Castle (TV series)/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

*** Not to mention that he's proven a pretty good consultant, a source of good connections in various cases, and willing to spend his own dime to help the department, whether it is to solve a crime or get them a new espresso machine - and he does all this free of charge. The department has a pretty good deal, all things considered. Usually consultants expect to be paid.

** As a troper in the WMG section pointed out, the premise of ''Castle'' isn't that different from the real-life TV show ''[[Cops]]''.

** Beckett's pretty clearly a special detective. She's been mentored by Montgomery for most of her career and is in charge of two other detectives, leading serious investigations. Her strength is in dogged pursuit. Castle? He's an outside the box thinker. As [[The Usual Suspects|Verbal Kint]] put it, "To a cop the explanation is never that complicated. It's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right." Castle's all about mystery and arch criminals. Thus he's the perfect foil for a dogged, by the book cop. She thinks literally, he laterally. Plus, they're totally hot for each other.

** FWIW later seasons have [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]] this by having Castle be introduced to people by Beckett and the other police detectives as a 'consultant', the implication that he's now not ''just'' a writer doing research but is being retained by the department in a semi-official capacity to consult on the cases.