3XK

**Writer**: David Amann

**Director**: Bill Roe

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

It's everyone's worst nightmare -- the serial killer Montgomery never caught makes a reappearance, and takes A Very Special Hostage.

### Guest cast

* Lee Tergesen - MARCUS GATES
* Michael Mosley - JERRY TYSON
* Brian Klugman - PAUL McCARDLE
* Joe O'Connor - CAL TOWNSEND
* Anne Marie Howard - ANGELA RUSSO

### Music

* "Without You" - DEREK EVRY (Girl walks alone at night.)
* "A Million Ways" - UNCLE LUCIUS (Team captures suspect outside a bar)

### Literary and other references

* Marcus Gates refers to Captain Montgomery as "affirmative action", a policy intended to promote the opportunities of defined minority groups within a society to give them equal access to that of the majority population [Wikipedia]. The practice is widespread in government agencies such as law enforcement.

### Memorable moments

* When Beckett calls Castle for help.
* Castle profiling Jerry Tyson and vice versa.
* Castle and Beckett sitting next to each other knowing they failed.

### Quotable quotes

* MONTGOMERY: Feds say he's a white male 25 to 45 years old.
CASTLE: *(whispers to Beckett)* It could be me.
MONTGOMERY: With a dysfunctional relationship with his mother.
CASTLE: Still me.
MONTGOMERY: He has a menial, unimportant job.
BECKETT: Definitely you.
CASTLE: Just for that I'm basing my next book on Esposito.
* CASTLE: How did you know to come here?
BECKETT: Your mom called; she said that you told her you loved her and she figured that something must be terribly wrong.
* LANIE: That was quick.
CASTLE: 911 has that effect...
* LANIE: I pulled all the files on all his past murders, just like you asked.
CASTLE: I--I believe that was my idea.
LANIE: Yeah, but I only listen when it comes from her.
* CASTLE: Oh!
BECKETT: What?
CASTLE: Found a penny. Under the circumstances, is this still lucky?
* CASTLE: (*reading Beckett's note*) Jelly Tyson?
BECKETT: It's *Jerry.*
* CASTLE: (*fixing Beckett's writing*) Now it's Jerry.
* CASTLE: You heard the man! Hands in the air and get on your knees while you're at it!
* CASTLE: (*hitting the table/Esposito's hand in excitement*) That's sweat! That's sweat--Sweaty von Sweats-a-lot!

### Just the facts

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* The Triple Killer's first appearance was four years ago. According to the transcript Beckett has, a call on May 21, 2006 was a week after the 6th murder, so the 1st set of killings were April 23-29, 2006 and May 7-13, 2006.
* Castle researched the Triple Killer for his book *When It Comes to Slaughter*, so that book was written somewhere between 2007 and 2009, when *Storm Fall* was published.
* 3XK is next mentioned in season 4, episode 4, "Kick the Ballistics", when the gun he stole from Ryan is used in a murder.

### Oops

* Not exactly an oops, but in 2x05, Castle says that Sheri Ort "broke [his] heart; stole [his] lunch money." When Montgomery is profiling 3XK, you can see that one of the women is named "Sheri Ort." Creepy...
* When Beckett is giving the profile of Marcus Gates, she says that he is 5 ft and 180 lbs. On the close up of his mug shot, his vitals are posted next to it and it says that he is 6'2" and 195 lbs.

### Branch libraries

* News
	+ Staying In With Vlada - 'Castle' Hunts a Serial Killer (25 Oct 10)
	+ Give Me My Remote - CASTLE's Seamus Dever Teases a Ryan-Centric Episode, '3XK' and a Hookup (18 Oct 10)
* Reviews
	+ CliqueClack - Castle--The Triple Killer is back (26 Oct 10)
* Promos