- Martha Rodgers: Boy, I wish I'd had these reality shows in my day. No script, overacting, screaming at everybody. What a gig.
- Kevin Ryan: [panting] Hey. Sorry I'm late.
- Javier Esposito: Yeah? Jenny again?
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah... Her temperature spiked this morning and suddenly it's showtime. She's got this baby-making down to a science.
- Richard Castle: Sounds romantic.
- Kevin Ryan: I feel like a rooster in a hen house. Except for there's only one hen. A very bossy hen.
- [last lines]
- Richard Castle: I am sorry about the earrings, though.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, me, too. They were... stunning.
- Richard Castle: Hmm. I will get you something else even more beautiful. Just try not to give it to another woman first.
- Kate Beckett: Well, that would be nice.
- Richard Castle: Which reminds me.
- Kate Beckett: Hmm?
- Richard Castle: [whispers] What did you get me?
- [Beckett leads Castle over to her chest of drawers and taps one of the drawers]
- Kate Beckett: Open it.
- [Castle opens the drawer; it's empty, and he feels around but finds nothing]
- Richard Castle: [whispers] Maybe it's in another drawer.
- Kate Beckett: It is the drawer... It's your drawer... I-I mean, I know it's not a lightsaber.
- Richard Castle: No... It's perfect.
- [they kiss]
- Kate Beckett: Happy Valentine's Day. Now, take your clothes off, put them in your drawer, and meet me in the bed.
- [Beckett walks away; Castle works on his cufflinks, but they won't come undone]
- Richard Castle: Seriously?
- Captain Victoria Gates: Bob and Penelope fake their breakup and now poor, sweet, innocent Stone's a killer? Is there anything real on that reality show?
- Kevin Ryan: Just the headache I get when I watch it.
- Captain Victoria Gates: Did you really think that I, of all people, would be... okay with this?
- Richard Castle: No, I... thought I...
- Captain Victoria Gates: [reads the note] "You are beauty, passion, and fierce intellect. Be my valentine. Rick."
- Richard Castle: [taking the note] Is that all I wrote in there?
- Captain Victoria Gates: Isn't that enough? What the hell is wrong with you? I'm a married woman.
- Richard Castle: [stammering] I-I know. I know. I know. I just thought...
- Captain Victoria Gates: Is this some lame, hare-brained scheme to garner favor with me?
- Richard Castle: Yeah. That-That's what this is.
- Captain Victoria Gates: Well, it backfired. And I am willing to forget that this ever happened if you assure me that you can tame your childish nonsense and accord me some respect.
- Ashley Robinson: I'm just saying that this sucks. Okay? Hannah dying a month before our wedding?
- Margo Gower: Ashley.
- Stone Gower: Ashley's right. Maybe we should, like, postpone it or something.
- Penelope Foster: Postpone? For that bitch?
- Margo Gower: Penelope!
- Penelope Foster: Look, it's not like I killed her.
- Kate Beckett: [interrupting] Excuse me. Ms. Foster? Detective Beckett, NYPD.
- Penelope Foster: How do you do?
- Kate Beckett: I'm fine. Uh, but... you are under arrest for the murder of Hannah Green.
- Richard Castle: So I guess it is like you killed her.
- Peter Monroe: [to the camera guys] Are you still rolling? Did you get that?
- Richard Castle: [to Beckett] Is this... your Valentine's Day gift to me? A complex mystery where nothing makes sense? You know me so well.
- Richard Castle: Okay, okay. Heart-shaped cufflinks?
- Kate Beckett: [chuckles] Could you stop *guessing*?
- Richard Castle: Okay, a pony. It's a rocket. It's a limited edition "Star Wars" lightsaber signed by George Lucas.
- Kate Beckett: Yes, because nothing says "Happy Valentine's Day" like a "Star Wars" toy.
- [Castle laughs]
- Kate Beckett: Wait, wait. Please tell me that you didn't get me a lightsaber for our *first* Valentine's Day together.
- Richard Castle: Please, give me some credit.
- Javier Esposito: The victim was Hannah Green, 23. She's one of the *stars* of the show "The Wives of Wall Street". Her brother's on his way into the precinct from Jersey.
- Richard Castle: "Wives of Wall Street," the reality show?
- Javier Esposito: Yeah. You seen it?
- Richard Castle: Just long enough to make me wanna kill myself. One minute of lunatics backstabbing each other is enough.
- Javier Esposito: Speaking of backstabbing...
- [Espo moves out of the way, revealing the victim sitting on a bench with a knife in her back]
- [Lanie enters the precinct in an evening dress]
- Kate Beckett: Hey, Espo, your date's here.
- Richard Castle: I knew they had plans! You knew they had plans and you didn't tell me?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, because she asked me to keep it a secret. This is a really big deal for them. She doesn't want you making fun of 'em.
- Richard Castle: I wouldn't make fun. No, that's...
- [laughs]
- Richard Castle: ... not true. Fish in a barrel.
- [turns and sees Lanie]
- Richard Castle: Oh.
- Kate Beckett: Lanie, you look great.
- Lanie Parish: Yeah? It's not too much?
- Kate Beckett: No. It might be a little too much for Castle.
- [to Castle]
- Kate Beckett: Eyes up, bud.
- Kate Beckett: Seriously, Castle, what were you thinking?
- Richard Castle: Well, I wanted to surprise you.
- Kate Beckett: By putting my gift in Gates' blazer? Okay, I'm surprised.
- Richard Castle: Well, why do you and Gates have to wear such similar blazers?
- Kate Beckett: Did you write a note?
- Richard Castle: Of course I wrote a note. I'm a writer.
- Kate Beckett: Was it romantic?
- Richard Castle: It's Valentine's Day, so, yeah, it was romantic.
- Kate Beckett: Did you put my name on it?
- [Castle tries to remember]
- Kate Beckett: Oh, God, Castle, please, did you put my name on it?
- Richard Castle: I can't remember. I put my name on it, I know that much.
- Kate Beckett: [groans in frustration] Oh! If Gates finds out that we're dating, then that's it. We're not gonna be working together anymore.
- Richard Castle: Why do you think I've been trying so hard to get it back?
- Kate Beckett: Oh, we will get it back. Right when we get to the precinct. But right now we've got a murder to solve... Maybe our last.
- Richard Castle: That's exactly what I mean. Hannah didn't stand a chance. I mean, she's a small-town, naive young woman, she was chum to piranhas.
- Captain Victoria Gates: Yeah, but look what she did to Bob.
- Richard Castle: Okay, okay. Do you really think that she played him? That Penelope was right about that?
- Captain Victoria Gates: Oh, that girl was smarter than anybody gave her credit for.
- Richard Castle: You know what? I think you're right.
- Captain Victoria Gates: What about you, Detective? Did you watch "Wives of Wall Street" last night?
- Kate Beckett: I watched... an episode.
- Richard Castle: Just one episode? That's like eating one potato chip.
- Peter Monroe: You got to find who did this. The audience will want to know.
- Richard Castle: Yeah, not to mention her family, the D.A.
- Kate Beckett: Mr. Monroe, when was this shot?
- Peter Monroe: Uh... day before yesterday. Around 8:00 p.m. Why?
- Kate Beckett: Because she's wearing the same clothes that we found her in. That's a full day later.
- Kate Beckett: Do you know where she went after filming or why she would've been on the Upper West Side?
- Peter Monroe: Well, to be honest, when the cameras go away, so do I. So I don't even know what she did on her free time.
- Richard Castle: In the video, she seems upset. Any idea what about?
- Peter Monroe: Oh, you gotta understand, we brought Hannah in to be Penelope's assistant. You know, mix things up a little bit. The small-town girl with the big-time dreams of becoming a fashion designer. "Will she make it with The Wives of Wall Street?". She's just milking it for the camera. They all do.
- Richard Castle: So it's a reality show, just without the reality.
- Peter Monroe: I... like to think of it as heightened reality. Reality-ish.
- Richard Castle: You're a fan of "Wives of Wall Street"?
- Captain Victoria Gates: Oh, yes! It's the best show on TV. Why?
- Richard Castle: I don't- I just... assumed that a woman like you would prefer more... sophisticated fare.
- Captain Victoria Gates: Excuse me? What did you just say?
- [Beckett's cell phone rings and she answers it]
- Kate Beckett: [on phone] Hey, Lanie. What's up?
- Lanie Parish: I'll tell you where she was... Madagascar.
- Richard Castle: As in the country off the southeastern coast of Africa made famous by the adorable animated film?
- Lanie Parish: Yep. The material I found underneath her fingernails? Not skin from an attacker. It's Alluaudia.
- Kate Beckett: And what is Alluaudia?
- Lanie Parish: [reading] "A rare, spiny plant, cultivated primarily *in* Madagascar."
- Richard Castle: So, how did it get under her fingernails?
- Lanie Parish: Beats me. As for her defensive wounds, they were *not* sustained at the time of murder. They're from twenty-four hours prior.
- Kate Beckett: That's about the time that she went off the grid. Which means there's gotta be a connection.
- Lanie Parish: Remember this abrasion?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah.
- Lanie Parish: Well, I figured out what caused it. Her diamond tennis bracelet.
- Richard Castle: But wasn't that... on her right wrist?
- Lanie Parish: Good memory.
- Richard Castle: So, her wrists were tied together.
- Lanie Parish: *Tight*, and for several hours.
- Kate Beckett: Now it's making *sense*. Wearing the same clothes overnight.
- Richard Castle: The radio silence.
- Kate Beckett: And the defensive wounds twenty-four hours prior to death.
- Richard Castle: Hannah was held hostage
- [first lines]
- Announcer: They were on top of the world until the financial crisis struck and they flamed out. That's when their wives got busy taking over. The Wives of Wall Street.