Fringe, Season 3/Episode 17 - Stowaway

 

Fingerprints at the scene of an apparent suicide lead the Fringe team to a seemingly immortal woman.

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Episode Cast and Crew

Stars
Anna Torv Olivia Dunham
Lance Reddick Phillip Broyles
Jasika Nicole Astrid Farnsworth
John Noble Dr. Walter Bishop
Joshua Jackson Peter Bishop

Guest Cast
Paula Malcomson Dana Gray
Patti Allan Landlady
Nicholas Carella Jim
Catherine Lough Haggquist Lucy
David Leach Friend Two
Brandon Nadon Friend One
Jean Paul Najm Uniform
Jason Poulsen Brian
Kerry Sandomirsky Nun
Howard Siegel Conductor
Michael R. Smith FBI Tech Carl
John Stewart (I) Male Passenger
James Tyce ND Agent
Lee Vincent FBI Tech

Writers
Danielle Dispaltro Teleplay
Akiva Goldsman Story
Jeff Pinkner Story
J.H. Wyman Story

Recurring Roles
Seth Gabel Lincoln Lee

Creators
J.J. Abrams Creator
Alex Kurtzman Creator
Roberto Orci Creator

Directors
Charles Beeson Director

Executive Producers
J.J. Abrams Executive Producer
Jeff Pinkner Executive Producer
J.H. Wyman Executive Producer
Joe Chappelle Executive Producer
Bryan Burk Executive Producer

Co-Executive Producers
Monica Owusa-Breen Co-Executive Producer


Trivia
Alternate Earth general differences:
- The TV series Sesame Street doesn't exist, given that Peter doesn't recognize a common phrase from it. Trivia: The Observer is across the street, holding an umbrella, as Walter, Bell, and Peter examine the car that Dana and Jim fell on. Trivia: The glyph code for this episode is ERODE.
Notes
Injoke: The name "Dana Gray" is derived from Amanda Graystone, the recurring character that actress Paula Malcomson plays on Caprica. Malcomson also plays Dana Gray here.

 Music: Take Five (The Dave Brubeck Quartet), Give a Little Bit (Supertramp) Blair Brown is credited but doesn't appear. 

International Airdates:
Canada: March 18, 2011 on Citytv
UK: March 31, 2011 on Sky1/Sky1 HD


Quotes

Bell/Olivia: I understand that this could take some time for you to get used to. Imagine how I feel. I never realized that a bra was so binding. (sniggers) Bell/Olivia: Has anyone ever told you, dear, that you have lovely hands?
Astrid: Thank you. Jim: There is hope in raindrops. Isn't that what you said? What does that even mean?
Dana: It means... that every drop of rain holds a promise of regrowth. Each has a purpose, even if they don't know it. I think we can feel that way, that we don't have a purpose. But we do. Walter: Look at this. Me and Belly collecting human tissues and fluids specimens, just like when we were kids.
Peter: Glad you guys are enjoying yourselves. Agent Lee: Second set, those fingerprints were identified as Dana Gray's. Which... is insane, because she's dead.
Bell/Olivia: Well, you know, stranger things have happened.
Agent Lee: Umm, no they haven't.
Peter: Don't listen to him. Her. Sorry. Go on. Agent Lee: I know this sounds insane, but I don't think this woman can die.
Walter: Isn't this our lucky day. Agent Lee: Umm, what is this place, exactly?
Peter: Uh, this is the place where the mysteries of the universe get answered. And congratulations, whatever your security clearance was, it just got upgraded about seven levels deeper. Walter: Even if we were able to transfer your consciousness safely inside Gene, there are other matters to consider.
Bell/Olivia: We would communicate through my brainwaves. You would hook me up to an EEG machine and decipher my thoughts.
Walter: Well, that may work. Still... I'd have to milk you.
Bell/Olivia: We could assign Astrid. (they both snigger) Walter: Three trains all passing through Norwood...
Bell/Olivia: Each traveling at it's own constant velocity...
Walter: Not accounting for station stops...
Peter: (on the phone) What are they saying in the background?
Astrid: I have no idea. They're doing that thing again where they don't finish sentences. Agent Lee: So what changed? After all that time trying, why was she able to die now?
Peter: Welcome to the Fringe Division. Every answer you get just leads you to more questions.
Agent Lee: That may be. It's a lot more exciting than Hartford. Feel free to give me a call if you ever find yourself needing some help.
Peter: Be careful what you wish for. Bell/Olivia: As a scientist, I like to believe that nothing just happens. That every event has some meaning, some sort of message. You just have to be able to listen closely enough to hear it. 

Full Recap

Bell in Olivia's body is brought to the Harvard lab, and she explains to Peter and the others that Olivia's consciousness is at a state of rest but perfectly safe. He explains that when Olivia visited his office on the Other Side, he put soul magnets in her tea and she unwittingly drank them. Walter confirms that Olivia has two brainwave patterns, one like Bell's and another that is barely active. Bell says that she needs a more suitable home to move to, and that Olivia's brain can hold his consciousness for several weeks before something can happen to her. Broyles asks how long it will take for Walter and Bell to find a housing, and Bell says it won't take longer than 48 hours. Peter isn't happy, but Bell says that he'll die for good if he's forced to leave. Walter agrees with his friend, insisting they need Bell to decipher the Machine. Broyles gives Bell the 48 hours, and says that if Bell isn't out by then, he'll have Walter forcibly remove Bell's consciousness. Bell gives his word and asks Peter to get him his re-entry files from Massive Dynamic.

In Roxbury, Massachusetts, a woman goes out onto the roof and finds a man, Jim, waiting for her. He says that she doesn't have much time, and notes that she once said there is hope in raindrops. The woman, Dana Gray, explains that each raindrop has a purpose and holds the promise of regrowth. Jim then gets up, runs to the edge of the roof, and asks if she believes what she says about purpose. He says that she knew how he felt, and also wanted to kill herself, and asks what reason she found to stick around. Dana walks over to him and tries to pull him back, but he falls on the edge. Jim says that he doesn't believe in hop and they're all going to die, and Dana then throws herself off the edge with Jim. They both land on a car below. After a few seconds, Dana gets up and walks away... as the people across the street stare in shock.

Peter returns with the files that Bell requested from his old office. As Bell gives a list of specifications for the body he needs, he notices a sketch of the Machine and Peter. He warns that Walter may not be able to stop Peter's fate no matter what, and says that Peter choosing not to accept his fate may just set off the china of events that leads to the very things he fears. Broyles sends a video of the incident in Roxbury, and they watch the video and see Dana walk away. They don't know how she could have survived the fall, but Bell sees the video and suggests that it may be a result of the degradation between universes. He wants to investigate while he waits for the computer to sift all of the information, and notes that he's the only one with experience in dimensional breakdown.

In Hartford, Connecticut, FBI Special Agent Lincoln Lee gets a printout of Dana's fingerprints.

Bell, Walter, and Peter examine the car, and they take DNA samples to identify Dana. Walter is clearly happy to be working with his old partner. Agent Lee arrives and confirms that Dana died 18 months ago in a home invasion robbery, along with her husband and two children. The police tracked down the killer and were forced to shoot him when he resisted, but Dana's body disappeared from the morgue. Lee became involved when he got a report of a double-suicide at a dormitory, and one set of fingerprints were Dana's. Since then, Dana's fingerprints have turned up at three other double-suicides, and the second body has disappeared each time by the time the EMTs arrive.

Later, Lee comes to the Harvard lab and finds Walter's cow, Gene. Bell invited him to come, and Walter shows Lee the DNA. They've checked the molecules of Dana's body and discovered that they're held together by an unusually strong magnetic bond. Walter suggests that she's taking the energy of her victims at the moment of their death. Lee finds the entire thing hard to believe, and Bell suggests that Dana may have found a way to extend her own life. Peter checks the files and learns that each victim tried to kill himself before, and Bell and Walter figure that she's only taking the lives of people who want to die. Peter leaves with Lee to check out suicide hotlines.

Dana goes to the graves of her husband and children and leaves flowers. As she walks away, she gets a hotline call from Brian, a man who wants to kill himself. She says that she understands and asks to meet him in person. Brian suspects a trap, but she assures him that she won't notify the police.

Peter and Lee finds the suicide hotline where Dana works, using the name Joan. Her employer, Lucy, takes them to Dana's desk, and explains that Dana has saved at least 37 lives in the last few months. As she goes to get Dana's address, Lee and Peter wonder why Dana is so committed to saving people's lives.

Dana goes to Brian's apartment, and he aims a gun at her. He tells her that he wanted her to come, and asks her if she thinks raindrops have a purpose like he said, and if the raindrops will help the people on the train. Brian tells Dana that she has to save the people on the train, and he left a duffel bag with a bomb on a train. As Dana calls 911, Brian says that he's Azrael and hopes that angels will carry his damned soul to Heaven, and shoots himself. She hesitates, and then hangs up.

At the lab, Walter and Bell are smoking marijuana and contemplating the information that Bell is compiling for a new body. Bell looks at Gene the cow and gets an idea.

Peter and Lee go over the books that Dana had at her address, and they see one book about the afterlife. They figure that she's looking for a way to die herself.

Walter and Bell discuss how to transfer Bell's genius into Gene. Peter and Lee tell Bell and Walter their theory, and the scientists admit that being struck by lightning twice could have caused her invulnerability. They get a call from Brian's apartment that Dana was spotted and go there. They talk to the landlady and Lee confirms that Dana was there. The ME determines that Brian killed himself, and Peter and Lee figures that she's trying to die by "hitching a ride" with the people she's killing. They wonder what changed this time.

Dana goes to a church and has a nun find a story on the journey of the soul to the afterlife. It deals with the ascension of Azrael, a sinner whose soul was condemned to Purgatory. God ignored the angel's request to free Azrael, so the angels lifted him out of Purgatory, saying that the combined innocence of their souls outweighed Azrael's sins. God agreed and welcomed Azrael into Heaven. As the nun leaves, Dana contemplates the address of the train station.

At Brian's apartment, Broyle finds a hidden cellar door. Downstairs they find Brian's "collection" of animal skeletons. An agent finds an invoice for 20 pounds of plastic explosives and they realize that Brian was making a bomb.

At the station, Dana boards the train and sits in the seat where the bomb is hidden. She confirms that the bomb is there and then places it on her lap. A man sits down in the seat next to her and asks where she's going, and Dana says she's going to see her family.

At Brian's apartment, the team realizes that Brian set the bomb with detonator, but there's no trace of it in the apartment. Lee realizes what's going on and theorizes that Brian told Dana where bomb is, and she's going to use it to try and die, by being present with a larger group of people when they die. Peter finds Brian's phone and figures they can use it to trace Dana's cellphone and track the GPS.

As Dana sits on the train, her phone rings. She checks it but doesn't answer it when it shows an unknown ID. Peter suggests that they change the outgoing ID, and then dials again. This time when Dana gets the call, it shows her husband Henry's name. When she answers, Peter asks her not to hang up, and says that he knows she's trying to reunite with her family. He offers to find a way for her to die, and she asks if he can promise they can reunite her with her family. When Peter asks if her plan will reunite her with them, Dana says it's the best chance she has. Peter says that he understands, but Dana says that they'll find out if she's right soon enough. She hangs up and the FBI agents are unable to complete the trace in time. Broyles has the technician analyze the background noise and feed it to Astrid, and Bell and Harvard work out the train schedules to determine which train that Dana is on.

The passenger next to Dana asks her to keep an eye on his stuff while he goes to the bathroom. The train comes to a halt as the FBI arrives. Broyles orders the conductor to clear the train and they start searching for the bomb. Dana's neighboring passenger recognizes her, but by the time they get to her seat, she's gone. The FBI agents begin evacuating the train and use dogs to search for the bomb.

Dana walks away from the train, carrying the bomb, and goes to an empty field. Sobbing, she cries out that she doesn't understand, and then puts down the bomb and starts to walk away.

Peter and Lee are helping with the evacuation when the bomb goes off in the nearby field. They find Dana nearby and confirm that she's dead. As they leave, Lee wonders why Dana was able to die, and Peter says that's the nature of work with the Fringe division. Lee says it's more exciting than his typical work and offers to help anytime.

Peter returns home and finds Walter asleep on the couch. Bell is staying there at Walter's invitation, and offers Peter a cup of tea. Peter accepts, and Bell theorizes that the energy from the bomb may have reset the electromagnetic charge in her body, allowing her to die. However, Bell suggests that the theory is wrong, and a better theory is that Dana couldn't die because she needed to be there because it was her destiny to save all of the people on the train. Bell suggests that it's no coincidence that they met Dana just as he returned from the grave, and that it's some kind of message. Church bells ring outside, and Bell suggests that's no coincidence either. Olivia reverts back to consciousness momentarily, but then Bell takes over when the bells stop ringing. He warns that things may be more complicated than he first thought. 

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HOUSE - Season 7/Episode 17 - Fall From Grace

A homeless man with a history of drug abuse is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro with burns and scars on his chest. Meanwhile, Cuddy reveals her guilt to Wilson about breaking up with House.

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Episode Cast and Crew

Stars
Hugh Laurie Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Omar Epps Dr. Eric Foreman
Robert Sean Leonard Dr. James Wilson
Jesse Spencer Dr. Robert Chase
Peter Jacobson Dr. Chris Taub

Guest Cast
Christopher Marquette Danny
Karolina Wydra Dominika Patrova
Harrison Bliss Ryan
Thomas Crawford Bernard
Tacey Adams Mrs. Weston

Costume Designers
Cathy Crandall Costume Designer

Technical Advisors
Lisa Sanders Medical Technical Advisor
John Sotos Medical Technical Advisor
Harley Liker Medical Technical Advisor

Production Coordinators
Jamie Feldman Production Coordinator
Geoffrey Colo Producer New Media

Researchers
Erica Spates Researcher

Post Production Coordinators
Daphne Raves Post Production Coordinator

Assistant To The Executive Producerss
Jessica Young Assistant to the Executive Producers
David Wong (II) Assistant to the Executive Producers
James S. Conway Assistant to the Executive Producers
Lindsay Zappala Assistant to the Executive Producers
Danny Weiss Assistant to the Executive Producers

Hairstylists
Lori Rozman Department Head Hair

Production Sound Mixers
Von Varga Production Sound Mixer

Full Recap

Two boys in the park, Chis and Ryan, launch a model rocket and watch it launch and then come down in the nearby woods. They go to get it and discover that it's set off a small fire. As Ryan puts it out, the Chris films and spots a homeless man, Danny, beneath a nearby tree. The fires have spread to his arm and they figure he's dead, but he wakes up and screams. They put the fire out and he stares at his arm, says it smells like licorice, and collapses.

The team waits for House to arrive, and he soon shows up riding a Segway along with his newest woman. They tell him about Danny's case and he takes it, and then introduces the woman, Dominika Patrova. House explains that they're getting married on Friday, and then leaves on the Segway with her.

Danny is eating when Foreman and Masters come to see him. He explains that his smell of sense went haywire a few months ago, and refuses to give them his real name. Danny insists that he's always been healthy, but Foreman points out scars and burn marks on his chest and back. The patient explains that his father tortured him as a child, and he was never hospitalized because his father was careful to cover it up. Masters apologizes and Danny says that it's the past and he's over it.

House scoots around the hospital on his Segway, handing out wedding invitations. He gives one to Cuddy, who says that he can't have a Segway in the hospital. She refuses to back down until House complains about his leg pain, and she then gives in.

Wilson comes to see House in his office, where Dominika is giving him a massage. House asks her to leave, and Wilson accuses him of screwing with Cuddy. When House insists that he's only having the marriage to get Dominika a green card, and to have her work as his housekeeper and save him $33,000. He has an ironclad prenup with Dominika in case she tries to back up, and Wilson doesn't have a response.

Masters and Foreman give Danny an odor ID test and he fails. Taub and Chase return from the park with a drug kit and confront Danny, and he claims he's been taking vitamin supplements. They get his name from his books and Danny insists on going, but starts suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding.

House has Dominika give himself and Foreman a pedicure, and Masters confirms that Danny was getting vitamin supplements, just as he claimed. However, House insists that Danny has been using drugs within the last five months because his hair shows heroin use, and figures he has different unrelated symptoms because of his living conditions. He orders treatment for Vitamin A overdose, and Masters insists on checking Danny's abdominal wall as well.

House goes to get Cuddy to put Dominka on his health insurance, but she refuses, insisting that it's fraud. He calls Dominika in to give a moving speech about American freedom, and Dominika gives Cuddy homemade kulich. She agrees to sign, but warns that if they don't get married, House will lose his health insurance. House says he does and Cuddy signs.

As she runs the abdominal test, Masters points out the tests showed that Danny was using heroin. He says he's been off it for three months, and was briefly declared clinical dead during rehab. Danny figures it was a sign from God. He says that he wants to become a doctor and was smart, and he's been taking vitamin supplements to maintain his health. Masters discovers that there are thirteen masses in Danny's colon and shows the scans to the team. When Masters says that Danny's planning to become a doctor, the others figure that Danny is just telling her what she wants to hear.

As they run further tests, Taub suggests that they should boycott the wedding. Foreman tells him that he and Chase are serving at the wedding. They discover that the masses are bones, and they ask Danny about them. He explains that he ate garbage to convince a restaurant cook to give him real food. Danny's vision starts to alter as he gets extreme tunnel vision

The team gathers on the lobby balcony and tries to run differential, while House and Dominika play with remote helicopters. Chase suggests Foster Kennedy Syndrome, causing pressure on the olfactory and optic nerves, and House tells them to test with a MRI. He then sends his helicopter to attack Cuddy and two donors, and Cuddy covers by claiming that they let children play with RC helicopters.

As they run the MRI, Danny complains about claustrophobia. Taub snaps at him, and Chase suggests that he show Danny a little respect. Chase believes that Danny wants a second chance because of his faith in God. However, Taub figures that Danny is sucking in Chase the same way he is with Masters, telling them both what they want to hear. Danny starts vomiting, and they confirm that he has two dark spots in his parietal cortex. They report to House, who is playing ping pong with Dominika, against Chase and Foreman. House figures that he has mental illness that the doctors in ER didn't pick up, but Masters wants to do more than just put him back out on the street as a crazy man.

That night, Wilson comes to see House and tells him that he needs to figure out how to break up with Cuddy without it affecting their working relationship. House is confident that Cuddy feels guilty and he can use that to get what he wants, but Wilson puts out that he's attacking someone who isn't fighting back.

Taub comes back to see Danny, and tells Masters that he's a hockey fan. He starts writing a report with a hockey pen, but Danny says that he hates hockey, disproving Taub's suspicion that Danny is trying to suck up to him. Danny starts complaining about a burning sensation in his uninjured left arm.

House arrives at work in a monster truck and offers to take the teams for a drive while they run differential. As he speeds through traffic, they realize that the burning arm can't be a symptom of schizophrenia because they're treating for that. House figures that it's genetic, but isn't interested in interrupting his honeymoon to deal with it. He tells them to track down Danny's parents and check the family history.

Later, Taub comes to see House and tells him that he tracked down Danny's father. He lives 30 minutes from the hospital, and Chase and Masters are already going there to talk to the father. Taub then asks why House didn't invite him to the wedding, and House notes that he objected to the mock wedding. Dominika emerges from beneath House's desk, and a speechless Taub quickly gets out despite House's claim that Dominika was just installing a cable. She says that she feels sorry for Taub and wonders if they can do something for him.

Masters and Chase talk to Danny's father, who is upset when they try to ask him about Danny. He finally tells them that his son Danny died three months ago of a drug overdose.

House goes to see Danny and asks for his real name, but Danny refuses to say, or give his father's name. He admits that his father is looking for him, and is claiming that he's cleaned up and sober. Danny doesn't believe it and doesn't want him to be part of his life, and says that if he does see his father, he'll kill him. Danny then reaches for a glass of water but discovers that he no longer has depth perception. He has cerebellar ataxia, and House leaves and tells Masters that it signifies early-onset Parkinson's. House tells her to confirm with a DNA test.

Wilson goes to see Cuddy and complains that House is turning things upside down. She is unimpressed, and Wilson warns that appeasement isn't the answer. Cuddy asks why Wilson cares, and he says that Cuddy is the only boss that can handle House. He tells her to start kicking House's butt. She goes to tell House that he can't use the chapel for his wedding. House tries to make her feel guilty by saying it will upset his wedding plans, but she tells him it's not her problem and leaves.

Masters goes to test Danny, who tells her that she should have let him die. He explains that he overdosed because he tried to kill himself, and he did so because he's done horrible things. When he didn't die, Danny thought that God forgave him, but now he believes that God kept him alive to suffer. Masters insists that he doesn't deserve to die, and Danny tells her that he almost killed his girlfriend in college when he started beating her for no reason. He insists that he's a monster, just like his father, and then passes out as his heart fails from cardiomyopathy.

Back in differential, House wonders why Danny is getting worse since he was admitted to the hospital. House sees a man going by with hospital food and checks Danny's card. He realizes that Danny is eating vegetarian because he can, and he's suffering from adult refsum disease, preventing him from processing the excess phytanic acid. House tells them to give Danny a plasma treatment and check his blood, and then goes to his wedding.

House is holding the wedding at his apartment, with Taub as his ring bearer. As Chase does the honors and administers the vows, Cuddy goes to the bedroom, and Wilson follows her in to find her crying. She admits that the wedding got to her, but she won't give House the satisfaction of leaving. Wilson points out that things are getting back to normal.

Masters tells Danny that he'll be fine as long as he checks his diet, and he thanks her for not giving up on him. She insists that he's not a bad person, and suggests that he talk to a professional once he's released. Danny figures that God has a plan for him, and his illness was a way of testing his resolve. As Masters leaves, Danny says that "Danny" isn't his real name, and she says that it doesn't matter.

At home, Dominika tells House that he likes her, and he says that likes her too. She kisses him and he starts to kiss back, but then he stops and says he never sleeps with married women. He tells her to take the couch and goes to his own bed.

The next day, Masters arrives at work and discovers that Danny has disappeared without checking out. The FBI are there because when they sent Danny's DNA out for testing, it turned out that he's a serial killer who eats his victims… and they saved him.


Quotes 
Dr. Wilson: You're trying to screw with Cuddy.
House: Yeah, it's the classic "You dumped me, so I'm gonna get married a week later" ruse. 'Cause not only is she that stupid, but apparently I'm that stupid.
Dr. Wilson: Then what, you're openly mocking marriage... trying to prove it means nothing?
House: It doesn't. But you proved that yourself years ago. 
Masters: Think House is coming in today?
Dr. Foreman: Maybe if we start offering spa treatments.
Masters: He already jumped off of a hotel balcony. Who knows what he'll do next?
Dr. Chase: Ride some kind of prostitute chariot to work?
House: She wanted me to bribe you, like they do back in the old country. Tell her what I said.
Dominika: This is America--the land of the home and the free of the braves.
House: Yeah, I just get teary-eyed every time I hear her say that.
Dominika: In your head!
House: It's "face."
Dominika: On your face!
House: Close enough.
House: Hiding your identity--well, either you're a criminal or a superhero.
Danny: I'm not a criminal.
House: Awesome. What color is my underwear?
Dr. Wilson: (to Cuddy) Appeasement is never the answer in the face of naked aggression. It won't be long before his tanks are rolling down your Champs-Elysses. 

Allusions
House: Since I'm assuming "Ferris Bueller" is not his real name.
Referencing Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), which chronicles the adventures of a determined high school senior (Matthew Broderick) intent on ditching for a day and taking time with his girlfriend and best friend, seeing the sights in Chicago. 
House: I know we said no secrets, but I think I need to take this alone, Honey Bunny.
Referencing Pulp Fiction (1994), and Amanda Plummer's character Yolanda, aka "Honey Bunny." She and her boyfriend Pumpkin rob a diner, and run into Jules and Vincent.
House: North, Miss Teschmacher.
Referencing Superman II (1980), Lex Luthor prepares to depart for the North Pole with Miss Teschmacher, his (mostly) loyal assistant. They argue over which direction is north, with Lex getting it wrong.
House: Awesome. What color is my underwear?
Referencing Superman (1978), where Lois Lane meets Superman for a personal interview. When she learns that he has x-ray vision, she tests his claim by asking him to identify the color of her underwear. After she steps out from a lead planter, he confirms that they're pink.

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GREY'S ANATOMY - Season 7/Episode 16 - Not Responsible

Meredith must choose between her fertility treatments and her eyesight when she begins having trouble seeing, Mark makes it clear to Callie and Arizona that he takes his role as father-to-be very seriously, and April discovers there's more to Dr. Stark than first appears.

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Episode Cast and Crew
Stars
Eric Dane Dr. Mark Sloan
Chyler Leigh Dr. Lexie Grey
Kevin McKidd Dr. Owen Hunt
Jessica Capshaw Dr. Arizona Robbins
Kim Raver Dr. Teddy Altman
Sarah Drew Dr. April Kepner
Jesse Williams (II) Dr. Jackson Avery
Sara Ramirez Dr. Calliope "Callie" Torres
James Pickens Jr. Dr. Richard Webber
Ellen Pompeo Dr. Meredith Grey
Patrick Dempsey Dr. Derek Shepherd
Sandra Oh Dr. Cristina Yang
Justin Chambers Dr. Alex Karev
Chandra Wilson Dr. Miranda Bailey

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  Guest Cast
  Rachael Taylor Dr. Lucy Fields
  Sage Ryan Kyle
  Loretta Devine Adele Webber
  Nancy Travis Allison
  Laura Breckenridge Julia

 Music Featured In This Episode:
1.Julian Darling by Elizabeth & The Catapult
2.Plans by The Submarines
3.Come With Me by CEO
4.I Walk The Line by Cast
5.Riverside by Agnes Obel

6.Forget It All Again by Rich McCulley  

Quotes:
Derek: Yeah, she didn't think that she needed to tell me that she couldn't see. She figured that it was, you know, not relivant. I don't know if I'm more mad at her as her husband or attending.
Owen: You were extrainous to the process, kinda like Cristina. She doesn't need to talk to me about whether or not we're gonna have kids.
Mark (laughs): Oh, that's nice.
Owen: Yeah, not only do I not have a say, she doesn't even want to discuss it.
Derek: They want to hold all the cards.
Mark: I want you to imagine for second what it's like trying to negotatiate with two women. Two.
Owen: That's a nightmare.
Mark: At least you guys get 50 percent of the vote. I get a measley 33.
Owen: I get 50? With Cristina, I get maybe, ten.
Derek: Meredith doesn't even put anything down on the table, when she doesn't want me to vote, she simply omits the information. Leaving me with zero.
Cristina: I mean, he knows I don't want kids and now suddenly I'm ruining his vision of the future.
Meredith: Don't talk to me about vision, what if I never get to operate again?
Cristina: You'll be a bartender. I had a very good time.
Meredith (laughs): Oh, yeah, the whole five hours you bartended.
Cristina: Free drinks.
Meredith (laughing): You stole those drinks. Joe didn't give you free drinks.
Cristina: Your eyes will clear up, they will.
Richard (walks in): How's it goin'?
Meredith: Oh, good, I'm good.
Richard: Metzger's gonna examine you everyday and until he clears you, you don't set a foot in an OR.
Meredith: Well, I can't hold a scalpel but I can observe, right?
Richard: No, you can't. (walks out)
Meredith: Did he just bench me?
Cristina: Damn.
(Lexie is in the shower with Jackson, April comes in, not knowing Jackson's in there)
April: Okay, um... Stark... Stark just asked me out. Isn't that the weirdest thing you've ever heard?
Lexie: It's pretty weird, I'll give you that, yeah.
April (hystrically): It's weird, it's weird. I mean, he's old and mean, he's like the Grinch. The Grinch asked me for diner and I said (giggles) yes.
Lexie: You said yes?!
April: I mean, there is a nice man under there.
Lexie: Ap-April...
April: You think it's weird.
Lexie: I- I do, but I'm starting to come around to it. You know, can we talk about it later?
April: Y-Yeah, okay. Can I pee before I go?
Lexie: April, go downstairs.
April: This is shared space.
Lexie: Just go downstairs! (April leaves, screen shows Lexie covering Jackson's mouth, who is obviously trying not to laugh)
Callie: I gotta tell you, I was really impressed with Mark today. He's really being an adult about this. I- I think he's going to be a great dad.
Arizona: Yeah.
Callie: Right?
Arizona: It'll work.
Callie: You don't think that it was that impressive?
Arizona (clears throat): Sure. He handled it, and not like a four year old. Is that supposed to make me excited?
Callie: I thought that I was supposed to be the cranky, hormonal one?
Arizona: I'm not cranky.
Callie: Mmm.
Arizona: I don't get excited by Mark. I'm not delighted by Mark. I love you. And I can honestly say that I'm gonna love this baby. But Mark? I somehow ended up agreeing to a lifetime with... Mark. A lifetime of decisions. Bottle or sippy cup? Basketball or tap? Dartmouth or Berekley? Christmas morning, with... Mark.
Callie: Okay.
Arizona: I never picked him, and I don't hate him, but I don't want a life with him. And yet that's somehow what I got.
Callie: What am I supposed to do? Kick him out? I mean, it's his kid.
Arizona: Yeah, you don't need to remind of that, I never, ever forget that.
Callie: Wow. Okay, we're gonna go down that road, again.
Arizona: Okay, can we just be honest about the fact that is some kind of bi dream come true? I mean you get the woman that you love and the guy best friend who's also a great lay and then you get a baby. I mean, you get it all. Me, this is not my dream. My dream doesn't look like this.
Stark: I'd like you to join me for dinner.
April: Come again?
Stark: Dinner.
April: Uh... right now?
Stark: No, I already ate. I'm just saying some other night.
April: Like...
Stark: As you know, a date.
April: Did you say you wouldn't call child services because you wanted to go out with me?
Stark: No, no, actually, I wanted to go out with you because you convinced me not to call child services. And nobody has changed my mind in... ten years.
April: Is that supposed to be a selling point?
Stark: It cuts both ways, no doubt about it.
April: If I say no, will you stop giving me surgeries?
Stark: Oh, no, that's sexual harrassment, not my style. Look, just think it over, if the answer's no, that's fine, we'll probably have to advoid eye contact for a while, but I mean we can still work together. Anyway, think about it.
Cristina: I think that I have veto power. I mean, I think that you don't bring a human being into this world if one of the parties, like the mother, doesn't want it. I mean, what's left to discuss?
Owen: Alright, lemme get this straight, you've made a decision and I have no say, zero. So, what if I think having a family is a huge part of what it means to be alive?
Cristina: Well, then you married the wrong person. You know, maybe you did. I mean, it was... It was hasty. I-I was a PTSD wastoid shivering on the coach. Maybe we didn't think this through.
Owen: Stop it. You don't get to pull that crap with me. We got married not because you're... a basket case but because we loved each other and we wanted a life together. So, you don't get to threaten walking out just because I had the gull to express an opinion that is different to yours. You need to think about it. You have an obligation to at least pretend that you care what the hell I want.
Jackson: Just wanted to make sure that you were alright.
Lexie: Ricky's not, that's for sure. I told Julia that she'd find someone else, but I'm not sure I believed it.
Jackson: Ah, she will.
Lexie: But what if he's...
Jackson: ... her soulmate? You've gotta be kidding me with this crap, Lexie. Nobody has just one soul mate. That'd be such a dumb system. Look, Ricky and Julia deserve better than someone who makes them sick. You deserve better, too. And there is more than one soulmate for everyone. I mean, someone like you, there'd be a line out the door as soon as word got out.
Lexie (smiles): Oh, would you be in the line?
Jackson: Yeah, I'm in the line.
Bailey: Everything's clear.
Richard: Good. She's just got two left feet.
Bailey: Could be, I didn't check for that. Sir, something's clearly wrong.
Richard: Dr. Bailey, when you're rolling down the far side of the hill, things fall apart.
Bailey: Okay, look, if it were me and my wife was suddenly accident prone, and losing track of details, I wouldn't ask the general surgeon who's only been an attending for a year to check her out. I'd ask the neuro guy, the very fancy, extremely good, neurosurgeon who happens to be studying neurological disorders like Alzheimer's, who happens to be a close friend. I mean, that's who I'd ask, but that's just me.
Lexie (about Julia): She's gone. For real. I don't know how to tell him.
Jackson: Well, if I had to hear something like that, I'd wanna hear it from you.
April: Allison Baker is in Dr. Shepherd's Alzheimer's trial, and she has to have follow-up visits every two weeks for the next three years. We'll make Kyle come every time, I will do the exam myself, every two weeks. Look, Kyle, he's not just loved, he's cherished. I would like you to consider putting a pin in the call to protective services.
Stark: I thought that you already made the call?
April: We didn't.
Stark: Oh. ... Okay.
April: Excuse me?
Stark: Better not stay too long, I might reconsider. Run away, Dr. Kepner.
Cristina: I said I'm never having kids and you said 'yeah, yeah, yeah.' What exactly does 'yeah, yeah, yeah', mean?
Owen: Well, of course you don't want kids, you're a resident, I felt the same when I was starting out so I figured that we could uh, revisit this conversation down the line.
Cristina: We've already discussed this.
Owen: Yes, but people change. It's possible in a couple years you'll... come around.
Cristina: When have you ever known me to come around?
Owen: The idea that your career is the only thing that will ever matter to you is frankly a young person's notion. Look, after what you've been through these past few months I would've thought that you had a new vision towards this whole thing already.
Cristina: Okay, okay. So, you assumed that I was gonna grow-up and that I was going to get over my childish vision of my life.
Owen: Well, that's one way to put it. I also thought that you might find a little room for my vision of life.
Cristina: Well, I've grown up as much as I plan to. And I don't come around.
Teddy: They're lying. They're just gonna lay low for a couple of weeks, then they're gonna get back together and destroy this pefectly good pair of lungs. She's probably still in the hospital.
Jackson: You wanna stop the transplant?
Teddy: It's too late. Lungs are on their way, clock's already ticking.
Lexie: Maybe it'll be okay, you know, maybe it's not a waste, they love each other. You know, it is rare, what if they are soulmates? (Teddy shakes her head and leaves)
Jackson: You're thinking about Sloan again.
Lexie: No. Why? (Jackson gives her a look) He told Callie that he'd be happy to raise a special needs child, okay? He's a good man. I... I didn't think about it when I walked away, I just got mad and I walked.
Jackson: You did think about it. You think about everything.
Lexie: Okay, what if I was wrong?
Jackson: You really wanna be dating a guy, two women and a baby?
Lexie: Okay, well, that sounds bad.
Callie: Well, I want the amino. I- I just wanna have the information, whatever it is. That doesn't mean I'm gonna act on it. Just whatever the situation is, I wanna know about it.
Mark: Okay, thank you.
Arizona: What? That's it?
Mark: Well, I just wanted her to think about it. I wanted all of us to really think about it, and you did. There's three of us, and I got outvoted. As long as my 33 percent is considered and nobody's body parts get more of a vote than I do, that's all I can ask for.
Cristina: I am so grateful that you're not trying to knock me up.
Owen: You're welcome.
Cristina: The three musketeers are all freaked out about having an amino and Meredith is getting shot up everyday with fertilidy drugs. It is a nightmare, the whole thing and for all for what? Just to sign up for two years of sleep deprivation and feces? I'm so happy we're never going to have to deal with that.
Bailey: Meredith, what was the deal with Adele Webber a few weeks back?
Meredith: Oh, she fractured her wrist.
Bailey: Yeah, but you ordered a head CT.
Meredith: Just to be sure, and it was clear.
Bailey: Okay, I read the file. What I'm asking for is a more complete impression of the patient. I, myself just accused her of either being a whino or a junkie and that seems to not be the case 'cause the tox screen is clear and so is the breathalizer. And I'm wonderin' what the hell's goin' on?
Meredith: She fell down and she couldn't get her story straight, I tried to talk to the chief and he got very angry with me because I suggested that there was some indication of early dementia. And he thinks that since I'm on Derek's study, I see Alzheimer's everywhere. Are you concerned?
Bailey: Yeah.
Meredith: Did you really call the Chief's wife a whino?
Bailey: Not my finest moment.
Meredith: So, he says we're only gonna have one sink in the bathroom, like he's hurting me. I mean, why do you need two?
Cristina: Well, 'cause men leave wadded toothpaste in the sink, and, when you have your own sink, you don't have to look at it. All dried and congealed and filled with their fossilized oral bacteria.
Meredith: I leave toothpaste in the sink. Are you supposed to rinse it everytime you brush?
Cristina: Nobody parented you, this is to be expected.
Alex: You're really gonna move out and sell your house?
Meredith: You gonna miss me?
Alex (taking some of her fries and eating them): I'm gonna miss having a cheap place to live.
Meredith: You know, I have trouble seeing fine print, but I can still see your paws on my food. (smacks his hand away, and Cristina takes a fry)
Arizona: The miscarriage rate is low. And even lower with widely talented OBs, and we have widely talented OBs.
Mark: It's a risk no matter who does it.
Callie: Okay, you know what, I'm trying to eat, which is more important than it's ever been now because I'm an incubator. Okay, I know what each of you thinks, I'm weighing the options, okay? I will decide.
Mark: You'll decide?
Callie: Yes, I'm the tie breaker. And anyhow, I have the bigger vote because as we've discussed, I vote on behalf of the baby and on behalf of the...
Mark: ... vagina.
Callie: Yeah.
Mark: Yeah, right. That's not gonna cut it, okay? We're co-parenting us, all of us. This isn't a joke. It's not some cute arrangement where you humor me and use me for babysitting when you want to see a movie. This is my child. We're doing this together. You don't get a bigger vote. I'm a parent! (leaves)
Callie: Ooh, Daddy's mad.
Meredith (about Stark calling child services): You have to call him off.
Arizona: He's my boss, and believe me I like that even less than you do.
April: We thinking calling protective services is a bad idea.
Arizona: Oh, ah... Kyle's mother may not have a lot of lucid time. These years are gonna be difficult but it's all the time the family has and so pulling them apart...
Stark: Do you know when protective services pulls families apart? When the children are in danger, when the children aren't in danger, they go away, they do something else.
April: Well, they can have a knee-jerk reaction to certain circumstances?
Stark: You think they're idiots?
April: I am sure that they are not.
Stark: Heartless wretches?
April: No.
Stark: Pediatric surgeons can be heartless wretches. Some would argue that I'm a case in point. (Arizona makes a face, as if saying that's true) But social workers, on the other hand, are bleeding hearts. They're earning peanuts, they're doing thankless work, and then they're getting painted as what? Homewreckers? For simply stepping in when children are being harmed.
Arizona: Yeah, but the boy is not being harmed.
Stark: And you're sure about that? You're 100 percent sure? No shadow of a doubt there? Ah, that must be a good feeling. Why don't you be a good example for your residents and make the call? (Arizona nods, she wants to say something but doesn't)
Alex: I have a friend who can't see, she thinks it might be her fertility meds.
Lucy: Your friend?
Alex: You think I'm making it up?
Lucy: You're looking for reasons to talk to me. Because the last time we spoke, you asked me out and I said no. So, now you're taking my temperature to see if I was actually busy or just not interested. You can't asked me out again, not after what you percieved to be a rejection. Because even though you're whole rap is about self-confidence, you're about as self-assured as a chihuahua. Your friend, she doesn't need my help. If she did, she'd call me.
Alex: So, I should just ask you out again?
Lucy: It's a lot simpler, don't you think?
Alex: You free for dinner?
Lucy: No. Busy.
Mark: I've lost too many babies in my time. Addison terminated. Sloan disappeared. I'm not letting it happen again. I don't care what kind of baby it is.
Arizona: You can't be glib about this. A special needs baby can be a very sick baby. We could be talking about a lifetime of surgeries and hospital stays and pain. It's not all hugging and the Special Olympics.
Mark: Aminos come with risks, too. One and some non-insignifcant number result in miscarriages.
Lexie (overhearing): One in 300.
Mark: She's not 45. The downe's rate in woman her age isn't all that high.
Arizona (to Callie): Can- Can we have a minute? Can I just...?
Mark: There's no pulling anybody aside.
Arizona: We have a relationship, Mark. Part of that doesn't include you.
Mark: She's carrying my kid. Alright, she gets a minute, then I get a minute, too.
Callie: Okay, you know what? No one gets a minute. I have a patient, the patient gets a minute.
Meredith: Get in here.
Alex: You paged me?
Meredith: Yeah, I need you to check my eyes.
Alex: I'm not an eye guy, I don't know how any of this crap works.
Meredith: Alright, well I already did the chart. I'm like 20/25, but now I- I need you to look at my eyes through this thing.
Alex: Maybe it's glaucoma. Hey, you can get a prescription for pot. Okay, look up, look down. Ah, it doesn't look like glaucoma. Yeah, your cornea looks fine.
Meredith: Good.
Alex: Yeah, but you still can't read the chart.
Meredith: Yeah, but if I squint...
Alex: Normal people don't squint. (points to a line on the chart) Read the chart, line eight. No squinting.
Meredith: D, C, P, I.
Alex: You're blind.
Meredith: Shut up.
Alex: Can you even see me?
Meredith: Yeah, and you look like a real moron. I need a real eye doctor.
Alex: Can you even see enough to operate?
Meredith: When I do the squinting thing I see fine. Don't quit your day job.
Alex: Yeah, well, you keep squinting like that, and you're going to get crow's feet, but I'm good at plastics. You want me to do something about that?
Richard: Give Yang all your patients today.
Bailey: I have an SMA embolectomy.
Richard: Well, I'll take your embolectomy, Yang can take the rest. You take my wife.
Bailey: Now I want my embolectomy even more than before.
Richard: She's fallen and ended up in my ER twice. Maybe it's an inner ear thing effecting her balance, maybe it's a pinched nerve, I don't know. All I know is that you're gonna run every test that has a name.
Bailey (whiny): I was really looking forward to my embolectomy.
Meredith: Kepner, you one peds today?
April: Yeah, some kid already puked on me.
Meredith: Okay, so, one of my patient's son has a lump on his neck. So, would you just do a work-up on him and if it's anything just kick it up to Robbins?
April: Fine. You owe me one.
Meredith: No, I don't.
April: I'm doing you a favor. You owe me one.
Meredith: You're doing your job. I owe you gratitude and respect.
April: I already had your respect.
Adele: You know, this whole thing is ridiculous.
Richard: This is twice, honey. I mean, your wrist...
Adele: It's those shoes! They're supposed to tone your dairy-aire but I cannot feel the ground when I walk. I am going to through them away. If someone would just get me a coupla band-aids, I can be on my way.
Richard: You're not going anywhere.
Adele: If you make a big fuss about this...
Mark: Mrs. Webber, I'm about to put a needle in your face, I'd be extremely grateful if you'd stop moving.
Adele: Oh, it's a cut Mark. You didn't have to show up, you can give me a couple of band aids and be on your way.
Mark: Yeah, that's not how this is gonna go.
Richard: When was the last time that you put in an application to the FDA?
Owen: It's been a while, sir.
Richard: Well, it would have to be because if you had an recolection of what's involved you wouldn't interrupt me in the middle of compiling 357 pages of an application. Do you know how easy it is to lose one page out of 357?
Owen: It's gotta be quite easy.
Richard: They look for reasons to kill a study. Do you know what they consider a good reason?
Owen: Uh, missing...
Richard: One. One missing page. Now, you're a smart man, Hunt. You have leadership potential, management potential, and I think you shy away from that.
Owen: That may well be, sir.
Richard: I mean, you can handle a VIP patient. I mean, if you don't mention the Chief of Surgery, they won't ask for the Chief of Surgery. Did you mention me?
Owen: I think I did, sir.
Richard: Now, why would you do that? Did you not know aout my application?
Owen: I did, sir.
Richard: Then what on Earth were you thinkin'?
Owen (pulls back the curtain): Your wife, sir. That's what I was thinkin'.
Lucy: It all looks good. Did you schedule an amino yet?
Mark: Oh, we don't need an amino.
Callie: Uh, we don't?
Arizona: Of course we do. We'll set one up.
Mark: Why do we need an amino?
Arizona: I can think of a hundred reasons.
Mark: Do you want me to take them down one by one or all together?
Callie (trying to stop them from fighting): Hey, hey, hey.
Lucy: It's so nice that there are three of you.
Mark (gets paged): I gotta go. Don't let her shove a giant needle in your belly before we discuss this.
Lucy: It's not giant. Nine inches. (measures with her fingers, Callie fixes it and makes it longer, how it should be)
Meredith (closing voiceover): We are responsible with our patients. The problem is we blow it all out at work. In our own lives, we can't think things through. We don't make the sound choice. We did that all day at the hospital. When it comes to ourselves, we've got nothing left. And is it worth it-being responsible? Because if take your vitamins and pay your taxes and never cut the line, the universe still gives you people to love and then lets them slip through your fingers like water, and what've you got? Vitamins and nothing.
Meredith (opening voiceover): Everyone figures doctors are the most responsible people they know. They hold lives in their hands. They're not flakes. They don't lose track of important details or make stunningly bad judgment calls. 'Cause that would be bad, right?
Derek (looking at the blueprints for their house): I'm thinking that we could put the tub here, that way you can take a bath and look out the window at the trees. But that means that we have to move the sink here because there's no way we can get two sinks on that wall.
Meredith: Okay.
Derek: Okay, so you want me to move the tub or do you want to share a sink?
Meredith: I have one opinion, and that is that I just want a tub deep enough covers my...
Derek: ... knees and boobs at the same time. Yeah, I gotta go, you're useless. (kisses her head) Love you. (leaves)
Alex: The dude's building you a dream house.
Meredith: I can't read these stupid things.
Alex: You just don't give a crap.
Meredith: I'm taking baby drugs to make my uterus less hostile and I don't know, it makes my eyes dry and I just squint to see. And I don't really care enough about the tub/sink relationship to you know...
Alex: You should talk to that hot OB.
Meredith (smiles): You are always drummin' up reasons to talk to that hot OB.
Lexie: I had a feeling I'd find you here. The lungs are in, so far, so good.
Julia: Are you gonna tell her I'm here?
Lexie: Dr. Altman? No. No, I'm pretty sure that you're gonna leave. Here's the thing, you're killing him, you're taking a gun and killing him, and there's nothing romantic about a joint suicide. It's cruel, to you, to him, to your parents, and to the family that just buried someone. Those lungs are gorgeous. You can't do this. It always feels like there's just one person in this world to love, and then you find somebody else and it just seems crazy that you were over worried in the first place.
Julia: Just tell him he has to find someone, I- I just don't want him to be alone.


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Meredith's fertility drugs are causing her to lose her vision. Her vision takes a turn for the worse while she is in the operating room. She could not finish the operation. She realizes she has to stop taking the drugs which is devastating since she will no longer be able to have a child. The Chief tells Meredith that it is no longer safe for her to operate.

Callie, Mark, and Arizona discuss whether or not Callie should have amniocentesis. At the peak of frustration, Arizona reveals that she doesn't like the idea of Mark being the father of her child. It is not how she envisioned her future to be. Owen and Cristina get into a fight when Owen tells her he might want to have kids.

Back at Seattle Grace, Avery takes advantage of Lexie's vulnerable state and hits on her. Dr. Stark was thinking about calling child services on one of his patients but April talks him out of it. This was the first time in a while that anyone has gotten him to change his mind. He proceeds to ask Avery out. She says yes. April rushes to go tell Lexie and finds Lexie and Avery together in the shower.

Two patients Ricky and Julia were suffering from cystic fibrosis. They decide to risk their lives and stay together but eventually realize that they have to break up so they do. Adele is back in the hospital after another accident. The Chief is in denial of the fact that there is something seriously wrong with her . He then comes to terms with this and he goes and asks Derek for help.

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CASTLE, Season 3/Episode 18 - One Life to Lose

Castle and Beckett investigate the axe murder of the head writer for a long time New York soap opera. Everyone is suspect when it's discovered that the action behind the scenes plays out as good as the on-air storylines. Castle uses his writer's skills to figure out who's the killer.

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Episode Cast and Crew

Stars
Nathan Fillion Richard Castle
Stana Katic Det. Kate Beckett
Molly Quinn Alexis Castle
Susan Sullivan Martha Rodgers
Ruben Santiago-Hudson Captain Roy Montgomery
Seamus Dever Kevin Ryan
Jon Huertas Javier Esposito
Tamala Jones Lanie Parish



Guest Cast
Jane Seymour Gloria Chambers
Rebecca Budig Mandy Bronson
Cameron Mathison Vince Bowers
Corbin Bernsen Lance Buchanan


Editors
Edward A. Warschilka Editor

Production Designers
Alfred Sole Production Designer


Director Of Photographys
Daryn Okada Director of Photography


Musics
Robert Duncan Theme and Music by

Executive Producers
Rob Bowman Executive Producer
Andrew W. Marlowe Executive Producer
David Amann Executive Producer
Laurie Zaks Executive Producer
Armyan Bernstein Executive Producer


Co-Executive Producers
Moira Kirland Co-Executive Producer
Matt Pyken Co-Executive Producer
Scott A. Williams Co-Executive Producer

Supervising Producers
David Grae Supervising Producer

Line Producers
Howard Grigsby

Creators
Andrew W. Marlowe 

Notes
Although credited Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery) does not appear in this episode.

Featured Music:
"Takin' Care Of Business" by Bachman Turner Overdrive
"Got To Be" by Latch Key Kid
International Air Dates:
Canada: March 21,2011 on CTV

Quotes

Esposito: Looks like she was killed last night and stuffed into a closet on set.

Beckett: Was she a part of the production?

Esposito: Yeah.

Castle: Let me guess. The diva actress that everyone hated.

Esposito: Actually, Castle, she was a writer.

Castle: A writer?! Why would anyone want to kill a writer?

Beckett: Oh, so many reasons.

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Popular soap opera Temptation Lane just lost its head writer. Sara Cutler's body is found on set, with an axe protruding from her back. Actors Lance Hastings and Mandy Bronson are shocked by Sara's murder, and they both have alibis. Director Vince Powers was married to Sara, but as Beckett is questioning him, Sara's mother, Gloria Chambers, shows up. She insists on the police doing everything they can to help find her daughter's murderer. Or else, she's going to sue the city.

Vince says that Sara had an obsessed fan escorted off the set recently, but the fan also has an alibi. As the investigation continues, Castle starts to suspect that Beckett is a fan of Temptation Lane. Meanwhile, the team works with Reese, Sara's assistant and an aspiring writer herself, and Esposito discovers that Sara set down mysterious appointments in her planner.

Vince and Sara were separated, which means that he had motive to kill her, but Vince has an alibi: Mandy. They were spending the night in a hotel room, and Mandy left after she received an email from Sara. The email contained attachments of a script which had scenes of Mandy's character being killed off.

Mandy says that she confronted Sara about the scenes, but she didn't kill her. Peter Connelly, another writer for the show, would never allow Mandy's character death to happen, and the network trusts Peter more than Sara. Peter confirms that Mandy was with him during the time of the murder. Since he's short one writer now, he appoints Reese to the staff. Peter also asks Castle to write some scenes for the show if he wants.

Sara was meeting someone at a coffee shop. The waitress at the diner is shocked when she hears about Sara's death, as Sara was trying to help her by agreeing to read her screenplay. Castle says that he would read the waitress's screenplay if she gives them information on who Sara met at the diner. It turns out to be a private investigator who uncovered that Gloria Chambers was not Sara's real mother.

Gloria refuses to admit that she had a role in the murder, and suggests that Lance isn't entirely innocent. She witnessed him giving a pair of expensive earrings to Sara. Lance admits that he wanted out of his contract with the show to do a movie, so he gave Sara the earrings as a gift/bribe. As Castle peruses the waitress's screenplay, he figures out who killed Sara.

Castle thinks that if they get the cast and crew to film a scene he wrote for the show, then they could coax a confession from the killer. The scene consists of a coffee barista who wrote something which someone else stole and claimed as their own. Reese is fingered as the culprit. Later Beckett tells Castle why she likes Temptation Lane so much. When she was a girl, she and her mother would watch the show together and it remains one of her fondest memories. 

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