The Dead Pool

**Writer**: Matt Pyken

**Director**: Paul Holahan

### Literary and other references

* Franz Kafka was an Austrian novelist; one of his books, *The Metamorphosis*, is about a man who gets transformed into a giant insect.
* Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader are characters from *Star Wars.* Obi-Wan was young Vader's teacher.
* richardcastle.net is in fact a real website set up by the show.
* Oedipus is a Greek myth, most familiar as portrayed in a play by Socrates, about a man caught up in a self fulfilling prophecy.
* *The Godfather* is a 1970's movie trilogy (based on a book of the same name) about the mafia.
* *Beverly Hillbillies* was an American TV show in the '60s about a backwoods family that moves to LA after striking it rich.
* Castle's jibe about 'moose and squirrel' is a reference to the '60s animated series *Rocky & Bullwinkle*, which featured villains with heavy Eastern European accents.

### Memorable moments

* Beckett checking out "Rocket."
* Ryan's 'interview' with Bridget's brothers.
* Castle and Beckett sharing her cell phone.
* Montgomery's scenes with Zack's mother.
* Castle tricking Alex into poker night.
* Cannell's seat at the poker game.
* Castle admitting he's jealous.
* Conrad and the dude-muses.
* Beckett saying 'Always.'

### Quotable quotes

* MARTHA: And by process you mean your procrastination until the very last second.
ALEXIS: And then writing out of a desperate panic in a caffeine induced haze
MARTHA: That one?
CASTLE: No, not that one.
* CASTLE: He's a writer, how much trouble can he be?
* RYAN: Assault on a city employee, parking enforcement.
CASTLE: Doesn't count.
MONTGOMERY: Easy.
RYAN: Dude.
* CASTLE: What kind of accent - Spanish, Asian, Russian?
BRIDGET: Do I look like I work at the UN? *Not* Brooklyn. Okay?
* ALEXIS: Muse thievery. What's the punishment for that, five to ten years in mythology jail?
* LEHANE: You know what I did when I wrote my first book? I shut up and wrote 23 more.
* BECKETT: From now on, I am a one-writer girl.
* RYAN: They were at a sporting event...of sorts...
BECKETT: Which was?
RYAN: Leprechaun toss. *Don't* ask.
* CASTLE: Yes, fine, it's true. I'm jealous. There, I said it. I want you all to myself.
* ESPOSITO: So, a dude can be a muse, right, bro? I mean, it's not weird or anything, is it?
CASTLE: *(after ESPOSITO walks away)* That's a little weird.
BECKETT: Yeah.
* CASTLE: Thank you.
BECKETT: Always.

### Just the facts

* Captain Montgomery has three children: two girls and a boy.
* Castle is 'mentoring' a young writer named Alex Conrad - really all he did was give Conrad a few notes and send the book to his publisher.
* Castle's first apartment was very run down - they used to have cockroach races.
* The body outline notepad that Beckett uses in this episode was a present to Stana from a fan.
* This is the first episode in which Stephen J. Cannell's death is mentioned; a creative member of the Bowman and Castle families for many years, he passed away in September 2010.

### Oops

* At the end of the episode, when Ryan and Esposito are taking Conrad to Rikers to visit the prison, Ryan says laughing, "then he said, they used to do this to me for talking." It can be assumed that he was talking about his experience with Hal Lockwood from 3x13, only it is weird that Ryan says "then he said," because it was Ryan who said it in the first place. It should be "and then I said."

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