He obliquely hints at both this and his knowledge that she lied to him. In the end, Beckett chooses not to accept Sophia's version of events and continues to believe in Castle instead. Beckett crawls along the floor to Castle and collapses. Beckett's initial relationship with Castle was strained because she viewed him as immature and reckless. Castle (season 2) Castle. Beckett is annoyed and amused that he can't put aside his obsession with solving cases for their romantic getaway, but as time goes on, she is similarly drawn in. ET. After a few episodes, Alexis realizes that Pi is not the one for her and eventually breaks up with him. 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. She explains that she's "gotten used to you pulling my pigtails" and that he's made her job more fun. She responds by telling him that she's been in therapy for her emotional distance issues and is nearly ready to have the kind of relationships she wants to have. The great Castle-Beckett Saga will continue next season Castle's fourth as our fave writer and fave detective inch closer and closer to a real relationship. Montgomery had given it to Johanna Beckett before she was killed and in his first meeting with Kate Beckett, had tried to hint to her to look for cassette tapes for clues. Ryan takes on extra jobs out of hours offering private security. After Castle quits, Beckett and Esposito try to catch the killer by themselves, which causes Ryan to make the painful choice to tell Gates about the secret investigation. 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. In "Murder, He Wrote"; Ryan finally succeeds when interrogating a suspect who had run into Castle and Beckett while the two were on a secret romantic getaway. As a cover, Beckett claims to be involved with an unnamed mystery man. In "Death Wish", Jenny gives birth to their second child, Nicholas Javier Ryan. Overview. Similarly, she might have enjoyed being pursued by Castle because it flattered her ego, even as she realized that he would not be a good match for her to actually be with. However, Beckett manages to give Castle the information needed to catch the killer, showing she still believed in the NYPD and Castle. Bracken plays a pivotal role in the season six episode "In the Belly of the Beast", when Beckett is recruited to a risky undercover operation to infiltrate a drug ring and investigate a connection between the ring and the Russian mafia in a bid to identify the kingpin, known only as Lazarus. As always, Castle pursues a relationship with Beckett, while she continues to fend him off. In season eight, Esposito and Ryan both take the sergeant's exam; although Esposito passed (and Ryan didn't), he is number 279 out of 300, which means his promotion will not be coming anytime soon. Until then, his dad was yet another loved one who abandoned him. Senator William Bracken (Jack Coleman) also The Dragon or Lazarus is a United States senator with aspirations of becoming President. 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. Castle was a big boy though so she really wasn't worried about him. However, Alexis doesn't want him to leave because the statistics for high school sweethearts staying together is low when one of them goes to college. 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." She also asks Castle to give her a few days to get things back together. Captain Victoria Gates (Penny Johnson Jerald) (seasons 47)[10] is Montgomery's replacement as captain of the 12th Precinct. However it is revealed by Beckett to Castle later in the episode that she broke up with him because Josh simply wasn't enough 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. Realizing that he's lost, and Demming has won, Castle ends the partnership on the pretext that he needs to finish his book. Castle has been pursuing Beckett sexually since the pilot, but he's also been reluctant to admit to having real feelings for her. As Carla said, it's not his secret to tell and he'll support his friends by keeping his mouth. While she came to respect the value of his unique perspective on crime, she remained frustrated with him on a personal level. He was disappointed when Ryan felt obliged to ask his fiance's brother to be his best man instead of him. Smith appears again in "Dial M for Mayor". When Beckett is kidnapped by Tyson and his girlfriend, Doctor Kelly Neiman, Castle works desperately to save Beckett. She says he's not so bad himself. She's a glamorous and highly skilled CIA agent, a former muse of Castle, the inspiration for Clara Strike from his Derrick Storm novels. Believing Castle was responsible for Beckett getting shot, he starts a fight with Castle, only to have Jim Beckett break up the fight. In her room, she collects herself and goes back out to talk to him, but he's already gone to bed. Josh Davidson is Detective Kate Beckett's ex-boyfriend from Season 3. Despite being an unseen character until the season five premiere, "After the Storm", Bracken is directly responsible for one of the major events tied to the series's lore: the murder of Johanna Beckett. 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. In season eight, Beckett is promoted to captain and made commanding officer of the 12th Precinct. To save her, he allows himself to be captured by Tyson, drawing him out into the open and allowing Esposito to finally kill Tyson with a sniper rifle. At the end of "Knockout", Beckett is shot by a third assassin, Cole Maddox, who was again hired by Bracken. In the fourth-season premiere, a critically injured Kate is brought to Josh's operating room after being shot in the heart. This shows Castle is willing to compromise for Beckett as she was both shocked and delighted by this gesture. In which Castle and Beckett finally make it to the Hamptons, but can't let go of their crime-solving addiction. 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". 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. However, the flirtation is now two-way, and there are signs that she sees Castle as more than just a friend. In Deep Cover, Beckett and Castle tried to pick out a date for their wedding, and things gotten complicated when Beckett finds out that Anderson Cross looked like the guy in the sketch from the previous case and is Castle's father. 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. Knowing their identities and aware that any attempt to prosecute the officers would be futile as he had no evidence, Bracken blackmailed the officers and used the ransom money to fund his political career. Season five marks a time when Beckett struggles with her fears about Castle. He is later directly responsible for the events of "Kick the Ballistics" when he hands Ryan's weapon to an enemy under the guise of friendship, knowing that the man will use the gun in a future crime and attract the attention of Beckett and her team. 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 Police divers are unable to recover his body and he is formally listed as missing and presumed to be dead. Lanie had warned that Castle wouldn't wait forever for Beckett, and now it seems she has finally chosen to act too late. After pressing charges against Castle, Tyson and Nieman drop off the grid. Even then, he decides to only tell Esposito, and the two decide to keep Beckett and Castle's romantic relationship a secret as well, unless they absolutely must reveal it. Despite being a "good-on-paper" boyfriend, Beckett ultimately breaks up with him because of her unresolved feelings toward Castle in the season two finale. Castle is shown to have grown to consider her a friend as she attends his Poe's Pen Award ceremony in Hollanders Woods and dedicates the award to her as well as his other friends. Beckett predicts that the next time they meet, all bets are off. As the series progresses, Tyson refines his methods by studying the police response and adapting accordingly. Formerly with Internal Affairs, Gates, known to some as "Iron Gates", is more interested in career advancement and the reputation of the precinct, and by extension, the NYPD, than in the finer points of interpersonal dynamics, making decisions based on the political impact that they would have. Tory Ellis (Maya Stojan) is an officer in the NYPD's Crime Scene Unit who specializes in technical analysis. After fighting with Maddox on the roof of a building, Beckett is saved by Ryan and Gates (whom Ryan had warned). Castle and Beckett make the connection between Raglan and McAllister and arrest McAllister before he can be killed. When Kevin Ryan marries Jenny, the episode ends with Castle and Beckett going to the wedding as a couple and closes with the two walking down the aisle towards their seats ("Till Death Do Us Part"). Beckett then develops a romance with a handsome young detective, Tom Demming. 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. It turns out that Beckett had the evidence she needed all along to arrest Bracken because Johanna had hidden it in her elephant figurines, which Beckett keeps on her desk. This time, he finally reveals his own dirty secret; he has participated in the cover-up to protect her. The following are the medals and service awards worn by Detective Ryan, as seen in "Knockout" and "Rise". 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Initially finding Castle to be quite annoying, Beckett gradually warms to him as they work together to solve murder mysteries, utilizing his imagination and insight into a killer's mind and her authority and position within the police department. In the series, Fillion plays Castle, a mystery writer who gains access to the NYPD and joins investigations for his work. In "A Rose for Everafter", Castle reunites with an old flame. 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"). His exact relationship to Montgomery remains unknown, and there has been no explanation of how he came to be in a position to stop the conspiracy from harming Beckett. However, Bracken was unable to kill her because Smith forced him to back down. After Beckett survives the surgery, Castle sees Josh and realizes the seriousness of Beckett's relationship with Josh and doesn't want to get in the way. 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. You're Dead". Murphy Was An Optimist By: RGoodfellow64. Beckett had expecting him to argue with her, and has second thoughts, but holds her ground. [7] In the season one episode "Little Girl Lost", Ryan is revealed to have a new girlfriend named Jenny; she is often mentioned, and routinely calls him to check up on him, but her first appearance comes in "The Mistress Always Spanks Twice", where she was portrayed by Dever's real-life wife, Juliana. When Jerry Tyson comes back, Gates reluctantly allows Castle to help, specifying that it will just one time. Castle and Demming often had a rivalry and tried to outdo each other for Beckett's attention. An alleged feud between leading stars Nathan Fillion and Stana. 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 the season 7 episode "At Close Range", he takes a job with his brother-in-law, Frank Kelly, protecting a US congressman. Martha Rodgers often gives romantic advice to her son. 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. Castle has tapped Victor Webster to play the new boyfriend of Beckett ( Stana Katic ), a show rep says. In Mr. & Mrs. Castle Beckett and Castle get back together, although they choose to hide their relationship from everyone else and keep it a secret, including Esposito and Ryan. With the mayor out of office, Victoria Gates's first act would be to have Castle removed from the 12th Precinct, and without Castle, Beckett would have no protection against her mother's killers. His love life and the fact he is in nearly-constant communication with his girlfriend/fiancee makes him subject to much teasing from his partner, so when Esposito begins dating Lanie, he relished turning the tables on his friend. Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Rick C., Kate B., Josh D., T. Demming - Chapters: 4 - Words: 19,598 - Reviews: 136 - Favs: 109 . In season six, she returns from Costa Rica with a boyfriend named Pi, and the two move in together some time later. Javier Esposito (Jon Huertas) is a bilingual (English and Spanish) detective who works in the homicide division with his partner, Kevin Ryan, as part of Beckett's team. Smith later attempted to turn one of Bracken's employees, Jason Marks, but Vulcan Simmons killed him before that could happen. However, this time, Castle fails and walks away. The first major turning point in their relationship was in "Sucker Punch", when Castle spent $100,000 of his own money to catch the hitman who killed her mother. Martha often adopts highly theatrical gestures and body-movements in her day-to-day life. Castle helps her deduce where the tape is, and it reveals (then Assistant D.A.) Even though Beckett does date (and subsequently break up with) several different men during her partnership with Castle, she eventually develops feelings for him, though she is reluctant to acknowledge them openly to anyone. 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. Her transformation was also physical, as we saw the . 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. She later comforts him over the incident, and he dedicates his Poe's Pen Award to her and his friends at the precinct. This allowed Bracken to distance himself from the crime and continue with his political ambitions. 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 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 "3XK", Castle is left in a hotel room tied to a chair by a serial killer (Jerry Tyson). He secretly pursues the case himself, in her stead. In Hollanders Woods, Beckett learns the truth about why Castle is so interested in murder mysteries but is initially skeptical when he identifies a psychiatrist as the serial killer just based on his voice. He is intrigued by this new window into crime and murder, and uses his connection with the mayor to charm his way into shadowing Detective Kate . Beckett Teases Castle at the End of the Pilot - "Flowers for Your Grave". Castle himself notices this several times. With Montgomery's tape, she is finally able to arrest Bracken for the murder of her mother as he gives a live interview in which he announces his intention to run for president. He strongly encouraged Beckett to make a move with Castle in "A Deadly Game". 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. Which, once again, would have been interesting had the writers chosen to pursue it. 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. Instead, Castle gets on one knee and displays a ring and asks her, "Katherine Houghton Beckett, will you marry me?" 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. In season eight, when he learns that Jenny is once again pregnant and seeing both Beckett and Gates promoted, Ryan and Esposito both take the sergeant's exam. Bracken's influence is again felt in "Knockdown", when John Raglan approaches Kate Beckett looking to clear his conscience when faced with his own imminent death from cancer. 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