- [Castle has locked them in a prison cell to figure out how the victim escaped]
- Kate Beckett: You trapped me in here on purpose.
- Richard Castle: No, I didn't. But since you brought it up, tell me, why do you feel trapped in our marriage?
- Kate Beckett: I don't.
- Richard Castle: Then why did you leave?
- [working as a teacher for a case]
- Richard Castle: What might drive a person to murder?
- Scott Powell: I don't know, revenge?
- Richard Castle: Revenge. A man wronged. His reputation besmirched. So he strikes out in passion. Some might consider his actions justified. What else might drive a person to kill?
- Scott Powell: Being forced to read one of your books?
- [the class "oohs"]
- Scott Powell: Though that's probably more of a motive for suicide.
- [discussing his and Beckett's situation with Lucy, his new home operating system]
- Richard Castle: No, I don't want a divorce. I want my wife back.
- Richard Castle: Damn it, Lanie, tell me. Why is Beckett keeping me in the dark?
- Lanie Parish: The man who went Houdini for two months last year?
- Richard Castle: Whoa! I didn't Houdini. I was Houdini'd.
- Lanie Parish: Doesn't matter. When you came back, she accepted you without question. So you could damn well give her some space now.
- Richard Castle: I can't lose her.
- Lanie Parish: I know.
- Richard Castle: Good morning, my lovelies. Isn't it great to be alive?
- Martha Rodgers: Richard, are you feeling okay?
- Richard Castle: Never better. Because I know how to win Beckett back.
- Alexis Castle: Is she wanting to be won back?
- Richard Castle: When we first met, it was my roguish charm that caused Beckett to drop her guard, but it was my Sherlockian skills that made her fall in love with me. I just have to solve a few cases with her to show her that together, we are still magic.
- [leading Dr. Lillstrom into the precinct]
- Richard Castle: Yet another case closed, courtesy of Richard Castle Investigations.
- Kate Beckett: Um... who is this woman?
- [to Lillstrom]
- Kate Beckett: And are you in handcuffs?
- Dr. Barbara Lillstrom: This man abducted me.
- Richard Castle: It's not an abduction. It's a citizen's arrest, please get it straight.
- Kate Beckett: You went to an underground prison?
- [Castle nods]
- Kate Beckett: Alone?
- Richard Castle: No, not alone. I had Alexis with me.
- Kate Beckett: Oh, well, since you had backup. Are you kidding, Castle, your *daughter*?
- Richard Castle: When you say it in that tone, I sound like a bad parent.
- Kate Beckett: There's protocol. You knew that. If you had a lead, you should have called us.
- Richard Castle: Oh, believe me, I wanted to, but they locked us up in a cell.
- Kate Beckett: No, I mean you should have called us be- Wait, they locked you up?
- [Castle nods]
- Kate Beckett: You know what? Never mind. I don't wanna know.
- Dr. Barbara Lillstrom: [about Castle's treatment of her] That man is insane. I'm innocent.
- Kate Beckett: If he says you're a suspect, then trust me, you are far from innocent.
- [Castle brings Esposito and Ryan to the underground prison to find everyone and everything gone]
- Richard Castle: I told them to stay.
- Javier Esposito: They're not dogs, Castle, they're college kids. What'd you expect?
- Kevin Ryan: This place has been completely cleared out. Dr. Lillstrom must have had a contingency plan.
- Richard Castle: They took all the evidence. And I let it happen. All because I wanted to impress Beckett.
- Richard Castle: [trying to understand the logic behind their separation] So, what happened, Kate? What did I do wrong?
- Kate Beckett: Castle, this one's not about you. It's on me. I love you. I always will.
- [entering an apartment the victim was staying at]
- Javier Esposito: I thought Peter was majoring in marketing, not medieval torture.
- Alexis Castle: This stuff isn't for torture, it's a BDSM dungeon.
- [Castle gives her a look]
- Alexis Castle: What? I read "Fifty Shades", and, clearly, so had Peter.
- Kate Beckett: Listen, you could still back out. I can do this on my own.
- Vikram Singh: Not a chance. I'd be dead if not for you, which means I owe you. Besides, I always wanted to be a digital investigator for the NYPD.
- Kate Beckett: It's a real job, Vikram. You'll be helping the 12th solve homicides.
- Vikram Singh: By day. By night, I'll wear a cape and track down the mysterious villain who sent a hit squad to kill us, then scapegoat-murdered Allison Hyde.
- Kate Beckett: Would you take this seriously, please? I just blew up my marriage to go down this path.
- Kate Beckett: No. If I don't get justice for Rachel and for everyone else, no one will. We just gotta do this *fast*.
- Vikram Singh: Fast is the one speed we can't move. We need stealth.
- Kate Beckett: If this takes any longer, then Castle's going to figure out what we're doing.
- Vikram Singh: And if he does?
- Kate Beckett: He's gonna step in and he's gonna put himself in danger.
- Vikram Singh: Then make sure he stays away.
- Kate Beckett: Castle, I asked for time. Why can't you give me that?
- Richard Castle: Because you need me.
- [working undercover as college students with Ryan to question a suspect]
- Javier Esposito: Hey, bro. You know what frat the dead dude's from?
- Scott Powell: No, officer, I sure don't.
- Javier Esposito: [feigning ignorance] What? We ain't cops, man.
- Scott Powell: Dude, you look like you're forty.
- Kate Beckett: Okay, Vikram, what have you got?
- Vikram Singh: I might have identified Allison Hyde's killer. Pulled footage from the hotel cameras around the time Hyde was killed. Managed to ID everyone except this guy.
- [shows picture to Beckett]
- Kate Beckett: Look, this doesn't mean anything. There's plenty of people who aren't in our facial recognition database.
- Vikram Singh: Didn't just use ours. Snuck into the NSA, ran him through their top-secret database. It's a civil liberties nightmare but very comprehensive. Our well-dressed man is a total ghost. So, unless you know a Ghostbuster, we're out of luck.
- Kate Beckett: [sighs] I might know somebody. He's helped me out in the past and he's connected to this world, but he's technically dead, which means you're gonna have to dig him up.
- Vikram Singh: Just to be clear, you mean he faked his own death and now he's hiding under a new identity that you need me to uncover?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah.
- Vikram Singh: Good, 'cause I'm not a huge fan of shoveling.
- Kate Beckett: It's been a long time.
- Michael Smith: What the hell are you doing here?
- Kate Beckett: Sorry to shake your snow globe, but you helped me once, when I was being framed for Vulcan Simmons' murder, and I need your help again.
- Michael Smith: Forget it. I paid all my debts.
- Kate Beckett: [shows a picture] This man killed an Assistant AG connected to Bracken's dirty money scheme.
- Michael Smith: I don't know him.
- Kate Beckett: He works for Bracken's partner. Some... mystery man or woman deep inside the CIA.
- Michael Smith: Why can't you just leave this alone?
- Kate Beckett: I wasn't built that way.
- Michael Smith: Look, I've got a good thing here. A woman who loves me. A new life. I'm happy. You could be, too. You just have to let it go.
- Kate Beckett: I can't.
- Michael Smith: What makes you think the drug shipments stopped with Vulcan Simmons' death? Every narcotic has a signature, a fingerprint, if you will. You find his, pick up the trail.
- Kate Beckett: Thank you.
- Michael Smith: Don't. You're gonna get yourself killed.
- Richard Castle: Sorry, Beckett. I screwed up.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, you did.
- Richard Castle: And I jeopardized the entire case.
- Kate Beckett: Again, yes... But you know what, if it wasn't for you, then we'd still be thinking that Peter's prison uniform was a Halloween costume.
- Richard Castle: You're not buying this, are you? No confession, no smoking gun. It's just... Not clean.
- Kate Beckett: Well, that's how homicides are sometimes. You know that.
- Richard Castle: Yeah, but something's still bothering me. There's a part of the mystery that hasn't been solved yet. We're missing part of the story.
- Kate Beckett: And how do you suggest we find it?
- Richard Castle: Same way we always do. We start at the beginning. Back at the prison.
- Kate Beckett: You just want an excuse to get me alone.
- Richard Castle: No, Beckett, I just want the truth. What really happened to Peter that night.
- Javier Esposito: I guess nothing in life is permanent.
- Kate Beckett: [approaching] Tell that to the victim.
- Kate Beckett: Wait a minute. Something's not right here. How did Peter reach the vent from inside the cell?
- Kate Beckett, Richard Castle: It was a two-man job!
- Richard Castle: Two prisoners escaped, but only one was missing. Which means...
- Kate Beckett, Richard Castle: The killer came back!
- Kevin Ryan: Oh, hey. Captain Beckett. What brings you out into the field?
- Kate Beckett: Work. What do you think, I'm gonna be stuck in the office just 'cause I'm Captain?
- Kate Beckett: So, who's our fugitive?
- Javier Esposito: No ID yet, but the jumpsuit is standard issue at Rikers. But they say that none of their prisoners have gone missing.
- Kevin Ryan: We had them lock down the facility, but a 14,000 inmate head count's gonna take some time.
- Kate Beckett: You run his prints?
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah. So far, nothing.
- Kate Beckett: Nothing? The guy's a convicted felon. His fingerprints are on file.
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah.
- Javier Esposito: Probably a glitch. You know, those portable scanners, sometimes they're wonky.
- Kate Beckett: Is there any chance that this wasn't a homicide?
- Lanie Parish: None. It took brute force to puncture the victim's body with that branch. Someone had to shove him onto it.
- Kate Beckett: So how does an escaped convict from Rikers Island end up in the middle of Central Park without anyone seeing him?
- Lanie Parish: It was late. Lividity puts the time of death between midnight and 2:00 a.m.
- Kate Beckett: [to Ryan and Esposito] All right. Keep running prints. I'm gonna walk around, see what I can find.
- Kevin Ryan: Hi. Um, Rikers completed their headcount. All inmates are accounted for.
- Kate Beckett: So where'd the vic's jumpsuit come from?
- Javier Esposito: [approaching] Costume shop. Our John Doe was not an inmate, he was a college student. Tattoo on his shoulder is the original mascot design of the Hudson U. Red Devils. Now, I checked the college website. Peter Garber, 21 years old. Majoring in marketing.
- Kevin Ryan: But that doesn't explain the jumpsuit.
- Kate Beckett: You guys, it's October. Halloween's basically a month-long party in college.
- Martha Rodgers: Oh, you're getting too old for drinking games, kiddo.
- Richard Castle: It was for the case.
- Martha Rodgers: The one that Katherine keeps throwing you off of?
- Richard Castle: I didn't win her love overnight the first time. I'm making progress, huh?
- Dr. Barbara Lillstrom: Charge me or let me go.
- Kate Beckett: Which sounds better, "Negligent infliction of emotional distress," or "Gross psychological abuse"?
- Dr. Barbara Lillstrom: What are you doing?
- Kate Beckett: I'm writing an e-mail to the entire Hud U. faculty. Figured I'd let everyone know that you were conducting an unauthorized experiment with members of the student body, secretly funded by the U.S. military.
- Dr. Barbara Lillstrom: I'd love to see you prove it. Especially because every participating student signs a non-disclosure agreement.
- Kate Beckett: Oh, well, then I suppose you won't mind if I send this.
- Dr. Barbara Lillstrom: Wait! Wait.
- [sighs]
- Dr. Barbara Lillstrom: What'll it take for you not to tell anyone at Hudson about this?
- Kate Beckett: The truth.
- Dr. Barbara Lillstrom: Do I have your word, Captain?
- Kate Beckett: Hud U. will never hear from me.
- Kate Beckett: You know what, we're not having this conversation. I asked you for space and you literally locked me up in a jail cell.
- [draws her gun]
- Richard Castle: Okay, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, okay. You can- I'll give you space. I'll give you space.
- [Kate aims her gun at the door lock]
- Kate Beckett: You know what? You know, it'd be just my luck. It would ricochet and hit you and then I'd have two murders to contend with.
- Vikram Singh: Thanks for meeting me.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah.
- Vikram Singh: [displays a computer] I finished piecing this together for our investigation.
- [Vikram notices Beckett wipe a tear from her eye]
- Vikram Singh: You're having second thoughts, aren't you?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, I just knew that this was gonna be tough. I didn't think it was gonna be like this.
- Vikram Singh: I get it. I do. Look, maybe we need to stop before we start. Beckett, I'll follow your lead.
- [taps "Delete All"]
- Vikram Singh: What should we do?
- [on the screen is "Are You Sure? Yes No", she taps "No"]
- Kate Beckett: Let's get to work.
- Richard Castle: That is... Fifty-year-old Scotch.
- Alexis Castle: Yeah, I bought a case of it.
- Richard Castle: Alexis, that's expensive.
- Alexis Castle: Relax, Dad, the company paid for it.
- Richard Castle: Oh. Okay. Wait, that means I paid for it.
- [last lines]
- Richard Castle: Um... You know what? We're gonna start a tradition... for when we solve a case together.
- [Castle opens a container and pulls out a cigar]
- Alexis Castle: I don't smoke. And neither do you.
- Richard Castle: Who said anything about smoking?
- [Castle puts the 'cigar' in his mouth and starts to blow bubbles]