“Countdown” · Season 3, Episode 17
In this episode: Richard Castle (5), Fallon (4), Kate Beckett (3), Kevin Ryan (2), Roy Montgomery (1)
[Explaining how they found Beckett and Castle]
We thought you must be out there doing something incredibly stupid against orders, so we sent patrol units everywhere we figured you’d be moronic enough to go. Found Beckett’s car, and we searched the area until we found the light from the storage container. [Bumps fists with Esposito]
Well, I’m glad my stupidity’s predictable.
You two. Are you always this stubborn and insubordinate?
Only when we’re trying to save the world.
He’s not wrong, you know. Used to be we go to war, everybody sacrifices, everybody pitches in. Now, you don’t even see it on the news. [Montgomery gives him a critical look] I’m not defending him. I’m just saying I understand the anger.
[Fallon and Beckett interrogating Radford in order to find the bomb]
Do you see yourself as a great hero, doing this for a mighty cause? You think that’s how people are going to see you? Because, I’ll tell you right now, brother, if you let this happen, you’re going to go down in history as America’s greatest mass murderer. Is that what you want?
When this bomb goes off, do you think they’re going to be looking at me? People will see this as an act of terrorism, so they will be looking for a terrorist. Not a patriot. Not one of their own.
Is that what you think you are? A patriot? There’s a word for people like you, it’s not “patriot.” It’s “traitor”.
The powers that be have no use for a traitor. So when they find their terrorist, and they will find their terrorist, what do you think will happen to me? [Fallon shrugs] Well, let me tell you, because I know them, I know how they think. I will become a footnote in one of your files, buried so far back no one will ever find it, because anything more would be an inconvenience to their self-serving, rabble-rousing narrative.
[After the failed interrogation]
We needed him to break, I saw an opening, I took it.
You violated his rights.
I can think of probably a dozen federal lawyers that would disagree with that. He was never in any real danger. I removed the bullets from my clip. The gun wasn’t even loaded.
Well, mine was.
Yeah, well, I was pretty sure you weren’t going to shoot me.
You know, next time I wouldn’t be so sure
You should have seen his face. Because he stopped, he looked at me, he grabbed all the wires, and then he just yanked them.
[Laughter]
All of them?
I figured one of them had to be the right one...
You know, the Mayor wants to give you guys a medal. I didn’t have the heart to tell him you had no clue what you were doing.
...But thanks to you two, we won’t have to add the murder of innocent New Yorkers to that allegation
Well, we were just doing our job. [pause] Actually, I was doing my job - I don’t know what the hell he was doing.
Hey! [beat] But that’s true.
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