Guest Stars

Adrian Sparks As Thaddeus Magnus	Brett Cullen As Christian Dahl
Carrie Genzel As Naomi Dahl	Chadwick Boseman As Chuck Russell
Gilles G. Marini As Tobias Strange	Jeff Hephner As Edmund / Zalman Drake
Lenny Schmidt As Jerome Aspenall	Vanessa Lengies As Eliza Winter

Co-Guest Stars

Henry Hayashi As Lawyer

Main Cast

Nathan Fillion As Richard Castle	Stana Katic As Kate Beckett
Susan Sullivan As Martha Rodgers	Jon Huertas As Javier Esposito
Seamus Dever As Kevin Ryan	Tamala Jones As Lanie Parish
Molly Quinn As Alexis Castle

Recap

The scene opens with a woman walking into a magic shop and finds a man in the water tank. Esposito wakes up next Lanii and she tells that she has to go and Esposito tells that he does too. He takes a picture of her as he leaves. Castle is talking to Gina on the phone and tells that he is working when Esposito walks up. Castle tells him never to sleep with someone he works with. They arrive at Drake’s Magic Shop where the crime took place and Castle tells that a magic shop is where every young boy likes to hang out. Beckett tells that she hung around them too because of her grandfather. The proprietor of the magic shop, Zelman Drake, was the man at the beginning. Eliza Winter, Drake’s assistant found him. Lani tells that Zalman died from drowning, but won’t know for sure yet. Esposito finds a suicide note that tells that he killed himself because he was losing the shop, but Eliza tells that Zalman would never kill himself. Eliza tells that a guy came in the shop earlier that week and attacked Zalman telling that he was going to sue him. ..

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• Executive Producer	Armyan Bernstein  |  David Amann  |  Andrew W. Marlowe  |  Rob Bowman  |  Laurie Zaks
• Co-Executive Producer	Scott A. Williams  |  Moira Kirland Dekker  |  Matt Pyken
• Supervising Producer	David Grae
• Producer	Terri Miller  |  D. Howard Grigsby
• Co-Producer	Marc A. Kahn (1)  |  Alexi Hawley  |  Joan Van Horn
• Associate Producer	Noreen O'Toole
• Production Designer	Alfred Sole
• Editor	Warren Bowman
• Casting	Kendra Castleberry  |  Donna Rosenstein
• Unit Production Manager	Joan Van Horn
• First Assistant Director	Barry K. Thomas
• Second Assistant Director	Katie Carroll
• Music Editor	Amber Funk
• Music Supervisor	Tricia Halloran
• Costume Designer	Luke Reichle
• Key Grip	Tony Sepian
• Camera Operator	Andrew Bikichky  |  Mark Labonge
• Set Decorator	Claire Kaufman
• Transportation Coordinator	Jon Tardino
• Property Master	Michael Courville
• Production Sound Mixer	Ronald G. Cogswell
• Script Supervisor	Tricia Ronten
• Production Coordinator	Nancy Sprow
• Assistant Editor	Orlando Machado Jr.
• Post Production Supervisor	Ashley Stephenson
• Supervising Sound Editor	Jeremy J. Gordon (1)
• Re-Recording Mixer	Joe Earle  |  Doug Andham
• Director of Photography	Bill Roe
• Stunt Coordinator	Dennis Madalone
• Art Director	Andy Rhodes (1)
• Executive Story Editor	Elizabeth Davis (1)  |  Will Beall  |  Terence Winter (1)
• Costume Supervisor	Devon Patterson
• Makeup Department Head	Debbie Zoller
• Production Accountant	Deb Lancello
• Chief Lighting Technician	Jono Kouzouyan
• Original Music	Robert Duncan (1)
• Special Effects Coordinator	Robert Calvert (1)
• Production Staff	Lindsey Isaacson
• Created By	Andrew W. Marlowe
• Theme By	Robert Duncan (1)
• Department Head Hairstylist	Edward Morrison