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00:00Morning, grande skim latte, two pumps sugar-free vanilla, and a bear claw.
00:16How did you know?
00:17I'm a novelist.
00:18It's my job to notice this.
00:21Sunday morning, shouldn't you be slinking home from a scandalous liaison?
00:25Would you be jealous if I were?
00:27In your dreams.
00:28Actually, in my dreams, you're never jealous, and in my dreams, you're just enjoying it.
00:33Well, my company called and said, come down right away, so it must be gruesome.
00:37Try not to get so giddy every time we go to a crime scene, okay?
00:40Because somebody's dead doesn't mean you have to be grumpy.
00:43Oh, do you want to say grumpy?
00:44How about the cover art for your new novel?
00:47Nikki Heat cover art?
00:48That's only available...
00:49Oh, my God.
00:51You subscribe to my website?
00:52Wait a minute.
00:53Are you Castle Freak 1212?
00:55Castle Lover 45?
00:56You do realize that most people would be creeped out by crazy anonymous fans?
01:02Like you.
01:03It was strictly professional curiosity.
01:06So what did you think of your alter ego, Nikki?
01:08Pretty sweet, right?
01:09Sweet?
01:11She's naked.
01:12She's not naked.
01:14She's holding a gun strategically.
01:16You know, I take comfort in the fact that if they're already publishing the cover art,
01:23then your book and our little partnership is almost done.
01:27There's no coffee in here, sir.
01:34Sir, what's going on?
01:36Two-year-old girl, Angela Candela, reported missing by her parents about eight o'clock this
01:39morning.
01:40Where'd they find the body?
01:41They haven't found her.
01:42She was abducted.
01:43Father was in the other room painting.
01:44Kidnapped from her home?
01:45I don't understand, sir.
01:46If this isn't a murder, why am I here?
01:48The feds requested you to be on the task force.
01:50Feds?
01:51FBI has jurisdiction over child abduction cases.
01:54Then why call me?
01:55Because I like pissing off the FBI.
01:57Because you think outside the box there's something the thieves rarely do.
01:59Sir, who's the special agent in charge?
02:01Beckett, it doesn't matter.
02:02Sir, who?
02:03Sorenson.
02:05Who's Sorenson?
02:07I thought that he was in...
02:08In Boston, not anymore.
02:09He's here.
02:10Who's Sorenson?
02:11This isn't going to be a problem as a detective.
02:12I mean, we're all professionals here, right?
02:14Actually, I'm not.
02:15Who's Sorenson?
02:16No, sir.
02:16Not a problem.
02:17For what it's worth, that missing little girl doesn't care about your history,
02:22nor do her terrified parents.
02:23They just want their baby back alive.
02:26Where is he, sir?
02:27He's over there talking to the parents.
02:30Montgomery.
02:32Yeah, please.
02:34Whatever you need.
02:35Excuse me.
02:40Hello, Kate.
02:42Hello, Will.
02:42How long have you been back?
02:44A couple months.
02:47Something wrong with Boston?
02:49Fresh lobster gets old fast.
02:53You look good.
02:55Thanks.
02:56I feel good.
02:57Uh...
02:57Agent Sorenson, this is Richard Castle.
03:01The famous novelist.
03:03Writer of wrongs.
03:04So, Captain Montgomery filled me in on your little arrangement,
03:08and I have no problem with it,
03:09as long as it doesn't interfere with the investigation.
03:11Oh, don't worry about me.
03:12Quiet as a mouse.
03:17Angela Candela, two years old, abducted this morning between 7.30 and 8 a.m.
03:22Parents were home at the time.
03:24How do you get abducted when your parents are home?
03:27Yeah.
03:27Dad got up with the kid about 7, let the mom sleep in.
03:33He planted Angela in front of the tube with a juice box and some cereal,
03:36then headed into his art studio.
03:40Obviously, he's a painter.
03:42He just left his kid?
03:44Did he hear anything, at least?
03:46He was listening to his iPod.
03:48Nothing like a little quality time with Daddy.
03:50When I couldn't find her, I looked everywhere for her,
04:00and then I saw the window.
04:02The lock was jimmied from the outside.
04:05I ran outside, I looked for her.
04:09Mr. Candela, you live on a ground floor apartment
04:11with windows facing the alleyway.
04:13Most people have bars.
04:14We were going to, we just...
04:16I never got around to it.
04:17We think the dirt's from the outside.
04:19How could this happen in our own home?
04:23So our suspect climbed in through the window,
04:25grabbed Angela, and probably walked out the back door.
04:27Just like that?
04:28We have her photo on the wires
04:30and issuing an AMBER alert to Port Authority
04:31in the tri-state area.
04:32How would my guys run any registered sex offenders
04:35and residential burglaries?
04:36What about the parents?
04:38Anyone they can think of?
04:39No, not that either of them can think straight right now.
04:42If this thing goes south, they'll never think straight again.
04:44Agent Sorensen?
04:46The phone's over there.
04:47Get a tap on it.
04:49This one will end better.
04:52I promise.
05:05Six months.
05:07Six months what?
05:09We dated for six months.
05:13I didn't ask.
05:16Yeah, I know.
05:17You were not asking very loudly.
05:19I know I'm like a Jedi like that.
05:23So how'd you meet?
05:25Kidnapping.
05:26Six-year-old boy.
05:27How'd it end?
05:28We got the guy.
05:30What do we got on the parents?
05:32Teresa and Alfred Candela.
05:35Married, ten years, one child.
05:37Angela Candela.
05:39Whoa!
05:40Sorry.
05:42Sorry, man.
05:42That tie took me to my surprise.
05:44Okay, get it all out.
05:48This is a gift from my girlfriend.
05:51Girlfriend.
05:51Today's our two-week anniversary.
05:53Ooh, two weeks.
05:55Is that the paper or the silk?
05:56I believe it's the whipped.
05:58Go with it.
05:58Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:59One child, Angela Candela, age two, adopted.
06:03Adopted?
06:04Yeah, two years ago.
06:05Mom, Teresa, she's a fund manager at Keller Stanton.
06:07Dad's a small-time artist.
06:09Shows at the Grayson Gallery in Chelsea once in a while.
06:12Neighbor says he stays home with a kid.
06:14All right, here's a list of all the people who had access to the apartment.
06:17Babysitters, cleaning ladies, super.
06:19Let's cross-reference that with any registered sex offenders in the area.
06:21See if anyone had a thing for little girls.
06:23You're thinking there's some creepy crawly probably scattered from the inside?
06:27Well, the father said what he did this morning was part of a routine,
06:30so either somebody got lucky or they already knew it.
06:35Beckett.
06:37Yeah, we'll be right there.
06:38Looks like it wasn't a creepy crawler after all.
06:42Candela's just got a ransom call.
06:45Hello?
06:46We have your daughter.
06:48Please, she's just a child.
06:49Please don't hurt her.
06:50Whether we hurt her is up to you.
06:52Whether she lives is up to you.
06:54You want your daughter?
06:55We want $750,000.
06:58You have 24 hours.
06:59I want to speak to her.
07:01I want to know she's safe.
07:02I use an internet voice over IP service.
07:07Meaning it's untraceable.
07:09Can you raise the $750,000?
07:12It's everything we have.
07:13It means getting Angela back will pay.
07:15Then you should start getting her financial records together.
07:18Mrs. Candela, is there anyone that you know that can help you?
07:22An accountant or maybe someone at your firm?
07:24Nina could help.
07:26Nina?
07:26My sister.
07:27She's a CPA.
07:29But even if we give them the money, how can we be sure we'll get her back?
07:36You have to have hope.
07:38You have to imagine your little girl walking through that front door safe and sound.
07:42Your daughter needs you right now.
07:44She needs you to have faith.
07:46To be strong.
07:47You do this a lot?
07:58Kidnappings?
07:59You seem to know what to say.
08:01It's not about what you say.
08:03It's about controlling the situation, controlling the emotions.
08:05You requested your ex-girlfriend for the task force.
08:08That doesn't indicate to me a control of your emotions.
08:12I requested Beckett because she's the best in the city.
08:15Not because you wanted to see her again.
08:17How about you, Castle?
08:20You've written what?
08:2220 bestsellers?
08:24Well, 26, but it was counting.
08:26Why, I said you need to shadow a real detective.
08:28Well, the ones on TV seem oddly fixated on their sunglasses.
08:31So with all the fat, balding detectives in the NYPD, you just happen to end up shadowing her?
08:37Must be fate.
08:40Bless me.
08:41Candelas have pulled their financials.
08:42Their sister's on the way.
08:45Anything on the transcripts?
08:46It's clear the ransom demand has significance.
08:49Kidnappers make an issue about knowing what the Candelas have.
08:51They said it's everything they have.
08:54Whoever made the demand knows them well enough to know exactly what they're worth.
08:58How does it look?
09:03Detective Agent Sorensen, this is my sister, Nina.
09:07It's doable.
09:08We'll market the stocks tomorrow morning.
09:09We'll have to wipe out the retirement account on both pensions.
09:12And you'll have to pay penalties.
09:13I don't care.
09:14Whatever it takes.
09:15He paints when he's stressed.
09:21Does he sell much?
09:23Some.
09:24That's generous.
09:27Sorry.
09:29Why do you ask?
09:30I don't know many artists with their own pension account.
09:34Teresa set up the account for him.
09:36So he'd have something for him and Angela, you know, if something.
09:40Tell me.
09:40Mrs. Candela, we think the specificity of the amount of the ransom demand suggested kidnappers
09:46had knowledge of your finances.
09:48Was there anyone who might have had a grudge against you or maybe someone close to you who
09:52needed the money now?
09:53No one who would do something like this.
09:55What about Doug Ellers?
09:58Who's Doug Ellers?
09:59Someone I used to work with, but no, I can't imagine.
10:03What about those messages he left you at work?
10:05Remember you followed those complaints with HR?
10:07I know what happened, Alfred.
10:09Mrs. Candela, I know.
10:12How hard this is, it's understandable.
10:13I'll get frustrated, but please, we need to know everything.
10:18Ellers ran an asset management group.
10:22They weren't performing, so I let him go.
10:24Did he ever threaten you?
10:26Well, he blamed me for his divorce.
10:29He said his wife left him because I fired him and...
10:34And what?
10:36And she took his two kids.
10:41Where'd you find him?
10:43In line at Off Track Bedding.
10:44ESU just hit his apartment.
10:45No trace of the kid.
10:47That's not good.
10:48Pressure interview?
10:49I'll take the lead.
10:50Yeah.
10:51No.
10:52You'll be fine, Will.
10:53Kate, I don't care how big a fan of his you are, he doesn't come in the room.
10:59Fine.
11:00It's fine.
11:02Just for the record, though, how big a fan is she?
11:07Come on, Castle.
11:08Come watch from the bleachers with us.
11:10See how the Phoebes do it.
11:11Mr. Ellers, Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD.
11:16Special Agent Sorensen, FBI.
11:19When was your last contact with Teresa Candela?
11:23Teresa Candela?
11:24What's going on?
11:25Just answer the question.
11:26What did she say about me?
11:29Let's talk about...
11:30What you said to her.
11:34I gave you six years of my life.
11:36Six years.
11:37My profits built your whole damn division.
11:40And now you want to bend me over?
11:41You want to cut me out?
11:43Well, karma's a bitch, Teresa.
11:45You burned down my house, I'm gonna burn yours down.
11:47You left that three months ago.
11:53Just after your wife left.
11:55Yeah.
11:56So, every word of it's true.
11:59It's harassment.
12:00What, are you gonna press charges now?
12:02Yeah, kidnapping, assault, breaking and entering.
12:04What the hell are you talking about?
12:05Somebody kidnapped Angela Candela this morning.
12:09Kidnapped?
12:09Hurting someone else's child isn't the way to get back your own.
12:12No, no, no.
12:13This is not me.
12:14Teresa may not be my favorite person,
12:16but I would never harm a child.
12:18Your ex-wife wasn't so sure.
12:20According to your divorce papers,
12:21there are allegations of violence.
12:22My ex-wife was looking for a payday.
12:25That's all.
12:25You're not looking for a payday, are you, Mr. Ellis?
12:28You have the wrong guy.
12:35Run him down where he was all morning.
12:37Who can vouch?
12:38Pretty clear it wasn't him.
12:40You a mind reader, too?
12:41Come on, if he was your guy,
12:43he'd be downplaying his feelings for Teresa,
12:44not wearing him on his sleeve.
12:45A couple dozen bestsellers doesn't make you a criminologist.
12:48I also don't need a weatherman to tell me that the sky is blue.
12:51Oh, for God's sakes.
12:52Why don't you both just drop your pants and get it over with?
12:55I'm gay.
12:56The fact is you're both right.
12:58He probably didn't do it,
12:59but when a child's life is at stake,
13:01we have to be sure.
13:02We have to question everything we think we know.
13:05You guys keep Ellers on ice
13:06until we can trace every second of his morning.
13:08Will, you and I are going back to the Candelas.
13:10We're going to profile all of their associates.
13:11What should I do?
13:20I need you to go home.
13:25Okay.
13:26But if you need me,
13:28call.
13:28even if it's just a talk.
13:31Todd, honey,
13:47I really, really need you to focus
13:49on calibrating your creative energy.
13:52Now, by creative energy,
13:54what do I mean?
13:54I mean the source of your power.
13:56The source of your power, Todd,
13:59is you.
14:01Howdy, Mother.
14:02Hello.
14:03Bill, you're here.
14:06I'm just finishing up a session
14:08in my office.
14:11I'm so flattered you have
14:12my framed book covers in your office.
14:14Well, a coach can never be too proud.
14:18Mr. Castle,
14:21I just wanted to thank you
14:22for being so honest
14:24about your struggle
14:25with persistent
14:26and chronic writer's block.
14:28Excuse me?
14:28Well, Todd is
14:30an aspiring novelist,
14:32so I shared with him
14:33your inspiring tale
14:35of triumph over adversity.
14:37Well, how courageous of me.
14:40Good luck, Todd.
14:41Thanks.
14:42I'll take the year-long package.
14:44Way to be decisive, kiddo.
14:46Good for you.
14:47I'll see you next week.
14:48And remember,
14:49you is who you is.
14:50And if you ain't who you is,
14:52who is you?
14:54Well,
14:56nice to see all those years
14:57as an actress
14:57have really paid off.
14:59Focus on calibrating
15:00your creative energies.
15:02I'll have you know,
15:03Todd is a very bright spirit
15:06in need of direction.
15:07Mother, it's bad enough
15:08that you're slandering me.
15:09Do you have to come to my office
15:10to do your new-age coddle session?
15:13Richard, you can't expect me
15:14to pay Manhattan rates
15:15for office space.
15:16Well, how about this?
15:17You cannot beat this location,
15:19proximity to beverages
15:20and sharp utensils.
15:22Sweetheart,
15:23as your life coach,
15:25I have to urge you
15:26to say nay
15:27to your inner naysayer.
15:29I call that a Martha-ism.
15:31How is it that you don't know
15:32who my father is,
15:33you don't know how your ex-husband
15:34stole all your money,
15:35yet you are giving
15:36life coaching advice?
15:38Mistakes are the building blocks
15:39of wisdom.
15:41A Martha-ism.
15:42Besides, Freud was an addict,
15:44didn't stop him from helping people.
15:46Sadly, faced with his mother's
15:48twisted yet unimpeachable logic,
15:51Richard Castle's head exploded.
15:52So, why are you home so early?
15:57Well, thought I'd take a little breather
15:58working on a kidnapping case.
16:01A little girl.
16:03No wonder you're so surly.
16:05Those poor parents
16:06having a child ripped away,
16:08I can't imagine how they must feel.
16:09Is Alexis home?
16:11She's upstairs.
16:12Feeling a deep-seated need for a hug?
16:14Perfectly understandable.
16:15After all, we are pod mates.
16:18Another Martha-ism.
16:20I call it the peapod bond.
16:21You know, the bond that exists
16:23between parent and child,
16:24you and me, you and Alexis.
16:26We're all peas in a pod.
16:27And whether we like it or not,
16:29everyone who's ever had a child
16:30is in the pod forever.
16:32The peapod bond.
16:34Alexis!
16:35Thank you, Mother.
16:37Oh.
16:37I'll deduct my session pea
16:38from your rent.
16:39Whoa, whoa, whoa.
16:39You might want to consider
16:40the year-long package.
16:41It's a bargain.
16:43Ooh.
16:44Ah!
16:45What was that for?
16:48Just a peapod thing.
16:50Graham will explain.
16:59Hey.
17:00Hey, yourself.
17:02Want some?
17:03Yeah, thanks.
17:05So, I just got word
17:06from my guy's and Ellers
17:07is a dead end.
17:10The owner over at Paradise Diner
17:12on East 62nd vouched
17:13that he was having
17:13his usual poached eggs
17:15this morning.
17:15Hmm.
17:16Would have been too easy, right?
17:18Hmm.
17:20Over easy.
17:26It's like something
17:27Castle would say.
17:29You like him.
17:35No, I just, um...
17:37I don't know.
17:39I think he's interesting.
17:40I think he's interesting.
17:42So, you're not?
17:44Together?
17:46No.
17:52I meant to call.
17:54Must have picked up
17:55the phone a dozen times.
17:59Yeah, I know.
18:00You meant to do
18:00a lot of things.
18:01That's why
18:01you left, remember?
18:04Boston
18:06was a great opportunity.
18:08I'm not saying
18:08that it wasn't.
18:09I'm just saying
18:10it was a choice
18:12that didn't include me.
18:14You could have come.
18:17And then done what?
18:18Join the Boston PD
18:20and then you have to
18:20move to Phoenix
18:21and then Cleveland
18:22and then you're back here.
18:23I mean, we both
18:24know what that
18:25life is all about.
18:26It didn't stop me
18:29from missing you.
18:31Missing us.
18:33Sundays in the park.
18:35Those ridiculous
18:37neon ice skates
18:38at Rockefeller Center.
18:41I will have you know
18:42that those ice skates
18:44are awesome.
18:47I was in the skates.
18:54Well, I...
18:55I'm...
18:56I'm...
18:57Oh, I thought
19:03cops and feds
19:03hated each other.
19:05They say justice
19:05never sleeps.
19:06I think I know why.
19:07We were just...
19:08Being consenting adults.
19:10I'm not judging.
19:11I thought I told you
19:11to go home.
19:12I did go home.
19:13But then my mother
19:14told me something
19:14that couldn't wait.
19:15You live with your mother.
19:16Yeah, apparently
19:16we're peas in a pod.
19:17But the important point is
19:18Angela is adopted.
19:20So?
19:20So, prior to giving up
19:22her baby,
19:22the birth mother
19:23would have been given
19:24background on the
19:25can tell us.
19:25Specifically,
19:26their ability
19:27to support the child.
19:28Knowledge of their finances.
19:30Really?
19:31Kate?
19:32We're gonna waste time
19:33on the insights
19:34of Nancy Drew here.
19:35Is that supposed
19:36to be an insult?
19:36Because Nancy Drew
19:37solved every case.
19:38Look, okay,
19:40and I'm quoting here.
19:40When a child's life
19:42is at stake,
19:42we have to be sure.
19:44Which means we have
19:45to question everything
19:45we think we know.
19:47I was a junior
19:47in high school.
19:48What was I gonna do
19:49with the baby?
19:51It's been two years,
19:52Miss Gomez.
19:54Two years is still
19:56a long time
19:57to think about
19:57a decision you made
19:58when you were 16.
19:59What am I doing here?
20:00What is this about?
20:01We're talking about
20:02the baby,
20:03and you're regretting
20:04your decision.
20:04My decision?
20:06I don't regret
20:07my decision.
20:09Then why did you
20:09try to find her?
20:11What are you
20:12talking about?
20:14This is a petition
20:15that you filed
20:16with the adoption agency
20:17a couple of months ago.
20:19It's a form requesting
20:20the identity
20:21of the adoptive parents
20:22of Angela.
20:24A signed form.
20:26No.
20:27That's not my signature.
20:29You see how I...
20:29No, really.
20:30Look, you can see
20:31for yourself.
20:33That's not my signature.
20:34Why?
20:37What's going on?
20:38What happened to her?
20:40Is she okay?
20:41Did anyone in your family
20:42object to you
20:43giving up your baby?
20:44No.
20:45No one.
20:45My mom even
20:46helped me with it.
20:47And the father?
20:50Juan?
20:52Uh, he was in Iraq
20:53when I had her,
20:55but we talked about it.
20:57He was cool.
20:59Are you sure about that?
21:02Are you still in Iraq?
21:04No, he got back
21:04a couple of months ago.
21:12Juan Restrepo?
21:15NYPD, we'd like to ask...
21:17Go, go, go, go!
21:19Hey!
21:20Freeze!
21:21Hands up!
21:27Freeze!
21:28Keep your hands up.
21:31Hit the ground.
21:32On the ground!
21:33Hit the ground!
21:39So why'd you run?
21:40Look, in my neighborhood
21:41when you see a cop,
21:42that's what you do.
21:43You need to change your life.
21:46What?
21:46No, uh,
21:47good cop,
21:48bad fit?
21:50The guy did two tours
21:51in the Gulf.
21:52I go over there,
21:53turn it into a piss-a-match
21:55with Kate.
21:57She's got a way
21:57of sneaking up on people.
21:59You mean like last night?
22:02I can't believe this.
22:04He details cars for a living.
22:06He could have a little more
22:06pride in his ride.
22:08Dax.
22:10I'm just saying,
22:12it looked like
22:13quite a kiss.
22:15You jealous, Castle?
22:16Me?
22:17No.
22:18No, you have to admit.
22:19I was right.
22:21You are jealous.
22:23And I hooked her.
22:24What's there to be jealous, huh?
22:26You couldn't reel her in.
22:28We'll see about that.
22:31I was 18
22:32when Lucy got pregnant.
22:34Six months in,
22:35I got deployed.
22:38I never even had
22:38the chance to see her.
22:40But you signed
22:41the adoption papers.
22:43You know,
22:43when you're over there,
22:44you see so many kids.
22:46I just...
22:47I needed to know
22:49she was okay.
22:49I...
22:50I filled out the form
22:51and I put Lucy's name
22:52and stuff.
22:54You got an address.
22:56Yeah,
22:56Duke felt bad for me.
22:58He was over there too
22:58in Gulf 1
22:59and he only lost an arm.
23:00What'd you lose?
23:03An I.E.D.
23:04hit my MV.
23:06Shrapnel toll to the floor.
23:08Doc says I'm
23:09never gonna have kids
23:10of my own,
23:11so...
23:12I got an address
23:13and I went to go see my daughter.
23:15So you kidnap her
23:16and you ask her
23:16adoptive parents for money?
23:19A kidnap her?
23:19She was kidnapped?
23:20And you think I did that?
23:22All I ever wanted to know
23:23is that she was okay.
23:24Is she?
23:25Yo, birth dad?
23:30Story checks out.
23:32Limo company
23:32had him doing their fleet yesterday.
23:34I don't care.
23:34He had motive and opportunity.
23:36His motive was
23:37the instinct of fatherhood.
23:38If he took her,
23:39he'd have been with her,
23:40not at some $12 an hour
23:41detailing job.
23:41Doesn't matter.
23:42I want ESU
23:43honest place.
23:44It's not him, Will.
23:45We're at square freaking one
23:46and we've got nothing.
23:48You can send ESU
23:49wherever you want,
23:50but I'm not losing this one.
23:51What did she mean
23:54not losing this one?
23:58The case we worked.
24:01I thought you got the guy.
24:04We did, but
24:05the kid was already dead.
24:13Sorenson.
24:15I'm away.
24:17Another call about the ransom.
24:18They asked for 75 packs
24:21of hundreds,
24:22randomized serial numbers,
24:24and warned against
24:24bait money,
24:25dye packs,
24:26and trackers.
24:27Sounds like they know
24:28your playbook.
24:28They were detailed
24:29down to the make,
24:30model,
24:30and color of the backpack.
24:32Drop instructions?
24:33We wait for their call.
24:35All right,
24:35let's get the money set
24:36and be ready to make the drop.
24:38But why didn't they tell us
24:39where to bring the money?
24:40They're testing you.
24:41It's not unusual.
24:42Which means
24:43before we make the drop,
24:44we'll need to test them.
24:46We'll need proof
24:46that they have Angela
24:47and then she's okay.
24:49What if they don't give any?
24:51What if they refuse?
24:52How can you think that?
24:53I'm just saying.
24:54Wait, what,
24:54do you think she's dead?
24:55No, of course not.
24:57I should have gotten up.
24:58I shouldn't have let you watch her.
24:59Don't tell me what to say.
25:01Tell me, Alfred.
25:02Was it worth it?
25:03Was it worth our little girl?
25:05Oh, my God.
25:08Oh, my God.
25:09Oh, my God.
25:10Oh, my God.
25:12Oh, my God.
25:14Oh, my God.
25:16Oh, my God.
25:17Mrs. Candela.
25:21Teresa,
25:22you can't give in to your fear.
25:25Neither you nor your husband
25:26is responsible for what happened.
25:37Remember, no proof,
25:38no money.
25:39We need to be firm on that.
25:40Okay.
25:41Here we go.
25:42Hello.
25:44Listen carefully. Any deviation and your daughter dies.
25:49I understand.
25:51A civilian, not a cop, must make the drop or we will kill the girl.
25:55We see police or FBI and she dies. Do you have the money?
25:59Yes. $7.50, like you said.
26:02Put it in the backpack and bring it to the northeast corner of First Avenue and 47.
26:07There's a mailbox there with a cell phone taped underneath.
26:10We'll text further instructions once you're there.
26:13When we have the money, then we'll call with the girl's location.
26:17Ask for proof that Angela's okay.
26:20You won't get any money until I know my little girl is okay.
26:28Hi, sweetheart.
26:30One hour.
26:32Once they get paid, there's no incentive to keep her alive. So I'll make the drop.
26:42Figure we'll place our people at a one block radius from the mailbox.
26:46No. They said no cops.
26:48It's okay. I've done this before. They won't know I'm an FBI agent.
26:52And if they do?
26:53Mr. Candela, we need this to go as smoothly as possible.
26:56She's my daughter and we're going to follow their instructions to the letter.
27:01They said no cops.
27:05Look.
27:07I'm her father.
27:09And I can do this.
27:14Do I make myself clear?
27:15No way we can send the father.
27:25Too many things could go wrong. He's too emotional.
27:28What choice do we have?
27:29Me.
27:30What?
27:32I'm not a cop.
27:33I'm certainly not emotional.
27:35No. Absolutely not.
27:37The NYPD already has a signed waiver from me.
27:39And...
27:41I don't like saying this.
27:43But you're running out of time.
27:44Castle's right.
27:45You can't be serious.
27:46He's been with me on cases before.
27:48He's good under pressure.
27:51And...
27:52He's our best shot.
28:07Look at this.
28:08I got it.
28:09Look at her.
28:10Go.
28:23Okay, so this is usually the part where I ask if you've thought this through.
28:26And then I remembered you don't think things through.
28:28Cold hands.
28:29Cold hands.
28:31These people are dangerous, Castle.
28:33You need to stay alert and focused.
28:35Alert and focused.
28:36Alert and focused.
28:37God.
28:38Maybe if you...
28:39Maybe if you just rub them together for a second.
28:40Wait, wait.
28:41Alert and what?
28:42I'm just kidding.
28:44You're good to go.
28:45Thanks.
28:46Hey.
28:47It's gonna be okay.
28:51Look.
28:52About...
28:53Last night, what happened in the kitchen, I...
28:54I just...
28:55Oh, listen.
28:56You don't need to explain that.
28:57That's...
28:58I don't?
28:59Unless you want to.
29:00Uh...
29:01No, you know.
29:02I just figured for the character, for Nikki Heat...
29:04Yeah, I think I...
29:05I think I understand.
29:06You eat better than you think I do.
29:12Be careful, okay?
29:17Do I detect actual concern for my well-being?
29:19Screw this up and I'll kill you.
29:21It's more like it.
29:23Okay.
29:24I have eyes on the target.
29:25Over.
29:26Are you reading me?
29:27We don't have to read you.
29:28We can see you.
29:29Now shut up and focus.
29:30Roger that.
29:31555.
29:32He's quite a guy.
29:33You only knew how big a fan you really are.
29:34Yeah, well, he's not going to know.
29:36You never told him how you stood lying for an hour just to get your book signed?
29:51Now his novels got you through your mother's death.
29:55Is there anything you don't remember?
29:57Not when it comes to you.
30:00I feel like Michael finding the gun taped behind the toilet.
30:16Uh...
30:17You might want to tell Ryan and Esposito to hang back.
30:22They just sent a text.
30:23It says we're watching you.
30:25Could be just a ruse.
30:27Nope.
30:28They just sent another one.
30:30It says you're wearing a black raincoat.
30:33Okay, so they can see you.
30:34That doesn't change anything.
30:36Tell him to stop fooling around.
30:47I like that'll help.
30:50Okay.
30:51It says across the street and then west on east 47th.
30:58That's left, right?
30:59Right.
31:00Right right or right left?
31:02Left.
31:0312-01 first.
31:08That's just ahead.
31:10Got it.
31:11We see him.
31:19They want me to leave the bag at the shoeshine stand and exit out this side.
31:33Yeah.
31:34All right.
31:35I'm at the stand.
31:36Have him make the drop.
31:38Castle, leave the bag.
31:40Make the drop and walk away.
31:45Coming in.
31:46Don't have him yet.
31:48I just left it.
31:49I'm headed out.
31:50Esposito, Ryan, you got eyes?
31:52I see the shoeshine stand.
31:55Wait, I got the backpack.
31:56Asian male, long hair.
31:57I got him.
31:58I got him.
32:01What's the girl?
32:02Where's Angela?
32:03What girl?
32:04I don't know what you're talking about.
32:11Ryan, Ryan!
32:25The kidnappers posted an ad on Craigslist and said that this was a performance art piece for YouTube.
32:31They sent out nearly two dozen of the backpacks. The poster used an IP anonymizer making it impossible to trace.
32:38So we just do nothing.
32:40Well, I managed to slip the phone that the kidnappers gave me inside the backpack.
32:44I don't understand.
32:45Well, before I did that, I sent a text message to Detective Beckett.
32:48The phone's under a bulk account, so we can't trace its owner, but we can trace its ID.
32:53So far, we've pinged the phone to a 20 block radius on the Lower East Side.
32:56We'll need another few hours to narrow it down. In the meantime, I moved a team into the area.
33:01They'll work the streets, be ready to move when we have more information.
33:12Thanks.
33:13You okay?
33:24I keep thinking, if only I saw who took that bag.
33:27Well, that wasn't your job.
33:33I mean, I can't imagine anything like this ever happening to Alexis.
33:40We'll get her back soon.
33:43Not as soon as we hoped.
33:44They must have found it taking the batteries out.
33:46We just lost the signal from the phone.
34:13Hey.
34:14Hey.
34:15Hey.
34:16What are you doing up?
34:17Stressed about finals?
34:18American Litz today.
34:20I was having nightmares about Hester Prynne.
34:24Ah.
34:25The irony for you is not getting enabled to cause you shame.
34:28So why are you up?
34:30Looking for a white rabbit.
34:32Lewis Carroll or the Matrix?
34:33I'm not sure yet.
34:34What did Beckett tell you about taking phone photos of the crime scene?
34:39I don't know.
34:40I wasn't listening.
34:42See all those stuffed animals on the bed?
34:44Mm-hmm.
34:45It looks just like mine used to.
34:47Remember when I had all those animals?
34:49If by remember when you mean Monkey Bunky who's been washed so many times he looks like roadkill now, then yes.
34:53I have no idea what you're talking about.
34:54Oh, then you won't mind next time I see him if I throw him out.
34:55Don't you dare.
34:56I won't.
34:57I won't.
34:58I won't.
34:59I won't.
35:00I won't.
35:01I won't.
35:02I won't.
35:03I won't.
35:04Okay.
35:05Okay.
35:07So you think the bunny has something to do with the case?
35:10Well, I'll let you know when I go down the rabbit hole.
35:13Castle?
35:14Go back to sleep.
35:15What are you doing?
35:16When Alexis was little, she had a stuffed monkey that she could not live without.
35:33One time we went on vacation, she forgot to pack her.
35:36I bought her another one, but she knew it was not Monkey Bunky.
35:39So?
35:40There's two more pictures of her clutching this bunny out there.
35:44So where's the bunny?
35:46You think whoever took Angela knew her well enough to take the bunny too?
35:50Well, we already checked the Candelas list.
35:52A couple of teenage babysitters, a cleaning lady, they're all been cleared.
35:56Only, not all babysitters are teenagers.
35:59Sometimes they're people close to us.
36:01Sometimes they're family.
36:03When did we lose the signal on the phone?
36:06Right after we told the Candelas we were tracking it.
36:09What?
36:11Teresa's sister Nina, you got an address.
36:23Nina Medoza.
36:25You're under arrest for the kidnapping of Angela Candela.
36:28Taking your own niece.
36:29Put your hands behind your back.
36:31You have a right to remain silent.
36:33Hello, Angela.
36:34I'm so happy to see you.
36:36You wanna go and see Mom?
36:38Come on, baby.
36:40Look at you.
36:41Hello.
36:42Hi, beautiful.
36:44You wanna grab a pen?
36:46Grab it?
36:47No.
36:48Look at her.
37:05Oh my God.
37:06Angie!
37:08You look perfect.
37:09Just perfect.
37:10Is she okay?
37:11She's fine.
37:12Yeah.
37:13What are you doing?
37:14She's here.
37:15She's home.
37:16What is it?
37:17What's wrong?
37:18What's going on?
37:19Crawford.
37:20Can you take Angela?
37:21Good.
37:22How's she?
37:23Nancy?
37:24What are you doing?
37:25She's here.
37:26She's home.
37:27What is it?
37:29What's wrong?
37:40What's going on?
37:41Crawford.
37:42Can you take Angela?
37:45Can you take Angela?
37:51Come here, sweetie.
37:54Here you go, girl. Thank you. Here we go.
38:02What did you do?
38:04I worked 14-hour days, year after year,
38:07killing myself so that we can have a life.
38:10And what did you do?
38:13Oh, you painted.
38:15All you did was paint.
38:17That's not true.
38:18Really?
38:19What about that job you said that you were gonna get
38:21so that I can cut my hours?
38:22I was taking care of Angela.
38:24Taking care?
38:25You left her there.
38:27In front of the TV every day.
38:30Do you know how many times I woke up to her screams?
38:33Because he was in that room,
38:35blasting the music in his ears?
38:37It doesn't give you the right to kidnap your own child.
38:39How is it kidnapping? She's my daughter.
38:42Mrs. Candela, you had your sister climb through that window and take her.
38:46I gave her permission.
38:48It doesn't matter.
38:49You violated your husband's custodial rights.
38:53Custodial rights?
38:55He didn't even notice that she was gone.
38:58What kind of a father does that to his two-year-old child?
39:02Why would you do this? Why would you put us through that?
39:06And for God's sake, why not just divorce me?
39:08Oh, so that you can sue me for alimony?
39:11So that you can get half of everything?
39:14So that you can get custody of Angela?
39:17Because I'm at work all day and you can be there for her.
39:22No.
39:23I've seen what happens to the guys at work, what happened to Doug Ellers.
39:27No way was that gonna happen to me.
39:30You were paying the ransom to yourself.
39:32Once Angela returned, I would file for the papers.
39:41There would be nothing left for him to take.
39:44And if Angela was kidnapped when Alfred was taking care of her, then...
39:48The lawyer said that if I could prove him negligent, I would get custody.
39:52I wouldn't have to move out of the apartment that I paid for so that he could live here with my daughter.
39:59Do you know how hard it was to adopt her?
40:03How much it cost?
40:06Ten years!
40:07How many paintings have you sold, Alfred?
40:11Huh?
40:13How many?
40:18How could you hate me so much?
40:23You made it easy.
40:37That's what I think she'll do.
40:39Well, it depends on how many mothers are on the jury.
40:43So...
40:45Now that it's over...
40:48Now that I'm back, I was...
40:51Thinking maybe we could give him a shot.
40:54And when you leave again?
40:57You come with me.
40:58Think about it.
41:23Nice guy.
41:25I can see how it wouldn't work, though.
41:28Really?
41:29Sure.
41:30Huh.
41:31Handsome.
41:32Square-jawed.
41:33By the book.
41:34And that's a bad thing?
41:36It's like the male you.
41:37Ying needs yang, not another ying.
41:40Ying Yang is harmony.
41:43Ying Ying is...
41:45A name for a panda.
41:47Any more wisdom, Obi-Wan?
41:48Nope.
41:49That's it for today.
41:50What say we celebrate by going out for a drink?
41:52I can't.
41:53I got a date.
41:55A date?
41:56You date?
41:57Who?
41:59That's why it's called Private Life.
42:00Because it's private.
42:02Unlike you, I don't live my life on page six.
42:07Well, you're a mysterious woman, Detective Beckett.
42:09Maybe there's a little more Nikki Heat in me than you think.
42:11Open door, while I let myself in.
42:19I'm tired, boy.
42:22Need a drink, need a man.
42:27I'm not...
42:28We'll be at the next time.
42:29All right.
42:30We'll be we're back.
42:31Alright.
42:32Take care.
42:34We'll be back.
42:38Bye.
42:40Bye.
42:42Bye.
42:44Bye.
42:47Bye.
42:49Bye.
42:53Bye.
42:57Bye.