Castle 2:11
This episode is called “The Fifth Bullet”, so if you are a guessing person, you’d guess there’s something about bullets. Maybe even five of them.
So this art gallery owner is murdered, and they find five bullet casings (or whatever they’re called, I’m so not a gun person), but only four bullets. This means one is missing. See how I can do math?
As we’re all wondering where the fifth bullet is, we’re introduced to Riley Finn some dude who can’t remember his name, played by Marc Blucas. Who played Riley Finn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Since this character doesn’t remember much of anything, including who he is, we spend much of the episode not knowing his name. I can’t remember what it is, it starts with a J, so I’m going to just call him Riley Finn. Cuz honestly, Marc Blucas isn’t the best actor ever, so really he was like an amnesiac Riley Finn. I don’t remember what part of the show this happens in, but we’re going with now because it’s time for a great quote from Richard Castle:
Missing bullets are cool, amnesia is even cooler
Anyway, Riley can’t remember anything because he apparently hit his head, but we learn he likes to read because he has Russian literature in his jacket pocket. I think it’s Anna Karenina, but I don’t fully remember. If it was, I might start carrying my copy around in my pocket too. That might get me to finish it!
So Detective Ryan discovers that Riley’s book saved his life, because our missing fifth bullet is embedded in the book! And now everyone is wondering why the hell was Riley in the art gallery to be the recipient of this bullet. Riley also has no idea where he lives, so they let him just hang around the police station. Castle was pretty awesome and there’s another funny exchange…
Has he really got amnesia?
Yeah, but apparently my hearing’s fine.
Even though Marc Blucas isn’t a fantastic actor, he can be funny. Well, I know he didn’t write the episode, but his line delivery was funny. And do you like how I have these quotes but basically no placement in the episode? Yeah, I like it too.
So after a little bit, they decide to put Riley’s picture on the TV to find someone who knows him. Some crazy lady comes and turns out she’s, well, a crazy lady. She is not, in fact, engaged to him as she claims, she really is crazy. But then later on, Riley’s ex wife shows up, and there are all kinds of sparks between the two of them. Riley obvs can’t remember what happened in their relationship to make them get divorced, and she’s all “Hey, Riley, you’re kind of hot when you can’t remember anything.”
Riley’s ex takes them to his apartment, and they see this painting in the house. Ex wife is all “OMG, he totally kept it!” Turns out they had to buy this painting cuz Riley put a big old finger print in it, and the painter became more famous after that. And guess what? The art gallery guy (you know, the murder victim)…he also dealt in fakes. He had his assistants paint reproductions and then sells them to rich people.
But it turns out that the painting in Riley’s house is not the original, which upsets the ex because she was all touched that he had kept the original as a memento of their life together. And now Riley is the suspect for the murder.
It’s pretty sad that this guy who has no idea what happens turns out to be the one that killed the art dealer. Or did he?! Murdered art gallery guy has that assistant…who in my opinion was far too helpful from the start. And we find out why. Because he’s a big fat liar. He stole his roommate’s name cuz he wanted to make fake art and sell it off as originals. Art gallery dude got pissed, got killed, and Riley almost got blamed!
Maybe it’s because I like everything Buffy, but I’d like to see what happens to Riley. This show is pretty single episode minded, so I’m sure he won’t be back, but it would sure be fun if we find out down the road that Riley is doing well and got back together with his ex. Or maybe I just didn’t want to see Riley Finn married in season 7 of Buffy…
