'Castle' Season 8 Spoilers: How Will Second Half Deal With Rick's Previous 'Missing Time'? [VIDEO]
The story behind Richard Castle's (Nathan Fillion) disappearance last season on ABC's Castle will come to the forefront again in 2016.
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Castle notably disappeared prior to his wedding to Beckett (Stana Katic) in the season 6 finale, and the reasoning behind the disappearance was sporadically covered in season 7. Bilal Khan, an old colleague of Castle's, was breaking away from Al-Qaeda and requested his presence as he was turning himself in to America.
Fans will remember that Castle helped thwart a terrorist plot and ultimately have his memory wiped of everything that went down. But as it turns out, the second half of season 8 will bring back this storyline to reveal some new shadings in what went down during the disappearance.
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"We're going to go to Castle's missing time next," Castle co-showrunner Alexi Hawley told TVLine in a new report. "Not right away [when the season resumes Feb. 1], but definitely in the middle third [of the season]."
And Beckett might have been involved in some aspect of the memory wipe.
"We haven't nailed the story down for it, but we do like the idea that something that Castle came across during his missing time is actually why his memory was wiped - and it wasn't necessarily about the reason we showed in Season 7," Hawley continued. "And it does have something to do with Beckett. But we haven't nailed it all the way down yet."
Castle returns for the second half of season 8 on Monday, Feb. 1 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.