What if their lives intersect, just not in such a literal sense?
Castle, no, please. If this is some alternate universe theory, I'm not in the mood.
Really. Alternate universe, that's how little you think of me.
I'm sorry. I... I'm sorry, I just, I thought that...
No, they're psychically linked, and not just to each other, but to the actual killer. See, they've seen the crime through his or her eyes, and the experience is so visceral that both Sam and Anita think that they committed the crime themselves.
[giggles] I'm sorry, it's just you got excited, it's kind of cute.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know how I like the weird stuff.
Tell me what this is all about.
Not until I know I'm right. Which... I am. You should know, you're engaged to a genius.
Yes, a genius at annoying me.
So, I'm Justin, and you are one of these several people who shot me.
I'm starting to feel the urge
[Whispering] This is Detective Kate Beckett, and if you can hear me, I've been abducted. I'm in a white cube van, New York plates. We've been traveling for about 20 minutes. We've been making a lot of turns, but I think we're headed east. Captain Fowler, if you can hear me, this is seriously ruining my dinner plans.
It looks like she was stabbed with a knife.
To the untrained eye, perhaps, but what you don't know about post-mortem analysis could fill a book, Mr. Castle. In fact, it has. Numerous times.
Fine. So, it was not a knife.
PPearlmutter
Ah, wrong again. It was a knife, but "stabbed" implies the blade was thrust into the victim, whereas this wound was produced by it being hurled into her chest.
What is this, Last of the Mohicans?
Kate Beckett: Castle, I love you, but I will not marry you on a ride, or up in space, or on a slide.
Kate Beckett: Sir, uh, you okay?
Victoria Gates: Oh, just trying to figure out how to tell my sister her case is compromised without her blaming me.
Kate Beckett: Why would she blame you when you're just doing your job?
Victoria Gates: There's a history. 1998. I had just been made head of Internal Affairs. Elizabeth was in the D.A.'s Office. We called ourselves "The Dynamic Duo." At the time, Elizabeth was closing in on a heroin ring in East New York and they had an undercover inside. His testimony was key to the case, but...
Kate Beckett: He was dirty?
Victoria Gates: He'd skimmed a few eight balls off the very bust Elizabeth was building her case around. And when my office caught him reselling it, she came to me, begged me not to file charges. Asked me to think of the greater good. I did my job that day, too. Hasn't been the same between us since.
Oh, my gosh. Did you really beat Dad at Scrabble?
CCastle
I concede nothing. Except that I need more coffee.
That is quite an accomplishment, young lady. Nobody beats him, ever.
Oh, yeah. He's mentioned that. Repeatedly.
Ah, how the mighty have fallen. [Pours him coffee]
CCastle
"Richard Castle. One word short." I cannot allow this to be my epitaph.
[Alexis and Beckett fist-bump as he drinks.]
