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Castle Season 2 Episode 13

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00:00I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I?
00:02I'm Rick Castle.
00:03Castle.
00:04Castle.
00:05I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:07Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine.
00:09Detective Kate Beckett. Beckett. Beckett.
00:11Nicky Heath.
00:12The character he's basing on you.
00:13And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:16I'd be happy to let you spank me.
00:18And together we catch killers.
00:20Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch.
00:22Turner and Hooch.
00:23You do remind me a little of Hooch.
00:30Don't worry.
00:54Meet the late Jack Koonin.
00:56Why is that name familiar?
00:57Because it probably crossed over all our desks a dozen times in the last few years.
01:02Aggravated assault, ADW, arson.
01:04Coonan had a heavy rep. Word is he's an enforcer for the Westies.
01:07Okay, remind me who are the Westies again.
01:10Irish Mafia out of Hell's Kitchen.
01:12They deal in cargo theft, counterfeiting, extortion.
01:15And public urination on St. Patrick's Day.
01:17Our boy Coonan also had a home security system, 12-gauge hollow point.
01:22That thing could stop a Kodiak in Kevlar. Who did he think was coming through the door?
01:26Well, whoever it was left him leaking from about 30 holes that don't normally appear in a healthy 35-year-old male.
01:32Nine millimeter sig still in his waistband.
01:35Didn't even have time to pull it out.
01:36This guy was armed and ready.
01:39Whoever got him was very, very good.
01:41Ninja assassin.
01:42Ninja assassin? Isn't that kind of redundant?
01:45Aren't all ninjas by definition assassins?
01:47Fine. Webster and Roger are ninja. Assassination implied by definition.
01:51Scales the building, slips in through this window, and then hides himself, I don't know,
01:55about.
01:56Hey, look at this.
01:58Our victim's a Johnny Vong fan.
02:00Someone actually bought those tapes?
02:02What?
02:03Who's Johnny Vong?
02:04Come on, you're kidding me.
02:05Every insomniac in New York knows who Johnny Vong is.
02:07His infomercial runs all night.
02:09Most people think you gotta have money to make money.
02:12But that's not true.
02:13Look at me.
02:14When I come to this country, I come with nothing.
02:17I come on boat.
02:18And now, I own a boat.
02:19I own a boat.
02:20Your friends might tell you.
02:22I'm sorry.
02:23Do you guys mind if we finish dealing with the dead guy on the carpet?
02:28Beckett.
02:29Cell phone.
02:30Looks like it took a direct hit from the knife.
02:32Have Tech fold the SIM card.
02:34I want to know who Coonan was talking to before he died.
02:36Ryan?
02:37No.
02:38Did, uh, did my brother suffer?
02:51Yes.
02:57Thank you for your honesty.
02:59I guess you could have lied to me.
03:01No, I couldn't.
03:02I've been on your side of the table, and when I was,
03:05what I needed most was the truth.
03:07I, uh, I built schools in Afghanistan.
03:11I don't give kids over there a fighting chance.
03:14I get all this recognition.
03:16Here's my big brother Jackie,
03:18the guy who taught me to fight for the little guy.
03:23What does he get?
03:24Worse than he deserved.
03:26I make no excuses for the things my brother did,
03:28but growing up, we were on our own a lot.
03:31Jackie was the toughest kid on the block.
03:33That's what first brought him to Rourke's attention.
03:36Finn Rourke?
03:37Hmm.
03:38He runs the Westies.
03:40What did he actually do for Finn?
03:42Jackie never said.
03:44But whatever it was,
03:48pretty sure it got him killed.
03:51Castle.
03:52These Westies can be pretty rough.
03:54So you sure you don't want to stay in the car?
03:55No way.
03:56Okay.
03:57Keep your mouth shut,
03:58and try to butch up a little.
03:59Hey!
04:00Hey!
04:01Fight!
04:02Fight!
04:03Fight!
04:04Fight!
04:05Fight!
04:06Fight!
04:07Fight!
04:08Fight!
04:10Fight!
04:11Fight!
04:12Fight!
04:13Fight!
04:14Fight!
04:15Fight!
04:16Fight!
04:17Fight!
04:18Fight!
04:19Fight!
04:20Fight!
04:21I'm looking for Finn Rourke.
04:22Is that right?
04:23Well, as far as I'm concerned,
04:27you and your wife there can keep looking.
04:33This is the part where I tell you that one phone call from me
04:38and the Department of Health will be down here.
04:40You'll be shut down for 30 days, I guarantee it.
04:42Do you really want to do that to your boss?
04:44It's not like I'm asking you to cough up.
04:50Come on, now.
04:51Can't hear the game.
04:52Tommy.
04:53Point for the pretty boy, huh?
04:54Saddle his stomach.
04:55Oh!
04:56Thanks.
04:57Mr. Rourke, I'm Detective Kate Beckett.
04:58I'm here about Jack Coonan.
04:59Yeah.
05:00And so we are.
05:01When did you last see Jack Coonan?
05:02I don't remember.
05:03In fact, none of us remember.
05:04I think you'll find the Department of Health and take a very liberal attitude to my establishment.
05:10And this is the part where I tell you to pound sand, Detective.
05:35Step away.
05:45Are you okay?
05:50Me?
05:52No, I'm good.
05:57Mario Mendoza, also known as Trucho.
06:04You did four years upstate for distribution in Queens, and you just got off of parole.
06:09Congratulations.
06:10I've got a dead Westie on my hands, and it looked like you were about to join, so...
06:14You want to tell me what you were doing in Finn Rourke's back room?
06:17Can I be real with you?
06:19Oh, please do.
06:20I had too much to drink, and I accidentally fell.
06:24You fell?
06:25I fell.
06:26Well, then how'd you get that mouse on your eye?
06:27I ran into the wall.
06:29How'd you burn your hand?
06:31After I ran into the wall and I fell, I put my hand out on the grill just to break my fall.
06:41Well, thanks for keeping it real.
06:43Look, I get it, the whole street code thing and all, but in my experience, Mario, guys like you end up catching another case sooner or later.
06:50And when you do, wouldn't you like to have a detective on your side?
06:57No, thanks.
06:59I'm good.
07:03He was my caller from back in the day.
07:07Guy ran dope for the Latin Kings.
07:09Latin Kings?
07:10It's a violent street gang.
07:11They mostly peddle girls and drugs.
07:13Yeah, Choo Choo's their blade man.
07:15Real handy with the knife.
07:16We never popped him for murder, but I met plenty of folks with fingers missing.
07:20So was there bad blood between them?
07:22Yeah, they're like the Hatfields and McCoys of Hell's Kitchen.
07:25So the Westies figure that the Latin Kings killed Kunin and they snatch their blade guy and bring him in for a little enhanced interrogation.
07:31Which no one wants to admit to.
07:32Uh-huh.
07:33In my experience, if Finn went all get more on him, it was for a reason.
07:36You got a Westie with holes in him, Choo Choo's probably your guy.
07:40He's right.
07:41We found Choo Choo's vehicle in an alley behind a little bodega in Rico Park.
07:44It's a big dope spot.
07:45And he left his little letter opener tucked behind the driver's side sun visor.
07:55That's not it.
07:57You didn't even look.
07:58Sure I did.
07:59It's a stiletto, four-inch Damascus blade, and it's way too small to make these wounds.
08:03Well, maybe he used a different knife.
08:06Just how tall is this true Choo?
08:08He's, um, five-six.
08:11Standing on his toes.
08:12And he's not your guy.
08:14Thrust angle on these wounds indicate Kunin's killer was over six foot.
08:18Well, maybe instead of using a stiletto, he was wearing stilettos.
08:23Excuse me.
08:26Back in.
08:29Hey.
08:30Hey.
08:31You okay?
08:32Yeah, thanks.
08:33Yeah, I'm fine.
08:38Tech's got some hits off of Kunin's phone.
08:40Maybe they can shed some light.
08:41Thank you, Lainey.
08:42Mm-hmm.
08:48The last call that Kunin made was to a New York landline.
08:51Because of the damage to this sim, it's missing the last two digits of the phone number.
08:54Well, that's 99 possibilities.
08:56We better get dialing, Ryan.
08:57I'm looking at you.
08:58Well, no, the numbers are off from the same phone tree.
09:00Here's where it gets interesting.
09:02They all trace back to the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
09:06What's an Irish street thug doing talking to the FBI?
09:10My program is idiot-proof.
09:20Look at me.
09:21I never went to college.
09:22I learned English from the HHS copy of Cannonball Run.
09:23Wasn't that DVD supposed to be booked in as possible evidence?
09:25Uh, yeah, but, you know, I thought there might be something.
09:26Put it back.
09:27Okay.
09:28I appreciate your coming down, Agent Forrest.
09:29Most of your FBI colleagues would expect the locals to come to them.
09:30Most of my colleagues worry about hair products and press conferences when they should be out
09:46catching bad men.
09:47I take it you're not from around these parts?
09:49No, sir.
09:50I'm not.
09:51But for my many sins, the Bureau has transferred me here to New York.
09:55How did you come into contact with Jack Coonan?
09:58He reached out to us about a week ago.
09:59And you signed him on as an informant?
10:01Nope.
10:02Why not?
10:04Because all there were were overtures.
10:06And I wasn't about to trade the family cow for a bunch of magic bands.
10:09You didn't trust him?
10:10When a case like Coonan reaches out to the Bureau, it's usually because he crossed his bosses.
10:14And he's hard up to trade them into the Bureau for a quick trip into the waiting arms of Witsack.
10:18Who was Coonan offering up?
10:20Never found out.
10:21Well, whoever it was must have gotten wind of it.
10:23And then killed Coonan before he had a chance to deliver them to the FBI?
10:27The Westies are a bit like the rogue state of Iran and the great state of Texas.
10:33They're not too shy in handing out the death penalty.
10:36And talking to the FBI is definitely a capital offense.
10:39We need to talk to Finn Rourke again.
10:41An angel visited Jackie's home two nights ago.
10:47Same Angelus took the Pharaoh's firstborn.
10:52Now I know some of you think you don't know the angel of death.
10:57But trust me, lads.
10:59He knows you.
11:01So, here's Sir Darling Jackie.
11:04Huh?
11:05He's up in heaven now, you can be sure.
11:08He broke in when there was in Vespers.
11:10Come to honor the dead, I hope.
11:24If not, I'll thank you to move away out of this place.
11:28You're lying.
11:29You know exactly what happened to Jack Coonan.
11:33That once over that you gave Trucha was just a piece of theater to throw them all off.
11:38Just like your eulogy.
11:40Now you be careful, detective.
11:42Or else what?
11:43You'll kill me just like you killed Coonan after he went to the feds about you?
11:47Enough!
11:48I'm not of you slandering like this.
11:53Not tonight.
11:54I got it straight from the FBI.
11:56Jack reached out to them just before he died.
12:03He turned on you, didn't he?
12:04You don't know what you're talking about, Boyle.
12:06Jackie Coonan was loyal.
12:08To his last breath he died in a state of grace.
12:12Even if what you say is true, you can be sure Jackie wasn't talking to the Gs about any of us.
12:18How can you be so sure?
12:25You've heard of me.
12:27You've heard I'm a gangster and a thief.
12:31Surely.
12:33You've heard I killed men.
12:36Would you answer me this, detective?
12:39Have you ever heard Finn Rourke running drugs?
12:43Someone was bringing it in here.
12:45Into my neighborhood, my backyard.
12:48I sent Jackie to find the bastards behind it.
12:52Find them and punish them.
12:55According to our rules.
12:57Only they punished him instead.
13:01Aye.
13:04That's easy.
13:07If you have probable cause, I suggest you arrest me now.
13:13If not, I'll remind you this is a private party.
13:17And I'll thank you to get the hell out of my place!
13:20Give her a minute, Castle. She can't just follow us out. It'd be too obvious.
13:35You noticed her?
13:36I'm a homicide detective.
13:37If there's one thing I know how to spot, it's a lady looking to unburden herself.
13:51She's looking for us.
13:52No, no, no. Don't honk deep throat. You'll spook her.
13:55Hi. I'm Molly.
13:57Hi, Molly. I'm Kate. Can we maybe give you a lift somewhere?
14:00Anywhere but here.
14:01Of course I knew Jack's reputation.
14:02It's part of what attracted me to him.
14:06What?
14:07You telling me you never had a thing for bad boys, Kate?
14:09No comment.
14:10So Jack never mentioned going to the FBI?
14:11Jack never discussed business. But I knew he wanted out. We talked about how to do a
14:18job at a job with you and you let them know.
14:23Hey, Molly, I'm Kate. Can I maybe give you a lift somewhere?
14:27Anywhere but here.
14:30Of course I knew Jack's reputation. It's part of what attracted me to him.
14:36What? You telling me you never had a thing for bad boys, Kate?
14:39We talked about going somewhere far away last week. Jack warned me. He might get there first
14:47Jack saw this coming. We spent every night together. He couldn't get to sleep without me next to him
14:53but last week, he wouldn't even let me come over
14:57anybody but Jack and
14:59I'd have thought he had something going on the side. That never crossed your mind?
15:09This is the last thing Jack ever gave me. On the last night I ever spent with him.
15:21Jack said if things broke bad, he wanted me to give this to the police.
15:27And how do you know it's to a bus locker? It's always to a bus locker.
15:31TSA tore most of them out, but a few terminals still have them and this one is the closest to Coonan's apartment.
15:37Wait, wait, no, no, no, don't do that. What?
15:39But once you open it, then we'll know. Could be an alien corpse in there. Ark of the Covenant.
15:45Or Johnny Vaughn DVDs. You gotta be kidding me. This is what Coonan wanted to give to the feds? Hold on.
15:55No.
15:59This is.
16:07Heroin.
16:09That was so cool just now.
16:11You like that?
16:12Yeah, it was very mammy vice.
16:13Hmm.
16:17Coonan wasn't going to the feds to rat out his Westie pals. He was looking to rat out the drug dealer Finn Rourke sent him to find.
16:23Well, the dealer flips the script, knifes Coonan before he can close the deal with the feds.
16:27So then we find the dealer and we find the killer.
16:29These boxes say the DVDs were packaged in Hong Kong. Someone must be slipping the heroin in before they shipped.
16:35Which means someone on this end had to know which boxes contained the drugs.
16:38And which boxes contained the secret path to financial independence.
16:43What?
16:44It had to be someone in Johnny Vaughn's organization.
16:50Yeah!
16:51I don't care if you're a busboy.
16:53I don't care if you wear the green apron and serve fancy coffee to a jerk talking on his Bluetooth.
16:59I was like you once.
17:01Then I discovered the one secret that changed my whole life.
17:05Who out there is ready?
17:07This place reminds me of my second wedding.
17:09Who is ready to close escrow on a new life?
17:14Come on!
17:17Don't even think about taking them off.
17:19If you do, I will pepper spray you.
17:20Mr. Bong, I'm Detective Kate Beckett with the NYPD.
17:22I'd like to ask you a few questions.
17:23Sure, sure, sure.
17:24We believe that one of your employees was smuggled with a new wedding.
17:26Who's ready to close escrow on a new life?
17:28Come on!
17:29Yeah!
17:30Don't even think about taking them off.
17:31If you do, I will pepper spray you.
17:32You are our winner!
17:33Thank you!
17:34Thank you!
17:35Mr. Bong, I'm Detective Kate Beckett with the NYPD.
17:36I'd like to ask you a few questions.
17:37Sure, sure, sure.
17:38Your employees was smuggling heroin into the country using your supply chain.
17:42Smuggle what?
17:43Smack!
17:44Would you mind if we looked in here?
17:46What?
17:47What?
17:48What?
17:49What?
17:50Ah!
17:51Ah!
17:52Oh, ooh.
17:53Heroin trafficking.
17:55That's good for a 10-year prison bid.
17:57So I don't blame you for running.
17:59This is all a big mistake.
18:01I never do drugs.
18:03Drugs is for losers.
18:04I'm a businessman.
18:06I try to help people achieve their goals.
18:08So long as their goals are to blow 300 bucks on your bogus real estate system.
18:12No, listen.
18:13I offer you 30-day money-back guarantee.
18:15If you don't start building wealth by then, I'll refund all your money.
18:18No questions asked.
18:19Could I make that offer if this was some kind of scam?
18:21The man is a point.
18:22Shut up.
18:23You don't think you...
18:24No.
18:25Look.
18:26Here's the deal.
18:28I'm not a dope cop.
18:30I'm a homicide detective.
18:31So usually I don't even bother with your sort of an operation.
18:34But my problem, and yours, is the fact that you had Jack Coonan killed in order to hide your heroin smuggling.
18:40Wait.
18:41Jack Coonan's dead?
18:43Whoa.
18:44Careful there, Johnny.
18:45Your accent's starting to fade a little.
18:47Look.
18:48I didn't come over on a boat.
18:50Okay?
18:51I've never even been to Laos.
18:52I'm from Danville, California.
18:54And this whole Johnny Vong thing?
18:56No one wants to buy a real estate system from a Harvard MBA.
18:59I'm gonna show them an idiot with a Rolls Royce and they'll knock down doors.
19:02So I played Johnny Vong.
19:03I hope people want all that Horatio Alger crap, so that's what I give them.
19:07All that and heroin.
19:08How exactly did you know Jack Coonan?
19:10Look.
19:12Whatever you think you know, I promise you I didn't kill Coonan.
19:16You have to believe me.
19:17Do I?
19:18Nothing about you is real.
19:20No.
19:25I needed money to take the program national.
19:28He needed a way to get product into the country.
19:31Stupid, but once you make a deal with the devil, you belong to him.
19:36Who do you belong to?
19:37Who are you working for?
19:39He'll kill me.
19:40I can protect you.
19:41You can't.
19:42Nobody can.
19:43You don't know what he's capable of.
19:45You don't believe me?
19:46Ask Jack Coonan.
19:47Look, Mr. Vong, I got...
19:48No.
19:49If he'll take my chances in prison,
19:52I'd rather lose ten years of my life than all of it.
19:57Whoever he's working for scares him a lot more than prison.
20:00There has to be a way to get it out of him.
20:02We could force him to watch Paris Hilton videos.
20:04Do you want me brought up on charges?
20:05Beckett.
20:06Hey, Lainey.
20:07What are you doing here?
20:09It's about the Coonan case.
20:11This is Dr. Clark Murray.
20:13He's a forensic pathologist.
20:15I asked him to consult.
20:17I'm Detective Kate Beckett.
20:18This is Richard Castle, the novelist.
20:20We've met.
20:25Note the rectangular bruising around these wounds.
20:28Here and here.
20:30Caused by the hilt of the knife striking with force enough to compress the skin.
20:34And as a result, the injuries penetrate deeper than the actual length of the blade.
20:39He's also honed the blade so fine, it's brittle enough for bits to break when it strikes bone.
20:45Which is why slivers of blade were found inside both of his victims.
20:48We now know those slivers come from the same murder weapon.
20:53Wait, two victims? How many people has he killed?
20:56Five that we know of.
20:58So we're looking at a serial?
21:00Yes and no.
21:01We believe we're dealing with a professional.
21:03Someone with extensive military training.
21:05A contract killer.
21:07I used tomographic reconstruction of Coonan's wounds to generate a 3D model of the blade used.
21:13It's a special operations group knife.
21:16A kind favored by special forces in Gulf War I.
21:20He kills with a single blow.
21:23Using these other wounds to camouflage the skill with which the initial stroke was delivered.
21:27The very same method and the very same weapon that the killer employed ten years ago.
21:36Lainey, I'm so sorry.
21:45Detective Beckett, there is no doubt in my mind that Jack Coonan was killed by the same man who murdered your mother.
21:55I am the investigator of record on this case.
22:08You had no right to withhold evidence from me.
22:10Well, what did you expect?
22:12The last time Castle tried to talk to you about your mother's murder, you bit his head off.
22:16Please, Lainey.
22:17I noticed the wound similarity.
22:21I reached out to Dr. Murray.
22:23I held off from telling you until I knew the evidence was rock solid.
22:27Beckett, we came to you the moment we were sure.
22:30Beckett, I'm gonna have a word with you.
22:33Beckett, I'm gonna have a word with you.
22:43Poor man's painkiller.
22:46I know your mother's murder was the reason you became a cop.
22:52And I know how you almost lost yourself trying to solve her case the first time you tried.
22:58I figured sooner or later, when you were ready, you'd want to take another run at it.
23:03I just never expected a killer to come around and sucker punch you like this.
23:07Kate, listen to me.
23:10You're the finest homicide I've ever trained, bar none.
23:13And I want you to stay on this one if you can.
23:16If you're up to it.
23:19But I wouldn't be doing my job as your captain if I didn't ask.
23:23Can you handle this?
23:30I'm sorry, sir.
23:32I can't.
23:38Beckett.
23:41Kate!
24:01Katie.
24:04Okay, Dad.
24:11So, what have you found?
24:25I don't know yet.
24:27But enough to scare you?
24:29Yeah.
24:32I didn't sleep well that whole first year after you got out of the academy.
24:36I'd hear sirens in the night and imagine you off in the darkness someplace.
24:42I had nightmares where it swallowed you whole.
24:50Dad, I don't want to lose this one.
24:52Dad.
24:53Your mother always said that life never delivers anything that we can't handle.
24:59I mean, she lived by that, you know.
25:02Called it Johanna's immutable law of the universe.
25:06And for years, I thought she was wrong.
25:10Because I couldn't handle losing her.
25:13Now, I can almost hear her whisper, I told you so.
25:18More of Mom's favorite words.
25:21Look, she was a devout believer in the truth.
25:25And if she were here right now, she'd tell you the truth can never hurt you.
25:29You know, this may be your mother's way of reaching out to you, Katie.
25:34And reminding you that the truth is still your weapon to wield.
25:39Not theirs.
25:42Hey.
25:43Hey.
25:44Come here.
25:47Hang in there, kiddo.
25:49Thank you, Martha.
25:51Leftovers in the fridge.
25:52Upstairs if you need us.
25:53Please.
25:54I will do anything that you need.
25:57Including nothing.
25:58If that's what you want.
26:00What I want is to find my mother's killer.
26:03It's a great deal.
26:05I don't know what you need.
26:06I don't know.
26:07It's a great deal.
26:08I don't know.
26:10I don't know.
26:11I don't know what you want.
26:14I don't know.
26:16I don't know what you want.
26:18You know.
26:19Come here.
26:21Hang in there, kiddo.
26:23Well, then we need to break Johnny Vaughn.
26:26So let's break him.
26:30I owe you an apology, Mr. Vaughn.
26:33Apparently in my haste, I forgot to read you your Miranda rights.
26:37You're free to go.
26:38No, I remember distinctly. You read them to me.
26:41And I waved them all. You did.
26:43She did. You remember, right?
26:44Sorry, man. It's a rookie mistake.
26:46No, wait. You can't. You can't do this.
26:49If I walk out of here now, he'll think I'm cooperating with the cops.
26:52I'll be dead by morning.
26:56Yes, you will.
26:58Or you can tell me who you're working for, and I will protect you.
27:08Dick Coonan.
27:11I work for Dick.
27:13You're telling me Jack Coonan's brother is a drug trafficker?
27:17It comes off like Jimmy Carter, but it was all a scam
27:20to funnel money to the warlords with the poppy fields.
27:22Sure, he'd build a few schools, so he had pictures for his donors,
27:26but most of their money funded his cartel.
27:29So he had access to all the dope he wanted.
27:31He just needed a way of getting it into the country.
27:33You couldn't get an aspirin from Cobbled New York
27:35without somebody knowing about it.
27:36Not since 9-11.
27:37All I had to do was let him package your drugs at my factory in Hong Kong.
27:42He'd pick up the dirty shipments once they cleared customs.
27:44And he had the Latin kings put it on the street.
27:46Perfect system.
27:48Perfect until Trucho caught a case as stupid
27:50and started selling in the Westies' territory.
27:52And then that's what brought Jack sniffing around.
27:54Jack threatened to give him to the feds unless he quit.
27:56So Dick killed his own brother.
27:58Oh, no.
28:00Jack had been with the Westies a long time.
28:02I ain't growing eyes in the back of his head.
28:04Dick hired a professional.
28:07What's his name?
28:09He called him Rathborn.
28:11How do I find him?
28:16Ask Dick Coonan.
28:21So, any progress on the son of a bitch who killed my brother?
28:27We're close.
28:27We think that Jack was killed after Rourke asked him to hunt down a drug dealer.
28:31Turns out the Westies have done a pretty good job
28:33with the war on drugs these past few years.
28:35Talk about zero tolerance.
28:37The punishment for dealing drugs in their neighborhood is death.
28:39But when he tracked down this dealer for some reason,
28:44Jack didn't have the heart to kill him.
28:47That is so, Jackie.
28:49He always led with his chin.
28:50Went through life like he was expecting to win
28:53the Good Sportsman Award on trophy night.
28:54Cut the crap, Coonan.
28:57We know all about your heroin triangle.
29:01Afghanistan, Hong Kong, New York.
29:06And we also know that you hired an assassin named Rathborn
29:09to kill your brother before he went to the feds about you.
29:12Prove it.
29:22Prove it.
29:39Are you okay?
29:40Ten years since we came home
29:48and found that detective waiting for us.
29:52Ten years since we crossed that yellow tape
29:56and went into that alley
29:57and every time I crossed the tape at a crime scene,
29:59I think of that night.
30:02That's what makes you such a good cop.
30:03What if I let her down?
30:18Do you know why I chose you as my inspiration for Nikki Heat?
30:22No.
30:23Why?
30:25Because you're tall.
30:26Now go in there and do your job.
30:35I have forensic accountants digging through your organization,
30:38Mr. Coonan.
30:39If there's evidence of heroin trafficking,
30:41they will find it.
30:43But that's not your biggest problem right now.
30:47Hiring an assassin like Rathborn shows premeditation,
30:50and that makes this a special circumstance case,
30:53which qualifies you for the needle.
30:57Now,
30:58I am willing to take the special circumstance allegations
31:01off the table
31:02if you give me Rathborn.
31:06The only special circumstance here, detective,
31:09is your complete lack of evidence against me.
31:12I have Johnny Vong.
31:17The guy with the phony accent
31:19and the real estate scam?
31:23Is that the best you can do?
31:27Are you really willing to bet your life
31:29that Vong can't hold his mud, Mr. Coonan?
31:32Give me the killer,
31:33and I will put the DA in the mood
31:35for a second-degree plea.
31:38When we first met,
31:40you told me you'd been on the other side of this.
31:44Remember?
31:46Now,
31:47could that be why you seem so eager
31:51to get your hands on this mysterious assassin?
31:55Because if I had to guess,
31:56I'd say that someone close to you was murdered,
31:59and you think Rathborn had something to do with it.
32:03But I don't have to guess, do I?
32:07Because it's all over your face.
32:10That still doesn't change the fact
32:12that you're guilty of murder.
32:15Maybe not.
32:17But for the low, low price
32:19of transactional immunity,
32:22I can give you the closure you've been seeking.
32:26You get Rathborn,
32:28and I walk.
32:30And that detective is my final offer.
32:35Transactional immunity, Paul,
32:36and I'm inclined to give it to him.
32:39Rathborn has killed five that we know of,
32:42including the mother of one of my people.
32:45It's one of our own, Paul.
32:47I remember that used to mean something in this town.
32:49Well, he went for it.
32:59The district attorney is going to offer
33:00Coonan immunity if he gives us Rathborn.
33:03I hope you know what the hell you're doing.
33:06Describe him.
33:08About my height.
33:09Just so average, he's almost invisible.
33:12How did you meet?
33:14We're in the service together.
33:15They said he'd been killed
33:17back in a training exercise in 95,
33:19but about a year ago,
33:21I'm sitting at a bar,
33:23and I glance across,
33:25and I'm looking at a ghost.
33:26Turns out he'd actually been recruited back then,
33:28not killed,
33:29to do the bad stuff
33:32that governments like to deny.
33:33How'd you hire him?
33:35He'd given me the number
33:36to his answering service in the Caymans,
33:38and they provided me
33:39with a single-use email address,
33:41numbered account,
33:42emailed him the name of his target,
33:43wired him the money,
33:44and waited.
33:45Okay.
33:46Here's the deal.
33:48You're going to contact Rathborn
33:50with a contract on Vong.
33:52You're going to tell him
33:53that the police are taking him
33:54to the DA's office
33:55for a deposition,
33:56that he can't make it there alive.
33:57It doesn't work like that.
33:59He wants his money up front.
34:01It's $100,000 non-negotiable.
34:03$100,000?
34:04The city is never going to agree to that.
34:06Look, you want to catch your killer?
34:08The price is $100,000.
34:09I can't just shoot
34:10that kind of money out into space
34:11without any hope of getting it back.
34:13You can't.
34:14I can't.
34:15This one's on me.
34:15Castle.
34:16Do we have a deal?
34:17We do.
34:19But my client's immunity kicks in
34:20the moment Rathborn accepts the contract,
34:23once the wire transfer is complete.
34:31As soon as Rathborn takes the job,
34:34your part is done.
34:35And I walk.
34:36And you walk.
34:41Rathborn has taken the bait.
34:43Now for today's performance,
34:45the role of Johnny Vogue
34:46will be played by Officer Clayton Lee.
34:48We are about to die.
34:49Salute you.
34:50Ryan and Esposito will escort Lee
34:52to the DA's office
34:53via a prearranged route.
34:55We'll have plainclothes in place
34:57on every corner and mid-block,
34:59and there'll also be air support
35:00for what it's worth.
35:02Not a whole lot.
35:03No one even knows
35:03what Rathborn looks like.
35:04Well, you shouldn't be too hard to spot.
35:06Yeah, he'll be the one
35:07who's trying to kill you.
35:09All right, let's go, everybody.
35:11Be advised,
35:12we are southbound Lafayette,
35:13approaching Worth.
35:15Roger on Worth.
35:15Let me know when you clear the intersection.
35:18We're through the intersection,
35:19continuing eastbound Worth.
35:22It's a solid plan.
35:24We're entering the parking garage.
35:30Eyes out.
35:31This guy's supposed to let close-up work.
35:34Be advised,
35:54we are now on foot.
35:54Rathborn's making his move.
36:13Drop it!
36:13Drop it!
36:14Don't move!
36:14What the hell's wrong with you?
36:17It's a phone.
36:19Disregard, disregard.
36:20It's not him.
36:21We must have spooked him.
36:24Rathborn didn't show.
36:24I let her down.
36:41No, you didn't.
36:42Rathborn's in the wind.
36:43Dick Coonan's about to walk.
36:48I missed something.
36:50Could have been me.
36:50Rathborn could have checked the routing number,
36:54realized the money was coming from my account,
36:56not Dick's.
36:57I was arrogant.
36:59I don't think you were arrogant, Castle.
37:00I thought what you did was sweet.
37:02And I will pay you back.
37:03Negative, Ghost Rider.
37:05Small price to pay for a shot at your mother's killer.
37:11Her killer?
37:12What?
37:15Coonan said it was a hundred grand to catch her killer.
37:18And you never told him it was your mother that was murdered?
37:22There was no Rathborn.
37:24That was just a cover.
37:25It was you.
37:30Clever girl.
37:32All right.
37:35Now here's what's going to happen.
37:39You're just going to stroll on over to the elevator.
37:42Together.
37:43Nice and easy.
37:46That'll never happen.
37:48You make a sound.
37:49You attempt to signal.
37:50You so much as clear your throat.
37:52And I'll put a round in this man's liver.
37:55And he will die slowly.
37:57In inconsiderable pain.
37:59Ah!
38:02Let's go.
38:02Let's go.
38:05What?
38:10No pithy remarks from the peanut gallery?
38:13Not so funny facing your own death, is it?
38:16Oh, no dick.
38:17You tell me.
38:18As to my check, this was a police station.
38:21You knew before I arrested you, didn't you?
38:23You knew my mom was your victim.
38:26It wasn't personal, okay?
38:27She was just another job.
38:28She was my mother.
38:31Who hired you to kill her?
38:33Forget it.
38:33You'll never touch them.
38:35I'll bury you.
38:36Tell me who.
38:37No, no, no!
38:38Sir!
38:39I need him alive.
38:40That's right.
38:41You do need me.
38:41Now back him off or Castle dies.
38:44Sir, back off.
38:46Please.
38:47You know I can't do that.
38:49Hey!
38:50You want to learn who ordered the head on your mommy?
38:52You better make sure I make it out of here.
38:53Roy, please.
39:03Please.
39:08That's right, Roy.
39:10Nice and easy.
39:12Nice and easy.
39:13Come on!
39:29Come on!
39:29Stay with me.
39:36Come on!
39:38Stay with me!
39:39No, come on!
39:40Stay with me!
39:42One, two, three, five, six, seven, eight.
39:46More than friends, I always pledge, cause friends they can't go.
39:56People changes, does everything I wanted to grow.
40:04Oh, I just want to grow old.
40:12Slide on next to me.
40:16I'm just a human being.
40:20I will take the blame.
40:23But just not say this is not me.
40:28You see, believe...
40:31Montgomery's post-incident evaluation.
40:33You come off like Steven Seagal.
40:35Should I be flattered or insulted?
40:37Both.
40:41I didn't know what you felt like, so...
40:44I got sushi, got some Italian, got some Thai...
40:50I'm gonna even grab some hot dogs.
40:52It wasn't your fault, you know.
40:54It wasn't your fault, you know.
41:03I overstepped.
41:06I came down here to say that I was sorry.
41:09And that I'm through.
41:13I can't shadow you anymore.
41:14If it wasn't for me...
41:15If it wasn't for you, I would've never found my mom's killer.
41:20And someday soon, I'm gonna find the sons of bitches who had Kunin kill her.
41:25And I'd like you around when I do.
41:27And if you tell anyone what I'm about to say, there's gonna be another shooting, but...
41:33I've gotten used to you pulling my pigtails.
41:39I have a hard job, Castle, and having you around makes it a little more fun.
41:44Your secret's safe with me.
41:54Give me something to echo in my unknown future.
42:00See ya, my dear.
42:04The air comes near.
42:08I'm here, but now...