"This is outrageous, sir!" "You are nothing but a well-dressed Ioan shark!" "Ms. Rodgers, I assure you, this is a very competitive interest rate, considering your financial history." " However, if your son co-signs..." " Yes." "No, no, no." "This is my Ioan, not his." "To pay for repairs to my acting studio, not his." "If you would just let me co-sign the Ioan." "Or I could just give you the money." "Richard, I'm a businesswoman now." "I do not want your money, I do not want your signature." "Thank you very much." "It's the principle." "No, Ms. Rodgers, it's the interest." "And I've just lost mine, excuse me." "I have a million dollars put into this... (PHONE RINGING)" "What do you want, Castle?" "Tell me you need me." "Excuse me?" "I'm stuck in a bank helping my mother get a Ioan from my banker." "please tell me that there's a murder somewhere we can be solving." "Sorry, there's no dead bodies, just a Iot of paperwork, but you're welcome to come and do your share, for once." "Only thing worse than being here is being there doing paperwork." "You know, how come we're partners when I'm chasing down bad guys, and as soon as there's paperwork, I'm on a solo mission?" "Hmm." "What?" "I think this bank is about to be robbed." "Really?" "Are you that bored?" "There's a man and a woman here, dressed in scrubs, and both of them have suspicious bulges in their jackets." "Castle, I think your writer's imagination is getting away with you." "Everybody, get down on the floor!" "(SOFTLY) It's not my imagination." "It's definitely not my imagination." "(PEOPLE YELLING)" "Move, move, move, move, move, move!" "Oh, my God!" "Castle, what's happening?" "DR. HOWSER:" "Everyone, on the floor." "Get down!" "Move!" "Move!" " WOMAN:" "Okay, okay." " On the floor!" "Where are you?" "I'm at the New Amsterdam Bank and Trust on Lex." "Esposito, there's a 10-30," "New Amsterdam Bank and Trust on Lex." "Call dispatch!" "10-30?" "Since when are we handling bank robbery calls?" "Castle's there." "DR. HOWSER:" "slide up your cell phones now!" "Hurry up now!" "Come on!" "DR. HUXTABLE:" "You!" "Get down!" "DR. HOWSER:" "Come on, slide it up here!" "I said, slide up your mobiles!" "DR. QUINN:" "Move away from your station." "DR. HOWSER:" "slide them up." "Come on!" "I'm hiding behind a desk with my mother, but I can see everything." "They're wearing doctor scrubs." "One of them is emptying the cash drawers." "DR. HOWSER:" "You!" "Get down on the floor!" "Bank manager, over here!" "Another one is going for the bank manager." "He's getting the manager's key." "(SHOUTING)" "He's going to the back of the bank." "Yo, we got squad cars en route." "Castle, I need you to listen very carefully, how many are there?" "There are three." "(CLICKS)" "Make that four." "So you're the hero I'm gonna make an example of." "Sorry, your friend can't talk right now." "I wouldn't worry about him, I'd worry about yourself." "I've got squad cars on their way." "You're a cop?" "You called a cop?" "No, we were already on the line when you guys came in." "Listen to me, so far, nobody has been hurt and nothing has been stolen." "So if you just leave the same way that you came in, you can just disappear." "You're gonna promise not to come look for me?" "I don't look, I hunt." "And trust me, you don't want that." "So leave now, and this will just be a quirky little article in the metro section." "Sorry, sweetheart, I'd rather make the front page." " (MARTHA GASPS)" " Let's go." "Dr. Howser, Dr. Quinn, cops are gonna be here sooner than we thought." "AII right, kiss the floor, Iike the others." "Come on, you, too, get down!" "Dr. Huxtable, Iet's go." "AII right." "Bank cameras are down, memory drives destroyed." "(SIRENS WAILING)" "Cops!" "AII right, doctors, we've trained for this." "You know what to do." "Looks like we're all gonna get to know each other a Iot better." "(POLICE RADIO CHATTER)" "(GUNS COCKING)" "I need SWAT analysis, sit-rep and building blueprints, five minutes." " Who are you?" " Detective Kate Beckett, Homicide." "I'II be sure to call if someone dies." "Meanwhile, I need you to step..." "No, sir, my partner is in that bank." "Wait, we got a cop in there?" "He's a civilian investigator." "He and I were on the phone when they took over the bank." "He said that there's four suspects in there." "They're dressed up in doctors' scrubs." "Anything else you can tell me?" "Yeah, I spoke with one of the suspects." "What was his demeanor?" "Calm, actually, very calm." "Thanks for the intel, we'II do everything we can to get your partner out safe." "Okay, so what's our next move?" "Well, your next move is to leave my command post." "You want to help your partner, Iet me do my job." "Need a line on that bank." "I want to talk to this guy." "MONFRIEZ:" "Yes, sir." "PETERSON:" "You missed your cue, Detective." "MAN ON RADIO:" "Get those units, move those people back." "I want 'em away from the bank." "DR. HUXTABLE:" "AII right, I'm gonna make this real simple." "You move, you die." "Got it?" "Is anyone hurt?" "AII right." "Stay relaxed." "Do as they say, we'II get through this." "The cops will get us out." "(CAMERA CLICKING)" "(HELICOPTER HOVERING)" "What did you find out?" "That our services aren't needed." "Espo, do you still have buddies in ESU?" " Of course." " Good." "I want to know what they know." "And let's get a hold of Major Crimes, find out if there are any other robberies with similar mos." "The more we know about these guys, the more leverage we got." "MONFRIEZ:" "Detective Beckett." "Captain Peterson would Iike a word." "Tell me, what were you thinking?" "I was just trying to help out, sir." "What, by charming the bank robber?" " What?" " We get him on the horn, but before I get two words out, he says, and I quote," ""I will only talk to the lady cop, the one with the bedroom voice."" "Now, you wanted in?" "Well, you're in." "No, sir, I don't have any training in hostage negotiations." "Well, I don't have time to give you a seminar, so think of it like this." "You do the opposite of whatever your homicide training tells you, okay?" "So, don't yell, don't bully, don't threaten him in any way." "It's all about keeping him calm." "Detective, you up for this?" "Yeah, yeah, absolutely." "Now it's important to keep him talking." "You gotta build a rapport." "As long as he's busy talking, he's not busy hurting hostages." " Okay." "Mmm-hmm." " Okay?" "(RINGING)" "Who's this?" "This is Detective Kate Beckett." "I understand that you wanted to speak with me." "Yeah, I don't like that other guy." "Yeah, me neither." "You said to build a rapport." "So, what's your name?" "You can call me Trapper John." "A MASH fan, that's nice." "So, how you doing?" "Anything I can do to help?" "Oh, Kate, Kate, Kate." "You're running that idiot's playbook, aren't you?" "What did Captain Confidence tell you?" "Keep me calm?" "Build rapport?" "Extract information?" "Here's how it's gonna work." "You lie to me, I kill hostages." "You jerk me around," "I kill hostages." "You storm the bank, I kill hostages." "And Kate," "I'II start with your boyfriend." "(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "PETERSON:" "Well, we've learned one thing." "What's that?" "He's not a punk who just woke up and decided to rob a bank." "He knows what he's doing." "He knows our playbook." "This guy's a pro." "SWAT tap into the cameras at the bank yet?" "Still working on it, sir." "also, there's a Susan Craig from the bank's main branch on Iine four." " Sir, what do you want me to do?" " Nothing." " I'm sorry?" " It's not a homicide, Detective." "It's not all about moving forward or digging for the next clue." "Here, sometimes no move is the best move." "Let Trapper John think about things and then we'II call him back." "This is your fault, you know." "He called the cops." "I saw him." "If it wasn't for this guy, the bank robbers would have come and gone, we'd all be out of here." "No, no, the cops were coming anyway." "The bank robbers, they screwed up." "They pulled the bottom bills from the cash drawer." "Which automatically triggers the silent alarm, okay?" "No one's fault." "Simone, how far along are you?" " Thirty-two weeks." " Ah!" "Holding a pregnant woman hostage." "They should let you go." "Lady, they're not letting her go." "They're not letting any of us go." "I've seen this movie before." "I know how it ends." "With all of us dead." " Hey, we are not gonna die." " (ALL MURMURING)" "We're gonna be fine." "I work with the police, and my partner is gonna get us out." "(DOOR CLICKS)" "TRAPPER JOHN:" "Dr. Huxtable." "Mr. Davenport, what's behind those doors back there?" "Restroom, break room, security room and the safety-deposit boxes." "I saw them take a key from around your neck, what does it open?" "Yeah, that's my security key for the safe-deposit boxes." "Something is going on here." "Why does he keep going back there when there's a vault full of cash up here that's untouched?" "Oh, Richard," "I know that look, please." "Curiosity killed the cat." "Something weird is going on here." "We need to figure out what it is." "And I know exactly what to do." "Don't worry, Mother." "I saw this work on Die Hard." "Oh, great." "Great." "Uh, Mr. Howser." "Excuse me, Dr. Howser?" "You got a death wish?" "No, just a small bladder." "And, unfortunately, it looks like we're gonna be here for a while." "So unless you'd Iike it messy, now might be a good time to start arranging some restroom runs." "Thank you." "(EXHALES)" "So, why Doogie Howser?" "I mean, there's so many cool TV doctors you can pick." " Dr. House, Dr. Shepherd, Dr. Phil." " Shut up." " Anything?" " AII bad news." "ESU can't get eyes or ears inside." "Bank cameras are disabled, and the walls are too thick to drill from outside." "So what if ESU storms the bank?" "They'II be going in blind." "And in your experience, in this scenario, what are the hostages' chances of survival?" "Hey, I'm sorry about before." " please, it's..." "Yeah." " No, it's the job." "Actually, I'm a fan." "A Midsummer Night's Dream, you played Titania, in Shakespeare in the Park." "That was in the '80s." "How could you possibly remember that?" "You were unforgettable." "If I have to die, I'm glad I'm going with someone who knows my work." "Thank you." "DR. HOWSER:" "AII right, who else needs the loo?" "I'II go." "Did you learn anything?" "Two things." "Firstly, the restrooms here at the bank are quite lovely, excepting for the lack of windows, or any other means of escape." "Second, and more importantly, I was right." "Something odd is going on." "I saw Trapper John in the safe-deposit box room." "He pulled out a box and he was removing letters and photos." "And he didn't break in either." "He used both keys." "One's my manager's key, the other one must be the owner's key." "This is a very strange time for Trapper John to get something from his safe-deposit box." "Well, I'm assuming the box isn't his." "These guys set off the alarm on purpose." "They wanted this hostage standoff." "I mean, come on, look at these guys." "They're professionals, right?" "They know better than to take the bottom bills from the cash drawer." "But why?" "Time." "Safe-deposit box keys don't have numbers on them." "So if it's not his key, he'd have to try every lock, until they got to the right box." " And that would take time." " Ah!" "Okay, Mr. Davenport, the box he pulled was on the north wall." "It was four columns over, three boxes down." "That would be box 120." "Okay, we figure out whose box that is, we can figure out what these people are really up to." "Yeah, well, I don't think they're gonna let us use the computer." "Maybe we won't have to." "Mother, the bracelet I gave you for your birthday." "Oh, no, I Iove this bracelet." " AII right." " (UNCLASPS)" "Captain, it's him." " Remember the strategy." " Yeah." "(BEEPS)" "Hey, how's it going?" "So far, so good." "Yeah, and how are the hostages?" "Pretty concerned about the pregnant bank teller, Simone." "It's kind of a stressful situation." "You might want to get her out of there." "No, no, no, Kate." "You gotta give before you can receive." "Okay, what would you Iike?" "A bus with tinted windows that'II take me, my partners and my hostages to Teterboro Airport." "There, you're gonna have a plane waiting to take us to the foreign country of my choosing." "When you do that, I give you the knocked-up bank teller." "Once we land in paradise, I'll release the rest of the hostages." "And, Kate, you got three hours." "Hey, Monfriez, find me a bus with tinted windows and get it over here." "Wait a minute, you're actually giving him what he wants?" "Of course not." "The only way the guy's leaving the building is either in handcuffs or a body bag." "But if it comes to it, I can use that bus to lure the robbers out and have snipers take them out." "What the..." " You see that?" " PETERSON:" "Yeah." "That's Morse code." "Stop, Richard." "clear." "S" " D-B 1-2-0, over and over again." "What do you think it means?" "Someone's initials?" "Or a code?" "Same day bank, save..." " Same old..." " Save, wait, wait." "It could be "safe," safe..." "S" " D-B, safe-deposit..." "Safe-deposit box 120." "That's it." "Really?" "What would a safe-deposit box have to do with anything?" "I don't know, but if Castle went to the trouble of sending that message, it means something." "How do you know it's him?" "Trust me, it's him." "Safe-deposit box number 1-2-0 belongs to a married couple, Agnes and Gideon Fields." "Anything special about the box?" "No, just that bank records show they both access it monthly." "I'II get my team to check it out." "MARTHA:" "Richard." "Be innocent." "Be innocent." "You're indicating." "See, even a layman can spot an uninspired performance." "Yes, Mother." "Hey, when I was coming back," "I got a glimpse inside their duffle bag." "There were white bricks with wires and timers attached to it." "I think it could be C-4." "C-4?" "Are you sure?" "Yeah!" "They're gonna blow us all up!" "Calm down, okay?" "Just calm down." "How am I supposed to calm down?" " I've got a family to think about." " We all have families." "Now calm down." "What's your name?" "Sal." "Sal Martino." "Okay." "You got a wife, Sal?" "Kids?" "Yeah, I have a son." "What's his name?" "Connor." "I bet the only thing you can think about is seeing him again, am I right?" "You have no idea." "Good, so you just keep thinking on that." "You think about how you're gonna see Connor again real soon." "Because I'm gonna figure out a way to get us all out of here, I promise." "I need some air." "Damn, why is there no air in this place?" "What the hell is going on here?" "I don't know." "I thought this was about a safe-deposit box." "Why would they need C-4?" "Maybe they don't want anyone to know what they stole from that box and the C-4 is to make sure that no one ever does." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Agnes and Gideon Fields, open up, please!" "This is the NYPD!" " (PHONE BEEPS)" " This doesn't make any sense." "What could this old couple's safety-deposit box have to do with what's going on in that bank?" " (RADIO PLAYING)" " Maybe everything." "The bank said that Agnes and Gideon were accessing their box once a month, right?" "I just got a text from the precinct." "Gideon Fields died four years ago, so whoever's accessing that box wasn't him." "Agnes, this is NYPD, open up, please." "The radio's on." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "We can't go in there." "We don't have a warrant." "We don't have probable cause." "Bro, Castle's life depends on this." "Did you just hear that?" "I think I just heard someone yell out, "Help, Police!"" ""Help!" "Police!" There it is again." " NYPD!" " Agnes!" "(RADIO PLAYING)" "(COUGHING)" "(GROANS)" "Yeah." "It's Agnes." "What the hell is going on?" "Looks like the owner of our safety-deposit box has been dead maybe a week." "Ligature marks on her neck indicate strangulation." "What did you find at the crime scene?" "Place is trashed." "Killer was looking for something." "There's a broken keychain necklace on the body, but there's no key." "That might have been where she kept the key for the safe-deposit box." "I don't get it." "This is a Iittle, old, retired librarian." "What could possibly be in her safe-deposit box that would be worth doing all this?" "Nazi gold, cold fusion, map to Atlantis." "Hey, Castle Jr., could you maybe start thinking like a cop, please?" " I am." " Are you?" "It had to have been something huge if it was worth killing her over, right?" "Hey, super cop, check it out." " What is it?" " It's a bug." "It's not from a spy shop, either." "This looks professional." "Listen, I need you to dig up everything you can on Agnes Fields." "I gotta go." "They're here, aren't they?" "My dad and grandma are in there." "I know they were coming to this bank." " alexis..." " No one's answering their phones." "My dad always takes my calls." "And you're here." "Listen to me." "Listen, listen." "Everything is gonna be fine, okay?" "But they are inside that bank." "What is it?" "I need to get over to those windows to get a message to Beckett about the C-4." "Oh..." "Richard, please." "It is too dangerous." "We are hostages, behave accordingly." "please." "Richard..." "Uh, Dr. Quinn?" " (GUN COCKS)" " What's your problem?" "It's just where I come from, Dr. Quinn, we don't make pregnant women sit on hard floors." "Is it all right if I get some cushions from the sofa for her?" "Make it fast, pretty boy." "Thanks." " Stop!" "Right there!" " (GASPS) Oh!" "Achshav." "Or I'm going to shoot." " Hey!" "Hey!" "I said stop!" " I need air." "Need air." "Need air." "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "(VOICES OVERLAPPING)" "God!" "Don't shoot." "He's having a seizure." "Sal?" "Easy." "(GASPING)" "Great." "Epilepsy." "This guy needs help." "Then help him." "Hey, look, Dr. Quinn, the man just had a grand mal seizure, so unless you really are a medicine woman, he needs a hospital, now!" "Get Trapper John." "Move!" "CASTLE:" "Perfect." "The fake doctor calls in another fake doctor for a consult." " What am I supposed to do?" " Nothing." "We're doing everything we can." "You don't understand." "They're all I've got." "Do you hear me?" "They're all I've got." "alexis, listen to me." "I promise you, they're gonna be okay." "They better." "Beckett, incoming call." "Okay, I gotta go." "Stay with her." "(DIALING)" "(RINGING)" "(ON VOICEMAIL) Hey, it's Ash." "I'll hit you back." "(BEEPS)" "Ash, I know you're busy, but I need you." "My dad, he's..." "You've got to call me back right away, as soon as you get this." "I really need you." "Beckett." "TRAPPER JOHN:" "Look, Kate, one of the hostages had an epileptic fit and passed out." "Normally, I wouldn't care, but it's starting to upset the other hostages, and I don't want anyone trying to be a hero." "So, here's the deal, you're gonna send in one paramedic to get him." "And in exchange for this generosity, you're gonna have my bus right outside in 20." " That's not enough time." " It is for me." "Take this guy now and get my bus outside in 20, or I'II start popping hostages." "(HANGS UP)" "How soon till we get that bus?" "Thirty-five minutes." "You're gonna have to ask for more time." "He's not gonna go for it." "Then we're gonna storm the bank." "We can't storm the bank." "We don't know where anybody is in there." "If we go in there, hostages are just gonna get killed." "Listen, if we're gonna save any of them, we have no other choice." "Maybe we do." "We could use this sick hostage to our advantage." "Instead of sending in a paramedic, we send in a cop with tactical training." "That cop gets intel for when SWAT goes in to breach the bank." "I'm guessing you have a cop in mind?" "TRAPPER JOHN:" "Search her." "She's clean." "TRAPPER JOHN:" "Make it quick." "How's he doing?" "Not good." "His name is Sal Martino." "He has epilepsy." "I think the seizure was brought on by stress." "BECKETT:" "Okay." "Hey, Sal, hey, buddy." "How you doing?" "Sal, listen to me, I want you to know that there are people out there that care about you, so just keep breathing." "I promise you," "I'm gonna get you out of here." "Hey, don't talk about it, be about it." "And you, help get him on that gurney." "Now!" "Sal, you ready?" "Gonna get you up on the count of three." "One, two, three." " (SAL GRUNTING)" " Easy, buddy." "Easy, buddy." "Easy." "You're all right." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "(SAL GRUNTING)" "Your dad's okay." "They're both okay." "What's wrong?" "alexis, I need you to go behind that yellow line, now." " Take her behind the line, now." " (PHONE RINGS)" " ASHLEY:" "Hey..." "Wait, what?" " Ash!" "My father..." "Can you hear me?" " I'll call you later." " No, you can't call me later!" " I can't hear you." " Ash, I can't hear..." "What?" "Ash, I can't..." "There's C-4 in the bank?" "I didn't see any, but if Castle says it's in there, it's in there." "Well, that means a breach is out of the question." "I'm not gonna send my boys into a bomb fight." "We have to take these guys out on the bus." "That bus is still 20 minutes out." "His deadline's in five." "He's gonna start killing hostages." "We have to buy more time." "(RINGING)" "Where's my bus?" "The bus is on its way." "It'II be there in 20 minutes." "The hostages will be dead in two." "No, nobody needs to die." "Okay?" "It's coming." "It's just stuck in traffic." "We have rules, Kate." "I said I wouldn't kill anyone." "You said you'd get me a bus." "I lived up to my end of the deal." "And I'm gonna live up to mine in just..." "I warned you not to jerk me around." "I was clear about the consequences." "Do I have to prove how serious I am?" "Is that it?" "Okay, I think we both just need to take a deep breath" " and we can talk about..." " I'm done talking!" "(SCREAMING)" "What was that?" "A warning shot, Kate." "The next one's for the kill!" "Don't you touch him, you son-of-a-bitch!" "No, no!" "Davenport, hold her back!" "I got this." "(GUN CLICKS)" "I'm gonna make pretty red stains out of your boyfriend, Kate." "I got my gun to his throat, and I'm gonna paint a Jackson Pollock with his insides!" " You need to calm him down." " Listen to me, jackass," "I do not control traffic." "So you're gonna have to give me 20 minutes." " Now you've got one minute, Kate." " No!" "I've got 20." "Do you hear me?" "Twenty." "Because if you pull that trigger," "I will walk through those doors and personally put a bullet through your skull." "Okay, Kate, you got 20 more minutes." "Well, that's one way to negotiate." "Your girlfriend is a hellcat." "Yeah, well, she's not my girlfriend." "She too much woman for you?" "(CHUCKLES DRYLY)" "So why are you guys robbing this bank?" "Sutton's law." "When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied," ""Because that's where the money is."" "(PHONE RINGING)" "Except Willie Sutton never said that." "It was a reporter who made up that quote." "You see, writers, we're really good at altering reality to fit the narrative." "And the story I see you guys spinning here is really not about stealing money." "Is that so?" "You and your crew don't wear gloves." "Obviously you're not worried about fingerprints, which means you're not in the system." "And those accents?" "You're mercs, which means you're too smart to get on that bus." "So, what was in that box?" "Why the C-4?" "And what are you really gonna do with us?" "(LAUGHING)" "I Iike you." "That's why I'm gonna kill you last." "DR. HUXTABLE:" "Trapper John?" "We're good to go." "AII right, everybody on your feet." "Let's go." "Up, up, up, up." "What are you gonna do?" "You're clever." "I'm sure you'II figure it out." "We still got 18 minutes, I want everybody in position." "SWAT can rendezvous with the bus here on 49th." "They can load there." "I want snipers here, here and here." "Get Roman on the horn." "Why didn't he ask me for something?" "What?" "Sir, he gave me 20 minutes and he didn't ask for anything in return." "If he wanted to maintain control, he would have asked for something." "I mean, this is all way too easy." "Take the win, Detective." "No, sir, something is going on, we're just not asking the right questions." "I mean, why would he bring C-4 to a bank robbery?" "What does Agnes Fields' murder have to do with any of this?" "MONFRIEZ:" "Captain, I've got Sergeant Roman." "PETERSON:" "Yeah, Roman." "(BEEPS)" "Mother, I find I'm no Ionger satisfied with the customer service at this establishment." "I think we should take our business elsewhere." " I'm so sorry." " No." "Forgive me for dragging you into this." "It's okay." "It's okay." "I Iove you, Mother." "Right back at you, kiddo." "BECKETT ON PHONE:" "Did you find anything on Agnes?" "ESPOSITO:" "We've gone over phone and financials and talked to friends and neighbors." "Nothing sticks out." "What about Agnes's safety-deposit box?" "Somebody was pretending to be her dead husband and accessed it monthly." " Any leads?" " Nothing so far." "Relatives?" "Agnes really didn't have any relatives left." "Her husband's dead." "Her daughter and grandson died in a boating accident over a year ago." "Only surviving relative is a former son-in-Iaw, Ron Brandt." "We left a message, we haven't heard back yet." "Look, we don't have time to wait for a return phone call, so find..." "BECKETT:" "Castle!" "Castle!" "Castle!" "CASTLE:" "Beckett?" "(MAN COUGHING)" "They're here!" "I told you." "Huh?" "(LAUGHING)" "Oh, my God!" "Here we go." "Ready?" "Okay." "How are you?" "MARTHA:" "He's not the only one here, you know." "I'm so..." "I'm so sorry, Martha." "Excuse me." "How are you doing?" "MARTHA:" "My ears are ringing, are yours?" "Everybody accounted for?" "We're all here, we're all okay." "Sir, what happened to the robbers?" "They're dead." "They blew themselves up." "What?" "Apparently, the C-4 was part of the exit strategy." "They blasted a hole straight through the bottom of the vault and opened the ceiling on an abandoned subway station below." "Smart plan, if they didn't screw it up." "They must've triggered the explosion before they took cover and they killed themselves." " Oh!" " It's not possible." "C-4, it's a very stable explosive." "It wouldn't go off accidentally, and these guys were not dime-store bandits." "They were trained." "They were military precision." "They wouldn't set off an explosion prematurely." "Really?" "I got an assortment of body parts that tells me they did." "Let's get out of here." "(INAUDIBLE)" " Is everybody okay?" " Yeah, they're fine." "They just need a minute." "We heard all the suspects are dead." "Guys, none of this makes any sense." "An old lady is killed for her safe-deposit box key, which her dead husband accesses every month?" "And then this." "There's something that we're missing." "What were you saying about Agnes Fields' last surviving relative?" "Former son-in-Iaw, Ron Brandt." "We left a message, but he does a Iot of business overseas." "He might not even be in the country." "He's listed at a penthouse on the Upper East Side," " so we can go check..." " Wait, that's..." "That's the son-in-Iaw?" "Yeah, why?" "This was one of the hostages." "He was having a seizure and..." "Oh, God!" "This is Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD." "I'm checking in on a patient that came in from a bank robbery." "His name is Sal Martino." "What?" "He did?" "He checked himself out against medical advice." "He's gone." "It was him." "He orchestrated this whole thing." "It turns out Ron Brandt runs a company that supplies military contractors with special operational forces from around the world." "Okay, so he uses his military connections to hire that team of mercenaries in the bank." "And then to avoid loose ends, Ron rigged the C-4 to blow early." "Talk about cold-blooded." "He did all of this just for the contents of Agnes's safety-deposit box?" "Castle, you said that there were photos and letters in there, right?" "CASTLE:" "Yeah." "Trapper John must have given them to Ron when he was being escorted back from the restroom." "Because right after that, he faked a seizure and was let go." "But why?" "I mean, what was so special about his former mother-in-Iaw's safety-deposit box?" "Former mother-in-Iaw?" "Yeah, Ron was married to Agnes's daughter, Tanya." "Her and her son, Connor, were killed in a boating accident about a year ago." "No, no, Ron spoke about Connor, and he did not speak about him like he was dead." "Connor is still alive." "Well, I don't know what to tell you, Castle, it says right here Connor's dead." "I'm not so sure about that." "It turns out that neither his wife, Tanya, nor Connor's body was ever recovered." "Why would the wife fake their deaths?" "Domestic abuse." "However, Ron had the connections and the wealth to avoid prosecution." "CASTLE:" "So, the system failed her." "She and Connor couldn't escape Ron's abuse, so she faked their deaths and disappeared." "Yeah, but to disappear, she had to walk away from her former life." "Sever ties with everything and everyone she ever knew." "Except she couldn't, especially with her mom, Agnes." "Which is what the safety-deposit box was for." "It's a means of communication." "It's like a Cold War drop box in some John Ie Carré novel." "Only, Tanya wouldn't be able to risk making the drops." "So who would make the drops for her?" "Our mystery man, who was posing as Agnes' dead husband." "He was Tanya's middleman." "Okay, so Tanya sends the photos and the letters to the middleman." "The middleman puts them in the safety-deposit box for Agnes." "The box serves as a mailbox." "Only it's better than a mailbox 'cause it's locked up inside a bank." "Ron must have suspected that they faked their deaths, and that's when he bugged Agnes' home." "And when Ron found out about the box, he killed Agnes for the key." "Right, and with the clock ticking, he hired that crew to stage the bank robbery to get to the box with that key." "You know, those photos and letters will say exactly where his wife and son are hiding." "He's on his way there now, and we know what he's gonna do once he gets there." "He's gonna kidnap his son and kill his wife." "Identifying the middleman is the only way we're gonna be able to find Tanya and Connor." "So what do we know?" "He passed for Agnes' late husband." "BECKETT:" "And it'd have to be someone that Ron wouldn't suspect." "ESPOSITO:" "That rules out friends, neighbors and co-workers." "But it's probably a person that they trusted." "Middleman could have been paid." "Maybe we can track their payments." "You know, they were probably smart enough to pay in cash, which is untraceable." "Unless if paying by check wouldn't have thrown up any red flags." "And at the time of Connor and Tanya's supposed deaths, she was making monthly tithe checks to Saint Abigail's Church." "And who better fits this profile than a priest?" "And I know which one we should speak to first." "The priest who officiated their funeral," "Father Sean McCaskey." "Father McCaskey, I'm Detective Kate Beckett, this is Richard Castle." "We need to know where Tanya and Connor Brandt are hiding." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Tanya and Connor have been dead for over a year." "Father, you don't understand." "Agnes Fields has been murdered." "Ron Brandt has the contents of her safe-deposit box." "He's on his way to them now." "What?" "How could this happen?" "That box was there to protect them." "It didn't, Father, but we can." "We need to know their address." "Of course." "14 Cascadilla Street, Ithaca." "Ithaca." "That's only four hours away." "Ron could already be there by now." " Thanks." " Yes." "(RAPPING ON DOOR)" "Honey, I'm home." "(GASPING)" "Stay back!" "I will kill you!" "Now, Tanya, is this any way to greet your husband?" "(SCREAMING)" "Oh, no, hon, you bumped your head." "(SOBBING)" "(GAME BEEPING)" "Hey, hey." "There's my boy." "Did you miss your daddy?" "Come on, come on." "Man, what the hell's taking so long?" "Can't believe they've still got us on hold." "Beckett, if he gets a hold of that kid... (SCREAMING) Mommy!" "please don't take him." "Baby!" "(SCREAMS) Not in front of him, please." "Baby... (CLICKS)" "(GASPS)" "Why would I kill you?" "I want you to live a Iong, long life with the knowledge that you're never gonna see Connor again." "Now it's my turn to disappear." " But unlike you, I know how to hide." " (CONNOR SCREAMS)" " Come on, buddy." "Come on." " Connor!" "Connor!" " Right there." " Don't move." " (GUNS COCKING)" " Think real hard about your next move." "(POLICE RADIO CHATTER)" "BECKETT:" "What?" "Okay, thanks." "(REPLACES RECEIVER)" "They found them." "Tanya's gonna need a few stitches, but Connor's okay." "Come on, Iet's go pick him up." "Ithaca?" "Even as a hostage, I help you solve murders." "Beckett, I think..." "I think you have the perfect partner." "Yeah, except he doesn't like doing paperwork." "Touché." "So, old Haunt?" "I'II buy you a drink." "No, but I'II do you one better." "Oh, Kate!" "Oh, darling, you can join us, you great, beautiful creature." "Come in." "Wow, Martha, you..." "You really..." "How did you?" "I did." "Facing death demands celebrating life." "Tonight, we feast!" "Where's alexis?" "Oh, she's..." " Excuse me, one minute." " Yeah." "So, yes?" "please." "Ash, it's not about today." "It's about the Iast 100 days." "You're never here for me." "Just because you're in California doesn't mean I should have to hold my breath, cross my fingers, and wish upon a star, just to get a text from you." "Yeah, more excuses." "Ash, I just can't do this anymore." "We're done." "(BEEPS)" " (KNOCKING) - (CLEARS THROAT)" "You okay?" "No." "(ALEXIS SIGHS)" "But ask me again tomorrow." "alexis, darling, help me with the Duck I'Orange, s'il vous plaît." "CASTLE:" "Ah!" "Thank you." "And I didn't get a chance to properly thank you for saving my Iife." "There's no need, Castle." "We're partners." "It's what we do." "Yes, some of us more than others, of course." "Wait, what is that supposed to mean?" "Only that this is the eighth time you've saved my Iife and I've saved your life nine times." "Okay, first of all, I can't even believe that you're keeping score." "And secondly, there is no way that you've saved my Iife more than I have yours." "Nine?" "please." "Well, Iet's review, shall we?" "The first time I distracted that mad gunman with the champagne bottle." "And, yes, that was a save." "Even you admitted it." "The second time, the serial killer put a bomb in your kitchen while you were taking a shower." "I had to brave the hellish flames to pull you out of your bathtub." "Won't be forgetting that any time soon."