Murder most cool
Castle’s coolest, creepiest mystery corpses are keeping the author and his cop partner Beckett on their toes!
There’s nothing that stimulates the imagination of crime fiction author Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) more than a bizarre murder. A flashback in the season 7 finale of Castle (20092016, the full series can be found on Showmax) reveals Richard’s first corpse encounter when he was 11 and found a body in the woods with ritualistic markings carved into its face. Thirty years later, Castle is thrilled to team up with NYPD Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) to investigate a copycat killer who bases murders on Castle’s novels. It’s a match made in heaven… and the morgue. “He wouldn’t be interested in your garden-variety murder because he knows the story,” says series creator and executive producer Andrew W Marlowe. “We are looking for mysteries that have more of a layer, something that will capture his imagination as a writer.” Like these four…
ICE MAIDEN (season 1 episode 5)
The corpse of a beautiful woman in a white nightgown is found frozen solid and tangled in the iron bars at a building site. While she was freshly frozen, Castle’s investigating reveals that “his” new victim had been missing for the past five years, forcing the police to re- open a cold case (it’s Castle – there will be puns). This is the first case that gets Beckett to open up to Castle about her mother’s murder that plays out throughout the show.
MUMMY’S CURSE (season 2 episode 19)
A museum curator’s head being smashed in like a juicy ripe tomato by a falling concrete gargoyle is just the start of this wild ride! Turns out, anyone dying in this episode is linked an expedition that brought back the mummified remains of a Mayan king to put on display at the museum. The case gets creepier when a graduate student working on the project is found mummified.
STEAMPUNK (season 3 episode 4)
The police are baffled when they pull a bullet from a corpse and realise that it could only have been fired from an antique gun. In the hilarity that follows, Castle investigates a secret duelling ritual at a private steampunk society. The Castle costume department goes all-out as they dress the dapper novelist up like a crazed Victorian gentleman-adventurer-engineer.
THE WRITER DID IT (season 5 episode 5)
Did Castle drug and strangle a young woman to death before stringing her up in her apartment using barbed wire and carve a symbol into her forehead? All clues point to yes, including emails proving that they were having an affair, Castle’s fingerprints on her doorknob and a piece of jewellery owned by the victim but bought by Castle. And, oh yeah – there’s a “deleted” file on Castle’s computer hard drive that describes the murder in detail. And just wait till the cops search his apartment!
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