Demons

**Writer**: Rob Hanning

**Director**: Bill Roe

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

The host of a popular ghosthunters program is murdered...in a haunted house and Beckett searches for a worldly explanation despite Castle's hopes for a demon killer. Meanwhile, Rysposito take their respective ladies on a double-date with fairly disastrous results.

### Guest cast

* Juliana Dever - JENNY DUFFY-O'MALLEY
* Frederic Lehne - ADDISON SMITH
* Mark Harelik - PETE BENTON
* Vernee Watson - MERCY LAGRANDE
* Philipp Karner - JACK SINCLAIR
* Christian Anderson - HARRY BOYER
* Jennifer Cortese - MARGARET BOYER

### Music

* "Ghostbusters" - RAY PARKER, JR. (Placement)

### Literary and other references

* *Ghost Wranglers* is a nod to the television series *Ghosthunters* and its American spinoff *Ghost Hunters*, where paranormal investigators investigate locations said to be haunted to give advice and suggestions to the owners on how to deal with the paranormal activity.
* *The Sopranos* was an American television show based around a mobster trying to balance a regular family life with heading a mob organization. Its finale is notable for just cutting to a black screen, leaving the fate of Tony and his family a mystery.
* "They're here" is a line from the 1982 horror film *Poltergeist*, a movie about ghosts haunting a family's house and abducting the young daughter.
* Quentin Tarantino is an American Academy Award winning film director known for his gritty, dirty, often violent style.
* *Scooby-Doo* is an animated television series that has been running on American TV in various forms since 1969. It is about four teenagers - Fred, Daphne, Shaggy and Velma - and a dog, Scooby-Doo, who solve supposedly supernatural crimes by exposing the human perpetrators.
* Casper is the protagonist of the book *The Friendly Ghost*, and later a cartoon and film series.
* "I ain't afraid of no ghost" is a refrain in the title song from the film *Ghostbusters*. Yeah, who ya gonna call?

### Memorable moments

* Beckett talking about her supernatural experiences. Pay back for Castle telling her the story of the boy washing up on the beach in Season 2?
* The double date
* Castle freaking out after the skeleton falls on him.
* Esplainie...er...ex-plainie.
* Kate getting interrupted by the boys.
* The elevator moment.

### Quotable quotes

* CASTLE: I think it's time we revisit the idea that our killer is a -
BECKETT: If you say ghost, I'm sending you home.
CASTLE: Apparition-American.
* BECKETT: Are we going to stake out the house? Wait for the demon to show up? Zap him with our proton pack?
* ESPOSITO: Ghost hunters? Isn't that a contradiction of terms, bro?
* CASTLE: *(to Ryan, after Beckett disapproves of their interest in the paranormal)* Ooh, that's a look. I get these a lot. Just keep walking.
* BECKETT: Maybe Shaggy'll keep Scooby out of trouble.
* BECKETT: I think I've either had too much wine or not enough.
* CASTLE: For me? Please?
BECKETT: I ain't afraid of no ghost.
* BECKETT: Cas--I said legs!
* RYAN: I would like to propose a toast. I know that it's kind of corny, but it's me, so there we go.
* RYAN: Isn't this awkward...
* CASTLE: *(after a mummified corpse falls on his shoulder)* I am throwing away this coat!
* CASTLE: I'll promise you this: If two people believe in something, really believe, then anything, even the impossible, is possible.

### Just the facts

The same actor that played the murderer (who claimed a demon was responsible) also played a man possessed by the yellow-eyed demon in Seasons 1 & 2 of *Supernatural*.

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