Did tonight’s Castle answer any questions posed by the premiere or just create new ones? Find out below!

Ah yes, nothing like a floating body to disrupt a rowing practice. Cut to Castle basically on the ‘stand’ during a promotional appearance on a TV show and this lady is not pulling any punches with her tough love questions. Back off! “Amnesia. Really?” Castle, not one to take an ambush, lightly offers a quarter of a million dollars to anyone who has any information on his whereabouts. We wish we had that kind of money just lying around.

We love most of Kate’s wardrobe, especially her stylish coats, but home girl needs to loosen that top button on her blouses! It’s distracting from her telling us there haven’t been any leads so far besides the usual crackpots. Here’s hoping a mystery Castle “might be able to solve” will distract us and Castle. Our victim is Wallace Williger, CEO of a toy conglomerate. Heyo! Espo and Lanie are back together! Finally something good came out of this new mystery.

Our victim was having a hard time dealing with a beloved dog’s death (really?) and had nothing out of the norm besides some late nights. Our team has their assignments, but just before Castle and Kate can head out to the toy office, Captain Gates would like to have a word with Castle. About what? Well, Castle decided to give out the precinct’s number for his tip hotline. His reasoning? “Well, I’m not gonna give out my home number; that’s private.” Obviously a smart man, as the phone has been ringing off the hook. “Did you hear that? Ringing off the hook!” No one is more surprised than Gates when Castle plants a big one on her, but hey, would you complain?

Ha. “Toys.” Nathan Fillion is the master of taking the simplest lines and elevating them. Anyway, turns out our CEO was not staying late at work like he had told his wife. This case-of-the-week is slightly boring, minus all of Castle’s child-like playfulness. Ugh, Kate is still trying to convince herself Castle wasn’t lying to her about his disappearance. Only Martha would find a date at a grief counseling session and then proceed to LIE about her son coming back from the dead. #motheroftheyear anyone?? And finally we hear from a mysterious caller who may have answers! Psych, it’s just a crazy guy who believes aliens are going to attack.

After an alien fake out tip, we finally get our first real clue from a vacationing honeymoon couple. The groom happened to capture Castle and Fake Jenkins in the background of one of his pictures. Where was the photo taken? Montreal. Dun, dun, dun. Alexis is really following in her father’s footsteps with all her sleuthing and deduces the key might belong to a safety deposit box from the bank that Castle is standing in front of in the picture.

After an elaborate rouse designed to get into the room with the safety deposit boxes, which really means Castle just purchased another one, Castle and Alexis open the box to find letters written to Kate, Martha, and Alexis. Inside the envelopes is a memory card with a message to each person basically saying goodbye, but not offering any real explanation. “Always.” Sigh. Castle takes the memory card to Tori, who proceeds to start a search for the background in Castle’s goodbye video. She gets a call and leaves and of course Castle gets a location. He is about to call Beckett, but doesn’t, and goes to Montreal on his own. That’s going to end well.

Case of the Week: Our victim wasn’t having an affair but rather it turns out the girl he was calling was helping Williger use makeup to disguise himself as an old man. A separate apartment is found, along with a dog in the closet. Turns out Wally became Joe, a maintenance worker at one of his factories. His reason for going undercover? Wally was using the new dog to search for drugs in his company’s warehouse. His products are being used to transport drugs from China. His first dog was killed by chewing on one of drugged dolls. Aw, now we feel bad for our comment earlier. Turns out it was an office worker, Matt Monroe, who lived in Asia and had set up the heroin trade within the company. Wally kept it a secret to keep the company safe.

Fake Jenkins is back! Rick went into the building where he filmed his goodbyes and there he is, Fake Jenkins, with a gun! You immediately think he’s a villain, but then he basically begs Castle to let this whole investigation go. Why? It’s what Castle wanted. WHAT!? How can we believe him? He mentions what happens to Castle to get him interested in murder, back when he was a boy, to what happened in Hollander’s Woods. So, not a bad guy? Appears not. But will Castle actually listen to himself?

It seems he might as he talks to Kate later on that night and she agrees that while she couldn’t let her mother’s death go, Castle already knew what happened and did this to himself willingly. Castle’s reaction? Getting married tomorrow. Kate, ever the level-headed woman in this relationship, suggests they table the marriage conversation for a month. They need to get back to them, she says. Castle agrees, but the look on his face obviously suggests that this box will get opened again. Probably right around November sweeps.

Side Notes and Quotes:

-Is it just us or did everyone but Kate, an actual detective, know that wasn’t the real Henry Jenkins? That is still really bothering us, as you can tell.
– The makeup team did one heck of a job making the victim look like a fish with those scales, no?
– “We have leads.” LOLing at his facial expression.
– “A tactical smooch is just one weapon in my vast arsenal.”
– “You leave these loaded?”
– we dare anyone to say they didn’t at least chuckle out loud at Esposito’s new ringtone. “Hey, sexy!”

What did you think of ‘Castle’ season 7, episode 2?

Next week looks to be a classic Castle episode with a supposed ‘invisible man.’ Thank goodness. Have a great week and look for news on episode 3 of Castle later in the week!