[Speaking with Homeland Security agent Fallon about the case]
Just so I’m clear, are you taking over?
This is your case. I’m just here to lend support however I can.
Yo, Cap. ICE just sent over the immigration papers for Amir Alhabi. He got a degree in electrical engineering from a school in Damascus.
What was he working on in Syria?
I got that one. I just spoke with the State Department. They debriefed Amir when he first landed here. They say he was working on a weapons program for the Syrians.
Okay. Now I’m taking over
Fine. He's He's on his way to Haiti to do another Doctors Without Borders mission.
I don't know. It's so funny, Castle. You know, at first, I loved that he was so busy. It just It just gave me an opportunity to keep one foot out the door, just in case.
But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand.
And even if I did, I mean, what does it mean? He's out there, he's saving people. How do you even compete with that?
You can't. No. No one can.
That's one of the things that attracted me to him the most. That passion. That drive. Why is it that the thing that attracts you to a person always ends up being that thing that just drives you crazy? I just wish that it I wish that I had someone who would be there for me, and I could be there for him, and we could just dive into it together.
What’s your take on Fallon?
Smart cop, driven, killer instinct. As a person, kind of a douche.
[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?
RRadford
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”.
RRadford
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.
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.
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]
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.
Rick Castle: Why would anyone want to kill a writer?
Kate Beckett: Oh, so many reasons.
Rick Castle: Or maybe Sarah discovered that Greek billionaire Mikos had invented a machine that could cause blizzards that would plunge the entire world into an ice age.
Kate Beckett: Really? You're gonna go with a evil weather machine?
Rick Castle: It already happened. On General Hospital. Look, bear in mind, we're entering into a world of epic drama with larger than life characters, each one teaming with twisted secrets and personal intrigue. It stands to reason that the motive for this murder will be worthy of a soap opera.
Kate Beckett: Castle, even in a world of epic drama, the motives are usually quite ordinary.
Martha Rodgers: [after Castle asks if she knew Lance Hastings] He was my love interest thirty years ago. On screen. And off. After my character married his character, Joseph Fox, she was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, kidnapped again, and held hostage in the sewers of Paris.
Kate Beckett: How long were you on the show?
Martha Rodgers: Three weeks.
Javier Esposito: I know she's a murder suspect, but you got to admit she is smoking hot.
Rick Castle: Agreed. So hot, in fact, that it led to a torrid affair with Sarah's director husband. Sarah found out about it, decided to kill off Mandy's character. Doesn't get any soapier than that.
Javier Esposito: Well, obviously, you haven't seen Chiquitas.
Rick Castle: As in bananas?
Javier Esposito: No. As in the telenovela. I used to watch it growing up with my grandmother. Bro, there was this one episode where Gabriella discovered that her husband was sleeping with her evil twin sister, Teresita, only to later find out that she had multiple personality disorder.
Rick Castle: Wait, does that even qualify as cheating?
Javier Esposito: Dude.
Rick Castle: What?
Javier Esposito: Don't overthink it.
Johnny Dimes: I'm a P.I. Sarah Cutler was a client. What do you mean, she's dead?
Rick Castle: She's dead. Only really has the one meaning.
Kate Beckett: Did she hire you to follow her husband?
Johnny Dimes: Husband? No. She hired me to investigate Gloria Chambers.
Rick Castle: The mom. I knew it. Was she involved in organ harvesting?
Johnny Dimes: That didn't really come up. But I can tell you this, Gloria Chambers isn't her real birth mom. She's a fake.
Rick Castle: Oh. The mom isn't really the mom? Does it get any soapier than that?
Kate Beckett: Okay, so Gloria is in the clear. Uniforms showed her photo at the OTB, and a bartender there remembers seeing her at 11:15.
Rick Castle: You know, I can see why she fell for Gloria’s con. Sarah was motherless, childless. She was taking young writers under her wing. She was looking for family.
Kate Beckett: Wow, Castle. That's a refreshingly down-to-earth theory.
Rick Castle: Just trying to keep you on your toes.
