- Kate Beckett: Anything on the warehouse?
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah, right after you guys left the feds showed up and shut us down.
- Javier Esposito: But we did find something on your vic, Nelson Blakely. His prints came back as a Scott McGregor from Long Island City.
- Kevin Ryan: Problem is McGregor seems to only exist on paper. We can't find any trace of him in the real world.
- Kate Beckett: Did you guys send units to the listed address?
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah, and the family living there had never heard of him. And no one recognized his photo.
- Kate Beckett: Well, someone must have known him.
- Richard Castle: Someone did. He plays chess. That's not a solo sport.
- Kate Beckett: I thought you were off the case.
- Richard Castle: Well, you heard what Sophia said. I'm a reckless, immature, self-centered jackass. If you're stubborn enough to keep going, I'm stupid enough to go with you.
- Kevin Ryan: What do you think this is about, huh?
- Javier Esposito: Smells like an intelligence op.
- Kevin Ryan: CIA? NSA? DHS?
- Javier Esposito: Same letters, different alphabet. I had some buddies from the service volunteer for intelligence ops.
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah? How'd they like it?
- Javier Esposito: They all died.
- Richard Castle: That whole, uh, sinking car thing? Much cooler in the movies than it is in real life.
- Kate Beckett: And for the record, I prefer watching spy thrillers to being in them.
- Kate Beckett: I'm sorry, Javi. It's classified.
- Javier Esposito: I was Special Forces. I used to eat classified for breakfast, and yet *writer boy* can know?
- Alexis Castle: You know, if you're going to keep secrets from me, I might start keeping secrets from you, too.
- Richard Castle: At your age, I'm thinking that might be a good idea.
- Kate Beckett: Because my car is at the bottom of the Hudson, and Gates won't issue me another one until I write up an incident report, which I can't do because this case is classified.
- [Castle chuckles]
- Kate Beckett: What?
- Richard Castle: Nothing... It's just that's a perfect example of a linchpin. This case might go unsolved, all because you don't have access to a car.
- Kate Beckett: Don't make me shoot you.
- [last lines]
- Richard Castle: You think Dr. Blakely was right? About the linchpin? Do you think we actually *saved* the world?
- Kate Beckett: I think that we saved a little girl's life and that's enough for me.
- Thomas Gage: This way.
- Kate Beckett: No, my car is out front.
- Thomas Gage: They're watching your car. You go that way and you'll die.
- Richard Castle: Who's out there? Who are they?
- Thomas Gage: You can have answers or you can live. Your choice.
- [first lines]
- [after their car is pushed off a pier]
- Richard Castle: This door won't open.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, mine won't either. I think the crash bent the frame.