Kill the Messenger

**Writer**: Terence Paul Winter

**Director**: Jonathan Frakes

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

When a bike messenger is killed for the package he's delivering to Captain Montgomery, Beckett and Castle must re-investigate a murder the Captain solved ten years ago, and dig into the dirty secrets of one of New York's most prominent families.

### Guest cast

* Jill Andre - LENANNE WELLESLEY
* Josh Daugherty - TRENT WELLESLEY
* Arye Gross - M.E. PERLMUTTER
* Jeff Harlan - FRANK DAVIS
* Gregg Henry - WINSTON WELLESLEY
* Sonya Leslie - VALERIE THOMPSON
* Ron Melendez - JEFF DILAHUNT
* Mark Moses - BLAKE WELLESLEY
* Hattie Winston - SALLY NIEDERMEYER

### Music

* "On Fire" - LOCKSLEY (Teaser)
* "Coming Fast, Coming Hard (C'mon Y'all) " - SALME DAHLSTROM (tag)

### Literary and other references

* *Quicksilver* is a 1986 movie starring Kevin Bacon as a former investment banker who ends up as a bike messenger.
* Winston Wellesley mentions MoMA - the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
* "Bolivian marching powder" is cocaine.

### Memorable moments

* Martha signing up for 'MyFace'
* Montgomery and Castle watching Beckett with the victim's sister.
* The police actually replacing the door they've mistakenly broken down. And the boys taking tea as penance.

### Quotable quotes

* CASTLE: Off the top of my head I'm gonna go with nuclear launch codes...Dick Cheney's soul on its way to the devil.
MONTGOMERY: All good theories Castle, all good theories.
BECKETT: Uh, sir? Are you okay?
* DILAHUNT: What, can't a guy and a girl just be friends?
CASTLE: Please.
DILAHUNT: Are you two together?
(*at the same time*)
CASTLE: Not yet.
BECKETT: Absolutely not.
* PERLMUTTER: Back in the non-fiction section...
* CASTLE: Can I borrow your magnifying glass?
BECKETT: I don't *have* a magnifying glass...
* CASTLE: He's got contingency plans for his contingency plans. Feels like we're battling a super-villain.
PERLMUTTER: S'cuse me, dynamic duo, what are we doing with this?
* BECKETT: Are you looking at porn?
CASTLE: I use Ryan's computer for that.
* BECKETT: S. Nidal Mattar, S. Niedermeyer. Some bozo at the courier company wrote the name wrong.
CASTLE: Our bad. I'm gonna... We can... (*CASTLE motions for the team to fix the door*)

### Just the facts

Go here to discuss the spec

* The precinct is under review and their closure rate is just under the mandated minimum. However, this is not taking into account the budget cuts - staff was cut by 20% and closure rates only dropped by 3%. However, the three cases they close in this episode puts them just over the minimum.
* 10 years ago Montgomery was a detective with the 64th precinct.
* Montgomery apparently has a very good memory - he not only recognized the name of a suspect in a 10 year old open-and-shut case, but also recalled details about it.
* Ryan is apparently *still* reading *Heat Wave* - either he's a really slow reader or he *really* likes page 105.
* Martha had a high school boyfriend named Chet Palaburn, who is still using the same photo on his Myface page.

### Oops

* Why does Perlmutter check the coffin for prints? It seems like they would need to send it to CSU to have it processed.
* Perlmutter also says that "when Brady confessed, the ME decided not to be thorough." In which case, let's hope the city decided to fire the ME, because there's no way a confession should affect the quality of the autopsy, nor is the ME likely to have been informed of a confession until it's corroborated, which would take longer than the autopsy to carry out.
* When Castle accepts Chet's friend request, he hit the right click button, which would not accept the request, but rather bring up a menu bar.

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Reviews

* CliqueClack - Castle - That was so awesome (10 Nov 09)

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