Castle

There you go.

Thanks.

An explosion!

Is this incoming artillery fire from above?

No! Rommel's troops have lured our boys into a minefield.

Will the M-4 Sherman tank's armor be able to withstand

this cowardly barrage from below?

Yes, it can!

And the Sherman smashes through Nazi lines to reach the...

Whoa. That is not the Suez Canal.

If you're trying to decide what to wear,

just keep wearing what you're wearing now...

Or less.

Pervert.

That is Field Marshal Pervert to you.

Castle, can you grab that?

Got it.

This is Detective Beckett's office.

Seriously? A car bomb?

Talk about a heightened police presence.

Wait a minute. What is this?

Something's not right. Hey, Espo.

Why are they taking the car away?

CSU's not done with it, is it?

They were barely started

before the feds came in and seized the vehicle.

Why would they seize the vehicle?

I tried to ask, but they iced me out.

Who's in charge?

See that guy over there?

Name's agent Guerrero.

Trust me. He's not gonna budge.

Agent Guerrero.

I'm Detective Beckett--

Let me save you the trouble. We're taking the car.

CSU hasn't finished processing it yet.

This is a murder scene.

I'm gonna need to find out who the victim was--

I'm sorry, but that vehicle's part of a federal investigation.

And if you people hinder us in any way,

we'll arrest you for obstruction.

What the hell's going on here?

And why is Homeland Security involved?

I don't know. This whole thing stinks.

According to witnesses,

those two guys were staking out the car even before it blew up,

And Homeland Security isn't letting me talk to them.

A mysterious car bombing...

The feds giving us the boot,

and now Men in Black.

I'll say it. I'm intrigued.

Who are you guys?

Identify yourselves.

Hey, guys. You get this a lot--

Agent "J," Agent "K"?

Why were you guys surveilling that car?

Who was in it when it exploded?

Well, we don't have a body,

we don't have a crime scene,

and we don't have any witnesses, but...

At least we have each other.

- We still have a homicide to solve. - And that.

I think I got an ID on our vic.

A uniform... found his wallet,

blown about a half a block down that way.

Matches the description of the guy

that witnesses saw get in the car.

His name is Dale Tanner.

I always knew this day might come.

Dale did, too. It was one of the hazards of his job.

What kind of a job would lead to this?

When Dale was 16,

his father was convicted of murder in Texas--

wrongly convicted.

Right before the retrial, his father died in prison.

And so fighting for the underdog, that...

kind of became his life's mission.

So about ten years ago he started the web site.

"Whistleblower Anonymous."

I know that site.

He exposed the, uh, the waterboarding memos,

the Orton-Geo fracking scandal.

I had no idea he was the one behind it.

Dale felt it was more important

to keep attention on the issues rather than himself.

Was your husband working on anything recently?

Yeah, I think he was planning on posting some documents.

Whatever they were, they were making him nervous.

Where are the documents now?

Probably at his law office in Queens.

Why would Homeland Security be interested in your husband?

Half the government was interested in my husband.

After he posted those photographs of Abu Ghraib,

they... tried to get him to reveal his sources.

They harassed him.

Followed him everywhere he went.

It got so bad that, two months ago,

he actually moved into our rental unit in Queens.

He said that he was concerned about our safety.

And now he's dead.

Mrs. Tanner,

Witnesses say that your husband parked on Mercer

just before 8:00.

Waited on the sidewalk till 8:15,

and then he got back in his car.

Do you know what he was doing downtown?

I have no idea.

He felt like, the less we knew, the better.

I should've talked to him more.

Did he work with anyone else

that might have known what he was involved in?

He had a partner,

but... I don't know who it was.

Why are we even talking to them, mom?

The government killed my father,

and you're helping them cover it up.

Sean, please.

Now I'm not gonna call this a cover-up,

but I will say this-- the feds are not helping us out.

They won't tell us what evidence they found in Tanner's car.

Okay. So we'll just work it from other angles.

We know that he had a partner.

Why don't we look into his phone records,

see who it was?

Because they're not being released to us.

Neither are Tanner's financials.

Maybe we can get it from his law office?

We tried to search there.

They sealed the place and they took his computers.

I'm starting to see what you mean by the feds not helping.

Then we're just gonna solve this without their help.

Where are we on motive?

Well, there's plenty of that to go around.

Tanner wasn't afraid to take on the big boys--

banks, big oil, dirty politicians.

In the past year, he posted highly damaging,

and I might add,

truthful information on 30 corporations,

government agencies, and individuals.

And that's just what I found

before his site was taken off-line.

With no solid information,

it's hard to even know where to start.

We start with manner of death.

We know we're dealing with a bomb,

a bomb that was already in Tanner's car.

Right, because he stayed near the vehicle,

no one could've tampered with it.

And whoever planted the bomb had to have

access to the car at an earlier point.

Like in his garage.

That's where the car was before Tanner drove it downtown,

and when I talked to the neighbors,

one of them saw an unfamiliar motorcycle

jet out of the garage last night at 1:00 a.m.

Did they happen to get a plate?

No.

But this traffic cam did.

Bike's registered to a Monica Lane.

And get this--she works as a security contractor

at Orton-Geo.

That's the fracking company

Tanner almost put out of business.

Man, the camera really does add 10 pounds.

You were coming from an apartment building garage before that was taken.

What were you doing there?

That's none of your business.

It became our business when Dale Tanner got blown to bits.

What? He's dead?

Yeah, and I bet the company that you work for

likes him a whole lot better that way.

Look, I had nothing to do with his death.

This is not what you think.

Then what is it, Monica?

He and I were seeing each other.

Really?

You and Dale Tanner?

We met in the park a few months ago.

We just connected.

Yeah. I can see you're real busted up.

You were spying on him.

Isn't that what this is really about?

Okay, Orton-Geo lost half a billion dollars in contracts

because of Dale Tanner.

My job was to get close to him

and find out who was leaking him information.

But it did not involve killing him.

Was anyone else after him? Besides you, of course.

Oh, God.

His wife.

He said she had called. She'd just found out about us.

She threatened to kill him.

I felt betrayed.

Don't you see?

I-I stood by him for 24 years.

You withheld that he was having an affair,

and then you went out of your way

to make it look like his work got him killed.

Because it did.

All right, look, I admit it. Okay?