#Castle recap Episode 13

I, Witness

Castle in the woods. Something keeps rustling. He gets knocked out.

12 hours earlier. Castle finds Kate at his desk. She wants to do her paperwork at home. We can work a bit, and then take a nap. He gets a call for a case. She says that's fantastic. But if you're going to your office, then I'm going to mine.

Castle's client is an old student friend. Her husband Cole, she thinks he's cheating on her. She needs to know the truth. Can you help me? He says it's not the work he likes to take. She begs. Okay, sure.

Castle spies on Cole. Cole is at a business meeting in a restaurant. Cole has a doctor's appointment next. He calls someone about meeting.

Castle tells Kate that he caught Cole and Eva is packing to leave him. Kate asks when he can get home for dinner.

Espo asks Kate about Castle's case. Ryan thinks Espo won't get a date for a couple's trip they already booked. Ryan and Jenny want to hook Espo up. Look at her photo. Kate says she's stunning. Espo agrees to meet her.

Castle at Eva's. He's bringing the photos. Hears a woman screaming. Sees her body being dragged into another room. Climbs over the fence. The body is dragged into a car. Rick chases after the car.

He tries calling Kate. Reception is terrible. He's following the car in his car. Sees it stopped. Gets out. Looks in and sees the bloody seat. Goes into the woods and gets knocked out.

He wakes up. Grabs his flashlight and goes back to the road. Both cars gone and no cell service. He wanders on the road. Cell works and he calls Kate. Says Eva is dead. I couldn't stop it.

Castle tells cops about what he saw. The detective doubts. Kate says she's sure he saw what he says. They did find Castle's car. They go to Eva's house. The husband is home. He says Eva isn't home. Got home 20 minutes ago and found a note. Eva left me. He says he's tries calling her. Do you drive a black Model S? No, that's Eva's car. Where were you at 7:45 tonight? He says um, I was at work. They check the kitchen. There's blood residue on the island. He says Eva cut her hand. Why are you looking for blood residue? Do you think I did something to my wife? Get out of my house now.

Castle couldn't sleep. Kate tries comforting him. Detective says search teams didn't find anything in the woods. Still looking for Eva's car and phone. Cole says he was with his mistress until 8pm. Castle says we need to talk to her. She says this isn't my case. He says Eva was my friend and she's dead. Okay, I'll talk to the mistress.

Miss McKinley is the mistress. Without a cent of guilt. He showed up around 6 and left around 8.

Kate thinks she was too ready with her answers. Let's look into Mr. Whitfield.

Castle spying on Cole's house. He's spotted. Cole confronts him. He says Eva just called him 20 minutes ago and she cleaned out the accounts. 7.4 million. Hey, you'll never prove a thing.

Castle with Kate. You are ruining your credibility. Cole's story checks out. Espo says no one saw Whitfield with the mistress. Ryan says Cole was married before. A dead woman, and the only witness was Cole. Her entire estate went to Cole. So this was planned!

This isn't coincidence. Whitfield is going to major trouble to make Eva look alive. And he's got an accomplice. The mistress lives on that block! Espo has a date, so Kate and Ryan retrieve the mistress.

Kate interrogates her. Until a lawyer arrives. Cole sent her. Kate says if you're an accomplice, that means jail. That call pinged off a tower by your building at 9:35am. Mistress says she was at work, you can check that. She was covering for another instructor.

Castle and Kate and Ryan discuss. Espo returns. He says he got a stalker vibe from Stacy. She saw a photo on my profile. You signed me up for Match.com? What the hell is wrong with you? We were trying to help. Espo says he doesn't need their help.

Yoga studio verifies Taylor was at work. Someone wanted us to believe she did it. Castle says the murder is staged. I'm Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo. Eva's alive! She's the one person who would want Cole and the mistress to go down. Eva wants him to suffer. She set him up. Beckett, I'm right about this. Kate gets a call. They found Eva's body in the Hudson.

Castle doesn't think it'll be Eva's body. You'll see. But it's Eva. Prints match and dental records. She's in the dress she was wearing at Castle's office, too. Blunt force trauma to the head. Kate tells Castle she's sorry about his friend.

Espo and Ryan tells the mistress that Eva is dead. So now's the time to tell us the truth.

Lawyer with Cole. Kate interrogates him. Did you find Mrs. Whitfield? In the Hudson. Taylor gave you up. You weren't with her last night. Lawyer asks if she's pressing charges. Inevitably, yeah. Cole, let's go. Castle confronts Cole. Lawyer drags Cole away. Kate tells Rick to go home. Her phone rings.

Lanie says Eva's fingernail was split. 3 hairs in the crack. They're a match for Cole.

Police go to the house with a warrant. No answer, but the car is there. They enter the house and look for him. Kate see's him hanging in the foyer. So now the murderer is dead?

Kate asks Rick if he's okay. ME says it looked like suicide. Later in bed, Rick wakes up. Something is bothering him. Why would Cole commit suicide? The case against him is circumstantial. It's too clean. She tells him to stop chasing the mice in his head. We'll deal with anything in the morning.

She wakes up and he's not in bed. He left a note. Meet me at my office.

She brought coffee. He's got a timeline board. Cole didn't kill himself. He's too much of a narcissist to commit suicide. If he didn't murder Eva, someone else did. The man wanted me to believe it was Cole. Eva's co-conspirator killed her. The company got an offer to buy out. The guy wanting out of the company to pay his debts is Scott Galloway. Check his alibi. She will. But you might be seeing ghosts.

Kate tells Espo and Ryan that Castle has been right too many times to not consider his theory.

Castle calls. He sees how he might be tumbling down the rabbit hole. She says Scott didn't do it, but I know who did.

Scott's in the clear. But Cole was in Scarsdale at the time of the murder. Robert James, the other executive. Mrs. James was there. 2 affairs? Can we put Robert James near the Whitfield house?

Kate talks to Robert. This is you heading to Cole's house. When Eva found out about the affairs, she came to you with a plan. You wanted revenge. The man deserved what he got. So you staged the attack on Eva. Yes. It was all for show, of course. He doesn't know how Eva died. Eva said the next morning that she was having second thoughts. He gave her a key to a corporate apartment.

So who is the 3rd party? Ryan found out.

Kate and Castle visit the lawyer. Cole was sedated. Heavily. You talked to Eva and whispered in her ear. Cole's first wife was a sorority sister of yours in college. You told friends he got away with murder. You took the job to get into Cole's life, and you found the way to revenge with Eva. Eva got cold feet, but you couldn't have that. And killing Cole was a way to tie up loose ends. We have a warrant. Found Eva's blood and DNA in your trunk. It's over, Ms. Haskins.

Local police take the lawyer into custody. Ryan apologizes to Espo. Espo has a date with Trixie. Ryan says we rejected her. Espo says sucks for you, she'll be at the couple's retreat.

Kate and Castle toast. He feels guilty for getting played. Maybe being a PI is too much....ambiguity. Maybe I'm not cut out for this. She says don't make any hasty decisions. Sleep on it. Or nap on it. She highly advocates "naps". They kiss in his chair.

Next week - 3XK returns! Where's Beckett?