Castle

Mm.

No sign of it letting up.

Hayley: Just gonna have to be late.

Frankly, I'm in no rush to leave this party...

Thanks to your father's excellent taste

In scotch and daughters.

Oh, the man knows his stuff. Mm.

Ohhh. Blackout. Come on.

Must be from the storm.

Hold on. I know my dad keeps

A flashlight here somewhere.

Did you hear that?

Is someone trying to break in?

Finis omnium nunc est.

So, the power is out, the phones are down.

You know what that means?

No late-night calls from work

To interrupt our game of naked twister.

What, why are you still dressed?

I've got to go to the precinct.

What? Now?!

T-there's nothing more romantic than a blackout.

Yeah, and nothing more deadly.

You know as well as I do that as soon as the lights go out,

Bad things happen.

What the hell's that?

The panic signal from the p.I. Office.

I had it set up for when alexis is there by herself.

No service.

This is captain beckett to central.

Alexis?

What happened? Are you all right?

Yeah. That guy broke in with an ax,

Yelling something in latin.

Then he just dropped dead.

What did he say?

I don't know. It all happened so fast.

Beckett: Is that what he broke in with?

Yep. Talk about crashing a party.

Turns out it's the fire ax from the downstairs lobby.

So our intruder must've grabbed it on his way up.

But why? I mean, there's easier ways

To break into this office.

Yeah, and more silent.

He certainly wasn't planning on sneaking up on anyone.

You get an id on the guy?

No. No wallet, and your, uh,

Portable fingerprint thingumajiggy is down

Due to weather.

Lanie: He bled to death from a wound in his left side.

My guess is whatever he was stabbed with

Punctured his subclavian artery.

After that, he would've had about 30 minutes

To an hour, tops.

Well, he came in here with this around 9:00 p.M.

He keeled over shortly thereafter.

So he must've been stabbed between 8:00 and 8:30.

There's a... There's a hospital bracelet.

Our intruder's name is g. Shaw,

And he was a patient at...

Peakmore psychiatric facility.

Yikes.

You know it?

It's a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane.

Our ax-wielding psycho is an escaped mental patient.

Back-up generator's not working so well.

Yeah, place like this you'd think would be state of the art.

We're here about an escaped inmate

Just tried to kill two people with an ax.

Um... Wait here.

Yo, I'd try to escape, too, if I lived here.

Who knows what they're doing to them back there.

Can't be anything worse than what we did historically.

Many cultures mistook mental illness for a sign of sorcery.

Treatments ranged from, well, prayer

To drilling holes in the skull to release the demons.

Definitely a case of the cure

Being worse than the disease.

The director's coming out now.

Thanks, man.

Detectives, I'm dr. Brock martin.

Did you find gabriel shaw?

No, he found us, but not before he was fatally stabbed.

That's terrible.

Gabriel shaw's been here at peakmore for the last 20 years.

What did he do?

He broke into the house of a man named warren crowne,

Tried to kill him and his entire family.

Warren crowne the philanthropist?

I remember the headlines.

Didn't his attacker say he was some kind of avenging angel?

The archangel gabriel... The divine messenger.

Catechism class.

Gabriel shaw was convinced

That he was on a mission from god

To rid the world of evil.

It was a mission that even 20 years of antipsychotic drugs

And electroshock therapy could not dissuade him from.

Any idea who might've wanted him dead?

None.

Gabriel's contact with the outside world was virtually nil.

His room's down here.

Any idea how he might've escaped?

Yes, he, uh, he stole a keycard from one of our orderlies.

Uh, we realized he was missing around noon today.

Noon? Why the hell didn't you call the police before?

We should have. I realize that now.

The man came to my office wielding an ax.

Which is why I sent out

A group of orderlies looking for gabriel.

They searched all day and came back empty-handed.

Except... Except what?

One of the orderlies hasn't come back yet.

Uh, dave holmby.

I-I-I tried calling him, but the phones are out.

Have dave and gabriel had any problems in the past?

They've had... Issues, yes.

In fact, it was dave's keycard that gabriel stole.

But dave's been with us a long time.

He's not the type of person to kill anyone,

If that's what you're thinking.

You sent an orderly out to recapture

A violent, mentally unstable man.

It's possible he was trying to subdue gabriel

And things got out of control.

So, dave stabs gabriel, but then loses him in the storm.

Guys, are you hearing that?

Something in here.

Might've told me about your rodent problem.

We don't have one.

Not usually.

Must've been driven to higher ground by the storm.

That a bible?

Yeah, but with... Drawings...

Of demons, page after page of them.

Lanie: Ryan, javi, anyone there?

Yeah, lanie. We're here. Go ahead.

Well, get your ass to the morgue.

I found something disturbing.

Yeah, well, that seems to be going around.

So, what is so...

Whoa.

Is that blood?

Well, not according to lanie.

Then... What is it?

Some kind of ink.

Lanie sent samples to the lab,

But one thing that we do know is, based on the writing,

There's no way that gabriel did this to himself.

So, then, someone at the hospital.

Yeah, I called, and they said

That he didn't have any writing on him

When he escaped this morning.

The roman numerals are bible verses,

And the words are all in latin.

"protect me, o lord, from the hands of the wicked."

It's a prayer for salvation.

Sounds like he was scared, but of what?

The mysteries don't stop there.

When I conducted the autopsy, I found that the wound

Had been inflicted by some kind of talon or claw.

Like an animal?

It gets even weirder.

There was a strange substance inside the wound.

Let me guess... sulfur.

Yeah, how'd you know?

Guys, isn't it obvious?

Latin prayers, a claw, sulfur... Also known...

As brimstone?

Come on, castle.

Castle, you don't think that...

Oh, but I do.

We all have our demons.

But gabriel was killed by his.

What did I tell you?

I mean, as soon as the lights go out, bad things happen.

You know, at least the precinct is on a backup generator,

'cause the rest of the city

Is gonna have intermittent power.

Today's gonna be hell.

Well, that's appropriate,

Since that's the likely place our killer is from.

You know, do you think we're gonna need specialized equipment

To capture this demon murderer, something exorcism-esque?

There's nothing supernatural about this case.

Our victim was stabbed with a brimstone-covered claw,

Or gored by a horn, perhaps.

Now, what but a demon could do that?

Look, ryan and espo are bringing in dave holmby, our rogue orderly,

And I am sure that they are going to get

A very sane and grounded explanation

As to why he killed gabriel shaw.

Seek the truth and thou shalt be enlightened.

Is that scripture?

From the book of castle.

Hot damn, that was some storm!

Seriously, fit for neither man nor beast.

I can only imagine how hard it was

To track down an escaped mental patient in the middle of it.

Yeah, that was some sherlock-level