Castle (TV Series)

Dreamworld (2013)

Stana Katic: Kate Beckett

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• Kate Beckett : I'm so sorry, Castle... This wasn't supposed to be this hard.

  Richard Castle : What, Washington, or us?... Sometimes, the hardest things in life are the things most worth doing. Just because we haven't figured it out yet doesn't mean we won't.

• [first lines] 

  Richard Castle : What about an antidote? There has to be an antidote.

  Kate Beckett : The only existing vial was stolen with the toxin.

  Richard Castle : They can make more, right? They have to be able to make more.

  Kate Beckett : It would take too long to synthesize.

  Richard Castle : How long?

  Kate Beckett : A week.

  Richard Castle : That's too long... Are you sure I was exposed? I mean, I... I feel fine. Maybe they were wrong.

  Kate Beckett : Look, there's a doctor coming in from Walter Reed. He's gonna be able to answer any other questions that you might have.

  Richard Castle : No, well, I think you already did that.

  Kate Beckett : Hey... We're gonna find whoever's behind this. And when we do, we're gonna get that antidote, 'cause I'm not letting you out of our engagement that easily.

• [Beckett's boss has allowed Castle to consult on the investigation] 

  Kate Beckett : Look, uh, thanks for backing me up with Castle.

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : Is he always such a character?

  Kate Beckett : Yeah. It's one of the things that I love about him, too.

• Richard Castle : [listening to the flight recording of the Zawari air strike]  Valkyrie was the servant. She was one of ours.

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : No wonder the transcript was so heavily redacted.

  Kate Beckett : Secretary Reed killed an American operative.

  Richard Castle : And then ordered Bronson to cover it up.

• Richard Castle : Hey. So I'm guessing Villante said no to the idea of waterboarding the truth out of Secretary Reed?

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, something like that.

• Defense Secretary Michael Reed : You show up at my home? Who the hell do you think you are?

  Kate Beckett : I should ask you the same thing. You lied about Valkyrie. You obstructed a federal investigation.

  Defense Secretary Michael Reed : I told you all you need to know.

  Kate Beckett : I need to know everything. What is going on and what are you hiding?

  Defense Secretary Michael Reed : You are barking up the wrong tree, Agent, and it's gonna cost you.

  Kate Beckett : There's a deadly toxin out there. If so much as one person dies because you won't cooperate, then I...

  Defense Secretary Michael Reed : You'll what? Look, whatever this is, it has nothing to do with me. You might wannna remember the first rule of combat. You don't ever start a war you can't win.

• Special Agent Rachel McCord : I was following up on Valkyrie to see if there was anything more to the story. This is a family photo we got from Rasheed. He identified this woman as the servant whose body Bronson took after the air strike. And we've identified her as Farrah Usman.

  Matt Hendricks : Yeah, she's listed as a civilian contractor working out of the U.S. Consulate in Kabul.

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : [explaining to Beckett]  It's a typical cover for an intelligence operative.

  Matt Hendricks : Yeah, and she was supposedly killed by a roadside IED the same night as the Zawari attack.

  Chief Carl Villante : Well, that makes sense. The injuries from an IED look a lot like those from an air strike.

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : That's not the story. Look at this. So, Farrah Usman's body was shipped back to Dover two days later. It was claimed by this man. Recognize that name?

  Kate Beckett : Brad Parker? The reporter?

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : One and the same.

  Kate Beckett : I don't get it. How is he connected to Valkyrie?

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : According to the paperwork, he was her fiancé. He's involved in this whole thing.

• Chief Carl Villante : Where are we on tracking Parker?

  Matt Hendricks : He's not at work. No one's seen him all day.

  Agent Richmond : I can't get a trace on his cell signal. He must have turned it off.

  Kate Beckett : Sir, if there's the slightest chance...

  Chief Carl Villante : Hit his apartment. Go.

  [Beckett and McCord prepare to leave, and Castle turns to follow them] 

  Chief Carl Villante : Castle, you stay here.

  Richard Castle : I was given less than a day to live, just a little less than a day ago. If Parker has that antidote, I need to go with them.

• Kate Beckett : This has to be about revenge, so it has to be about Reed.

  Richard Castle : Maybe he wants to do to Reed what Reed did to him. Take away the person he loves the most.

  Kate Beckett : His wife.

  [sharing a look with Castle, Beckett turns around and speeds off] 

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : [over the walkie-talkie]  Beckett, why'd you turn around? Is it Castle?

  Kate Beckett : No. We have a hunch.

• Kate Beckett : It's over, Parker! We know everything! Now give us the antidote before it's too late!

  [Parker attacks her from behind and disarms her] 

  Kate Beckett : No, wait!

  Brad Parker : Did Reed wait when he ordered the strike? No. No, now it's his turn to see how it feels. She's gonna die. Just like Farrah.

  Kate Beckett : Please, Parker, she's not the only one that you've poisoned. My fiancé is dying. He needs that antidote.

  Brad Parker : No, you don't understand. You're too late. It's too late.

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : [appearing behind Parker with her gun drawn]  You'd better hope you're wrong.

• [last lines] 

  Kate Beckett : And what about Secretary Reed? What's gonna happen to him?

  Rachel McCord : What do you mean?

  Kate Beckett : He withheld information to save his own ass. People almost died because of it.

  Rachel McCord : Well, we both know it's not that simple.

  Kate Beckett : Well... there's gonna be an investigation at least, right?

  Rachel McCord : You want everything to be black or white, I get it. But... in this town it rarely is. And to do this job, you have to make peace with that. But, hey, that was a hell of a hunch about Mrs. Reed... You should feel really good about this.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, well, that was Castle.

  Rachel McCord : But you were smart enough to act on it. That was your call.

  Kate Beckett : And you backed me up without even knowing my play.

  Rachel McCord : That's what partners do.

  [as McCord leaves, Beckett turns to look back towards Castle's hospital room] 

  Kate Beckett : [quietly]  Yeah. That's what partners do.

• Richard Castle : So, where are you in the investigation?

  Kate Beckett : We're looking into every possible lead.

  Richard Castle : That's what you say when you're nowhere.

• Chief Carl Villante : So what are we saying here? That Bronson was murdered to cover up the death of an American operative, with the implication that General Reed is behind it? The sitting Secretary of Defense?

  Rachel McCord : A position he got largely because of his success in taking out Zawari.

  Kate Beckett : His political star was on the rise. Maybe he couldn't afford to have damaging details out there.

  Chief Carl Villante : But if he wanted to silence Bronson, why would he go through the trouble of setting him up first? And none of this explains the theft of the toxin.

  Kate Beckett : Sir, he lied to us. About Valkyrie and about Bronson. Either he's involved, or he knows a hell of a lot more than he's telling us.

• Chief Carl Villante : What the hell were you thinking?

  Kate Beckett : Sir, I was just following a hunch.

  Chief Carl Villante : Next time, follow orders. I had to go to the mat with the Attorney General to keep your job.

  Kate Beckett : Wait. Secretary Reed complained to the Attorney General?

  Chief Carl Villante : If that surprises you, you're not as smart as I thought.

  Kate Beckett : No, sir. It's just, if Reed was behind this, he wouldn't have made that call.

  Chief Carl Villante : Right, because he wouldn't wanna call attention to himself. Is that why you went out there? To force him to show his hand?... I'm impressed.

• Kate Beckett : These are the mission documents?

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : Is there even a *sentence* that doesn't have redactions?

  Agent Richmond : Not a complete one. Somebody is definitely trying to hide whatever went on here.

  Kate Beckett : I-I'm sorry, Castle. This is... pointless.

  Richard Castle : Can you do a word search for "Valkyrie"?

  Agent Richmond : [typing]  It doesn't appear in the document. Probably because it was redacted.

  Richard Castle : Right, but what about a search for blacked-out, eight-letter words the same *length* as "Valkyrie"?

  Special Agent Rachel McCord : Aren't all eight-letter words the same length?

  Richard Castle : Well, not in a proportional font like Times Roman. Um... each character will vary in size from the narrowest, uh, lower case "i," to the widest, upper case "W." So the combination of letters in the word "Valkyrie" will create a very specific length, not unlike a typographical fingerprint.

  Agent Richmond : I may be able to work with that.

• [Beckett with Castle who is recuperating in the hospital] 

  Richard Castle : Hey.

  Kate Beckett : Hey.

  Richard Castle : How was your weekend?

  Kate Beckett : Mmm, you know. Uneventful. Yours?

  Richard Castle : Hmm. Same.

  Kate Beckett : Hmm.

  Richard Castle : But at least I got to see you.

• Kate Beckett : Castle.

  Richard Castle : Hmm.

  Kate Beckett : Hey.

  Richard Castle : Hi. I had the strangest dream and you were there.

  Martha Rodgers : Oh, thank God!

  Alexis Castle : Hi, dad.

  Richard Castle : And you were there. And you were there.

  Pi : Hey, Mr. C. I did some healing Reiki on you. Looks like it worked.

  Richard Castle : [unenthused]  And you were there.

• Brad Parker : First time I heard about Dreamworld was in '03. I was serving with the 173rd in Kandahar at the time. The story stuck with me, so, about a year ago I started poking around. Found out it was a forward operating base in northern Afghanistan. Launching pad for covert special ops in the region.

  Kate Beckett : Did Bronson work at that base?

  Brad Parker : Yeah. Yeah, I'd heard his name a couple of times, so I approached him.

  Rachel McCord : And what'd he tell you?

  Brad Parker : Nothing at all. In fact, he seemed pretty freaked out that I knew he was stationed there. Asked me how much I knew. About him, Dreamworld. About what he'd done.

  Kate Beckett : Wait, wait. W-What did he mean by that?

  Brad Parker : He never told me. Whatever it was, he sure as hell didn't want it getting out... Next thing I know, my editor's killing the story. At the personal request of Defense Secretary Reed.

  Kate Beckett : These conversations that you had with Bronson, did he ever mention the word "Valkyrie"?

  Brad Parker : No, why? What's Valkyrie?

  Rachel McCord : Wait... The Secretary of Defense *himself* called to kill the story? That's unusual.

  Brad Parker : Try unheard of. But I'm guessing that the subject matter struck a nerve. Look, prior to his appointment as Secretary of Defense, General Reed... was in charge of Central Command, which ran all missions out of Dreamworld.

  Kate Beckett : Are you suggesting that the Secretary of Defense is hiding something?

  Brad Parker : You have another explanation?

• Agent Richmond : For a strike in Jalalabad, they'd probably use an F-16 out of Bagram Air Base... I did a year as Chief Technical Officer at Bagram. Part of my job was dumping in the fighter jets' flight data onto a central server... If I can access it, I might be able to get that audio.

  Kate Beckett : What are we waiting for, McCord? We played by the rules. And that's...

  [points to redacted document] 

  Kate Beckett : ... what they gave us.

  Rachel McCord : [after a long pause]  Do it.