When the Bough Breaks

Episode aired Oct 19, 2009
TV-PG
43m

IMDb RATING

8.2/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, and Stana Katic in Castle (2009)

Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Romance

Illegal Czech immigrant Eliska Sokel's corpse is found hidden in a sewer, two days after her death. Her also-illegal ex, Teodor Hajek, explains she left him after their son died from a conge... Read allIllegal Czech immigrant Eliska Sokel's corpse is found hidden in a sewer, two days after her death. Her also-illegal ex, Teodor Hajek, explains she left him after their son died from a congenital disease. She had worked on the concierge staff of a luxury residence but was fired a... Read allIllegal Czech immigrant Eliska Sokel's corpse is found hidden in a sewer, two days after her death. Her also-illegal ex, Teodor Hajek, explains she left him after their son died from a congenital disease. She had worked on the concierge staff of a luxury residence but was fired after Dr. Cameron Talbot's wife questioned the appropriateness of her treating their son Za... Read all

Director
- John Terlesky
Writers
- Andrew W. Marlowe
- René Echevarria
Stars

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IMDb RATING

8.2/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

Director
- John Terlesky
Writers
- Andrew W. Marlowe
- René Echevarria
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The man with whom Castle is sitting when first seen at the launch party for Heat Wave is an uncredited Tom Straw. Straw is rumored to be the actual author of Heat Wave and the other real world Nikki Heat novels.

Goofs
Perlmutter states that stainless steel crowns are no longer used in the USA so she must have been from an Eastern Europe. This is simply not true. While adults do usually opt for tooth coloured crowns for cosmetic reasons, stainless steel crowns are still used across the world. Particularly when cost, complexity, patient age and patient co-operation for the work are factors.

Quotes
Richard Castle: Thank you.
Kate Beckett: For what?
Richard Castle: For using "irony" correctly. Ever since that Alanis Morissette song, people use it when they actually mean "coincidence". It drives me nuts.

Soundtracks
Castle Theme
Written by Robert Duncan

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Featured review

10/10

Perfect example of this series at its best

In my review of the larger series as a whole, I make note of the inevitable issue that TV series' encounter as they build up episodes. The simple formula that caught the viewers' attention ages and producers fear their fan base will lose interest. So they introduce an ongoing thread that rarely fits the original formula. In crime shows, those threads are often dark and ominous. In my opinion, the Castle series did this as badly as any of the dozens of series I have been devoted to.

BUT, not yet in this episode. A couple of earlier episodes have hinted very quietly of that thread to come, but this episode is based deeply in the show's roots.

Banter, oh my! Subtext, even more! Romantic tension and chemistry, yes! Plot twists, always. And if that isn't enough, the climax and ending give us some Kleenex moments, which isn't completely foreign to what this series sometimes does. Deep in the roots of this show, despite it being a crime show, devotion to family is almost always there, perhaps as much as any of the other shows.