- [canvassing a cemetery at night]
- Kevin Ryan: You know, if this were a horror movie, we'd be the first ones killed, splitting off like this.
- Javier Esposito: Yeah, except we're not a couple of top-heavy co-eds out looking for fun. We're highly-trained officers of the law with enough firepower to take out a horde of undead.
- Kevin Ryan: Hispanic and cocky. Yeah, you'd definitely die first.
- [cut to Beckett and Castle canvassing another part of the same cemetery]
- Richard Castle: You know, if this was a horror movie...
- Kate Beckett: Castle... focus.
- [trying to bribe her father with breakfast in bed]
- Alexis Castle: Okay, I want a Vespa... It's a scooter. All my friends have them. And it would make getting around the city *so* much easier, and they're totally safe.
- Richard Castle: Uh, honey...
- Alexis Castle: I'll always wear a helmet and I'll never drive at night. You know how responsible I am.
- Richard Castle: It's not you I'm worried about. Driving in New York, it's like a-a "Mad Max" movie.
- Martha Rodgers: This is Alexis we're talking about. She has never met a challenge that she hasn't attacked like Attila the Hun!
- Richard Castle: And who is the unlucky winner today?
- Kate Beckett: Deon Carver, bail bondsman. This is his office. He walked into a B&E last night, and before he had a chance to use his registered firearm, our killer knocked him over the head with that.
- [Beckett points at the murder weapon]
- Richard Castle: A sharpshooter award. That is ironic on so many levels. No...
- [thinks for a moment]
- Richard Castle: Just two.
- [at the crime scene, Beckett discovers the source of static on her walkie-talkie]
- Richard Castle: Why would a calculator cause feedback?
- Kate Beckett: It's not a calculator.
- [opens the calculator]
- Kate Beckett: It's a bug.
- Richard Castle: A wireless RF transmitter, to be precise. Not to be confused with the more advanced infrared signal burst device.
- Kate Beckett: Book research?
- Richard Castle: Nanny cam. So... do you think that the robbery was just a pretense for the placement of the bug, and then the killer was caught in the act?
- Kate Beckett: Well, it's not Watergate, Castle. If the point was to bug Carver's office, then why leave it here once he's dead?
- Richard Castle: Well, tell me this, Miss Know-It-All, who would *want* to bug a burly bail bondsman so badly?
- Kate Beckett: Hell are you doing? That's my suspect.
- Mike Royce: Okay, relax, we're on the same team.
- Kate Beckett: Royce?
- Mike Royce: Hey, kid. Long time.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, too long.
- Richard Castle: Nice driving.
- Mike Royce: Well, thanks. Mike Royce, bounty hunter. Boom.
- Richard Castle: Richard Castle, writer.
- Kate Beckett: Royce used to be on the job.
- Mike Royce: On the job? She says that like I'm any cop. I was her training officer when she left the academy.
- Random Pierce: [handcuffed on the ground] Hey, hey, hey. Hey, i-if I'm imposing on your happy reunion, you know, I can just go.
- Kate Beckett: The only place you're going is jail.
- Kate Beckett: Random, you did a stint at Five Points Correctional, and within a week of your release, you were breaking into someone's apartment.
- Random Pierce: That was a misunderstanding. I wrote down my friend's address wrong.
- Kate Beckett: Really? So what do you call killing Deon Carver? Mistaken identity?
- Random Pierce: Deon's dead?
- Kate Beckett: Nice try.
- [regaling Castle and Esposito with old stories of Beckett]
- Mike Royce: Oh, no, she's got the cat in one hand, her gun in the other. I'm trying to get the hell out of the way so she can shoot the guy with the speargun...
- Kate Beckett: [approaching] Except Royce has such a giant head that every time I go to pull the trigger, all I could think about is how much paperwork I'll have to do if I accidentally shoot him.
- Mike Royce: Yeah, okay. So you know what she does? She offers to show the guy her boobs if he drops the speargun.
- Javier Esposito: Did he?
- Richard Castle: Did you?
- Kate Beckett: No, 'cause he had the same slack-jawed look that the two of you have.
- Kevin Ryan: So, it looks like your shoplifter isn't our killer, after all. Guard at Book Mart confirms that he caught him trying to steal a copy of "The Da Vinci Code".
- Richard Castle: "The Da Vinci Code". Maybe he thought it could help him decipher the document, thinking it's some kind of, uh, ancient, religious cryptogram, prophesizing the coming zombie apocalypse.
- Mike Royce: Is he always like this?
- Kate Beckett: No, it's usually about CIA conspiracies.
- Richard Castle: I was really close on one of those.
- Mike Royce: So it's actually a treasure map, huh?
- Kate Beckett: Castle's been trying to figure it out all day. I should have been onto Stuckey earlier, though.
- Mike Royce: Nobody's perfect.
- Kate Beckett: You were.
- Mike Royce: You were easy to impress.
- Kate Beckett: No, I wasn't. I was drowning, and... you were dry land. All they ever taught us in the Academy was how to do paperwork. You were the one who taught me how to be a cop.
- Kate Beckett: I caught him, Royce... The man who killed my mom.
- Mike Royce: After all these years... Find out why he did it?
- Kate Beckett: Somebody paid him to do it. But I had to shoot him before I could find out who.
- Mike Royce: That was stupid... You should have just shown him your boobs.
- [Beckett has revealed she has a motorcycle]
- Richard Castle: So this Harley of yours, do you have any pictures?
- Kate Beckett: Uh, yeah, I do, but I not gonna be showing any of them to you.
- Richard Castle: Why not?
- Kate Beckett: Well, because I don't think you can handle the sight of me straddling it in tight, black leather.
- Richard Castle: I am so not getting a scooter for my daughter.
- [first lines]
- Alexis Castle: Breakfast time.
- Richard Castle: Oh! What did I do to deserve this? Other than, you know... being me?
- Alexis Castle: Isn't that enough?
- Kate Beckett: Castle, are you coming?
- Richard Castle: Oh! Actually, I was gonna hang back with Royce, hear some stories about the good old days.
- Kate Beckett: Okay... fine.
- [to Royce]
- Kate Beckett: But if you tell him about the karaoke stakeout, I'm gonna tell him what happened with the monkey.
- Mike Royce: My lips are sealed.
- [last lines]
- Richard Castle: I'm so proud of you.
- Alexis Castle: Proud enough to buy me a new scooter?
- Richard Castle: No. I made a deal and it would be wrong to break it... But there's nothing in that deal that prohibits me from buying *myself* a scooter, and maybe letting you borrow it from time to time.
- Alexis Castle: Are you sure?
- Richard Castle: Sure. I can send you to the store for batteries for lightsabers.
- Alexis Castle: Thanks, Dad. Oh, and when you have the scooter, maybe I can borrow the car?