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03x13 - Knockdown Season 3 / Episode 13: - Knockdown

Captain Roy Montgomery: [after Beckett compromises her objectivity] As of this moment, you two are running point on Raglan's homicide.
Javier Esposito: Uh... Captain, my partner and I don't wish to be insubordinate.
Kevin Ryan: But we respectfully decline the assignment.
Captain Roy Montgomery: What does it say on my badge?
Javier Esposito: "Captain".
Captain Roy Montgomery: Now read the fine print. It says get your ass out there and solve Raglan's murder, before I bust you both back down to Traffic.
Javier Esposito, Kevin Ryan: Yes, sir.
Captain Roy Montgomery: You want to help her? Find that shooter. Solve the damn case.
03x13 - Knockdown Season 3 / Episode 13: - Knockdown

Martha Rodgers: I heard about the shooting on the news. It could have been you. You know that, don't you?
Richard Castle: Yeah, but I'm fine. It wasn't me.
Martha Rodgers: Richard, this isn't one of your books. You don't know the ending. You were just lucky yesterday.
Richard Castle: You're overreacting, mother. Where is this coming from?
Martha Rodgers: How the hell can you ask me something like that? Think about how much you love Alexis, and that is how much I love you. And don't you dare ask me where this is coming from. You have gotten through most of your life on your wit and charm and no small amount of talent, but that is the real world out there, and you can't charm your way out of a bullet.
Richard Castle: You think I should quit?
Martha Rodgers: I think you should be honest with yourself about why you're doing this. You have written twenty-two novels before you met her, and you didn't need to spend every day in a police station in order to finish them.
Richard Castle: It's not about the books anymore.
03x13 - Knockdown Season 3 / Episode 13: - Knockdown

Richard Castle: You know, I was thinking on the way over here... all the best cops: Dirty Harry, Cobra, the guy from "Police Academy" who makes the helicopter noises, they all have one thing in common.
Kate Beckett: Plucky sidekick?
Richard Castle: That, and they do their very best work after they've been booted off a case.
Kate Beckett: Is that what you came all the way over here to tell me?
Richard Castle: Montgomery booted us off the Raglan murder, but he didn't say anything about your mother's case, did he?
03x13 - Knockdown Season 3 / Episode 13: - Knockdown

Kate Beckett: There was a lawyer named Johanna Beckett. Are you familiar with her? She was murdered in the alley about seven years into your incarceration.
Joe Pulgatti: You look just like her, you know. You first walked in here, it was like I was looking at a ghost. The way she talked about you, I should've known you'd become a cop. I sent letters to every lawyer I could find, and your mother was the only one who wrote me back. The only one willing to take a chance on me. She didn't care that I was a thug.
Kate Beckett: [half-smiling] All she cared about was the truth.
03x13 - Knockdown Season 3 / Episode 13: - Knockdown

Kate Beckett: [after Castle punched out the man who was about to shoot her] Thank you.
Richard Castle: Always.
03x12 - Poof! You're Dead Season 3 / Episode 12: - Poof! You're Dead

Richard Castle: X-ray specs. Got them at the magic shop. I can see you naked.
Kate Beckett: [teasing] Really? How do you like my navel ring?
03x12 - Poof! You're Dead Season 3 / Episode 12: - Poof! You're Dead

Richard Castle: Are you kidding me? He has an identical twin who wears glasses. That's the worst disguise since Clark Kent, and you believe him?
03x12 - Poof! You're Dead Season 3 / Episode 12: - Poof! You're Dead

Kate Beckett: Alakazam, Jackass.
03x11 - Nikki Heat Season 3 / Episode 11: - Nikki Heat

Richard Castle: [Castle dislikes the actress playing Nikki Heat] Nikki Heat is classy, she's complicated. She's a thinking man's cop.
Kate Beckett: No, we can't judge a book by its cover.
Richard Castle: Yes, actually. Yes, I can, when it's my book.
03x11 - Nikki Heat Season 3 / Episode 11: - Nikki Heat

Kevin Ryan: [watching Natalie, who is dressed like Beckett, in the bullpen] We really should have a code word so we all know which Beckett to kill when her clone army attacks.
Kate Beckett: Unless we make a preemptive strike.
03x11 - Nikki Heat Season 3 / Episode 11: - Nikki Heat

Javier Esposito: What are you guys doing?
Kevin Ryan: Hiding from creepy Beckett.
03x11 - Nikki Heat Season 3 / Episode 11: - Nikki Heat

Jenny Duffy-O'Malley: I hate you, Kevin Ryan!
03x09 - Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind Season 3 / Episode 9: - Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind

Kate Beckett: [entering basement with Castle and sees two Chinese men] NYPD! Stay where you are. [Men stop/drop what they're doing and put hands in air]
Richard Castle: That's a vacuum packer at one o'clock.
Kate Beckett: Looks like we've found our murder weapon. [Opens a velcro pocket on bullet-proof vest, removes a picture and asks men] Have you seen this man? [the two men look at her dumbly]
Richard Castle: [in Chinese] My partner is crazy and may start firing at any moment. [the two men point their thumbs over their shoulders]
Kate Beckett: [to the men] Go! Go! [to Castle] Semester abroad?
Richard Castle: Nah, TV show I used to love.
Kate Beckett: Ehn, nice job.
Richard Castle: Thanks.
03x09 - Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind Season 3 / Episode 9: - Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind

Alexis Castle: [Ashley's parents want to meet Castle and Martha] The two of them are serious people, dad. You may need to be more... buttoned up.
Richard Castle: I can be buttoned up. And if I become unbuttoned, you can discretely let me know with a brutal kick to the shin.
03x09 - Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind Season 3 / Episode 9: - Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind

Kate Beckett: [after speaking to Agent Westfield privately] He told me something in confidence.
Richard Castle: What?
Kate Beckett: Well, I wish I could tell you, Castle. But it was... classified.
Richard Castle: What-what did he tell you that was classified? Was it about aliens? The truth about UFOs? Are you gonna tell me or just gonna make me keep guessing?
Kate Beckett: I don't know. This guessing thing is kind of fun.
Richard Castle: All right. Was it about what happened at Roswell?
Kate Beckett: No.
Richard Castle: Area 51?
Kate Beckett: No.
Richard Castle: Loch Ness Monster is real?
Kate Beckett: Yeah.
Richard Castle: Really?
Kate Beckett: No.
Richard Castle: [groan] Oh, you had me.
03x08 - Murder Most Fowl Season 3 / Episode 8: - Murder Most Fowl

Richard Castle: You know, I understand ferrets as a pet... snakes, spiders, even a hairless mole, but a rat?
Kate Beckett: Probably kids in the city who keeps cockroaches as pets.
Richard Castle: Well, you're probably right, what's the strangest pet you ever had?
Kate Beckett: You!
03x08 - Murder Most Fowl Season 3 / Episode 8: - Murder Most Fowl

Kate Beckett: The thing about murderers, Mario, is they tend to not have solid alibis.
Richard Castle: Generally because they're murdering somebody.
03x08 - Murder Most Fowl Season 3 / Episode 8: - Murder Most Fowl

Richard Castle: When Alexis was four, we went Christmas shopping at some mall in White Plains. I was trying on some... charcoal fedora. I turn around, she is gone. Vanished. I looked everywhere. So did mall security, so did the police. We searched for an hour. You don't have to be a novelist to think of all the worst-case scenarios.
Kate Beckett: Where'd you find her?
Richard Castle: Behind a rack of winter coats. She got bored. She crawled underneath there and went to sleep.


Richard Castle: To this day, I still dream about that.
03x07 - Almost Famous Season 3 / Episode 7: - Almost Famous

Richard Castle: Have you ever heard of a brilliant doctor named Doogie Howser?
03x06 - 3XK Season 3 / Episode 6: - 3XK

Roy Montgomery: [profiling the triple killer] The feds say he's a white male, twenty-five to forty-five years old.
Richard Castle: [under his breath, to Beckett] Could be me.
Roy Montgomery: With a dysfunctional relationship with his mother.
Richard Castle: [sotto] Still me.
Roy Montgomery: He has a menial, unimportant job.
Kate Beckett: [sotto, to Castle] Definitely you.
Richard Castle: Just for that, I base my next book on Esposito.
03x05 - Anatomy of a Murder Season 3 / Episode 5: - Anatomy of a Murder

Richard Castle: [about a murder at a funeral home] Don't we usually get to the victim *before* the funeral?
03x05 - Anatomy of a Murder Season 3 / Episode 5: - Anatomy of a Murder

Kate Beckett: Our victim's student loans. Since graduating med school, Dr. Monroe has been regularly making minimum amount payments on her $440,000 student loan.
Kevin Ryan: That's how much it costs to become a doctor? Glad I became a cop.
03x04 - Punked Season 3 / Episode 4: - Punked

Richard Castle: A two hundred year old bullet can only mean one thing.


Richard Castle: Time traveling killer.
03x03 - Under the Gun Season 3 / Episode 3: - Under the Gun

Kate Beckett: Bikes are what girls want when we realize we're never gonna get a pony.
03x03 - Under the Gun Season 3 / Episode 3: - Under the Gun

Martha Rodgers: This is Alexis we're talking about. She has never met a challenge that she hasn't attacked like Attila the Hun!
03x02 - He's Dead, She's Dead Season 3 / Episode 2: - He's Dead, She's Dead

Richard Castle: What did Penny say about Alexander?
Kate Beckett: Oh nothing. Just some silly stuff that didn't make any sense. Why?
Richard Castle: Because, my middle name is Alexander.
Kate Beckett: I thought your middle name was Edgar?
Richard Castle: Been perusing the "personal" section of the Richard Castle Web site again have we? No, I changed my middle name to Edgar for Edgar Allen Poe back when I changed my last name to Castle. My given name is Richard Alexander Rogers.
03x02 - He's Dead, She's Dead Season 3 / Episode 2: - He's Dead, She's Dead

Kate Beckett: Castle, Why is it so important to you that I believe all this stuff about fates, and psychics and Santa Claus?
Richard Castle: Because if you don't believe in even the possibility of magic you'll never ever find it.
03x02 - He's Dead, She's Dead Season 3 / Episode 2: - He's Dead, She's Dead

Richard Castle: Did I hear you right? Our victim is Vivien Marchand, the psychic medium?
Kevin Ryan: You've heard of her?
Richard Castle: Yeah! She was very popular in certain Manhattan circles. As a matter of fact, she did a reading for me at a society party about eight years ago. It was pretty extraordinary.
Kate Beckett: Extraordinary?
Richard Castle: She got everything right. You know what? Come to think of it, she told me that a beautiful woman would one day move into my loft and stay with me forever. She neglected to mention it was my mother.
03x02 - He's Dead, She's Dead Season 3 / Episode 2: - He's Dead, She's Dead

Kevin Ryan: [looking at their victim's business calendar] She's got a notation here for three p.m. yesterday. It just says "T.J."
Kate Beckett: And nothing else?
Kevin Ryan: Nope. Maybe T.J. was a ghost coming to visit. Mediums are the ones that can see ghosts, right, Castle?
Richard Castle: Yes. Psychics can tell the future, mediums can tell the future and talk to the dead.
Kate Beckett: That's like saying psychics are con artists, and mediums are con artists and charlatans. I mean, in the end, they're all just fakes.
Richard Castle: You sound pretty certain of yourself.
Kate Beckett: That's because when I started as a cop, I wasted a lot of time on clairvoyants calling tip lines with information that never lead to anything. I mean, I'm surprised you're so gullible.
Richard Castle: I'm not saying I can speak with the dead. I'm just willing to admit that there are people in this world who are more sensitive than me.
Kate Beckett: Now, that's not hard to believe.
Richard Castle: [realizing Beckett just insulted him] Walked right into that one.
03x01 - A Deadly Affair Season 3 / Episode 1: - A Deadly Affair

Kevin Ryan: He really is ruggedly handsome.