Castle 2:10
Man it sucks to find a dead body when you’re in your underwear! I mean, this girl is just throwing away some garbage, no need to get dressed for that, and bam! guy shows up in the garbage chute.
Turns out the guy has both a wife in Connecticut, where he lives, and a fiance in New York, where he works. Sounds like some pretty good murder suspects to me, cuz I’m guessing at least one of them knew that something weird was going on.
While Castle and Beckett are investigating this whole thing, Alexis is interning at the police station for a few days. Her task? Organize the lost possessions room! This ultimately sends her on a quest to find the living relatives of someone who had a photo album in the room, which is very sweet of her.
We follow the crew to the company the dead guy worked for, which is run by Principal Wood from season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! I never really caught his actual name, so we’re sticking with Principal Wood and wow, has he come a long way from running Sunnydale High!
Through Principal Wood, we kind of eventually learn that dead guy was helping the company find better ways of recycling old batteries, which are wicked bad for the environment. Cept then through the investigation of his old work, we find out he’s *actually* a corporate spy for the old company, sent to figure out the secrets of the new one.
The fiance is not actually so innocent herself, and it turns out she was hired by the new company to spy on dead guy, since they figured out he was a spy but wanted to drain his old company of all their funds. Pretty clever of Principal Wood! Anyway, it turns out that dead guy found out the real secret – new company doesn’t have a special way of disposing of everything, they just sneak it out into a ship and have it dumped in the water. Principal Wood finds out that dead guy knows the truth and, well, we have a murder. Just FYI, if you ever kill someone, don’t throw the weapon away in the garbage outside your own house.
So in the end, dead guy is not actually a total jerk, and was faking the engagement to get the secret formula thingie. Everyone was playing each other in this one. And we can’t leave without a good quote from someone on the show…
Never underestimate the fragility of the male ego
Definitely so true!
