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Monday 12 November 2012

Castle 2.16 "The Mistress Always Spanks Twice" Review

A woman is found hanging in the park from monkey bars, with ooze dripping from her.  Alexis (Molly Quinn)  tells Castle (Nathan Fillion) she's trying out as a cheerleader which he's disappointed with.  Martha (Susan Sullivan) advises he should let her work things out for herself.   Castle is called to the CS and Lanie (Tamala Jones) thinks the Vic was covered in caramel sauce, also adding she's into whipped cream bikinis, chocolate and the like, but not caramel, which sets Castle's mind and heart racing no doubt.  As he says they can hear what she's saying.

The Vic was most likely suffocated and there are marks on her body.  Beckett (Stana Katic) finds a pair of handcuffs which also sets tongues wagging.  Ryan (Seamus Dever) finds wheel marks on the ground belonging to a suitcase which was used to wheel the Vic there.  Castle is intrigued on Beckett's knowledge of sex shops in the area and is curious to know how she knows.  Beckett keeping it to herself of course.  Um maybe she's a detective, anyway she tells him about Vice working cases.  Lanie doesn't find any evidence of a sexual nature on the Vic.

Esposito (Jon Huertas) and Ryan watch sex videos on the Net and Esposito makes comments about his girlfriend, Jenny (Juliana Dever) and he says he will let them meet her when he's ready. Ryan receives a call from a sex shop owner who sold the handcuffs.  Beckett and Castle head there and once again Castle comes up with the comments about seeing her in those outfits.  Beckett shows Barry (Paul Schackman) her own set of handcuffs and he sold a pair to Tyler.  Tyler (Gil McKinney) says the Vic, Jessica was his girlfriend and he's an intern at the hospital with late shifts.  Jessica was researching bondage for a paper.  Then gives them the name of her roommate.

Danielle (Amy Gumenick) says they are old friends and Ryan and Esposito notice Jessica's bed hasn't been slept in.  Jessica worked with a Mistress Venom to conduct her research and Kelly (Keiko Agena) shows them Jessica's notes but some files are missing.  Matt (Devon Gummersall) also knew Jessica and they were in competition with each other to win a scholarship  Mistress Venom works at a place called Lady Irena's and Beckett makes an appointment for her boyfriend, Castle.

Lady Irena (Dina Meyer) tells them Jessica was Venom and shows photos of her.  She refuses to answer questions but Castle is mesmerized by her.  Particularly her shade of lipstick called Mistress Red.  Mistress Sapphire (Azita Ghanizada) who also works there tells them she saw someone wearing scrubs, which is meant to lead them to Tyler but obviously he's not the killer.  He loved her and wanted to marry her and they took out a lease together a few days ago.  Jessica had a file on a man named "Sam I Am," who was a masochist, making threats against Jessica and covering her in a sweet substance.  Richard is identified as Sam and Beckett questions him since he's into dominant women.

He has an alibi and was with his wife. Ryan finds Irena knew Jessica had other clients outside of work.  Matt borrowed Kelly's keys and so could have taken heh papers.  They see a photo of him wearing scrubs.    He threatened to tell Tyler about her work and she pulled out of the scholarship.  He took her research back to her apartment, thus Danielle is a suspect.  At the apartment Beckett finds a glass with the same shade of lipstick as Irena.

She was there to talk her out of her outside work and then she invokes her right to a lawyer. Notice the lipstick mark on the glass was brighter in the photo than the actual glass.  Ryan and Esposito find Jessica's bedside table had bleach stains but her pillow had saliva on it.  They still suspect Irena.  Obviously it's not her either.  Alexis gives up cheerleading and will stick with her usual academic pursuits.  Castle wonders who washed Jessica's pillowcase.  Danielle was the only one who could have tidied up and would have had time to wash the pillowcase.

The relationship mentioned in the paper was the one with Danielle and she read the paper to find the reference to caramel and used it to frame a client.  Jessica was going to leave but she loved her.  Ryan introduces Jenny to the others and she's heard a lot about them and has read Castle's book.  She's nice and Esposito would do anything to have someone like her.  He and Castle figure out Ryan didn't introduce them to her earlier cos they'd steal her from him.  Oh yeah, as if Castle is really looking for someone as nice as Jenny.  He's not into that sort of nice, but Beckett nice.

An episode which was right up Castle's kinky alley, oh did I just say that.  Well Beckett keeps him guessing about her extensive sex shop knowledge and she strings him along in 'domineering' form.   Not giving in to him for a second.

Castle's safe word is "apples" here when he enters the bondage dungeon with Beckett and in the pilot episode, Flowers for Your Grave, he uses the same safe word of "apples" when he's arrested and placed in handcuffs.
Castle; "Haven't you ever wanted to do something with your handcuffs besides arrest criminals?"
Beckett: "No, but there is one hot, wild, kinky thing that I like doing...putting killers behind bars."

Jenny was played by Seamus Dever's real life wife, Juliana Dever.  Once again Dina Meyer doesn't get a long part.  She would have made a great FBI agent in next week's episode instead of Dana Delaney!

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