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Castle Season 3 Episode 14

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00:00just give me the money money give me the money give me the money money give me
00:12the money
00:14a pocket nickel and dime fortune and fame it's time
00:35mr. Hickston is everything all right
00:37kill me now you got this cell phone bill no books from my publisher for
00:48back-cover quotes wait what about the cell phone bill nothing ah more books to
00:56endorse could possibly read them all don't have to a tour de force in terror
01:02where's your castle does for hot tubs what jaws did for the ocean
01:08Graham there's a letter for you looks official
01:10Bachman and Sebastian Oh Chet's a state lawyer they probably resolved the
01:15probate you okay this memory of him caught me by surprise do you think he
01:21left you anything in his well well he certainly didn't need to mother what's
01:29wrong a million dollars your mom must be in shock any idea what she's gonna do
01:43with it I'm lucky get a place of her own that would be lucky can't buy much in
01:48Manhattan for a million bucks Wow foosball basketball a motorcycle
01:55this place clearly had ten times that try a hundred victims name is Jay Hickson
02:02you want a cool hundred and seventeen mil in the Florida lottery last year
02:05and then he went on a serious shopping spree rookie mistake sounds like the
02:10voice of experience hmm writing a bestseller in college is a lot like
02:13winning the lottery spent every penny of it in six months good thing I'm not a
02:18one-hit wonder single gunshot to the chest from the stippling and bruising
02:22I'd say there was a struggle the gun went off vaporized his heart somewhere
02:26between 11 and 2 last night it's a big gun it's too big for that entry wound
02:30this isn't the murder weapon told you she spotted first off our victim was
02:36shot with a nine millimeter automatic the bullet went straight through him we
02:39pulled the slug out of the poker table okay so maybe our killer forces Hickson
02:44to open this safe the 357 is hidden inside Hickson pulls it out they
02:50struggle and he gets shot it's a winning ticket hard to believe a little
02:56slip of papers worth over 100 mil what would you do if you won that kind of
03:00money easy buy a Ferrari I have one not as great as you would think yeah but
03:04they're hella fast as fast as every other car in rush-hour traffic any idea
03:07how much money was in here $100,000 secured in a bank bag this is Reginald
03:13Easley he's mr. Hickson servant servant young man I'm a traditional English
03:18butler I apprenticed at Buckingham Palace did he always keep that much hard
03:22cash in the safe mr. Hickson came from an impoverished background he found
03:26having hard currency around reassuring how many people knew that it was there a
03:30dozens no doubt he had a habit of buying everything in sight no thought to how
03:34much money he was flashing around or how dangerous it was to tell people that
03:37there was plenty more of it at home in New York that's like inviting someone
03:41back to your house to kill you did he keep that gun in the safe that's the odd
03:45thing this I know every item in this apartment I have never seen a gun but I
03:50do know he kept a dye pack in the bag that was stolen and how was it triggered
03:53it was on a three-minute timer that began when the bag left the apartment
03:56all right grab some uniforms canvas the area killer couldn't have gotten very
03:59far before that pack exploded what was the last time you saw Hickson yesterday
04:04evening he left about five o'clock I believe he had made plans with his wife
04:08he was married oh yes with a teenage daughter they've been separated for some
04:13months before I began to work for him apparently the money caused some kind of
04:18a rift we were so happy then trips to Paris trips to Rome and cars with heated
04:28seats and then everyone started looking at us different like we were freaks you
04:35could see them thinking why you why not me nothing we did was good enough so we
04:41moved here supposed to be a fresh start why were the two of you separated that
04:47money it was just like poison Jake couldn't stop spending it and and the
04:55coal it's okay mom Nicole got hooked on drugs and it was the wake-up call we
05:04needed really Jay and I went from not talking to getting Nicole clean and then
05:10he started using his money for good he found the soup kitchen on the Bowery
05:14that was in dire straits he said that looking at all those people in need just
05:18reminded him if it wasn't for that lottery we'd be right there ourselves he
05:23started going there almost every day it just reminded me of how much how much I
05:29love him where was it the two of you ended up going last night last night his
05:34butler said that the two of you had a date no Jay called to cancel at the last
05:39minute he told me something had happened something that we had to deal
05:43with together and I tried to get him to tell me what it was but he wouldn't and
05:47where did he call from the Bowery soup kitchen I think it's where we were
05:52supposed to meet did he have problems with anyone there that you know of no
05:55one in particular it was a pretty rough crowd all my years as a mystery writer
06:02point to one unequivocal killer the butler did come on how many cases have
06:08we actually had where there's a butler as a potential suspect it would be a
06:11crime if he didn't do it and then he shows up the next morning and calls the
06:14cops pretty clever right speaking of clever I noticed that the crime scene
06:18you ever mentioned what you would do if you were in a lottery no I didn't is
06:21that because it's embarrassing Oh scandalous I actually haven't really
06:24thought about it Castle so not embarrassing or scandalous just secret
06:30that news travels fast the man was generous to a fault first
06:36started coming here he'd hand out $100 bills like like they were nothing got so
06:41bad I had to ask him to stop why we were attracting a bad element still I'd see
06:47mr. Hickson sneak money to a pregnant woman or homeless kid it was a
06:52compulsion for him like he had to give it away because he didn't deserve it
06:56somehow winners guilt it's actually quite common with lottery recipients did
07:01anything suspicious happen with mr. Hickson when he was here last night now
07:04that you're mentioning yeah a man was hanging around a good part of the
07:09afternoon someone you didn't know I've never seen before but he went right up
07:13to mr. Hickson when he arrived at 6 like he knew him a few minutes later he left
07:18and never came back do you think you could describe him to a sketch artist so
07:23our mystery man goes to the soup kitchen waits for Hickson and then takes him
07:27where wasn't killed for another six hours and why wait I mean if the guy
07:32wanted to rob Hickson why not just take him home and empty his safe and then
07:35there's Hickson's gun why did he need it where did he get it
07:39according to see us you know we're legal the serial numbers were filed off the
07:43gun and Hickson's prints were on the bullets in the chamber which means he
07:47loaded it himself found our lottery winners money bag where'd you find it
07:50alley behind Hickson's building it was empty but as you can see the dive pack
07:55in the bag went off and it must have gotten on our killers hands because we
07:59got prints belonging to one Todd Shipley a maintenance worker in Hickson's
08:03building he got off right around the time that Hickson was killed yeah but if
08:07he's a maintenance worker he could have picked up the bag after the die pack
08:09went off I don't think so
08:18either that guy really likes avatar or he's our killer I swear I found the bag
08:24on the ground and when I opened it it went off in my face that bag was on a
08:27three-minute timer are you telling us that you accidentally picked it up at
08:31exactly the wrong time and I'm telling the truth I just got off work stopped to
08:36get a soda when I saw someone running out of the alley this says someone that
08:39ran away what they look like I don't know it was dark so is your future Todd
08:43if you don't start telling us the truth man I am yo ask mr. Lee at the Korean
08:49grocery he's the one that sold me the soda time was set for three minutes
08:54there's no way you could have gotten downstairs from the 20th floor and bought
08:57a drink before the die back explode all right tell me this did you see Hickson
09:03in the building at all during your shift yeah I was in the lobby when he came
09:06home around 11 he was sweating like he'd been walking and since he left earlier
09:11in his escalator I asked him where his car was he said someone had taken it
09:14from him so mr. Lee confirmed Shipley's alibi and Hickson's car is definitely
09:19missing well it can't be a coincidence that on the same day Hickson's car was
09:22taken he was killed the killer could have gotten Hickson's home key when he
09:25took his ride address was on the registration he liked the car so much
09:28he drove over Rob the apartment got caught in the act yeah but why would
09:32Hickson go home why wouldn't he call the police report the theft okay tracking
09:36company's got a lock on Hickson's Escalade
09:40looks like it's heading west on Canal Street that's the Holland Tunnel our
09:46killer's making a run for it
09:54name's Shawn York Jersey police caught him driving Hickson's car down the
09:58turnpike no sign of the stolen money no no disrespect to our Jersey brethren but
10:01let's check that car again make sure that that money's not hidden behind a
10:04door panel or inside the wheel well you got it hey Ryan what would you do if
10:09you won the lottery winery see everyone thinks about it
10:14everybody thinks about what what they would do if they won the lottery a big
10:18ass boat 60 footer monster spinnaker hanging off the bow two deep-sea rods
10:23hanging off the stern sweet okay while you guys are fantasizing about the size
10:28of your rods I'm gonna go and interrogate our suspect
10:33can I get a soda I'm not your flight attendant I'm a homicide detective
10:42homicide you're a bit of a rambler Shawn assault in El Paso criminal trespass in
10:50Memphis and now first-degree murder in New York City
10:54no he was alive when I saw him that was at the soup kitchen where you jacked his
10:59car but then you got greedy and you followed him to his apartment he ends up
11:03dead you end up a hundred grand richer I didn't kill the guy and I sure as hell
11:08didn't steal his car well then how did you end up driving his car he gave it to
11:12me he gave you a $70,000 car why would he do that I don't know I don't know
11:17I heard on the street Hickston believed in second chances so I tracked him down
11:21told him I was down on my luck Hickston said he didn't have his checkbook but
11:27did I want his car I thought he was yanking my chain who does that but you
11:34know he signed over the title and handed me the keys he just signed over the
11:39title and handed me the keys I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't
11:43He just signed over the title just like that? Yes ma'am. Said he wasn't going to need it anymore.
11:49Where were you last night at midnight? I went to the late movie near my apartment.
11:54They're having a Tony Jaa marathon. Can I have that soda now?
12:01The theater clerk confirmed selling York the ticket and Hickston's signature on the car title is authentic.
12:05Who gives away their car? Someone who can afford to buy a thousand new ones.
12:10So at six o'clock Hickston gives York his car and then at eight o'clock he calls his wife and cancels dinner told her there's something they need to talk about something that they both need to deal with together and he gets home at 11 o'clock and about an hour later he's killed so what was he doing in the meantime and with whom?
12:17You know the guy did like to spend money. If he made any charges on his credit card last night it might give us a clue as to where he was.
12:24Well if he spent any money the night he was killed it was cash.
12:29No charges on his credit card.
12:3332 credit cards? Yeah one for every NFL team and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
12:38He also bought a racehorse, minority stake in a lingerie football team and a Bentley which is currently at the bottom of the Hudson River because he drove it off of a boat he was renting.
12:43Wow sounds like that money really turned Hickston into a different person for a little while.
12:48Yeah money doesn't change who you are. It just magnifies who you are.
12:53It's not like you're the only one who has money.
12:58Well it wasn't all bad. He also bought a house for the clerk that sold him the winning ticket.
13:03A mausoleum for his dead neighbor and three acres on the moon.
13:08Get out of town. He's right down the crater from me.
13:13Why doesn't it surprise me that you have property on the moon?
13:18You know what? Lap it up. When the earth is a desiccated husk you will be begging to come live with me in the Nectar's Basin.
13:23Hey so I searched the car. Oh yeah sorry York is not our guy.
13:28It's okay. Jersey impound lot's nice this time of year. So no money as expected but I did find this.
13:33A camera? Lodged under the front seat. Clearly it belongs to Hickston.
13:38These are surveillance photos. Yeah a dozen of them. Date stamped last week. Hickston was following this guy.
13:43Alright contact the family and Butler. See if anyone recognizes him.
13:48Meanwhile we've got a hole in our timeline that needs to be plugged. So we know that Hickston called his wife at 8pm.
13:53And we know that he wasn't at the soup kitchen. Let's ping the carrier. See if they know where he was.
14:01What? Would you quit your job?
14:05If you won the lottery would you quit being a cop? Well what else would I do?
14:10Supermodel. Brain surgeon. American gladiator.
14:14Oh you got me there Castle. I've always wanted to leave the force and become an American gladiator.
14:19Why don't you want to tell me? In case there's nothing really to tell. Come on you must have a dream.
14:24Sure I do. Solve this case, go home, take a nice long bath.
14:29But it doesn't look like that's going to happen tonight. Hickston's phone carrier.
14:34Hey Esposito. That phone call to Hickston's wife came from the 500 block of Lexington.
14:39I don't think we can get a more exact address so we're going to have to canvas.
14:42No maybe not. I just saw Lexington Avenue in his financials.
14:47Yeah. Right here. He wrote two checks last month.
14:52Ten thousand dollars each to a company called Meech Industries.
14:56Meech? Logan Meech? Yeah he's listed here as the owner.
14:59You know him? Yeah I must have arrested the guy like half a dozen times.
15:02He's a low rent scam artist with a history of violence.
15:05Last time I busted him he was trying to grill cheese a guy in a dry cleaning press.
15:08Why would a Hickston be writing checks for a character like that?
15:15Logan Meech. Detective. I love what you've done with your-
15:21Sit down.
15:24Hey. Who's the new guy?
15:27Why you want to send him Christmas cards from death row?
15:30What? Wait. I didn't kill anybody.
15:33So it's just a coincidence that you were with Jay Hickston shortly before he was shot to death in his apartment.
15:39Hickston's dead? He was one of my investors.
15:45Really? What is it Mr. Hickston was investing in?
15:49My relief organization.
15:52Why is it I'm thinking the only relief Mr. Hickston's money provided was to your own bank account?
15:58Did Hickston get on to your scamming him? Did he threaten to go to the cops? Is that why you killed him?
16:02I told you I didn't kill him. I hadn't seen him in weeks.
16:06That's funny because I talked to your landlord and he said that he remembers clearly seeing Hickston at your place last night.
16:12So either you start telling us the truth and playing ball or I call the DA and get them to draw up murder charges.
16:17Okay wait. Hang on a minute now. Maybe I misspoke.
16:24Hickston did actually pay me a visit last night.
16:29Why?
16:32He wanted a gun.
16:35For what?
16:36Protection. He was scared. He paid me a gram for a .357 that I was holding for a friend.
16:42What was he scared of?
16:44His past. He said it was coming back to get him.
16:50What does that mean? His past was coming back to get him?
16:53And why go to Meach for a gun? Why not just go to the police or hire a bodyguard?
16:57Maybe he didn't think they could protect him.
16:59CSU finished processing Hickston's apartment. Came across two sets of fingerprints that were in his system.
17:03A couple of career criminals from Hickston's hometown of Florida.
17:06Greg and Ty Page. Previous bust for bank robbery and currently serving a nickel for grand larceny.
17:13Yeah well that info's a little bit behind. They were released last week due to overcrowding.
17:18Yeah, get to the part about who they robbed.
17:20Hickston.
17:21A month after he collected his jackpot.
17:23Even though they wore ski masks, he recognized them by their voices because they grew up together.
17:27It was his testimony that put them away.
17:29Hickston must have heard they were being released and worried they were coming after him again.
17:32According to Florida police, the brothers were in town for all of two days before they packed up their car and headed up north.
17:37Told a neighbor that they were going hunting.
17:40Looks like they bagged themselves a lottery winner.
17:48Whoa! Looks like you made a serious dent in your surprise inheritance.
17:52Is it safe to say there is not an animal print left in any store in New York City?
17:56Very funny. Probably true.
18:00Well, congratulations.
18:02Looks like you have successfully completed the first stage in the five stages of hitting the jackpot. Shopping.
18:08What's the next stage?
18:10Well if you are my lottery winning victim, you turn to charity and then get shot to death in your living room.
18:15I'll pass.
18:17Besides, I've decided to give back the money.
18:21What? Why?
18:23Richard, I was about to break up with the man. Do you really think he would have left me that money if he'd known that?
18:28No, no. I'm going to return all this stuff. I'm going to give back the money. It's the right thing to do.
18:34Well, you've just jumped to stage five.
18:36Enlightenment.
18:38Then again, Chet did adore me, so I think I should be able to keep one thing.
18:45It's not real.
18:50Detective Beckett, would you call to tell me a bedtime story?
19:01Which car is ours?
19:03The maroon one over there. Florida plates. It's registered to a Greg Page.
19:07We put an alert on their plate number, which got triggered when a traffic cop ticketed them about an hour ago.
19:12Any idea where they are?
19:14None. So we watch the car until someone shows up.
19:19Any sign yet?
19:21It's a negative.
19:26A winery, huh?
19:28Jenny and I visited one on our first vacation together.
19:31A hundred mil. And you're going to become a farmer.
19:34The fiancé really has done some damage on you, bro.
19:36Like Lainey hasn't changed you.
19:38Lainey? Come on, dude. We all know about the two of you.
19:42Wait. Castle and Beckett know, too?
19:46You said earlier that money doesn't change us, it just magnifies who we are.
19:53What did your windfall magnify in you?
19:56My inner child. At first. Kind of like Hickson.
20:00The one who likes, you know, private chats, five-star everything.
20:05But then I realized the only luxury I truly care about is freedom.
20:10Freedom to write. Spend time with Alexis.
20:14Having that money just allows me to live life on my terms.
20:19You grew up.
20:20Well, I wouldn't go that far.
20:22That property on the moon? I just bought that last month.
20:28Who's this guy?
20:31Yo, dreadlocks. Twelve o'clock.
20:34NYPD. Let me see your hands.
20:36Page Brothers. Where are they?
20:38There it is.
21:08Jump on the counter, let off a round.
21:10You wet yourself as you hit the ground.
21:12Take command with my outside voice.
21:14We're robbing this bitch, she ain't got no choice.
21:16Don't hit the alarm, don't beg for your mama.
21:19Fill up that bag, won't be no drama.
21:21Move that bag, move that bag.
21:23Get on the floor, get on the floor.
21:27What the hell, yo? That was slamming.
21:29Three armed cops and a writer makes four.
21:31You're under arrest, so get on the floor.
21:35Got about 60 grand here.
21:37Where's the other 40 you took from Hickston's safe when you killed him?
21:40You spend it on your rap career?
21:42Nah, you got it all wrong, shorty. We didn't kill the man.
21:44We came up here to help him.
21:46Get out the joint for good behavior.
21:48Dude called us up, said he needed a savior.
21:50Stop rapping. I'll buy the album.
21:54Savior?
21:55Yeah. His daughter got back into drugs.
21:58He needed to make things right, so he called us.
22:00The two of you robbed Hickston at gunpoint in Florida.
22:03Why would he call you?
22:04When Hickston realized what kind of trouble Nicole was in,
22:07he knew we were the only people he could turn to.
22:09And what could you possibly do to help his daughter with her addiction?
22:12Problem wasn't the drugs. It was her dealer.
22:15Her cat named Oz. Nicole was under his spell of something fierce.
22:18When Hickston found out about it, he went to go see Oz.
22:21Told the man, stay away from my daughter.
22:23When Oz did it, he called us.
22:28You don't believe me? Look in my wallet.
22:30Looks like Nicole lied to me when she told me she didn't recognize him.
22:33It's the guy Hickston had under surveillance.
22:37Is this Oz?
22:38Yeah.
22:39When Hickston called us, we drove right up here.
22:42Jumped Oz outside this club downtown.
22:46Yo, Ty hit his bodyguard with a pipe.
22:48I stuffed Oz in the trunk.
22:50Drove under the bridge and beat on his ass.
22:52Then we came straight here. Been bouncing tunes ever since.
22:55Is that true? Did they come here last night?
22:57Yeah, we told the man,
22:59best stay away from Nicole or we're gonna put your ass in the river.
23:02He told us we should do it,
23:04because if we let him live, he was gonna burn us alive.
23:06You wanna know who killed Hickston?
23:08Gotta be Oz.
23:10So, Hickston gets a gun to protect himself from Oz.
23:13He can't get the cops,
23:15because that'll get his daughter in trouble.
23:19What the hell was that?
23:20Brian, watch them.
23:21It's the right way out.
23:24Huh!
23:29Looks like Oz wasn't kidding when he said he'd burn him alive.
23:35Is it true, Nicole?
23:36Did you start using again?
23:38After I got clean, Oz bailed me.
23:41He said he wanted me back.
23:43Nicole.
23:44I'm sorry, Mom.
23:46I'm so sorry.
23:48And your father knew?
23:49He blamed himself.
23:51He said that he was gonna fix it all,
23:53but I never thought...
23:55This Oz,
23:57you think he's capable of killing your dad?
24:01This is all my fault.
24:03Dad is dead because of me.
24:10Oz, a.k.a. Marvin Ozmikowski.
24:13No wonder he changed his name.
24:15According to Vice, he has a lucrative gig peddling high-end product
24:17to the city's rich and famous.
24:19It's definitely his M.O.
24:20Competing dealer got blown up last year,
24:22but didn't have enough evidence to convict.
24:24So Oz shoots Hickston for ordering the beatdown
24:26and then attempts to barbecue the Page brothers
24:28to complete his revenge.
24:30All right, let's go pick up Oz.
24:31Yeah, well, that's gonna be difficult.
24:33According to Vice, Oz pretty much operates off-grid.
24:35The only time he's on is when he's dealing out of word-of-mouth nightclubs.
24:38And even there, he's got a network of bouncers, waiters, and patrons as lookouts.
24:42Oz catches one whiff of bacon, and he vanishes into thin air.
24:45There's gotta be some way to slip under the radar.
24:50What?
24:52I think we're gonna need your Ferrari.
24:58Mother?
24:59Oh, my, look at you.
25:02Oh, you look gorgeous.
25:04I'm just gonna grab my keys and change.
25:07You two going out on a date?
25:09Oh, no, we're just doing a little undercover work.
25:12So, how are you doing?
25:14Ah, I've been better.
25:16Castle told me that you decided to give the money back.
25:18Yeah, well, I tried.
25:20Chet's kids refused to take it.
25:22They said their father loved me, wanted me to have the money.
25:26So I'm, you know, trying to figure out what to do with it.
25:32Everything I come up with seems so selfish and petty.
25:37Well, it doesn't have to be that way.
25:40You know, someone once told me that money doesn't change you.
25:43It just magnifies who you are.
25:46You cared about Chet.
25:48Maybe you could do something that would honor his memory somehow.
25:53That is a lovely thought.
25:56Thank you. Really, thank you.
25:59All right. Got the keys.
26:01Oh, great. I'm driving.
26:04You're driving.
26:06Beckett, this is a Ferrari.
26:09It is a high-performance vehicle designed to respond instantaneously
26:14to your every whim, your every movement, every...
26:30Wow. Nice car.
26:45Wow.
26:56Get us some drinks and keep your eyes peeled for us, okay?
27:01Okay.
27:04Drink.
27:06Got it.
27:34Oh, come on, please. You've got to let me go in and see him.
27:51Hey.
27:52Hey, yourself.
27:54I haven't seen you around here before.
27:56That's because I just came into town.
27:58Oh, yeah?
27:59Yeah.
28:00From where?
28:01Ibiza.
28:02Ibiza?
28:03Mm-hmm.
28:04So, a little birdie told me all about you.
28:06Yeah?
28:07Yeah, said that you know how to keep a party going all night long.
28:11Little birdie got a name?
28:13Of course.
28:15You gonna tell me what it is?
28:17No.
28:21Yeah, I'm coming.
28:22That's your boyfriend?
28:26For now.
28:29I like you.
28:31Yeah?
28:32Yeah.
28:33Well, prove it.
28:35What kind of party you looking to get into?
28:37Um...
28:39I like to feel shiny.
28:41Shiny, huh?
28:42Yeah.
28:43I think I got something to fit that bill.
28:46But it's gonna cost you.
28:48That's okay. Good things always do.
28:58Hey!
29:05No! Handcuffs!
29:07Right.
29:14You sure took a big step down on the wardrobe department.
29:17You're about to take an even bigger step down into a prison jumpsuit.
29:21We got you dead to rights on possession with the intent to sell.
29:24That's 20 years federal time.
29:26But that's nothing compared to the time that you're gonna do for first degree murder.
29:29Not to mention felony blowing crap up.
29:31I don't know what you're talking about.
29:33You remember this guy?
29:35You should. You killed him.
29:37And these two you tried to kill with a car bomb.
29:41Look, I had to get those country boys back.
29:45But I didn't have anything to do with Hickston. I swear.
29:49Here's the thing, Marvin.
29:50We showed your picture around Hickston's place. Oddly enough,
29:53people saw you there right about the time he was killed.
29:56The Page brothers gave you a serious beating.
29:58You vowed revenge and then Hickston shows up dead with witnesses claiming to see you at the crime scene.
30:03That doesn't look good for you, Marvin. And lying to us will only make it worse.
30:07Okay.
30:09Maybe I had hard feelings about my medical condition.
30:13And maybe I paid Hickston a visit to discuss them.
30:16But I abandoned ship before I got to his door.
30:19You were hot to straighten Hickston out and you changed your mind.
30:22Do you really expect us to believe that?
30:24It's the truth.
30:26I took the elevator up to Hickston's place.
30:28When the doors opened, there was a guy standing right there.
30:31He got a good look at me.
30:32If I would have gone through with my visit, he would have pointed me on a lineup easy.
30:36So I walked away.
30:37You get a good look at this guy?
30:39Yeah.
30:40Rode back down the first floor with him.
30:42Maybe 50. Proper looking.
30:45Wearing an old school tuxedo.
30:47The butler really did do it.
30:50Easley, the butler.
30:52Loyal, devoted, seemingly distraught over the death of his master.
30:56Yet, all the while, lurking behind that mask of servile correctness, was a killer.
31:02Or Oz is just trying to kick up some dust. I mean, what's the butler's motive?
31:05Well, in fiction, it would be one of two things.
31:07Firstly, he was carrying on a torrid affair with his master's wife.
31:10Ew.
31:11Second, had to be the money.
31:13I think Castle might be on to something.
31:15I dug a little deeper into Reginald Easley.
31:17And his last few employers all say the same thing.
31:19Easley resigned after some of their valuables went missing.
31:23I realize I've been thinking about this all wrong.
31:25You're not a frivolous person, so you wouldn't do frivolous things with your lottery winnings.
31:29Castle.
31:30No, no. I'm going to figure this out.
31:40Packing your things?
31:41These aren't my things.
31:43They belong to my employer.
31:45Must be hard, being around all this wealth and none of it yours.
31:48I'm content with my lot.
31:50Really?
31:51We read up on you.
31:53Born in Leeds to a single mother who was a seamstress.
31:57With the right training, you lost the lowbrow accent and learned to fit in with the gentry,
32:01where you saw people spend more in one day than your mother made in an entire year.
32:06And along comes Hickston.
32:08A man with an upbringing not unlike your own.
32:10But he owned all this.
32:12And he owned you.
32:14And he owned you.
32:16Not because of any special talent or intelligence, just because he guessed six numbers.
32:21And you didn't.
32:22That taking from Hickston wasn't really stealing, it was just correcting a karmic injustice.
32:27You made him open that safe, but what you didn't know was that he had a gun,
32:30and when he reached for it, this is where it ended.
32:33What on earth makes you think that?
32:35We know that you were here the night that he was killed, Mr. Easley.
32:39Long after you said that you had left.
32:41Early on, he bought 25 first edition Dickens.
32:47Charles Dickens.
32:49The man didn't even read.
32:51He just liked the look of the leather on their spines.
32:53Mr. Easley.
32:54I stole two of them.
32:56To me it was like levying a tax on him for being an idiot.
32:59But then I had a change of heart.
33:01I brought them back here that night, around 11 o'clock, thinking he was out with his wife.
33:06But for some reason he was here. I heard the shower running.
33:09Your excuse for coming back here the night that he was killed was that you had a change of heart?
33:14Yes.
33:16I'd like to say it was because his turn to philanthropy made me see him in a different light.
33:21He was a good man one shouldn't steal from.
33:23But the truth is I was scared his bad luck would become mine.
33:27He won over a hundred million in the lottery.
33:29One could hardly consider that bad luck.
33:32His marriage failed, his daughter fell into drugs, and he was just gunned down in his own apartment.
33:36That, sir, is the universe of, what did you call it?
33:38Is correcting a karmic injustice.
33:40What do you mean?
33:42The winning lottery ticket.
33:44Hickson let it slip one night after a little too much time with the bottle.
33:47He always played the same numbers.
33:50The dates he and his wife met and were married.
33:531, 3, 95, and 10, 24, 98.
33:57None of those numbers are on the ticket.
33:59All the misery that came from the money, Hickson believed it was because he stole the ticket.
34:05So you think Hickson was murdered because he stole the ticket?
34:08No.
34:09Yes.
34:10Come on.
34:11I mean, he was worth a fortune.
34:13Easley had every reason to make up that story.
34:16And even if those weren't Hickson's regular numbers, it still doesn't prove that he stole the ticket.
34:20But the theft explains so much about Hickson's behavior.
34:23The director of the soup kitchen said that Hickson compulsively gave away his money like he felt he didn't deserve it.
34:27I called it winner's guilt.
34:29But what if it was another kind of guilt entirely?
34:32Okay, fine. Let's say that you're right.
34:34Let's say that Hickson stole the ticket.
34:36There's still no evidence suggesting that that contributed to his death.
34:39You're the first person to tell me that there are no coincidences in a murder investigation.
34:43Hold on, Detective. He's got a point.
34:45You said Hickson told Meech his pass was coming back to get him.
34:48And we thought he meant the Page brothers.
34:50But this ticket represents the biggest thing that ever happened to him.
34:53I call that a major motive for murder.
34:56Okay, fine. Then if it's true, how do we prove it?
35:00The numbers.
35:032, 4, 8, 19, 41, and 79.
35:09I know it's a long shot, but if we can figure out what these numbers signify, we might be able to find the ticket's real owner.
35:14I'll play my kids' birthdays.
35:15I'll play my firsts. Sex and combat.
35:19I'll play his first, too.
35:22What?
35:23That way we both win and it's not awkward.
35:25Beckett?
35:26Uh, sorry. I don't play Castle.
35:28But if you did.
35:29Well, it doesn't really matter, Castle. I mean, the fact is, Hickson won the lottery a year ago.
35:33If he stole that ticket, why didn't the rightful owner come forward sooner?
35:36Maybe the rightful owner is dead.
35:38Maybe Hickson killed him.
35:41The moon.
35:42The weird purchases Hickson made as soon as he won.
35:44He bought three acres on the moon and a mausoleum for his neighbor.
35:50Find out everything we can on this neighbor.
35:52I'm on it.
35:53If you're right, Castle, I'm betting Hickson's neighbor never imagined that the luckiest day of his life would also be his last.
35:59Booyah!
36:00The neighbor's name was Hank Walters. He died the day the winning numbers were announced.
36:05Walters' birthday.
36:062-8-41.
36:08Three of the numbers in the lottery ticket.
36:09Two days later, Hickson came forward to claim his 117 million dollar check.
36:13What did Walters die of?
36:15Natural causes.
36:16For real?
36:17Yeah. He was an old man dying of like six different things.
36:19Laney went over the autopsy, said everything looked like it was only up and up.
36:22So, Walters is bedridden.
36:24Hickson, like any good neighbor, asks the old man if there's anything he can do for him.
36:27Walters says, yes, buy me a lottery ticket.
36:29Maybe it was a one-time thing, maybe he did it all the time.
36:31This time, numbers are announced when Walters won.
36:36Hickson rushes back to tell him and finds Walters dead.
36:38And doesn't know what to do. That's why it took him an extra day to come forward.
36:41He was struggling with the moral implications.
36:43Yeah. But desperate times call for desperate measures.
36:45He claimed the ticket as his own. Clearly, no one else knew about it.
36:48What about family? Did Walters have any?
36:50Well, according to county records, the only living relative of Hank Walters is a nephew named Tom.
36:57And guess where he lives?
36:59New York City.
37:03I'm sorry. Are you telling me that I might inherit a hundred million dollars?
37:07Come on, Tom. You already figured that out.
37:09You confronted Hickson.
37:11You told him you wanted restitution. He said no, things got ugly, and Hickson ended up dead.
37:16So you grabbed what was in the safe and you took off.
37:18What?
37:19Knock it off, Tom. You're the old man's only living relative.
37:21You're the only one with motive for revenge.
37:24No. I'm not his only relative. He's got a son.
37:28No, he doesn't. We checked.
37:29Well, sure, he's not biological.
37:31Hank dated his mom for like five years while the kid was growing up.
37:34The two bonded like crazy. Kept in touch even after the romance broke up.
37:38They even spent every holiday together for the last ten years.
37:42This son, is his birthday 4-19-79?
37:47Uh, yeah. How'd you know?
37:50Because those are the three remaining numbers on the winning lottery ticket.
37:54You lied to us about who you are, Sean.
37:57These are your dad's numbers. Your birthday and his.
38:02I don't know what you're talking about.
38:04When did you realize that Hickson had stolen the winning ticket?
38:08Was it when you were still in prison in Memphis?
38:10Or was it after you got out, went to go and visit your dad, found out he was dead,
38:14and that his mausoleum was paid for with his stolen winnings?
38:16I can't imagine how you must have felt.
38:18How driven you were to come to New York, make things right.
38:22You tracked down Hickson at the soup kitchen.
38:25Threatened him with all kinds of things if he didn't do right by you.
38:28He freaked out, he gave you his car, but that wasn't enough, was it?
38:34You can't prove any of this.
38:38I can prove all of it, Sean.
38:41We found the money from Hickson's safe in your apartment with trace amounts of his blood in it.
38:46So what happened next?
38:49Why would you walk away with only a hundred grand?
38:53He owed you millions.
39:00I went to his apartment to collect what was mine.
39:05To collect what was mine.
39:09He told me I didn't deserve the money.
39:14He said that I was a dirtbag criminal, and all I was going to do if he gave it to me was put it up my nose.
39:21Instead, he was going to give it all away to those in need.
39:30I told him I was in need.
39:35Then he grabbed for my gun.
39:39It went off.
39:44So what's going to happen with all that money?
39:46Well, that's for the lawyers to decide.
39:48The good thing is that Nicole is going back into rehab and her mom's going to be there for her when she gets out.
39:53At least something good will come of all this.
39:55That is it for me. I am beat. I'll see you tomorrow.
39:58Wait, you've given up?
40:00No more questions about my innermost jackpot dreams?
40:03You said you didn't have any.
40:05Good night, Castle.
40:07Good night.
40:14Good evening, ladies.
40:17Are you buying property?
40:19Graham decided what to do with her inheritance. I think it's perfect.
40:23Really? What?
40:24I'm going to open the Martha Rogers School of Acting.
40:28Oh. I thought you were going to do something to honor Chet.
40:32Well, I am. Oh, no, Chet was always encouraging me to use my enormous talent to help people.
40:37Then wouldn't you call it the Chet Paliburn School of Acting, given its auspices?
40:41No, well, it's customary.
40:43When you're opening a school, you use a great teacher's name, like, um, Strasburg, Meisner, Adler, and now Rogers.
40:50Oh, I am, however, going to commission a portrait to be done of Chet that will hang in the lobby so his legacy will last forever.
40:59Nice.
41:01Legacy.
41:02What?
41:05I know what Beckett would do.
41:20Castle.
41:21I know what you would do if you won the lottery.
41:25By all means, please come in.
41:31So, what is your big insight into a financial decision that I will never have to make?
41:36You would use the money to honor your mother's legacy.
41:40On the way over here, I called the dean of your mom's old law school.
41:43We talked about starting a scholarship in Joanna Beckett's name.
41:46One that would provide a full ride for a student planning on dedicating their career to those in the legal system without a voice.
41:53The kind of people your mom championed.
41:55And, with your blessing, I would like to host a fundraiser to fund it.
42:02You just can't stay out of my personal life, can you?
42:10That's really sweet.
42:13We definitely have to invite the mayor.
42:15And all of us can't bang the trigger.
42:17Some things can be boring.
42:18You got this one guy.
42:19He'll grow.
42:26You got this one guy.
42:27He'll grow.
42:55You got this one guy.