Castle (TV Series)

A Murder Is Forever (2013)

Penny Johnson Jerald: Captain Victoria Gates

Quotes 

• Captain Victoria Gates : [after Ryan and Esposito are ambushed]  The SUV took off right after you hit the subway. We're pulling traffic footage, and we've got every cop in the city looking for it.

  Kate Beckett : And you said they were wearing masks?

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah, clown masks.

  Richard Castle : As if clowns weren't creepy enough.

• [looking at the large diamond found in the victim's hotel room] 

  Captain Victoria Gates : It has to be what Hawke was after. But... what was Alice doing with it?

  Richard Castle : Given the cash, hotel room, and the private plane, I'd say she was making a getaway.

  Captain Victoria Gates : Are you saying she stole it?

  Richard Castle : A trusted therapist with A-list clientele. She was in the perfect position to work her way inside. She's Ocean's Eleven, minus... ten. She's... Ocean's One.

• Kevin Ryan : I spoke to the boys in Robbery and at the FBI. No one has reported a diamond like this stolen. Not just recently. Ever.

  Captain Victoria Gates : Then where did it come from?

  Kate Beckett : And if it was stolen, why haven't the owners reported it?

  Richard Castle : What if it's because they couldn't afford to? Because the diamond has some kind of sordid past. Perhaps it's like the Hope Diamond, it's cursed. Or maybe it's an occult gem of great power smuggled out of Nazi Germany shoved up somebody's...

  Captain Victoria Gates : Thank you, Mr. Castle.

• [Ryan calls Captain Gates about the diamonds worth] 

  Captain Victoria Gates : [on phone]  6-0? Like, with another six zeros after that?

  Kevin Ryan : [on phone]  That would be 60 million, yes.

• Captain Victoria Gates : That's Barrett Hawke?

  Richard Castle : Barrett Hawke, as in the legendary fixer? He's been sweeping the dirt of New York's rich and famous under the rug for over a decade.

  [sees everyone looking at him] 

  Richard Castle : Not *my* dirt. I just... heard.

• Captain Victoria Gates : [looking at the diamond discovered in the victim's hotel room]  I've never seen anything like this outside of a museum. Are you sure it's real?

  Kate Beckett : We stopped at a jeweler's on the way back, and he almost had a heart attack.

• [on phone with Ryan and Esposito about the diamond] 

  Kate Beckett : Is it possible it's an heirloom passed down through generations and that's why there's no record of it?

  Javier Esposito : Nah, Peters said that old-school cutters fashioned diamonds with sharp edges. This one has smooth edges, which means it had to be cut within the last few decades.

  Kevin Ryan : And no customs declaration means it was smuggled in, probably from the country where it was mined.

  Captain Victoria Gates : Were we able to connect any of Alice's clients to the diamond?

  Kate Beckett : We're still going through them, but no, not yet.

  Kevin Ryan : Peters said he also found some glue residue on the stone, which suggests it was set in a piece of jewelry.

  Richard Castle : For engaged men everywhere, I can only hope it wasn't a ring.