Kate Beckett quotes from Castle

Ryan

[pointing to inscription on Castle's book] From the library of Katherine Beckett.

Beckett

Do you have a problem with reading, Ryan?

Esposito

Yo, check it, girl, you're totally a fan!

Beckett

Right. Of the genre.

Ryan

Right, the genre, that's why you're blushing.

Beckett

What are you, twelve?

Castle

[to Beckett] Well, you're not bridge and tunnel. No trace of the boroughs when you talk, so that means Manhattan, that means money. You went to college, probably a pretty good one. You had options. Yeah, you had lots of options, better options, more socially acceptable options, and you still chose this. That tells me something happened. Not to you. No, you're wounded, but you're not that wounded. No, it was somebody you cared about. It was someone you loved. And you probably could have lived with that, but the person responsible was never caught. [realizing he's overstepped] And that, Detective Beckett, is why you're here.

Beckett

Cute trick. Don't think you know me.

Castle

[hesitant] The point is, there's always a story... you just have to find it.

Beckett

Half of the guys are waiting for prints. You don't just jump the line.

Castle

Oh, I think somebody feels threatened.

Beckett

I'm not threatened.

Castle

No, no, I get it. I can call the mayor and you can't.

Beckett

We have procedure. Protocol.

Castle

Yeah, and you always come to a complete stop at a red light and you never fudge your taxes. Tell me something: do you ever have any fun? Let your hair down? Drop your top? A little "cops gone wild"?

Beckett

You do know that I'm wearing a gun?

Beckett

You wanted to see me, sir?

Montgomery

Yeah. I just got a call from the mayor's office. Apparently, you have a fan.

Beckett

A fan, sir?

Montgomery

Rick Castle. Seems he's found the main character for his next set of novels: a tough but savvy female detective.

Beckett

... I'm flattered?

Montgomery

Don't be. He says he has to do research.

Beckett

Oh no.

Montgomery

Oh yes.

Beckett

No way.

Montgomery

Beckett, listen.

Beckett

Sir, he is like a nine-year-old on a sugar rush, totally incapable of taking anything seriously.

Montgomery

But he did help solve this case. And when the mayor's happy, the commissioner's happy. And when the commissioner's happy, I'm happy.

Beckett

How long, sir?

Montgomery

[motioning to his door] It's up to him.

Beckett

Richard Castle, you are under arrest for felony, theft, and obstruction of justice!

Castle

[Smiling] You forgot making you look bad.

Beckett

Mrs. Peterson? Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD. I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about Sarah Manning.

Of course. Please come in.

Beckett

Thank you.

Castle

Richard Castle, just... N.Y.

Kate Beckett

Exactly how many times have you been married, Castle?

Twice.

Kate Beckett

That's it?

Isn't that enough? How about you?

Kate Beckett

Me? No, never been.

Really?

Kate Beckett

Yep.

You'd be good at it. You're both controlling and disapproving.

Beckett

Do you know the school?

Castle

Oh, I've been kicked out of all of New York's finer educational institutions at least once. The irony is, now that I'm rich and famous, they all claim me as alum and want money.

Beckett

[sarcastically] It is just so rough being you.

Castle

My cross to bear.

Beckett

[interrogating a suspect] Witnesses don't place you in the club until one in the morning, and Horn was murdered between eleven and twelve.

Castle

[watching Beckett from behind one-way glass] Here it comes, and...

Beckett

So, where were you between eleven and twelve, Mr. Creason?

Castle

Booyah.

I was asleep.

Castle

Asleep!? You are lame! [heard from other side of glass] You are so lame! You're a lamey, McLamester! You're so l-l-l- [back in room] LAME!

Lanie

Getting a drink with me after work instead of getting your freak on with writer boy?

Beckett

What? He is annoying, self-centered, egotistical, and completely-

Lanie

Fun. And take it from me, girlfriend, you need some fun. I mean, how bad can he be?

Beckett

[answers phone] Beckett.

Castle

[excitedly] Guess who's got a date with a prostitute!

Beckett

What kind of a name is "Nikki Heat"?

Castle

A cop name.

Beckett

It's a stripper name.

Castle

Well, I told you she was kind of slutty.

Beckett

Change it, Castle.

Castle

Wait. Hang on a second. Think of the titles. "Summer Heat", "Heat Wave", "In Heat"...

Beckett

Change the name!

Beckett

[about a frozen body] She's melting.

Castle

Maybe we should be looking for ruby slippers.

Castle

All right, so you and I are married.

Beckett

We are not married.

Castle

Relax, it's just pretend.

Beckett

I don't wanna pretend.

Castle

Scared you'll like it?

Beckett

Okay, if we're married, I want a divorce.

Are you two like this all the time?

Yes.

Castle

You could just leave it like this. Sam's dead. The captain's happy. Those kids look pretty happy.

Beckett

That's the difference between a novel and the real world, Castle. A cop doesn't get to decide how the story ends.

Esposito

Yeah. What are the odds?

Castle

Long, unless they're connected.

Esposito

Well, four years between murders. One's a popsicle, one just got popped. How could they possibly be connected?

Castle

Maybe he and his wife got into something they couldn't get out of. Maybe something to do with a drug habit.

Ryan

So some skell waits four years to finish the job?

Castle

Maybe he finally figured out what happened to his wife and was about to go the police with it.

Ryan

I don't believe it.

Castle

Give me 250 pages, I bet I could make you.

Beckett

We're solving a murder, Castle, not writing a book.

Castle

I would call it, A Chill Runs Through Her Veins.

Esposito

Ooh, I like that.

Castle

Heh! [Two slap hands] "Bam" said the lady, another bestseller for me.