Episode Play-by-Play: Castle s05e01 "After the Storm"

10:03 - "So you liked it? Even that part..." "Especially that part." -- My life, it's wonderful.

10:04 - Alexis is all rockstar when she's hungover.

10:06 - The VP is the guy with the horn rimmed glasses from Heroes! This can only end badly!

10:08 - Beckett is wearing all sorts of eyeliner. Post sexy times eyeliner.

- Ryan's hair has gotten longer in that one night since the last episode three months ago...

10:13 - Continuity just ruined their post coital buzz. Shame. And there's cellos and everything. But that killer really does need to be dealt with.

10:14 - That picture is loaded with fingerprints. Pics on tv don't usually have any signs of reality on them.

10:17 - Poor Ryan. Nothing but real-cop aggravation with the rest of the main characters out of the precinct.

10:18 - He's actually named Mr Smith!

10:23 - Doesn't 86 mean you don't have something or you're getting rid of something?

10:24 - Nice techy-thriller reverb going on in the soundtrack. It's like they're wandering into the New York where Person of Interest is set.

10:26 - I can't help thinking that Helo is upset because Athena is now on Hawaii Five-0... It's possible I watch too much TV.

10:27 - Espo. Still cockblocking. And being kinda bitchy at Castle there...Mayhaps we have some complications brewing? I know a whole segment of the fandom that would just die of glee if Espo has a thing for Becks.

10:29 - Well, so much for Helo the killer. That was fast. And sort of unsatisfying; he was set up like he'd be a constant threat and hard to get rid of.

Commercials - This is the longest commercial break I've seen in a long time.

10:35 - Beckett has a great apartment that someone on a cop's salary couldn't possibly afford with the appartment costs in New York. Well, real New York. TV New York is full of giant, well-lit apartments that people with normal low-end salaries can afford. Unless it's that one ep of HIMYM, where we learn that the place was actually really small and they just thought it was big.

10:36 - Piecing together burned paper scraps? They need to contact Angela at the Jeffersonian! Too bad that's a different channel.

Commercials - I didn't know Grey's Anatomy turned into the pilot of Lost at the end of last season.

10:41 - Assistant DAs in fictional New Yorks are always trouble-- super villains, criminal overlords, conspiracy hubs.

10:44 - I know I should be thinking about Mr Smith and how much he knows, buti keep getting distracted by Beckett's amazing jacket. She always has such great jackets.

10:45 - And there goes Mr Smith. Again, that was way easy. So I guess the fan-fav idea that he's Castle's missing dad is debunked? Unless that's part of the disappearing plan, to be declared dead?

10:48 - Those old pics of her with her mom are creepy because apparently Beckett looked like full-grown Stana Katic even when she was sixteen.

10:49 - Beckett is going assassin-rogue! Rock on!

10:50 - Not cool, Becks, leaning on the only other girl detective ever.

10:51 - Ooh, yeah, she's being smart! She's playing the game right on back and taking control of her own plotline! Go Beckett!

10:52 - "That's a bell you can't unring" -- That sounds like Captian Mal talking.

10:54 - Look at him being a multifaceted villain. Making Becks look nuts. How clever.

10:58 - Castle is so proud of her!

- Her hair is lighter and her eyebrows are darker.

- I'm liking Gates better than before. She's sharper, but also more in tune with our friends.

10:59 - She palmed him in an elevator! Naughty girl!

Samantha Tweets, Tumbles, Blogs and won't be afraid anymore. It's his turn to be afraid.

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