Castle (TV Series)

The Final Nail (2011)

Nathan Fillion: Richard Castle

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• Richard Castle : I was hoping you'd still be here.

  Kate Beckett : I was just about to call you.

  Richard Castle , Kate Beckett : I think I know who the killer is.

• Kate Beckett : What is it about this guy that-that warrants this unshakable faith that you have in him?

  Richard Castle : When I was fourteen, my mom sent me to Edgewyck Academy. I... I was homesick, and I didn't have any friends. So I wrote about it. One day, I submitted a story to the literary magazine. Damian Westlake was the editor.

  Kate Beckett : And he published it.

  Richard Castle : More than that. He called me down to his office, he sat me down, and he said, "Ricky, you have a great talent." No one had ever said anything like that to me before. And Damian, he encouraged me, he critiqued me, he... he always made me dig a little deeper. Without Damian Westlake, I'm a lawyer, I'm a grifter, I'm a rodeo clown, but I am not a writer. Without him, I'm not me.

• Richard Castle : Hey! Why are you mad at me? I'm just looking out for my friend.

  Kate Beckett : You challenged my authority in front of a suspect, Castle.

  Richard Castle : Since when is Damian a suspect?

  Kate Beckett : Right now everyone is, you know that. That's how I do my job. I will not have you get in the way of an investigation.

• Damian Westlake : Detective Beckett thinks I got away with murder once, and now I've done it again, doesn't she?

  Richard Castle : Damian, you should have told me. I'm not a cop, I'm your friend.

  Damian Westlake : That's right, you are. Remember when you first came to Edgewyck?

  Richard Castle : I remember.

  Damian Westlake : I was the one that told them to give you a chance. I'm looking for the same chance now.

• Richard Castle : I wish the choice I had to make today was so simple. I realize that I have the choice to believe in two terrible things. Either Damian is a killer, or Beckett's arrested an innocent man. Just thinking about it is making my head hurt.

  Martha Rodgers : Well, then forget your head. Listen to your heart.

• Alexis Castle : What's in the box?

  Richard Castle : This is Philip Westlake's murder file. I told Beckett I'm gonna solve the case.

  Martha Rodgers : Oh, Richard...

  Richard Castle : What? You're the one who told me to follow my heart.

  Martha Rodgers : Yes, but, you know...

  Alexis Castle : Dad, that case is older than me.

  Richard Castle : This doesn't sound like encouragement.

• [last lines] 

  Kate Beckett : [as Damian is put in the back of a squad car]  "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald said that.

  Richard Castle : Then it must have been Ernest Hemingway who said "Man, I sure could use a drink right about now."

  Kate Beckett : Lead the way. I'm buying.

  Richard Castle : [they walk down the sidewalk]  It's Valentine's Day. Shouldn't you be in a nice candlelit restaurant, wearing a new dress, ordering surf and turf?

  Kate Beckett : I've got a couple of hours. You okay?

  Richard Castle : Yeah. I'm fine.

  Kate Beckett : Liar.

• Kate Beckett : Castle, it's one thing for you to look out for your friend, it's a completely different story when you hide vital information from me.

  Richard Castle : I wasn't hiding it! I just didn't think it mattered!

  Kate Beckett : You didn't think it mattered that Damian was a suspect in a previous homicide?

  Richard Castle : I didn't know he was a suspect. And since he was never arrested, and that case is still unsolved, I'm guessing those cops have a lot of theories and no evidence, like another detective I could name right about now.

  Kate Beckett : You know, if this was anybody else, you'd be asking me why I hadn't already slapped the cuffs on him.

  Richard Castle : But it isn't anyone else, and I'm telling you you're way off base on this one.

• Kate Beckett : We agreed that you would stay out of my way on this.

  Richard Castle : Yes, but I did not agree I would stand by and let you railroad my friend.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, you are too close to this one. You need to go home. Now.

• Richard Castle : All right. So, Ray, what kind of man leaves beautiful Puerto Rico to retire in freezing cold New York?

  Ray Salazar : [laughs]  The kind of man whose beautiful *wife* is from Long Island.