Trivia: Castle's Halloween costume is of Malcolm Reynolds, played by Nathan Fillion in the short-lived TV show "Firefly." Alexis asks him: "Didn't you wear that like five years ago?" Serenity, the film based on Firefly, was released 5 years before this episode aired.
Home Is Where the Heart Stops - S1-E7
Visible crew/equipment: When Castle and Beckett step into the elevator whilst talking about The New York Review of Books, a cameraman is reflected in the left door of the elevator as it closes and the scene ends.
Flowers for Your Grave - S1-E1
Other mistake: Beckett and Co are in the mental patient's apartment. She opens one of Castle's novels. The title page says that it's called "A Skull at Springtime." However, on the opposite page, it says that the book is "Storm Fall." (00:19:50)
Continuity mistake: When Beckett and Castle kiss at his party at the end of the episode, the camera is behind Castle, and Beckett's head is leaning toward her left shoulder. When the shot switches to behind Beckett, her head is leaning to the right. Then it switches back to left. (00:38:05)
Continuity mistake: After Special Agent Shaw tells Beckett to go home when they believe a murder took place in a multi-story car park, Beckett touches her hair with her right hand. She is wearing gloves on both of her hands when she does this. In the shot immediately afterwards however, her right hand is bare and she is holding the glove in her left hand.
Nanny McDead - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: At the loft, Alexis is putting away the leftovers and clearing the kitchen. Her hair moves back and forth over her right shoulder throughout the scene. (00:10:30)
I, Witness - S7-E13
Continuity mistake: When Castle and Beckett are in bed, their pillow cases are dark and patterned. When Beckett wakes up to find Castle gone, the pillow cases are white. (00:30:00 - 00:30:40)
Flowers for Your Grave - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Alexis is trying to get her father to tell her how the interview with the police went as Castle playfully pushes her along the corridor. Castle is holding the bottle of whipped cream in his right hand with the bottle positioned above his daughter's elbow. Cut to the immediate next shot and the bottle is now underneath Alexis' elbow. (00:10:20)
Continuity mistake: Castle and Beckett are talking about the case in the precinct and his coffee runs out. Beckett offers to go refill the mug. She grabs his white mug in her right hand. In the next shot, it is now in her left hand. A blue mug is in her right hand instead. (00:05:15)
Factual error: On the way to the Hamptons, Castle's car is driving on the left side of the road, even though they're in the US (where people drive on the right side of the road). (00:03:10)
Character mistake: When the private investigator shows Castle and Beckett the VIP Liaisons website, "Liaison" is misspelled "Liason." (00:17:40)
Home Is Where the Heart Stops - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: After the two talked to the victim's daughter, Castle buys Beckett a soda. The way he holds the can as he hands the soda to her changes between consecutive shots.
Flowers for Your Grave - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Castle finishes talking to Gina about his new book that's due, he raises his champagne flute with his right hand, but when he actually imbibes the alcohol, the flute is in his left hand. (00:04:25)
To Love and Die in L.A. - S3-E22
Visible crew/equipment: At the pool, after Beckett makes a stunning entrance from the water, a white reflector screen is seen on Ganz's sunglasses. (00:31:40)
Continuity mistake: When Castle gets back from helping Alexis with her friend and thanks Beckett for taking care of Fagan (Alexis' egg), just after her line, "Yeah well, he was easy. He didn't even fuss when I put him to bed", Ryan and Esposito come in and Ryan is holding a missing persons poster of Elizabeth McGinty. As soon as they walk in, Ryan is holding the poster with the front facing the camera. But two shots later he is holding it with the back facing the camera.
Continuity mistake: When Beckett and Castle are talking about the failed sting on Rathborne, Beckett's hand jumps back and forth from gripping her coffee mug by the handle in the close ups to the bottom in the wide shots. (00:36:45)
Fool Me Once - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: When Beckett goes to the bathroom to read Castle's book and Castle peers over the top of the cubical to tell her what page the sex scene is on, she is holding the book with her fingers between the pages dividing the book into 2 sections. These 2 sections switch to 3 and then back to 2 between shots.
Answer: The networks are now having winter breaks. A mid season end of new episodes, when they come back after the new year, it picks up as if several months have gone by. Beckett suggested Valentine's Day as a "chick flick" to watch as she is moved in. Also some episodes are not scheduled to air in order.