Despite various warnings throughout the episode that people are not always what they seem - mostly to increase the worry of a fretful Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion) in regards to a secret his daughter, Alexis (Molly C. Quinn), was keeping from him, I did not pick up on who the brains behind the killings was until the end reveal.
The story began with an allusion to Cape Fear, a DA was found murdered, thrown off a parking garage, and Castle was convinced that the murderer would be found in the files of the criminals that DA had previously put in jail. A known set up, which I'm sure the writers could have gone with to make a good story.
Instead, they took a different route. Our paragon of justice, the murdered DA, was apparently also a pimp. Responsible for a ring of call girls, his death was the result of a take over by his enforcer. Sifting through the information, Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle are able to build a case against Knox, the enforcer and murderer of the DA, with the help of a hapless call girl, Scarlett (Michaela McManus). Though scared for her life, she reveals that Knox faked his alibi.
Scarlett had Castle utterly convinced of her vulnerability, and when Knox kidnapped her, Castle and Beckett came to the rescue, just in time for Scarlett to kill Knox, protecting herself. As she collapsed to the floor in shock, the performance seemed genuine. She appeared truly frightened and unable to comprehend the events that brought her to the point where she had to take a man's life.
Despite her brilliant acting, certain mistakes she made in the staging of the kidnapping were revealed, and Beckett and a disappointed Castle arrested her.
We all want so much to believe in the goodness of people, that a DA is completely law-abiding, that call girls all really hope to become lawyers and came to their present situations through tragedy, that people are what they seem and what they present to us. But one must face the facts, and if the facts say that someone is a criminal and their story is false, it doesn't matter how good their story is. Though, of course, it might still get published.
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