When the Castle Falls

When the Castle Falls

Scene opens with Alexis phoning home from University. She discusses with Castle a boy in her drama class who is into Time Travel, Shakespearean Tragedies and re purposing Pop Culture. Castle is intrigued, but cautious when she mentions that he sent a gift of a strange drink labeled only 'Drink Me'

He is interrupted by a call from the department, there's been a double murder.

They arrive on scene and discuss the call. Beckett says he's a harmless but Castle assumes the worst – he'll go off the deep end and involve his daughter in something crazy.

The murder scene is a wedding rehearsal and it's the bride and groom that are 'dead'. There is blood everywhere, but no apparent wounds on the couple. The cause of death isn't obvious as it's found that the couple aren't actually dead, but just drugged – a family member panicked and dialled 911 and assumed the worst when it looked like the couple shot themselves when about to get to the vows.

Both are hauled down to the department to explain their actions. They wanted a more exciting wedding and were considering eloping because of some family opposition.

A Mischa Collins look-alike is brought into the station stating that he is “An Angel of the Lord”. He touches a radio and it finds a radio play that plays the final scene of Romeo and Juliet.

Castle freaks out and goes to dial Alexis. He only gets a voice message about her feeling ill and going to the hospital.

She appears to be in a coma and won't wake up. Castle goes to her dorm room at university, which is now considered, at least by him, to be a crime scene.

Her room contains a few items that he doesn't recognize. A new radio which is labeled 'Trans-Temporal' and has an ipod full of semi popular music and a radio play about Doctor Time. The drink label has a small note on the back “To Juliet” it is taken for analysis. Her phone has a few messages on it which seem like excerpts from a radio play, the last entry appears to be that of a suicide pact.

The drink is found to be mostly harmless but there are a few unknown elements in it. Some effort is made to track him down, but they only find his room and what seems to be a few meticulously layed out clues. Pictures of the room with the contents shown in different piles. A broken tablet that contains the rest of the phone messages on Alexis' phone. The boxes set version of Doctor Time, Captain Slueth and all of the Nikki Heat novels – signed copies. The camera also contains a few 4^th wall breaking impersonations of Castle that are shown on the police computer.

The angel impersonator is still in the police station, but now he has a badge on. It seems that Castle is the only one who can see him. He places a Star Journey communicator on Castles desk, he plays with it. It playes various quotes from the show until it comes to the line 'Open a hailing frequency'.

The radio crackles to life again and it's the boy's voice. I think it will be easier to show you. The communicator, which Castle is now wearing, says “One to beam up”. Castle collapses.

Alexis in a police uniform appears from the elevator with Castle in toe – she walks in, sees the 'body' and says “Right, this is where it gets complicated”.