Suicide Squeeze (8 Feb. 2010)

Retired baseball star Cano Vega is murdered on a Spanish Harlem community field he ands some team mates sponsor, skull smashed with a bat. He had $200,000 loan shark debts and his wife ... See full summary »

Director:

David Barrett

Writers:

Andrew W. Marlowe (creator), Jose Molina

Stars:

Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Nathan Fillion	...	Richard Castle
Stana Katic	...	Kate Beckett
Susan Sullivan	...	Martha Rodgers
Ruben Santiago-Hudson	...	Captain Roy Montgomery
Molly C. Quinn	...	Alexis Castle (as Molly Quinn)
Jon Huertas	...	Javier Esposito
Tamala Jones	...	Lanie Parish (credit only)
Seamus Dever	...	Kevin Ryan
Ray Wise	...	Bobby Fox
Arye Gross	...	M.E. Sidney Perlmutter
Don Franklin	...	Tommy Zane
Chandra West	...	Maggie Vega
Julio Oscar Mechoso	...	Mario Sanchez
José Zúñiga	...	Alfredo Quintana
Vanessa Martinez	...	Lara Blanco

Storyline

Retired baseball star Cano Vega is murdered on a Spanish Harlem community field he ands some team mates sponsor, skull smashed with a bat. He had $200,000 loan shark debts and his wife believed him adulterous. Yet she and dodgy agent Bobby Fox point at Alfredo Quintana, editor of a Cuban diaspora magazine which called him a traitor after a visit to Castro's Cuba, which he was a refugee from. he was beaten by a team mate, but there's more to the Cuban connection.

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Plot Keywords:

adultery | false identity | infidelity | black eye | abuse | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 February 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Beacon Pictures, Experimental Pictures, ABC Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min 43 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Beckett's badge number is 41319.

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Goofs

Cuba does not have a consulate in New York City, or an embassy in Washington, D.C. Instead, Cuba has an interests section in Washington, D.C. and a mission to the United Nations in New York City. Detective Beckett is correct when she states that the head of the "Cuban Consulate" does not have diplomatic immunity, but more limited consular immunity. However, the head of a mission to the United Nations would have full diplomatic immunity.

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Quotes

Kate Beckett: That was Joe freaking Torre! I gotta call my dad.

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Soundtracks

"Castle Theme"
Written by Robert Duncan (nm0242084)

User Reviews

Come on, writers! You can do better

I love this show. It is like chocolate: no nutritional value whatsoever, but a guilty pleasure I cannot deny myself now and then. And, digested over an extended period of time, not only instantly happiness-producing, but quite addictive as well.

Usually, I am quite happy with the plot development, since it never is or has been the series' main focus anyway (I would wager a great sum of money that the majority of viewers, at least the female ones, are much more interested in two subplots: 1-when will we learn who killed Kate Beckett's mother?; 2-will Beckett and Castle ever admit to-and act on-their mutual attraction?).

But this episode is so stupid, I cannot even enjoy the "candy factor" properly. Come on! Who really did not see that one coming?! I won't tell, but I would not need to, because apart from the writers, who clearly and criminally underestimate the intellectual capacities of the viewers, everybody will have figured it out from the very first mentioning of the very first clue. It is a formula that has been done before a thousand times, and has been done much better.

I am disappointed. But the interaction between Castle and his daughter is sweet, so that, in a way, saves this episode for me. Nonetheless, I hope the writers will do better next time. No pleasure in eating last year's chocolate easter bunny.