History YMMV / Castle2009

* MagnificentBastard:
** "[[{{Recap/CastleS5E8AfterHours}} After Hours]]": Leo is a [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] hired by the O’Reily crime family to kill their enforcer, Mickey Dolan, when the latter considers leaving his criminal life. To get close to Dolan, Leo kills his best friend, Father Joel, [[BatmanGambit knowing]] he would pursue his friend’s killer. When Castle and Beckett find Leo, he [[WoundedGazelleGambit pretends]] to be a terrified witness to Joel’s death to avoid suspicion from the duo where he helps the two avoid Dolan’s men while biding his time for Dolan to come out himself. When Beckett learns of his charade, Leo forces Beckett to lure Castle and Dolan to lure them into his trap. When Castle and Dolan survives Leo’s ambush, Leo [[FaceDeathWithDignity shows no fear]] when Dolan tries to kill him simply remarking that the O’Reily family with hire another person to kill Dolan.
** "[[{{Recap/CastleS5E15Target}} Target]]" & "[[{{Recap/CastleS5E16Hunt}} Hunt]]": [[TheDreaded Gregory Volkov]] is a former KGB operative and notorious [[TheMafiya Russian criminal]] who seeks vengeance on Jackson Hunt for killing his wife. To his end, Volkov arranges for Hunt’s daughter, Alexis Castle, to be kidnapped in New York City and brought to Paris while also kidnapping the daughter of an Egyptian magnate so the kidnapping would reach international news, luring Hunt to Paris for Volkov to kill. When Alexis’s father and Hunt’s son, Richard Castle, goes to Paris to rescue Alexis, Volkov’s scares his tracker into betraying and ambushing Richard and would later have Richard brought to his compound, where Volkov threatens to kill Richard and Alexis unless Hunt shows up.

** "[[Recap/CastleS4E15Pandora Pandora]]" & "[[Recap/CastleS4E16Linchpin Linchpin]]": [[DoubleAgent Sophia Turner]] is a [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]] sleeper agent [[TheMole implanted in the CIA]] who desires to bring the United States of America to ruin due to her side, the Soviet Union, not winning the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. To this end, Sophia joins a group of like-minded individuals and initiates the catastrophic Pandora event by killing Nelson Blakely and Tracy [=McGrath=] while framing CIA agent Thomas Gage for her murders. Sophia then kills Gage and frames Martin Danberg for the crime before attempting to kill Richard Castle and Kate Beckett, while also having her accomplice assassinate the young Mia Ganghong so her father the Chinese finance minister won't pay off America's debt. This results in America's financial ruin and being unable to protect their ally countries, allowing their enemies to invade them and potentially kick-start WorldWarIII.
** "[[Recap/CastleS5E17ScaredToDeath Scared to Death]]": [[SerialKiller Nigel Malloy]], the [[RedBaron Grim Reaper]], tortured numerous women to death by branding them. Malloy lets a mentally unstable man, David Collier, take the fall for his first murder, resulting in David [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]], while Malloy goes on to torture and kill five more women, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] his mentally ill brother, Leopold, into helping him commit these heinous crimes. When Malloy is found and arrested, Malloy [[DyingCurse declares]] that more people will die after he's been executed, which proves to be true when David's daughter, Amanda, kills two people as a result of Malloy's actions.

** "[[Recap/CastleS8E3PhDead PhDead]]": [[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Barbara Lillstrom]] is a [[EvilTeacher professor]] at Hudson University hired by the US Navy to recreate the 1971 StanfordPrisonExperiment. Lillstrom would trick many college students into becoming test subjects for her experiments, imprisoning them for prolonged periods of time as she subjects them to [[MindRape mental and psychological torture]]. When two of her subjects, Amy and Peter Garber, escape her prison, Amy has a mental breakdown and murders Peter as a result of Lillstrom's actions, while attempting to subject Richard Castle and his daughter, Alexis, to the same torture to hide her own role in Peter's death. Arrested by Kate Beckett, Lillstrom reveals Peter's sexual relationship with Dean Feller to save [[ItsAllAboutMe herself]] when Beckett threatens to reveal Lillstrom's inhumane experiment if she doesn't provide any information.

* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced: Creator/JamesBrolin was the perfect choice to play [[spoiler:Rick's father]]. Same jawline, same hairline. Same fluffy eyebrows.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Creator/JamesBrolin was the perfect choice to play [[spoiler:Rick's father]]. Same jawline, same hairline. Same fluffy eyebrows.

%%* AssPull: [[spoiler:Sophia's being the mole/Russian sleeper agent]] in "Linchpin".

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Creator/JamesBrolin was the perfect choice to play [[spoiler:Rick's father]].

** "Head Case" features [[Series/{{Entourage}} Adam Davies]] [[spoiler:(suspicious but didn't do it)]], [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles April O'Neill]] [[spoiler:(did it and then herself)]], [[Film/DieHard Richard]] "[[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} Dickless]]" [[Film/DieHard2 Thornburg]] [[spoiler:(a subverted CorruptCorporateExecutive)]], and [[Film/IronMan Yinsen]] [[spoiler:(stole the victim's head, but [[ItMakesSenseInContext with justifiable reason]])]].