Castle (TV Series)

Kick the Ballistics (2011)

Nathan Fillion: Richard Castle

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• Richard Castle : Execution-style murder? Cement trucks? Can anyone else say "Mob hit"? I'm looking at concrete evidence right here.

• Richard Castle : You know, Ryan, none of this is your fault. The fact that he used your gun...

  Kevin Ryan : 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.

• Kate Beckett : So, Lee wants fifteen to twenty-five, with parole in ten for giving us Tyson's new alias. And I need to give the ADA a recommendation. This might be our chance to get 3XK, Castle.

  Richard Castle : No. It's a setup. Jerry Tyson gave that gun to Philip Lee knowing he would use it. So there's a good chance he knew we'd eventually get to Philip.

  Kate Beckett : Maybe. So what?

  Richard Castle : So, nothing Tyson told Philip would be the truth. Giving Philip Lee a good deal for bad information, that's just another win for Jerry Tyson.

  Kate Beckett : Are you sure?

  Richard Castle : Sure enough. Jane Herzfeld deserves justice. Life in prison for Philip Lee. No deals. We'll get 3XK. And we'll do it right.

  Kate Beckett : [impressed]  Damn, Castle. Look at you thinking like a real cop.

• Richard Castle : It's like I've been holding my breath for a year, waiting for this day to come. A whole year of wondering about him, hating him, dreaming about him, trying to think like him, but still having no clue how to catch him.

  Martha Rodgers : It's not your job to catch a serial killer.

  Richard Castle : Because I'm not a cop. I like to pretend I'm Beckett's partner, like I'm one of them, but days like today, I realize that I've just been playacting.

  Martha Rodgers : Oh. Your "playacting" once helped save New York City, as I recall. Be there for your friends. Stand beside them. Work together. That's plenty useful. Trust me.

• Richard Castle : So, how's Ryan holding up?

  Javier Esposito : Three days after my last tour in Iraq, I'm at a diner with friends. A car backfires; my friends look around, I'm under the table. Ryan's just waiting for the next hit.

• Kate Beckett : [after Ryan talked with Ben Lee]  What the hell were you two thinking, going to see Ben Lee when Gates specifically said "Stay away"?

  Javier Esposito : Who's gonna tell her, Beckett? Not me. Ryan, are you planning on telling the Captain what we did?

  Kevin Ryan : Not me. Castle?

  Richard Castle : [taking a picture of their outlandish get-ups with his phone]  Who, me? No way.

  Kate Beckett : Nice, smartass. And what about when Ben Lee talks to his dad and Gates gets a phone call from their lawyer? You two are gonna get benched.

  Kevin Ryan : Ben Lee's not gonna tell his father.

  Kate Beckett : How do you know?

  Kevin Ryan : Because I looked him in the eye, and I saw the pain he's in. Maybe he's not man enough to stand up for himself, but he's not gonna rat me out, either.

• Lanie Parish : I'm putting the time of death between 10 and 12 midnight. And... I found this.

  [Lanie shows Beckett and Castle bruises on the victim's wrist] 

  Lanie Parish : Bruising. No more than a day old.

  Richard Castle : He must have grabbed her, maybe forced her into a car.

  Lanie Parish : Also, I found traces of cocaine residue on her shirt, but the preliminary tox is clean. No drugs or alcohol in her system.

  Richard Castle : The killer could have transferred it to her shirt when he walked her to the murder site.

  Lanie Parish : From the looks of it, she knew she was gonna die. I found this clutched in her fist.

  [Lanie holds up an evidence baggie containing a necklace with a cross on it] 

  Richard Castle : He let her say a prayer before he shot her. That's not very professional.

  Kate Beckett : No. More like Jane knew her killer.

• Richard Castle : I was just thinking. If our killer is someone in Lee's organization, then he must have gotten your gun from Jerry Tyson.

  Kevin Ryan : Which means our killer may know Tyson's whereabouts. We nail him, we nail 3XK.

  Kate Beckett : There's nothing in Tyson's background that indicates a connection to the Chinese mob.

  Richard Castle : Maybe the shooter is connected to the Lees. Someone Tyson crossed paths with during his four years in prison. Someone working for the Tong. If I find out who that someone is, maybe we have our shooter.

  Kate Beckett : Wading through four years of prison records, it's a lot of work.

  Richard Castle : I don't mind.

• [first lines] 

  Richard Castle : Grande skim latte, two pumps sugar-free vanilla.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, I think you've read my mind.

• Richard Castle : I know who the killer is!

  Kate Beckett : Castle, we just got some bad news, so no hypotheticals. Just give us a name.

  Richard Castle : Well, I have to start at the beginning...

  Kate Beckett : *Name*.

  Richard Castle : Jinhai Li Chang.

  Kate Beckett : [pause]  Okay, start from the beginning.

• Richard Castle : The two eventually became friends.

  Kate Beckett : It happens.

  Richard Castle : Not with Jerry Tyson. That guy doesn't have any friends. He's a psychopath.

• [pouring whiskey into cups for a small celebration in the precinct] 

  Richard Castle : [softly]  Let's, uh, keep this party a little quiet, though, all right? If the Captain hears, I'm sure she'll blame me.

  Kate Beckett : Who's gonna tell her? Not me, you?

  Javier Esposito : Nope.

  Kate Beckett : What about you, Ryan?

  Kevin Ryan : Mmm-mmm.

  Kate Beckett : Well, then, I think we're good.

• [last lines] 

  Kevin Ryan : I'd like to make a toast... To bravery... and commitment, to love and sacrifice... to Jane.

  Richard Castle , Kate Beckett , Javier Esposito : To Jane.