Castle

- Jenny? - Kate. Oh, thank God.

Um, h... have you heard from Kevin?

No, I haven't. Have you?

No, I've been calling him to test our system

and he's not answering,

and I'm freaking out a little bit.

Um, do you have any idea where he is?

Kate? Kate, are you there?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm here.

What's going on? Where's Kevin?

Jenny, I need you to stay calm, okay?

Something's happened.

Crime scene at a fire? Never done one of these before.

After this, you might not want to.

Building was being rehabbed,

so the place was supposed to be empty.

I guess our victim didn't get that memo.

Do we know who our victim is?

No...

Oh, oh, oh, oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's Jenny.

It's go time. Hi, Jenny.

Are you having contractions? Are you...

Oh.

No. No, it's good to double-check

if my phone's working... or triple-check.

Okay, all right, sweetie. Talk to you soon.

False alarm.

- What is she, two days past her due date? - Three.

So, it could happen at any minute.

Can you believe it? Me as a dad.

No, Ryan, you're gonna be great.

You guys pick a name?

No, we couldn't agree on one.

So we're waiting to see if it's a boy or a girl,

and then decide.

May I suggest... "Cosmo"?

No, you may not.

And rather than pick a name for my kid,

you should pick a date for your wedding.

Pick a date for my wedding?

I was planning on bringing her.

Really? When is that? I might have plans.

Oh.

Hey.

I'm Mark Kimball, building and safety.

Do you guys really need to be in here?

It's where our crime scene is.

Well, don't stay any longer than you have to.

Fire did structural damage. I need to clear the building.

We should be in and out.

- Okay. - Thanks.

So, do we know who the victim is?

Nope. Dude had a wallet. It's burned to a crisp.

Even if he was a dude. It's even hard to tell that.

I see what you mean.

Actually, he is a dude,

which is about all I could tell you right now.

- Is that a bullet hole? - Probably a nine.

So needless to say, this wasn't from natural causes.

Neither was the fire.

This is lieutenant Delia Burton.

She's a fire investigator with F.D.N.Y.

Detective Beckett. Mr. Castle.

Nice to meet you.

So this was arson?

Well, it's looking that way.

I found miniscule traces of accelerant at the flashpoint.

So the killer set the fire to cover up the murder?

Except there's no accelerant on the body.

And the fire's flashpoint is deeper in the building.

You know, normally, when you're disposing of a body,

you're gonna make sure it burns.

So maybe our victim surprised the arsonist...

And the arsonist killed him, silencing him as a witness?

That's how it looks to me.

Then again, homicide's not my specialty.

No, but fire is.

Would you mind keeping me in the loop

in case you find anything else?

Sure.

As soon as I know what happened, so will you.

- Oh, what was that? - The building.

You guys should probably go.

Sounds good.

See ya.

I'm... marrying him.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Why don't we just look into whoever owns this place?

See if they know who would've been in here.

Right.

I have no idea who he is.

Wasn't nobody supposed to be in there

on account of the renovation.

Maybe the guy was a bum or a squatter or something.

But, hey, you know.

Human life, still a tragedy, right?

Mr. Turino, let's talk about why no one was there.

Not even a security guard.

Wasn't your building basically abandoned

after you stopped renovations three months ago?

Due to a cash flow problem?

Who are you again?

Just someone who couldn't help but notice

your bank required high levels of insurance on that building

as a condition of granting you the loan.

So?

So a total-loss insurance claim

would solve all of your cash flow problems.

Right. The downside being, you'll go to prison for murder.

Are you kidding me?

I wouldn't burn down my own building.

Okay, somebody else must've done it.

Tell me, Mr. Turino,

are you involved in organized crime?

I take offense to that.

Just because I'm Italian, I'm in the mob?

No, I think you are in the mob because you're a known member

of the Maneri crime family, and you also have convictions

in racketeering, fraud, assault...

Yeah, okay. Okay. I moved on.

I'm out of the life now.

It was my dream to rehab that building

and flip it, retire to Boca.

Now that dream? It's up in smoke.

- Yo, Beckett. - Yeah?

So Art Turino's alibi checks out.

He was at the Pink Palace Gentleman's Club last night

stuffing G-strings from 8:00 P.M. to 4:00 A.M.

Yeah, but that doesn't mean he's in the clear.

I mean, Turino wouldn't do this himself.

Well, I'll see if anyone he's been hanging with

has any connection to arson.

Okay, I'll grab Castle.

We'll see if Lanie's got anything new on our vic.

Still no I.D., and he's not in any missing person's report.

We get a match on the bullet?

It's not in the system,

but the cause of death was definitely

a G.S.W. to the head.

No smoke in the lungs,

so he was already dead before the fire got going.

Whoa. Beats getting roasted alive.

I'm right there with you.

Also, he was healthy, muscular.

His teeth were in good shape. So he probably wasn't homeless.

Plus he had great medical care.

How can you tell?

He had a fractured leg that was splinted...

with metal plates and screws.

- Quality work, too. - Can the plate be traced?

I'm already on it.

Was it the left leg?

Anterior femur, mid-way down?

That's right. How did you know?

I know who he is.

He's a fire investigator named Blake McCann.

He was my partner.

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Okay. Got it, Lanie.

So dental records confirm that our victim is Blake McCann.

I'm very sorry.

He was a good man.

Most decent person I ever knew.

Do you know of anyone in his life

that would've wanted to hurt him?

Just the person who left this.

I found it at the fire scene.

What is it?

This pattern is made by accelerant.

From the staining pattern, probably benzoyl peroxide,

squeezed from a tube.

Blake found the same pattern in ten other burned buildings.

So it's a signature?

Of a serial arsonist.

Blake has been hunting this guy for years.

It's how he spent every spare minute.

In fact, he had just taken some vacation days

to work the case.

When I found the symbol, I called him.

He didn't call me back. I...

I just had an awful feeling.

Did he know who the arsonist is?

Did he have any suspects?

Not that he ever told me.

He just called him "The Phantom,"

because he seemed to be able to slip in and out

of buildings without people ever noticing.

Until now, maybe.

Well, that's gotta be it, right?

I mean, Blake went in that building

because he was after the guy.

And that's who killed him.

It's too soon to know, but it's a place to start.

Now, we're gonna need copies of his case files

linked to the arsonist.

Well, he took a bunch of them home with him.

I'll have detectives pick them up.

The rest are at the office. I'll get them over to you.

Great.