Little Girl Lost

**Writer**: Elizabeth Davis

**Director**: John Terlesky

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

A kidnapped child brings Beckett's ex-boyfriend, an FBI agent, back into her life.

### Guest cast

* Bailey Chase - WILL SORENSON
* Judy Reyes - THERESA CANDELA
* Julian Acosta - ALFRED CANDELA
* Francis Capra - JUAN RESTREPO
* Jeannette Sousa - LUCIA GOMEZ
* Todd Wearing - DAVE ELLERS
* Jacqueline Torres - NINA MENDOLA
* Melanie Lorra - FBI TECH
* Kurt Long - TODD
* Mario Perez - BACKPACK GUY

### Literary and other references

* 'Five by five' may have other meanings, but it's also what Faith used to say on Buffy. A shout-out to Joss Whedon from NF?
* Two Star Wars refs in this one -- 'I'm like a Jedi' and Beckett calling Castle Obi-wan.
* Castle's comment about TV detectives being 'oddly fixated on their sunglasses' is a reference to *Castle* 's main competition, *CSI: Miami*.
* Hester Prynne is the main character from Nathanial Hawthorne's *The Scarlet Letter*.
* Nancy Drew is a fictional character from mystery novels first published in the 1920s. She's a teenage sleuth and she does indeed solve every case.

### Memorable moments

* Castle's introduction to Sorenson.
* Martha's life-coaching session.
* Castle walking in on Beckett and Sorenson kissing.
* Castle's text message.
* Beckett with the kidnapped girl.

### Quotable quotes

* BECKETT: You do realize that most people would be creeped out by crazy anonymous fans.
CASTLE: Like you?
* CASTLE: So what'd you think of your alter ego, Nikki? Pretty sweet, right?
BECKETT: Sweet? She's naked.
CASTLE: She's not naked. She's holding a gun. Strategically.
* CASTLE: Then why call me?
CAPTAIN MONTGOMERY: 'Cause I like pissing off the FBI.
* CASTLE: I didn't ask.
BECKETT: Yeah. I know, you were not asking very loudly.
CASTLE: I know, I'm like a Jedi like that.
* BECKETT: Oh, for Pete's sake, why don't you two just drop your pants and get it over with.
CASTLE: I'm game.
* BECKETT: This is usually the part where I ask if you've thought this through, and then I remembered that you don't think things through.
* BECKETT: Be careful, ok?
CASTLE: Do I detect actual concern for my well-being?
BECKETT: Screw this up and I'll kill you.
CASTLE: That's more like it.
* CASTLE: He's like the male you. Yin needs Yang, not another Yin. Yin-Yang is harmony. Yin-Yin is...a name for a panda.
* CASTLE: Well, you're a mysterious woman, Detective Beckett.
BECKETT: Maybe there's a little more Nikki Heat in me than you think.

### Just the facts

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* Kate's breakfast is a grande skim latte with two pumps of sugar-free vanilla and a bearclaw (so much for the sugar-free).
* Not only are the team called out at midnight (1x08), they're also called at dawn (1x05) and now on Sunday. Seriously, NYPD needs to hire some more homicide cops.
* Is Kate really Castlefreak1212 or Castlelover45? You decide.
* Sorenson and Kate 'dated' for six months, then he took a promotion and transfer to the Boston field office. They met on a kidnapping of a six year old boy, which ended up as a murder.
* According to Sorenson, Beckett is the best detective in the city.
* Ryan has a girlfriend, someone he started dating two weeks ago, who has atrocious taste in ties.
* Kate owns a pair of neon ice skates (left over from the 80s?).
* Alexis has an American Lit final on the day they solve the case, which would put the datestamp on this ep about a month later than its airdate.
* Alexis has a favorite stuffed animal named Monkey Bunkey.
* The ending makes the fourth time Castle has asked Beckett out (1x01, ..., ..., and earlier in this ep) and the second time she's walked away and left him floored.
* It's 4:17 am when Castle and Alexis are looking at the photos of Angela's stuffed animals.

### Oops

* If the kidnappers are close enough to see what Castle is wearing, it's a good guess they'd also figure out he's talking to someone since his mouth keeps moving. Not to mention Ryan and Esposito talking into their fists.
* If you can ping the phone at all, you should be able to pinpoint its exact location immediately.
* I'm not sure what the FBI's actual procedures are for kidnappings, but it seems a little odd that they would just make the family raise the money and pay the ransom.

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	+ Episode Review: Castle 1x09 - "Little Girl Lost" - Whedonopolis (5 May 09)
	+ CliqueClack - Castle Messed With My Theory This Week (5 May 09)
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