Cops and Robbers

**Writer**: Terence Paul Winter

**Director**: Bryan Spicer

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

When Martha drags Castle to a bank to help her get a loan, they wind up in the middle of a hostage situation, but that may be the least of their problems. And Beckett's day turns very bad indeed, when she winds up having to negotiate their release.

### Guest cast

* Dean Norris - CAPTAIN JOHN PETERSON
* Barry Livingston - ABE
* Darren Pettie - TRAPPER JOHN
* Jonah Wharton - DR. HOWSER
* Noa Dori - DR. QUINN
* Ty Upshaw - DR. HUXTABLE
* Matt Medrano - OFFICER MONFRIEZ
* Amiee Parker - GRACE

### Music

* "Too Deep" - J MASCIS (end of hostage crisis)

### Literary and other references

* The bank robbers are all named after TV doctors. Trapper John was on *M\*A\*S\*H, Doogie Howser, MD* followed a gifted teenage doctor, *Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman* was about a female doctor on the wild frontier, and Dr Huxtable was the character played by Bill Cosby on his self-titled 80s sitcom, *The Cosby Show.*
* *Die Hard* is an action film that features Bruce Willis as NYPD officer John McClane who has to deal with terrorists taking hostages in an office building on Christmas Eve.
* Shakespeare in the Park is a program that presents one or two Shakespeare plays in Central Park for free during the summer. The summer Martha was involved she played Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in *A Midsummer Night's Dream*.
* Jackson Pollock was an American painter, well known for his abstract expressionist paintings.
* Willie Sutton was a early 20th century bank robber. He denied ever having said the quote famously attributed to him, that he robbed banks because "that's where the money is". Nevertheless, the concept of going to the obvious answer first is widely taught as 'Sutton's Law' to medical students.
* John LeCarré is a writer of espionage novels, many of which have been made into movies. The novels, written during the Cold War, often stand in contrast to the James Bond series, as LeCarré's protagonists often have to deal with the moral ambiguity of their missions.

### Memorable moments

* Morse code messages
* Castle Jr. and Super Cop
* Hostage negotiation
* Beckett's face after the explosion.
* Beckett's and Castle's moment...interrupted by Martha.
* Tag-team theory building.
* Dinner with the Castles and Kate's reaction to being hugged by Martha.
* The end of Alexis and Ashley.

### Quotable quotes

* CASTLE: Tell me you need me.
BECKETT: Excuse me?
* ALEXIS: You don't understand. They're all I've got. Do you hear me? They're *all I've got*.
BECKETT: Alexis, listen to me. I promise they are going to be okay.
ALEXIS: They better.
* MARTHA: You are a hostage. Behave accordingly.
* CASTLE: I love you, mother.
MARTHA: Right back at'cha, kiddo.
* TRAPPER JOHN: Your girlfriend is a hellcat.
CASTLE: She's not my girlfriend.
TRAPPER JOHN: Too much woman for ya?
* CASTLE: Mother, I find I'm no longer happy with the customer service at this establishment. I think we should take our business elsewhere.
* MARTHA: He's not the only one here, you know...
* CASTLE: Even as a hostage, I help you solve murders. Beckett, I think - I think you have the perfect partner.
BECKETT: Yeah, except he doesn't like doing paperwork.
CASTLE: Touché .

### Just the facts

* Kate has saved Castle 8 times. Castle has saved Kate 9 times. (See here for our guess as to which ones he's counting.)
* Castle and Beckett both apparently know Morse code.
* Martha played Titania in *A Midsummer Night's Dream* in Central Park's Shakespeare in the Park season back in the 80s.
* Alexis finally gives up on Ashley and the long-distance not-romance they've been not having.
* Esposito has friends in ESU (Emergency Service Unit) and from what Beckett asks him about prior scenarios, Esposito possibly worked with ESU before the 54th (where he was an officer/detective) and the 12th.

### Oops

* On the funeral programme Castle is looking at when they talk to the priest, it's spelled 'preist'.
* When Beckett enters the bank posing as a paramedic, her hands are bare. When she helps Sal Martino onto the gurney, she has a blue latex glove on her right hand. (She may have put it on sometime during her exchange with Castle, though we never see her explicitly do it.) After she exits the bank and hands the gurney Sal is on over to the real paramedics, she's wearing latex gloves on both hands.

### Branch libraries

* Hos 'n' Bros Review (2 Nov 11)
* TVLine.com - 'Castle is Definitely a Hero', interview with Susan Sullivan (30 Oct 11)
* TVLine.com - *Castle*'s Life Is In the Hands of *Breaking Bad*'s Dean Norris (19 Sep 11)