Castle

- Good morning. - Hey.

I'm surprised you're up,

Given how late you got in from l.A. Last night.

Oh. Mm.

Well, I thought we could play a little catch up

Before you got off to work.

Oh!

Beckett: I'm all ears.

Thanks.

Careful. I made it a little strong this morning.

Okay.

Mm!

Yes, that will wake the dead.

Certainly make your job a lot easier.

One interview,

"he's the guy who killed me," case closed.

Castle, I'm guessing that you found out

Something about your missing time,

And that's what you want to catch up with me on.

Uh... uh, yeah.

Actually, yeah, I did. Um...

But I was thinking how about we eat first?

Oh.

Wow. That bad?

Martha: Knock-knock.

Are you decent?

Mother!

Oh.

Welcome home, darling.

Oh, what a pleasant surprise.

You know, you... you could've... Could've called first.

I didn't want to disturb you in case you wanted to sleep in.

Ah. Oh, darling.

I thought I would just sneak in

And make my boy a little breakfast.

- Oh. - Oh, well, phooey.

You beat me to it.

- Yeah, I... well... - You expecting someone?

Oh, just old habit.

So, uh, did you really come just to make me breakfast?

Because that does not sound like you.

Oh, pishposh.

Actually,

I just got an advanced copy of my book

That I wanted you to see.

Unsolicited advice by martha rodgers.

Mother, I'm so proud of you!

Oh, thank you. Read the dedication.

"for richard.

Without your constant stumbles in life,

The advice in this book would not have been possible."

Constant stumbles?

Let's not make this about you.

It...

One second.

Hey, where are you?

Beckett: Hallway.

I, uh, snuck out through the bedroom.

That would be the height of irony, huh?

Manage to successfully hide our relationship from loksat

Only to get outed by your mom.

Look, do you want me to sneak back at lunch

So we can talk about what you found?

No, no. Okay.

I... I'll see you tonight.

Okay.

Listen, I got to go.

I love you.

Bye.

So, I just wanted to say...

This is beckett.

All right, guys. What do we got?

Esposito: Right now, our victim is a john doe.

There's no phone or I.D. On the victim,

But we scanned his prints and we're running them now.

From the blood trail, looks like he was shot

Around the corner and collapsed here.

Okay, I'm still not sure

Why you needed the captain to come down.

Our victim was shot in the back.

He bled out within a few minutes,

Then the killer took the time and the risk

To cut out the bullet.

Obviously, our killer was worried

That ballistics would lead back to him.

Which means the gun's already in the system.

Do you have a time of death?

Between 9:00 and midnight.

Ryan: Got a hit on the fingerprint match.

Our victim's name is daniel bardot.

He's a recruit officer at the nypd academy.

He's one of us.

Esposito: We got bardot's phone records.

Unfortunately, the gps was turned off on his cell.

We still don't know what he was doing in that neighborhood.

What about calls?

Last call he made was at 5:30 to a law firm in midtown.

It only lasted a minute.

Vikram's checking it out.

My granny's stronger than all three of you guys combined!

Bad flashbacks, bro? You got to want it!

Pushups were the answer to everything around this place. Come on!

Police work is more than just strength and endurance.

It's about intellectual rigor.

Oh, come on, you guys. It wasn't all that bad here.

Says the academy all-star.

Oh, look. Recruit officer beckett.

Oh! Recruit officer beckett.

Ah. Recruit officer beckett.

I'm gonna go download with the academy commissioner.

You guys head over to bardot's dorm room.

There's got to be a clue here as to who his killer is.

Hi, deputy commissioner malone.

I'm captain kate beckett.

Captain, nice to finally meet you.

You're a bit of a legend around these parts.

Recruits have been gunning for your records

Since I got here five years ago.

So far, no one's gotten close.

Yeah, well, they will.

Every record falls in the end.

Here's bardot's file.

I've assigned his instructor, sergeant ortiz,

To be your liaison.

You know sergeant ortiz?

Yeah, I do.

He was my instructor when I was here.

His tough love is the reason

My name's on all of those plaques out there.

Come in, sergeant.

Thank you, sir.

Captain beckett.

It's so good to see you, sergeant.

So, what can you tell me about daniel bardot?

Malone: He was an admirable kid.

Got a rough start in life.

His parents were killed in a robbery when he was nine.

Not surprising when you grow up in hunts point.

The irish mafia's backyard.

There's not a lot of good cops

Coming out of that dirty furnace.

Don't have to tell me.

I went toe-to-toe

With that 'hood "lucky jack" flanagan

Long before I was teaching you.

Never could make a charge stick on that guy.

Bardot must have had a lot of fortitude

To make it all the way over here.

He was definitely driven.

But he also had a tendency

To let emotion get the best of him.

He'd rush into situations without thinking,

And it had gotten worse in the last few days.

What do you mean?

He kept fumbling

A tactical drill he usually aced,

So I pulled him aside and confronted him.

He said he'd screwed something up in his personal life.

He didn't know what to do.

I told him to cowboy up, set it right.

And now I'm thinking he died trying to do just that.

Hayley: You didn't tell kate what happened in los angeles?

You chickened out. I did not chicken out, all right?

I was interrupted.

Now I'm wondering whether it was a sign from the universe.

What?

The universe sent your mother to tell you what?

To take my own advice.

I am erasing our mind for a reason...

To protect kate.

Okay.

Enough.

Go and talk to your wife.

If I hadn't wiped my memory,

Beckett's friends at the a.G.'s office might still be alive.

What if she can't forgive me?

That decision's not yours to make, rick.

What? Bardot's room is huge compared to the one I lived in.

Thing was barely a closet.

Yeah, I never really bunked on campus.

I got enough of communal living when I was in the army.

And besides, you can't really bring

A ménage of cop groupies home to a dorm room.

What are you doing in here?

We're investigating a homicide. Who are you?

Recruit officer rachel decker.

Did you know daniel bardot?

Yes, sir. He was in my training company.

You know what he was doing last night?

No, sir. We invited him to go out with us, but he begged off.

Sir, if there's any way I can help with this investigation,

I want in.

You forget your place, decker?

You're not even a lowly uniform.

What could you possibly offer these distinguished detectives?

Insight.

Did you train alongside officer bardot?

Yes, ma'am.

So you forged a bond with him

Against the evil sergeant ortiz,