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* PullingTheThread: In the fifth season, "The Squab and the Quail", Castle's jealous of a multi-billionaire inventor/venture capitalist's infatuation with Beckett, who is being targeted by an assassin. Pulling the thread lets Castle realize that said billionaire was trying to kiss Beckett, but it ''also'' makes him realize that she pushed him away (coincidentally saving his life ''and'' [[spoiler:her relationship with Castle]]).

* MurderByProxy:
** Senator Bracken never killed anyone directly, but boy oh boy did he pay for lots of people to be killed. Starting with Beckett's mother.
** "Hedge Fund Homeboys", Brandon wants his former friend Donnie dead. [[TooDumbToLive He and his friends had a gun that they would pretend to shoot each other with]], always without bullets. He arranged to put bullets in the gun so that when his friend Max believed he was pulling the trigger on an empty gun, he fired a fatal shot, killing Donnie. Unfortunately for Max, he figured out that he was set up, and Brandon resorted to more traditional methods of murder for him, setting it up to make it look like a suicide, except for the fact that Max had a 0.28 blood alcohol level and couldn't have shot himself.

** FashionDesigner Matilda King is first shown wearing a lynx coat draped over her shoulders.

* PapaWolf: Castle transforms from OverprotectiveDad to this in "Target" when Alexis [[spoiler:is kidnapped and held hostage in Paris.]] The succeeding episode "Hunt" reveals [[spoiler: he inherited that trait of his from his father]].

* OverprotectiveDad: Castle, though Alexis usually shuts him down before it goes too far.
** In "Headhunters", Castle punches Detective Slaughter when the latter says about Alexis, "that girl got an ass."

** At the end of "Always", [[spoiler: [[TheyDo Beckett and Castle are finally together]]. And then the guy that shot Beckett finds the man who had all the information about the conspiracy and says that, now that he has found him, he will kill Kate.]]

* MeddlingParents:
** Castle's mother is constantly telling people things he wishes she wouldn't. Castle has his moments of over-protectiveness with Alexis, too, but after the chewing-out mentioned above, he's gotten a lot better. From "Vampire Weekend," when Alexis asks to go to a party thrown by high school seniors:
--->'''Castle''': This is one of those crossroads moments, isn't it?\\
'''Martha''': Oh, let her go. She's far more responsible than you ever were.
** ''Inverted'' in "Food to Die For", when Alexis is ''hoping'' her dad will intervene on her decision of whether or not to go camping with her friends when she should probably spend the weekend studying. He finally does at the very end. And only because she has to tell him to do so, so that she can tell her friends she really wants to go with them but her father won't let her.
** Inverted again by Alexis in "Significant Others" when Castle can't stop his ex-wife and Alexis's mother Meredith from staying at his place while Beckett is there. They were supposed to go to Paris before Alexis got sick with mono, and at the end of the episode, Alexis solves Castle's problem by insisting that her mom should go enjoy Paris for her.

* MementoMacGuffin: The elephant statue on Beckett's desk that belonged to her mother Joanna. [[spoiler: In "Veritas", Beckett discovered that her mother had stored a microcassette tape in the base of the statue, with the evidence she had collected against Senator Bracken. This tape leads to Beckett finally arresting Bracken for her mother's murder.]]

** The 6th season episode, "The Belly of the Beast"; Beckett goes undercover as a drug courier named Elena to investigate a new drug ring run by someone known only as Lazarus. [[spoiler: She learns that Elena was not a courier but an assassin, but is able to keep her head together, demanding to meet "Lazarus". When she finally meets him, he turns out to be Vulcan Simmons, a former suspect in the murder of Beckett's mother, and her cover is immediately blown. A later "Oh Crap" moment happens toward the end of the episode when Beckett discovers that the money from the drug ring has been funnelled into a political [=SuperPAC=] called Future Forward, and that Senator Bracken (the man behind Joanna Beckett's murder) has announced his bid for President, funded by this same PAC. [[TheManBehindTheMan Bracken, not Vulcan, is the real Lazarus]]. Oh Crap, indeed.]]

* PlotHole: In "Veritas" how did Joana Becket [[spoiler: put a tape of Senator Bracken admiting to HER OWN murder inside the elephants? And if she got that tape BEFORE she was murdered, why didn't she take it to the police?]]

** In "One Man's Treasure", the victim appears to have been cheating on his wife with a fiance, an illusion maintained by the supposed other woman. Later, it's revealed that the two were both corporate spies deceiving one another. The two never actually slept together.

--->'''Castle''': A wife-and-fiancee catfight? ''Please'' tell me we can stop for popcorn on the way!

** In ''Limelight'' the victim was actually the body double of the real target. Unknown of this, Alexis talked to her father about the target's fall from grace. Predictably, [[RightBehindMe the intended victim was sitting right behind to her]].

** "Limelight"'s Mandy Sutton is somewhat reminiscent of Miley Cyrus -- specifically the child actor gone... sexy and adult -- mixed with Lindsey Lohan -- the drinking and rehab.
** In "Dressed To Kill", fashion designer Matilda Wake is likely based on Anna Wintour, the infamously demanding and eccentric editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.

* PunnyName: Wiki/TheOtherWiki states that Castle's name is a play on "Rich Asshole."

** This has been turned UpToEleven in Season 8, as she's turned into a SexySecretary for her father's PI business. One infamous episode has her going undercover in a frathouse dressed in a sexy angel costume.

* MsFanservice: Done infrequently but at least once a season with Alexis Castle. Somewhat creepy, since she was underage for much of her time on the series. She regularly appeared in early seasons in [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule abnormally short (secular) school girl skirts]]; her official publicity photo for years featured Grade B ZettaiRyouiki. At one point, a plot contrivance put her in a [[TheCheerleader cheerleader]] uniform despite not being a cheerleader. For season 5, her photo puts her in a tight micro-mini dress, and one episode has her in an "alien assassin" costume that consists of a bikini, body paint, and feathers. While Beckett and Lanie both get their annual fan service moment, Alexis has more such moments than both put together.