Castle (TV Series)

Murder He Wrote (2012)

Seamus Dever: Kevin Ryan

Quotes 

• Kevin Ryan : [answers phone]  Hey, Castle. Yeah, I'm gonna put you on speakerphone so you can weigh in on this.

  Richard Castle : [with Beckett]  Weigh in on what?

  Kevin Ryan : Well, we're in the morgue with Lanie trying to figure out who Beckett's boyfriend is.

  [Beckett looks at Castle, alarmed] 

  Lanie Parish : I have *nothing* to do with this nonsense.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, until you're bagging their mangled bodies when Beckett finds out.

  [Beckett smiles] 

  Javier Esposito : Pfft. Like we're afraid of Beckett.

  [chuckles] 

  Kevin Ryan : Besides, how's she gonna find out?

  [Beckett grabs for the phone but Castle pulls it away] 

  Richard Castle : Anyway... I need your guys' help.

• Aaron Lerner : Just last week, Franklin was complaining about a local.

  Kevin Ryan : A local drug dealer?

  Aaron Lerner : Yes! Seems he didn't appreciate us moving in on his business.

  Kevin Ryan : Who? Give me a name.

  Aaron Lerner : I don't know a name! But Franklin seemed really spooked.

  Kevin Ryan : What else did he tell you about him?

  Aaron Lerner : That's all I know. Everything else I told to Brady and his two consultants.

  Kevin Ryan : Two consultants?

  Aaron Lerner : Yeah, yeah, the writer, Castle, and his girlfriend.

  Kevin Ryan : Girlfriend? Wha-Wha-What do you mean... girlfriend?

  Aaron Lerner : What does that matter?

  Kevin Ryan : Hey! Hey! I'll ask the questions here, pal! Are you telling me that Richard Castle brought his girlfriend in your interrogation?

  Aaron Lerner : [after a look and a shrug from his lawyer]  Yeah.

  Kevin Ryan : What was her name?

  Aaron Lerner : I don't remember.

  Kevin Ryan : Well, then describe her.

  [slams the tabletop] 

  Kevin Ryan : Describe her, Lerner! Now!

  Aaron Lerner : Okay! Tall! Uh, uh, medium-length hair! What's this about?

  Kevin Ryan : Wha-What color? Give me a hair color.

  Aaron Lerner : Uh... Brown. Brown, brown eyes, too, I think. Really pretty.

  Kevin Ryan : Body type?

  Aaron Lerner : Awesome. I mean *awesome*. She was like, thin, gorgeous. She was hot. She was really hot.

  [snaps his finger] 

  Aaron Lerner : Kate! Name was Kate!

  Kevin Ryan : [stunned]  Son of a...

• Richard Castle : There has been a homicide out here in the Hamptons. In my backyard.

  Kevin Ryan : Seriously, Castle?

  [laughs] 

  Kevin Ryan : What, are you in, in an episode of "Murder, She Wrote"?

  Richard Castle : More like "Murder, He Wrote". But unfortunately, unlike Jessica Fletcher, the local police chief, not a friend of mine, and I think he may have the wrong guy. So, I need you guys to question the victim's wife in the city, find out what she knows.

  Javier Esposito : Hmm, That's a pretty big favor to ask, Castle. We're gonna need something in return.

  Kevin Ryan : The Ferrari.

  Kevin Ryan : For a week.

  Javier Esposito : Each.

  Richard Castle : *Seriously*? Guys!

  Kevin Ryan : [smirking]  Hmm.

  Richard Castle : Guys!

• Javier Esposito : Hey, did you hear about Beckett's weekend?

  Richard Castle : [feigning ignorance]  No. Big plans?

  Kevin Ryan : She's going away with her *boyfriend*.

  Richard Castle : A boyfriend? Beckett! Really? Who is the lucky guy?

  Javier Esposito : For some reason, she's not telling.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, seriously, guys?

  Richard Castle : Actually, I, for one am offended that you're not sharing with us.

  Kevin Ryan : Hmm. After all we've been through.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah, I think we deserve better than that.

  Kate Beckett : You know, I have a couple of ideas about what you guys deserve.

• Lanie Parish : Beckett's boyfriend? Don't you two have something better to do?

  Javier Esposito : Actually, no.

  Kevin Ryan : We figure Beckett must have started up with the guy during her suspension.

  Javier Esposito : Pretty emotional time for her. Bet she needed a shoulder to lean on.

  Kevin Ryan : An ex.

  Javier Esposito : It would explain why she's too embarrassed to tell us who it is. Makes her look weak.

  Kevin Ryan : We're thinking the most likely scenario is that it was the last guy that she was with.

  Javier Esposito : Dr. Joshua Davidson.

  Kevin Ryan : Mm-hmm.

  Javier Esposito : It's him, isn't it?

  Lanie Parish : Okay. I get that you don't have a life, Javi, but you're married, Kevin, so what's your excuse?

  Kevin Ryan : I...

  Lanie Parish : Whoever Beckett's boyfriend is is none of your business.

  Javier Esposito : Come on, Lanie. You must know who it is. She went back to Josh, didn't she?

  Lanie Parish : Is this how you interrogate people? 'Cause you ain't doing nothing but *pissing* me off.

• Kevin Ryan : Hey, so, I took a closer look at Randall Franklin's real estate investments. Guy was buying up distressed properties in dying neighborhoods and turning them into condos.

  Javier Esposito : Sounds like smart investments.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah, but he wasn't renovating them. He wasn't leasing them out, nothing.

  Javier Esposito : So he was carrying the mortgage, but the buildings weren't throwing off any income?

  Kevin Ryan : And his wife *said* that the real estate investments are keeping them flush. It just doesn't add up.

  Javier Esposito : You're right. Has to be something going on in those buildings.

  Kevin Ryan : Only one way to find out.

• Kevin Ryan : [on phone]  You were right, Castle. Franklin was using his helicopter to move meth to the Hamptons. Looks like you blew this case wide open. Guess you can get back to your writing now, huh?

  Richard Castle : Well, there's still the matter of finding out who the killer is.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah, well, I think Brady knows what he has to do. I already told him to look for a local drug dealer who had been feeling squeezed by Franklin's expanding operation.

  Richard Castle : Well, that's a great theory. Nice work.

  Kevin Ryan : Oh, thanks, but, uh, it's not my theory. Aaron Lerner gave it up when I interrogated him this morning.

  [Beckett hurries into the room, a look of horror on her face] 

  Richard Castle : Aaron Lerner? Aar, uh, So you interrogated Aaron Lerner, too.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah, he's back in the city. Turns out he was Franklin's partner in crime.

  Richard Castle : Wow. What do you know?

  Kate Beckett : [quietly]  Castle, not good!

  Richard Castle : [to Beckett quitely]  Relax! Relax!

  Kate Beckett : [quietly]  Relax? I'm not gonna relax!

  Kevin Ryan : You still there, Castle?

  Richard Castle : Yeah, still here. Uh, what else did Aaron Lerner say? Did he say anything else about... anything else?

  Kevin Ryan : Oh, you know, usual. "I didn't do it," "you got the wrong guy." I'm pretty sure he told me everything he knows.

  Kate Beckett : [horrified, quietly]  Everything?

  Richard Castle : Everything, huh?... That's good.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah. Good luck with the writing.