Castle 2:9
A respected prosecutor is murdered, which naturally means there are a lot of suspects since he’s responsible for putting tons of people in jail. It’s another convoluted plot that I absolutely loved, with plenty of questions about who the victim really was and how he became involved in all the crazy things he was doing.
At first the guy seems squeaky clean, but as we see more and more, we find out he was using a call girl service and was way more involved in that than you would ever think! In fact, one of the detectives asks why a respected prosecutor would become a pimp, and Castle says “The outfits.“ I mean, who doesn’t want to wear a fedora around the town!
So it turns out that the victim was actually running the call girl ring, because he had managed to put the original owner away and took over the business. Some of his employees decided to pull one over on him and take the business, and ultimately he ended up dead over it.
One of the call girls befriends Castle and even shows up at his house! I was wondering at first how she managed to find out where he lived, but she apparently has a client in the publishing world. She’s a really sad case, a girl who goes to New York to try and make her way in the lawyering world, but ends up down on her luck and becomes a call girl. I know that’s certainly what I considered when I was unemployed, because who wouldn’t! You know, who would work at a nice restaurant or something when you can be an escort?
Anyway, she turns out to be a great con artist and ultimately they figure out she was responsible for the murder. She thought she could run the business herself, and the victim didn’t want to give the business up, so she took matters into her own hands. All of us, including Castle and Beckett, were played by this girl. But amusingly enough, when Castle calls her on the call girl line, she asks how he got the number and he said he had a friend in the publishing world. Way to use a source both ways!
