Castle (TV Series)

Probable Cause (2012)

Stana Katic: Kate Beckett

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• [covertly meeting Castle at the library] 

  Kate Beckett : [quietly]  Thank God you're okay.

  Richard Castle : Thank God you understood my message.

  Kate Beckett : First time that I cuffed you. What you wouldn't give to be back there now.

  Richard Castle : Come on.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah.

  Richard Castle : I knew I couldn't call once I left.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, how did you do it? How did you escape?

  Richard Castle : I got a great lawyer.

  Kate Beckett : Come on.

  Richard Castle : Someone owed me a favor. The less you know, the better. But the good news is I'm still alive.

  Kate Beckett : The DA has branded you a fugitive. Every *cop* in New York is looking for you.

  Richard Castle : Yes, well, they won't be the only ones after the 5:00 news. By now they've tagged my phone, my house, my accounts. I'm not gonna last long out here. We have to act quickly.

  Kate Beckett : I've got teams at your place looking for any trace of Tyson. Ryan is wading through paperwork at Tessa's office to see if there's a connection.

  Richard Castle : Well, that could take weeks. I think I've got something better. Sitting in Holding, I kept thinking, "How could he possibly pull this off? How could he get video of *me* buying those earrings?" And then it hit me.

  [Castle shows her a magazine] 

  Kate Beckett : "Broadway Casting"?

  Richard Castle : You want someone to play a role, you cast it.

  [opens to an ad] 

  Richard Castle : Look at this notice from four months ago by a celebrity lookalike firm.

  Kate Beckett : Private book club party?

  Richard Castle : Look who they're looking for.

  Kate Beckett : James Patterson, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling...

  Richard Castle : And... me.

• Kate Beckett : Sir, he's not a killer.

  Captain Victoria Gates : Then how do you explain all of this?

  Kate Beckett : The evidence isn't the whole story. Castle's taught me that.

  Captain Victoria Gates : You know, I'm not always a fan of Mr. Castle's, Detective. But even I'm having trouble believing he'd do something so... heinous.

• [evidence on Castle's computer suggests he was having an affair with the victim] 

  Kate Beckett : They started up about eight weeks ago, according to those e-mails. He met her after one of his... book signings and he asked her out for coffee and that was a... It was just a couple of weeks after we started seeing each other.

  Lanie Parish : [sympathetically]  Oh, sweetie.

  Kate Beckett : He told her that needed to keep it a secret, because he was with someone else... And then when he tried to break it off about a week ago, she threatened to go and tell his girlfriend. He offered to come over to her apartment to talk things through. And that was the night of the murder.

  Lanie Parish : He had motive... What did Castle say when you talked to him?

  Kate Beckett : He said that the e-mails were faked. He said he never wrote that story and that he was being framed...

  [near tears] 

  Kate Beckett : You should have seen him, Lanie. He looked like a little boy, he was so scared... I know him, Lanie... He is... an immature, egotistical... self-centered jackass sometimes, but he's not this.

• Kevin Ryan : Tech just finished with Castle's computer. Parts of it had been wiped, just like Tessa's.

  Kate Beckett : Were they able to re-recover anything?

  Javier Esposito : They found a file that he had deleted. It was a story concept about how to commit the perfect murder.

  Kevin Ryan : Beckett, the character gets away with it by staging a crime scene so bizarre the cops can't see he's *hiding* right under their noses.

  Javier Esposito : It was like a, a dry run on paper, all the way down to the weird symbol that we found on the victim's forehead.

  Kevin Ryan : They found something else on his drive. E-mails. Dozens of them. Between Castle and the victim.

  Javier Esposito : Beckett... they had been having an affair.

• ADA Toni Gonzalez : You want the DA's office to do what?

  Captain Victoria Gates : All we're asking for is a delay until we can sort all this out.

  ADA Toni Gonzalez : No. What you're asking for is preferential treatment for a murder suspect. You want to sort this out, you sort it out after he's arraigned.

  Kate Beckett : No, I don't think you understand. There's not gonna be an *after*.

  ADA Toni Gonzalez : If it's his safety you're concerned about, we're prepared to put him in protective custody.

  Kate Beckett : Do you have any idea who you're dealing with? Do you even know what Jerry Tyson has *proven* himself capable of?

  ADA Toni Gonzalez : Who do you think met with the families of his victims and held their hands when he slipped through *your* fingers, Detective? I'm very aware of what 3XK is capable of.

  Kate Beckett : Then you should know that your protective custody isn't worth a damn. If he wants to kill Castle, he's gonna find a way to do it.

• Javier Esposito : I've spent some time in Central. I've seen the Tombs. The way they stack bodies in those cells, if there's a bounty on Castle's head, protective custody ain't gonna do jack.

  Kevin Ryan : That's assuming Tyson paid off a prisoner. It could be a guard.

  Kate Beckett : So we can't protect him, not there.

  [pausing as the Assistant DA walks by on way out of the precinct] 

  Kate Beckett : We have to stop that transfer. We need evidence that 3XK was involved.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah, but we've got nothing to go on.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, to pull this off, he needed access to Castle's loft. So get teams over there and tear that place apart. Find me a fingerprint, a hidden microphone, broken window jamb, anything that puts him there.

  Kevin Ryan : Tessa was seeing someone. If it wasn't Castle...

  Kate Beckett : Then maybe it was Tyson. Hit her office. Look for files, schedules, client lists. There's got to be something that ties back to him.

• Kate Beckett : We went through the surveillance footage from last night. There's no evidence that Jerry Tyson was in the station, and there is no evidence that the system had been tampered with.

  Richard Castle : Beckett, I swear to you, he was here.

  Kate Beckett : Castle...

  Richard Castle : No, I know. I sound crazy. A desperate story from a desperate man, just... just like he wanted.

  Kate Beckett : You're right, it does sound desperate... But it's the first time that this story has made sense.

  Richard Castle : [his spirits lifting]  You believe me?

  Kate Beckett : I never stopped.

• [Beckett is cuffing Castle for his transfer to Central Booking] 

  Richard Castle : This is so much less fun than the other night at your place... Do you remember the first time you handcuffed me? We were at the New York Public Library... Remember how angry you were that I wouldn't stop investigating that case?

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, I remember.

  Richard Castle : What I wouldn't give to be there now.

  Kate Beckett : Castle... this isn't over. I promise you I will get you out.

  Richard Castle : It's okay. Whatever happens, it's okay.

• [last lines] 

  Jerry Tyson : Castle! I got your girl! Are you watching? I want you to see this.

  [to Beckett] 

  Jerry Tyson : You think I'd let you live? After everything you've done? Castle! Come on, I want you to watch. I want you to watch as I take her life.

  [as he talks, Tyson drags Beckett with him over to her car; looking into the car, he sees it's empty] 

  Richard Castle : Over here.

  [Tyson turns around, and Castle fires Beckett's gun at him; he falls off the bridge into the water below; as they look down at where he landed, the scene fades into the recovery attempt the following morning] 

  Kate Beckett : They still haven't found the body.

  Richard Castle : They won't. He's not dead.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, what are you saying?

  Richard Castle : This was never about me. This was about him. Those initials in her datebook, he's not that careless. He wanted us to find that place. He wanted us on this bridge. Tessa's murder, the frame-up, all of it was to get us here so we could help him do what he couldn't do for himself. Disappear, so he can start killing again.

  Kate Beckett : You think he planned this?

  Richard Castle : How does a wanted man stop being wanted?

  [points to crime scene] 

  Richard Castle : It has to be public, and it has to be final.

  Kate Beckett : Do you know how crazy that sounds?

  Richard Castle : No one's gonna be looking for him anymore.

  Kate Beckett : You shot him. He's dead. It's over.

  [walks away] 

  Richard Castle : [to himself]  For now.

• Kate Beckett : I'm telling you, it's the Triple Killer. Strangulation, misdirects, planting evidence, it's Tyson's M.O.

  Captain Victoria Gates : 3XK targeted multiple victims. Always women, never men. So why the change?

  Kate Beckett : Revenge. That's the only thing that explains everything.

  Captain Victoria Gates : No, not everything. Not that video of Castle.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah, actually, it might.

  Kevin Ryan : Tyson did something similar in the Russo case. Used a double for the cameras to throw us off.

  Kate Beckett : Sir, the D.A.'s already filed charges. They're gonna send him to Central Booking today. We know that we can prove this, we just need more time.

• Kate Beckett : You okay?

  Richard Castle : Yeah... Just finding that stuff of Tyson's. Seems lucky.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, well, sometimes luck is all you need. He can't hide now. We'll find him.

  Richard Castle : Thank you.

  Kate Beckett : For what?

  Richard Castle : Believing in me. I mean, given my reputation, my history, when you saw those e-mails, it would've been real easy not to.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, well, things have never been easy between you and me.

  Richard Castle : Maybe that's what makes it all worth...

  [out of nowhere, their car is rear-ended by an SUV] 

• [seeing Castle's intense stare at the murder board] 

  Kate Beckett : What?

  Richard Castle : The way he left the body, the *time* it took. Whoever did this... he liked it.

• Kate Beckett : What about her e-mails?

  Kevin Ryan : Nothing from her mystery lover. So I had them take a look at her hard drive. Turns out portions of it had been surgically *wiped*, like someone covering their tracks.

  Richard Castle : So we're back to square one.

  Kate Beckett : Not necessarily. Uh, Tessa's roommate said that he gave her some jewelry. Maybe he left a fingerprint on one of those pieces.

  Kevin Ryan : I'll head to her place, see what I can find out.

  [Ryan leaves] 

  Richard Castle : Jewelry... I never would have thought of that

  Kate Beckett : I guess I'll have to remind you when my birthday's coming up.

  Richard Castle : Why, Detective Beckett, was that a hint you just dropped?

  Kate Beckett : Why, Mr. Castle, I do believe it was.

  Richard Castle : Shameless.

• Javier Esposito : The inside of Tessa's apartment was wiped clean.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, well, we expected that.

  Javier Esposito : But we didn't expect this. CSU were able to pull prints off the outside doorknob and from around the door frame. And they found a set that didn't match Tessa's or her roommate's. When they ran it, they found a match to someone else in the system.

  Kate Beckett : Okay. Who?

  Javier Esposito : [handing her the report]  Richard Castle.

  [Beckett looks at the report] 

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, uh, that can't be right. You know what? It was, it was probably just an accident. He... probably touched them on his way in, before putting his gloves on.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah. I mean, that would explain it. Except that CSU collected them before either of you arrived.

• Richard Castle : Beckett, was is this?

  Kate Beckett : We found a piece of jewelry in Tessa's apartment, and we traced it back to the man that bought it for her. Castle, it was you.

  Richard Castle : What are you talking about?

  Kate Beckett : It was purchased with a cashier's check for $12,780. Earlier that day, you withdrew the same amount of money from your pocket account, as a cashier's check.

  Richard Castle : You looked into *my* financials? You're investigating me?

  Kate Beckett : Castle...

  Richard Castle : Kate, this is *not* me. And I didn't buy any jewelry. I certainly didn't use a cashier's check.

  Kate Beckett : Then you need to explain it. This, the withdrawal, the fingerprint, you need to tell me what the hell's going on.

• Kate Beckett : The badge numbers on the paperwork don't exist. They were impostors.

  Javier Esposito : It's gotta be Tyson. He set this up.

  Kate Beckett : He isn't gonna have Castle killed. He's gonna kill him himself.

  Captain Victoria Gates : Well, the D.A.'s calling it a prisoner escape. They've issued an APB and instructed me to begin a manhunt.

  Javier Esposito : What? They think Castle did this?

  Captain Victoria Gates : Well, as far as they're concerned, he's well connected, knows our procedure and has substantial resources.

  Javier Esposito : That's ridiculous.

  Captain Victoria Gates : [seeing the ADA enter the precinct]  You two keep working the Tyson angle. I've got this.

  [as Gates leaves, something she said clicks with something Castle said earlier] 

  Kate Beckett : [to herself]  Resources...

  Javier Esposito : You believe that?

  [turns to watch Gates and ADA] 

  Javier Esposito : Branding Castle a fugitive when he's probably being held captive by a serial killer? So what's our next...

  [tuns back to find Beckett gone] 

  Javier Esposito : ... move?

• [after Castle and Beckett talk to Castle's lookalike] 

  Javier Esposito : [on phone]  All right. Well, the address for the show's producer is another dead P.O. box, and the phone number's defunct.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, what about his paycheck?

  Javier Esposito : Well, I talked to the bank and the corporate account that cut the check is closed, and the corporate contact, Joseph Vacher, well, doesn't seem to exist.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, he exists all right. Or at least he used to. Joseph Vacher was a famous French serial killer from the late 1800s.

  Javier Esposito : So he's got a sense of humor.

• [Castle is the prime suspect in a murder] 

  Kate Beckett : You guys, when you look through Castle's phone records...

  Javier Esposito : It's okay... We know.

  Kevin Ryan : We won't tell Gates unless we have to.

  Kate Beckett : You know?... How?

  Javier Esposito : [scoffs]  I mean, it's us. So...

  Kevin Ryan : We didn't say anything because we figured it was nobody's business. But we gotta ask... were you with him that night?

  Kate Beckett : No. uh... He, uh... I-I was supposed to be. His, uh, mom was out of town, and then he said that he, needed, time, to write.

• Kate Beckett : [visiting Castle in Holding]  Hey.

  Richard Castle : Hey.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, whoever is behind this, whatever is going on, I will figure this out. I promise.

  Richard Castle : I know.

  Kate Beckett : In the meantime, you have some visitors.

  [she steps aside for Martha and Alexis] 

• Javier Esposito : Just heard from the team at Castle's loft. Nothing yet.

  Kate Beckett : So it's gonna happen just like Tyson said, huh? I'm not gonna be able to save him in time.

  Javier Esposito : We're not done yet.

  Kate Beckett : Jav... how secure is Holding?

  Javier Esposito : Whoa, you're not even thinking about that.

  Kate Beckett : We're talking about his life. We can't let them take him.

  Javier Esposito : Are you crazy? It would never work. You'll never even get out of Holding.

  Kate Beckett : Tyson did it.

  Javier Esposito : Because nobody was looking for him. He had weeks to plan it, maybe even longer. I know how you feel about the guy... I love him, too. But there's nothing we can do.

• Kate Beckett : Cause of death?

  Lanie Parish : Ligature marks and petechiae suggest strangulation.

  Kate Beckett : What about this wound on her forehead?

  Javier Esposito : It's non-lethal. Given the detail, looks like it was carved by some kind of razor.

  Richard Castle : It's a symbol of some kind.

  Kate Beckett : Do you recognize it?

  Richard Castle : No, but the killer went through a lot of trouble. Must mean something.

• Kate Beckett : It's not easy hanging a body, and she's at least a hundred pounds.

  Kevin Ryan : I checked in with CSU. They found prints in the hallway, but the apartment is spotless. Looks like it's been wiped down.

  Javier Esposito : This guy cleaned up after himself.

  Richard Castle : He didn't mind taking his time.

  Kate Beckett : So the killer knew that the roommate was gonna be out of town. What's the security like in this place?

  Kevin Ryan : Buzzer on the front door, no doorman or security cameras. But there's no sign of forced entry, no sign of a struggle.

  Kate Beckett : She knew him.

• Richard Castle : What's wrong?

  Kate Beckett : It's, uh... It's just, that crime scene.

  Richard Castle : What about it?

  Kate Beckett : The person that killed Tessa was meticulous, but when we questioned Kurtzman, he got all flustered.

  Richard Castle : So?

  Kate Beckett : So if he put that much thought into killing her, then... why didn't he have an alibi prepared?

  Richard Castle : Perhaps because he was so meticulous, he didn't expect to get caught.

• Kate Beckett : There's another explanation.

  Javier Esposito : Like what?

  Kate Beckett : I don't know, okay? It's somebody else. Someone that looks like Castle.

  Javier Esposito : We found his fingerprints at the crime scene. We got him on video buying jewelry for our victim. It can't be a coincidence.

  Kate Beckett : Javi, what are you saying? That Castle's a killer?

  Kevin Ryan : Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no. None of us are saying that. All he's saying is that if it were anyone else, we'd look into it.

  Javier Esposito : We could start by looking at his financials. See if there's any unusual activity around the time of the purchase.

  Kate Beckett : [afte a long pause, reluctantly]  Fine. But we do it quietly, and he never finds out about it.