Castle (TV Series)

Smells Like Teen Spirit (2014)

Stana Katic: Kate Beckett

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• Assistant : The principal will be with you in just a moment.

  Kate Beckett : Thank you. Castle, none of this adds up. What were those girls so afraid of? What happened in that cafeteria?

  Richard Castle : I'd offer a theory, but I'm too busy having detention flashbacks.

  Kate Beckett : You must have spent a lot of time in this hallway.

  Richard Castle : More than I did in class.

  Kate Beckett : Bet that principal hated you.

  Richard Castle : I'm wondering if hate's a strong enough word. Principal Dunnan had to hire a crane to get that cow off the roof. But I'm sure that old battle ax has long since retired. Put out to pasture, so to speak.

  Principal Dunnan : Is that a bovine reference, Mr. Rodgers?

  Richard Castle : [starting in surprise]  Principal Dunnan. You're, uh, still here.

  Principal Dunnan : And sadly, you have returned.

• Richard Castle : And why didn't you go to your prom? I'm sure seventeen year old Katherine Beckett had many a young suitor.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, except rebel Becks was a little too cool to go to a silly dance. So we went to a poetry slam in the East Village instead. It's one of those seminal moments that I kind of wish I didn't skip out on.

  Richard Castle : [holding up his wine glass]  To the things we missed.

  Kate Beckett : [clinking glasses]  And to those we didn't.

• Kate Beckett : [after solving the case, Castle has invited her to the school's dance]  Do you regret it? That prank? Missing your prom? Not being here with Audra Dobson?

  Richard Castle : Not even a little bit. Everything I've ever done, every choice I've ever made, every terrible and wonderful thing that's ever happened to me has all led me to right here, this moment with you.

  [smiling, Beckett holds him closer] 

  Richard Castle , Kate Beckett : I've always loved this song.

  [they break apart and stare at each other] 

  Richard Castle : Could it be we just found a song?

• Richard Castle : Shall I put on a little music?

  Kate Beckett : Are you trying to get me in the mood, Castle?

  Richard Castle : Yes, I am. In the mood to select one of these amazing wedding bands.

  Kate Beckett : Oh.

  Richard Castle : I've weeded out the hacks and selected five finalists.

  Kate Beckett : A band? What's a party without a DJ?

  Richard Castle : That's rhetorical, right?

  Kate Beckett : Oh, come on, Castle, I don't want some cheesy bandleader trying to imitate Sinatra when we're dancing our first dance to "Witchcraft". I want Ol' Blue Eyes himself.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, but sadly, he's not available.

  Kate Beckett : No, but his recordings are, via a DJ.

  Richard Castle : Can we go back a second? Why would we be dancing to "Witchcraft"?

  Kate Beckett : Because it's our song.

  Richard Castle : Since when?

  Kate Beckett : Since we sang it at the karaoke bar in the Hamptons last summer.

  Richard Castle : I thought our song was Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark".

  Kate Beckett : Since when?

  Richard Castle : Since I had the Boss pull you on stage Courteney Cox-style at the Beacon.

  Richard Castle , Kate Beckett : Do we not have a song?

• Kate Beckett : Is that blood, up there on the rafter?

  Lanie Parish : Yes, and it's hers.

  Richard Castle : How'd it get up there?

  Kevin Ryan : Well, as far as we can tell, our killer threw Madison up there.

  Lanie Parish : Which is probably what killed her. She has a major intracranial injury.

  Richard Castle : She was thrown against the ceiling? That is a superhuman feat, bordering on physically impossible.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, Castle, let's hear it. What's your outlandish theory?

  Richard Castle : Isn't it obvious? Madison made the Hulk angry.

• Kate Beckett : The real question that we should be asking is what is a seventeen year old doing with $2.3 million in bearer bonds? That probably is what got her killed, not some... psychic assassin.

  Richard Castle : Well, perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree on that, and agree to agree on this.

  Kate Beckett : [Castle hands her a sheet of paper]  The Billboard's top 100 most romantic songs of all time.

  Richard Castle : I figure our song has got to be on that list somewhere.

  Kate Beckett : No, Castle, I'm not choosing our song off of a list that includes Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me".

  Richard Castle : Uh, that song, I am sure, ignited many a strip club romance in 1987.

• Kevin Ryan : Hey, hey. I got a hit on those bearer bonds. Turns out they were stolen months ago in an armed robbery of a bank in Floral Park. The crew cleaned out the safe deposit boxes.

  Javier Esposito : Hold up. Are you saying that a seventeen year old prep school girl robbed a bank?

  Kevin Ryan : No. But she might have robbed the guy who robbed the bank. According to the police report, the prime suspect in the bank robbery was one Xiangzu Chen, a former Triad enforcer who went into business for himself. Now, the DA had enough evidence to indict him, but his defense attorney got him off on a technicality, and the bonds were never recovered.

  Richard Castle : And how does any of this connect with Madison?

  Kevin Ryan : Look who his defense attorney is.

  Kate Beckett : [looking at the report]  Charles Beaumont. Madison's father?

  Javier Esposito : Madison must have heard about the bonds from her dad, where Chen was hiding them, and how much they were worth.

  Richard Castle : That's a huge score for a budding thief.

  Kate Beckett : And if Chen found out that his lawyer's little girl stole $2.3 million from him...

  Javier Esposito : It would be motive to bash her skull against the ceiling.

• Richard Castle : I haven't been back here since I was a senior.

  Kate Beckett : So this is where you graduated, huh?

  Richard Castle : Well... I would have, if it wasn't for the fact that one night my buddies and I sneaked in and pushed a cow up twelve flights of stairs onto the roof.

  Kate Beckett : A cow? Really?

  Richard Castle : Yup.

  Kate Beckett : So what happened? Did you guys get expelled?

  Richard Castle : No, just me. I wasn't connected like my buddies were. I was a scholarship kid, so I got the boot.

  Kate Beckett : Well, I think you turned out all right.

  Richard Castle : Me, too.

• Richard Castle : I cannot wait to tell Stephen about this case.

  Kate Beckett : Hmm?

  Richard Castle : Stephen King. He won't believe it. A real-life "Carrie".

  Kate Beckett : Castle, I... I can't say what happened in the cafeteria, or in Madison's bedroom yet, but I can say this: the animosity between those two girls is what makes Jordan a person of interest, and not your telekinetic fantasy.

• Richard Castle : Did I tell you Principal Dunnan expelled me just before prom?

  Kate Beckett : Castle, no. You didn't get to go to your own prom?

  Richard Castle : And my date would have been Audra Dobson. So unbelievably hot.

  Kate Beckett : Well, if it's any consolation, I missed my prom, too.

  Richard Castle : Really? Why?

• Richard Castle : I'm surprised they're not postponing the dance.

  Lucas Troy : Madison's parents are insisting it go on in her memory. It's amazing; even after she's dead, everything's still all about her.

  Kate Beckett : Obviously you're not a fan.

  Lucas Troy : I didn't like how she treated people.

  Richard Castle : People like Jordan Gibbs?

  Lucas Troy : Yeah, but there's no way Jordan would retaliate. The girl wouldn't raise her hand to anyone.

  Richard Castle : She didn't have to. Not when she has flying chairs in her arsenal.

• Kate Beckett : What about the FaceTime call made to Madison's friends? Is there any way to retrieve that?

  Tory Ellis : A video call is like a phone call. Unless someone's recording it, once the call ends, the data is gone. As for Jordan's laptop, browser history suggests she spent hours obsessing on all things telekinesis starting two weeks ago.

  Richard Castle : Right about the time she telekinetically rearranged the cafeteria. Clearly, Jordan realized she had powers and was trying to understand them. This is exactly like the movie "Carrie".

  Kate Beckett : Yes, exactly like the movie. Fictional. Jordan doesn't have powers.

• Richard Castle : [watching Jordan in an interrogation room]  Be careful in there. Don't anger her. We don't know what she's capable of.

  Kate Beckett : You're right. You should probably go in there with me. For protection.

• Kate Beckett : Okay, so each one of Madison's early morning visits to the library happened after one of her all-nighters. She swiped in and out within five minutes.

  Richard Castle : I'm guessing she wasn't hanging out in Russian Lit to study.

  Kate Beckett : Castle. Russian Literature. It's right here.

  Richard Castle : [wiping a film of dust off a bookshelf]  Thank god for the Kindle, or I'd be out of a job in a couple of years. Kids just don't read actual books anymore.

• Richard Castle : [watching the video from the school cafeteria]  Ooh, can you freeze that? Look, there on the left.

  Tory Ellis : Let me see if I can zoom in.

  Richard Castle : It's him. It's Lucas. He was at the cafeteria.

  Kate Beckett : And apparently at Chen's place, based on that paint.

  Richard Castle : So Lucas was the one with the power, and not Jordan.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, the power to stage these events. But why would he be Madison's accomplice? He said that he hated her.

  Richard Castle : Maybe he came to hate her. That's why he killed her.

  Kate Beckett : And with everyone assuming that Jordan was the one with telekinetic abilities, what better way to throw people off his scent?

• Richard Castle : That gun's not gonna be much help when Lucas rips it from your hand with his mind.

  Kate Beckett : [sigh]  Castle, for the last time, telekinesis is not r...

  [approaching Lucas' house, she trails off as they see the shades drawn and shadows of objects flying around inside] 

  Richard Castle : You were saying?

• Richard Castle : So what's gonna happen to Lucas?

  Kate Beckett : Well, I mean, his only crime was a B&E in which stolen goods were stolen and since recovered, so he'll keep his freedom.

  Principal Dunnan : And his scholarship, although he will be on probation for the remainder of the term.

  Richard Castle : Leniency, huh? Well, nice to see that the administration has more compassion now than they did in my day.

  Principal Dunnan : Hmm. Just one thing I need to know, Mr... Castle. Haunted me for years. Where did you get the cow?

  Richard Castle : Put it this way, sir. If you ever need one, I know a guy.

• [last lines] 

  Kate Beckett : Oh, that reminds me. I had unis sweep Lucas' house. You know what they didn't find? Wires, magnets, anything that would explain that stuff that we saw flying around.

  Richard Castle : [looking over at Lucas and Jordan dancing]  You don't think...?

  Kate Beckett : No. Now shut up and kiss me.