In the aftermath of a disastrous "Meet the Parents" dinner, a bickering Castle and Beckett are sent to retrieve the only witness to a murder, but they get ambushed and are forced to take the witness on the run.Download Video Castle After Hours Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Castle Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Stranded in the middle of the night in a bad part of town, with no phone, badge or gun, Castle and Beckett must find a way to protect him from a team of mobsters -- that is, if they don't kill each other first.When mystery-thriller writer Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) is called in to help investigate a series of copycat murders based on his books, he finds he enjoys the experience sufficiently to want to continue it. Pulling strings, he arranges to accompany NYPD Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), claiming he wants to study and use her as a personality basis for his next book series.
Once that initial case was solved, Castle and Beckett continued to investigate strange homicides in New York, combining Castle's writer intuition and Beckett's creative detective work.
Over the past four seasons, Castle and Beckett's relationship has grown even stronger as they've dodged bullets, captured killers, and solved countless murder cases with their unorthodox partnership.
There’s only been one show that I can think of which has successfully pulled off the “couple is together and no one knows it but the audience” game for a whole season: CSI with Grissom and Sara. I’m not saying Castle should take a lesson from that; they’re two very different shows (one serious, one comedic), but it is interesting to note that it can be done.
Anyway, the case of the week revolved around a buxom weather girl who was murdered not for the big environmental threat story she uncovered that would have saved a lot of lives, but because she didn’t let her co-worker break it to save his on-camera career. Standard plot; not much more to say about that. I mean, it was supposedly an accident, but why bring the gun out at all if there was no intent to harm? Also, this is why I try to be nice to everyone. You never know when you’re going to work with someone who will put their career over your life.
In the course of the investigation, Castle finds himself pursued by the station’s entertainment reporter who asks him during an on air interview if he will go out with her. To Beckett’s horror, he agrees, telling her later that it’s the perfect cover story.
Of course, the reporter just wants to get in his pants, and Kate catches them in a compromising position, because that’s how these stories always go. Castle isn’t entirely innocent; he did mess up by agreeing to go out with the maneater.
But Beckett has to be a grown-up, too. If she’s going to make a man who tells stories for a living pretend that he’s not dating her, she has to expect that he’s going to commit to that story.
CASTLE wants to be a mix of all three, and fortunately one of the most valuable weapons in its arsenal is the rakish charm of its featured lead actor, former FIREFLY star Nathan Fillion. I can count the number of actors on one hand who can pull off the "charming rascal" vibe in a way that never gets old, and Nathan can do those guys in his sleep. (And probably has.)
But he also knows how to modulate them as the occasion warrants, and where in his former role as Captain Mal Reynolds he could definitely play the bad-ass card when needed, here as womanizing bad-boy, party animal and bestselling novelist Rick Castle, he's a whole lot less serious. Bored with the cop character who has been his bread-and-butter for a string of chart-busting crime thrillers, Rick has decided in his latest tome to blow his hero's brains out, thus making a continuance of the series a little difficult to say the least. It wouldn't be a problem if the laid-back Lothario weren't suddenly faced with a major case of writer's block. But inspiration is coming in the most fortuitous if unlikely of ways.
A serial killer has decided to rehash some of the more gruesome deaths from Castle's earlier novels, and it's up to the very attractive (of course!) and no-nonsense detective Kate Beckett (newcomer Stana Katic) to crack the case...which of course will require the assistance of a certain writer of whose books Detective Beckett is a closet fan.
But a fan of smart-alecky guys who like to make very unsubtle passes at her? Not so much. Let the games and one-upmanship begin!
As with any new series, this one will take some time to really settle into the groove it needs to capture a wider audience, but with the growing ease of the push-and-pull relationship between Fillion and Katic's characters, it could very well become the next "MOONLIGHTING" or "REMINGTON STEELE"...which wouldn't be a bad thing.
Crime procedurals have been missing that fun element of late, and CASTLE could very well bring it back, without having to resort to a less-successful springboard of surrealism to build from (sorry, LIFE ON MARS).
Once that initial case was solved, Castle and Beckett continued to investigate strange homicides in New York, combining Castle's writer intuition and Beckett's creative detective work.
Over the past four seasons, Castle and Beckett's relationship has grown even stronger as they've dodged bullets, captured killers, and solved countless murder cases with their unorthodox partnership.
There’s only been one show that I can think of which has successfully pulled off the “couple is together and no one knows it but the audience” game for a whole season: CSI with Grissom and Sara. I’m not saying Castle should take a lesson from that; they’re two very different shows (one serious, one comedic), but it is interesting to note that it can be done.
Anyway, the case of the week revolved around a buxom weather girl who was murdered not for the big environmental threat story she uncovered that would have saved a lot of lives, but because she didn’t let her co-worker break it to save his on-camera career. Standard plot; not much more to say about that. I mean, it was supposedly an accident, but why bring the gun out at all if there was no intent to harm? Also, this is why I try to be nice to everyone. You never know when you’re going to work with someone who will put their career over your life.
In the course of the investigation, Castle finds himself pursued by the station’s entertainment reporter who asks him during an on air interview if he will go out with her. To Beckett’s horror, he agrees, telling her later that it’s the perfect cover story.
Of course, the reporter just wants to get in his pants, and Kate catches them in a compromising position, because that’s how these stories always go. Castle isn’t entirely innocent; he did mess up by agreeing to go out with the maneater.
But Beckett has to be a grown-up, too. If she’s going to make a man who tells stories for a living pretend that he’s not dating her, she has to expect that he’s going to commit to that story.
CASTLE wants to be a mix of all three, and fortunately one of the most valuable weapons in its arsenal is the rakish charm of its featured lead actor, former FIREFLY star Nathan Fillion. I can count the number of actors on one hand who can pull off the "charming rascal" vibe in a way that never gets old, and Nathan can do those guys in his sleep. (And probably has.)
But he also knows how to modulate them as the occasion warrants, and where in his former role as Captain Mal Reynolds he could definitely play the bad-ass card when needed, here as womanizing bad-boy, party animal and bestselling novelist Rick Castle, he's a whole lot less serious. Bored with the cop character who has been his bread-and-butter for a string of chart-busting crime thrillers, Rick has decided in his latest tome to blow his hero's brains out, thus making a continuance of the series a little difficult to say the least. It wouldn't be a problem if the laid-back Lothario weren't suddenly faced with a major case of writer's block. But inspiration is coming in the most fortuitous if unlikely of ways.
A serial killer has decided to rehash some of the more gruesome deaths from Castle's earlier novels, and it's up to the very attractive (of course!) and no-nonsense detective Kate Beckett (newcomer Stana Katic) to crack the case...which of course will require the assistance of a certain writer of whose books Detective Beckett is a closet fan.
But a fan of smart-alecky guys who like to make very unsubtle passes at her? Not so much. Let the games and one-upmanship begin!
As with any new series, this one will take some time to really settle into the groove it needs to capture a wider audience, but with the growing ease of the push-and-pull relationship between Fillion and Katic's characters, it could very well become the next "MOONLIGHTING" or "REMINGTON STEELE"...which wouldn't be a bad thing.
Crime procedurals have been missing that fun element of late, and CASTLE could very well bring it back, without having to resort to a less-successful springboard of surrealism to build from (sorry, LIFE ON MARS).