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Castle Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
After the Storm
Mon, Sep 24, 201244 mins
After four seasons of "will they" or "won't they," Richard Castle and Kate Beckett finally give in to their feelings for each other in the much anticipated Season 4 finale. Season 5 picks up on the proverbial morning after, with Castle and Beckett facing new questions -- Was this a one-time fling, or are they now a couple? But before they find the answers, they must take on the forces responsible for Beckett's mother's murder that now threaten Kate Beckett's life.
Episode 2
Cloudy with a Chance of Murder
Mon, Oct 1, 201243 mins
Beckett is finally back to the NYPD after serving her suspension, and concerned about keeping her relationship with Castle a secret in the workplace. The team is baffled with the murder of local celebrity WHNY's weather girl Mandy Michaels, because there is no apparent motive for the murder. As the investigation progresses, Castle takes playing single in public in order to advert suspicion on the relationship a little bit too much to heart as he goes on a date with Kristina Kotera, WHNY's sexy celebrity interviewer, the woman who doesn't take no for an answer. This, together with Miles Haxton's, Mandy's co-worker, confession that their romantic relationship imploded makes Beckett and Castle to start questioning whether their relationship stands a chance.
Episode 3
Secret's Safe with Me
Mon, Oct 8, 201244 mins
Wendy Dupree, murdered in a cheap motel, wrote a clue in her blood. When Castle realizes it's no word but a number, it leads, in combination with her phone records, to a storage compartment, about to be auctioned, rented by her brother Wendell, an ex-con, who died in a suspicious accident a few months earlier.
Episode 4
Murder He Wrote
Mon, Oct 15, 201243 mins
Castle and Beckett plan a romantic weekend away in the Hamptons, but their trip turns sour when a dying man stumbles into their swimming pool. Castle is intrigued by the case and Beckett follows his lead, knowing that they will not be able to enjoy their weekend until the crime is solved. The trail leads to a retired mobster, Vincent Cardono, a drug syndicate smuggling methamphetamine out of the Hamptons and a corrupt police deputy. Meanwhile, Ryan and Esposito try to find out who Beckett's boyfriend is. Ryan discovers Castle and Beckett's secret relationship while questioning a suspect, who lets slip that he was questioned by "the writer and his girlfriend". Ryan immediately catches on, and his suspicions are confirmed when the suspect tells Ryan that Castle's girlfriend's name was "Kate".
Episode 5
Probable Cause
Mon, Oct 29, 201244 mins
After Tessa Horton is murdered in a bizarre fashion at her apartment, evidence piles up, all pointing at Castle. He denies knowing her, let alone having had an affair, but there are fingerprints, security footage and recovered hard-drive evidence all showing he did.
Episode 6
The Final Frontier
Mon, Nov 5, 201244 mins
During the annual major science fiction convention, Nebula 9 - super-fan Audrey O'Neill, who finally organized a life performance starring the short-lived series' original cast as well after decade of 'webipsodes' with a nerd couple, is found dead on set, killed with a real 'space laser'.
Episode 7
Swan Song
Mon, Nov 12, 201244 mins
A rock band finally reaches fame, but one of its members, James Swan is found murdered in his trailer. Due to the inevitably high media profile, the city orders full cooperation with a TV crew which was already filming the band in reality-style. That makes Javier show off, Kate camera shy, while Castle pulls the strings, almost like a director. The team finds conflicts within the band. Roadie Hank Rodgers also proves a link to John Campbell, from whose abusive cult Swan escaped and whom he recently met and paid a small fortune in cash.
Episode 8
After Hours
Mon, Nov 19, 201244 mins
Father Joe McMurtry was fatally shot after meeting his childhood friend, Mickey Dolan, who is now a big Irish mobster. Taking the case allows Castle and Becket to escape from a disastrous dinner where his mother, as host, and her father, Jim, have a disagreement, which spills over into grim tensions between the sleuth couple. Calling on Leo, the only witness who may talk, they lose all means of communication while gangsters set out to chase to them. Ryan and Esposito realize they must be in big trouble when they can't contact them. They do some sleuthing of their own and come up with an FBI link which proves their basic assumptions are wrong. Meanwhile, Dolan catches up with Castle.
Episode 9
Secret Santa
Mon, Dec 3, 201244 mins
A suited Santa apparently fell to his death from the sky, but actually was shot first. He's ultimately identified as former business shark Edmund, who chose 6 years ago to become one of Dave Dunne's professionally trained Santas and ended his marriage. He also helped poor residents fight their eviction by a big company. It turns out he used illegal means, but was far from the only crook in the story, not even counting his murderer. Meanwhile Castle's family and fellow detectives wrestle with holiday planning.
Episode 10
Significant Others
Mon, Jan 7, 201341 mins
Feared society divorcées lawyer Michelle Twohey is murdered with an icepick. The plundered husbands of her clients all check out. A photographer first seen with the body was hired by her, against his will, for a 'life or death matter'. Her own handsome, elusive boyfriend Corey Francis turns out to be a fake identity of intelligence veteran Noah Kesswood. She lost her last case, being absorbed by a private investigation for golf pro Billy Piper, widely suspected having arranged his wife's yacht drowning, but that case lead to a drug connection. Meanwhile Alexis's mother suddenly moves in to nurse her kissing disease, generally believed to be dynamite for Castle's relationship with Kate, who also stays at his place and won't budge.
Episode 11
Under the Influence
Mon, Jan 14, 201344 mins
The body of young, female DJ Holly Rhodes is found unceremoniously dumped at a construction site. The investigation indicates that she was killed elsewhere and then transported by car. The night of her death, Holly was the DJ for the album release party of aging pop star, Regina Cane, where, it's discovered Regina's party was crashed and she was upstaged by rising pop star, Josie Lang. Castle and Beckett also find Joey, a troubled teen, who was hired by Holly to assist her at DJ parties. They suspect Joey is responsible for thefts that have been occurring at the parties where Holly is the DJ. Castle and Beckett must answer the question of whether Holly was killed by troubled teen Joey or if she became caught up in the competitive drama of aging versus rising pop stars, while Detective Esposito takes Joey under his wing to steer him on the right path before it's too late.
Episode 12
Death Gone Crazy
Mon, Jan 21, 201344 mins
Soft porn tycoon Beau Randolph was strangled with a bra during a grand party to launch another College Girls Gone Crazy franchise production. He received many death threats, such as from arch-conservative Ronald Armstrong's grim prudish movement.
Episode 13
Recoil
Mon, Feb 4, 201344 mins
The victim's corpse is found burning in a barrel by a homeless man. The team finds out she worked for US Senator William H. Bracken, whom Beckett holds responsible for her mother's murder. The senator is hell-bent on holding a high-profile speech in a hotel to launch a career-crucial environmental bill.
Episode 14
Reality Star Struck
Mon, Feb 11, 201344 mins
Hannah Green, star of a reality show, is found dead at a bus stop with a knife in her back. She has bruises from being held captive for the day she went missing from the studio. The team unravels complex rivalries for parts, infidelity and spin-offs that affect both a clothing line.
Episode 15
Target
Mon, Feb 18, 201344 mins
Hasim Farouk, a student at Columbia like Alexis, is killed by a van crashing into him while he emptied his gun into it. The team soon works out the van was used to kidnap not only Egyptian tycoon Anwar El-Masri's daughter Sara, but also Alexis, whom she attended a lecture with.
Episode 16
Hunt
Mon, Feb 25, 201341 mins
Anwar El-Masri pays 15 million euro ransom for the kidnapped girls, but only his daughter ,Sara, is released. FBI Agent Harris must wait days for red tape before the FBI and NYPD can actively search for Alexis in Paris. So Castle goes alone and hires, through a friend, shady problem solver Jacque Henri and his tech sidekick 'la taupe'. They find where the girls were held and arrange another exchange for Alexis. Castle brings $3,000,000 to the exchange but is surprised by first a betrayal and then by the mystery man that saves him. Finding out what is really going on, that Alexis was the target in the kidnapping, who the mystery man is, who is holding Alexis and why, goes back to the very beginning for Castle.
Episode 17
Scared to Death
Mon, Mar 18, 201343 mins
Castle is shaky after watching a DVD which predicts, in flashy amateur horror style, the exact time of death, for no apparent reason and probably by panic-caused cardiac arrest, of the murder victim, screaming in the phone, who received it. Her ex has a solid alibi and couldn't make sense of her panic about 'it'.
Episode 18
The Wild Rover
Mon, Mar 25, 201344 mins
The corpse of Jimmy, a baker popular for cup cakes, is found in his industrial dough mixer. His apprentice, Todd, noticed someone in a vintage muscle car, before being sent away. The car was identified as belonging to Irish mob boss Robert 'Bobby S.' Shannon.
Episode 19
The Lives of Others
Mon, Apr 1, 201344 mins
Castle is home, mostly alone, in a wheelchair after a skiing accident, bored out of his wits just before his birthday. After a while, he actually picks up a pair of binoculars Alexis gave him to play Rear Window. Indeed, right across the street a foxy resident betrays her studly husband with a younger hottie.
Episode 20
The Fast and the Furriest
Mon, Apr 15, 201343 mins
Castle revels and Beckett is a skeptic as to the reason a woman. later identified as Anne Cardinal, a Bigfoot researcher, was dumped at the entrance to an ER with claw marks on her face. When the alley where she was picked up is found, giant footprints at the scene leads to Castle's speculation that Bigfoot killed her. However, further investigation reveals that Anne was using a camera to film out in a forest and caught the beginning of her attack on a video that was uploaded via her cell phone. How she ended up in the alley in the city leads to more confusion. Besides frictions in the Bigfoot believers community, a motive may stem from the murder of Anne's college roommate Justine Bolton, assumed to be committed by her, since missing, boyfriend, Kurt Wilson, who turns up now.
Episode 21
The Squab and the Quail
Mon, Apr 22, 201342 mins
As soon as it becomes clear that self-made billionaire Eric Vaughn, even more slick then Castle, was the murder target, not the society dinner companion who was accidentally served his poisoned dish, Vaughn gets the commissioner to assign him the best close protection: Becket. While she dodges flirtation and bullets at their 'safe' hotel suite, jealous Castle is determined to crack the case to get his girlfriend romantically-safe home. The means used by the killer inspire Castle's daring, perhaps too convenient suspicion.
Episode 22
Still
Mon, Apr 29, 201341 mins
The latest murder is easily linked to several others in and outside New york state, 'revenge' for the recently released killer's trial. Alas, instead of him, in his home team Castle finds a bomb, armed. Even the bomb squad doubts if Becket can be safely removed from the pressure plate. While they work to disarm it, Castle keeps her spirits high by bantering over the cheeky history of their budding relationship.
Episode 23
The Human Factor
Mon, May 6, 201343 mins
When Homeland Security inexplicably seals the crime scene of a car bombing, Castle and Beckett find themselves with two mysteries on their hands: who murdered the victim, a government whistleblower, The plot thickens when they discover that the victim wasn't killed by a car bomb but by a missile from a military drone.
Episode 24
Watershed
Mon, May 13, 201344 mins
Castle is worried when Alexis insists on a Costa Rican exploration voyage with her lover, shocked to discover that Becket started applying for a Washington DC FBI task force behind his back. Still, he helps investigate the murder of Harvard honors student Erika Albrook. The team discovers she spent her nights as a hooker, or actually faked being one so she could hack a top law firm, so the question is for which of their many sensitive cases. Internet use analysis points to a firm dropout and several suspects who could know.
