50 Facts About Richard Castle

The name Richard Castle is used as a pseudonym under which a set of real books about the characters Derrick Storm and Nikki Heat, based on the books mentioned in the television series, are written.

Richard Castle describes Castle as being "a bit of a douche" with a Peter Pan syndrome stemming from a lack of a "real male adult role model in his life".

Richard Castle is the father of Alexis Richard Castle and the son of Martha Rodgers, both of whom live with him.

Richard Castle's father is a CIA operative who has used the aliases "Jackson Hunt" and "Anderson Cross".

Richard Castle reasoned that he never missed having a father as he never had anything to miss, and it allowed him to imagine that his father could be anyone he wished.

Richard Castle was looked after by a nanny who spent most of her time watching daytime television.

Richard Castle was further inspired to become a writer when a man handed him a copy of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale at the New York Public Library when he was ten years old.

Richard Castle takes great care of her, but likes to play with her.

Richard Castle mentions being friends with Jonathan Kellerman, Wes Craven, and Stephen King.

Richard Castle's father has been checking in on him, his mom, and Alexis their whole lives.

Beckett starts living elsewhere, not letting Richard Castle know about LokSat.

Early episodes of the series had Richard Castle voicing over the introductory credits beginning with Season 2.

Richard Castle is an author of mystery fiction, with 26 bestsellers.

Richard Castle has a large multi-floor Manhattan apartment, a beachfront house in the Hamptons, and luxury cars.

Richard Castle later reads from the novel before a book-signing.

Richard Castle is offered a lucrative contract for three more Nikki Heat novels, with talk in the third season of a movie adaptation.

When Beckett confronts him about it, Richard Castle avoids the question.

Richard Castle was under consideration for a deal to write three novels revolving around an unnamed British spy but rejected the offer, allegedly because his publisher wanted three more Nikki Heat novels and offered him more money, but secretly because accepting would have ended his collaboration with Beckett.

Richard Castle is something of a "method writer", endlessly researching his subjects and acquiring new skills to put himself in the mind of his characters.

Amongst the useful skills Richard Castle have acquired are lock picking, safe cracking, fencing, and a basic grounding in forensic science and criminal psychology.

Richard Castle has researched crimes and serial killers, such as the original crime spree of serial killer Jerry Tyson aka The Triple Killer or 3XK for When It Comes to Slaughter.

In "Hollander's Woods", Richard Castle is awarded the Poe's Pen Achievement Award which he says is the highest award a mystery writer can receive.

Unsatisfied with what he considers a boring resolution to the case, Richard Castle convinces Beckett to continue the investigation, and winds up discovering deeper layers to the crime.

Richard Castle realizes that the killer was actually the social worker's brother attempting to frame her client, so that he could inherit his father's money after his death.

Richard Castle still requires official police authority to request information from various sources, and can only question witnesses under supervision.

Richard Castle once speculated that a surgeon had been killed for his involvement in an organ-smuggling ring before they discovered that he was wanted for plastic surgery he had performed for someone in witness protection.

Richard Castle's writing career has given him a knack for noting minor details in the situations they investigate, such as when he noted that rent for a victim's apartment had been paid for after her death.

In "Sucker Punch", while attempting to catch the killer responsible for the death of Beckett's mother over a decade ago, Richard Castle willingly donates $100,000 of his own money for a fake hit, to lure out the killer.

Richard Castle then offers to terminate his partnership with Beckett after she was forced to shoot the real killer, revealed to be a contract assassin silent about his employer.

Beckett rejects the offer on the grounds that Richard Castle makes her hard job more fun.

In season 3 "Nikki Heat", Richard Castle is upset when B-movie actress Natalie Rhodes is cast as Nikki, thinking she is not right for the role.

When Rhodes comes onto a case to observe Beckett, Richard Castle is further insulted that she has not read the actual book.

However, as the case goes on, Rhodes begins to copy Beckett's mannerisms and outfits, complete with brunette wig, annoying Beckett while Richard Castle begins to like her more.

At one point, Rhodes kisses Richard Castle, making it clear she wants to sleep with him to feel the character more but Richard Castle turns her down, telling Beckett that sleeping with the actress playing the fictional version of her is "way too meta".

In "Knockdown", Richard Castle helps Beckett in catching her mother's killer.

When Martha points out that he has written 22 books before meeting Beckett but he did not have to go to a police station every day, Richard Castle replied by saying that it is not about the books anymore.

Since then, despite Beckett's then current relationship with another man, they begin spending increasing amounts of time together, with Richard Castle even admitting he is jealous when Beckett agrees to help another writer with his book.

In season 4, Richard Castle is contacted by a shadowy figure who says that he is a friend of Roy Montgomery and that he has been charged with protecting Beckett in his stead.

Richard Castle learns that Montgomery knew who ordered Beckett's mother's death; he had been the one who found out about the kidnappings and offered not to go to the police if Montgomery, Raglan and MacAllister gave him the money they made from the ransoms which has been estimated at several millions of dollars.

Richard Castle tells only his mother this information and confides in her as to the deal he made.

Martha wants Richard Castle to tell Beckett the truth, but Richard Castle tells her that he can't because Beckett will be killed by the people behind her mother's murder if she keeps digging and that he has to protect her.

The man said that they needed Richard Castle to remain at Beckett's side because he was the only one able to keep her away from her mother's case.

Richard Castle is killed by a true CIA agent as Beckett and Castle help stop the plot.

In "47 Seconds", Beckett reveals to a suspect that she remembered every second of being shot, not realizing that Richard Castle was watching behind the one-way glass mirror.

Richard Castle confronts her over how he knows she remembers his declaration of love and they both decide they're done.

Lanie and Esposito learn the truth in the following episode when Richard Castle was framed for murder.

In episode eleven of season 7, Richard Castle is ordered to leave the NYPD due to co-operating with a mafia don to prove the innocence of one of his underlings suspected of murder, leading to the true murderer being assassinated.

The investigation leads them to the identity of the girl Richard Castle saw murdered and a showdown between Richard Castle and the killer after he breaks into the man's barn in search of evidence.

Richard Castle is forced to fatally shoot the killer in self-defense with Beckett's gun and brings closure to his victims though the incident leaves him shaken.

The novel features a fictionalized version of the already fictional Richard Castle, named "Jameson Rook", who enters into a partnership with Heat that mirrors Castle's working relationship with Beckett.