“A Murder is Forever” quotes from Castle

Kevin Ryan: I don't know about you, but I'm very comfortable in my masculinity.

Javier Esposito: You do realize you're wearing a sweater vest, right?

Kevin Ryan: What can you tell us about this diamond?

Edward Peters: Well, I should like to run additional spectrometer and imaging tests on it, but, for the meantime, let me start with the four C's.

Kevin Ryan: Ah, color, cut, clarity, carat. [to Esposito] You'd know this if you ever bought an engagement ring.

Edward Peters: The diamond is colorless. No blemishes, so a pristine cut. No internal clouding and uh, nearly 100 carats.

Javier Esposito: Whew! Man! Hey, how deep would my pockets have to be to afford a rock like that?

Edward Peters: Detective, you are not tall enough to have pockets deep enough. But I would say it's worth $60 million. Conservatively.

Javier Esposito: Yeah, I ain't that tall.

Rick Castle: Any luck on Alice's clients?

Kate Beckett: Yeah, a couple of possibilities. A hedge fund manager with investments in South Africa, a UN diplomat with ties to Russia, and a CEO with a manufacturing plant eighty miles from a Chinese mine.

Rick Castle: I wonder if we're looking at this wrong. What if it's not about Alice's clients, but it's actually about Alice?

Kate Beckett: What do you mean?

Rick Castle: When she was living with the gorillas in Africa, that was in Rwanda, right along the border of the Congo. A region known for conflict diamonds.

Kate Beckett: So you think she was involved in the blood diamond trade?

Rick Castle: I think it's a story that writes itself. A young primatologist in an unstable region falls for a different kind of guerilla, a warlord who is funding his bloody agenda with diamonds. He gives her one as a gift. No. No, go back. She's not that into him and she steals the diamond, having no idea its real value. She smuggles it back to the United States and finds she can't sell it without attracting too much attention, so she hides it. Until one day, a jilted and well-read warlord finds a book and sees her photo on the back. Knowing what she stole, he comes after her.

Kate Beckett: That is surprisingly plausible.

Rick Castle: I know, right? That's actually ... that would actually explain a lot. Why she was planning to disappear, why Esposito and Ryan were shot at in broad daylight. That's actually a perfect theory.