- A case near Halloween has Castle and Beckett investigating the death of a man in a graveyard, wearing fangs.
- 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.—ABC Publicity
- On Halloween eve, Castle is getting ready for his Halloween party when Beckett calls. A young man has been found with a stake in his heart in the cemetery. From the ceramic fangs in the victim's mouth, Castle and Beckett go to see the Fang Master, Dr. Barry Frank, who identifies the victim as Crow and gives them his address.
At Crow's apartment, they find out that he was a graphic artist and was working on a new graphic novel. From the landlady, they learn Crow had a fight with a black haired girl, whose name they learn is Vixen and that she runs a vampire coven.
Vixen tells them Crow was writing a graphic novel with his friend Daemon about a vampire called Morlock, which was based on Morgan Lockerby, a psycho who thinks he's a vampire due to suffering from photo-sensitivity. Using the novel, they track down Lockerby, but can make little sense of his ramblings of spots and wicked boys.
They learn that Crow's real name is Mathew Freeman. They call his family but neither his father Alan nor Janice can help. The daughter Rosie tells them to check his portfolio he submitted to get in to the design school.
Ryan comes up with the drawings which are shown to the head psychiatrist. From him, they learn Crow's main subject was not Morlock, but a woman who he depicted as an angel. Daemon is found dead from a gunshot but Beckett finds his thesis papers, in which the reconstruction of a woman's face who was murdered 18 years ago is found but her body was found only two years ago. They conclude from Crow's drawings, some of which were made before the body was found, that he saw the murder of the woman when he was two.
At that same time, 18 years ago, Alan had reported his wife Elizabeth missing. From Elizabeth's maiden name Dryden and the grave found by Castle in the cemetery, they believe Mathew confronted his father with the murder in front of her grave and was killed.
Alan confesses that married Janice, Mathew's nanny, and changed his name to her maiden name to get a fresh start. While leaving, Castle notices that Janice has spots on her coat and leads her to Lockerby, who identifies her as a murderer. They conclude that she had killed Crow's mother 18 years ago with Mathew as a witness. When he got too close to the truth, she murdered him and his friend.
In the subplot, Alexis and her friend Paige are taking care of an egg they called Feggin as a Home Science project. When they go to a senior party, Paige gets intoxicated and Alexis calls her dad to come get them. He brings them home and calls Paige's parents. As revenge for getting her in trouble, Paige 'kills' Feggin. Castle tells Alexis that no matter what she does, he will always be there for her. Even if she gets an F in Science.
In another subplot, Beckett continuously asks Castle what got him into writing murder mysteries. Castle tells her of finding the body of his housekeeper's son washed up on the beach but then she realizes he is just making up a story. To get back at him, Beckett scares him in front of his Halloween party when she removes her coat and a jack in the box pops out like the scene from Alien.
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