When Castle eventually learns about it himself, he confronts her about not telling him, and they both have a fight. Castle allows her to make her choice but says that he refuses to watch her throw her life away and ends their partnership before leaving. Alexis Castle has seen her father in many casual relationships, and now mostly avoids allowing herself to become invested in them. However, she also has tremendous respect for Beckett, who she sometimes goes to for advice. Although he appeared to have engineered their fight in "Knockout", this turned out to have been part of his larger plot to save Beckett. Castle quickly took a . Pulgatti was able to escape, but was arrested for the murder, forcing Bracken to shut down the scam. Castle is enraged, but Smith points out that if the case went any further, the mayor would either be removed from office or voluntarily leave to pursue a campaign for state governor. Afterwards it's revealed that Gates has known about the relationship but agrees to maintain plausible deniability as long as the two continue to behave professionally at work. Beckett had come close to admitting her feelings for Castle several times. Alexis Castle (She wants someone to take care of her dad when she won't be around and Beckett is perfect) In "Dial M for Mayor", Castle defends his friend when the mayor is accused of murder. NYPD ethics policies forbid romantic or sexual involvement between employees, and Beckett fears that Captain Gates will use the rule as an excuse to have Castle re-assigned or, worse, leave the precinct for good. She is also clearly jealous of Castle's feelings for her. Alexis and Ashley had a stable relationship. Esposito's first loyalty is to Kate, though, and more than once he's taken her side against Castle. When Beckett and McCord arrive from D.C. (Need To Know) to take over a case the NYPD and Castle were working on, Castle finds his loyalties divided between Beckett and the boys from the NYPD. Castle's lack of a father figure has led to him to surround himself with dominant women. Castle's secret is that Montgomery arranged to protect Beckett's life through blackmail; Castle's role is to make sure that Beckett stays off her mother's case. She locks a camera crew that had filmed her in a closet, giving them a playful raspberry as she slams the door shut ("Swan Song"). After Castle quits, Beckett and Esposito try to catch the killer by themselves, which causes Ryan to make the painful choice to tell Gates about the secret investigation. In the season 7 episode "At Close Range", he takes a job with his brother-in-law, Frank Kelly, protecting a US congressman. Although he is able to save both of them in time, Beckett resigns from the force and Esposito is suspended. True she did feel some guilt over leaving him in the parking garage of few days ago and having left him waiting in the gym lobby as they questioned suspects, but that had been an honest mistake. In her room, she collects herself and goes back out to talk to him, but he's already gone to bed. Castle believes she has been framed, and works with the team to prove her innocence. He secretly pursues the case himself, in her stead. There are hints that his relationship with his mother hasn't always been as good as it is now. Significant Others: Directed by Holly Dale. When Kevin Ryan marries Jenny, the episode ends with Castle and Beckett going to the wedding as a couple and closes with the two walking down the aisle towards their seats ("Till Death Do Us Part"). Beckett predicts that the next time they meet, all bets are off. However, the flirtation is now two-way, and there are signs that she sees Castle as more than just a friend. In Mr. & Mrs. Castle Beckett and Castle get back together, although they choose to hide their relationship from everyone else and keep it a secret, including Esposito and Ryan. Beckett is forced to go into hiding but locates an unexpected piece of evidence: a recording made by Roy Montgomery given to her mother in which Bracken details his plan to kill Johanna Beckett and admits to blackmail and having other people killed. Bracken plays a pivotal role in the season six episode "In the Belly of the Beast", when Beckett is recruited to a risky undercover operation to infiltrate a drug ring and investigate a connection between the ring and the Russian mafia in a bid to identify the kingpin, known only as Lazarus. The closing scenes of this episode show their emotional connection: Beckett's terror that Castle might be dead, and then her compassion when she sees how depressed he is over his failure. Instead, they merely use Mickey as a device and ignore the cognitive dissonance that he creates. Meredith visits to take care of a sick Alexis while Beckett is staying there due to her apartment being fumigated. In a conversation with Castle's stepmother Rita, Kate mentions that she cannot let LokSat go and needs to do something to find peace. Alexis's social and interpersonal issues often parallel some aspect of the case Castle and Beckett are investigating. Castle asks Beckett about her recent trouble with her current boyfriend Josh and she says that Josh has been away a lot, and how she wants him to be there for her. In "A Rose for Everafter", Castle reunites with an old flame. This frustration reached a boiling point when Castle, against Beckett's wishes, re-opened her mother's murder case. Beckett fails to catch the killer (Cole Maddox) and is left literally hanging from the edge of a building. In Crossfire, after defeating LokSat, Castle and Beckett arrive home and are both shot by Caleb, who Beckett then kills. While she came to respect the value of his unique perspective on crime, she remained frustrated with him on a personal level. The two begin to kiss passionately before they go to Castle's bedroom together and make love for the first time. As she lays, seemingly dying, in Castle's arms, he confesses that he loves her. Montgomery then kills Lockwood, sacrificing himself in order to do so. She feels that Castle's antics and their personal chemistry are a net loss for Kate's productivity and professionalism. Though the mayor's career is effectively ended, Castle remains at the precinct. It turns out that Beckett had the evidence she needed all along to arrest Bracken because Johanna had hidden it in her elephant figurines, which Beckett keeps on her desk. Bracken appears again in "Recoil", when the 12th Precinct is able to connect a murder victim directly to him, only to discover that Bracken has become the target of a political assassin as he prepares his Presidential campaign. She has also developed a certain bond with Beckett, asking Beckett's advice when contemplating going on an exchange trip to France and making arrangements with the detective to spend three days working at the police station as part of a project for her civics class. Smith makes his next appearance in the season four premiere, "Rise", contacting Richard Castle and asking him to convince Beckett to stand down, though Castle himself continues the investigation. Contents 1 Background 2 Season Two 3 Personality 4 Relationships 4.1 Family 4.2 Romances 4.3 Friends 5 Trivia 6 References 7 Gallery Background Martha Rodgers often gives romantic advice to her son. Only when he apologized and agreed to end the partnership did she relent and offer to let him stay ("A Death in the Family"). While their relationship was forged during the time when Beckett has resigned, the two are united by their determination to solve murder cases. Hunt becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a hacker he enlisted to assist him, manipulating the crime scene to draw Beckett's attention so that he can lead her to Gemini. Ryan and Esposito's platonic "bromance" somewhat mirrors Castle and Beckett's romantic struggles. Lockwood is then caught, which prompts Bracken to use his influence to have Lockwood moved into the General Population area of the prison so that he can kill McAllister in "Knockout". He is an Australian businessman who now lives in the United States. Shaw later comments on Beckett's emotional isolation and tells her that Castle genuinely cares about her. When Jerry Tyson comes back, Gates reluctantly allows Castle to help, specifying that it will just one time. In the series, Fillion plays Castle, a mystery writer who gains access to the NYPD and joins investigations for his work. Afterward, Beckett, Castle, Ryan, and Esposito agree to keep the truth about Montgomery's death a secret and he is buried as a hero. Beckett did not catch on at the time but remembers the encounter in the present and locates the tape in elephant figurines of her mother's that she kept on her desk. This relationship becomes increasingly serious, and Castle's jealousy makes him increasingly hostile and competitive with Demming. Despite Bracken's death effectively avenging Johanna's murder, Beckett becomes obsessed with hunting down Loksat, who ultimately proves to be a man named Mason Wood. In the fourth season, he is shown complaining about how stressful and complicated planning a wedding is. The episode shifted from a simple season finale to a series finale after the network announced earlier this month that it had cancelled the show, following the news that actress Stana Katic. Tyson makes his second appearance in the season five episode "Probable Cause", where he frames Castle for the murder of a young woman and plans to have his contacts in prison kill Castle as soon as he arrives after his arraignment. The first major turning point in their relationship was in "Sucker Punch", when Castle spent $100,000 of his own money to catch the hitman who killed her mother. However, everything came crashing down when McCord showed up and told Beckett she was fired due to tipping off the press. She explains that she's "gotten used to you pulling my pigtails" and that he's made her job more fun. Over the years, Castle's serious and driven side has often emerged due to Beckett's influence, and the worst of his immaturity has faded. After they arrest the aide, Smith sends him legal counsel, effectively stopping the investigation. She lives with Castle partly because a previous husband absconded with all her savings. After an uneasy awkwardness, Beckett admits she got the job in D.C. and admits to Castle that she does love him, but she doesn't want to miss her shot at the job. She says he's not so bad himself. She then burst out laughing because of the strange way she just showed how she makes out. In the season four finale, "Always", Esposito stands firmly behind Beckett as she decides to pursue the investigation of her mother's murder in secret because they fear that there would be other dirty cops in the precinct. ("Headhunters"), While Beckett remains surprised and hurt that Castle has suddenly begun to distance himself from her, she still has not figured out what's triggered this abrupt change. In season six, she returns from Costa Rica with a boyfriend named Pi, and the two move in together some time later. That night during a heavy rainstorm, she returns to an initially resistant Castle desperate to say how sorry she is. Beckett's jealousy at seeing Castle kissing her in the elevator is obvious but Natalie later reports that Castle is the first man who's ever turned her down. With Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Jon Huertas. He only finally makes peace with her when she mentions that she and Josh broke up. This season is about secrets as both Castle and Beckett have something big to hide. Kyra Blaine is not what Beckett would have expected: she is intelligent, serious, and caring. He is always ready with a sardonic comment to keep Beckett on her toes and enjoys the way Castle riles her. In "Cuffed", the two spend the entire episode handcuffed to one another; the episode ends with Castle saying that there was no one he'd rather be "hitched" to. However, despite her boyfriend Josh, it's clear that she harbors secret feelings for Castle. Beckett's team raids the surgeon's office, only to find it cleaned out, with only a note reading "Better luck next time". [5] Like Lanie and Esposito, she sees the dynamic between Castle and Beckett and especially from season three onward, gently urges her son to pursue the detective romantically. Agent Jordan Shaw (Straight to the point, the first one that told Beckett about Castle's feelings) 7. Although this is a ploy to distract a guard and save Ryan and Esposito, there is much more to the kiss than a simple ruse. She gives birth to their daughter, Sarah Grace Ryan, in the season six episode "Under Fire". She pretends there is another copy of Montgomery's files to keep Bracken off her back. Beckett is later ecstatic when Gates uses the situation to reinstate Castle. At first he found a consultant working for Bracken who could prove that Bracken's campaign funding in his bid for president was corrupt, but his contact was killed off before that could happen. Executive Producer Andrew Marlowe refers to this as "the dance". Bracken's influence is again felt in "Knockdown", when John Raglan approaches Kate Beckett looking to clear his conscience when faced with his own imminent death from cancer. Beckett then develops a romance with a handsome young detective, Tom Demming. Eventually, he teams with detective Kate Beckett (Katic). Tyson considers himself to be an artist, and is easily angered by people who interfere with his plans. Back at the precinct, Gates suspends Beckett and Esposito for their actions. He and Ryan are best friends, even though they constantly argue about obscure facts. At her own insistence, she is called "Sir" rather than "ma'am" by the officers who report to her (and Castle.) Later, in the same episode and the second part, "Countdown", the two are trapped in a freezer. He first appears in "Punked" when he drops by the precinct. 1. Bracken gets wind of this, and hires another assassin, Hal Lockwood, to kill him. NOT FOR BECKETT LOVERS. Their couple name is referred to by the duo themselves (Murder, He Wrote), and most commonly referred to by shippers as Caskett. When the two meet up, she tells him she is taking the job. Though they arrested the real killer who wanted to emulate Tyson, Ryan discovered that the plastic surgeon, Kelly Nieman (Annie Wersching), responsible for the look-a-likes' appearances was a prison doctor at the same time Tyson was admitted and resigned the day he escaped, and thus, she is suspected of being Tyson's girlfriend. He pointed out that the "Moonlighting curse" (where the show went visibly downhill after the two main characters became involved) stemmed from a variety of causes, on-screen and behind the scenes. After remembering her first encounter with Montgomery, Beckett realizes he'd given the tape to her mother and finds it in her mother's old elephant figurines on her desk. Lanie Parish is a devoted in-story Caskett shipper and has been from the start. Despite being a "good-on-paper" boyfriend, Beckett ultimately breaks up with him because of her unresolved feelings toward Castle in the season two finale. ("47 Seconds"). Beckett tells Castle, "She's real. After a few episodes, Alexis realizes that Pi is not the one for her and eventually breaks up with him. Captain Roy Montgomery (Ruben Santiago-Hudson) (seasons 13) was Beckett's boss who appreciates Beckett's determination and diligence but maintains a close watch to make sure the investigation goes smoothly. Things proceed much as in Season Two: Castle and Beckett are friends, and while each wants something more, outside events and their own emotional issues keep them apart. She often helps Beckett's team by accessing and assessing the data on computers belonging to suspects and victims.[13]. In season eight, it is revealed that Alexis has been unofficially working at Richard Castle Investigations for a month; in that time, she has successfully solved a number of minor cases. This allowed Bracken to distance himself from the crime and continue with his political ambitions. The two begin dating in season five, get engaged in season six, and are married in season seven. She was angry and hurt and requested that he ends their relationship. Beckett's commitment is tested in "The Squab and the Quail" when she has to spend the night in a hotel room with billionaire Eric Vaughn. CASTLE CONTENDS WITH BECKETT'S EX-BOYFRIEND, A HANDSOME FBI AGENT INVESTIGATING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A LITTLE GIRL, ON ABC'S "CASTLE" "Little Girl Lost" - When a two-year-old girl is discovered missing from her home, Beckett is called in to assist with the investigation only to discover that the FBI agent in charge is, in fact, her ex-boyfriend. When the series begins, Castle has decided to kill off his most famous character, Derrick Storm, because the character has become boring to him. Though they attempt to carry on a long-distance relationship, the strain of doing so is too much, and Alexis breaks up with Ashley in season four. "Castle"Season 3 (2010 - 2011)-----Episode 4"Punked"Original Air Date: October 11, 2010Beckett and Castle investiga. Beckett only tolerated his presence at the request of Captain Montgomery and the Mayor. [citationneeded], Nathan Fillion was a vocal opponent of Castle and Beckett becoming an item. He confides to Castle that he enjoys stalking his victims and planning their deaths more than actually killing them, and it is implied that when he leaves New York, he adopts the persona of another serial killer and carries out a new series of crimes under a different identity. He is shown to be meticulous in his attention to detail, both in the planning and execution of his crimes, and has been shown to carry out complex crimes without leaving any evidence behind. Unlike with her last boyfriend, detective Tom Demming, this relationship takes not only Castle, but all of Beckett's colleagues at the precinct by surprise, since she never mentioned having a boyfriend prior to Josh's showing up at the precinct . [citationneeded], Stana Katic, on the other hand, is an unabashed Caskett shipper. In the season four finale, "Always", Ryan sides with Castle in stopping Beckett's investigation into her mother's murder in secret, feeling that not going through the proper channels will cost them. Believing Castle was responsible for Beckett getting shot, he starts a fight with Castle, only to have Jim Beckett break up the fight. Lockwood tells Montgomery to hand Beckett over to him; initially, he asks Beckett to meet him, but he does this to inform Beckett of the situation and gets Castle to drag her away and leave Montgomery to face Lockwood and his men off by himself, despite Beckett's pleas that he does not need to put himself in this situation because she forgives him. She also learns that Bracken had ordered one of his contract killers to save her after Vulcan Simmonsthe figurehead for the ring and one of the original suspects in the murder of Johanna Beckettblows her cover, as a means of repaying his debt to her. ET. As a friend of Beckett's, she is one of the few people Beckett can talk to easily and without reservations. Castle fans are still reeling years after the show's cancellation. ("Murder, He Wrote") As part of their campaign to hide their relationship, Castle has a date with a famous Femme Fatale entertainment reporter. Later, Castle asks Beckett about him, and she says when he saw them earlier, Josh was leaving to go to Haiti on another Doctors Without Borders mission. In the episode "Kill Shot" he displays technical knowledge of military sniping and refers to his having served in a sniper unit, implying that he received training. Eventually, Montgomery's files are destroyed by Cole Maddox and Smith, and the man he sent them to is apparently killed, but Beckett is able to reconstruct enough of them to identify the man as Senator William Bracken. He is a cardiac surgeon who often spends time in under-privileged countries. He is shown to have more than a few quirks, such as eating lunch off of his autopsy tablesreasoning that the disinfectants used in the morgue mean that it is actually "the cleanest room in the city"and always has a sarcastic remark. After six weeks, Castle surprises Beckett at her D.C. home and the two have a happy reunion. In "Almost Famous", it is implied that he was in the Green Berets; this point of Esposito's personal history is developed in subsequent episodes "Knockdown" and the two-episode arc "Set-Up" and "Countdown". He has also demonstrated a strong attachment and respect for Beckett, commenting to Castle that he has never known anyone who can comfort the victims of violent crimes better than Beckett and arguing with the governor to accept a deal that would have allowed a known drug trafficker to walk free when he offered information that would have allowed them to capture the man who murdered Beckett's mother (although the deal was revealed to be fake when it turned out that the drug trafficker was the killer). However, in recent episodes, Gates seemed to, at least, tolerate Castle ideas, knowing even though he has some outlandish ideas, she cannot argue with the results that Detectives attain. However, he had laid a booby trap on the files that kills Maddox, though Beckett is able to reconstruct them enough to learn the identity of Bracken. In Knockdown, episode 3.13, Beckett tells Castle Josh is in Africa "saving the world" and that he does not know about her homemade murder board of her mother's murder that she keeps hidden in her apartment. Unfortunately, this does cause a slight rift with their friends, but they all eventually still congratulate the couple. In the season three finale, he is revealed as the third cop who was indirectly involved in the murder of Kate Beckett's mother. Beckett, facing suspension for misconduct in her handling of the case, chooses to resign instead. He eventually becomes a Private Investigator in Season 7. The above gives some perspective on why it was so hard for him to admit that he loves her. You're Dead". Castle tells her that since she doesn't want their engagement to be announced, those kinds of rumors are bound to happen. The questioning quickly turns to a reflection of what Beckett feels was Castle abandoning her. Senator William Bracken (Jack Coleman) also The Dragon or Lazarus is a United States senator with aspirations of becoming President. Richard Castle (Fillion) is a famous mystery novelist who has killed off the main character in his popular book series and has writer's block.He is brought in by the NYPD for questioning regarding a copy-cat murder based on one of his novels. However, his attempts to help in a Classified federal case soon leads him into trouble with Beckett's partner and gets her into trouble at work. Vaughn asks her if she's with Castle, and she replies with a yes. Detective Kevin Ryan (Seamus Dever), formerly a narcotics division cop, now works alongside Esposito as part of Beckett's team. In season three's "Poof, You're Dead", he and medical examiner Lanie Parish began a relationship that they believed was a secret. Dr. Sidney Perlmutter (Arye Gross) is a medical examiner, rotating the role with Lanie (although Lanie is more regularly featured). Instead, Castle gets on one knee and displays a ring and asks her, "Katherine Houghton Beckett, will you marry me?" Ryan and Esposito both attempt to discover this secret boyfriend's identity since she refuses to name who he is. ("Cloudy with a Chance of Murder") But Beckett never doubts Castle himself as we see in "Probable Cause", despite heavily convincing evidence that he has cheated on Beckett and committed a murder to hide the affair (though no one in the precinct really believes the charges, even Gates who is known to dislike Castle). Beckett is forced to help save his life by thwarting the assassin, and Bracken acknowledges that he owes her his life before approaching the press and using the circumstances behind the episode to present himself as a politician willing to stand up against corrupt senators since the assassin was hired by his former mentors and consolidating public perception of him as a presidential candidate. The argument escalates, and she throws him out, ending the partnership. He makes his second appearance in the season six episode "Deep Cover", using the name Anderson Cross as part of a non-official cover on a delicate assignment to locate an Iranian intelligence officer code-named Gemini before Gemini can expose the CIA's deep-cover agents operating abroad. As a cover, Beckett claims to be involved with an unnamed mystery man. However, they hit a bump when Ashley graduates from high school. As the tension builds, she backs down and walks out, terrified. [12] Her character was written out by promoting Gates to Deputy Chief and reassigning her to One Police Plaza. Castle returns after the summer but does not call Beckett or the precinct. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place. In Resurrection and Reckoning, Beckett tries to get Castle reinstated at the precinct and after Jerry Tyson returns. In the two-parter of season three, Kate tells Castle that she does not like the huge distance between Josh and her. Back at the loft, Castle admits that distance between them was too hard for him and proposed a solution: an apartment in D.C. for him and Beckett. Think back three short years ago. Captain Victoria Gates (Penny Johnson Jerald) (seasons 47)[10] is Montgomery's replacement as captain of the 12th Precinct. She is kidnapped by an ex-KGB officer who previously crossed swords with her mysterious grandfather, but displays her father's resilience, deductive logic and skills during the encounter. 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