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.
Kate Beckett: Maybe Sarah was having an affair.
Rick Castle: Well, that makes perfect sense. Sarah was separated from her husband, Vince. And after long, grueling days at work, she'd go home to a cold, empty apartment. Feeling lonely, betrayed, she seeks comfort in the arms of this mystery man.
Kate Beckett: And she decides that she wants her husband back, so she writes his mistress, Mandy Bronson, off the show in order to save their marriage.
Rick Castle:And her next step would be to get rid of the other man.
Kate Beckett: So maybe the other man didn’t go off quietly into the night.
Kevin Ryan:Do you two practice this when we're not around?
Kate Beckett: Okay, found the deal memo Sarah signed in order to get Lance out for his movie.
Rick Castle: He wasn't lying. My mother's never going to let me forget this.
Kate Beckett: Oh, come on, Castle. She'll probably think it was sweet that you were concerned about her.
Rick Castle: This is Martha Rogers we are talking about. I intruded on her "moment." No, I will pay dearly.
Kate Beckett: When Lance came here, Sarah told him that someone wasn't who she thought they were. Who do you think that was?
Rick Castle: How about the woman who makes my mother look like a saint?
Kate Beckett: Yeah, but Sarah already cut Gloria out of her life. Maybe ... Maybe it was her cheating husband.
Rick Castle: Except Lance met with Sarah after Mandy Bronson. By the time Mandy showed up, Sarah'd already decided what she wanted to do with her marriage.
Kate Beckett: Yeah, but even if Sarah decided that she was gonna get back together with Vince, it doesn't mean that she didn't have doubts.
Rick Castle: No. No, you're right. Except he has an alibi. Everyone has an alibi.
Kate Beckett: Yeah, well, somebody out there doesn’t, and we are gonna find them.
Rick Castle: [looking at his watch] Maybe we should sleep on it. [Beckett looks at him] Separately. Katherine Beckett, I never…
Rick Castle: Why were there news vans out front?
Kate Beckett: Because of who our victim is. Joe McUsic.
Rick Castle: Who?
Kate Beckett: Juror number seven in the Lyla Addison case.
Rick Castle: The Addison case? Seriously? What happened?
Kate Beckett: He dropped dead during the closing argument. Lanie thinks that he was poisoned.
Rick Castle: [pulls out his phone and starts texting] Heir to the Addison fortune is murdered and, during the trial, a juror is murdered as well. This has all the makings of a John Grisham novel.
Kate Beckett: What are you doing?
Rick Castle: I'm texting my poker group, calling dibs on this story.
[Seeing a suspect on surveillance footage giving a coffee to the victim]
Looks like he makes a killer Cappuccino! [Beckett gives him a glance] Too soon...
[The D.A. is furious about his administrative assistant is being called in without informing him]
You called the D.A.'s personal assitant without informing him?
Smart move! Well you see what just happened? He could have called and asked why his assistant was here, but he came in personally.
He wanted to stop the interview!
Ordell Williams was right, it's a consp... [seeing Beckett writing "Conspiracy" on the murder board] ...iracy...
I agree. I know, weird...
Yeah, weird, but ... good, because that's just the tip of the iceberg. Are you ready for the Titanic?
[Seeing the victim’s body in the oven.]
Another couple of hours, maybe. But luckily for me he’s only half-baked.
[Beckett gives her a look]
RCRalph Carbone
You gotta be kidding me!
NJNick Jr.
Dad, these are the cops.
You must be Authentic Nick.
Nick? I have the proprietor listed as Ralph Carbone.
RRalph
Yeah, that’s me. Everybody calls me Nick.
RRalph
Because that’s what everybody calls me.
RRalph
They’re thieves. They live off of our name. And they’re not even real Nicks. I’m the only real Nick.
And your real name is Ralph.
You had a lot of imaginary friends growing up, didn’t you?
