Castle (TV Series)

Flowers for Your Grave (2009)

Monet Mazur: Gina Griffin

Quotes 

• Gina Griffin : What kind of idiot kills off his best-selling main character?

  Richard Castle : Are you asking as my bloodsucking publisher or as my bloodsucking ex-wife?

  Gina Griffin : Oh, is that what you're doing? Punishing me by killing the golden goose?

  Richard Castle : Oh, come on. I may be petty and short-sighted, but I'm not that petty and short-sighted.

  Gina Griffin : Really? Then why?

  Richard Castle : Writing Derrick used to be fun. Now it's like work.

  Gina Griffin : Hmm. God forbid you should work. I mean, you could have retired him. You could have crippled him. You could have had him join the frigging circus. But, no, you *had* to put a bullet through his head.

  Richard Castle : Yeah. Real messy, too. Big exit wound. Don't worry, Derrick Storm is not the golden goose here. I am. I wrote half a dozen bestsellers before him. What makes you think I'm gonna to stop now?

  Gina Griffin : Oh, I don't know. The fact the new book was due nine weeks ago.

  Richard Castle : You can't rush genius.

  Gina Griffin : Genius, Richard? Try blockage. I heard you haven't written in months.

  Richard Castle : That's ridiculous.

  Gina Griffin : My sources are very reliable.

  Richard Castle : Well, they're wrong.

  Gina Griffin : They'd better be. If I don't have a new manuscript on my desk in the next three weeks, Black Pawn is prepared to demand the return of your advance.

  Richard Castle : You wouldn't dare.

  Gina Griffin : Try me. Just try me.

  Richard Castle : You know, I already returned that advance. I spent it divorcing you.

• [first lines] 

  Gina Griffin : Murder... mystery... the macabre. What is it about a hard-boiled detective, a femme fatale and the cold steel of a gun that keeps our bedside lamps burning into the wee hours of the morning?