Kate Beckett quotes from Castle

Castle

Officer and a gentleman. That could be the name of our crime blog.

Beckett

Crime blog? The way that you help me write police reports? Got a feeling I’ll be writing that one on my own.

Beckett

If his staff wants to minimize damage, they’ll step back and let me do my job.

Castle

Step back? These are politicians. They can’t order at a restaurant without two compromises and an ultimatum.

Castle

And it happened backstage, right upstairs. They were stealing a moment together, which was dangerous, because she was Dempsey’s girl. As they stared into each other’s eyes, Kate’s heart quickened...

Beckett

Did you just say Kate? Are you picturing the PI as you and me as the gangster’s moll?

Castle

What? No. and I didn’t say Kate, I said fate. Fate’s heart quickened. I was being poetic.

Lanie

No ID, but lots of causes of death.

Castle

You mean other than gravity.

Lanie

Oh, yeah. See that bullet wound?

Beckett

So he was shot before he fell?

Lanie

And stabbed.

Beckett

Shot and stabbed?

Lanie

And choked and has a pencil jammed in the side of his neck.

Castle

Gives new meaning to the term “overkill.”

How could they get a court order that fast?

Beckett

I don’t know. Maybe you should ask your girlfriend.

Lanie

Girlfriend?

Yes. Okay? We slept together. It was a long time ago. What’s the big deal?

Beckett

There is no ‘big deal’, sleep with whoever you want. The more the merrier!

Alexis

(Clearing her throat.) I have those, uh, toxicology reports you wanted.

Lanie

Oh, yes, just set them there, sweetie. Thank you.

Castle

First Alexis is interning for Lanie, now my mother is taking over my office. I feel like my whole life is being invaded.

Beckett

You’ll get used to it. I did.

Castle

It is not the same thing. It’s similar, just much less invasive.

Castle

(To Beckett) A girl wearing a red outfit in the middle of the woods, claw marks on her face. Am I the only one who is seeing this? (Beckett is puzzled) She is Little Red Riding Hood.

Beckett

(Sarcastically) Great, I'll call an APB on the Big Bad Wolf.

Castle

You have a better theory? (Ryan suddenly calls Beckett from far)

Beckett

Ryan, I want you to see if any animal here can cause these marks.

Ryan

Like a wolf? A Big Bad one?

Beckett

Really?

Castle

There’s this whole adult role playing subculture obsessed with fairy tales. (Kate looks at him.) Not that kind of adult role playing, although, there is that one too.

Beckett

And you know this how?

Castle

Did a little research. Hmm. Bo Peep. Anyway, these people get dressed in the outfits, they play the characters, they even re-enact the stories. Maybe that’s what Amy was doing when everything went horribly and tragically wrong.

Beckett

Castle, that is a surprisingly reasonable and grounded theory.

Castle

Yeah. In fact, I am a little disappointed in myself.

Esposito

We all are, bro.

Beckett

What was I supposed to do? Say no?

Castle

Yes.

Beckett

Why are you so against your mom’s play?

Castle

Because she’s rewriting history. My history. Trust me, I lived through it. She’s making it sound like it’s her own personal fairy tale.

Beckett

Oh, so you don’t like it when someone writes their own version of your life. Interesting.

Castle

Okay, are you referring to the Nikki Heat books? Because this is completely different.

Beckett

How is it different?

Castle

Well, for one thing, I’m not claiming that what I write is actually true.

Beckett

Well, I don’t think she is, either. Come on, Castle, you said so yourself, everyone needs a fairy tale. What’s the harm in letting your mom have one of her own?

Castle

Okay, let’s... let’s change the subject to something less likely to give me an ulcer.

Castle

He covered his bases.

Beckett

I know. It’s really starting to piss me off.

Castle

Yeah. And you get cute when you get angry. (Kate looks at him.) But not when you get angry with me. (Kate smiles.)

Beckett

And like any psychopath, he’s a great actor. Oh, speaking of...

Castle

Psychopaths or actors?

Beckett

I was thinking about your mom.

Castle

Oh, so a little of both.

Beckett

I think we can make the play.

Castle

Really? You wanna venture into the dark scary woods?

Beckett

Don’t worry, Castle, I got a gun. I’ll protect you from the big bad wolf.

Castle

You’d use your gun on my mother? I’m touched. Thank you.

Castle

Speaking of fairy tales, my mother is ready to give her encore performance.

Beckett

Time to go back into the woods?

Castle

Still got your gun?

Martha

I turned down the role. Turned my back on fortune. And, it was the best career move I ever made. For an even greater role came my way. The part, perhaps the greatest role that I have ever played. That, of mother.

Beckett

(To Castle.) That’s sweet.

You’re right, that is sweet.

Alexis

Shh.

Sorry.

Martha

Now, if Richard had only been able to embrace the role of son with the same level of commitment...

And, into the woods we go.

Beckett

This is the weirdest spending spree I have ever seen. Odette spent tens of thousands of dollars on clothes but nothing in her size according to these receipts. Everything's in size four.

Esposito

And I went through her apartment. I didn't see a hundred grand worth of new clothes. Maybe she hid 'em.

Castle

Sounds to me like the old gas card scheme.

Beckett

What do you mean?

Castle

Your parents put you on a strict allowance, but they give you a gas card so you can fill your car. You fill your friend's cars and they give you cash. Some of my buddies in boarding school nearly doubled their allowance.

Beckett

Uh huh.

Castle

Not me, of course. That ... Don't tell my mother.

Beckett

Okay, so you remember what happened after the bomb went off, but not before.

It must have been one of those traumatic amnesia things.

Beckett

Bobby. Don’t lie to me.

Beckett

I'm telling you, it was all a big blank. It was the trauma.

Beckett

It was not the trauma. You don’t get to use that excuse.

I swear, I don’t remember.

Beckett

The hell you don’t remember. Do you wanna know trauma? I was shot in the chest, and I remember every second of it. And so do you.

Castle

All this time. You remembered?