Lanie Parish:  Looks like your basic garden variety suicide .
Kate Beckett: But you said on the phone that there was something that was n't consistent with a suicide .
Lanie Parish: Looks like suicide . But his shooting hand , more specifically his right index finger , has a slight abrasion visible only under the scope . Department autopsy protocol does n't even call to look for that kind of thing .
Kate Beckett: And the abrasion means what to you ?
Lanie Parish: That someone may have helped him pull the trigger . Plus , toxicology has his blood alcohol content at 0.28 .
Richard Castle: _ 0.28 _ ?
Kate Beckett: So he was drunk .
Richard Castle: * Way * drunk !
Lanie Parish: At 0.28 , he may not have even been conscious .
Kate Beckett: So Max was murdered .