Tim Ransom

An old friend returns for help after her daughter goes missing, Cyrus has an awkward run in during a business breakfast, and Jake uses his connections to get some answers. Meanwhile, Mellie becomes obsessed with a national news story and David goes to great lengths to prove himself.

After an explosion occurs in a hotel garage, the Jeffersonian team must research the remains found at the crime scene in order to match them to the victim. The investigation only gets trickier when they discover that the man whom they thought was dead is actually alive. Meanwhile, Booth has to take on a desk assignment to get the department’s budget approved in order to land a promotion, so Sweets is given a temporary partner, FBI Special Agent Olivia Sparling (guest star Danielle Panabaker).

Paul stands in the way of Susan receiving a kidney transplant; Tom passes up a lucrative job to continue working with Carlos; Andrew's alcohol consumption increases, worrying Bree.

The investigation into the death of a contestant on a popular dance competition show leads Castle and Beckett to a shocking secret that may have led to her death.

An aspiring actress, Lucy Dolan, is found shot to death in her apartment above a busy delicatessen. Missing is an elaborate plasma screen television. Lucy worked at a seedy comedy club in Staten Island but obviously lived beyond her means. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) search her locker at the club and find a stack of traffic violations, including a photo ticket. That leads them to the vehicle and intersection near the deli, where they see in the background, an out-of-town couple shooting videos. They track down the couple from Ohio, but they've already sold the footage to a local TV station. The cops get the tape and are able to track the vehicle, a beige Ford Explorer, and also in the photo see the suspects carrying the television. Tracking the vehicle through a Freemont Downs Racetrack VIP parking pass visible on the windshield, they have their suspects - Matt Carton (Omar Sharif Scroggins) and Harry Johnson (Malcolm Barrett). They get the third suspect, Daniel Otum (Dakoda Anderson), by sneaking around their high-end attorney's office.