1 00:00:00,297 --> 00:00:01,321 There are two kinds of folks 2 00:00:01,365 --> 00:00:03,356 who sit around thinking about how to kill people: 3 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,368 Psychopaths and mystery writers. 4 00:00:05,402 --> 00:00:07,597 I'm the kind that pays better. Who am I? 5 00:00:07,638 --> 00:00:08,696 I'm Rick Castle. 6 00:00:08,739 --> 00:00:09,763 Castle. Castle. 7 00:00:09,806 --> 00:00:11,966 I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I? 8 00:00:12,008 --> 00:00:14,374 Every writer needs inspiration and I found mine. 9 00:00:14,410 --> 00:00:15,434 Detective Kate Beckett. 10 00:00:15,478 --> 00:00:16,502 Beckett. Beckett. 11 00:00:16,546 --> 00:00:18,309 - "Nikki Heat"? - The character he's basing on you. 12 00:00:18,347 --> 00:00:19,974 And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, 13 00:00:20,016 --> 00:00:21,176 I get to be on her case. 14 00:00:21,217 --> 00:00:22,878 I'd be happy to let you spank me. 15 00:00:22,919 --> 00:00:25,046 And together we catch killers. 16 00:00:25,087 --> 00:00:26,349 We make a pretty good team, you know. 17 00:00:26,389 --> 00:00:28,186 Like Starsky and Hutch. Turner and Hooch. 18 00:00:28,224 --> 00:00:30,089 You do remind me a little of Hooch. 19 00:00:55,383 --> 00:00:56,440 Sorry! I'm sorry! 20 00:00:56,483 --> 00:00:57,950 - What the hell is wrong with you? - I'm sorry. 21 00:00:57,985 --> 00:01:00,317 Can't you see I'm driving here? 22 00:01:24,611 --> 00:01:29,446 Initial impact size is 14 inches. 23 00:01:30,049 --> 00:01:31,812 What are you doing? 24 00:01:31,884 --> 00:01:34,546 We're studying the practical application of science at school. 25 00:01:34,587 --> 00:01:36,145 I'm focusing on forensics. 26 00:01:36,189 --> 00:01:39,215 Specifically, the physics of spatter patterns. 27 00:01:39,859 --> 00:01:40,882 Oh. 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:42,822 What's wrong? 29 00:01:42,861 --> 00:01:44,829 Well, we usually do all your science projects together. 30 00:01:44,863 --> 00:01:48,321 You remember the volcano we made? The flatulent robot? 31 00:01:48,567 --> 00:01:49,659 Ew. 32 00:01:49,701 --> 00:01:53,728 I'm sorry, Dad. I just got excited about it and you weren't here. 33 00:01:54,006 --> 00:01:56,600 - Well, that's okay. I can help you finish. - Yeah. 34 00:01:59,811 --> 00:02:01,938 - Beckett? - Yeah. 35 00:02:03,648 --> 00:02:07,106 - I can stay home. - Go ahead. I'll be fine without you. 36 00:02:09,453 --> 00:02:12,786 Point five. Severe concussion. 37 00:02:16,927 --> 00:02:18,918 I guess I don't have to ask about cause of death. 38 00:02:18,963 --> 00:02:21,898 He's not even my first "death by falling object" this month. 39 00:02:21,932 --> 00:02:25,231 Two weeks ago, an investment banker took a frozen sausage to the head 40 00:02:25,269 --> 00:02:27,202 from a 10th-floor window ledge. 41 00:02:27,237 --> 00:02:29,831 Well, it's a pretty old building. Maybe it just fell. 42 00:02:35,578 --> 00:02:37,478 I found marks up on the parapet as well. 43 00:02:37,514 --> 00:02:39,038 I got CSU dusting it for prints. 44 00:02:39,082 --> 00:02:40,674 That's a long way to go for a murder. 45 00:02:40,717 --> 00:02:42,651 Who would want to drop a gargoyle on someone? 46 00:02:42,686 --> 00:02:44,813 Well, someone who wants to make it look like an accident. 47 00:02:44,854 --> 00:02:47,550 But they had to make sure our victim stood there for long enough. 48 00:02:47,590 --> 00:02:49,784 Had someone tampered with the front door lock when you guys arrived? 49 00:02:49,825 --> 00:02:52,988 Give that man a prize. Yeah, we had to pop the lock to get in the building. 50 00:02:53,028 --> 00:02:56,293 Super says our victim's name is Will Medina. 51 00:02:56,432 --> 00:02:59,833 He's got an apartment up on four, and guess who's got the keys? 52 00:02:59,868 --> 00:03:00,994 I do. 53 00:03:04,073 --> 00:03:05,631 This place looks like a museum. 54 00:03:05,674 --> 00:03:09,132 Well, that's because Mr. Medina was the associate curator 55 00:03:09,178 --> 00:03:12,840 - at the New York History Museum. - That would explain this. 56 00:03:13,448 --> 00:03:14,676 I always thought 100-inch flat-screen 57 00:03:14,716 --> 00:03:16,411 would be the ultimate bachelor accessory. 58 00:03:16,451 --> 00:03:20,319 - Well, he wasn't a total bachelor. - What makes you think that? 59 00:03:20,521 --> 00:03:22,887 The second toothbrush in the bathroom. 60 00:03:22,924 --> 00:03:24,289 The scented candle on the tub. 61 00:03:24,325 --> 00:03:25,815 Pair of high heels under his bed. 62 00:03:25,860 --> 00:03:29,796 All suggesting that he was in a casual but steady relationship. 63 00:03:30,598 --> 00:03:31,690 Nicely played. 64 00:03:31,733 --> 00:03:35,930 However, I do think you've misjudged the relationship only slightly. 65 00:03:36,370 --> 00:03:38,065 "Eat, Pray, Love." 66 00:03:38,105 --> 00:03:41,199 Judging from the condition, I'd say she's read it more than once, 67 00:03:41,241 --> 00:03:44,677 meaning that she's a woman on the other side of a search for identity. 68 00:03:44,711 --> 00:03:49,273 A romantic, someone who wouldn't be satisfied with just a casual relationship. 69 00:03:49,316 --> 00:03:52,149 And who's to say that that book isn't his? 70 00:03:53,086 --> 00:03:54,383 I love that book. 71 00:03:54,421 --> 00:03:57,719 The neighbor on two says the front door worked just fine at 7:00. 72 00:03:57,757 --> 00:04:00,783 Which means that the killer must've tampered with it after that. 73 00:04:00,826 --> 00:04:03,954 Beckett, calendar. Check out today's date. 74 00:04:08,834 --> 00:04:10,665 5:30. That's two hours before the murder. 75 00:04:10,703 --> 00:04:12,694 It's an office building downtown. Let's check it out 76 00:04:12,738 --> 00:04:14,296 - after we finish our sweep. - Okay. 77 00:04:14,340 --> 00:04:16,535 You know, we might want to swing down by the museum, 78 00:04:16,575 --> 00:04:18,201 see if any of his colleagues can shed some light 79 00:04:18,243 --> 00:04:21,804 on who might want to drop a gargoyle on Mr. Medina's head. 80 00:04:21,846 --> 00:04:24,940 Either you're being a good cop, or you just want to go to the museum. 81 00:04:24,983 --> 00:04:27,679 - They have dinosaurs there. - Let's go. 82 00:04:31,122 --> 00:04:33,090 Man, I love this place! 83 00:04:33,691 --> 00:04:35,852 When Alexis was little, we used to come here every Sunday. 84 00:04:35,894 --> 00:04:37,657 We would run around here for hours 85 00:04:37,695 --> 00:04:40,458 pretending like we were on safari in Africa 86 00:04:40,497 --> 00:04:42,431 or looking for dinosaurs in China. 87 00:04:42,466 --> 00:04:45,333 You know, Castle, sometimes I forget that you have such a capacity 88 00:04:45,369 --> 00:04:47,303 for pure innocence in your life. 89 00:04:47,337 --> 00:04:49,862 Yeah. Plus, it was a great place to pick up chicks. 90 00:04:49,907 --> 00:04:52,239 And then you open your mouth and you ruin it. 91 00:04:52,276 --> 00:04:55,575 Hi. I need to speak with someone about Will Medina. 92 00:04:55,779 --> 00:04:57,337 I just can't believe Will's dead. 93 00:04:57,381 --> 00:04:59,849 Dr. Raynes, how long did you and Mr. Medina know each other? 94 00:04:59,883 --> 00:05:03,511 Two years. The first thing I did when I got the job as museum curator 95 00:05:03,553 --> 00:05:05,919 was to hire him away from the U.S. Geographic Institute 96 00:05:05,955 --> 00:05:07,684 to lead the Kan-Xul expedition. 97 00:05:07,723 --> 00:05:10,692 - Kan-Xul? - The legendary Mayan king. 98 00:05:11,594 --> 00:05:13,186 What you see here represents 99 00:05:13,229 --> 00:05:16,665 the single most important archeological find in Mayan history. 100 00:05:16,699 --> 00:05:18,030 His burial chamber, 101 00:05:18,067 --> 00:05:20,729 where he was entombed with a dozen of his mummified slaves. 102 00:05:20,770 --> 00:05:23,898 - So, kind of like a Mayan King Tut? - Exactly. 103 00:05:24,406 --> 00:05:26,135 You know, the exhibit opens in less than a month. 104 00:05:26,174 --> 00:05:28,404 I can't imagine having to do it without Will. 105 00:05:28,443 --> 00:05:30,070 He's the one that discovered the site. 106 00:05:30,111 --> 00:05:32,375 And when was the last time you saw Mr. Medina? 107 00:05:32,414 --> 00:05:33,813 4:30 today. 108 00:05:34,049 --> 00:05:35,983 And how well did the two of you know each other? 109 00:05:36,017 --> 00:05:37,041 Why? 110 00:05:37,085 --> 00:05:38,950 I'm gonna have to contact his next of kin. 111 00:05:38,987 --> 00:05:42,514 His parents are both dead, and I believe he was an only child. 112 00:05:42,557 --> 00:05:46,391 - And what about his girlfriend? - Last I heard, he was single. 113 00:06:32,104 --> 00:06:35,596 What are you doing? This mummy is over 2,000 years old. 114 00:06:36,608 --> 00:06:39,475 Exposure to air in an unfiltered environment could be catastrophic. 115 00:06:39,511 --> 00:06:40,773 Sorry. I... I didn't... I didn't know this. 116 00:06:41,947 --> 00:06:43,380 Rachel, it's okay. He's with the police. 117 00:06:43,415 --> 00:06:45,906 Rachel Walters is our mummification expert. 118 00:06:45,951 --> 00:06:49,284 - She worked with Will. - Did something happen to him? 119 00:06:49,788 --> 00:06:52,052 He was killed earlier tonight. 120 00:06:52,791 --> 00:06:54,781 That... That's not possible. 121 00:06:54,825 --> 00:06:57,988 - Were the two of you close? - Only professionally. Stanford... 122 00:06:58,029 --> 00:07:01,396 It doesn't mean anything. It's just a terrible accident. 123 00:07:01,432 --> 00:07:05,562 - Actually, we believe he was murdered. It wasn't murder. 124 00:07:06,837 --> 00:07:08,498 It was the curse. 125 00:07:09,173 --> 00:07:12,165 Detective Beckett, Mr. Castle, Rupert Bentley, 126 00:07:12,209 --> 00:07:14,200 - our co-financier of the expedition. - Pleasure. 127 00:07:14,245 --> 00:07:17,907 - I'm sorry, did you say "curse"? - Tell them, Stanford. 128 00:07:18,348 --> 00:07:22,284 Tell them what was written at the entrance to the burial chamber. 129 00:07:22,319 --> 00:07:24,549 "All who gaze on the face of the Mayan King 130 00:07:24,588 --> 00:07:29,924 - "shall be struck down by his wrath." - Mayan King. This Mayan King? 131 00:07:30,460 --> 00:07:34,226 That very one. They all looked inside, and they're all dead. 132 00:07:34,431 --> 00:07:37,423 There were other incidents? - All easily explainable. 133 00:07:37,467 --> 00:07:39,400 One of our grad students, Nicole Graham, 134 00:07:39,435 --> 00:07:41,960 was mauled to death by a jaguar outside the dig site. 135 00:07:42,004 --> 00:07:44,336 And Professor Fisher died of dengue fever. 136 00:07:44,373 --> 00:07:46,204 Which is common in that region. 137 00:07:46,241 --> 00:07:48,801 As are curses written above grave sites. 138 00:07:48,844 --> 00:07:51,369 It's how they kept people from robbing them for thousands of years. 139 00:07:51,413 --> 00:07:54,576 Well, I can assure you that whatever killed Mr. Medina was very human. 140 00:07:54,617 --> 00:07:58,109 - Do you know if he had any enemies? Will was passionate. 141 00:07:58,153 --> 00:08:00,713 Nothing could stop him from getting what he wanted. 142 00:08:00,756 --> 00:08:02,450 It's what made him such a great archeologist, 143 00:08:02,490 --> 00:08:05,391 but it also rubbed some people the wrong way. 144 00:08:05,426 --> 00:08:06,450 What do you mean? 145 00:08:06,494 --> 00:08:08,826 The indigenous Mayans he worked with claimed that he tricked them 146 00:08:08,863 --> 00:08:11,263 into revealing the location of the burial site. 147 00:08:11,299 --> 00:08:14,860 - He'd received death threats. And how do you know that? 148 00:08:14,902 --> 00:08:16,802 I'd received one, too. 149 00:08:19,641 --> 00:08:21,905 It's written in ancient Mayan. 150 00:08:24,311 --> 00:08:26,905 This is just like the one that we found in Medina's apartment. 151 00:08:26,947 --> 00:08:30,610 - What does it say? - "Death awaits the robber of graves." 152 00:08:50,732 --> 00:08:52,393 That's the lab. They didn't find any fingerprints 153 00:08:52,433 --> 00:08:55,960 on either one of the death threats, which means all we've got to go on 154 00:08:56,003 --> 00:08:57,630 is the postmark. 155 00:08:57,739 --> 00:09:00,731 So, we're looking for an angry Mayan who mailed a death threat 156 00:09:00,775 --> 00:09:03,175 from Spanish Harlem three days ago. How tough can that be? 157 00:09:03,211 --> 00:09:04,473 Well, I called the Mexican embassy 158 00:09:04,512 --> 00:09:07,879 and asked them to put their feelers out to the indigenous rights community. 159 00:09:07,915 --> 00:09:09,644 You never know. You might get a decent tip. 160 00:09:09,684 --> 00:09:12,584 You know, this guy Medina, when he was a grad student, 161 00:09:12,619 --> 00:09:14,416 he walked into the Amazon with nothing 162 00:09:14,454 --> 00:09:16,684 but a backpack and some satellite images. 163 00:09:16,723 --> 00:09:20,489 He walked out a month later with the golden head of Yax Pac. 164 00:09:20,660 --> 00:09:23,060 This guy is like Indiana Jones, 165 00:09:23,096 --> 00:09:24,859 but with space-age technology. 166 00:09:24,898 --> 00:09:26,126 Which would've been such a better movie 167 00:09:26,166 --> 00:09:27,360 - than that last one. Hey, Beckett. 168 00:09:27,401 --> 00:09:29,733 Hey, did you guys get lucky with the mysterious C. T? 169 00:09:29,770 --> 00:09:31,237 Eight people with the initials "C.T." 170 00:09:31,271 --> 00:09:33,831 Work out of 1127 Avenue of the Americas. 171 00:09:33,874 --> 00:09:35,272 None of them have heard of Medina. 172 00:09:35,307 --> 00:09:38,367 And there's a coffee shop on the ground floor, maybe he met C.T. There, 173 00:09:38,411 --> 00:09:40,902 but none of the waitresses recognized Medina's photograph. 174 00:09:40,946 --> 00:09:42,004 Anything on the girlfriend? 175 00:09:42,047 --> 00:09:45,983 No one from the museum can even verify that Medina had a girlfriend. 176 00:09:46,018 --> 00:09:48,350 And that second set of prints that we found at his apartment 177 00:09:48,387 --> 00:09:50,287 doesn't match anything in our system. 178 00:09:50,322 --> 00:09:52,153 So far this case is nothing but dead-ends. 179 00:09:52,191 --> 00:09:54,785 - Hmm. You know why? - Why? 180 00:09:54,827 --> 00:09:56,852 Because Castle's cursed. 181 00:10:00,432 --> 00:10:03,629 - You had to tell them, did you? - Yes. Yes, I did. 182 00:10:04,869 --> 00:10:08,771 Well, gentlemen, you'll be happy to know I don't believe in curses. 183 00:10:08,807 --> 00:10:11,640 Seriously, bro. I saw this special on TV. 184 00:10:11,910 --> 00:10:14,140 A bunch of the guys who found King Tut's tomb 185 00:10:14,179 --> 00:10:16,170 ended up dying under weird circumstances. 186 00:10:16,214 --> 00:10:18,079 Yes, and there was an explanation for that. 187 00:10:18,116 --> 00:10:20,675 Evidence shows that some toxins were released 188 00:10:20,717 --> 00:10:22,048 when they opened the sarcophagus. 189 00:10:22,085 --> 00:10:24,451 Well, didn't you say that that mummy smelled kind of funny? 190 00:10:24,488 --> 00:10:25,716 Well, yes, but there's... 191 00:10:25,756 --> 00:10:28,850 And you did gaze upon the face of the mummy. 192 00:10:33,964 --> 00:10:35,932 You guys, there is no curse. 193 00:10:35,966 --> 00:10:36,990 Ow! 194 00:10:38,635 --> 00:10:40,000 Paper cut. 195 00:10:40,904 --> 00:10:43,929 Yes. The curse gave me a paper cut. 196 00:10:44,340 --> 00:10:46,968 These things start small, then they snowball. 197 00:10:47,009 --> 00:10:51,810 Yeah, my abuela always said, "La mala suerte viene de tres en tres." 198 00:10:52,248 --> 00:10:53,772 Bad luck always comes in threes. 199 00:10:53,816 --> 00:10:57,149 Threes, like celebrities. They always die in threes. 200 00:10:57,987 --> 00:11:00,080 Living in the Dark Ages here. 201 00:11:00,122 --> 00:11:04,558 Why don't you guys check with Lanie and see if she found anything, okay? 202 00:11:09,965 --> 00:11:12,729 Medina's cell phone. It was in his jacket pocket. 203 00:11:12,767 --> 00:11:16,225 I doubt gargoyle attack is covered under his warranty. 204 00:11:16,304 --> 00:11:20,331 - Get it? The phone warranty... - I'll have tech pull the SIM card. 205 00:11:20,609 --> 00:11:21,940 Speaking of gargoyles, 206 00:11:21,977 --> 00:11:24,878 we found trace amounts of a substance by the chisel markings. 207 00:11:24,913 --> 00:11:26,709 It was probably on the killer's clothes 208 00:11:26,747 --> 00:11:29,215 and was transferred to the statue when he pushed it over. 209 00:11:29,250 --> 00:11:30,444 - What is it? - The lab says 210 00:11:30,484 --> 00:11:31,974 they've never seen anything like it. 211 00:11:32,019 --> 00:11:34,715 It's a mixture of mostly organic compounds, 212 00:11:34,755 --> 00:11:37,053 including trace amounts of pollen. 213 00:11:37,091 --> 00:11:38,888 Medina's apartment's not far from the park. 214 00:11:38,926 --> 00:11:41,486 Maybe our killer cut through there on his way to do the deed. 215 00:11:41,529 --> 00:11:45,056 Nice idea, but this pollen is from a particular kind of calabash 216 00:11:45,099 --> 00:11:48,193 that only grows in the lowlands of the Yucatán Peninsula. 217 00:11:48,235 --> 00:11:50,634 - Where the dig site was. - It gets better. 218 00:11:50,670 --> 00:11:55,539 We found trace amounts of the same pollen on both death threats. 219 00:11:55,942 --> 00:11:59,241 So, a good chance whoever sent this is your killer. 220 00:11:59,512 --> 00:12:02,709 And it's unlikely he would still have trace amounts of pollen on him 221 00:12:02,749 --> 00:12:06,742 unless he had been in the Yucatán sometime in the last few days. 222 00:12:07,587 --> 00:12:11,920 Yes, we'll hold. - Why is this taking so long? 223 00:12:11,957 --> 00:12:14,448 How many Mayans from the Yucatán lowlands could possibly have flown 224 00:12:14,493 --> 00:12:16,393 into the New York area in the last few days? 225 00:12:16,428 --> 00:12:20,159 - TSA computers are down. - Oh. Well, that's reassuring. 226 00:12:20,198 --> 00:12:22,632 You know, Castle, this Kan-Xul is no joke. 227 00:12:22,668 --> 00:12:26,297 Legend has, he personally conducted hundreds of human sacrifices. 228 00:12:26,338 --> 00:12:28,670 You know why his burial chamber was so hard to find, right? 229 00:12:28,707 --> 00:12:29,969 Because his own people buried it 230 00:12:30,008 --> 00:12:31,703 so that he couldn't come back from the grave and get them. 231 00:12:31,743 --> 00:12:34,973 Yes, yes, yes. Scary mummy, I get it. Thank you... 232 00:12:40,284 --> 00:12:41,615 - You okay? - Yeah. 233 00:12:41,652 --> 00:12:44,849 - Yeah, it's an old chair, that's all. - Just keep telling yourself that. 234 00:12:45,990 --> 00:12:47,218 Hi, are you there? 235 00:12:47,258 --> 00:12:48,555 Yes. 236 00:12:48,593 --> 00:12:52,051 Okay, great. Could you fax it over right away? Thanks. 237 00:12:53,030 --> 00:12:55,089 TSA reports that a Mayan named Cacaw Te 238 00:12:55,132 --> 00:12:57,725 arrived in JFK four days ago on a tourist visa. 239 00:12:57,767 --> 00:12:59,496 Cacaw Te, Cacaw Te... C.T. 240 00:12:59,536 --> 00:13:01,697 His visa application puts his home address 241 00:13:01,738 --> 00:13:04,468 right in the middle of our pollen zone. 242 00:13:06,643 --> 00:13:09,578 I'm guessing that guy was not class clown in high school. 243 00:13:09,613 --> 00:13:12,013 This is a local address. Let's go get him. 244 00:13:12,048 --> 00:13:13,709 Can I drive? No. 245 00:13:16,453 --> 00:13:18,682 Can we call you Mr. T? 246 00:13:19,555 --> 00:13:21,819 It's Te. Cacaw Te. 247 00:13:22,224 --> 00:13:25,716 You've got quite a résumé, Mr. Te. According to the Mexican embassy, 248 00:13:25,761 --> 00:13:29,595 you were arrested in 2007 for assaulting a group of tourists. 249 00:13:30,466 --> 00:13:33,264 They were trespassing on sacred Mayan soil. 250 00:13:33,302 --> 00:13:35,270 You sent two of them to the hospital. 251 00:13:35,304 --> 00:13:37,898 Things got out of hand, but that's not why I'm here, is it? 252 00:13:37,940 --> 00:13:41,500 Sending death threats through the U.S. Mail is a felony. 253 00:13:41,709 --> 00:13:42,767 And so is murder, 254 00:13:42,810 --> 00:13:46,302 or, as your ancestors like to call it, human sacrifice. 255 00:13:46,981 --> 00:13:51,179 - I don't know what you're talking about. - Does this jog your memory? 256 00:13:53,554 --> 00:13:56,751 Medina refused to see me when I went to the museum. 257 00:13:56,791 --> 00:13:59,419 I sent that because he left me no other choice, 258 00:13:59,460 --> 00:14:01,189 and he needed to be told 259 00:14:01,229 --> 00:14:04,925 that the museum must return the artifacts that they stole from my people. 260 00:14:04,965 --> 00:14:06,455 Those items weren't stolen. 261 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:08,400 Your government made a deal with the museum. 262 00:14:08,435 --> 00:14:11,962 But not with us. The Mayans are not a dead race. 263 00:14:12,105 --> 00:14:15,336 There are seven million of us in Mexico and Central America, 264 00:14:15,375 --> 00:14:17,434 the direct descendants of Kan-Xul. 265 00:14:17,477 --> 00:14:20,412 His remains, and all that was buried with him, belong to us. 266 00:14:20,447 --> 00:14:22,677 Is that why you sent the death threat to Medina? 267 00:14:22,716 --> 00:14:24,115 It wasn't a threat. 268 00:14:24,151 --> 00:14:26,983 It was a reminder of the fate that awaited him 269 00:14:27,019 --> 00:14:29,249 if he did not return what he stole. 270 00:14:29,288 --> 00:14:32,189 Where were you last night between 7:00 and 8:00? 271 00:14:32,224 --> 00:14:35,057 I didn't kill him. I didn't need to. 272 00:14:35,828 --> 00:14:40,060 Because all who suffer from the mummy's curse are doomed to die. 273 00:14:43,736 --> 00:14:47,865 Hey, Beckett, looks like Cacaw Te isn't our C.T. After all. 274 00:14:48,106 --> 00:14:50,631 He was uptown meeting with a Telemundo reporter 275 00:14:50,675 --> 00:14:55,305 about the injustice of the exhibit at 5:30. He didn't finish until after 8:00. 276 00:14:55,346 --> 00:14:56,506 Well, what about the pollen? 277 00:14:56,548 --> 00:14:58,448 It turns out the area where the expedition was camped 278 00:14:58,483 --> 00:15:00,007 would've been covered with the stuff. 279 00:15:00,051 --> 00:15:02,781 Lanie says it's a safe bet that there's traces of it all over the exhibit. 280 00:15:02,821 --> 00:15:04,311 Okay, but let's hold him on the death threats. 281 00:15:04,355 --> 00:15:06,482 I got a feeling he knows more than he's letting on. 282 00:15:06,524 --> 00:15:08,355 The contents of Medina's phone. 283 00:15:08,393 --> 00:15:10,326 There was nothing interesting in the call list or the calendar, 284 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,591 but we hit the girlfriend jackpot with the photos. 285 00:15:13,764 --> 00:15:16,494 - He's sleeping with a mummy? - Yeah. What? 286 00:15:16,533 --> 00:15:19,468 No. Sorry. You have to flip to the last one. 287 00:15:20,337 --> 00:15:23,272 - Bam! - That's Rachel Walters. 288 00:15:23,407 --> 00:15:25,204 No one at the museum knew they were seeing each other? 289 00:15:25,242 --> 00:15:28,541 - Maybe she's got something to hide. - Like murder? 290 00:15:38,983 --> 00:15:41,645 It started after we got back from Mexico. 291 00:15:41,686 --> 00:15:44,621 - Why did you lie to everyone? - I didn't want to get fired. 292 00:15:44,656 --> 00:15:48,854 - Why would Stanford fire you? - Because he and Will hated each other. 293 00:15:49,060 --> 00:15:50,584 - Why? - Stanford blamed Will 294 00:15:50,628 --> 00:15:53,654 - for Nicole's death. - The girl who was killed in Mexico? 295 00:15:53,698 --> 00:15:56,496 Stanford put Will in charge of all the grad students. 296 00:15:56,534 --> 00:15:59,730 He wanted Will to teach them how to survive in such a hostile environment. 297 00:15:59,770 --> 00:16:02,603 When Nicole died, Stanford was devastated. 298 00:16:03,607 --> 00:16:05,097 He felt Will had betrayed his trust, 299 00:16:05,142 --> 00:16:07,702 letting her go alone into the jungle at night. 300 00:16:07,745 --> 00:16:10,646 Ever since we got back, Stanford's been trying to get rid of Will. 301 00:16:10,681 --> 00:16:14,310 But he can't, because Will's the one who discovered the burial chamber. 302 00:16:14,351 --> 00:16:18,447 Do you think he would've gone as far as murder to get rid of Will? 303 00:16:21,824 --> 00:16:24,884 Stanford told me that Will is the one that should've died that night, 304 00:16:24,927 --> 00:16:26,360 not Nicole. 305 00:16:27,296 --> 00:16:29,856 The fact that Will and I didn't get along doesn't mean I killed him. 306 00:16:29,899 --> 00:16:31,560 Not getting along with someone is a lot different 307 00:16:31,601 --> 00:16:33,728 than blaming him for a girl's death. 308 00:16:33,770 --> 00:16:35,965 You thought he should've done a better job watching over her. 309 00:16:36,005 --> 00:16:39,702 No, I thought he shouldn't be sneaking into the jungle to have sex with her. 310 00:16:39,742 --> 00:16:41,835 That's why she was out there the night she died, 311 00:16:41,878 --> 00:16:44,311 only Will stood her up and she paid the price. 312 00:16:44,346 --> 00:16:46,143 And how do you know this? 313 00:16:46,181 --> 00:16:48,706 I caught them together two days before she died. 314 00:16:48,750 --> 00:16:52,516 I told him to break it off. He was her boss. But he refused. 315 00:16:53,288 --> 00:16:57,190 That girl had a bright future, and his carelessness took it from her. 316 00:16:57,225 --> 00:16:59,489 Where were you when Medina was killed? 317 00:16:59,528 --> 00:17:01,587 Right here, working. You can check with security. 318 00:17:01,630 --> 00:17:05,191 Ask the staff. I'm basically living here until the exhibit launches. 319 00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:06,631 Great. Then we'll know where to find you 320 00:17:06,667 --> 00:17:09,830 in case your alibi doesn't check out. Thank you. 321 00:17:10,404 --> 00:17:13,066 What happened to Will wasn't the curse. 322 00:17:13,407 --> 00:17:14,897 It was karma. 323 00:17:18,746 --> 00:17:21,010 Do you believe that people get what they deserve? 324 00:17:21,048 --> 00:17:23,744 Well, if they do, then I must've done something pretty terrible 325 00:17:23,784 --> 00:17:26,150 - to be punished with you. - Funny. 326 00:17:27,154 --> 00:17:31,146 Mr. Castle, Detective. Seen our new ad campaign? 327 00:17:36,830 --> 00:17:37,854 Tasteful. 328 00:17:37,897 --> 00:17:41,424 Come on, Detective. You've got to give people what they want. 329 00:17:41,468 --> 00:17:43,698 They are eating the curse up. 330 00:17:43,736 --> 00:17:47,604 Ever since the story broke, ticket pre-sales have jumped 20%. 331 00:17:47,841 --> 00:17:49,536 Yeah, but what about when people come and see the mummy 332 00:17:49,576 --> 00:17:53,102 and then they get hit by a car, or slip on a banana peel? 333 00:17:53,145 --> 00:17:56,911 - Then they're gonna sue you. - I have to make a call. 334 00:18:00,786 --> 00:18:02,549 Okay, thanks, Bill. 335 00:18:02,855 --> 00:18:05,688 Hey, did you get a confirmation on Stanford's and Rachel's alibis? 336 00:18:05,724 --> 00:18:07,624 Museum security has them both logged in, 337 00:18:07,659 --> 00:18:09,058 but I haven't been able to find anyone 338 00:18:09,094 --> 00:18:11,824 who can definitively state that Stanford or Rachel were there 339 00:18:11,864 --> 00:18:14,764 during the hour it would've taken to kill Will and get back to the museum. 340 00:18:14,799 --> 00:18:17,063 Yo. I think I found something. 341 00:18:17,168 --> 00:18:19,659 Turns out our victim deposited 10 grand into his bank account 342 00:18:19,704 --> 00:18:21,035 four days before he was killed. 343 00:18:21,072 --> 00:18:22,767 - Where'd he get that kind of money? Unknown. 344 00:18:22,807 --> 00:18:25,275 But he withdrew the same amount the morning he died. 345 00:18:25,309 --> 00:18:26,674 $ 10,000 in, $ 10,000 out. 346 00:18:26,711 --> 00:18:27,871 Sounds like he's laundering money to me. 347 00:18:27,912 --> 00:18:29,812 Okay, you guys check with the bank first thing in the morning. 348 00:18:29,847 --> 00:18:31,474 Let's see where that money came from. 349 00:18:39,389 --> 00:18:40,617 - What happened? - I don't know. 350 00:18:40,657 --> 00:18:42,921 I was just gonna make a coffee 351 00:18:43,460 --> 00:18:46,020 and the cappuccino machine started shaking, 352 00:18:46,062 --> 00:18:47,825 and just as I hit the deck, it exploded. 353 00:18:47,864 --> 00:18:50,332 - You could've been killed. - I know! 354 00:19:00,843 --> 00:19:03,573 Okay, very funny! Yes, you got me. 355 00:19:04,780 --> 00:19:07,442 Ooh, I'm Castle. I don't believe in curses. 356 00:19:08,284 --> 00:19:10,844 What, you get bomb disposal to rig something up? 357 00:19:10,886 --> 00:19:13,719 - Yeah, it was all flash and no damage. - And the chair? 358 00:19:13,756 --> 00:19:17,214 I just pulled a couple of screws and let gravity do the rest. 359 00:19:17,259 --> 00:19:18,783 Night, Castle. 360 00:19:22,030 --> 00:19:24,055 I'm not cleaning this up! 361 00:19:26,267 --> 00:19:28,201 I better clean this up. 362 00:19:30,672 --> 00:19:33,266 - That was so mean. - I knew the whole time. 363 00:19:33,308 --> 00:19:34,605 Sure you did. 364 00:19:34,642 --> 00:19:37,236 You know, there are some mysteries that science can't explain, 365 00:19:37,278 --> 00:19:39,439 like Stonehenge and déjŕ vu. 366 00:19:39,581 --> 00:19:42,778 And some curses are real, like the Scottish play. 367 00:19:42,883 --> 00:19:46,683 Here we go. There's no one more superstitious than an actor. 368 00:19:47,154 --> 00:19:49,247 "The Scottish play"? Are you talking about Macbeth? 369 00:19:49,289 --> 00:19:51,951 No! Darling. You never say the name. 370 00:19:51,992 --> 00:19:53,482 - Macbeth! - No! 371 00:19:54,628 --> 00:19:57,927 To do so is to invite grave misfortune. 372 00:19:57,965 --> 00:20:00,934 No, I am serious. You know, I didn't... I didn't know it at the time. 373 00:20:00,968 --> 00:20:04,165 I was in my high-school drama class, I said the name, I wasn't thinking. 374 00:20:04,204 --> 00:20:07,036 For the next two days, nothing went right. 375 00:20:07,173 --> 00:20:09,107 I mean, Lady Macbeth twisted her ankle, 376 00:20:09,141 --> 00:20:11,234 the three witches caught pneumonia. 377 00:20:11,277 --> 00:20:13,507 Finally the director said, "All right, this is what you have to do." 378 00:20:13,546 --> 00:20:17,141 I had to run around the outside of the theater building counterclockwise, 379 00:20:17,183 --> 00:20:19,947 knock on the door till someone let me in. Mmm-hmm. 380 00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:24,314 Well, I'd love to stand around and tell scary stories all day, 381 00:20:24,357 --> 00:20:25,915 'cause I'm really good at it, 382 00:20:25,958 --> 00:20:28,983 but I have a date with a murder investigation. 383 00:20:30,095 --> 00:20:32,461 It's lucky your father doesn't believe in the curse. 384 00:20:32,497 --> 00:20:34,727 - Why? - 'Cause he's going into a building 385 00:20:34,766 --> 00:20:36,961 - full of guns. I heard that. 386 00:20:38,803 --> 00:20:40,498 Hey, guys, what'd you find out at Medina's bank? 387 00:20:40,538 --> 00:20:43,507 Well, it turns out the deposit and the withdrawal were both made in cash, 388 00:20:43,541 --> 00:20:44,906 and the bank manager remembers the withdrawal 389 00:20:44,943 --> 00:20:46,604 because he had to personally authorize it. 390 00:20:46,645 --> 00:20:48,977 The bank manager was pretty sure Medina was with somebody at the time, 391 00:20:49,014 --> 00:20:50,480 so he pulled the surveillance video, 392 00:20:50,514 --> 00:20:52,744 revealing this shining example of thuggery. 393 00:20:52,783 --> 00:20:54,808 Any idea who he is? 394 00:20:54,852 --> 00:20:56,114 - Do you want to? - No, bro, you caught it. 395 00:20:56,153 --> 00:20:57,313 - You sure? - Yeah, it's yours, go ahead. 396 00:20:57,354 --> 00:21:00,482 You know, whenever you guys are done being cute. 397 00:21:03,761 --> 00:21:04,921 No, he didn't. Yeah, he did. 398 00:21:04,962 --> 00:21:06,793 Aruba is nice this time of year. 399 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:08,730 Meet Mr. Norton Grimes, who recently had the privilege 400 00:21:08,766 --> 00:21:11,758 of doing two years for drug trafficking at Franklin Correctional. 401 00:21:12,301 --> 00:21:15,134 That's what the money was for. Mexico is cocaine central. 402 00:21:15,171 --> 00:21:17,036 What better way to sneak drugs into the country 403 00:21:17,073 --> 00:21:18,597 other than inside an archeological shipment? 404 00:21:18,641 --> 00:21:21,303 Medina was in bed with a drug trafficker, and it got him killed. 405 00:21:21,344 --> 00:21:23,175 You know, there's a current address here. 406 00:21:23,212 --> 00:21:25,976 - What say we go see if he's awake? - Okay. 407 00:21:27,283 --> 00:21:29,410 Come on, Castle, let's go. - Can I drive? 408 00:21:29,452 --> 00:21:31,784 Are you kidding? You're cursed. 409 00:21:39,761 --> 00:21:42,753 I got two uniforms posted out back in case he decides to rabbit. 410 00:21:42,798 --> 00:21:44,823 Castle, you sure you don't want to stay in the car? 411 00:21:44,866 --> 00:21:47,164 - We wouldn't want the curse to get you. - I'm good to go. 412 00:21:47,202 --> 00:21:49,193 Okay. Ready? 413 00:21:53,208 --> 00:21:54,266 NYPD! 414 00:21:54,309 --> 00:21:56,607 Norton Grimes! Police! Show me your hands! 415 00:21:58,179 --> 00:22:01,615 Nice doggie. Good doggie. Whoa! Ow! He got me! He got me! 416 00:22:01,816 --> 00:22:03,283 Castle! Run! 417 00:22:04,018 --> 00:22:06,111 Leave! Hey! Over! 418 00:22:06,787 --> 00:22:09,221 Easy. Easy. Okay, okay, okay... 419 00:22:09,256 --> 00:22:12,748 Okay, easy... Okay, okay. 420 00:22:14,729 --> 00:22:16,287 What is your... 421 00:22:23,032 --> 00:22:24,396 Right this way, Mr. Grimes. 422 00:22:24,433 --> 00:22:27,266 - I could've been killed. - But you weren't. 423 00:22:27,336 --> 00:22:29,236 Look, you go through enough doors, at some point 424 00:22:29,271 --> 00:22:30,704 you're gonna find a dog on the other side. 425 00:22:30,739 --> 00:22:32,673 Yes, but it didn't happen at some point, did it? 426 00:22:32,708 --> 00:22:34,938 It happened today, right after I gazed into the face of the mummy. 427 00:22:36,044 --> 00:22:37,568 Okay, I admit that the timing was a little troublesome, 428 00:22:37,613 --> 00:22:40,639 but I promise you, there is no curse. Beckett. 429 00:22:40,916 --> 00:22:42,543 Hey. It's Lanie. 430 00:22:43,919 --> 00:22:45,045 Okay. 431 00:22:47,054 --> 00:22:48,248 Right. 432 00:22:49,524 --> 00:22:51,788 - Well, what does that mean? - What? 433 00:22:51,826 --> 00:22:53,555 - Are you sure? - What? 434 00:22:53,594 --> 00:22:56,358 - Thanks. - What? What'd she say? 435 00:22:56,464 --> 00:22:58,694 - Nothing. - It was not nothing. 436 00:23:00,935 --> 00:23:02,334 Okay. Fine. 437 00:23:02,436 --> 00:23:04,836 The lab identified the substance found on the gargoyle, 438 00:23:04,872 --> 00:23:07,670 and it was a combination of sodium nitrate, iron oxide, 439 00:23:07,708 --> 00:23:10,471 decomposed hemp fibers and vetted tissue. 440 00:23:10,810 --> 00:23:12,437 I'm sorry. What? 441 00:23:13,046 --> 00:23:18,279 - Ancient human tissue. - Mummified tissue? Like mummy flesh? 442 00:23:18,418 --> 00:23:22,650 Which means, at some point, our killer came into contact with the mummies 443 00:23:22,689 --> 00:23:24,816 and somehow transferred the substance 444 00:23:24,858 --> 00:23:27,725 onto his or her clothing before killing Medina. 445 00:23:27,761 --> 00:23:30,854 Or maybe the mummy himself has risen from the grave 446 00:23:30,896 --> 00:23:33,763 and is roaming New York, seeking vengeance. 447 00:23:35,201 --> 00:23:36,634 I'm kidding. 448 00:23:39,205 --> 00:23:41,002 - Sort of. - You know, 449 00:23:41,540 --> 00:23:45,670 if Medina was trafficking drugs for Grimes through the sarcophagus, 450 00:23:45,711 --> 00:23:48,475 then maybe Grimes got the substance on himself 451 00:23:48,514 --> 00:23:51,278 when he went to get the drugs out. 452 00:23:54,986 --> 00:23:58,080 You mind flying solo on this one 453 00:23:58,122 --> 00:24:00,454 while I head home and change my clothes? 454 00:24:00,491 --> 00:24:03,289 I think I can manage. Hey, Castle. 455 00:24:04,896 --> 00:24:07,364 - Watch out for the mummy. - Really? 456 00:24:13,538 --> 00:24:15,199 Dog attack, icing on the cake. 457 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,207 Yeah, it was sort of like a little bonus, wasn't it? 458 00:24:17,241 --> 00:24:19,607 You had to mess with the curse, didn't you? Trying to be funny. 459 00:24:19,643 --> 00:24:22,441 You know what kind of hell I'd catch if Castle got eaten in the line of duty? 460 00:24:22,479 --> 00:24:24,276 Don't tell me you really believe in that stuff, sir. 461 00:24:24,314 --> 00:24:25,611 You know what I believe in, Detective? 462 00:24:25,649 --> 00:24:29,107 That there's no upside in screwing with things that you can't explain. 463 00:24:29,152 --> 00:24:31,143 First year in homicide, right? 464 00:24:31,188 --> 00:24:34,385 My partner tackles a suspect through the window of a gypsy smoke shop. 465 00:24:34,424 --> 00:24:37,450 Owner's furious. Threatens all kind of hexes on our houses 466 00:24:37,494 --> 00:24:39,461 if we don't personally go and clean it up. 467 00:24:39,495 --> 00:24:41,827 And we tell her, "Yeah, take it up with the city." 468 00:24:41,864 --> 00:24:45,265 Two hours later, my partner drops dead. Heart attack. 469 00:24:45,801 --> 00:24:47,393 And you think it was the hexes? 470 00:24:47,436 --> 00:24:49,768 No. The man ate bacon with every meal. 471 00:24:49,805 --> 00:24:54,333 But, next morning, I went over there, fixed that window. And you know why? 472 00:24:55,244 --> 00:24:58,077 Because there's no upside in screwing with things you can't explain? 473 00:24:58,114 --> 00:25:00,673 - And don't you ever forget it. - Okay. 474 00:25:03,251 --> 00:25:05,219 You know, if our boy Grimes saw the face of the mummy, 475 00:25:05,253 --> 00:25:06,413 it's likely he's cursed, too. 476 00:25:06,454 --> 00:25:08,251 Yeah, well, I'd rather suffer a thousand curses 477 00:25:08,290 --> 00:25:10,121 than go up against Beckett in a box. 478 00:25:10,325 --> 00:25:12,156 Lady, you got the wrong guy. 479 00:25:12,193 --> 00:25:14,753 I dropped out of the drug game after I left the joint. 480 00:25:14,796 --> 00:25:18,789 That's funny, because I've got surveillance photos 481 00:25:18,833 --> 00:25:21,165 showing you taking $ 10,000 in cash 482 00:25:21,202 --> 00:25:24,227 from Will Medina the day that he was murdered. 483 00:25:24,638 --> 00:25:26,663 And given your rap sheet, 484 00:25:26,740 --> 00:25:30,005 I don't think it would be too difficult to convince a jury that you were involved. 485 00:25:30,044 --> 00:25:31,841 Okay, okay, okay, hold on. 486 00:25:31,879 --> 00:25:35,280 I didn't murder anyone, and I don't smuggle drugs anymore. 487 00:25:35,316 --> 00:25:38,649 I used my connections to get a new gig. Antiquities. 488 00:25:40,154 --> 00:25:45,716 Really? And why would Will Medina be buying antiquities from you? 489 00:25:46,526 --> 00:25:50,223 Not buying, selling. I met him at a museum fundraiser last year. 490 00:25:50,263 --> 00:25:52,891 I gave him my card, I told him I'm always interested in rare items 491 00:25:52,932 --> 00:25:55,594 that may need a new home. He gave me a call few weeks later. 492 00:25:55,635 --> 00:25:57,500 He said he had a box of Incan arrowheads 493 00:25:57,537 --> 00:26:00,870 that had just been sitting on a shelf since the 1940s. 494 00:26:00,907 --> 00:26:03,398 I found him a buyer and we made a nice little profit. 495 00:26:03,443 --> 00:26:05,968 And what were you buying this time? 496 00:26:06,379 --> 00:26:08,278 - A mummy. - A mummy? 497 00:26:09,314 --> 00:26:12,283 - Who would want a mummy? - A collector in Taipei. 498 00:26:12,317 --> 00:26:13,784 So I stopped by the museum. 499 00:26:13,819 --> 00:26:17,448 You know, I thought he would say no, but he jumped at the opportunity. 500 00:26:17,489 --> 00:26:20,481 Did he ever think that somebody would notice this missing mummy? 501 00:26:20,525 --> 00:26:23,858 He said all the attention was being paid to the mummy of the Mayan king, 502 00:26:23,895 --> 00:26:25,920 not to slave girl number six. 503 00:26:25,964 --> 00:26:28,398 She was destined for the storage room in the basement. 504 00:26:28,433 --> 00:26:30,627 So it'd be years before anyone went looking for her, 505 00:26:30,668 --> 00:26:34,832 at which point, her disappearance, it could never be linked to him. 506 00:26:35,072 --> 00:26:37,165 And this $ 10,000 was a down payment? 507 00:26:37,208 --> 00:26:38,835 Of a quarter-million-dollar payout. 508 00:26:38,876 --> 00:26:41,436 But then you showed up and you took it back. Why? 509 00:26:41,479 --> 00:26:45,313 My client changed their mind. Guess they didn't like the mummy. 510 00:26:45,349 --> 00:26:47,943 - Why not? - I don't know. 511 00:26:48,819 --> 00:26:51,447 All I know is they sent someone down to the museum to take a look. 512 00:26:51,489 --> 00:26:54,480 - Who did he send? - I have no idea. I swear. 513 00:26:55,325 --> 00:26:57,418 Whatever they told him turned my client off. 514 00:26:57,460 --> 00:27:01,226 Maybe the mummy was too short, maybe it didn't have enough teeth. 515 00:27:01,264 --> 00:27:03,858 These private collectors, they're very particular. 516 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:07,131 They want exactly what they want and nothing else. 517 00:27:07,470 --> 00:27:10,030 Selling mummies? How stupid does he think we are? 518 00:27:10,073 --> 00:27:12,507 I know, the drug story is a hell of a lot more plausible, 519 00:27:12,542 --> 00:27:14,805 but it just doesn't seem to be Medina's style. 520 00:27:14,843 --> 00:27:16,435 There's one way to find out. 521 00:27:16,478 --> 00:27:18,469 Take samples from this mummy's sarcophagus. 522 00:27:18,514 --> 00:27:19,572 If they test positive for drugs, 523 00:27:19,615 --> 00:27:21,879 Grimes is lying, and most likely our murderer. 524 00:27:21,917 --> 00:27:23,145 Great. Thanks. 525 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:34,655 - Hey, what are you doing home? - Facing my mortality. 526 00:27:36,031 --> 00:27:39,693 All this curse stuff has got me thinking. If something were to happen to me, 527 00:27:39,734 --> 00:27:42,362 - you'd take good care of Alexis, right? - Of course! 528 00:27:42,403 --> 00:27:46,339 - Better than you took care of me? - Please. You turned out fine. 529 00:27:46,374 --> 00:27:47,432 Look, look, look. 530 00:27:47,475 --> 00:27:51,605 The chances of this curse being real are almost non-existent. You know that. 531 00:27:51,646 --> 00:27:54,479 Maybe. But what kind of father would I be 532 00:27:54,515 --> 00:27:58,383 if I didn't do everything I could to make sure I stick around? 533 00:27:58,519 --> 00:28:03,387 Well, then I think maybe we should try to figure out a way to reverse the curse. 534 00:28:03,990 --> 00:28:07,426 You know, the mummy equivalent of my running around the theater. 535 00:28:07,461 --> 00:28:10,021 Someone at the museum must know that. 536 00:28:12,098 --> 00:28:14,828 You've become very wise in your old age. 537 00:28:15,368 --> 00:28:17,029 Watch it, buster. 538 00:28:17,671 --> 00:28:20,265 I'm afraid there's nothing in the literature about reversing the curse. 539 00:28:21,674 --> 00:28:24,336 - Hey. - Castle, what are you doing here? 540 00:28:24,677 --> 00:28:26,542 Nothing. Just waiting for you. 541 00:28:26,579 --> 00:28:28,672 Detectives, are you here to talk about reversing the curse as well? 542 00:28:30,716 --> 00:28:32,308 No. I'm here to see a man about a mummy. 543 00:28:32,351 --> 00:28:33,818 So, no luck with the curse, huh? 544 00:28:33,853 --> 00:28:36,549 Look on the bright side, Castle. You die, your book sales skyrocket. 545 00:28:36,589 --> 00:28:37,886 Great. What did Beckett mean, 546 00:28:37,923 --> 00:28:39,481 "See a man about a mummy"? Which mummy? 547 00:28:39,525 --> 00:28:42,494 The one Grimes said Medina was trying to sell. 548 00:28:42,528 --> 00:28:44,495 Fill me in. Spare no detail. 549 00:28:44,529 --> 00:28:46,156 Well, in some ancient cultures, instead of burning or... 550 00:28:46,197 --> 00:28:47,255 Fast forward a little bit. 551 00:28:47,665 --> 00:28:50,259 Detective, this is a significant archeological find. 552 00:28:50,301 --> 00:28:52,064 You can't just walk in here and open it up. 553 00:28:52,103 --> 00:28:55,004 - I've got a warrant that says otherwise. This is preposterous. 554 00:28:55,039 --> 00:28:56,768 Tell that to the drug dealer in my lockup 555 00:28:56,808 --> 00:28:59,834 who was doing business with your associate curator. 556 00:28:59,878 --> 00:29:03,609 Please. I just have to reiterate how fragile these mummies are. 557 00:29:03,648 --> 00:29:06,013 They should only be handled in a controlled environment. 558 00:29:06,049 --> 00:29:10,816 Don't worry, it's just a simple swab test. I promise, I won't damage anything. 559 00:29:20,030 --> 00:29:22,225 My God. It's gone! 560 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,496 I'm not saying I believe, but where's the mummy? 561 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,480 CSU field test shows that there's no drug residue inside the sarcophagus, 562 00:29:46,517 --> 00:29:49,179 and all the other mummies are accounted for. No drugs in them either. 563 00:29:49,220 --> 00:29:52,121 Well, if it wasn't the drugs, then what's so special about the missing mummy? 564 00:29:52,156 --> 00:29:53,680 Well, maybe Grimes was telling the truth. 565 00:29:53,725 --> 00:29:55,420 Maybe Medina was trying to sell it. 566 00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:58,428 And then when Grimes wouldn't buy it, he sold it to someone else? 567 00:29:58,462 --> 00:30:01,022 Except that one of the researchers swears it was in its sarcophagus 568 00:30:01,064 --> 00:30:04,295 - the day after Medina was killed. - Well, that could only mean one thing. 569 00:30:04,334 --> 00:30:07,064 Please don't say that it's walking among us seeking revenge. 570 00:30:07,104 --> 00:30:08,935 Okay. Don't say I didn't warn you. 571 00:30:08,972 --> 00:30:12,567 This place is gigantic. They have over 30 million specimens down here. 572 00:30:12,609 --> 00:30:14,839 We got a K-9 unit coming in to help, 573 00:30:14,878 --> 00:30:18,108 but finding this mummy might be like finding the lost ark. 574 00:30:18,147 --> 00:30:21,310 - Lf it is even still here. - All right, have CSU sweep the area 575 00:30:21,350 --> 00:30:23,511 and see if they can get any prints off of the sarcophagus. 576 00:30:23,552 --> 00:30:26,180 Whoever stole the mummy must have left some evidence behind. 577 00:30:26,222 --> 00:30:31,182 Disaster! PR disaster! I only hope the press doesn't hear about this. 578 00:30:32,228 --> 00:30:36,392 Ten bucks says he calls the press just as we're out the front door. 579 00:30:36,465 --> 00:30:38,695 You don't think he could've orchestrated this whole thing 580 00:30:38,734 --> 00:30:40,724 just to generate interest in the exhibit, do you? 581 00:30:40,769 --> 00:30:43,169 Murdered Medina just to boost ticket sales? No. 582 00:30:43,204 --> 00:30:45,729 That would make this Scooby-Doo, and I'm not Velma. 583 00:30:45,774 --> 00:30:48,402 Velma? Are you kidding? You're Daphne. 584 00:30:48,610 --> 00:30:50,874 You're hot, smart, not aggressively brainy, 585 00:30:50,912 --> 00:30:52,072 but long legs, short skirt... 586 00:30:52,113 --> 00:30:53,137 - Stop. - Fine. 587 00:30:53,181 --> 00:30:54,671 - Now. - Got it. 588 00:30:57,786 --> 00:31:00,084 No, he didn't know anything about how to reverse the curse, 589 00:31:00,121 --> 00:31:03,317 but I've decided it's okay. I was just overreacting. 590 00:31:03,357 --> 00:31:06,155 It's like you said, the chances of there actually being a curse 591 00:31:06,193 --> 00:31:08,320 are virtually non-existent. 592 00:31:13,133 --> 00:31:15,966 That was weird. The elevator just stopped. 593 00:31:17,304 --> 00:31:18,532 Mother? 594 00:31:21,041 --> 00:31:24,169 Okay. No reason to panic. 595 00:31:26,779 --> 00:31:28,713 Small reason to panic. 596 00:31:30,550 --> 00:31:31,744 Hello? 597 00:31:41,394 --> 00:31:44,955 There is no curse. There is no curse. There is no curse. 598 00:31:46,566 --> 00:31:49,500 All right. What do I do if the elevator falls? 599 00:31:49,534 --> 00:31:52,002 Okay, I'm... I think I'm supposed to jump in the air. 600 00:31:52,037 --> 00:31:53,971 No! Lay on the ground. 601 00:31:57,976 --> 00:32:00,206 Castle? What are you doing? 602 00:32:03,148 --> 00:32:04,843 There was... That whole thing, the... 603 00:32:04,883 --> 00:32:07,147 Then the light, the light, and then the whole thing went... 604 00:32:07,185 --> 00:32:09,449 I thought that... I thought the elevator was gonna fall! 605 00:32:09,488 --> 00:32:11,148 That wasn't you, was it? Because that wasn't funny. 606 00:32:11,188 --> 00:32:14,783 No, no, I'm not that cruel. It's an old elevator. 607 00:32:15,292 --> 00:32:16,759 You know what, let's get maintenance up here 608 00:32:16,794 --> 00:32:19,763 and tell them not to let anyone on here before it's fixed. Are you okay? 609 00:32:19,797 --> 00:32:22,163 Yeah. No, yeah. I'm... I'm... 610 00:32:22,633 --> 00:32:26,399 Splash some water on my face and then throw up a little bit. 611 00:32:33,276 --> 00:32:36,211 Rogue archeologists, Mayan death threats, 612 00:32:36,246 --> 00:32:38,271 drug dealers claiming to deal in antiquities, 613 00:32:38,314 --> 00:32:40,111 and missing mummies. 614 00:32:40,650 --> 00:32:44,552 There's got to be a story that makes all of this make sense. 615 00:32:49,325 --> 00:32:50,451 What? 616 00:32:51,261 --> 00:32:52,785 - Nothing. - Castle. 617 00:32:52,829 --> 00:32:57,128 If something were to happen to me, I want you to watch out for Alexis. 618 00:32:57,399 --> 00:32:58,798 She looks up to you. 619 00:32:58,834 --> 00:33:02,099 And if her boyfriends get frisky, you can shoot them. 620 00:33:02,137 --> 00:33:05,573 - Nothing's gonna happen to you. - But if it does... 621 00:33:09,511 --> 00:33:10,671 Okay. 622 00:33:12,814 --> 00:33:14,076 And would you also go into my closet 623 00:33:14,116 --> 00:33:16,414 and get rid of my porn collection before she finds it? 624 00:33:16,451 --> 00:33:18,714 Don't worry, bro. I got you covered on that. 625 00:33:18,753 --> 00:33:21,119 We hit a home run with the prints from the sarcophagus. 626 00:33:21,155 --> 00:33:23,851 One popped that doesn't belong to anyone who works at the museum. 627 00:33:23,891 --> 00:33:26,121 But according to the background check, he does work 628 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,618 at 1127 Avenue of the Americas, the address on Medina's calendar. 629 00:33:29,664 --> 00:33:32,428 At a company called Bio Inc., and here is the best part. 630 00:33:32,466 --> 00:33:34,696 His name is Charles Taylor. 631 00:33:35,036 --> 00:33:36,094 - C. T! - C. T? 632 00:33:36,137 --> 00:33:39,902 Spoke to the guy two days ago and he insisted he'd never met Medina. 633 00:33:39,940 --> 00:33:41,305 Lied right to my face. 634 00:33:41,341 --> 00:33:44,640 No, no, I didn't lie. I swear to you, I don't know Will Medina. 635 00:33:44,678 --> 00:33:46,942 You didn't see him two days ago at 5:30? 636 00:33:46,980 --> 00:33:48,140 No. You got the wrong guy. 637 00:33:48,181 --> 00:33:49,546 But you admit that you were in the basement 638 00:33:49,583 --> 00:33:51,915 of the New York History Museum? 639 00:33:52,419 --> 00:33:53,477 No. 640 00:33:53,653 --> 00:33:56,178 Charles, we have your fingerprints on a sarcophagus, 641 00:33:56,222 --> 00:33:57,814 so you can either start telling us the truth now, 642 00:33:57,857 --> 00:33:59,791 or after spending an afternoon in the holding cell, 643 00:33:59,826 --> 00:34:04,194 entertaining a meth addict through the violent phase of his withdrawal. 644 00:34:04,730 --> 00:34:07,290 - I might have been down there. - When? 645 00:34:08,834 --> 00:34:11,769 - Okay, holding cell it is. - Five days ago. 646 00:34:14,139 --> 00:34:16,164 - And Medina? - Look, I heard he was dead. 647 00:34:16,208 --> 00:34:18,540 I didn't want to get mixed up in that. I... 648 00:34:18,577 --> 00:34:20,670 I was only sent there to check out the mummy. 649 00:34:20,713 --> 00:34:22,044 - The mummy? - Yeah. 650 00:34:22,081 --> 00:34:24,981 I was sent by a private collector to examine it. 651 00:34:25,016 --> 00:34:28,008 Grimes was telling the truth. Medina was trying to sell the mummy. 652 00:34:28,052 --> 00:34:30,418 - This is getting good. - This collector, where is he from? 653 00:34:30,455 --> 00:34:35,859 Taipei. I've done testing for him before. Hominid skulls, a mammoth tusk. 654 00:34:36,361 --> 00:34:38,659 He asked me to carbon date the mummy to make sure it was real. 655 00:34:38,696 --> 00:34:40,095 And was it? 656 00:34:41,432 --> 00:34:43,627 - It's complicated. - We'll try and keep up. 657 00:34:43,668 --> 00:34:46,727 As soon as an organism dies, it stops taking in new carbon. 658 00:34:46,770 --> 00:34:48,601 Specifically, we focus on carbon-14, 659 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:50,402 which starts to decay in the body as soon as it dies, 660 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:51,998 and by examining the rate of decay, 661 00:34:52,042 --> 00:34:53,805 we can actually date the age of the dead organism 662 00:34:53,844 --> 00:34:56,039 with incredible accuracy. When I tested the mummy, 663 00:34:56,079 --> 00:34:59,105 I took samples from the sarcophagus, the cloth the mummy was wrapped in, 664 00:34:59,149 --> 00:35:00,207 and a small piece of bone, 665 00:35:00,250 --> 00:35:03,378 and then I ran them through a mass spectrometer. 666 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:06,154 And that's when things got weird. 667 00:35:06,657 --> 00:35:08,453 Define "weird." 668 00:35:08,991 --> 00:35:11,983 The samples from the sarcophagus and the cloth dated at over 2,000 years old, 669 00:35:12,028 --> 00:35:15,691 but the piece of bone was too young to date. 670 00:35:16,065 --> 00:35:18,693 Meaning that it was less than 500 years old. 671 00:35:18,734 --> 00:35:21,066 - How much less? - I have no idea. 672 00:35:21,237 --> 00:35:23,705 Five hundred years is as low as the test goes. 673 00:35:23,739 --> 00:35:27,732 Are you saying that the mummy Medina was trying to sell was a fake? 674 00:35:27,777 --> 00:35:29,574 All I know is that there was a discrepancy, 675 00:35:29,612 --> 00:35:32,375 and I called him and I told him that, and he didn't believe me. 676 00:35:32,414 --> 00:35:37,408 He insisted on coming to the office to see me. The night he died. 677 00:35:38,586 --> 00:35:39,644 Beckett. 678 00:35:40,522 --> 00:35:43,252 - Uniforms just found your mummy. - Where? 679 00:35:43,324 --> 00:35:44,916 In a dark corner of the museum basement. 680 00:35:44,959 --> 00:35:47,052 Someone was doing their best to make sure it was never found. 681 00:35:47,095 --> 00:35:49,825 Medina's buyer rejected the mummy because it wasn't real, 682 00:35:49,864 --> 00:35:52,856 and when Medina started asking questions, he was killed. 683 00:35:52,901 --> 00:35:55,164 And now someone's trying to make it disappear? 684 00:35:55,202 --> 00:35:57,898 I think we need to take a closer look at that mummy. 685 00:35:58,205 --> 00:35:59,729 Your carbon dater was right. 686 00:35:59,773 --> 00:36:03,334 This girl's body is definitely less than 500 years dead. 687 00:36:03,610 --> 00:36:06,238 - How much less? - She died four months ago. 688 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:07,508 If she's been dead for four months, 689 00:36:07,548 --> 00:36:09,573 why does she look just like the other mummies? 690 00:36:09,616 --> 00:36:12,176 Because whoever mummified her knew what they were doing. 691 00:36:12,219 --> 00:36:14,687 Her blood's been drained, there's an incision on her left side, 692 00:36:14,722 --> 00:36:16,689 which her killer used to remove her organs 693 00:36:16,723 --> 00:36:18,714 before starting the desiccation process. 694 00:36:18,758 --> 00:36:21,249 - But how did she die? - Blunt force trauma. 695 00:36:21,294 --> 00:36:23,785 Someone hit her in the back of the head. She never saw it coming. 696 00:36:23,830 --> 00:36:25,889 And then do you have any idea who she is? 697 00:36:25,932 --> 00:36:29,129 No. And I was unable to get a usable fingerprint. 698 00:36:29,769 --> 00:36:31,532 We don't need them. 699 00:36:31,904 --> 00:36:35,635 She died four months ago. I know exactly who this is. 700 00:36:49,850 --> 00:36:53,047 Dental records confirm that the body is Nicole Graham, 701 00:36:53,087 --> 00:36:54,679 the first victim of the curse. 702 00:36:54,722 --> 00:36:56,952 I thought this girl was killed by an animal in the jungle. 703 00:36:56,991 --> 00:36:59,459 Turns out they never actually found the body. 704 00:36:59,493 --> 00:37:01,290 Just her bloody clothes and a piece of scalp. 705 00:37:01,328 --> 00:37:03,626 It seemed obvious to the Mexican authorities what had happened. 706 00:37:03,664 --> 00:37:05,893 Instead, somebody killed her and turned her into a mummy? 707 00:37:05,932 --> 00:37:07,263 Hell of a way to get rid of a body. 708 00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:09,791 Hide it in plain sight, ship it out with the other artifacts. 709 00:37:09,836 --> 00:37:11,235 And no one would have ever found out 710 00:37:11,271 --> 00:37:13,603 if Medina hadn't decided to sell the wrong mummy. 711 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,073 When the collector refused it, 712 00:37:15,108 --> 00:37:16,905 Medina must have decided to take a closer look. 713 00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:19,878 And then that suspicion must have tipped off our killer, 714 00:37:19,912 --> 00:37:22,403 who had to murder Medina in order to keep the secret safe. 715 00:37:22,448 --> 00:37:24,279 It makes sense, but who's our killer? 716 00:37:24,317 --> 00:37:27,376 The only person with the skill to mummify a body. 717 00:37:29,688 --> 00:37:30,985 What's going on? 718 00:37:31,023 --> 00:37:34,925 Four words. Eat, pray, love, kill. 719 00:37:36,261 --> 00:37:39,287 Little friendly advice. Next time you kill someone, 720 00:37:39,331 --> 00:37:41,697 skip the part where you prove only you could have covered it up. 721 00:37:41,733 --> 00:37:43,360 Kill someone? What are you talking about? 722 00:37:43,402 --> 00:37:46,098 We're talking about Nicole Graham. You killed her in Mexico 723 00:37:46,138 --> 00:37:48,572 and then you mummified her body in order to cover it up. 724 00:37:48,607 --> 00:37:51,131 What? No, Nicole was killed in a jaguar attack. 725 00:37:51,175 --> 00:37:53,803 - Except they never found her body. - But we did. 726 00:37:53,844 --> 00:37:57,075 And so did Medina when he discovered the discrepancy in the carbon dating. 727 00:37:57,114 --> 00:38:00,345 And that's when you knew that you had to kill him. 728 00:38:00,484 --> 00:38:02,952 - That's insane. What happened, Rachel? 729 00:38:02,987 --> 00:38:05,751 Did you find her in the jungle making time with your man? 730 00:38:05,790 --> 00:38:08,816 Little Girls Gone Wild jealousy turned deadly? 731 00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:11,119 No, Nicole and I were friends. 732 00:38:11,162 --> 00:38:14,392 And whoever told you she was sleeping with Will was lying. 733 00:38:14,431 --> 00:38:17,025 Sure, she had a crush on him, okay? We all did. 734 00:38:17,067 --> 00:38:21,265 But she backed off when she realized that Will was interested in me. 735 00:38:21,371 --> 00:38:26,070 But Stan... Stanford. Stanford was the one who was jealous. 736 00:38:27,310 --> 00:38:28,902 Ask any of the women down there. 737 00:38:28,945 --> 00:38:31,675 He had a thing for Nicole ever since she joined the program. 738 00:38:31,715 --> 00:38:34,046 You'd always see him standing around watching her. It was creepy. 739 00:38:34,083 --> 00:38:36,017 You were the expert, Rachel. 740 00:38:36,051 --> 00:38:38,042 You were the only one who knew how to do it. 741 00:38:38,087 --> 00:38:39,577 No, I wasn't. 742 00:38:39,888 --> 00:38:43,324 Everything I know about mummification I learned from Stanford Raynes. 743 00:38:43,359 --> 00:38:46,522 Look, Detective, mummifying a body is a hands-on process. 744 00:38:46,562 --> 00:38:49,827 I promise you, whoever did that to Nicole left behind some DNA. 745 00:38:49,865 --> 00:38:51,765 I'm happy to provide a sample. 746 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,099 Why don't you see if Stanford wants to do the same? 747 00:38:57,972 --> 00:38:59,872 Stanford Raynes? - Yes? 748 00:38:59,941 --> 00:39:02,933 You're under arrest for the murder of Nicole Graham. 749 00:39:02,977 --> 00:39:05,605 And don't forget Will Medina. You had to kill him, too, 750 00:39:05,646 --> 00:39:07,443 when you caught him sniffing around her mummy. 751 00:39:07,482 --> 00:39:09,746 - Only way to protect your secret. - You can't be serious. 752 00:39:09,784 --> 00:39:12,753 Serious enough to get a warrant for your DNA. 753 00:39:14,021 --> 00:39:15,420 This is the part where you say, 754 00:39:15,456 --> 00:39:20,256 "And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids." 755 00:39:25,532 --> 00:39:27,523 Is he actually running away? 756 00:39:27,567 --> 00:39:30,934 Yeah, it's primal instinct. Fight or flight. 757 00:39:31,505 --> 00:39:33,973 - Should we run after him? - No need. 758 00:39:58,063 --> 00:40:00,190 Still say there's no curse? 759 00:40:02,902 --> 00:40:04,027 Ruh-roh. 760 00:40:06,204 --> 00:40:08,934 Once Stanford got out of surgery, he confessed to everything. 761 00:40:08,973 --> 00:40:11,100 How he lured Nicole into the burial chamber 762 00:40:11,142 --> 00:40:14,270 and how they fought when she refused to celebrate with him. 763 00:40:14,312 --> 00:40:16,712 So, what happened to the mummy he swapped for Nicole's body? 764 00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:19,342 The body was so fragile that all Stanford had to do 765 00:40:19,384 --> 00:40:22,012 was strip off the wrapping and stomp it into dust. 766 00:40:22,053 --> 00:40:23,486 And then he re-wrapped Nicole's body, 767 00:40:23,521 --> 00:40:25,455 stuffed it in the sarcophagus, sealed it up tight, 768 00:40:25,490 --> 00:40:27,923 and by the time it got to the U.S. Months later, 769 00:40:27,958 --> 00:40:29,585 the mummification process was complete. 770 00:40:29,626 --> 00:40:32,390 And when Stanford decided to kill Medina, 771 00:40:32,463 --> 00:40:35,057 he just used one of the pry bars from the museum to tip the gargoyle, 772 00:40:35,098 --> 00:40:37,828 and hoped that Medina's death would be blamed on the curse. 773 00:40:37,868 --> 00:40:41,201 Three members of the expedition dead, one on the way to jail. 774 00:40:41,238 --> 00:40:44,969 - Sounds like the curse is real to me. - Speaking of which... 775 00:40:46,877 --> 00:40:48,901 I have a deal to propose. 776 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,008 I spoke to the D.A. And he's agreed to drop the felony threat charges 777 00:40:54,050 --> 00:40:56,109 based on your cooperation. 778 00:40:56,686 --> 00:40:58,950 What kind of cooperation? 779 00:41:02,625 --> 00:41:05,093 Tell him how to reverse the curse. 780 00:41:06,229 --> 00:41:08,754 - Why should I? - Because, thanks to us, 781 00:41:08,798 --> 00:41:11,630 Mr. Bentley has agreed to send the entire collection 782 00:41:11,666 --> 00:41:14,897 back to the Mexican Museum after the exhibit ends. 783 00:41:15,136 --> 00:41:17,036 Why would he agree to that? 784 00:41:17,072 --> 00:41:20,166 Well, let's just say he's got a little public relations problem right now, 785 00:41:20,208 --> 00:41:23,541 and he could use all the good publicity he can get. 786 00:41:33,187 --> 00:41:35,178 - That's all I have to do? - Mmm. 787 00:41:36,524 --> 00:41:40,460 And one more thing. I wouldn't say no to a ride to the airport. 788 00:41:41,562 --> 00:41:42,654 Let's go. 789 00:41:45,866 --> 00:41:49,893 - You're in a good mood. - The curse has officially been lifted. 790 00:41:50,104 --> 00:41:52,971 - How'd you manage that? - You don't want to know. 791 00:41:53,007 --> 00:41:55,998 But I tempted fate all the way home just to make sure. 792 00:41:56,042 --> 00:41:57,100 - Jaywalking? - Mmm-hmm. 793 00:41:57,143 --> 00:41:58,804 Even walked under a ladder. 794 00:41:59,112 --> 00:42:01,774 What murderous experiments are you performing on tomatoes now? 795 00:42:01,814 --> 00:42:05,807 - Stabbing? Filleting? - Dicing. For a salad. Want to help? 796 00:42:08,321 --> 00:42:09,879 I would love to. 797 00:42:09,923 --> 00:42:13,950 So, I was thinking, maybe this weekend we could go to the museum. 798 00:42:14,394 --> 00:42:18,762 - It's been a while. - Yeah. How about the zoo? 799 00:42:19,464 --> 00:42:21,728 - That sounds great. - Thank you. 800 00:42:25,103 --> 00:42:27,571 What's the difference between curse and clumsy? 801 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,938 - I'll get a Band-Aid. - Get two.