Castle (TV Series)

Secret Santa (2012)

Jon Huertas: Javier Esposito

Quotes 

• Kevin Ryan : We're putting up the tree the other day, Jenny says to me, "It just doesn't feel like Christmas without kids." She wants to try. But I come to work, I watch the news, every day... it seems like the world's falling apart. How am I supposed to bring a kid into that?

  Javier Esposito : The world's always falling apart, bro. Since the beginning of time. But having kids, making a family, that's what keeps it together.

• Javier Esposito : [seeing Ryan still at his desk]  Yo. What you still doing here? Shouldn't you be at home, stuffing your wife's stocking?

• [last lines] 

  Javier Esposito : Ms Cabot, I'm Detective Esposito. I have something that I think belongs to you.

  [he reveals the clock Edmund stole and hands it over] 

  Javier Esposito : We found out that your husband put that up for collateral against the mortgage on your house.

  Beth Cabot : I haven't seen this for so long. It was handed down through his family for generations.

  Javier Esposito : I think that's why Edmund took it. He wanted you to have it back.

  Beth Cabot : Thank you.

  [Esposito turns to leave] 

  Beth Cabot : Oh, wait. Why don't you come inside? We're just having dinner.

  Javier Esposito : [considering for a moment]  Okay.

• Captain Victoria Gates : Remember that class-action suit against SunCove Funding?

  Kate Beckett : Yeah.

  Captain Victoria Gates : My contact at the SEC dug these up. SunCove's original Articles of Incorporation, showing the name of the account signatory. Look familiar?

  Kate Beckett : [reading]  "James Edmund Smith." The victim.

  Richard Castle : *Santa* is the shark who bilked those people out of their homes?

  Captain Victoria Gates : He has more blood on his hands than that. Tim Cabot's father died in a car crash. Fell asleep at the wheel working *three* jobs to pay his inflated mortgage, courtesy of Edmund Smith. That was Christmas Eve five years ago.

  Kevin Ryan : The Christmas that Edmund walked out on his life.

  Richard Castle : So... it was a tale of redemption. Edmund moves next door to the family whose lives he destroyed, dedicating his life to repairing theirs. Never telling them who he really is.

  Javier Esposito : But what if Tim found out?

  Richard Castle : Then it's a very different tale.

• Kate Beckett : Did you find out what Santa job Edmund was doing?

  Kevin Ryan : His agency said he wasn't booked on any gigs last night.

  Kate Beckett : So why was he wearing a Santa suit? And how'd he end up dead?

  Richard Castle : Well, if this was a *story*, it would all come back to Edmund's character. Why he became a Santa in the first place.

  Javier Esposito : [approaching]  Turns out, it's a mystery all by itself. I've been looking into this guy and check it.

  [adds picture to murder board] 

  Javier Esposito : *That* is Santa five years ago. Meet James Edmund Smith. He was a private equity manager at some big firm.

  Kate Beckett : That's the same guy?

  Javier Esposito : Yeah.

  Kate Beckett : What happened?

  Richard Castle : Dedication to his craft

  Javier Esposito : Like De Niro in "Raging Bull".

• [discussing the victim's dramatic transformation from private equity manager to professional Santa] 

  Javier Esposito : It's pretty extreme, I know. And I'll tell you this much, he didn't go all Santa for the money. Back in the day, he used to pull down a half a mil a year. As Santa, he made a tenth of that...

  Kevin Ryan : You can make that much as a Santa? Maybe I should switch jobs, huh?

  Javier Esposito : What? Gain two hundred pounds and have a bunch of rugrats sitting on your lap with dirty diapers?

  Kevin Ryan : [in disgust]  Yeah, thanks for that visual.

  Javier Esposito : Oh, here's another thing. I pulled Edmund's financials. On the night he was killed, he withdrew two grand from his ATM.

  Richard Castle : He didn't have that money on him when we found him. His wallet was empty.

  Kate Beckett : All right, take a look at the ATM footage and see if anyone was with him. He might have been robbed.

  Richard Castle : Uh, robbed and then launched into space?

  Kate Beckett : And how is that less plausible than your sleigh?

  Richard Castle : I think you mean less "clausible."