Kate Beckett quotes from Castle

Castle

I never pegged you for a magic fan. You know any good tricks?

Beckett

I do this one thing... with ice cubes.

Castle

I wonder how Zalman did it. Must've whipped something from Jerome's pocket with a receipt for his weekend of sin.

Beckett

Like this? (Holds up Castle's phone.)

Castle

(Gasps.) You had your hand in my pocket and I didn't even feel it? Do it again.

Beckett

[To a suspect who is also a street magician] We need to talk to you about Zalman Drake.

Abracadabra. [throws smoke bomb at his feet, vanishes]

Beckett

[Opens the lid of the platform he was standing on, pulls him out] Alakazam, jackass.

Beckett

So where's Esposito?

Ryan

Ha, take a wild guess.

Lanie.

Ryan

Can't believe they still think that none of us know.

Castle

Well, let's let em keep thinking that a while longer. The bubble bursts soon enough.

Beckett

Not if you're in it with the right person.

[Indicates Castle] Lady, what part of "no cops" did you not understand?

Beckett

He's not a cop.

Well, who the hell is he, then?

Beckett

Someone I trust.

Beckett

There is no statute of limitations on murder Mr. Simmons.

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?

Beckett

Look at me. 12 years ago Johanna Beckett lead a big take back the neighborhood campaign in Washington Heights.

Castle

That musta pissed you off.

And this would be theme development. Presenting the crime through the eyes of the suspect.

Beckett

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.

You know Detective Beckett, I think I do remember her. Bled out in an alley like the trash she was.

Beckett

Mr. Simmons, you'd better watch it…

Rich bitch from uptown on safari in the Heights. Somebody should've warned her not to feed or tease the animals.

Beckett

You…

If they had, she might not have gotten eaten. From what I hear though, she was pretty tasty.

Beckett

Ah!

Castle

Woah, Beckett!

Beckett

Back off Castle! Remember your old life Vulcan. Savour it. Because I am gonna take it all away.

Beckett

Castle, there's something I need you to do

Castle

Name it.

Beckett

Go home.

Castle

Forget it. Fear does not exist in this dojo.

Beckett

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.

Beckett]

Well, then, why do you keep coming back, Rick?

Castle

[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.

Beckett

Plucky sidekick always gets killed.

Castle

Partner, then.

Beckett

Okay.

Beckett

There was, uh, a lawyer named Johanna Beckett, Are you familiar with her? She was murdered in the alley about seven years into your incarceration.

[Wistfully] You look just like her, you know. When you first walked in here, it was like I was looking at a ghost. The way she talked about you, I should've known you'd become a cop. I sent letters to every lawyer I could find, and your mother was the only one who wrote me back, the only one willing to take a chance on me. She didn't care that I was a thug.

Beckett

[Smiles weakly] All she cared about was the truth

Beckett

How's the hand?

Castle

Uh, excruciating. How're Ryan and Esposito?

Beckett

Hmm. Mild hypothermia. Wounded pride. Guess which one'll heal first. [She finishes bandaging.] Thank you. For having my back in there.

Castle

Always.

Beckett

Everybody on the ground now! Back away from the window! Away from the window!

Castle

You're hit.

Beckett

I'm fine. It's not my blood. (into radio) One Lincoln Forty, I have shots fired on 4th and Main. I need backup and an ambulance.

One Lincoln Forty, repeat your last transmission; you were broken. One Lincoln Forty, repeat.

Beckett

Castle?

Dispatch to One Lincoln Forty, repeat. Dispatch to One Lincoln Forty. One Lincoln Forty, are you there?

Beckett

One Lincoln Forty. Please be advised, this is now a homicide.

Kate Beckett

Tell me what I don't know about my mom's murder.

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.

Kate Beckett

Sorry to hear about that.

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.

"I wear the chain I forged in life."

"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.

Beckett

Castle told me that you decided to give the money back?

Martha

Yeah, well, I tried. Chet's kids refused to take it. They said their father loved me, wanted me to have the money. So, I'm, you know, trying to figure out what to do with it. Everything I come up with seems so selfish and petty.

Beckett

Well, it doesn't have to be that way. You know, someone once told me that money doesn't change you, it just magnifies who you are. You cared about Chet. Maybe you could do something that would honor his memory somehow.

Castle

I don’t care about statistics. I am telling you, Damian is not capable of murder.

Beckett

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.

Beckett

And he published it.

Castle

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.

Beckett

"Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald said that.

Castle

Then it must have been Ernest Hemingway who said, "Man, I sure could use a drink right about now."

Beckett

Lead the way. I’m buying.