Castle/Poof! You're Dead

Poof! You're Dead
Season 3, Episode 12
Airdate	January 10, 2011
Written by	Terri Edda Miller
Directed by	Millicent Shelton
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Castle — Season Three

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Poof! You're Dead is the twelfth episode of the third season of Castle, and the forty-sixth episode overall.

Starring: Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle), Stana Katic (Detective Kate Beckett), Susan Sullivan (Martha Rodgers), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Captain Roy Montgomery) (credit only), Molly Quinn (Alexis Castle), Jon Huertas (Detective Javier Esposito), Tamala Jones (M.E. Lanie Parish), Seamus Dever (Detective Kevin Ryan)

Guest Starring: Jeff Hephner (Edmund / Zalman Drake), Brett Cullen (Christian Dahl), Vanessa Lengies (Eliza Winter), Chadwick Boseman (Chuck Russell), Carrie Genzel (Naomi Dahl), Lenny Schmidt (Jerome Aspenall), Adrian Sparks (Thaddeus Magnus)

and Gilles Marini (Tobias Strange)

Co-Starring: Henry Hayashi (Lawyer)

Plot Overview

Beckett and Castle are called to a dead body found in a magic shop.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• The episode starts with Lanie and Esposito in bed together. They decide not to tell anyone, but everyone figures it out before the episode, choosing not to reveal that they know.
• Castle breaks up with his ex-wife/girlfriend, telling his mother that there is nothing wrong with the relationship, it just isn't very special.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Beckett: Well, with any luck, Professor X will turn out to be Zalman's mystery client.

(Professor X, fictional character from the comic, cartoon and movies about the X-men. Professor X is a paraplegic and gets around in a wheel chair. His power is the ability to read minds.)