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Castle: What's Going on Here?

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Written by April Yorke   
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 10:28

CastleLast week on Castle, we unexpectedly got a clue about Beckett's mother's killer: we met him. Unfortunately, he was a hired gun (hired knife?). Who was behind hiring the assassin remains a mystery as that man is now dead, but we did learn that the hirer is a) a man who is b) powerful ("You'll never touch him," being the exact words the killer used). Also, knowing that it was a hired hit means that her mother must have had power over this powerful man for whatever reason (probably damaging information of some kind). I was taken aback by the positioning of this episode. I always knew we would come back to this murder, but it's not sweeps, and I don't remember the episode as being heavily advertised. How odd that the show just dropped this one our laps out of nowhere. Nonetheless, the Captain gave Beckett permission to pick her mother's case back up if she felt up to it, and, in the end, that's exactly what Beckett decided to do. 

Imagine how surprising it was this week when nothing at all was mentioned about Beckett's mom's case. No reference to forensic accountants digging through the assassin's Camayan account, no files dusted off, no suspect list of powerful men to which Momma B was connected. Just . . . nothing. Instead we get another murder of the week, and, good though it was, it was so strange not to give us even a throwaway line to let us know that last week wasn't a mass hallucination. What's going on here? ABC lists the next episode as a rerun, and IMDb claims that the next two episodes will air on February 8th and March 8th. The show will always be a procedural first and foremost (one in which the audience generally picks up on important clues about 10 minutes before the characters do), but it wouldn't hurt to throw us a bone.

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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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