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.

I got confused and thought that they were talking about importing the animals from South America, so "racial hatred and diamonds" didn't make much sense until I rewatched.

Oh, and another thing I liked was when Castle was talking to the reporter and she told him why she assumed he and Beckett were together--he couldn't shut up about her!

Shows how much he's changed since the pilot, in terms of being so much less self-absorbed. But, she's changed a lot, too, as the end of last week's ep demonstrated. The writers have done an excellent job of showing these two characters developing and maturing personally to get them into the proper headspace for a committed relationship eventually (sooner rather than later, I hope!).

Attn ita: Check out the banner ads for Psyche on the front page of the AV Club.

Oh, and another thing I liked was when Castle was talking to the reporter and she told him why she assumed he and Beckett were together--he couldn't shut up about her!

And to your larger point, that a year earlier he wouldn't shut up about himself. (Which might be a tiny bit of an unfair standard for a profile piece, but hey.)

Castle might be the anti-Moonlighting. The show might survive the hooking-up of the main characters.