Dial M for Mayor

**Writer**: Christine Boylan

**Director**: Kate Woods

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

After a woman is found murdered in a car that happens to belong to City Hall and was last used by the Mayor, Castle and Beckett are once again at odds over having a friend as the suspect. To add to the problem, Castle receives a mysterious phone call offering help from an unlikely source - at a price.

### Guest cast

* Derek Webster - MAYOR ROBERT WELDON
* Adam Kulbersh - BRIAN SHAY
* Michael Grant Terry - JORDAN NORRIS
* Dave Florek - HARVEY
* Cara Pifko - ROBERTA CAMBRIDGE
* Rebecca Field - MARILYN KANE
* Mimi Michaels - SARAH MARX
* Victoria Gabrielle Platt - CONNIE PARK
* Germaine De Leon - EDGAR NAVARRO
* Geoff Pierson - MR. SMITH

### Literary and other references

* *King Lear* is a tragic play by William Shakespeare. Martha performs Act II, Scene II, complete with dramatic lighting, thunder, and fog in the beginning of the episode.
* A 1997 Oscar winning film written by and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, *Good Will Hunting* is the story about a genius mathematician working as a janitor at MIT who gains the attention of and gets to work with a professor mentor.
* *An Officer and a Gentleman* is a 1982 American film starring Richard Gere and Debra Winger, the title having been taken from an old expression, namely "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman".
* *The Conversation* is a 1974 American film that deals with a normal man who runs a security business and as a result, overhears conversations that wreak havoc on his conscience.
* Starring John Travolta in 1982, *Blow Out* is a film about a man who saves a woman from a car accident, only to find out that the event has ties to the governor. The audio recording of the accident holds clues to the reality of the situation.

### Memorable moments

* Martha going all out for her play rehearsal, complete with thunder and a smoke and wind machine - in Castle's living room.
* Castle and Beckett fighting like rational, understanding adults, despite their differences.
* The return of the mysterious man.
* Other than 3XK (where they knew who the killer was, he just got away) this is the first unsolved case for Beckett and her team that we've seen.

### Quotable quotes

* WELDON: *(to Castle)* She's one of New York’s finest, huh Ricky?
CASTLE: She’s the best.
* SHAY: You’re wasting your time.
BECKETT: It’s my time to waste. Now, I got a job to do.
* CASTLE: An officer and a gentleman? That could be the name of our crime blog.
BECKETT: Crime blog? The way you help me write police reports? I got a feeling I’ll be writing that one on my own.
* CASTLE: It’s not a sweat shop. It’s a sex shop.
* CASTLE: You’re damn right I’m biased. Robert Weldon is a good man.
BECKETT: Even good men make mistakes.
* RYAN: This will destroy Weldon, you know.
BECKETT: Yeah, I know.
ESPOSITO: And when he’s gone the first thing she’ll do is get rid of Castle.
BECKETT: I know.
* CASTLE: Are you kidding me? Kate, this is politics. Perception is reality. The truth won’t matter.
BECKETT: What am I supposed to do, Rick? I can’t just stop being a cop because it’s inconvenient.
* BECKETT: I can’t apologize for doing my job, Castle.
CASTLE: And I would never ask you to.
* BECKETT: Jordan Norris is a pawn. I want the people controlling him.
GATES: Oh, it’s a long game, Kate. Play it piece by piece.
* MYSTERY MAN: You play chess, Mr. Castle? There are times when a well-placed pawn is more powerful than a king.

### Oops

How does one hire, and subsequently fire, a volunteer for a charity campaign?