[citationneeded] The two enjoy witty banter and unresolved sexual tension, but without the fulfillment of actually engaging in a relationship. Alexis's social and interpersonal issues often parallel some aspect of the case Castle and Beckett are investigating. Alexis Castle (She wants someone to take care of her dad when she won't be around and Beckett is perfect) Maddox wants the information, promising that he would kill Beckett as soon as he gets it. Beckett is left shocked in silence as she simply looks at him. He also plants suggestive emails on Castle's computer with the intention of having Beckett believe Castle has been unfaithful to her. When the CIA tried to blackmail the victim's girlfriend into helping them, due to her ties to Russian organized crime, Beckett tipped off the press to keep the girlfriend out, seeing what the CIA was doing was wrong. "ABC.com Castle Bios: Richard Castle", "ABC.com Castle Bios: Alexis Castle", "ABC.com Castle Bios: Martha Rodgers", "ABC.com Castle Bios: Javier Esposito", "Penny Johnson Jerald Leaves 'Castle' "Surprised and Saddened", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Castle_characters&oldid=1132061069, Lists of American drama television series characters, Lists of American crime television series characters, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 02:23. Both possibilities leave the 12th Precinct equally disturbed. Alexis begins dating a boy named Ashley in season three. She eludes police and takes hostages and waits for Castle to help her. Having graduated from New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School and Stanford University, she is a first-class investigator who has gained a reputation as a detective who is intrigued by unusual cases, although she is also known for her ability to empathize with the victims of violent crimes. He also meets her new partner, Rachel McCord. The fact that Castle mostly supports this is a sign of the high regard he holds Beckett in; when he was married to Gina, he was resistant to allowing Alexis and Gina form a relationship. Castle confronts her, and the heated conversation segues to the question of exactly what their relationship really is. Ryan proposes in the season three episode "Nikki Heat" and they marry in the season four episode, "Till Death Do Us Part". In Heartbreaker Beckett moves back into the Castle apartment, and they agree to hunt LokSat together. She suspected that Castle was using his "research" as an excuse to pursue her, and because he liked the danger the job involved. Lockwood is then caught, which prompts Bracken to use his influence to have Lockwood moved into the General Population area of the prison so that he can kill McAllister in "Knockout". An alleged feud between leading stars Nathan Fillion and Stana. Castle's secret is that Montgomery arranged to protect Beckett's life through blackmail; Castle's role is to make sure that Beckett stays off her mother's case. Jerry Tyson (Michael Mosley), also known as the Triple Killer and 3XK, is a serial killer. It's too bad . She helps her son through the difficulties of raising a teenage girl (even one as mature as Alexis), but is also shown to have an active social life. Back at the loft, Castle admits that distance between them was too hard for him and proposed a solution: an apartment in D.C. for him and Beckett. He keeps his first rejection letter framed on his wall at home to keep himself motivated. Beckett discovers that the proceeds from the drug ring are being laundered through the Future Fund, a political fundraiser collecting money to support Bracken's presidential bid. In "Knockout", Castle must choose between his relationship with Beckett and saving her life. In "Heroes and Villains", they encounter another writer/cop team, who have consummated their relationship, and Beckett's advice to her counterpart is to encourage their romance. Realizing too late her feelings for Castle, Beckett ends things with Demming. Gates has said that as soon as the mayor leaves office, Castle will be out. Meanwhile, Roy Montgomery has approached Bracken independently with a deal: Bracken will leave Beckett alone if Montgomery stops her from investigating her mother's death. Beckett's initial relationship with Castle was strained because she viewed him as immature and reckless. She showed this movement by holding her hands close to her, like a grabbing action and clicking her tongue. She always urges him to declare his feelings and experience the moment. CASTLE CONTENDS WITH BECKETT'S EX-BOYFRIEND, A HANDSOME FBI AGENT INVESTIGATING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A LITTLE GIRL, ON ABC'S "CASTLE" "Little Girl Lost" - When a two-year-old girl is discovered missing from her home, Beckett is called in to assist with the investigation only to discover that the FBI agent in charge is, in fact, her ex-boyfriend. Castle allows her to make her choice but says that he refuses to watch her throw her life away and ends their partnership before leaving. When Beckett angrily demands to know why he would do that, he finally confesses his love openly to her and asks her to choose between him and the case which has defined her. After six weeks, Castle surprises Beckett at her D.C. home and the two have a happy reunion. Castle's lack of a father figure has led to him to surround himself with dominant women. When confronted in "Sucker Punch", Coonan confirms that he was hired to kill Johanna Beckett but is shot and killed before revealing the identity of his employer. Smith appears again in "Dial M for Mayor". Forced to accept him back into the precinct after an angry phone call by Mayor Robert Weldon, she continually berates Castle and reminds him of his outsider status. A Deadly Affair: Directed by Rob Bowman. Castle replies that she should have just followed what the heart wanted since things would have turned out well for them as the former playboy turned out to have been planning a proposal before he died. As a friend of Beckett's, she is one of the few people Beckett can talk to easily and without reservations. In the fourth-season premiere, a critically injured Kate is brought to Josh's operating room after being shot in the heart. Beckett blurts out that he kissed her, and after a few moments of doubt, Castle leaves it alone. Beckett hasn't yet run for State Senate and Castle's writing isn't mentioned. By then it has become clear Beckett has been offered a big-time job in Washington, D.C., but fails to tell Castle about her grand opportunity. On live television, Bracken is led to a police car and taken into custody, to Beckett's relief. She can't do anything about it without a warrant which she can't get but promises to support Castle if he chooses to break in, even if it means breaking the law. Especially due to the fact that he'd last heard the killer's voice thirty years before. But when Vaughn asks her if the relationship is serious, she hesitates. They are forced together when the detectives arrive at a murder scene to find Castle standing over a dead body while holding a gun. Under the alias Jackson Hunt, he enlists Castle's help to save Alexis before disappearing, but leaves a copy of Casino Royale as a calling card to inform Castle that he is alive. She has always stated an eagerness to see the show's main couple hook up and was excited about the prospect of the Fifth Season, where the two are finally together. She stated that she was surprised and saddened by this occurrence. The episode shifted from a simple season finale to a series finale after the network announced earlier this month that it had cancelled the show, following the news that actress Stana Katic. Instead, they merely use Mickey as a device and ignore the cognitive dissonance that he creates. She locks a camera crew that had filmed her in a closet, giving them a playful raspberry as she slams the door shut ("Swan Song"). In the season six episode "Under Fire", Jenny gives birth to his daughter, Sarah Grace Ryan. Twenty years prior to the series, Bracken was working as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan when he learned of a small group of corrupt police officersJohn Raglan, Gary McAllister and Roy Montgomerywho were kidnapping mobsters for ransom. Beckett, clearly conflicted, tells her that the situation is complicated ("Boom!"). This does not prevent either from entering romantic entanglements with others. The Castle-Beckett relationship is the flirty/friendship, and later the romantic relationship between Richard "Rick" Castle and Katherine "Kate" Beckett. Roy Montgomery was part of the original task force assigned to catch him, and Richard Castle researched the Triple Killer's original crime spree when he was writing one of his novels, When It Comes to Slaughter. After last season's big cliffhanger, Kate was initially shocked by Castle's sudden proposal, thinking that he was going to break up with her because he was acting so serious. Later, in the same episode and the second part, "Countdown", the two are trapped in a freezer. Castle is enraged, but Smith points out that if the case went any further, the mayor would either be removed from office or voluntarily leave to pursue a campaign for state governor. The first clue to his character comes during the "Linchpin" and "Pandora" story arc, when Castle and Beckett are enlisted to help the CIA in an investigation; the agency suggests they are aware of Castle's father. They look at each other for several seconds. Castle and Beckett are finally able to get married. He refers to the relationship between the two as "the dance" and has drawn comparisons between it and his wife and fellow Castle writer Terri Miller. Beckett then develops a romance with a handsome young detective, Tom Demming. Beckett and Josh seemed on the verge of breaking up in Setup, the first part of a two-part storyline, when Castle enters the precinct one morning and finds them arguing at Beckett's desk. In season three's "Poof, You're Dead", he and medical examiner Lanie Parish began a relationship that they believed was a secret. In "Tick, Tick, Tick", Beckett's jealousy is professional, not romantic, as Castle's attention focuses on Agent Shaw, her reputation as a brilliant profiler, and her high-tech equipment. She pretends there is another copy of Montgomery's files to keep Bracken off her back. Kyra Blaine is not what Beckett would have expected: she is intelligent, serious, and caring. Beckett predicts that the next time they meet, all bets are off. Castle and Beckett's romantic weekend in the Hamptons turns sour when a dying man stumbles into Castle's pool. However, she also has tremendous respect for Beckett, who she sometimes goes to for advice. At first he found a consultant working for Bracken who could prove that Bracken's campaign funding in his bid for president was corrupt, but his contact was killed off before that could happen. That night during a heavy rainstorm, she returns to an initially resistant Castle desperate to say how sorry she is. In addition to the romantic rivals listed above, the main cast have come down one way or another on the Caskett issue. Ryan takes on extra jobs out of hours offering private security. However, in every case it is only when he is about to leave altogether. It also states that Castle becomes a writer of serious literature. Tyson considers himself to be an artist, and is easily angered by people who interfere with his plans. The new season opens moments after Beckett is shot and Castle has made his declaration of love for her. Vaughn leans in for a kiss, and just as Beckett starts to push away, they are interrupted by two bullets that pierce through the window. Now, as Montgomery suggested in Season Three, we at last see Beckett's fun side emerges, even as the worst of her obsessiveness and seriousness has faded under Castle's influence. Castle and Gina got back together at the end of season two, However, due to their fighting all the time, Castle breaks up with her in episode twelve ("Poof You're Dead") of season three, having concluded that the relationship had lost its magic. While she claims to believe Castle when he says he would never have cheated on her, she still turns down his advances that night as it was "too soon" and that she "couldn't stop seeing her (the reporter's) boobs on his face." Esposito's first loyalty is to Kate, though, and more than once he's taken her side against Castle. Castle carries her away and following a brief conversation with Lockwood, Montgomery kills all four of Lockwood's hit squad, before being shot by Lockwood twice; however Montgomery shoots Lockwood before succumbing to his injuries. However, even as Beckett begins to entertain the possibility of a romance with her partner, Castle's own fears begin to take center stage. Luckily, no one got hurt. The Castle/Beckett relationship faces yet another long-lost flame in the form of Sophia Turner. Desperate not to lose Castle, she breaks up with Demming and approaches Castle to declare her own feelings for him. Beckett's secret is that she heard Castle professing his love but pretended to have no memory of the event. In the epilogue of the show - Time jumps ahead seven years, Beckett and Castle are enjoying breakfast together while their three children play in the background. Smith later attempted to turn one of Bracken's employees, Jason Marks, but Vulcan Simmons killed him before that could happen. Eventually, he teams with detective Kate Beckett (Katic). Eventually, Montgomery's files are destroyed by Cole Maddox and Smith, and the man he sent them to is apparently killed, but Beckett is able to reconstruct enough of them to identify the man as Senator William Bracken. In Knockdown, episode 3.13, Beckett tells Castle Josh is in Africa "saving the world" and that he does not know about her homemade murder board of her mother's murder that she keeps hidden in her apartment. With this new evidence, Beckett is finally able to arrest Bracken as he announces on live TV his intention to run for president. He eventually becomes a Private Investigator in Season 7. However, after the events of "Always" his view softened, and he now argues that the first four seasons can be seen as a prologue to the interesting fireworks that come from a relationship between two such different people. Until then, his dad was yet another loved one who abandoned him. When Beckett finally contacts Castle at a book signing, clearly surprising him, he is at first bitter toward her for not contacting him and is reluctant to return. At the end of the episode, thanks to the influence of a politician, Beckett is reinstated back at the NYPD and Beckett explains that Police Commissioner knows about their engagement, and they are okay so long as the two remain professional at work. Later in the episode Beckett decides to announce their engagement to a newspaper to quell those rumors, claiming that she needs to accept his celebrity status, and if there is news about Castle then she wanted it to be the truth. She gives birth to their daughter, Sarah Grace Ryan, in the season six episode "Under Fire". "Castle"Season 5 (2012 - 2013)-----Episode 04"Murder, He Wrote"Original Air Date: October 15, 2012Castle and Becket. In two separate speeches, she tells Beckett that life is too short and uncertain to wait to make a move. He has Castle intervene to make sure that Beckett doesn't get herself killed as he sacrifices himself to save her. Castle refers to him as Doctor Motorcycle Boy. When Castle is shot trying to defuse a wrestle for the suspects gun, Beckett immediately rushes to Castle's aid, even though his 'Writer' vest saved him. Both good-naturedly poke fun at Beckett's obvious affection for her partner and consider Castle to be part of their team. After they arrest the aide, Smith sends him legal counsel, effectively stopping the investigation. He is a cardiac surgeon who, like Beckett, rides a motorcycle. While she came to respect the value of his unique perspective on crime, she remained frustrated with him on a personal level. While she has always liked and respected Beckett and supports a relationship between the two, in recent years their seemingly endless dance, and the emotional toll it's taken on her son, have caused her to begin to urge Castle to make a clear offer to her, and if she rejects, to move on. However, this time, Castle fails and walks away. Agent Jordan Shaw (Straight to the point, the first one that told Beckett about Castle's feelings) 7. On Castle's order, Esposito shoots Tyson in the abdomen, killing him. Castle and Beckett panic when Martha an Alexis come home early. Beckett is later ecstatic when Gates uses the situation to reinstate Castle. Beckett had come close to admitting her feelings for Castle several times. Castle's emotional isolation is less obvious but equally present. As Castle and Beckett on Castle, Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic have crazy chemistry. Working alongside Beckett gives Castle a new source of inspiration, and after assisting Beckett with the case, Castle takes the opportunity to use his knowledge and skills, and his close friendship with the Mayor, to stay on with the NYPD in a consulting capacity. The people in his life who he's really cared about have always abandoned him. ("Undead Again"). When an analyst in the attorney general's office discovers a redacted document called "Loksat" mentioning Bracken and passes it to Beckett's former A.G. team, the partner has the team killed, setting off an explosive chain of events that leads to Beckett and Castle visiting Bracken in prison separately.