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Javier Esposito : Crystal Sky? That name's so fake it sounds like something out of one of your books.
Richard Castle : [chuckles] Right?
[realizing]
Richard Castle : Whoa. Wh-Wh-What is that supposed to mean?
Javier Esposito : What do you mean, "What is that supposed to mean?" Derrick Storm, Nikki Heat, Jameson Rook? Would it kill you to name someone "Gonzales" every once in a while?
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Alexis Castle : Professor Rankowsky still hasn't received the check for my Costa Rica trip.
Richard Castle : [evasive] He didn't? That's so weird.
Alexis Castle : You didn't send it, did you?
Richard Castle : [stammers] Why do you want to go study the rainforest for six weeks anyway?
Alexis Castle : Dad, we talked about this.
Richard Castle : I know, but you're going to be staying in the middle of a jungle. Miles away from the nearest phone, *hours* from the nearest hospital. You could be bitten by a poisonous spider, or a poisonous snake. I looked it up. Toucans are extremely aggressive this time of year.
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Alexis Castle : Dad, we need to talk.
Richard Castle : Which of these do you like better?
[holds up two different Nikki Heat covers]
Alexis Castle : Dad, I'm serious.
Richard Castle : I like the green one, but it kinda of looks like a giant green lizard is attacking the city. Which is cool, but it's not what the book's about. So I either rewrite the book to make it about a giant lizard, or...
Alexis Castle : Dad?
Richard Castle : Magenta. You're right. It's classic, it's cool, it tells the story.
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Richard Castle : Straight-A student, no history of trouble, on a dream European vacation, turns into a hooker in a ratty hotel... There is no way I'm letting Alexis go to Costa Rica now.
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Richard Castle : Maybe Erika was some kind of online Erin Brockovich, you know. A crusader for good, delving into the seedy underbelly of the legal system, in order to uncover some seamy truth.
Kate Beckett : Or maybe she was just hired by a rival firm to steal privileged information.
Richard Castle : Now, why must you be so cynical?
Kate Beckett : It's in my job description.
Richard Castle : Which is why you need me.
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Kate Beckett : But the only evidence of what she was up to is on that missing laptop.
Richard Castle : So without it, we're dead in the water. Much like Erika.
Richard Castle , Javier Esposito : Too soon.
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Richard Castle : What's this?
Kate Beckett : What's what?
Richard Castle : Boarding pass.
Kate Beckett : Castle...
Richard Castle : You fly to DC yesterday?
Kate Beckett : [pause] Yes. I did.
Richard Castle : Why?
Kate Beckett : I was invited down for an interview.
Richard Castle : What kind of interview?
Kate Beckett : For a position with a federal task force.
Richard Castle : I'm sorry... You interviewed for another job in another *city*... and you didn't tell me?
Kate Beckett : I didn't tell you about it because it was *just* an interview and I knew that you would be upset.
Richard Castle : Yeah... Yeah. You're damn right I'm upset.
Kate Beckett : Castle, I just wanted to see what was out there. What's wrong with that?
Richard Castle : What's wrong with it is that you hid it from me. In fact, you lied about it. I wouldn't do that to you.
Kate Beckett : Castle, this isn't about you... This is about me. This is about my life.
Richard Castle : So you're seriously considering this?
Kate Beckett : Yes. This is a wonderful opportunity. It'll be a chance to do more.
Richard Castle : Without me.
Kate Beckett : Castle, please don't do this. Please don't make this about us.
Richard Castle : I'm sorry, tell me how this isn't about us. You get this job, you move to DC, I'll never see you. That's pretty much the end of our relationship, isn't it?
Kate Beckett : You don't know that. And I probably won't even get the job.
Richard Castle : That's not the point... The point is... you knew what this could mean, and it didn't occur to you to include me. Or worse, it did occur to you... and you chose not to... Now, what does that say about us?... Not much, you ask me.
Kate Beckett : Castle.
[picks up his coat and heads to the door]
Richard Castle : I can't be here right now.
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[angry that Beckett interviewed for another job without telling him]
Richard Castle : Just tell me, how am I supposed to trust her? How am I even supposed to-to be in a relationship with her if she won't let me in?
Martha Rodgers : Well, Richard...
Richard Castle : After everything that we've been through together, I... I just don't understand.
Martha Rodgers : I hate to say it, kiddo, but I do. Look, the truth is Katherine is a bright, ambitious woman. She should be interviewing for that job.
Richard Castle : Whose side are you on?
Martha Rodgers : You want her to put you first when neither one of you know where the relationship is going. Do you know how absurd that is? I mean, that is as bad as your not signing that check for Alexis' program.
Richard Castle : This isn't about me.
Martha Rodgers : Are you sure?... I know you. You do not hold back... Except... this thing with Katherine. It took you, what, three years to tell her how you felt, another year to act on it. And now, the first sign of trouble, you're ready to run. Why?... And you're having a good time. You both are. And I know you say you love her. But, darling, this is who she is. So is it possible that the reason you have held back is because somewhere deep down inside, you don't think this is going to really work?
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[last lines]
Kate Beckett : I'm sorry... I shouldn't have kept secrets.
Richard Castle : It's who you are. You don't let people in... I've had to scratch and claw for every inch.
Kate Beckett : Castle...
Richard Castle : Please let me finish... I've been doing a lot of thinking about us, about our relationship. What we have. Where we're headed. I've decided I want more. We both deserve more.
Kate Beckett : I agree.
Richard Castle : So whatever happens... whatever you decide... Katherine Houghton Beckett...
[Castle gets down on one knee and presents an engagement ring]
Richard Castle : ...will you marry me?
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Richard Castle : [in a suspect's apartment, finding him hanged] I think our plot just thickened.
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Richard Castle : Hey, Sito.
Javier Esposito : Hey.
Richard Castle : Where's Beckett?
Javier Esposito : How they hell should I know? Aren't you two practically living together now?
Richard Castle : Ah, well, she left me alone for a couple days so I could finish "Deadly Heat", which, by the way, is both deadly and hot, thank you very much for asking.
Javier Esposito : I didn't.
Richard Castle : Right.
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Kevin Ryan : Here's what I don't get. Why go through all the trouble of creating a fake persona when you're just gonna be on your laptop all night?
Richard Castle : Wait... Does The Cedric have Wi-Fi?
Kevin Ryan : Yeah, that's about all it has.
Richard Castle : Computer science major, hours on her laptop?
Kate Beckett : She's a hacker. Which is why she was staying at The Cedric. She could pay in cash and remain anonymous while she was using the IP address.
Richard Castle : Exactly. And whatever she was hacking into is either so illegal or so dangerous she had to make sure they couldn't trace it back to her. And even if they did trace it back to her, they'd still have to find her amongst hundreds of residents.
Kate Beckett : So she created a whole false persona. And who's gonna look twice at a runaway hooker? I mean, she's like the girl with the dragon tattoo.
Richard Castle : Only they did find her. Which is why we can't find her laptop. Whoever she went up against killed her and took it.
Javier Esposito : Uh, problem. We don't know who she went up against and none of her friends seem to know either.
Kate Beckett : Okay, contact The Cedric's Internet provider and get a list of all the IP addresses accessed by residents over the past two weeks. There's *gotta* be an answer somewhere in there.
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Jessica Banks : This is my partner, Mitch Bauer. Do you know this girl?
Mitch Bauer : [looking at Erica's picture] No. Should I?
Jessica Banks : Well, the police think she may have hacked our server.
Mitch Bauer : Why? What did she access?
Kate Beckett : We don't know.
Mitch Bauer : Well, is she in custody?
Richard Castle : Sort of.
Mitch Bauer : What do you mean "sort of"?
Richard Castle : She's dead.
Kate Beckett : Actually, she was murdered, and we believe it might have to do with whatever it was she was trying to access from your system.
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Richard Castle : Three deaths, all leading back to the law firm of Banks and Bauer. Is it just me, or is this starting to smell like a John Grisham novel? A single car accident with no witnesses? Guys, this is a classic conspiracy cover-up. Though only a lowly intern, Pam stumbles onto something that the firm is doing. Something big and nefarious. She has to be *silenced*. Only after the *accident*, Blaylock can't take the guilt or admit the truth. So, his only bastion is to escape into the sweet oblivion of drugs.
Kate Beckett : And then when Erica starts coming around, they realize that they're gonna have to act by eliminating them *both*. But what are they covering up?
Kevin Ryan : Whatever it is, the only possible evidence is on Erica's laptop, which our killer took.
Richard Castle : Yeah... Wait. Are we sure about that? Erica was meeting Blaylock on the roof, right? A guy who, according to the e-mails, she didn't know very well. If I'm Erica, I'm hiding that laptop.
Javier Esposito : Well, we searched her room. It wasn't there.
Kate Beckett : Wait. Do you guys remember the footage from the elevator?
Richard Castle : Yes. She went down to the laundry room first.
Kate Beckett : And Lanie said that she found traces of creosote under her fingernails from the boiler room next door.
Richard Castle , Kate Beckett : The laptop's in the basement.
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Alexis Castle : Dad, are you okay?
Richard Castle : Yeah.
Alexis Castle : You seem sad.
Richard Castle : No. I'm fine.
Alexis Castle : It's only Costa Rica. I'll be back before you know it.
Richard Castle : Oh, that's, no that's that's sweet, but no, it's not about that. It's, uh... something your grandmother told me. Comes a point in our lives when we have to stop fooling ourselves into thinking life's gonna be the way we want it to be. Start seeing things for how they really are.
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[deleted scene]
Richard Castle : Hey.
Kate Beckett : Hey. Couldn't sleep.
Richard Castle : The case?
Kate Beckett : Mm. Yeah, among other things.
Richard Castle : You know what you need? Both of us, actually; a long vacation. Just turn off our brains. What do you say, next month after the book is in, we take a couple weeks and go out to the Hamptons, just the two of us?
Kate Beckett : [not entirely invested] Yeah, that sounds great.
Richard Castle : It will be. Now, quit thinking so much. Makes your forehead all wrinkly; like I'm dating a Shar Pei.
Kate Beckett : Is that what we're doing? Dating?
Richard Castle : Dating, being with, semi-cohabitating. Tell you what we're not doing: sleeping. Come on back to bed.
Kate Beckett : [quietly, as he turns to leave] Yeah, I'll be there in a minute.
