[Beckett's boyfriend Josh blames Castle for her getting shot]
He's right, you know. This is my fault.
Richard Castle, don't you dare blame yourself. You did not shoot her.
No, but I put her in the crosshairs.
S4 E1Rise
You act like this is all about her. But you were standing right next to her; you could have been shot. I could have been shot! You need to grow up, dad. You're a writer, not a cop. Stop pretending.
After my mother was killed, something inside me changed. It's like I built up this wall inside. I don't know, I guess I just didn't wanna hurt like that again. I know I'm not going be able to be the kind of person that I want to be, I know I'm not gonna ... I'm not gonna be able to have the kind of relationship that I want, until that wall comes down. And it's not gonna happen 'till I put this thing to rest.
Well, then I suppose we're just gonna have to find these guys and take them down.
S4 E2Heroes and Villains
Mother, prepare to feast on the finest omelette in the land... (He looks up and sees what Martha is wearing.) Before you join the convent...
No, I am making costumes for my Shakespeare class. So, what do you think?
I seem to remember asking you to make me an ET halloween costume, and you told me you didn't know how to sew.
Details. Besides, you were 32 at the time.
Whoa. You smell that? Wafting scent of printed pages. Comicadia. Beckett, this place is the premier comic book shop. It's the Vatican to a Catholic. It's Mecca to a pilgrim. Upstream to a...
I know, Castle! I bought my first comic here when I was 14. Sin City. Dame to Kill For.
Hard core! Okay, whoa, okay. If you could be any comic book character in the world, who would you be?
Elektra.
Oh. A ruthless assassin who hides from her emotions.
No, maybe it's because she's got badass ninja skills.
Oh.
What about you? Iron Man, Spiderman? No wait, I know, Annoying Man.
Try billionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne, aka, the Dark Knight. He's brooding, he'd handsome, and he has all the coolest toys.
Wow, digging deep on that one.
MMike
We just got your Derrick Storm graphic novel, I mean, the art, the writing, it is, in a word, awesome!
Tell me, what's your favourite part?
You don't have to answer that question. His ego does not need anymore feeding.
MMike
Definitely where Derrick Storm escapes from the two bad guys by crashing the taxi cab.
Taxi cab!
MMike
Oh, I'm sorry, Detective Beckett, I should've said spoiler alert.
Oh, no, that's okay, I won't be reading it.
MMike
Really? I saw your name on our list. You preordered a copy.
Did she now?
I was just being supportive.
Haven't you ever wanted to be a superhero? Going out there, prowling the city, knocking some heads.
I do that now.
Paul is the writer, Lone Vengence is the subject. That's their relationship. It's you and me all over again, but I'm Paul and you're Lone Vengence.
Really, Castle? Is that how you see me? Like a sword-wielding killer?
Depends. Will you be scantily clad?
In your dreams.
S4 E3Head Case
She grew up so fast.
Well, what do you expect? Her to live here forever?
Well, her, yes. You...
Watch it.
How do you do it, dad?
CCastle
Do what?
Well, that letter that you have framed in your office.
CCastle
[fondly] My first manuscript rejection.
Yeah. How can you stand having it there?
CCastle
Because it drives me. And I got twenty more of those before Black Pawn ever agreed to publish In a Hail of Bullets. That letter... that letter reminds me of what I've overcome. Rejection isn't failure.
It sure feels like failure.
CCastle
No, failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.
My whole life has been about making sure I could get into any college I wanted. What's it about now?
CCastle
Give it time. You'll figure it out.
Yo, Ryan, 'sup man, where you been?
Down at the college running down that break-in in Hamilton's office. So listen to this- (looks down at the desk) What the hell is this?
That, my friend, is Beau Randolph's alibi.
A dead pigeon?
CSU found it on the roof of his building with a slug on his belly from his .45.
Seriously? Randolph really did come up there, huh?
Just writing him up for animal cruelty right now.
Maybe there's still time to cryogenically freeze the little guy…
What about the victim? Any closer to an ID?
Based on blood, Dr. Parish determined that our victim is a male, so we’re looking for missing persons reports of men in that area.
Men? You’ve narrowed the victim pool down to men?
[Beckett tries to respond, but can’t]
Uh, well, in New York City, that actually eliminates over four million women, so…
[Gates glares stonily at him]
Mr. Castle, I don’t know what the mayor sees in you, but I know how you’re alike. He’s term-limited. [walks away]
Maybe if I sent her flowers-
No. No.
Where do you start when you don’t know who the victim is?
You… [frowns] Ah, you know you could… [stops trying and sighs]
We really need to find the body, don’t we?
Yeah, pretty much.
S4 E4Kick the Ballistics
You know, Ryan, none of this is your fault. The fact that he used your gun...
That weapon was issued to me by the city of New York. I let it out of my hand, and now a girl is dead. So please do not tell me that it's not my fault.
When I started in Narcotics, I was so green. I-I didn't know how things worked. One day, there's this major bust - street gang cooking meth. They're stacking up guys in the bullpen, taking their statements one by one. Place is a zoo. I'm answering phones in the squad. Girl on the line, name of Alisha, asking for my lieutenant. So I call out across the bullpen "Hey lou, Alisha's on the phone for you."
[Beckett snorts with laughter]
It was her tip that got these guys nailed, and all of them just heard me call out her name. Searched all day and all night, looking for her before the gang could get word back to the street that she was a narc.
Well, did you find her?
I did. Got her into witness protection, but... that was the stupidest thing I'd ever done as a cop. Until the day Jerry Tyson got the drop on me and stole my weapon.
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