Castle (2009–2016): Season 8, Episode 8 - Mr. & Mrs. Castle - full transcript
Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a cruise ship entertainer, only to find themselves trapped at sea with the killer.
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[ dog barking ]
James: Damn it, ahab, I'm trying to sleep!
[ barking continues ]
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What is it, boy?
There's nothing out there.
[ barks ]
Oh, my god.
[ barking ]
How do you think it went?
Well, we'll find out soon enough.
Castle: Ah, my two favorite redheads.
And what are you doing?
We wanted to know how your anniversary went.
And we came prepared either way.
Tears or...
Cheers!
Which one is it, kiddo?
Aw...
Ho!
Guys, it was great.
And when I say "great," I mean, after the last few weeks,
It was great.
So does this mean you and beckett are back together? Uh...
This means, uh, we're making progress.
And I'm gonna, you know, keep the mojo going
By wriggling my way into her homicide cases.
Ah.
Hayley: Hello, all.
Ah, good morning.
Oh, well, look who's here!
Ooh, I am so glad you agreed to consult with richard.
Maybe now this money pit will turn a profit.
W-what was that, mother?
Oh, look at the time.
We have to go, darling.
Oh, richard.
I am so pleased about you and katherine.
Thank you.
Try not to blow it.
Thank you.
Congrats, dad.
Thank you.
See you later.
Bye. Bye!
Why are you lying to them? I'm n--
[ door closes ] I'm not lying to them.
Oh, good, so you did tell them
That your anniversary was cut short
When beckett received a mystery text.
I might have left that part out.
Oh, did you also maybe leave out
The part where you asked me to come in this morning
In order to hack beckett's cellphone
To tell you who sent her that text?
Okay, I know how that looks,
But something is going on with beckett,
And I-I-I'm worried about her.
I know.
Okay, you go do what you need to do.
I'll see what I can find out.
Okay. Oh, uh...
You know, hayley,
I set up the small office on the other side of reception
Especially for you.
Aw! I'm good here.
But this is my office.
Of course it is.
I shall call you if I find anything out.
Have a good day.
Uh, vikram?
Vikram: Surprise!
Welcome to our new office.
A strip club? Really?
Hey, you said to find a location
Where we could hunt for loksat
Without anyone looking over our shoulders.
Yeah, and, uh, this is the best you could find?
It's perfect. Vice raided the place.
Now it's tied up in trial.
We can operate here for months completely off the grid.
Plus, I can work out my core.
So, the text from last night. What did you find?
Actually, uh...
That's a dead end.
What? My bad.
A-and you didn't know this last night?
Um...
Did you text me to pull me out of my anniversary dinner
With castle?
Look, you broke up with him for a reason.
No one can know what we're doing, especially castle.
It's too dangerous. I know.
[ cellphone rings ] and I am being extremely careful.
I'm just trying not to lose my marriage in the process.
[ beeps ]
Beckett.
Okay, I'll meet you at the morgue.
They found a floater at the 79th street boat basin.
I got to go.
Oddly validating.
Ryan: Yo, perlmutter.
Oh, so you're going full hipster now.
Yeah, have you started jarring artisanal pickles yet?
Ah, you've come bearing jokes. Wonderful.
So, we get an I.D. Yet?
Uh, no. She's a jane doe.
20s, contact gunshot wound.
Looks like she was killed execution style,
Then dumped in the water.
Oh, wow. Sounds like a mob hit.
From who? Al capone?
That dress is straight out of the '20s.
Uh, it's a costume, detective.
"property of iconic cruise lines."
So, our jane doe must have been a cruise-ship entertainer.
So she could have been killed aboard any ship in the atlantic
And drifted here on the currents.
Or not. Based on the modest level of blanching and bloating,
Her body's been in the water less than 10 to 12 hours.
So whatever boat she was on could still be nearby.
You know what, guys, let's start with -- now, hold on.
Some kind of floss...
...Tied to her back molar...
...Going down her throat.
If that's what I think it is,
This jane doe could have had a little side business smuggling.
A cruise ship is a good place to sell drugs.
International ports, a captive customer base.
Maybe she got involved in a little on-board turf war,
And the competition took her out.
Except why just one bag?
I mean, if she was an actual mule,
We'd be pulling out 20 of those. At least.
I'll put a rush on this at the lab.
Meanwhile, we need to figure out
Which iconic cruise ship our jane doe was on,
Because that's our crime scene.
Ryan: I just got off the phone with iconic cruise lines.
Our victim is lara madden.
She was a dancer in their show called "speakeasy."
Apparently she performed in it last night.
Okay, well, that explains the flapper dress.
And the boat she worked on
Is an old "titanic"-era-themed oceanliner
Named the rms bently.
It put into port at manhattan cruise terminal at dawn.
Hmm.
Michigan I.D.?
You contact her next-of-kin?
Yeah, her mother is flying in later today.
She said that lara quit her job at an environmental nonprofit
In order to work on the cruise line,
All to help her family get out of debt.
Esposito: Perlmutter just called.
Turns out that baggie from lara's stomach --
Pure uncut heroin. Uncut?
No wonder she only swallowed one baggie.
That 8-ball has a street value of $30k.
Uncut heroin comes directly from the cartel,
So how does a dancer from michigan get her hands on that?
It could have came from anybody on the ship.
The problem is, all of our suspects
Disembarked this morning.
Yeah, like 2,000 of them.
They're probably all over the city
Or flying back to wherever they came from by now.
Okay, why don't you guys run the names from all the passenger and crew manifests?
See if anything pops.
I'll head off to the ship,
See if I can find an actual crime scene.
[ air horn blows ]
Janice: Here at iconic, we pride ourselves on two things--
The old-world elegance of ocean travel
And our impeccable safety record.
So I'm sure whatever happened to lara
Was simply a tragic accident.
Uh, well, she was shot in the head,
So unless she tripped and fell on a bullet, it wasn't an accident.
Now, I thought that all of your passengers disembarked this morning.
Oh, those are some of the ship's resident guests,
Mostly retirees who live aboard year-round.
Some of them, like the nelson sisters,
Have been on the ship longer than most of the crew. [ cellphone rings ]
We call them "the gossip girls."
Um, I-I'm sorry, I have to get this.
Oh, sure thing.
[ beep ]
Hey, vikram, what do you got?
Vikram: We hit the mother lode.
I ran the heroin found in our victim's stomach.
Beckett, it's an exact 100% match
To the heroin vulcan simmons was selling.
So lara's killer is linked
To whoever took over vulcan's drug pipeline.
This is it -- what we've been waiting for.
And do you believe it came from one of our own cases?
Okay, we have to be careful.
We can't let on that we know anything and blow our cover.
And I'm not just talking about the target in the cia. Yeah.
Good thing castle's nowhere near this one. Yeah.
Castle: Ahoy!
I'm the king of the world!
Vikram: Hello? Beckett?
This can't be happening.
Beckett: How did you get on board?
Castle: You know, we always talked about buying a boat.
What do you think? I mean, I know it's a fixer-upper.
I don't know -- maybe for our second anniversary.
Oh, I don't know if anything's gonna compare to the first.
Um, you know, you really shouldn't be here.
Why not?
[ air horn blows ]
Are we moving?
Beckett, I think your crime scene's making a run for it.
Beckett: Captain, you need to stop this ship.
Captain ziering: That's not gonna happen.
Captain, we're investigating the murder
Of one of your ship's dancers.
I'm under orders from headquarters to get under way.
Are you telling me that iconic cruise lines
Is trying to cover up the murder?
I'm telling you the company's near bankruptcy.
They can't afford the bad press.
Stop this ship, or I will charge you with obstruction.
I can call the coast guard to interdict this vessel.
Sure, you can.
But you know as well as I do
That by the time you activate them,
We'll be in international waters.
Where u.S. Laws don't apply.
That's what iconic is counting on.
Oh, and just so the two of you know,
They're sending a boat to pick you up in about an hour.
So we've got 60 minutes to investigate this murder
Before we lose access to our crime scene.
And about that -- really?
I've been instructed to order the crew
Not to cooperate with you.
Hey, I'm not losing my job over this.
We got to divide and conquer.
Right. I'll talk to lara's dancer friends.
They may be the last ones to see her alive.
Okay, but just remember, they're not supposed to cooperate,
So don't tell them that you're working with the police.
Where will you be?
There are three marthas on lido deck.
If anyone knows anything about this ship, it's gonna be them.
And plus, they're not with the crew.
All right, if they're anything like my mother,
You're gonna have your hands full.
[ indistinct talking, piano playing ]
Sarah: Okay, heads-up.
So, some rich guy bought
The "be part of the show" dance package for our next cruise.
And I promise not to step on anyone's toes.
Are you mr. Schirmer?
Yeah, I boarded early in hopes of getting a little extra rehearsal time.
Well, I'm not sure how you boarded early, mr. Schirmer,
But we're -- please, actually, mr. Schirmer is my father.
Please call me...
Jermphld...
I'm sorry, what? [ muttering ]
Dave? At your service.
Well, dave, I'm sorry, rehearsal's not part of the dance package.
I'll tell you what -- there's an extra $100 in it for you.
Places, everyone.
I'm gonna warm up a little bit.
I thought -- okay, gotcha.
Um, uh, you know, a friend of mine
Bought the dance package on a cruise about a month ago.
He said there was a dancer here by the name of lara
Who was very helpful -- is she here today?
Actually, lara's a no-show for today.
But if you want to meet her, you can ask her bunkmate, bethany.
Thank you.
So, dave, uh, according to your questionnaire,
You have professional dance experience, right?
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
And you studied the video we sent?
Yes, of course. Perfect.
So let's take it from the opening number.
Opening number.
Castle: Excuse me, bethany? I --
Oh, good spot.
Sarah: Okay.
Let's take this from the top, people.
We face upstage.
Upstage.
Thank you, thank you. A-5, 6, 7, 8.
And walk. And hip. And left and right.
And traveling. And trio.
And hip circle, flick.
And hip circle, flick.
Here we go, and ready for the dance break.
1, 2, 3, 4. 5, 6, 7, 8.
Knees out, in.
Out, flick.
Out, in. Out, flick.
Jazz hands. That's right.
Yes! There you go.
Traveling stage left.
And here we go. Cakewalk.
Nice, dave. Good.
Ready for the big lift up!
Lara's down-to-earth.
Not full of herself like some of those other dancers.
Oh, except for the last trip.
I mean, she was distracted.
Boy, she didn't have time for our chats.
Well, maybe she met someone new.
Why do you want to know so much about lara?
Is she in some kind of trouble?
Her name came up in a case, and I'm trying to figure out
If she was involved with anyone on board connected to drugs.
Not that I know of.
Elaine?
Is there something you want to let me know?
Are you toking again?
All right, yes.
And I score my weed from isaac, arrest me.
No, please, don't arrest me.
No, no, no. Who's isaac? Isaac dern.
He's a bartender on board, and I'm pretty sure
That he and lara like to hang out together.
Oh.
Ryan: Isaac dern...
History of drug and weapon arrests.
Plus he's got an outstanding warrant in tulsa.
Well, with access to ports around the world,
He could be tapped into cartels moving uncut heroin.
This could be our guy.
All right, thanks, ryan.
You bet.
[ receiver clicks ]
Beckett: Isaac dern?
Captain beckett, 12th precinct.
I have strict orders not to talk to the cops.
Okay, fine. You don't have to talk to me.
I'll just have interpol pick you up on your outstanding warrant
At your next port of call, and we can talk then.
Okay, what do you want to know?
Tell me about your relationship with lara madden.
We're just friends. Why?
She's dead.
Her body washed up last night.
Did she steal your drugs? Is that why you killed her?
Wait, what are you talking about?
We know you deal drugs.
We found your uncut heroin on her body.
Slow down -- I sell weed.
And what about the people that you work for?
I get my product from petty dealers at the ports.
I'm not tapped in. And I didn't kill lara, I swear.
Where were you last night?
Here until 3:00 a.M.,
Serving cocktails to a bunch of drunk tourists.
Wait, but I did see lara after her show
Around 11:00 last night.
She was still dressed in her costume,
Rushing to the boat deck.
Was she with anyone?
Not that I could see.
[ breathing heavily ]
You ready to go again, dave?
Let's take five, people. Take five, people.
So, you're, uh, lara's roommate. [ grunts ]
Thought you said you had professional dancing experience.
Yeah, I was a professional square dancer.
A lot less cardio.
Great.
Listen, I'm not really dave schirmer.
I'm a private investigator working with the nypd.
I'm sorry to tell you -- lara's been murdered.
Murdered? Wait, what?
Do you know if she had a problem with anyone on the ship?
I don't think so. Okay.
Had she been acting unusually recently? Yeah.
Lately, lara was spending a lot of her free time
Below decks in engineering.
Do you know why? She wouldn't talk about it.
Can I go down to your bunk just to look through lara's things,
See if she had a diary or anything that might help find her killer.
If lara had a diary,
The last place she would keep it is in our bunk.
Things get stolen all the time on this raggedy ship.
We all have secret stash spots.
Some of them are pretty creative.
Do you have any idea where lara's stash spot was?
Sorry.
Thank you for your help.
[ cellphone rings ]
Hey. Get anything?
A pulled groin and a potential clue.
Lara spent a lot of time below decks in engineering.
How about you?
A bartender saw lara after the show last night
Standing by the gantry 23.
Maybe she met someone for a drug deal and things went sideways.
Or maybe she was being followed.
Either way, I'm going down to the boat deck,
See if she left any breadcrumbs behind.
Meet you there.
There's nothing here.
Yeah, it looks like the deck's been cleaned --
There's no breadcrumbs.
Unless...
Her roommate said
That the crew stashed things all over this ship.
What if this was the spot where lara kept her stash?
She could have come here after the show,
Swallowed the bag before they put into port.
Okay, so where do you hide something up here?
Castle?
We found the crime scene.
Killer must have shot lara here
And then dumped her body overboard.
Okay, we are running out of time.
We got 20 minutes before we're kicked off the ship for good.
All right, she was shot in the head,
So there should be a lot more blood.
And there we go...
Blood residue right here.
Looks like the killer tracked footprints through it.
Uh, you know, can you put your shoe against it,
Just for scale?
[ cellphone clicks ]
You know, we really should take a little cruise.
Imagine all the romantic secret interludes we could have.
You mean like that scene in "titanic,"
The one in the old car?
Yeah, jack and rose and the steamy window.
We could just jump in one of these life boats.
Together: The life boats.
I don't know, castle. It would be tough to get in.
What about right here?
Castle.
That must be the uncut heroin.
[ thud ]
Man: Hey, acosta, they want you on "b" deck.
Acosta: I'll be right there.
Thank god he didn't see me.
I don't know what to do.
I can't trust anyone on the ship.
I'll just...
I'll grab some evidence for the cops.
[ video rewinds ]
Beckett: And that must be our drug dealer.
I bet she was snooping around and discovered those drugs.
Except she was too scared to trust anyone,
So she decided to smuggle out a sample.
I bet she hid the camera before the show
And came back afterwards.
She never made it.
He must have seen her.
He followed her after the show, and then he killed her.
We got to find him.
15 minutes.
Divide and conquer? Divide and conquer.
Okay, go to the dancers. See if they know who he is.
I'll go to the operations deck.
Beckett: Um, excuse me, I'm looking for acosta.
He's down there.
Acosta? We need to talk.
[ clanking ]
[ clattering ]
[ gate creaking ]
Don't move.
You're under arrest for the murder of lara madden.
[ police radio chatter ]
So he wants an attorney.
The public defender's office is sending someone over now.
Yeah, this guy is dirty as hell.
He's connected to the los zetas drug cartel.
Well, look what we found on him.
[ cellphone rings ] he circled his prey.
[ beep ]
This is richard castle.
I take it that you're not alone.
No, not at all.
You should probably make it back here -- I found something.
All right, I'll see you soon.
Sorry, guys. Got to take off.
Beckett: Hey, uh, rick?
Thanks for today.
My pleasure.
Hey, beckett, you got a second? Uh, yeah.
I watched the rest of the footage from lara's camera.
What I saw was disgusting and criminal,
But it had nothing to do with drugs.
Uh...
She was filming
Cruise-shipworkers illegally dumping trash out at sea.
So that's why she was on the operations deck of the ship.
She was making a documentary film.
Poor thing was trying to be a one-woman greenpeace.
But she must have stumbled on a drug-smuggling conspiracy
Moving heroin through the cruise line's trash.
That's brilliant!
Nobody looks into the trash moving in and out of ports.
So all we got to do now is trace the pipeline
Back to our mystery man inside the cia.
Okay, start by finding the trash-management company
Contracted with iconic cruise lines.
Clearly, they're a part of this.
In the meantime,
I'm gonna try to figure out who acosta's working for.
[ knock on door ]
Captain beckett,
Salvador acosta's public defender wants to have a word.
Uh, sure. Yeah, come on in.
Hi, captain beckett. Caleb brown.
Hi. Please sit down.
I'm gonna go work on the old core.
Okay.
So, against my advice, mr. Acosta wants to make a deal.
He'll cop to second-degree murder
If you will recommend a reduced sentence.
Second-degree murder, really?
Um...
He's gonna have to give us something for that.
Okay, like what?
Like who he's working for and where the heroin came from.
[ exhales sharply ]
What -- what heroin?
Counselor, we have video footage of your client
Smuggling kilos of uncut heroin.
Captain, my client insists
That those were merely bags of spoiled flour,
So unless you can produce any physical evidence,
You don't really have a case, so...
Okay, okay.
Second-degree murder,
No recommendation for a reduced sentence.
Take the win, captain.
Take it, 'cause we don't -- we don't want to go to trial.
Esposito: Ha, let me guess -- he offered you a deal?
Yeah. I told him I had to think about it.
Well, there's no way acosta was acting alone.
No way a cartel would leave a guy like that
In charge of that much inventory.
Now we finally have the evidence to prove it.
Csu finally analyzed that blood residue
From the photograph you took at the crime scene -- check it out.
There's two different kinds of footprints next to castle's shoe.
Acosta definitely had a partner aboard that ship.
We need to find something solid to make acosta roll.
You know, I have his cell records.
There was a flurry of phone calls to a burner cell
Right before the murder.
Acosta could have been coordinating
With his partner on board the ship.
I'll get in touch with the cell provider,
See if we can ping that burner phone so we can locate it.
And take apart acosta's life.
Let's check known associates --
Anything that will point us to who his partner was.
I found out who sent kate that mystery text last night.
It was vikram.
Wait, vikram? Our vikram?
Oh, yes.
Well, what's this?
Oh, it's a secret messaging program
Between kate and vikram's cellphones.
It routes through proxy servers
Into an encrypted central server --
State-of-the-art spycraft.
But why? What are they up to?
Martha: I could ask the same thing of the two of you.
Richard, what's going on?
Nothing.
I told you, if you can't tell your mother what you're doing,
You should not be doing it.
Yes, when I was 8.
Well, exactly.
And you should know better by now.
My wife is in trouble.
I have to know what's going on.
I have to help her. I have to protect her.
No, you have to trust her.
But it's finally starting to make sense.
Don't you see, mother?
Beckett broke up with me
Right after allison hyde's death.
That's also when she partnered with vikram.
So we have to ask ourselves,
What if allison hyde didn't kill herself?
What if she was murdered?
Yes.
By the same people who murdered senator bracken
And beckett's former team at the a.G.
And of course vikram used to work at the a.G.'s office.
What if kate brought him in
To secretly help her investigate those murders?
Can you hack vikram's firewall?
Sure. It'll take a while.
Richard...
[ sighs ]
Look, regardless of what katherine is doing and why,
Are you sure that you want to do this?
Because if she finds out that you are spying,
You may just have crossed a line you cannot uncross.
She may just get herself killed.
She's left me no other choice.
There's always another choice.
So, what's it gonna be, rick?
I have to know. No matter the consequence.
Do it.
Hey, you know that burner cell
That acosta called the night of the murder?
It just pinged off a cell tower
At 125th and lex in east harlem.
Acosta's partner is in the city.
Now, how to find him?
He could be anywhere within a couple-mile radius
From that cell tower.
We need to dig into acosta's life,
See if he had any connections to that part of town.
I'll give beckett the heads-up.
[ cellphone chimes ]
Hey.
The trash company that contracts with the cruise line
Is called friendly islands sanitation.
They have satellites in latin america, caribbean,
And north africa.
[ sighs ]
Oh, key points in the worldwide drug trade.
So, somebody inside of the trash company
Must have cut a deal with loksat
To move drugs through the cruise line.
The heroin shipment lara videotaped was offloaded with the trash
The minute the ship docked in new york -- it could be anywhere by now.
Okay, we got to follow the garbage, see where it went.
On it. [ cellphone rings ]
It's castle.
Don't answer it.
[ beep ]
Hey, rick. What's up?
You decided to buy that boat?
Well, someone's in a good mood.
You thinking about our naked time?
Um...No.
Well, I am -- I haven't stopped thinking about it, as a matter of fact.
Um, tell you what, how about round two, tonight, my place?
No one has to know.
Yeah, I can't. I have to work tonight.
Um, well, I thought being a captain
Meant you could delegate.
You know what? I actually have to do a few things myself.
Well, maybe I can help. What are you working on?
Um, captain stuff?
Well, that...
Then good luck with your captain stuff.
Bye.
Hello?
Yep. We got it.
Her cell signal was our trojan horse
Through vikram's first firewall.
Now I can hack one server at a time
Until I find his central server.
Second thoughts?
Second, third, fourth.
No. Let's -- let's keep going.
Vikram: Everything all right?
Yeah, I mean, he was just a little weird.
Well, normally he's a lot weird, so...
In a charming kind of way.
Oh. Check this out.
Three dump trucks
Offloaded trash from our cruise ship this morning.
All three left at 8:05 a.M.,
But only two showed up at the dump at 9:17.
So the third one must have been carrying the heroin,
And then it stopped after it made the delivery.
But where?
I've been scrubbing traffic-cam footage,
But I lost the truck in washington heights.
Pull everything we can on the truck driver.
Computerized voice: Alert -- system breach.
Oh, we got a problem. What?
Someone synched a rat to one of my servers.
A remote access tool --
We're being hacked.
By loksat? I don't know.
But we've been so careful. How could they find us?
They haven't found us yet,
Just cracked the outer layer of our system.
I'll start an intrusion inspection
And find out who our rat is.
[ sighs ]
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[ alarm blaring ]
Hayley: Uh-oh. Castle: What?
They're onto us.
Vikram's trying to track our I.P. Address.
Can you stop him?
No.
But I can slow him down.
It's coming from inside the city.
Trying to narrow it down.
Okay.
[ cats meowing ]
What the hell?
[ meowing continues ]
Oh, you are good, but I am better.
Cat videos? That doesn't seem like loksat.
Who would do that?
We're about to find out.
That barely slowed him down.
I'm sorry, but he's gonna find us in less than a minute.
Should we abort?
No. We -- we've only got two of the blinky boxes
Left to go.
Blinky boxes? Just hack, hack.
Vikram: Come on.
Got it.
[ beeping ]
That's castle's office.
He must be working with hayley.
She's got the skill set for this,
And she is about to breach our firewall.
If she does, they'll have instant access
To our entire investigation.
No, no, no, no, that's gonna put a target on castle's back.
We have to stop him.
I can do it, but I need time.
Let me see if I can buy you some.
[ cellphone rings ] it's beckett calling.
That's beckett. She's calling. What do I do?
Answer it. Let's see how much she knows.
[ ringing stops ] hey.
Hey, babe.
Change your mind about tonight?
Uh, you know, uh,
Tonight's still not gonna work.
But what about right now?
Feel like steaming up your office?
My office? That sounds great.
I'm, uh...
Sort of in the middle of something right now.
Really? That's too bad, 'cause I'm right downstairs.
Downstairs downstairs?
Yeah. I can be up in 10 seconds.
10 seconds is not long at all.
Hang -- hang -- hang on one second.
We've got to shut it down.
She's gonna walk in the front door.
No. She's lying.
Her phone is pinging from queens.
She knows it's us who's hacking her.
Sorry about that. Just taking off my pants.
You coming up?
He knows I'm lying.
Hey. Uh...
You know what?
[ laughs ] something just came up.
Rain check?
Sure. You know where to find me.
Okay.
[ slams phone ]
[ sighs ] she's almost in.
I could launch a cyber nuke,
But it will completely fry his system.
He's got a back-up system at home.
Is that a go for launch?
Yes.
[ beeping ]
No, no, no, no! Oh!
What just happened?
Armageddon, I'm afraid.
Vikram just nuked the whole system.
We've lost everything.
We've l--
I never liked that guy.
Did they get in?
No. Another second and they would have.
Thankfully, our location and all our files are still safe.
Yeah, for now.
I just hope I didn't nuke my marriage.
Where you going?
I need to talk to castle.
No, that'll have to wait.
I found the garbage-truck driver from friendly islands.
His shift ends in 30 minutes.
With lara's murder all over the news,
They might be circling their wagons -- we got to get to him now.
No, I hate lying to him.
I know, but you're doing it for the right reasons.
This is our first real shot to get to loksat.
We have to take it.
You're right.
[ sighs ] tell me about the driver.
His name is sam mackey.
Wait, wait! Wait!
Please don't hurt me! Please! Who are you?
We're the people that show when you screw up a delivery.
No, I took it straight to the warehouse, just like I was told.
Don't lie to us. We were watching.
You didn't follow instructions. Yes, I did.
I went straight to the place in the bronx
By the 3rd avenue bridge,
Just like the guy from panama said!
Did you see anything?
No.
I stayed in the truck like I was told.
Who's the guy in panama?
I don't know.
I know what you're thinking, sam.
You're thinking I'm not gonna kill you, and you are right.
But you've been running drugs,
And that means the nypd can seize everything in your life.
Want your kids to live out of a cardboard box?
'cause that's what's gonna happen.
I don't know any names.
They pay me not to ask questions.
Don't involve my family -- I-I...
I didn't have a choice.
I think he's telling the truth.
All right, sam, here's what's gonna happen.
I'm not gonna arrest you,
But if you get another delivery, you call this number.
No, no, no, no. I can't. They'll kill me.
They might.
But if I arrest you, they definitely will.
And telling them about this conversation
Guarantees that your whole family will be wiped out.
I won't say a word. I promise.
Good. Now, where exactly is the warehouse full of heroin?
Beckett: [ sighs ]
We're too late. They already moved the heroin.
And there's no street cams outside
So we could see who picked it up.
Damn it. This was for nothing.
No, no, we do have something.
We find out who the main players are
At friendly islands sanitation,
And the next time sam catches a shipment,
We'll -- we'll be there.
[ cellphone rings ] it's ryan.
Hey.
Okay. Yeah. I-I'll be right there.
They think they found acosta's partner.
Cellphone belonging to acosta's mystery partner
Was used in east harlem earlier today.
We tore apart acosta's life.
He used to crash at an apartment in that neighborhood.
The name on the lease was a leo longarzo.
Leo is a traveling salesman
For an ecuadorian import/export company.
Well, that sounds like code for a cartel lieutenant.
Right. He travels all over the world, no wife, no kids.
It gets better.
We checked the passenger manifest of the cruise.
Longarzo was on that ship.
That's our guy.
All right, send uniforms to sit on his apartment.
See if he turns up.
All right.
[ elevator bell dings ]
Kate? We need to talk.
You know, when I hung up my shingle as a p.I.,
I knew I would have to follow some wives.
I just never thought it would be my own.
Castle, why couldn't you just trust me?
How can you ask me that?
I saw the text vikram sent you last night.
I thought you were in trouble.
Instead, I find out you've been lying to me.
I was trying to protect you.
From allison hyde's killer?
Yeah, it was easy to figure out once I realized
You weren't just looking for "me" time.
Loksat thinks that his cover-up worked.
That's why he let us live.
And if he finds out that I am still pursuing this,
He will kill me and anyone that I am close to.
That's why I had to push you away.
The fact that you even think that breaks my heart.
I'd walk into a tornado for you, kate.
And I would die if I lost you.
You want to know what hurts the most?
You could have come to me with everything,
Broken us up just like you did,
Only it would have been a cover.
And together, in secret, we could have taken this guy down.
Only that thought never even occurred to you,
Because deep down inside, you like being broken,
And you need this obsession.
And no matter what I do, I can't change that.
Only you can, kate.
[ knock on door ]
Hey, uniforms just spotted acosta's partner
Going into his building.
We're gonna go roust him.
But we can roll without you.
No, actually, I was just leaving.
Wait, no, castle.
You have a job to do.
And there's no one better.
Officer: Longarzo came in about 40 minutes ago.
Anybody with him? No, he's alone.
And there's no one else in the apartment
As far as I can tell.
All right, we'll take it from here. Thank you.
If this guy really is cartel,
He might have an arsenal up in that apartment.
Should we call esu?
Esposito: Nypd!
Hey! Stop!
Get down!
Gun!
Beckett: No!
[ knock on door ]
[ door opens ]
You okay? No.
Acosta's partner could have brought us closer to loksat.
Instead, he's in the morgue.
It's all come crashing down around my ears,
And I've got nobody to blame but myself.
Ah, you are having a pity party.
That's okay. I'll leave.
But I will be taking a pretty juicy clue with me.
If you're messing with me, I might shoot you.
Does that mean you want to hear what I got?
Yeah.
Okay. Okay.
I was able to trace the ownership of the warehouse
Where sam mackey dropped off the heroin.
It's a cayman's shell corp.
I dug back into the articles of incorporation from '99.
You won't believe who wrote up those documents.
Caleb brown.
Acosta's public defender?
Turns out brown worked for a major corporate law firm
Back in the day.
Pulled in mid-six figures annually.
Then he suddenly gave it up a few years ago
To be a defender of the people.
That's the perfect cover.
It gives brown access to assets in prison
And allows him to pass orders
To dealers that we've already caught.
Dealers like acosta.
Brown told acosta to take the fall for lara's murder
So that we would back off of the drugs.
And acosta obliged. That's how powerful brown is.
Okay, we can't go straight at this guy.
He's not a scared truck driver. This guy is a shark.
And if he sees us coming, loksat's gonna burn all of us.
We've got to track brown's every move nice and quiet.
It's gonna take time.
Yeah, but if we do it right...
He'll lead us straight to loksat.
Lucy: I thought you said lying was wrong.
I did. It is, but...
She thought she was protecting me.
Okay, so does that mean you could forgive her?
I don't know. Maybe.
Yeah, don't take this the wrong way, rick,
But you don't make any sense.
Well, that's because I'm in love.
But you wouldn't understand that.
So why are you talking to me about it?
Touché.
[ knock on door ]
You were right.
Okay.
Everything that you said, you were absolutely right.
Could you be more specific?
That our break-up could have just been a cover
So that we could bring down loksat together.
Yeah.
I wish you would have come to me.
Well, I'm here now...
So let's do it.
It's not that easy.
I thought that you would --
Just take you back, in spite of what you put me through?
Look, castle, I am sorry. I hate that I hurt you.
That was never what I wanted.
But you did hurt me, kate, and what's worse...
You lost faith in me. No, I never --
I need you, rick.
I didn't realize even how much I needed you
Until this happened.
Please, just don't make me do this without you.
Okay.
Though you do realize
I'm gonna have to punish you a little first.
Naked punishing?
Very naked punish.
Aw, you guys.
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¶ ah, ah, ah, ah ah-ah ¶
[ dog barking ]
James: Damn it, ahab, I'm trying to sleep!
[ barking continues ]
¶ you're so fine ¶
¶ you know I live in the moment, I live for the thrills ¶
What is it, boy?
There's nothing out there.
[ barks ]
Oh, my god.
[ barking ]
How do you think it went?
Well, we'll find out soon enough.
Castle: Ah, my two favorite redheads.
And what are you doing?
We wanted to know how your anniversary went.
And we came prepared either way.
Tears or...
Cheers!
Which one is it, kiddo?
Aw...
Ho!
Guys, it was great.
And when I say "great," I mean, after the last few weeks,
It was great.
So does this mean you and beckett are back together? Uh...
This means, uh, we're making progress.
And I'm gonna, you know, keep the mojo going
By wriggling my way into her homicide cases.
Ah.
Hayley: Hello, all.
Ah, good morning.
Oh, well, look who's here!
Ooh, I am so glad you agreed to consult with richard.
Maybe now this money pit will turn a profit.
W-what was that, mother?
Oh, look at the time.
We have to go, darling.
Oh, richard.
I am so pleased about you and katherine.
Thank you.
Try not to blow it.
Thank you.
Congrats, dad.
Thank you.
See you later.
Bye. Bye!
Why are you lying to them? I'm n--
[ door closes ] I'm not lying to them.
Oh, good, so you did tell them
That your anniversary was cut short
When beckett received a mystery text.
I might have left that part out.
Oh, did you also maybe leave out
The part where you asked me to come in this morning
In order to hack beckett's cellphone
To tell you who sent her that text?
Okay, I know how that looks,
But something is going on with beckett,
And I-I-I'm worried about her.
I know.
Okay, you go do what you need to do.
I'll see what I can find out.
Okay. Oh, uh...
You know, hayley,
I set up the small office on the other side of reception
Especially for you.
Aw! I'm good here.
But this is my office.
Of course it is.
I shall call you if I find anything out.
Have a good day.
Uh, vikram?
Vikram: Surprise!
Welcome to our new office.
A strip club? Really?
Hey, you said to find a location
Where we could hunt for loksat
Without anyone looking over our shoulders.
Yeah, and, uh, this is the best you could find?
It's perfect. Vice raided the place.
Now it's tied up in trial.
We can operate here for months completely off the grid.
Plus, I can work out my core.
So, the text from last night. What did you find?
Actually, uh...
That's a dead end.
What? My bad.
A-and you didn't know this last night?
Um...
Did you text me to pull me out of my anniversary dinner
With castle?
Look, you broke up with him for a reason.
No one can know what we're doing, especially castle.
It's too dangerous. I know.
[ cellphone rings ] and I am being extremely careful.
I'm just trying not to lose my marriage in the process.
[ beeps ]
Beckett.
Okay, I'll meet you at the morgue.
They found a floater at the 79th street boat basin.
I got to go.
Oddly validating.
Ryan: Yo, perlmutter.
Oh, so you're going full hipster now.
Yeah, have you started jarring artisanal pickles yet?
Ah, you've come bearing jokes. Wonderful.
So, we get an I.D. Yet?
Uh, no. She's a jane doe.
20s, contact gunshot wound.
Looks like she was killed execution style,
Then dumped in the water.
Oh, wow. Sounds like a mob hit.
From who? Al capone?
That dress is straight out of the '20s.
Uh, it's a costume, detective.
"property of iconic cruise lines."
So, our jane doe must have been a cruise-ship entertainer.
So she could have been killed aboard any ship in the atlantic
And drifted here on the currents.
Or not. Based on the modest level of blanching and bloating,
Her body's been in the water less than 10 to 12 hours.
So whatever boat she was on could still be nearby.
You know what, guys, let's start with -- now, hold on.
Some kind of floss...
...Tied to her back molar...
...Going down her throat.
If that's what I think it is,
This jane doe could have had a little side business smuggling.
A cruise ship is a good place to sell drugs.
International ports, a captive customer base.
Maybe she got involved in a little on-board turf war,
And the competition took her out.
Except why just one bag?
I mean, if she was an actual mule,
We'd be pulling out 20 of those. At least.
I'll put a rush on this at the lab.
Meanwhile, we need to figure out
Which iconic cruise ship our jane doe was on,
Because that's our crime scene.
Ryan: I just got off the phone with iconic cruise lines.
Our victim is lara madden.
She was a dancer in their show called "speakeasy."
Apparently she performed in it last night.
Okay, well, that explains the flapper dress.
And the boat she worked on
Is an old "titanic"-era-themed oceanliner
Named the rms bently.
It put into port at manhattan cruise terminal at dawn.
Hmm.
Michigan I.D.?
You contact her next-of-kin?
Yeah, her mother is flying in later today.
She said that lara quit her job at an environmental nonprofit
In order to work on the cruise line,
All to help her family get out of debt.
Esposito: Perlmutter just called.
Turns out that baggie from lara's stomach --
Pure uncut heroin. Uncut?
No wonder she only swallowed one baggie.
That 8-ball has a street value of $30k.
Uncut heroin comes directly from the cartel,
So how does a dancer from michigan get her hands on that?
It could have came from anybody on the ship.
The problem is, all of our suspects
Disembarked this morning.
Yeah, like 2,000 of them.
They're probably all over the city
Or flying back to wherever they came from by now.
Okay, why don't you guys run the names from all the passenger and crew manifests?
See if anything pops.
I'll head off to the ship,
See if I can find an actual crime scene.
[ air horn blows ]
Janice: Here at iconic, we pride ourselves on two things--
The old-world elegance of ocean travel
And our impeccable safety record.
So I'm sure whatever happened to lara
Was simply a tragic accident.
Uh, well, she was shot in the head,
So unless she tripped and fell on a bullet, it wasn't an accident.
Now, I thought that all of your passengers disembarked this morning.
Oh, those are some of the ship's resident guests,
Mostly retirees who live aboard year-round.
Some of them, like the nelson sisters,
Have been on the ship longer than most of the crew. [ cellphone rings ]
We call them "the gossip girls."
Um, I-I'm sorry, I have to get this.
Oh, sure thing.
[ beep ]
Hey, vikram, what do you got?
Vikram: We hit the mother lode.
I ran the heroin found in our victim's stomach.
Beckett, it's an exact 100% match
To the heroin vulcan simmons was selling.
So lara's killer is linked
To whoever took over vulcan's drug pipeline.
This is it -- what we've been waiting for.
And do you believe it came from one of our own cases?
Okay, we have to be careful.
We can't let on that we know anything and blow our cover.
And I'm not just talking about the target in the cia. Yeah.
Good thing castle's nowhere near this one. Yeah.
Castle: Ahoy!
I'm the king of the world!
Vikram: Hello? Beckett?
This can't be happening.
Beckett: How did you get on board?
Castle: You know, we always talked about buying a boat.
What do you think? I mean, I know it's a fixer-upper.
I don't know -- maybe for our second anniversary.
Oh, I don't know if anything's gonna compare to the first.
Um, you know, you really shouldn't be here.
Why not?
[ air horn blows ]
Are we moving?
Beckett, I think your crime scene's making a run for it.
Beckett: Captain, you need to stop this ship.
Captain ziering: That's not gonna happen.
Captain, we're investigating the murder
Of one of your ship's dancers.
I'm under orders from headquarters to get under way.
Are you telling me that iconic cruise lines
Is trying to cover up the murder?
I'm telling you the company's near bankruptcy.
They can't afford the bad press.
Stop this ship, or I will charge you with obstruction.
I can call the coast guard to interdict this vessel.
Sure, you can.
But you know as well as I do
That by the time you activate them,
We'll be in international waters.
Where u.S. Laws don't apply.
That's what iconic is counting on.
Oh, and just so the two of you know,
They're sending a boat to pick you up in about an hour.
So we've got 60 minutes to investigate this murder
Before we lose access to our crime scene.
And about that -- really?
I've been instructed to order the crew
Not to cooperate with you.
Hey, I'm not losing my job over this.
We got to divide and conquer.
Right. I'll talk to lara's dancer friends.
They may be the last ones to see her alive.
Okay, but just remember, they're not supposed to cooperate,
So don't tell them that you're working with the police.
Where will you be?
There are three marthas on lido deck.
If anyone knows anything about this ship, it's gonna be them.
And plus, they're not with the crew.
All right, if they're anything like my mother,
You're gonna have your hands full.
[ indistinct talking, piano playing ]
Sarah: Okay, heads-up.
So, some rich guy bought
The "be part of the show" dance package for our next cruise.
And I promise not to step on anyone's toes.
Are you mr. Schirmer?
Yeah, I boarded early in hopes of getting a little extra rehearsal time.
Well, I'm not sure how you boarded early, mr. Schirmer,
But we're -- please, actually, mr. Schirmer is my father.
Please call me...
Jermphld...
I'm sorry, what? [ muttering ]
Dave? At your service.
Well, dave, I'm sorry, rehearsal's not part of the dance package.
I'll tell you what -- there's an extra $100 in it for you.
Places, everyone.
I'm gonna warm up a little bit.
I thought -- okay, gotcha.
Um, uh, you know, a friend of mine
Bought the dance package on a cruise about a month ago.
He said there was a dancer here by the name of lara
Who was very helpful -- is she here today?
Actually, lara's a no-show for today.
But if you want to meet her, you can ask her bunkmate, bethany.
Thank you.
So, dave, uh, according to your questionnaire,
You have professional dance experience, right?
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
And you studied the video we sent?
Yes, of course. Perfect.
So let's take it from the opening number.
Opening number.
Castle: Excuse me, bethany? I --
Oh, good spot.
Sarah: Okay.
Let's take this from the top, people.
We face upstage.
Upstage.
Thank you, thank you. A-5, 6, 7, 8.
And walk. And hip. And left and right.
And traveling. And trio.
And hip circle, flick.
And hip circle, flick.
Here we go, and ready for the dance break.
1, 2, 3, 4. 5, 6, 7, 8.
Knees out, in.
Out, flick.
Out, in. Out, flick.
Jazz hands. That's right.
Yes! There you go.
Traveling stage left.
And here we go. Cakewalk.
Nice, dave. Good.
Ready for the big lift up!
Lara's down-to-earth.
Not full of herself like some of those other dancers.
Oh, except for the last trip.
I mean, she was distracted.
Boy, she didn't have time for our chats.
Well, maybe she met someone new.
Why do you want to know so much about lara?
Is she in some kind of trouble?
Her name came up in a case, and I'm trying to figure out
If she was involved with anyone on board connected to drugs.
Not that I know of.
Elaine?
Is there something you want to let me know?
Are you toking again?
All right, yes.
And I score my weed from isaac, arrest me.
No, please, don't arrest me.
No, no, no. Who's isaac? Isaac dern.
He's a bartender on board, and I'm pretty sure
That he and lara like to hang out together.
Oh.
Ryan: Isaac dern...
History of drug and weapon arrests.
Plus he's got an outstanding warrant in tulsa.
Well, with access to ports around the world,
He could be tapped into cartels moving uncut heroin.
This could be our guy.
All right, thanks, ryan.
You bet.
[ receiver clicks ]
Beckett: Isaac dern?
Captain beckett, 12th precinct.
I have strict orders not to talk to the cops.
Okay, fine. You don't have to talk to me.
I'll just have interpol pick you up on your outstanding warrant
At your next port of call, and we can talk then.
Okay, what do you want to know?
Tell me about your relationship with lara madden.
We're just friends. Why?
She's dead.
Her body washed up last night.
Did she steal your drugs? Is that why you killed her?
Wait, what are you talking about?
We know you deal drugs.
We found your uncut heroin on her body.
Slow down -- I sell weed.
And what about the people that you work for?
I get my product from petty dealers at the ports.
I'm not tapped in. And I didn't kill lara, I swear.
Where were you last night?
Here until 3:00 a.M.,
Serving cocktails to a bunch of drunk tourists.
Wait, but I did see lara after her show
Around 11:00 last night.
She was still dressed in her costume,
Rushing to the boat deck.
Was she with anyone?
Not that I could see.
[ breathing heavily ]
You ready to go again, dave?
Let's take five, people. Take five, people.
So, you're, uh, lara's roommate. [ grunts ]
Thought you said you had professional dancing experience.
Yeah, I was a professional square dancer.
A lot less cardio.
Great.
Listen, I'm not really dave schirmer.
I'm a private investigator working with the nypd.
I'm sorry to tell you -- lara's been murdered.
Murdered? Wait, what?
Do you know if she had a problem with anyone on the ship?
I don't think so. Okay.
Had she been acting unusually recently? Yeah.
Lately, lara was spending a lot of her free time
Below decks in engineering.
Do you know why? She wouldn't talk about it.
Can I go down to your bunk just to look through lara's things,
See if she had a diary or anything that might help find her killer.
If lara had a diary,
The last place she would keep it is in our bunk.
Things get stolen all the time on this raggedy ship.
We all have secret stash spots.
Some of them are pretty creative.
Do you have any idea where lara's stash spot was?
Sorry.
Thank you for your help.
[ cellphone rings ]
Hey. Get anything?
A pulled groin and a potential clue.
Lara spent a lot of time below decks in engineering.
How about you?
A bartender saw lara after the show last night
Standing by the gantry 23.
Maybe she met someone for a drug deal and things went sideways.
Or maybe she was being followed.
Either way, I'm going down to the boat deck,
See if she left any breadcrumbs behind.
Meet you there.
There's nothing here.
Yeah, it looks like the deck's been cleaned --
There's no breadcrumbs.
Unless...
Her roommate said
That the crew stashed things all over this ship.
What if this was the spot where lara kept her stash?
She could have come here after the show,
Swallowed the bag before they put into port.
Okay, so where do you hide something up here?
Castle?
We found the crime scene.
Killer must have shot lara here
And then dumped her body overboard.
Okay, we are running out of time.
We got 20 minutes before we're kicked off the ship for good.
All right, she was shot in the head,
So there should be a lot more blood.
And there we go...
Blood residue right here.
Looks like the killer tracked footprints through it.
Uh, you know, can you put your shoe against it,
Just for scale?
[ cellphone clicks ]
You know, we really should take a little cruise.
Imagine all the romantic secret interludes we could have.
You mean like that scene in "titanic,"
The one in the old car?
Yeah, jack and rose and the steamy window.
We could just jump in one of these life boats.
Together: The life boats.
I don't know, castle. It would be tough to get in.
What about right here?
Castle.
That must be the uncut heroin.
[ thud ]
Man: Hey, acosta, they want you on "b" deck.
Acosta: I'll be right there.
Thank god he didn't see me.
I don't know what to do.
I can't trust anyone on the ship.
I'll just...
I'll grab some evidence for the cops.
[ video rewinds ]
Beckett: And that must be our drug dealer.
I bet she was snooping around and discovered those drugs.
Except she was too scared to trust anyone,
So she decided to smuggle out a sample.
I bet she hid the camera before the show
And came back afterwards.
She never made it.
He must have seen her.
He followed her after the show, and then he killed her.
We got to find him.
15 minutes.
Divide and conquer? Divide and conquer.
Okay, go to the dancers. See if they know who he is.
I'll go to the operations deck.
Beckett: Um, excuse me, I'm looking for acosta.
He's down there.
Acosta? We need to talk.
[ clanking ]
[ clattering ]
[ gate creaking ]
Don't move.
You're under arrest for the murder of lara madden.
[ police radio chatter ]
So he wants an attorney.
The public defender's office is sending someone over now.
Yeah, this guy is dirty as hell.
He's connected to the los zetas drug cartel.
Well, look what we found on him.
[ cellphone rings ] he circled his prey.
[ beep ]
This is richard castle.
I take it that you're not alone.
No, not at all.
You should probably make it back here -- I found something.
All right, I'll see you soon.
Sorry, guys. Got to take off.
Beckett: Hey, uh, rick?
Thanks for today.
My pleasure.
Hey, beckett, you got a second? Uh, yeah.
I watched the rest of the footage from lara's camera.
What I saw was disgusting and criminal,
But it had nothing to do with drugs.
Uh...
She was filming
Cruise-shipworkers illegally dumping trash out at sea.
So that's why she was on the operations deck of the ship.
She was making a documentary film.
Poor thing was trying to be a one-woman greenpeace.
But she must have stumbled on a drug-smuggling conspiracy
Moving heroin through the cruise line's trash.
That's brilliant!
Nobody looks into the trash moving in and out of ports.
So all we got to do now is trace the pipeline
Back to our mystery man inside the cia.
Okay, start by finding the trash-management company
Contracted with iconic cruise lines.
Clearly, they're a part of this.
In the meantime,
I'm gonna try to figure out who acosta's working for.
[ knock on door ]
Captain beckett,
Salvador acosta's public defender wants to have a word.
Uh, sure. Yeah, come on in.
Hi, captain beckett. Caleb brown.
Hi. Please sit down.
I'm gonna go work on the old core.
Okay.
So, against my advice, mr. Acosta wants to make a deal.
He'll cop to second-degree murder
If you will recommend a reduced sentence.
Second-degree murder, really?
Um...
He's gonna have to give us something for that.
Okay, like what?
Like who he's working for and where the heroin came from.
[ exhales sharply ]
What -- what heroin?
Counselor, we have video footage of your client
Smuggling kilos of uncut heroin.
Captain, my client insists
That those were merely bags of spoiled flour,
So unless you can produce any physical evidence,
You don't really have a case, so...
Okay, okay.
Second-degree murder,
No recommendation for a reduced sentence.
Take the win, captain.
Take it, 'cause we don't -- we don't want to go to trial.
Esposito: Ha, let me guess -- he offered you a deal?
Yeah. I told him I had to think about it.
Well, there's no way acosta was acting alone.
No way a cartel would leave a guy like that
In charge of that much inventory.
Now we finally have the evidence to prove it.
Csu finally analyzed that blood residue
From the photograph you took at the crime scene -- check it out.
There's two different kinds of footprints next to castle's shoe.
Acosta definitely had a partner aboard that ship.
We need to find something solid to make acosta roll.
You know, I have his cell records.
There was a flurry of phone calls to a burner cell
Right before the murder.
Acosta could have been coordinating
With his partner on board the ship.
I'll get in touch with the cell provider,
See if we can ping that burner phone so we can locate it.
And take apart acosta's life.
Let's check known associates --
Anything that will point us to who his partner was.
I found out who sent kate that mystery text last night.
It was vikram.
Wait, vikram? Our vikram?
Oh, yes.
Well, what's this?
Oh, it's a secret messaging program
Between kate and vikram's cellphones.
It routes through proxy servers
Into an encrypted central server --
State-of-the-art spycraft.
But why? What are they up to?
Martha: I could ask the same thing of the two of you.
Richard, what's going on?
Nothing.
I told you, if you can't tell your mother what you're doing,
You should not be doing it.
Yes, when I was 8.
Well, exactly.
And you should know better by now.
My wife is in trouble.
I have to know what's going on.
I have to help her. I have to protect her.
No, you have to trust her.
But it's finally starting to make sense.
Don't you see, mother?
Beckett broke up with me
Right after allison hyde's death.
That's also when she partnered with vikram.
So we have to ask ourselves,
What if allison hyde didn't kill herself?
What if she was murdered?
Yes.
By the same people who murdered senator bracken
And beckett's former team at the a.G.
And of course vikram used to work at the a.G.'s office.
What if kate brought him in
To secretly help her investigate those murders?
Can you hack vikram's firewall?
Sure. It'll take a while.
Richard...
[ sighs ]
Look, regardless of what katherine is doing and why,
Are you sure that you want to do this?
Because if she finds out that you are spying,
You may just have crossed a line you cannot uncross.
She may just get herself killed.
She's left me no other choice.
There's always another choice.
So, what's it gonna be, rick?
I have to know. No matter the consequence.
Do it.
Hey, you know that burner cell
That acosta called the night of the murder?
It just pinged off a cell tower
At 125th and lex in east harlem.
Acosta's partner is in the city.
Now, how to find him?
He could be anywhere within a couple-mile radius
From that cell tower.
We need to dig into acosta's life,
See if he had any connections to that part of town.
I'll give beckett the heads-up.
[ cellphone chimes ]
Hey.
The trash company that contracts with the cruise line
Is called friendly islands sanitation.
They have satellites in latin america, caribbean,
And north africa.
[ sighs ]
Oh, key points in the worldwide drug trade.
So, somebody inside of the trash company
Must have cut a deal with loksat
To move drugs through the cruise line.
The heroin shipment lara videotaped was offloaded with the trash
The minute the ship docked in new york -- it could be anywhere by now.
Okay, we got to follow the garbage, see where it went.
On it. [ cellphone rings ]
It's castle.
Don't answer it.
[ beep ]
Hey, rick. What's up?
You decided to buy that boat?
Well, someone's in a good mood.
You thinking about our naked time?
Um...No.
Well, I am -- I haven't stopped thinking about it, as a matter of fact.
Um, tell you what, how about round two, tonight, my place?
No one has to know.
Yeah, I can't. I have to work tonight.
Um, well, I thought being a captain
Meant you could delegate.
You know what? I actually have to do a few things myself.
Well, maybe I can help. What are you working on?
Um, captain stuff?
Well, that...
Then good luck with your captain stuff.
Bye.
Hello?
Yep. We got it.
Her cell signal was our trojan horse
Through vikram's first firewall.
Now I can hack one server at a time
Until I find his central server.
Second thoughts?
Second, third, fourth.
No. Let's -- let's keep going.
Vikram: Everything all right?
Yeah, I mean, he was just a little weird.
Well, normally he's a lot weird, so...
In a charming kind of way.
Oh. Check this out.
Three dump trucks
Offloaded trash from our cruise ship this morning.
All three left at 8:05 a.M.,
But only two showed up at the dump at 9:17.
So the third one must have been carrying the heroin,
And then it stopped after it made the delivery.
But where?
I've been scrubbing traffic-cam footage,
But I lost the truck in washington heights.
Pull everything we can on the truck driver.
Computerized voice: Alert -- system breach.
Oh, we got a problem. What?
Someone synched a rat to one of my servers.
A remote access tool --
We're being hacked.
By loksat? I don't know.
But we've been so careful. How could they find us?
They haven't found us yet,
Just cracked the outer layer of our system.
I'll start an intrusion inspection
And find out who our rat is.
[ sighs ]
¶¶
[ alarm blaring ]
Hayley: Uh-oh. Castle: What?
They're onto us.
Vikram's trying to track our I.P. Address.
Can you stop him?
No.
But I can slow him down.
It's coming from inside the city.
Trying to narrow it down.
Okay.
[ cats meowing ]
What the hell?
[ meowing continues ]
Oh, you are good, but I am better.
Cat videos? That doesn't seem like loksat.
Who would do that?
We're about to find out.
That barely slowed him down.
I'm sorry, but he's gonna find us in less than a minute.
Should we abort?
No. We -- we've only got two of the blinky boxes
Left to go.
Blinky boxes? Just hack, hack.
Vikram: Come on.
Got it.
[ beeping ]
That's castle's office.
He must be working with hayley.
She's got the skill set for this,
And she is about to breach our firewall.
If she does, they'll have instant access
To our entire investigation.
No, no, no, no, that's gonna put a target on castle's back.
We have to stop him.
I can do it, but I need time.
Let me see if I can buy you some.
[ cellphone rings ] it's beckett calling.
That's beckett. She's calling. What do I do?
Answer it. Let's see how much she knows.
[ ringing stops ] hey.
Hey, babe.
Change your mind about tonight?
Uh, you know, uh,
Tonight's still not gonna work.
But what about right now?
Feel like steaming up your office?
My office? That sounds great.
I'm, uh...
Sort of in the middle of something right now.
Really? That's too bad, 'cause I'm right downstairs.
Downstairs downstairs?
Yeah. I can be up in 10 seconds.
10 seconds is not long at all.
Hang -- hang -- hang on one second.
We've got to shut it down.
She's gonna walk in the front door.
No. She's lying.
Her phone is pinging from queens.
She knows it's us who's hacking her.
Sorry about that. Just taking off my pants.
You coming up?
He knows I'm lying.
Hey. Uh...
You know what?
[ laughs ] something just came up.
Rain check?
Sure. You know where to find me.
Okay.
[ slams phone ]
[ sighs ] she's almost in.
I could launch a cyber nuke,
But it will completely fry his system.
He's got a back-up system at home.
Is that a go for launch?
Yes.
[ beeping ]
No, no, no, no! Oh!
What just happened?
Armageddon, I'm afraid.
Vikram just nuked the whole system.
We've lost everything.
We've l--
I never liked that guy.
Did they get in?
No. Another second and they would have.
Thankfully, our location and all our files are still safe.
Yeah, for now.
I just hope I didn't nuke my marriage.
Where you going?
I need to talk to castle.
No, that'll have to wait.
I found the garbage-truck driver from friendly islands.
His shift ends in 30 minutes.
With lara's murder all over the news,
They might be circling their wagons -- we got to get to him now.
No, I hate lying to him.
I know, but you're doing it for the right reasons.
This is our first real shot to get to loksat.
We have to take it.
You're right.
[ sighs ] tell me about the driver.
His name is sam mackey.
Wait, wait! Wait!
Please don't hurt me! Please! Who are you?
We're the people that show when you screw up a delivery.
No, I took it straight to the warehouse, just like I was told.
Don't lie to us. We were watching.
You didn't follow instructions. Yes, I did.
I went straight to the place in the bronx
By the 3rd avenue bridge,
Just like the guy from panama said!
Did you see anything?
No.
I stayed in the truck like I was told.
Who's the guy in panama?
I don't know.
I know what you're thinking, sam.
You're thinking I'm not gonna kill you, and you are right.
But you've been running drugs,
And that means the nypd can seize everything in your life.
Want your kids to live out of a cardboard box?
'cause that's what's gonna happen.
I don't know any names.
They pay me not to ask questions.
Don't involve my family -- I-I...
I didn't have a choice.
I think he's telling the truth.
All right, sam, here's what's gonna happen.
I'm not gonna arrest you,
But if you get another delivery, you call this number.
No, no, no, no. I can't. They'll kill me.
They might.
But if I arrest you, they definitely will.
And telling them about this conversation
Guarantees that your whole family will be wiped out.
I won't say a word. I promise.
Good. Now, where exactly is the warehouse full of heroin?
Beckett: [ sighs ]
We're too late. They already moved the heroin.
And there's no street cams outside
So we could see who picked it up.
Damn it. This was for nothing.
No, no, we do have something.
We find out who the main players are
At friendly islands sanitation,
And the next time sam catches a shipment,
We'll -- we'll be there.
[ cellphone rings ] it's ryan.
Hey.
Okay. Yeah. I-I'll be right there.
They think they found acosta's partner.
Cellphone belonging to acosta's mystery partner
Was used in east harlem earlier today.
We tore apart acosta's life.
He used to crash at an apartment in that neighborhood.
The name on the lease was a leo longarzo.
Leo is a traveling salesman
For an ecuadorian import/export company.
Well, that sounds like code for a cartel lieutenant.
Right. He travels all over the world, no wife, no kids.
It gets better.
We checked the passenger manifest of the cruise.
Longarzo was on that ship.
That's our guy.
All right, send uniforms to sit on his apartment.
See if he turns up.
All right.
[ elevator bell dings ]
Kate? We need to talk.
You know, when I hung up my shingle as a p.I.,
I knew I would have to follow some wives.
I just never thought it would be my own.
Castle, why couldn't you just trust me?
How can you ask me that?
I saw the text vikram sent you last night.
I thought you were in trouble.
Instead, I find out you've been lying to me.
I was trying to protect you.
From allison hyde's killer?
Yeah, it was easy to figure out once I realized
You weren't just looking for "me" time.
Loksat thinks that his cover-up worked.
That's why he let us live.
And if he finds out that I am still pursuing this,
He will kill me and anyone that I am close to.
That's why I had to push you away.
The fact that you even think that breaks my heart.
I'd walk into a tornado for you, kate.
And I would die if I lost you.
You want to know what hurts the most?
You could have come to me with everything,
Broken us up just like you did,
Only it would have been a cover.
And together, in secret, we could have taken this guy down.
Only that thought never even occurred to you,
Because deep down inside, you like being broken,
And you need this obsession.
And no matter what I do, I can't change that.
Only you can, kate.
[ knock on door ]
Hey, uniforms just spotted acosta's partner
Going into his building.
We're gonna go roust him.
But we can roll without you.
No, actually, I was just leaving.
Wait, no, castle.
You have a job to do.
And there's no one better.
Officer: Longarzo came in about 40 minutes ago.
Anybody with him? No, he's alone.
And there's no one else in the apartment
As far as I can tell.
All right, we'll take it from here. Thank you.
If this guy really is cartel,
He might have an arsenal up in that apartment.
Should we call esu?
Esposito: Nypd!
Hey! Stop!
Get down!
Gun!
Beckett: No!
[ knock on door ]
[ door opens ]
You okay? No.
Acosta's partner could have brought us closer to loksat.
Instead, he's in the morgue.
It's all come crashing down around my ears,
And I've got nobody to blame but myself.
Ah, you are having a pity party.
That's okay. I'll leave.
But I will be taking a pretty juicy clue with me.
If you're messing with me, I might shoot you.
Does that mean you want to hear what I got?
Yeah.
Okay. Okay.
I was able to trace the ownership of the warehouse
Where sam mackey dropped off the heroin.
It's a cayman's shell corp.
I dug back into the articles of incorporation from '99.
You won't believe who wrote up those documents.
Caleb brown.
Acosta's public defender?
Turns out brown worked for a major corporate law firm
Back in the day.
Pulled in mid-six figures annually.
Then he suddenly gave it up a few years ago
To be a defender of the people.
That's the perfect cover.
It gives brown access to assets in prison
And allows him to pass orders
To dealers that we've already caught.
Dealers like acosta.
Brown told acosta to take the fall for lara's murder
So that we would back off of the drugs.
And acosta obliged. That's how powerful brown is.
Okay, we can't go straight at this guy.
He's not a scared truck driver. This guy is a shark.
And if he sees us coming, loksat's gonna burn all of us.
We've got to track brown's every move nice and quiet.
It's gonna take time.
Yeah, but if we do it right...
He'll lead us straight to loksat.
Lucy: I thought you said lying was wrong.
I did. It is, but...
She thought she was protecting me.
Okay, so does that mean you could forgive her?
I don't know. Maybe.
Yeah, don't take this the wrong way, rick,
But you don't make any sense.
Well, that's because I'm in love.
But you wouldn't understand that.
So why are you talking to me about it?
Touché.
[ knock on door ]
You were right.
Okay.
Everything that you said, you were absolutely right.
Could you be more specific?
That our break-up could have just been a cover
So that we could bring down loksat together.
Yeah.
I wish you would have come to me.
Well, I'm here now...
So let's do it.
It's not that easy.
I thought that you would --
Just take you back, in spite of what you put me through?
Look, castle, I am sorry. I hate that I hurt you.
That was never what I wanted.
But you did hurt me, kate, and what's worse...
You lost faith in me. No, I never --
I need you, rick.
I didn't realize even how much I needed you
Until this happened.
Please, just don't make me do this without you.
Okay.
Though you do realize
I'm gonna have to punish you a little first.
Naked punishing?
Very naked punish.
Aw, you guys.