Castle aired its 100th episode last night, and it was a great one. Mr. Y and I have always enjoyed Castle because it can be both funny and serious, and it has a great cast.
Last night's episode was a tribute to the Hitchcock movie Rear Window. Castle was stuck at the apartment after hurting his knee skiing, so he had to cancel his birthday plans to go to Bora Bora with Beckett. He got bored and decided to spy on his neighbors across the way using binoculars his daughter Alexis gave him. He was convinced he saw a murder, and spent his time trying to convince Beckett and to gather evidence. In the meantime Beckett and her team were working to solve the murder of a female IRS agent seen on security video being bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat. The twist ending was that the whole murder Castle saw was an elaborate set-up by Beckett to relieve him of his boredom. Everyone was involved, including Castle's mom Martha as the director and her acting students as the main characters. Even Captain Gates got into the action pretending to dress Castle and Beckett down after they were caught breaking into a storage space supposedly owned by the murderer. Castle's reaction was that it was the greatest birthday gift he had ever gotten. I didn't figure this out until near the end when Beckett went to talk to the alleged murderer after Castle was convinced he was stashing the body in the refrigerator, and the alleged murderer grabbed a knife just as the lights went out.
It was an episode that had everything - great Beckett-Castle moments, solid supporting turns by the other characters, and little funny touches. Castle creator Andrew Marlowe made a cameo along with his wife and co-writer Terri Miller as the writers Castle first spied upon. Ryan and Esposito did the Charlie's Angels poses, and the dress Beckett wore at the end was an homage to Grace Kelly's dress in Rear Window.
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