Castle wraps up the two part “Save Alexis” arc in spectacular fashion.
Nathan Fillion AND James Brolin .
OK this was definitely the best two-parter that Ive seen in a very long time.
The Save Alexis arc onCastlereally put the show into the stratosphere.
Like anything on TV, we watch to escape our monotonous daily lives.
Work, school, kids, family, repeat over and over again.
This weeks wrap-up of Save Alexis may just have restored my faith in web connection television.
Both Castle and the El-Masri families are at the 12thPrecinct along with Beckett and FBI Agent Harris.
That is to say that none of the fictitious TV characters recognized the man in the sketch.
However, I recognized him.
Youre darn right you are you wackyCastlelovers!
The El-Masris are able to speak with the overseas bad guys and reach an accord to release their daughter.
After the exchange of Sara and the money, the terrorists drive away.
Distraught, Castle leaves the precinct telling Beckett that he wants to tell Martha what is going on alone.
Martha calls his cell and sure enough he is in Paris.
Castle has officially gone rogue.
Gaston sets up a meeting with Henri, a French expat who specializes in covert ops.
The Mole is like Daredevil without the skin-tight unitard.
Henri and Castle follow a lead from The Mole and investigate the room Alexis called from.
Henri spots a bug behind the wallpaper in the dilapidated room that the kidnappers have been using.
The phone rings and Henri is able to work out a negotiation meet.
Henri and Castle drive into the Fontainebleau forest area of Paris to make the exchange.
Just then he feels the barrel of Henris gun against the back of his head.
The man from the sketch has just taken out all four of them with precision accuracy.
Rick is taken aback and demands answers.
Was he hired by the El-Masris?
He wants to know who hired him and why Alexis was taken.
Castles cell phone rings and the man on the other end of the phone demands to speak to Hunt.
He is an ex-KGB Russian known only as Volkov who Hunt put away years ago before escaping from prison.
Oh, and Hunt was forced to kill Volkovs wife.
Alexis is being held in a cage-like structure at Volkovs compound and he wants Hunt there the next morning.
After hanging up, he explains to Castle that he got sloppy; that somehow they figured it out.
They discovered that Alexis is his Granddaughter.
Thats right folks; James Brolin is Castles father: CIA spook.
The spy had been keeping tabs on Martha, Rick and Alexis all this time.
The finale is too good to spoil and it plays out far better thanTaken 2.
An overnight package that arrived earlier in the day is on the counter for Castle.
Inside is a copy ofCasino Royaleand nothing else.
He lovingly looks up at Martha and says, Mom, there is something I want to tell you.
This was the perfect end to the very tense two-part episode.
Now that he knows, he wants to know it all.
In my opinion, it was worth the wait.
