Castle and Beckett appear back together, sealing the deal with a makeup embrace fans have been waiting all Season 8 to see in the action drama's latest episode.

For most, the highlight of the fall season "Mr. and Mrs. Castle" finale was Rick (Nathan Fillion) pulling his wife (Stana Katic) close for their aforementioned heartfelt reunion.

After scolding his wife for abruptly moving out of their home and essentially abandoning him earlier this season and going as far as to chastise her with "You like being broken," TVLine reports Castle ultimately relents and forgives his better half. The scene is set when the two come together aboard a cruise ship to probe the brutal murder of a showgirl found with a bullet to her head and drugs stuffed down her throat.

Soon, they stumble across a camcorder that the victim had been using to document the cruise ship's mysterious practice of discarding much of its trash at sea. In time, that habit proves to simply be a ruse to aid a crew member in smuggling heroin aboard the ship in trash bins.

One thing quickly leads to another, and before long the two suspect they've nabbed the man responsible for all the mayhem.

As for their troubled relationship, Rick later confronts his wife about not having enough faith in him to confide in him about her LokSat investigation and how she came to feel the only way she could protect him was by distancing herself from him.

Stunningly, Kate concedes to her husband she was wrong to leave him and admits she's come to realize "working together on LokSat and working on their marriage would be best for the both of them."

The two go back and forth before Rick gives in and agrees they need one another in more ways than he can imagine, assuring their second chance.

After a two-month hiatus, "Castle" Season 8 returns to the ABC airwaves on Feb. 1.