Cops and Robbers is the absolute best episode of Season 4. It is in this episode Beckett realizes she loves Castle. When Beckett enters the bank after the explosion and shouts Castle's name 3 times with desperation growing after each announcement, one can feel the need for Beckett to find her partner/love. Her intent gaze into Rick's eyes after snipping his plastic handcuffs says it all. It was all in the eyes! Castle returns the gaze with a deep love filled stare matching Kate's intensity. Many have re-watched the finale episodes wonderful scenes but when they watch Cops and Robbers, they watch the entire episode. Cops and Robbers offers one of the best Caskett moments of the season.
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Finally!
lvaqc1 November 2011
On my part, this one is the first more than good episode of this new season of "Castle". It's the return of the "breath taking moments" and all the emotion we lived in the previous season. Richard and Martha gets cought up in a bank robbery involving. . . scrubs ?!? Kate rushes to the scene figure out a wait to get them out of there alive, but she must face the captain of the Tactical Forces who, of course, want to do things his way. Alexis, arrived at the scene, can't get her boyfriend on the phone to support her in this moment of crisis. Now, after viewing that episode, I'm thrilled again about the series and can't wait for the next episode. So far, I was only watching it the episodes because I had too, but the fire is back.
Great episode
LoveIsAStateOfMind29 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Castle and I have an odd relationship. I watch for the "big" episodes and watch everything in between simply because my OCD self can't stand to just watch odd episodes of a show here and there.
This was a big episode and therefore I loved it because Castle really knows how to do big episodes well.
Where to start? I think with the fact that I love focusing on the fact that Beckett is in love with Castle. For a long time it's been Castle and his feelings for Beckett and I can't really care about Castle much beyond the fact that he is the guy Beckett loves and the guy that Martha and Alexis call family. But Beckett's worry for him in this episode! All the worried looks and the hand squeeze! And when the bomb went off! And the reunion moment! Well played show! I did sort of suspect epileptic guy as being a bit dodgy but I thought that was a misdirect and that he really was a sick guy brought in for plot purposes just to let Beckett inside.
Am still shocked that all the mercenaries were killed. Great episode writing in terms of it not being a straightforward robbery, explaining the importance of the deposit box, wrapping up the ex-wife and son storyline without the gang actually being there in person (that really seldom happens on shows. Usually we're expected to believe that they can fly across town and still be there to save the day just in time).
This was a big episode and therefore I loved it because Castle really knows how to do big episodes well.
Where to start? I think with the fact that I love focusing on the fact that Beckett is in love with Castle. For a long time it's been Castle and his feelings for Beckett and I can't really care about Castle much beyond the fact that he is the guy Beckett loves and the guy that Martha and Alexis call family. But Beckett's worry for him in this episode! All the worried looks and the hand squeeze! And when the bomb went off! And the reunion moment! Well played show! I did sort of suspect epileptic guy as being a bit dodgy but I thought that was a misdirect and that he really was a sick guy brought in for plot purposes just to let Beckett inside.
Am still shocked that all the mercenaries were killed. Great episode writing in terms of it not being a straightforward robbery, explaining the importance of the deposit box, wrapping up the ex-wife and son storyline without the gang actually being there in person (that really seldom happens on shows. Usually we're expected to believe that they can fly across town and still be there to save the day just in time).
Alchemic or Chemistry
omero-omero8 September 2022
Might start as the usual filler episode, the mix is more alchemy than chemistry. The ingredients are the tension building up, the situation seen in so many other occurrences in a closed room scenario, the decisions that have to be made in order to resolve the stalemate, plus the comedic little spruces of what makes chemistry a science and alchemy a more subtle variant.
One might prefer one concept over the other.
This episode is fun to watch even from the point of view of the casual onlooker. Especially because of the acting and the various twists in the plot.
Besides, the scenario is quite realistic in itself and well handled overall, considering a spoiler free review.
One might prefer one concept over the other.
This episode is fun to watch even from the point of view of the casual onlooker. Especially because of the acting and the various twists in the plot.
Besides, the scenario is quite realistic in itself and well handled overall, considering a spoiler free review.
If only it were a twoparter...
rkursawe6 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I like this episode a lot and it reminded me a lot of the movie inside man. It had a good story and a clever twist. But it feld rushed and the potential wasted. It could have easily been a twoparter with higher stakes and the first part in the bank and the 2nd after. You could have fleshed out the story If the mother hiding with her child a lot more fore example. Or don't just kill the bank robbers off Screen and give them more character.
I like the concept of Becket forced to be a negotiator neglecting pretty much everything she learned at first, but in the end using her skills anyway.
All in all, good episode which could have been more.
I like the concept of Becket forced to be a negotiator neglecting pretty much everything she learned at first, but in the end using her skills anyway.
All in all, good episode which could have been more.
Entertaining episode but...
tles724 June 2020
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Well, I just purchased this show having only seen a couple of episodes on late night TV....something to do during quarantine. The show's premise of course is always silly. In real life, no civilian is going to put in the kind of danger that Castle is allowed tp experience. Not to mention, that it is very obvious to any New Yorker that the show's outdoor shots with the cast is not in NYC but another city which we know is L.A. This story was very entertaining but was so ridiculous. How a guy who is just trying to find his wife can talk three people into his scheme and rob a bank so he can get into a safe deposit box is yeah, silly. The twists are nice but when Beckett shows up to take the sick guy out of the bank, "trapper john" doesn't recognize her voice or notice that she and castle are constantly staring at each other to the point of being laughable. How would that robber not notice this! Oh boy.
Not what it seems
lor_21 July 2023
A highly suspenseful variation on the usual whodunit has Castle and his mother taken hostage in a bank robbery, while Beckett tries to rescue them and defuse the life and death situation.
Dean Norris is effective as the police captain in charge, whose sparring with Beckett adds to the dramatics. Of course, our regulars have to survive to return next week on the show, but the situation is a time-tested format for making matters seem more real-time and upping the ante on danger.
Eventually the robbery turns out to be a ruse, and our team follows the clues and solves the mystery of what's really going on, as the details of the bank heist don't add up to a professional job.
Dean Norris is effective as the police captain in charge, whose sparring with Beckett adds to the dramatics. Of course, our regulars have to survive to return next week on the show, but the situation is a time-tested format for making matters seem more real-time and upping the ante on danger.
Eventually the robbery turns out to be a ruse, and our team follows the clues and solves the mystery of what's really going on, as the details of the bank heist don't add up to a professional job.
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