" God." "Her face" " What happened to her?" "I got a pulse." "She's still alive." "Get a gurney." "Now!" "Where'd it go?" "Where'd what go, darling?" "My leftovers from Le Cirque." "They were right here." "Right where this hole in the fridge is." "I was gonna use that Chateaubriand for my morning scramble." "Well, I certainly didn't eat them." "I wouldn't look this good if I was... pigging out on leftovers." "Yes, well, this isn't the first time this has happened." "Food has been going missing for the past month." "It's not just leftovers, either." "It was the peanut butter, uh, artichokes, a whole quart of Mulligatawny soup--gone." "Well, maybe you've been sleep eating again." "Again?" "I've never sleep ated-- sleep ate-- eaten-- have I?" "Hey." "I'm off to class." "How did you like that, uh, Chateaubriand?" "Wasn't that a wonderful white wine reduction?" "What Chateaubriand?" "All right." "It's the housekeeper." "I knew it." "She has been putting on weight." "Sorry, darling." "She hasn't been here for three days." "Maybe there are tiny Borrowers living under the floorboards who come out at night to steal your food." "It's not realistic." "They'd be too small to get the fridge door open." "No, but something is going on here, though." "And I'm gonna find out what." "So some food disappeared, Castle." "What's the big deal?" "It wasn't you, was it?" "I know you hate to go grocery shopping." "Seriously, Castle?" "I haven't been to your place since Tuesday." "Right." "Maybe my apartment's being invaded by some kind of super rat." "Whatever's going on, I've taken bold steps to ensure it never happens again." "These two nurses saw some guy do a dump and drive around 4:00 AM." "The trauma unit tried to save our vic, but she didn't make it." "If he's our killer, why would he take her to the ER?" "Maybe he had a guilty conscience." "Did the nurses get a good look at the driver?" "No, but they did see his car." "It was a blue sedan." "Hospital security's trying to get me some footage to get the license plate." "Okay, set up a canvass around the hospital." "We need to find someone that got a good look at the driver." "And where's our vic?" "Her body's still in the trauma bay." "Word is, she was pretty messed up." "Uh, let me caution you." "This is not for the faint of heart." "For once, I agree with you." "What did this to her?" "Could be anything from a crowbar to a box cutter." "But they look like claw marks." "I just can't tell what kind." "If it was an animal, wouldn't there be bite marks?" "I might not find them until I do a complete exam to determine the exact cause of death." "Given the fact that we don't have a crime scene, is there any indication of where she was attacked?" "No, but, uh, I can tell you when." "Based on the inflammation, I'd say the victim sustained her injuries five to six hours before she died." "Well, we figure out who she is, we'll find out how she wound up this way." "Her name is Anne Cardinal, 27 years old." "She was Native American." "Grew up on the Onondaga Reservation in Central New York." "Any next of kin?" "No." "She had no siblings, and both of her parents are gone." "She lived in off-campus housing for Hudson University, where she was working toward a PhD in evolutionary biology." "All right." "Send CSU to her apartment." "Talk to friends and neighbors to see if they know of anyone in her life who drove a blue sedan." "And who wanted to mangle her face." "I may have an explanation for those facial wounds." "Turns out our victim worked at a retirement home called Haven House." "Vicious, blood-thirsty old folks, is that your theory?" "This home is not for people, Castle." "It's a primate sanctuary." "Mostly for apes and chimpanzees and monkeys who have retired from the movie business." "Ah, I always wanted a pet monkey when I was a kid." "Big "Curious George" fan." "Yeah." "Wait till George grows up." "An adult chimpanzee can reach 200 pounds, tear off a man's face, hands, and naughty bits." "All right, we're gonna go to the primate sanctuary." "If Anne was attacked there, maybe someone dumped her body to cover it up." "And call me if you get anything on that sedan." "George would never do that." "This is a terrible loss." "Uh, I mean, Anne was a-a brilliant student and a lovely person." "Given her wounds, I need to ask, how much interaction did Anne have with the primates here?" "Well, very little in terms of direct contact." "Uh, but we have very strict training guidelines for all of our employees." "Still, I'll need the Crime Scene Unit to do a thorough investigation of this facility." "Of course." "Anything I can do to help." "I can't imagine she was harmed by any of our animals." "They've never shown any aggressive behavior towards her or anyone else." "Now, Dr. Devlin, how well did you know Anne Cardinal?" "I was her faculty advisor at Hudson University." "And when I found out she was taking time off a couple of months ago," "I offered her a job here." "And what sort of work did she do?" "Oh, I have a grant to study the social behaviors of primates." "And I hire Hudson students... like her and Franco here to help manage the animals' care." "Uh, and none of them have homicidal impulses, not even Moonshine here?" "Especially not Moonshine." "He's been around people his whole life, and he's very social." "Uh, when was the last time either of you saw Anne?" "We worked together yesterday." "She seemed totally fine." "She did leave early." "That wasn't like her." "Said she had something important to do." "Did she say what it was?" "It might have had something to do with that argument she had." "What argument?" "Uh, I saw her in the parking garage around lunchtime, talking to a man." "I'd never seen him before, but he seemed very angry with her." "Do you think you could describe him to a sketch artist?" "Yeah, I most definitely could." "Well, I know who the killer is." "Did you see how that gorilla looked at me?" "Yeah, I think it was lust, actually, Castle." "You are... ruggedly handsome." "Bloodlust, maybe." "No, don't let Moonshine fool you." "I'm betting he and his fellow "retirees"" "are actually super-intelligent apes, plotting to take over New York City." "They're gonna round up all the people, put us in a sanctuary." "Most likely, Anne got on to them..." "They took her out." "Now if this monkey cabal really wanted to get Anne out of the picture, why did they drop her off at the hospital?" "Well, obviously..." "they were conflicted." "It's very complicated, the relationship between man and primate." "Didn't you see "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes"?" "Cautionary tale." "Sorry to burst your bubble, Castle, but CSU hasn't found a crime scene at Haven House." "Anne wasn't attacked there." "Well, then where was the attack, and by what?" "Hey, so, uh, a witness saw a blue sedan take out a side mirror about a block away from our hospital in our time window." "They got a plate." "Owner of the car was Eddie Maslon." " How is he connected to Anne?" " Well, I'm not really sure, but Eddie knows how to put the hurt on people." "He just did eight years in sing sing for murder two." "And he had a way to mess up Anne's face." "City Records shows he had a pit bull named Badass." "A convicted killer with an attack dog?" "All right." "Pick him up." "Right on." "Damn it." "I really liked Moonshine for this." "I've never seen her before." "You dumped her outside of the ER last night, except she looked more like... this." "Your dog do that to her?" "Eddie, you've been out of prison for three months." "You better start talking unless you want to go back." "Okay, look, I didn't touch her." "And neither did Badass." "Whatever did that to her, that wasn't no dog." "Then how'd she end up in your car?" "I was leaving a bar last night, and I happened to make a wrong turn down an alleyway." "And I saw her laying there." "She was all messed up." "I couldn't just leave her there to die." "Oh, so you're a good samaritan now?" "If I wanted to kill her, why would I bring her to a hospital?" "If you wanted to save her, why would you ditch her outside of one?" "Because with my record, I knew I'd get blamed, which is exactly what's happening now." "Yeah." "No good deed, huh?" "Okay, fine." "Then why don't you tell me where you supposedly found her?" "Well, it's blood." "Maybe Eddie was telling the truth." "Beckett." "You need to see this." "What the..." "Footprints." "Giant footprints..." "Made by some kind of beast." "Those vicious claw marks, savage wounds, her blood," "these footprints..." "It all adds up to one thing." "She was killed by Bigfoot." "5x20 The Fast and the Furriest" "Seriously, Beckett, do you have any idea what this means?" "We are about to be the first people in the nation-- no, the world-- to solve a Bigfoot murder." "Very funny, Castle, but there is no such thing as Bigfoot." "Tell that to the people who've been sighting him for 400 years." "So I typed the blood." "It's a match to our victim." "Never mind the blood." "What is your opinion on these?" "Well, professionally, I can't speculate what those are, Mr. Castle." "But personally, I can say that anyone who believes in Bigfoot is an ass." "That is a common assertion amongst the uninformed." "Okay, buddy, let's say there is a Bigfoot." "How does a giant hairy ape-man get around the city unseen?" "Easy." "Follow the big fat footprints." "What?" "Subway access tunnel." "Since Hurricane Sandy, a lot of those are still closed." "So Bigfoot's been using them to get around." "Castle, that's ridiculous." "How can you say..." "Look at these footprints." "These are the footprints that I'm interested in." "They're near where the body was." "CSU said that they were made within the last 24 hours." "Could be Eddie Maslon's?" "At size 13?" "The guy's too short to have feet this big." "No." "These boot prints are our best lead." "These prints, not the tracks from the giant clown feet." "Yes, let's go to a crime scene and ignore the evidence." "You're saying someone framed Bigfoot?" "All I'm saying, Castle, is that someone-- a human being-- left the Bigfoot prints in that alleyway." "Yeah, and staged the crime scene to make it look as though Bigfoot was the killer?" "Why go through the trouble of blaming Bigfoot, a creature a select few of us even believe exists, never mind could be a murder suspect?" "Speaking of suspects," "Anne's boss came through with a sketch of the guy she argued with the day she died." "Take a look, Castle." "A person of interest, emphasis on the word "person."" "Talk to Anne's friends and family and see if anyone recognizes him." "I wouldn't rule out Bigfoot just yet." "Turns out there have been dozens of reported Bigfoot sightings in the city in the past couple of months." "Is that right?" "Why, Detective Ryan, please tell us about this new and extraordinary development." "Like this woman in Brooklyn." "She says that Bigfoot tried to break into her apartment" " on the second floor." " Gentlemen." "I hate to rain on your parade." " Do you?" " No." "But here's the reason that Bigfoot reports have spiked." "Two months ago, the TV show "Mission:" "Monster,"" "put out a $1 million reward for the capture and/or proof that Bigfoot exists." "See, Castle?" "All of this evidence that you claim proves Bigfoot's existence is actually people angling for money." "So you're saying it's just a coincidence that Anne was working with primates and mysteriously killed where Bigfoot prints were found?" "No, not a coincidence." "Just a hoax." "If it's such a hoax, then tell me why I found this." "I dug into her phone records." "Turns out, the last phone call she ever made was to Darrell Meeks." "The Darrell Meeks?" "Who's Darrell Meeks?" "Who's Darrell Meeks?" "Just a world-renowned cryptozoologist." "That's a scientist who searches for as-yet undiscovered creatures." "Such as unicorns and centaurs?" "Banshees and leprechauns?" "Doctor Meeks also happens to be the foremost authority on Bigfoot." "And lo and behold, she called him on the very day she died." "Still think Bigfoot has nothing to do with this?" "Perlmutter's got something for us." "Why don't you guys head over there?" "Castle and I will talk to the world's foremost authority on Bigfoot." "The "B" team." " Talk about the "B" team." " Yeah." "Look, I had hoped to see Castle's look of dismay when I told him cause of death was nothing more exotic than blunt-force trauma to the cranium." "It--it seems that she was clobbered over the head with a club or a pipe." "You coulda said so over the phone." "Ah, but I also made two highly intriguing discoveries." "About the wounds on her face?" "Uh, well, their cause is still undetermined, but of far greater interest is the fact-- 'cause they could be claw marks." "Bigfoot has claws." "So does Wolverine." "Is he real?" "Are you done?" "I found this glass embedded in her head wound." "It has an antireflective coating, like on prescription lenses." "But she didn't wear glasses." "So where'd it come from?" "All I can tell you is that it was practically hammered into her skull by whatever hit her." "We'll send it in for analysis." "Yeah, well, you should take this while you're at it." "Found that in her stomach." "A pendant... in her stomach?" "It appears she swallowed it five to six hours before she died." "The same time she was attacked." "Why would she swallow it?" "Maybe she knew she was gonna die and she was trying to send a message." "Or she was trying to keep this pendant from her killer." "Did you take this photo?" "Yes." "Uh, it's an expedition I led in Western Canada." "It's the closest I've ever gotten to him in 23 years." "Dr. Meeks, you were the last person that Anne spoke with just before she died." "Why did she call you?" "Yes, I-I think she called me to ask me if I thought that Bigfoot would venture into an urban area." "And what did you tell her?" "Well, given development and urban encroachment in the wilderness, sooner or later, it was inevitable." "And I suspect that she had evidence of the presence of Bigfoot here in the city." "I don't understand why she would talk to you about something like that." "Well, Anne was studying evolutionary biology." "She was an honor student at the university, but she was actually a hugely respected Bigfoot expert." "She even gave me that extremely rare Yeti finger." "Are you saying Anne was a Bigfoot hunter?" "N-n-no, no." "No, uh, no, not a--not a hunter." "No, uh, Anne was, uh, Native American." "And, uh, in her tribe's culture, a Bigfoot was considered..." "benevolent or a protector." "When she was a child, she actually saw a Bigfoot, and so after that, she devoted her life to their study." "Excuse me." "So are Bigfoots-- or Bigfeet-- uh, violent or aggressive?" "Well, they certainly can be." "What were the nature of her injuries?" "Well, I mean, was she attacked by a Bigfoot?" " Not a chance." " Yes." "Well, in the name of science, would you allow me to examine where she died?" "No." "Now as far as you're aware, did she have issues with anyone other than Bigfoot?" "Well, she was under a very high level of scrutiny." "Scrutiny from whom?" "Oh, some TV show offered a $1-million reward, which unleashed a tide of idiots, all searching for Bigfoot." "Yes, and, uh, this is my wife Garland." "Uh, she's the skeptical one." "Trust me." "I feel your pain." "Pleasure." "In either case, I think when people found out" "Anne's area of expertise, they wanted to follow her to see if she would actually take them to a real Bigfoot." "You know, the day that she died," "Anne was seen arguing with this man." "Do you recognize him?" "Oh, yes." "All too well." "This man is the Bigfoot community's worst enemy." "His name is Chase Diggins, and he's an Australian adventurer and big game hunter." "Kind of Crocodile Dundee meets Indiana Jones meets Ted Nugent." "Now according to the Meekses, he's violent and highly unstable." "What's more is that this guy is hell-bent on bagging a Bigfoot." "I found him on YouTube bragging about how he's gonna mount one on his wall." "Do we have anything other than speculation on a mythical ape-man that will connect him to the murder?" "We have this." "Diggins has a prosthetic hook for a hand?" "Says he lost it in a Bigfoot attack and that he almost took" "However it happened, that hook could've been what did a number on Anne's face." "Where's Chase Diggins now?" "This guy is an international adventurer." "What the hell is he doing?" "Renting an industrial crap hole like this?" "Why not a hotel?" "The guy hunts Bigfoot." "I don't think that rational behavior is something he's familiar with." "You hear that?" "Yeah." "Dude, there's something down there." "Chase Diggins!" "NYPD!" "If you're down here, you better identify yourself right now!" "Dude..." "I got a bad feeling about this thing, man." "I-I don't think that we should" "You gents looking for me?" "A bloody shame about Anne." "She was one hell of a tracker." "Actually, the only reason I came to the city." "Word was, she knew the whereabouts of an actual squatch, and I figured, she might lead me to him." "You came to New York to hunt Bigfoot?" "You see this, Detective?" "Nepal, 2008, in the rocky crags of the Himalayas..." "A squatch came out of nowhere and ripped my arm clean off." "So I will hunt down every last one of those bastards until I have my payback." "What did it look like?" "500 pounds of fur and death, mate." "Eyes like a rabid dog, but smart, you know?" "Anyway, they say that she found one." "Everyone knew it, but Anne wasn't talking." "Is that why you went to see her?" "Who told you that?" "Witnesses saw you and Anne arguing outside of her work yesterday." "Merely a polite conversation between colleagues." "Really?" "'Cause later that night, she turned up dead." "You're squatting' in the wrong bush, Detective." "I was at a target range last night with my mates, keeping my edge sharp." "You can check it out." "That's funny, 'cause we found a boot print in alleyway near a pool of Anne's blood with the same tread as the boots you're wearing now." "All right, look, I was in that alley, but not last night, it was the night before." "What were you doing there?" "Well, I figured she was tracking the beast, so I tracked her." "I followed her to the alley, and... that's when I caught the wily bitch in the act." "The act of what?" "Stamping fake squatch prints in the ground is what, using molds of giant feet." "She was faking the damn evidence." "Now, whoa." "Okay, hang" "Anne was a respected researcher." "Why would she fake evidence of Bigfoot?" "Because I reckon she found the real thing, and she was trying to throw the rest of us off the scent." "But I was on to her, so I confronted her at work." "Offered her anything she wanted, but she told me to bugger off." "You know what I think?" "You faked that site." "Because somewhere in your twisted mind, it makes sense that the expert on Bigfoot would be killed by one." "I knew it." "She found him." "The little bitch found my Bigfoot." "Look, he's either crazy or he's lying." "I'd go with crazy, 'cause it looks like he's telling the truth." "Tests on his prosthetic hook show no trace of Anne's DNA." "And his alibi checks out." "So it's not him." "Well, it looks like we're back to this guy as our number one suspect." "Castle, could you please take that down?" "You got it." "The lab also was able to identify the glass shards we found in our victim's head wound." "It's from a camera lens." "There was no camera at the crime scene." "Maybe our killer took it." "Which would explain why there are so few photos of Bigfoot." "I meant our human killer." "Right." "Let's re-canvass near that alleyway, see if we can find that camera." "So I looked into the pendant that Anne swallowed, and I found something strange." "What?" "I talked to her friends and neighbors." "The pendant wasn't Anne's." "It belonged to Justine Bolton," "Anne's roommate at Hudson University last year." "Does the roommate have any idea what Anne was doing with it?" "Uh, I'd love to ask her, there's only one problem." "Justine was murdered a year ago." "And a year later, her pendant is found in her murdered friend's stomach?" "That can't be a coincidence." "What do we know about Justine's murder?" "Well, I ordered up her case files." "They should be here by the morning." "Look, Castle, I don't care how much research you do, you're not gonna convince me that there's a Bigfoot." "I just follow the evidence and the insanely large footprints." "Is there anything that you don't believe in?" "Sure, there is." "There's, um..." "Okay, well, what about you?" "If not Bigfoot or zombies or ghosts, what do you believe in?" "I just--I believe in the everyday magic of life." "I mean, things that I can see and touch, like, um, the green shoots that pop through the snow in February, or the flatiron building, or... the way that I feel when I hear Coltrane." "It's..." "Now I can appreciate the everyday, but why not live in the possible?" "The world just doesn't have as many mysteries anymore." "There's no new continents to explore." "There's no more deepest, darkest Africa." "Everything's all mapped out by satellites and sonar, yet, still, people reach for the unknown." "It's what makes us grow." "Coltrane wouldn't have had that saxophone if Antoine Sax hadn't imagined it." "Isn't that what separates us from, uh, say Moonshine?" "Well, you know, there is one... inexplicable... mysterious phenomenon that I do believe in still." "Us." "What was that?" "Something set off my trap." "You set a trap?" " I've got you now, you super rats." " What?" "No one steals from me." "Alexis?" " What are you doing here?" " Mm!" "Yeah, she's still not taking my calls." "Well, can you blame her, Castle?" "You practically turned her into a smurf." "Na'vi would be a more contemporary reference." "No, the point is, she lied to me." "She looked me right in the eye and she blamed The Borrowers." "I'm sure she had a good reason." "For what, not having food?" "I mean, I give her a sizeable allowance." "And if that's not enough, she can always ask for more." "Like I said, Castle, there are plenty of mysteries in the everyday." "Hey, Ryan, has Justine Bolton's murder file come in yet?" "She was attacked in the apartment that she shared with Anne Cardinal." "The way she was choked and bruised, looked like it was a crime of passion." "Do they have a suspect?" "Unfortunately, he fled, and he hasn't been seen since the murder." "Any chance he had long, shaggy hair and he was 8 feet tall?" "Uh, no." "Sorry, Castle." "It was Justine's boyfriend" " Kurt Wilson." "He was the one that supposedly found the body." "He was a football player with a history of assaults on and off the field." "It looked like Justine was trying to get away from him." "The day that she was murdered, she contacted the dean and told him that she was dropping out of school even though she was top of her class." "By the time the cops realized that all roads led to Kurt Wilson, he disappeared." "How does Anne figure into this?" "Well, as her roommate, it looks like Anne took Justine's death pretty hard." "When I spoke to the lead detective, he told me she came to him a few months back and asked to see Justine's case file." "He refused since it's a pending murder case, but still, it means" "Anne was looking into Justine's murder." "And a few months ago--that's when Anne took time off school." "So then maybe Anne wasn't tracking down Bigfoot." "She was looking for Kurt Wilson." "Maybe she found him." "Canvass didn't turn up Anne's camera, but the lab came back with a serial number on that lens." "Now it was made for a specific model-- a wi-fi-enable camcorder that's designed to synch up to a cloud account." "I checked." "Anne has a cloud account." "Can we access it?" "Testing, one, two, three." "Okay, good." "Look at the time stamp." "12:20 AM the night she died." " Oh, my God." "Oh, my God." " Yeah, but she's not in an alley." " Where the hell is she?" " He's after me." "He's after me." "Oh, please!" "No!" "So the attack took place in the woods, not that alley." "But what we need to find out is where these woods are." "Tech is trying to get the geodata off that footage to see if we can pinpoint the exact coordinates." "But if she was attacked in the woods somewhere, why move her to an alley?" "Because the killer was trying to throw us off his trail." "If Anne was looking for Kurt Wilson, then the last thing he would want to do is leave her body near the same spot where he was hiding out." "Unless she was looking for someone else in those woods." "Something with fur?" "What do we really see of our killer in this video?" "He's dark, looming, powerful, holding a primitive weapon." "Castle, that is a person." "All I see is the silhouette of a hulking, humanoid form." "If Darrell Meeks and that one-armed Aussie were right and Anne did know where Bigfoot was, well, that could be him on that video." "Then what, Bigfoot carried her body into the city on foot from wherever these woods are and left her in that alleyway?" "Well, you said yourself," "Kurt Wilson wouldn't want to leave Anne's body where he'd been hiding out." "Why would Bigfoot?" "Okay." "Why don't you guys circulate Wilson's photo to Anne's family and friends and see if anyone has seen him around?" "Castle and I will talk to tech to see if we can figure out where these woods are." "I don't know." "Maybe." "If you rough him up a little, he could be that homeless guy I saw hanging out in the parking garage." "When was that?" "Last week sometime." "What was he doing?" "Nothing, man." "He just looked like he was waiting." "Well, we're gonna need, uh, security cam footage of the garage." "It's run by a separate company." "I'll get you their number." "If Wilson knew that Anne was after him, he might have been following her, preparing to kill her." "I'll set up a canvass and pull traffic cam footage from that area." "Maybe we can get a hit on where he went after he left that garage." "Testing, one, two, three." "Okay, good." "The camera began synching to her account right when she started filming." "We couldn't pull any geodata, but the synch was routed through her cell phone." "It pinged off this cell tower here." "Are there any woods near that tower?" "Yes, in a 10,000-acre nature preserve... called Branch Cross." "That's a perfect hangout for Bigfoot." "Or the fugitive." "Now is there any way to narrow down where she was when this was being filmed?" "Not as much as I'd like, but checked with the forest service, the species of tree in the video grow mostly in this 6-square-mile area." "Also, between the moon's position in the sky and the orientation of the shadows," "I can tell you that she was moving in a southeasterly direction." "Wow." "She's good." "Could you turn up the volume on the video?" " Do you guys hear that in the background?" " Oh, my God." "Oh, my God." "He's after me." "He's after me." "Do you think you can isolate that?" "That sounds like water." "Are there any streams or rivers nearby?" "Right there." "She must have been near that creek, which gets us down to a 2-square-mile area." "Well, the good news is, we have our crime scene." "The bad news is, it's in 2 square miles of remote wilderness with no access by road." "You up for a hike?" "Oh, I'm well equipped for a hike." "What are you doing?" "Knocking on wood and vocalizing." "It's how Bigfoot communicates over long distances." "And how the real Bigfoot hunters lure him out." "Yeah, well, the real police don't do it so that our human fugitive won't know that we're coming." "Oh, trust me." "If Kurt Wilson has been hiding out here for a year, we are not gonna find him." "Okay, we're close." "GPS is showing that this is the general area of the attack." "We just need to find some landmarks." "It happened by this downed tree, so all we gotta do is find the tree, and we've found our crime scene." "Castle, Castle, please." "No more wookiee calls." "It's not wookiee." "I'm not doing wookiee." "I can't do wookiee." "Alexis does a really cute wookiee." "Well, whatever you're doing, could you stop?" "You scared it might work?" "No, I am scared that I might murder you, and then I'll have two crime scenes on my hands." "You know, a lot of highly respected individuals believe in Bigfoot." "Teddy Roosevelt wrote about him in his journals." "Jane Goodall has gone on record saying that she's open to the possibility." "And right now, as we speak, professors at Oxford are studying Bigfoot DNA samples." "No, it is possible." "You just have to be open to it..." "Because at any moment, life can surprise you." "Oh, that's not good for my knee." "You okay?" "Yeah." "Where are we?" "Some kind of trap." "Which we've gotta get out of." "Castle..." "Do you have anything in your vest that can help us?" "Oh, yeah." "Heck, I got a guppie multi-tool," "I've got a solar-powered hand fan, got camo glasses, built-in compass, snake bite kit" "So nothing?" "Well, not nothing." "I can build a fire." "Oh, great." "You know what, Castle?" "I can pull myself out if you could boost me up." "Well, then how am I gonna get out?" "I have a rope in the car." "I was gonna hike back to get it." "You're gonna leave me here alone?" "Okay, whoa." "Just hold on a second." "Let's just back up and think about this." "What is this pit doing out here in the first place?" "Someone or... something had to build it." ""Something," Castle?" "You think that Bigfoot came out here with a shovel?" "No, you're probably right." "I don't think Bigfoot built this." "Yeah, some hunters or poachers probably dug it up." "Hunting what?" "Look at the size of this thing." "Maybe our fugitive built it in case anyone came out here." "I'm more comfort with the idea of Bigfoot building it." "Come on, Castle." "Why don't you pop a squat?" " We'll pull a cheerleader move." " Right." "Shouldn't you be wearing a short skirt for this?" "It's the move." "You know, though, this pit is kind of crudely built." "And, uh, some primates have been known to... make and..." "Oh, jeez!" "Castle!" "...use tools to trap prey." "Would you stand still?" "Hold me." "Now." "Yeah, I'm just saying," "I don't want to end up as Bigfoot dinner." "You know, Castle, there is a bit of poetic justice in this." "Poetic justice how?" "Well, I mean, think about it." "You set a trap for Alexis, and now someone or something has set one for you." "Promise me you'll come back." "In case I don't make it." "Oh, that's cute." "But seriously, hurry back!" "'kay?" "What's that?" "Nothing." "What do you got?" "Grab your coat." "We got a hit on that photo of Kurt Wilson." "One of Anne's neighbors just saw him go into her apartment." "Hey, Wilson." "NYPD." "Not much of a running back there, Wilson, but then, you're out of training." "All right." "Let's go." "We got him, and he's not talking." "What do you want us to do?" "Okay, check his clothes for Anne's blood." "How you guys doing on the crime scene?" "We ran into a little snag, but when we find it, hopefully we'll find evidence that leads us straight to Kurt Wilson, and we won't need him to talk." "Heh." "Ah, spork..." "They all laughed at you." "Beckett?" "Thank God you are back." "What took you so long?" "Ha ha ha ha ha." "Okay." "Get me outta here now." "Beckett?" "Kate..." "Help!" "Help!" "Please..." "Don't eat me." "Police!" "Turn around!" "Put your hands up." "Beckett, what are you doing?" "Are you crazy?" "It can't understand you!" "Now!" "Whoa!" "Shoot it!" "Shoot it!" "What are you waiting for?" "Oh, my back!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "It's talking." "No!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Please don't shoot." "Don't shoot him." "Well, this is a huge disappointment." "No, this is a big misunderstanding." "Is it?" "'Cause those claws could've easily caused Anne's injuries." "What?" "I'd never hurt Anne." "Do you actually expect us to believe that with you dressed up in this..." "getup right in the same area where she was attacked?" "Wait." "Sh-she was attacked here?" "I-I-I thought she was attacked in the city." "No." "Okay." "Okay, okay." "This looks bad." "Let me--let me just try and explain." "Okay?" "I knew that Anne was coming out here on her own, and--and I-I admit that I followed her." "Why?" "Because I think she found Bigfoot." "Or maybe she just found an idiot dressed up as Bigfoot who then killed her." "No!" "I didn't hurt Anne!" "Oh, okay." "So you just stalked her?" "Look, I just..." "I just wanted, just this once, to lay eyes on this elusive beast." "A-and that's why I built this man-trap and--and--and I'm in this suit, drenched in deer musk." "Is that what that smell is?" "It's an attractant." "It--it lures them out." "A-and it's working, too." "I mean, a-about an hour ago, I-I heard" "I heard vocalizations and--and knocking on wood." "And--and those are--are classic Bigfoot mating calls." "I also found some, uh, half-eaten food and some scat." "And not to mention, a tool that Bigfoot used to club his prey." "And there's blood on it." "Wait a minute." "You saw a bloody club?" "Yeah." "Show us where you found it." "Do you recognize this?" "That's Anne Cardinal's blood." "We're checking your clothes for it, too, along with the dirt that is gonna place you in the woods." "You're just like those other cops." "You'd rather make your case than see the truth." "And what is the truth, Kurt?" "I was living out in those woods, but Anne wasn't trying to hunt me down." "She came out there to help me, bring me food and supplies." "Why would Anne help the man that murdered her roommate?" "A few months ago," "I came out of hiding to find Anne." "I told her I was innocent, that I didn't kill Justine, and I begged her to look into the case." "And she agreed to because she believed me." "Yeah, well, I'm a little more skeptical." "I can vouch for that." "You have a history of violence, Kurt." "And it's pretty clear that Justine dropped out and tried to break up with you, so you killed her." "Justine did not drop out to get away from me." "She and I were in love." "When she told me she was quitting Hudson," "I decided to go, too." "The two of us were planning on transferring to another school." "We'd even toured the campus at SUNY Binghamton the week before." "And I'm sure they have a record of that somewhere." "If you weren't the reason why Justine left Hudson, then what was?" "She never told me." "She just said that things weren't working out." "But now I've spent a lot of time thinking about that, and the only thing that makes sense is if there was someone there that she was afraid of." "Like who?" "A classmate, a professor-- I don't know." "But I think Anne found out." "Last week when I came to see her at her work, she said that she was close to having answers." "And the next thing I know, she's dead." "So I figure whoever did it killed Justine, too." "And that--that's why I broke into her apartment." "I was looking for..." "I don't know, clues, answers, a-anything." "The person that you think killed Anne and Justine-- do you have any idea who it is?" "It had to be someone who could talk Justine into opening her door." "You know, someone she knew." "It's the only reason that they would steal her necklace." "It wasn't worth anything." "You wouldn't be referring to a lapis pendant, would you?" "Justine never took it off." "When I found her, that pendant was gone." "Whoever took it killed her." "Kurt..." "Is this Justine's pendant?" "That's why Anne had it." "The pendant is proof." "She found the real killer." "It has to be someone she spent time with recently." "Someone she got close to." "Professor Devlin." "Can I... help you, Detective?" "As a matter of fact, you can." "What can you tell us about Justine Bolton?" "Uh, she was a student at Hudson who died rather tragically." "Well, you knew her as more than that." "She took your introduction to anthropology course her freshman year." "Yes, she did, which made her loss a personal one." "But I fail to see what that-- were you aware that after she took that course, she told her counselor that she was afraid because someone on campus-- she never said who..." "But someone was obsessed with her?" "Well, no doubt she was talking about her boyfriend-- the young man who killed her." "Ah, but she took the meeting with her counselor before she met her boyfriend." "But she had met you." "You've had an odd career, Professor." "You taught at four schools in six years." "So I made a few inquiries, and there were intimations of stalking, sexual harassment, and even worse." "All of which were false." "And let me point out, no action was ever taken against me." "Justine had scheduled a meeting with the dean on the day that she was killed to explain why she was leaving." "You couldn't let her take that meeting." "If she did... your dirty history would be exposed." "You'd be finished." "So you killed her." "And being the predator that you are, you took a souvenir-- her pendant." "With all the suspicion on Kurt Wilson, no one was looking at you." "Until Anne came along." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Anne found that pendant." "She knew it was you." "And when she went into the woods, you followed her." "What woods?" "I wasn't in any woods." "We checked your phone records." "Your cell pinged the same tower as Anne's did around the time that she was attacked." "That places you at the crime scene." "We also found a club with Anne's blood on it and someone else's DNA." "And based on the look that you're giving me right now," "I'm pretty damn sure it's yours." "So, Castle, are you disappointed that there's no Bigfoot after all?" "Well, I'm not so sure there isn't." "I'm thinking maybe he's out there somewhere, and if he is, I hope to see him one day." "Preferably from a safe distance." "Thank you..." "for finishing what Anne started." "Because of you guys," "Justine's killer will pay for what he did to her, and, uh, I'm a free man." "So what's next for you?" "I'm going to continue Anne's work." "You're gonna research Bigfoot, why?" "Well, when she suggested I hide out in those woods, she told me I'd have company out there." "She was right." "Did you hear that?" "I gotta go and get my outfit." "Hey." "You, um... you still got a little..." "on your..." "I'm--I'm so sorry about that." "Do you know how humiliating that was?" "I swear, I had no idea it was you." "But, Alexis, why were you stealing food?" "Because I ran out of money." "How could you have possibly spent all your money unless" "Wait." "No." "Are you..." "Are--are you in some kind of trouble?" "No, I didn't spend it." "I gave it away." "Invested it, really." "Invested in what?" "My friend Jonah at school has a crowdfunding campaign to plant bamboo forests on the roof of skyscrapers to help clean the air." "Well, why didn't you just come to me?" "Because I didn't want the speech." "I don't--what speech?" "That people like us need to be careful with the kind of money we have." "People might try to take advantage." "Oh, that speech." "Yeah." "Dad, you believe in all these unbelievable things, like Bigfoot, and I don't judge." "But..." "I believe in people and what they can accomplish." "I believe in Jonah and his vision, and I wanted to support him." "I think he could make a real difference in the world." "And, okay, so maybe it was stupid to give him all of my allowance, but I am not the first person to do something stupid for something they believe in." "No." "No, you're not." "Matter of fact, it's a..." "bit of a family trait." "But... you do owe me a Chateaubriand." "So..." "let's go to Le Cirque." "And then, uh, call this Jonah guy, have him meet us." "I'd like to hear about how he's gonna change the world." "Really?" "I believe in people, too." "And Borrowers." "And Bigfoot."