Castle (TV Series)

Probable Cause (2012)

Tamala Jones: Lanie Parish

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• [evidence on Castle's computer suggests he was having an affair with the victim] 

  Kate Beckett : They started up about eight weeks ago, according to those e-mails. He met her after one of his... book signings and he asked her out for coffee and that was a... It was just a couple of weeks after we started seeing each other.

  Lanie Parish : [sympathetically]  Oh, sweetie.

  Kate Beckett : He told her that needed to keep it a secret, because he was with someone else... And then when he tried to break it off about a week ago, she threatened to go and tell his girlfriend. He offered to come over to her apartment to talk things through. And that was the night of the murder.

  Lanie Parish : He had motive... What did Castle say when you talked to him?

  Kate Beckett : He said that the e-mails were faked. He said he never wrote that story and that he was being framed...

  [near tears] 

  Kate Beckett : You should have seen him, Lanie. He looked like a little boy, he was so scared... I know him, Lanie... He is... an immature, egotistical... self-centered jackass sometimes, but he's not this.

• Lanie Parish : Strangulation is a violent act. But there were no signs that she fought back. No skin under the fingernails, no bruising. So I did some checking. She was drugged. Lung tissue suggests exposure to chloroform. Also, your killer was careful. He was wearing gloves.

  Richard Castle : How can you tell?

  Lanie Parish : Traces of talcum powder on the body. The same talc used in surgical gloves *or* the evidence gloves that you use at the crime scenes. Whoever this person is, they knew *exactly* what they were doing.

  Richard Castle : He's done this before.

• Javier Esposito : Name's Tessa Horton, 29. Roommate came home from the weekend away. found her up there.

  [pan up to see barbed wire on the ceiling] 

  Richard Castle : Oh, jeez! Who puts a body on a ceiling?

  Lanie Parish : Beats me, but I probably won't sleep for weeks.

  Javier Esposito : It's like something out of one of your books, right?

• Kate Beckett : Cause of death?

  Lanie Parish : Ligature marks and petechiae suggest strangulation.

  Kate Beckett : What about this wound on her forehead?

  Javier Esposito : It's non-lethal. Given the detail, looks like it was carved by some kind of razor.

  Richard Castle : It's a symbol of some kind.

  Kate Beckett : Do you recognize it?

  Richard Castle : No, but the killer went through a lot of trouble. Must mean something.