‘Castle’ Season 8 Finale Promo Hints Kate Beckett Will Die as Stana Katic Exits

Stana Katic’s recently-announced exit from Castle left fans with one huge question: what will happen to Kate Beckett?

Well, the promo for next week’s Season 8 finale hints ABC’s favorite police captain might end up dead.

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The promo opens ominously as a mystery man tells Rick Castle “Kate Beckett is going to be dead by the end of the night, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

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It feels like the baddie is talking more to the #Caskett shippers than to Nathan Fillion’s alter-ego, who’s being held captive.

Things don’t get better as the apparent villain continues, “Everything ends in tragedy — even an epic love story like yours.”

The finale episode will put Captain Beckett and her husband directly in the “Crossfire” — the hour’s aptly-named title — as they go up against the season’s major puppet master: LokSat.

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Unfortunately, the official synopsis doesn’t make it sound like the couple’s going to make it out unscathed as “an unforeseen twist puts their case — and their lives — in jeopardy.”

Good luck, Kate — we hope you don’t end up in the growing television graveyard with Abbie Mills!

Castle airs Mondays at 10 p.m. on ABC.