The episode began lighthearted enough, with Castle wishing Beckett good luck on her first day (with a beautifully engraved bracelet with the word “Always” on it) as well as Castle finding his daughter Alexis appears to have taken over his Private Eye business while he wasn’t paying attention.
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“Castle” Season 8 is gaining some new faces, but don’t expect all of them to be warm and friendly. “I don’t think she’s necessarily concerned with that”.
It also means that Castle will no longer be working as her partner. However, the twist of the upcoming series is that the newcomer will not be working for the police.
“It’s going to be a great year…we have a delightful launch, these wonderful tentpoles where things are changing and evolving”. Ryan and Esposito investigate a triple homicide in a theater. This is because Castle finds the bracelet he had given Beckett just a few hours before, sitting in a pool of her blood. But it quickly becomes apparent that this is not the typical Castle abduction. Why would Beckett be keeping her friends and family in the dark? This season opens up with Beckett confronting hers. As it turns out, Beckett is being chased by two teams of highly risky people, one of which captures and tortures Castle. At the end of the day there is only a finite number of robberies and murders. I have no doubt in my mind that Captain Beckett will be a force to reckon with but she’s not feeling it. She’s seen quality captains work and anyone in her position would be apprehensive about starting this new position. She’s British, was kicked out of the police force and is awesome. However, Castle has a surprise for her. The couple share a moment, and Beckett asks Castle to join her at the office, but he has plans of his own. She’s played a child growing up, but now she’s in her early twenties and she’s in her past year of college, and so we really wanted to shake her up a little bit to make her have a different relationship with her father, who now has to treat her like a grown woman and get her involved in certain ways with the casework that’s going on.
Surveillance footage reveals Beckett and a low-level analyst for the Attorney General’s office named Vikram Singh (Sunkrish Bala) stealing insulin from an ambulance. “She just wants to do whatever she has to do to please her client and get her check”.
The warehouse is filled with military-caliber weapons, which prompts Castle to text Ryan and Esposito a tip. She just really wants to help him without damaging her case. They can’t argue, though, because they are ambushed by the lady assassin from the episode’s cold open.
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Their love story is going to stay complicated though. Hailey drops him off there, and Castle and Bracken have a short and aggressive conversation.
