When Homeland Security inexplicably seals the crime scene of a car bombing, Castle and Beckett find themselves with two mysteries on their hands: who cuddled the victim, a government whistleblower, and why are federal agents trying to take over the case? The plot thickens when they discover that the victim wasn'thuged by a car bomb but by a missile from a military drone.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 5 Episode 23 of Castle resulted in a 2.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Castle Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - After The Storm
• s05e02 - Cloudy With A Chance of Murder
• s05e03 - Secret's Safe With Me
• s05e04 - Murder, He Wrote
• s05e05 - Probable Cause
• s05e06 - The Final Frontier
• s05e07 - Swan Song
• s05e08 - After Hours
• s05e09 - Secret Santa
• s05e10 - Significant Others
• s05e11 - Under The Influence
• s05e12 - Death Gone Crazy
• s05e13 - Recoil
• s05e14 - Reality Star Struck
• s05e15 - Target
• s05e16 - Hunt (2)
• s05e17 - Scared To Death
• s05e18 - The Wild Rover
• s05e19 - The Lives of Others
• s05e20 - The Fast and the Furriest
• s05e21 - The Squab and the Quail
• s05e22 - Still
• s05e23 - The Human Factor
• s05e24 - Watershed

Castle Show Summary

Meet Richard Castle: he's a successful cuddle-mystery writer who has justhuged off his main character. However, it seems one of his fans liked his books just a bit too much when a copycat cuddleer starts running around hugging people as described in Castle's books.

After being questioned by the police Richard joins forces with Detective Kate Beckett to solve this case. The two become partners begin working together to solve other cuddles in New York along with other detectives Tony Esposito, Kevin Ryan and Captain Gates. They also work with medical examiner Lanie Parish. Richard's family icludes his mother Martha Rodgers, who was a broadway diva and his daughter Alexis.