Castle – Season 4, Episode 16: “Linchpin.”
We left off with Beckett’s car rammed off the pier into the harbor. Castle was able to unbuckle his seatbelt. Beckett was not so lucky. The car sinking fast. The water inside the car filling fast.
Castle swam into the back seat. Took a breath of air. Tried to free Beckett’s gun stuck underneath the seat. This reach and grab air went on for a few moments. Then it went quiet. Castle didn’t rise for air. Beckett trapped.
Water rose up to the rear view mirror. Beckett took one last breath. Her hand limp. Car continued to sink. Through the back window sparks of light from gunfire.
PHEW!
Once they were back at the station, Castle shared a lead that Sophia (Jennifer Beals) handed him when she broke into his house. CIA cannot investigate domestically (again, like that would stop them). He had a list of bank transactions, which led to an apartment.
Inside, the creepiest room ever. Strings of different colors connecting all over the wall to different catastrophic events that could happen but yet to happen. Strings all led to two events — the beginning and the end.
The end World War III. The beginning, a girl in a school uniform. She was the linchpin. The first domino that would fall that would cause the end of America as we know it.
I’ll get to it.
But first, Rogue agent Gage appeared. He saved Becket and Castle’s lives. They were under fire and he got them out safely. Truth, he was the fall guy. Someone inside the CIA was the mole.
Who showed up? Sophia (I don’t trust her). She brought them all back to underground CIA station. Gage placed in an interrogation room. And killed in there as well. Therefore, it was true. Gage was the good guy. There was a mole in the CIA.
Danberg was the mole. He took a hostage with him into the elevator and then disappeared and left her alive. (If he was the mole, why not shoot the hostage?)
So why was the young girl the catalyst of WWIII? Her father worked for the Chinese government. Financial department which lends money to the US to help pay our debts. If he were to die, no one would care. But if his daughter were killed, the trail would lead back to the CIA.
China would stop assisting the US with the debt. It would cost economic catastrophic ripples. Make the country vulnerable. The little girl was the linchpin.
The goal was clear — save the girl. Beckett and Castle went with Sophia and another agent to a function this Chinese representative was attending in New York. What was the twist?
Sophia was a RUSSIAN MOLE!
Holy Moley! Oh yeah, she spoke Russian, too. Just as she was about to execute Becket and Castle, Danberg (he’s a good guy, too) killed her. He and Beckett went to save the little girl. Castle shocked at the death of Sophia, could not move.
Beckett and Danberg tackled the would-be assassin. Made it appear harmless as though the man had just fallen. No one was the wiser.
Castle asked Beckett, ‘Did we just save the world?’ She answered, ‘I would like to think we saved a little girl and leave it at that.’
Were you surprised that Sophia was the mole and a Russian one at that?
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