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- <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:225%;">EPISODE 4.07: "COPS & ROBBERS" / BEST OF</span>
- "When Castle and Martha are taken hostage in a bank robbery, Beckett becomes a negotiator in an effort to save them.
- <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:150%;">IN A NUTSHELL</span>
- One of the best episodes of the series. Tense, dramatic and brilliantly acted
- <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:150%;">DRAMATIC HIGHLIGHTS</span>
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- • The opening sequence: Castle and Beckett chatting on the phone, as the robbers enter the bank one by one. A kinetic and efficient way to jump right into the story.
- • The tension inside and outside the bank: flashing lights, SWAT team, etc.
- • Beckett dealing with the hostage situation: powering through it and powerless at the same time. You can feel that dichotomy throughout most of the episode. Really well done.
- • Castle and Martha: "I love you mother" / "Right back at you kiddo". Touching motherand-son moment.
- • The blast and the rescue scenes. More on that later.
- • Beckett looking tenderly at the Castle family hug. Nice detail.
- <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:150%;">FUNNIEST MOMENTS</span>
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- • Castle looking embarrassed and bored while Martha talks to their banker.
- • "You are nothing but a well-dressed loan-shark" - Martha to the banker.
- • Esposito et Ryan about to break into the old lady's apartment: "Help! Police!". -- The way Jon Huertas delivers that line is just plain hilarious.
- • "Castle Junior" and "Super Cop". Great comic relief... inches away from the decomposing body of an elderly woman. Something not every show can pull off!
- <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:150%;">GREAT CINEMATOGRAPHY</span>
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- • Close-up of Beckett's hands as she awaits for news in the SWAT van -- One simple frame that says so much, and happened to be beautifully shot (texture, blue light and slightly out of focus background).
- • The blast. -- The decision to show Beckett's reaction first was both inspired and gripping. The timing (sudden, without any "build up"). Beckett freezing. Stana Katic's face up-close. Lots of great choices there. -- The sound of the explosion itself and the "blast wave" effect were also extremely realistic (see author's notes).
- • The blast site. -- Very X-Filish with the smoke, the flashlights, the SWAT team and Beckett filmed as silhouettes, back-lit.
- • The two "family" scenes at the end: in the precinct and at Castle's loft. Warm tones and atmosphere, in stark contrast with the blue of the bank robbery scenes
- <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:150%;">USER RATINGS</span>
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- <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:150%;">ROUNDTABLE</span>
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