One Life to Lose

**Writer**: Elizabeth Davis

**Director**: David Barrett

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

A soap opera writer is murdered, Martha gets a trip down memory lane, and Castle discovers Beckett's deep dark soap-related secret.

### Guest cast

* Jane Seymour – GLORIA CHAMBERS
* Corbin Bernsen – LANCE HASTINGS
* Cameron Mathison – VINCE BOWERS
* Rebecca Budig – MANDY BRONSON
* David Eigenburg - PETER CONNELLY
* Colleen Foy - LAUREN GOLDBERG
* Tina Majorino - REESE HARLAN
* Jodi Taffel - CARRIE EDWARDS
* James C Victor - JOHNNY DIMES

### Music

* "Takin' Care Of Business" - BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE (Placement)
* "Got To Be" - LATCH KEY KID (Placement)

### Literary and other references

* *General Hospital* is a long-running ABC soap opera that Seamus Dever was on for a while. And it did indeed at one point have a plot about an evil weather machine.
* The title of this episode is a nod to soap opera *One Life To Live*, on which Nathan Fillion spent three years at the start of his TV career.
* John Legend is an American R&B/hip hop artist.
* Chiquita is a major distributor of bananas. A telenovela by that name, however, doesn't appear to exist.
* Jack Nicholson's line "You can't handle the truth" is from the movie *A Few Good Men*.
* The Coen Brothers (Ethan and Joel) are a writing/directing team responsible for several Oscar-winning films such as *Fargo* and *No Country for Old Men*.
* *Masterpiece Theater* (now called *Masterpiece Classic*) is a long-running PBS show known for airing adaptions of classic novels.

### Memorable moments

* Castle's soap-y theories of the crime.
* The silent conversation in the coffee shop.
* Castle walking in on Martha and Lance running lines and 'running lines'.
* Castle's first soap scene.

### Quotable quotes

* CASTLE: It's a crime scene, Mother, we're trained professionals.
MARTHA: Richard Castle. You are neither trained nor a professional.
* CASTLE: Why would anyone want to kill a writer?
BECKETT: So many reasons.
* CARRIE: No, no, and I can prove it! Mary and Dennis were home.
BECKETT: Those are you roommates?
CARRIE: No, my parents.
* MARTHA: He was my love interest thirty years ago. On screen. And off.
* CASTLE: My mother gives new meaning to the word transparent.
* DIMES: What do you mean she's dead?
CASTLE: She's dead. It kind of only has the one meaning.
* ESPOSITO: Those are worth over ten grand? Yeesh.
BECKETT: Lanie. Loves diamonds.
* *(Castle and Beckett finish each other's sentences)* RYAN: Do you two practice this when we're not around?
* CASTLE: Maybe we should sleep on it. *Beckett eyebrow.* CASTLE: Separately! Katherine Beckett. I never.

### Just the facts

* The space for Martha's acting school won't be ready for another month.
* Alexis is taking AP tests. (Or possibly studying for them? They're usually in early May, not late March.)
* Lanie is a fan of *Temptation Lane* and was annoyed when Sara Cutler became head writer and killed off one of the main characters.
* Lanie likes diamonds (according to Beckett.)
* When Beckett was 9 and had to have her tonsils out, her mom stayed home with her and they watched *Temptation Lane*, so now when she sees it it gives her warm fuzzy feelings.
* Martha was on *Temptation Lane* thirty years ago for three weeks. During that time her character married Joseph Fox and then was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, kidnapped again, and held hostage in the sewers of Paris.
* Ryan has found a route that will get them from the precinct to the Old Haunt in 8 minutes.
* Castle gives Beckett a signed cast photo from *Temptation Lane*.

### Oops

Do daytime soap writers actually make that much money? Or have the power to release actors from their contracts?

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