Castle (TV Series)

Scared to Death (2013)

Seamus Dever: Kevin Ryan

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• Richard Castle : [reading]  "Legend tells of a mysterious video that can harness the forces of evil from the beyond. The disc is a harbinger of grave misfortune, marking its watchers and sentencing them to certain and unavoidable death." I saw it, just like Val did. That's why she said, "It's coming for me." That's how she knew when she was going to die, why she was trying to ward off spirits, because of the message on that disc.

  Javier Esposito : How's a DVD gonna kill you? Is it gonna come at you like a ninja star? Cut your head off?

  Richard Castle : [sighs]  The actual DVD will not kill me, Esposito. It will be the spirit *inside* the DVD, just like in "The Ring".

  Kevin Ryan : Ooh, ooh, the... one with the creepy, waterlogged little girl that crawls out of the TV. I didn't sleep for *days* after that movie.

• Richard Castle : Maybe we should make a copy of the DVD and send it to someone else. That's how they saved people in "The Ring".

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah, but all those people who got a copy died.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah, and you'd just be passing the buck off to someone else. That's cold, bro.

  Richard Castle : Okay, does anyone have a better solution? Because we need one. If not for me, at least for Beckett.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, that's so sweet. You want me to outlive you?

  Richard Castle : Of course. Who else is gonna tell my tale of sacrifice and selflessness?

• Kevin Ryan : You know, finding who sent this disc should make Castle feel a whole lot better.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah. But what if the worst happens and Castle's right? Do you think he put me in his will?

  Kevin Ryan : Dude, uncool.

  Javier Esposito : What? I'm just wondering. I mean, Castle's death will be sad and all, but his Ferrari sure would lessen my grief.

  Kevin Ryan : You do realize that even putting that out in the universe is bad karma.

• Kevin Ryan : The box was last rented by an Andrew Levine, who died of liver failure three months ago. Somehow I don't think he's connected to this case.

  Kate Beckett : So the killer covered his tracks. He must have written a random PO box on the packaging slip.

  Kevin Ryan : Or...

  Kate Beckett : No! Ryan! There is no "or."

  Kevin Ryan : I'm just saying. Maybe the reason we can't trace the package's origin is 'cause it was sent from another realm.

  Javier Esposito : Ryan is right. It was sent from another realm. New Jersey.

• Kate Beckett : Okay, so both of our victims stayed at that inn at the same time. So, maybe they were having an affair.

  Kevin Ryan : Well, in 2008, Val would have been 24. Jason would have been 66. An affair would've been...

  Richard Castle : Gross.

  Kevin Ryan : I was going to say unlikely.

• Kate Beckett : So, what did we get from Val's family and friends?

  Kevin Ryan : Just that they hadn't heard from her in the last three days. She wasn't returning their messages.

  Richard Castle : Three days. That's how long Val's *roommate* said she'd been acting strangely.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah. So I dug into the last seventy-two hours of her life. Besides a credit card charge for a train ticket to Greenwich, there was nothing else unusual.

  Kate Beckett : What was she doing in Greenwich?

  Kevin Ryan : I'm still looking into that. But, as far as abnormalities for the last few days, that was it.

  Richard Castle : Uh, no, there's more. The wind chime, the horseshoe, the book on urban legends? All bought online two days ago. Almost as if Val thought some kind of evil spirit was coming for her.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, what she thought was gonna happen versus what actually happened are two completely different things.

• Kate Beckett : Oh, Castle, that message wasn't for *you*. It was a threat for Val. And it wasn't made by spirits, it was made by her murderer. So tracing the disc to whoever sent it should lead us straight to him. Espo?

  Javier Esposito : Yep.

  Kate Beckett : There's a PO box on this airbill. Would you look into it?

  Javier Esposito : Yeah.

  Kate Beckett : And Ryan, why don't you take a look at this disc and see...

  Kevin Ryan : Oh, um, I'm sorry, what?

  Javier Esposito : Et tu, bro?

  Richard Castle : What did you say about the story being a legend?

  Kevin Ryan : Um, well, uh... Jenny and I, we are trying to make a baby. So we're abiding by every superstition in the book.

  Kate Beckett : Okay. Fine. Here, Espo.

  Javier Esposito : Uh, nah, I can't. I can't watch that. If I watch that, it's gonna make my partner out to be a wimp. And I can't have that.

  Kevin Ryan : Thanks, bro.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah.

  [they fist bump] 

  Kate Beckett : This is so pathetic. Fine, I will watch it.

  Richard Castle : [following her out]  Wait, no, what are you doing?

  Kate Beckett : Castle, I'm doing my job. Someone here has to.

• Kevin Ryan : Well, the victims were at the inn, the inn was on the disc. There's gotta be a connection.

  Richard Castle : The inn must be the place where some unspeakable horror befell the spirits. Think about it. "The Ring", "Psycho", "The Shining". It's when we get to the creepy old motel that everything starts *really* going south. So, this must be the location of the spirit's origin story.

  Kate Beckett : Or somehow Val and Jason connected with the *human* killer at that inn.

  Richard Castle : My version's better.