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** This extends to Federal Agent Mark Fallon, who said that when he first met Castle and Beckett, he thought they were together.
** Mike Royce, Beckett's old training officer wrote a letter to her saying {{spoiler|"It's clear you and Castle have something real"}}, which she read at the end of the episode "To Love and Die in L.A.".
** [[Word of God|Andrew Marlowe]] has mentioned in an interview that in the conversation where {{spoiler|[[Off
** And after a week of trying to woo him, art "recovery" expert Serena Kaye sees it, too:
{{quote| '''Serena''': It's like I said: I don't steal things that belong to someone else.}}
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* [[Evil Laugh]]:
** Castle tries one in "Vampire Weekend", but then breaks into a coughing fit.
** He does it again successfully in "Food to Die For," complete with a [[Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video)|Dr. Horrible]] [[Shout
* [[Evil Plan]]: Each episode is driven by a murder caused by the criminal of the week. On a bigger scale, unraveling the one that killed Beckett's mother ties the seasons together.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: The drug dealer they suspect of having a hand in the death of Beckett's mother in the third season. Like wow.
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** Lampshaded in "To Love and Die in LA" when the directer of the Nikki Heat movie tells Beckett she could be an actress.
* [[Fake American]]: Both lead characters are played by Canadian actors.
* [[Fake
* [[False
* [[Fandom Nod]]: "One Life to Lose" is partially about the rabid shipping community surrounding a fictional soap opera. Many a [[Portmanteau Couple Name]] is used.
* [[Fauxreigner]]:
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** In "Rise", Beckett freezes and has a minor panic attack when a suspect points a gun at her. This foreshadows the full-blown PTSD breakdown she experiences in "Kill Shot".
** Of all things, the blurb on Castle's website for ''[http://www.richardcastle.net/books?page=3 Storm Fall]'' foreshadows "Linchpin": {{spoiler|specifically, the bit where it suggests that Agent Clara Strike, the character based on Sophia Turner, might have gone rogue...}}
* [[Found the Killer, Lost The Murderer]]: This happens {{spoiler|not once, not twice, but ''three times''}} with Becket's mother's murderer. {{spoiler|The first time, Castle and Beckett find the man who murdered Beckett's mother and learn that he's a hired killer, but Beckett has to shoot him in order to get Castle out of a hostage situation. The second time, Beckett manages to capture another hired killer, a sniper, who was hired by the same person(s) who ordered her mother's murder. This sniper is still alive by the end of the episode, but indicates with a stone-faced glare that he'll never inform on his clients. The third time involves a key person involved(really, really complicated) with her mother's murder- '''''Captain Montgomery!''''' She gets to talk to him uninterrupted, and he knows who the mastermind behind the conspiracy is, but [[Subverted Trope|refuses]] to [[His Name Is|say the name]] anyway, saying that [[Do We Have This One?|the mastermind is so rich and powerful]] that giving her his name would get her killed as certainly as if he'd shot her himself. He dies minutes later. Beckett manages to get out of that scrape alive, but is shot during his funeral, presumably by the people from whom he was trying to protect her.}}
* [[Funny Background Event]]: While on the set for Naked Heat, some nuns with guns can be seen in the background.
* [[Freudian Slip]]: In "The Blue Butterfly" Castle is narrating a scene from an old diary of a tryst between private detective Joe and gun moll Vera. Picturing Vera as Beckett and Joe as himself, he accidentally refers to her as Kate. He insists that he actually said "[[Verbal Backspace|fate]]."
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{{quote| "I'm just saying -- whoever murdered her also murdered the English language"}}
** In "The Third Man," even after complimenting Ryan on the correct use of irony, he uses "you and I" in the predicate of the next sentence.
* [[Green
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: In "Eye of the Beholder", Beckett spends most of the episode seething with badly-concealed jealousy over Serena Kaye's obvious interest in Castle.
** After [[Romantic False Lead|Demming]] shows up, Castle is stuck in a very bad mood.
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** Averted in "Deep in Death", "Love Me Dead" and others, where Castle's status as a civilian actually ''helps'' him.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Beckett quips in "3xk" that Castle's job is menial and unimportant. He quips back that "Just for that, my next book will be about Esposito." Beckett gets a rather shocked look on her face.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Castle in "Boom!" {{spoiler|When complimented on shooting the gun out of the perp's hand, he says, "[[Shout
** It was established in an earlier episode (See [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], below) that Castle ''is'' a very good shot with a handgun, at least when shooting at paper targets.
** Averted in "Punked", wherein one of the big reasons they know the person who thinks he murdered the vic didn't do it is because the flintlock guns they used in their duel were hilariously inaccurate. Castle, Beckett, and a teed-off officer use every steadying method in the book, and even a laser sight, but not one bullet hit the targets they aimed for (one did knock off the number of the aforementioned officer's target, which is why he got involved).
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'''Beckett:''' She's an uncooperative, cocky, ''stubborn'' know-it-all. }}
* [[Irrevocable Order]]: At the end of the third season of, a major blow is dealt to {{spoiler|whoever ordered Beckett's mother}} killed when his favorite hired gun is killed. The one who did that killing sent off a bunch of info to a fourth party so that there would be no retaliation against {{spoiler|Beckett}}. Unfortunately, that mail arrived too late to prevent a sniper taking a shot at her.
* [[
** It's invoked by Castle to get info from the bad guys in episodes "Home is Where the Heart Stops" and "Deep in Death".
* [[It's Personal]]: In "Kick The Ballistics", it's discovered that the gun used in the murder of a college student was the same gun that the 3XK Killer stole from Ryan in the previous season. When he learns this, Ryan takes it hard.
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{{quote| '''Castle:''' "Why am I ''narrating''?"}}
** In "A Deadly Affair", Castle doesn't appear until well into the first segment of the show. Characters, commenting on his absence, suddenly see... a cardboard standee of him, with the label "coming soon" on the front.
* [[Let Me Get This Straight...]]: Quoted almost word for word by Beckett when a psychic comes into the office, claiming to know who is responsible for a murder.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The show is something of a throwback to the romantic comedy detective genre ala ''[[Moonlighting]]''. For that matter, the first season is considerably darker than the second and third season; several of the perpetrators in the first season had understandable motives, mental and emotional breakdowns, or sympathetic backgrounds.
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: This observation has been made about Castle and Beckett.
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* [[Locked in A Freezer]]: {{spoiler|Castle and Beckett at the end of "Setup".}}
* [[Locked in A Room]]: And [[Chained Heat|handcuffed together]] in "Cuffed". [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in a parallel conversation in which Esposito explains to Ryan that canoeing is often used by women as a relationship test by putting two people together in a small space where there's no escape, allowing them to address issues with their relationships and test their ability to work together.
* [[Long
** And ''now'' {{spoiler|Alexis is reconsidering her decision}}...
* [[Lunacy]]: "The Double Down" opens with the station being flooded by crazies on the night of a full moon. And Castle sitting at Beckett's desk with [[Pass the Popcorn|a bowl of popcorn.]]
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