Castle (Nathan Fillion) watches Beckett (Stana Katic) doing boring paperwork and Castle comments on the worst tasting coffee he's ever had. How does he know what a monkey that's peed in battery acid tastes like. Beckett thinks he's hiding since his book is out today. A DB has been found dumped in a rug. Castle takes photos of the CS without the other's knowledge. He comments, "every artist needs a muse." Beckett threatens to break his legs if he calls her his muse. She's so violent, well if it isn't the use of a gun, it's physical violence she has on her mind. Castle doesn't believe it was a robbery since he wouldn't hang around to wrap him in a rug. But he also knows who the Vic is, as usual, kept that to himself for a while.
He's Councilman Jeff Horn ( from the bus ads) he's up for re-election. His wife, Laurie (Lisa Waltz) says she called him at 11, that's your first clue. Also note her eyes looking down in a leftish direction, always a sign of lies and the feigned tears. She tells them Horn would crash on the couch when he wasn't home. She wonders what she'll tell the girls (that she killed their father.) Well she's gotta be number 1 suspect, as spouses always are.
Castle asks what Beckett's going to do next, establish a timeline, "grab a donut?" She wants to know what her character's like in his book. Castle replies, not too bright and kind of slutty..."smart, savvy, hauntingly good looks and kind of slutty." Martha (Susan Sullivan) calls to tell him no one's buying any of his books. (Know what that feels like, ha.) Storm isn't Potter (Harry) so there's no line out the door. A woman looks at Castle's standee and puts the book back.
Ryan (Seamus Deaver) lets Esposito (Jon Huertas) know he picks stuff up from the street, like the red couch Esposito likes. Castle knows the real robber would have left the wallet where he killed him. Nesbitt (Michael Reilly Burke) is another suspect as he also says he spoke with Hornaround 11 just like Laurie. Beckett believes it's premeditated. (Castle loves his blue, especially in tops.) Nesbitt points them in the direction of Creason (Bruno Campos), whom Castle also knows, by reputation. He's left with worthless real estate but denies killing Horn, he actually toasted his death and claims he was at his club. Castle whispers after the meeting, "I want to take a shower." Some gals would add with him! Or both of them. Ha. There's no need for Beckett to check his alibi since he e-mailed photos from the CS, specifically the rug, to an interior decorator friend of his. Then going off on a tangent about sleeping with her too and it wasn't the same afterwards. He doesn't know "what she is now." They see the rug in one of the rooms. And at this point I made my rug, as a hairpiece comment for a joke. Beckett: "Don't gloat cos it's really unattractive." Hmm, so she thinks he's attractive when not gloating - no mental or written note on that from Castle. No wonder he was suffering writer's block when certain comments he can get mileage from just wash right over him.
Creason is brought to the precinct and he hates their coffee too. Castle now believes Creason is innocent and he's the red herring of the piece, since the evidence points to him, he's a millionaire but not dumb enough to use his own rug. Castle to Beckett: "You're good at bossing men around, I've noticed." Beckett tells him Creason wasn't at the club until 1am and Castle can be heard shouting form the other side of the interrogation room. Creason was positive Horn would lose the election since Jason Bollinger, his opponent (Joshua Lo Bar) had photos of Horn with a woman for blackmailing purposes from a PI. (Politics, affairs, blackmail, all go hand in hand.) Kirby (Jonathan Banks) was a former cop (and sometimes they're the worst kind.)
Castle calls Horn "Councilman Horny," knew that was coming. Beckett wonders why it's always the good guys who end up messing around. Castle refers to it as the universe loving irony and people are hypocrites (ironic comments in this episode.) Beckett wonders why she thought he'd leave his wife for her, Castle calls that sexist, she could have just wanted the sex and nothing more. Castle asks what turned Beckett off Horn, "that he was wearing a rug." Hey that's my rug joke and I said it first. Ha.
Kirby insults Castle as a "second rate novelist." And what, Kirby's the cornerstone of decency. The woman was called Tiffany (Alicia Ziegler) and was a prostitute with her own website. Ryan asks Castle if he's paid for sex and he asks between his ex- wives. Castle calls and arranges a date with Tiffany much to Beckett's annoyance since the police can't do that. Castle retorts he's just a lonely gentleman looking for a date. He buys them an Espresso machine, ulterior motive there too since he mostly has to hang out there. Castle brings up the rug and if it hadn't been used, then the killing would've been deemed a simple mugging. Alexis (Molly Quinn) asks about his current book and Beckett, saying, "you have to love your character." Castle calls Beckett "research." Now she won't like being called research. Martha reads him an extract from the Syracuse Times book review and says Harper Lee was literature, but Castle's written many more books. Tiffany calls back.
Lainie (Tamala Jones) and Beckett have another conversation about Castle as being fun and "do-able"(my word.) Beckett needs fun. Castle calls and gloats he's got a date. Beckett can't believe Horn paid Tiffany just to talk, at first. So judgemental again. Castle questions if Laurie knew about them. (Another clue.) Horn told Tiffany he was being blackmailed and was looking for the blackmailer. Not Bollinger, he's too obvious, but a sleazy ex-cop would fit the profile. Bollinger tells them Laurie is running for Horn's position and if he used the photos now, she'd win for sure. Ironic comment number 2. They should follow the money trail. Nesbitt pretends to be shocked at the photos.
Castle, Ryan and Esposito toast using their Espresso coffee cups, much to Beckett's chagrin. Kirby was the blackmailer and Horn was paying him a quarter of a million, but didn't show for their meeting. Captain (Reuben Santiago Hudson) comments a three year old could better than that line. Castle thinks his reason is so bad it could be true. Horn would go to the people who gave him money before, but Nesbitt says no one paid him anything from the campaign. Castle asks Alexis who she would ask for money, naturally him and she reads him an extract from another book review. That was the final important clue, Horn would've asked Laurie for money as she's from money. Castle: "I'd ask you." As Beckett sat pondering the case, her hand quietly crept over to the coffee mug seated empty on her desk and she too sneaked over to the Espresso machine...to be startled and caught out by Castle.
Laurie knew of the affair, so she gave Horn money. She claims Horn forged her signature and she preferred to pay off the blackmailer, after working so hard to get this far. She posits Horn had the money with him, but it's actually found at her house. He humiliated her so she made him disappear and called Horn at 11 on her own earlier admission. Beckett adds conspiracy is still murder. Nesbitt met him after her call and he shot him. What's the point in Nesbitt running, he won't get far and he confesses. The rug was a red herring. Captain says good work and adds "you too Beckett," joking.
The women are in tears at Castle's book reading and Beckett arrives, throwing her coat off, to take out her annoyance of him at the store. She's making fun of him and Castle asks if she's telling him how to do his job. Martha blabs the characters name, 'Nikki Heat', which he calls a "cop name." Beckett: "It's a stripper name." Well Castle said she was slutty and that awful dress Beckett wore at the end, "slutty." I rest my case! Castle refuses to change the name, he's got "artistic integrity."
If you didn't get the wife as the killer/co-conspirator as your immediate suspect, then the title was a big giveaway. Since early on in the episode Castle informs Beckett that his new character based on her is "slutty...slutty...slutty..." and what does Beckett do when she turns up at his book signing, looking, well, "slutty." She's encroaching on his territory this time - he doesn't turn up at the precinct dressed so slobbish, or "male slutty." Ha. Then she has the audacity to complain about the character's name, 'Nikki Heat'. Knew the 'In Heat' title was coming up, that's offensive when you really think about it, more than the 'slutty' character.
Once again Castle has to solve the case for Beckett, again with a little help from Alexis, that she'd go to him for money, well of course, Horn's wife was loaded, where else would Horn's money be coming from. Supposed to be about family values and what were the two of them really like, one slept with a prostitute and the other wanted him dead. That's family values and tax dollars hard at work.
Bruno Campos in 'almost' one of his last acting roles, so savour the moment, before he gave it all up for law school! Not that that isn't a good thing, but the acting world 'lost' a great actor. Now where did I put my Law Review?
Shame Castle had no chance to comment on her actually using his coffee machine, same said machine she turned her nose up at! Rugs mentioned in The Mentalist, even though it was in season 3.20 Redacted, the rug wasn't to hide the body, the DB was found on this and was worth a fortune. However, in 1.14 Crimson Casanova, an adulterous wife was shot and the husband was aware his wife had a lover, he was in control of the money. Here Laurie was in a similar position. In 1.19 A Dozen Red Roses: a former State Senator is murdered. 2.2 The Scarlet Letter: a State Senator's aid was having an affair with a Senator's husband. Lots of similar themes here.
If anyone's interested, the earlier part of the article Alexis mentioned, reads: "For all the talk that so often gets thrown around by critics about who the hottest young writer is...it's seldom spoke what a rare pleasure it is to sit down and read something that is purely and perfectly fun. That's what Richard Castle writes...! That's what this show is, "purely and perfectly fun." His book's selling for $28 for 295 pages, that's a bit steep, even for a 'fictional, non-existent, hardback book'. Though there are books available in the Nikki Heat series, released by ABC to coincide with the show: 'Heat Wave;' 'Naked Heat.' 'Heat Rises.' 'Frozen Heat.' 'A Brewing Storm.'
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