Castle (2009–2016): Season 1, Episode 5 - A Chill Goes Through Her Veins - full transcript

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Beckett.

all workers, please clear
the construction site.

Why can't they find bodies
between 9:00 and 5:00?

Well, early bird gets the collar.

Yeah.

He was here before i was.

Oh! Finally, you are here.
You are gonna love this.

come on, show's over!

Active crime scene.
We appreciate your cooperation.

Awesome, right?
My first cold case.

Come on,
it's a little funny.

Not so much funny as true.
She's frozen solid.

What was the temperature last night?

Mid-40s.

It wasn't exposure.

Site's active.

The boys tell me there's no way
she was here last night.

she's melting.

Maybe we should be looking
for ruby slippers.

Yeah, while you're at it, why don't you look for
some flying monkeys? Maybe they left her here.

So what do you got for me?

There are pieces of plastic on
her body from the garment bag.

- So she was inside the bag?
- Mm-Hmm.

Other than that, it's gonna
take a while for her to thaw.

I can tell you
she hasn't been here long.

Mayba couple of hours.

What about security?

Chain-Link. Pair of bolt
cutters took care of that.

Looks like our guy was hoping
she'd disappear into the concrete pour.

a few more feet,
and she would've.

It's kind of odd-- taking the trouble
to freeze a body and then dumping it?

We got two personality
types working hered.

A killer who freezes a body is
a keeper--He wants a souvenir.

But a guy who dumps a body?

Doesn't want to be
reminded of the crime.

All right, i'm gonna
go check out the fence.

mm-Hmm.

Get a close-Up of her face.
I want to run her through missing persons.

Oh, cool, like on
the discovery channel,

Where you plug the photo into
facial recognition databases?

- Yeah, just like that.
- Yes!

Welcome to the department's official
facial recognition database.

By hand?

That's like life before tivo.

Maybe you could download an app
on that phone of yours. You could just--

There are a lot
of missing people.

One way or another,
we eventually find them.

some end up dead, some turn up
in a double-Wide

With a stripper named trixie
outside atlantic city.

And some
just don't turn up.

Dana sullivan.

Mm-Hmm. Her and her boyfriend
leave a club.

He's a couple steps behind her
'Cause he gets a call on his cell phone.

She turns a corner just
a few seconds before he does.

And when he comes around,
she's gone.

Street's totally empty--
No traffic, no nothing.

In a matter of 3 feet,
she literally just disappeared.

People don't disappear
off the face of the earth.

Sure they do.

Quantum physics, alien abductions,
Schrodinger's cat.

One minute, you're getting
a hot dog in the park.

the next, you're fighting off sleestaks
on the far side of a dimensional rift.

I don't buy it. There's got
to be an explanation.

A story that makes
everything make sense.

Okay, castle,

what's our jane doe's story?

Well, i don't know how it starts,

but i know how it ends--
Frozen at a construction site.

So flying monkeys aside,
what's the first question?

How did she get there?

Considering she was frozen solid,
She had to have been kept pretty close.

Not necessarily.

Here is the site. Her body might not have
been kept as close as you might think.

It takes a long time
for a frozen body to thaw.

What, you, uh, freeze a body
once for one of your books?

No, but i cooked a turkey
for thanksgiving.

It was a 28-Pounder.
It took all night to unfreeze.

She's a person, castle,
not a turkey.

Just making a point.

beckett.

Okay. I'm on my way.

lanie's got an i.D.

You'll take care of these?

Hey, ryan, can you, uh...
thanks.

Melanie kavanaugh,
34 at time of death.

Turns out c.O.D. Was
blunt-Force trauma to her head.

How'd you get her i.D.?

Her fingerprints were in the system.

- For?
- Misdemeanor drug possession.

She doesn't look like a junkie.

No, she's in pretty good
shape, considering.

But judging the lack of frost
and tissue degeneration,

I'd say wherever she was stored,
the temperature rarely varied.

- Like a freezer.
- Freezer'd do the job.

How long has she been dead?

Well, considering how long
she's been like this,

Factoring decomposition,

I'd say she probably was frozen
within 24 hours of being killed.

What do you mean, "how long
she's been like this"?

According to the records i pulled,

this woman has been missing
for over five years.

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She had a troubled childhood.

Drug problems
in her teens and 20s.

I know.

How do you know?

I read the case file.
She kicked the habit.

Met and married
samuel kavanaugh.

She worked in a restaurant.
He managed a bank. They have two kids.

When did you read
the case file?

when you were
in the little girls' room.

I was gone for, like, a minute.

Speed-Reader.

It's what I picked up from my years stranded
in the new york public library.

Would you like the cliffsnotes?
Or in this case, the castle notes?

Castle, how do you know you didn't
miss something important?

Like, after melanie disappeared,
her husband waited a day

- before he called the cops.
- A day?

That doesn't make anyense.

Until you get
to the third paragraph.

Before melanie was married,

She was what is now referred
to as a "runaway bride."

According to her husband,
she ran away a whole two weeks

Before their wedding day.

Mm-Hmm, and th
she came back.

Three years
happily ever after,

She disappears again
and comes back.

Lather, rinse, repeat
three times.

No indication
of where she went.

Well, she must've had
a reason for running away.

Hmm. I'm not judging her.

Some people love the institution,
hate the day-To-Day.

Are you one of those people,
castle?

I guess i just haven't met
the right girl.

So that's why her husband
didn't call the cops.

She'd done it before.

Seemed reasonable
to the detective at the time.

There's no evidence of foul play,
So the detective just closed the case.

Five years, and her husband
thought she just ran away?

Guess it's time to tell him
His runaway bride finally came home.

who is it?

New york city
police department.

Can i help you?

Detective beckett.
Are you samuel kavanaugh?

Who?

Samuel kavanaugh. Our records
indicate that he lives here.

No, you must have
the wrong apartment.

9-1-7?

Yeah, but i live here,
and my name is roger. It's not sam.

Do you know any samuel kavanaugh?

No. What's this about?

How long have you lived here?

About eight months.

Well, it's been five years.
He could've moved.

Well, yeah, i hate
to break it to you,

but if you're looking for the guy
who lived here before me,

he didn't move.
He was murdered.

- Hey, beckett.
- Yeah?

Samuel kavanaugh--

Shot outside a grocery store
about a year ago.

Small caliber, double tap to the chest.
Wallet and valuables missing.

Poor schlub's wife
disappears

Four years later,
he gets shot in a mugging.

Yeah, what are the odds?

Long, unless they're connected.

What, four years
between murders?

One's a popsicle,
one just got popped.

How could they possibly
be connected?

Maybe he and his wife got into something
they couldn't get out of,

Maybe something to do
with her drug habit.

So some skell waits four years
to finish a job?

Maybe he finally figured out
what happened to his wife

And was about to go
to the police with it.

I don't believe it.

Give me 250 pages.
I bet i could make you.

We're solving a murder,
castle, not writing a book.

I would call it, "a chill
runs through her veins."

- Ooh, i like that.
- Huh?

"Bam," said the lady.
Another best seller for me.

What happened to the kids?

Living with melanie's parents
up in white plains.

Well, looks like i'm going
to white plains.

Canvass the construction site.
Someone must've seen something.

yeah, the foreman said that, uh,

they have a problem with the homeless at night,
So i figured i'd go down there later,

Try to catch 'em
at the site.

Homeless, white plains.
Homeless, white plains.

They're both
kinda creepy.

All right.

Did i scare ya?

- Mr. Davidson?
- Aw.

Yes, ma'am.
That's me.

I'm detective kate beckett.

Is there somewhere
we could talk?

Yes. Why don't we go inside?

Girls, don't play
in the street, okay?

All right. Grandpa will be
out in a minute.

I-I think we've both known
for a while now

that melanie was not
going to come home.

What do you remember about the days
leading up to her disappearance?

Well, uh, we talked
to her a couple days before--

Uh, my wife did, i mean.

Everything seemed fine.

She didn't indicate in any way
that she was leaving?

No.

We're aware your daughter
had some issues.

That had nothing to do
with what happened here.

How do you know?

You know, now you sound like
the cop who first had the case--

Convinced she'd run away,
convinced she was still on drugs.

But you didn't think that.

Melanie...

wasn't the greatest of moms...

But she loved her kids.

She would've never left them.

What about
her husband sam?

Oh...

He thought
it was drugs, too.

You know he waited over a day
before he reported her missing?

She had run off before.

Look, i'm not gonna sit here
and deny that,

But if sam thought
our daughter was in trouble,

Why didn't he report her
missing right away?

Why didn't he call for help?

Even if she'd gotten locked up,
She'd have been better off than--

Oh, what the hell's
the difference? I mean,

the time to ask these
questions was five years ago,

But the cop who was on the case
then didn't want to ask them.

Sounds like they were pretty unhappy
with the original investigation.

Yeah, well, they had
every reason to be.

The guy whose case it was--

You know him?

No. Detective sloan
was before my time.

He still around?

Well, if you count being
a sheriff in jersey,

then yeah, he's still around.

Melanie kavanaugh.

So she was finally found
after all these years, huh?

She wasn't found.
Her body was.

Oh.

I'm sorry to hear that.

You know, from the moment
i took that case,

I figured it was gonna end bad.

Her parents led us to believe that you
were pretty sure that she'd run off.

Her being found dead
and her running off

Are not exactly incompatible,
not with her history.

Her parents also believe yonvnvestigation
never made it past her history.

I was on a missing persons,
not a murder.

You have a dead body.

All i had was a-
A woman with a drug habit

And a history
of, uh, disappearing.

And a husband who didn't report
her missing for over day.

Don't you dare play monday
morning quarterback with me.

Look, sweetheart,
he cooperated.

He voluntarily allowed c.S.U.
Into their apartment.

Anything i asked, he did.

Did you know he
was murdered, too?

Gunned down on the street,
over a year ago.

Look, what do you want
from me?

We had reports of her in philly
with a meth head ex-Boyfriend.

I mean, it was what it was.

But you didn't even go down
to check it out.

Didn't need to.
Had reports.

Right. From her husband's
best friend charles wyler.

- So?
- He's not exactly an impartial observer.

The guy owned his own business.
He had a family. He was a war vet.

I saw no reason
to doubt his word.

Plus, philly's a pretty long drive.

She was only missing
back then.

No, sheriff,
she was already dead.

You just didn't know it yet.

i ever disappear, make sure
this guy's not on my case.

I hate cops like him.

Guys like him-- Things only
make sense if they fit in a box.

So they make 'em fit,
and murderergo free.

Is that what happened to your dad?

My dad?

I noticed your watch.

It's your dad's, right?

That's why you wear it?

beckett.

You find a witness?

Yeah, homeless guy. A couple
of bucks jogged his memory.

Said he saw a dented yellow
truck pull up to the site.

Heavyset guy pulls
a large bag out of the back,

And when he comes out,
he doesn't have the bag anymore.

How'd you find this place?

Guy also remembered the word "storage"
Written on the side of the truck.

We searched all the storage
places on the west side

And found that this one
uses yellow trucks.

Mm-Hmm.

So who owns the trucks?

According to the d.M.V.,
albert bolland.

What body? I don't know
what you're talking about.

A witness saw someone driving
one of your yellow trucks

And dumping the body.

You're lying.
No one saw.

Ouch. Wow. Maybe you should've
tried denying it first?

Let me help you.

Melanie kavanaugh, mother of two.
Wife of sam kavanaugh.

Okay, look, i dumped her,

- but i swear i didn't--
- You didn't kill her, right?
- That's right.

- I found her.
- Uh-Huh.

I never even knew
she was here.

what do you mean "here"?

Sixth floor.

Renters were in arrears.

We usually give 'em three months, And then
we cut the locks and we sell their belongings.

Only this time,
all i find is a freezer

Plugged into a light outlet,

which, by the way,
Is totally illegal.

You didn't think it was illegal
To store a dead body in a freezer?

You think i knew?

When i opened it up,
i nearly had a heart attack.

You could've called
the cops.

So i could make the front page of "the
ledger"? Yeah, that's good for business.

What if it's a mob hit?
I mean, i got a family.

So did she.

so you find her.

Next logical step--

Dump her at a construction site?

I know a guy
who works over there.

So when i find the body, I figure,

that's the place, right?

Show us where you found her.

five years in there.

Nobody deserves that.

How'd they make payments
for the unit?

Check? Credit card?

Cash. Every six months.

But like i said,
they were three months overdue.

Puts the last payment at two months
after her husband was killed.

Hard to make payments
when you're dead.

Mm-Hmm.

That camera in your office--You got
footage of the guy who made payments?

That was nine months ago.

We keep maybe
two weeks at a time.

Looks like sloan was right.

Sam kavanaugh didn't have
anything to do with it.

Well, if not sam,
then who?

You know, we have
air-Conditioning.

Mm.

I'm just trying
to figure out

Why someone would put
a dead body in a freezer.

Is this a nikki heat
or detective beckett question?

- Beckett.
- Oh, that's right.

The nikki heat thing was about incinerating
a body In a self-Cleaning oven.

Mm-Hmm. I mean,

you put things in a freezer
To keep 'em for later,

But once they're there,
you rarely ever go back.

If i was putting a body in a freezer,
It'd be because i was trying to hide it.

Until you stopped paying
for the storage space.

Did i stop,
or did something stop me?

It's family moments like these
I will never forget.

with a good therapist,
Hopefully i will.

mr. Wyler,

The detective investigating
melanie's disappearance

Said that you told him that she went
to an ex-Boyfriend in philadelphia?

No, i only told him
what sam told me.

Sam told you?

It's where she went before the wedding
and a few times after.

But you're not sure
that's where she went.

It's the only thing
that made sense.

Melanie was a good person,
but melanie was...

troubled.

Sometimes when things got hard,
She'd go out and score, you know?

Come home high, cuse sam
of ruining her life.

He'd given her everything.

Do you remember the name
of the boyfriend?

Kevin henson.

If something happened
to melanie,

He's the one
who would know what.

kevin henson--
Melanie's ex-Boyfriend.

He's serving a year for meth
in south jersey.

He went in just after the last payment
was made On the storage unit.

He stops payment,
the storage guy finds her body.

Quite a coincidence.

And he was also on the outside
When her husband was whacked.

Sounds like he's worth
a trip to south jersey.

you ever been in love,
detective?

It makes you do crazy things.

Like kill someone?

mel and i, when we were together,
time just stopped.

But even the first day,

her and me-- We both knew
it was never gonna work.

God knows her folks were never
gonna let their little girl

End up with some...
tatted-Up addict.

But sometimes, see,

Sometimes when we were alone
together...

sometimes we almost believed.

She was gonna leave sam.

That's why she came
to see you.

she found out he was having an affair.

She thought he was gonna leave
her And get custody of the kids,

you know, because of the drugs.

She wanted me to go with her,
take the kids, just disappear.

So what'd you do?

Put her on a bus.

You sent her away?

What she wanted,
i couldn't give her.

Checked into rehab the next day.
I thought if i could get clean...

That's where i was
when she disappeared.

By the time i got out,
she was dead.

How could you be sure ???

She stopped calling.

If she was alive,
she would've called.

Well, an affair
certainly explains a lot.

Sam kills melanie,

Or he and his lover
kill melanie together.

We, then who kills sam?

The lover, when sam backs out
after all she's done for him.

It's not like she could go to
the police If he broke his promise.

How do you come up
with these things, castle?

I did not come up
with this one. They did.

Okay, you speak "guy."

If sam had a lover, would his
best friend know about it?

Yes.

- Detective.
- You lied to us, mr. Wyler.

Excuse me?

You don't think maybe it's relevant
your buddy sam Had an affair

right about the time
melanie disappeared?

That was a long time ago.

What's the point of dragging
everybody through the mud?

Haven't their kids been through enough?
Don't they deserve some peace?

What they deserve is to know
what happened to their mother.

Elizabeth forte.

Elizabeth forte is her name.
She worked with sam at his bank.

Mrs. Forte, I am det. Beckett.
This is Rick Castle.

Why am i here?

Does the name samuel
kavanaugh ring a bell?

What about him?

We found the body
of his wife melanie.

From the looks of it,
she was killed

Somewhere around the time
the two of youWere having an affair.

I'm afraid i don't know
what you mean.

Do you really want me To start digging
around in your life, mrs. Forte?

Because that's exactly
what i will do.

I'll go through
your old phone records,

Your credit card statements.

I'll even talk to your husband
if i have to.

Please.
Please don't do that.

Gary doesn't know
anything about it.

Just walk us through
what you know.

I met sam When i got transferred
to the downtown branch.

He was in new accounts.

We were both pretty
unhappy at the time.

How long was the affair?

Not long. Six months.

Why did it end?

I realized i loved my husband.

Please.

No one ends an affair because
they realize they're still in love.

They end an affair
Because they're scared--

Scared of taking it to the next level,
scared of being found out,

Scared of ruining their life.

So tell us, elizabeth,
what were you scared of?

Him.

I was scared of sam.

Why?

He started to ask me what i
would do If he wasn't with his wife,

If she wasn't
in the picture anymore.

And when was that?

A few weeks
before she disappeared.

When i found out she was missing,
I broke things off.

He became angry.

It got so bad that i had
to transfer to another branch.

You--I'm sorry.
You had to, uh...

Five years,
mrs. Forte.

Five whole years,

and you never came forward?

What's it matter
if sam killed melanie?

He's dead. They're both dead.
What's it matter anymore?

How'd you do it, sam?

Ha ha!

Ha!

Run, rebel,

but you'll never
defeat the forces of voltar.

Aah! Death to voltar!
Death to the voltarians!

I sense fear in you.

You sense nothing!

Has anyone seen my purse?

Mom, we are totally doing battle
On the field of honor.

How old are you?

Old enough to afford
top-Of-The-Line laser tag.

Ha!

- I'm dead!
- Mom!

Now voltar will never rule
the omniverse.

Well...

Someone order food?

-No.
-No.

I better check this out.

Hi?

hi.

- Who is it?
- Detective beckett.

Darling,
are we entertaining?

Um...

- Dad.
- Yeah?

Manners.

Right.

Come on in, please,

- why don't you? Welcome...You bet.
- Thank you.
- Our house.

Mom,

You, um, you remember
my mother martha.

Oh.

And alexis, of course.

Hi.

Yes. Hello.

Can i...
make you a drink?

Wow.

I feel like...

Alfred in the batcave
for the first time.

Hmm... batman fan.
Figures.

Why?

Similar origin stories? Loss of a loved
one leads to a life of fighting crime.

Yes, well, You are the
multimillionaire crime fighter.

Yeah.

That's, uh,
where i outline my books.

It's funny.

Looks a lot like our...

Murder board.

Yeah, except mine's fake.

Yeah.

Something wrong?

I can't find it.

Find what?

The answer.

It was sam.

Everything fits.
It's a good ending.

Yeah, but without proof,
it's just a theory.

And that family-- Those kids--
They need more than just a theory.

They need to know.
i need to know.

Well, you have an ending.

You want the rest, you need to work
backwards. You need to finish the story.

You have an ending.
You have your killer.

You just have
to put it all together

With the facts at hand.

The facts?

Fact--

They had two small children.

So?

Based on police statements,
they didn't have a babysitter.

With him at work,

she would've had to have been
with the kids The day she disappeared.

But sam said that
she left later that night.

Which the doorman was
never able to corroborate.

So if she was there
and never left...

Then she was murdered in the apartment.

Yeah.

Another fact--
He lived in manhattan.

And like most people
He didn't own a car.

So what is a good husband to do living
in manhattan with his wife's body?

He can't leave it in the apartment.
He can't walk out the lobby with it.

So the only question is...

how did he get the body
to the storage unit?

He...

Hey, could--No.

Uh... n--

- You know what helps?
- Yeah.

Sometimes when
i'm trying to figure out

How a character of mine does something,
I will walk the crime scene.

This one time,
i was trying to figure out

How to throw someone
off the empire state building,

And that movie "sleepless
in seattle" had just come out.

Oh, so many lonely women apoached me,
Thinking i was their tom hanks.

- I got la--
- Castle.

The point is, you want
to get into a killer's head,

Go to where the killer was

And see what problems
he had to face.

Field trip?

They told me
he was shot in a mugging,

And now you're telling me
he was killed

- Here in my apartment?
- Not him. His wife.

His wife?
What kind of family was this?

All right. So you and i
are married.

We are not married.

Relax. It's just pretend.

- I don't want to pretend.
- Scared you'll like it?

Okay, if we're married,
i want a divorce.

Are you two like this
all the time?

- Yes.
- Yes.

All right, we're not married,
but they were.

Let's say the doorman's right.
Melanie gets home about 4:00.

She'd have to make dinner
for the kids.

Then sam comes home.

Banker's hours.
Around 6:00.

Figure the kids
have already eaten.

So they're, what, um...
watching tv in the bedroom.

- In my bedroom?
- Shh. We're on a roll.

- They have a fight.
- About the affair.

- About philadelphia.
- Things get heated.

And she turns her head--

He whacks her
with something.

A pot.

- Or a pan.
- Bam.

Fractures her skull.
It's over.

Except the kids
are still in the bedroom.

He's got to figure out a was of getting her
Out of the apartment without them seeing.

Hallway bathroom.

He needed to buy time.

Okay, so he, um... he puts
the body in the tub,

- Closes the door...
- wait!

And tells the kids
that mom went to the store.

Which, according to the case file,
he doorman was never able to substantiate.

Okay, so no car.

How does he get the body
out of the apartment?

Maybe he hailed a cab.

Yeah, maybe the cabbie and the doorman
Helped him stuff the body in the trunk.

How much do you tip
for that these days?

The doorman.

Castle, i'm joking.

What if the body was already
in the freezer

When he took it out
of the apartment?

Freezer?
He'd have needed a truck.

In my building, if you have
something picked up Or delivered,

you have to sign for it.

Yeah, here, too. A delivery that big,
you have to sign the ledger.

The ledger?

The doorman's ledger
downstairs.

Yeah,
that's my name.

I know it was
five years ago, mrs. Marsh,

But the only delivery
that day was to your apartment.

If you remember anything at all
about the delivery...

I-I remember i had to go downstairs
And sort everything out.

What do you mean
"sort everything out"?

I told the doorman
i never ordered a freezr.

But the guy brought it on up.

He loaded it on the freight elevator
While i was talking to the doorman.

So what happened when you were
downstairs?

I told the doorman they
got the wrong apartment again.

And then by the time i got
back upstairs, the guy was gone.

Does this have anything to do
with that missing woman?

Yeah, it does.

Yeah, 'cause i already told
the other cop.

Detective Sloan?

I don't know his name, but i told
him everything, Same as you.

i don't get it.

If sloan had that woman's report,
Why didn't he just follow up?

He wasn't looking for the story.
He'd already written it.

That's the same kind of truck
We saw outside Charles Wyler's store.

He must have a contract with them.

If you wanted some help with some
heavy lifting, Who would you call?

Your best friend.

We can trace the rental of the
delivery truck to you, mr. Wyler.

If you want, I can bring the lady you
delivered the freezer to in to identify you.

Look, i had nothing to do
with what happened to melanie.

You lied about everything else.
Why not about this?

I never had any reason
to hurt her.

But sam did, right?

I mean, she kept going back to her
ex-Boyfriend. How much can a guy take?

He called me that night.

He said...

He needed me
to come over right away.

When i got there, the kids were asleep,
And melanie was in the tub...

In a garment bag.

He said she came at him,
and he just snapped.

Here's an idea--

Instead of killing her,
why not just get a divorce?

You don't think i know
how wrong this was?

Why did you take the risk?
Why did you move that body?

Because he made
a very bad mistake.

And what about the kids? Their mom
is dead. If he goes to prison...

So you arranged
for the truck.

He said it could never be
traced back to him.

That's why we sent the freezer
to the old lady,

That's why i rented out
the storage space--

Because we knew the cops
would look at sam.

You made the payments?

Sam couldn't take any chances.

He'd give me the cash,
and i'd...

Stop by twice a year.

For five years.

It seemed a lot easier
than moving her.

Why did you stop paying?

Look, i'm truly sorry
about what happened to melanie.

But what was i supposed to do,
Keep paying for the rest of my life?

The d.A. Will make sure
of that, mr. Wyler.

Her body gets dumped Because this guy
wyler didn't pay a bill? That's...

you can say it.
Pretty cold.

Ironic that such a selfish act
ultimately revealed the truth.

There were people
who knew the truth all along.

They just chose
not to come forward.

Still, karma comes back And
puts a cap in her husband's ass.

So all is right
with the world.

I'm gonna go talk to melanie's parents,
Let 'em know how this all shook out.

You wanna come?

The woman with the freezer delivery
Told us she talked to a cop.

Yeah. Sloan.

Only he didn't list
her name in his report.

He didn't feel
that it was important.

After all, he didn't believe
he was looking at a murder.

Right,

so if you're not
investigating a murder,

Why would you talk to the neighbor
About a freezer delivery?

This must be some freezer.

You mentioned
a police officer, mrs. Marsh.

- I know it's been five years, but do you--
- I never said it was 5 years ago.

When did he come see you?

Last year sometime.

I remember thinking, why is
this cop asking me questions

About a freezer i never ordered?

Do you remember anything about
the man who came to see you?

Uh, he was older.

- Uniform?
- No. Plain clothes like you.

He had gray hair,
and he walked with a limp.

- Ben davidson.
- Melanie's dad.

You could just leave it like this.

Sam's dead.

The captain's happy.

Those kids
look pretty happy.

That's the difference between
a novel and the real world, castle.

A cop doesn't get to
decide how the story ends.

Detective beckett.

Sir, i'm gonna have to take you
with me down to the station.

Who is it, honey?

- Uh...
- What is it, Ben?

So i'm here because i questioned
a woman about a freezer?

Not any freezer,
mr. Davidson.

The freezer that your
daughter's body was stored in.

For the moment, let's--
Let's assume what you say is true.

What's the charge?

If mrs. Marsh's answer led to sam's death,
Then the charge would be murder.

I kept going over everything sam said,

Everything he claimed
happened that night,

Until i came to the same conclusion
That you both apparently did--

That melanie never left
her apartment alive.

Mrs. Marsh's answers merely
confirmed what i already knew.

That your son-in-law was a killer.

If you had figured out
what sam had done,

Why not just go to the police?

He would've gone to prison
for the rest of his life.

If he'd been convicted.

They didn't have a-A body
at the time, remember?

His lawyers would've
put melanie on trial, not him.

So you took matters
into your own hands.

Well, you can certainly understand
How a father might want to,

How he might follow
his daughter's murderer

One dark night when he was sure
no other people would be around,

How he might confront him with
a gun he'd brought back from the war,

Might even promise forgiveness
in exchange for the truth.

And hearing his admission...

Be overcome with rage.

Every time he brought the girls
to see us,

I watched a little piece
of my wife die.

A visit from your grandkids
should be life-affirming,

Not a reminder of how
your only child was murdered.

Killing him wasn't the answer.

I never said i killed him.

I said a father
might be justified.

The police told me
Sam was shot in a robbery,

And without evidce,
there'd be little chance that his

killer would ever
be brought to justice.

So i guess we'll find out
if that's really true.

And i'd like to see a-
A lawyer if i could.

No, sweetie, I just wanted to
make sure i said good night.

You got it. Strawberry
happy face pancakes on me.

Mwah. Later.

Alexis missed me.

How did you know?

- Spidey sense.
- Hmm.

By the way, it was
my mother, not my father.

We were supposed to go to
dinner together--My mom, my dad and i--

And she was gonna meet us at
the restaurant, but she never showed.

Two hours later, we went home.

And there was a detective
waiting for us.

Detective Raglin.

They found her body.

She had been stabbed.

A robbery?

No.

She still had her money
and purse and jewelry.

And it wasn't a sexual assault, either.

They attributed it
to gang violence.

Random wayward event.

So just like in Melanie's case,

They couldn't think
outside the box.

So they just tried
to package it up nicely,

And the killer was never caught.

Why do you wear the watch?

My dad took her death hard.

He's sober now.
Five years.

So... This is for
the life that i saved,

And...

This is for the life that i lost.

So...

I guess your Nikki Heat
has a backstory now, castle.

I don't know. Um...

I did kinda like The hooker-By-Day,
cop-By-Night thing.

But, uh...

I guess a heavy emotional
angle could work, too.

Well...

Don't bewilder your audiences with
substance on my account, castle.

Until tomorrow, detective.

You can't just say "night"?

I'm a writer.
"Night" is boring.

"Until tomorrow"
is more... hopeful.

Yeah, well...

I'm a cop.

Night.

Night.

Hi, dad.

Remember,
this never happened.

I was never here.

You have my word.

Thanks.

If you tell her i did this,

I will make you bleed.

Understood.

Good luck.