Season 5 Episode 9

Not even a freakin’ handshake?!

We all saw the previews and many of you called it — that Castle and Beckett wouldn’t kiss underneath the mistletoe, but the setup gave us Ho, Ho, Ho-pe.

It’s Christmas Eve and Castle’s face lights up while he explains his true meaning of the holidays to Beckett. As Kate walks Rick to the elevator, they notice the mistletoe...

Castle, Season 5, Episode 9: “Secret Santa” might have missed the mark on the mistletoe incident (somehow, we’ll recover), but there certainly wasn’t a shortage of holiday-themed puns, jokes, and all-round fun quotables. Even Scrooge would have cracked a smile — minus the whole dead Santa falling from the sky and corrupt mortgage-lending fiasco. But Castle and...

Detective Kate Beckett was recently named one of the best dressed TV characters by Entertainment Weekly, and we're not surprised. Week after week, Castle's kickass cop wows with plush designer coats, sophisticated tops, and badass boots. And it's all thanks to costume designer Luke Reichle.

During Monday night's Christmas episode, "Secret Santa," Luke was at this computer tweeting up a storm...

It’s not quite the holidays until Santa plunges to the ground, red sack in tow, and dies. More like murdered. That’s exactly what happened in the opening scene of Castle Season 5, Episode 9: “Secret Santa,” adorned with caroling music to boot. Sadly, it was all witnessed by a young family trying to make snow angels in Central Park. Santa might have to exchange all of...

Tonight's episode of Castle answered all of our Christmas wishes. Not only did Castle and Beckett spend their first holiday together, but we also got to witness a few yuletide sparks fly between ex-lovers, Detective Esposito and Lanie Parish. All is calm, all is bright …

Well, not if you're James Edmond Smith. The professional Santa met his untimely death after being shot in the back...