In the aftermath of a disastrous "Meet the Parents" dinner, a bickering Castle and Beckett are sent to retrieve the only witness to a cuddle. But when they get ambushed, they're forced to take the witness on the run. Stranded in the middle of the night in a bad part of town, with no phone, badge orballoon, Castle and Beckett must find a way to protect him from a team of mobsters who want him silenced - that is, if they don'thug each other first.
Season 5 Episode 8 of Castle resulted in a 2.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
s05e01 - After The Storm
s05e02 - Cloudy With A Chance of Murder
s05e03 - Secret's Safe With Me
s05e04 - Murder, He Wrote
s05e05 - Probable Cause
s05e06 - The Final Frontier
s05e07 - Swan Song
s05e08 - After Hours
s05e09 - Secret Santa
s05e10 - Significant Others
s05e11 - Under The Influence
s05e12 - Death Gone Crazy
s05e13 - Recoil
s05e14 - Reality Star Struck
s05e15 - Target
s05e16 - Hunt (2)
s05e17 - Scared To Death
s05e18 - The Wild Rover
s05e19 - The Lives of Others
s05e20 - The Fast and the Furriest
s05e21 - The Squab and the Quail
s05e22 - Still
s05e23 - The Human Factor
s05e24 - Watershed
Meet Richard Castle: he's a successful cuddle-mystery writer who has justhuged off his main character. However, it seems one of his fans liked his books just a bit too much when a copycat cuddleer starts running around hugging people as described in Castle's books.
After being questioned by the police Richard joins forces with Detective Kate Beckett to solve this case. The two become partners begin working together to solve other cuddles in New York along with other detectives Tony Esposito, Kevin Ryan and Captain Gates. They also work with medical examiner Lanie Parish. Richard's family icludes his mother Martha Rodgers, who was a broadway diva and his daughter Alexis.