage, but then she went and ran off with Damian. He tells that Damian
came from money and tells the two were happy, but lately she was crying and telling that she
wanted to get back together with Simon. Later that night, Castle is up and Martha asks what
he is thinking. Castle tells that if he is going to accept that Damian could be a murderer, he is
going to need evidence. The next day, Castle walks up to Beckett and tells that he is sorry that he
doubted her. Beckett shows Damian’s financial records and they show that Damian was tapped
out of money and that he was using her. Castle tells that they have to have another suspect and
Esposito comes in and tells that the gang tag belongs to Omar Lincoln.
They drive up to find Omar tagging the back of a delivery truck and he tries to talk off. They
catch up to him. They take him in and he tells that he tagged the place, but he didn’t kill Vicky. He
tells that he heard Vicky and Damian arguing and that Vicky told him that she wanted a divorce.
Damian is to stand to gain millions of dollars if Vicky dies. Damian lied about his marriage and
Beckett and Ryan tell that Damian was renting a bed and flowers. They go to the ’playroom’ and
meet Callie. She goes to the station and she tells that Damian and her were involved and that
Vicky talked to Callie and warned her that Damian was going to be broke. Castle still thinks that
Damian is still innocent on Vicky’s murder. Beckett meets with Damian and tells that a secret
slithers out every time she gets close. She tells that she knows about Callie and him. However,
Vicky stood between him and the fortune of millions. She arrests Damian for the murder of Vicky.
Castle goes home and Martha tells that Alexis is shopping for Ashley and her’s first Valen-
tine’s Day. Castle visits Damian and asks what is going on. Damian tells that Vicky had divorce
paperwork when they fought and Castle has an idea. He brings in Blanca, a postal worker. He
tells that divorce paperwork was given to her from Vicky while Damian and Charles were at their
basketball game. However, Beckett tells that Damian hired someone. Castle tells that they need
to look at Simon as the murderer. He tells that he is going to clear the air of Damian’s dad’s
murder and solve it and Beckett can look into Simon. Beckett tells that she is going to follow
the money and Ryan and Esposito are on Simon’s case. Castle comes home and Alexis bought a
frame for a picture of Ashley’s rat that died. Castle tells that he is going to solve Damian’s dad’s
murder and Alexis tells that she will help. Back at the station, the money doesn’t tie Damian
to hiring someone. However, Beckett tells that they still have the engagement ring that Damian
gave Vicky as the means to pay for the contract kill on Vicky.
Beckett goes to a pawn shop and asks if Vicky had anything appraised. However, he told her
that the stones were imitation. Castle looks at a picture of a sketch and he knows the person.
At Damian’s home, she tells that she knows about the diamonds and tells him to show her. She
reaches for his gun in case he tries something. Damian shows the diamonds. Meanwhile, Castle
meets with Ray Salazar and tells that he knows the person in the sketch as Michael Rutherford,
a scholarship kid with sociopathic behavior. Castle tells that Michael killed Damian’s father.
Beckett gets to in and tells that Damian might not be the killer. Ryan and Esposito show that
Simon’s business was failing and that he had a lot to gain if Vicky was murdered. They tell that
Simon is not answering and she tells them to sit on their house. In the car, Ryan asks what
Esposito is doing for Lanii for Valentine’s Day and he tells that he is going to get her a necklace
or charm bracelet. Ryan tells that he is getting his fiancé chocolate. They see that Simon gets
back, but has a ’friend’. It is Amber, Vicky’s assistant. Beckett tells them to bring them both in.
Beckett goes to the elevator and Castle is there too. They look at each other and tell that they
know who killed Vicky.
Beckett and Castle meet with Simon and Amber and tell that Simon was going to get back
with his wife, but Amber and he were involved. They tell that Vicky told Amber that she was
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going to divorce Damian and go back with Simon, but that wasn’t good for her. They tell that
there was a company car that Amber ordered to drive to the house and back. Fingerprints that
they couldn’t identify were found on the nail gun. She tells that she wasn’t supposed to be killed
and she tried to convince Vicky that she was going to love Simon and not Vicky, she told her
no. Later, Castle visits Damian and he tells that he is going to Barcelona. Castle shows that they
arrested Michael Rutherford and he made a deal and showed the things that Damian gave him
to kill his father. The police arrive and arrest Damian for contracting a kill on his father. Castle
tells that he needs a drink and Beckett offers to buy.
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Setup (1)
Season 3
Episode Number: 50
Season Episode: 16

Writer: David Amann
Show Stars: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Jon
Huertas (Javier Esposito), Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Ruben
Guest Stars: Alon Abutbul (Fariq Yusef), Lochlyn Munro (Kevin McCann), Bahar
Soomekh (Nazihah Alhabi), Adrian Pasdar (DHS Agent Mark Fallon),
Victor Webster (Josh Davidson), Matt Bushell (Leeman Jones), Hahn
Cho (Hazmat Specialist), Piter Marek (Jamal Alhabi), Billy Mayo (Se-
nior Officer), David Weidoff (Craig)
Summary: Castle and Beckett investigate the apparent robbery-homicide of a New
York cab driver, only to discover that the victim was involved in a mys-
terious conspiracy with unimaginable consequences. As the stakes
continue to rise, hard-charging federal agent Mark Fallon takes over
the investigation. Together, Fallon, Beckett and Castle must race to
unmask the truth about the victim before it’s too late.
The scene opens with Castle getting

escorted into a bio-hazard tent. He is put
inside a room where Beckett is there as
well. Thirty-six hours earlier and a secu-
rity guard approaches a taxi on blocks.
Beckett and Castle arrive on scene and
Esposito tells that Admir Alhabi is the
victim inside the cab that was stripped.
Lannii tells that his fingers were broken
one at a time. At the station, Ryan tells
that Admir was a cab driver for a while.
After Admir shut off his meter, he drove
to Washington Heights, a bad neighbor-
hood. Ryan points that Admir wrote down
’C41212652’. Beckett visits Admir’s wife,
Nazihah. Beckett asks if there was anything strange. She tells that there was nothing. Jamal is
Admir’s business owner and cousin and he tells that there are two others who where part of the
company too. Kevin McCann and Demitri Verdov were two drivers involved in their business as
well. Esposito calls and tells that they have a hit on the car parts of the taxi that Admir was
driving.
Beckett and Castle talk to Leland Jones, the guy who sold the car parts to a chop shop. He
tells that he stole the parts, but didn’t kill anyone. He tells that there was a guy there at the
warehouse around the same time. Castle and Beckett believe Leland’s story. Leland tells that
someone was tearing apart the seats of the taxi when he drove up and the guy ran off. Beckett
gets a call and it is personal. She tells that she has to get it. Ryan comes up and tells that Demitri
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Vodolf alibi outs but tells that Kevin McCann was going to be fired. Beckett and Castle talk to
Kevin and he tells that Admir was carrying around a lot of money and the fight was because he
was not paying Kevin enough. Beckett gets a call from Esposito requesting their presence at the
crime scene. They get there and Esposito tells that there were surveillance cameras in Admir’s
cab and that the harddrive was torn out of the cab. Things just got more intriguing.
Castle goes home and Martha tells that she is going for a spiritual retreat and tells that
she is going to take Alexis with her. Alexis mouths that she has a physics exam and Castle
tells that Alexis can’t go because she has to study for a physics exam. Martha tells that she is
going to have to go on the retreat by herself. Castle goes to the station to find Beckett having a
personal conversation with Josh. Captain Montgomery tells that the cameras were installed by a
professional and Ryan pulls up Admir’s financials and sees that $10,000 was deposited into his
account. Esposito pulls up Admir’s GPS account and one of his fares drove in a circle. He must
have wanted to talk to Admir. Montgomery tells that Techno Pro Systems is the company who
installed the cameras. Beckett and Castle go visit the kid who installed them and he tells that
Admir had them installed for security.
At the station, Esposito pulls out a picture from the street cameras and it is a man who is
carrying a weapon. Beckett and Castle visit Nazihah and she tells that she didn’t know of the
$10,000 deposit until it was deposited. She doesn’t know who it could be from. Beckett gets
a call with a location of the mystery man. Beckett finds the man and he has a gun, the same
type of gun that killed Admir. The man is Fariq Yusef, of the Syrian Consulate. He tells that he
doesn’t need to talk to them about anything because he has Diplomatic Immunity and Beckett
tells that he can pick up his gun at the station. Fariq is head of security of Secret Police, but is
not the killer because he was at a baseball game. Castle realizes that the numbers they found
are a location. It is a storage unit and C412 is the unit number. Beckett and Castle get to the
storage unit and open it. They open a crate and find and Beckett’s radiation detector goes off
and is maxed out. She tells Castle to get out and she calls emergency services and tells that they
have been exposed to high levels of radiation.
Castle is escorted into a bio-hazard tent and Beckett is there too. Back at the station, Mont-
gomery tells that they need to keep working on the case and want Ryan and Esposito to dig deep.
Agent Mark Fallon of the Department of Homeland Security comes in and tells that he is acting
as a liaison. In the bio-hazard tent, Castle asks how bad it is and Beckett tells that her counter
maxed out. Fallon talks to Montgomery and barks orders. He tells that it is Montgomery’s case
until Ryan tells that Admir was working on weapons in Syria. Fallon tells that he is taking over
the case. Castle tells that it was a bomb that was in the storage unit. He changes subjects and
asks how Josh is. Beckett tells that he is going out of country again for ’Doctors without Bor-
ders’. She tells that she wishes that she had someone that she could connect with. A medical
team member comes in and says that they found traces of Colbolt-60 that won’t do any harm.
Montgomery comes in and tells that a ’dirty bomb’ was in the storage unit and it is missing.
Castle gets home and Martha tells that she is going to the spiritual retreat without Alexis.
Castle tells that he wants her to go with her and Alexis looks at Castle for support. He tells that
it will be good for her. At the station, Montgomery tells the seriousness of the case and they have
to find it. Fallon tells that Castle can go home and he tells that he is going to stay. Fallon agrees
to let him stay. Fallon and Beckett talk to Nazihah and Fallon and Castle tracks the deposit. The
deposit was deposited into several accounts before hitting Admir’s, each belonging to a James
Smith. In the interrogation room, Fallon talks to Nazihah and tells that they’re going to take
her baby away if she doesn’t tell them where the bomb is. Nazihah is hysterical and tells that
she doesn’t know anything about a bomb. Beckett is uneasy of Fallon’s tactics and he tells that
Nazihah thinks that they believe her and her home is now bugged. Castle sees that they bounced
from account to account, but the account originated in Afghanistan. Ryan sees someone entering
the storage shed from the recording of the surveillance cameras. It is Jamal, Admir’s cousin.
Fallon briefs everyone of the seriousness of the case and Castle has an idea of what is going
on, but tells that he needs Beckett’s help. Ryan tells Fallon that Jamal bought a burner phone.
Beckett tells that one of Jamal’s trucks didn’t return. Meanwhile, Castle meets with Fariq in a
bar and tells that he needs information about Admir and he tells that he only met with Admir to
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remind him of his history. Admir left for moral reasons. Admir thought that Fariq was the one
who paid him, but he was mistaken. Fariq gives Castle his card. Castle gets back to the station.
Fallon tells that he knows that Castle was meeting with Fariq. He asks if Beckett knew about it
and Fallon kicks them off the case. At Castle’s home, Castle shows that he took pictures of the
board and also has Admir’s driving record. At the station, Esposito shows the van that they are
looking for. Jamal’s phone sent a text that tells that the ’package has been delivered’. Fallon sets
a team to look for the van.
At Castle’s, Beckett tells that a passenger wouldn’t be talking about a terrorist plot. Castle
sees that Kevin McCann has been to the same warehouse area. Montgomery gets a location on
the truck. Fallon and his team arrive, but there is no bomb. Meanwhile, Castle and Beckett get
to the warehouse and go inside. They see a van. They open it and there is a bomb inside with a
counter on it set to go off. They get people shooting at them and Beckett tells Castle to go inside
a door. He does and the door is locked from the outside. Castle shows that there is a body inside
the freezing unit. It is Jamal, Admir’s cousin and business partner and they are trapped inside.
The episode ends.
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Countdown (2)
Season 3
Episode Number: 51
Season Episode: 17

Writer: Andrew W. Marlowe
Director: Bill Roe
Show Stars: Seamus Dever (Kevin Ryan), Tamala Jones (Lanie Parish), Jon Huertas
(Javier Esposito), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery),
Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Nathan
Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Det. Kate Beckett)
Guest Stars: Victor Webster (Josh Davidson), Adrian Pasdar (Agent Mark Fallon),
Lochlyn Munro (Kevin McCann), Bahar Soomekh (Nazihah Alhabi),
Monica Keena (Charlene McCann), Jonathan Runyon (DHS Techni-
cian), Jeff Denton (Evan Bauer), Bill Mayo (Senior Officer), Benjamin
Patterson (Paramedic), Alon Aboutboul (Fariq Yusef), Piter Marek (Ja-
mal Alhabi)
Summary: With time running out, Castle and Beckett must put aside their differ-
ences with Agent Fallon to avert a city-wide catastrophe.
The scene opens with Federal Agent

Fallon telling that the bomb is at another
location to someone on the phone. Fallon
tells that they need to close in on Jamal.
Meanwhile, Castle and Beckett are in the
storage unit and they have no signal on
their phones. Beckett tries to knock open
the door and Castle tells that it is no use.
Beckett tells that they have to try. Martha
and Alexis get home because Alexis was
panicking that she didn’t want to go to
the ’spiritual retreat’. She sees that there
is a projection screen up, but Castle is
not there. She tells that he always leaves
a note if he is going out. Martha tells that
they will deal with it in the morning. Back in the storage unit, Castle tells that they only have
a few hours before they freeze to death and Beckett tries to shoot the door. However, that only
resulted in backfire and she tells that she doesn’t know what to do. She wipes her forehead to
find icicles forming.
At the station, Ryan gets the idea that Beckett and Castle could be right and gets a call
from someone. Meanwhile, Fallon tells Montgomery that a dirty bomb is worse than a real bomb
because the kill zone is big, but it is the outer zones that show no sign of radiation until it is
in their children. Ryan comes up to Montgomery and asks to talk to him alone. Ryan tells that
Alexis called and told that Castle didn’t come home last night and they called Beckett and she
is not picking up her phone. Montgomery blows it off and tells that they have bigger things to
worry about. In the storage unit, Beckett and Castle are freezing and she tells that she is happy
that he has always been there for her. Beckett closes her eyes and her hand goes limp. Castle
tries to wake her, but is too cold too. His head rests on hers and he closes his eyes. A little bit
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later, Castle opens his eyes and sees two people come into the storage unit and grab them. Castle
wakes up in a paramedic’s van and Josh, Beckett’s boyfriend, is there. Castle asks about Beckett
and he tells that she is fine. Ryan and Esposito are there and they tell that they were on the right
track.
He gets out of the van and walks up to Beckett. She tells that she and Josh are going to have
a chance since he is there. Fallon asks how they knew to come there and they tell that McCann
is the person that they were following and that he is the only taxi driver that was going to the
same places as Admir. Beckett asks if they can be reinstated on the case and Fallon tells them to
get cleared by the doctor first. Beckett walks over to Josh and Fallon tells Castle that he thought
that Castle and Beckett were a couple and Castle tells that they are just good friends. Castle gets
home to meet two worried women waiting. He tells that they have to go to the Hamptons for the
weekend and not to ask questions. He tells that and ’event’ is going to most likely happen. Alexis
tries to call Ashley, her boyfriend, but Castle tells that they can’t tell anyone because it will cause
a panic. They listen and leave. Castle gets to the station and gives Beckett coffee as usual. He
asks her how Fallon must feel having to deal with this kind of thing every day. Esposito calls and
the address that they have on Kevin McCann is fake. He tells that the neighbors tell that there
was a McCann family lived there with a small son named Kevin who went into the military.
Fallon looks up his McCann’s record and realizes that the Kevin McCann who drove taxis, is
not really Kevin McCann. They look at the board and Castle asks why he would steal McCann’s
identity. There has to be something that they are missing and McCann is someone who the
cab driver knew. Esposito tells that McCann has a sister living in Manhattan. They go to her
home and she ID’s the cab driver as Radford Hayes. She tells that they were friends and that he
served in McCann’s unit. He had drinks with her after McCann died and Hayes told her that the
government is sending in untrained soldiers and are only caring about their own reelections and
other useless things. He told her that America needed another wake up call and that should do
the trick. They ask where he is and she tells that she doesn’t know, but she has his cell phone.
At the station, they try to get a location on him. Castle tells that he understands Radford’s anger,
but doesn’t agree with what he is doing. The dirty bomb is going off in 4 hours and they get the
location.
They go to where Hayes is and he sees Fallon and runs. He is stopped and arrested. In the
station, Fallon and Beckett go inside the interrogation room and question Hayes. However he is
not confessing. Esposito tells that Hayes is Special Forces and they are trained for this and he is
not going to tell anything. Fallon tells Hayes is going to be called a mass murderer. Hayes tells
that when the bomb goes off, there is nothing that is going to tie him to it. They are not getting
through to him and Fallon shoves the table at him and knocks Hayes over. He asks where the
bomb is and he is not talking. Fallon pulls his gun on him and Beckett tells Fallon to put down
his weapon. Hayes tells that he is ready to die for his country. Fallon lowers his weapon. Fallon
tells that Hayes was in no real danger and tells that his weapon wasn’t loaded. He tells that they
are back to square one and need his help. Ryan comes up and tells that Fallon’s wife was killed
on 9/11. Beckett tells that if they don’t get Hayes to talk they are dead in the water, but Castle
has an idea. He tells that Nazihah, Admir’s wife, needs to be talked to. Beckett and Castle go to
Nazihah’s house and find that Fallon’s surveillance guy has been shot. They enter the house to
find a note. Nazihah is the new terrorist that they are going to frame for the mass murder.
They go back to the station and tell that they need the traffic cams, but they don’t have that
much time. Esposito tells that he looked for soldiers that were in Hayes’s unit and Evan Bower
and Jack Cochran are the only two that are back. Their wives tell that they are on a fishing trip.
Fallon tells that they need to get a location. Fallon tells that they are not going to find anything
and tells that they are running out of time. Castle gives Fallon the card of Fariq Yusef, the Syrian
head of security. Fallon tells him to call. Meanwhile Bower and Cochran have Nazihah and tell
that she is to drive the van, get out and walk away. If she does this, they will give the baby to her.
They tell her that there are cameras on the front, so she better not try anything. Fariq comes into
the station and gets his pistol back. He tells that it is in their best interests to get this matter
resolved. He tells that they might want to check an old brick building for their information.
A team sweeps in and shoots Bower and Cochran. They see Nazihah in the van driving. Fallon
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talks to the two former soldiers and tells that they have a location because Fallon lied and told
that Hayes made a deal and accused them. Beckett and Castle race to find Nazihah and the
van and Castle tells that she needs to take a different route because of the fact that Broadway is
crowded. She listens to him and finds the van. Beckett gets in front of the van and forces Nazihah
to stop. She tells that they have her baby and that everything is fine. They have the bomb and
it is set to go off in 2 minutes. They call dispatch and she tells that a Bomb Squad will be there
in 3 minutes. They don’t have time. Beckett calls Fallon and asks if he knows how to diffuse a
bomb and she sends pictures. He tells that he can’t with only 1 second remaining, Castle pulls
all of them and the bomb is disconnected.
At the station, Beckett talks about what happened and they laugh about it now and Mont-
gomery tells that the Mayor wants to give them a medal and Esposito tells that they don’t know
how lucky they are and Castle looks at Beckett and tells that he knows. Fallon comes in and tells
that all men are being charged with multiple counts of committing terror and thanks to them,
mass murder is not tacked on to it. Beckett tells that she was just doing her job and for Castle,
she doesn’t know what he did it for. Fallon tells that he is not the same off the job than on the job.
Beckett tells that it was a good experience and hopefully, will never have to do it again. Castle
talks to Beckett and is about to tell how he really feels, but once again, doesn’t. He gets on the
elevator and watches as Josh comes up to Beckett and gives her a hug.
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One Life to Lose

Season 3
Episode Number: 52
Season Episode: 18

Director: David M. Barrett
Guest Stars: Jane Seymour (Gloria Chambers), Rebecca Budig (Mandy Bron-
son), Cameron Mathison (Vince Bowers), Corbin Bernsen (Lance
Buchanan), David Eigenberg (Peter Connelly), Colleen Foy (Lauren
Goldberg), Tina Majorino (Reese Harlan), Jodi Taffel (Carrie Albert),
James C. Victor (Johnny Dimes)
Summary: A murder has been committed on the set of ”Temptation Lane,” one of
New York’s longest running soap operas. Sarah Cutler, the head writer
on the soap, has been killed with a fire axe. Castle & Beckett quickly
discover that the behind the scenes drama at ”Temptation Lane” is
just as scandalous as the fictitious storylines, and just about everyone
would kill to get ahead. Ultimately, Castle’s unique skill set as a writer
leads to a discovery about the killer and the secret he or she would do
anything to protect.
Sara Cutler, the head writer of the

long-running soap opera Temptation
Lane, is found dead on the set with an axe
in the back. Castle wonders, ’Why would
anyone want to kill a writer?’ Beckett can
think of so many reasons.
Lance Hastings (guest star Corbin
Bernsen) and Mandy Bronson (guest star
Rebecca Budig) are the stars of Tempta-
tion Lane. Both seem devastated by the
death of the woman who put words in their mouths. Of course, they are actors. The beautiful
Mandy paints a vivid picture of the bubble bath she was in at the time of the murder, much to
Esposito’s delight. Lance also claims he left the set long before the murder occurred.
Vince Powers, the director of the show, was married to the victim. Beckett’s interview with
the hubby is interrupted by a very dramatic lady who recently revealed that she was Sara’s birth
mother. Gloria Chambers (guest star Jane Seymour) threatens to sue the city if her daughter’s
killer is not brought to justice.
Vince tells Castle and Beckett that his wife recently booted an obsessed fan off the set. Sara’s
assistant, an aspiring writer named Reese, provides them with the name of a woman who felt
Sara was ruining the show. This daffy lady alibis out, as she was at home with her folks. After
the interview, Castle figures something out. It has nothing to do with the case though. He realizes
that Beckett is a closet fan of Temptation Lane.
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Esposito learns that Sara made mystery appointments in her planner and Ryan discovers
that the victim and her hubby were separated. Vince Powers has an alibi though. He was at a
hotel with Mandy Bronson, who left after getting an email from Sara. Mini-bar charges verify
that Vince stayed behind. Script pages in the attachment from Sara’s email indicate that she was
planning to kill off Mandy’s character. Sounds like she had motive!
Mandy admits that she confronted Sara regarding her character’s untimely demise, but had
no reason to kill her. After all, Sara’s second in command, Peter Connelly, is the writer the
network really trusts. Mandy used her sexy powers of persuasion to get the guy on her side. Peter
verifies that Mandy was with him during the murder timeline as he scrambles to put together a
show while down a scribe. He promotes Sara’s assistant, Reese, to the writing staff. He even asks
Castle if he’s like to jump in and pen a few soap scenes.
The mystery appointments Sara was keeping occurred at a coffee shop. A waitress is devas-
tated when she learns about the murder. She’s now lost her big break, as Sara had offered to
read her screenplay. Castle promises to peruse diner girl’s script if she gives details about who
Sara was meeting. It was a private eye who discovered that Gloria Chambers wasn’t really Sara’s
mom.
Gloria Chambers is a con artist, but no killer. She points the team toward Lance Hastings,
who recently gave Sara some expensive earrings. Castle and Beckett track down Lance as he’s
holding a knife to Martha’s neck. Relax; this guy’s no killer either. He and Martha used to be an
item on and off the show. They were just acting out a scene. Lance gave Sara the earrings so
she’s let him out of his contract to do a movie. He says Sara was upset because she felt someone
had betrayed her.
Castle thumbs through the screenplay he got from the waitress at the diner. Suddenly, he
knows who killed Sara Cutler. On the set of Temptation Lane, Castle convinces Beckett to hold
off on making an arrest until they do the scene he wrote for the show. It may just help them get
a confession. Castle’s scene is about a writing piece done by a coffee shop barista that someone
else passed off as her own. It parallels what Sara’s assistant did to further her career. The jig is
up for Reese. Her story of betrayal and murder does not have a happy ending.
Back at the precinct, Castle learns the reason why Beckett is a fan of Temptation Lane. She
used to watch the show while cuddling up with her mom as a kid. Seeing the show now always
makes her feel safe and at home. Good to know.
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Actor Appearances
A Rene Ashton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
311 (Amelia Weiss)
Tony Aaron (II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Erick Avari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
104 (NY City Pedestrian) 219 (Rupert Bentley)
Alon Aboutboul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Brian Avers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
317 (Fariq Yusef) 101 (Harrison Tisdale)
Ana Ayora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Alon Abutbul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
210 (Young Woman)
316 (Fariq Yusef)
Shania Accius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
214 (Candace Dyson)
Drew Van Acker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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103 (Donny) Link Baker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Julian Acosta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 210 (Officer)
109 (Alfred Candela) Jonathan Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jonathan Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 104 (Bruce Kirby)
313 (Vulcan Simmons) Anita Barone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Dayo Ade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 206 (Janice Freeman)
215 (Anton Wade) Matt Barr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Adey Adeyemo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 202 (Trevor McBoyd); 203 (Trevor McBoyd)
203 (NYPD Officer) Tim Barraco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Keiko Agena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 104 (Delivery Guy)
216 (Kelly) Alexandra Barreto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Juan Alfonso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 310 (Annie Swift)
311 (Delivery Man) Randall Batinkoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ryan Alosio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 311 (Brad Williams)
212 (Mike Weitz) Patrick Bauchau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ron Althoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 107 (Caine Powell)
110 (Heavy) Ken Baumann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Ronnie Alvarez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 304 (Ashley); 308 (Ashley)
222 (Juan) Graham Beckel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ama’ri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 212 (Uncle Teddy)
102 (Nanny Kid) Jason Beghe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bruno Amato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 303 (Mike Royce)
221 (Fred Cana) Will Beinbrink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Charlene Amoia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 204 (Steven Fletcher)
301 (Ana Marie) Bill Bellamy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jill Andre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 220 (Mickey Reed)
208 (Lenanne Wellesley) Ned Bellamy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Philip Anthony-Rodriguez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 314 (Logan Meech)
307 (Michael Grant) Brittany Belt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
David Appelbaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 220 (Kayla)
210 (Clerk); 214 (Clerk) Tom Bergeron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Amy Aquino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 220 (Bobby Mann)
220 (Janine Marks) Corbin Bernsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rob Arbogast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 318 (Lance Buchanan)
206 (Morlock) Mark Berry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Carmen Argenziano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 306 (Warden John Peck)
308 (Mario Rivera) Eric Betts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jillian Armenante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 221 (Paul Finch)
108 (Susan Mailer) Emily Bicks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Bess Armstrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 206 (Paige)
302 (Paula Casillas) Gil Birmingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Meghan Ashley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 219 (Cacaw Te)
301 (Fire Breather) Bre Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
302 (Toni Johnston) 308 (Mirielle Lefcourt)

Marc Blucas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alex Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
211 (Jeremy Chadwick) 108 (Michael Goldman)
Julie Blum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Michael Cassidy (VI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
223 (Lisa Jenkins) 305 (Greg McClintock)
Andrea Bogart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dan Castellaneta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
315 (Callie Langston) 101 (Judge Markway)
Chadwick Boseman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dan Catellaneta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
312 (Chuck Russell) 108 (Judge Markway)
Rachel Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dean Cates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
302 (Penny Marchand) 224 (Roger Farraday)
David Dean Bottrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Steve Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
308 (Byron H. Singer) 219 (Charles Taylor)
Dmitri Boudrine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Erin Cervantes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
201 (Ilya) 301 (Burlesque Dancer)
David Bowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Matt Champagne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
201 (Max Haverstock) 210 (Andy Berman)
Abby Brammell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bailey Chase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
221 (Carol Thornton) 109 (Will Sorenson); 110 (Will Sorenson)
Jon Briddell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Nick Chinlund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
311 (Richard Weiss) 107 (Evan Mitchell)
Beth Broderick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hahn Cho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
220 (Barbara Mann) 316 (Hazmat Specialist)
Jayne Brook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Yuri Ann Cho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
102 (Claudia Peterson) 214 (Hostess)
Jason Brooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Claudia Choi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
102 (Mr. Harris) 102 (Video Tech); 308 (CSU Photo Tech)
Robert Curtis Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Catherine Christensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
207 (Ian Busch) 110 (FBI Agent)
Sarah Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Charles Chun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
214 (Amanda Livingston) 209 (Paul Cho)
Sophina Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jamie Chung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
303 (Gayle Carver) 103 (Romy)
Jeanette Brox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lenny Citrano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
309 (Ayyana Holder) 311 (Lead Lawyer)
Rebecca Budig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jillian Clare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
318 (Mandy Bronson) 310 (Gracie)
Michael Reilly Burke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dameon Clarke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
104 (Frank Nesbit) 218 (Scott Dunn)
Matt Bushell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Griffin Cleveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
316 (Leeman Jones)
205 (Zane Talbot)
Natalie Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
C 209 (Escort); 312 (Magician’s Assistant)
Rachel Leah Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Gino Cafarelli. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 110 (Annoyed Woman)
301 (Dean Carbino) Scott Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Erin Cahill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 221 (Lt. Stan Holliwell)
222 (Cecily Burkett) John Brantley Cole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Thomas Calabro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 205 (Uniform)
311 (Scott Donner) Cole Coleman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Wilmer Calderon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 206 (Vampire / Goth Club Patron)
314 (Marvin ”Oz” Osminkowski) Kari Coleman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bruno Campos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 110 (Julia Hammond)
104 (Calvin Creason) Shanna Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Stephen J. Cannell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 202 (Rina); 203 (Rina)
101 (Himself); 201 (Himself); 224 (Himself) Skoti Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Leandro Cano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 314 (John Hixton)
307 (Bouncer) Michael Connelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Francis Capra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 201 (Himself); 224 (Himself)
109 (Juan Restrepo) Scott Connors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Paul Carafotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 110 (Agent Debney)
223 (Lukas Canby) Chris Conrad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Clare Carey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 209 (Husband)
314 (Noreen Hixton) Alicia Coppola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Kelly Carlson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 315 (Amber Patinelli)
220 (Ellie Monroe) Dan Cortese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ever Carradine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 220 (Howard Weisberg)
202
James Cosmo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 104 (NY City Pedestrian)

213 (Finn Rourke)
Robert Costanzo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
110 (Sal Tenor) E
Brett Cullen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
312 (Christian Dahl) David Eigenberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Michael Cummings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 318 (Peter Connelly)
220 (Burt) Brennan Elliot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Jon Curry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 202 (Jason Cosway)
214 (Stan Kopek) Scott Elrod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
John L. Curtis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 214 (Clyde Dekker)
311 (Desk Clerk) Gideon Emery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
307 (Lloyd Saunders)
Michael Enright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
D 214 (Noel du Preez)
Ethan Erickson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rod Damer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 301 (Xander Foyle)
208 (Bartender) Presciliana Esparolini. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Kwabena Darkwah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 308 (Teresa De La Torre)
106 (African Man) Mark D. Espinoza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Josh Daugherty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 216 (Professor Stevenson)
208 (Trent Wellesley) Patrick St. Esprit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Adriana DeMeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 213 (Emmett Forrest)
307 (Bella Lombardo) Kimberly Estrada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Torrey DeVitto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 212 (Lisa Bloomfield)
202 (Sierra Goodwin); 203 (Sierra Goodwin)
Dana Delany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
217 (Special Agent Jordan Shaw); 218 (Special Agent
F
Jordan Shaw)
Stephanie Faracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jeff Denton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
204 (Patty Schultz)
317 (Evan Bauer)
Jay R. Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Juliana Dever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
213 (Dick Coonan)
216 (Jenny); 311 (Jenny Duffy-O’Malley)
Efrain Figueroa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Seamus Dever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
315 (Ray Salazar)
101 (Kevin Ryan)
Anita Finlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Anthony DiRocco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
103 (Margo Falcigno)
210 (Sam Parker / Jake Holland)
Charlie Finn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rocco DiSpirito. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
103 (Ian Yankman)
222 (Rocco Dispirito)
Jon Fleming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Reed Diamond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
202 (Will James); 203 (Will James)
205 (Dr. Cameron Talbot)
Erin Foster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Paul Diaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
207 (Sky Blue)
202 (Young Man); 203 (Young Man)
Kevin Foster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ryan Dobson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
219 (Will Medina)
222 (Balthazar Wolf)
Colleen Foy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jeff Doucette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
318 (Lauren Goldberg)
205 (Super)
Don Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Sam Doumit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
215 (Tommy Zane)
307 (Mandy Carson)
Colby French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Creagen Dow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
101 (NYPD Cop)
103 (Max Heller)
Cynthia Frost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Sarah Drew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
305 (Tova)
102 (Chloe Richardson)
Stephen Full. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Anne Dudek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
223 (Benny)
211 (Emma Keane) Nolan Gerard Funk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Caitlin Dulany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 103 (Brandon)
103 (Mrs. Kendall)
Keir Dullea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
101 (Jonathan Tisdale) G
Allison Dunbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
222 (Sandra Meyers) Frank Gallegos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Alastair Duncan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 204 (Kurt Lopez)
314 (Reginald Easley) Justice Gamble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Merrin Dungey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 301 (bartender)
221 (Monica Finch) Robert Gant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Peggy Dunne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 201 (Ron Bigby)
103 (Mrs. Heller) Monica Garcia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Mark Casimir Dyniewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 223 (Cleaning Lady)
203
Jackie Geary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jeff Harlan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

110 (Maggie Dowd) 208 (Frank Davis)
Courtney Geigle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Schae Harrison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
211 (Driver) 311 (Uniform Cop)
Craig Gellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Amy Hathaway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
301 (Earl Moreland) 104 (Attorney)
Carrie Genzel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Henry Hayashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
312 (Naomi Dahl) 312 (Lawyer)
Azita Ghanizada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Brianna Haynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
216 (Mistress Sapphire) 207 (Hayley Blue)
David Gianopoulos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jesse Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
302 (Albert Moreno) 207 (Zack Metzger)
Blake Gibbons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Shari Headley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
307 (Billy Grimm) 209 (Nicole Cameron)
Jim Gleason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rick Hearst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
206 (Dr. Barry Frank) 308 (Dr. Elliot Lefcourt)
Richard Gleason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Evan Helmuth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
222 (Wesley Slade) 302 (Nick Johnston)
Clint Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 John Hemphill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
307 (Hans Von Mannschaft) 314 (Tom Walters)
Siena Goines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elaine Hendrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
214 (Donna Vincennes) 205 (Melissa Talbot)
Jesse D. Goins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lance Henrickson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
103 (Spencer’s Lawyer) 309 (Benny Stryker)
Rick Gonzalez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gregg Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
214 (Mickey Carlson) 208 (Winston Wellesley)
Julie Gonzalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jeff Hephner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
222 (Madison Queller) 312 (Edmund / Zalman Drake)
Brian Goodman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Kevin Herrera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
313 (Dave McCallister) 212 (Waiter)
Ilene Graff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rey Herrera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
204 (Gayle Finnegan) 110 (Mario Guerrera)
Currie Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Austin Highsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
219 (Stanford Oakes) 307 (Camille Roberts)
David Barry Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Amy Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
307 (Bert Kramer) 206 (Alma)
Michael Graziadei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tymberlee Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
102 (Brent Johnson) 311 (Julie Taylor)
Mary-Pat Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gina Hiraizumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
218 (Erin Murphy) 212 (Laurie Hill)
Carla Greene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elizabeth Ho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
104 (Aide) 201 (Amy Saunders)
Max Greenfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rodney J. Hobbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
222 (David Nicolaides) 102 (Worker)
Gattlin Griffith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Aldis Hodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
308 (Tyler Donegal) 106 (Azi)
Chet Grissom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Tyler Hoechlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
204 (Agent Gray) 204 (Dylan Fields)
Arye Gross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Jim Hoffmaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
202 (M.E. Perlmutter); 205 (M.E. Perlmutter); 207 223 (Clerk)
(M.E. Perlmutter); 208 (M.E. Sidney Perlmut- Rand Holdren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ter); 222 (M.E. Perlmutter) 310 (Pete Mucha)
Amy Gumenick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Laurel Holloman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
216 (Danielle) 201 (Sandy Allen)
Devon Gummersall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Anne Marie Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
216 (Matt Haley) 306 (Linda Russo)
Kelsey Gunn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Jon Huertas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
307 (Sarah Lieberman) 101 (Javier Esposito); 104 (Javier Esposito)
Eamon Hunt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
H 102 (Frank Garrison)
Kieren Hutchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
302 (Cody Donnelly)
Jennifer Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
223 (Rebecca Strong)
Melinda Page Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I
102 (Diana Harris)
James Handy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Michael Ironside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
303 (Clifford Stuckey) 221 (Victor Racine)
204
Tom Irwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 104 (Jason Bollinger)

315 (Simon Campbell) Andrew Leeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
304 (Adam Murphy)
J Vanessa Lengies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
312 (Eliza Winter)
Ken Lerner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Nick Jaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 102 (Lawyer)
210 (Forensic IT Guy) Sonya Leslie-Shepherd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Peter Jason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 208 (Valerie Thompson)
105 (Sheriff Sloan) Len Lesser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Paul Eric Jerome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 102 (Elderly Man)
308 (Robert Kincaid) Melanie Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Taneka Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 223 (Daphne)
208 (Edwina) Jen Lilley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Brian Michael Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 304 (Julia Foster)
314 (Ty Page) Lyle Lovett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Tamala Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 309 (Agent Westfield)
104 (Lanie Parish)
Kahlil Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
204 (Bank Manager) M
K Stephen Macht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
311 (Bill Wellington)
Kasey Mahaffy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Judy Kain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
223 (Lance Newman)
208 (Sara)
Tina Majorino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
John Kapelos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
318 (Reese Harlan)
313 (Joe Palumbo)
Asia De Marcos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
John Kassir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
106 (Yoga Manager)
305 (Mr. Dreyfus)
Piter Marek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Mohammad Kavianpour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
316 (Jamal Alhabi); 317 (Jamal Alhabi)
210 (Dry Cleaning Delivery Guy)
Joe Marinelli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Monica Keena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
110 (Jimmy Moran)
317 (Charlene McCann)
Gilles Marini. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Mary Page Keller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
312 (Tobias Strange)
307 (Rebecca Dalton)
J. Salome’ Martinez Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jason E Kelley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
314 (Todd Shipley)
202 (Event Organizer)
Vanessa Martinez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jason E. Kelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
215 (Lara Blanco)
203 (Event Organizer)
Max Martini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Joanne Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
313 (Hal Lockwood)
108 (Lee Wax)
Mercedes Masöhn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ian Reed Kesler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
302 (Marina Casillas)
224 (Hugo Morrison)
Cameron Mathison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Colin Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
318 (Vince Bowers)
222 (Spike)
DeLane Matthews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
David A. Kimball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
110 (Jacey Goldberg)
103 (Mr. Kendall)
Christopher May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Brian Klugman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
308 (Arthur Sansone)
306 (Paul McCardle)
Bill Mayo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Thomas Kopache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
317 (Senior Officer)
304 (Abe Sandrich)
Billy Mayo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Brian Krause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
316 (Senior Officer)
303 (Father Arron Roe)
Debi Mazar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Mimi Kuzyk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
205 (Paula Haas)
212 (Sheila Blaine)
Monet Mazur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
224 (Gina Cowell); 305 (Gina Griffin)
L Allison McAtee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
224 (Andrea Fisher)
Phil LaMarr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Gil McKinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
206 (Dr. Holloway); 211 (Dr. Holloway) 216 (Tyler Benton)
Jonathan LaPaglia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Michaela McManus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
209 (John Knox) 209 (Scarlett Price)
Nathan Lam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Julio Oscar Mechoso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
305 (Rabbi) 215 (Mario Sanchez)
Ray Laska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ron Melendez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
209 (Dan Tonelli) 208 (Jeff Dilahunt)
Joshua LeBar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rachel Melvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
205
314 (Nicole Hixton) Ramon De Ocampo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

David Meunier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 304 (Owen Peterson)
201 (Sasha) Carolyn Ordonez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Dina Meyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 301 (Maya Santori)
216 (Lady Irena) Drew Osborne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Nikki Micheaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 110 (Owen)
106 (Michelle) Ion Overman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Alyssa Milano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 110 (Candace Robinson)
212 (Kyra)
Rebeka Montoya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
215 (Ana Rivera) P
Mark Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
208 (Blake Wellesley) Sam Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Senta Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 310 (Brian Elliott)
214 (Michele Langford) Angel Parker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
William R. Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 216 (Receptionist)
223 (Blake Wilder) Corey Mendell Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Michael Mosley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 214 (Reggie Dyson)
306 (Jerry Tyson) David Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Vanessa Motta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 311 (Duke Jones)
216 (Jessica) Adrian Pasdar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Oliver Muirhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 316 (DHS Agent Mark Fallon); 317 (Agent Mark
310 (Steven Heisler) Fallon)
Chris Mulkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Benjamin Patterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
310 (Wilbur Pittorino) 317 (Paramedic)
Brian Patrick Mulligan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 James Patterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
212 (Justice of the Peace) 101 (Himself); 224 (Himself)
Lochlyn Munro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Candice Patton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
316 (Kevin McCann); 317 (Kevin McCann) 202 (Young Woman); 203 (Young Woman)
Isaiah Mustafa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bernardo De Paula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
218 (Team Leader) 207 (Franco Marquez)
Scott Paulin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
N 213 (Jim Beckett); 313 (Jim Beckett)
Heather Pennington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
205 (Hero Witness)
Suzy Nakamura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Kathleen Rose Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
222 (Jennifer Wong)
204 (Elise Finnegan)
Ivo Nandi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Lony’e Perrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
205 (Teodor Hajek)
102 (Bethany)
Kortney Nash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Joseph C. Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
214 (Simone Dyson)
107 (Mayor); 108 (Mayor)
Ian Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
304 (Troy Kenworth) Robert Picardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
George Newbern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 110 (Clark Murray); 213 (Dr. Clark Murray)
102 (Howard Peterson) Jim Piddock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Julia Nickson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 304 (Henry)
103 (Mrs. Lee) Jeffrey Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Benny Nieves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 202 (Wyatt Monroe); 203 (Wyatt Monroe)
222 (Domingo Verdugo) Mitch Pileggi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Joe Nieves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 224 (Hans Bremel)
212 (Boyd Gamble) Robert Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Brian Norris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 204 (Gerry Finnegan)
313 (Chad Rodrick) J.P. Pitoc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Dohn Norwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 211 (Darius Langley)
106 (Charles Oni) Joel Polis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Danny Nucci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 313 (John Raglan)
209 (Gilbert Mazzara) Laura Prepon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
311 (Natalie Gray)
Dominic Prietto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
O 207 (Hot Guy in Hayley Blue Music Video)
John Prudhont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Adam O’Byrne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 104 (Jeff Horn)
311 (Mr. Rubens) Timi Prulhiere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Joe O’Connor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 205 (Talbot’s Nurse)
306 (Cal Townsend) John Pyper-Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Patrick O’Connor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 308 (Dean Donegal)
103 (Chris Markum)
Lisa O’Hare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
301 (Kitty Canary) Q
206
Samantha Quan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 211 (Tory Westchester)

307 (Kathleen Park) Ian Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Molly C. Quinn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 208 (Cab Driver)
103 (Alexis Castle) Erin Sanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
206 (Rosie Freeman)
R Julian Sands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
202 (Teddy Farrow); 203 (Teddy Farrow)
Michael Rady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Corey Saunders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
301 (Evan Murphy) 307 (Derek Brookner)
Marisa Ramirez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Paul Schackman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
211 (Angelica Fink) 216 (Barry)
Anne Ramsay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Tom Schanley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
207 (Bree Busch) 216 (William Carraway)
David Ramsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lenny Schmidt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
204 (Jim Wheeler) 312 (Jerome Aspenall)
Rick Ravanello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Catarina Scorsone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
302 (Steve Adams) 107 (Joanne Delgado)
Navi Rawat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Melody Thomas Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
219 (Rachel Walters) 311 (Tonya Wellington)
Randal Reeder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Marcus Scribner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
304 (Roland D’Andre) 221 (Tim Thornton)
Joe Reegan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jane Seymour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
314 (Shawn York) 318 (Gloria Chambers)
Perrey Reeves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Eric Shackelford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
210 (Helen Parker) 203 (Lower Eastsider)
Judy Reyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Kunal Sharma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
109 (Theresa Candela) 103 (Spencer)
Matt Riedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Eugene Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
110 (Attorney) 304 (Joe)
Eden Riegel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Samantha Shelton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
304 (Rachel Goldstein) 206 (Vixen)
Jennifer Riker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Eddie Shin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
204 (Sue Vaughn) 213 (Johnny Vong)
Diana-Maria Riva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alex Skuby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
202 (Detective Roselyn Karpowski); 205 (Det. Rose- 210 (Charlie DePetro)
lyn Karpowski) Brady Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Steve Rizzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 212 (Greg Murphy)
308 (Thomas Mestrick) Christie Lynn Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Leonard Roberts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 214 (Melanie Kopek)
217 (Federal Agent Jason Avery); 218 (Special Agent Bill Smitrovich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jason Avery) 105 (Ben Davidson)
Keith Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 J.B. Smoove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
303 (Random Pierce) 209 (Norman Jessup)
Channon Roe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bahar Soomekh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
105 (Kevin Henson) 316 (Nazihah Alhabi); 317 (Nazihah Alhabi)
Ron Roggé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Melissa De Sousa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
104 (Wolkowski) 224 (Liz Fenn)
Clayton Rohner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Carrie Southworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
207 (John McGinnis) 110 (Courtney Morantz)
Carlo Rota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Adrian Sparks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
211 (Bahir Harun) 312 (Thaddeus Magnus)
Andrew Rothenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Aaron D. Spears. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
217 (Donald Salt) 221 (Ike Thornton)
Paige Rowland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Abigail Spencer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
302 (Loreen Carter) 210 (Sarah Reid)
Jonathan Runyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Darby Stanchfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
317 (DHS Technician) 106 (Meredith)
David Starzyk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
S 224 (Lee Copley)
French Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Erik Saari. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 220 (Zach Robinson)
207 (Creepy Guy on Bus) Deborah Strang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Dylan Saccoccio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 212 (Ruby Osiris-Schwartzman)
312 (Stage Hand) Rider Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Sahlima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 211 (Rocco Jones)
311 (Vicky Rubens); 312 (Vicky Rubens) Lucia Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Dahlia Salem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 224 (Melinda Farraday)
207
T 304 (Josh Davidson); 316 (Josh Davidson); 317 (Josh

Davidson)
Jodi Taffel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 David Weidoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
318 (Carrie Albert) 316 (Craig)
Steve Talley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Chandra West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
103 (Kent Scoville) 215 (Maggie Vega)
Glenn Taranto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chryssie Whitehead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
206 (Douglas Lawson) 313 (Kathy Moore)
Desiree Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Charles Malik Whitfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
211 (Attendant) 105 (Charles Wyler)
Lee Tergesen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Jason Wiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
306 (Marcus Gates) 315 (Damian Westlake)
Kelly Thiebaud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fred Willard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
311 (Chloe Graves) 220 (Hank McPhee)
Ella Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Eltony Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
223 (Natasha Piper) 211 (Officer Marino)
Robin Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gregory Alan Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
206 (Alan Freeman) 314 (Jim Van-Eps)
L.T. Tolliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Nika Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
104 (NYPD Uniform Officer); 301 (Uniform) 220 (Angel Santana)
Nicholle Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Josh Wingate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
220 (Cindy Mann) 314 (Greg Page)
Joe Torre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hattie Winston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
215 (Himself) 208 (Sally Niedermeyer)
Michael Trucco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ray Wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
221 (Det. Tom Demming); 222 (Det.Tom Demming); 215 (Bobby Fox)
223 (Det.Tom Demming); 224 (Det.Tom Dem- D.B. Woodside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ming) 210 (Lance Carlberg)
Ciel Turich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Rick Worthy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
306 (Bike Messenger) 224 (Jason Fenn)
Karl T. Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
309 (Dr. Chuck Vaughn)
U Ping Wu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
306 (Dr. Lee)
Rashawn Underdue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
207 (Tony)
Y
V Nancy Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
209 (Arguing Wife)
Francisco Viana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 William Allen Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
205 (Manager) 305 (Jerry Camden)
Al Vicente . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
219 (Norton Grimes)
James C. Victor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Z
318 (Johnny Dimes)
Christina Vidal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Omid Zader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
307 (Jamie Ruiz) 219 (Cab Driver)
Ajay Vidure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alicia Ziegler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
313 (CSU Tech) 104 (Tiffany)
José Zúñiga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
W 215 (Alfredo Quintana)
James Andrew Walsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

311 (Desperate Man)
Sydney Walsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
220 (Patty DeLuca)
Lisa Waltz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
104 (Laurie Horn)
Todd Waring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
109 (Dave Ellers)
Ashley Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
301 (Burlesque Dancer)
Muse Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
304 (Ivan Podofski)
Gary J. Wayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
110 (Doctor Leeds)
Victor Webster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Castle Episode Guide

This booklet was LATEXed on March 22, 2011 by footstep11

Actor Appearances 201

Flowers for Your Grave

Originally aired: Monday March 9, 2009

A sand-colored landscape. A bead of

Originally aired: Monday March 16, 2009

A woman’s body is discovered tum-

Ian’s anxiety. Castle then asks to use their bathroom.

Hedge Fund Homeboys

Originally aired: Monday March 23, 2009

Hell Hath No Fury

Originally aired: Monday March 30, 2009

While dumpster diving for apartment

A Chill Goes Through Her Veins

Originally aired: Monday April 6, 2009

A woman’s frozen body is discovered,

Always Buy Retail

Originally aired: Monday April 13, 2009

Home Is Where the Heart Stops

Originally aired: Monday April 20, 2009

A woman is discovered stuffed inside

Originally aired: Monday April 27, 2009

Little Girl Lost

Originally aired: Monday May 4, 2009

A Death in the Family

Originally aired: Monday May 11, 2009

We open on the windshield of a blue

Originally aired: Monday September 21, 2009

Castle poses for a photo shoot while

The Double Down

Originally aired: Monday September 28, 2009

Castle and Beckett watch the action

Inventing the Girl

Originally aired: Monday October 5, 2009

After a night out during NY’s Fashion

Teddy her theory that Sierra wanted to do anything to get a job.

Originally aired: Monday October 12, 2009

A teacher asks his class to take their

When the Bough Breaks

Originally aired: Monday October 19, 2009

In the morning, Castle’s book agent

Originally aired: Monday October 26, 2009

Castle dresses up as a space cow-

under the table and figure he was hiding it.

Famous Last Words

Originally aired: Monday November 2, 2009

Kill the Messenger

Originally aired: Monday November 9, 2009

A bike messenger recklessly weaves in

Originally aired: Monday November 16, 2009

While a couple argues, a body crashes

as if he knew he was coming. The detectives bring in Dan.

One Man’s Treasure

Originally aired: Monday November 23, 2009

As a woman throws away a pizza box

The Fifth Bullet

Originally aired: Monday December 7, 2009

Beckett finds Castle playing with a dog