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Episode Title: | Flowers for Your Grave |
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Original Air Date: | March 9th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x01 -- Season: 1, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Richard Castle is called in to help police after two murders look very similar to murders from his books. |
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Episode Title: | Nanny McDead |
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Original Air Date: | March 16th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x02 -- Season: 1, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett work together to solve the murder of a nanny found dead spinning in the dryer of an upscale New York apartment building's laundry room. |
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Episode Title: | Hedge Fund Homeboys |
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Original Air Date: | March 23rd 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x03 -- Season: 1, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The son of a once wealthy family is found dead in Central Park. As Castle and Beckett are working on the investigation his friends are trying to stop them. Castle isn't sure he can trust Martha to be left alone while he chaperones Alexis' class on a field trip to Washington DC. |
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Episode Title: | Hell Hath No Fury |
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Original Air Date: | March 30th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x04 -- Season: 1, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The investigation behind a body found wrapped in a rug on the sidewalk leads Castle and Beckett deep inside the world of New York City politics. The partners discover a world of expensive escorts, arrogant tycoons, corrupt investigators, and the effects of betrayal. |
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Episode Title: | A Chill Goes Through Her Veins |
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Original Air Date: | April 6th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x05 -- Season: 1, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a women found frozen and tangled in steel bars at a construction site. The case leads them to looking into an old case and also has Beckett thinking about some memories from her past. |
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Episode Title: | Always Buy Retail |
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Original Air Date: | April 13th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x06 -- Season: 1, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett look into the Vudon religion when an immigrant is found tortured in a ritualistic killing. Meanwhile on the homefront Castle must deal with the possible homecoming of Alexis' mother, his first wife. |
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Episode Title: | Home Is Where the Heart Stops |
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Original Air Date: | April 20th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x07 -- Season: 1, Episode: 7 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Beckett and Castle investigate numerous cases involving murders and home invasion jewel heists. |
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Episode Title: | Ghosts |
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Original Air Date: | April 27th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x08 -- Season: 1, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a woman found drowned in motor oil in a motel bathtub. They seek the help of a true crime journalist who might have a connection with the victim. |
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Episode Title: | Little Girl Lost |
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Original Air Date: | May 4th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x09 -- Season: 1, Episode: 9 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Beckett is called in to work with the FBI when a 2 year old girl is missing. Castle vies for Beckett's attention when he finds out that the FBI Agent in charge of the case is Beckett's ex. |
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Episode Title: | A Death in the Family |
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Original Air Date: | May 11th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x10 -- Season: 1, Episode: 10 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a plastic surgeon. Meanwhile, Alexis has her first prom and Castle snoops around Beckett's past with surprising results. |
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Episode Title: | Deep in Death |
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Original Air Date: | September 21st 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x01 -- Season: 2, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle has a lot going on. He's trying to finish his new novel Heat Wave and trying to figure out how to fix things with Beckett. They find themselves working together to solve the murder of a man found tangled in tree limbs. |
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Episode Title: | The Double Down |
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Original Air Date: | September 28th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x02 -- Season: 2, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett compete against Ryan and Esposito to see who can solve their murder case first. A few twists make the two teams work together to figure things out. |
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Episode Title: | Inventing the Girl |
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Original Air Date: | October 5th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x03 -- Season: 2, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | It's fashion week and Castle and Beckett get to see what happens in the background as they investigate the murder of a model. |
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Episode Title: | Fool Me Once |
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Original Air Date: | October 12th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x04 -- Season: 2, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett investigate the mysterious death of an Arctic explorer during an expedition. The investigation leads them in many interesting directions including Park Avenue and the CIA. Things really gets frustrating when Castle wonders if the killer is fooling all of them. |
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Episode Title: | When the Bough Breaks |
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Original Air Date: | October 19th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x05 -- Season: 2, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle's agent has an exciting career changing offer for him, but if he takes it, it would end his work with Beckett? |
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Episode Title: | Vampire Weekend |
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Original Air Date: | October 26th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x06 -- Season: 2, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | It's close to Halloween, and a man is found murdered in a graveyard - with a stick through his heart, and sporting fangs. Castle and Beckett track the murderer to a vampire cult, all the while Castle is trying on costumes for his Halloween party - costume mandatory! |
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Episode Title: | The Fifth Bullet |
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Original Air Date: | December 7th 2009 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x11 -- Season: 2, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett investigate an art dealer that is shot in his gallery, but the bullet is inexplicably missing from the crime scene. To add to that, the only witness suffers from amnesia. |
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Episode Title: | A Rose for Everafter |
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Original Air Date: | January 11th 2010 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x12 -- Season: 2, Episode: 12 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett are called to a wedding to investigate the murder of a bridesmaid. Castle realizes that the wedding is from a former girlfriend Kyra. Everyone's feelings are compromised, since Kyra has doubts about who she is marrying, Castle's feelings may not be as objective in the case and Beckett picks up the connection between them, making her a little jealous and have poor judgement. |
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Episode Title: | Sucker Punch |
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Original Air Date: | January 18th 2010 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x13 -- Season: 2, Episode: 13 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The one thing about this show that I love is the mature way of handling the evolving relationship between Castle and Beckett. It isn't one of the many and thousands of will they/won't they every week, it's more of a can they, over time, finally move into a relationship. This episode did an amazing job, especially with the reveal that Beckett's mother's killer was within grasps.
The story was pretty interesting, introducing us to some organized crime families that can always bring about interesting tales of loyalty and federal government involvement.
The ending was very surprising and I could understand Castle's feelings for what he did, but when Beckett cleared it up with her little secret, all was OK. And that was where the relationship aspect really shinned.
But really, this professional, ruthless killer comes up with such an cockeyed plan as that? In the end, it didn't really matter as much. |
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Episode Title: | The Third Man |
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Original Air Date: | January 25th 2010 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x14 -- Season: 2, Episode: 14 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Another very strong episode of Castle following last weeks great episode. This one starts off strong with the piece about Castle and Beckett on the front page of the paper. Then we see one of the more clever plots that the team has ever uncovered.
From a romantic standpoint this episode was very satisfying. We get to see jealousy, passive aggressive behavior, obvious single minded natures, and finally the truth about both Castle and Beckett. The "dates" and the fact they both go pretty much the same way was very interesting. Both Beckett and Castle are more about the job than anything else. I think it's the things that give them common ground that really makes them work together in so many ways. I loved the little turn of the hair for Beckett in both instances and especially Castle's reaction to the first time he see's it. She does the action with so little effort. Katic is actually turning out to be a wonderful actress and very much an equal of the veteran Fillion. What marvelous casting.
The story tonight was pretty smart in both sense of the word. Smart in that it was a very intelligent plot and smart in the fact that it was not predictable as many of the previous Castle episodes have unfortunately been and looked really good. I won't say a lot about the storyline but it was great to see Beckett and Castle working out the details in their minds separately and together. The writing is wonderful in that the two characters make one fit so perfectly with the other. Also I would like to mention Rick Gonzalez who played Mickey Carlson the person who really helped break the case for our team. Gonzalez played Bret Harrison's sidekick Ben, one of the main characters on Reaper for the two seasons the show was on TV. It was nice to see him guest starring.
Overall a very satisfying and enjoyable episode of Castle. We get to see some really good acting and writing when this show is clicking and boy was it clicking tonight. Thanks for reading... |
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Episode Title: | Suicide Squeeze |
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Original Air Date: | February 1st 2010 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x15 -- Season: 2, Episode: 15 |
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Program Network: | ABC - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | A show highlighted by a cameo by Dodgers Manager and eventual Hall of Famer Joe Torre. (You knew I would mention that didn't you!) This episode gets a plus .5 for that scene and Beckett's reaction!
Overall this episode would be termed filler to me The show has been on a roll. The story on this episode turned out to be a little on the sloppy side. We have the Agent played by the Devil himself, Ray Wise, a number of former ball players, a loan shark, and then the very attractive wife of nine years, Maggie Vega played by Chandra West.
You never seriously looked at the wife as the suspect even though she had suspicions that her husband was cheating on her. But when Castle and Beckett get the picture of the other women they start to work the angles. Through some very good detective work they managed to pull the case together with as always the major help of the two sidekicks Ryan and Esposito. All in all a pretty ho hum case with the killing turning itself into a neat little bow at the end. That was a nice twist though and a heartwarming scene at the end with the widow. I really expected something a little more sinister myself. No worries though as the series has been excellent this second season and looking really good for a third. Let's hope they pull out all the stops for these last seven episodes now. At least I think they are shooting 22 this season. It's hard to keep track with the networks these days. They all keep adding episodes to this season to make up for all the shows they've canceled. Thanks for reading... |
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Episode Title: | Slice of Death |
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Original Air Date: | April 4th 2011 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 03x20 -- Season: 3, Episode: 20 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | Another so so episode of Castle here. I guess two good episodes in a row left me a bit spoiled and we were overdue for another disappointing installment. Usually I don't like the Castle and Alexis scenes, but I have to say that they were probably the highlight of the episode here today. Seeing her struggles and his reactions turned out to be good TV. But the actual case this week was a letdown in my eyes. Just some stereotypical shots at NY area Italians and the "twist" of the female you don't expect being responsible for it all...yawn.
Okay episode, nothing to rave about though. |
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Episode Title: | The Dead Pool |
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Original Air Date: | April 11th 2011 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 03x21 -- Season: 3, Episode: 21 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett must solve the murder of a champion swimmer who had a shot at the Olympics. They need to sort through all the secrets they uncover to find what led to his death. Meanwhile, Castle's poker buddies offer their views on the case. |
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Episode Title: | To Love and Die in L.A. |
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Original Air Date: | May 2nd 2011 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 03x22 -- Season: 3, Episode: 22 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | When Beckett travels to L.A. against orders, with Castle, to solve the murder of her ex-partner, Castle questions her motives. Meanwhile, they get to meet the actors who will be portraying Esposito and Ryan in the film adaptation of Castle's first novel 'Heat Wave'. |
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Episode Title: | Pretty Dead |
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Original Air Date: | May 9th 2011 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 03x23 -- Season: 3, Episode: 23 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a contestant in a beauty pageant "Miss Illinois", found strangled during the rehearsal for "Baron's All-American Beauty Pageant". As the investigation goes on, they find out that several people had motive to kill the victim. |
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Episode Title: | Knockout |
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Original Air Date: | May 16th 2011 (Monday) |
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Original Air Time: | 10:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 03x24 -- Season: 3, Episode: 24 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | A manhunt is launched for professional hitman, Hal Lockwood, after he escapes during a court hearing. Lockwood possesses information about the murder of Beckett's mother. As the hunt proceeds, Castle and the team find there's someone with connections to law enforcement who's linked both to the death of Johanna Beckett and to Lockwood's escape. The season finale leads to a highly emotional and deadly conclusion with the search for Lockwood and his co-conspirator. |
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