At the end, when they were walking to the elevator arm-in-arm, she was twirling her hair just like she did when she was talking to the fireman. Love it!

ETA: Someone over at TWOP caught that Bachelor #8 on the list was Andrew Marlowe, the really rich guy from earlier this season. Nice continuity, writers.

The other two detectives are brilliant. Competent cops, witty in their own right, and they like Castle. And I like the Captain. And the Alexis/Castle relationship is wonderful. She's worried about who will look after her dad after she's in college! She knows he needs someone to look after him. And when she needs help, he drops everything to go. I can't say how refreshing it is to have a family relationship on a show that isn't fraught with drama--other than what his diva mother brings.

And when she needs help, he drops everything to go.

I think that ep is when I really fell in love with the show. When he picked up Alexis and her friend, no questions asked, but then insisted that he call her parents, I loved it.

then insisted that he call her parents

And then logical fallout of Alexis' friend being pissed at her, not "appreciating the valuable life lesson."

The other two detectives are brilliant. Competent cops, witty in their own right, and they like Castle. And I like the Captain.

And you just know that the three of them and the rest of the squad room have a pool going on when Beckett and Castle will hook up.

Last night's ep had some great lines, but one of my favorites was Beckett telling Castle to hold her purse after she pulled the gun out of it.

ack! I kept falling asleep during Castle! I caught the last minute or so ... who was the culprit and what was going on?

Although I did love the squatter - seriously, he'd be an improvement over most of the roommates I hear about (he fixe the faucet!)

The squatter stumbled across a robbery plan. He squatted in an apartment where the robbers had lured the people out of the apartment with a fake cruise provided by victim #1. They needed the apartment because it had a dumbwaiter that went into the pet store below. The robbers were not just robbing a pet store, they were robbing the store owner who was smuggling diamonds in snakes (that were not indiginous to the country, which Castle figured out). The store owner claimed that nothing was stolen, obvi.

The culprit was the BIL of victim #1, who worked at the airport and had figured out the smuggling scheme and figured that the smuggler wouldn't report the robbery.

Thanks!

Ryan made me giggle with his comment of "Do they even know they're finishing each other's sentences?"

That was the money quote, right there.

I still like racial hatred and diamonds.