ADAM BALDWIN: Three, two, and, uh...
NATHAN FILLION: We're actually. We started.
The first thing they're gonna hear on this DVD commentary is you.
BALDWIN: Saying three, two, one?
FILLION: Yeah, kinda counting yourself in.
BALDWIN: Excellent. FILLION: That's a good thing.
Why don't you introduce yourself?
BALDWIN: Oh, this is Adam Baldwin. I play Ethan Slaughter on Castle.
FILLION: This is Nathan Fillion. I play Castle on Castle.
Ethan. BALDWIN: Yes.
FILLION: A name that might have gotten him beat up as a kid.
Maybe that's what turned him so tough.
BALDWIN: Yeah. Well, I think we, we investigate that a little bit later.
There's a couple little sub-textual moments that I add there
about Slaughter's background when we go into the, uh, the later office.
FILLION: Here we have Esposito and Ryan
breaking into a dingy, old warehouse.
Flashlights, smoky. Lot of smoke in Castle. When it gets dramatic,
there's a lot of smoke. BALDWIN: Where's all that smoke coming from?
'Cause neither of us are smoking.
FILLION: Oh, these bad guys were doing bong hits.
BALDWIN: God, I love that leather jacket. (FILLION CHUCKLES)
Is that all the guys you brought?
(FILLION CHUCKLES) BALDWIN: You look good with a bloody nose.
FILLION: Ah, let me go back in time and do the whole,
(IMITATES GRIM TONE) "Earlier that morning."
So this is not your first episode of Castle, Adam.
BALDWIN: No, recurring. Reprising, if you will,
one, uh, one other episode in season four.
FILLION: Mmm-hmm. BALDWIN: Ethan Slaughter returns to his old pal,
Castle, for help.
FILLION: Pal. BALDWIN: Well, he's a...
FILLION: It's, you know, it's like... BALDWIN: Useful idiot?
FILLION: Well, I was gonna say, working with you,
it feels like we've worked together before some time.
It's just a very familiar sensation.
BALDWIN: You were with me on The X-Files, weren't you? FILLION: That's not true.
BALDWIN: Oh. FILLION: That's not true.
BALDWIN: Something else. Buffy? Was it at Buffy?
FILLION: What's the over-under on how many Firefly references we make
during this DVD commentary? BALDWIN: I wanna say six.
FILLION: Okay, we'll, we'll see how that goes.
Oh, wait, your agent loved it too. My agent?
Never you mind that. Just listen.
Have faith.
FILLION: The lovely Susan Sullivan. Let's just say hello to her.
Because, gosh, I love this lady. BALDWIN: Mmm-hmm.
FILLION: You know, often when you do DVD commentaries...
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: ...we'll get a director in here,
or one of the writers and you'll hear some really in-depth story points.
BALDWIN: Yeah, right. FILLION: Production stuff, you know, through lines.
You're not gonna get any of that today.
BALDWIN: No, you're just gonna get, like, superfluous,
selfish, acting... "How do I look?" FILLION: Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
"Ooh, I remember that day, that's when they ran out of M&M'S."
BALDWIN: By the way, Molly Quinn is adorable. FILLION: Yeah.
FILLION: 14 years old. Just a reminder to the fans,
if you haven't been watching since the beginning, or even if you have but you forgot.
FILLION: She was 14 years old when she began this show.
BALDWIN: Which posed a special challenge for this moment,
because I tried not to be as creepy as I apparently come off.
(FILLION LAUGHING)
BALDWIN: 'Cause she's, she's like my daughter's age.
(FILLION LAUGHS)
BALDWIN: So, yeah, she's nice but I can't be too creepy.
FILLION: (LAUGHING) Well played.
That is, yeah, that is not a 14-year-old girl anymore.
What a capable, wonderful young woman. BALDWIN: Mmm-hmm.
Right behind the door here? Yeah.
What does he want? I don't know. He just said he was...
FILLION: Now here we see, there's obviously...
His impression here is tainted. (BALDWIN CHUCKLES)
He knows what to expect, he knows what Slaughter is all about.
BALDWIN: Mmm-hmm. FILLION: Not a pleasant memory, I think,
he has of their last encounter.
BALDWIN: Ah, he's just kinda being wimpy and...
FILLION: This is how Castle, I think, deals with stress.
I'm not interested. Huh.
Uh, in whatever he... Whatever it is.
BALDWIN: I love this... Oop, the door's in the way. (BOTH LAUGHING)
FILLION: And coast is clear.
All's good in the world of Castle, phew!
I like that Sergeant... Sorry, is he a Sergeant? BALDWIN: Detective.
FILLION: Detective Slaughter really keeps, uh, Castle off his game.
He's incredibly unprepared for the kind of experiences
that Slaughter is guaranteed to bring. BALDWIN: Yeah.
BALDWIN: Now, for this character I tried to throw in my, uh,
default Chicago accent, because that's where I'm from.
Even though it is a New York-based show, shot here in LA.
(FILLION CHUCKLING)
BALDWIN: But I do throw in my little Chicago accent in there.
I'm Martha Rogers, Richard Castle is my son.
And the last time you two did "business" together...
BALDWIN: I love her. FILLION: Yeah.
...medication for a month. (CHUCKLES)
She's kidding. Kidder.
It was just a few weeks.
You got a real mama lion here...
FILLION: I love when funny lines turn out to be true.
(BALDWIN CHUCKLES)
FILLION: I think when things are true, they are funny.
Which is why I try not to punch jokes.
BALDWIN: Right. FILLION: Punching jokes makes them
a clever thing to say, whereas if you sell them with honesty,
they become truthful.
BALDWIN: I just like being a straight man to you as best I can.
Because you... Everything's above my pay grade.
FILLION: (CHUCKLES) It's true.
What a wonderful balance you've created.
This is obviously a large character.
BALDWIN: Yeah. Mmm-hmm. FILLION: He's gregarious, he's big.
But at the same time, you play it straight.
It's very satisfying to watch it.
My schedule is so full...
Yeah, we're swamped. Completely swamped.
Completely.
Okay.
You don't have to tell me twice. I got it.
FILLION: He give up so easily here. Slaughter just seems to,
"Okay, no problem. I'm gonna leave."
BALDWIN: Yeah. And yet, he's manipulating you.
Look at that. Like a puppet.
FILLION: Yeah. BALDWIN: Uh, he knows right where your heart is.
Ciao.
BALDWIN: Ciao. (BOTH LAUGHING)
FILLION: Slaughter's great with exits.
...Richard. In the sewers.
BALDWIN: "Alligators in the sewers."
BALDWIN: (CHUCKLES) "I need a new story!"
BALDWIN: Oh. FILLION: And collision.
Not a lot of people make me look small.
BALDWIN: I'm 6' 4 1/2".
But I had boots on with about, uh, inch and a half.
So, I'm like 6' 6" there.
FILLION: Yeah, you're a big man on a small day.
30-year-old male. Died of exsanguination
from that giant knife in his neck.
Killed between 10:00 and 2:00 last night.
All right, let's find out who Victor was talking...
BALDWIN: Now I wanted to come into this scene really whiny.
FILLION: Yeah. Like this guy being killed really ruins your day.
(BALDWIN CHUCKLES) FILLION: The lovely Tamala Jones.
BALDWIN: And Jon Huertas.
FILLION: And Seamus Dever.
(BALDWIN GRUMBLES) FILLION: (WHISPERS) I mispronounced it on purpose.
BALDWIN: Is it Dever?
FILLION: (CHUCKLES) It is now.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
(CLEARS THROAT)
Slaughter? Hey, what the hell happened to my guy?
FILLION: Nice timing. BALDWIN: Oh.
Entrances and exits, he just owns them.
I know, right? Huh?
BALDWIN: I love that little moment there. "Huh?
"What? Yeah..." (BOTH LAUGHING)
FILLION: Um, I'm a big fan of the people coming and playing our dead bodies.
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: You think it's, maybe easy work.
It's not easy work.
BALDWIN: No, it's like doing a hospital scene too.
You think, "Oh, God, I get to lie down all day."
But then you're lying down all day. (GRUMBLES) FILLION: Yeah.
FILLION: And then they cover these guys with the sticky, itchy blood,
it's not pleasant, sometimes they're glued to the ground with blood.
BALDWIN: Yeah. Movie blood is particularly uncomfortable.
Sticky. I'd rather be sticky than itchy.
That beard is really itchy.
FILLION: Is that a fake beard?
BALDWIN: Uh, the color is. Yeah.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
...first step is to identify that guy.
No, that's our job, this is a homicide investigation.
Tough. It's my case first, victim was my guy,
so we're gonna find the rodent that killed him, together.
Come on, Sherlock.
All right. But Slaughter,
you're gonna keep us in the loop on every move you make.
Of course. I'm a team player.
BALDWIN: I'm a liar!
Like, in blazing, red, blinking lights on my forehead.
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
FILLION: I love that you sold that lie, though.
You told the absolute truth in there.
You were like, you totally sold it.
There was no hint you were lying until you come out in the hallway. That's nice.
Isn't this fun? You and me, together again. (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
Like Butch and Sundance.
You know they die at the end of the movie, right?
Yeah. What a way to go!
(BALDWIN EXCLAIMS) FILLION: (CHUCKLING) That's it.
(BALDWIN IMITATES EXPLOSION)
Talked to him yesterday.
Well, what did you talk to him about?
Getting back together. We broke up a few months ago.
FILLION: Kerry Barker. Lovely lady, she's very sweet.
BALDWIN: Yeah, on point. Very smart.
He told me he was about to come into some big money.
We were talking about taking off together.
California.
FILLION: These are nice little moments that lets the show land a little bit.
We have to understand that murder matters to somebody. BALDWIN: Yeah.
Obviously not to Slaughter. (BALDWIN CHUCKLES)
BALDWIN: No, he cares. He cared about her in that moment.
FILLION: About her, not so much about that dead guy, though.
(IMITATING WOMAN) "Oh, my guy's dead."
BALDWIN: Yeah, no, he's just my informant.
FILLION: Exactly. BALDWIN: They're a dime a dozen.
We get a minimum-wage job, while all his criminal buddies were pulling in big cash.
Is it so impossible to believe that he might have given in to temptation?
Yeah, it's possible.
I just hate the idea he was playing me.
BALDWIN: (CHUCKLES) It's so selfish. FILLION: Right?
Some guy named Trucco.
FILLION: Now that may or may not have been a reference to Michael Trucco,
an actor who came in to play Demming for us in season two.
BALDWIN: A good friend of ours.
FILLION: A good friend of ours. Very nice man.
...looking into the database of known fences
to find out who deals in that kind of loot.
BALDWIN: I admire these two so much, they,
they get so much information out to the audience.
FILLION: I know! BALDWIN: It's amazing.
FILLION: They have a lot of exposition. They have a lot of logic tracking to do.
Just to recap mysteries, to keep everybody in the system,
as far as where are we in the mystery.
And they have to do it like it's something people actually say.
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: When I have to do this stuff,
I will come to them and say,
"So what would you do with this information?
"How would you deliver that?" BALDWIN: Yeah.
FILLION: 'Cause they are expertises.
Let's go with, "experts."
His prints found on the murder weapon.
Slaughter killed Victor Lee.
FILLION: Whoa! Right there in my face. BALDWIN: Hi.
Everything okay, Sherlock?
FILLION: Slaughter sneaking. BALDWIN: And commercial break. Boom.
(FILLION HUMMING THEME MUSIC) BALDWIN: Nice.
Who are you talking to? Just my mommy...
BALDWIN: (LAUGHS) Mommy. So improv.
FILLION: The fact that Slaughter puts people off their game
uh, criminals and people alike,
just... Not that criminals aren't people, but...
Just do-gooders and cops and private detectives.
It's Elvez and Lucky Charms, isn't it?
BALDWIN: I love Elvez and Lucky Charms. FILLION: Yeah.
BALDWIN: This little gag here. FILLION: Snatch.
Usually that gun gag works for Castle.
What are you, Inspector Gadget? This is a gun, not a pen.
You don't keep it in your desk, you strap it to your side.
Or in your case, keep it in your purse.
Please don't kill me.
(BOTH LAUGHING) FILLION: That's a great line.
Before you buried a knife in his neck?
That wasn't me.
FILLION: I think Slaughter, much like you, Adam...
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: ...is very much about gun protocol.
BALDWIN: Well, sure, yeah, you wanna have good muzzle management...
FILLION: Muzzle management. BALDWIN: Trigger discipline.
So, you know, I've indexed my finger there nicely, and...
FILLION: Yeah, you don't mess around.
FILLION: The plastic guns, you don't mess around. BALDWIN: No.
You know, the plastic, molded guns
can sometimes and often do cost more than the regular guns?
FILLION: For programs, you mean? Television programs?
BALDWIN: For like, props.
Well, you know, 'cause you get the fake guns and the prop guns.
FILLION: Wow. BALDWIN: It takes longer to mold them.
Neither will anyone else.
So the only way to clear my name is to find the real killer.
So...
Why come to me?
BALDWIN: Because I'm gonna manipulate here, kid.
'Cause I got a lot of enemies.
What I don't got is a friend.
FILLION: You? What? No friends?
BALDWIN: Is he lying? Or is he lying or is he lying?
FILLION: I think right there, you kinda came to an honest point, no?
BALDWIN: Producer Nathan Fillion?
FILLION: Well, that's, you know.
BALDWIN: And producer... Wait a minute!
I need to be a regular on a show.
Wait I am a regular on a show. (GROWLS)
He left a few minutes ago.
What happened?
FILLION: I like this. I've got a secret room, that everybody knows about.
BALDWIN: Everybody knows about your secret room.
FILLION: My secret man-cave.
BALDWIN: Mmm-hmm. What's in the vault?
FILLION: That's actually... The story is, we don't hear about it.
But Alexi and Terence kinda told me that,
when he did the renovation, they found this vault in the building.
BALDWIN: Ahh. FILLION: And Castle decided to keep it closed,
and never look inside. That way, it's always a mystery.
BALDWIN: What if it has, like...
FILLION: Exactly, you'll never know.
BALDWIN: Records and posters and, like, baseball cards.
FILLION: I say, gold bullion.
BALDWIN: I was ready to pop 'em.
FILLION: A secret room, inside the secret room.
You're a good man, Sherlock.
Now we're neck-deep in this, together.
FILLION: (LAUGHING) It just sounds so awful.
(BOTH CHUCKLING) FILLION: Great.
The last thing you wanna hear from a guy like Slaughter.
(IMITATING SLAUGHTER) "We're neck deep in it."
BALDWIN: Alexi Hawley. Ah, bravo, Alexi.
And Paul Holahan, he's a wonderful director.
Come here, you!
FILLION: This was our first scene we filmed of the episode.
BALDWIN: And Paul Holahan, the director...
Because he'd seen the episode in season four,
noticed that I was eating peanuts when you were getting your ass kicked
in the bar. So he said, "Hey, how about if you're eating peanuts again?"
FILLION: Mmm. BALDWIN: Well, nice tie-in. Good director.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Thanks. So, um...
What happened? I don't know. It's just...
Said she needed time to figure things out.
Women.
BALDWIN: Yeah, so true.
FILLION: Now, great car, by the way.
That's a great car.
Not a car for two big guys to get in and out of.
BALDWIN: It's low, it's low, you have to climb way down... FILLION: It's so low.
And the floor is really high and the seats are super low.
It's not... That's not an easy vehicle. BALDWIN: Mmm-hmm. No.
You need me.
FILLION: You'll notice at the end of this scene,
we don't actually get in the car.
Open the doors, and cut.
We don't actually get in. (BALDWIN CHUCKLES)
You're not even gonna raise your voice.
You do, and I'm out.
FILLION: This is Castle trying desperately for control.
BALDWIN: Uh-huh.
No.
BALDWIN: Okay, that's all about playing the positive.
Okay. Deal.
BALDWIN: Hey, I love this.
I found this scene the most complicated of scenes to play,
because the angle that they had to do with that door gone,
was very distracting.
FILLION: Ah, yeah. BALDWIN: They put him up against the board, and, uh,
there were cameras right there. So there's a lot of cuts here.
We'd like to have a little chat with you about a Victor Lee.
Never heard of him. (GRUNTS)
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
Mr. Trucco,
we both know that you fence high-tech items for a living.
And that you had a deal with Victor Lee to move a certain microchip that he stole.
BALDWIN: Oh, I wanna kill him. FILLION: Yeah.
FILLION: It's not so much under the surface as right there on your face.
BALDWIN: Yeah. Yeah, well.
FILLION: Thanks for coming back to do this episode.
BALDWIN: I was, uh, thrilled that you invited me.
FILLION: I was so happy you were available.
BALDWIN: Yeah, we were looking for a window.
And it was perfect timing.
Please, sir, tell us the truth.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
FILLION: Nothing about that says, "Please, sir."
Who's his partner? I don't know.
But from the way Victor talked about him,
it seems like they weren't gonna be partners for long.
FILLION: He was appropriately nervous around you.
BALDWIN: Yeah, I'm big.
You thinking what I'm thinking?
Uh, probably not.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
FILLION: He doesn't even look at him.
Nice going, Sherlock. See, we make a perfect team. Let's go.
FILLION: And when my back is turned...
BALDWIN: Just a little. Just a little exclamation point.
What was that? What was what?
BALDWIN: Do we get in and drive away? FILLION: And cut!
FILLION: Oh, you actually got in.
Caught Victor parked a block away from where the microchip was stolen.
That is Victor, right before the burglary.
FILLION: So often we're pointing at green screens, by the way, here,
and they don't film this stuff until later on...
BALDWIN: These little X's. FILLION: Yeah, piece of tape on the screens.
Reassigned from gangs because a dealer accused him
pocketing 20K during a drug bust.
Word is, Slaughter was about to be suspended,
quite possibly, kicked off the job.
Which means, bye-bye pension.
The microchip burglary might have been Slaughter's retirement plan.
FILLION: What did he say?
BALDWIN: "The microchip burglary might have been Slaughter's retirement plan."
Why involve Castle in all of this?
Maybe Victor hid the microchip before he died.
Slaughter couldn't find it,
and so he thought he could fool Castle into using...
FILLION: It's these logic processes. It's these puzzles,
as they put it together, if, then...
BALDWIN: Does it... Do you think it helps the narrative for the audience?
So you're just assuming the audience is not following along?
So you've to tell them as they go?
FILLION: I think... BALDWIN: Oh, wait. This is more important.
She's hot. This is more important.
No wonder you weren't interested in that nympho roommate, huh?
FILLION: This is Toks. Toks joined us this season. Lovely lady.
BALDWIN: This is one of my favorite lines in the movie. Right.
Yes, Rick has asked me to suss out the break-in at Booth Tower.
BALDWIN: Here.
She speaks British. That's hot.
(BOTH GIGGLING)
Always a pleasure meeting one of your friends, Rick.
He's really not... Just... Please ignore him.
Did you find anything?
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
BALDWIN: Always on you. Like, eh!
None of your little jabs get by me.
FILLION: I have to say, though, a British accent does really class up the show.
BALDWIN: And the Chicago accent does too.
FILLION: Like music to my ears. Thank you, Adam, for bringing it.
'Cause I did some digging and it turns out that Victor volunteered as a mentor
to an underprivileged 16-year-old boy named, Louis Prince.
Now, I hacked Louis' records.
FILLION: Louis Prince, this is Brett DelBuono. BALDWIN: Great kid.
FILLION: Really nice. BALDWIN: Super. Super prepared, super talented.
FILLION: Yeah. BALDWIN: Not exactly 16.
FILLION: How old is he? BALDWIN: I think he's 23.
FILLION: Plays a little younger. BALDWIN: He does.
FILLION: That does well in this business.
BALDWIN: He shaves later.
He's like a criminal Good Will Hunting?
Yeah. And it looks like he's graduated to murder.
FILLION: See what I did there? BALDWIN: Hmm. Yeah.
BALDWIN: Got us right to act three.
FILLION: There was a lot of running in this scene.
Ducking and running. BALDWIN: Uh-huh.
FILLION: I had to time this run out. BALDWIN: Yeah.
Not all latchkey kids wind up killers.
BALDWIN: See that little line there,
"Not all latchkey kids wind up killers."
FILLION: That was about you. BALDWIN: It was totally about me.
I... That wasn't even in the script.
I completely improv'd that. Subtext, that is.
That's when I first met him.
I knew right away he was the perfect candidate for Operation Mentor.
What he needed more than anything was a strong...
FILLION: Every time I went to go sit down,
it seemed like someone put, what, like a...
BALDWIN: A stapler... FILLION: Something like that.
On my seat, every time.
BALDWIN: I don't know who that was.
FILLION: So weird that every time... This is the spot I sit.
FILLION: How did this... BALDWIN: It wasn't me every time doing that.
You know, Detective, you should consider becoming a mentor.
FILLION: I didn't get here what I was thinking. BALDWIN: Oh, hmm.
FILLION: But by the time the take was over, I forgot...
BALDWIN: Why is he not role model material? Wait a minute.
What does that mean, I'm not role model material?
FILLION: I think we all know what I mean.
BALDWIN: Just 'cause I cut to the chase.
FILLION: Is that what you call it?
Now, if Victor were to use Louis' genius to help him commit a crime,
that would have been quite a betrayal of trust, wouldn't it?
BALDWIN: This little hair on your shoulder, did you see that?
FILLION: Was there? BALDWIN: There's a rogue hair on your left shoulder.
FILLION: Thanks for pointing that out.
Finding out he'd been betrayed would have been...
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: It's not mine.
BALDWIN: There it is. See? See? FILLION: It is mine.
And idea where Louis might be hiding?
MARK: Ah, I don't know. Sorry.
Oh, uh, thank you very much for your time, Mr. West.
Uh, we gotta go.
Now. Yeah, thanks.
(BOTH CHUCKLE) BALDWIN: "Gotta go. Bye-bye."
(CHUCKLING) And then, yeah, how many times did we do that running?
FILLION: And zip. Clear.
BALDWIN: Elvez and Lucky Charms are so dumb, they didn't see us.
FILLION: All the glass walls in that office. BALDWIN: Yeah.
FILLION: There was a lot of running around in that office there.
FILLION: They gave us a... They gave us a...
There was an actual functioning office that we were using.
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: They gave us a little side office
to sit in and the fellow there loved horses.
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: The fellow whose office it was.
BALDWIN: Hmm. FILLION: Tell by all knick-knacks and photos.
BALDWIN: Yeah, our holding room was an actual office of that Chief Executive.
Thank you very much for doing this, Hayley.
I have another call. Thanks.
This is Castle.
You lied to us?
Oh, well, when you put it that way...
Castle, no... This is not funny.
What are you doing running around with our murder suspect?
Hey, Slaughter didn't kill anyone.
All right? I promise you. He wants to find Victor's killer just as much as we do.
Really? Did he tell you why he's not working gangs anymore?
Yes. He said he got bored.
No. He got demoted,
he's under investigation for robbing a drug dealer.
FILLION: Oops. You robbed a drug dealer?
Hell, no! That's a BS charge.
FILLION: (LAUGHS) How often does he say that?
(IMITATES SLAUGHTER) Oh, no, come on, that's trumped up.
BALDWIN: A bunch of trumped... Yeah.
SLAUGHTER: Hey, Detective,
get your head out of our butt.
BALDWIN: Our butt! (BOTH LAUGHING)
FILLION: Just carefully crafted insults and barbs. BALDWIN: Yes.
(STATIC)
Hello?
You know you can just take the SIM card out, right?
BALDWIN: Huh? Oh.
BALDWIN: What do you mean you lose... How many phones have you lost?
FILLION: I had to say that because I lose a phone every, maybe third episode.
BALDWIN: Ah! FILLION: Castle must be the best customer for telephones.
(CRASHING)
BALDWIN: Uh-huh.
FILLION: Some wild action there. BALDWIN: Love it.
BALDWIN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Relax, relax. We're not here to hurt you.
Please... Please stay away from me.
BALDWIN: I love this. Just... And I fling him. I make him fly! (LAUGHS)
(CHUCKLES) Just got a little peanuts in my teeth.
We're just trying to figure out what happened to Victor.
I didn't kill him. I swear.
Hey, hey.
No one's saying you did, okay?
Really?
BALDWIN: "Really?" (CHUCKLING) So funny.
FILLION: One of our PAs Caitlin was holding that door closed for me,
so that I could pound on it a little bit.
She had excellent timing.
Sure he did.
You didn't see his face. He was scared.
And young.
FILLION: "He plays a lot younger than he is." I should have said.
We're all killers, Castle.
When push comes to shove. Come on!
BALDWIN: Yeah, we are all killers.
Oh, zip ties!
No. Good.
BALDWIN: (LAUGHS) Play the positive.
You're gonna tell me what you're doing here
or I'm gonna pull your dipstick up to your chin.
FILLION: I have to say, there is an art to muscling someone about
for the hours it takes to film a scene. BALDWIN: Yeah.
FILLION: Repeatedly, for all the angles, all the takes.
This guy got tossed around... BALDWIN: Mmm-hmm.
FILLION: For the better part of two and a half hours... BALDWIN: Yeah.
FILLION: And there's an art to doing all that
without actually sending someone home hurt. Or bruised. Or...
BALDWIN: Well, first of all, he's fit.
And it helps, like, any athlete to...
You know, you're gonna take some bumps and bruises.
When I go home, I tell my wife, Ami, I say, you know,
"I felt like I went to work today, I got some bumps and bruises."
(PRETENDS TO GROAN) "Ah, see this one? Oh, my knee. Ah."
Felt like I had a good day's work. FILLION: Ah, yeah.
BALDWIN: Tossed around a bit.
FILLION: I just think it's... It's responsibility
when you're a big guy like yourself... BALDWIN: Uh-huh.
FILLION: Typically, you're gonna be tossing people around.
And you do a good job of not sending anyone to the hospital.
BALDWIN: Yeah. I played a little Judo when I was a kid.
So I... I know how to help them to the ground.
FILLION: Sure.
Do it! Now!
Easy with that. It's a little more weapon
than you're used to. Yeah.
You have the right to remain silent.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Heard it all before.
BALDWIN: No kidding! (BOTH LAUGH)
BALDWIN: Now, I'm not really wearing handcuffs here.
I'm just pantomimed handcuffed.
And if my instincts are right, neither did Louis.
FILLION: Oh, look at that!
BALDWIN: Yup, pantomimed handcuffed.
FILLION: We can actually see.
Oh, hello.
It's not gonna happen, Castle.
Slaughter's going in. But...
And you're lucky I don't arrest you, too, for aiding and abetting.
Espo, please. No, Castle.
I'm not changing my mind on this.
Ryan.
Ryan, where are we with that lead unit?
BALDWIN: Uh?
What the hell? I'm sorry. I'm...
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
FILLION: It's like teasing a wolverine.
BALDWIN: "Wait a minute, I don't have a Ferrari."
"That's Castle's car. Oh!"
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
FILLION: That was not me driving, by the by. BALDWIN: No.
What just happened?
Castle just stole our murder suspect
and our car. (CHUCKLING)
(FILLION LAUGHING) BALDWIN: That's awesome.
FILLION: That was a nicely improvised moment there,
with the three guys there, they put that together.
BALDWIN: Now do they normally have an adversarial relationship
with these other cops in there?
FILLION: No, but they're just thinking maybe everybody... Every look is, "They know."
BALDWIN: Uh-huh. FILLION: You see how uncomfortable Ryan is.
Hey. Come here.
What happens if we don't get the car back to the motor pool at the end of our shift?
I think we should call Beckett.
BALDWIN: No. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Well, technically, your nose.
(BOTH EXCLAIMING)
FILLION: Right in the feels.
FILLION: This was great. BALDWIN: Yeah, these two scenes, I love this.
BALDWIN: And the lady who owned this house...
FILLION: Was so pleasant. BALDWIN: Was so beautiful.
FILLION: And you know what she told me? She said,
"Your crew is the loveliest group of people."
They rent this house all out a lot for productions.
She was so pleased with our crew which makes me super happy,
because I'm so pleased with our crew. BALDWIN: Yeah.
FILLION: So that someone else sees it, makes me happy.
BALDWIN: Well, you know the old saying, "crap rolls downhill," Nathan.
FILLION: I... BALDWIN: That's a compliment.
FILLION: Oh, good. Thanks, good, yes.
And I take it Maddie's a fan of the opera?
She's a mezzo-soprano with the New York City Opera.
I'm sorry, Maddie? As in Madeleine Corday?
FILLION: Here's where we start to learn a bit more
about the stereotype-archetype.
BALDWIN: Of course, you've gone to the opera.
FILLION: I'm a classy guy.
BALDWIN: I love that. Ooh! (LAUGHING)
How would you even meet her?
College. We had the same major...
FILLION: Ooh, too much. BALDWIN: Ooh.
You majored in opera singing?
No.
Musical theater.
FILLION: Like it's better. BALDWIN: Yeah. (LAUGHING)
If you tell anyone,
I'm gonna force-feed you your spleen, through your nose.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm trying to be scared.
I just keep picturing you doing jazz hands.
(FILLION CHUCKLES)
BALDWIN: Yeah, that was a little arch, there.
I actually did do some musical theater in high school.
I did The King and I. I played the Kralahome.
FILLION: Of course you did. BALDWIN: Of course I did.
BALDWIN: I also played the mayor in Bye Bye Birdie.
FILLION: Do you remember any of your songs you'd like to belt out right now?
BALDWIN: No, but I remember my speech giving in the key to the city.
FILLION: Oh, really? BALDWIN: Yes, it is,
"Now, I present to you, the key to our fair city."
FILLION: Oh, well done.
BALDWIN: Basically, that's all I said, whole show. (FILLION CHUCKLING)
BALDWIN: Sang some other stupid songs.
Knock it off.
But wait, wait, why did you arrest Slaughter?
According to Dad, he didn't kill Victor Lee.
That's not the point. It's kind of the point.
BALDWIN: Love her.
We had reason to believe that Slaughter killed Victor.
But now we're not so sure.
Well, I can tell you this, that genius kid Louis
definitely didn't kill him either.
How do you know that?
While I was tracking his IP address for Castle,
I noticed that during the time of the murder,
Louis was at a coffee shop in Brooklyn.
And a barista remembers seeing him.
BALDWIN: Mmm-hmm.
Which makes David Lacey our prime suspect.
Who's this Lacey guy?
He runs a heist crew with a trail of bodies.
I've got one of his soldiers in holding but he's not talking.
Wait, is my dad in danger?
We really need to find him.
Fast.
SLAUGHTER: Yum, yum, yum, yum.
(BALDWIN CHUCKLES)
FILLION: The apron was a nice touch. BALDWIN: Yes.
BALDWIN: I didn't think of it in time but I wanted an apron
that said, "Don't shoot the cook."
(FILLION LAUGHS)
Ah. Who are you?
FILLION: The jazz hands.
I do some of my best thinking while I'm cooking.
It's what got me through my divorce.
What happened with you and Maddie?
FILLION: This is nice that we... We already know Slaughter.
We've known him, you know, from before.
It's always nice to see another character come back.
But now we start to understand him a little better.
A little more about his history.
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: What makes Slaughter, Slaughter?
BALDWIN: Yeah, it's nice to use him as a device to get to you,
to bring out your feelings in the broader scope of the, uh,
"casket relationship," I believe it's called? FILLION: Mmm-hmm.
Victor told me that if I ever got into trouble, to find you.
He said that you'd look out for me.
He did?
BALDWIN: Oh, you're... You're just so great.
FILLION: Slaughter doesn't even think Slaughter is a...
The go-to guy. BALDWIN: Yeah.
...generator I created to get your social security number.
After that, it was simple guess work.
I went through your credit-cards, your bank statements,
and when I discovered that you had an ex-wife
who's currently performing in Italy...
FILLION: Now, just a reminder, we're looking at a green iPad.
BALDWIN: Right. FILLION: While someone reads off-screen.
BALDWIN: Yeah, the script supervisor is, uh, prattling this off.
So I assumed it was you,
I hacked her desktop's IP address and here I am.
Maybe I should be calling him Sherlock.
(CLATTERING)
BALDWIN: Uh-oh.
(WHSIPERING) Someone's here.
Hey, kid, tell us where you are,
and then I want you to hide.
I'm at a warehouse...
Hey!
FILLION: Great. (BALDWIN CHUCKLES)
BALDWIN: Hmm. Oh.
What is that? Fumigation notice.
FILLION: So that's where you know that, uh,
we don't see the actual picture, we see it later.
'Cause that slide is a little bit opposite...
BALDWIN: And we return to the warehouse. FILLION: Here we go.
FILLION: That was the last shot of the night, your daughter was there.
BALDWIN: My daughter was there observing.
FILLION: With her broken foot.
BALDWIN: Yes, or badly sprained ankle. FILLION: That's the one.
BALDWIN: In that cast thing. Now there was a puddle here,
but it didn't... I don't think it made the final cut.
Your... You stepped in a puddle, but, you know...
There you are playing in the puddle. FILLION: Yeah, there we are.
BALDWIN: We didn't see you go sploosh.
Might have detracted from the seriousness.
Uh-oh.
FILLION: Oh, he had to rag in his mouth for an entire morning.
BALDWIN: It's just so cavalier.
I only see one. Come on.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You don't even have a gun.
It's just one guy. Come on.
BALDWIN: (LAUGHS) Yeah.
Just one guy. I only see one guy.
When you have one of those gags, they're very dry.
So they do actually make you choke.
So the trick is, when you have a gag...
FILLION: Don't let it go too far. BALDWIN: You wanna wet it.
You wanna make sure it's nice and soaked.
Preferably with a juice.
Or... Uh-oh. Lacey.
Huh.
I guess we should've called for backup.
Do you think?
(BALDWIN AND FILLION CHUCKLING)
BALDWIN: Oops.
Okay, chuckleheads.
Killing a police officer is not exactly...
FILLION: Brian Gaskill. Nice man. BALDWIN: Yeah, he's great.
It's kind of hard to charge us with murder if nobody ever finds the bodies.
BALDWIN: In the broadcast version of this, that "TV-PG" was right over my face
for like the first few beats. It's really annoying.
(FILLION CHUCKLING) Maybe they could do that in the lower corner.
FILLION: Maybe, be shorter. BALDWIN: Yeah, okay.
(SNAPPING FINGERS)
What the hell are you doing?
Hey, knock it off.
Sherlock, we're gonna die here, let's at least try to do it like men, huh?
♪ Boy, boy, crazy boy.
BALDWIN: Now, when we were rehearsing this I was not good at it
and you had to give me a couple of tricky little...
FILLION: Well, I was snapping on a... BALDWIN: On beat.
FILLION: I was snapping on one and three and
you were going for two and four. BALDWIN: Yeah, just that.
FILLION: I was like, "Wow," but It worked out. It worked out very well.
It was actually you who told me we were singing in the episode
and I thought you were joking.
BALDWIN: Oh, no. Well, I read the script.
FILLION: I well, I just... Before I did.
Shoot these guys! (CONTINUES SINGING)
BOTH: Fight scene!
FILLION: Fight scene bit.
We were rehearsing our song and turned to each other and said,
BOTH: "Fight scene."
FILLION: And decided to play it off... BALDWIN: Just throw it in.
FILLION: And that kick to the nuts I gave Brian... BALDWIN: Yeah, several times.
FILLION: There's a specialized strap that you wear.
Stirrups in your heels that you slip into your boots that you tighten it up,
so that when you get a kick there it's stopped.
BALDWIN: There's like a blocker... FILLION: Yes, stopped.
But, throughout the stunts and whatnot, I guess it worked itself a little bit loose...
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: And I tagged him at one point, so that's, ugh.
The worst feeling. I guess worse for him.
BALDWIN: There are worse feelings but it's not a good one.
And you don't go to work expecting that.
FILLION: No, no. BALDWIN: Yeah.
FILLION: You actually go to work expecting not to have to deal with that.
Right, I know I do. That's on my list of...
BALDWIN: But he wasn't throwing up, so it couldn't have been too bad.
(FILLION CHUCKLING)
Hey, thanks for coming for me.
Victor wasn't wrong about you.
Yeah, but I was wrong about Victor.
He was a crappy role model.
And you're a crappy singer. (CHUCKLES)
BALDWIN: It's true. So true. (FILLION CHUCKLES)
Yeah, they'll be doing some serious time for kidnapping and attempted murder.
Whoa, why aren't they getting charged with actual murder?
Because none of them killed Victor.
They were in a restaurant in SoHo at the time of Victor's homicide.
So we're right back to square one?
Not necessarily.
Louis, is there anything you can remember about Victor's death?
Nothing. I swear.
But you and Victor, you did use your device
to break into Booth Tower and steal that microchip.
FILLION: Here we go with the, "We have to track it."
Track the logic of it, timelines that...
Came to me with the idea, all right?
He was sick of living paycheck to paycheck.
Promised to split the profit that we got from selling
the chip to Booth's competitor.
And I could take care of my mom for once.
BALDWIN: Ronald Booth.
I didn't know what to do.
BALDWIN: Hmm.
Wait a minute.
Nobody frisked the kid?
We're stupid. FILLION: Was he under arrest?
BALDWIN: Oh, nah, but we still would have... Hmm.
Was that part of the plan? No.
FILLION: Prop guys built that little container. Looks super futuristicy.
I think it's a mint box. I'm not sure, but they do great work.
He said he had to take care of some business.
That was probably part of the bigger score.
What bigger score?
Hate to tell you, kid,
that break-in was never just about stealing that microchip.
FILLION: It's like you don't hate to tell him. It's about as soft as you get.
BALDWIN: Yeah, I feel bad 'cause, well, you know,
I have simpatico 'cause I was a latchkey kid.
But not a super-genius latchkey kid.
That's why I ended up a detective.
Now, who is this supposed to, maybe put us in the mind of?
Ronald Booth, hmm?
I'm Detective Ryan this is Detective Esposito.
Oh.
FILLION: This is Phil Reeves. BALDWIN: He's great.
FILLION: Super pleasant in real life. BALDWIN: Yup. Yeah.
FILLION: (CHUCKLING) He barely looks at the microchip.
Who cares? BALDWIN: Who cares?
FILLION: This is the guy who's in control and not used to hearing the word, "No."
And he's not... He's pleasant without being pleasant. BALDWIN: Yeah.
FILLION: It's a nice... He barely has time to talk these guys.
Mr. Booth, is there something you need from us?
A favor. A discreet one, I take it.
Yes, the money I'd lose if a rival brought a version
of that microchip to market before me,
pales in comparison to the real fortune
that punk kid stole from my building.
What fortune is that?
Earlier today, $50 million was wired from a Cayman Islands account I have.
BALDWIN: You've ever been to the Caymans? FILLION: I have not.
BALDWIN: Neither have I. FILLION: I plan to. Mmm.
Gotta see that little scuba trip.
BALDWIN: So, he's...
He's got a little slush fund for his wife in the Caymans of 50 million...
FILLION: I think that one he wants to keep from his wife's knowledge.
BALDWIN: Ah. But, he's a billionaire. 50 million is not that much.
FILLION: I could, I think live quite comfortably on 50 million.
LOUIS: I don't know anything about a Cayman account!
And I, sure as hell, didn't steal $50 million.
Louis, come on, man, be straight with us.
Yeah, kid, if you took that money, first of all, impressive.
But, more importantly, you got to fess up.
Look, it wasn't me!
Guys, I think he's telling the truth.
If Louis stole the money,
why would he go to Slaughter for help in the first place?
Why would we find him hiding in a warehouse?
Look, Sherlock's got a point here, kid's a genius.
With $50 million,
he'd drop-off the face of the Earth before we could even blink.
Okay, Louis, is it possible that Victor
stole the codes from that safe?
FILLION: We're watching rather than talking.
BALDWIN: I know. Are we supposed to talk over everything?
FILLION: I guess I don't know.
If we had a director or writer here, they would say...
BALDWIN: They would be filling in, right now.
Yeah, they would be filling in the rest of it.
FILLION: But, lucky you, folks, you get us. BALDWIN: Yeah.
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
BALDWIN: Shiny. FILLION: This is where we talk about Firefly.
(LAUGHING) That's what...
(CHUCKLING) You'd beat me to it. You'd beat me to it.
Someone else was piggy backing on the burglary to pull a heist of their own.
Who else knew about your plan?
No one. At least, not from me
But maybe from Victor.
Hey, wait a minute.
When we accessed the building's service elevators in the basement...
FILLION: This was like a three-page scene.
There's a lot going on. Lot of people in a three-page-scene
means a lot of angles, means a lot of set-ups, a lot of takes.
I love going to work with a challenge like this in front of me
where everybody tows the line, knows their stuff, delivers every time.
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: And that's what happens.
BALDWIN: Yeah, everyone, your camera crew, all the way on down
make sure it's easier on us and we just have to say the words right.
We're missing someone.
A person who knew Victor and Louis were planning their heist
and an intimate knowledge of Booth's finance.
FILLION: Just wanna say those circles are pretty good.
BALDWIN: Yeah, those were... I was gonna say that too.
Those are beautiful, like you're almost artistic in nature.
Oh, come on, Espo, you're not really gonna charge Louis, are you?
He broke the law, Castle. It's not Monopoly...
BALDWIN: He broke the law.
Even though he's a minor, he's looking at real time.
Kid never stood a chance.
All his life, he'd been taken advantage of by adults
who should be acting like his role models.
BALDWIN: So, wait a minute. FILLION: We just nod.
BALDWIN: Yeah. We don't do anything about it.
BALDWIN: I could be a role model.
He told me that they were set up a mere five years ago.
Yeah, so?
BALDWIN: Explain it to me!
...worked at the accounting firm that originally set them up.
(BALDWIN GASPS) FILLION: Well, well, well...
BALDWIN: Oh, it's him.
'Cause he was talking about chasing money around Wall Street the whole thing.
FILLION: Mmm-hmm. BALDWIN: So, he tipped his hand early in the story.
(SIGHS) Poor kid, he's been through so much.
Yeah, I'd like to testify...
BALDWIN: Ah-ha. He's great though. FILLION: Yeah.
FILLION: Mark West played by Corey Reynolds. BALDWIN: Excellent.
Won't you be too busy with your own trial?
My trial? What are you talking about?
We know.
You know what?
Well, for starters, you didn't always work with...
BALDWIN: See, this is a perfect example of actors all playing the positive.
You were Mr. Booth's accountant,
where you worked on his most sensitive matters.
Like setting up tax shelters in offshore banks.
Well, yeah. But the work was unfulfilling so I left
because I wanted to give back to the community...
No, you wanted to give back to Mr. Booth's wife,
but she didn't appreciate your sexual advances, so Mr. Booth fired your ass.
FILLION: (CHUCKLES) Ooh. BALDWIN: I would too.
All the stock options.
All right, listen, I know how this looks...
Your reputation was ruined.
The only job you could get was working with juvenile delinquents.
Not exactly the cushy life you were used to.
So you heard about Louis' invention,
and you saw not only a way to get back on top...
But also get revenge on your former boss, who ruined your life.
That's why you convinced Victor to pull that heist, didn't you?
So that you can go in, right behind him and steal those Cayman Islands bank codes.
Well, that is an imaginative story.
It had a surprise twist, revenge,
FILLION: Seamus does a nice thing here. Where, watch.
It looks as though he's disappointed but really he's...
BALDWIN: He's like, "Yeah." FILLION: No, actually, this is bad news.
We have all the proof we need.
...receipt for a cab ride that you took to Victor's apartment...
BALDWIN: You idiot! You pre-paid for the card.
FILLION: And here is the turn from,
"It's not me, you don't have any proof," to "It's all me!"
BALDWIN: Yeah. The Perry Mason moment.
FILLION: It's not easy playing this turn.
You have to believe me, that was not...
(SIGHS)
BALDWIN: Yeah, nice, nicely played. FILLION: (CHUCKLES) Yeah.
Yeah, desperation.
BALDWIN: This is the first scene I shot on the, uh, production.
FILLION: Oh, nice. BALDWIN: This was before the jacket was ready, so...
FILLION: They were still making it bigger.
BALDWIN: No, they were still beating it up.
(FILLION CHUCKLES)
BALDWIN: They were still making it bigger, that's right.
FILLION: We're gonna have to lengthen this by 17 inches.
BALDWIN: Yeah, and let it out on the chest and shoulders.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Louis.
Too good to be rotting in a cell for a few bonehead decisions.
So from now on, I'm gonna personally see to it
that you got someone looking out for you.
That you got a cool role model.
You mean Mr. Castle?
(FILLION CHUCKLES) (BALDWIN SIGHS)
Really?
(BOTH CHUCKLING) BALDWIN: Oh, you? Oh!
FILLION: Kind of appropriately bewildered there.
To reduce your sentence down to probation.
BALDWIN: Gonna use my pull to ask the mayor to get the DA...
FILLION: And then, you do a lovely bit here, too.
So you're gonna beat up Mr. Castle if he doesn't do what you ask?
BALDWIN: Oh, with pleasure. (CHUCKLES)
FILLION: Sees nothing wrong with it and then, oh, little quick realization.
Yeah. You got a point.
Looks like two of us are gonna have to do some role modeling for each other.
Sound good?
FILLION: And we know that the two of you will be very good for each other.
BALDWIN: Yes. Actually, um...
We've already written the pilot episode for that, uh, series.
FILLION: Spinoff? What's it called?
BOTH: "Slaughter House Rules."
BALDWIN: Just "Slaughter Rules." FILLION: Oh, gotcha.
I think mine's funnier.
I don't know. I'm just confused about Beckett.
That makes two of us.
FILLION: Here we have the next scene, we're uh...
(BOTH CHUCKLE) BALDWIN: Next scene for you.
BALDWIN: Yup. I love pushing your buttons. FILLION: Yeah.
But not about Beckett. It's not a joke to me.
Just trying to get your attention, Sherlock.
BALDWIN: Sherlock.
I don't know much.
What I do know is that lady has a bad for you and you feel the same.
FILLION: And here he is being real, connecting,
straight to the eyes, absolutely honest.
Quit asking permission.
I lost my wife
because I wasn't man enough to put her needs ahead of mine.
FILLION: I could feel it. Nice. I could feel it. BALDWIN: Yeah.
BALDWIN: Man up.
You know what, Slaughter?
For all your bluster and bravado...
FILLION: We see underneath, who Slaughter is and then...
Whoa! Stop!
Too much, too deep. BALDWIN: Over the line.
Only you can take two guys talking about a chick and make it weird.
(BALDWIN LAUGHING)
Yeah, me too. Every time.
FILLION: (CHUCKLING) Nice. You did that.
Thank you. Whatever, Sherlock.
BALDWIN: I love the little snap thing. (FILLION CHUCKLING)
BALDWIN: That's awesome.
BALDWIN: And... FILLION: I love that Slaughter can't go too deep.
And that was like the third take you started the body check.
BALDWIN: Yeah. FILLION: Saying, "this was appropriate,"
and it was really well done. BALDWIN: Oh.
FILLION: That being the end of the show.
BALDWIN: I don't remember hearing this at the end of the, uh...
Because that's when they come in with all the "previously" and "next show."
FILLION: Oh, this is what we do every show. It's not like other shows. Yeah.
Let's pretend... BALDWIN: This is your theme song?
FILLION: Yeah.
BALDWIN: Oh, see, when it's broadcast you don't get to hear that
'cause they go right to the next show.
FILLION: Well, we'll get you the soundtrack.
BALDWIN: On a CD for my car?
FILLION: Sure, sure. We'll do that for you. BALDWIN: Okay.
BALDWIN: Just email it to me.
FILLION: (CHUCKLES) Thanks for being here everybody. BALDWIN: Thanks for having...
FILLION: Thanks for hanging out. Thanks for being here, Adam.
BALDWIN: Slaughter rules.