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00:01Bending spoons with my mind
00:05Manifesting man of all kinds
00:09In my spare time
00:13Oh, how I struggled in vain
00:17Saw this riddle with my brain
00:21When the answer's in my hand
00:25So I'm gonna move you around
00:31Got to turn you inside out
00:37Yeah, I wanna move you, move you around
00:43I wanna move you, I wanna move you around
00:48Alright everybody, last hand for the night.
00:51Oh, phooey, it's only, it's not even midnight
00:55People have jobs to go to in the morning
00:57Oh, my son, the working stiff
01:01Pooey, I vote
01:04If you don't mind me saying, Mrs. RU, vote a lot
01:08I just don't believe in stringing along a bad hand, why waste time?
01:11Actually, mother's game isn't really Texas Hold'em, it's strip poker
01:14Keeps things humming along, if you know what I mean
01:16Well, frankly, I prefer strip, because even when you lose, you win
01:19Raise twenty
01:21Call
01:22Make it a hundred
01:28Whoa
01:29A hundred bucks
01:31Man up, bro
01:32Really?
01:33I'm out
01:34Slop
01:35What about you, Cassie?
01:36You're already in for the blind
01:38Not scared of a little action, are you?
01:41Action is my middle name
01:43Ah
01:44Don't worry, sweetheart, he's bluffing
01:46Whenever he blinks too much, he means he's got a lousy hand
01:47Mother
01:48What?
01:49Alright, here we go
01:50There it is
01:51Uh-oh
01:52What?
01:53He's not blinking, but now he's tapping, which means he might have the nuts
01:54What's the matter, you're not afraid of a little action, are you?
01:55What's the matter, you're not afraid of a little action, are you?
01:56All in
01:57What?
01:58What?
01:59What's the matter, you're not afraid of a little action, are you?
02:03All in
02:04Who?
02:05Take him down, Becky
02:06Yeah, make him pay
02:07Can't right your way out of this one, huh, Cassel?
02:09I'm not afraid of a little action, but I'm not afraid of a little action, all in
02:10Who?
02:11Who?
02:12Who?
02:13Who?
02:14Who?
02:15Who?
02:16Who?
02:17Who?
02:18Who?
02:19Who?
02:20Who?
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02:27Who?
02:28Who?
02:29Who?
02:30Who?
02:31Who?
02:32Who?
02:33Maybe someone should change their middle name to
02:54Yeah, we'll be there in 20. Homicide on Henry Street. I'll take care of this for you. Thank you. Well, at least you guys are already downtown. But it's after midnight. Murder never sleeps, Mrs. R. Neither do we. Whoa, whoa. Someone say murder? Hold on. I'll get my coat.
03:24Look at him all excited. Yeah, like a kid at Christmas. With a dead body under the tree.
03:45Is that motor oil? Looks like it. But I'll have to pump out the tub and rent some tests to be sure. It's motor oil, all right. 10W40.
03:54Empty is in the closet. What kind of freak drowns a woman in motor oil? Someone's trying to send a message.
03:58I already told the uniforms. Once people check in, I don't want to know what they do up there.
04:10Her purse was missing and she didn't have an ID on her. Any chance she paid for the room with a credit card?
04:15All I can tell you is whoever rented a room on Friday paid cash for a five-day stay. They were supposed to be out tonight. So at midnight, I went out to check the place was empty and found her in the tub. Gonna be a bitch to clean it.
04:29So if anybody was meeting her here...
04:30It's not like the guests arrive and I ring them up. This ain't the Ritz.
04:34Clearly.
04:35What about tonight? Anyone strange coming in or going out?
04:38Hey, Bill.
04:40Jasmine, how's it hanging?
04:41I think you just described half their clientele.
04:48Unidentified woman, early 40s. Good health. She's wearing a wedding ring, but there's no inscription. Cause of death? Drowning. There's a nasty contusion on the back of her head.
04:58So somebody hit her hard enough to knock her out and then gave her a motor oil bath. And I found this in one of her pockets.
05:05Ticket stub for the Metro North. Our victim took the train in from Westchester yesterday morning.
05:10Westchester to lower Manhattan? That's a long way to go for a lube drop.
05:15See, when married ladies go to cheap hotels, it's always about sex.
05:19Or drugs.
05:20The sample in one of the wine glasses tested positive for Remy in.
05:24The sleeping pill.
05:25This was not a crime of passion.
05:29That room was rented for five days and someone stocked the place up with motor oil.
05:32That takes planning.
05:34And nice suburban ladies don't just take the train into the city and not return without somebody noticing.
05:40Irvington PD logged a call last night from a Michael Goldman wanting to report his wife Allison missing.
05:45Clothing and description match.
05:47Said she went to the city for work and never came back.
05:49Said he knew something was wrong.
05:51Poor guy.
05:52Unless he's the killer and he's covering his tracks by calling the police before the body's discovered.
05:58How about we question him before we convict him?
06:01You got an address?
06:02Thanks.
06:03Okay.
06:03I don't understand.
06:09Where did you say that she was found?
06:11At an SRO in the city.
06:13It's a single room occupancy.
06:15It's like a transient hotel.
06:17Why would she be in a place like that?
06:19Can you think of anyone she might have been meeting?
06:21No.
06:22My wife and I were happily married, detective.
06:24We had no secrets.
06:25You told police last night that your wife went into the city for her job?
06:29She was working part-time.
06:31We'd had some financial setbacks the last few years.
06:33I'd been laid off.
06:34We had to give up the apartment.
06:35How did your wife handle the move to the suburbs?
06:39Not too well.
06:41Allison missed the city.
06:42So a couple months ago, she got a job working three days a week at a clothing boutique in Manhattan.
06:46This little place on 72nd called Lehane's.
06:50She said that being there...
06:52I'm sorry.
07:00She said that being there reminded her of the good old days.
07:08So, I'm trying to put together a time loan with Allison Goldman's last night.
07:12The first call I make is to Lehane's, the store where she worked.
07:16I say to the owner,
07:17Good morning, sir.
07:17I'd like to talk to you about your employee, Allison Goldman.
07:20And?
07:21And he says,
07:22Who?
07:24Allison didn't work there.
07:26Not yesterday, not ever.
07:27Well, if she wasn't going into the city three times a week for her job, then what was she doing there?
07:31How did she come home Friday night with 400 bucks in cash for the family kitty?
07:35Maybe Castle was right.
07:36Maybe this is about sex.
07:37The lady was a soccer mom.
07:38Come by my daughter's school about 3.30.
07:40Place is like happy hour.
07:41Maybe she had a boyfriend.
07:44Yes, a boyfriend.
07:45Someone she met in line at Zabar's or one afternoon at the museum when she ducked in to escape a rainstorm.
07:52Maybe it was someone she already knew from the city.
07:54Someone who reminded her of when times were good before she had to give up that cute apartment with the partial river view.
08:01Someone who was slipping a little cash while he was slipping her something else.
08:04Yeah, Allison Goldman wouldn't have some cheap affair.
08:07This person would have had to have meant something to her.
08:09Someone who cared for her.
08:11Someone who listened to her.
08:12Only now, he wanted a little more return for his investment.
08:16Something she wasn't willing to do.
08:17Like leave her husband.
08:19And when she wouldn't, then he got violent.
08:21You know, I feel so stupid.
08:24Here I am looking for evidence and all I had to do was just make something up.
08:28So, this imaginary boyfriend killer, do you think that he has an imaginary address?
08:33Detective Beckett.
08:34Mr. Goldman, what is it?
08:41My lawyer called the Social Security office this morning to let them know that Allison had passed away.
08:47He faxed this to me two hours ago.
08:51A death certificate?
08:53Yeah, for Allison Porter.
08:54Porter was my wife's maiden name.
08:57But it says here that Allison Porter died in 1963.
09:01When she was three months old.
09:04But this child's Social Security number is the same as my wife's.
09:10My wife wasn't the woman she said she was.
09:14Her whole life together was a lie.
09:30So, for 20 years,
09:32this woman was living under a false name?
09:36That's crazy.
09:37Yeah, my husband was pretty shaken up.
09:39Trust me on this one, kiddo.
09:41When a woman marries a man and doesn't bother to tell him who she is for 20 years,
09:45she's a criminal.
09:46Mata Hari.
09:47Shady lady.
09:48In other words, a very good actress.
09:49Speaking of which, you seem to have inherited a bit of my talent.
09:53Oh, how so?
09:54The poker game.
09:55You let Beckett win.
10:00I don't know what you're talking about.
10:01Oh, come on.
10:02I checked your cards.
10:03I didn't want to take her money in front of all her friends.
10:09Kate Beckett is not some bimbo who needs big strong you to look out for her.
10:13She's a real woman, and a real woman does not want to be patronized.
10:16She's right, Dad.
10:17Yeah.
10:18I was being nice.
10:22Castle.
10:22Yeah, I'm on my way.
10:26All right.
10:27I'm on my way to the precinct to find out who this Mata Hari really was.
10:32Allison Goldman's email account.
10:34Allison writes, Lee, can we meet on Tuesday instead this week?
10:38Lee writes back, sounds good, the usual place.
10:40Tuesday, the day that she was murdered.
10:42So, Allison's imaginary boyfriend has a very real email account.
10:47It goes by the screen name, LWax220.
10:50The husband said it didn't sound familiar to him.
10:51I'm cyber-tracked it down.
10:53Check this, Castle.
10:54The guy's a writer.
10:56A real writer, or I took a course at the Learning Index writer?
10:59His name is Lee Wax.
11:01He writes true crime.
11:03Bobby Socks and Blood, the true story of a cheerleader, an Eagle Scout, and the murder that shocked America.
11:10Give me a break.
11:11Well, maybe he got tired of writing about other people's murders and decided to commit one on his own.
11:21What's this?
11:26Your winnings from the other night.
11:28I'm not an idiot.
11:29I know you threw the last hand.
11:33How did you figure it out?
11:36That's not the point.
11:36Oh, my mother called you, didn't she?
11:39You owe me a rematch.
11:43Fine.
11:43You want to play?
11:44Let's play.
11:45How about tomorrow night?
11:47With your mystery buddies?
11:49What, are you kidding?
11:49No, no, no.
11:50Those guys would eat you alive.
11:51No, I was thinking of something a little more local.
11:54My, uh, Gotham City crew.
11:56Guys I beat on a regular basis.
11:57Your Gotham City crew?
11:59Yeah.
12:00Captain, the mayor, and Judge Markaway.
12:01You know, your boss, your boss's boss, and the guy that signs your warrants.
12:04Or would that make you nervous?
12:05I mean, I wouldn't want to throw your game, but I also don't want you to feel patronized.
12:09Just set it up.
12:10And prepare to get your ass kicked.
12:21Hello?
12:28Hello?
12:29Look who's stalking.
12:50Stay here.
12:50Hey, who the hell are you?
13:04Who the hell are you?
13:05Lee Wax.
13:06What are you doing in my apartment?
13:09You're a woman.
13:11Either you tell me who you are right now, or I am calling the cops.
13:14I am the cops.
13:15My name is Detective Kate Beckett.
13:18Uh, we would like to ask you some questions about Allison Goldman.
13:21Allison.
13:23Oh.
13:25Just, just, uh, let me get my lawyer.
13:29Why do you need a lawyer?
13:31Why do you think?
13:32So you're confessing?
13:34No, I'm not confessing to anything.
13:36It's just, my publisher instructed me not to talk to law enforcement until I had a lawyer present.
13:42Your publisher?
13:43You know, I would like to state for the record that I never harbored, nor did I conceal a fugitive.
13:49What are you talking about?
13:51Allison Goldman.
13:51If that's why you're here, then obviously you found her.
13:55Yes.
13:57Murdered.
13:58Murdered.
13:59Murdered by who?
14:00Well, given your unhealthy obsession for her, I'm going to take a wild stab at you.
14:07Me?
14:09No, I am a ghost writer.
14:11We were working on her memoir.
14:13Memoir?
14:13Why would Allison Goldman need a memoir?
14:16Wait, so you don't know who she really is?
14:19We do now.
14:21Apparently, our Westchester housewife was also a fugitive.
14:24That's Allison Goldman?
14:35A.K.A. Cynthia Dern.
14:36In 1989, she and two friends set off a bomb on a tanker owned by a big oil company.
14:41I remember this.
14:43Some radical environmentalists protesting the Exxonvaldeesville.
14:45Yes.
14:46One was killed, one was caught, but Cynthia Dern was never found.
14:49Looks like her past finally caught up with her.
14:52Jared Swanstrom built the bomb.
14:54Susan Mailer and Cynthia snuck on board to set it.
14:56Only something went wrong.
14:59You see, the ship was supposed to be empty of oil and people, but the captain, Sam Pike,
15:04had come back.
15:05He was paralyzed from the explosion.
15:07How did you track down Cynthia?
15:09I didn't.
15:11She contacted me.
15:13Cynthia had decided to turn herself in, but before she surrendered, she wanted to get
15:17her story out to the public and express her remorse.
15:20And get public opinion on her side.
15:22It's a great way to influence a potential jury pool.
15:25But she didn't, right?
15:26So how was she planning on influencing them?
15:28Cynthia told me that on the night of the bombing, she'd tried to back out.
15:33When she realized that the captain was aboard, she argued with Susan Mailer to call it off,
15:37but Susan refused.
15:38Susan went to set the bomb herself and ironically died in the explosion.
15:42She was vaporized.
15:46So why would she come out of hiding now?
15:48Money.
15:49She needs the cash.
15:51You were paying her?
15:52A couple hundred a week.
15:53If the book had sold well, I don't have to tell you how much money was at stake.
16:04When was the last time you saw Cynthia?
16:06Tuesday afternoon.
16:07Did she mention that she was going to see anyone else?
16:12Maybe someone from her past?
16:14No.
16:15No.
16:15Cynthia was really paranoid about being discovered before the book came out.
16:19She didn't want me to get in touch with anyone from her old life.
16:22But you did anyway.
16:24Any true crime writer worth their salt is going to check her story with other sources.
16:28Okay, so I made a few calls.
16:33The sources that you were talking to, did any of them want her dead?
16:37Maybe, but remember, nobody knew how to find her.
16:41I mean, I didn't even know where she lived.
16:43I'm going to need to see your interview notes and your manuscript.
16:49You can have whatever you want, but in return, I'd like to be kept in the loop as the investigation proceeds.
16:55What for?
16:56My book.
16:56Well, you're going to go through with it, but Cynthia's dead.
17:01Correction, Cynthia was murdered, which means her memoir just became a true crime story, which is kind of my forte.
17:07You'd be doing me a huge favor.
17:09You know, I would love to, but I have a whole list of writers who are hanging around, looking for favors.
17:17So thank you very much, though, for cooperating, and I'll catch you on the dark side.
17:21Okay.
17:26That's a pretty sweet gig you've scored for yourself, Mr. Castle.
17:33Is this your secret to writing bestsellers?
17:36Follow the pretty cop lady around and take copious notes?
17:39I like to think talent played a small part.
17:43Still, this is the kind of all-access past most writers would kill for.
17:46Let's get to the part where you tell me what you want.
17:50Well, maybe you can give me a call sometime, one professional to another.
17:55Or do you need to check with your boss lady?
17:59Why don't you give me your number, and I'll see what I can do.
18:13A domestic terrorist who clips coupons.
18:16I just might buy the movie rights myself.
18:17Well, the bombing obviously wasn't a very sophisticated operation.
18:21Susan Mailer was killed in the blast, and Jared Swanstrom was caught by the FBI and served 15 years.
18:27Allison Goldman, a.k.a. Cynthia Dern, managed to stay a fugitive for nearly two decades.
18:32And then she poked her head out of hiding, and a couple months later, she's dead.
18:36Well, who would hold a grudge for 20 years?
18:42How about the people whose lives she's ruined?
18:43You say she was living in Irvington?
18:49Uh-huh.
18:50That's just a couple of miles away from here.
18:53In the months leading up to her death, Cynthia was working with a journalist.
18:57We spoke with Lee Wax several times.
19:00She never told us Cynthia was involved.
19:03She should have.
19:06Excuse me, will you? Excuse me, please.
19:12This is hard for him.
19:14He's still angry about what happened. We all are.
19:18Who's your son?
19:20Adam.
19:21He's a sailor, just like his dad.
19:23The settlement wasn't enough to cover all of Sam's medical costs.
19:27Adam's been working and helping out since he was a teenager.
19:35Adam?
19:37I'm Detective Kay Beckett.
19:39Is this about her?
19:39Cynthia or Allison or whatever she called herself?
19:44Did you have any idea that she lived so close?
19:46Didn't know, didn't care.
19:49You didn't care about the woman who almost killed your father.
19:53I find that hard to believe.
19:55You know, my family waited 20 years for the cops to find Cynthia Dern,
19:59so my dad could get just a little bit of justice.
20:01Well, it's too late for that now.
20:04So what do you want from us?
20:06Well, I thought you might want to know how Cynthia died.
20:09She was drowned in motor oil.
20:13Motor oil?
20:13It's almost as if whoever did it had a personal connection to the bombing.
20:18Adam, if I looked in your garage right now, would I find motor oil?
20:24I own a boat and a car, Detective.
20:27And where were you last Tuesday?
20:29I bartend at the Foxtail Grill on Manchester every Tuesday.
20:35Are we done?
20:37Yes.
20:38For now.
20:40You know what?
20:44I hope his alibi checks out.
20:45I hope he didn't do it.
20:47And here I thought you would be saying
20:48what a great story it would make if Adam Pike did it.
20:51A son taking revenge for his father.
20:53It is a good story.
20:54It's a great story.
20:55Personally, I would just write a happy ending for that family.
20:57Beckett, FBI files on the tanker bombing in 89.
21:01I've been going through them.
21:02And?
21:02Three days after the bombing,
21:04they captured Jared Swansom at a motel where he'd been hiding out.
21:07Feds had a tip line.
21:07Some helpful citizen calls and said they'd seen Swansom at the motel.
21:12Feds go in, grab him up, easy peasy.
21:14It's pretty standard stuff.
21:16Yeah, until you get to the part where the tipster never collects on the reward.
21:19Who is the tipster?
21:21That's just it.
21:21FBI never knew.
21:23Because she didn't leave a name.
21:25She?
21:26Records describe the voice as young and female.
21:30It could be Cynthia Dern.
21:32Do you think she would give up her friends to the cops?
21:35Doesn't matter what I think.
21:36Only matters with Swansom thought.
21:38The guy did 15 years in prison.
21:40That's a long time to think about who put you there.
21:42Jared Swansom?
21:59Yeah?
22:00NYPD, we'd like to ask you some questions about Cynthia Dern.
22:05I'm not sure what I can tell you.
22:06I hadn't seen her in 20 years.
22:08But you knew she was writing a book, right?
22:09You spoke to Lee Wax?
22:11I spoke with her.
22:13I told her to give Cynthia my regards.
22:15So you weren't bearing any old grudges?
22:17Against Cynthia?
22:19What for?
22:20We're turning you in.
22:22It was Cynthia who called the cops and that you were arrested.
22:26That's true.
22:27She was just trying to save herself.
22:29Right after the bomb, Cynthia wanted to run.
22:31I tried to make it to Canada, but I, uh, I fell apart.
22:35Why?
22:36Guilt.
22:37I'm the one who built the bomb.
22:40I'm the one who messed it up.
22:41Messed it up how?
22:42The girls were supposed to have three minutes to get off that shit before it went off.
22:45Three minutes.
22:47When Cynthia got back in the car that night, she said that something had gone wrong.
22:50That the bomb had, had blown early.
22:56I'm the reason that Susan Mailer is dead.
22:57At least one of them took responsibility for what happened that night.
23:09Yeah.
23:10Maybe even a little too much responsibility.
23:11You don't believe Jared Swanstrom's story?
23:15Well, that's the thing.
23:16It's not his story.
23:17It's Cynthia's.
23:18You want to break it down for those of us who've already had a glass of wine?
23:21Cynthia told Lee Wax that she and Susan Mailer had an argument as to whether or not to set
23:25off the bomb once they knew the captain was on board.
23:29Cynthia backed out.
23:30Susan went on to set off the bomb by herself.
23:32And boom.
23:34Huh.
23:35But today, Jared Swanstrom said that Cynthia told him there was something wrong with a timer.
23:39She never said anything about an argument.
23:41Oh, well, that is a rather glaring omission.
23:44You know, when I'm writing, I find it's all about choices.
23:47What to put in, what to leave out, when to reveal some information, when to hold something back.
23:52But as someone else's ghostwriter, you only know what they want you to know.
23:56But Lee Wax isn't Cynthia's ghostwriter anymore, right?
24:00Now that she's dead, it's no longer a memoir.
24:03It's a true crime story.
24:04And it sounds like the true story is a whole lot juicier than Cynthia's lies.
24:18Good morning.
24:19Oh, hey.
24:21Sorry.
24:21Just been going over Lee Wax's interview notes.
24:26When she spoke to Jared Swanstrom, he told her the same thing he told us.
24:29Cynthia said the bomb blew early.
24:31She left that version out of her book.
24:32That's because it contradicted Cynthia's latest story.
24:36The girls argued when they discovered that Captain Pike was still on board and that Susan set the bomb alone.
24:41According to the publisher, Cynthia has full approval over everything Lee Wax wrote.
24:46It was her way or the highway.
24:47You talked to the publisher?
24:48I am somewhat known in those circles.
24:52Anyway, they didn't like it.
24:54They were looking for a true crime tell-all and what they were getting was some sanitized bunch of remorseful boohooing.
25:00They were getting ready to pull the plug.
25:02And now?
25:02Well, now that Cynthia's murder is all over the media, they're back on board.
25:05So long as the book takes a more sensationalized angle.
25:07Kaboom!
25:09The true story of a domestic terrorist to a suburban housewife and the crime that shocked America.
25:14Catchy.
25:15Thanks.
25:16So with Cynthia out of the way, Lee Wax is sitting on a potential bestseller.
25:20People have killed for a lot less.
25:27Beckett.
25:27All right, bring him in.
25:34What?
25:35Adam Pike's alibi fell apart.
25:37He was lying about being at work on Tuesday night.
25:41I didn't kill her.
25:43I didn't even know where she was.
25:45We're not going to get anywhere if you keep lying to me.
25:48I know you went to Westchester.
25:50I spoke to Cynthia's husband.
25:51He remembers seeing a guy just like you outside their house a couple weeks before she was murdered.
25:57Don't make me put you in the lineup.
26:00I just...
26:01wanted to talk to her.
26:05How'd you find her?
26:06That writer.
26:08The way she kept talking about what happened to my dad.
26:10She knew things that only someone on that ship could know.
26:14So I started following her around.
26:17Eventually she led me to Cynthia Dern.
26:19And why didn't you call the police?
26:21Because I wanted to look her in the eye.
26:23I wanted to tell her none of it mattered.
26:25Her blood money wouldn't buy our forgiveness.
26:29What money?
26:30What do you mean by blood money?
26:32After I found out where Cynthia lived, I went and told my mom.
26:35I didn't know if we should call the feds or what.
26:38She started crying.
26:39She told me we've been getting money every month since the bombing.
26:42Different amounts.
26:42Sometimes more.
26:43Sometimes less.
26:44But every month.
26:46And she thought that the money was coming from Cynthia Dern?
26:48In the first envelope, there was a note.
26:51Please forgive me.
26:53Susan Mailer was dead.
26:54Swanstrom was in prison.
26:55There wasn't anybody else.
26:57You know what?
26:58This kind of evidence, Cynthia, could have been caught years ago.
27:01Mom said without that money, we wouldn't have made it.
27:04She figured as long as Cynthia was free, the money would keep coming.
27:08So why did you lie to me about where you were last Tuesday?
27:17Because I was there.
27:18At the hotel.
27:20I followed her.
27:21I was just going to talk to her.
27:23I spent an hour walking up and down that hallway trying to get up the courage to go and knock on that door.
27:28You know?
27:29I was going to do it.
27:31But then someone got off the elevator and knocked on her door instead.
27:35You saw her kill her?
27:36I didn't get a good look.
27:39But I did hear them talking.
27:41And I can tell you one thing.
27:42What?
27:44It was a woman.
27:48Lee Wax.
27:50Beckett!
27:51It was Lee Wax.
27:54Beckett?
27:56Lee Wax.
27:58Lee?
28:06I have an eyewitness who can place you at the SRO where Cynthia's body was found.
28:17You had motive, means, and opportunity.
28:20Please.
28:20Only a novelist could come up with a twist this absurd.
28:23As absurd as killing a woman to salvage your story, drowning her in motor oil will give you just the ending you needed.
28:29I'm a true crime writer, so I don't have your talent for fiction.
28:35We know your publisher wanted to dump your contract.
28:38Because I told them that I thought Cynthia was lying.
28:41So you didn't believe her remorse was genuine?
28:44When Cynthia cried, it was for herself.
28:46She wanted to cash in and keep herself out of jail.
28:49That's it.
28:49Well, she must have felt some responsibility for what happened.
28:51After all, she sent the Pikes money year after year.
28:56What money?
28:58Every month since the bombing, the Pikes have been receiving money, courtesy of Cynthia Dern.
29:03Only there's nothing about that in your notes.
29:05Because she never told me.
29:06Are you sure?
29:07We're sure.
29:08Look, the Tuesday that Cynthia was killed, I was out to dinner with my publisher until after midnight.
29:14So I couldn't have killed her.
29:15Remind me, if I ever decide to write a memoir, to never write a memoir.
29:23Okay.
29:30Why not?
29:31Because memoirs are about truth.
29:34And I'm not a very truthful person.
29:36It'd be too easy to make myself look good.
29:38Might be harder than you think.
29:40Maybe.
29:41But I would sure start with the most generous thing I ever did.
29:45You mean like how you anonymously sent money to your victims because you felt so guilty about what you'd done?
29:52The object of Cynthia's memoir was to gain sympathy.
29:56What could be more sympathetic than sending the Pikes guilt money for 20 years?
30:00It doesn't make sense that Cynthia didn't tell Lee Wax.
30:03Unless the money didn't come from Cynthia.
30:06It had to be from Cynthia.
30:07Swanstrom was in prison and Susan Mayer was dead.
30:10Call.
30:10And you're sure no one else was involved?
30:12Well, just the three of them.
30:13Assuming you believe the FBI.
30:15Call.
30:15You know, we don't really have to talk about this.
30:18Anything to stop his honor here from talking about budget initiatives.
30:22Okay, Judge.
30:23Who was it that appointed you again?
30:24Okay.
30:25Now, the FBI, I believe.
30:27But why take Cynthia Dern's word for anything that happened the night of the bombing?
30:31When her own ghostwriter didn't even trust her.
30:34You know, the judge is right.
30:36What do we actually know about what happened?
30:45Not much.
30:47According to Lee Wax's notes, Captain Pike heard two women arguing just before the explosion.
30:52Cynthia claims that she was trying to change Susan's mind.
30:55Fold.
30:55But if we assume Cynthia was lying.
30:57Then maybe it was Susan that wanted to save Pike and Cynthia that wanted to run.
31:03Raise 20.
31:04Right.
31:05But the bomb was already set, so the three-minute timer is already ticking.
31:08The girls argue.
31:10Wasting precious seconds.
31:12Susan runs towards the ticking bomb to try to shut it down.
31:14Well, Cynthia runs for cover.
31:16Right.
31:16Susan gets to the bomb, but too late.
31:18Boom.
31:19Which means Susan Mailer didn't die trying to set the bomb.
31:23She died trying to save an innocent man's life.
31:25Fold.
31:26It still doesn't explain where the money came from.
31:29Fold.
31:31Well, what about it, Castle?
31:32You're good with twists.
31:33Where'd the money come from?
31:35I'm thinking.
31:36Yeah, well, you might want to think up some chips for the pot,
31:39because it looks like it's just you and me.
31:41Whoa.
31:44All right, Detective Beckett.
31:46I'm all in.
31:47Oh, what's the matter?
31:49Are you afraid of a little action?
31:50Oh, do us a favor, Detective.
31:52Beat his pants off.
31:53Yes, please.
31:54Beat my pants off if you dare.
31:56Beckett, do me proud.
31:58To hell with proud.
31:59Make him cry like a little girl.
32:05All right.
32:06Sorry, fellas.
32:23It's just not my night.
32:24Oh, who's a good little boy?
32:28Who's a good little boy?
32:30You are, and you are, and you are.
32:33Don't you ever get tired of winning, Castle?
32:34Well, you think so, right?
32:35But no.
32:36Well, I think that's it for me.
32:39Detective, it was a pleasure.
32:41Mr. Mayor.
32:42Sorry we couldn't solve your case.
32:44And I'm sorry I couldn't make him cry like a little girl.
32:47Well, it's not your fault, Detective.
32:49No matter how down he gets, he always manages to rise from the dead.
32:53Oh, now that'd be a twist.
32:55What?
32:57The money had to come from Cynthia, because Swanstrom was in jail, and Susan Mailer was dead, right?
33:02Right.
33:04Well, what if Susan Mailer didn't die in that explosion?
33:08What if she's still alive?
33:20Susan Mailer? Alive?
33:22Her body was never found.
33:23Yeah, because she was vaporized in the explosion.
33:26Well, maybe she was thrown clear.
33:28Well, then she would have been badly burned and would have needed care.
33:30No one matched your description, ever checked in the area hospitals.
33:33Mere details, my good man.
33:35Um, around here, we call them facts.
33:36Well, then let's go get us some facts.
33:41Please don't think less of me.
33:43I did what I had to do to survive.
33:48These are from all over the place.
33:49Uh, not the recent ones. The recent ones are all the same.
33:55Lititz, Pennsylvania.
33:58If we're gonna road trip, I'm gonna have to pee first.
34:04I've never seen her before.
34:05Are you positive?
34:06Didn't he sound positive?
34:07Castle.
34:08Okay.
34:10How about her?
34:13She'd be older now.
34:14How much older?
34:1520 years.
34:19I don't think so.
34:21That's what I get for listening to a mystery writer.
34:24She might have scars or walk with a limp.
34:27Like she's been in an accident?
34:29Could be Mary Wright.
34:33Mary Wright?
34:33She comes in once a month or so.
34:36Buys a money order to send to her relatives in New York.
34:40Do you have her address?
34:41It sounds naive now, but, um...
34:48Everything I did back then, I did because I thought it would help.
34:53We're not here because of the bombing, Susan.
34:56We're here because of what you did to Cynthia Dern.
34:59Her body was found in a tub of motor oil.
35:01But you already know that.
35:03Forensics is going through that room as we speak.
35:06And believe me, they will find something.
35:08Something that connects you to Cynthia's death.
35:10She should have just left it all alone.
35:14She had a husband a good life.
35:16Well, it wasn't Cynthia.
35:17Once she decided on something, well, you just better not be in her way.
35:20Like that night on the tanker.
35:22I saw the captain go below.
35:24I don't know how he got back on board without us seeing you.
35:27I tried...
35:30I was too late when the bomb exploded.
35:33I was thrown overboard.
35:36I can still feel the heat on my skin.
35:40Even today.
35:43How did you survive without medical attention?
35:52A friend took me in.
35:54A med student nursed me back to health.
35:57I got a new identity.
35:58And Mary Wright was born.
35:59It's not hard to live like a ghost when everyone you love thinks you're dead.
36:06I never contacted anyone from my former life.
36:10Not even my parents.
36:12But you still sent money to the Pikes?
36:15They had a son.
36:18Medical bills.
36:19I was responsible.
36:22Everything could have stayed just the way it was, except...
36:26Except Cynthia decided to write a book.
36:28That reporter put a post on an environmental board asking for info on Cynthia.
36:32I emailed, pretending to be an old friend of the group.
36:35Didn't take long for me to figure out that she had found Cynthia, and Cynthia was lying about what happened on the ship.
36:41You tracked her down.
36:42You confronted her.
36:44I threatened to turn myself in if she went through with the book.
36:48Give myself up.
36:48Tell the authorities.
36:50Everything.
36:51She begged to meet with me first.
36:54Somewhere we could talk.
36:56That's when you rented the room?
36:57Oh, Cynthia rented the room, not me.
37:00It was all part of her plan.
37:02Her plan?
37:02Her plan to murder me.
37:05When I got there, she poured me a drink.
37:09Let's toast to old friends, she said.
37:12Only, you see, I don't drink.
37:16I tried to leave.
37:18She wouldn't let me.
37:20I hid in the bathroom.
37:22That's when I saw it.
37:24A tub full of oil.
37:27Then I understood.
37:31She didn't plan to talk to you.
37:33She planned to kill you and make it look like suicide.
37:36That wine was laced with a sleeping pill.
37:39You were supposed to drink it and then drown in the oil.
37:42And then the world would think that you were wracked with guilt over the pikes all these years
37:46and that you finally decided to commit suicide.
37:48Once your body was discovered, the public would clamor for the true story, Cynthia's true story,
37:53with you now cast as a villain.
38:04We struggled.
38:05She lost her balance and fell against the sink and hit her head.
38:16I should have called for help, but I just wanted it to be over.
38:19So I, I dragged her to the tub and, I, I pushed her in.
38:37You see, I was already dead.
38:39I just wanted to keep it that way.
38:40I heard you made an arrest.
39:02You can hear all about it in the morning news.
39:06Oh, come on.
39:07After all the help I gave you on this case, you can't give me any more information than that.
39:11Well, I could.
39:13But I just keep thinking that if it wasn't for you, there wouldn't be a case in the first place.
39:17What does that mean?
39:19All the people from Cynthia's past that you interviewed,
39:22how did you manage to let every one of them know that you were in contact with her?
39:28What are you implying?
39:29You wanted someone to put two and two together and call the cops.
39:32You wanted Cynthia in prison.
39:34That way you could tear up the contract you had with her
39:36and write the story you wanted to write.
39:39With an ending that would sell more books.
39:42I mean, you couldn't call the authorities yourself.
39:44What kind of story would that be?
39:46That's a lovely theory.
39:50But even if it's true, I didn't kill Cynthia Dern.
39:53I didn't even do anything illegal.
39:56Oh, no, no, no.
39:58It's not illegal.
40:00It's just slimy.
40:02So your, uh, all-access pass has been revoked.
40:13Oh, and one more thing.
40:15One day, and one day not far from now.
40:18I'm going to use this in a book.
40:19Susan Mailer is in booking.
40:36All these years, trying to do the right thing, trying to make amends.
40:43Because of Cynthia's greed, she's going to end up in jail.
40:47If you're looking for a happy ending, you've come to the wrong place.
40:49Next time, I guess I'll just try that massage parlor on 2nd Avenue.
40:53Just kidding.
40:54Actually, who needs a happy ending when you have a story with people pretending to be dead?
40:59Living under assumed names, plotting fake suicides and murder for revenge?
41:03You know, I'm glad to see that you're entertained.
41:06I, however, have to call Michael Goldman and let him know that his wife was a sociopath.
41:10But you also get to call Jared Swanstrom and tell him that he's no longer responsible for Susan Mailer's death.
41:15As a matter of fact, Susan Mailer's still alive.
41:17Which is why Cynthia is now dead.
41:19Wow, you are all about the cloud, aren't you?
41:21Never the silver lining.
41:23Okay, maybe this might cheer you up a little bit.
41:28Your winnings.
41:29My winnings?
41:30Oh, don't play coy with me.
41:31You threw your hand.
41:34All right, I was trying to be nice.
41:36I didn't want to embarrass you in front of your friends.
41:38Now we're even.
41:39So what do you say to a little showdown?
41:44Head to head.
41:45Toe to toe.
41:47Winner take all.
41:48Mano.
41:49Hey, mujer.
41:51Hand to woman?
41:53Whatever it takes.
41:57You're on.
41:58No mercy.
41:59I'm going to make you hurt.
42:00Oh, you're going to get hurt.
42:01What are we playing for?
42:02Pride.
42:03Or clothing.
42:05I think I got a bag of gummy bears.
42:07Shuffle.
42:08Deal.
42:13Comfy with Texas Hold'em?
42:15I'm comfy so long as my cards come from the top.
42:17of the deck.
42:18What'd you get off your sleeves?
42:20Aside from my muscular palms.
42:22You're so stuck up.
42:26You're so stuck up.
42:36You're so stuck up.