- A man Beckett has been secretly following is found dead - and then a notorious criminal involved in the first death is killed with Beckett's own gun. Faced with an elaborate frame-up, she has no choice but to run.
- Kate Beckett is following a man she believes is related to the death of her mother. The man turns up dead the next morning. They discover that the man was killed by Vulcan and when his body is discovered, Beckett is framed for that murder. Her only hope is to discover a cassette recording that will help her solve the case and prove her innocence. Castle and the entire team at the precinct must help her or go down with her.—SwatiG
- While Castle is on a book signing tour, Becket spies on Senator Bracken's political consultant, whose corpse is found shortly after a meeting with drug baron Vulcan Simmons. Although, officially, taken off the case, she goes after Vulcan, only to be framed after he's murdered, too. The police Internal Affairs takes over the case and force Castle out of the precinct. Castle and Beckett discover that Mr. Smith is still alive and he tells them there is a recording where Braken's admits to the murder of Beckett's mother but it can't be found and can only advise them to run and disappear before they are killed. Instead, they enlist Ryan and Esposito's help at great risks to try to find the tape.—KGF Vissers
- The previews let us know that we are revisiting the murder of Johanna, Kate Beckett's (Stana Katic) mom. The person responsible, Senator William H. Bracken (Jack Coleman), is seen on TV announcing his candidacy for president. Kate is stalking Jason Marks , one of Bracken's aides, who ends up dead. Street cam footage shows him riding with drug kingpin Vulcan Simons, who Beckett confronts on her own time, and he too ends up dead, and with a bullet from her gun! So here comes IA to put an end to Beckett and out she goes, hooded up and on the lam. She's about to go blonde when Bracken's thugs show up, drug her, put a gun in her hand, point it at her head and surprise! She didn't swallow the pill and the whiskey hasn't kicked in yet so blam, blam, no more thugs. She is injured, though, and passes out. When Castle (Nathan Fillion) finds her, he spirits her off toward Canada, except that she wakes up in Vermont having just dreamed about her first encounter with Captain Montgomery and realizes he was telling her that her mom had the incriminating tape all along. Back to the city to look through her mother's affairs where Castle finds D M e w/ family in her datebook on the day she died and figures she was bringing the evidence, a tape from Detective Montgomery, to her family. Great deduction but alas, IA busts in and arrests everybody. Down at the precinct, Beckett is staring at her mom's ivory family of elephants on her desk and before IA can shoot her, she breaks it open and finds the tape. It does indeed incriminate the Senator, who's giving a press conference nearby that ends badly for him. He stares daggers at Beckett as he's being driven off, so he'll probably be back, but for now, the 15 year old murder of Johanna Beckett is solved.
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