Now knowing the name of the man who had her mother killed, Beckett approaches Bracken at a political fundraiser and convinces him to leave her alone, or else his secrets will become public. When he comes out of the barn, they immediately share a hug. Having met Martha Rodgers after finishing an assignment at the United Nations, he was forced to leave her without warning the next morning when things went south. Beckett expresses horror at the idea. Believing Castle was responsible for Beckett getting shot, he starts a fight with Castle, only to have Jim Beckett break up the fight. Huddled together and slowly dying of hypothermia, the two express the depth of their commitment to one another, and Beckett very nearly tells Castle that she loves him but passes out just before she can finish her sentence. In "Hell Hath No Fury", she explicitly advises Beckett to date Castle. Alexis begins dating a boy named Ashley in season three. [1] In the season seven finale "Hollander's Woods", an incident in Castle's past is revealed that had led to his ambition to become a writer. Though the mayor's career is effectively ended, Castle remains at the precinct. Eventually, she comes to refer to him as her partner, as if he were another officer, but tacitly acknowledging that the two are more than just friends. In Murder, He Wrote, Lanie tells both Esposito and Ryan while they are investigating who Beckett'snew boyfriend is, that Josh has been in the Amazon setting up free clinics for the last year. Montgomery sends files concerning that murder to a mystery man who later contacts Castle and tells him that those files are the leverage that Montgomery was using to keep himself, his family, and Beckett safe from the man who was behind everything. Her decision is also made because she remains unsure of what she and Castle have is truly real or not, where the relationship is ultimately heading and if all they fell in love with is just "the dance" the two have been in and fears what will happen "when the music stops". Beckett's jealousy at seeing Castle kissing her in the elevator is obvious but Natalie later reports that Castle is the first man who's ever turned her down. However, after Tyson is killed, Gates uses the situation to reinstate Castle, finally showing a full support of him and Beckett. Eventually, he teams with detective Kate Beckett (Katic). Castle's accusation in. In the fourth-season premiere, a critically injured Kate is brought to Josh's operating room after being shot in the heart. However, given the events that had just occurred, she tells Castle and Beckett to kiss rather than trying to stop them or keep them apart and shows respect for Castle risking his life to stay with Beckett. As he tells Richard when they meet for the first time as father and son, he has been checking in on Richard, Martha, and Alexis their whole lives. In "Nikki Heat", Beckett becomes jealous of superstar Natalie Rhodes, who is preparing to play Nikki Heat in the movie. Beckett then resigns, and Esposito refuses to talk to Ryan, just walking away as he tries to explain. 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. However, even as Beckett begins to entertain the possibility of a romance with her partner, Castle's own fears begin to take center stage. 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. "Always" is in many ways a reprise of "Knockdown". A divorce lawyer is found dead. Little is known about Ryan's family except that he grew up in the Bronx with an unknown number of sisters, only one of which has been named and seen in season seven, one of whom has a son, as Ryan makes reference to a nephew who loves the Captain Underpants book series. He makes his second appearance in the season six episode "Deep Cover", using the name Anderson Cross as part of a non-official cover on a delicate assignment to locate an Iranian intelligence officer code-named Gemini before Gemini can expose the CIA's deep-cover agents operating abroad. As Castle tries to make it up to her, he is inadvertently pulled back in by the suspect Beckett was looking for, only for the suspect to die. Although Castle walks away from the experience thinking his father was only using him and does not really care for him, his dad was later seen watching him and Martha. Dressed as Beckett and imitating her mannerisms, she's the next best thing to the real thing. 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. Castle asks Beckett about her recent trouble with her current boyfriend Josh and she says that Josh has been away a lot, and how she wants him to be there for her. In season six, she returns from Costa Rica with a boyfriend named Pi, and the two move in together some time later. He pointed out that the "Moonlighting curse" (where the show went visibly downhill after the two main characters became involved) stemmed from a variety of causes, on-screen and behind the scenes. Castle explains this, believing that he's gracefully stepping aside, but this crushes Kate, who waited too long and took an emotional risk for nothing. He is only partially successful; Hal Lockwood is dead, but another assassin shoots Beckett at Montgomery's funeral. In "Knockdown", Castle and Beckett finally kiss for the first time. In "Dial M for Mayor", she encourages Beckett to perform her duties objectively and dispassionately, stating her attitude in IA and Homicide was not because she hated police officers but because she works hard to hold people accountable so NYPD officers like her father, uncle, and subordinates can bear the cost of serving the people of New York free of corruption. 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, after recieving an offer to write 3 more Nikki Heat books, he continued to work with her. Over the years, Castle's serious and driven side has often emerged due to Beckett's influence, and the worst of his immaturity has faded. Afterwards it's revealed that Gates has known about the relationship but agrees to maintain plausible deniability as long as the two continue to behave professionally at work. She finally realizes that Castle is really gone for good. While he claims he will be gone for the summer, Beckett and the other detectives realize that this might be a permanent parting. Contents 1 Background 2 Season Two 3 Personality 4 Relationships 4.1 Family 4.2 Romances 4.3 Friends 5 Trivia 6 References 7 Gallery Background After six weeks, Castle surprises Beckett at her D.C. home and the two have a happy reunion. In Number One Fan, Beckett becomes frustrated by the fact the NYPD couldn't hire her back because budget cuts and reveals she has not been out of work since she was fifteen. Beckett eventually, under advice from her father, decides to take the job since it is what she knows she wants. Beckett is shocked but doesn't deny the truth of Rhodes's read of the situation. Apr. Nevertheless, Tyson successfully escapes even after he is confronted, overpowering Kevin Ryan and stealing his service weapon. She also learns that Bracken had ordered one of his contract killers to save her after Vulcan Simmonsthe figurehead for the ring and one of the original suspects in the murder of Johanna Beckettblows her cover, as a means of repaying his debt to her. Unlike with her last boyfriend, detective Tom Demming, this relationship takes not only Castle, but all of Beckett's colleagues at the precinct by surprise, since she never mentioned having a boyfriend prior to Josh's showing up at the precinct. Shaw later comments on Beckett's emotional isolation and tells her that Castle genuinely cares about her. She often helps Beckett's team by accessing and assessing the data on computers belonging to suspects and victims.[13]. The detectives, especially Beckett, feel snubbed, and she assumes that he didn't call because he doesn't really care about her. She says he's not so bad himself. He obliquely hints at both this and his knowledge that she lied to him. When he takes her on a tour of his house in the Hamptons, she is chilled by the thought of how many women must have also gotten the tour. She takes actions that she knows would eventually lead to Castle being thrown out by Gates. He is believed to have saved Montgomery's life, which convinces Montgomery that Smith is trustworthy. When one of the congressman's aides is killed, Ryan is driven to solve the crime - even to the extent of arresting his brother-in-law, risking a family rift. In the episode "Still", Gates reveals that she was aware that Castle and Beckett were in a relationship but tells them that she did not say anything in order to maintain her own plausible deniability, and she promises to continue her silence on the condition that the two be professional on the job. The new season opens moments after Beckett is shot and Castle has made his declaration of love for her. Gates accepted her help, knowing she was still the best homicide detective around, even without her badge. Alexis Castle has seen her father in many casual relationships, and now mostly avoids allowing herself to become invested in them. Agent Jordan Shaw (Straight to the point, the first one that told Beckett about Castle's feelings) 7. Castle is determined to save their marriage and as they are both still in love with each other, he keeps visiting Beckett at the precinct, believing that if they work a case together then they will get back together. Beckett catches Castle in a compromising situation. In "Knockout", Castle must choose between his relationship with Beckett and saving her life. The two have a tense relationship as years before, Gates had to bust a corrupt cop involved in one of Elizabeth's investigations despite Elizabeth's protests. It also states that Castle becomes a writer of serious literature. They are able to use his phone to find Beckett, who has killed Nieman and escaped. 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. With Bracken turning his attention to the presidency, he has Maddox try to retrieve Montgomery's evidence before going after Beckett. Martha often adopts highly theatrical gestures and body-movements in her day-to-day life. "After the Storm" opens with the morning right after Castle and Beckett's first big night together. Afterward, Beckett, Castle, Ryan, and Esposito agree to keep the truth about Montgomery's death a secret and he is buried as a hero. However, Beckett manages to give Castle the information needed to catch the killer, showing she still believed in the NYPD and Castle. Smith appears again in "Dial M for Mayor". She is kidnapped by an ex-KGB officer who previously crossed swords with her mysterious grandfather, but displays her father's resilience, deductive logic and skills during the encounter. After a few episodes, Alexis realizes that Pi is not the one for her and eventually breaks up with him. (Both Nathan Fillion and Executive Producer Andrew Marlowe have discussed this dynamic and its origins in detail. When Castle breaks out of custody and proves Tyson's involvement in the young woman's murder, Tyson confronts both him and Beckett on a bridge. Unusually mature and responsible for her age (notably a foil to Castle's immaturity), she is highly intelligent, academically motivated (she ends up attending Columbia University), and wise beyond her years. Her therapist has helped her understand why Castle is distancing himself from her, and she realizes that he's been throwing himself into empty relationships to protect himself emotionally. Alexis's social and interpersonal issues often parallel some aspect of the case Castle and Beckett are investigating. However, this time, Castle fails and walks away. Beckett, facing suspension for misconduct in her handling of the case, chooses to resign instead. In a conversation with Castle's stepmother Rita, Kate mentions that she cannot let LokSat go and needs to do something to find peace. That night during a heavy rainstorm, she returns to an initially resistant Castle desperate to say how sorry she is. He begins emergency surgery and operates on her until another doctor can take over for him and violently confronts Castle in the hospital waiting room, blaming him for Kate's injuries. Beckett's commitment is tested in "The Squab and the Quail" when she has to spend the night in a hotel room with billionaire Eric Vaughn. The reason behind the sudden death of the ABC hit crime series? In the season six episode, "Disciple", Castle suspected Tyson to be behind murdered doppelgangers of Lanie and Esposito and is proven right when it is discovered that the doppelgangers were used to steal all the 3XK files from police records. In season seven, Tyson and Nieman return after one of the latter's patients is found dead. Vaughn asks her if she's with Castle, and she replies with a yes. Bracken was blackmailing Montgomery and his friends for their mobster extortion scheme and their killing of FBI agent Arman, admits that he wrongly convicted Pulgatti for the killing, and states that he will have Pulgatti's "bitch lawyer Johanna Beckett" killed if she In "Eye of the Beholder", Beckett reluctantly encourages Castle to pursue a relationship with sexy insurance investigator Serena Kaye, but apart from some sparks flying between the two, he doesn't. Finally, in "The Limey", she lays her cards on the table. Beckett engages in a romantic cosplay with Castle, dressing as her favorite character from a long-cancelled science fiction show (and with a scary monster mask from the same show added for fun) ("The Final Frontier"). Beckett is forced to help save his life by thwarting the assassin, and Bracken acknowledges that he owes her his life before approaching the press and using the circumstances behind the episode to present himself as a politician willing to stand up against corrupt senators since the assassin was hired by his former mentors and consolidating public perception of him as a presidential candidate. Beckett's secret is that she heard Castle professing his love but pretended to have no memory of the event. Castle continues to pursue Beckett, while she still fends him off. 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. "Cops & Robbers" features some very meaningful looks when Beckett rescues Castle from a hostage situation at a bank, but again they do not explicitly acknowledge their feelings although they are more than clear. 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