- A man leading a double life is found dead in a garbage chute.
- Sam Parker's corpse is found in a garbage chute. However, he's identified not only by his wife, Helen, but by a fiancée, who only knew him as 'bachelor' Jake Holland. Also, under this second identity, he got his present job at a company which overtook, by means of innovation, his first employer's business. His brother-in-law found out and was mad not only about his cheating on his sister but because he hadn't paid back any of a big loan he gave Sam. Meanwhile, Becket agrees to having Alexis intern at the police station.—KGF Vissers
- When a murdered man is found stuffed in the garbage chute of an apartment building and two women arrive to ID his body -- one his wife and the other his fiance -- Castle and Beckett have their hands full keeping the women from killing each other as they work to peel back the layers of the victim's double life. Was it a jilted woman, corporate espionage, or a much darker secret that led to his demise?—ABC Publicity
- A scantily clad woman leaves her room with a pizza box in her hand. When she gets to the garbage chute, she finds it clogged with trash. She tries to shove it down the garbage chute when, suddenly, a body drops from a floor above onto her level, then the extra weight breaks the clog and continues it fall The woman screams.
Cut to Castle's apartment where he is playing with a toy helicopter, irritating the hell out of his mother. Alexis enters and asks Castle if he has signed the permission slip she had previously given him since she is volunteering at the NYPD for three days. Beckett calls, they've found the body.
Lanie and Beckett are standing around the body that have been shot once to the chest at close range. The victim is Sam Parker who's registered address is in Connecticut. Esposito reveals that the victim was shot on the 15th floor and that the woman who found it is a hottie (not so subtly).
Back at the precinct, it is revealed that Sam had a wife and two kids and did not have an apartment when he was found. Beckett and Castle head to the morgue for the wife to ID the body. There is already a woman there and Beckett sets about comforting her. They are interrupted when the door opens and another woman comes in stating she is his wife. Beckett asks the other lady who she is and she says she is his fiancée. Ouch or 'busted' as Castle says to the corpse.
Bringing the two women back to the precinct, they put in separate rooms. Captain Montgomery come up, and Castle and Beckett have to explain the whole wife/fiancée thing. They interview the fiancée first, who says she knew the victim as Jake Holland. They met a work and had been together for 6 months. She said she didn't know it was all fake. Turns out Jake/Sam would spend the week in the city with fiancée, Sarah, and the weekend with wife, Helen Parker. The wife is outraged, denying that he would do this to her. She says he started working in the city at a recycling plant 6 months ago, because he was 'passed over' for a promotion at his old job, another recycling plant. She says she didn't know that he was having an affair.
Knowing Sam's fake name, Ryan and Esposito go back to the building. They return to the precinct to report there was no sign of struggle and they brought back Sam's bag which contained a wallet with Jake Holland's identification. They also found a cell phone with a message on it. Playing it back, they hear "I'm not going to let you get away with this, you worthless piece of trash. If you don't call me back tonight, then my next call is to Helen". The message is from the victim's wife's brother.
Castle and Beckett interview the brother and find out Sam owed him $20, 000. But, he never paid back a single cent. His alibi, however, checks out. But they find out the Parker's were broke. The $20,000 was to pay the mortgage. They Sam's place of work and talk to the owner. He said he was surprised that Jake was really Sam as he had called all his references himself and got glowing recommendations. And he thought that Sarah and Jake was 'a pretty solid couple'.
When the police checked the phone numbers given for the references, they find out they all of them have been discontinued.
The fiancée turns up and says she thought that Mrs. Parker looked familiar because she had seen her parked outside Jake's apartment. Castle and Beckett go to see the wife to find out why she was there. The wife denies it and then implicates the fiancée.
Esposito finds out Sam previous employer, Connecticut Solutions, was going broke. New York Recycle had come up with new technology that allowed them to recycle the battery sludge and were taking over the market. He speculates that Sam changed his name to disguise he had previously been with Connecticut Solutions. Then Ryan shows up and reveals that all the disconnected phones were billed and registered to Connecticut Solutions. It seems Sam was sent in as a spy to find this new technology.
The boss at New York Recycle is shocked to find out Jake/Sam had been planted to find the new battery recycling formula. It turns out Sarah, the fiancée, was on the team that researched it. The police take Sarah's and Jake's computers to see if they can get any evidence from them.
It turns out, Jake/Sam was sending emails to his old boss that had parts of the new process in them. Castle and Beckett interview the old boss, Andy, and he admits to planting Sam there, offering him a 1 million dollar pay-day if he found the formula. He also admits Sam called him the night he was murdered, saying he finally figured out how New York Recycle was able to undercut the competition. But Andy had been told that before. He'd spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on research trying to complete the partial information he was being sent, but nothing worked. So Andy fired him. But Sam kept digging and finally called saying he found something. But, when Andy drove up, he saw the cops and went back home. Beckett says that he shot him because he couldn't pay him 1 million dollars.
Esposito and Ryan tell Beckett that the local police responded to a disturbance and have requested her to show up. Sarah had asked to have her grandfather's pen, which she had given Sam/Jake, returned but Helen refused. Sarah had shown up at Sarah's house and started looking for it in a detached office. When Helen found her there was an altercation and now Helen Parker was looking at assault charges and Sarah for trespassing. But they wanted Beckett there. When she arrives, she gets them to calm down and agree to not press charges.
The next morning, Beckett is bothered that they are missing something. Talking over the altercation the previous night, they remember that Sarah said Jake/Sam had an ulcer. But, Lanie's report didn't show one. Checking is calendar, they find that Sam/Jake had a doctor's appointment the last three Tuesday's. When they check with the doctor, the find no patient with Sam's or Jake's name. But when they check with the car service he used, they found that he told the driver to take him other places instead of to the doctor. The first week he was at an address on Long Island, the second at NY Recycles processing plant, and the third at a port.
Ryan and Esposito tell Castle and Beckett that Sam was asking about shipping at the processing plant and port, and that the address belonged to a Lauren Branston. The photo is of the fiancée, Sarah. She was using a fake name, too.
They interview the fiancée and she denies it until they pull out the driver's license and social security number. Also, it appears that Sarah/Lauren has worked for several other companies, all under new identities. Beckett summarizes that the new boss suspected Sam/Jake was a spy and told her to 'intercept' him.
She admits it, saying 'she was only doing her job'. She was supposed to look like she had information so Sam/Jake would bite. All she had to do was leave her laptop around his apartment with incomplete chemical formula on it. Then they tell her that Sam knew she was a fake. She doesn't believe it, but the evidence is undeniable. Beckett implies that Sarah knew Sam knew and killed him. But Sarah has an alibi as she was at her daughter's recital.
Her alibi checks out. But they realize that if the entire relationship was fake, then why did Sarah give Sam her grandfather's pen? What was she really looking for in Sam's office? Castle and Beckett go back to Helen's house to see what Sarah had found (or missed) since she didn't have anything with her when she left. Castle, trying to play out the story, ends up at a shredder that was still powered on. The found pieces of pictures and took them back to the precinct to piece them together.
The shredded pictures that Sam took, reveal that New York Recycle wasn't recycling batteries. They were just changing labels and dumping it in the sea. With this new information, there is only one person who would need to hid the fact that they really didn't have new recycling technology. He denies is, but they find his gun in a dumpster near his house.
They tell the wife the good news. Sam wasn't unfaithful. He was trying to help the world.
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