Martha Rodgers quotes from Castle

My little girl is going to college.

Martha

Seems like just yesterday you were checking under the bed every night promising her that monsters aren’t real.

I lied. Monsters are real. They’re the boys in her freshman dorm.

Martha

Oh, speaking of which, before Alexis leaves, don’t you think you should have then, um... talk with her.

You mean the sex talk? Mother, I covered that ages ago. I learned so much.

Martha

I mean the you and Beckett sex talk.

Mother, Beckett and I haven’t...

Martha

Save it. Richard. I knew the morning I walked in here and the poor girl was hiding in the closet.

How did you know that?!

Martha

Mothers know these things. But I don’t think you want Alexis to walk in unannounced and find you and Beckett... out of the closet. And by out of the closet...

I know, I know what you mean by out of the closet.

Martha

So, don’t you think you should tell her?

Alexis

Tell me what?

Martha

Captain Gates? Captain Gates.

Gates

What are you two doing down here?

Martha

Well, after I got a call from Detective Esposito, I became very concerned, so I checked in with-

I can’t reach Katie. What’s the situation?

Gates

There’s no cause for alarm. It’s just that we’re having trouble pinpointing their precise location-

Martha

Oh, please stop. You are a terrible actress. There is no way that anyone would’ve called me if they weren’t really worried, and I wanna know what is going on here.

Gates

Okay. They went to interview a witness and we lost contact. But we’re doing our best to find them. So I suggest you both go home and I’ll call you the second I know more.

Martha

I am not leaving until I know what has happened to our children.

Neither am I.

Martha

All right, where is that fancy coffee machine that Richard bought for the precinct? Over there?

Gates

The break room.

Gates

[Whispering] I don’t want to have to tell those two that I lost their kids. Tell me you have something on Dolan.

Castle

It was all fake? Nothing was real - you let me think I was crazy, you let me think you were gonna die!

Beckett

But Castle, you were so bored over the past couple of weeks, stuck at home with no case to solve, and I saw that this apartment was for rent, and I thought that...

Martha

Richard...

Castle

No ... no ... this is ... without a doubt ... the greatest birthday gift of my life!

Martha

You've stitched yourself up before, I take it?

At least this time I got a needle.

Martha

[In disbelief] Ah.

Beckett

And while Castle's downloading, I'll track the signal using the Wi-Fi analyzer on my phone.

Martha

You can find a spy on your phone?

Castle

Mother, there's an app for everything now.

Martha

You know, for years I wondered if your father was the one who got away. Well, now, I finally know.

Castle

He was never worth your time.

Martha

Oh, yes, he was. First time I met him, he gave me the greatest gift of my life. You. And now after all these years, he's given me another one. Closure. So what about you, kiddo? How are you?

Castle

I don't know.

Martha

Think we'll ever see him again?

Castle

I wish I knew.

Castle

Mother, what are you trying to force on my lovely fiancée?

Martha

No, no, no, no, no. I am just trying to expose Katherine to the glorious world of wedding magazines.

Beckett

They are all very girly, with a lot of gauzy photos of love-struck brides looking off into the distance.

Castle

Perhaps they're contemplating the 50% divorce rate.

Alexis

Oh, my gosh. Did you really beat Dad at Scrabble?

I concede nothing. Except that I need more coffee.

Martha

That is quite an accomplishment, young lady. Nobody beats him, ever.

Beckett

Oh, yeah. He's mentioned that. Repeatedly.

Martha

Ah, how the mighty have fallen. [Pours him coffee]

"Richard Castle. One word short." I cannot allow this to be my epitaph.

I saw that.

Martha

Aha, that will be my date.

Castle

Ooh, you have a date?

Martha

Uh-huh, Robert. We met at the grief counselling group, when you were presumed...

Castle

You picked up a man at grief counselling?

Martha

Yes. Now, I will thank you to go into the other room.

Castle

Why?

Martha

Because at the moment our relationship is based on mutual loss, and if he finds out that you have returned, and are alive, it will just... it will ruin everything.

Castle

Mother, you realise I was on television this morning?

Martha

Luckily, Robert is a cultured man, he does not watch television. The only newspaper he reads is the Wall Street Journal, which, thankfully, did not carry news of your return. So, go, go, go, go.

Castle

...I do have something special lined up. A surprise, actually, for you.

Beckett

Really? What kind of a surprise?

Castle

Well, now if I told you that, it would be a surprise. But trust me, you're gonna love it.

Beckett

Okay, now, why does that scare me?

Martha

Because you're smart.

Castle

Oh, absolutely not. You will not, and do you know why? Because you're a fighter. What have you always told me? No one will give you anything in this life. You must earn it. And look at you, almost 20 years later and you're back on Broadway? You have earned this.

Martha

I have, haven't I?

Castle

You have. Please don't let some idiot with a cell phone take that away from you.