Personal Life
In "Under the Gun", Beckett tells Castle that she has a '94 Harley softail motorbike, which she worked through high school to pay for. When he asks why she will not show him a picture of the bike, she says it is because she does not think he could handle the sight of her "straddling it in tight black leather".
In "Last Call", Beckett revealed that she has a tattoo. She also displayed her singing talents with the rest of her team.
In the Season 5 episode "The Final Frontier", Castle finds out that Beckett was (and possibly still is) a huge fan of a short-lived sci-fi series called Nebula 9, so much so that she was part of a Nebula 9 fan-gang in college. Later a picture even shows her dressed up like her favorite character.
In "Heroes & Villains", she is shown to be a client of a famous comic book store, and that she has bought a copy of the graphic novel based on Castle's character Derrick Storm, which she tries to hide as an attempt to help with the sales. When she interrogates Officer Hastings, who has been fighting crime as a vigilante called Lone Vengeance and is suspected of killing a man that knew her double identity, it turns out that the two of them are very similar in that they lost one of their parents when someone murdered them and have allowed that to drive their careers towards the police force in order to make justice. It also turns out that she has a boyfriend who works as a journalist and writes a comic about what Lone Vengeance does. Beckett tells her to stop letting her past define her life. When it is found that Officer Hastings is innocent, the officer and the journalist leave the precinct and kiss passionately as the lift door closes. Castle comments on the similarity between the couple the officer and the journalist make and the relationship between himself and Beckett.
In the season three final "Knockout", after Beckett has been shot by a sniper, Castle tells her that he loves her . In season four premiere "Rise", Beckett says she does not remember anything about her shooting (implying that she didn't hear Castle's declaration) but it is later discovered that she remembers everything that happened that day. During Season 4, Castle discovers that Beckett does remember him saying that he loved her but she can't be honest about her feelings. In later conversations with her therapist and friend Lanie, Beckett is reminded that Castle may not wait for her to return his feelings and she'll be faced with the fact that he's moved on. During the season finale "Always", however, Castle restates to Beckett that he loves her and although they immediately break up their partnership, at the end of the episode, they finally kiss. During Season 5, their romantic relationship continues to be explored.
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