Boom! (29 Mar. 2010)

In the second part of the story begun in "Tick, Tick, Tick...," the serial killer remains at large and is taunting Castle, Beckett and Jordan Shaw to catch him.

Director:

John Terlesky

Writers:

Andrew W. Marlowe (creator), Elizabeth Beall

Stars:

Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan

Cast

Episode cast overview:
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
Seamus Dever	...	Kevin Ryan
Dana Delany	...	Special Agent Jordan Shaw
Leonard Roberts	...	Special Agent Jason Avery
Dameon Clarke	...	Scott Dunn
Mary-Pat Green	...	Erin Murphy
Isaiah Mustafa	...	Team Leader

Storyline

In the second part of the story begun in "Tick, Tick, Tick...," the serial killer remains at large and is taunting Castle, Beckett and Jordan Shaw to catch him.

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Plot Keywords:

bomb | false identity | explosion | kidnapping | bathing

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 March 2010 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Beacon Pictures, Experimental Pictures, ABC Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Goofs

The infamous tropes Enhance Button, Facial Recognition Software and Magical Database all appear in this episode. First, the surveillance camera footage where the criminal appears, gets all three tropes applied: The FBI Enhance Button zooms in on his face and brings out more detail, whereas in real world only pixel-lated mush would appear, because you can't create information out of nothing. Then the Facial Recognition Software calculates what his face would look like from a different angle, again creating information out of nothing. Then, The Magical Database finds a 100% reliable match in about 10 seconds. Later, there is some vague mush seen on the background of the FBI agent's kidnap video, and Enhance Button again creates information out of nothing, enlarging the blots to what can clearly be identified as a landmark bridge.

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Quotes

Kate Beckett: Hell of a shot, Castle.
Richard Castle: I was aiming for his head.

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Connections

References Firefly (2002)

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Soundtracks

"Castle Theme"
Written by Robert Duncan (nm0242084)

User Reviews

Clichéd and Ridiculous

Good enough storyline but they take absolutely massive leaps of faith as far as the technology and computer side of it goes. They may as well have replaced it with a guy called 'Merlin' who just happens to be a wizard and solves crime with magic. Or do the FBI have one of those too?

Quite predictable towards the end and was just filled with stuff that's been done dozens of times before. It's basically the plot of Speed.

The episode is probably as stupid as having ten lines of text minimum for a review, I mean there is a limit to how much you can actually say about something without merely rambling...