“Knockdown” quotes from Castle

[Indicates Castle] Lady, what part of "no cops" did you not understand?

Beckett

He's not a cop.

Well, who the hell is he, then?

Beckett

Someone I trust.

Martha

I Heard about the shooting on the news. Could have been you. You know that, don't you?

Castle

Yeah, but I'm fine, wasn't me.

Martha

Richard, this isn't one of your books, you don't know the ending! You were just lucky yesterday.

Castle

[Somewhat nonchalant] You're overreacting, mother. Where is this coming from?

Martha

[Shocked and furious at his flippant attitude] How the hell can you ask me something like that? Think about how much you love Alexis, and that is how much I love you, and don't you dare ask me where this is coming from! You have gotten through most of life on your wit, and charm and no small amount of talent. But that is the real world out there, and you can't charm your way out of a bullet.

Castle

You think I should quit?

Martha

I think you should be honest with yourself about why you're doing this. You had written 22 novels before you met her, and you didn't need to spend every day in a police station in order to finish them.

Castle

It's not about the books anymore.

You painted since the last time i was here. You'd have been about 16 wrestling some pimply kid in the back of his daddy's wagon. Wondering if you were gonna give it to him or not.

Castle

Hey that's enough!

He's sweet on you. Makes him brave.

Beckett

There is no statute of limitations on murder Mr. Simmons.

And here begins what is known as the initial confrontation. During this phase of the interrogation the interrogator may invade the suspect's personal space in order to increase his discomfort. You want to invade my personal space?

Beckett

Look at me. 12 years ago Johanna Beckett lead a big take back the neighborhood campaign in Washington Heights.

Castle

That musta pissed you off.

And this would be theme development. Presenting the crime through the eyes of the suspect.

Beckett

Johanna Beckett was murdered, along with two of her colleagues. They were professional hits, carried out on your orders and you had your pet homicide detective John Raglan bury them. Look at her face. Tell me you don't remember her.

You know Detective Beckett, I think I do remember her. Bled out in an alley like the trash she was.

Beckett

Mr. Simmons, you'd better watch it…

Rich bitch from uptown on safari in the Heights. Somebody should've warned her not to feed or tease the animals.

Beckett

You…

If they had, she might not have gotten eaten. From what I hear though, she was pretty tasty.

Beckett

Ah!

Castle

Woah, Beckett!

Beckett

Back off Castle! Remember your old life Vulcan. Savour it. Because I am gonna take it all away.

Beckett

Castle, there's something I need you to do

Castle

Name it.

Beckett

Go home.

Castle

Forget it. Fear does not exist in this dojo.

Beckett

Look, I signed up for this when I put that badge on, you didn't. It's not your fight.

Castle

[Suddenly incensed] The hell it isn't! [Calmer, but completely serious] I don't hang around you just to annoy you, I don't ride off to murder scenes in the middle of the night just to satisfy some morbid curiosity. If that was all this was I would've quit a long time ago.

Beckett]

Well, then, why do you keep coming back, Rick?

Castle

[Swallows] Look, I may not have a badge--unless you count the chocolate one Alexis gave me for my birthday--but I'll tell you this: like it or not, I'm your plucky sidekick.

Beckett

Plucky sidekick always gets killed.

Castle

Partner, then.

Beckett

Okay.

Beckett

There was, uh, a lawyer named Johanna Beckett, Are you familiar with her? She was murdered in the alley about seven years into your incarceration.

[Wistfully] You look just like her, you know. When you first walked in here, it was like I was looking at a ghost. The way she talked about you, I should've known you'd become a cop. I sent letters to every lawyer I could find, and your mother was the only one who wrote me back, the only one willing to take a chance on me. She didn't care that I was a thug.

Beckett

[Smiles weakly] All she cared about was the truth

Beckett

How's the hand?

Castle

Uh, excruciating. How're Ryan and Esposito?

Beckett

Hmm. Mild hypothermia. Wounded pride. Guess which one'll heal first. [She finishes bandaging.] Thank you. For having my back in there.

Castle

Always.

Beckett

Everybody on the ground now! Back away from the window! Away from the window!

Castle

You're hit.

Beckett

I'm fine. It's not my blood. (into radio) One Lincoln Forty, I have shots fired on 4th and Main. I need backup and an ambulance.

One Lincoln Forty, repeat your last transmission; you were broken. One Lincoln Forty, repeat.

Beckett

Castle?

Dispatch to One Lincoln Forty, repeat. Dispatch to One Lincoln Forty. One Lincoln Forty, are you there?

Beckett

One Lincoln Forty. Please be advised, this is now a homicide.

Kate Beckett

Tell me what I don't know about my mom's murder.

Everybody drinks their coffee outta cardboard cups these days or those plastic travel mugs. But there's, there's something about the way ceramic warms your hands that... It's weird the things you notice. I just got the long face from the doc. Lymphoma. Six months.

Kate Beckett

Sorry to hear about that.

Every year around the holidays, they ... They run that "Christmas Carol" on local TV. When I was a kid, I remember Jacob Marley scared the hell out of me. Forced to drag that, that chain around in the next world.

"I wear the chain I forged in life."

"I made it link by link." I hid a lot of sins behind my badge. And now I gotta carry 'em. But your mother's case ... That one weighs a ton.

Now, I’m going to make you a deal. You tell me what I need to know, one pro to another, and I will put a bullet in your brain. You don’t, you jerk me around, and you will be begging me to before this night is up.

Esposito

I’m going to have to go with option B.

Ryan

Oh, yeah. We’re definitely going to jerk you around.