- Kate Beckett: [after Castle invited Conrad to his poker game] I heard that you guys were pretty hard on Conrad last night.
- Richard Castle: Hard on him? No, no, that was just a little... friendly hazing.
- Kate Beckett: To hear him describe it, it sounds like someone was trying to teach him a lesson.
- Richard Castle: [trying to laugh it off] What? Why would I want to do that?
- Kate Beckett: Because you didn't want him to spend time with me?
- Richard Castle: That is completely...
- Kate Beckett: True?
- Richard Castle: Yes, fine. It's true. I'm jealous. There, I said it. I... I want you all to myself, and to have you spending time with another writer, that upsets me. And if... if that makes me petty, so be it. Guilty as charged.
- Kate Beckett: [smiles] Actually, I kind of think it's sweet.
- Richard Castle: You do?
- Kate Beckett: I do. And that's why you don't have to worry about me hanging around with Conrad anymore. From now on, I am a one-writer girl.
- Michael Connelly: You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and I wrote twenty-three more.
- Kevin Ryan: Check out the text messages that Bridget fired off to Zack on the night he was killed.
- Richard Castle: Ooh! Not a lot of "LOLs" in there.
- Kate Beckett: "Zack, if you leave me, I swear to God, I'll kill you."
- Richard Castle: And she has a way with words.
- Kate Beckett: And a record to go with it.
- Kevin Ryan: Disorderly conduct. Mostly minor stuff. Uniforms are bringing her in now.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: It says here she's 5'2". You really think she could overpower Zack?
- Kevin Ryan: Uh, no, but her brothers could. In grand Irish tradition, she has four of them. Each over six foot, *each* with his own claim to fame. Assault.
- Richard Castle: Ooh.
- Kevin Ryan: Ag assault.
- Richard Castle: Bad.
- Kevin Ryan: ADW.
- Richard Castle: Yee.
- Kevin Ryan: Battery. Assault on a city employee, parking enforcement.
- Richard Castle: Doesn't count.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Easy.
- Kevin Ryan: Dude.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: [watching Beckett in Interrogation] She's like a tiger in there. I never get tired of watching her.
- Richard Castle: Me neither.
- Richard Castle: After everything I've done for him. He goes and tries to steal my muse.
- Alexis Castle: Muse thievery. What's the punishment for that? Five to 10 in mythology jail?
- Alexis Castle: Dad, you ever think that maybe you're overreacting a teensy bit? You ever think that maybe he admires you so much that spending time with Beckett is to understand you better?
- Richard Castle: Don't confuse me with your reasonableness.
- Lorraine Dinovi: [about her son] First day I put him in the pool, he was two years old. Took to it like a fish. You have kids?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Two daughters and a son.
- Lorraine Dinovi: It's what we do for them, right? When his dad left, and I was feeling lower than dirt, you know what he told me? He said "I'm gonna be someone one day for you, Ma. So you can walk down the street and be proud."
- Richard Castle: He's going to be in town and asked to get together with me. He want's to learn more about my writing process.
- Martha Rodgers: And by process, you mean your... procrastination until the very last second.
- Alexis Castle: And then writing out of a desperate panic in a caffeine-induced haze?
- Martha Rodgers: That one?
- Bridget McManus: I don't know, some scary-looking guy. They met under the el and they went *at* it. Yelling and screaming. I couldn't tell 'bout what, though, 'cause the guy had, like, an accent.
- Richard Castle: hat kind of an accent? Spanish? Asian? Russian?
- Bridget McManus: Do I look like I work at the UN?
- [first lines]
- Richard Castle: [reading from a book] "As he saw the dark figure approaching, he rose up for a better view, little knowing he was heading for his doom."