Mon, Jan 10, 2011
When the owner of historic Drake's Magic Shop in New York is found drowned in Houdini's famous water torture tank, Castle and Beckett must delve into the world of magic, magicians and their secrets to find his killer. As part of their investigation, Castle & Beckett meet master magician Tobias Strange. Meanwhile, the magicians aren't the only ones keeping secrets, as a new romantic relationship is revealed for Esposito and Lanie.
Mon, Feb 7, 2011
Lottery-multimillionaire Jay Hixton is shot in the heart at home around midnight. He was apparently forced to open his safe. It contained a gun even butler Reginald Easley didn't know about, which was laid besides him, and a bag, which was taken, containing $100,000 cash and a blue dye bomb, which exploded in a maintenance worker's face. Various suspects arise from Hixton's bizarre generosity, his own murky past and his family, an ex and junkie daughter, and even his winning lottery ticket a year ago.
Mon, Feb 21, 2011
Recent US citizen Amir Alhabi, an immigrant from Syria, is found dead in a building next to where his stripped cab is found. He and his cousin Jamal were the owners of the cab. Investigation of the cab's GPS shows that Amir picked up a fare earlier in the day, drove in a circle and then let him out at the same spot. The fare is identified as Fariq Yusef, a 'security attache' for the Syrian Embassy. When Castle and Beckett go to investigate a storage locker, identified from a note on Amir's phone, they find a weapons cache and are exposed to radioactive Cobalt 60. Homeland Security Agent Mark Fallon takes charge as Amir used to work in the Syrian weapons program and it is feared he created a nuclear weapon. Suspecting something didn't feel right, Castle, with Beckett's help, contacts Fariq Yusef to get more information. When Agent Fallon finds out, they are both removed from the precinct. Unofficially, they keep looking into tracing a payment to Amir and why he had a camera installed in his cab. This leads to a fake cover-up, shifting focus to cab driver Kevin McCann.
Mon, Mar 28, 2011
Juror #7 Joe McUsic, who runs a halfway house, drops dead of cyanide-poisoning during Otis Williams's high-profile trial for the murder of heiress Lyla Addison. Juror #4 Tony Mueller runs as he believed Otis's cousin, Wardell, poisoned Joe and he'd be next. Wardell claims he is being framed just as the cops are trying to frame Otis. The cyanide came not from the court house vending machine coffee but was released from a capsule. The plot thickens when it was found that Joe McUsic used a bribe to be put into the jury pool. The case is complicated as there doesn't appear to be any link between Joe McUsic, Otis Williams or Lyla Addison.
Mon, Apr 4, 2011
Castle knows of four pizzerias named "Nick," with various combinations of the predicates terrific and/or authentic. But their owners, bitter rivals, continually sabotage each other with frat pranks. Then a corpse is found in the pizzeria oven, crisped, but killed by previous stabbing. The owner accuses his rivals, but no one is innocent and everyone has a dirty secret. And the victim, a former war correspondent who lost his edge after his daughter died in a car accident, was reporting on them about their "pizza wars." However, he'd also stumbled across the identity of 'urban myth' Cavallo, a drug lord who viciously executes rivals.
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Mon, May 16, 2011
Cop killer Hal Lockwood, whom Beckett visited unsuccessfully in jail for months hoping for a lead in her mother Johanna's closed murder case, is released by a faked order into the general population, where he slices rogue cop Gary McCallister's throat, then is helped by fake cops to escape. Beckett, his likely next target, receives warnings from her father, Montgomery and Castle. Much helped by Ryan and Esposito, the duo work out that there must be a police accomplice and/or mastermind controlling Chuck Ryker, the debt-ridden corrupt jailer who was found murdered at his home.
Mon, Sep 26, 2011
Sex offender ex-con Tyler Faris is found in an alley, cut in half by a sword. Faris' victim claims that a man in a superhero uniform saved her. Even Castle doesn't recognize the uniform, which is eventually identified as Lone Vengeance, the hero of an Internet site authored by Sean Elt, a pseudonym. Actually, several people prance around New York in Lone Vengeance suits. The team investigates them and Tyler's enemies, such as his former employer Tony 'The Butcher' Valtini, thus proving to Captain Victoria Gates her lack of confidence in them is unwarranted.
Mon, Oct 3, 2011
Gunshots, a fleeing van and a massive blood pool all point to murder, but when Castle & Beckett arrive at the crime scene, they discover that it lacks something - the victim! The investigation leads to the cutting-edge world of life-extension science, a cunning high-tech researcher, and a sleazy porn mogul who invested in a modern-day "fountain of youth." Meanwhile, Alexis finds out whether she got into Stanford.
Mon, Oct 10, 2011
Student Jane Herzfeld was fatally shot with the Glock service pistol stolen from Detective Ryan by serial killer 3XK. Her ex-boyfriend, Finn McQueen, has an alibi. Phone records show she was in contact with undercover narcotics Detective Seth Carver. He had forced her to inform on Chinese mob boss Clifford Lee by acting as a tutor to his son, Ben. Castle ingeniously finds some missing links through prison records.