‘Castle’ Season 2 Episode 18 ‘Boom!’ starts about the second that the previous episode ended, with Detective Kate Beckett’s apartment exploding. Castle invokes his inner Mal Reynolds, busting through the door, yelling for his partner.
Has Nikki Heat, aka Kate Beckett, solved her last case? Spoilers surely follow.
Indeed, Kate Beckett, quick thinking as she always is, dove into the cast iron tub in her bathroom, which shielded her from the blast. She has sprained a wrist, but more important to her, she is naked and Castle is in the room trying to explain the modesty is a silly option when one’s apartment is on fire. Still once has to have a little turning up of the sexual tension.
We now learn that the serial killer likes to kidnap some loner with no ties or friends and assume their identity to do his killing sprees. Special Agent Jordan Shaw also surmises that he is highly intelligent but also wants validation for that intelligence. He is also very annoyed that Beckett is still alive, so now the killing has to continue.
Using some good detective work, the team find the killer’s apartment. Very creepy as he is, he likes to write down the account of his murder sprees as novels, unpublished of course. A fan boy of sorts, he has written a Nikki Heat novel in which it is Detective Heat and not Beckett who is tracking him down.
But our subject is dangerous indeed, escaping from Beckett in a foot chase through the streets and subway system of New York. Jordan Shaw, annoyed that Beckett has done this, takes her entirely off the case. Beckett, while annoyed in turn, realizes that she would have done the same thing.
But this state of affairs does not last very long. Jordan Shaw herself is taken by the killer and held hostage in an effort to draw out “Nikki Heat”, aka Kate Beckett, a desire which Kate and Castle obliged him.
The final confrontation involves more misdirection. But here is where Castle the writer shines. He surmises that he would have written how the killer was elsewhere, pin points where the elsewhere was, and thus Kate and Castle confront him with Jordan Shaw all duct taped up. In a marvelous bit of gun play that would have made Mal Reynolds proud, Castle literally shoots the gun out of the killer’s hand. However, sheepishly, he admits that he was aiming at the man’s head.
The episode ends with Kate finding a new found respect for her partner and his flights of fancy that seem to always point to the truth. It is not yet come to getting naked between the sheets, but it is a baby step closer.
Source: Castle, Boom!, TV.Rage
