Castle (TV Series)

A Death in the Family (2009)

Nathan Fillion: Richard Castle

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• Martha Rodgers : And you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup, just... It hides the flaws we think we have. They make us look beautiful to ourselves. That's what makes us look beautiful to others.

  Richard Castle : Used to be... all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.

  Martha Rodgers : We spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again.

• [Alexis discussing her 15 year old boyfriend] 

  Alexis Castle : Dad, all we've done is hold hands.

  Richard Castle : Ew. Okay, please. Don't need details. Just...

• [Castle preparing to 'welcome' Alexis Prom date wearing a bloody lab coat and carrying a severed head] 

  Alexis Castle : Dad! No! No severed heads.

  Richard Castle : That's... I... It's time honored.

• [after Castle allows Alexis to go to the junior prom] 

  Martha Rodgers : I don't know. I haven't met him.

  Richard Castle : You are letting her go out with someone that you've never met? What kind of a father are you?

  Martha Rodgers : You are letting her go out with someone that you've never met. What kind of a father are you?

• [entering the victim's plastic surgery office, Castle checks out an attractive woman leaving] 

  Kate Beckett : What is it with men and boobs, anyway?

  Richard Castle : Biological. We can't help it.

  Kate Beckett : But doesn't it bother you that they're so obviously not real?

  Richard Castle : [pause]  Santa's not real. We still love opening his presents.

• Richard Castle : You wanna talk?

  Kate Beckett : There's nothing to talk about. I'm the one who pushed for it, and I'm the one who got Will involved.

  Richard Castle : There's no way you could have known this was gonna happen.

  Kate Beckett : Are you sure about that? Because their vehicle was attacked leaving our meet.

  Richard Castle : So?

  Kate Beckett : So, we were followed. Someone who knew about the investigation found out about the meet. We led them to Moran. So, yeah, I should've known. And if I were a better cop, I would've.

  [Beckett turns and goes to a seat and Castle follows] 

  Richard Castle : You think this is your fault? Yeah, you pushed for it. Not because it's your job, but because you care. Most people come up against a wall, they give up... Not you... You don't let go... You don't back down... That's what makes you extraordinary.

• [about Beckett's mother's murder] 

  Richard Castle : Same reason a recovering alcoholic doesn't drink... You don't think I haven't been down there? You don't think I haven't memorized every line in that file? My first three years on the force, every off-duty moment was spent looking for something someone missed... It took me a year of therapy to realize if I didn't let it go, it was gonna destroy me. And so I let it go.

  Kate Beckett : [as they are getting into the elevator]  Sorry. I didn't know.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, well, now you do.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, well, now you do.

• [Federal agents arrive in a black Chevrolet Suburban with tinted windows] 

  Richard Castle : Oh, somebody's been watching way too many Bruckheimer movies.

• [last lines] 

  Kate Beckett : You look awfully serious. Is everything okay?

  Richard Castle : Take a seat.

  Kate Beckett : [chuckling]  What?

  Richard Castle : Sit down.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, what's going on?

  Richard Castle : It's about your mother.

• [Discussing getting information on a mystery operation performed by the victim] 

  Kate Beckett : The hospital must've had some record of the patient.

  Kevin Ryan : Get this. The hospital can't even find the file. It's like it never happened.

  Richard Castle : Who did you talk to?

  Kevin Ryan : Patient Information.

  Richard Castle : Well, that was your first mistake. You want to find someone at a hospital who had a treatment there, there's only one department to go to where nothing *ever* falls through the cracks.

  [even one looks confused] 

  Richard Castle : Billing. Someone had to pay for it, right?

• Kate Beckett : I'm not running a background check on your daughter's date.

  Richard Castle : Oh, come on. She says he's quiet, he keeps to himself, and he lives with his parents. Tell me that doesn't sound like a serial killer to you.

• [as Alexis and her Prom date are about to leave] 

  Richard Castle : What? Whoa, whoa! Wait, wait, wait, whoa. That's it? I don't even get a chance to ask him if he's killed a man?

  Alexis Castle : Dad, he hasn't... But I might.

• Alexis Castle : You know, you didn't have to wait up.

  Richard Castle : It's my job. I wait up. I make sure you're all right... But tonight, I realized I'm not gonna be doing it for much longer.

  Alexis Castle : Dad...

  Richard Castle : In a couple of years, you're gonna go off to college. You're gonna get married. You're gonna have kids. And... I'm only gonna see you on holidays... Until some gold-digger steals all my money, but then I get to move in with you.