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