Post by Richard Castle Fan on Aug 6, 2013 23:11:40 GMT
Penny Johnson Jerald as Captain Victoria Gates (Season 4–): Captain Montgomery's replacement. Formerly with Internal Affairs, Captain Gates (referred to by some as "Iron Gates") is more interested in career advancement, and takes a dimmer view than her predecessor of the Beckett-Castle dynamic. Strict and unforgiving, she loathes Castle's presence at the precinct regarding him as an unprofessional, distracting and juvenile presence who interferes with the way she would prefer to run things. As the series progresses she comes to tolerate Castle, and even grudgingly accept that he is useful for solving cases. Though her outright hostility fades, she is nonetheless strictly by the book, and still willing to beat Castle with it when needed.
