Castle (TV Series)

The Lives of Others (2013)

Jon Huertas: Javier Esposito

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• Kate Beckett : Why are men such *babies* when they get sick or injured?

  Javier Esposito : It's an evolutionary thing. Men who can get women to take care of 'em, they have a greater chance of survival.

  Kate Beckett : Really, Espo? Where'd you read that? "You're Making It Up" magazine"?

• Kevin Ryan : Castle, how's the knee?

  Richard Castle : It's not the knee so much as the *boredom*.

  Javier Esposito : I thought you writers liked being alone.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, if I could write. But the painkillers make me a little loopy. Last night, I used the word 'speculate' three times in the same sentence.

  [Ryan sees a pair of binoculars and looks through them] 

  Kevin Ryan : Hmm. You *must* be bored. You've actually gone "Rear Window".

  Richard Castle : Alexis got me those as a joke to cheer me up. I have not *yet* resorted to voyeurism.

  Kevin Ryan : Then you are missing out.

  [whistles] 

  Javier Esposito : What? Let me see.

  [they fight over the binoculars] 

  Kevin Ryan : No. Hey!

  Javier Esposito : Give me the binoculars!

  Kevin Ryan : Dude, she was just about to take off her towel.

  Javier Esposito : [using binoculars]  Oh, the towel's off.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah?

  Kate Beckett : [comes up behind them]  Unless the body that you're looking at is dead, I suggest you drop those binoculars.

• [as Castle leaves the Captain's office after being chewed out for breaking into his suspect's storage unit] 

  Javier Esposito : Hey, Castle, is it hard to balance on those crutches when you've just had your ass chewed off?

• Charlie Blunt : Look, most IRS agents get threats. It's the nature of our business.

  Kevin Ryan : Did Mrs. DeWinter report any recently?

  Charlie Blunt : No.

  Javier Esposito : Are you sure?

  Charlie Blunt : You have to understand, Clara was a rare breed; an IRS agent who actually liked her job.

  Kevin Ryan : What's that have to do with her being threatened?

  Charlie Blunt : [lowering his voice]  The thing is each threat requires an investigation, which is a headache for upstairs. It's an unwritten rule that agents that report threats don't fare well on performance reviews.

  Javier Esposito : Well, that unwritten rule may have gotten her killed.

• Kate Beckett : Tommy "The Shark"'s alibi holds. He was with some associates at a nightclub that he owns.

  Javier Esposito : It doesn't mean he didn't send of one of his boys.

  Kate Beckett : Look, if he killed Clara, he wouldn't have talked to me. No. Hiding the money, planning to disappear. Something else is going on here. So what've you got on the husband?

  Kevin Ryan : Oh, not much. He's a manager at a big name supermarket in Queens. No priors. Been married seven years. Oh! And he took a million-dollar life insurance policy out on his wife only three months ago.

  Javier Esposito : Huh. That's not suspicious.

• Richard Castle : You were all in on it?

  Martha Rodgers : Mm-hmm. Michael, Brent, and Emily, my brilliant acting students. I, of course, was the director.

  Richard Castle : And the boys?

  Javier Esposito : Yep.

  Kate Beckett : Oh, yeah, they were great. Except you didn't have to kick down the door.

  Javier Esposito : I was in the moment.

  Kevin Ryan : We wanted to be convincing.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah.

  Richard Castle : Alexis, you too?

  Alexis Castle : It's why I bought you the binoculars.

  Richard Castle : Even Captain Gates?

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah, she jumped at the chance to dress you down for any reason.

  Richard Castle : Where is Captain Gates?

  Javier Esposito : She couldn't make it.

  Richard Castle : Good.

• Kate Beckett : Hey, Lanie, what do we got?

  Lanie Parish : Sorry, sweetie. It's a bad one. Multiple contusions to the head, evidence of fracturing at the base of the skull. From the patterning, I'd say she was repeatedly struck by that bat.

  Javier Esposito : Do we know who she is?

  Lanie Parish : The guard who found her IDed her as Clara DeWinter, 35, lives in Queens, and married.

  Kate Beckett : What was she doing in this alleyway in the middle of the night?

  Lanie Parish : She was an IRS agent. Worked in this building here.

  Kevin Ryan : [approaching]  Apparently she was working late. The employees sometimes cut across the alley to get to the parking garage next door.

  Kate Beckett : Do we have a witness?

  Kevin Ryan : No. But we may have something way better.

• Kate Beckett : Hey, guys. So... Tech couldn't get us a better look at the attacker's face, but they're hoping to have an ID on the car by morning. How's it going in here?

  Kevin Ryan : Well, Clara's colleagues don't remember her mentioning any explicit threat.

  Javier Esposito : But if we're looking for people whose lives were ruined, there's no shortage of suspects. We've got houses that were repossessed, bank accounts that were seized, businesses that were shut down, and we're only a couple of months in.

• Kevin Ryan : We went back through *all* of Clara's records. Turns out that she was hiding something.

  Javier Esposito : Over half a million dollars in a secret bank account. She used every legal trick to hide it. Nobody, not even her husband, knew about it.

  Kate Beckett : This girl made $75k a year. How'd she get her hands on half a mill?

  Kevin Ryan : Well, at first we thought she was shaking down her auditees, but *then* we traced the deposits.

  Javier Esposito : All from businesses owned or affiliated to Tommy Valentino.

  Kate Beckett : Tommy "The Shark" Valentino? Why's an IRS agent taking payoffs from a crime boss?

  Javier Esposito : I dunno, but wanting to disappear and then getting whacked in an alley, it's all starting to make sense.