Especially when your name is Richard Castle.
He can be minding his own business, chatting folks up at a party, when BAM!
With a suspect hovering above.
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His next book is basically writing itself.
For the first time in his career, Castle is testifying in a murder trial.
This should be a slam dunk case.
What she didnt expect was Caleb Brown to come walking in as the public defender.
You remember Caleb, right?
Hes the attorney who somehow has ties to LokSat, the group Beckett is investigating secretly with Vikram.
Hes the opposite of pushover.
He did see her with the body and the weapon, but did he see the actual murder?
Plus, Castle has a history of memory loss, correct?
(I dont really blame Castle.
I know I want to forget last seasons Where in the world is Richard Castle?
Caleb rests his case and the judge calls for a recess until the morning.
Castle just gave the jury reasonable doubt and now has less than 16 hours to find new evidence.
Bring in the calvary!
Her secret relationship, that is.
Ryan pours over her financials and notices a charge to a bar the night before the murder.
The team scours surveillance tape outside the establishment.
Who shows up in a lovers quarrel with Nina just outside?
None other than Sadie Beakman.
The victim and the killer were having an affair.
Beckett gives Castles lawyer the tape, and everyone assumes that Nina is going down.
Roger says that the basketball hoop is where its always been.
If Nina did indeed kill Sadie in a spontaneous crime of passion, why would she move the hoop?
Theres only one way to find out.
Castle needs to get arrested so he can question Nina in jail.
Lets hear it for contempt of court!
She fled because any normal person would assume that Nina had killed her.
Nina did mention that Sadie asked her to swipe Rogers empty champagne glass.
Twenty minutes later, she was dead.
Esposito and Ryan waltz in to break Castle out of jail.
He promises Nina that he will figure out what is going on.
He was her cameraman for 20 years.
Maybe they had an affair and Sadies daughter is Rogers kid?
Theres no time to deliberate because Caleb is storming the precinct, and he is one mad lawyer.
He accuses Beckett of sneaking Castle into the jail.
Beckett announces that she and Castle are separated and he can do whatever he wants.
WHEN WILL THIS FAKE BREAK-UP END?
Caleb gets a call from the judge.
Her house wasnt burglarized, and the trial is in 30 minutes.
Beckett casually mentions to Caleb that she has people looking into the trial because things are not adding up.
Caleb reminds her that someone better do something fast because time is ticking.
His wife scoffs, knowing that they were probably knocking boots…but Roger is infertile.
Theres no way he could be the father of her child.
Its Ryan who suggests that maybe Sadie was after a fingerprint.
The wife marches up to the study and unveils a hidden safe.
The only way to open it is with Rogers fingerprint.
Inside is a cassette that shows Sadie and Roger discovering a huge bag of money in Iraq.
Roger wanted to keep it.
However, she went back for it later.
Roger used the tape to blackmail her to get his share.
In only five years, he burned through his portion and was blackmailing Sadie again.
But he didnt kill her.
They are back at square one.
Through subtle body language, its clear that he knows that Castle knows nothing.
Suddenly, Castles face changes when Caleb mentions the phrase bad timing.
The reason Castle went upstairs to begin with was because the downstairs bathroom was occupied.
The man who had 30 seconds of air time in the very beginning of the show.
Who would have guessed?
He thought Sadie was having an affair with Roger.
He saw her go upstairs with his glass.
He went outside, moved the hoop over so he could spy into the study.
She saw him, and the lovers quarrel got out of hand.
Especially when Sadie laughed at him for assuming it was Roger when it was really a woman.
He goes to jail.
Back at the precinct, everyone applauds Caleb for being a cool guy.
Vikram and Beckett think differently.
With that said, she did discover Calebs one weakness hes a monster who is desperate to do good.
And Becketts going to use that weakness to settle her own personal vendetta.
