For several seasons of the ABC series Castle, viewers sat on the edge of their couches waiting to see if writer Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and NYPD Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) would team up to solve both small cases and large conspiracies.
Castle and Beckett love story part I
Katic wanted to get the two characters together as soon as possible. "I may be a naive romantic, but I believe that a relationship can be just as spicy when people get together as it is in the chase," she told Entertainment Weekly in 2011. "The complications that arise when characters like Beckett and Castle get together can make for interesting viewing."
But Fillion wanted to stretch it out. "When you get people together, [viewers] stop yearning, they stop wanting," he noted to EW. "They say, 'Ah, finally. They're together. OK, what else is there?'"
Eventually, the ship known as Caskett set sail for the seas—and held out until a hasty series finale. To celebrate Castle's 15th anniversary on March 9, here's a timeline of Castle and Beckett's relationship.
