You hear it often enough : Go out on a high. Quit while you still got it. Get out before you ruin it. Well somebody really needed to say this to Castle's makers. What started out as a cute, adorable come thrilling crime detective show sure didn't deserve such a tasteless ending. It was one of ABC's good ones. Charming and am-all-about-the-story novelist, not to mention cute as a button too, topped by Hot tough cop with baggage and unstoppable thirst of justice and their earnest lil team. Unlike the other detective shows, The way they approached and solved each crime was almost always relatable to the audience and always managed to tell a story too. Add the spice of the evident attraction between the too and ta da ! you have a winner.
Let's face it, the show's storyline started taking a hit after Beckett's mother's murder was solved. The writers didn't seem to have a clue where to take it anymore. They tried to go the #Mentalist way. They started out by trying shoe Beckett's rise by making her join the FBI, that didn't work out. Then came the angry Captain angle and then Castle just went missing and forgets two months of his life and finally the biggest debacle of them all : LockSat. This was the worst of the plots and personally, half the time I was like screw LockSat, what is it anyway? They slowly tried to build the season towards the exposure of the men behind LockSat : the-know-it-all-spy. But the season was too weak from the very beginning. Heavy reliance on the new characters and nothing new on the plate. But believe me when I say, nothing's worse than its end. If you haven't already watched it, my suggestion would be to stay away and remember Castle for what it represented and not the tragic way it ended.
For those of you miserable lot, who just can't let it go, here's the brief summary of the very last episode :
Becket and Vikram get a lead on LockSat and seek Caleb B, the lawyer's help to break this case wide open. Turns out it was a trap and the Caleb is already dead. Beckett & Castle are almost caught when from out of nowhere comes an old spy-friend of Castle's dad and rescues them and disappears saying that's all the help he can give. The duo decide to head out of the country and lay low as their cover was clearly blown. Predictably, Beckett ends up getting another clue and goes back on her promise to back off. Castle realizes this and tries to join forces, however ends up being kidnapped and tortured by Loksat's hitman. Meanwhile, Old man spy guy develops a conscience and calls Beckette in and decides to help her cause. Loksat revealed himself to a helpless, tortured Castle and guess who that is ? The very old man, who was their savior early on. Turns out there's no story there, just some guy trying to protect his business. He orders him to be killed, while announcing that he is on the way to take out Beckett. Beckett figures out half way through about his motives and has the most insulting and tiniest of fights with him and BAMM!! old man is dead on the floor. Case closed,without any revelations, story or closure for any one. Vikram announces the end of LockSat and we're like, yeah right!
Castle and Beckett goes back to their place while others go for drinks. Castle is still puzzled as of why the old man burned Caleb B's body out in a car when he could do so at his office's incinerator? At that very moment walks in an alive Caleb ! He shoots Castle and Beckett, however she manages to shoot him too. They lay together ,bleeding out.
There is a tiny epilogue sorta thing : "Seven Years later", Castle and Beckett are happily sitting and sipping tea with a bunch of kids. Looking peaceful and content.
Well there you go, what do make of that?
