Detective Beckett walks alongside her Captain. And as she does she is giving him the case update about the Sean Caldwell murder.
"So Rodger was right about Caldwell being followed that night?" Roy asks.
"Well, when the husband got onto the affair, he did a little spy game of his own, tracked down and killed his wife's lover." Kate sadly tells him.
"Mmmphh, two affairs, a loveless marriage it's sad a man had to die because all the people involved were too scared to say what they really felt."
"Yes, it is sad." Kate replies. Then she thinks about Rick and their situation.
As her Captain walks away Kate is left with the vision of Castle talking on his cell phone. It brings a smile to her face because he does not really look over to her because he's too busy with his call and she can afford to look at him with no worry about him seeing how she feels towards him…. for now. The moment is over to quickly as she sees him ending his call and walking towards her. He tells her that he needs to run to drop Alexis off at Princeton for her summer program and he will be back for the party that the boys are going to throw for him. He bids her goodbye and turns to leave. The smile she displayed not ten seconds earlier reappears and grows in size.
Her smile fades as quickly as it appears as she sees her beau, Detective Demming. He is walking through the homicide floor and she knows that she needs to end things with him. She can't lead him on anymore. But can she. Her mind keeps coming back to Castle trying too hard to convince her to practically sunbathe in the nude at his beach house. But then during the case when he told her that he wanted to take a break it broke her heart. She can't lower the walls around her heart just to have him stomp all over it. So she makes a decision.
Rick collects Alexis and heads out to New Jersey. He tells her that he will always be there for her and to call if she needs anything. She asks if he is taking anyone to the Hamptons and he tells her that he, in fact, did ask a certain someone. At first, she said no, but he feels that she will change her mind.
"Dad, try not to screw this one up!" Alexis jokingly tells him.
Back at the 12th, Kate is trying to find a way to let Tom down easily. She has her words in her head but has trouble articulating them. Then she throws caution to the wind. Just as she opens her mouth to tell him Gina walks over to her and Tom.
"Hi, Kate. Have you seen Richard anywhere? I've been trying to call him for the last day and my calls go unanswered."
"Gina, I think that he is dropping Alexis off at Princeton and will be back around 4 pm."
"Well, then I'll just wait for him then. It won't be easy to hail a cab back to his loft at this hour."
"Gina, I know it's none of my business, but why would you need to go back to Castle's loft?"
"Oh, that's fine I'll gladly tell you. It would be easier to wait for him here because when he returns back from Princeton we can just leave from here."
"Leave from here? Why, where are you going?"
"Oh, right, well Rick called me this morning and invited me to his beach house out in the Hamptons. It seemed that the person who he wanted to take never gave him a solid answer."
The color in Kate's face drains. She was so sure that he would wait for her answer. How could she have been so stupid? Damn if she could just get over her fears of him stomping all over her heart this would have never happened. Just then she sees Rick coming off the elevator and excuses herself from Gina. She turns to Tom trying to save some of her dignity. Her choices have now changed. She will use Tom to purposely hurt him. She was so close to saying that she would go with him. And he decided she was not worth the wait.
"So Tom, are we still going to be able to make those reservations in Asbury?" Kate asks trying to hide the hurt in her voice.
A stunned Tom answers "Sure they are Kate, but if we want to make them we need to leave soon."
Gina has migrated to the room where the Captain, the boys, and Lanie were. She took a seat and started talking to Lanie. Castle enters the room as well and takes a seat. He pops the top on a beer and thinks of a way to make her see that they could be great together. He really doesn't want to flaunt Gina around her and make her jealous like it seems she is doing with Demming towards him. He knows that when she asked Demming a little too loudly if they could make it to their beach house in Asbury, she did it knowing he was walking up behind them it was for his benefit and not Tom's.
The party is winding down and Rick and Gina get up to leave. Kate takes her coat off the coat rack and follows the out. Tapping Castle on his shoulder he turns to face her. The boys and Lanie get up to see what will transpire outside the conference room pressing their faces against the window like little kids drooling over a candy store's selections.
"So Castle, when will you be back from the Hamptons?"
Gina takes the pause in the conversation to tell her that they will be gone for the whole summer. His chapters due to her are behind and she will get him to finish the book before the middle of July. Rick raises his hand to shake hers and she accepts. As he turns to walk away Demming slides up behind her then wraps his arms around her waist and all she feels at that moment with him behind her is alone. So damn alone.
"Castle, see you in the fall?"
"See you in the fall." He throws over his shoulder as he walks to the elevator with Gina's arm around his waist. She thinks to herself that she needs him to do is just turn around and when he sees all the love in her eyes for him he will come running back to her. Only he never turns around.