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Famous mystery novelist Richard Castle and NYPD Detective Kate
Beckett return for the suspenseful Third Season of ABC's
brilliantly funny series, CASTLE. Enjoy every inspired idea and
flirtatious moment as this fiery duo solve the strangest
homicides New York has to offer. It's the most entertaining
season yet as Castle's wildly funny storytelling skills work
their way into every case. Between his mixed-up partnership with
Beckett and his relationships with his diva mother and his clever
daughter, Alexis, Castle is always on his toes. Crime fighting
has never been this much fun! Get on the beat and relive every
wild and witty moment in this 5-disc DVD set.
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Castle continues its strong run through its third season, mixing
the grim work of the New York Department's homicide
investigations with a light touch of humor based in its
characters. The cast remains essentially the same: bestselling
novelist Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion), who shadows Detective Kate
Beckett (Stana Katic) as research for his character Nikki Heat;
bromantic detective partners Ryan (Seamus Dever) and Esposito
(Jon Huertas), Captain Montgomery (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), and
medical examiner Lainie (Tamala Jones); and Castle's mother
(Susan Sullivan) and daughter, Alexis (Molly Quinn). And while
romance develops for a number of them, Castle and Beckett
continue their interplay of flirtation mixed with exasperation.
Add another character to the mix: the city of New York, which
reveals its many sides--Central Park, the subway system, the bar
and steampunk subcultures--in many of the weekly murders.
Castle might be best epitomized in consecutive midseason
episodes: in the first, Laura Prepon guest-stars as actress
Natalie Rhodes, who has been cast to play the big-screen version
of Nikki Heat, and the cast's differing and revolving reactions
to her are very funny. The following episode ratchets up the
intensity in the newest development in the search for the killer
of Beckett's mother. There's also a notable two-parter in which
Castle and Beckett are trapped in a freezer as they try to find a
dirty bomb somewhere in the city. Other guest stars include Lance
Henriksen as an alien-abduction expert, Corbin Bernsen as a
soap-opera star, Jane Seymour as a soap writer's mom, Adrian
Pasdar as a Homeland Security agent, Bruce Davison as the DA,
Michael McKean as a beauty-pageant sponsor, and Gene Simmons as
himself. Also appearing are mystery writers Dennis Lehane and
Michael Connelly, who leave an empty place at Castle's poker
table for the late Stephen J. Cannell. The core of the show, of
course, is Castle and Beckett, from the opening of the season
when Castle hasn't called or visited the department in months, to
Beckett's complicated relationships with her original training
officer, Royce (Jason Beghe), or her perpetually absent
boyfriend. Then not long after one breathless moment in which it
seems "Casckett" might become a reality, things come to a head in
the season-ending cliffhanger. --David Horiuchi