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I agree that super-criminals are hard to accept as plausible but I think my
biggest peeve with the episode was the gunfight between Castle and the
killer.

I know that police officers are taught to shoot for center mass, meaning the
torso, so it makes some sense that Beckett put several rounds into his
chest. It was not completely unbelievable that the killer then got up
unscathed because he was wearing Kevlar. (Mind you, many cop shows I've seen
indicate that even one round in the Kevlar still translates into a very hard
hit that can still knock you over and take the wind out of you. You would
think that six such shots would at least stun someone for a while and
probably do much worse, like breaking ribs.)

What was totally NON-credible was that Castle then put another half dozen
rounds in the killer's chest even though they'd just seen ample evidence
that he was wearing Kevlar. It seems blindingly obvious to me that Castle
should have taken at least one head shot and preferably several more since
they knew the chest shots wouldn't drop him.

Or he could have shot him in the legs to make him fall. That was the
technique used in the famous LA bank robbery at Northridge when police were
facing off with the surviving robber who was wearing Kevlar over just about
every part of his body except his feet: one of the SWAT officers shot him in
the foot to bring him down. Then they disarmed him and he bled out before
the ambulance arrived.

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Rhino