Castle

9-1-1. What's your emergency?

Hello?

Is anybody there?

Do you need assistance?

Are you in danger?

Castle, what if it rains?

On our wedding day?

That's supposed to be good luck.

But we'll find a venue that has an indoor area,

just in case.

Even if we find the perfect place,

- it's not gonna be available until at least October. - October!

Harvest season. Perfect.

Perfect, except if you want my dad

to walk me down the aisle.

He's gonna be in Europe on the research project.

Oh. Fine. We'll have a winter wedding.

Didn't we say we wanted to do it outside?

Right. Yeah, frostbite isn't very festive.

How about we get hitched, spring of next year?

And what if I wanna get married sooner?

Who could blame you?

You two are so adorable.

Oh, you know what?

Maybe we could find a venue for this summer.

You want to have a wedding

in the middle of a New York summer?

No. You're right.

Oh! I know! September!

It's not too hot. It's not too cold.

It's right in the goldilocks zone.

- It's perfect. - It is, except I'll be out of town

every weekend on my book signing tour.

So unless we get married on a Monday,

September's gonna be tough.

A little unsolicited advice.

Do you give another kind?

In life,

there is no such thing as a perfect time for anything.

I'm sorry, that's advice how?

Don't wait!

Hell, just go down to city hall right now.

You love each other. Stop talking about it.

Just do it.

- We'll find a date. It's gonna be fine. - Let's keep... yeah, looking.

Okay.

Beckett.

I don't know, Castle. Maybe we're being too ambitious.

Maybe we should consider the spring of next year.

I thought you didn't wanna wait that long.

Nah, I just... I wanna be flexible.

You already are flexible.

You see what I... did there.

What's so funny?

Well, actually, did you know Beckett can lift her...

- No, nothing. Hello. Nothing. - I'll tell you later.

- No. - No.

Well, our victim is a Ted Rollins.

He was shot twice in the chest.

He was 20 years old, lived alone,

and worked part-time at a secondhand record store.

So how's a 20-year-old who sells used records for a living

own a place like this?

This is one of the many things that don't add up here.

Like why he's soaking wet?

The killer left Ted Rollins' body

in the shower.

When the officers arrived, the water was still going.

And who called them in?

That's a good question.

At 11:50, uniforms responded to a 9-1-1 call

made from the victim's cell phone.

But the time of death is between 8:00 and 11:00.

So there's no way Ted could've placed that call.

So the killer shot him and then called 9-1-1.

Except our victim was not shot in this apartment.

How do we know that?

Because he has exit wounds in his back,

but there are no bullets in the bathroom

or anywhere else in the apartment.

Plus lividity indicates the body was moved.

Okay, so then the killer put him in the shower

to wash off the trace evidence from the original crime scene.

And it almost worked except for this.

The grease here with the tiny red specks?

Water didn't get that out.

It's on his knees and his elbows.

I'm thinking he fell

when he got shot and landed in that stuff.

Okay, let's get this material to C.S.U.

- See if they can tell us where he was killed. - I don't get it.

Why would the killer risk moving the body back here

from the crime scene?

Sounds like a case of

"Weekend at Bernie's" gone wrong.

No. No, wait.

That would have to mean there's such a thing

as a "Weekend at Bernie's" gone right.

Wait a minute.

These two shoelaces are tied differently.

That is odd.

This is even more odd.

What are you doing?

Looks like Ted's got a secret compartment.

And what's a secret compartment...

without a secret?

A laptop.

The key to our mystery and the identity of our killer

may lie within that device.

Well, if it does, I can't get to it.

Honestly, I've never seen anything like this before.

So what are we looking at here?

A very high-level encryption program.

What, and you can't crack it?

Come on, genius bar. I thought you were the best.

I am.

It's just whoever designed this is... better.

- But give me some time. Let me see what I can do. - All right.

Anyone else wondering what a record store clerk

is doing with this kind of technology?

Espo, did you contact next of kin?

Yeah, Ted's father and little brother.

They're on their way down.

I just talked to Ted yesterday. How could he be gone?

Mr. Rollins, when you spoke with your son,

did he seem worried or scared about anything?

He said everything was fine.

Maybe you could help us with something else.

We found a laptop in one of the floorboards of Ted's place

with a highly sophisticated encryption system.

Either one of you know what it was doing there?

What is it?

Ted was a... computer whiz.

More like a genius.

But it got him into trouble.

When Ted was in high school, he got into identity theft...

hijacking credit cards, bank accounts,

stuff like that.

Yeah, he'd call it "pulling a Robin Hood."

'Cause he would steal from the rich

and give to the poor.

The poor being Ted?

He was just a kid.

So how much did he end up stealing?

- $1.4 million. - Whoa.

But the judge made him give it back.

Part of Ted's plea deal was that he was barred

from using any devices connecting him to the Internet.

So he shouldn't have had that laptop.

Is there anything to indicate that he went back

to committing identity theft?

I was laid off, and...

Ted helped me with Grant's tuition.

I knew he was up to something.

I just didn't wanna believe he was hacking again.

Okay, so,

let's just say he went back to stealing identities.

Does that explain why he was killed?

Yeah, people get pissed

about getting their identities stolen,

but normally, they report it to the police.

Well, maybe he stole from the kind of people

that don't report to the police.

Hey!

Look who's back from paternity leave.

So how's Sarah Grace?

Oh! Man. I tell you, she is just...

my perfect little angel.

- Oh, she's so cute. Wow. - Yeah.

Is it me or... or does she... look a lot like Esposito?

Yeah, she does.

- Wow. - Really, Beckett?

I expected that from Jackass but not from you.

Anyway, so I got that C.S.U. report back.

Looks like Ted might've been killed in an auto body shop.

Did he even own a car?

No, but they identified that sludge on Ted's clothes.

It's hydraulic fluid mixed with red paint flecks.

Now the paint is urethane-based with high levels

of a volatile organic compound, so it's most likely

from a car painted prior to the 1990s.

Okay, canvass the auto shops near Ted's place.

Maybe he was seen at one of them.

- Yeah. - Hey!

Beckett, we got something.

Now, Ted's laptop is like Fort Knox on steroids.

But Tory found some unscrambled artifacts in the registry

to a service set identifier.

I don't know what that means either,

but she got really excited about it.

And here's why.

Yesterday at 7:19 P.M. Ted connected

to a dedicated server of a private computer network.

I traced the network. It belongs to...

Universal Banking Solutions.

They're based in Chicago but have satellite offices

all over the world, including Manhattan,

which is where Ted connected.

Now according to the web site, "Universal Banking Solutions"

"handles strategic and tactical procurements"