Kate Beckett: Hey, who the hell keeps texting?Milo Pavlik: It's a news alert. There's a three-alarm fire going in Brooklyn.Richard Castle: Where in Brooklyn?Milo Pavlik: Uh... some factory on Arcadia Lane.Richard Castle: Oh, no.
Kate Beckett: So, that's the murder weapon.Richard Castle: Mmmm. It's a Gibson Les Paul. '59 flame top, if I'm not mistaken. And I'm... rarely mistaken.Richard Castle: It's hot.
Richard Castle: Looks like she was stabbed with a knife.Kate Beckett: Mmm.M.E. Sidney Perlmutter: To the untrained eye, perhaps. But... what you don't know about postmortem analysis could fill a book, Mr. Castle. In fact, it has. Numerous times.Richard Castle: Fine. So, it was not a knife.M.E. Sidney Perlmutter: Ah, wrong again. It was a knife, but "stabbed" implies the blade was thrust into the victim, uh, whereas this wound was produced by it being hurled into her chest.Kate Beckett: What is this, "Last of the Mohicans"? What kind of knife is it?M.E. Sidney Perlmutter: Uh, one with a hilt that matches these small bruises on either side of the wound. It killed her instantly, severing the left anterior descending artery.Kate Beckett: Okay, so either that's the luckiest knife toss in the world...Richard Castle: Or, she was killed by a circus knife-thrower. Like the Great Throwdini.
Javier Esposito: So, neighbors heard a hellacious fight and then our victim here sailed out of that fourth-floor window.Kate Beckett: Was that his apartment?Javier Esposito: We're checking, but it doesn't look like it. Tenants don't recognize him and he doesn't have any ID.Lanie Parish: No ID, but lots of causes of death.Richard Castle: You mean, other than gravity?Lanie Parish: Oh yeah. See that bullet wound?Kate Beckett: So he was shot before he fell?Lanie Parish: And stabbed.Kate Beckett: Shot and stabbed?Lanie Parish: And choked and has a pencil jammed in the side of his neck.Richard Castle: Wha. Gives new meaning to the term 'overkill.'
