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** At the beginning of "Boom!", Beckett asks if anyone has seen her father's watch, first shown in "A Chill Goes Through Her Veins". Castle ducks out of the building saying, hastily "It's not in the hall". Turns out [[spoiler: whether or not it was actually in the hall, Castle did find it, but it was broken, and you can see him tucking it into his pocket in that scene so that he can have it repaired before giving it back to Beckett.]]

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** At the beginning of "Boom!", Beckett asks if anyone has seen her father's watch, first shown in "A Chill Goes Through Her Veins". Castle ducks out of the building hastily saying, hastily "It's not in the hall". Turns out [[spoiler: whether or not it was actually in the hall, Castle did find it, the watch, but it was broken, and [[FreezeFrameBonus you can see him tucking it into his pocket in that scene scene]] so that he can have it repaired before giving it back to Beckett.]]



** Ryan's allergic to down feathers. This first shows up in season 1's "Home is Where the Heart Stops". It shows up again in season ''five's'' "The Squab and the Quail".

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** Ryan's allergic to down feathers. This first shows up in season 1's "Home is Where the Heart Stops". It shows up again in season ''five's'' 5's "The Squab and the Quail".



** A mild example in [[spoiler: "Law & Murder" where the DA was willing to subvert the justice system and convict an innocent man to make sure he has funding for his mayoral campaign]]. Okay, not that mild.
** In "Dial 'M' for Mayor", the Mayor is suspected to have embezzled funds and tried to cover it with a murder. He claims he is being framed by a conspiracy. [[spoiler: It turns out that he is right]].

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** A mild example in [[spoiler: "Law & Murder" where the DA was willing to subvert the justice system and convict an innocent man a ReformedCriminal to make sure he has funding for his mayoral campaign]]. Okay, not that mild.
** In "Dial 'M' for Mayor", the Mayor is suspected to have embezzled funds and tried to cover it up with a murder. He claims he is being framed by a conspiracy. [[spoiler: It turns out that he is right]].
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* AdvanceNoticeCrime: In "Scared to Death" a young woman is found dead with no apparent mark on her body after she'd called police to say something was coming for her. Castle finds a DVD in her player that warns "You saw. On the third night, you die." They track the DVD to an apartment, where they find another person dead, also without a mark, who'd also received the DVD. [[spoiler:It turns out that the people being killed incorrectly and under pressure identified an innocent man as being responsible for the work of a serial killer who was later caught. The innocent man, under suspicion of murder, cracked under the pressure and killed himself, leaving behind a very vengeful daughter who wanted to punish the people who she blamed for her father's death.]]
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* ButterflyOfDoom: Basically what Martin Blakely did for the CIA, as told in "Pandora"[=/=]"Linchpin": he looked at the current situation, he looked at the desired result, and he determined a small event that would eventually cause the desired result. [[spoiler:It turns out that Blakely determined that the assassination of a Chinese businessman's daughter at the hands of rogue CIA agents would eventually cause World War III, which the United States would lose after 27 million Americans die.]] Castle and Beckett discuss the plausibility of the scenario after the case is solved:
--> '''Castle:''' Do you think we actually saved the world?\\
'''Beckett:''' I think that... [[spoiler:we saved a little girl's life]]. And that's enough for me.
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-->'''View main article [[Series/{{Castle}} HERE]]'''

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-->'''View main article [[Series/{{Castle}} [[Series/Castle2009 HERE]]'''
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* TheBadGuyWins:
** Castle believes in "Probable Cause" that [[spoiler:Tyson arranged the whole plot to fake his own death so he can continue his killing spree without police attention.]]
** Played With. While the killer in "Room 147" was caught, she still ended up getting exactly what she wanted, to take down the cult-like organization responsible for her brother's death.
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* CoolGun: In the climactic scene of the episode "Under The Gun", Beckett and Ryan have their usual service pistols. Esposito? He has a [=M4A1=] Carbine with various accessories. He also uses this gun in tactical strikes in other episodes.
** In "Hunt", [[spoiler: Castle's father]] also has one in his introductory scene.
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* TheConspiracy: Beckett's mother was murdered when Beckett was in college. At the end of the first season we learn that it was a professional hit. As the show continues, layer after layer of complicated history is slowly peeled away as more of the conspiracy around her death is uncovered.
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* BelieverFakesEvidence: In "[[Recap/CastleS5E20TheFastAndTheFurriest The Fast and the Furriest]]", Castle and Beckett fall into a Bigfoot trap while looking for a murder suspect. Then they encounter Bigfoot. Who also falls into the trap. And then unmasks, revealing himself to be Dr. Daryl Meeks, who was faking being Bigfoot for the purpose of, as he claimed, "drawing in Bigfoot". He claimed to hear yowls and tapping earlier, signature sounds of Bigfoot. [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], viewers know those were Castle, who is also a believer in Bigfoot, and was also trying to draw out the mythical creature.
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* ArtisticLicense: College Admissions. In RealLife, Stanford University does not offer spring admissions for incoming non-international students.
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'''Castle:''' Exactly! So, they pick up a guitar and Creator/{{Wham}}!

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'''Castle:''' Exactly! So, they pick up a guitar and Creator/{{Wham}}!Music/{{Wham}}
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** In "A Rose for Everafter," a bridesmaid slips roofies into a groomsman's drink and (maybe) rapes him. [[spoiler:She knocked him out to get to the groom.]] It's acknowledged as both unacceptable and ''unnecessary''.

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** In "A Rose for Everafter," a bridesmaid slips roofies into a groomsman's drink and (maybe) rapes him. [[spoiler:She drink. [[spoiler:It turns out she only knocked him out to get to the groom.]] It's acknowledged as both unacceptable and ''unnecessary''.
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** [[spoiler: The District Attorney in an episode where the victim died while serving jury duty. The victim had found out that the man on trial was innocent and framed for the murder of a socialite and did everything he could, including sending the evidence to prove the actual killer's identity to the DA's office and ''buying his way onto the jury'' to save an innocent man... It's too bad that the DA was being paid off by the murderer's parents to keep their son out of jail. He didn't kill the guy but tampering with evidence and getting a man executed because you want to be re-elected...]]
** [[spoiler: Senator William H. Bracken, the BigBad, was Assistant District Attorney at the time he has Johanna Beckett murdered ]]

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** [[spoiler: The District Attorney in an episode where the victim died while serving jury duty. The victim had found out that the man on trial was innocent and framed for the murder of a socialite and did everything he could, including sending the evidence to prove the actual killer's identity to the DA's office and ''buying his way onto the jury'' to save an innocent man... It's too bad that the DA was essentially being paid off by the murderer's parents to keep their son out of jail. He didn't kill the guy but tampering with evidence and getting a man executed because you want to be re-elected...elected as mayor...]]
** [[spoiler: Senator William H. Bracken, the BigBad, was Assistant District Attorney at the time he has Johanna Beckett murdered to prevent her from uncovering his funding.]]



* AscendedFangirl]: Kate Beckett is secretly a big fan of Castle's, and Nikki Heat -- the main character in his new books -- is based on her. So much so that people mistook her for a character actress when she showed up for a book premiere. This gets to be problematic in "Tick, Tick, Tick..."[=/=]"Boom!" when an obsessed serial killer [[spoiler: stages his murders in order to test Nikki Heat.]]

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* AscendedFangirl]: AscendedFangirl: Kate Beckett is secretly a big fan of Castle's, and Nikki Heat -- the main character in his new books -- is based on her. So much so that people mistook her for a character actress when she showed up for a book premiere. This gets to be problematic in "Tick, Tick, Tick..."[=/=]"Boom!" when an obsessed serial killer [[spoiler: stages his murders in order to test Nikki Heat.]]

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