“3XK” · Season 3, Episode 6
In this episode: Richard Castle (6), Kate Beckett (4), Roy Montgomery (2), Martha Rodgers (1)
An FBI profile was as close as we came to ID-ing a suspect. Feds say he's a white male, 25 to 45 years old,
[To Beckett] Could be me.
Has a dysfunctional relationship with his mother,
Still me.
He has a menial, unimportant job.
[To Castle] Definitely you.
Just for that, I'm basing my next book on Esposito. [Beckett glares at Castle]
It's like when I was doing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and I thought my understudy was trying to poison me.
Oh, yeah, the daily blood tests I paid for. Wait, she did poison you. The Swiss chocolate she gave you was a laxative.
Eh, added a certain urgency to my performance. But the point is, you indulged my paranoia. So therefore I'm going to be in the park - five 'o clock - at a discreet distance to make sure that Alexis' secret admirer is not an axe murderer.
Tell me you've arrested Gates
Not even close. I mean, I don't know how, Castle, but he killed Kim Foster and he's gonna do it again.
There's been no developments? Usually you call me with news. [He stops in realization, his eyes grow wide. Beckett cringes, knowing she's been caught] You called to seek my council!
[Very slightly sheepish] I wouldn't say it exactly like that...
No, no, no! You're hoping I had some wild theory. Some sort of penetrating insight that would lead us to a breakthrough.
Well... do you?
[Stops, as if trying very hard to come up with something. Exhales exasperatedly] Gah! I got nothing.
Oh, it's really not complicated. You were raised by a single mother. She was blonde, she was beautiful, but she never wanted you. When you were, what, twelve? She died, suddenly. Let's say drug overdose. You went foster care, the bad kind. So much hate. So much hate towards your mother for abandoning you that you kill these women to get back at her. But you leave them looking peaceful because as much as you hated your mother, you loved your mother. Am I getting warm?
You're drawn to death. You like to be around it, because it thrills you. Now, where does that come from? Your own suppressed impulses? [Leans forward] How close to death do you want to get, huh?
Tell me something, Castle. Why did he let you live?
As punishment, for me ruining his plan. Now he's gonna kill again, all 'cause I couldn't stop him. And I feel so... [shakes his head despairingly]
I know the feeling.
I know you do.
[Beckett puts her hand on his knee. He clasps her hand in his own, his thumb stroking the back of her hand.]
For those of you living in a cave four years ago, the Triple Killer, or 3XK, got his nickname by strangling three women in a week, dropping out of sight for a month, and then killing three more. Then he disappeared. I served on the task force that investigated those six murders. An FBI profile was as close as we came to ID-ing the suspect. Feds say he's a white male, 25 to 45 years old...
[to Beckett, sotto voce] Could be me.
...with a dysfunctional relationship with his mother....
[to Beckett, sotto voce] Still me.
He has a menial, unimportant job.
[to Castle, sotto voce] Definitely you.
Just for that, I'm basing my next book on Esposito.
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