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Or not, AimingforYoko. Castle may have been less-dark, but it had been worse-edited. A wash, perhaps?

Castle ended less melodramatically and darkly than this.

Sociopath excusing sociopath ::ralphs::.

Delurking to say that this must have been a botched attempt at providing insurance in case Stana Katic's contract talks failed, while replacing one conspiracy arc with another/extending an existing conspiracy arc (YMMV).

Delurking to say: I'm surprised that Steve never told Dan-O, "Since did you care about the law so much?" re: the tree (and does Oahu have tree farms in real life, by the way?). Besides, Steve believes that justice and the law always equate, and that exigent circumstances can come into play - for friends as well as victims. Even Danny was surprised by Steve's Clark Griswold bit. Why has nobody explicitly mentioned that yet? What, no "Aloha Mars" jokes?