The Wild Rover | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Season 5, Episode 18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Air date | March 25, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Written by | Terence Paul Winter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directed by | Rob Hardy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Wild Rover [1] is the eighteenth episode of the fifth season of Castle.
Summary[]
When a man is found dead in an industrial cake mixer, Castle and Beckett trace the murder to an Irish gang in Staten Island and a beautiful bar owner named Siobhan O'Doul (guest star Cara Buono, "Mad Men"). Much to everyone's surprise, Detective Ryan has a complicated history with Siobhan and the Staten Island crime family from his days working undercover in narcotics. When the case hits a dead end, Ryan must go back undercover to expose the killer, complicating his relationship with his wife.
Recap[]
Promo[]
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle
- Stana Katic as Detective Kate Beckett
- Jon Huertas as Detective Javier Esposito
- Seamus Dever as Detective Kevin Ryan
- Tamala Jones as Dr. Lanie Parish
- Penny Johnson Jerald as Captain Victoria Gates (credit only)
- Molly Quinn as Alexis Castle (credit only)
- Susan Sullivan as Martha Rodgers (credit only)
Guest Cast[]
- Cara Buono as Siobhan O'Doul
- Juliana Dever as Jenny Ryan
- Benito Martinez as FBI Special Agent Sam Walker
- Brian Letscher as Liam Finch
- Christina Cox as Maggie Finch
- Michael Rodrick as Robert "Bobby S" Shannon
- Jeremy Ray Valdez as Todd
- Patrick Scott Lewis as Marcus Dunn
- Will McFadden as Danny Keane
Quotes[]
- Beckett: Do you want to grab a bite to eat?
- Castle: Actually, it’s not food that I’m craving.
- Castle: Wow. Talk about death by chocolate.
- Lanie: Don’t blame it on the chocolate, Castle. A bullet’s what did him in.
- Castle: So that red stuff’s not raspberry sauce?
- Lanie: ‘fraid not. Exit wound.
- Beckett: Time of death?
- Esposito: Between 11:30 and 12.
- Lanie: Based on what? All of a sudden you’re an M.E?
- Esposito: I thought you liked it when I played doctor.
- Castle: How did the, uh, thing go with the, uh... you know, do the thing in the thing and give the thing to the doctor?
- Ryan: Yeah. Uh, it went... fine.
- Esposito: So are your swimmers swimming?
- Ryan: Um, I don't know yet.
- Jenny: Kevin, you forgot you lunch.
- Ryan: Thanks, baby.
- Jenny: What would you do without me, huh?
- Siobhan: You're married?
- Castle: Oh, lady, you can't slap a cop.
- Siobhan: You're a cop?!
- Castle: Oh!
- Siobhan: You liar! You son of a bitch! How could you! Get off of me! Let go!
- Ryan: I can explain.
- Ryan: My name is not Fenton. It's Kevin Ryan. And I'm a cop.
- Bobby S: What? Cop?!
- Ryan: Yes, and I'm placing the three of you under arrest.
- Liam Finch: He’s full of crap, Bobby. He’s bluffing.
- Ryan: Why don't we meet my partner, huh? Yo, Javi, where you at?
- Esposito: Right here, bro.
- Ryan: No, no, he is former special forces, you do not want to draw on him. Want to meet the rest of my crew? Hey, Beckett!
- Beckett: You called, Ryan?
- Ryan: Don't let the looks fool you boys, you don't want to mess with her, either. Castle!
- Castle: Seriously? I didn't... I didn't bring my vest.
- Ryan: I'm sorry, Jenny. I know it wasn't fair to you.
- Jenny: Just tell me the truth. Is this part of your life, this undercover part, over?
- Ryan: Yeah, it is now.
- Jenny: Good. Because I need to know that you're gonna be here. And I need to know that I can depend on you, especially after the test results we got back from the fertility doctor.
- Ryan: Oh no. Bad news?
- Jenny: Yeah, we took those damn tests for nothing. I'm already pregnant.
- Ryan: You're pregnant?... You're pregnant. Ah! Let’s – let’s pop some champagne.
- Jenny: Yeah.
- Ryan: Uh, no. No.
- Jenny: No.
- Ryan: We – we – we can’t pop any champagne. Do you know why? Because – you’re pregnant.
- Jenny: I'm pregnant!
Featured Music[]
- "Express Yourself" - Stray Palace
- "Angels & Devils" - The Mahones
- "Changed" - Stray Palace
Trivia[]
- Watch For: At the beginning of the episode before Jimmy Whelan's body is seen, there is a cake with the number 99 on it. It could stand for this episode being the 99th episode.
- Before joining homicide, Ryan was undercover for fourteen months under the name of Fenton O'Connell on Staten Island with an Irish mob, 7 years earlier.
- It is revealed at the end of this episode that Ryan and his wife Jenny are now expecting a baby.
- This is the first time we see Ryan and Jenny's apartment. The other apartments were Castle's loft in Flowers For Your Grave, [[[Beckett's apartment]] in second and third season until Season 7, Lanie's place in Poof! You're Dead, and Esposito's apartment in Under the Influence.