Castle 2:6
Ah, the Halloween episode! I actually like when shows tie in their episodes with the holidays like this. Buffy used to do it with Halloween and I adored it.
Speaking of Buffy, the show opens with Castle coming into the living room dressed as…a space cowboy! Alexis asks him what he is, then tells him there are no cows in space, and asks “Didn’t you do that like five years ago?” For those who didn’t see Firefly, he was dressed as Captain Malcolm Reynolds, the character he played on the show. Also, get thee to the DVD rental place and watch Firefly! Or watch it on hulu.com
The murder this time is in a graveyard. The victim is a vampire. Castle says that Buffy must have been visiting Manhattan. Love that there are two Whedon references in minutes!
Obvs the victim is not actually a vampire, just a guy who dresses like one and had fancy veneers made to form vampire teeth. They were made by the fang master, of course. We’re able to learn the victims real name, instead of his vampire name of Crow, and this sends everyone looking into the creatures of the night. But even though some of the scenarios on this show are far fetched, there isn’t anything supernatural, so it’s really more of an exploration into the world of the weird.
Crow is a wicked awesome artist, and is making a graphic novel about this local vampire called Morlock. Personally, I think Morlock looks like Charles Mansen. Who has the “vampire’s disease” where he’s allergic to the sun, and he bites Castle. This is startling, but also funny cuz Castle says:
You wanna bite me – you buy me dinner!
Totally going to start using that line too. For those of you who know me in person, reading this blog probably lowers your opinion of my wittiness, cuz you’re learning that I get all my best phrases from TV. Blue skies 
Ultimately, it turns out that Crow witnessed the murder of his bio mom, but he didn’t know it because he was about two. The killer? Take three guesses. It’s not actually the husband this time. His second wife, however…she’s the one! Turns out she wanted Crow’s dad all to herself, so she killed his wife, and then his son when he was about to find out the truth.
Castle is also hosting a Halloween party, costumes mandatory, and he goes as Edgar Allen Poe. He has a stuffed raven. Love it!
