Castle

Castle: Booyah! Martha: God.

Guess who's about to have the best day ever?

Could it be the fellow

Who just interrupted us, rather rudely,

With "booyah"?

What's going on, dad?

I'm sorry. I can't tell you. I'm sworn to secrecy.

Okay. Anyway.

So my psych professor said fear is an emotion... Yeah.

...Which it is, but then I arg--

You're not even gonna try to pry the secret out of me?

Darling, we are right in the middle of something here,

So if you just wait for a moment,

We will give you our full attention, okay?

Okay.

What is it, darling?

Gram, you know he's just gonna keep pouting

Until he gets his way.

Dad, just tell us your secret.

Okay, but only because you insisted. Okay.

I just got off the phone

With the personal assistant of none other than...

Stephen king.

Whoa!

He's in town visiting his new york apartment,

Has called to see if I'm available

For a meeting to talk about a -- dramatic pause...

...Collaboration.

Ooh!

Hold on. Isn't he still mad about the thing?

What thing?

The baseball thing.

See, stephen king is a huge red sox fan and --

Oh, and your father is a yankees fan.

Oh, no, richard. What did you do?

It was a silly joke.

Mm. Ah.

More like a thinly veiled threat.

Tomato, to-mah-to.

Obviously it's water under the bridge,

Because he wants to talk about collaborating on a project.

"richard castle and stephen king present."

Wish me luck, ladies.

Darling, if you think

You're going to get top billing over stephen king,

You're going to need more than luck.

Beckett: Good morning. Morning.

Esposito: Morning, captain.

Hey, lanie, how you doing?

A heck of a lot better than our victim here.

Name is emma matthews, 34 years old,

Single gsw to the upper back --

Through and through.

Here's our exit wound.

Based on lividity,

I'm placing the time of death

Between 9:00 and 11:00 last night.

And the neighbors didn't hear a gunshot?

Ryan: No, the music was turned up too loud.

But the neighbor next door

Said he saw a rusty, white van parked outside

Near the time-of-death window -- didn't get a plate, though.

Does emma have a roommate?

No. She lives alone.

But we've, uh, notified next of kin,

And we've got a list of her friends and co-workers.

Emma was a television producer at channel 8 news.

Some of her co-workers

Are gonna meet us back at the precinct.

And what's with the artwork?

Not sure yet,

But we think that our killer may have drawn it.

All right, check with the fbi,

See if the m.O. Or if the symbol

Matches anything in their database.

Hey, beckett.

So, how's the meeting going?

Is stephen still mad at you?

I just got here.

And if he's not still mad at me,

He will be when I tell him to fire his real-estate agent.

Hey. Be nice.

What, to stephen or to the team of rats

That came to welcome me at the door?

All right. I got to go. I love you.

Stephen, is that you?

Oh.

I get it. Very funny.

Yeah, yankees are still the best team...

Hey, ryan, anything from the fbi?

No. The symbol's not in their database.

Neither is our killer's m.O.

And what about the white, rusty van

Outside of emma's apartment?

You guys track it down?

No traffic cams on her block,

So so far it's not looking good.

Esposito: Hey, guys.

These are emma's co-workers.

This is lila campo and jennifer perez.

This is my partner, detective ryan,

And our boss, captain beckett.

I'm sorry about your loss.

Thank you, captain. We are still in shock.

We're gonna talk over here. Mm-hmm.

Follow me, please.

Ryan, I'm gonna be at the forensic technology seminar all afternoon.

So just text me if anything comes up, okay?

Yeah, you got it, cap. Thanks.

Oh, my god.

Is that emma's blood?

Ryan: Yeah, I'm afraid so.

Do you recognize the symbol drawn on the mirror?

I've never seen it before.

Neither have I.

I mean, I just can't believe this.

Emma -- emma was the sweetest person in the world.

I mean, she was kind, she was outgoing...

Though she had been acting a little strange lately.

Strange how?

Well, emma had just gotten a promotion

To produce the 11:00 news.

Which was a huge deal for her.

Exactly.

Yet all this week, she was acting kind of...

I don't know.

Off. Yeah.

Well, any idea why?

Well, emma confided in me

That she had gotten her hands on

Some kind of proof.

Uh, proof of what?

She said that she couldn't tell me,

At least not until after the time was right,

Whatever that meant.

Do either of you know

If emma was having personal problems with anyone,

Anyone at work, in her personal life?

Not that I know of.

Well, there's buckley.

Yeah, but everybody in the newsroom

Has problems with buckley.

Who's buckley?

Another producer at the station --

He had seniority over emma,

But she beat him out for that promotion.

And buckley was pissed.

Yeah, I mean, he even claimed

That she'd made up lies about him just to get the job.

But I can't imagine he would kill her for that.

By any chance, does buckley drive a white van?

Yeah, he does.

What, am I in kindergarten again?

So where's mrs. Finch?

You are not mrs. Finch.

Simon: Who are you guys?

Where am I?

I don't know.

Me and this guy just woke up.

My shoulder's killing me.

Anyone have a phone? Mine's gone.

No.

What the hell is going on?

How did we get here?

Castle: Last thing I remember I-I went to a...

A run-down building going to meet stephen king

And then all the lights went out.

Hold on -- 143 nicholas street?

How did you know that?

A lawyer called, asked me to meet him there --

Said I inherited the building

From my uncle who passed away a year ago.

Simon: Yeah, I was told the same thing,

Except it was supposedly my cousin

Who died a few months ago.

Oh, my god.

We were all lured there.

Yeah, but by whom?

There's a sticky substance on my arms.

Do you guys have that?

This thing's not budging.

Okay, um...

You know, when I was in that hallway,

When the lights went out,

Last thing I remember was a sharp pain in my shoulder.

So we must have been drugged with a syringe or a tranq dart.

But why? Who would do that to us?

My guess is whoever's behind that camera.

Oh, man, it's a serial killer.

I've seen stuff like this on "dateline,"

And it never ends well.

Will you please shut the hell up?

I'm just trying to tell you, this is a --

Shut up! Castle: Guys...

Whoever is behind this,

If they wanted us dead, we would be dead.