- [last lines]
- Mike Royce: [voiceover as Beckett reads letter] "And for the hard part, kid. Its clear that you and Castle have something real. And you're fighting it. But trust me, putting the job ahead of your heart is a mistake. Risking our hearts is why we're alive. The last thing you want is to look back on your life and wonder, 'if only.'"
- Kate Beckett: [reminiscing about Royce] I was so in awe of him, Castle. When I first met him. I just hung on his every word. And then later I realized he was just making up stories to mess with me.
- [Castle smiles and Beckett laughs to herself]
- Kate Beckett: [quietly] I can't believe that I'm never gonna see him again.
- Richard Castle: Do you know what I thought when I first met you?
- Kate Beckett: Hmm.
- Richard Castle: That you were a mystery I was never gonna solve. Even now, after spending all this time with you, I'm... I'm still amazed. At the depths of your strength, your heart.
- [Beckett half-smiles]
- Richard Castle: And your hotness.
- Kate Beckett: You're not so bad yourself, Castle.
- Richard Castle: Wow! Somebody's up early.
- Kate Beckett: Hey.
- Richard Castle: What did you pack, a murder board?
- Kate Beckett: Concierge. Called down and then ten minutes later, voila.
- Richard Castle: Maurice is amazing, isn't he? I bet if I ordered the Ark of the Covenant, he'd come through.
- Kate Beckett: Um, wouldn't you be afraid to open it?
- Richard Castle: No, it only melts Nazis.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Hey. You heard from Beckett?
- Javier Esposito: No, sir.
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah, me, neither.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: She's not answering her cell.
- Javier Esposito: Maybe she's airborne.
- Kevin Ryan: Um-hmm. Yeah, that would explain her phone being turned off.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Hmm. You know, I'm trying to decide who is the worse liar. Him or you.
- [Esposito nods at Ryan]
- Richard Castle: Neil McCauley? Really?
- Kate Beckett: Why?
- Richard Castle: That's Robert De Niro's character in "Heat".
- Richard Castle: [Beckett's training officer has been murdered] Come on, Kate. You don't want to remember him like this.
- Kate Beckett: Castle, if it was me lying there, would you just walk away?
- Lanie Parish: I'm so sorry, honey.
- Kate Beckett: Just tell me what happened.
- Lanie Parish: He was shot in the leg. Judging from the blood trail, I'd say the bullet broke the bone. He tried to hide, but... I found this in his pocket.
- [hands over an airline ticket]
- Lanie Parish: He just flew in from Los Angeles this afternoon.
- Richard Castle: What was he doing in L.A.?
- Kate Beckett: I heard he moved there after he lost his bounty hunter's license. I guess he was trying to make a fresh start.
- Richard Castle: When was the last time you spoke to him?
- Kate Beckett: [pause] When I arrested him.
- Javier Esposito: Yo. You were right about the silencer. The lab found trace amounts of titanium alloy in the threads. They've narrowed it down to one of two commercial suppressors. Both run about a grand.
- Richard Castle: Why put an expensive silencer on a cheap gun?
- Kate Beckett: Because... our killer followed Royce from L.A. and couldn't bring his own gun on the plane.
- Richard Castle: But a silencer is just a cylinder. It could easily be hidden in a checked bag.
- [first lines]
- [pointing gun at an injured Royce who is lying on the ground injured]
- Russell Ganz: You should have stayed out of this, Royce.
- Mike Royce: You have no idea the hell that's about to rain down on you.
- Russell Ganz: [unmoved and unconcerned] Scary.
- [shoots Royce]
- Richard Castle: [sharing his hotel suite with Beckett] Would you like to choose your room?
- Kate Beckett: No. I'd like to start the investigation.
- Richard Castle: We haven't even ordered room service yet.
- Kate Beckett: Castle, I'm not here for room service. I'm here for justice.
- Richard Castle: [as Beckett leaves] Wow. In L.A. for all of a minute and already she's spouting cheesy movie dialogue.
- Kate Beckett: [the actors playing the Nikki Heat characters based on Ryan and Esposito look exactly like their inspiration] That is just creepy.
- Richard Castle: Totally.
- Richard Castle: So, what happened?
- [Beckett sharply pokes him in the chest]
- Richard Castle: Ow!
- Kate Beckett: I was trying to keep him from seeing you, and so I pushed too hard and he made me.
- [pokes Castle again]
- Kate Beckett: He called me green, Castle. What the hell were you doing?
- Richard Castle: I saw his phone in the cabana. I thought it was worth the risk.
- Kate Beckett: You took his phone?
- Richard Castle: No! No, I took a photo of his recent call list.
- Kate Beckett: What? Where is it?
- Richard Castle: Don't... don't poke me.
- Kate Beckett: [Castle hands his phone over] Poke you? I wanna kiss you.
- Richard Castle: Would Montgomery really fire you?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah.
- Richard Castle: So we're going back to New York.
- Kate Beckett: Hell no.