- Madison Queller: Okay. Next time I'm hitting on a guy you like, come clean with me *before* I go out with him so you don't have to arrest me to break up the date.
- Kate Beckett: Madison, that's not...
- Madison Queller: No, no, no, no, no. I get it. You're hot for Castle. You wanna make little Castle babies. Why couldn't you just be honest.
- Kate Beckett: [whispers urgently] Maddy.
- Madison Queller: What?
- Kate Beckett: [whispering] He can hear us.
- [Alexis struggling over a decision whether to study or spend a weekend in the Hamptons with her girlfriends while Castle is doing experiments with liquid nitrogen]
- Alexis Castle: When I'm studying, I'll want to be at the beach with the girls, and when I'm on the beach, I'll feel guilty for not studying.
- Martha Rodgers: Well, don't look at me. I'm from the "have your cake and eat it, too," school of decision making. I say, do both.
- Richard Castle: Or... maybe by this weekend, I'll figure out a way to take this tank of... liquid nitrogen and... build it into a... weather machine.
- [severity in his voice builds]
- Richard Castle: I'll make it rain. Your friends will have to cancel their trip. You won't have to choose, and then we can take over the world!
- [laughs maniacally]
- Richard Castle: Mwahahahahahahahahaha!
- Richard Castle: High school friend, huh? I bet she knows where all your bodies are buried.
- Kate Beckett: You can dig all you want, Castle. My secrets are safe with her.
- Richard Castle: How can you be sure?
- Kate Beckett: Because whatever she knows about me, I know worse about her. We used to hang out, big group of us, had a good time.
- Richard Castle: And... what's a good time?
- Kate Beckett: Well, if you don't know by now, I'm sure it's too late to show you one.
- Richard Castle: Did you... always... have sex in the restaurant?
- Sandra Meyers: Well, Wolf did his best work in the kitchen.
- [Beckett kicks him under the table]
- Richard Castle: [whispers] Ow.
- Kate Beckett: And your husband never suspected?
- Sandra Meyers: When he's not working nights at the ER, he's conked out on sleeping pills. I could shoot porn in my living room, he'd have no idea.
- [pauses]
- Sandra Meyers: Are you gonna tell my husband?
- Kate Beckett: You're the primary suspect in a murder investigation. Your husband is the least of your worries.
- [after seeing a victim frozen by liquid nitrogen]
- Richard Castle: This is, both literally and figuratively, *cool*.
- Richard Castle: I'm just saying, you could've been more civilized and allowed us to finish our meal.
- [Beckett stops him as he moves to follow her into the interrogation room]
- Kate Beckett: Uh-uh. You can watch from the observation room.
- Richard Castle: And now... And now you're benching me?
- Kate Beckett: [quietly] You were just giggling over the risotto with our suspect!
- Richard Castle: [frustrated, he moves towards the observation room] Which was to die for, by the way!
- Jennifer Wong: [on video from Kitchen Wars, playing on a laptop] He stole that recipe from me! I swear to God, if Wolf wins, I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch.
- Kate Beckett: [closes laptop] Sounds like you and Mr. Wolf had quite the rivalry.
- Jennifer Wong: What about it?
- Richard Castle: Oh, come on. Had to be difficult, watching him walk away with that $100,000 prize, not to mention the publicity and fame that catapulted his career.
- Kate Beckett: And it's not hard to believe that the resentment was building up over the past couple of months until the pressure finally put you over the edge.
- Jennifer Wong: Wait, you think I killed him? That rivalry between Wolf and me... it was just an act.
- Richard Castle: An act?
- Kate Beckett: I thought "Kitchen Wars" was a reality show.
- Jennifer Wong: Emphasis on "show." And win or lose, you want people to remember your name when it's over. That's how you build your brand.
- Richard Castle: And who doesn't remember a great villain?
- Jennifer Wong: Exactly. Hey, we made for great TV. Why do you think they kept us on until the final two?
- Javier Esposito: The guy lived his job 24/7. It *had* to be someone at the restaurant.
- Richard Castle: Not necessarily. I've fallen in love with random women on the subway.
- Kate Beckett: Why would he go all the way to the Upper East Side just to sit there alone?
- Richard Castle: Maybe he had a rendevous with destiny, and it stood him up.
- Richard Castle: You realize Madison and I weren't halfway through our tasting menus when you stomped in there like the fun police.
- Kate Beckett: What part of her being a suspect in a murder investigation do you not get?
- [last lines]
- Kate Beckett: Yeah. So, I take it that you're swamped.
- Madison Queller: Always. Why?
- Kate Beckett: I thought that we could get a drink and catch up.
- Madison Queller: That'd be great. Apparently, we have a lot of catching up to do.
- [entering the room, where Alexis is sweeping up broken glass]
- Richard Castle: What broke?
- Alexis Castle: A stupid glass.
- Richard Castle: Remind me to get smarter glasses.
- Richard Castle: The eternal struggle between work and play. The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.