

Castle leaves his house and calls Beckett to warn her, but she is in the shower. Conrad was killed by the guy in the window and the real killer is still on the loose, causing him to realize that Beckett is still in danger. However, the man in the window was left handed. He suddenly realizes that, in the pictures, Conrad's gun was in his right hand. Back at his house, Castle looks over the crime scene pictures. This recording was meant to activate about 5–10 seconds before a bomb would explode and kill detective Beckett. With that, they found a recording of the killer's voice, repeating, over and over, the words "Goodbye, Nikki.". The formaldehyde that Conrad had stolen was being used to make cyclonite, a highly explosive element, that only 5 little pieces of could blow the whole precinct up. He disappears from view and a gunshot is heard. Through a window, she sees him with a gun in his left hand and a cellphone in his right. The FBI team is set up to arrest Conrad when Beckett gets yet another call from their perpetrator. The client's name was Benjamin Conrad (Nicholas Patitucci). The dead lawyer had been asked to take the case of the dead dog but declined. The taxidermist was robbed and formaldehyde was taken from the shop.

The dog was sent to a taxidermist, but the killer didn't have enough money to pay for it. The Rottweiler attacked and killed the other dog. The killer was walking his dog when the second victim was walking a Rottweiler. The team finds the connections between the bodies. The killer's message is complete: "Nikki will burn." The third body is identified as taxidermist Sandra Keller (Barbara Anne Klein). When he wakes up the next morning, the body missing from the parking garage is found outside her front door. The only thing missing is the body, which was put in the trunk of a waiting and stolen vehicle.Ĭastle spends the night on Beckett's couch. When they arrive, they find blood, a woman's shoe, some strands of hair, and four shell casings. The FBI traces the call to a parking garage. Disappointed, the psychopath contacts Kate once again, testing her, tempting her, pissing her off even more. Sadly, the given deadline arrives, with the detectives still having no idea of who the next victim is, or, even less, where their murder will take place. The message for the team says, "I will kill someone else before midnight tonight unless you stop me.". After pondering about the numbers' meaning, Castle discovers that they correspond to page numbers and words in his novel, Heat Wave.
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The bandage has a code of numbers written on it. In interrogation, Beckett realizes that Salt is wearing a bandage on one of his hands and so, he informs her that he sold his pinky finger online to the real killer. Stepping out quickly, the author stuns the fugitive with a high voltage taser gun, found in special Agent Shaw's SUV. Salt tries to run from the police, making a mistake by going straight past the car where Castle is hidden inside. When the team goes to arrest Salt, Castle is ordered to stay in the car. The team manages to get a print off of Lewis' purse, which matches a man by the name of Donald Salt ( Andrew Rothenberg), who is on parole. Castle is impressed by Shaw and her equipment, but Beckett is annoyed by her. The FBI waste no time in making themselves at home in the precinct, quickly moving in their equipment required for the "war room". Michelle Lewis, a dog walker, is identified as the second victim. The team discovers that the killer is trying to send a message.įBI agents arrive at the second murder scene and announce that this is now their investigation, Agent Jordan Shaw ( Dana Delany) being the lead investigator. This time, the body is found in the Central Park carousel, and the letters on the bullets left behind spell "will". The killer phones Beckett, telling her that he has again killed. The murderer is calling out Nikki Heat, which is the main character from one of Rick Castle's fiction novels and based on Beckett. Five bullets are found at the crime scene, each one with a letter etched into it, together spelling "Nikki". Alex Peterman, a personal attorney, is found shot to death at Grand Central Terminal. Kate Beckett gets a call from a man who asks for "Nikki" and claims he has committed a murder.
