- Richard Castle: Thank you.
- Kate Beckett: For what?
- Richard Castle: For using "irony" correctly. Ever since that Alanis Morissette song, people use it when they actually mean "coincidence". It drives me nuts.
- [last lines]
- Kate Beckett: [on phone] Okay. I'll be right there.
- [Beckett ends the call and starts walking away]
- Richard Castle: Where are you going?
- Kate Beckett: [as she continues to walk] That was Esposito, there's been a murder.
- [after a few more steps, she stops and turns around]
- Kate Beckett: Are you coming or what?
- [Castle runs up to her]
- Kate Beckett: Do you really expect me to believe that you had nothing to do with that phone call?
- Richard Castle: I swear, I had nothing to do...
- Kate Beckett: Swear a little harder, Castle.
- [spotting Beckett at Castle's book launch party]
- Paula Haas: That's her?
- Richard Castle: That's her.
- Paula Haas: Huh. That is one hell of a love letter you wrote her. Geez, one night in Ibiza and what do I get, a *chapter* in "Storm Fall"?
- Richard Castle: A very *hot* chapter.
- Paula Haas: And she gets a whole book? Well, she must be a pretty special girl. Let me ask you something, when she calls you, do you call her back?
- Richard Castle: Yeah.
- Paula Haas: Of course you do. Because she's important to you and because it's polite.
- Richard Castle: Paula, I call you back.
- Paula Haas: Three-book deal, and I can't even get you on the phone to let you know you've got an official offer?
- Richard Castle: There's a...?
- Paula Haas: Yeah.
- Richard Castle: I don't... I...
- Paula Haas: So, can I close the deal?
- Richard Castle: Paula, I'm sorry. This is a... This is a big step... for me. I don't know that I'm ready to walk away from Nikki Heat.
- Paula Haas: Who? The one on the page or the one standing over there in that Hervé Leger dress?
- Richard Castle: The one... on... the page.
- Paula Haas: Oh, Rick. You sleeping with her?
- Richard Castle: No.
- Paula Haas: Well, what the hell are you waiting for? Go get it out of your system, and then come down to the office and sign the damn contract, okay?
- Kate Beckett: So, any word on a certain British secret agent who shall not be named?
- Richard Castle: I got the official offer.
- Kate Beckett: Wow! Congratulations.
- Richard Castle: I haven't accepted it yet.
- Kate Beckett: But you're going to, aren't you?
- Richard Castle: Well, you think I should?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, I mean... is there a reason why you wouldn't?
- Richard Castle: So you'd be okay if I didn't write another Nikki Heat?
- Kate Beckett: [laughing it off] I mean, why wouldn't I? It's not like I asked you to write the first one.
- Richard Castle: You know, a lot of people would be flattered that someone chose to write a book based on them.
- Kate Beckett: Flattered?
- Richard Castle: Yeah.
- Kate Beckett: Do you have any idea how much grief I've had to put up with over this Nikki Heat thing?
- Richard Castle: Gee, I'm sorry.
- Kate Beckett: I'm not asking you to be sorry. I'm just... Just do whatever you wanna do. You always do, anyway.
- Richard Castle: Well, fine. It's settled, then.
- Kate Beckett: Fine.
- Richard Castle: I'll do the other book.
- Kate Beckett: Great.
- Richard Castle: Enjoy the party.
- Kate Beckett: Thanks. I will.
- Richard Castle: You know what? Just as well, because there really wasn't enough to the character of Nikki Heat for more than one novel anyway.
- Kate Beckett: Oh, there's *plenty* to the character. She just needs a better *writer*.
- Richard Castle: Fine.
- Kate Beckett: Fine.
- [first lines]
- [responding to his doorbell ringing early in the morning]
- Richard Castle: Yes, yeah, I'm coming.
- [opens door]
- Paula Haas: [entering] You are not going to believe this.
- Richard Castle: Paula...
- Paula Haas: You are *so* not going to believe this.
- Richard Castle: What are you doing here?
- Paula Haas: I can't even believe it.
- Richard Castle: Believe what?
- Paula Haas: I can't tell you.
- Richard Castle: I'm still asleep, aren't I? I'm dreaming. I'm having the dream where my book agent has shown up at my house at... *7:00 AM* to not tell me something.
- M.E. Sidney Perlmutter: Given the amount of decomposition, I'd say she was killed about two days ago.
- Kevin Ryan: Any chance you can narrow that down for us?
- M.E. Sidney Perlmutter: Any chance I can get her to the lab first?