First of
all, I’m sorry that I’m late but I’ve had a really busy week, so I couldn’t
start writing this until Monday night. Also I know that this episode is filled
with Firefly references, but since I’ve never seen it, I’m not able to point
them out.
The first 2
minutes of the episode had me wondering if I was watching the right show, but
when we hear that there’s a dead body on the ship, we know it’s Castle. Did
anyone else notice that Stana was the voice of the oracle. Next we see Caste
signing autographs for a guy wearing an I heart (literally a heart) Richard
Castle t-shirt. I wonder if Kate has one of those. Castle asks the next person
in line where he/she wants it and we here Kate say “Could you sign my chest?”. Of
course Castle looks up immediately. Castle offers her a private signing but
Kate tells him to get his mind out of the gutter and that the reason that she’s
there is because there’s been a murder at Super Nova Con. As they’re walking to
the crime scene, Castle tells her about the times he and Alexis went there, as
princess Leia en Darth Vader (not surprised at all). Kate tells him the murder
was on a space ship, and Castle starts to guess, naming shows I’ve never even
heard of, and is disappointed when it turns out to be Nebula 9. Castle starts
to diss the show and Kate is disappointed that he’s not a fan, since she
clearly is. But even Castle has to admit that it’s a cool ship, while Kate is
making the same face that I would make if I were ever allowed on the Castle
set. Esposito joins them and tells them that the victim is Anabelle Collins,
the person who organized the whole Nebula 9 Fan Experience Re-enactment thing.
Esposito quickly agrees with Castle on the TV-show thing and when Espo asks
Beckett what she thinks she gives him a mean look and he drops it. Poor Kate,
nobody likes her show. I can relate. No Lanie this episode, instead we get
Perlmutter who still does not like Castle. Gotta say that I love sassy
Perlmutter. While Perlmutter and Castle argue about the wound, Perlmutter tells
Beckett that he has no clue what the murder weapon is. Ryan joins them and says
that he hasn’t been able to find any witnesses. Beckett says that they can
leave a message on the Nebula 9 fansite, but before Beckett can give an
explanation as to how she knows about the fansite, Gabriel Winters aka Captain
Max walks onto the crime scene but Ryan says he’s not ready to give his
statement yet because he needs a minute to muse upon the fragile nature of
human life. But a very eager Beckett says that his minute is up. Captain Max
says he’s devastated (something I do not believe at all) and that the last time
he saw Anabelle was at the end of the fan experience. He tells them that
Anabelle’s friends Audrey and Davis run the Nebula 9 booth.
When they
go to talk to them Audrey tells them that Anabelle had looked upset and that
she had said that someone she trusted had betrayed her. Davis then tells them
about the death threats that Anabelle had gotten from some fans. While Castle
is reading the emails, Kate asks if he really believes it was some crazy fan.
Castle then says that if you’re a fan of Nebula 9 you’re already pretty crazy,
which once again pisses off Kate. Just when they’re about to leave for the
morgue, someone yells out Kate’s name and then K-Becks (love Castle’s face). Apparently
Henry knows Kate from Stanford. He tells Castle, much to Kate’s dismay, that
she was a Nebula 9 mega-fan and even has the picture with him to prove it. Kate
then uses her badge to get the picture from him (probably so that she can burn
it). At the morgue Castle says he’ll forgive her terrible taste if she tries on
her old Nebula 9 costume for him. She says “In your dreams.” causing Castle to
say “Look at my life, my dreams come true.” The man has a point. Perlmutter is
once again not happy to see Castle, calling him non-detective Castle. He tells
them that the cause of death was a burn caused by a high intensity laser beam,
which Perlmutter has a hard time admitting since that means that Castle is
right.
While
Castle and Beckett discuss how she could have been killed by a laser, Castle
says that someone probably made a portable hand gun version. Castle says they
should go back to the emails of the crazy fans, assuring Kate that he’s not
talking about her, and Kate reveals that he has a life sized Boba Fett in his
bathroom. Castle suggests that maybe one
of the crazy fans killed her with the same weapon used on Nebula 9. But Kate
tells him that all of them have alibis.
Back at
Super Nova Con Ryan and Esposito are looking for witnesses (or at least trying
to) and, after interviewing a lot of weirdly dressed people, they find out that
Anabelle took Stephanie Fry, who played Lt. Chloe (Kate’s hero) in Nebula 9,
into the fan experience. When Castle and Beckett go talk to her Stephanie tells
them that Anabelle had asked her to be a part of the fan experience. She says that
she doesn’t want Nebula 9 to harm her image. Kate is clearly not okay with that
statement. Stephanie also tells them that Anabelle was having problems with
captain Max. Ryan and Espo then tell them about the problems between them and that
Anabelle wanted to fire him. Just as they hang up Castle lets out a way to high
shriek when he sees Alexis there, dressed in … well not a lot. Kate manages to
drag him away before he makes an even bigger scene than he already has. They
then go to interrupt the latest fan experience, something captain Max isn’t
happy with. When they asks him, again, for his alibi he refuses to say where he
was. They then asks him to hand over his weapon, which he again refuses,
prompting Castle to just grab it from him and fire it at a computer (not really
sure why he had to fire it though). Back at the precinct Espo tells them that
the laser blaster that Gabriel had on him was the murder weapon. Castle then
goes back to the topic of Alexis and her costume. Kate points out that the
costume Alexis was wearing is not so different from the one he wants her to
wear, which just confuses Castle.
When they
question Gabriel, he finally tells them that he was at the doctor at the time
of the murder for reasons I really don’t want to discuss. He also tells them
that Anabelle had a boyfriend. Ryan and Esposito pay a visit to what Ryan calls
“the Halloween from hell” and find out that Anabelle’s date was wearing a Kriever
costume (I’m just assuming this is how it’s spelled) and that he was wearing a
VIP pass. At the same time Castle and Beckett are looking for the guy who made
the laser blaster and after being fake-threatened by fake-lasers (and Castle
almost pees himself) they find Benjamin Donnely who tells them that he only
sold one and that when you fire it, you should wear the proper protection, which
Castle was not wearing. Back at the precinct Castle starts to freak out
wondering what the side effects of firing the laser blaster are. When he brings
up that this might have made him infertile, Kate asks if he wants more kids and
Castle says that he’d like the option. I’m I the only one who would have liked
to see Kate freak out more about this? Back at his loft, Castle find Alexis.
They both decide to not talk about what happened at Super Nova Con. Probably
for the best. The next morning Beckett and Esposito question Simon, the guy in
the Kriever mask. He tells them that he bought that laser gun for Anabelle as a
gift. He says that Anabelle wasn’t crying because of something that he did, but
because some guy tried to kiss her. That guy turns out to be Davis. When
Beckett and Espo are about to leave to pick up Davis, they run into Castle who
thinks he’s going bald. He asks her if she would still be attracted to him if he
woke up bald the next morning. Kate doesn’t answer him, making Castle believe
that she would in fact no longer be attracted to him.
Later they’re
questioning Davis who tells them that he’s always been in love with Anabelle
and that it killed him to see her with Simon. After kissing him she told him
that he’d ruined everything and that that would be their last Con. He also
tells them that Anabelle was going to sell her rights to Nebula 9 and that now
that she’s dead, those rights go to Audrey. They find out that Audrey sold the
rights the day after Anabelle died for more than 2 million dollars and when
they asks her where she was the night that Anabelle was killed, Audrey refuses
to answer them. When Castle and Beckett discuss the case on the space ship
Castle offers to make her sexy fantasies about the space ship come true but he
quickly changes his mind when she points out that it’s still a crime scene. She
then explains why she loved the show, saying that it was about leaving home for
the first time and finding your own identity. Castle then accidently hurts
himself and sees that there are strange marks on his hands when he holds it
over one of the lights. He asks what that means and Kate says that he just
solved the case. They then round up all the suspects at the ship and make them
put their hands over the light to see which one fired the laser blaster.
Stephanie is also there for a re-enactment in which Stephanie perfectly shows
us what over-acting means. Simon, Audrey and Davis all come out clean but when
it’s Gabriel’s turn, his hands show marks. But he explains that it’s because he
recently purchased his own laser blaster, he is after all captain Max.
Stephanie then tries to sneak away but Kate notices and as an escape plan Stephanie holds the
laser blaster to Gabriel’s head. Stephanie confesses and Gabriel does some kind
of stunt move to get the gun from her. Kate then goes into fan mode and Gabriel
tells her that he had the gun on stun, so it couldn’t really hurt him. I knew
he was too calm.
Back at the
precinct Castle says his hands will be fine in a few days. He then asks if she’s
okay since she had to arrest her idol, but Kate tells him that Stephanie was
never her idol, Lt. Chloe was. Kate then finally agrees to wear the costume for
him but only if he watches a Nebula 9 marathon with her and promises not to
make fun of it. He agrees and she says she’ll see him at his place, making
Castle run home as fast as he can. Back at his place, Castle is anxiously
waiting on the bed. She then slowly comes out, and we see Castle get the
biggest smile on his face. That is until he sees the Kriever mask, falls off
the bed and hides in the closet. Pretty sure that’s going to give him
nightmares for at least a week.
I promise I’ll
start the next one as soon as I can. Should be up by the end of the weekend.
