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Inventing the Girl
Season 2, Episode 3
Air date October 5, 2009
Written by Moira Kirland
Directed by Dwight Little
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Inventing the Girl is the third episode of the second season of Castle.

Summary[]

When Jenna McBoyd, a young, gorgeous, up-and-coming model, is found stabbed with a strange object in a fountain, Castle and Beckett are forced to explore the cutthroat world of fashion modeling. Meanwhile, Alexis reconnects with her old babysitter, and Ryan and Esposito discover an amazing secret about Beckett.

Recap[]

By a water jet fountain, a woman and man are standing not too far away. The woman convinces the man to skinny dip, stripping off into her underwear; causing him to strip to his underwear and chase her into the water jet. They kiss under the jet and it turns off to reveal the body of a woman; Jenna McBoyd.

Castle sits in his kitchen along with Martha and Alexis. Castle and Alexis are helping Martha with her script for the lead character in a Broadway play. Both Castle and Alexis are clearly bored so when Castle gets the call from Beckett, he leaves, and tells Alexis to "Find her own hiding place".

Beckett, Castle, Esposito and Ryan discuss the situation. He describes Jenna and mentions that her purse is missing; she has no ID and has no shoes. Lanie tells them that the cause of death; she was stabbed. It could be a robbery gone wrong. Castle suspects Jenna is a model because of her stature and the way she is dressed. He says she would have been at a club because it is fashion week. The find out he is correct, due to the evidence they have. The pair decides to visit Teddy Farrow as he may be able to identify her.

Farrow says that Jenna was meant to be the face of his campaign. He tells them that he saw her last night and she was agitated which wasn't unusual for her. He says Jenna would never take drugs and that she spent most of her time with Sierra. He asks if he can have the one-of-a-kind dress back that was found on her body.

Castle gets stopped by a young model called Rina. She recognizes him, but he doesn’t remember her, assuming her to be a girl he met at a random party. She writes her number on his palm and asks him to call her.

Castle and Beckett talk to Sierra. They find out that Jenna left the party at midnight, and she has a husband named Travis McBoyd. They later sit with Travis the interview lounge where he explains he went to bed at 11. He tried to call her cell, but she didn't answer. He called the cops, and they told him he had to wait 48 hours before he could report her missing.

Beckett asks if Travis knows of anyone who wanted to hurt Jenna, and he tells them they were being harrassed by some guy and they had already filed a dozen police reports on him. However, the cops always said that there was nothing they could do.

Beckett, Castle, Ryan, and Esposito go over the stalker letters in the conference room. Esposito realizes that the pictures were taken from close rooftops. They hope something up there will help identify the stalker.

Castle returns home with magazines in one hand and a paper bag in the other. Alexis lets him know that the writer loved his book. When he mentions that Martha will say something to stopping him from getting ‘puffed’. Alexis tells Castle that Martha is too busy mourning the death of her career. She got the part of a crazy granny, who dies offstage in act one.

Castles phone rings. Alexis teases him about picking up models by listing names. It finally clicks for Castle when Alexis tells him that Katrina was her babysitter. 

Lanie examines the body stating the death between 2 and 5 am. Jenna had left the party at midnight, so she was somewhere for 2 hours. There were no signs of sexual assault, but she had put up a fight. She had bruising, a torn dress and an unusual stab wound with glass inside. Castle describes it as looking like the Washington Monument. Lanie says that there were drugs in Jenna’s system, Addmair used for ADD or weight loss. This could be the reason she was tense.

Esposito and Ryan enter a building where the stalker took the photos. They find lots of cigarette butts, soda cans and an empty package for a digital camera memory card. CSU matched a print off the memory card packaging. They find out his name is Will James, and that he's on probation for domestic assault and has some restraining orders.

Beckett, Castle, Ryan, and Esposito enter Will James’ apartments with the help of a building manager. The find Jenna’s comp card. They also find an empty camera with a telephoto lens and take it to CSU. They interview Will James believing that he is the stalker however he isn’t. His alibi checks out with CCTV footage.

Travis later lets them know that the only person Jenna didn’t get along with was the photographer. She came home crying and said that her pictures were awful. She was worried she wouldn’t get the job because of them. The photographer was trying to ruin it for Jenna by making her look bad. 

At the fashion event, Wyatt Monroe, the photographer says they resolved their issues when they agreed to do another shoot that he would pay for. She was supposed to meet him the day before but he says she never showed.

They get his alibi and stay to watch the show. They talk and agree that Sierra could have killed Jenna for the campaign. Rina meets Castle again, and they talk about Sierra and Jenna. Castle finds out that Sierra and Jenna were frenemies which lead to the thought that Sierra could have drugged Jenna. In a side room, Esposito and Ryan find out that Will James has a girlfriend; Sierra Goodman. 

Will James confesses that Sierra hired him to take stalker photos of Jenna, write letters, and supply Addmair. Sierra was taken down to the station and Teddy seemed very angry. He is worried that the scandal surrounding the case will cause his business to suffer because it will bring negative attention to the entire spring line of his clothing. Though someone has been killed, Farrow believes that "clothes are what separate us from animals" and that they define civilization.

In the interrogation room, Sierra gives more information. Jenna went to Wyatt’s place. Sierra says that Wyatt always sabatages the models photo shoots. He then blackmails them by telling the models that they have to sleep with him to get the good results. Sierra told Jenna she should just sleep with Wyatt, because she did it herself and she was fine. Wyatt also gave her the perfect photo test shoot afterwards. Jenna told Sierra she didn't want sleep with Wyatt and that she had a plan that would make sure Wyatt would give her another test shoot without having to have sex with him. Sierra states that was the last time she saw Jenna the night before, when she left to go to Wyatt's place.

By the bullpen, the four of them find out that Wyatt had lied about the time he left the party. He hadn’t left at 3 AM he left at 11:30 PM. Castle and Beckett visit Wyatt’s place. Wyatt has a view of the fountain where Jenna was found. Castle also finds Jenna’s designer pumps that were missing from her body. Beckett notices that one of his trophies is missing that looks just like the Washington Monument.

They take Wyatt to the interrogation room. Wyatt gives in telling them everything. Jenna was at his place, but she was alive when she left. She approached him at the party and told him they should work together as a team. He agreed and took him back to his place. However, when she told him she wanted to know exactly in detail what she had to do to get good shots, he discovered she was recoding their conversation with her phone. He struggled with her, but she picked up his award off his shelf and threatened him. When he tried to grab it, it cut his arm. He pulls up his sleeve to show a bandage, and says he backed off and she ran out the door.

In the bullpen, Beckett doesn’t think Wyatt did it because he would have cleaned up his place better and wouldn’t have left her body right outside his house.

Later in the day, Esposito finds Jenna’s cell phone in a dumpster on West 81st. When they play the recording, they find out that everything Wyatt said had happened exactly as he described. However, the recording didn't finish after she left.

Beckett and Castle enter the Interrogation where Travis is waiting. Beckett plays the recording for him, letting him know that they know he killed Jenna. They get him to confess by threatening to continue playing the recording, which would make him relive his wife’s death. When Travis tells them he was mad because he knew Jenna was cheating on him, they then play the recording from the beginning so he knows that she was actually being faithful.


Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

Co-Starring[]

Quotes[]

Beckett: That's Teddy Farrow's logo. He designs clothes for women. Upscale, expensive.
Castle: My credit card and I are painfully aware of Teddy's designs. I almost asked for custody of them after my last divorce.
Castle: Jealousy is a classic motive. You've seen the films. "The Talented Mr. Ripley", "Dead Ringer", and of course, the underrated classic, "Showgirls".
Beckett: Nobody murdered anyone in "Showgirls"... I hear.
Martha: That girl is too young for you. Or I should say, you are too old for her.
Castle: It is not what you think. And unemployed divas who live in glass houses, rent free, should not throw stones.
Beckett: I am the inspiration. I should be reading it before a reporter does.
Castle: Why didn't you just say something?
Beckett: Why didn't you just give it to me?
Castle: Why didn't you just ask?
Beckett: Why didn't it occur to you?
Castle: You'll have it by tomorrow.
Esposito: Come on, Castle. Take pity on your model-deprived brothers. Give us the stats. Was she the sexy, curvy lingerie type that you can just--
Ryan: Or the--the tone and tanned bikini wearing type?
Beckett: She's more like the "I'm totally psyched I just got my driver's license" type.
Castle: Okay, you know what? You two so need to evolve, because that little girl you're talking about like a piece of meat, that's somebody's daughter, alright? She's somebody's... babysitter.
Beckett: (Talking about Sierra Goodwin and Wyatt Monroe) Well, I spoke with Teddy Farrow this morning. Now that he understands what those two did to Jenna, he's gonna launch a very different kind of campaign. He's gonna get them blackballed in the industry. No one will hire them again.
Castle: It's fashion week and the clothes are to die for.

Featured Music[]

  • "We Swing" - Jaconfetti
  • "My Personal Moon" - Madison Park
  • "Brainwashed" - Ultraviolet Sound

Trivia[]

Storyline[]

  • Watch for: While reviewing the murder scene, a billboard for the Metropolitan American Dance Theater is visible. MADT was the charity at the center of the string of home invasions in "Home Is Where the Heart Stops".
  • At different points in this episode we see the issue of Cosmopolitan with the cover story on Castle. Castle's and Beckett's appearance in this magazine are based on the photo shoot and interview in "Deep in Death" and will be referenced many times after.
  • Castle refers to three films to illustrate a jealousy as a motive.
    • "The Talented Mr. Ripley" was originally a novel written by Patricia Highsmith (who wrote "Strangers on a Train" - the story that was featured prominently in "The Double Down"), and later made into a film (1999) in which one character becomes obsessed with another, eventually killing him and assuming his life.
    • "Dead Ringers" (1988) is a story of identical twins and their relationship with women.
    • "Showgirls" (1995), often ranked as one of the worst films ever, relates the story of a rivalry between two women seeking fame as Las Vegas showgirls.[1]
  • Will James was to be charged with stalking Jenna; however, although Castle and Beckett had proven that Sierra had written the letters with him, Beckett later implies that, apart from destroying her career, Sierra will get off completely. This seems to also include her dosing Jenna with illegal drugs, also a crime.
  • After a bad day, Castle says that Nikki Heat would "Go home, pour a stiff drink, run a hot bath, read a good book." Beckett's date in the next episode, "Fool Me Once..." is exactly that.
  • Beckett spent a summer modeling when she was seventeen.
  • Alexis said she and Rina watched High School Musical together, which came out in 2006 and now has two sequels. Alexis is about 16 in this episode, which would make her about 13 when the movie came out. A bit old for needing a babysitter, but knowing how overprotective Castle is, it is not impossible.
  • Back in Season 1 episode "Nanny McDead", Alexis mentioned that she did not have a nanny but in this episode, we learn that she did have a babysitter.
  • When they were talking about Castle's model friend, Rina, Ryan and Esposito mention their type of models while Castle got an agitated, pissed off look on his face.
    • Esposito likes the sexy, curvy lingerie models (describing Lanie).
    • Ryan is into the tone and tanned bikini models (thought of Jenny).

References[]

  1. ↑ Twenty-Five Movies So Bad, They're Unmissable
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