Castle (TV Series)

In the Belly of the Beast (2014)

Carlos Gómez: Captain Fowler

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• Kevin Ryan : Just got off with hospital security again. Building's locked down, we got teams going through, but there's no sign of Elena.

  Richard Castle : And we still have no idea who this woman really is.

  Captain Fowler : [entering]  I'm afraid we do. Security video shows her leaving her room alone. And the officer's throat was cut in same exact manner as the murdered drug dealers. Same angle, same left-handed stroke, favoring the carotid.

  Captain Victoria Gates : That's what those text messages meant, about packages being delivered. She wasn't a courier for the ring.

  Javier Esposito : She was their contract killer.

  Richard Castle : A *contract* killer. That's who Beckett is out there impersonating and you didn't know?

  Captain Victoria Gates : Mr. Castle...

  Richard Castle : And now, this woman is out there somewhere. Do you have any idea what's gonna happen to Beckett when the real Elena shows up?

  Captain Fowler : We're doing everything we can.

  Richard Castle : Well, it's not enough!

• Captain Fowler : These six victims had their throats cut. They were mid- to upper-level drug dealers. Two were teenagers. They were all murdered in the past few months when a new drug ring muscled in and took over most of the uptown heroin and cocaine trade.

  Kate Beckett : A new drug ring? Well, who are they?

  Captain Fowler : The commissioner asked me to find that out and shut them down. But they're invisible, these guys. They don't use banks, so we can't follow the money. They make sure their street dealers never meet their suppliers.

  Kate Beckett : So when you bust a dealer, he doesn't know who he's working for.

• [briefing Beckett about his case] 

  Captain Fowler : It looked like another dead-end. Then, this morning, Elena got another text from the ring. This time, they wanted to meet her to offer her a promotion.

  Kate Beckett : Which would give you guys a chance to get eyes on someone.

  Captain Fowler : It's the break we've been waiting for. So, we leveraged Elena to take the meet, but she tried to commit suicide.

  Captain Victoria Gates : She's in intensive care under police guard.

  Kate Beckett : Sir, I'm sorry to hear about that, but what does this all have to do with me?

  Captain Fowler : The meeting is set for five today and a chance like this is not gonna come back around. So we combed the NYPD database for someone of about Elena's age and appearance, who speaks fluent Russian, in case that's relevant. Only one name came up... Yours.

  Kate Beckett : You want me to go in her place?

  Captain Fowler : To the Widmark. Show up, meet your contact, and leave. In and out.

  Kate Beckett : What if they found out that you turned Elena and that this is all a trap?

  Captain Fowler : Then they wouldn't be meeting at the Widmark Hotel. We were very careful. No one knows she's made contact with us.

  Captain Victoria Gates : Still, there's a risk that they could see Detective Beckett and realize that she's not Elena.

  Captain Fowler : In the text, they asked Elena to wear a red scarf. Which tells us that they don't know her on sight. My people will be in place watching every move you make. We can even fit you with a monitored mic if you like.

  [Beckett is undecided] 

  Captain Fowler : Detective, something *big* is going on out there and this is our best chance to find out what. But the meeting's in two hours. So, I need your answer.

• [going to question Elena in the hospital] 

  Kevin Ryan : I thought you had an officer guarding it.

  Captain Fowler : We do. He must be inside with her.

  Javier Esposito : Elena Markov, NYP...

  [entering the room, they see her bed empty and the guard dead on the floor] 

  Kevin Ryan : Son of a bitch!

  Javier Esposito : [on walkie-talkie]  We have an officer down! Officer down!

  Kevin Ryan : Elena's gone.

  Captain Fowler : Either she killed him and fled...

  Kevin Ryan : Or someone else did and they grabbed her. They took Elena. That means Beckett's cover's blown. She's as good as dead.