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00:00Mama said lift your head from the sieve of your hands
00:30Mama said lift your head from the sieve of your hands
00:40Mama said eventually this hurtin' will end
00:55Bitchet?
01:13Why can't they find bodies between 9 & 5?
01:16Why can't they find bodies between 9 and 5?
01:18Well, early bird gets the collar.
01:19Yeah.
01:23He was here before I was.
01:26Oh, finally.
01:27You are here.
01:27You are going to love this.
01:30Come on, show's over.
01:32Active crime scene.
01:33We appreciate cooperation.
01:38Awesome, right?
01:39My first cold case.
01:41Come on, that's a little funny.
01:43Not so much funny is true.
01:44Hmm, she's frozen solid.
01:47What was the temperature last night?
01:48Mid-40s.
01:50It wasn't exposure.
01:51Site's active.
01:52Boys tell me there's no way she was here last night.
02:02She's melting.
02:04Maybe we should be looking for Ruby slippers.
02:07Yeah, while you're at it, why don't you look for some flying monkeys?
02:09Maybe they left her here.
02:10So what do you got for me?
02:11There are pieces of plastic on her body from the garment bag.
02:14So she was inside the bag?
02:16Mm-hmm.
02:17Other than that, it's going to take a while for her to thaw.
02:19I can tell you she hasn't been here long.
02:22Maybe a couple hours.
02:23What about security?
02:25Chainlink.
02:26A pair of bolt cutters took care of that.
02:28Looks like our guy was hoping she'd disappear into the concrete pour.
02:30A few more feet and she would have.
02:32It's kind of odd, taking the trouble to freeze a body and then dumping it.
02:36We've got two personality types working here.
02:39A killer who freezes a body is a keeper.
02:41He wants a souvenir.
02:42But a guy who dumps a body?
02:43Doesn't want to be reminded of the crime.
02:45All right, I'm going to go check out the fence.
02:50Mm-hmm.
02:51Get a close-up of her face.
02:52I want to run her through missing persons.
02:55Oh, cool.
02:55Like on the Discovery Channel where you plug the photo into a facial recognition database?
03:00Yeah.
03:01Just like that.
03:02Yes.
03:02Welcome to the department's official facial recognition database.
03:10By hand?
03:12That's like life before TiVo.
03:14Maybe you could download an app on that phone with you or you could just...
03:16There are a lot of missing people.
03:19One way or another, we eventually find them.
03:21Some end up dead.
03:22Some turn up in a double wide with a stripper named Trixie outside Atlantic City.
03:27And some just don't turn up.
03:30Dana Sullivan.
03:32Mm-hmm.
03:32Her and her boyfriend leave a club.
03:34He's a couple steps behind her because he gets a call on his cell phone.
03:37She turns a corner just a few seconds before he does.
03:39And when he comes around, she's gone.
03:41The street's totally empty.
03:43No traffic, no nothing.
03:44In a matter of three feet, she literally just disappeared.
03:49People don't disappear off the face of the earth.
03:51Sure they do.
03:52Quantum physics, alien abduction, Schrodinger's cat.
03:55One minute, you're getting a hot dog in the park.
03:57Next, you're fighting off sleigh stacks on the far side of a dimensional rift.
04:00I don't buy it.
04:01There's got to be an explanation.
04:03A story that makes everything make sense.
04:05Okay, Castle.
04:07What's her Jane Doe story?
04:09Well, I don't know how it starts, but I know how it ends.
04:13Frozen at a construction site.
04:15So, flying monkeys aside, what's the first question?
04:19How did she get there?
04:20Considering she was frozen solid, she had to have been kept pretty close.
04:23Not necessarily.
04:25Here is the site.
04:26Her body might not have been kept as close as you might think.
04:29It takes a long time for a frozen body to thaw.
04:31What, you freeze a body once for one of your books?
04:35No, but I cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving.
04:37It was a 28-pounder.
04:38It took all night to unfreeze.
04:39She's a person, Castle, not a turkey.
04:41Just making a point.
04:46Beckett?
04:48Okay, I'm on my way.
04:51Randy's got an ID.
04:53We'll take care of these.
04:54Hey, Ryan, can you, uh...
04:57Thanks.
05:01Melanie Cavanaugh, 34, time of death.
05:04Turns out COD was blunt force trauma to her head.
05:09How'd you get her ID?
05:10Her fingerprints were in the system.
05:12For?
05:12Misdemeanor drug possession.
05:14She doesn't look like a junkie.
05:16No, she's in pretty good shape, considering.
05:18Judging the lack of frost and tissue degeneration,
05:21I'd say wherever she was stored, the temperature rarely varied.
05:24Like a freezer?
05:25Freezer, do the job.
05:26How long has she been dead?
05:27Well, considering how long she's been like this,
05:30factoring decomposition,
05:32I'd say she probably was frozen within 24 hours of being killed.
05:36What do you mean, how long she's been like this?
05:39According to the records I pulled,
05:41this woman's been missing for over five years.
05:51She had a troubled childhood.
06:02Drug problems in her teens and 20s.
06:04I don't know.
06:06How do you know?
06:08I read the case file.
06:09She kicked the habit, met and married Samuel Cavanaugh.
06:12She worked in a restaurant.
06:14He managed to bank.
06:15They have two kids.
06:16When did you read the case file?
06:18When you were in the little girl's room.
06:20I was gone for like a minute.
06:21Speedreader.
06:22Something I picked up from my years
06:23stranded in the New York Public Library.
06:30Would you like the Eclipse notes,
06:31or in this case, the Castle notes?
06:34Castle, how do you know you didn't miss something important?
06:36Like after Melanie disappeared,
06:37her husband waited a day before he called the cops?
06:40A day?
06:41That doesn't make any sense.
06:42Until you get to the third paragraph.
06:44Before Melanie was married,
06:45she was what is now referred to as a runaway bride.
06:48According to her husband,
06:49she ran away a whole two weeks
06:50before their wedding day.
06:51Mm-hmm.
06:52Then she came back three years happily ever after.
06:55She disappears again, comes back.
06:58Latherins repeat three times,
06:59no indication of where she went.
07:02Well, she must have had a reason for running away.
07:04Hmm.
07:05I'm not judging her.
07:06Some people love the institution,
07:08hate the day-to-day.
07:10Are you one of those people, Castle?
07:13I guess I just haven't met the right girl.
07:14So, that's why her husband didn't call the cops.
07:21She'd done it before.
07:22Seemed reasonable to the detective at the time.
07:25There's no evidence of foul play,
07:26so the detective just closed the case.
07:32Five years and her husband thought she just ran away.
07:34Guess it's time to tell him
07:35his runaway bride finally came home.
07:37Who is it?
07:45New York City Police Department.
07:49Can I help you?
07:50Detective Beckett, are you Samuel Cavanaugh?
07:53Who?
07:54Samuel Cavanaugh, our records indicate that he lives here.
07:57You must have the wrong apartment.
07:599-1-7?
08:00Yeah, but I live here and my name is Roger.
08:02It's not Sam.
08:04Do you know any Samuel Cavanaugh?
08:05No.
08:06What's this about?
08:07How long have you lived here?
08:08About eight months.
08:10Well, it's been five years.
08:11You could have moved.
08:12Well, hey, I hate to break it to you,
08:14but if you're looking for the guy who lived here before me,
08:16he didn't move.
08:17He was murdered.
08:19I...
08:19Wait!
08:24Hey, Beckett.
08:25Yeah?
08:26Samuel Cavanaugh.
08:27Shot outside a grocery store about a year ago.
08:29Small caliber, double tap to the chest,
08:30wallet and valuables missing.
08:31Pushlub's wife disappears.
08:33Four years later, he gets shot in a mugging.
08:34Yeah, what are the odds?
08:35Long, unless they're connected.
08:38What, four years between murders?
08:40One's a popsicle, one just got popped?
08:42How could they possibly be connected?
08:43Maybe he and his wife got into something they couldn't get out of.
08:46Maybe something to do with her drug habit.
08:48So some scowl waits four years to finish the job.
08:51Maybe he finally figured out what happened to his wife
08:53and was about to go to the police with it.
08:56I don't believe it.
08:58Give me 250 pages, I bet I could make you.
09:00We're solving a murder castle, not writing a book.
09:04I would call it, a chill runs through her veins.
09:07Ooh, I liked it.
09:08Huh?
09:09Bam, said the lady, not the best seller for me.
09:12What happened to the kids?
09:13Living with Melanie's parents up in White Plains.
09:15Well, looks like I'm going to White Plains.
09:18Candace, the construction site, someone must have seen something.
09:21Yeah, the foreman said that they have a problem with the homeless at night,
09:23so I figured I'd go down there later, try to catch them at the site.
09:26Hmm.
09:26Ah, homeless, White Plains, homeless, White Plains.
09:31They're both kind of creepy.
09:34Hi.
09:36Whoa!
09:38Did I scare you?
09:43Mr. Davidson?
09:46Yes, ma'am.
09:47That's me.
09:49I'm Detective Kate Beckett.
09:52Is there somewhere we could talk?
09:54Yes, why don't we go inside?
09:56Well, girls don't play in the street, okay?
09:59All right, Grandpa will be out in a minute.
10:02I think we've both known for a while now that Melanie was not going to come home.
10:10What do you remember about the days leading up to her disappearance?
10:13Well, we talked to her a couple days before.
10:16My wife did, I mean.
10:17Everything seemed fine.
10:19She didn't indicate in any way that she was leaving, no?
10:23We're aware your daughter had some issues.
10:25That had nothing to do with what happened here.
10:28How do you know?
10:30You know, now you sound like the cop who first had the case.
10:32Convinced she'd run away, convinced she was still on drugs.
10:35But you didn't think that.
10:37Melanie wasn't the greatest of moms.
10:41But she loved her kids.
10:44She would have never left them.
10:47What about her husband, Sam?
10:50He thought it was drugs, too.
10:52You know he waited over a day before he reported her missing?
10:55She had run off before.
10:56Look, I'm not going to sit here and deny that.
10:59But if Sam thought our daughter was in trouble, why didn't he report her missing right away?
11:03Why didn't he call for help?
11:04Even if she'd gotten locked up, she'd been better off than...
11:08Oh, what the hell's the difference?
11:09I mean, the time to ask these questions was five years ago.
11:13But the cop who was on the case then didn't want to ask them.
11:17Sounds like they were pretty unhappy with the original investigation.
11:20Yeah, well, from where I stand, they had every reason to be.
11:22The guy whose case it was, you know him?
11:27No.
11:27Detective Sloan was before my time.
11:29He's still around?
11:30Well, if you count being a sheriff in Jersey, then yeah, he's still around.
11:35Melanie Cavanaugh.
11:37So she was finally found after all these years, huh?
11:40She wasn't found.
11:42Her body was.
11:44Oh.
11:46Sorry to hear that.
11:48You know, from the moment I took that case,
11:51I figured it was going to end bad.
11:53Her parents led us to believe that you were pretty sure that she'd run off.
11:56Her being found dead and her run off aren't exactly incompatible, not with her history.
12:02Her parents also believe your investigation never made it past her history.
12:05I was on a missing person, not a murder.
12:07You have a dead body.
12:08All I had was a woman with a drug habit and a history of disappearing.
12:13And a husband who didn't report her missing for over a day.
12:17Don't you dare play Monday morning quarterback with me.
12:20Look, sweetheart, he cooperated.
12:22He voluntarily allowed CSU into their apartment.
12:26I mean, anything I asked, he did.
12:27Did you know he was murdered, too?
12:30Gunned down on the street over a year ago.
12:33Look, what do you want from me?
12:35We had reports of her in Philly with a meth head ex-boyfriend.
12:38I mean, it was what it was.
12:40But you didn't even go down to check it out.
12:42Didn't need to.
12:43Had reports.
12:44Right.
12:44From her husband's best friend, Charles Wyler.
12:48So?
12:49He's not exactly an impartial observer.
12:51The guy owned his own business.
12:52He had a family.
12:53He was a war vet.
12:54Saw no reason to doubt his word.
12:56Plus, Philly's a pretty long drive.
12:59She was only missing back then.
13:02No, Sheriff.
13:02She was already dead.
13:04You just didn't know it yet.
13:05I ever disappear?
13:10Make sure this guy's not on my case.
13:12I hate cops like him.
13:14Guys like him, things only make sense if they fit in a box.
13:17So they make them fit, and murderers go free.
13:20Is that what happened to your dad?
13:23My dad?
13:24I noticed your watch.
13:27It's your dad's, right?
13:28That's why you're wearing it?
13:33Beckett?
13:35You find a witness?
13:42Yeah.
13:43Homeless guy.
13:44A couple of bucks jogged his memory.
13:46Says he saw a dented yellow truck pull up to the site.
13:48Heavyset guy pulls a large bag out of the back.
13:50When he comes out, he doesn't have the bag anymore.
13:52How'd you find this place?
13:54Guy else remembered the word storage written on the side of the truck.
13:56We searched all the storage places on the west side.
13:58Found that this one uses yellow trucks.
14:00Mm-hmm.
14:00So who owns the trucks?
14:02According to the DMV, Albert Boland.
14:04What body?
14:06I don't know what you're talking about.
14:08A witness saw someone driving one of your yellow trucks and dumping the body.
14:12You're lying.
14:13No one saw.
14:13Ouch.
14:14Wow.
14:15Maybe you should have tried denying it, person.
14:18Let me help you.
14:19Melanie Cavanaugh, mother of two, wife of Sam Cavanaugh.
14:23Okay, look, I dumped her.
14:26But I swear I didn't...
14:26You didn't kill her, right?
14:27That's right.
14:28I found her.
14:29Uh-huh.
14:29I never even knew she was here.
14:30What do you mean here?
14:32Sixth floor.
14:34Renters were in arrears.
14:36We usually give them three months and then we cut the locks and we sell their belongings.
14:39Only this time all I find is a freezer plugged into a light outlet.
14:42Which, by the way, is totally illegal.
14:44You didn't think it was illegal to store a dead body in a freezer?
14:47You think I knew?
14:48When I opened it up, I nearly had a heart attack.
14:51You could have called the cops.
14:53So I could make the front page of the ledger?
14:54Yeah, that's good for business.
14:55What if it's a mob hit?
14:57I mean, I got a family.
14:58So did she.
14:58Okay, so you find her.
15:01Next logical step, double the construction site?
15:06I know a guy who works over there.
15:08So when I find the body, I figure that's the place, right?
15:12Show us where you found her.
15:17Five years in there.
15:30Nobody deserves that.
15:32How'd they make payments for the unit?
15:34Check?
15:35Code to code?
15:36Cash.
15:37Every six months.
15:38But like I said, there were three months overdue.
15:40What's the last payment at two months after her husband was killed?
15:43We have to make payments when you're dead.
15:45Mm-hmm.
15:47That camera in your office, you got footage of the guy who made payments?
15:51That was nine months ago.
15:52We keep maybe two weeks at a time.
15:55Looks like Sloan was right.
15:56Sam Cavanaugh didn't have anything to do with it.
15:58Well, if not Sam, then who?
16:00You know we have air conditioning.
16:19Hmm.
16:20I'm just trying to figure out why someone would put a dead body in a freezer.
16:25Is this a Nicky Heat or Detective Beckett question?
16:29Beckett.
16:30That's right.
16:31The Nicky Heat thing was about incinerating a body and a self-cleaning oven.
16:34Mm-hmm.
16:35I mean, you put things in a freezer to keep them for later, but once they're there, you rarely ever go back.
16:41If I was putting a body in a freezer, it'd be because I was trying to hide it.
16:45Until you stopped paying for the storage space.
16:47Did I stop or did something stop me?
16:54It's family moments like these I will never forget.
16:59With a good therapist, hopefully I will.
17:04Mr. Weiler, the detective investigating Melanie's disappearance said that you told him that she went to an ex-boyfriend in Philadelphia.
17:12I only told him what Sam told me.
17:14Sam told you?
17:15It's where she went before the wedding and a few times after.
17:18But you're not sure that's where she went.
17:20It's the only thing that made sense.
17:23Melanie was a good person, but Melanie was troubled.
17:28Sometimes when things got hard, she'd go out and score, you know?
17:32Come home high, accuse Sam of ruining her life.
17:35He'd given her everything.
17:38Do you remember the name of the boyfriend?
17:42Kevin Henson.
17:43If something happened to Melanie, he's the one who'd know what.
17:48Kevin Henson, Melanie's ex-boyfriend.
17:50He's serving a year for meth in South Jersey and went in just after the last payment was made on the storage unit.
17:55He stops payment, storage guy finds her body.
17:57Quite a coincidence.
17:58And he was also on the outside when her husband was whacked.
18:01That sounds like he's worth a trip to South Jersey.
18:03You ever been in love, detective?
18:09I used to do crazy things.
18:11Like kill someone?
18:14Mel and I, when we were together, time just stopped.
18:17But even the first day, her and me, we both knew it was never going to work.
18:23God knows her folks were never going to let their little girl end up with some tatted-up addict.
18:29But sometimes, see, sometimes when we are alone, together, sometimes we almost believe.
18:42She was going to leave Sam.
18:44That's why she came to see you.
18:46She found out he was having an affair.
18:48She thought he was going to leave her and get custody of the kids, you know, because of the drugs.
18:59She wanted me to go with her, take the kids, just disappear.
19:02So what did you do?
19:06Put her on a bus.
19:07You sent her away?
19:09She wanted, I couldn't give her.
19:12Checked into rehab the next day, I thought if I could get clean.
19:15That's what I was when she disappeared.
19:19The time I got out, she was dead.
19:20How could you be sure she was dead?
19:22She stopped calling.
19:24If she was alive, she would have called.
19:30Your affair certainly explains a lot.
19:33Sam kills Melanie, or he and his lover kill Melanie together.
19:37Well, then who kills Sam?
19:38The lover.
19:39When Sam backs out after all she's done for him.
19:42It's not like she could go to police if he broke his promise.
19:44How do you come up with these things, Castle?
19:46I did not come up with this one, they did.
19:49Okay, you speak, Guy.
19:51If Sam had a lover, would his best friend know about it?
19:54Yes.
20:05Detective.
20:06You lied to us, Mr. Weiler.
20:07Excuse me?
20:08You don't think maybe it's relevant your buddy Sam had an affair right about the time Melanie disappeared?
20:12That was a long time ago.
20:14What's the point of dragging everybody through the mud?
20:16Haven't their kids been through enough?
20:17Don't they deserve some peace?
20:19What they deserve is to know what happened to their mother.
20:26Elizabeth Forte.
20:28Elizabeth Forte is her name.
20:30She worked with Sam at his bank.
20:31Mrs. Forte, I'm Detective Beckett.
20:38This is Rick Castle.
20:41Why am I here?
20:43Does the name Samuel Cavanaugh bring a bell?
20:47What about him?
20:50We found the body of his wife, Melanie.
20:54From the looks of it, she was killed somewhere around the time the two of you were having an affair.
20:57I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.
21:03Do you really want me to start digging around in your life, Mrs. Forte, because that's exactly what I will do.
21:08I'll go through your old phone records, your credit card statements.
21:12I'll even talk to your husband if I have to.
21:14Please.
21:15Please don't do that.
21:18Gary doesn't know anything about it.
21:19Just walk us through what you know.
21:21I met Sam when I got transferred to the downtown branch.
21:28He was in new accounts.
21:31We were both pretty unhappy at the time.
21:33How long was the affair?
21:35Not long.
21:36Six months.
21:37Why did it in?
21:38I realized I love my husband.
21:40Please.
21:41No one ends an affair because they realize they're still in love.
21:43They end an affair because they're scared.
21:46Scared of taking it to the next level.
21:47Scared of being found out.
21:48Scared of ruining their life.
21:49So, tell us, Elizabeth.
21:54What were you scared of?
21:58Him.
22:02I was scared of Sam.
22:04Why?
22:05He started to ask me what I would do if he wasn't with his wife.
22:08If she wasn't in the picture anymore.
22:10And when was that?
22:12A few weeks before she disappeared.
22:14When I found out she was missing, I broke things off.
22:17He became angry.
22:18It got so bad that I had to transfer to another branch.
22:23You...
22:23I'm sorry.
22:25You had to, uh...
22:27Five years.
22:35Mrs. Forte.
22:36Five whole years.
22:39And you never came forward.
22:41What's it matter?
22:42Sam killed Melanie.
22:43He's dead.
22:44They're both dead.
22:45What's it matter anymore?
22:46What's it matter anymore?
22:46What's it matter anymore?
22:49How'd you do it, Sam?
23:13Run, rebel.
23:35But you'll never defeat the forces of Vultar.
23:38Ah, death of Vultar!
23:40Death of the Vultar!
23:43I sense fear in you.
23:48You sense nothing.
23:52Has anyone seen my purse?
23:55Mom, we are totally doing battle on the field of honor.
23:58How old are you?
23:59Old enough to afford top-of-the-line laser tag.
24:03I'm dead!
24:04Mom!
24:06Now, Vultar will never rule the Omniverse.
24:08Well...
24:09Someone order food?
24:12No.
24:14Better check this out.
24:15Hi.
24:19Hi.
24:20Hi.
24:22Who is it?
24:23Detective Beckett.
24:24Darling, are we entertained?
24:26Um...
24:27Dad!
24:29Yeah?
24:30Miners!
24:31Right!
24:33Come on in, please.
24:35Right?
24:35Don't you?
24:36Welcome.
24:37You bet.
24:37You, um...
24:42You remember my mother, Martha, and Alexis, of course.
24:46Hi.
24:47Yes.
24:48Hello.
24:51Can I make you a drink?
24:57Wow.
24:59I feel like...
25:01Alfred in the Batcave for the first time.
25:03Hmm.
25:04Batman fan.
25:05Figures.
25:06Why?
25:08Similar origin stories.
25:09Loss of a loved one leads to a life of fighting crime.
25:12Yes.
25:12Well, you are the multi-millionaire crime fighter.
25:15Yeah.
25:20That's, uh...
25:21Where I outline my books.
25:24It's funny.
25:26Looks a lot like our...
25:28Murder board.
25:30Yeah.
25:30Except mine's fake.
25:36Yeah.
25:37Something wrong?
25:42I can't find it.
25:44Find what?
25:45The answer.
25:47It was Sam.
25:48Everything fits.
25:49It's a good ending.
25:50Yeah, but without proof, it's just a theory.
25:53And that family, those kids, they need more than just a theory.
25:57They need to know.
25:58I need to know.
26:00Well, you have an ending.
26:02You want the rest?
26:03You need to work backwards.
26:04You need to finish the story.
26:06You have an ending.
26:07You have your killer.
26:10You just have to put it all together with the facts at hand.
26:14The facts.
26:16Fact.
26:18They had two small children.
26:20So?
26:20Based on police statements, they didn't have a babysitter.
26:23With him at work, she would have had to have been with the kids the day she disappeared.
26:27But Sam said that she left later that night.
26:29Which the doorman was never able to corroborate.
26:31So if she was there and she never left, then...
26:33Then she was murdered in the apartment.
26:35Yeah.
26:36Another fact.
26:37He lived in Manhattan.
26:39And like most people in the city, he didn't own a car.
26:40So, what is a good husband to do living in Manhattan with his wife's body?
26:45He can't leave it in the apartment.
26:47He can't walk out the lobby with it.
26:49So the only question is...
26:50How did he get the body to the storage unit?
26:52He?
26:59I could...
26:59No.
27:01You know what helps?
27:04Yeah.
27:05Sometimes when I'm trying to figure out how a character of mine does something,
27:08I will walk the crime scene.
27:10This one time, I was trying to figure out how to throw someone off the Empire State Building
27:13and that movie Sleepless in Seattle had just come out.
27:16So many lonely women approached me thinking I was their Tom Hanks.
27:19I got laid.
27:19Castle.
27:21Point is, you want to get into a killer's head?
27:25Go to where the killer was and see what problems he had to face.
27:31Field trip?
27:32They told me he was shot in a mugging,
27:35and now you're telling me he was killed here in my apartment?
27:38Not him, his wife.
27:39His wife?
27:40What kind of family was this?
27:42All right, so you and I are married.
27:45We are not married.
27:46Relax, just pretend.
27:47I don't want to pretend.
27:48Schedule like it.
27:49Okay, if we're married, I want a divorce.
27:53You two like this all the time?
27:54Yes.
27:55All right, we're not married, but they were.
27:58Let's say the doorman's right.
28:00Melanie gets home about four o'clock.
28:02She'd have to make dinner for the kids.
28:05Then Sam comes home.
28:08Banker's hours, around six o'clock.
28:10Figure kids have already eaten.
28:12So they're what?
28:13Watching TV in the bedroom.
28:15In my bedroom?
28:16On a roll.
28:17They have a fight.
28:18About the affair.
28:19About Philadelphia.
28:20They just get heated.
28:21And she turns her head.
28:22He whacks her with something.
28:24A pot.
28:25Or a pant.
28:27Bam, fractures her skull.
28:28It's over.
28:29Except the kids are still in the bedroom.
28:31He's got to figure out a way of getting her out of the apartment without them seeing it.
28:37Hallway bathroom.
28:39You needed to buy time.
28:40Okay, so he puts the body in the tub, closes the door, and tells the kids that mom went to the store.
28:48Which, according to the case file, the doorman was never able to substantiate.
28:52Okay, so no car.
28:53How does he get the body out of the apartment?
28:55Maybe he hailed the cab.
28:57Yeah, maybe the cabbie and the doorman helped him stuff the body in the trunk.
29:01How much do you tip for that these days?
29:03The doorman.
29:04Castle, I'm joking.
29:05What if the body was already in the freezer when he took it out of the apartment?
29:09Freezer?
29:10He'd have needed a truck.
29:12In my building, if you have something picked up or delivered, you have to sign for it.
29:16Yeah, here too.
29:17Delivery that big, you have to sign the ledger.
29:19The ledger?
29:19The doorman's ledger, downstairs.
29:25Yeah, that's my name.
29:31I know it was five years ago, Mrs. Marsh, but the only delivery that day was to your apartment.
29:36If you remember anything at all about the delivery.
29:38I remember I had to go downstairs and sort everything out.
29:43What do you mean, sort everything out?
29:44I told the doorman I never ordered a freezer, but the guy brought it on up.
29:49He loaded it on the freight elevator while I was talking to the doorman.
29:52So what happened when you were downstairs?
29:55I told the doorman they got the wrong apartment again.
29:59And then, by the time I got back upstairs, the guy was gone.
30:03Does this have anything to do with that missing woman?
30:06Yeah, it does.
30:07Yeah, because I already told the other cop.
30:09Detective Sloan?
30:10I don't know his name, but I told him everything's the same as you.
30:13I don't get it.
30:14Sloan had that woman's report.
30:16Why did he just follow up?
30:17He wasn't looking for the story.
30:19He'd already written it.
30:20That's the same kind of truck we saw outside Charles Weiler's store.
30:27I must have a contract with him.
30:30If you wanted some help with some heavy lifting, who would you call?
30:33Your best friend.
30:42We can trace the rental of the delivery truck to you, Mr. Weiler.
30:45If you want, I can bring the lady you delivered the freezer to in to identify you.
30:49Look, I had nothing to do with what happened to Melanie.
30:51You lied about everything else.
30:52Why not about this?
30:53I never had any reason to hurt her.
30:55But Sam did, right?
30:57I mean, she kept going back to her ex-boyfriend.
30:59How much can a guy take?
31:06He called me that night.
31:09He said...
31:10He needed me to come over right away.
31:13When I got there, the kids were asleep and Melanie was in a tub.
31:18In a garment bag.
31:21He said she came at him and he just snapped.
31:24Here's an idea.
31:25Instead of killing her, why not just get a divorce?
31:29You don't think I know how wrong this was?
31:31Why did you take the risk?
31:33Why did you move that body?
31:34Because he made a very bad mistake.
31:38What about the kids?
31:39Their mom is dead if he goes to prison.
31:44So you arranged for the truck.
31:47He said it could never be traced back to him.
31:49That's why we sent the freezer to the old lady.
31:52That's why I rented out the storage space.
31:54Because we knew the cops would look at Sam.
31:56You made the payments?
31:58Sam couldn't take any chances.
32:00He gave me the cash and I stopped by twice a year.
32:04For five years.
32:05It seemed a lot easier than moving out.
32:10Why did you stop paying?
32:12Look, I'm truly sorry about what happened to Melanie.
32:16But what was I supposed to do?
32:17Keep paying for the rest of my life?
32:20The DA will make sure of that, Mr. Wyler.
32:22Her body gets dumped because this guy Wyler didn't pay a bill?
32:36That's...
32:36You can say it.
32:37Pretty cold.
32:39Ironic that such a selfish act ultimately revealed the truth.
32:43There were people who knew the truth all along.
32:46They just chose not to come forward.
32:48Still, karma comes back and puts a cap in her husband's ass.
32:50So all is right with the world.
33:00I'm gonna go talk to Melanie's parents.
33:03Let them know how this all shook out.
33:05You wanna come?
33:07The woman with the freezer delivery told us she talked to a cop.
33:10Yeah, Sloan.
33:12Only he didn't list her name in his report.
33:15He didn't feel that it was important.
33:16After all, he didn't believe he was looking at a murder.
33:18Right.
33:20So, if you're not investigating a murder, why would you talk to the neighbor about a freezer delivery?
33:26This must be some freezer.
33:31You mentioned a police officer, Mrs. Marsh.
33:34I know it's been five years between you.
33:35I never said it was five years ago.
33:37When did he come see you?
33:38Last year sometime.
33:40I remember thinking, why is this cop asking me questions about a freezer I never ordered?
33:44Do you remember anything about the man who came to see you?
33:47Uh, he was older.
33:49Uniform?
33:49No, plain clothes like you.
33:52He had gray hair and he walked with a limb.
33:56Ben Davidson.
33:58Melanie's dad.
34:08You could just leave it like this.
34:12Sam's dead.
34:15The captain's happy.
34:17Those kids look pretty happy.
34:19That's the difference between a novel and the real-world castle.
34:25The cop doesn't get to decide how the story ends.
34:49Detective Beckett.
34:54Sir, I'm going to have to take you with me down to the station.
34:56Who is it, honey?
35:00What is it, Ben?
35:01So I'm here because I question a woman about a freezer?
35:18Not any freezer, Mr. Davidson.
35:20The freezer.
35:21And your daughter's body was stored in.
35:22For the moment, let's assume what you say is true.
35:30What's the charge?
35:32If Mrs. Marsh's answer led to Sam's death, then the charge would be murder.
35:36I kept going over everything Sam said.
35:41Everything he claimed happened that night.
35:44Until I came to the same conclusion that you both apparently did.
35:48That Melanie never left her apartment alive.
35:53Mrs. Marsh's answers merely confirmed what I already knew.
35:57That your son-in-law was a killer.
35:58If you had figured out what Sam had done, why not just go to the police?
36:03He would have gone to prison for the rest of his life.
36:05If he'd been convicted.
36:07They didn't have a body at the time, remember?
36:11His lawyers would have put Melanie on trial, not him.
36:15So you took matters into your own hands.
36:20You could certainly understand how a father might want to.
36:23How he might follow his daughter's murderer one dark night when he was sure no other people would be around.
36:32How he might confront him with a gun he brought back from the war.
36:37Might even promise forgiveness in exchange for the truth.
36:44And hearing his admission be overcome with rage.
36:53Every time he brought the girls to see us.
36:57I watched a little piece of my wife die.
37:01A visit from your grandkids should be life-affirming.
37:05Not a reminder of how your only child was murdered.
37:14Killing him wasn't the answer.
37:18I never said I killed him.
37:20I said a father might be justified.
37:28Police told me Sam was shot in a robbery.
37:32And without evidence, there'd be little chance that his killer would ever be brought to justice.
37:36So I guess we'll find out if that's really true.
37:49I'd like to see a lawyer if I could.
37:51No, sweetie, I just wanted to make sure I said goodnight.
38:07You got it.
38:07Strawberry happy face pancakes on me.
38:10More luck.
38:11Later.
38:11Alexis missed me.
38:17How did you know?
38:19It's about any sense.
38:19Hmm.
38:24By the way, it was my mother.
38:27Not my father.
38:27We were supposed to go to dinner together, my mom, my dad, and I.
38:36And she was going to meet us at the restaurant, but she never showed.
38:42Two hours later, we went home.
38:45And there was a detective waiting for us, Detective Raglan.
38:49They found her body.
38:57She had been stabbed.
39:00A robbery?
39:04No.
39:07She still had her money and purse and jewelry.
39:12And it wasn't a sexual assault either.
39:14They attributed it to gang violence.
39:20Random, wayward event.
39:23So just like in Melanie's case, they couldn't think outside the box.
39:29So they just tried to package it up nicely.
39:32And the killer was never caught.
39:37Why do you wear the watch?
39:42My dad took her death hard.
39:44He's sober now.
39:47Five years.
39:51So, this is for the life that I saved.
39:58And...
39:59This is for the life that I lost.
40:05So, I guess your Nikki Heat has a backstory now, Castle.
40:11I don't know.
40:14I did kind of like the hooker by day, cop by night thing.
40:19But, uh...
40:21I guess a heavy emotional angle could work, too.
40:26Well, don't bewilder your audiences with substance on my account, Castle.
40:31Until tomorrow, detective.
40:38You can't just say night.
40:39I'm a writer.
40:41Night is boring.
40:42Until tomorrow is more...
40:44hopeful.
40:46Yeah, well...
40:48I'm a cop.
40:50Night.
40:50Night.
40:51Night.
41:00Night.
41:00Some are reaching, few are there
41:18Watering from a hero's chair
41:24Some are scared to fly so high
41:32Hi, Dad
41:35Well, this is how we have to try
41:37Have no envy, no fear
41:41Have no envy
41:43No fear
41:47Remember, this never happened
41:49I was never here
41:51You got my word?
41:54If you tell her I did this
42:01I will make you bleed
42:02Understood
42:04Good love
42:24No fear
42:27I will make you bleed
42:29I will make you bleed
42:30I will make you bleed
42:31I will make you bleed
42:33I will make you bleed
42:34I will make you bleed
42:35I will make you bleed
42:36I will make you bleed
42:37I will make you bleed
42:38I will make you bleed
42:39I will make you bleed
42:40I will make you bleed
42:41I will make you bleed
42:42I will make you bleed
42:43I will make you bleed
42:44I will make you bleed