Chaos at the precinct and Castle (Nathan Fillion) comments the "full moon brings out all the crazies." They've got "madness, mayhem now all they need is" murder. Which they get. A husband finds his wife, Ashley's body at the office. Castle again mentions those science shows, where they can build a bird's eye view of what the fish saw from the tank. Lanie (Tamala Jones) wears a dress which opens Castle's eyes and he can't stop staring and it ain't at the dress either. There are words written on the Vic's face and Castle also adds the killer didn't have any sense of grammar. That "who or whom would be tougher to use" but not 'your' and you're'. The killer also murdered the English language. Jason (Brennan Elliott) claims to be at a game and Esposito (Jon Huertas) and Ryan (Seamus Dever) have another murder to deal with. Ryan will miss warm milk and honey with Jenny. He wasn't meant to say it out loud.
Castle claims Ashley had dinner with someone with bad grammar. Perlmutter (Ayre Gross) finds the second Vic was shot and the "body is speaking." Don't know how many variations we'll get of that line. It was probably a mugging. Castle thinks by writing on the murder Vic, a point was being made. Could have used proper language though. Oh enough with the language. The mugging Vic, Frank was a retired teacher and Castle is curious to know how the body was found. Esposito replies, "in the ground." No, that's on the ground. Language! He posits muggings are one of the hardest cases to close and they can close theirs first. They bet on this. Only if they don't tell Beckett (Stana Katic). Castle: "Secrets, murder and gambling, three of my favourite pastimes."
Martha (Susan Sullivan) doesn't think much of the bet. Ashley's friend, Brandi Rossini (Amy Stewart) had dinner with her and she was going to take a restraining order out against someone. Castle corrects Beckett, when she asks who? "Whom." She has an alibi and Jason's alibi also checks. So they're left with the patients, Ryan and Esposito find Frank's family, Christine (Linara Washington) and Eric (Marco Martinez). Castle tells Ryan and Esposito it can't be gang kids who killed Frank cos it's their regular haunt. Hey Ryan isn't reading any of Castle's books, thus far. Beckett suspects they're up to something.
Hal (Jim O'Heir) had a doctor's appointment and he heard arguing in the session before him. Well Castle was wrong about him, he wasn't the killer. The session before was attended by Hinkel (Matt Winston) who doesn't have any record. Castle posits he could have "snapped after two years of therapy." Kerpowsky (Diana-Maria Riva) gets in on the bet as do others. Ryan and Esposito have a suspect already and Ryan suggests they 'double down.' Esposito says the loser should wear a dress for a week and shave his head. Beckett runs her hand through her hair at the same time. Hinkel didn't do it as Ashley cancelled his appointment and had lunch with Jason. Beckett wonders why Castle is playing supercop. The entire office is buzzing.
Jason and Ashley were arguing at the restaurant and she was getting an order against hm, gee that was obvious. Castle made it apparent there was a bet going on when he collected the money and Beckett wants in. He claims the money is for Girls Scout cookie orders. Really he couldn't come up with a better excuse than that? Didn't think Beckett would be cool with the bet, she's changed this season - she may even be growing on me - I wearily say. Jason took out life insurance on Ashley which he claims she wanted him to do. Castle writes a note to Ryan and Esposito on the other side of the glass and they both prove Jason's alibi by watching the basketball game on TV. Castle puts his mother's dress against him in the mirror, was Castle really contemplating defeat, when he knows he's been the reason why so many cases were solved.
Alexis (Molly Quinn) still has Owen issues. Frank lived in a rent controlled apartment which stays controlled if it says in the family. Eric was cut off, that was motive right there and the life insurance too where Jason was concerned. Castle doesn't want to shave his head. Lanie calls all four to tell them their cases are connected. Both Vics had traces of salt water compound from the same body of water. Eric and Christine have alibis too. The fish tank was a red herring ! Beckett assumes the perp was in her office too and the Vics were killed by the same person. That didn't sound right.
This isn't random anymore and Christine picks out a name from Ashley's patient list, Grovner (Gareth Williams) but he is wearing a GPS on his ankle for missing parole. Castle was just saying there aren't any coincidences in murder and here was a coincidence. He hears Martha and Alexis arguing but they're rehearsing. Martha tells him there's a connection between everyone in New York city. Beckett gives Castle a clue this time as does Alexis. She recalls her mother and how Christina thought it was a random death, but she needs to know why. Beckett tells Esposito and Ryan they should swap cases, "You take our murder, we'll take yours." Had a feeling Hitchcock would be involved. Strangers on a Train. The connection is the killers themselves. They could kill each other's Vic's and have an alibi, but not for any of the other murders. Castle notices Jason takes the ferry, thus the water connection, and it matches from the Hudson. They need a confession.
Jason is the alpha in this conspiracy and he made a pact with Eric that if they don't break no one can prove what they did. Beckett and Castle tell Eric that Jason confessed, leading him to break first. They argue over who won the bet. There was no other way out of the bet if the cases weren't related, though I didn't think that from the outset, but luckily I worked it out before they did, ha. They couldn't have heads being shaved and dresses being donned. Castle in a dress is so imaginable! I wanted to see that. The highlight of this episode was the comedy, screwball at times and trust Castle/Nathan to pull it off so convincingly.
Castle: "If this was one of those super scien-cy forensic shows you could stick some electrodes in these fish's tanks."
Strangers on a Train, or boat in this case, makes for an interesting story and Castle (the show that is) executed it to perfection. Other shows have mentioned this great book and film including, NCIS in 12.5 Stakeout, by Tony, who else. Also 7.3 The Inside Man; Bones 2.15 Bodies in the Book; CSI 3.19 A Night at the Movies, The Simpsons Tree House of Horror XX, to name a few.
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