Heroes and Villains

**Writer**: David Amann

**Director**: Jeff Bleckner

#### DUSTJACKETS BLURB

A wanna-be rapist gets split in half by what appears to be a superhero protecting the streets of New York. Meanwhile, Beckett finds her inner geek, Gates gets a dose of weird, and Alexis makes some fairly silly decisions...for five minutes or so.

### Guest cast

* Eric Tiede - MIKE HOOVER
* Valerie Azlynn - ANN HASTINGS
* Jamie McShane - TONY "THE BUTCHER" VALTINI
* Hank Harris - CHAD HOCKNEY
* Kenneth Mitchell - PAUL WHITTAKER
* James Ferris - TYLER FARIS
* Mark Schaffer - PURSE SNATCHER
* Sheila Tejada - CLERK
* Maxine Hayden - PURSE SNATCH VICTIM

### Music

* "Finish Line" - JEN HIRSH (Placement)
* "Devil Is A Lady" - CHAIN GANG OF 1974 (Placement)

### Literary and other references

* Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, Falstaff, and King Lear are all major characters from plays by William Shakespeare.
* *Game of Thrones* is an epic fantasy-medieval HBO series taken from the *Song of Ice and Fire* series of books by George R. R. Martin.
* Conan the Barbarian is a fantasy comic book character created by Robert E Howard in 1932. The character has spawned a number of books, television series, and movies, and was perhaps most notably portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1982 film.
* *Ben-Hur* refers to a 19th century novel by Lew Wallace. It has several screen adaptations, but the most famous is the 1959 film starring Charlton Heston. It is renowned for its chariot race scene.
* The Old Testament is the first part of the Christian bible that depicts the events before Christ.
* Dirty Harry is a reckless cop character played by Clint Eastwood in the film *Dirty Harry* and its four sequels.
* Quentin Tarantino is an American Academy Award winning film director known for his gritty, dirty, often violent style.
* Iron Man, Spider-man, Daredevil, Deadpool, and Black Panther are all superheroes from the Marvel comic universe. When the Marvel comic characters fight crime together, they do so under the group name The Avengers.
* Elektra is a female Marvel superhero created by Frank Miller and is the love interest of Daredevil. She was most famously played by Jennifer Garner in the film *Daredevil* and the film *Elektra*.
* Bruce Wayne is the real life alter ego of Batman, also called The Dark Knight. He was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger for DC Comics.
* *Two and a Half Men* is an American comedy television show starring Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones. Charlie Sheen originally played the other main adult character, but was killed off and replaced by Ashton Kutcher in the 9th season.
* Stan Lee was a famous comic book creator and writer. He was previously the president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
* Peter Parker and Clark Kent are the real life alter egos of Spider-Man and Superman, respectively.

### Memorable moments

* The murder is pretty spectacular in this one.
* Beckett's reaction to the L-butt.
* Beckett doing (cough) yoga.
* Nope, she didn't pre-order Derrick Storm.
* Gates coming to terms with one of Beckett's 'weird ones'.
* Ryan's Castle impersonation.

### Quotable quotes

* LANIE: Please. The guy was sliced in two. I’d say his unit is the least of his problems.
CASTLE: Then you do not understand the sacred bond between a man and his unit.
* CASTLE: Sword … that is so Game of Thrones.
* CASTLE: Our killer is a superhero!
* BECKETT: Oh, that's okay. I won't be reading it.
MIKE: Really? I saw your name on the list. You pre-ordered a copy.
CASTLE: Did she now?
BECKETT: I was just being supportive.
* RYAN: I mean, haven’t you ever wanted to be a superhero? Going out there, prowling the city, knocking some heads?
ESPOSITO: I do that now.
* CASTLE: The student has become the master. Or at least, he tried. Actually, for a truly Castle-esque theory, it has to be fully thought through.
BECKETT: Since when?
* BECKETT: Yoga, Castle. I was doing...yoga.
* CASTLE: A writer and his muse, fighting crime. Just like us.

### Just the facts

* Castle once asked Martha to make him an ET costume for Halloween and she told him she didn't know how to sew. According to her, he was 32 at the time.
* Martha is making costumes for her Shakespeare class.
* For the first time ever, Beckett calls Esposito 'Espo'. It's finally canon, folks!
* Beckett bought her first comic at age 14, from Comicadia. It was Frank Miller's *Sin City: Dame to Kill For*. The character she'd most want to be, however, is Elektra, for the badass ninja skills.
* Castle has an extremely impressive comic collection, including a first edition *Avengers*. He'd like to be Bruce Wayne because he's got the coolest toys (which links nicely back to Beckett saying that entering the loft for the first time made her feel like 'Alfred in the Bat cave' in 1x05).
* Ashley is an economics major. Alexis is not.
* Hastings' surgical scar is actually real.
* Castle's Derrick Storm graphic novel is on sale.

### Oops

Unless it was a really crappy katana, there's no way the tip should break off.

### Branch libraries

* News
* Reviews
	+ CliqueClack - Castle does Kick-Ass (27 Sept 11)
	+ Daemon'sTV - CASTLE "Heroes and Villains" Review (27 Sep 11)
	+ Law and the Multiverse on "Heroes and Villains" (3 Oct 11)