What’s up on Castle? Back in season 6, we watched as Castle and Beckett solved crime and tried to fit in the culmination of their 5 or so seasons of romantic tug-of war with a wedding. As Castle so aptly put it in the season finale, “What’s a great story without obstacles to overcome?” he said comforting his defeated bride-to-be. “Every fairy tale has them — terrible trials that only the worthy can transcend. But we can’t give up. That’s the deal — we want the happy ending, we can’t give up.”
Just as they had gone to the Hampton’s and were gathering their friends and family for their fairy tale nuptials, something went wrong…terribly wrong. Castle was in his car on the way to the wedding, and then Kate gets a phone call. Next we see her, she is running down a Hamptons street, on her way to lay witness to a shocking, heartbreaking sight: Rick’s car, having seemingly been forced off the road by an ominous SUV, engulfed in flames.
So in the opener for Season 7, we see Kate Beckett and the rest of the precinct team, along with Castle’s family go on the hunt for the missing Rick. As Kate begins following the evidence in search of Castle, she does a great job of composing herself. However, when she finds a potential suspect, she tries every means possible to get the information she needs him.
As the case progresses, Captain Gates suggests that Beckett let the FBI assist her in the case, which she grudgingly agrees. When FBI’s Agent Connors played by Jon Lindstrom) asks Beckett to make of list of all the people from her and Castle’s cases who could be involved in the abduction, naturally, the first people who come up and Senator Bracken and 3XK. Even Castle’s father’s name come up, but those are shunned aside, as we expected, since we were assured a new mythology for Castle’s disappearance.
The episode sees the return of Vincent “The Scar” Cardano, a character first seen in the season 5 episode “Murder, He Wrote”. A meeting with him leads to a crucial piece of evidence which takes the case to a completely new direction, a direction which no one (not even the viewers) would expect. To see just where the trail leads, tune in to Castle’s season 7 premiere tonight on ABC at 10 pm.
