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The episode began with a murdered woman discovered in the passenger seat of a car. The car is registered to City Hall, so her death is linked with the Mayor's Office. If you recall, the mayor is a close friend of Castle's, and he is also the reason that Castle is allowed to work with the police.
The murdered woman used to be a successful English professor, but had put her career on hold to (we later learn) write an investigative book. One of her undercover jobs was as a sex call worker.
Beckett is torn about investigating the case not only because of Castle's friendship with the mayor, but also because she knows that if the mayor is kicked out of office her captain won't let Castle work with the police anymore.
Of course, Beckett is always a police detective first (not necessarily a bad thing), and she continues to investigate the murder and the mayor's connection to it. It turns out that the murdered woman was a volunteer at one of the mayor's charities; the charity is being investigated for embezzlement.
They find video footage of the murdered woman and the mayor at the same event; he is wearing a camel-colored coat. Because the body was found wrapped in a coat Beckett and Castle ask the mayor to hand his over. He refuses, claiming that the murder and embezzlement are conspiracies created to hurt his bid for governor.
Unfortunately, this means that Beckett has to go ahead and subpoena the mayor's coat, which arguably ends his political career.
Castle contacts the mysterious man via a phone number that he was given. He asks for information about the conspiracy involving the mayor. The mysterious man actually meets him in a (mysterious) underground parking structure, and tells him to "listen" to the evidence.
Despite the fact that Beckett and Castle left each other on a bad note re: the subpoena, he calls her and claims he had a brainstorm. He listened to videotapes of the mayor with one of the sex call women, and she identified a voice as one of the people who was a regular caller of the murdered woman. Turns out it's the Assistant to the Chief of Staff (it's also Wendell from 'Bones'! When I saw he was in the episode I knew he'd prove to be connected to the murder, he clearly wasn't just an extra).
Anyway, Assistant Wendell is interrogated by Castle and Beckett, and is about to reveal the name of who he was working for when a lawyer bursts into the room. He has been asked to represent Assistant Wendell by some unnamed power (we assume the same people who were pulling the assistant's strings).
Castle meets in the mysterious man in the same shadowy location. He admits that the called because the mystery is not resolved. He also asks the mysterious man why he helped the investigation. The man tells him that he did it because he needs Castle to keep working with Beckett, because if he doesn't he won't have anyone to stop her from looking into her mother's death. He states that, "there are times when a well placed pawn is more powerful than a king," insinuating that he considers Castle a pawn.
At the end of the episode, Castle says, "I have your number if I need to reach you". The mysterious man replies, "you don't reach me Mr. Castle, I reach you". Well, that doesn't sound good.
I want them to deal with the investigation into Beckett's mother's murder because it is so unresolved, but at the same time, I don't want them too. I am very attached to Beckett and Castle's current flirtatious sparring. All of that is bound to end when she finds out about the mysterious man. What do you think? Should the writers deal with it this season, or should they let it continue into Season Five?
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