History Castle / TropesEToL

* LastSecondTermOfRespect: "Fool Me Once...", While discussing the fact that the VictimOfTheWeek had been running a con on little kids, Castle points back that he actually took the time to write back to each of the children for his supposed trip to the North Pole. Montgomery agrees that Castle has a point.
--> '''Beckett:''' Now who's the sucker?
--> '''Montgomery:''' (Stern Look)
--> '''Beckett:'''(realizing she just said that to her boss) Sir.

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* KarmaHoudini:
** Zigzagged in "Nanny [=McDead=]". Beckett is livid that the victim and pregnant killer's sleazy lover can't be arrested despite his selfishness leading to the crime. Castle points out the man is at least facing a hefty divorce from his wife, but Beckett believes that isn't enough.
** Played With. While the killer in "Room 147" was caught, she still ended up getting exactly what she wanted.

** Season 2's "Tick, Tick, Tick..." & "Boom!", guest starring Dana Delaney, playing a specialist from the FBI.
** Season 3's "Setup" & "Countdown", guest starring Adrian Pasdar, playing a member of the Department of Homeland Security.
** Season 4's "Pandora" & "Linchpin", guest starring Jennifer Beals, playing a member of the CIA [[spoiler:& Soviet operative]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Ryan got one line in the pilot, and it was the only time for the first season and a half that Ryan and Esposito were seen without each other. A different detective (played by Colby French) had most of the big speaking roles, but was dropped after the pilot. They'd try for another detective near the end of the season in Detective Karpowski, but she was dropped after 2 episodes. Also, the interrogation room was a whole lot brighter in the first season than other seasons, while the precinct in general is clearly a different set in the pilot from the rest of the series.

** Early episodes often call out and avert cop shop tropes, making the leads wear gloves, hairnets and aprons to examine a body or having to wait ages for lab results "because it's not like on TV".

* LoveTriangle: It starts with a [[Analysis/LoveTriangle Type 5]] in "Den of Thieves," [[spoiler:Type 4 with Castle being A and Beckett and Demming taking up B and C at the end of "Overkill"]], and either Type 4 [[spoiler:with Beckett being A, Castle being B and Gina being C]] or Type 10 [[spoiler:with Gina being A, Castle being B, and Beckett being C]] at the end of the Season Two finale.

* GameOfNerds: Both straight and averted in "Suicide Squeeze". Beckett is a noted fangirl of the Mets (and especially Joe Torre), and both Esposito and Ryan were able to identify the baseball player victim on sight. However, Castle only knows the victim by reputation, is matter-of-fact when he and Beckett meet Torre (having met the man previously through his mother) and is notably uncoordinated and largely uninterested in the fine art (as noted in the ending with Alexis).

* GroinAttack: in "Suicide Squeeze", when a baseball player is beaten to death with a baseball bat, his assailant starts at his groin.

* FashionDesigner: Matilda King is a designer who runs her own fashion house, and Kate worked for her when she was a model. After solving a case where Matilda's assistant was murdered, Matilda asks Kate to model a FairytaleWeddingDress she designed. It looks so good on Kate that Matilda gives it to her (though it ends up as DoomedNewClothes).

** In [[Recap/CastleS1E1FlowersForYourGrave "Flowers for Your Grave"]], Harrison Tisdale is a suspect in a string of three murders, but claims he was out of country on all three dates, and has a stamped passport to prove it. However, Detective Beckett finds it suspicious that Tisdale is able to provide this alibi so quickly, without consulting his calendar or even asking for the dates. She and Castle dig deeper and figure out how he faked it: Harrison has a second passport under a false identity. So he left the country with his real passport just to establish his alibi, then used his false passport to return incognito and commit the murders.
** [[Recap/CastleS2E23Overkill "Overkill"]] has a bizarre accidental version. Beckett and Castle work out a timeline of when the murder of Damien Wilder took place: the murderer was there by 10:34 pm (based on a clock at the scene that was broken during the attack) and fled at 10:52 (according to an eyewitness who just saw a foot disappearing over the back fence). They get two main suspects for the killing, Lisa Jenkins and Blake Wilder, but both have hard evidence they were elsewhere in the middle of the murder timeline: security footage shows Lisa returning to her apartment at 10:47, and bank records show Blake made an ATM withdrawal at 10:39. Beckett solves the mystery when she realizes her timeline is wrong, and this murder wasn't the act of a single person. Lisa broke into Damien's home and fatally shot him, then was scared away by the sudden arrival of Blake, who had independently also decided Damien needed to go, and finished the dying man off by bludgeoning him.
-->'''Kate Beckett:''' Lisa and Blake came here separately to kill Wilder, and by doing that, they both inadvertently alibied each other out.

** Invoked in-universe as well as played straight in "Cloudy With A Chance Of Murder": Beckett, worrying about what to wear on her first day back at work, seeks Castle's opinion on the shirt she chooses to wear. His answer that he finds it sexy doesn't please her, since she's going for a professional look at work, so she tries on a different shirt, giving both Castle and the audience a good view of her [[LingerieScene in her bra]]. Castle just shakes his head at the second shirt. It takes Beckett all of five seconds to realize that he's only rejecting it because [[HandsomeLech he wants to watch her take her shirt off again.]]

** Invoked in-universe as well as played straight in "Cloudy With A Chance Of Murder": Beckett, worrying about what to wear on her first day back at work, seeks Castle's opinion on the shirt she chooses to wear. His answer that he finds it sexy doesn't please her, since she's going for a professional look at work, so she tries on a different shirt, giving both Castle and the audience a good view of her [[LingerieScene in her bra]].
Castle just shakes his head at the second shirt. It takes Beckett all of five seconds to realize that he's only rejecting it because [[HandsomeLech he wants to watch her take her shirt off again.]]

** Invoked in-universe in "Cloudy With A Chance Of Murder"; Beckett, worrying about what to wear on her first day back at work, seeks Castle's opinion on the shirt she chooses to wear. After rejecting the first one because he finds it sexy, he shakes his head when she models the second one for him. It takes her all of five seconds to realize that he's only rejecting it because [[HandsomeLech he wants to watch her take her shirt off again.]]

** There also seem to have been a few scenes of Beckett either showering or bathing in the later series; [[spoiler: "Boom!" begins with Beckett, having been in the shower just before her apartment blew up, stark naked for the first few minutes. Castle isn't entirely unhappy with this state of affairs, and neither were many viewers [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer of both genders]], judging by the above.]]

** In "[[Recap/CastleS8E3PHDead PHDead]]", Alexis in a [[SexyWhateverOutfit sexy Angel costume]] at a college party.

* KarmaHoudini: Played With. While the killer in "Room 147" was caught, she still ended up getting exactly what she wanted.

** And again in "Always", briefly, as he reassures her about his part in the investigation. [[spoiler:Then later as {{they do}}.]]

** The episode "A Chill Goes Through Her Veins", in early season 1 averts Castle's AgentMulder tendencies when the squad is discussing missing persons cases. He is instead insistent that there is a story that allows everything to make sense. Instead it falls to Ryan to come up with the zany theory.

* EggSitting: In "Vampire Weekend". The egg's name was F''[[IncrediblyLamePun egg]]''an, and "he" was "murdered" by Alexis's friend as revenge, after Alexis called her dad when her friend drank too much from a spiked punch bowl.

* ImpressedByTheCivilian: When Castle and his mother find themselves hostages in a bank robbery, Castle impresses the groups leader by correctly deducing that they're not really robbers, but hired mercs, and that they have some hidden agenda for their employer. The head merc sincerely states that he likes Castle, which is why he vows to kill Castle last. A double cross by the employer kills the mercs, though.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The show elevates this to an art form. Castle himself seems to love these and tends to encourage the others to do so as well.
** When Ryan mentions a previous relationship with a member of a vampire coven:
--->'''Esposito:''' What happened, did the relationship suck?
** In the premiere of Season Two, after seeing a victim who's organs had been tampered with and removed.
--->'''Castle:''' Somebody hated his guts.
** From "When the Bough Breaks":
--->'''Castle:''' I almost bought a Russian bride once. You know, a [[TabletopGame/{{Chess}} Czech-mate]]?
** In "Vampire Weekend", Castle is dressed up like Creator/EdgarAllanPoe carrying a raven. Beckett manages to successfully scare Castle.
--->'''Castle:''' I'm giving you the bird.
** Oh, hell, it's quicker just to say that Castle loves the ''hell'' out of these: another one from "Hell Hath No Fury", after a councilman has been found wrapped up in a piece of carpet (''and'' wearing a toupee):
--->'''Castle:''' What turned you off; the fact that he was wearing a rug? ''[Beckett gives him a look]'' Too soon?
** One memorable lame pun in "Food to Die For" includes Castle (after [[EvilLaugh laughing like a maniac]]) realizes that he's late for his date with [[GirlOfTheWeek Madison]] and accidentally drops his watch into a bowl of liquid nitrogen.
--->'''Castle:''' Hey look. [[WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog I froze time.]]
** In "Slice of Death," after finding a body in a pizza oven.
--->'''Capt. Montgomery:''' Authentic Nicks's. Oh, thank God. My wife loves Terrific Nick's. I didn't have the heart to tell her now it came in full-bodied flavor.
** A funny exchange occurs between Ryan and Esposito in "Death Gone Crazy", where the murder weapon is a bra:
--->'''Esposito:''' So how goes the im-''breast''-igation?\\
'''Ryan:''' ...And that's why you're still single.

'''Ryan''' (''as Beckett focuses her gaze on Esposito''): Yeah! You know, that thing with the guy?\\

* InnocentCohabitation: Beckett's apartment is [[spoiler:blown up by a serial killer]] in "Boom!".[[note]]The episode takes place in the second season, years before Castle and Beckett get together[[/note]] This exchange occurs.
-->'''Beckett''': I don't ''have'' a home!\\
'''Castle''' (calmly): Yes you do. It's a secure building with an extra bedroom with [[YouAreNotAlone people who care about you.]] With a federal detail on the door, it's the safest place in the city.\\
'''Beckett''': Thank you, Castle, but I couldn't.\\
'''Castle''': You can and you will.
** A less innocent variant occurs in "Significant Others" when Castle agrees to let his ex-wife Meredith stay at his place ''while Beckett is staying in with him''.

** In "Kill Shot", there's a scene where Beckett is dressed only in her bra and pants. This would have been {{Fanservice}} if Beckett wasn't going through a mental breakdown and staring at the surgery scar on her side and the bullet wound on her chest.
** In the season six episode "In the Belly of the Beast", Beckett is waterboarded by criminals after her cover is blown. The water makes her already tight black sweater [[SexySoakedShirt so clingy that she might as well be wearing body paint]] (though she's wearing a bra underneath). However, the torture she's subjected takes away from the moment.