Almost Famous

**Writer**: Elizabeth Davis

**Director**: Felix Alcala

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

Beckett and Castle respond to a call of officer down, but what they find isn't exactly what they were expecting. Meanwhile, Martha goes overboard when Alexis suggests she might want to audition for the school play.

### Guest cast

* Corey Saunders - DEREK BROOKNER
* Mary Page Keller - REBECCA DALTON
* Philip Anthony-Rodriguez - MICHAEL GRANT
* Blake Gibbons - BILLY GRIMM
* Sam Doumit - MANDY CARSON
* Leandro Canno - BOUNCER
* Adrianna DeMeo - BELLA LOMBARDO
* Gideon Emery - LLOYD SAUNDERS
* Clint Glenn - HANS VON MANNSCHAFT
* David Barry Gray - BERT KRAMER
* Kelsey Gunn - SARAH LIEBERMAN
* Austin Highsmith - CAMILLE ROBERTS
* Mobin Khan - GAS STATION SHOPKEEPER
* Samantah Quan - KATHLEEN PARK
* Christina Vidal - JAMIE RUIZ

### Music

* "Friday Rock" - JIM BACCHI (cop approaches apartment)
* "Hot In Herre" - NELLY (male strippers do their fireman dance)
* "Stars Like You" - TROY MacCUBBIN (tag)
* "Never Easy" - PIERLUIGI FERRANTINI, PIERFRANCESCO BAZZOFFI & ALESSANDRO SGRECCIA

### Literary and other references

* *Doogie Howser, MD* was a television show in the early '90s, starring Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage doctor.
* A-Rod is Alex Rodriguez, a baseball player with the Yankees.
* *Twilight* is an obscenely popular young-adult book about vampires, penned by Stephenie Meyer, that has been franchised into a movie series that spawned an obsession by many over Robert Pattinson.
* *Grease* is a musical about good-girl Sandy and her romance with bad-boy Danny.
* *Sunset Boulevard* is a movie set in 1950's Hollywood, featuring an aging actress in a doomed romance.
* Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are two married actors; she's considerably older that he is.
* Hans von Manschaft says he's using Minoxidil to keep his hair on his head, which is the chemical name for the product more commonly known as Rogaine.

### Memorable moments

* Martha mentoring Alexis.
* The bachelorette party girls.
* Castle storyspinning.
* The acting reel.
* Ryan and Espo at the stripper agency.
* Castle at the Package Store.

### Quotable quotes

* CASTLE: Maybe he's old-school, didn't want to give up the badge he built his career on.
LANIE: Castle, he's mid-twenties.
CASTLE: You ever hear of a brilliant doctor named Doogie Howser?
* CASTLE: It might interest you to know, I'm an assistant volunteer homicide detective myself.
* CASTLE: He's not that handsome. You want my opinion, 300 bucks an hour, little steep.
LANIE: As the person in this room who has seen everything under the sheet...bargain.
* ESPOSITO: Three years varsity ball, two years Special Forces triathlon, and NYPD calendar 2007. What?
RYAN: It was a group photo.
ESPO: I got letters.
RYAN: Yeah, three, two of them from your mom.
ESPOSITO: One of them from my mom.
* CASTLE: Careful, Hans, your New Jersey is starting to show.
* MARTHA: I will have you know, I had some of my best memories happen in these pants.
* BECKETT: Do you have any brochures? I'm looking for a place. Mine blew up.

### Just the facts

* Esposito played varsity baseball for three years. He was also in the Special Forces and did the triathlon for two years.
* Alexis' school is doing *Grease*; she tries out and is shortlisted for Sandy. She doesn't get the part but decides to be stage manager instead.
* Martha once played an elf in Santa's village and Lady Liberty outside a low-rent tax service. The worst job she ever had was being a secretary.
* Beckett is still looking for a new apartment.

### Oops

* A car as old as Derek's wouldn't be likely to have a remote unlock like that.

### Branch libraries

* News
	+ BTS with Kelly Whyte 3x07 "Almost Famous" (19 May 11)
* Reviews
	+ CliqueClack - Castle--A-Rod and that skinny Twilight dude (2 Nov 10)
* Promos