: Watching Beckett and Demming bond over professional respect and shared experiences at the shooting range leaves Castle feeling like an outsider in Beckett's "real" world.
: Esposito is forced to confront the possibility that his old mentor may have "gone bad" and joined the crew of Victor Racine , a ruthless crime lord who has eluded the police for decades. [S2E21] Den of Thieves
While the case provides the grit, the B-plot introduces significant friction to the Castle-Beckett dynamic. : Watching Beckett and Demming bond over professional