6. Vampire Weekend

As Halloween approaches, Castle and Beckett are called to a graveyard where the body of a young man sporting vampire fangs has been discovered with a wooden stake driven through his heart. Their investigation takes them deep into the heart of New York's underground vampire fetish community, where they learn that the motive for the victim's murder may be hiding within the pages of the graphic novel he was writing before his death.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

As Halloween approaches, Castle and Beckett are assigned to investigate the death of a college student found stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake in a graveyard. To Castle's delight, the two must delve into the world of vampires and werewolves to find the killer. Alexis cares for an egg as a science project, but her lab partner destroys it after Castle tells on her for getting drunk. The opening scene has a reference to Firefly, with Castle dressing up similar to Malcolm Reynolds (Fillion's character in Firefly ) and saying he is dressed as a space cowboy. This episode also references another Fillion role ( Caleb in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) when he notes " Buffy 's moved to the Big Apple."

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