Castle

This is outrageous, sir.

Y-you are nothing but a well-dressed loan shark.

Ms. Rodgers, I assure you,

this is a very competitive interest rate...

...considering your financial history.

However, if your son cosigns--

- Yes. - No, no, no, no.

This is my loan, not his,

to pay for repairs to my acting studio, not his.

If you just let me cosign the loan,

or I could just give you the money.

Richard, I'm a businesswoman now.

I do not want your money. I do not want your signature.

Thank you very much.

It's the principle.

No, Ms. Rodgers,

it's the interest.

And I've just lost mine. Excuse me.

I have $1 million...

Into this now, so...

What do you want, Castle?

Tell me you need me.

Excuse me?

I'm stuck at a bank,

helping my mother get a loan from my banker.

Please tell me that there's a murder somewhere

we could be solving.

Uh, sorry,

there is no dead body, just a lot of paperwork,

which welcome you to come and do your share for once.

I wonder if it's worse being here or

being there doing paperwork.

You know how can we be partners when I'm chasing down bad guys,

and as soon as there are paperwork, I'm on an solo mission?

What?

I think this bank is about to be robbed.

Really? Are you that bored?

There's a man and a woman here

dressed in scrubs,

and both of them have suspicious bulges in their jackets.

Castle, I think your writer's imagination

is getting away with you.

Everybody, get down on the floor!

It's not my imagination.

It's definitely not my imagination.

Move, move, move, move, move, move, move, move.

Oh my God!

Castle, what's happening?

Oh, my God.

On the floor! Get down! Move, move.

Ok, ok.

Where are you?

I'm at the New Amsterdam Bank & Trust on Lex.

Esposito, there's a 10-30,

New Amsterdam Bank & Trust on Lex.

Call dispatch.

10-30? Since when we are handling bank-robbery cause?

Castle's there.

Slide up your cell phones. Now!

- Cell phones. - Hurry up, now, come on!

Yo, you get that one? Slide that up here.

I said slide up your mobiles!

- Move away from your stations. - Slide 'em up. Come on.

I'm hiding behind a desk with my mother,

but I can see everything.

They're wearing doctor scrubs.

One of them is emptying the cash drawers.

You, bank manager... move over here.

Another one is going for the bank manager.

He's getting manager's key.

He's going to the back of bank.

We got squad cars en route.

Castle, I need you to listen very carefully.

How many are there?

There are three.

Make that four.

So you're the hero I'm gonna make an example of.

Sorry. Your friend can't talk right now.

I wouldn't worry about him. I'd worry about yourself.

I've got squad cars on their way.

Are you a cop?

You called a cop?

No. We were already on line when you guys came in.

Listen to me. So far, nobody has been hurt

and nothing has been stolen.

So if you just leave the same way that you came in,

you can just disappear.

You gonna promise not to come look for me?

I don't look. I hunt.

And trust me, you don't want that.

So leave now,

and this will just be a quirky little article

in the Metro section.

Sorry, sweetheart.

I'd rather make the front page.

Let's go.

Dr. Howser, Dr. Quinn,

cops are gonna be here sooner than we thought.

Now kiss the floor, like the others.

Come on. You, too. Get down.

Dr. Huxtable, let's go.

Bank cameras are down.

Memory drives are destroyed.

Cops!

All right, doctors, we trained for this.

You know what to do.

Looks like we're all gonna get to know each other a lot better.

I want SWAT analysis, sitrep,

building blueprints, five minutes.

Who are you?

Detective Kate Beckett, Homicide.

I'll be sure to call if someone dies.

Meanwhile, I need you to step outside...

No, sir. My partner is in that bank.

Wait. We got a cop in there?

He's a civilian investigator.

He and I were on the phone when they took over the bank.

He said that there's four suspects in there.

They're dressed up in doctor scrubs.

Anything else you can tell me?

Yeah, I spoke with one of the suspects.

Then what was his demeanor?

Calm, actually. Very calm.

Thanks for the intel.

We'll do everything we can to get your partner out safe.

Okay, so what's our next move?

Well, your next move is to leave my command post.

You want to help your partner,

let me do my job.

I need a line to that bank.

I want to talk to this guy.

Yes, sir.

You miss your cue, detective.

All right.

I'm gonna make this real simple.

You move...

You die.

Got it?

Is anyone hurt?

All right.

Stay relaxed.

Do as they say.

We'll get through this.

The cops will get us out.

What did you find out?

That our services aren't needed.

Espo, do you still have buddies in E.S.U.?

Of course.

Good. I want to know what they know.

And let's get ahold of major crimes,

find out if there are any other rubberies with similar M.O.s.

The more we know about these guys,

the more leverage we got.

Detective Beckett.

Captain Peterson would like a word.

Tell me, what were you thinking?

I was just trying to help out, sir.

What, by charming the bank robber?

- What? - We get him on the horn,

but before I can get two words out,

he says, and I quote, "I will only talk

to the lady cop the one with the bedroom voice."

Yeah. You wanted in?

Well, you're in.

No, sir.

I don't have any training in hostage negotiations.

Well, I don't have time to give you a seminar,

so think of it like this--

You do the opposite of what ever

homicide training tells you, okay?

So don't yell, don't bully,

don't--don't threaten him in any way.

It's all about keeping them calm.

Detective...

You up for this?

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

Now it's important to keep him talking.

You gotta build a rapport.

As long as he's busy talking, he's not busy hurting hostages.

- Okay. - Okay?

Who's this?

This is detective Kate Beckett.

I understand that you wanted to speak with me.

Yeah, I don't like that other guy.

Yeah, me neither.

You said to build a rapport.

So what's your name?

You can call me Trapper John.

A "MASH" fan? It's nice.

So how you doin'?

Anything I can do to help?

Oh, Kate, Kate, Kate,

you're running that idiot's playbook, aren't you?

What did captain confidence tell you,

keep me calm,

build a rapport,

extract information.

Here's how it's gonna work--

You lie to me, I kill hostages.

You jerk me around, I kill hostages.