Castle

To be, or not to be,

that is the question.

Whether it is nobler...

Whether it... Whether it's... what?

Whether 'tis... Whether 'tis... 'Tis... 'Tis.

Connect to the words. Connect to me.

Connect the words to me.

To be, or not to be,

that is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer...

Hello?

Who's there?

Yes!

Beckett: Wow, I haven't seen you this excited since,

uh, well, earlier this morning, so...

You know what this is, Beckett?

Uh, no, but I know that a very secure messenger just brought it in.

Oh, my.

It's absolutely beautiful.

What is it?

The yolo card.

No, no, no, this...

This work of art

will forever release yolo from Internet jail.

You see, each card was painstakingly handcrafted

by an international team of artisans.

Note the flecks of actual black diamond

embedded in the card.

The state-of-the-art radio frequency I.D. Chip.

The... the best part...

Only 10,000 people in the world

were chosen to have a yolo card,

and I'm one of them.

Castle, it's just a credit card.

Just a credit card?

I think not, my good woman.

This is a yolo, as in, "you only live once."

It is a way of life.

No, it's a way to be obnoxious. Oh, is it?

You see, for every dollar i spend seizing my own day,

yolo matches it to help someone less fortunate

seize their dreams.

Oh, okay. Well, that's a little less obnoxious.

That's what I thought.

So, you want to try it out, take it for a spin?

Might help you with tonight.

Hmm? What's tonight?

Come on. Don't tell me you forgot.

Our weekly date night. It's new. It's our thing.

It's... it's your turn to arrange it, remember?

Yeah.

Of cour... of course i remember.

I don't need a yolo card to help me out with that.

I've already got it planned.

Castle: Oh, do you?

So, tell me, how are you gonna top

my American revolution evening i arranged

with the carriage ride to see "Hamilton" on Broadway,

the dinner served by waiters dressed as founding fathers?

Yes, that was fun.

Except for when Ben Franklin started hitting on me.

That's nothing.

George Washington slipped me his digits.

What?!

So, what are we doing tonight?

Uh, well, it's a surprise, castle.

Oh, I love surprises.

At least tell me what to wear.

On a wardrobe scale of 1 to 10...

10 being James Bond, 1 being "big lebowski"...

Give me a number.

For now? 5... crime-scene casual.

Hey. Beckett.

Uh, yeah.

Esposito: That's great. Thanks.

Is that Zane Cannon?

Yep, star of the "apocalypse runner" movie franchise.

I love those movies.

Yeah, me too, even though... No disrespect to the dead...

This guy couldn't act to save his life.

Quite literally, by the looks of things. Yeah.

Was Zane rehearsing "Hamlet" alone this morning?

Actually, it was last night.

The m.E. Places the time of death

between 8:00 and 11:00 P.M.

A quill pen.

Odd choice for a murder weapon, unless, of course,

the murderer was the ghost of William Shakespeare

killing Zane for butchering his words.

It's all the talk on Broadway

that Zane had no business

performing the bard's most famous role.

Why cast him, then?

Because movie stars sell tickets.

Just ask my mother.

She can't stop talking about

the Hollywood-ization of Broadway.

Hold on.

Hey, what are you doing?

Give me that. I was just...

Nice try.

I already uploaded it to the cloud.

Hey, officer, escort this dirtbag out of here

and confiscate that jacket.

That... that... That's my phone.

You... you legally can't have that phone.

Hey, give me my phone!

See that? Our victim's fame

is already turning this into a media circus.

Hey, fellas, may I introduce to you Erin cherloff?

She is the play's director and a true artist.

Your production of "antigone" was a revelation.

Oh, well, thank you.

I-i can't believe this is happening.

Zane and I finally get a chance to work together

after all these years, and this happens.

The two of you were friends? Yeah, since theater school.

Zane dropped out to go to Hollywood,

but we stayed close.

Do you know what he was doing here

in the theater by himself last night?

He was terrified... Of "Hamlet."

He really wanted to show his acting chops in this role.

Sometimes he would come here after hours to work more.

Ryan: Was Zane having problems with anyone you know of?

It's no secret he had a reputation

for sleeping with his leading ladies.

Are you saying Zane was sleeping with

the actress playing Ophelia?

Naomi fox. Mm-hmm.

They had a messy breakup recently.

She sort of went all "fatal attraction."

So she took a baseball bat to his db9.

He had me take photos for his insurance.

Oh!

Did he report that to the police? No.

Look, i-I've worked with Naomi before, and she's crazy,

but actor crazy, not murderer crazy.

However, there is one teeny, tiny, little thing

you should know about.

Naomi's a method actor,

meaning she doesn't play the characters.

She becomes them.

Do you know where we can find her?

I just hope i wasn't too obvious back there.

I'm just such a big fan of Erin cherloff.

Who, the director? Yeah, she's amazing.

I'm... just speaking with her, i got this great idea

for the play at Sarah grace's preschool

where I'm a parent volunteer at.

Wait, preschools have plays now?

My preschool was going to work with my mom every day.

Oh, same here.

I grew up in hallways just like this.

Spending time in my mother's dressing room,

experimenting with her costumes, her makeup.

Oh, get over it.

Anyway, maybe our method actress has gone a little too method.

In the play, Hamlet drives Ophelia mad.

If this is life imitating art and she's gone full Ophelia,

we should be ready for anything.

Esposito: Ms. fox?

Ms. fox?

NYPD. We need to ask you a few questions.

Ms. fox.

Um, may I?

Ophelia?

Aye, my lord?

These fair gentlemen are constables

and wish to speak with you in matters regarding

the murder most foul and unnatural of Zane Cannon.

'Tis too much to bear to think on it.

How now, fair Ophelia?

We have queries, and thou shall answer,

or we shall force perforce be moved to make a star chamber...

Stop.

We are so not doing this.

Look, Naomi, we know that you were having a show-mance with Zane.

He dumped you, and then you busted up his car.

My lord, he speaks with a curious tongue.

Car?

It's what he's gonna put you in the back of

when he arrests you for murder.

So stop the Daniel day-Lewis routine and start talking, or...

Okay, look, i wasn't in my right mind

when I smashed up Zane's car,

but I didn't kill him.

You have to believe me.

I was out late last night

bar-hopping with some of the cast.

You can check it out.

Bar-hopping? So you're not full method.

Unless she was drinking mead and eating with her fingers.

Look, I really cared for Zane,

but he was acting like he was cheating on me,

showing up at my place at all hours of the night,

lame excuses.

So I confronted him, and he blew up,

told me never to ask where he goes again.

Any idea who this other woman might be? No.