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Castle Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2011 - 2012
Episode 1
Rise
Mon, Sep 19, 201145 mins
Castle is grieved when Becket, once regaining health, tells him to leave her time without calling for months. Yet when she returns to work after therapy, Ryan and Esposito tell Castle help them keep the case of her mothers killers going, behind ex-IA by-the-book-Captain Victoria Gates's back. They work out the only remaining angle are bank files lost in a fire, according to decorated officer Rod Halstead definitely no arson. Becket grudgingly passes her gun exam, but can't perform in real danger anymore in their assigned case, the ingeniously staged murder of a rock band member's girlfriend. The boys find Becket is the next, last logical target, and are surprisingly offered safety for all if the case is laid to rest, but things turn out differently.
Episode 2
Heroes and Villains
Mon, Sep 26, 201145 mins
Sex offender ex-con Tyler Faris is found in an alley, cut in half by a sword. Faris' victim claims that a man in a superhero uniform saved her. Even Castle doesn't recognize the uniform, which is eventually identified as Lone Vengeance, the hero of an Internet site authored by Sean Elt, a pseudonym.
Episode 3
Head Case
Mon, Oct 3, 201145 mins
Gunshots, a fleeing van and a massive blood pool all point to murder, but when Castle and Beckett arrive at the crime scene, they discover that it lacks something - the victim. The investigation leads to the cutting-edge world of life-extension science, a cunning high-tech researcher.
Episode 4
Kick the Ballistics
Mon, Oct 10, 201144 mins
Student Jane Herzfeld was fatally shot with the Glock service pistol stolen from Detective Ryan by serial killer 3XK. Her ex-boyfriend, Finn McQueen, has an alibi. Phone records show she was in contact with undercover narcotics Detective Seth Carver.
Episode 5
Eye of the Beholder
Mon, Oct 17, 201145 mins
Museum director Hayes is murdered at a special exhibition from which the diamonds-covered, $50,000,000 show-stopper 'Fist of capitalism' is missing. Suspects include the owners, the haughty McHugh couple, discretely fighting over a divorce, insurance investigator Serena Kaye, presumably a never caught 'former' master thief, and Falco, a British master thief presumably hired by Hayes, who was in dire debt. Serena is key to some dirty tricks.
Episode 6
Demons
Mon, Oct 24, 201145 mins
National TV ghost-buster Jack Sinclair is killed on camera while investigating the famous New York McClellan house, site of 8 previous 'suspicious' murders. His cameraman Barry Bavetta resigned after a fight that day but has an alibi. Beckett and Esposito being skeptics, Castle mainly teams up with Ryan. The root of Sinclair's fear for the house and its very architecture prove key to discovering both another older murder and a list of present suspects, enabling to set a fitting trap.
Episode 7
Cops & Robbers
Mon, Oct 31, 201145 mins
Accompanying Martha to the bank, where she pigheadedly refuses his financial help, Castle's speculations over the phone with Becket that surgical mask-equipped customers may be robbers proves correct when everyone is held at gun-point. The call makes Becket the inexperienced hostage negotiator. Castle works out and manages to communicate both crucial and puzzling information. The hostage-chapter ends spectacularly abruptly, only to launch a very different hunt for the brain, who wasn't after cash at all.
Episode 8
Heartbreak Hotel
Mon, Nov 7, 201145 mins
Atlantic City (New Jersey) hotel-casino co-owner Sam Seigel's corpse is found in an abandoned New York warehouse. Captain Victoria Gates keeps Becket in the office to test her skills 'without Castle's help'. The boys appreciate female absence as Ryan owes them a bachelor's party, but Javier's logical place as best man was already taken by the bride's teenage brother. Marino's partner Charlie Turner and his security expert Daniel Sullivan cooperative until the team gets close, linking the murder to the mob and employee Nadine Espinoza's disappearance. Turner throws the trio out, without recourse as it's outside NYPD jurisdiction, but Castles sneaks back in as Elvis impersonators.
Episode 9
Kill Shot
Mon, Nov 21, 201145 mins
Shortly after killing a kindergarten teacher about to marry, a sniper kills a lawyer on a Manhattan street, without an apparent link. Esposito's sharp-shooter training proves handy for the case and to help Becket deal with the rekindled trauma of her near-fatal shooting. With help from his daughter's art course, Castle works out the only clues left at the distant sniper hideouts, cuttings from Renaissance paintings. Each alludes to the next murder site. After a third target survives, Castle works out a superficial point in common and postulates a tragic motive.
Episode 10
Cuffed
Mon, Dec 5, 201145 mins
When Castle and Beckett wake up in bed, handcuffed together, in a locked room with no memory of how they got there, they must piece together the mystery of where they are and why, all while trying to escape. But as the two of them adjust to being shackled together, what's the biggest threat they face... the people who abducted them or each other? Meanwhile, Ryan, Esposito and Gates are left to investigate their disappearance in a case where all is not what it seems.
Episode 11
Til Death Do Us Part
Mon, Jan 9, 201245 mins
A naked man plunges to his death in a fruit stand. However, investigation determines he wasn't forced out the window. He had actually been poisoned a few hours earlier. He turns out to be a serial seducer, who mysteriously deviated from his usual MO to pick up higher class, and even married, women. While Ryan is doing a liquid cleansing diet with Jenny before their wedding, Castle comes up with alternative, business-related motives and suspects in addition to the many scorned women.
Episode 12
Dial M for Mayor
Mon, Jan 16, 201245 mins
When a woman is found murdered in her car, Beckett and her team's investigation leads them directly to City Hall... specifically to the Mayor, Robert Weldon, who happens to be a friend of Castle's, which could also jeopardize Castle's continued involvement with the NYPD.
Episode 13
An Embarrassment of Bitches
Mon, Jan 23, 201245 mins
Dog trainer Francisco Pilar is murdered after naming Best of Show at a dog show. Castle gets the Labrador he was training temporarily adopted as team mascot, and his nose proves quite useful. Airhead reality TV star Kay Cappuccio, seen leaving Pilar's room, has a motive.
Episode 14
The Blue Butterfly
Mon, Feb 6, 201244 mins
Castle senses a diary of a P.I from the 1940s found in the effects of a murdered modern-day treasure hunter is the key to finding the Blue Butterfly, a blue-diamond necklace. The team works out the story situated in 1947 in the same, now derelict, music club, involving murder, gangsters, and theft; they work out the true parts and identities of culprits and victims.
Episode 15
Pandora
Mon, Feb 13, 201245 mins
The team's reputation is dented when Thomas Gage, a ruthless murderer whose identity proves totally faked, not only acts smug when arrested, but manages, as cryptically predicted, to escape and steal all evidence plus sensitive data from the NYPD computer. He's not only ahead of Castle and Becket to commit another murder, they are both abducted to a secret, deep CIA HQ, where Castle reconnects with Sophia Turner and their classified espionage past. The three team up and discover it's all about brilliant mathematical scientist Nelson Blakely, whose death was staged years ago.
Episode 16
Linchpin
Mon, Feb 20, 201245 mins
CIA agent Sophia Turner kicks Castle and Beckett of the investigation since they didn't contact her about Blakely. However, she turns up in Castles's apartment with more information for them to investigate, explaining she had to put on a show by letting them go. Thomas Gage reappears, and saves Castle and Beckett and attempts to convince them of his possible innocence. But before anything else can be done, they are found by the CIA and Gates is captured and detained at the secret CIA base. When the girl who seems to be the lynchpin to an apocalyptic event is identified as the daughter of a very influential Chinese tycoon and party king-maker, Gage is killed and a possible mole escapes. Thereafter, Castle and Beckett must try to save the girl's life while dealing with a clever and elusive traitor.
Episode 17
Once Upon a Crime
Mon, Feb 27, 201245 mins
One by one, successful career women in party costumes from the same shop, are poisoned, murdered, and staged in ways to fit the Grimm fairy-tale characters of Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty--except that the last survives. Each one also withdrew the same cash amount, apparently blackmailed for a hit-and-run they committed as college mates.
Episode 18
A Dance with Death
Mon, Mar 19, 201245 mins
During recording of TV show "A Night of Dance", spoiled-rotten rich girl Odette Morton, who made it to the semi-final, is murdered in her easily accessible dressing room. Suspects include a previously knocked-out candidate who is now automatically restored, the presenter and someone he had a secret with.
Episode 19
47 Seconds
Mon, Mar 26, 201245 mins
The FBI commandeers the NYPD detectives for little more than leg work after a bomb explodes during an anti-capitalist demonstration. Castle is asked by Captain Gates to help out by using his speed-reading ability and attention to detail to sifting through mountains of witness depositions.
Episode 20
The Limey
Mon, Apr 2, 201245 mins
A devilishly handsome detective from Scotland Yard teams up with Castle and Beckett to find the person responsible for the murder of his friend's daughter. Also, Castle and Beckett suspect Nigel, the Deputy General at the British Consulate, is up to more than just ambassadorial balls and diplomatic luncheons.
Episode 21
Headhunters
Mon, Apr 16, 201245 mins
Although uncomfortable with the ruffian style, gentleman sleuth Castle proves his value while they discard a simple gang war and focus on newcomer Cesar Vales's Mexican gang. Castle not only repeatedly appeals to his former team, but actually turns to them when he disagrees with Slaughter's theory as well as his bully blackmail method.
Episode 22
Undead Again
Mon, Apr 30, 201245 mins
Castle and Beckett investigate a man's murder where the victim has human bite marks on his body. While Castle has some wild theories, none of them are as strange as what their only witness insists happened. The man was killed in a Zombie attack.
Episode 23
Always
Mon, May 7, 201245 mins
The murder of a Latino army veteran ex-con, ex-Lobos-street gang member quickly links to a break-in in the late captain's home, to steal only and all his old police files, and yields the fingerprints of the sniper who nearly killed Beckett. Now Beckett commits romantically.
