Interesting thought. Beckett has much more information now then she did with her mother’s case. Airplane tail number to trace owners. Knowledge that drugs are involved and each drug has a unique signature. Vulcan Simmons organization was involved. Vikr should be able to get more info on Allison Hyde (AG patsy) and the other mercenaries from the hit team.
She can use Castle’s mob connections as they have a drug trade and would welcome getting rid of competition. Beckett could contact Danberg (CIA operative from season 4) . Even though he is still CIA, is trustworthy. Beckett could contact Jordan Shaw FBI (I’m sure no love loss between agencies.) Even contact old squeeze Sorenson. Even though he’s married, could create friction with Castle without them breaking up. (Makeup scene could be hot) Beckett will not have to worry about those people, they can take care of themselves.

I know ,still I would be looking to even get out of that ,the way the writers are going. I also believe neither of them are happy with story. Why sign all the cast back when you are barely using them at the 12 and when you do it is frat boy humor and no Caskett or Beckett trying to solve issue.Writers just want you to hang on till after hiatus what a joke.

Well, Fillion and Katic only renewed their contracts for 1 year.

Buddy ,well written couldn’t have said it any better .But as you indicate the writers don’t know how to write that.I agree will be more inane stories.

Charles, what gets me on this is how we could have an interesting, intense, dangerous, exciting story line that would advance the story line, strengthen the Casket marriage, regain the friendly banter between Casket, get some really hot conversation and contact between Beckett and Castle, involve almost the entire cast and have some instances of genuine fun. How to do this you might ask? Simple have Kate move back in with Castle, involve the entire 12th in solving the crime of who killed Beckett’s mother and was Bracken’s partner. In other words form a team of talented detectives and put them to work. You do not need to be stealthy just keep your eyes open and your guard up. Now how does it look for the show runners to do this? They will try to find Bracken’s partner using stealth measures – involve the fewest number of people, limit contact with people, keep Castle away from the 12th and its cases, no intimacy between Caskett and walk into the 12th one day with a handcuffed suspect that is unknown to everyone, people do not know what he did to warrant arrest and could care less and while all of the detailed case work is going on have some inane episodes that do not do anything including bringing a smile to anyone’s face.

Buddy thanks for the update on the episodes. I agree probably another screw up. That would really tick fans off if they weren’t really married .Oh my god the reset to seadons1-5 terrible .THANKS WRITERS.

Charles, “The Nose” was episode 5. On Nov 9 will be “Cool Boys” which is episode 6. Episode 7 is “The Last Seduction” on Nov 16 and episode 8 is ” Mr. And Mrs. Castle on Nov 23 to take us to the fall hiatus. Episode 8 is supposed to contain another “twist” or as I would phrase it “another major screw up”. You know from the above that Cool Boys will be a mainly male show and is probably the one where Stana will go to the Milan fashion week. The Last Seduction could be Castle’s last try to win Beckett back. Mr. And Mrs. Castle could represent getting Caskett back together. The above is what I’m hoping for but we cannot forget that there will be another twist in 8×08. I read somewhere that someone was guessing that the new twist will be that Caskett are not legally married. This would make a divorce of Caskett unnecessary and we will have them single again but still in love and we would have to “Root” for them to get together again and married again which I will not do. I did it once and will not do it again. It is, of course, a totally inane ( no sense, no substance and no idea) situation where, if it were me as Castle, I would merely take Beckett in hand and get married again. However the show runners will probably take the position that they should not remarry because they want to make Bracken’s partner think that he cannot use Castle as bait to get Beckett because it would not work with them splitting up because Beckett allegedly does not love Castle. A lot of conjecture that is no better than anyone else’s. We will have to wait and see but the odds are for another screw up twist.