Cool. Thanks, GhostWriter. I forgot that a lot of unexpected moms don't realize they're pregnant for weeks or months.

I just posted additional comments into a more appropriate thread. "Are you curious about Castle's father?" Perhaps it would be best to keep this thread about ep 13.

I caught that "bad boy" glance. I also loved the drug tasting. I had to replay that a few times. It was a great scene!

I just happened to look at a clip from season one, the pilot, and if you recall at the end of the pilot, Castle was a hostage there and he knocks his arm into the guy holding the gun and disables him and then Beckett arrests the guy, no problem.  I think that you can infer that in Sucker Punch, Castle thought he could do the same thing, hit the guy holding the gun and he'd be disabled.  But Coonan was a more seasoned gun handler and just getting hit didn't stun him or disarm him, so it didn't work this time and Beckett had to shot Coonan.  That could also explain the little implied communication between Beckett and Castle, the head shake from Castle and Beckett's look before Castle head butted the guy.  They both could have remembered the last time he was a hostage and how he'd managed to extricate himself.  

And then Castle felt bad because he thought he could handle that situation, but he didn't really factor into the calculation that Coonan was trained military.  Therefore he felt he overstepped causing Beckett to lose the person who could give her answers.  Until I saw that clip today, I had forgotten about that scene in the pilot.

Pamfromcalif writes:I noticed the bad boy glance over to Castle in the first viewing it's fast but effective because Castle is Beckett's bad boy.

Really? I don't think Castle is her bad boy but I do think she's been with some in her past.Castle is not the typical "bad boy".Remember she tells him to "butch up a little" before going into the Irish pub.

Castle just doesn't fit the "bad boy" profile that Molly is referring to.(I knew of his reputation before I started seeing him).If anything,I believe Castle has a rep as a playboy and ladies man but that's not what I think she ment by "bad boy" (hard loving,hard drinking,fighting leather jacket wearing motorcycle riding bad-ass sometimes a little on the outlaw side of life.The "badboys" your mother warns you about.From the wrong side of town sort of thing.)

I think Castle is the good guy every woman hopes she will run into after she is through with the "bad boys".

JMHO.

Maybe Castle is the closest to a bad boy Beckett's come up to, play boy, Castle likes to party hard he doesn't have to ride a motorcycle and wear a leather jacket to do that Just my OHO. I can just see Beckett's old bad boy coming back to town for an episode , from her college days or maybe when she first joined the dept. She kind of had her wild side moment just after her Mom's death just kidding!

One thing very important for Beckett in this episode is she now knows after ten years of agony and what if"s that her Mother's murder wasn't random a fluke thing. She never bought into that and this was what was eating at her. At least now she has some light at the end of the tunnel she knows there is more to this and that she at least got the trigger man hired, now she and Castle can try to go forward and piece together the rest of it and that means TOGETHER. Before Castle came along she was alone with her Mother's case placing it on a back burner in her mind, but on a front burner in her heart. When Castle tried to open it up in season 1 #10 she couldn't handle it. Then again in season 2 #1, we never know if he got to tell her about what he found because the writers slip over this important part of the case until Sucker Punch. So when Lanie comes to the station with Dr. Death and Castle remarks I know him. Beckett begins to get thinking and then with knifes and how the killer used a certain type, click she gets it. She is really a smart Det. and she doesn't miss a beat off of anyone.

Quoting Moby Dick " It's coming and there is no stopping the train." hmm should that be RAIN

That's a given, now all we have to do is figure out how the devious minds of the writer's will accomplish that.

Hey Moby perhaps you should rename yourself "white Whale" in deference to the glaring omission of the "Dick" in a previous episode

Cheers TBBW

Pam – One thing very important for Beckett in this episode is she now knows after ten years of agony and what if"s that her Mother's murder wasn't random a fluke thing.

Of course! Thanks's Pam, I hadn't really realized this yet, but that's an important side of this episode. The similar injuries of other suspects is one thing, but a hired assasin confessing to it, that's something else completely. And since it's not random, it's maybe not impossible to solve. It must have been very satisfying for Beckett to have that confirmed.

Moby – Wow,that's spot on unniw. I agree holehartedly with your assessment of that scene. It was one of my favorite btw.
The scene with Lanie and Dr.Clark whats his name was one of the best so far in this series in mho.
When beckett passed her hand over the picture while holding the knife you knew she got it at that moment.
Castle and Beckett are destined,no doubt about it.The dance continues as they become close enough to be physically intimate. It's coming and there is no stopping the train.

Thanks Moby! I loved that hand over the picture too. Kudos to the director of photography or whoever was responsible for that shot. I think that was the most moving part of the whole episode. Like she was reaching for her mom (and my heart brakes again – must repair it with end scene of ep ).

Moby Dick said "Still one of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite episodes

Still the only scene that he has held her that close that long.

Yep now that i think of it, it is the only scene that i can bring to mind.

Though i must say that the first dip Beckett did was a weird one, what's with that out flung hand ? she reaching for a coffee or that vodka she ordered.

You have to feel sorry for the ladies who have to hold that awkward position for that time, and then strain the back to get upright again

I think i am in love again, Alexis just has to marry me I will mark time for the next 35 years so she can catch up

To Tsurwolf My take when they were dancing was that he wanted to have a closer look at the woman asking questions about Alexis so he did the little swirl thing with Beckett so that she could look at the woman without actually looking like she was looking thus her hand goes out like they are doing a fancy dance routine. It was cute actually then he brings her back in close to him before he takes another look and has her do the dip. Once he sees the jewel thief talking to the woman he forgets he has Beckett in the dip stage. I love that they danced I am hopeful for a policeman's ball so they can dance again and for longer this time around and as a couple dating each other not other people, no undercover stuff just right out in the open dance lust lol!

To unniw

Those are impressive numbers, I didn't even notice how many views for the topics of late been to much fun talking and discussing the episodes with everyone here to think about what's going on outside my box lol! It makes the time pass by quicker for me when I can discuss the only show I watch prime time (until Lost returns) that I can talk with other people who enjoy it and it's cast as much as I do without bugging non Castle people to death with characters they have no interest in. It is also fun to see how far off the mark we are with what will happen in the next new episode or if we get some of it right.

I LIKED math in school but math has never loved me, one of my poor subjects!