- [after Beckett and Castle finish questioning a suspect]
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Well?
- Kate Beckett: We'll check his alibi, but my gut tells me it's not him.
- Richard Castle: We should get a warrant, run his subscribers against any hate mail that the Vegas might have gotten.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: You sure you got no cop in the Castle family tree?
- Richard Castle: No, us Castles are mostly con artists and circus folk, sir.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: No, I think there's a little cop in there somewhere.
- [Montgomery leaves, while Beckett and Castle head back to her desk]
- Kate Beckett: Con artists and circus people, huh?
- Richard Castle: Yep, and mind readers.
- Kate Beckett: Really? So tell me what I'm thinking.
- [Castle bends over, feigning pain, then puts his fingers to his temple]
- Richard Castle: Ahh! Your're... You're thinking... You don't care and you want me to stop talking.
- Kate Beckett: Ooh, that's uncanny.
- Richard Castle: It's in the blood.
- Richard Castle: Did you just use the word "veritable"?
- Kate Beckett: Yes, I did.
- Richard Castle: Sexy.
- Kate Beckett: You should hear me say "fallacious".
- [Martha is teaching Alexis to read minds; Castle's phone rings]
- Alexis Castle: [putting hand to head and concentraing] That must be Beckett.
- Richard Castle: How did you know?
- Alexis Castle: [dropping her act] It's after ten... on a weekday. Who else is it gonna be?
- Richard Castle: Oh, she is good.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Let's find out why Vega comes back from Cuba and suddenly needs 200 grand.
- Kate Beckett: Okay.
- Javier Esposito: So where do you want to start?
- Kate Beckett: You guys look into Vega's financials, see if we missed anything. Castle and I will start with Cuba.
- Richard Castle: Cuba! Good idea. I'll bring the mojitos, you get the beach towels.
- Kate Beckett: Oh, I don't know, Castle. Me in a swimsuit under the hot, blistering sun...
- Richard Castle: I'd be happy to rub lotion on you.
- M.E. Sidney Perlmutter: Cause of death was cerebral hemorrhaging, as expected.
- Kate Beckett: Any way to estimate the height of the attacker based on the angle of the blows?
- M.E. Sidney Perlmutter: Normally, yes, but in this case your attacker's first swing landed a little south of his head.
- Kate Beckett: How far south?
- M.E. Sidney Perlmutter: Ehhh... Enough to make him a soprano.
- Richard Castle: Oh! Should have worn a cup.
- Alexis Castle: Doesn't it bother you that you don't know who your dad is?
- Richard Castle: No. Why, does it bother you?
- Alexis Castle: It's like... I have this family tree, and there's a whole *chunk* of it missing. There's a whole part of my history that doesn't even exist. I mean, really, how could Gram not know?
- Richard Castle: My first year of college, I, uh, went to a party, met this girl Alison. In the space of six hours we met, we talked, we danced, we fell in love. Next morning she was gone. I spent a year trying to find her, but I never learned her last name. There's not a week that goes by I don't think about her. Your Gram told me that she loved a lifetime the night she met him.
- Alexis Castle: Don't you feel like you're missing out, not knowing?
- Richard Castle: No! Oh, no, that's the beauty of the mystery. Right now, my father could be an astronaut, a pirate, a humanitarian, winner of the Nobel Prize. I mean, what one man could live up to all that?
- Alexis Castle: Hey, Dad.
- Richard Castle: Hey, Daughter. What are you doing up so late?
- Alexis Castle: Waiting for you.
- Richard Castle: Did I do something wrong?
- Alexis Castle: No. I was just thinking about what you said about your dad. How he could be anything you imagine him to be, an astronaut or a pirate.
- Richard Castle: Whipped cream inventor.
- Alexis Castle: Or whipped cream inventor. But there's one thing he can't be.
- Richard Castle: What's that?
- Alexis Castle: A dad. Just a regular dad. Teaching his son how to ride a bike, or helping him with homework, or having a catch. Makes me sad you didn't get to have those things.
- Richard Castle: Well... I can't miss what I didn't have.
- Alexis Castle: What if you could have it?
- Richard Castle: You have a time machine behind the kitchen counter?
- Maggie Vega: So, you're Lara?
- Kate Beckett: She was born in Cuba right after Mr. Vega defected.
- Richard Castle: She's not his girlfriend. She's his daughter.
- Maggie Vega: Cano had a daughter?
- Lara Blanco: My father didn't know how you would like to have me here. He... he had fear to tell you about me.
- [Lara turns to Esposito for help]
- Javier Esposito: Its' okay.
- [Lara speaks in Spanish]
- Javier Esposito: [translating for Lara] She says she knows her father loved you very much, and didn't want to hurt you.
- [Lara speaks in Spanish again]
- Javier Esposito: [translating for Lara] And that she hoped and he hoped that together you could be a family.
- Maggie Vega: [taking Lara's hands] Yo soy Maggie. Mi casa is su casa.
- Lara Blanco: [in tears] Thank you.
- Bobby Fox: Let me get this straight. An illegal, claiming to be Cano Vega's daughter, after being in this country for less than twenty-four hours, identifies someone who kind of looks like me, from a distance, at night? Well, gee, guys, what am I... What, do I sign my confession right now... or after the big, uh, press conference?
- Richard Castle: Now's good.
- Richard Castle: [to Alexis] Yes, you come from a long line of hucksters and charlatans, myself included. But we have high hopes for you.
- [first lines]
- Martha Rodgers: Tell me, Seer... what do I hold in my hand now?
- [blindfolded Alexis puts her hands to her head and concentrates]
- Alexis Castle: You're holding...
- [long pause]
- Alexis Castle: A wallet.
- Martha Rodgers: Yes! Incredible! Ten out of ten!
- Richard Castle: What's going on?
- Alexis Castle: [taking off blindfold] Gram's teaching my how to read minds.
- [last lines]
- Alexis Castle: What do you say, Son? How about a game of catch with your old man?
- Richard Castle: Yeah, I'd like that.
- Alexis Castle: Good.
- [Alexis goes across the room and prepares to catch the baseball Castle is about to throw]
- Richard Castle: You ready?
- Alexis Castle: Ready.
- [Castle throws the ball over her head, breaking something off-screen]
- Richard Castle: Oh.