'Castle' Season 8 News: Why Will Beckett Be Missing For The Next Episode, 'Cool Boys'?
The Castle showrunners tease what's ahead for the next few episodes of season 8.
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Castle showrunners Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter recently spoke with TVLine about Stana Katic (who plays Beckett) being largely missing from the next episode and teased what's happening in the fall finale.
In the next episode, titled Cool Boys, Beckett will be "out of town at a meeting for a couple of days, at a work-related function," according to Hawley. Beckett will be busy doing "real work, not secret work" concerning LokSat.
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Conveniently enough, Ethan Slaughter (Adam Baldwin) will return in this episode, giving him and Castle (Nathan Fillion) some bro time to talk about Castle and Beckett's temporary break.
Hawley and Winter also teased the upcoming guest appearance by Kris Polaha, who will guest star in the fall finale.
"He's playing a public defender who comes in [during the fall finale 'Mr. & Mrs. Castle'] and presents with some unexpected complexity," Hawley teased. "He's a little bit more than what he seems."
"The design of his character, is that he's immediately at odds with the folks at the 12th, while representing a murderer," Winter added. "He's trying to do his job while the 12th is trying to do theirs."
The fall finale, as the title suggests, will pay homage to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's famous 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
The episode will feature "the fun of the conflict in that relationship in the movie," according to Hawley in a previous TVLine interview.
Luckily for fans, the fall finale will not end on a cliffhanger, though Hawley said that the ending will preview "the promise of what it will be like when we come back."
Castle airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
