Suicide Squeeze

Episode aired Feb 8, 2010
TV-PG
43m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.4K

YOUR RATING

Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Romance

A baseball player is found dead in Spanish Harlem. It's found that he had many people hating him because he went to Cuba and shook hands with Castro.A baseball player is found dead in Spanish Harlem. It's found that he had many people hating him because he went to Cuba and shook hands with Castro.A baseball player is found dead in Spanish Harlem. It's found that he had many people hating him because he went to Cuba and shook hands with Castro.

Director
- David Barrett
Writers
- Andrew W. Marlowe
- Jose Molina
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.4K

YOUR RATING

Director
- David Barrett
Writers
- Andrew W. Marlowe
- Jose Molina
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The suicide squeeze is a play in baseball. In a close or low-scoring game, the team on offense might employ it in order to score an extra insurance run, the tying run, or the winning run. With a baserunner on third base, the runner breaks for home plate as the pitcher delivers the ball to the catcher, while the batter squares up for a sacrifice bunt. The play is so named because by taking off early, combined with the chance the batter might miss the bunt, the incoming runner is metaphorically committing suicide: he is likely to be tagged out at home, and with little to no time to stop and reverse direction, he is also likely to be thrown out retreating to third.

Goofs
When they suspect Lara as the murderer, Becket is on the phone and says she wants a TSA hold. After being on hold, she says she wants a detain and contain, and all no fly protocols. She never gives the name of the person. Also, having a hold and detaining her would have been impossible in the first place because at that point they didn't even know her last name.

Quotes
Kate Beckett: [starstruck] That was Joe freaking Torre! I gotta call my dad.

Connections
Edited into Castle: Still (2013)

Soundtracks
Castle Theme
Written by Robert Duncan

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Review

Featured review

5/10

Come on, writers! You can do better

I love this show. It is like chocolate: no nutritional value whatsoever, but a guilty pleasure I cannot deny myself now and then. And, digested over an extended period of time, not only instantly happiness-producing, but quite addictive as well.

Usually, I am quite happy with the plot development, since it never is or has been the series' main focus anyway (I would wager a great sum of money that the majority of viewers, at least the female ones, are much more interested in two subplots: 1-when will we learn who killed Kate Beckett's mother?; 2-will Beckett and Castle ever admit to-and act on-their mutual attraction?).

But this episode is so stupid, I cannot even enjoy the "candy factor" properly. Come on! Who really did not see that one coming?! I won't tell, but I would not need to, because apart from the writers, who clearly and criminally underestimate the intellectual capacities of the viewers, everybody will have figured it out from the very first mentioning of the very first clue. It is a formula that has been done before a thousand times, and has been done much better.

I am disappointed. But the interaction between Castle and his daughter is sweet, so that, in a way, saves this episode for me. Nonetheless, I hope the writers will do better next time. No pleasure in eating last year's chocolate easter bunny.