The Best Episodes Written By Barry Schindel

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(5 votes)

   #1 - Being Human

   S1:E133/31/2014

   Riley and Gabriel are shocked when the identities of sleeper agents embedded in the U.S. government are revealed.

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   8.0/10(8 votes)

   #2 - Blood Money

   S10:E812/1/1999

   A taxi driver finds that his passenger is dead, leading the detectives to a case involving an insurance scam and Holocaust victims.

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   7.9/10(9 votes)

   #3 - Teenage Wasteland

   S11:E122/7/2001

   The beating death of a restaurant owner leads Briscoe and Green to thrill-seeking teenagers; McCoy and Lewin are forced to decide how young is too young for the death penalty.

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   7.6/10(8 votes)

   #4 - School Daze

   S11:E225/16/2001

   Jamie Ross returns to defend a student accused in a mass school slaying.

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   7.6/10(5 votes)

   #5 - Hot Shot

   S2:E245/19/2006

   Don investigates the murders of two young women found in their cars outside their homes. Their deaths were made to look like drug overdoses, but Don realizes a serial killer is responsible. Meanwhile, Charlie is having bizarre dreams about his parents. In one dream, his deceased mother appears and tells him he has a question to ask her, but he can't imagine what it could be.

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   7.6/10(7 votes)

   #6 - Till Death

   S2:E84/4/2014

   After a wealthy couple is murdered, Carrie and Al pose as a married couple to lure in the killer, who Al believes is linked to a series of unsolved homicides he once investigated.

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   7.5/10(27 votes)

   #7 - A Death in the Family

   S1:E105/11/2009

   Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a missing plastic surgeon who is found dead in the front seat of his car after a week of being parked curbside. As they delve into the twisted world of surgery obsessed patients and secret operations, Castle experiences a fatherly rite of passage as Alexis attends her first prom. And while looking into Beckett’s past, he unearths information that could end his relationship with her forever.

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   7.4/10(8 votes)

   #8 - All My Children

   S11:E205/2/2001

   The murder of a prep school student points to a mystery woman who may have been extorting money from the victim's wealthy father.

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   7.4/10(8 votes)

   #9 - Past Tense

   S2:E58/25/2013

   Carrie and Al’s latest case – the murder of an Afghani cab driver – has the potential to turn into a matter of national security when it’s discovered that the victim was a government informant.

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    7.4/10(35 votes)

    #10 - Nanny McDead

    S1:E23/16/2009

    When a body of a young woman is found inside the dryer at a laundry room, Castle and Beckett uncover that the young woman worked as a nanny in the upscale building. Meanwhile, as Castle works on his "Nikki Heat" novel series he watches Beckett's actions as she works the murder case.

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    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #11 - Mother's Milk

    S10:E122/9/2000

    Bloodstains in an apartment that belonged to a young couple with a baby leads to the separated parents, each of whom claims that the other has the infant.

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    7.3/10(8 votes)

    #12 - The Event Horizon

    S1:E123/24/2014

    Gabriel and Riley must determine who is responsible for framing Gabriel when he is suspected of murder; Tetazoo leads a manhunt for Riley and Gabriel.

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    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Turnstile Justice

    S11:E210/25/2000

    After a woman's body is found in a subway station, a suspect is arrested, but the resulting case concerns the lack of medication supplied him while in prison.

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    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Soldier of Fortune

    S12:E410/24/2001

    The daring daylight kidnapping of a diamond dealer which results in two murders at the scene uncovers an international dynasty of diamond sales and its links to a foreign civil war.

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    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #15 - Trade This

    S10:E163/1/2000

    The murder of a stockbroker points to organized crime when a hired hit man kills the prime suspect.

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    7.2/10(6 votes)

    #16 - Evil Breeds

    S14:E183/24/2004

    When a Holocaust survivor is murdered on the eve of her testimony in the deportation trial of a former concentration camp guard, McCoy prosecutes the man and the Neo-Nazi sympathizer who's running a fundraising web site for him, and must debunk a Holocaust denial defense which claims that the millions of deaths resulted from disease, pestilence and wartime conditions.

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    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #17 - Surrender Dorothy

    S10:E194/26/2000

    The body of a teacher, suspected of having an affair, is found in a car trunk and the investigation involves husband and father-in-law, both of whom are psychiatrists.

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    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #18 - A Losing Season

    S11:E142/21/2001

    When a pregnant loan officer is found in the trunk of her car with fatal gunshot wounds, Detectives Briscoe and Green at first suspect a carjacking or the woman's fiance and co-worker. But as the woman's premature baby clings to life in the hospital, the investigation turns to professional basketball player Cris Cody, whose ties to the dead woman may extend beyond the loans she approved for him--and may include reason for him to want her and her unborn child dead.

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    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #19 - Thin Ice

    S11:E812/20/2000

    The killing of a school-hockey coach leads to a case in which the defendant claims that he committed the crime while suffering from ""sports rage.""

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