Reality Check

[varjohaltia]

In last night's episode, Castle figures they can enhance a photo to find a crook's face in a reflection off a car mirror:
-Detective, enhanced and enlarged.
-Thank you. Oh, the enhancement only increased the pixelation on all these. You can't even see there's a side view mirror!
-Well, it's not like on "24", Castle. In the real world, zoom and enhance can only get us so far.
-Yeah, but you can't even... There's no reflection. It's just mush.

They also tried to find a kidnapped kid by searching through the truancy records of local schools, only to discover nothing like that is centrally collected, let alone online, and they have to call each school in turn to find out who's not there.

Comments

[silvertales.livejournal.com]

Wow! Ok, officially impressed. So often tv shows have some sOOper-amazing tech that blows up 16-bit black and white grainy security camera footage and voila! turns it into 1600dpi sOOper high-res, crystal clear photo from a different angle, even. :)

Reality check, indeed. :)

[nanashi-jones.livejournal.com]

This is one of the many reasons why Castle is LURV. :3