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  • 5/21/2025
Castle Season 3 Episode 8

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00:00I hate this case.
00:01I know, isn't it great?
00:11Whoa!
00:14Ah, dude!
00:17Ugh.
00:21Dude?
00:24Dude.
00:28Oh.
00:29Science project?
00:30No, it's a pet.
00:31Say hello to Theodore, Dad.
00:33I'm rat-sitting him for Ashley.
00:34Hello, Theodore.
00:35How goes the rat race?
00:36Did you know the average lifespan of a rat is two to three years?
00:39Ashley's had Theodore for five.
00:41And this is the first time he's left him with anyone.
00:43Trusting you with a treasured pet?
00:46That's a big step in a relationship.
00:48Yeah, I guess it kind of is.
00:49I must say the little plague pusher is not very diligent about his exercise.
00:54I don't know, I think it's just those beady little eyes.
00:57It's a rat, Mother.
00:59Yeah, all that beady eyes.
01:00That's where the phrase comes from.
01:01Dad, those are for Theodore.
01:03He has a very specific diet I'm supposed to follow.
01:05Well, unless he's Ben, I'm sure he won't hold it against me.
01:08If anyone needs me, I'll be in the park with a dead body.
01:13Who's Ben?
01:14Kill a rat movie.
01:15Before your time.
01:20You know, I understand ferrets as a pet.
01:23Snakes, spiders, even a hairless mole.
01:24But a rat?
01:25Probably kids in the city who keep cockroaches as pets.
01:28You're probably right.
01:29It's the strangest pet you've ever had.
01:31You.
01:32Hey, Laney.
01:34Is this a hit and run?
01:35In a manner of speaking, two BMX bikers rode over the body, then called it in.
01:40But the cause of death are the gunshot wounds.
01:43One to the chest, and two more in the back.
01:47So he's wounded on both sides?
01:48Maybe there were two shooters.
01:49He was caught in the crossfire.
01:51Won't know till I get him back to the lab.
01:53You got an ID?
01:54Leonard Levitt, Ozone Park, Queens.
01:57Wallet, cash, keys, everything's still here.
02:00Which means it wasn't theft.
02:02No.
02:04Something much more nefarious.
02:07A feather.
02:10Alternating stripes, uniform color.
02:16This is no ordinary pigeon feather.
02:17This...
02:19This is from a bird of prey.
02:20So, what are you suggesting, Castle?
02:22That a bird shot him three times?
02:24Not just any bird.
02:26This is the calling card of the murderer known only as...
02:29The Falcon Killer.
02:31Or, maybe before getting shot, he just bent down and picked up the feather.
02:36See, that's why you'll never be a best-selling novelist.
02:38No sense of drama.
02:40I find that dead bodies are usually enough.
02:43Thanks, Laney.
02:46Yo.
02:47So we ran back, but I don't know your Vic.
02:49He's pretty thin.
02:50He was a New York City transit employee, worked in the subway out of the 116th Street Station.
02:54He worked uptown and he lived in Queens?
02:57Then what was he doing in the park? That's pretty out of the way.
02:59Well, we thought that he was looking to buy some weed or some love, but...
03:03He has no drug history, no convictions or solicitations, no nothing.
03:06And what about his family?
03:07Both parents are deceased, guy never married, has no children. It's like he barely existed.
03:11Making him the perfect victim.
03:12Mild-mannered city employee lured into a conveniently wooded area.
03:17Struck down by a murderer with the speed and cunning of a bird of prey.
03:21Don't ask.
03:22You guys go to his apartment, find out who he is and what he was doing in the park.
03:26Levitity and temperature puts time of death between 5 and 7 p.m.
03:30The victim also has a broken wrist.
03:33Could be post-mortem from those BMXers playing X-Games on his corpse.
03:36What about the gunshot wound?
03:38All three entry wounds were made by the same weapon, a .45.
03:41It was only one shooter.
03:43So the same person shot him in the front and then shot him in the back?
03:46Didn't make any sense to me either, so I decided to take some measurements.
03:50Turns out the wounds are of different depths.
03:53The one on his chest is very shallow, indicating the shot came from a distance.
03:57How far?
03:58About 150 feet.
03:59That's quite an accurate shot with an angle.
04:02Yeah, I'd say your killer had some shooting experience.
04:05But the next two shots in the back were close range.
04:08Inside 6 feet maybe.
04:10So he got shot in the chest at long range, turned around to run.
04:13But he's wounded.
04:15The killer goes after him to finish what he started with a double tap to the back.
04:18He wasn't just shot.
04:20He was hunted down and killed.
04:22But why?
04:35What was this guy up to?
04:36No idea.
04:42What about that?
04:43Looks like some sort of counter.
04:45What do you think he was counting?
04:46Nothing good.
04:48Night vision, spotting scope, parabolic microphone, top quality too.
04:53What's a subway worker doing with all this?
04:55I don't know.
04:57Whatever he was into, it had something to do with the park.
04:59Look.
05:01This is right where his body was found.
05:02526, that's around our time of death.
05:06Looks like he was tracking something or someone within this was BHS.
05:10It looks like that someone found him.
05:13There's surveillance equipment, clandestine meetings, a professional hit mixed in the subway.
05:18We're looking at the taking of Pelham 123 or better yet, the money train.
05:22Any one of these people could be a secret accomplice.
05:25That's what I love about the subway. Down here, everyone's got a story.
05:28See, that's the difference between you and me, Castle.
05:30You see the subway as a place to pick up dialogue for your novels.
05:33Or the occasional investment banker on the way to the gym.
05:36I, on the other hand, see it as a way of getting from point A to point B.
05:40Light bulb Len's dead, huh?
05:42Light bulb Len?
05:43Yeah, it was his job to change the light bulbs in the stations and tunnels all over New York.
05:47I figured something was wrong. It's the first time he's missed work in 22 years.
05:50Mr. Rivera, Len was found shot to death in the park.
05:53Any idea what he was doing there?
05:55The guy changed light bulbs for a living.
05:57You know, a job like that, it's not for the social.
06:00I mean, in the 12 years I was a supervisor, I don't think we ever had one person in the park who was shot to death.
06:06I mean, in the 12 years I was a supervisor, I don't think we ever had one person in the park who was shot to death.
06:11But you know who you should talk to?
06:12Who?
06:14Mr. Sandstone!
06:17Arthur!
06:22I'm sorry, it's just...
06:24Why would anybody want to shoot him?
06:26Well, we were hoping that you could tell us that.
06:29Well, the guy was one of the unsung heroes of this city.
06:32He saved a lot of lives.
06:33I'm sorry, I thought... I thought he changed light bulbs.
06:35Bad things happen in darkness, Mr. Castle.
06:38Dimly lit tunnels.
06:40Darkened stairwells.
06:42If Len heard about a blown bulb before shift end, he would stay late, on his own time to fix it.
06:48And of course, there was his response to the Abe Lidschitz tragedy.
06:531989.
06:55Electrocution of a bulb changer at the Brighton Beach station.
07:00This is a circuit interrupter switch.
07:05Shuts down all the power inside a tunnel, so that electrical maintenance could be performed safely.
07:13Down here, it's called the Lenny Box.
07:16Because it took a visionary like Glenn Leavitt to design it, and force the transit authority to install one in every station in this city.
07:24What about high-tech gear? Did Lenny ever use any night vision, or microphones for his work?
07:29No. Why?
07:31How about the initials BHS? Does that mean anything to you?
07:34Maybe someone or something that Len was keeping tabs on?
07:38The only thing Len Leavitt ever kept tabs on was every single bulb he ever changed.
07:42Did he have any enemies that you know of?
07:45You don't make ways without making a few enemies.
07:47Because of Len, we're in the middle of a system-wide changeover from incandescent to compact fluorescents.
07:52New technology comes in, the city ends up with a warehouse full of old bulbs.
07:57That makes some guy in a suit at the old bulb factory very unhappy.
08:01You ask me, corporations conspired to take Lenny out.
08:06Lenny Box. Said the guy's an inventor.
08:09Apparently he was an underground renaissance man.
08:11Guess that explains all the electronics.
08:13And the counter in his apartment. All the light bulbs he changed.
08:16Seriously, this guy changed over a million light bulbs?
08:18The man was an unsung hero.
08:19All right, cut down by the forces of Big Bulb.
08:22Big Bulb?
08:23The filament industrial complex.
08:25Lenny's buddy is delusional if he actually thinks that Lenny was killed by a light bulb conspiracy.
08:30I wouldn't dismiss our subterranean friend just yet.
08:33I was running through Len's phone records and one jumped out.
08:36The outgoing call to the New York City employee tip line?
08:39It's where you call the rat out of your co-workers.
08:41Must rat always be used in the pejorative in the Chinese zodiac?
08:44What was the tip?
08:45Well, all those incandescent bulbs they were replacing?
08:47Levitt claims that he had evidence his supervisor was stealing them and then reselling them on the black market.
08:52You mean Mario Rivera?
08:53The same. If the charges pan out, the guy could lose his job and his pension.
08:56Oh, and get this. Before he was in the Transit Authority,
08:59Mario was in the Marine Corps for eight years where he won a weapons medal for sharpshooting.
09:10Where were you last night between 5 and 7 p.m.?
09:12Working.
09:13We checked. You clocked out at 4.34.
09:15You hopped the B or the D down to 59th Street.
09:19Expression only takes about 10 minutes.
09:21Funny time to get to the park? Kill Len.
09:22Why would I kill Len?
09:24Because he filed a report against you with the Transit Authority when he found out about Costa Rica.
09:27What the hell are you guys talking about?
09:30These are emails that were sent from you to your contact in Costa Rica.
09:38These are my private emails.
09:40Sent from a workplace computer, which means we can look.
09:42So, I was thinking about taking a vacation down there.
09:44Yeah. Drink a few cervezas, maybe go parasailing on the beach.
09:48Sell some light bulbs to some locals.
09:51The city has a warehouse full of old incandescent light bulbs that you figured no one would miss.
09:55So you sold them to a wholesaler in Costa Rica for 20 cents a pop.
09:59That's a hundred grand.
10:01Only someone did miss them.
10:03Someone with the word light bulb in his name.
10:05When you found out Len was on to you,
10:07you realized you could lose your job and your pension.
10:09You couldn't afford to let him go to the Transit Authority.
10:12The Transit Authority was what he knew.
10:14I didn't kill nobody.
10:15Well, then why don't you just come clean with what you did last night between 5 and 7?
10:19The thing about murderers, Mario, is they tend to not have solid alibis.
10:23Generally because they're murdering somebody.
10:28Look, those old light bulbs were just gonna get destroyed and end up in a landfill.
10:33I was doing the city a favor.
10:35So I make a little extra. So who gets hurt?
10:38Uh, I'm gonna go with Len.
10:41Last chance, Mario.
10:47After work, I went up to the Grand Concourse to pack up a shipment of light bulbs.
10:52They went out to Costa Rica last night.
10:55You can check. I was there.
10:58Thanks.
11:00He's telling the truth. Len's called the tip line.
11:02Turns out that the transit cops had him under surveillance all last week.
11:05His tail has him in the Bronx last night, just like you said.
11:07Call the transit cops and tell them that we just closed their case for them.
11:10Right.
11:12So if light bulbs didn't get Lenny killed, then what did?
11:14You know, it can't be a coincidence that he was killed right there at about the same time that he has written down.
11:20And what does BHS stand for?
11:22Bronx High School.
11:24Big honkin' stereo.
11:26Boys have shoes?
11:28I tried Byron H. Singer.
11:29Found a small vendor decal on the side of the parabolic microphone we found in his apartment.
11:33So I called the vendor to find out if he knew why Len bought the equipment.
11:36Turns out Len didn't buy it at all.
11:38It was purchased two months ago by an insurance actuary named Byron H. Singer.
11:42BHS!
11:45Sorry.
11:48Mr. Singer, thank you for coming down.
11:50They said it was important.
11:52Do you know a man named Len Levitt?
11:54What did that bastard tell you?
11:56He didn't tell us anything.
11:58Good. Because he's a liar.
12:00He thought he knew better than me.
12:02He thought he knew better than everybody.
12:04Mr. Singer...
12:05I don't care if he didn't believe me. I don't care how much it hurt him.
12:08I know what I saw.
12:10And what did you see?
12:12The two of them together in the park like a pair of lovebirds.
12:16But he accused me of making the whole thing up.
12:19I mean, why would I make something like that up? Why would anybody?
12:22Mr. Singer, what exactly did you see in the park?
12:25I saw enough.
12:26And believe me, I was pretty shocked to see them together.
12:30I knew I had to tell Len before somebody else did.
12:33Len must have been very angry when you told him.
12:35Very angry and jealous.
12:37But I had followed them and found their secret spot.
12:40And I told him where and when to find them.
12:43I even lent him some of my equipment so he could spy on them himself.
12:46So Len goes to the park and he sees for himself.
12:48And then he confronts them in a jealous rage and they kill him.
12:51They do what now?
12:53They kill him. The cheating girlfriend and the lover.
12:55What are you talking about?
12:56What are you talking about?
12:59Who did you see in the park that night?
13:00The red-tailed hawks.
13:03There haven't been a nesting pair in the park for 40 years.
13:06You mean this is about birds?
13:08Not just birds. The red-tailed hawks.
13:10Len oversees the log in the Central Park boathouse.
13:13Where all the sightings are officially recorded.
13:15But he refused to acknowledge my sighting.
13:17So I told him, if he didn't believe me, he should go out to the park and see for himself.
13:22They nest at dusk.
13:24Mr. Singer, were you in the park yesterday between 5 and 7 p.m.?
13:28Usually I am, but yesterday I was in my office working.
13:32And can any of your colleagues verify that?
13:34I'm sure they can.
13:36But about the hawks, and I want this on the official record.
13:38I would never exaggerate or fabricate a bird sighting.
13:42It's unthinkable.
13:46They're there.
13:48And I saw them first.
13:51I'm putting that in the official record.
13:53So the equipment, the park, the feather, and BHS.
13:57Looks like we've explained everything.
13:59Yes, except why he was killed.
14:07Morning, Mother.
14:08Morning.
14:13So why is Grandma on the table and why are you on the floor?
14:15Dad, he's gone.
14:16Theodore?
14:17When I fed him his quinoa salad with wheat berries,
14:19I must not have closed the cage door all the way,
14:21and now he's gone and Ashley's going to hate me.
14:23Oh, he's not going to hate you. He'll understand.
14:24No, he won't. He trusted me and I let him down.
14:26No, not yet, you haven't. We'll find him.
14:28Have you looked in your room?
14:29And in Graham's, too.
14:30If that creature entered my room, I'm going to need a new bed.
14:33And wardrobe.
14:34Dad, what if he got out? Like, out, out?
14:36All right, Theodore's an uptown rat. He's here someplace.
14:38Okay, to find a rodent, you have to think like a rodent.
14:43You are Theodore.
14:46What do you want?
14:47Food.
14:48Eh, you've got a personal chef. You're not hungry.
14:51Warm. I'd want to stay warm and safe.
14:53Yeah, a cozy, quiet place out of the way where no one's going to step on you.
14:56Front hall closet.
14:57Nice.
15:02You see him?
15:03No, he's not here.
15:06He's not here.
15:09What?
15:12I need to go.
15:14And leave you ratless?
15:16It's my responsibility, Dad. Not yours.
15:18I'll find him.
15:19Are you sure?
15:20Yeah.
15:21All right, call me if you need anything.
15:26Just so you know, I'm checking into the plaza.
15:28And you're paying.
15:34Okay, Castle, I'm here. What was so important?
15:37Your first clue is a curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.
15:43Oh, geez, Castle. I haven't even had my coffee yet.
15:46From the Sherlock Holmes story, Silver Blaze.
15:48Holmes unmasks the murderer because of what didn't happen.
15:50The dog didn't bark.
15:51That's how he knew. The dog must have known the killer.
15:53Okay, yes. I remember your story.
15:55Then you know that the hardest form of detection is looking for the thing that isn't there.
15:59Byron said that Len was going to verify the hawks.
16:02Verify as in provide proof.
16:05Which means...
16:06He would have had a camera.
16:07Which we didn't find.
16:08And if he was taking pictures...
16:10We should be able to figure out what he was up to.
16:12We found the body here, where he took the last two bullets.
16:14Running away from his killer.
16:16He had a broken wrist.
16:18From the BMX guys riding over his body.
16:21Or he fell from a tree.
16:27This tree.
16:28There's a fresh tippet.
16:35It's all birds.
16:37Hmm.
16:38Red-tailed hawks.
16:39Looks like Byron Singer was telling the truth after all.
16:41Yeah, it reminded me to notify the bird police.
16:43But I doubt it was the hawks that killed him.
16:46Whoa.
16:49Lightbulb Len witnessed a child abduction.
16:53And the last thing he saw was this killer.
16:59We don't know his name or age, but we're estimating between 10 and 12 years old.
17:03He has brown hair.
17:04He's got a beard.
17:06He's between 10 and 12 years old.
17:07He has brown hair.
17:08Hazel eyes.
17:09He was last seen wearing shorts, sneakers, and a gray and white jacket.
17:14Now, our kidnapper is male.
17:16Brown hair.
17:17Between 5'10 and 6 foot.
17:20He was carrying a Glock 45.
17:22Which matches the size of the slugs that we found in our victim's body.
17:26Now, both photos have time stamps on them.
17:28So we know that the abduction took place at 5.12 p.m. on Tuesday.
17:31After 48 hours, the chances of finding a child abduction victim alive...
17:35go way down.
17:37The only thing that matters is finding that kid.
17:48If he's been missing for 36 hours, how come his parents haven't reported it?
17:51They might not know.
17:52Or they might be under duress.
17:55He was wearing shorts.
17:56Which probably means he knew he was going to the park.
17:59Well, if he wasn't lured there, maybe he knew his kidnapper.
18:02Then why would the kidnapper need a gun?
18:04I emailed the photo to the New York State Police and the parole division.
18:07They're looking into any kidnappers with this abduction MO.
18:10And Esposito is canvassing that part of the park, looking for any witnesses.
18:14What about schools?
18:15If the boy goes to a local school, they'd know he was absent.
18:17Have uniforms fax his photo to all schools in the five boroughs.
18:20Done.
18:21That car looks to be like a compact or a subcompact.
18:24Can we get the maker model?
18:26Lab's already looking into it.
18:27We're pulling video from all traffic cameras on streets leading in and out of the park on Tuesday evening.
18:31Maybe we'll catch a license plate.
18:32Or the driver's face.
18:34What if we were to enlarge this part of the photo?
18:36Not the face, just this part of the window.
18:39Are you thinking of the reflection?
18:40I'm wondering if maybe we can see the kidnapper's face in that side view mirror.
18:43It's worth a shot.
18:48I need a CSU photo.
18:49Tack up here now.
18:51You sure you haven't seen him?
18:52Man, I see so many kids every day, I couldn't tell one from the next.
18:56What about a blue car around the same time, somewhere in this area?
18:58Tuesday, about 5?
19:00Yeah.
19:00Yeah, as a matter of fact, a blue Saturn.
19:03You sure?
19:04Yeah, people I forget.
19:05Things that get in my way, I remember.
19:07It was parked right in front of my regular spot.
19:09Instead, I got it set up at the edge of the roadway.
19:12I almost got clipped by a cab.
19:14Anybody inside?
19:15No, because I would have yelled at the driver if there was.
19:17I don't know what's wrong with people in the city.
19:19Yeah.
19:20Thanks.
19:21Yeah.
19:22Our pretzel vendor ID'd the kidnapper's car as a blue Saturn sedan anywhere from 97 to 02.
19:27The problem is there are 6,000 blue Saturns registered in the tri-state area alone.
19:34Ryan, where are we on the traffic cams?
19:37Make a model will help narrow it down, but there's a lot of footage.
19:40There's also no central database for school absences.
19:43We can't sort by grade or gender.
19:45And there's a bad cold making the rounds, so more kids are out than usual.
19:50What about state police?
19:51A whole lot of nada, and nothing popped on parolees with the same kidnapping MO.
19:55Yes, I'll continue to hold.
19:55Detective, enhanced and enlarged.
20:02The enhancement only increased the pixelation on all these.
20:06You can't even see there's a side-view mirror.
20:08It's not like on 24, Castle.
20:10In the real world, zoom and enhance can only get us so far.
20:12There's no reflection. It's just mush.
20:17Are you okay?
20:19Yeah.
20:20No.
20:21God, this kid isn't that much younger than Alexis.
20:23Don't worry, we'll find him.
20:27Alexis.
20:29What?
20:30I've seen this before.
20:31You've seen what?
20:32This mark on his sock.
20:33Alexis used to get these when she played soccer.
20:35They're cleat marks from when other kids kick her in the shin.
20:37If he was playing soccer in the park, he might be a part of an organized team or a league.
20:41And youth leagues have websites that you can go to.
20:43The parents and kids can track scores and standings.
20:45I spoke to the league commissioner, and only one 10 to 12-year-old team practiced on Tuesday.
20:49The Wildcats.
20:50There.
20:51Tyler O'Donoghue.
20:54He's 12.
20:55Ryan, let's get everything we can on this kid.
20:57The clock is ticking, and we've got to bring him back alive.
21:04Tyler O'Donoghue lives with his mother in Westchester.
21:07Court records show that the parents' divorce was finalized two months ago.
21:10You reached the parents?
21:11Just got off with the mother.
21:12Marielle left court.
21:13She moved out of the city last year.
21:15She's been living with her mother.
21:16She moved out of the city last year.
21:18Got remarried to an anesthesiologist last month.
21:20She says she has no idea that her son is missing.
21:22He was spending two days in the city with her ex.
21:24She's on her way in now.
21:25If the father had custody, where the hell is he?
21:27And why didn't you report the boy missing?
21:28We're working on it, sir.
21:29The father's a maintenance supervisor at a high-rise on West Broadway and Canal.
21:33He lives six blocks from Central Park.
21:35Yo.
21:36Donoghue called in sick for work yesterday and today.
21:38Divorced parents, one child.
21:40One spouse remarries quickly.
21:41So she dumps the janitor in the city for the doctor.
21:43All the father has left is his son.
21:45He's got all the hallmarks of a custodial abduction.
21:49You got a photo?
21:51I'll get one.
21:55Dean Donoghue.
21:565'10", 175.
21:58Brown hair.
21:59Well, the vitals match.
22:00Yeah, but why do you need a gun to kidnap your own son?
22:03You just put him in the car, tell him you're going for ice cream.
22:05What's he doing?
22:06Hey, Beckett.
22:07My mother's here.
22:08All right, Ryan, you go to Dean's office.
22:10I'll go to the courthouse.
22:11All right.
22:11My mother's here.
22:12All right, Ryan, you go to Dean's office.
22:14Esposito, you check out his apartment.
22:15Maybe something else is going on with that family.
22:17Right.
22:23Where's my son?
22:24That's what we're trying to determine, Ms. Lefcourt.
22:27When was the last time that you spoke with him?
22:29Two days ago, when I dropped him off at his father's.
22:32He was supposed to be with Dean.
22:33Have you talked to Dean?
22:35We're trying to locate him now.
22:36He's not at work.
22:37He never misses work.
22:38Can you tell me about the divorce?
22:40How did Dean take that?
22:41Um, not well.
22:42He was very bitter and angry.
22:45Does he own a gun?
22:48A handgun.
22:49Yes, there were break-ins in his building.
22:51Do you know what kind?
22:52Why are you asking me about a gun?
22:54Was somebody shot?
22:55Was my son shot?
22:56No, nobody was shot, Ms. Lefcourt.
22:58It's just the man who took your son was carrying a gun.
23:00Now, I'm going to have to show you this photograph.
23:07Do you recognize this man?
23:08I don't know. Is that Dean?
23:10I was hoping that you could tell me.
23:12What about this car?
23:13Is that his car?
23:14Dean doesn't own a car.
23:15He rents one as he needs one.
23:17A Glock.
23:19Dean's gun, it's a Glock.
23:21We had to itemize our property for the divorce.
23:24Ms. Lefcourt, does Dean have a place that he likes to take Tyler?
23:27Any favorite hangouts?
23:29As far as I know, he's never taken him anywhere.
23:31That's not true.
23:32Dean's family has a cabin in the Poconos.
23:34Pennsylvania State Police are on their way to the cabin.
23:36With any luck, we'll find Tyler.
23:39You okay?
23:41Can't imagine how Tyler's mother feels.
23:44Yeah, me neither.
23:46When Alexis was four, we went Christmas shopping
23:49at some mall in White Plains.
23:51I was trying on some charcoal fedora.
23:54I turn around, she is gone.
23:56Vanished.
23:57I looked everywhere for her.
23:59She's gone.
24:00She's gone.
24:01She's gone.
24:02She's gone.
24:03She's gone.
24:03I looked everywhere.
24:05So did mall security.
24:06So did the police.
24:07We searched for an hour.
24:09You have to be a novelist to think about worst case scenarios.
24:13Where'd you find her?
24:15Behind a rack of winter coats.
24:18She got bored.
24:19She crawled underneath there and went to sleep.
24:22To this day, I still dream about that.
24:25Just got off with Esposito.
24:27Looks like Dean's on the move.
24:28What did they find?
24:30It's what they didn't find.
24:31No toothbrush, no deodorant, no shampoo in the shower.
24:33I'll run his credit card for anything that indicates he's traveling.
24:36Dean's desk?
24:38You can't miss it, right?
24:39Pictures everywhere.
24:40He calls it Tylerpalooza.
24:42Is this his only work area?
24:44Yeah, uh-huh.
24:45How'd he sound when he called in sick?
24:47Did he sound stressed?
24:49I'm gonna tell you the truth, detective.
24:51Dean didn't call in sick.
24:52I covered for him.
24:53Why?
24:54His ex-wife got remarried to some rich doctor
24:56like five minutes after the divorce was final.
24:58He had legal bills up the ass.
25:00I figured he just needed to spend a little time with his son.
25:01So what if he didn't call in sick?
25:03I had his back.
25:04That's how we do it down here.
25:06Hey, Theresa!
25:07All right already!
25:14Ooh.
25:20What's an Indy, Dean?
25:22Maybe he's got family in Indianapolis.
25:24Uh, a friend, somebody he can trust,
25:26someone who can hide him.
25:27Yeah, but there weren't any airline tickets
25:29purchased in his name or in Tyler's.
25:30Yo.
25:32The cabin's empty.
25:33PSA troopers say it looks like
25:34it hasn't been anybody there in months.
25:36Just got a hit on Dean Donegal's finances.
25:38An hour ago, he booked a motel room in Jamaica, Queens.
25:40That's not far from the airport.
25:42He might still be trying to get Tyler out of town.
25:43If we're lucky.
25:44He shot someone.
25:45He's on the run.
25:46He's under extreme duress.
25:47Let's get him before this ends bloody for everyone.
25:49A.Y.T.!
25:50Tyler!
25:51Hands!
25:52Show me your hands!
25:53Tyler!
25:54Tyler!
25:55Bathroom's clear.
25:56He's not here.
25:57Where's Tyler?
25:58I don't know.
25:58They told me to check into a motel
26:00and wait for further instructions.
26:02Who did?
26:03I don't know.
26:04All I know is they took him.
26:06If I help you, they'll kill my son.
26:11Where is Tyler, Dean?
26:13I told you, I don't know.
26:15Why were you going to Indianapolis?
26:16Indian...
26:17What are you talking about?
26:18We know you were checking on airfare.
26:19I was researching a trip for the holidays.
26:22What?
26:23You think I took my own son?
26:24You were in a hotel by the airport.
26:26That's not true.
26:26I took my own son.
26:27You were in a hotel by the airport.
26:29That's where they told me to go.
26:30Who?
26:31Please.
26:32They said if I talk to the cops, he's dead.
26:36Dean, if your son is in danger,
26:38then you need to tell us what you knew.
26:43I went to pick him up after practice.
26:45When he wasn't at the usual spot,
26:46I figured he must have walked home.
26:48When I got back to my apartment,
26:49that phone was on my doormat.
26:51It had a text on it.
26:56We have your son.
26:57Tell no one.
26:58Use only this phone.
26:59Contact the police, and Tyler dies.
27:04Stand by.
27:05We will tell you where to go and what to do.
27:07Tell no one.
27:08Your son's life depends on it.
27:13What do they want from me?
27:14I have no idea.
27:18Dean's clock is a 9mm.
27:20Right make, wrong model.
27:22Lightbulb Lynn was killed with a .45.
27:24The SIM card from his cell phone is a burner.
27:26And the text messages aren't coming from another phone.
27:29They're coming from an internet texting service
27:30based in the Ukraine.
27:31No IP address, untraceable.
27:33Track the SIM.
27:34And I want a printout of every text message.
27:36And get your electronic serial number off that phone.
27:37I want to find out where it was purchased and by whom.
27:39You got it, sir.
27:40What do they want from you?
27:41Are they after a ransom?
27:42You're kidding.
27:44I'm 40 grand in debt after my divorce.
27:46I'm looking up at Brooke.
27:47What about your ex-wife's new husband?
27:48He has money?
27:49They're not calling him.
27:50They're calling me.
27:51What if they find out I'm here?
27:53I just want my son back.
27:54Then your best option is to work with us.
27:57Let us help you.
28:00I need to get some air.
28:13Look, I know that this is hard.
28:16But you have to trust us.
28:18We will find him.
28:24Okay.
28:27Don't let him hurt my boy.
28:29Where is he?
28:30Where's Tyler?
28:31You should have been there to pick him up instead of the Brecks.
28:34This is why I should have never agreed to join Congress.
28:36How could you let this happen?
28:37Stay out of this.
28:38You're not family.
28:39He's my boy.
28:40That's enough.
28:41I need everyone to calm down.
28:44Cooperate and think, Dean.
28:46You notice anyone unusual hanging around your son?
28:48Anything out of the ordinary going on in his life?
28:50No.
28:51I mean...
28:53I don't think so.
28:53What about you two?
28:55Nothing comes to mind?
28:57No.
28:58This abduction was clearly planned.
29:00So the kidnapper had to know where Tyler was going to be.
29:03Sir, this is a message.
29:05It's from the kidnapper.
29:06There's a video attached.
29:08Hi, Dad.
29:10I know you're worried, but I'm okay.
29:13They say if you do what they ask, everything will be fine.
29:16Just don't go to the police.
29:18I'll see you soon and don't forget to feed Ace.
29:20Oh, thank God he's alive.
29:22There's a time stamp on it.
29:241.31 a.m.
29:25That was sent eight minutes ago.
29:27It's a good thing Mrs. Lefcourt has caught a proof-of-life video.
29:29The kidnapper sent it to prove your son's alive
29:31and that you do exactly what they ask.
29:33You'll do exactly what they ask you to.
29:35Do you understand?
29:36Wait.
29:37Play that last part again.
29:38Don't forget to feed Ace.
29:41Who's Ace?
29:43I don't know any Ace.
29:44We don't have any pets.
29:45He's sending us a message.
29:47He's just my boy.
29:48He's my son.
29:48He's sending us a message.
29:50He's just my boy.
29:51Ace could refer to a person or a business.
29:55Sir, there's another text.
29:57680 Canal Street, 30 minutes.
30:00That's the building where I work.
30:01What's there? A jewelry store? A bank?
30:03No, just offices.
30:05Why you?
30:06What's so special about that building that they need you?
30:11Oh, God.
30:12Because I have elevator access to all the floors in the building.
30:16You're a human key.
30:19Sir, I just talked to the building's owner.
30:21He's emailing blueprints and a tenant list for 680 Canal, including the secure floors.
30:24Ryan and Esposito are with me.
30:26We'll take Dean to the building.
30:27I've arranged to have an ESU team standing by in striking distance.
30:29Sir, you can't take Dean to that building.
30:31It is way too dangerous.
30:32He's a father who loves his son.
30:34We're not going to be able to stop him.
30:35And until we find a boy, we don't have any other choice.
30:38Scrub the video.
30:39Look for anything that could lead us to him.
30:41Yes, sir.
30:49All right, we're a block away.
30:51We'll be able to see and hear everything that's happening.
30:54Okay?
30:55And we've cloned your phone, so we'll be able to read your text in real time.
30:58You followed kidnapper's instructions to the letter.
31:00No cowboy stuff, you understand me?
31:02Yes.
31:03Hi, Dad.
31:04I know you're worried, but I'm okay.
31:06They say if you do what they ask, everything will be fine.
31:09Just don't go to the police.
31:11I'll see you soon, and don't forget me.
31:14I love you.
31:15I love you too.
31:16I love you too.
31:17I love you too.
31:17And don't forget to feed Ace.
31:20There are no identifying markers in the background.
31:23It's all black.
31:25I don't know if we're going to find him in time.
31:27The video was taken at 1.31 a.m., but they didn't send it till 1.39.
31:33You know, sometimes it takes a while for a text to go through.
31:35Yeah, but eight minutes?
31:38You want Dean to do something for you.
31:40You make a proof-of-life video, but you wait eight minutes to send it.
31:43Why?
31:44Well, maybe there wasn't a signal or not enough bars.
31:47Yeah.
31:49Maybe they had to walk a long way to get a signal.
31:51Maybe they were under a...
31:55underground.
31:57Ace.
31:58It's not Ace.
31:59It's A-C-E.
32:01The A-C and E subway lines.
32:03They're holding Tyler in the subway.
32:05He must have spotted a sign.
32:06There's half a dozen stations where the A-C and E stop.
32:09That's too many to search.
32:10Yeah, but the last stop for all three lines is on Canal Street and West Broadway.
32:14That's right under Dean's building.
32:15They've been holding him under everyone's nose.
32:16Let's go.
32:23Check every room on the east end of the station.
32:25You guys check ticket booths on both ends.
32:27Go.
32:28Right.
32:28Got it.
32:30Castle, what are you thinking?
32:32The only reason to keep him here is for a quick getaway,
32:34which is helped by the fact that 680 Canal Street has its own entrance to the subway.
32:37If it were me, I'd be close enough to hook up with my partners,
32:41but far enough that I would be out of the way.
32:43Which means he's holding Tyler on the west end of the tunnel.
32:46West end of the tunnel?
32:48This room.
32:49All right, you should stay back.
32:50No chance.
32:55Go to the 37th floor now.
32:57They said 30 minutes. It hasn't been 30 minutes yet.
33:00You're changing the timetable in case you went to the cops.
33:02What's on the 37th floor?
33:03Nothing. It's vacant. It's not even secure.
33:06Try Beckett.
33:14Nothing.
33:17It's going straight to voicemail.
33:19It's gonna start to be in the subway.
33:20I gotta go.
33:21Remember, we can see and hear everything.
33:23Anything goes south, a hundred cops will be on you inside a minute.
33:25Not until you find my son.
33:44Just my luck. Old graveyard tonight.
33:50All right, he's in.
33:52Not bad with the guard.
33:54He's all right.
33:55Cameron and Mike are all good.
34:14Oh.
34:15Take us to the 39th floor.
34:17I want to see Tyler first.
34:18Just follow instructions. You'll see him soon enough.
34:28What's on the 39th floor?
34:31A financial firm. Breskin & Norton.
34:33What's on the 39th floor?
34:35Nothing.
34:36What's on the 39th floor?
34:37Nothing.
34:38What's on the 39th floor?
34:40Nothing.
34:41What's on the 39th floor?
34:42Nothing.
34:43It's a financial firm. Breskin & Wright.
34:45The restance is the staging area.
34:47They let him see their faces.
34:48As soon as they get what they came for, they're gonna kill him.
34:50Just like my Bob you?
34:52Beckett's still going to voicemail. Castle too.
34:54Sir.
34:55What are you gonna do?
34:57If we go in before we find the kid,
35:00we might lose them both.
35:08Beckett?
35:12One armed and the kid, if I go in he'll kill him before I get a shot off.
35:36He's holding a flashlight.
35:37If we kill the ambient light he'll light up like a Christmas tree.
35:42He just... it's like it's meant to be.
35:47Maybe lighting can prevent another tragedy.
35:49On my count.
35:50Three.
35:51Two.
35:52One.
35:53Shoot.
35:54Hit P1.
35:55The subway.
35:56I did what you asked.
35:57Now where's the kid?
35:58I don't know.
35:59He's not here.
36:00I don't know.
36:01I don't know.
36:02I don't know.
36:03I don't know.
36:04I don't know.
36:05I don't know.
36:06I don't know.
36:07I don't know.
36:08I don't know.
36:09I don't know.
36:10I don't know.
36:12Now where's Tyler?
36:13You'll see him in a minute.
36:24Sorry, Dean.
36:25Last stop.
36:27Lobby.
36:29We're supposed to go to subway level.
36:30Why are we stopping at the lobby?
36:33Don't look at me.
36:35Don't look at me.
36:37I suggest you drop your weapons.
36:41There's Tyler.
37:11The ringleader was Robert Kincaid, former bond trader.
37:23He's the one who planned the entire operation.
37:26The economy might have collapsed, but he was still going to get his payday.
37:29Most of them were ex-Wall Streeters.
37:31They knew that they needed biometric clearance in order to get on secure floors, and they
37:35knew that Dean wasn't going to help them, so they took Tyler as leverage.
37:38But all they took were files.
37:40All files containing unpublished earnings reports.
37:43To a savvy investor, they'd be worth millions.
37:45Would have worked, too, if Lightbulb Lynn hadn't been taking pictures in the park.
37:49He helped catch his own killer.
37:51And foiled a kidnapping.
37:53Kind of poetic, in an unspeakably tragic sort of way.
37:58Guy you shot in the subway, the thug Kincaid hired to do his dirty work, he just confessed
38:02to kidnapping Tyler, murdering Lightbulb Lynn, and no surprise, he ratted out Kincaid in
38:06two seconds flat.
38:09Speaking of rats, I gotta, I gotta go.
38:20I'm the worst person in the whole world.
38:22No, you're not.
38:25You're wonderful, and you're kind, and you're sweet.
38:28I'm a rat killer.
38:29You don't know that.
38:30You may just be a loser.
38:32And a rat loser.
38:34This did not come out right.
38:37Look, if he cares, he'll understand.
38:42Yeah, he'll understand, alright.
38:44When he sees me in the halls at school, he'll think there's the awful girl that lost my best friend.
38:51It's him.
38:56Hi.
38:57Hi.
38:58I missed you.
38:59I missed you, too.
39:02What's wrong?
39:05It's about Theodore.
39:07When I fed him, he must have got out of his cage and, and he's gone.
39:12He's gone?
39:13We looked everywhere, I swear.
39:14We turned this whole place upside down.
39:16How'd he get out?
39:18I must not have locked the cage right.
39:20Ashley, I'm so sorry.
39:22You have every right to hate me.
39:24Come on, Alexis.
39:26I'm, I'm upset, but I don't hate you.
39:29You don't?
39:30I mean, look at this place.
39:33Look at what you did to try to get him back.
39:36Who else would do that?
39:39But you cared about him a lot.
39:42Yeah, but I care about you more.