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Castle Season 2 Episode 19
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00:00There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people, psychopaths and mystery writers.
00:05I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I?
00:07I'm Rick Castle.
00:08Castle.
00:09Castle.
00:09I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:11Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine.
00:14Detective Kate Beckett. Beckett. Beckett. Nicky Heath.
00:16The character he's basing on you.
00:18And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:21I'd be happy to let you spank me.
00:23And together we catch killers.
00:24Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch.
00:27Turner and Hooch.
00:28She do remind me a little of Hoot.
00:55Sorry! Sorry!
00:56What the hell is wrong with you?
00:57I'm sorry! Can't you see I'm driving here?
01:26I'm driving here!
01:29What are you doing?
01:31We're studying the practical application of science at school.
01:34I'm focusing on forensics, specifically the physics of spatter-patterns.
01:39Oh.
01:41What's wrong?
01:42We usually do all your science projects together.
01:44You remember the volcano we made?
01:46The flatulent robot?
01:48Ew.
01:49I'm sorry, Dad.
01:50I just got excited about it and you weren't here.
01:53That's okay.
01:54I can help you finish.
01:55Yeah.
01:59Beckett?
02:01Yeah.
02:02Um...
02:03I can stay home.
02:04Go ahead.
02:05I'll be fine without you.
02:09Point five.
02:11Severe concussion.
02:16I guess I don't have to ask about cause of death.
02:19He's not even my first death by fallen object this month.
02:21Two weeks ago, an investment banker took a frozen sausage to the head from a tenth floor window ledge.
02:27It's a pretty old building.
02:28Maybe it just fell.
02:29Maybe I got a little help from someone.
02:31There's markings here on the stone.
02:33What, a chisel?
02:33Or a crowbar.
02:35I found marks up on the parapet as well.
02:37I got CSU dusting it for prints.
02:39That's a long way to go for a murder.
02:40Who'd want to drop a gargoyle on someone?
02:42Unless someone wants to make it look like an accident.
02:44I'd have to make sure our victim stood there for long enough.
02:47Had someone tampered with the front door lock when you guys arrived?
02:49Give that man a prize.
02:50Yeah, we had to pop the lock to get in the building.
02:52Super says our victim's name is Will Medina.
02:56He's got an apartment up on 4, and guess who's got the keys?
02:59I do.
03:03This place looks like a museum.
03:05Well, that's because Mr. Medina was the associate curator at the New York History Museum.
03:10Yeah.
03:11That would explain this.
03:13But I thought a hundred inch flat screen would be the ultimate bachelor accessory.
03:16Well, he wasn't a total bachelor.
03:17What makes you think that?
03:20The second toothbrush in the bathroom.
03:22The scented candle in the tub?
03:24Pair of high heels under his bed, all suggesting that he was in a casual but steady relationship.
03:29Hmm.
03:30Nicely played.
03:31However, I do think you misjudged the relationship only slightly.
03:36Eat, pray, love.
03:38Judging from the condition, I'd say she's read it more than once.
03:41Meaning that she's a woman on the other side of a search for identity.
03:44Romantic.
03:45Someone who wouldn't be satisfied with just a casual relationship.
03:49And who's to say that that book isn't his?
03:52Oh, I love that book.
03:54Neighbor on Two says the front door worked just fine at 7 o'clock.
03:57Which means that the killer must have tampered with it after then.
04:00Beckett.
04:01Calendar.
04:02Check out today's date.
04:05CT 530, 1127 Avenue of the Americas.
04:08530, that's two hours before the murder.
04:10It's an office building downtown.
04:12Let's check it out after we finish our sweep.
04:13Okay.
04:14You know, we might want to swing down by the museum.
04:16See if any of his colleagues can shed some light on who might want to drop a gargoyle on Mr.
04:19Medina's head.
04:21Either you're being a good copper, you just want to go to the museum.
04:24They have dinosaurs there.
04:27Go.
04:30Oh, man, I love this place!
04:33When Alexis was little, we used to come here every Sunday.
04:36We would run around here for hours pretending like we were a safari in Africa or looking for dinosaurs in
04:41China.
04:41You know, Castle, sometimes I forget that you have such a capacity for pure innocence in your life.
04:47Yeah.
04:47Plus, it was a great place to pick up chicks.
04:50And then you open your mouth and you ruin it.
04:51Hi.
04:53I need to speak with someone about Will Medina.
04:55I just can't believe Will's dead.
04:57Dr. Reince, how long did you and Mr. Medina know each other?
04:59Two years.
05:00The first thing I did when I got the job as museum curator was to hire him away from the
05:04U.S. Geographic Institute to lead the Khonshul expedition.
05:07Khonshul?
05:08The legendary Mayan king.
05:11What you see here represents the single most important archaeological find in Mayan history.
05:16His burial chamber.
05:17Where he was entombed with a dozen of his mummified slaves.
05:20So, kind of like a Mayan king tut?
05:23Exactly.
05:24You know, the exhibit opens in less than a month.
05:26I can't imagine having to do it without Will.
05:28He's the one that discovered the site.
05:30When was the last time you saw Mr. Medina?
05:314.30 today.
05:33And how well did the two of you know each other?
05:36Why?
05:36I'm gonna have to contact his next of kin.
05:38His parents are both dead and I believe he was an only child.
05:42And what about his girlfriend?
05:44Last I heard him say.
06:11A Projector from his daughter.
06:28The secret at the museum.
06:29I love him.
06:29I love him.
06:31But why did everybody have to come?
06:31And how are you talking to him?
06:31What are you doing?
06:33His mummy is over 2,000 years old.
06:36Exposure to air in an unfiltered environment could be catastrophic.
06:39Sorry, I didn't know this.
06:41Rachel, it's okay. He's with the police.
06:43Rachel Walters is our mummification expert.
06:45She worked with Will.
06:47Did something happen to him?
06:49He was killed earlier tonight.
06:52That's not possible.
06:54Were the two of you close?
06:55Only professionally. Stanford...
06:58Doesn't mean anything.
06:59It's just a terrible accident.
07:01Actually, we believe he was murdered.
07:04It wasn't murder.
07:06It was the curse.
07:09Detective Beckett, Mr. Castle, Rupert Bentley,
07:12our co-financier of the expedition.
07:14I'm sorry, did you say curse?
07:16Tell them, Stanford.
07:18Tell them what was written at the entrance to the burial chamber.
07:22All who gaze on the face of the Mayan king
07:24shall be struck down by his wrath.
07:26Mayan king?
07:28This Mayan king?
07:29That very one.
07:31They all looked inside, and they were all dead.
07:34There were other incidents?
07:35All easily explainable.
07:37One of our grad students, Nicole Graham,
07:39was mauled to death by a jaguar outside the dig site.
07:41And Professor Fisher died of dengue fever.
07:44Which is common in that region,
07:46as are curses written above grave sites.
07:48It's how they kept people from robbing them for thousands of years.
07:51Well, I can assure you that whatever killed Mr. Medina was very human.
07:54Do you know if he had any enemies?
07:56Will was passionate.
07:58Nothing could stop him from getting what he wanted.
08:00It's what made him such a great archaeologist,
08:02but it also rubbed some people the wrong way.
08:05What do you mean?
08:06The indigenous Mayans he worked with claimed
08:08that he tricked them into revealing the location of the burial site.
08:11He'd received death threats.
08:12And how do you know that?
08:14I'd received one, too.
08:19It's written in ancient Mayan.
08:24This is just like the one that we found in Medina's apartment.
08:26What does it say?
08:28Death awaits the robber of graves.
08:50As a lot, they didn't find any fingerprints
08:52on either one of the death threats,
08:53which means all we've got to go on
08:55is the postmark.
08:57So we're looking for an angry Mayan
08:59who mailed a death threat from Spanish Harlem
09:01three days ago.
09:02How tough can that be?
09:03Well, I called the Mexican embassy
09:04and asked them to put their feelers out
09:05to the indigenous rights community.
09:07You never know.
09:08You might get a decent tip.
09:09You know this guy Medina?
09:11When he was a grad student,
09:12he walked into the Amazon.
09:14Nothing but a backpack and some satellite images.
09:16He walked out a month later
09:18with the golden head of Yash Pak.
09:20This guy is like Indiana Jones,
09:23but with space age technology.
09:24Oh, which would have been such a better movie
09:26than that last one.
09:26Hey, thank you.
09:27Hey, did you guys get lucky with the mysterious CT?
09:29Eight people with the initial CT
09:31work out of 1127 Avenue of the Americas.
09:34None of them have heard of Medina.
09:35And there's a coffee shop on the ground floor.
09:37Maybe he met CT there,
09:38but none of the waitresses recognized Medina's photograph.
09:41Anything on the girlfriend?
09:41No one from the museum can even verify
09:44that Medina had a girlfriend.
09:45And that second set of prints
09:47that we found at his apartment
09:48doesn't match anything in our system.
09:50So far, this case is nothing but dead ends.
09:52Hmm.
09:53You know why?
09:53Why?
09:55Because Castle's cursed.
10:00You had to tell them, did you?
10:01Yes.
10:02Yes, I did.
10:04Well, gentlemen, you'll be happy to know
10:06I don't believe in curses.
10:08Seriously, bro, I saw a special on TV.
10:11A bunch of the guys who found King Tut's tomb
10:13ended up dying under weird circumstances.
10:16Yes, and there was an explanation for that.
10:18Evidence shows that some toxins were released
10:20when they opened the sarcophagus.
10:22Well, didn't you say that that mummy
10:23smelled kind of funny?
10:24Well, yes, but there's...
10:26And you did gaze upon the face of the mummy.
10:33You guys, there is no curse.
10:36Ow!
10:38Paper cut.
10:39Hmm.
10:40Yes, the curse gave me a paper cut.
10:44So you start small, and they snowball.
10:46Hmm.
10:47Yep.
10:47My will always said,
10:49la mala suerte viene de tres en tres.
10:52Bad luck always comes in threes.
10:54Threes like celebrities.
10:55They always die in threes.
10:57Living in the dark ages here.
11:00Why don't you guys check with Lainey
11:01and see if she found anything, okay?
11:02Mm-hmm.
11:10Medina's cell phone.
11:11It was in his jacket pocket.
11:13Doubt gargoyle attack
11:14was covered under his warranty.
11:16You didn't have to phone with warranty.
11:18I'll have tech pulled a SIM card.
11:20Speaking of gargoyles,
11:22we found trace amounts of a substance
11:23by the chisel markings.
11:24It was probably on the killer's clothes
11:26and was transferred to the statue
11:28when he pushed it over.
11:29What is it?
11:30The lab says they've never seen anything like it.
11:32It's a mixture of mostly organic compounds,
11:34including trace amounts of pollen.
11:37Medina's apartment's not far from the park.
11:39Maybe our killer cut through there
11:40on his way to do the deed.
11:41Nice idea,
11:42but this pollen is from a particular kind of calabash
11:45that only grows in the lowlands
11:46of the Yucatan Peninsula.
11:48Where the dig site was.
11:49Oh, it gets better.
11:50We found trace amounts of the same pollen
11:53on both death threats.
11:56It's a good chance whoever sent this
11:57is your killer.
11:59And it's unlikely he would still have
12:01trace amounts of pollen on him
12:02unless he had been in the Yucatan
12:04sometime in the last few days.
12:07Uh, yes, we'll hold.
12:10Why is this taking so long?
12:11How many Mayans from the Yucatan lowlands
12:13could possibly have blown into the New York area
12:15in the last few days?
12:16TSA computers are down.
12:17Oh, wow.
12:19That's reassuring.
12:20You know, Castle,
12:21this conchal was no joke.
12:22Legend has,
12:23he personally conducted
12:24hundreds of human sacrifices.
12:26You know why his burial chamber
12:27was so hard to find, right?
12:28Because his own people buried it
12:30so they couldn't come back
12:30from the grave and get them.
12:31Yes, yes, yes.
12:33Scary mummy.
12:34I get it.
12:34Thank you, sir.
12:40You okay?
12:40Yeah.
12:41Yeah, it's an old chair, that's all.
12:43Just, uh, keep telling yourself that.
12:46Hi, you there?
12:46Yes.
12:48Okay.
12:49Uh, great.
12:50Could you fax it over right away?
12:51Thanks.
12:53TSA reports that a Mayan named Chakate
12:55arrived in JFK four days ago
12:56on a tourist visa.
12:58Chakate?
12:58Chakate, CT.
12:59His visa application
13:00puts his home address
13:01right in the middle
13:02of our pollen zone.
13:06I'm guessing that guy
13:07was not Glasgow Island in high school.
13:09This is a local address.
13:10Let's go get him.
13:11Can I drive?
13:12No.
13:16Can we call you Mr. T?
13:19It's Tay.
13:21Chakate.
13:22You've got quite a resume, Mr. Tay.
13:24According to the Mexican embassy,
13:26you were arrested in 2007
13:27for assaulting a group of tourists.
13:30They were trespassing
13:31on sacred Mayan soil.
13:33You sent two of them
13:34to the hospital.
13:35Things got out of hand,
13:36but that's not why I'm here, is it?
13:38Sending death threats
13:39through the U.S. mail
13:40is a felony.
13:41Oh, and so is murder,
13:43or as your ancestors
13:43like to call it,
13:45human sacrifice.
13:47I don't know
13:47what you're talking about.
13:49Does this jog your memory?
13:53Medina refused to see me
13:54when I went to the museum.
13:56I sent that
13:57because he left me
13:58no other choice,
13:59and he needed to be told
14:01that the museum
14:02must return the artifacts
14:03that they stole
14:04from my people.
14:05Those items weren't stolen.
14:06Your government
14:07made a deal with the museum.
14:08But not with us.
14:10The Mayans
14:10are not a dead race.
14:12There are seven million of us
14:13in Mexico and Central America,
14:15the direct descendants
14:16of Khan Shoal.
14:17His remains
14:18and all that was buried
14:19with him
14:19belonged to us.
14:20Is that why
14:21you sent the death threat
14:22to Medina?
14:22It wasn't a threat.
14:24It was a reminder
14:25of the fate
14:26that awaited him
14:27if he did not return
14:28what he stole.
14:29Where were you last night
14:30between seven and eight?
14:32I didn't kill him.
14:33I didn't need to.
14:35Because all who suffer
14:37from the mummy's curse
14:38are doomed to die.
14:43Hey, Beckett.
14:45Looks like Chikate
14:46isn't our CT after all.
14:48He was uptown
14:49meeting with the Telemundo
14:50reporter
14:50about the injustice
14:51of the exhibit
14:53at 5.30.
14:54He didn't finish
14:54until after 8.
14:55Well, what about the pollen?
14:56Turns out the area
14:57where the expedition
14:58was camped
14:58would have been
14:58covered with this stuff.
15:00Laney says it's a safe bet
15:01that there's traces
15:01of it all over the exhibit.
15:02Okay, but let's hold him
15:03on the death threats.
15:04I got a feeling
15:05he knows more
15:05than he's letting on.
15:06Content's in Medina's phone.
15:08There's nothing interesting
15:09in the call list
15:09or the calendar,
15:10but we hit the girlfriend
15:11jackpot with the photos.
15:13He's sleeping
15:14with a mummy?
15:14Yeah.
15:15What?
15:16No.
15:17Oh, sorry.
15:18You have to flip
15:18to the last one.
15:20Bam.
15:22That's Rachel Walters.
15:23No one at the museum
15:24knew they were seeing each other?
15:25Maybe she's got something
15:26to hide.
15:27Like murder?
15:39Started after we got
15:40back from Mexico.
15:41Why did you lie to everyone?
15:43I didn't want to get fired.
15:44Why would Stanford fire you?
15:46Because he and Will
15:46hated each other.
15:48Why?
15:49Stanford blamed Will
15:50for Nicole's death.
15:51The girl who was killed
15:52in Mexico?
15:53Stanford put Will
15:54in charge of all
15:55the grad students.
15:56He wanted Will
15:57to teach them
15:57how to survive
15:58in such a hostile environment.
15:59When Nicole died,
16:01Stanford was devastated.
16:03He felt Will
16:04had betrayed his trust,
16:05letting her go alone
16:06to the jungle at night.
16:07Ever since we got back,
16:09Stanford's been trying
16:09to get rid of Will.
16:10But he can't,
16:11because Will's the one
16:12who discovered
16:13the burial chamber.
16:14Do you think
16:14he would have gone
16:15as far as murder
16:16to get rid of Will?
16:22Stanford told me
16:22that Will is the one
16:23that should have died
16:24that night,
16:25not Nicole.
16:27The fact that Will
16:28and I didn't get along
16:29doesn't mean I killed him.
16:30Not getting along
16:30with someone
16:31is a lot different
16:31than blaming him
16:32for a girl's death.
16:33You thought he should
16:34have done a better job
16:35watching over her.
16:36No, I thought he shouldn't
16:37be sneaking into the jungle
16:38to have sex with her.
16:39That's why she was out there
16:40the night she died.
16:41Only Will stood her up
16:43and she paid the price.
16:44And how do you know this?
16:46I caught them together
16:47two days before she died.
16:49I told him to break it off.
16:50He was her boss,
16:51but he refused.
16:53That girl had a bright future
16:54and his carelessness
16:56took it from her.
16:57Where were you
16:57when Medina was killed?
16:59Right here, working.
17:00You check with security,
17:01ask the staff.
17:02I'm basically living here
17:04until the exhibit launches.
17:05Great.
17:05Then we'll know
17:06where to find you
17:06in case your alibi
17:07doesn't check out.
17:10What happened to Will
17:11wasn't the curse.
17:13It was karma.
17:18Do you believe that people
17:19get what they deserve?
17:21Well, if they do,
17:22then I must have done
17:22something pretty terrible
17:23to be punished with you.
17:25Funny.
17:27Mr. Castle?
17:28Detective?
17:29Seen on the award campaign?
17:31Do you dare see
17:33the mummy of the Mayan king?
17:36Tasteful.
17:37Come on, Detective.
17:39You've got to give people
17:40what they want.
17:41They are eating the curse up.
17:43Ever since the story broke,
17:45ticket pre-sales
17:46have jumped 20%.
17:47Yeah, but what about
17:48when people come
17:49and see the mummy
17:49and then they get hit
17:50by a car
17:50or slip on a banana peel?
17:53Then they're going to sue you.
17:55I have to make a call.
18:00Okay, thanks, Bill.
18:03Did you get a confirmation
18:03on Stanford's
18:04and Rachel's alibis?
18:05Museum security
18:06has them both logged
18:07in,
18:07but I haven't been able
18:08to find anyone
18:09who could definitively state
18:10that Stanford or Rachel
18:11were there during the hour
18:12it would have taken
18:12to kill Will
18:13and get back to the museum.
18:14Yo, I think I found something.
18:17Turns out our victim
18:17deposited 10 grand
18:19into his bank account
18:19four days before he was killed.
18:21Where did he get
18:21that kind of money?
18:22Unknown,
18:23but he withdrew
18:23the same amount
18:24the morning he died.
18:2510,000 in, 10,000 out.
18:26Sounds like he's laundering
18:27money to me.
18:28Okay, you guys check
18:28with the bank
18:29first thing in the morning.
18:30Let's see where
18:30that money came from.
18:39What happened?
18:40I don't know.
18:40I was going to make a coffee
18:42and the cappuccino machine
18:44started shaking
18:45and just as I hit the deck
18:47it exploded.
18:47You could have been killed.
18:48I know.
18:59Oh, very, okay.
19:01Very funny.
19:02Yes, you got me.
19:04No, I'm Castle.
19:05I don't believe in curses.
19:08What, did you get
19:08the bomb disposal
19:09to rig something up?
19:10Yeah, it was all flash
19:11and no damage.
19:13And the chair?
19:13I just pulled a couple
19:14of screws
19:15and let gravity do the rust.
19:17Nightcastle.
19:21I'm not cleaning this up.
19:26Better clean this up.
19:30That was so mean.
19:32Oh, I knew the whole time.
19:33Oh, sure you did.
19:34You know, there are
19:35some mysteries
19:36that science can't explain
19:37like Stonehenge
19:38and Deja Vu.
19:39And some curses are real
19:40like the Scottish play.
19:42Oh, here we go.
19:44There's no one more
19:45superstitious
19:45than an actor.
19:47Scottish play?
19:48Are you talking about Macbeth?
19:49No, darling.
19:50You never say the name.
19:52Macbeth.
19:52No.
19:54To do so
19:56is to invite grave misfortune.
19:58No, I am serious.
19:59You know, I didn't,
20:00I didn't know it at the time.
20:01I was in my high school
20:02drama class.
20:02I said the name.
20:03I wasn't thinking.
20:04For the next two days,
20:06nothing went right.
20:07I mean, Lady Macbeth
20:08twisted her ankle,
20:09the three witches
20:10caught pneumonia.
20:11Finally, the director said,
20:12all right,
20:12this is what you have to do.
20:13I had to run around
20:14the outside of the theater building
20:16counterclockwise,
20:16knock on the door
20:17till someone let me in.
20:19Mm-hmm.
20:22Well, I'd love to stand around
20:23and tell scary stories
20:24all day
20:24because I'm really good at it.
20:25But I have a date
20:26with a murder investigation.
20:30It's lucky your father
20:31doesn't believe in the curse.
20:32Why?
20:33Because he's going
20:34into a building full of guns.
20:35I heard that.
20:38Hey, guys,
20:39what'd you find out
20:39at Medina's bank?
20:40Well, it turns out
20:41the deposit and the withdrawal
20:42were both made in cash.
20:43The bank manager remembers
20:44the withdrawal
20:45because he had
20:45to personally authorize it.
20:46The bank manager
20:47was pretty sure Medina
20:48was with somebody at the time,
20:49so I pulled a surveillance video
20:50revealing this shining example
20:52of thuggery.
20:53Any idea who he is?
20:54Do you want to?
20:55No, bro, you caught it.
20:56You sure?
20:56Yeah, sure, go ahead.
20:57You know, whenever you guys
20:58are done being cute.
21:03No, he didn't.
21:04Yeah, he did.
21:05Aruba is nice
21:05this time of year.
21:07Meet Mr. Norton Grimes,
21:08who recently had the privilege
21:09of doing two years
21:10for drug trafficking
21:10at Franklin Correctional.
21:12That's what the money was for.
21:13Mexico is cocaine central.
21:15What better way
21:15to sneak drugs into the country
21:17other than inside
21:17an archaeological shipment?
21:18Medina was in bed
21:19with a drug trafficker.
21:20Got him killed.
21:21You know, there's
21:21a current address here.
21:23Let's say we go see
21:24if he's awake.
21:24Okay.
21:27Come on, Castle.
21:28Let's go.
21:28Can I drive?
21:29Are you kidding?
21:30You're cursed.
21:39I got two uniforms
21:40posted out back
21:41in case he decides it's a rabbit.
21:43Castle, you sure you don't
21:43want to stay in the car?
21:44We don't want the curse
21:45to get you.
21:46I'm good to go.
21:47Okay.
21:48Ready?
21:53NYPD!
21:54Martin Grimes!
21:55Police!
21:55Show me your hands!
21:58Police, doggy!
21:59Good doggy!
21:59Whoa!
22:00He got me!
22:01He got me!
22:02Castle, run!
22:02God!
22:04Police!
22:05Police!
22:05Oh!
22:06God!
22:06God!
22:07Police!
22:08Police!
22:09Police!
22:10Police!
22:11Police!
22:11Police!
22:11Police!
22:11Police!
22:12Police!
22:13Police!
22:14What is this?
22:22Right this way, Mr. Grimes.
22:24I could have been killed.
22:25But you weren't.
22:27Look, you go through enough doors,
22:29at some point,
22:29you're going to find a dog
22:30on the other side.
22:31Yes, but it didn't happen
22:32at some point, did it?
22:33It happened today,
22:33right after I gazed
22:34into the face of the mummy.
22:35Okay, I admit that the timing
22:36was a little troublesome,
22:37but I promise you
22:38there is no curse.
22:40Beckett.
22:40Oh, hey, it's Lainey.
22:43Okay.
22:47Right.
22:49Well, what does that mean?
22:51What?
22:51Are you sure?
22:53What?
22:53Thanks.
22:54What?
22:55What'd she say?
22:56Nothing.
22:57It was not nothing.
23:00Okay, fine.
23:02The lab identified
23:03the substance
23:04found on the gargoyle,
23:05and it was a combination
23:06of sodium nitrate iron oxide,
23:08decomposed hemp fibers,
23:09and a tissue.
23:10I'm sorry, what?
23:13Ancient human tissue.
23:15Mummified tissue?
23:17Like mummy flesh?
23:18Which means at some point,
23:20our killer came into contact
23:21with the mummies
23:23and somehow transferred
23:24the substance
23:25onto his or her clothing
23:26before killing Medina.
23:27or maybe
23:28mummy himself
23:30has risen from the grave
23:31and is roaming New York
23:32seeking vengeance.
23:35I'm kidding.
23:39Sort of.
23:40You know,
23:41if Medina was trafficking drugs
23:43for Grimes
23:44through the sarcophagus,
23:46then maybe Grimes
23:47got the substance
23:47on himself
23:48when he went
23:49to get the drugs out.
23:55Do you mind
23:56flying solo
23:57on this one
23:58while I head home
23:59and change my clothes?
24:00I think I can manage.
24:02Hey, Castle.
24:05Watch out for the mummy.
24:07Really?
24:13Dog attack?
24:14Ice him on the kick.
24:15Yeah, it was so light
24:16a little bonus, wasn't it?
24:17Had to mess with the curse,
24:18didn't you?
24:19Trying to be funny.
24:20You know what kind of hell
24:20I'd catch if Castle
24:21got eaten in the line of duty?
24:22Don't tell me
24:23you really believe
24:23in that stuff, sir.
24:24You know what I believe in,
24:25detective?
24:26That there's no upside
24:27in screwing with things
24:27that you can't explain.
24:29First year of homicide,
24:30right?
24:31My partner tackles
24:32a suspect
24:32through the window
24:33of a gypsy smoke shop.
24:34Owner's furious.
24:35Threatens all kind of hexes
24:37on our houses
24:37if we don't personally
24:39go and clean it up
24:39and we tell her
24:40to take it out with the city.
24:42Two hours later,
24:42my partner drops dead.
24:44Heart attack.
24:46And you think
24:46it was the hexes?
24:47No.
24:48Man ate bacon
24:48with every meal.
24:50But,
24:51next morning,
24:52went over there,
24:52fixed that window.
24:53And you know why?
24:55Because there's no upside
24:56in screwing with things
24:57you can't explain?
24:58And don't you ever forget it.
25:00Okay.
25:03You know,
25:03if our boy Grimes
25:04saw the face of the mummy,
25:05it's likely he's cursed too.
25:06Yeah,
25:07I'd rather suffer a thousand curses
25:08than go up against
25:09Beckett the box.
25:10Lady,
25:10you got the wrong guy.
25:12I dropped out of the drug game
25:13after I left the joint.
25:15That's funny.
25:16Because I've got
25:18surveillance photos
25:19showing you
25:19taking $10,000
25:20in cash from Will Medina
25:22the day that he was murdered.
25:24And given your rap sheet,
25:26I don't think it would be
25:27too difficult
25:28to convince a jury
25:29that you were involved.
25:30Okay, okay, hold on.
25:31I didn't murder anyone.
25:33And I don't smuggle drugs anymore.
25:35I use my connections
25:36to get a new gig.
25:38Antiquities.
25:40Really?
25:41And why would Will Medina
25:43be buying antiquities
25:45from you?
25:46Not buying, selling.
25:48I met him
25:48at a museum fundraiser
25:49last year.
25:50I gave him my card.
25:51I told him I'm always interested
25:52in rare items
25:53that may need a new home.
25:54He gave me a call
25:55a few weeks later.
25:56He said he had a box
25:56of Incan arrowheads.
25:57It's just been sitting
25:58on the shelf
25:59since the 1950s.
26:00I found him a buyer
26:02and we made
26:02a nice little profit.
26:03And what were you
26:04buying this time?
26:06A mummy.
26:07A mummy?
26:09Who would want a mummy?
26:11A collector in Taipei.
26:12So I stopped by the museum.
26:14I thought he would say no,
26:15but he jumped
26:16at the opportunity.
26:17Did he ever think
26:18that somebody noticed
26:19this missing mummy?
26:20He said all the attention
26:21was being paid
26:22to the mummy of the Mayan king,
26:24not to slave girl number six.
26:26She was destined
26:26for the storage room
26:27in the basement.
26:28So it'd be years
26:29before anyone
26:29went looking for her,
26:30at which point
26:31her disappearance,
26:33it could never
26:33be linked to him.
26:35And this $10,000
26:36was a down payment?
26:37Of a quarter million
26:38dollar payout.
26:39But then you showed up
26:40and you took it back.
26:40Why?
26:41My client changed
26:42their mind.
26:44I guess they didn't
26:44like the mummy.
26:45Why not?
26:47I don't know.
26:48All I know is
26:49they sent someone down
26:50to the museum
26:51to take a look.
26:51Who did he send?
26:52I have no idea.
26:53I swear.
26:55Whatever they told him
26:56turned my client off.
26:57Maybe the mummy
26:58was too short.
26:59Maybe it didn't
26:59have enough teeth.
27:01These private collectors,
27:02they're very particular.
27:04They want exactly
27:04what they want
27:05and nothing else.
27:07Selling mummies?
27:09How stupid
27:09does he think we are?
27:10I know.
27:10The drug story
27:11is a hell of a lot
27:12more plausible,
27:12but it just doesn't seem
27:13to be Medina's style.
27:15There's one way
27:15to find out.
27:16Take samples
27:17from this mummy sarcophagus.
27:18You were test positive
27:19for drugs.
27:20Grimes is lying.
27:21Most likely I'm a murderer.
27:22Great, thanks.
27:30Hey.
27:32What are you doing now?
27:33Facing my mortality.
27:36All this curse stuff
27:38has got me thinking
27:38if something were
27:39to happen to me,
27:40you'd take good care
27:40of Alexis, right?
27:41Of course.
27:42Better than you
27:43took care of me.
27:44Oh, please.
27:45You turned out fine.
27:46Look, look, look.
27:47The chances of this curse
27:48being real
27:49are almost non-existent.
27:51You know that.
27:52Maybe.
27:53What kind of father
27:54would I be
27:54if I didn't do
27:55everything I could
27:57to make sure
27:57I stick around?
27:58Well, then I think
27:59maybe we should try
28:00to figure out a way
28:01to reverse the curse.
28:04You know,
28:04the mummy equivalent
28:05of my running
28:06around the theater.
28:07Someone at the museum
28:08must know that.
28:12You've become very wise
28:13in your old age.
28:15Watch it, Buster.
28:17I'm afraid there's
28:18nothing in the literature
28:19about reversing the curse.
28:21Hey!
28:22Castle, what are you
28:24doing here?
28:24Oh, nothing.
28:25Just waiting for you.
28:27Detectives,
28:27you talk about
28:28reversing the curse as well?
28:29No, I'm here
28:30to see a man
28:31about a mummy.
28:32So, no luck
28:33with the curse, huh?
28:34Look on the bright side,
28:34Castle.
28:35You die,
28:35your book sales skyrocket.
28:36Great.
28:37What did Beckett mean,
28:38see a man about a mummy?
28:39Which mummy?
28:39The one Grimes said
28:40Medina was trying to sell.
28:42Fill me in.
28:43Spare no detail.
28:44Well, in some ancient cultures,
28:46instead of burning...
28:47Detective,
28:48this is a significant
28:49archaeological find.
28:50You can't just walk in here
28:51and open it up.
28:52I've got a warrant
28:53that says otherwise.
28:54This is preposterous.
28:55Tell that to the drug dealer
28:56in my lockup
28:57who was doing business
28:57with your associate curator.
29:00Please,
29:00I just have to reiterate
29:02how fragile these mummies are.
29:03They should only be handled
29:04in a controlled environment.
29:06Don't worry,
29:06it's just a simple swap test.
29:08I promise,
29:08I won't damage anything.
29:19My God.
29:21It's gone.
29:23I'm not saying
29:25I believe,
29:27but where's the mummy?
29:42You see,
29:43as you feel,
29:43the test shows
29:44that there's no drug residue
29:45inside the sarcophagus
29:46and all the other mummies
29:47are accounted for.
29:48No drugs in them either.
29:49Well, if it wasn't the drugs,
29:50then what's so special
29:50about the missing mummy?
29:52Well, maybe Grimes
29:52was telling the truth.
29:53Maybe Medina
29:54was trying to sell it.
29:55And then when Grimes
29:56wouldn't buy it,
29:57he sold it to someone else?
29:58Except that one of the researchers
29:59swears it was in a sarcophagus
30:01the day after Medina was killed.
30:02Well, that could only mean one thing.
30:04Please don't say
30:05that it's walking among us
30:06seeking revenge.
30:07Okay, don't say I didn't warn you.
30:08This place is gigantic.
30:10They have over 30 million
30:11specimens down here.
30:12We've got a canine unit
30:13coming in to help,
30:14but finding this mummy
30:15might be like
30:16finding the lost ark.
30:18If it is even still here.
30:19All right, have CSU sweep the area
30:21and see if they can get
30:22any prints off of the sarcophagus.
30:23Whoever stole the mummy
30:24must have left
30:25some evidence behind.
30:26Disaster.
30:27PR disaster.
30:29I really hope
30:29the press doesn't hear about this.
30:32Ten bucks says
30:33he calls the press
30:34for as soon as
30:34we're out the front door.
30:36You don't think
30:37he could have orchestrated
30:38this whole thing
30:38just to generate interest
30:39in the exhibit, do you?
30:40Murdered Medina
30:41just to boost ticket sales?
30:42No.
30:43That would make this Scooby-Doo.
30:44And I'm not Velma.
30:45Velma?
30:46Are you kidding?
30:47You're Daphne.
30:48Hot, smart,
30:49not aggressively brainy,
30:51but long legs,
30:51short skirt.
30:52Stop.
30:52Fine.
30:52Now.
30:53Go ahead.
30:57No, he didn't know anything
30:58about how to reverse the curse,
31:00but I've decided it's okay.
31:02I was just overreacting.
31:03It's like you said,
31:04the chances of there
31:04actually being a curse
31:06are virtually non-existent.
31:12That was weird.
31:13The elevator just stopped.
31:17Mother?
31:22No reason to panic.
31:26Small reason to panic.
31:30Hello?
31:41There is no curse.
31:42There is no curse.
31:43There is no curse.
31:45All right.
31:47What do I do
31:48if the elevator falls?
31:49Okay, I think
31:50I'm supposed to jump in the air.
31:52No.
31:53Lay on the ground.
31:58Castle?
31:59What are you doing?
32:03That whole thing,
32:04then the light,
32:05the light,
32:06and then the whole thing.
32:07I thought the elevator
32:08was going to fall.
32:09That wasn't you,
32:10was it?
32:10Because that wasn't funny.
32:11No, no.
32:12I'm not that cruel.
32:13It's an old elevator.
32:15You know what?
32:15Let's get maintenance up here
32:16and tell him not to let anyone on here
32:18before it's fixed.
32:19Are you okay?
32:19Yeah.
32:20No, yeah.
32:21I'm going to splash some water on my face
32:24and then throw up a little bit.
32:33Rogue archaeologists,
32:34Mayan death threats,
32:36drug dealers claiming to deal in antiquities,
32:38and missing mummies.
32:40There's got to be a story
32:42that makes all of this make sense.
32:49What?
32:51Nothing.
32:52Castle?
32:52If something were to happen to me,
32:54I want you to watch out for Alexis.
32:57She looks up to you,
32:58and if her boyfriends get frisky,
33:00you can shoot them.
33:02Nothing's going to happen to you.
33:04But if it does...
33:09Okay.
33:12And would you also go into my closet
33:14and get rid of my porn collection
33:15before she finds it?
33:16Don't worry, bro.
33:17I got you covered on that.
33:18We hit a home run
33:19with the prints from the sarcophagus.
33:21One pop that doesn't belong
33:22to anyone who works at the museum.
33:23But according to the background check,
33:25he does work at 1127 Avenue of the Americas,
33:28the address on Medina's calendar,
33:29at a company called Bio Inc.
33:31and here is the best part.
33:32His name is Charles Taylor.
33:35C.T.?
33:36Spoke to the guy two days ago
33:37and he insisted he'd never met Medina.
33:39Lied right to my face.
33:41No, no, I didn't lie.
33:42I swear to you,
33:43I don't know Will Medina.
33:44You didn't see him two days ago at 5.30.
33:47No, you got the wrong guy.
33:48But you admit that you're in the basement
33:49of the New York History Museum.
33:52No.
33:53Charles,
33:54we have your fingerprints on a sarcophagus
33:56so you can either start telling us the truth now
33:57or after spending an afternoon
33:59in the holding cell
33:59entertaining a meth addict
34:01through the violent phase of his withdrawal.
34:04I might have been down there.
34:06When?
34:08Okay, holding cell it is.
34:10Five days ago.
34:14And Medina?
34:15Look, I heard he was dead.
34:16I didn't want to get mixed up in that.
34:17I was only sent there to check out the mummy.
34:20The mummy?
34:21Yeah.
34:22I was sent by a private collector to examine it.
34:25I was just telling you the truth.
34:26Medina was trying to sell the mummy.
34:28This is getting good.
34:29This collector, where is he from?
34:30Taipei.
34:31I've done testing for him before.
34:33Hominid skulls, mammoth tusk.
34:36He asked me to carbon date the mummy
34:37to make sure it was real.
34:38And was it?
34:41It's complicated.
34:42We'll try and keep up.
34:43As soon as an organism dies, it stops taking in new carbon.
34:46Specifically, we focus on carbon-14,
34:48which starts to decay in the body as soon as it dies.
34:50And by examining the rate of decay,
34:52we can actually date the age of the dead organism
34:54with incredible accuracy.
34:55When I tested the mummy,
34:56I took samples from the sarcophagus,
34:57the cloth the mummy was wrapped in,
34:59and a small piece of bone.
35:00And then I ran them through a mass spectrometer,
35:02and that's when things got weird.
35:07Define weird.
35:08The samples from the sarcophagus and the cloth
35:10dated at over 2,000 years old,
35:12but the piece of bone was too young to date,
35:16meaning that it was less than 500 years old.
35:18How much less?
35:19I have no idea.
35:21500 years is as low as the test goes.
35:23Are you saying that the mummy Medina
35:25was trying to sell was a fake?
35:27All I know is that there was a discrepancy,
35:29and I called him and I told him that,
35:31and he didn't believe me.
35:32He insisted on coming to the office to see me.
35:35The night he died.
35:38Beckett,
35:40the uniform's just found your mummy.
35:42Where?
35:43In the dark corner of the museum basement.
35:45Someone was doing their best
35:45to make sure it was never found.
35:47Medina's buyer rejected the mummy
35:48because it wasn't real,
35:49and then when Medina started asking questions,
35:51he was killed.
35:52And now someone's trying to make it disappear.
35:55I think we need to take a closer look at that mummy.
35:58Your carbon data was right.
35:59This girl's body is definitely less than 500 years dead.
36:03How much less?
36:04She died four months ago.
36:06If she's been dead for four months,
36:07why does she look just like the other mummies?
36:09Because whoever mummified her
36:11knew what they were doing.
36:12Her blood's been drained.
36:13There's an incision on her left side
36:14which her killer used to remove her organs
36:16before starting the desiccation process.
36:18How did she die?
36:20Blunt force trauma.
36:21Someone hit her in the back of the head.
36:22She never saw it coming.
36:24And then do you have any idea who she is?
36:25No.
36:26And I was unable to get a usable fingerprint.
36:29We don't need them.
36:31She died four months ago.
36:33I know exactly who this is.
36:50Dental records confirm that the body is Nicole Graham,
36:53the first victim of the curse.
36:54I thought this girl was killed by an animal in the jungle.
36:57Turns out they never actually found the body,
36:59just her bloody clothes and a piece of scalp.
37:01It seemed obvious to the Mexican authorities what had happened.
37:03Instead, somebody killed her and turned her into a mummy?
37:05Hell of a way to get rid of a body.
37:07Hide it in plain sight,
37:08ship it out with the other artifacts.
37:09And no one would have ever found out
37:11if Medina hadn't decided to sell the wrong mummy.
37:13When the collector refused it,
37:15Medina must have decided to take a closer look.
37:17And then that suspicion
37:18must have tipped off our killer
37:19who had to murder Medina
37:21in order to keep the secret safe.
37:22It makes sense, but who's our killer?
37:24The only person with the skill to mummify a body.
37:29What's going on?
37:31Four words.
37:32Eat, pray, love, kill.
37:36A little friendly advice.
37:37Next time you kill someone,
37:39skip the part where you prove
37:40only you could have covered it up.
37:41Kill someone?
37:42What are you talking about?
37:43We're talking about Nicole Graham.
37:45You killed her in Mexico
37:46and then you mummified her body
37:47in order to cover it up.
37:48What?
37:49No, Nicole was killed in a jaguar attack.
37:51Except they never found her body.
37:52But we did.
37:53And so did Medina
37:54when he discovered the discrepancy
37:56in the carbon dating.
37:57And that's when you knew
37:58that you had to kill him.
38:00That's insane.
38:01What happened, Rachel?
38:03Did you find her in the jungle
38:04making time with your man?
38:06Little girl's gone wild jealousy
38:07turned deadly.
38:09No, Nicole and I were friends.
38:10And whoever told you
38:12she was sleeping with Will was lying.
38:14Sure, she had a crush on him, okay?
38:16We all did.
38:16But she backed off
38:17when she realized
38:18that Will was interested in me.
38:21But Stan...
38:22Stanford.
38:24Stanford was the one
38:25who was jealous.
38:27Ask any of the women down there.
38:28He had a thing for Nicole
38:29ever since she joined the program.
38:31You'd always see him
38:32standing around watching her.
38:33It was creepy.
38:34You were the expert, Rachel.
38:35You were the only one
38:37who knew how to do it.
38:38No, I wasn't.
38:39Everything I know about mummification
38:41I learned from Stanford Raines.
38:43Look, detective,
38:44mummifying a body
38:44is a hands-on process.
38:46I promise you
38:47whoever did that to Nicole
38:48left behind some DNA.
38:49I'm happy to provide a sample.
38:51Why don't you see
38:52if Stanford wants to do the same?
38:58Stanford Raines?
38:59Yes?
38:59You're under arrest
39:00for the murder of Nicole Graham.
39:03And don't forget Will Medina.
39:04You had to kill him, too,
39:05when you caught him
39:06sniffing around her mummy.
39:07Only way to protect your secret.
39:08You can't be serious.
39:10Serious enough
39:10to get a warrant
39:11for your DNA.
39:13This is the part
39:14where you say,
39:15and I would have gotten
39:16away with it, too,
39:17if it weren't for you
39:17meddling kids.
39:25Is he actually
39:26running away?
39:27Yeah, it's
39:29primal instinct.
39:30Fight or flight.
39:31Should we run after him?
39:33No need.
39:58Still say there's no curse?
40:03Ruh-roh.
40:06Once Stanford got out of surgery,
40:08he confessed to everything.
40:09How he lured Nicole
40:10into the burial chamber
40:11and how they fought
40:12when she refused
40:12to celebrate with him.
40:14So what happened
40:15to the mummy
40:15he swapped for Nicole's money?
40:16The body was so fragile
40:18that all Stanford had to do
40:19was strip off the wrapping
40:20and stomp it into dust.
40:22And then he rewrapped
40:22Nicole's body,
40:23stuffed it in the sarcophagus,
40:24sealed it up tight,
40:25and by the time
40:26it got to the U.S.,
40:26months later,
40:28mummification process
40:28was complete.
40:29And when Stanford
40:30decided to kill Medina,
40:32he just used one
40:33of the pry bars
40:33from the museum
40:34to tip the gargoyle
40:34and hoped that Medina's death
40:36would be blamed on the curse.
40:38Three members of the expedition
40:39dead, one on the way to jail.
40:41Sounds like the curse
40:42is real to me.
40:43Speaking of which,
40:46I have a deal to propose.
40:50I spoke to the D.A.
40:52and he's agreed
40:52to drop the felony threat charges
40:54based on your cooperation.
40:56What kind of cooperation?
41:02Tell him I to reverse the curse.
41:06Why should I?
41:07Because thanks to us,
41:08Mr. Bentley has agreed
41:09to send the entire collection
41:11back to the Mexican museum
41:13after the exhibit ends.
41:15Why would he agree to that?
41:16Well, let's just say
41:17he's got a little
41:18public relations problem right now
41:20and he could use
41:20all the good publicity he can get.
41:33That's all I have to do.
41:34Hmm?
41:36And one more thing.
41:38I wouldn't say no
41:39to a ride to the airport.
41:41Let's go.
41:45You're in a good mood.
41:47The curse
41:47has officially
41:48been lifted.
41:50How'd you manage that?
41:51You don't want to know.
41:52But
41:53I tend to fade
41:54all the way home
41:55just to make sure.
41:56Jaywalking?
41:56Mm-hmm.
41:57You've walked under a ladder.
41:59What murderous experiments
42:00are you performing
42:01on tomatoes now?
42:01Stabbing?
42:02Filetting?
42:02Dicing
42:03for a salad.
42:05Want to help?
42:08I would love to.
42:09So,
42:10I was thinking
42:11maybe this weekend
42:12we could go to the museum.
42:14It's been a while.
42:15Yeah.
42:17How about the zoo?
42:19That sounds great.
42:24What's the difference
42:25between curse and clumsy?
42:28I'll get a band-aid.
42:29Get to it.
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