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* [[Epiphany Comeback]]: Played with; Beckett's fight with the sniper who shot her in "Always" certainly triggers an epiphany -- {{spoiler|but it's got nothing to do with winning the fight. Indeed, she gets her ass kicked. The epiphany is instead about how she is in love with Castle and doesn't want to throw her life away chasing her mother's murderer, but wants to make a life with him.}}
* [[Eureka Moment]]:
** Usually with Castle, and usually inspired by his daughter. In several cases, Castle and Beckett have had a Eureka Moment at the exact same time, or almost the exact same time, which [[Shipper Onon Deck|Lanie]] later comments on, saying how cute it is that they finish each other sentences. [[Lampshade Hanging|Hell, even Esposito and Ryan notice that they do it often.]] [[Heterosexual Life Partners|But then, they'd know.]]
** Lampshaded again in "3xk" when Beckett calls Castle. He notes that usually he gets a call because they (the police) have news but this time, there is no updates and he thinks she's calling because he might have had one of these. The scene just prior to this one is a [[Red Herring]] [[Eureka Moment]] to boot.
** The trope is often parodied/deconstructed in that Castle will usually make several wild, obviously incorrect guesses before the right one. Sometimes, they'll even come across a strange piece of evidence that seems to agree with one of his wild guesses before a rational explanation can be found.
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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 [[DoctorDr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video)|Dr. Horrible]] [[Shout-Out]].
* [[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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** 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 Thethe 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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** In "Boom!" Castle sees through a trap that fools the other FBI agents and police officers. Why? Because that's how he would write it.
** A [[Smug Snake]] who narrates each section of his interrogation rather than answering questions.
** In "Cops and Robbers" Castle uses his skills and love of ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' to get information about the bank hostage situation.
** Beckett called Castle about the case in the hopes it would lead to a [[Eureka Moment]] because she was stumped and three-quarters into the episode. Castle in the same scene because he calls her out on it. Borders on [[Lampshade Hanging]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
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** Jacinda, the blonde flight attendant Castle meets on his way back from Las Vegas, {{spoiler|after discovering that Kate knows what he feels for her but kept silent about it.}}
** Averted in "Love Me Dead", where a call girl tries to be the [[Girl of the Week]] but is rebuffed by Castle.
* [[Girl Show Ghetto]]: [[In -Universe]]. Castle is ''not'' happy about having to read and review a [[Chick Lit]] novel written by one of his mother's friends.
** It seemed, in the episode, to be less about the genre than it was about being a writer asked (most likely ''again'') to review someone's book, as well as the size of the thing (which looked to be well over 800 pages); [[Fridge Brilliance|a common point of contention from established and well-known writers]] is that being bombarded with requests from first-time novelists to read their novel and 'tell me what you think' gets old ''quick''.
* [[The Ghost]]:
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* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEpxa6EXrOw For][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRN5GEbngk each] [http://youtu.be/uej8JbkV1kE season.]
* [[His Name Is]]: {{spoiler|In "Knockdown", John Raglan -- the lead detective on Beckett's mother's murder -- arranges to meet Beckett to pass on important information about her mother's case. Naturally, [[Cannot Spit It Out|he rambles a bit before revealing all]], giving the sniper in a nearby building enough time to shoot and kill Raglan before he can pass the information on.}}
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]
** Called by name in the episode "Pretty Dead".
** A tragic one in "47 Seconds". The bomb had been planted by one of the leaders of the TakeOver Wall Street movement, in collaboration with a TV reporter. The idea was that the explosion would gather further support for the move, but it was going to happen somewhere where it would not cause victims, while the TV reporter would activate it in the perfect moment to have a chance to improve her position. However, a pickpocketer took the bag where the bomb was in and moved it somewhere else, and the leader tried to call the reporter, but she was distracted and activated the bomb. The leader took the explosion head on.
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* [[How We Got Here]]: What Beckett and Castle have to figure out when they wake up handcuffed together and [[Locked in Aa Room]] in "Cuffed". The flashbacks are [[Justified Trope|justified]] via the fact they've been drugged and have hazy memories.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Castle says to his daughter that she shouldn't be at her boyfriend's beck and call, then right in the middle of this speech, he gets a call from Beckett, and heads out immediately.
** [[UST|Castle and Beckett]] talking about [[Make Up or Break Up|Esposito and Lanie]]. Break out the [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]].
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{{quote| '''Beckett''': I need to go. Over there. ''[Points at random and scurries off]''.}}
* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]: Used to implicate {{spoiler|the killer of both the [[Body of the Week]] and Beckett's mother}} in "Sucker Punch." {{spoiler|It's only realized belatedly, and it goes by so quickly that it's understandable why they didn't catch it when it actually happened.}}
* [[I Was Young and Needed Thethe Money]]: Beckett on her brief career as a teenage model.
* [[Impersonating an Officer]]: The only thing Castle doesn't get to do is actually make arrests.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in "The Third Man" when Castle, in [[Eureka Moment]] over-eagerness, calls up a newspaper requesting subscriber information, only to falter when they ask him who he actually is and why, y'know, he wants this information, at which point he promptly hands the phone to Beckett:
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{{quote| '''Castle''':"Somebody hated his guts."}}
** From "When the Bough Breaks":
{{quote| '''Castle''': "I almost bought a Russian bride once. You know, a [[Chess (Tabletop Game)|Czech-mate]]?"}}
** In "Vampire Weekend", Castle is dressed up like [[Edgar Allan Poe]] carrying a raven. Beckett manages to successfully scare Castle.
{{quote| '''Castle''': "I'm giving you the bird"}}
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{{quote| '''Castle''': What turned you off; the fact that he was wearing a rug? ''[Beckett gives him a look]'' [[Too Soon]]?}}
** One memorable lame pun in "Food to Die For" includes Castle (after [[Evil Laugh|laughing like a maniac]]) realizes that he's late for his date with [[Girl of the Week|Madison]] and accidentally drops his watch into a bowl of liquid nitrogen.
{{quote| ''Castle''': "Hey look. [[DoctorDr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video)|I froze time.]]"}}
** In "Slice of Death," after finding a body in a pizza oven.
{{quote| ''Capt. Montgomery'': "I didn't want to tell [my wife] that [her favorite pizza] now came in full-bodied flavor."}}
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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 for Aa Book]]: Pretty much the excuse for Castle to get to hang around and investigate murders.
** 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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[Ryan and Esposito get moving] }}
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Late in season three, the gang are chasing the guy who killed Beckett's mentor. After shooting one of the guy's involved (not fatally) Ryan and Esposito question him about the situation, threatening not to call 911 until he spills. Then Esposito shoves the still hot barrel of his gun into one of the bullet wounds.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]:
** Castle often comes off as a typically self-centered, thoughtless and narcissistic playboy, but he deeply loves his daughter and his mother, and is revealed to have [[Hidden Depths]] of caring and niceness. While he's not shy about flirting with Beckett it's also made abundantly clear that he genuinely cares for and respects her rather than simply viewing her as a potential conquest.
** Mark Fallon comes off as a total douche who is quick to use harsh interrogation methods and resort to racial profiling, but the other characters see that he only does those to get his job done as quick and as right as possible, a job which Castle thinks is extremely harsh given that Fallon has to do it every day. His [[Freudian Excuse]] for the racial profiling is because his wife died in 9/11.
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** Beckett calls Esposito "Javi" when {{spoiler|he's confronting her about her sniper issues}}. She calls him "Javi" again after {{spoiler|she nearly dies at the bottom of the Hudson River and gets saved by Castle shooting down her seatbelt and the windows in the last second.}}
* [[The Law of Conservation of Detail]]: In "47 Seconds", the characters are inundated with an overabundance of detail. Trope averted, because while most of it does not reach the viewer, enough irrelevant material appears to give the viewer the sense of information overload.
* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: In "The Late Shaft," Castle lampshades the show's tagline, often seen in the promos,
{{quote| '''Castle''': "We should have a signature line. She's armed, he's dangerous! Or how about 'A new chapter in crime solving.'" }}
** The end of Season 2:
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* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]: Beckett in "Always." Results in a [[Take My Hand]].
* [[Loan Shark]]: Several murder suspects throughout the series, most of them [[Red Herring|red herrings]] who quickly point out that it's hard to get new customers with that kind of reputation, and even harder to get money from a dead man. Sometimes subverted in that their debtors paid them back in full, often leading to new clues if they were able to get a lot of money in a short time.
* [[Locked in Aa Freezer]]: {{spoiler|Castle and Beckett at the end of "Setup".}}
* [[Locked in Aa 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-Distance Relationship]]: The prospect of one (he wants to go to Stanford, leaving her behind in New York for her senior year) causes Alexis and Ashley to have many a crisis. {{spoiler|First, she breaks up with him. Then, they get back together with Alexis deciding to graduate early so she can go to Stanford with him. However, when her application to Stanform is rejected, although they try the [[Long-Distance Relationship]] route, the time differences and lack of time together ultimately ends with Alexis breaking up with him again.}}
** And ''now'' {{spoiler|Alexis is reconsidering her decision}}...
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{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Beckett'''}}: {{spoiler|[My mother's killer] got away, and I didn't care. I almost died, and the only thing I could think about was you.}}}}
** What? No mention of Castle's previous?: {{spoiler|Because of everything we've been through together! Four years I've been right here! Four years just waiting for you to open your eyes to see that I'm right here! And that I'm more than a partner... Every morning I bring a cup of coffee just so that I can see a smile on your face because I think you are the most... Remarkable... Maddening... Challenging... Frustrating person I've ever met... And I love you Kate and... if that means anything to you, if you care about me at all, just don't do this}}
* [[Lying to Thethe Perp]]: ...and ends by the tried and true "Divide and lie about the other one cracking" method.
** Beckett also lied to a car part fencer to get info out of him in "Setup". Except that it turned out that her bluff was true; the fencer ''had'' actually seen someone there, and assumed it was the "witness" Beckett referred to.
** Interesting twist in "To Love And Die in L.A.": They don't have jurisdiction in Los Angeles. But they can use the actors playing the detectives in the ''Heat Wave'' movie, a prop police car, and a set of an interrogation room to make a perp ''believe'' that they do.
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