When a reporter is found dead inside a pizza oven, Castle and Beckett try to determine why he was murdered.
The team investigates the shooting of a Marine.
Alan takes on one of his most outrageous lawsuits to date when he teams up with Denny to sue the National Guard for failing to show up when a flood wiped out a small business. Shirley is surprised when her granddaughter visits her at the office with the n
Sipowicz and Sorenson investigate a case involving an off-duty police officer who was shot in the company of a prostitute; Medavoy and Jones aid a hapless bodega owner by concocting a story to keep him out of jail.
When a therapist vanishes, the team suspects that one of her former patients, whose identity is unknown, may have been involved.