Thanks. So I've been running through all Stacy's clients files. Three couples had filed for divorce within the last month, can you believe it? You marry the love of your life and next thing you know they're cheating on you
[Shocked and furious at his flippant attitude] How the hell can you ask me something like that? Think about how much you love Alexis, and that is how much I love you, and don't you dare ask me where this is coming from! You have gotten through most of life on your wit, and charm and no small amount of talent. But that is the real world out there, and you can't charm your way out of a bullet.
I think you should be honest with yourself about why you're doing this. You had written 22 novels before you met her, and you didn't need to spend every day in a police station in order to finish them.
You painted since the last time i was here. You'd have been about 16 wrestling some pimply kid in the back of his daddy's wagon. Wondering if you were gonna give it to him or not.
There is no statute of limitations on murder Mr. Simmons.
SSimmons
And here begins what is known as the initial confrontation. During this phase of the interrogation the interrogator may invade the suspect's personal space in order to increase his discomfort. You want to invade my personal space?
Johanna Beckett was murdered, along with two of her colleagues. They were professional hits, carried out on your orders and you had your pet homicide detective John Raglan bury them. Look at her face. Tell me you don't remember her.
SSimmons
You know Detective Beckett, I think I do remember her. Bled out in an alley like the trash she was.
Look, I signed up for this when I put that badge on, you didn't. It's not your fight.
Castle
[Suddenly incensed] The hell it isn't! [Calmer, but completely serious] I don't hang around you just to annoy you, I don't ride off to murder scenes in the middle of the night just to satisfy some morbid curiosity. If that was all this was I would've quit a long time ago.
[Swallows] Look, I may not have a badge--unless you count the chocolate one Alexis gave me for my birthday--but I'll tell you this: like it or not, I'm your plucky sidekick.
Everybody drinks their coffee outta cardboard cups these days or those plastic travel mugs. But there's, there's something about the way ceramic warms your hands that... It's weird the things you notice. I just got the long face from the doc. Lymphoma. Six months.
Every year around the holidays, they ... They run that "Christmas Carol" on local TV. When I was a kid, I remember Jacob Marley scared the hell out of me. Forced to drag that, that chain around in the next world.
RCRick Castle
"I wear the chain I forged in life."
JRJohn Raglan
"I made it link by link." I hid a lot of sins behind my badge. And now I gotta carry 'em. But your mother's case ... That one weighs a ton.
You know, I could say that about maybe three people that I've met in my entire life. What is it about this guy that warrants this unshakeable faith that you have in him?
Castle
When I was fourteen, my mom sent me to Edgewick Academy. I was homesick, and I didn’t have any friends, so I wrote about it. One day, I submitted a story to the literary magazine. Damian Westlake was the editor.
More than that. He called me down to his office. He sat me down, and he said, "Ricky, you have a great talent." No one had ever said anything like that to me before. Damian ... He encouraged me, he critiqued me, he always made me dig a little deeper. Without Damian Westlake, I'm a lawyer, I'm a grifter, I'm a rodeo clown, but I'm not a writer. Without him, I'm not me.
[after learning the man who killed his father years ago has been arrested] Wow, this is ... It is pretty overwhelming. I got a plane to catch, so maybe we should just talk about this later.
Castle
Michael told the cops you got in touch with him. Asked him if he wanted to make a lot of money for one night’s work. You gave him your Rolex and your car as a down payment. When your inheritance came through, he got a half million dollars and a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. He still has your Rolex. And a map that you drew of your father’s house, with a path leading straight to his bedroom.
DDamian
Rick, he’s lying.
Castle
[voice hardening] Tell me you didn’t do it.
DDamian
Ricky, I…
Castle
Tell me I haven’t been believing in you all this time for nothing. [doorbell rings] That’s them. Detective Salazar and some New York detectives. They’re here to take you in. [rising from his seat] I told them you’d be a gentleman.
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