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* AmoralAttorney: Archie was willing to kill someone in order to retain the evidence for a blackmail scheme. Richie's ex-wife Elisa also had no qualms about working for Modesto as their general counsel despite knowing of their misdeeds.

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* AmoralAttorney: Archie was willing to kill someone in order to retain the evidence for a blackmail scheme. AmoralAttorney:
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Richie's ex-wife Elisa also had no qualms about working for Modesto as their general counsel despite knowing of their misdeeds.misdeeds.
** Archie, the killer, was willing to murder Richie in order to retain the evidence for a blackmail scheme.
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* HollywoodLaw: "If that dummy was stolen from our storage facility then it's the property of Modesto and we'd like it back." is a very dumb thing to say, because she just admitted to ownership and nailed the civil case against Modesto shut. Don't know why they hired her, honestly.

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* HollywoodLaw: "If that dummy was stolen from our storage facility facility, then it's the property of Modesto and we'd like it back." back" is a very dumb thing to say, say because she Elisa just admitted to ownership and nailed the civil case against Modesto shut. Don't know why they hired her, honestly.
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* HollywoodLaw: "If that dummy was stolen from our storage facility then it's the property of Modesto and we'd like it back." is a very dumb thing to say, because she just admitted to ownership and nailed the civil case against Modesto shut. Don't know why they hired her, honestly.
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* PerformanceAnxiety: Beckett confides in Martha that she has a bad case of stage fright, but still wants to go through with her and Castle's singing/dancing routine at the charity event to avoid disappointing him. However, Castle overheard this and arranged for Jimmy Kimmel to come back as the event's celebrity guest so that she wouldn't have to perform.

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* PerformanceAnxiety: Beckett confides in Martha that she has a bad case of stage fright, but still wants to go through with her and Castle's singing/dancing routine at the charity event to avoid disappointing him. However, Castle overheard this and arranged for Jimmy Kimmel to come back as the event's celebrity guest to replace them so that she wouldn't have to perform.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Richie "The Pitbull" Falco at the end of his commercial:
-->I'll make the law your bitch!
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* PerformanceAnxiety: Beckett confides in Martha that she has a bad case of stage fright, but still wants to go through with her and Castle's singing/dancing routine at the charity event to avoid disappointing him. However, Castle overheard this and arranged for Jimmy Kimmel to come back as the event's celebrity guest so that she wouldn't have to perfom.

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* PerformanceAnxiety: Beckett confides in Martha that she has a bad case of stage fright, but still wants to go through with her and Castle's singing/dancing routine at the charity event to avoid disappointing him. However, Castle overheard this and arranged for Jimmy Kimmel to come back as the event's celebrity guest so that she wouldn't have to perfom.perform.

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* AmoralAttorney: Archie was willing to kill someone in order to retain the evidence for a blackmail scheme.

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* AmoralAttorney: Archie was willing to kill someone in order to retain the evidence for a blackmail scheme. Richie's ex-wife Elisa also had no qualms about working for Modesto as their general counsel despite knowing of their misdeeds.


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* PerformanceAnxiety: Beckett confides in Martha that she has a bad case of stage fright, but still wants to go through with her and Castle's singing/dancing routine at the charity event to avoid disappointing him. However, Castle overheard this and arranged for Jimmy Kimmel to come back as the event's celebrity guest so that she wouldn't have to perfom.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The faulty airbags sending debris into vehicle occupants is a direct reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takata_Corporation#Defective_airbag_recalls_(2013%E2%80%93present) scandal surrounding defective Takata airbags and the subsequent recall.]]
* ShadowDiscretionShot: At the end of the episode, we see the shadows of Castle and Beckett as they do their singing/dancing routine in the shower.
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* TheAtoner: When Richie was at another law firm years ago, he helped covered up that Modesto Motors had faulty airbags in their sedans. People were dying, though, so he went out to grab that test dummy as proof of the cover up.

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* TheAtoner: When Richie was at another law firm years ago, he helped covered cover up that Modesto Motors had faulty airbags in their sedans. People were dying, though, so he went out to grab that test dummy as proof of the cover up.cover-up.



* CrusadingLawyer: Ultimately Richie is this. Despite his AmbulanceChaser tendencies he genuinely wanted justice.

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* CrusadingLawyer: Ultimately Ultimately, Richie is this. Despite his AmbulanceChaser tendencies tendencies, he genuinely wanted justice.justice and cared about his clients.



* ShoutOut: To a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' catchphrase. When asked to examine a test dummy, Lainie says "I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer."

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* ShoutOut: To a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' catchphrase. When asked to examine a test dummy, Lainie says "I'm Lanie says, "[[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer.puppeteer]]."
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* AmbulanceChaser: Both the victim and the killer are opportunistic personal injury specialists, though of varying levels of morality.
* AmoralAttorney: Archie was willing to kill someone in order to retain the evidence for a blackmail scheme.


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* CrusadingLawyer: Ultimately Richie is this. Despite his AmbulanceChaser tendencies he genuinely wanted justice.
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* ShoutOut: To a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' catchphrase. When asked to examine a crash test dummy, Lainie says "I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer."

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* ShoutOut: To a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' catchphrase. When asked to examine a crash test dummy, Lainie says "I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer."
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Archie had wanted to use the test dummy to blackmail Modesto instead of just exposing them like Richie was planning to and killed him for it.

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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Archie had wanted to use the test dummy to blackmail Modesto instead of just exposing them like Richie was planning to and killed him for it.it.
* ShoutOut: To a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' catchphrase. When asked to examine a crash test dummy, Lainie says "I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer."
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Archie had wanted to use the test dummy to blackmail Modesto instead of just exposing them like Richie

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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Archie had wanted to use the test dummy to blackmail Modesto instead of just exposing them like RichieRichie was planning to and killed him for it.
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The death of a personal injury attorney leads the team to discover he might be hiding a dead body.
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* TheAtoner: When Richie was at another law firm years ago, he helped covered up that Modesto Motors had faulty airbags in their sedans. People were dying, though, so he went out to grab that test dummy as proof of the cover up.
* BaitAndSwitch: Turns out Richie wasn't hiding a corpse... it was a test dummy.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Archie had wanted to use the test dummy to blackmail Modesto instead of just exposing them like Richie

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