It looks like good things happen in three’s because this is the third Castle episode in a row that I was really happy with! It’s written by Terri Edda Miller, a woman whose many hats include: writer, producer, director – as well as the wife and muse of Castle creator Andrew W. Marlowe. It makes her the perfect choice for birthing this episode, because beyond being a talented writer, she’s been there from the beginning, giving her great insight into how these characters tick. As she’s done in episodes such as, “Vampire Weekend” and “A Rose for Ever After” Miller blends a good case with both funny and poignant Caskett relationship issues.
SPOILER WARNING! SPOILERS FOR CASTLE EPISODE 6×10 “The Good, the Bad, and the Baby”
Here’s the short version of this review: The good is writer Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). The bad? Alexis Castle (Molly Quinn). The Baby: freakin’ adorable!
We’ve always known Kate Beckett is a one and done kind of girl, but in terms of having kids, we haven’t known if Castle was a one and done kind of guy. Until he actually proposed, Rick Castle had very little good to say about marriage, so this aspect was never on the table. He seemed tickled by the idea of them having three of them in episode “Time Will Tell,” and we know he loved raising Alexis, but really, that’s it. In this episode Miller lets us into his serious thoughts and fears about having another child – all while putting together a smart, creative case and lots of fun Casketty moments. (Still no kissing or even some flirtation around “practicing” for someday, but the Castle heat seems to have been left to Nikki since Kate and Rick’s brief D.C. encounter. I can’t blame the episode for that.)
The show starts with the victim’s staggering up the aisle carrying what turns out to be a baby. He hands it to the priest before dying. The scene is closer to being campy than suspenseful, but it’s a short one. Then we get to the clearly meant to be fun stuff!
Castle and Beckett are coming into his loft, loaded down with groceries, as Beckett complains about the amount of food they’ve bought for this small Thanksgiving gathering. Castle lectures her on the importance of leftovers (I agree!) and then lays out other traditions – like Alexis always makes dessert. Pi (unfortunately) is still around because he’s bringing something too. Even Castle’s Mom, Martha Rogers (Susan Sullivan) is making something!
While last year the two ended up spending their first Christmas together at the last-minute, this year is different. They’re engaged! (I love writing that.) Beckett’s father will be joining them and both Kate and her Dad will be bringing a dish. It’s family blending time…including the blending of family traditions. One of the Castle traditions is…dressing in Thanksgiving costumes. Castle suggests Beckett go as Pocahontas.
“Um, so, is there anything else I need to know about you before we get married.”
Luckily, Beckett gets a call, there’s been a murder in a church – sorry Castle, it’s not a Cathedral! (I’m sure Beckett got those kind of jokes all through high school English!)
Beckett and Castle are walking down the aisle towards the murder scene and Castle just can’t help himself.
Castle: When we do this, let’s not do the dead body in the middle of the aisle.
Beckett: Okay. Good call.
Nope, she’s not biting Castle, Beckett’s all business now. Detectives Kevin Ryan (Seamus Dever) and Javier Esposito (Jon Huertas) are already there and start to break down the facts of how he died. Ryan explains how the man died after staggering down the aisle. Esposito is less than impressed with what the victim left the priest.
I’m not sure if Esposito just doesn’t like babies, or if he doesn’t like all the attention that medical examiner Lanie Parish (Tamala Jones) is giving the little boy! After all, he’s been “going after the girls” also – for a different kind of appetite! Beckett on the other hand, doesn’t seem to mind, although her reaction isn’t close to the level of excitement Castle has!
“A BABY!”
Beckett is softly amused watching Castle run to Lanie but quickly gets back to the business at hand with Ryan and Esposito. She doesn’t get far though. Esposito is reading out the contents of the victim’s wallet: Cameron Ducane, age thirty, no baby pictures, a commercial drivers license, car wash stub and… a lottery ticket
Esposito thinks lottery tickets are a waste of money. Ryan thinks that at 247 million dollars Esposito is crazy not too! (Do you think Marlowe will tell Castle fans the significance of the number 47?) However, Esposito counters that buying a ticket or two is fine, but fifty of them is too much! From the bickering that ensues Ryan is worried about having enough money to raise his kid in New York City. Castle interrupts them by suggesting they not argue in front of the baby.
Kate Beckett has the besotted look that we might more expect to see on a man looking at his beloved holding a baby and imagining her with their own child. The Caskett dynamic has always been built on a sense of role reversal: he’s the metro-sexual who screams at rats while she calmly picks them up. His being a good father is the first thing that really made her look past his surface charms. She’s secretly thought about “little Castle babies” for a while now, because Castle would make a good father to her children – not in the sense of being “a good provider,” but in the way people usually say, “she’ll be a good mother.” Castle’s first, second and third thoughts clearly were not about Kate as a parent. He’s just wanted to “be with Kate” – the beautiful, intelligent, extraordinary woman.
Beckett’s so into him with the kid she’s startled when he decides that Lanie was right about the baby being hungry and offers to take an uniformed officer (to maintain police custody) and buy the kid a few things. After all, he has an “RHD” in childcare: Ruggedly Handsome Dad. (Yes, that phrase trended world-wide.) Her reaction is another role reversal. She’s surprised that Castle would rather make sure the baby is taken care of and go baby shopping than to stay at the crime scene – because that wouldn’t be her choice. At the same time, she adores him for it. She watches them leave before turning back to Ryan and Esposito briskly asking, “Do we know where he got shot?”
Well, yes and no. The victim’s car was outside with engines running, the doors open, a ton of blood on the driver’s side and gunshots through the roof. It’s where the car was when it happened that they’re unsure of. Ryan points out to Beckett there’s no car seat, which means the baby in the car wasn’t likely planned. A phone call from the precinct confirms that Duncan and his wife had no kids. Now Beckett has to go talk to his widow.
For me, I really liked this scene because it’s a reminder of how much empathy Beckett has for the families of the victims. Stana Katic’s ability to just be in emotional action of a scene and let the camera capture all of those feelings and thoughts that flow effortlessly is one of her strengths as an actress. As much as I enjoy watching Beckett kick down doors and turn over tables, it’s these quieter scenes that are my favorites.
The other point I took note of is the conversation about the baby. Duncane’s wife tells Beckett they’d only been married for two years and hadn’t been ready to have kids yet. What is not said, as Castle would say, is not said very loudly. Now, they will never have kids. Beckett’s emotions are up even more than usual, because that “what if” question is something she lives with every day. Even more so given the events of “Disciple.” She’s not ready to have kids either, but I can’t help but wonder if this issue of timing will be revisited again this season.
From the wife Beckett learns Duncane when to work at ten and never came home. She sends Esposito and Ryan to check out the car service that he worked for. The owner Roman Valanciaga (Anthony Mangano) has nothing but good things to say about the deceased. Good guy, quiet, but he skipped out of work last night – never showed up. The only unusual thing that had been going on was a week ago a guy had shown up who freaked Cameron out and that since then Cameron hadn’t been coming back to base for his lunch breaks. All Roman can remember about the visitor is that the guy talking about going to prison – and had a giant tattoo of a wolf howling at the moon on his arm.
Ryan returns to the precinct and he and Beckett do a case run-down – this is good because we all need one! 1) His family and friends all say Cameron Duncane was a nice guy and was “completely devoted to his wife.” 2) He’s not in the system beyond a traffic ticket, yet a guy who may have a criminal record showed up at Cameron’s job and scared him. 3) Said guy has an easily traceable tattoo. 4) Cameron left his house at ten to go to work – without a baby. 5) At 6:45 am he shows up at a church shot to death – and with a baby. Even though I immediately figure the guy is innocent, I am dying to see how this Rube Goldberg-type murder mystery turns out! If you don’t know what a Rube Goldberg is or want to see a cute one, watch below:
(In honor of Terri Edda Miller – I had to put this in. Not only does it fit the twists and turns of the case, but if you ever get the chance to see her film short DysEnchanted – it will be even clearer why this is appropriate!)
Getting back to our baby’s Momma drama, the other strange piece of this case is that there are no reports anywhere of missing baby! (At least not a 3 month old boy who appears to be Latino.) Beckett and Ryan are pondering this when Castle returns weighted down with baby supplies – a baby carrier, diapers, formula, bottles, wipes – the works. He’s also named the kid “Cosmo” and dressed him up in a turkey onesies get-up in honor of Thanksgiving. Beckett takes it all in: the happy Castle, the turkey outfit and the mass of baby stuff…. She gets a bit overwhelmed.
Ohh…I’m suddenly getting a clear and frightening visual about what my future will look like.
Before Castle – or viewers – get a chance to ponder what that means, Ryan comes over and asks Castle if he can hold the baby. His wife Jenny (Juliana Dever) is due in a month and he wants to practice. Ryan is sure he’s got it down – after all he’s been practicing with a life-sized doll for months. Unfortunately, as soon as the kid leaves Castle’s arms he starts crying and crying. Poor Ryan asks Castle what he’s doing wrong! (He’s not doing anything wrong.) After another moment of Cosmo wailing Ryan gives Cosmo back and walks away upset. He thought he was ready for his baby’s arrival, but now he thinks he’s not!
So about Kate’s comment. Unlike Castle, she doesn’t have baby experience. My thought is she looked at a very pleased with himself Castle, that expensive turkey outfit, and the mass of baby paraphernalia and imagined an even larger pile of unnecessary stuff for their own child – a pile she was going to have to deal with! She has no idea that, aside from dressing Cosmo like a turkey, everything Castle bought is actually necessary. It’s not that she has a problem with them having a baby.
“Every time Beckett sees Castle with that baby she just lights up! ( I’m sure many viewers did also. Nathan Fillion looks great holding a baby!) She may not be keen on holding the baby – but many people who aren’t used to babies are nervous about holding them. Still, Castle is concerned…
Esposito comes in with the I.D. on our guy with the tattoo – Jimmy Wolfinsky (Matt Gerald) and from there they learn that while the victim doesn’t have a criminal record, he does have a criminal past. Seven years ago Cameron Duncane was supposed to be the driver for a bank heist, but he took off before , Jimmy got out. Jimmy went to jail but never identified the driver. What links Cameron to the crime is the sketch done of driver based on eyewitnesses accounts. It looks just like Duncane.
They’ve got an address on Jimmy – it’s out in Queens. Beckett sends Ryan and Esposito out to bring him in. While Castle and Becket are discussing possibilities of why no one has come forward to claim little Cosmo, Lanie arrives with news from the lab. You can see how vitally important it was for her to do this!
For Lanie it’s all about the baby,which – from the way Kate keeps staring at her – Kate is surprised, confused, and fascinated by. I’d be fascinated too, because Tamala Jones looks great! Red is definitely her color. Also, watching her in those baby scenes was a revelation. Lanie is usually not so emotionally open (No wonder she and Kate are best friends!) but with that baby the love is just pouring out of her. If Javier wants to get serious with her he’d better get used to babies!
Anyway, the news Lanie brings is that Cameron had to have been shot near the church because he only had five or ten minutes before he would have bled out. Also, under his fingernails was wax residue, camphor, and charred nitro cellulose – which she says can be found “in old film stock and certain kinds of plastics. Add that to the other clues and…none of it makes any sense! I couldn’t begin to figure out what this was about. I really shouldn’t be surprised. The last solo script Terri Miller wrote started out like something from Saw and ended up being about a tiger! I love her cases!
In Queens Ryan and Esposito hit a dead-end. According to the landlord Jimmy hasn’t been there in days. Esposito’s going to call it in, and Ryan decides he needs to buy more lottery tickets. Really. Esposito’s annoyed – not that he minds the couple of minutes. He just thinks Ryan’s being ridiculous about the lottery tickets. However, he then gets a more serious reason. While Ryan’s getting the tickets Esposito sees Jimmy walking up the street towards him! He ends up having to chase down and apprehend Jimmy by himself!
Jimmy turns out to be innocent. Like everyone else has said about Cameron Duncane, Jimmy says Cameron was a stand-up guy. Sure, when Jimmy got arrested he might have said Cameron was going to pay – but he also never revealed Cameron’s part in it. Jimmy says his getting caught was his own fault and that “Cameron waited as long as he could – longer than he should have.” As for the argument at Cameron’s job, Jimmy had gone there to see if Cameron would vouch for him with his boss – he was trying to get a job. Cameron wouldn’t do it because he said he couldn’t be associated with a criminal past. He was shocked and saddened when he saw the picture of Cameron’s body. Even if Beckett and Esposito didn’t believe him, Jimmy’s alibi holds up: he was at his girlfriend’s place in New Jersey all week and at the time of the murder he and she were having breakfast in a diner. He also knows nothing about the baby. Since they now know Cameron had no reason to fear Jimmy, Beckett wonders why he wasn’t coming back for his lunch breaks. She has Ryan and Esposito go see if the car Cameron was driving had a GPS system (most car services do) and see where he’d been going at 3am for the past week.
Oh, the reason Esposito did the interrogation with Beckett is because Castle had Cosmo. Ryan came over briefly to try holding Cosmo again, but the kid started screaming. After Ryan leaves Castle does a cute little high-five with Cosmo. Really that whole scene with Castle and the baby watching the interrogation is a Nathan Fillion photo opp!
There you go!
What happens next is the child services person shows up. Castle has gotten a bit attached to Cosmo…
Kate has never been a baby person? Wow. Even Captain Victoria Gates (Penny Johnson Gerald) likes babies…. Then again, she’s got two of her own. Was Castle a baby person before he had Alexis? Not really. He’s told Beckett that everything changed for him when he first saw Alexis’s little face. Even with that knowledge about himself, Castle seems worried that Kate won’t change.
Don’t worry Castle, Kate isn’t Meredith. Meredith never wanted to be a mother. From what we’ve seen of Beckett’s reactions to Castle and Cosmo, she’s definitely looking forward to having a baby with Castle – even if she does have some baby trepidation. I mean, look at poor Ryan. It’s not like he doesn’t want to have a baby, but he’s had to learn all about how to handle one.
There isn’t much time for Castle and Beckett to discuss anything for a while because the GPS information has come in. Cameron had gone back to getaway driving! The GPS shows him practicing escape routes from the Colfax building (pronounced, “ColdFacts.” Nice one, Miller!) to somewhere down in Alphabet city. Traffic camera footage behind the Colfax building shows Cameron in his car waiting. (I know, it’s a strange place for a traffic camera. Maybe someone was messing with it and tilted it away from the main street?) Two men get out with a briefcase, and fifteen minutes later come back out with one. It’s some kind of heist, but of what? Like the baby there’s been no reports of anything missing. Castle and Beckett head to the Colfax building to see if anyone has noticed anything missing. Esposito and Ryan are sent down to Alphabet City – they’ll be checking out the block Cameron’s GPS routes ended on to see if they could figure out if the guys were staying down there. Perhaps the baby was stashed down there also because there’s no sign of one in the car….
At the Colfax building, the head of security, Mr. Dennis, says there’s no signs of anyone entering the building in that time-frame, nor are any of the tenants missing anything. It’s a total strike out. Luckily, the guys do better. They find the spot were the GPS route ended, get out the car and start checking out the block. After a sweet bromance moment, where Esposito assures Ryan that he’s as ready to be a father as anyone because he cares (unlike Esposito’s dad) and because fatherhood is a learn-as-you-go experience, Ryan spots a bullet hole in a metal newspaper dispenser. Looking up, there’s an abandoned building with a broken window at the right angle for the shot. Once Castle and Beckett arrive it’s clear that it could be the place the shooter had been. There’s powder residue on window sill, blood-spatter on the wall, and it’s five-minute drive to the church Cameron died in. Castle notes that there’d a recent small fire there as well (charred plastic residue under the victim’s nails. What clinched that it’s definitely the place? One of Cosmo’s dirty diapers! Cameron took the baby from this room! (That’s when I know Cameron’s got to really be a good guy. That room is no place for a baby!)
With CSU needing to sweep the crime scene for evidence, there’s nothing else to do but wait until the morning. Only as Castle and Becket are walking out they see social services with a crying Cosmo. He still doesn’t have a placement. Castle immediately volunteers himself and Beckett to take him for the night. (We knew this was coming!) Beckett’s not thrilled, but it’s the perfect solution because the child will still be in police custody!
This scene was epic! I’d put it as third, right after the last Caskett scene in “Always”, and the opening scene for “After the Storm.” Stana and Nathan were both so adorable with the baby! Best moments individual moments: Castle telling Cosmo he’d give him anything he wanted to stop crying. and Beckett holding Cosmo straight out in front of her, and flying him around before landing him on “the nasty blanket.” In terms of Caskett…all of it!
First of all, like Ryan, Beckett is all into the baby books. If’s she’s going to do this, she’s going to do it right! She was so Castle may be the baby whisperer, but he admits to have forgotten a lot. (Like that at 3 months a baby’s non-stop crying is usually for one of three things: the baby is hungry, needs to burp or spit up, or have a diaper change. Loved that realism!) Beckett is so pleased with herself for figuring out a way to quiet Cosmo, and we see her losing her fear of holding him as she gains confidence. At the same time, she’s letting Castle lead! It’s that role-reversal thing again. The stereo-type is the guy leaves the diaper to the woman, but Castle’s the one who knows how to do it. It was great seeing Beckett be okay with not knowing and loving that Castle was at ease taking care of things.
The music in the episode was great as usual, but in this scene in particular it highlights both the fun and the bonding that’s occurring between Castle and Beckett while taking care of Cosmo. There’s another variation of the Always theme that starts up after the riff from “Mission Impossible.” While the night isn’t about these two ripping their clothes off, the way Beckett looks at Castle when he comes back from dumping the dirty diaper is just as special. Now if Maddy was to accuse her of wanting, “little Castle babies” I don’t think Beckett would argue!
The next morning we find Castle and Beckett passed out on the sofa and floor. They wake up slowly as they hear Martha’s voice. She’s up and giving Cosmo a bottle. Being Martha she can’t help but bust they’re chops a bit.
Oh, well, look who’s up.”
Kate and Rick can’t even bother responding! However, this time Martha gets upstaged by her granddaughter. Alexis opens the door, and as she takes in her grandmother with the baby with Kate and Rick looking exhausted, she looks confused, shocked and horrified.
How long have I been gone!?
It’s funny, and Molly Quinn plays it with the perfect comic expressions and timing, but is it wrong that my automatic thought was “not long enough.” Not when Pi is coming with you for Thanksgiving dinner and you still have a sense that any of your behavior with your Dad was appropriate. Nope. I’m trying though…
When they manage to drag themselves to the precinct, Beckett and Castle don’t look much better then when they woke up, and as Beckett says, the coffee isn’t helping. Ryan foolishly tries to make a joke about it, and Castle reminds him that in a month he’ll be going through the same thing!
The results from CSU are back, and not very helpful. The blood is from someone related to the baby, the burnt stuff is more of that camphor and plastic stuff Lanie found under the victims nails. Other than that the place had been wiped clean of fingerprints. It seems like a dead-end, but even when she’s heavily sleep deprived, Beckett is still on the ball. These guys had a baby with them, and must have cleared out pretty fast. If there’s anything she learned about babies last night is that they generate a lot of garbage. Maybe they can get prints from the trash!
I’d say viewers felt Castle and Beckett found something far better than prints!
Ryan was not appreciated at that moment! I think if the show in general had a few nice scenes of Castle and Beckett being drawn physically to each other in significant emotional moments like this one – and really followed through on them – then moments like this would be more appreciated for their comic intent. Honestly, kissing after digging through a dumpster would be gross…Ryan’s timing was probably good for their health!
What got Ryan all hyped up is he found the right trash bag, diapers, a wine preservation kit with empty argon gas containers, and some ping-pong balls and a convenience store receipt Castle figures that those are where the plastic residue came from, but none of it makes sense. Yet.
At the prescient Ryan is all excited because it’s time for the lottery drawing! As soon as Castle sees the ping-pong balls spinning he figures it out. Remember that Cameron’s wallet had a lottery ticket in it? He takes it off the murder-board and starts reading the numbers before they were announced! Everyone wonders how he’s doing it. Is he a mind-reader?
No! The crooks fixed the lottery!
Poor Ryan! He so mad he tears up all his tickets. Esposito just can’t believe it some one could do it. Castle then breaks down how it was done:
What an inventive crime! I certainly didn’t figure it out before Castle, and even then, I couldn’t have begun to explain how they did it! More kudos to Miller! It was cool how the lottery ticket banter between Ryan and Esposito, which just seemed like a bit of relief, turns out to be central to the case. However, my favorite part of that scene is the way Beckett looked at Castle!
Castle’s talking theory…
She does this little swallow after this shot, that whole moment screams, “I want him, now!” Thank you Stana! It’s great to see signs that Beckett wants to jump his bones – maybe some day there will be an episode where she gets to seriously follow through on it.
So, the piece about kidnapping the baby was the last piece of the puzzle. Almost. The criminals didn’t just take Ms. Vali’s son – they took her husband as well. (Smart move! It isolates the victim and gives them instant child-care.). The deal was they’d call her the morning of the drawing and tell her which black suitcase to pick. Once they collected the winnings and moved the money out of the country they’d release her husband and son. With their operation blown these guys have no reason to keep him the husband alive…or do they? A few hours after Duncane’s murder, someone else bought a lottery ticket with the same numbers.
Even if it is a replacement ticket, the killers might think it’s too risky with the police asking questions at the lottery office. (The characters on the show all assumed it had to be a replacement ticket, but what if somebody happened to pick the same numbers? They are going to be really disappointed when they find out the drawing wasn’t valid!) If they didn’t buy a replacement ticket, or they think they’re been found out, they’re likely already planning to kill Paul Vali.
There aren’t many clues left, but there is also still one unanswered question to this case: how they got the doctored ping-pong balls into the TV station. Beckett says they’d have to be amazing to get past that security system. Castle makes the leap to thinking that they could have gotten to someone besides Ms. Vali. The logical person would be the head of security – Mr. Dennis. Captain Gates says to check him out. Maybe they’ve got something on him too?
Ryan is able to dig up that Mr. Dennis lost his job as an Albany police officer for taking bribes! From there things wrap quickly. A look at his phone records shows him calling Roman’s car service. Before the heist that would make sense, but two days after Cameron had been killed points to something else. Someone there had to be in on the scheme!
They get there just in time. Mr Dennis, Roman and another associate had just put a tied up Paul Vali in the truck of a car to, “go for a ride.”
Paul, Miranda are reunited, and Paul tells them the truth about Cameron. When Roman heard Cameron and Jimmy talking he forced him to do the driving – or else be fired (and likely killed for knowing the plan.) Cameron was willing to do the driving, but when he heard Mr. Dennis and Roman were going to kill the whole family he couldn’t live with it. Cameron tried to let them all escape, but things went badly (obviously). Cameron grabbed Benny and ran. and “little Benny.” So the reports about Cameron Duncane were true – he really was a good guy. I like that. Some shows like telling the story where the guy everyone thought was good turns out not to be bad so that there’s a twist. Here what’s twisty is how a good guy ended up in this kind of trouble. That’s a far more satisfying story!
Ryan’s lottery ticket saga ends where it began – which Esposito messing with Ryan over his lottery obsession. The lottery drawing is going to be redone, which means all the lottery tickets Ryan had are still good. All he has to do is tape together the ones he ripped up. Esposito tells Ryan they’ve already taken out the trash, which sends Ryan racing out to the dumpsters. No real worries though. Esposito saved all his ripped up tickets for him. He’s just going to let him hunt in the dumpster for a while before telling him!
It’s now time to take a deep breath. We coming up to an Alexis appearance. Alexis brings the baby to the precinct and finally, the Vali’s have their “little Benny” back. Watching them Beckett admits to Castle that she’ll miss the little guy. Castle suggests that in a few Thanksgivings maybe they’ll have “a couple of Benny’s” of their own.
These two are so smitten! So what does Alexis do? She butt’s in to their conversation!
Hey, if you guys have kids in a few years, and I have kids in a few years, they can grow up together.
What a snarky brat. That was no innocent comment. It’s a way of tweaking her father about his age, and trying to make herself his equal. This is the same nonsense she did before when she equated her short relationship with Pi as being on the same level of her father having known Beckett for years before officially dating for a full year. Furthermore, the idea of her having kids “in a few years” is ludicrous. She’s just started her sophomore year of college – assuming she’s still going to college – and her character (until this season) was definitely on the grad school track. At this point I’m hoping she and Pi go join the Peace Corps so she can see just how cushy she’s had it…. or maybe she’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown of some kind? This is episode ten and Alexis is still being a petulant child about her father and his relationship with Beckett. This whole Pi issue has really gone on too long and the longer it goes on, the harder it gets to remember why I liked the character and didn’t want her to go to Stanford.
The episode ends with Thanksgiving at the loft. Beckett’s father and Pi are on their way. Alexis is there with Castle and Martha. Martha is dressed in one of her usual over-the-top outfits, but she’s got some serious competition for this Thanksgiving because Beckett comes out in a Pocahontas costume! Castle is stunned. Wearing a costume wasn’t a family tradition, it was one of Castle’s jokes! As you see though, the joke turns out to be on him!
Castle’s going to be one unhappy Thanksgiving pilgrim!
Doesn’t it seem like Castle has bad Karma when it comes to holidays? Last year he didn’t get Beckett a Christmas present and got put in the doghouse even though Beckett said she didn’t want him to. Then he accidentally put Beckett’s Valentine’s Day present in Gates’s jacket pocket. Now, he’s unwittingly started a Thanksgiving tradition that, even if they never wear costumes for Thanksgiving again, he’ll be hearing about every year! It’s a good thing he brings her coffee every day.
There is no new Castle until January 6, 2014. Ugh! I think that’s why this took so long. I didn’t want to let go and face the abyss hiatus. At least they closed out on a good note! Visions of little Castle babies will be dancing through my head – as a part of season seven or eight though. Can we enjoy them getting married first?
So, what are your thoughts about the episode? Has Beckett’s biological clock been woken up? Also, am I the only one who’s had enough of Alexis’s behavior? Let me know in the comments!
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