- [first lines]
- [Beckett wakes up to find Castle lying beside her just starting to wake up]
- Richard Castle: Hmm. Don't get up yet. Stay in bed.
- Kate Beckett: [whispers] Castle.
- Richard Castle: [still not fully awake] Kate. Hi.
- Kate Beckett: Castle!
- Richard Castle: What?
- Richard Castle: Did you do this?
- Richard Castle: What?
- Kate Beckett: Stop saying "what" and wake up!
- Richard Castle: I don't...
- [finds they are handcuffed together]
- Richard Castle: We're handcuffed. Kinky.
- Kate Beckett: Castle, it's not funny.
- Richard Castle: I didn't say "funny," I said "kinky." And I didn't cuff us.
- Kate Beckett: What, You-You-You think I cuffed us?
- Richard Castle: Well they look like police cuffs.
- Kate Beckett: Somebody else did this to us.
- [looks around to see they are in a dark, empty room]
- Kate Beckett: Do you recognize this place?
- Richard Castle: No... But if I were writing a book, this is where... bad things would happen.
- Kate Beckett: My watch is missing.
- Richard Castle: Mine, too. And my wallet.
- Kate Beckett: So is my badge and my gun.
- Richard Castle: And my phone. I just renewed my contract.
- Kate Beckett: Would you stop joking?
- Richard Castle: Hey, do I begrudge you your coping mechanisms?
- Richard Castle: Hey, do you know what Lanie and Esposito were fighting about?
- Kate Beckett: Everything. They both want to be together, but neither of them wants to admit to it.
- Richard Castle: Ugh! Why do people do that to themselves?
- Kate Beckett: Maybe they just don't see it.
- Richard Castle: How could they not? It's so obvious.
- Javier Esposito: Beckett, Castle.
- Kate Beckett: Esposito.
- Javier Esposito: Is that a tiger?
- Richard Castle: Yeah, yeah, that's a tiger. Hey, how about getting us out?
- Kevin Ryan: [after rescuing Beckett and Castle] Handcuffed together that long? I'm surprised you two didn't kill each other.
- Kate Beckett: What was so special about our victim that our killer wanted to erase his identity?
- [Castle starts to speak]
- Kate Beckett: Don't say spy.
- [Castle starts to speak again]
- Kate Beckett: Or mob hit.
- Richard Castle: Mob hit of a spy?
- [last lines]
- Kate Beckett: That has got to be the strangest brush with death I've ever had.
- Richard Castle: Me, too. But I'll tell you, after that experience, if I ever have to be hitched to someone, it would be you.
- Kate Beckett: Hitched?
- Richard Castle: Hitched? No, I didn't say "hitched." I said "cuffed." Handcuffed. Not hitched, the colloquial or any other connotation or meaning.
- Kate Beckett: It's okay, Castle. I understood what you meant. And for what it's worth, if I ever have to spend another night handcuffed to someone again, I wouldn't mind if it was you, either.
- Richard Castle: Really?
- Kate Beckett: The next time... let's do it without the tiger.
- [Beckett turns and starts walking away when Castle realizes what she just said]
- Richard Castle: Next time?
- Kate Beckett: Castle, would you just work with me?
- Richard Castle: How about you work with me? How come you always have to lead?
- Kate Beckett: How come you always have to step on my toes?
- Richard Castle: Since when do... Okay, you know what? Tell me this, why do you always have to be first? First out of the elevator, first through the door.
- Kate Beckett: Um, I am a *cop*. I'm the one with a gun. Being first through the door is my job.
- Richard Castle: In the elevator? Look, how about this? Would it kill ya to let someone open the door for you once in a while?
- Kate Beckett: You do realize that if somebody opens the door for me, then I will be going through it first anyway, right?
- Richard Castle: Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot. You have to be the *smartest*, too. Everything's a competition with you.
- Kate Beckett: That is so not true. Are you always like this in the mornings?
- Richard Castle: You know, I'd argue with you, but then I'd have to let you win.
- Lanie Parish: Someone torched his fingers. Burned off his prints.
- Kate Beckett: They wanted to erase his identity.
- Javier Esposito: And did a pretty good job, too. His wallet's missing and we've been through the room a couple of times. There's nothing here to tell us who this guy is.
- Kate Beckett: Did he pay for the room in cash?
- Javier Esposito: Yeah, and the clerk said that he registered as Jack Sparrow.
- Richard Castle: Well, there's a... possibility that's his real name.
- Javier Esposito: Sure it is.
- Kate Beckett: So you got a story to explain all of this? The old woman in the cage? John Doe with his identity removed? Us handcuffed, but still alive?
- Richard Castle: Yeah, I don't think that's a story you want to hear.
- Kate Beckett: Why not?
- Richard Castle: With those elements? I can't think of a version that ends well. Not even a Disney version.
- Lanie Parish: I told you. It's none of your business.
- Richard Castle: Of course it's none of my business, that's why I want to know.
- Kate Beckett: Know what?
- Richard Castle: What she and Esposito were fighting about.
- Kate Beckett: It's none of your business.
- Richard Castle: That's the point.
- Richard Castle: Manacles and bloody instruments of torture.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, it looks like your crazed, sadistic psycho-killer theory might not be far off, Castle.
- Richard Castle: Well, I don't know whether to be smug or horrified.
- Kate Beckett: I vote for motivated.
- Richard Castle: I'm right there with you. Let's get the hell out of here.
- [trying to escape from a locked room]
- Richard Castle: Still too high.
- Kate Beckett: Not if I climb on your shoulders.
- [sees Castle's expression]
- Kate Beckett: What? We've done it before.
- Richard Castle: Yeah, you say that like it was pleasant. And we weren't handcuffed.
- Kate Beckett: Who's got no faith now? Come on, Castle, we have no idea when they're coming back or even *if* they're coming back at all.
- Richard Castle: [looks at Beckett's heeled shoes] Last time, you were wearing sneakers.
- Kate Beckett: Fine.
- [Beckett tries to remove her shoe, but fails]
- Richard Castle: Think I'm gonna need your help.
- Richard Castle: "Lift up my shirt." "Pull off my boots." Under normal circumstances, I would like where this was heading.
- Kate Beckett: You can fantasize later after we get out of the room.
- Richard Castle: Just so you know, not as much fun if I have your permission.
- Kevin Ryan: Oh, God.
- Javier Esposito: It ate 'em.
- Kate Beckett: It didn't eat us.
- Richard Castle: But it will if you don't hurry.
- Kevin Ryan: Nice hangout.
- Javier Esposito: But this isn't the most secure building.
- Richard Castle: I saw a camera in the lobby.
- Javier Esposito: It's a dummy.
- Lanie Parish: [under breath] It's not the only one.
- Javier Esposito: It's used to scare away drug dealers.
- Lanie Parish: You know, you need to stop being a control freak.
- Javier Esposito: I'm not--what do you mean, a control freak?
- Lanie Parish: You are being a control freak.
- Javier Esposito: I've never been a control freak. Nobody has ever called me that. I've ne...
- Lanie Parish, Javier Esposito: [Both arguing indistinctly]
- Lanie Parish: [knocks on door and Lanie and Esposito turn to her] Sorry. Are we interrupting?
- Lanie Parish: No.