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Castle's fourth season began with its main characters keeping secrets from each other — secrets that creator Andrew W. Marlowe called a "ticking bomb." On Monday's season finale (10/9c, ABC), that bomb will finally explode.Finale Preview: Get scoop on 39 must-watch season-endersAlthough Castle (Nathan Fillion) has already learned Beckett's secret — that she remembers him saying "I love you" after she was shot — Beckett (Stana Katic) is not aware of this. But when the investigation into the murder of an Army vet puts Beckett on the trail of the man who shot her...
Castle's fourth season began with its main characters keeping secrets from each other — secrets that creator Andrew W. Marlowe called a "ticking bomb." On Monday's season finale (10/9c, ABC), that bomb will finally explode.
Finale Preview: Get scoop on 39 must-watch season-enders
Castle boss: Castle and Beckett's secrets are a "ticking bomb"
Marlowe is quick to note, however, that this verbal blowout is different from the heated exchange between Castle and Beckett in last season's finale. "The cards that they put on the table last year didn't really deal with how they felt about one another," he says. "[This year], everything comes out."Meanwhile, the re-emergence of Johanna Beckett's murder case also shines a light on the corrupt-cop conspiracy surrounding the case — in particular, the involvement of the late Capt. Roy Montgomery. How far will the team go to protect Montgomery's secret? And if they're caught, might heads roll?"It certainly puts everybody on edge," Marlowe says. "That shadow is far-reaching and it gets everybody wound up ... to the point where they don't know if they're responding appropriately or not. That Montgomery secret is hanging over the precinct. We know the kind of cop Capt. Gates [Penny Johnson Jerald] is, and how she would react if she found out these guys were pursuing that and not being honest."Vote for Castle and Beckett as your Favorite TV Crimefighters!
When the smoke clears, will Castle and Beckett be any closer to finally coming together, or will the new revelations tear them apart? Marlowe says either option has value. "Progress in their relationship has been stilted because of these emotional blocks that they have both put up and these secrets that they have to get to the other side of," he says. "I think [the finale] will deeply affect the relationship one way or the other, but either way, I think that allows for forward progress for us."And that progress may have you holding your breath all summer long. "We have not 100 percent landed the opening of next season," Marlowe says of this season's cliff-hanger. "But I will say, the way we're ending this season, people will want to know what happens in the immediate aftermath."Castle's Season 4 finale airs Monday at 10/9c on ABC.