- A case involving an insurance agent brings Castle and Beckett, who are still on the outs after he looked into her mom's case, back together.
- Insurance agent John Allen was strangled and thrown off a roof into a tree. On the way to the morgue, masked men intercept the ambulance and hold Castle and Lanie at gun-point to steal the corpse. Later, the corpse is found, again, but it had been cut open and the organs were removed. The widow refuses to consider infidelity and points at former colleague Max Haverstock. But it turns out both were fired eight months before and only Max got another job. Meanwhile, only the mayor and the chief prevent Becket from severing Castle's privileged ties with the NYPD. She gets Castle to agree that after this case, if she asks him to leave, he would and Castle agrees to the terms. So he takes risks to redeem himself after the trail leads to an underground poker game in Chinatown and Russian mobsters. But it may be Alexis who has the key to swaying Beckett's decision.—KGF Vissers etc
- When the new season begins, Castle is wrestling with how to repair his relationship with Beckett, while struggling to finish his soon-to-be-published bestseller, Heat Wave. But circumstances force the pair back together to investigate the mysterious murder of a man found dead, tangled in the limbs of a tree.—ABC Publicity
- John Allen is found dead in the branches of a tree. Lanie's preliminary exam indicates that the victim was dead by suffocation before being tossed off the roof. As he is being taken to the morgue to be examined, a group of masked men stop the ambulance and kidnap the body. At Allen's home, his wife tells Beckett and Castle that a former co-worker, Max Haverstock, used to call him up at night and complain for having been laid off by John.
But, at Haverstocks questioning, he reveals that both he and Allen were laid off months ago. John Allen had been lying to his family while searching for another job.
Allen's body is found again but had been cut opened and his organs removed. Lanie concludes, after the autopsy, that he was carrying drugs and was possibly a drug mule. Also, by the light bruises where the little finger would be, she concludes he was killed by a man with a missing or possible broken finger.
Fingerprints of one of the masked men are detected and he and his friends are taken in. One of them reveals the name of the man who vouched for Allen was Ron Bigby.
Bigby tells them that Allen had lost heavily while gambling at Chinatown to a tattooed Russian. Castle used his sources to find the location of the gambling place and tries to infiltrate as a big time gambler.
At the den, Castle goes in, with a camera and speakers on him, as Beckett, Esposito and Ryan stay and observes him in a van. Inside, Castle a bunch Russians at a no-limits table and joins them. While talking about a story he is researching on a Russian mobster and gambling, Beckett identifies one man as having a prosthetic finger. Realizing Castle is in danger, Beckett changes clothes and goes in, arriving just in time to save Castle and apprehend the mobster.
At the station, Castle asks for her to reopen her mother's case and help her in solving it. But Beckett says no and asks him to leave.
In the subplot, Alexis and Owen have a fight when he misses a movie they were going to see together and tries to explain his way out of the situation. Alexis asks Castle why boys can't just say they're sorry and not invent excuses. Castle acts on Alexis's advice and apologizes to Beckett and starts to leave. Before he leaves the area, she decides forgive him and says she will see him tomorrow.
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