Jay Hixton seems, as "Lucky Stiff" opens, to be a man whose phenomenal good luck finally ran out. He is the corpse whose demise Beckett is called in to investigate, the apparent victim of a home invasion turned deadly. As she and Castle look into the life of Florida largest ever lottery winner, however, those waters become far murkier. Hixton had a wife and daughter, but they were not living with him at the time of his death, due to the strains on the family from their changed circumstances.