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Kate Beckett : [Castle is rambling after rescuing her] Castle, just shut up and kiss me.
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Rita : Get in.
Kate Beckett : No. No. Not until you tell me who you are.
Rita : You can call me Rita. I'm Castle's stepmother.
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Vikram Singh : Beckett. Are you sure we're safe here?
Kate Beckett : Am I sure? Um, no. This building was seized by NYPD a week ago in a drug bust. There's no paperwork connecting it to me. We got a couple of days here.
Vikram Singh : Not if we starve to death first.
Kate Beckett : Trust me, a bullet's gonna kill you long before hunger does.
Vikram Singh : [sarcastic] Ah. Thank you. I feel so much calmer now.
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Vikram Singh : This is so not how I saw my life playing out. I joined the A.G.'s office to make a difference, maybe impress a girl.
[seeing Beckett's expression]
Vikram Singh : Okay, a lot of girls. The point is, I thought I'd be saving the world from behind a computer, not being hunted for sport by the "Zero Dark Thirty" All-Stars.
Kate Beckett : Today was supposed to be my first day as Captain of the 12th precinct. Worst thing I thought I was gonna be facing was working without Castle. And then you called.
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Rita : I've been married to Castle's father for almost ten years.
Kate Beckett : Jackson never mentioned being married.
Rita : Well, of course not. It's classified. In this line of work, you make a lot of enemies. Attachments are liabilities, leverage to be used against us.
Vikram Singh : [sarcastic] Sounds romantic.
Rita : It can be. Absence doesn't always make the heart grow fonder, but it sure does wonders for the libido. I haven't seen Jackson in... nine months? I am raring to go.
Vikram Singh : [still sarcastic] That's sweet.
Kate Beckett : So, what are you? CIA?
Rita : Oh, god no. I'm a different three-letter agency. Much more exclusive.
Kate Beckett : You actually expect me to believe that?
Rita : I did save your life, dear.
Vikram Singh : True, that.
Kate Beckett : How did you end up back there? What's your connection to all of this?
Rita : I'm afraid that's also classified.
Kate Beckett : People died. Friends of mine.
Rita : I know. And more may die unless you tell me everything that has happened up until this point. Listen to me. Whatever you think this is, it's bigger. And if you want to stay alive, you're gonna need my help.
Kate Beckett : It started this morning. I was getting ready for work, and then he called.
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Kate Beckett : [answering her phone] Yeah, this is Beckett.
Vikram Singh : This is an emergency alert, classification protocol seven.
Kate Beckett : I don't...
Vikram Singh : There's no time. Rendezvous at the Hill Theater. Come alone. Tell no one.
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Kate Beckett : Show me your hands.
Vikram Singh : They're all dead.
Kate Beckett : I said show me your hands. Don't move.
Vikram Singh : I'm not carrying. I'm... I'm just an analyst. I'm a... a data cruncher at the A.G.'s office.
Kate Beckett : I don't remember you.
Vikram Singh : I started working a few months ago. Now they're all dead.
Kate Beckett : Who?
Vikram Singh : McCord, Hendricks, your entire former team.
Kate Beckett : How?
Vikram Singh : One was stabbed at a bar. The others were killed in a car crash. But it wasn't an accident; they were all murdered.
Kate Beckett : How do you know that?
Vikram Singh : Because someone tried to kill me yesterday, too.
Kate Beckett : So then why didn't you pull the fire alarm? The FBI, the NSA?
Vikram Singh : Because you're at the center of all this, which makes you the only person I can trust.
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Vikram Singh : Yesterday morning, I got an alert that a pending interagency database search generated a result. Right away, I knew it was weird because the search was two years old, and it was instigated by a former agent named Kate Beckett.
Kate Beckett : What was the search for?
Vikram Singh : The document it uncovered was a just-declassified electronic memo, heavily redacted. From what I could tell, it detailed a meeting between a federal official of some kind and Senator William Bracken.
Kate Beckett : When I started at the A.G.'s office, I ran a keyword search, hunting for criminality connected to Bracken, and I never got a hit.
Vikram Singh : Well, yesterday, you did. And five people are dead because of it.
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Kate Beckett : Tell me everything you remember about the memo.
Vikram Singh : Well, most of it was redacted. But... but there was a word written in the margin; LokSat. That made me curious, so I looked it up. Came up empty, so I just... I forwarded the whole thing to Agent McCord and forgot about it. Twelve hours later, they were dead, and I was running for my life.
Kate Beckett : Your search must have triggered an alarm. That memo was most likely declassified by accident, and whatever LokSat is, these people will clearly do anything to keep it a secret.
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Senator William Bracken : Detective Beckett, you are the last person I expected to see.
Kate Beckett : Why is that? You thought I'd be dead by now?
Senator William Bracken : I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
Kate Beckett : Rachel McCord, Matt Hendricks? Five murdered federal agents ringing a bell?
Senator William Bracken : Not a one.
Kate Beckett : And how about this one: LokSat.
Senator William Bracken : [reacting] How do you know about LokSat?
Kate Beckett : Doesn't matter how. The question is what is it, and why is there a hit squad running around the East Coast, killing people to protect it?
Senator William Bracken : We're through here.
Kate Beckett : The hell we are.
Senator William Bracken : Just by being here, you've put a target on my back. You may as well kill yourself right now, Kate. You have stumbled onto something which is so over your head. I am amazed you're still alive.
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Richard Castle : [watching the surveillance video of Beckett's visit to Bracken] What did Beckett say that freaked him out so much?
[Ryan rewinds the tape]
Senator William Bracken : How do you know about LokSat?
Kate Beckett : Doesn't matter how. The question is what is it, and why is there a hit squad running around the East Coast, killing people to protect it?
Kevin Ryan : LokSat. Never heard of it.
Javier Esposito : Me, neither, but it clearly scares the hell out of Bracken.
Richard Castle : Figuring out what it means is key, and that's exactly what Beckett is doing.
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Vikram Singh : This is a bad idea.
Kate Beckett : Well, it's all we got. We need a copy of that memo. It's the only way to get on top of this.
Vikram Singh : You know they'll have wiped the original search, right?
Kate Beckett : Yeah, I also know that the A.G. has a triple firewall backup, which I am guessing you can hack.
Vikram Singh : [Beckett hands him a clean laptop] Well, duh, but the second I do, it'll trip an alarm. Guys with guns are gonna come running.
Kate Beckett : Which is why we are in a public space with four exits.
Vikram Singh : You are gonna get me shot.
Kate Beckett : Look on the bright side: chicks dig scars.
Vikram Singh : I hate you.
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Kate Beckett : Who are these guys, and what is LokSat?
Rita : I don't know exactly. What I do know is the person behind this is a very powerful, and a very dirty, analyst inside the CIA. I've been trying to get an identity for over a year, and every time I get a lead, it just evaporates.
Kate Beckett : What's this person's connection to Bracken?
Rita : They were partners. As you know, the Senator was working with a drug dealer by the name of Vulcan Simmons. They were using the profits to fund Bracken's presidential campaign. I mean, you must have wondered how they got away with it for so long. They were protected by Bracken's mystery partner. They were using CIA resources to import the drugs into the country.
Vikram Singh : Wow. That's life imprisonment right there.
Kate Beckett : That's a political nuke.
Rita : That's why they're so willing to kill to protect their anonymity.
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Rita : William Bracken was just killed in prison. This changes things. I'm afraid the only way that you and Vikram are gonna be able to stay alive is if you go on the run. And one day, I hope I will be able to root out the big bad and get the target taken off your backs.
Kate Beckett : "One day"?
Rita : Yes, dear. I'm afraid the life that you were living yesterday is over.
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Kate Beckett : I'm not running. But you should.
Vikram Singh : Are you crazy?
Kate Beckett : [laughs to herself] Uh, maybe, but I owe it to Rachel and to the others, and I sure as hell am not gonna let someone chase me away from the life that I've worked so hard to create.
Vikram Singh : Okay. Then... I'm sticking with you.
Kate Beckett : A... are you sure? Because you're not exactly trained for war.
Vikram Singh : Yes. I'm sure. Thank you. That was mean. I just feel like I would be safer with you than... not with you.
Rita : [entering] You ready?
Kate Beckett : We're staying. Worst case scenario, we're gonna smoke out the mystery man before we die, and I am trusting you to put him down if we do.
Rita : Jackson was right. You're a very impressive woman.
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Richard Castle : Beckett, this is Hayley. She's the one who helped me find you.
Kate Beckett : Thank you for taking care of him
Hayley Shipton : Yeah, it's a lot of work. I don't know how you do it.
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Kate Beckett : What is it?
Richard Castle : You tell me.
Kate Beckett : I know. I've got a lot of explaining to do.
Richard Castle : You lied to me. You looked me right in the eye, and you lied to me. Why didn't you tell me about Vikram?
Kate Beckett : I couldn't.
Richard Castle : [skeptical] Come on.
Kate Beckett : The A.G.'s office has strict protocols, Castle.
Richard Castle : You're not with the A.G.'s office anymore.
Kate Beckett : I did what I did to protect you. He gave me a class seven distress code. That's life or death. I mean, what did you want me to do?
Richard Castle : Tell me the truth. Come on, do you have any idea how worried I was?
Kate Beckett : Yeah, I do. I was gone for thirty-six hours. A year ago, you were gone for eight weeks. Eight weeks.
Richard Castle : That was different.
Kate Beckett : Sure was. You still don't remember what happened during six of those weeks, and yet I trusted you. So please, just trust me. I didn't do this to hurt you. I did it to protect you.
Richard Castle : Why am I so angry?
Kate Beckett : You know what? When the shoe was on the other foot, I felt the same way.
Richard Castle : No, that's not it. It's you. Because I've... seen this before.
Kate Beckett : What is that supposed to mean?
Richard Castle : Nothing. Just that we work better as a team.
Kate Beckett : Yeah, of course we do.
Richard Castle : Yeah. Together, we can figure this out. We can figure anything out, just like always.
Kate Beckett : I know. Okay. No more secrets.
Richard Castle : No more secrets.
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Kevin Ryan : Let me get this straight. So, you and Vikram here, you're being hunted by a secret death squad that's being sanctioned by someone deep inside the CIA, and you don't want any help?
Vikram Singh : Haven't you been paying attention? There is no help.
Javier Esposito : Bro, the A.G.'s office has resources.
Kate Beckett : It wouldn't matter. These people have the power to pull strings, to make evidence, cases, people disappear. We can't work through the system.
Richard Castle : So, we have to work outside the system. Beckett's right. Can't fight a faceless enemy who lives in the shadows unless we drag them out into the light.
Kate Beckett : What do you mean?
Richard Castle : Whoever's behind this memo relies on secrecy. The one and only thing that LokSat fears...
Kate Beckett : Is exposure they can't control.
Richard Castle : Exactly.
Kate Beckett : If we pour enough light on this conspiracy...
Richard Castle : Then whoever's behind it can't come after you or Vikram.
Kate Beckett : Because everyone will be watching.
Richard Castle : And I know exactly how to turn those lights on.
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Kate Beckett : You know, I thought I would be spending my first few days here with my head buried in paperwork, but so much for that. Um... It... it's an honor to be here, especially considering all of the captains that have come before me. And if I was a poet or a best-selling novelist, then maybe I'd have a better metaphor, but, um... the 12th precinct, she's our home, our haven. And even if she is beaten down or shot up, she's still special. Because this is where we get to make a difference, and I am so privileged to be able to do just that with each and every one of you.
[the squad room applauds]
Kate Beckett : So, that being said, stop standing around doing nothing and get back to work.
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Kate Beckett : So, do you need a lift, or are you just checking in on me?
Rita : I'm happy you're alive.
Kate Beckett : So, do you believe that Allison Hyde masterminded all of this?
Rita : Of course not. Neither do you. Hyde was a convenient scapegoat. The person behind the LokSat memo is still out there, still thriving.
Kate Beckett : So, what should we do?
Rita : We? No, I'm gonna ferret out that son of a bitch. You are gonna go home to that good-looking husband of yours.
[seeing Beckett's expression]
Rita : You're not gonna let this go, are you?
Kate Beckett : I can't.
Rita : Why not? What is this obsession in the heart of you? Your mother's murder's been avenged.
Kate Beckett : I thought I put it all behind me. But it's back, and it's stronger than ever.
Rita : A devil like that is very hard to cast out. But you have to try. Don't you see the gift that you've been given? Allison Hyde was a patsy. LokSat will leave you alone. Don't end up like me. Go. Live your life.
Kate Beckett : Friends of mine were killed because of me.
Rita : Their deaths weren't your fault, Kate. Surely you must see that.
Kate Beckett : Still, I got to do something. And you know, maybe in doing it, that'll give me peace and I'll be able to move on.
Rita : Do you love Castle?
Kate Beckett : Yeah.
Rita : Then why do you want to get him killed? Have you forgotten why I never see my husband? Attachments are liabilities, leverage to be used against us by our enemies.
Kate Beckett : So I have to choose between finding the killer and being with Rick? That's ridiculous.
Rita : That's the job. Five people were killed because of a redacted memo. What do you think is gonna happen if LokSat finds out that you and Castle are working together on this? You're a big girl. Dive down the rabbit hole if you must, but think twice about who you bring with you, because unlike McCord and her team, anybody who dies now, that blood is on you.
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Richard Castle : Hey! How about breakfast for dinner? I'm making s'morelets. Which is technically dessert for dinner, but we...
[he sees Beckett's bags packed]
Richard Castle : You going somewhere?
Kate Beckett : I'm sorry. I love you so much.
Richard Castle : What are you doing?
Kate Beckett : I have to go.
Richard Castle : Why?
Kate Beckett : I... I have to get my head right. I have to figure some things out so that... we can have a happily ever after.
Richard Castle : Where is this coming from? Is this because of your A.G. team? Is it Bracken? Why are you giving up on our marriage?
Kate Beckett : I... I'm trying to save it.
Richard Castle : By leaving me? Look, if you have a problem, we have a problem. That's how this works.
Kate Beckett : No, Castle. Not this time.
Richard Castle : Look, whatever it is, Beckett, we can figure it out. Like always.
Kate Beckett : [starting to cry] Rick, do you trust me?
Richard Castle : Of course.
Kate Beckett : I need you to trust me now. I have to do this on my own. And when it's done, I just... I hope that... I hope that... I hope that you'll have room in your heart to take me back.
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Vikram Singh : Just us again. What now?
Kate Beckett : Now we figure out what the hell LokSat 2011BD means.
Richard Castle : [cut to Castle's office] It's a product number. Serial number?
Hayley Shipton : Keypad code.
Alexis Castle : Safe deposit box.
Kate Beckett : [cut back to Rita's safe house] Okay, so LokSat represents the CIA operation used to transport drugs for Bracken and Vulcan Simmons.
Vikram Singh : So it's a... it's a...
Richard Castle : [cut back to Castle's office] A code name?
Kate Beckett : [cut to the safe house] Uh, maybe. But you know what? Maybe it's something more. Maybe it's not just the name of the operation. Maybe it's the name of the transportation company.
Vikram Singh : A modern-day Air America.
Kate Beckett : Exactly. And 2011DB is the tail number on an airplane.
Richard Castle : [cut to Castle's office; "simultaneously" with Beckett] The tail number of an airplane.
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Vikram Singh : Oh, god, I think I'm gonna hurl.
Kate Beckett : Just try to keep it together.
Vikram Singh : Oh, I'm definitely gonna hurl.
[as Beckett pulls out her phone to make a call, Vikram grabs it and throws it out the window]
Kate Beckett : What the hell are you doing?
Vikram Singh : How do you think they found us? They tapped your phone. They used it to track you to me.
Kate Beckett : I've been shot. I need to get to a doctor, and we need to call the cavalry.
Vikram Singh : That's gonna be the last call you ever make. Look, whoever these guys are, they are hacked in everywhere, which means anybody you call is gonna wind up dead.
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Kate Beckett : What's wrong with you?
Vikram Singh : Headache. I'm dizzy. I... I need to eat something.
Kate Beckett : Yeah, well, maybe you should have grabbed some breakfast this morning instead of calling me.
Vikram Singh : [seeing an open soda can and taking a sip] I'm a diabetic. I'm gonna need insulin.
Kate Beckett : [taking off her shirt to sew up the wound on her stomach] Yeah, well, one medical emergency at a time.
Vikram Singh : Is it bad?
Kate Beckett : [sterilizing a needle] It could be worse. I'm gonna start sewing, and you're gonna tell me what the hell's going on here.
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Vikram Singh : [arriving at Winterkill Correctional] You okay?
Kate Beckett : Yeah. I just... I thought I would never see him again. I thought that I had finally put this all behind me.
Vikram Singh : I don't think you ever get over something like that. It... it becomes a part of who you are. My sister died when I was kid. I still think about her all the time.
