Richard Castle quotes from Castle

You weren't supposed to find out about Billy Koss. I mean, what is the point of a sealed record when the cops can open it whenever they feel like it?

Castle

I'm sure they got a subpoena first.

And I'm sure they all had a laugh off all the adjectives describing me, right? Manic. Bipolar. Violent. Murderer.

Castle

Well, not to be a stickler, but "murderer" isn't an adjective.

I'm not an idiot.

Castle

Sorry. I just get sarcastic when I'm nervous.

All units: Full breach! Go go go!

Oh my god, I killed Richard Castle!

We're gonna need the EMT right away! Let's go!

Beckett

[Kneeling over Castle] Castle?

Castle

Cheeseburgers! Cheeseburgers... How much worth ... [Pointing at the bulletproof vest] She dotted the I!

Beckett

Yes! [hugging Castle]

Castle

Aaah! Chest! Ouch, that hurts!

Beckett

Yeah, well, getting hit by a projectile travelling at a thousand feet per seconds can ... sting a bit...

Castle

Yeah, that's gonna leave a mark...

Beckett

All that matters is you're OK now...

Castle

Oh, I'm better than OK Beckett, I know who the killer is!

You ordered Aron Stokes in for questioning? Are you serious?

Esposito

You told us to build our case, and Mr. Stokes is where it went.

This is a very powerful man who happens to be golfing-buddies with the police Commissioner.

Castle

So because he has a standing tee time with your boss, he gets away with murder?

I'm handling the interview

Ryan

What? No, sir, this is our case...

Yes, and it will be your jobs if there's any blowback. I am not gonna have you two risk your careers.

Kate

Captain, I don't have a career to risk. How about I back you up in there?

Okay...

Castle

Captain, I too have no career to risk, why don't I ... [Gates sharply looks at him with her arms akimbo] maybe I should ... you know, I'm gonna do is I'm gonna stay here, I think you guys got this handled...

Castle

[Glossing over his bulletproof vest] Wow. And to think you boys mocked me when I had this made four years ago. I think I'll have it framed.

Ryan

Hey, what does it say about your writing when your number one fan tries to kill you?

Castle

That was an accident.

Esposito

Been one inch high, it would've been a tragedy.

Castle

But on the bright side, your autographed copies of Deadly Heat would be worth way more.

Beckett

Not funny, Castle.

Castle

Little bit funny.

Beckett

Listen, I'm kinda looking forward to spending the rest of my life with you so...don't do anything stupid in there, okay?

Castle

Don't worry. I think I already hit my stupid quota for the day

Beckett

What happening?

Lanie

Lot of weirdos out there with too much imagination is what happened. And yes, I'm looking at you, Castle.

Castle

Yeah, except I only commit my murders on paper. Don't actually do them. A lot more lucrative, a lot less prison.

Esposito

Hey, caught a break on that stalker. Couple of nights ago, Shauna filed a harassment complaint. Apparently, three days ago, a guy confronted Shauna on her way home from work. Said the lives of half the people on the planet were at stake.

Castle

Whatever crazy theory I could've come up with, this is better.

Ryan

12-58, what do you think that means?

Castle

Time, address, Bible verse?

Please listen to me, don't do this. Please. You have to let me go. If you don't, a billion people will die!

Esposito

Yeah? How are they gonna die?

I don't know. I only know that they do.

Esposito

Yeah? And how's that?

Because...I'm from the future.

Castle

[Whispering] This just became my favorite case.

Look, after the bloody energy wars of 2031, funneling

Castle

Energy wars!

Yeah, you know fascists control the power, trying to control the world's energy supply for a select few - don't worry, we defeat them - turns out, that one of these new sources of power is a tachyon generator as it opens doors in time-stream continuum, allowing us to travel back in time! But of course because of the possibilty of abuse, it was technically regulated against, secret from the public...

Beckett

We have a witness that saw you leaving Shauna Taylor's apartment shortly after she was killed...

I'm getting to that - look, I'm a temporal anthropologist. What we do is travel back in time and we study culturally significant eras - ancient Egypt, middle ages, man I've been to Nazi Germany!

Castle

Aren't you worried about the Butterfly Effect, a slightly change in something in the past thus altering the future?

No, we're careful. The timestream is mostly self-correcting, you know? Any small changes like a little ripple [...] [snipping his fingers] doesn't matter, but if someone wants do do something big, if someonebody wants to do something massive, then yes, of course, you're damn right you can change the future! And by the way, that's exactly what just happened!

Beckett

[on the phone] This is Detective Beckett, got a suspect at large, I'm gonna need patrol sweeps of the area along with a full CSU team at the scene.

Real trauma, that one - can't believe you married her...

Castle

How did you know I marry her?

One of your book jackets: you know, "Richard Castle lives in New York with his wife Senator Beckett and three children"

Castle

Senator...

Beckett

[turns around astounded] Three kids?!?

Beckett

Who the hell is Paul Deschile?

Ryan

He's a 21-year old at Hudson getting his post-doc in theoretical physics

Beckett

Alright, get him into protective custody!

Ryan

He's on leave this semester, the university has no idea where he is, so in turn look for his parents...

[agitated] Detective, it's him! Deschile!

Castle

You know him?

[still agitated] Of course I know him, everyone knows him! Oh man, if he's killed...

Beckett

Yah, OK, I'll call you back - Doyle, sit down!

No wonder billions of people die...

Castle

Hey, who the hell is Paul Deschile?

[getting really agitated] The energy wars I told you about! The other side, a group of fascists, they were worse than the Nazis, the..they were slaughtering people by the ten-thousands, Okay? They were winning, until Deschile! He and his team they, they created an energy shield which was able to stop their weapons and completely turn the tide! Detective, listen to me! Ward is still obviously fighting for the fascists! They're trying to win the war by re-writing history! If he kills Deschile, there will be no energy shield, and without that energy shield, we lose that war! Ward's gonna kill Deschile, and that is why billions of people die!

Beckett

OK, we don't have time for this - take him to holding, please...

Beckett

So the FBI doesn't have any murder in their database that match this M.O.

Castle

Which leaves us with my theory. Our victim was dabbling with black magic, and she conjured up a demon.

Beckett

Or, maybe, she ran afoul of some obscure religious sect and they sacrificed her to their pagan deity.

Castle

What are you doing?

Beckett

Making stuff up, just like you do.

Castle

Yeah, because that's my job. It's your job to follow the evidence. You're messing with the natural order of things.

Alexis

Bike tracks. There were bike tracks outside Kim's house. Dad, do you realise what this means?

That maybe the party Kim went to was at that farmhouse, and she saw kids doing meth.

Alexis

Well, not just doing meth. Cooking meth.

That's why she had to get out of there. That's why she told Lyle she had some decisions to make.

Alexis

She was thinking about turning them in. So when she left the party...

Maybe one of our teenage meth cookers got worried she would go to the cops.

Alexis

So he went after her.

On his bike. The tyre tracks at her house. He knew where she lived because he'd been there before.

Alexis

He was one of the other guys Kim was seeing.

We need to talk to Kim's mother.

Now that was weird. Usually I do that with Beckett.

Alexis

[looks disgusted] Oh.

She said this new job was just what she needed.

Ryan

What do you know about this job? Where did she work?

She wouldn't talk about it much. Except to say that it was legit, and that she was being taken care of.

Esposito

Do you know where she moved to after she left your place?

Well, she and I shared a cab that day, and it dropped her off at a building off the West Side Highway. Well, I'll tell you this, Pam took a big step up.

Castle

[Scoffing] A big step up? This is a giant leap. This is a vault into the stratosphere.