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Castle Season 1 Episode 3
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00:06Oh my God.
00:08This is quite possibly the worst coffee I've ever tasted.
00:11It's actually kind of fascinating. It tastes like a...
00:17It tastes like a monkey peed and battery acid.
00:19Try some?
00:20Don't you have a book coming out today or something?
00:22Yeah, sure.
00:23So, you are watching me do paperwork.
00:26It's creepy.
00:27Did you have somewhere else to be?
00:30I like it here.
00:33Oh my gosh, I get it.
00:35You're hiding.
00:37Your book is coming out today and you are hiding.
00:39No, hiding would be building a fortress out of my comforter
00:41and then downing a fifth of scotch,
00:42but apparently that's considered unhealthy.
00:44I thought that you don't care what people think.
00:47I don't.
00:48Much.
00:53Beckett.
00:55Yeah, right, on my way.
00:58Did Buddy?
01:00Yes.
01:02Set it up.
01:05This the guy?
01:06You heard, huh?
01:06Oh, everyone's heard.
01:08You really base your next character on Detective Beckett?
01:10Every artist needs a muse.
01:13Call me a muse again and I will break both your legs.
01:16Okay?
01:16Okay.
01:17Detective Beckett.
01:18Jack Clifford and Hall Morrison.
01:20While moving in they see a rolled up rug sticking out of a dumpster.
01:24They figure it's a lucky day.
01:26They bring it home when they find there's a prize inside.
01:29Dead guy in a rug.
01:30Naturally, we thought of you.
01:31Yeah.
01:33.38 caliber, close range.
01:35Killed him instantly.
01:36You got an ID?
01:37Nah, pockets were empty.
01:38No wallet, no keys, no jewelry.
01:40We figure a robbery gone wrong.
01:41This wasn't a robbery.
01:44I robbed someone, I'm not going to stick around and wrap them up and throw them away.
01:47Blood spatter indicates he was standing near the rug when he was shot.
01:51Where did they find this?
01:52East 3rd, about two blocks away.
01:54All right, let's get CSU on the rug.
01:57Fibers, blood, identifying marks.
01:59And let's get a team down in the dumpster, see if they can dig anything else up.
02:02Laney, you do what you can about an ID.
02:03Got it.
02:04Don't bother.
02:06I know who he is.
02:15You got something?
02:16Jeff Horne, 48, two terms of city council member.
02:18Friend of yours?
02:19I recognize him from the bus says he's running for re-election.
02:22Press is going to be all over this.
02:23Does he have a family?
02:24Yeah.
02:24Well, let's try to notify him before the jackals do.
02:29Mrs. Horne, I know this is difficult, but when was the last time you heard from your husband?
02:34I called him last night around 11.
02:38He was finishing up a fundraiser and heading back to the office.
02:42Did he always work that late?
02:43During elections.
02:44He believed that it was a politician's obligation to get the people's work done, even while running for office.
02:52And when he didn't come home?
02:55Well, it wasn't unusual for him to crash on his couch instead of coming home, but...
03:03When Frank called this morning...
03:04Frank.
03:07Frank Nesbitt, Jeff's campaign manager.
03:10How did your husband sound last night?
03:13What do you mean?
03:14Did he seem troubled, like there was something wrong?
03:18No, he seemed happy.
03:21It doesn't make any sense.
03:24He's a good man, and he's a good father, and every day he would go out there and try to
03:28make the city a better place.
03:30Every day.
03:31And for him to die like this.
03:37What am I supposed to tell my girls?
03:48You okay?
03:50Yeah.
03:51Why?
03:53Can't be easy breaking that kind of news.
03:56Yeah.
03:57Well, thanks for not making it a joke.
04:00Yeah, I'm a wise ass, not a jackass.
04:03I didn't know there was a difference.
04:07So, what's your next move?
04:08Last person to see him alive?
04:10Establish a timeline?
04:11Grab a donut?
04:13More really bad coffee?
04:13This, um, female detective of yours, exactly how much will she be based on me?
04:18Well, she's not too bright and kinda slutty.
04:21Right, so was that wise ass or jackass?
04:23Actually, that was jackass.
04:24Hmm.
04:24No, honestly, you're not gonna have anything to be embarrassed about.
04:27She's gonna be...
04:28She's gonna be really smart.
04:30Very savvy.
04:32Haunting good looks.
04:35Really good at her job.
04:37And kinda slutty.
04:40Castle...
04:40I should really get that.
04:43Hello?
04:43Oh, sweetheart, I...
04:44Oh, mother, slow down, what's wrong?
04:46I just wanted to make sure you were alright.
04:48Why wouldn't I be alright?
04:49No one is buying your book.
04:52What are you talking about?
04:53I am standing in the middle of the bookstore and no one is buying your book.
04:57Okay, what are you doing in a bookstore?
04:59I was hungry, I came in for a pastry.
05:02And there they were, all your books just sitting there.
05:06Well, they only just went on sale two hours ago.
05:09What did you expect, to line up the door?
05:11There was one for the last Harry Potter.
05:14Yes, well, uh, Dirk Storm's not Harry Potter.
05:17Clearly.
05:20No one's bought one.
05:22Hang on, kiddo, hang on.
05:29No.
05:32You okay?
05:33Yeah.
05:39I don't care if it was free.
05:41Even if you pay me, I'm still not gonna take that run.
05:43You tell me you lived in New York your whole life and you never scored a piece of roadkill.
05:47Roadkill?
05:48It's an accepted practice, bro.
05:50You're done with your old stuff, you leave it on the street for those less fortunate.
05:54Artists, students, former hedge fund managers.
05:56It's trickle-down economics at its finest.
05:58Yeah, well, I prefer not to be trickled on.
06:01You know that red couch I have?
06:03One you like so much?
06:04Don't you say it, bro.
06:0654th and Lex.
06:08That's gross.
06:09Gross.
06:11We are never playing Madden at your place again.
06:14Detective.
06:15Yeah.
06:16You just got in there.
06:28Jeffrey Horn.
06:29Nice work, Scott.
06:33Yeah.
06:34Esposito.
06:35No.
06:35Run Ludd's on his phone.
06:36See if he talked to anyone other than his wife.
06:38They found the wallet.
06:40Money and credit cards were gone.
06:41Anything from the neighbors?
06:42The usual, wailing cats, loud TVs, car alarms.
06:46No shots, no blood spatter.
06:48A real robber would have left the wallet where he killed the guy, not where he moved him.
06:52It's a sloppy cover-up, but it does tell us one thing.
06:55This was premeditated.
07:01Excuse me.
07:02Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD.
07:04We're looking for Frank Nesbitt.
07:05Horn's campaign manager.
07:07Ryan, could you give us a minute?
07:09Sure.
07:10We've, uh, called in grief counselors for the kids.
07:13I know it's a cliché, but he meant a lot to all of us.
07:18Well, it sounds like he was more than just a candidate.
07:20We were friends.
07:21We wanted to change the world.
07:23Were you with him last night?
07:24Yeah, until about, uh, I don't know, 11.
07:27I offered to share a taxi, but he wanted to walk.
07:30Where was the fundraiser?
07:31Marconi's.
07:3283rd Off-Broadway.
07:34It's just a dozen blocks from here.
07:35Yeah.
07:37Mr. Horn's body was found all the way downtown.
07:39Did he have any enemies?
07:41Well, he was a politician.
07:42What about his opponent?
07:44It's hard to imagine Jason Bollinger doing something like this.
07:47He is eight points up in the polls.
07:48Did Horn or the campaign receive any threats recently?
07:52Uh, just your usual crackpaws, nothing special.
07:55Unless you count hate mail from Calvin Creason.
07:57Creason, the hotel and club owner?
08:00Owns, uh, Axiom in the Soho Majestic.
08:03Even ran Club Tasty back in the day.
08:04There was this one time.
08:07Let's start for another time.
08:08What did Horn do? Crack down on the ecstasy dealers?
08:10Creason bought that old meatpacking warehouse on the Lower East Side.
08:13He wanted to turn it into his next hip hotspot.
08:15300 rooms, Saki bar, nightclub.
08:18Neighbors didn't want a bunch of drunken B&Ters running through the streets,
08:21so Horn killed it in committee.
08:22Leaving Creason with millions of dollars of now worthless real estate.
08:27Creason had a beef with Horn.
08:28It doesn't mean he killed them.
08:30It doesn't mean he didn't.
08:31Excuse me.
08:40You wanna know what I did when I found out that he was dead?
08:42I ordered myself a nice cold bottle of Chris and toasted the sweetness of the universe, okay?
08:47That's pretty callous, Mr. Creason.
08:49Listen, what do I care?
08:51What do I care?
08:52This guy was such a putz acting like another hotel going up.
08:55That was gonna be the end of the world.
08:56You have any idea what one of my properties does for the local economy?
08:59This city should be paying me, not stopping me.
09:02So, I guess we could say you had motive.
09:04Who the hell is it?
09:04You a cop?
09:05I say we arrested.
09:07Castle.
09:08Please, you got nothing here.
09:09If I was gonna go around killing everybody that ever got in my way,
09:12there would be bodies stacked higher than the Chrysler building.
09:14I don't need to kill anyone to bury them.
09:17Where were you last night?
09:19I was at my club and saw them.
09:20Anybody see you?
09:22Detective, when I go out, everybody sees me.
09:27Thank you very much, Mr. Creason.
09:29Sure.
09:32I wanna take a shower.
09:35Where to next?
09:36To check his alibi.
09:38Actually, that may not be necessary.
09:41Why not?
09:45Castle, what are you doing?
09:46Promise not to hate me.
09:47I already hate you.
09:49Fair enough.
09:49This morning, with the body, I took a couple of pictures.
09:52You took photos of my crime scene?
09:54Before you get mad, I emailed a couple of them to a friend of mine.
09:57You emailed them to a friend?
09:58Well, not exactly a friend.
09:59She's my interior decorator.
10:00But then we slept together, so I don't really know what she is now.
10:03What the hell were you thinking?
10:04I know, right?
10:05You work together, you think it'll be fun, but then it always makes things weird.
10:08It's a real cautionary tale.
10:11I'm talking about the photographs.
10:13Of the body.
10:14What?
10:15No!
10:16I didn't send her pictures of the body.
10:17I sent her pictures of the rug.
10:19I thought maybe she might be able to tell me where it came from.
10:22And guess what?
10:23She did.
10:29That's the rug.
10:33That's the same rug.
10:37Don't gloat, okay?
10:38Because it's really unattractive.
10:42Now can we arrest him?
10:52I feel you, man.
10:53Yeah, okay.
10:55He didn't ride with the club until after midnight.
10:57So what do we do now?
10:58Wait for his lawyer to show up?
10:59Actually, if we follow other leads, it's something that we call working.
11:01Other leads?
11:02Good, since we both know he didn't do it.
11:04Creason?
11:04What makes you think he didn't do it?
11:05Isn't it obvious?
11:06All the evidence points to him.
11:08And that somehow makes him not guilty.
11:09He's totally the red herring.
11:11The red herring?
11:12An innocent character who appears guilty.
11:14I know what a red herring is, Castle.
11:16It's a literary device used in literature.
11:18In real life, we don't have to dismiss a suspect just because he appears too guilty.
11:23Besides, I thought you wanted to arrest him.
11:25Yeah, because he's a tool, not because he's guilty.
11:28That guy's a multimillionaire.
11:29He's not going to be dumb enough to wrap a dead body up in his own rug.
11:32It doesn't matter.
11:32Those rugs were custom designed for Creason's Hotel, so we know he's connected.
11:37Hey, Esposito.
11:37Yeah?
11:38See what you can find on that rug.
11:39If one went missing, what room it's from, and maybe who had access.
11:43Yeah.
11:44Thanks.
11:45Road trip.
11:50You're very good at bossing men around.
11:53I've noticed.
11:55You're telling me that it's just a coincidence that a man whose murder you celebrated by drinking champagne was found
12:00wrapped in a rug from your hotel?
12:02There are identical rugs in every room of the Axiom.
12:04You can't expect my client to be responsible for their whereabouts.
12:07Sure I can.
12:08Until the jury tells me otherwise.
12:09Ah!
12:11You are wasting my time.
12:13Did that go off?
12:14I told you exactly what I was doing last night.
12:15Right.
12:16You were at the club.
12:17They said that you made quite the entrance a supermodel on each arm.
12:20Uh, yeah.
12:21You know, last time I checked, um, it's not a crime, is it?
12:25No.
12:26But you know what it is?
12:28Memorable.
12:30Witnesses don't place you at the club until 1 in the morning.
12:33And Horn was murdered somewhere between 11 and 12.
12:35Here it comes, eh?
12:38So where were you between 11 and 12, Mr. Creason?
12:41Booyah.
12:43I was asleep.
12:44Asleep?
12:45You were lame!
12:46You were so lame!
12:47You were so lame!
12:48You were so lame!
12:49You were so lame!
12:50Lame!
12:53It's a well-known fact that Mr. Creason sleeps from 6 p.m. to midnight in order to maintain a
12:57late-night presence at his club.
12:58Did anyone witness you sleeping between the hours of 11 and 12 last night, Mr. Creason?
13:03Creason.
13:04Hold on one sec.
13:06No.
13:08So you had motive and opportunity.
13:10Wait, wait, wait!
13:11Hold on one sec!
13:11Hold on!
13:13I didn't kill him.
13:14I had no reason to.
13:15He was in your way.
13:16Yeah, but...
13:18Not for long.
13:21I knew he was gonna lose the election, okay?
13:23So I didn't have to kill him.
13:24All I had to do was wait.
13:26You couldn't be sure that he was gonna lose the election?
13:29Yes, actually, I could.
13:33We didn't know about Jason Bollinger Horn's opponent in the race.
13:39Is the statement ready?
13:41Mike's still working on it.
13:42Well, tell Mike that the Ledger website updates in 20 minutes, and I want my quote of outrage and sympathy
13:46in a damn article.
13:47I'm sorry.
13:48It's been all hands on deck since we found out.
13:50If you don't handle these things right, you get crucified.
13:51Mr. Bollinger, I was...
13:53Mr. Bollinger is my father.
13:54Call me Jason.
13:55Okay, Jason.
13:57How well do you know Calvin Creason?
13:59He threw me a couple fundraisers.
14:00We met a few times.
14:01Why?
14:01Well, he seems to think that you have some information on Horn.
14:05Something that would guarantee you the election.
14:08Castle?
14:08Sorry.
14:12Come on.
14:14Opposition research?
14:15Conducted by a licensed private investigator.
14:17Listen, I want to stress that everything we did was completely vetted by our lawyers.
14:20None of it was illegal.
14:22We were just trying to determine if the councilman had any significant vulnerabilities.
14:26And you found some.
14:27Oh, yes.
14:29Look, politics is politics, but I'm not a bad guy.
14:32I figured as long as I was ahead in the polls, there was no reason to use it.
14:38That's councilman Horn?
14:42And that is not his wife.
14:56I got to hand it to councilman Horn.
14:57He is incredibly flexible for a guy his age.
15:01Look at that.
15:02You ever do that?
15:03Would you put those away?
15:05I'm just saying, he's got to do yoga or Pilates or something.
15:08Why is it always the family value guys that get caught with their pants down?
15:11Because the universe loves irony.
15:13And because most people are hypocrites.
15:15And what was that girl thinking that he would leave his wife and kids for her?
15:19That is so sexist.
15:21How is that so sexist?
15:22You assume that just because she's a woman, that she was after a relationship.
15:26Do you ever think maybe she was in it for the sex?
15:28Yes, I did.
15:29And then I saw him.
15:32What was it that turned you off?
15:33That he was wearing a rug?
15:36Too soon?
15:38I just hope that the P.I. can help us.
15:42Beckett?
15:43Yo.
15:44So the rug is a dead end.
15:46According to housekeeping, they dumped a couple dozen of them last week.
15:49Half of them went into the dumpsters.
15:50Half of them were donated to thrift shops.
15:53I already have a boyfriend.
15:54Creason's clientele is known for being hard on rooms.
15:57Stay here, do it.
15:58That's fine.
15:59What?
16:00Dude, dude, not cool, not cool.
16:04So you have my car.
16:06I'll push this all over to the back.
16:11Are you sure I can't tempt you?
16:15No thanks, Mr. Kirby.
16:16I'm on duty.
16:18You never stopped me.
16:20You were on the job.
16:2120 years out of the 134.
16:24Of course, back then we had other cops as partners.
16:26Not second-rate novelists.
16:29Yeah, don't get me started.
16:30Uh, excuse me.
16:32Second-rate?
16:33Hot lead poured out of cold steel.
16:35Come on.
16:36It's not exactly Shakespeare.
16:37Will you put that down?
16:39How long were you working for the Bollinger campaign, Mr. Kirby?
16:42Oh, a couple weeks.
16:43But it was a fun one.
16:45Mr. Family Values tells his wife that he's gonna work late.
16:48Probably crash at the office.
16:5120 minutes later, he is polling his constituency.
16:57And what about the girl?
16:59Well, what I could see, she was worth every cent.
17:01She was a pro.
17:02You don't think with a body like that she's gonna swoon over his stump speeches, do you?
17:06Makes you wonder what else you had a taste for.
17:07And what it led to.
17:08Do you have an address?
17:10Strictly alcohol.
17:12You know, whores used to have street corners.
17:17And now they have websites.
17:22Damn!
17:23Those are some seriously fine five-star Class B misdemeanors.
17:26Dude, between you and me, you ever pay for it?
17:28Are you counting my marriages?
17:30Wait, wait!
17:30Stop!
17:31That's the girl in the photos.
17:32Ah, look at her.
17:34I had your money.
17:35This isn't phone sex, Ryan.
17:36You don't just pay for the two minutes that you used.
17:39The 800 number is registered to a P.O. box from out of state.
17:42We're gonna have to get Cyber to track down the IP, see where it's hosted.
17:45Well, what if the IP's out of state too?
17:47We just coordinate with local PDs.
17:48If they want to cooperate.
17:50It's nice that these are designed to evade authorities.
17:52We'll get there.
17:52Just take us some time.
17:54Or you could just do it the easy way.
17:57Castle, what are you doing?
17:59Hi, my name's Richard.
18:00I'm a very generous man looking to arrange a very special date with Tiffany.
18:04Please give me a call on my phone, which is 347-555-0179.
18:10Castle, you can't just call and arrange a date with a prostitute.
18:13Why not?
18:14Because we're the police.
18:15No, no, no, no.
18:16You're the police.
18:17I'm just a lonely, upscale gentleman looking for a date.
18:21Bet I find her first.
18:23Hey, there are Rick Castle here.
18:25Right here.
18:25Where you want it, boss?
18:26Ah, straight through there.
18:28Castle.
18:30You are gonna love this.
18:31No, I'm pretty sure I won't.
18:33Guys, guys, guys.
18:35Just put it right over there.
18:36Perfect.
18:37Lift your knees, man.
18:38Stay here for one second, would you?
18:41Because you guys have been so wonderfully hospitable to me, I just want to return the favor.
18:46And because your coffee is basically crap, I got you an espresso machine.
18:53How cool is that?
18:58I think my phone's ringing.
19:00I don't know how to put this together.
19:02That's part of the delivery, right?
19:03Excellent.
19:05This is a love song you'll never hear.
19:09I don't get it.
19:10If Creason didn't do it, then how does the rug fit in?
19:13Killer probably heard about the feud between the two of them and tried to shift suspicion.
19:16Which is stupid, because without the rug, it would just look like a mugging gone wrong.
19:21So by trying to look smart, they were actually being stupid?
19:23I think you just described the human condition.
19:25Speaking of the human condition, how's it going with Detective Beckett?
19:30What do you mean?
19:31Oh, come on, Dad. You are basing a character off her.
19:33And you always say you have to love your characters.
19:36Well, she is a character.
19:38But, uh, just research. Nothing more.
19:41Yeah, I'm sure.
19:42Well, found out why your books aren't selling.
19:46Listen to this review.
19:47His work has become so hackneyed, so cliché,
19:51that we wonder if Mr. Castle has anything new to say.
19:54It appears the magic, if there ever was any, is long gone.
19:59Oh, darling, I know. It's awful. It's awful. I'm sorry. Daggers to the heart.
20:04The Syracuse Times reader.
20:06But don't you worry. I am going to write them a piece of my mind.
20:10And who cares if they say the magic is gone?
20:13Harper Lee only wrote one book. You've written dozens.
20:16Of course, hers was literature, but still, I...
20:24How long do you think I took her to find that review?
20:26Probably all afternoon. Oh, yeah.
20:28Oh, come on. You know she does it out of love, right?
20:31I mean, she thinks it's her job to keep you grounded.
20:34Well, I certainly feel grounded.
20:39You have the bridge, number one?
20:42Hello?
20:43Is this Richard?
20:44Yes, it is. Who's this?
20:46It's Tiffany. You called me for a date?
20:49Yes, I did, Tiffany. And I am so glad you called.
20:54Just out of curiosity, what are you wearing right now?
21:00Hey.
21:01Damn, girl, you scared me.
21:04Lainey, you're surrounded by corpses.
21:06Yeah, I didn't expect the living after seven o'clock.
21:09Funny, neither do I.
21:12I'm an M.E. What's your excuse?
21:13Oh, don't be mean.
21:14You deserve it.
21:15Getting a drink with me after work
21:17instead of getting your freak on with Ryder Boy?
21:19Yeah, well, he is annoying.
21:21Self-centered, egotistical, and completely...
21:24Fun.
21:26And take it from me, girlfriend, you need some fun.
21:30I mean, how bad can he be?
21:36Beckett.
21:38Guess who's got a date with a prostitute?
21:41woo-hoo!
21:58Richard. I'm Tiffany.
22:00It's a pleasure to meet you, Tiffany. Please.
22:03Oh, a gentleman.
22:05We're a dying breed.
22:06Hey woman, it's lucky I found you.
22:08Actually, it's lucky we found you.
22:11Detective Kate Beckett, we need to ask you some questions regarding your relationship
22:14with Councilman Jeff Horne.
22:19Sorry.
22:21He was one of my regulars, but I swear I had nothing to do with his death.
22:25How often did you see Councilman Horne?
22:27Once, maybe twice a week.
22:29At first he just wanted to talk.
22:30Right, he paid you just to talk.
22:33Detective, most men come to me because they're lonely.
22:36Because the people in their lives don't listen anymore.
22:39The sex is just a way for them to feel connected again.
22:42Okay, when was the last time that you and Councilman Horne connected?
22:45A couple of weeks ago.
22:46He came to me, hysterical.
22:48He said that he couldn't see me anymore.
22:49What happened?
22:50His wife found out?
22:52No.
22:53Someone else.
22:54He said that he was being blackmailed.
22:56Someone had photos of us.
22:57Who?
22:59He didn't know.
23:00At first he thought it was me.
23:01He got upset and then he panicked.
23:04He thought that I had told my friends.
23:05And did you?
23:07I may surprise you, detective, but I have dreams of my own.
23:11Look, this just pays the bills.
23:12If our relationship ever went public, he's not the only one that would be ruined.
23:17You said he panicked.
23:19Yeah, he was desperate to find out who was behind it.
23:22He wanted to cut a deal.
23:23He said that he couldn't keep making payoffs without the campaign finding out.
23:29Politics, escorts, and blackmail?
23:30This just keeps getting better.
23:32The councilman was looking for his blackmailer.
23:33What if he found him?
23:35He gets violent.
23:36The blackmailer responds.
23:37And then tries covering what he's done by implicating Creason.
23:40So all you need to do is find your blackmailer.
23:43That's impossible.
23:43I kept those photos under lock and key.
23:45No offense, Jason, but your desk isn't exactly Fort Knox.
23:48If somebody knew about them, they wouldn't be difficult to get.
23:50Do you know how many people are in and out of this office?
23:52No, but I would like a list.
23:53Now, wait a minute.
23:54You intend on opening up an investigation on my campaign with two weeks left in the election?
23:58What are you trying to do, cost me the race?
24:00What are you worried about?
24:01You're running unopposed.
24:02Not anymore.
24:04Lori Horne announced that she's running for her husband's seat.
24:07Yesterday, I had an eight-point lead.
24:09With the sympathy bump, by tonight we'll be tied.
24:13That we cannot let our personal tragedy stand in the way of my husband's vision for the future of New
24:20York.
24:21Irony is that if I release those photos now, the people will love her even more.
24:27At least 300 people have access to those photos. Are you planning on questioning all of them?
24:31No, they're just for reference.
24:34Horne was worried he couldn't keep paying without the campaign finding out.
24:37So?
24:37So if the money was coming from the campaign, then there is bound to be a trail.
24:50Black man.
24:52We believe he may have been making payoffs through the campaign.
24:56Haven't known Jeff for years.
24:58He's a good man.
24:59A family man.
25:01You had no idea?
25:02None. This gets out.
25:04Mr. Nesbitt.
25:05If he used campaign funds to make payments, then we should be able to trace him back to the blackmailer.
25:09But we need access to your campaign ledgers.
25:11Yeah, of course.
25:12I'll get you a disc.
25:18Detective...
25:23What he did was wrong. I'm not excusing it.
25:27But if you release those photos, you'll be doing irreparable harm to all the good he did in this city.
25:32Not to mention causing immeasurable pain to his family.
25:37These photos are evidence in a murder investigation. We have no intention of releasing them.
25:42Well, thank God for that.
25:44But you should be aware that one way or another, these sorts of things inevitably see the light of day.
26:03Oh, you got something against foaming richness?
26:07Yeah.
26:08It annoys me.
26:10Detective Beckett.
26:13You cross-reference Horn's campaign payouts to the volunteers and employees at Bollinger's Office.
26:17And?
26:17The worst series of off-book payments totaling 30 grand, running bank-to-bank with no payee, just an account
26:22number.
26:25Were you able to track down the accounts?
26:27Oh, yeah. There's Bruce Kirby. That PI that took the pictures, he is your blackmailer.
26:32Did you run him up?
26:33Of course. Real peach. Lost his badge for excessive force, on probation for criminal intimidation.
26:38And he has registration for a .38.
26:40The same caliber that killed Councilman Horn.
26:47Oh, it's good.
26:48That's the stuff.
26:49Yeah.
26:50Mmm.
26:51It's good, man.
26:52Flavor of country.
26:58What? I figure I got the photos. The gutless punk isn't gonna use them. What the hell shouldn't I?
27:02Because it's illegal?
27:04Hey, I'm not the one that was dipping my churro in sugar nearly half my age. The guy had it
27:09coming.
27:09Except he found you out. He came after you.
27:11Yeah.
27:12So what happened, Kirby? He loses cool? He get violent?
27:15What? No.
27:16He put a round in his head and tried to pin it on Crescent.
27:19Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sherlock. I didn't kill him. He was coming to meet with me, yes, with a proposition.
27:26He wanted to know what it would take to make it all go away forever.
27:31What did you tell him?
27:32I thought, what the hell, $250,000. I never thought he'd say yes. He did. He got the money.
27:38The night he was killed, he was coming to meet me with it.
27:42He never showed.
28:03What do you think?
28:04Waiting to receive a blackmail payoff from the Vic. My three-year-old son could come up with a better
28:09story than that.
28:09So bad it might be true.
28:10Yeah, well, we got a team tossing his place for the weapon.
28:13Book him on the blackmail till we see what the search turns up. In the meantime, follow the money.
28:16If this bozo is telling the truth.
28:18Then Horn had a quarter million dollars on him when he was killed.
28:20Yeah, so where's the money?
28:21And where does the underpaid public servant get it from in the first place?
28:28Well, he'd go where all politicians go. The people who like him. People who gave him money before.
28:39Hey! Hey!
28:40Can I go home now?
28:42What happened to Jeff Horn was a tragedy.
28:44Not just for his family, but for all of us he served.
28:48And even though violence stole his life, his wife is here with us today.
28:53Refusing to let violence steal his dream of a better New York.
28:57Ladies and gentlemen, Lori Horn.
29:05Thank you. Thank you so much.
29:08We all know it should be my husband speaking with you today. It should be his calming voice, not mine
29:16that you hear.
29:17This is a city council race, not the US Senate. We rely on thousands of small donations, not a few
29:22big ones.
29:23Well, some of them must have deep pockets.
29:24Well, the depth of those pockets is limited by the law.
29:27And if it wasn't limited by law, did Horn have any supporters that would be willing to go the extra
29:31mile?
29:35Detective, with all due respect, there's no way in hell I'm helping you start a witch hunt against our top
29:40supporters.
29:41And you want to go through our campaign contributors? Fine. That's a matter of public record, but anything else and
29:46you're on your own.
29:51Open this pipe. Thank you.
29:53Yes.
30:01Hey.
30:02Hey. Finished your homework?
30:04Yeah.
30:05Do you want to finish mine?
30:06Well, that depends. How much you're offering to pay me?
30:09Oh, I thought you were.
30:11Jeannie called. She wanted me to remind you about the reading and book signing in Broadway Books tomorrow night.
30:16Oh, that was nice of her?
30:17Yeah. And if you don't show, she will drip honey on your eyeballs and let loose a hundred fire ants.
30:23Okay, what's worse? A hundred fire ants on your eyeballs or reading to a crowd, prose so bad it sent
30:31me screaming out into the snow.
30:33You know, if you really want to feel sorry for yourself, you should read the review in The Legend.
30:37Really? What's that damn liberal elite media saying about me now?
30:42Richard Castle's stirring finale reminds us what good pulp fiction is all about.
30:46It makes us desire a world of startling imperfection so we can rise above and become the heroes we always
30:52imagined ourselves to be.
30:54It used to be such a good paper to see it falling so far. It's sad, really.
30:58Shut up. I'm proud of you.
31:01Well, you remember that next time I sing the peanut butter song in front of your friends.
31:05Have you caught the killer yet?
31:07No.
31:08Hey, if you were in a lot of trouble and you needed a quarter of a million dollars, where would
31:13you get it?
31:14I'd just ask you.
31:18Night.
31:19Night.
31:20Night.
31:22Night.
31:29Night.
31:31Night.
31:35Night.
31:38Night.
31:39Night.
31:41Night.
32:12Hi.
32:13Hi.
32:14Something I need to show you.
32:18I found this in the archives from his first run for office.
32:22See, Horn wasn't wealthy, but his wife came from money.
32:24She tapped into her family trust to finance his first campaign.
32:28All this time, we thought that Horn was hiding his affair from his wife.
32:31Yeah, but what if she knew about the affair?
32:34What if he got the blackmail money from her?
32:41Yes, ma'am.
32:42Account number 737-88103.
32:44According to the administrator of the family trust, Mrs. Horn marketed about $300,000 worth of stocks last week.
32:50She knew.
32:52Bank records indicate the funds will have drawn two days before the exchange.
32:56Her husband's killed.
32:57$250,000 goes missing.
32:59She doesn't say a word.
33:00Of course I didn't say a word.
33:02It's none of your damn business.
33:03Despite the fact that it could have had significant bearing on your husband's murder?
33:07I have a family, Detective Beckett.
33:08Their father is dead.
33:10What use is dragging their names through the mud, providing fodder for late-night comedians?
33:15When did you know?
33:16The trust called to confirm the stock sale.
33:19My wonderful husband forged my signature on the papers thinking I would be too stupid to notice.
33:23And when I confronted him, he claimed he needed the money for tax reasons.
33:28Reasons that I wouldn't understand.
33:31But I understood all right.
33:33Everything that I wanted.
33:34Everything that I wanted us to be.
33:37And he can't keep his fly zipped.
33:40So what did you decide to do?
33:42Well, between public humiliation and blackmail, I chose blackmail and I told him to make it go away.
33:49So what do you think happened that night?
33:52I don't know.
33:55Okay.
33:56So that night when he called, what did he actually say?
33:59That he had the money, that he was going to meet the guy, and that was the last thing he
34:04said to me.
34:05And God knows what happened after that.
34:07And you're sure that he had the money?
34:08Yes.
34:09Why?
34:11Because we found it at your house.
34:16My house.
34:16The search warrant was served this morning.
34:18Your housekeeper was very cooperative.
34:21If your husband had the money when he was killed, how did it get back to your house?
34:30You were more than angry, weren't you?
34:31You were outraged.
34:34He didn't just betray you.
34:36He humiliated you.
34:37And everyone was going to know.
34:38And so you just decided to make it go away.
34:49You see those wives in the inevitable press conference standing stone-faced next to their men,
34:55and you think, how do they do that?
34:59How do they just stand there?
35:01How do they watch as their whole world melts into a spotlight of shame?
35:06And so you killed them.
35:10No, no, I was home.
35:12You called your husband at 11 p.m.
35:13What did you say?
35:14I was with my daughter.
35:15Conspiracy to commit murder is the same as murder.
35:18Whether you were there or not, are you ready to deal?
35:30It was my job to make the call.
35:35I was supposed to tell him that the blackmailer changed the meat.
35:39I was supposed to tell him where to go.
35:43Down by the underpass where no one would see.
35:51He had it all arranged.
35:53Even that rug for his body.
35:56All I had to do was make a call.
36:17He said he would make everything like it was.
36:20He said he would make it look like someone else did it.
36:24He said no one would ever know.
36:26Oh, Mrs. Horn, Lori, I need to know who.
36:32It's not supposed to be like this.
36:35We were friends.
36:37And we were going to change the world.
36:44Frank Nesbitt, you are under arrest for the murder of Jeff Horn.
36:48What?
36:48That's ridiculous.
36:49Mrs. Horn doesn't think so.
36:51Cuff him.
36:53Mr. Nesbitt, you have the right to remain silent.
36:55Hey!
36:56Hey!
36:56Hey!
37:02Stop running, bro.
37:04Campaign's over.
37:05Ooh, yes.
37:07Wasn't quite finished back there, Mr. Nesbitt.
37:09You have the right to remain silent.
37:11Anything you say, it can and will be used against you in a court of law.
37:14After we found the weapon in Nesbitt's office, he made a full confession.
37:17He got Horn to call her husband and get him down to the overpass, and then he took care of
37:21the rest.
37:22Politics was Nesbitt's life.
37:23He figured if the scandal broke, his career would be over and he'd be damaged goods.
37:27Sad thing is, he was probably right.
37:29So what happens to the girls?
37:31Horn had a sister upstate.
37:32She's coming down tomorrow to pick him up from social services.
37:35Good.
37:35And the rug?
37:36Well, I read Harry.
37:37Nesbitt heard they were dumping a bunch of them and figured it would keep us off his trail.
37:41Nice work.
37:42Very impressive.
37:45Oh, and you too, Beckett.
37:48Sir?
37:49Just yanking your chain, detective.
37:51Just yanking your chain.
37:54Hello.
37:55Hey, Dad, where are you?
37:56Where am I supposed to be?
37:58Fire ants?
37:59Eyeballs?
38:00Right.
38:01Uh, stall for me.
38:02I'm on my way.
38:04Oops.
38:05Sorry.
38:05Sorry.
38:08She stood there in stunned disbelief as the light in his eyes dimmed.
38:14He reached out for her and she took his hand, squeezing it for the very last time.
38:21She felt her heart stop a beat, and in that moment, she knew he was gone.
38:29Darkness fell across the face of the city, and across her face as well.
38:35Good, she thought, as the wind gathered up her hair.
38:40No one...
38:51will see my tears.
39:08I don't know if I might say it, but that's...
39:11Detective Beckett, to what do I owe this very unexpected pleasure?
39:16Excuse me.
39:19I just figured, if you're going to bother me at my work, I should bother you at yours.
39:23That was, um, quite a reading.
39:25Very, uh, moving.
39:27Are you making fun of me?
39:29Good, she thought.
39:31As the wind gathered up her hair.
39:35No one will see my tears.
39:38How does wind gather up hair?
39:39I'm just curious.
39:40Oh, you're telling me how to do my job.
39:42Irritating, isn't it?
39:43Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, look at you.
39:48Denise from The Ledger says you're going to be number one this week, and look, everyone
39:51is buying your book.
39:53Now, don't you feel silly for believing all those reviews?
39:56Yes, yes I do.
39:58Well, let's just hope Nicky Heat does as well.
40:01Nicky Heat?
40:02The character he's basing on you.
40:05Nicky Heat.
40:07Uh-oh.
40:07Can I talk to you for a second?
40:09Of course.
40:11Let it, yes.
40:12I want to hear.
40:16What kind of a name is Nicky Heat?
40:19A cop name.
40:20It's a stripper name.
40:21Well, I told you she was kind of slutty.
40:22Change it, Castle.
40:23Well, hang on.
40:24Think of the titles.
40:26Summer Heat.
40:28Heatway.
40:29In Heat.
40:31Change the name.
40:32No.
40:33Yes.
40:33No.
40:34Change it.
40:34No.
40:35Castle.
40:35I'm sorry.
40:36I have artistic integrity bag that I can't...
40:38Artistic integrity.
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