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Quotes
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Javier Esposito : Howdy.
Kate Beckett : "Howdy"?
Javier Esposito : Yeah, um, "yo" is getting played out, so I thought I'd try something new.
Kate Beckett : Well, you might want to keep trying, 'cause "howdy" is just...
Lanie Parish : Wrong.
Javier Esposito : Well, I like it.
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Richard Castle : [answering phone] Richard Castle Investigations.
Vasiliy Zhirov : This is Vasily. I have most important news to discuss.
Richard Castle : Ah, listen, if it's about the case...
Vasiliy Zhirov : Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. You see, I'm a writer, too.
Richard Castle : Of course you are.
Vasiliy Zhirov : I have an idea for a Nikki Heat novel.
Richard Castle : Of course you do.
Vasiliy Zhirov : Let's meet for coffee.
Richard Castle : Let me- Let me, uh, I'm gonna check my schedule.
[putting Vasily on hold, he calls Beckett]
Kate Beckett : Hey.
Richard Castle : Vasily Zhirov wants me to meet him for coffee. What should I do?
Kate Beckett : Keep him happy. The more time he spends with you, the less he's gonna be hanging over my shoulder.
Richard Castle : And if I keep him happy?
Kate Beckett : Then I will keep you happy.
Richard Castle : Done.
[switches lines]
Richard Castle : Vasily!
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[last lines]
Richard Castle : You know, Beckett, we've kissed in six different countries.
Kate Beckett : Really, you're keeping count?
Richard Castle : You're not? Anyway... One country we haven't kissed in is Russia. And technically, right now we are on Russian soil.
Kate Beckett : Mmm. You know, there is one other thing that we've done in six different countries.
[in Russian]
Kate Beckett : Idi syuda kroshka.
Richard Castle : What does that mean?
Kate Beckett : [in English] It means, "Follow me and find out."
Richard Castle : [speaking into his phone] Find a Russian translation app.
[hurries after her]
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Kevin Ryan : So, our vic is a Russian national, name of, uh...
Kate Beckett : Grigory Mishkin. I spoke to the police commissioner. He's the son of a Consulate Officer, which means this might get political.
Kevin Ryan : Oh, great.
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Kate Beckett : Emily Hopper's cloud storage company archives old FBI files. *That's* what Grigory was after.
Javier Esposito : What kind of FBI files?
Kate Beckett : A 1980s Cold War operation to identify and flip Soviet sleeper agents in the U.S.
Javier Esposito : Sleepers? I thought Directorate S was a myth.
Kate Beckett : No, it was very real.
[hands over photo]
Kate Beckett : And the FBI's biggest catch was KGB agent Anatoly Arkady. In '87, he defected and went into witness protection as Frank Thomas. And that's Frank, present day, still living in the U.S.
Javier Esposito : This is our guy from the bed and breakfast.
Kate Beckett : And the woman in here is Grigory's mother...
[hands over photo]
Kate Beckett : Anya Mishkin. Also a Soviet agent.
Javier Esposito : She's a spy.
Kate Beckett : This is bigger than an illicit affair gone wrong. And I'm beginning to think that our friendly Russian knows more than he's telling.
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Richard Castle : A defector resurfaces, a spy dies, and her son is killed in the middle of the night. This novel writes itself.
Kevin Ryan : Then tell us what happens next.
Richard Castle : I have no idea. That's what makes it so good.
Kate Beckett : Frank, AKA Anatoly, is the key to figuring out what's behind these murders. So you guys dig into his life and see what you can find.
Javier Esposito : What do you want us to do about Vasily?
Kate Beckett : We gotta keep him as far away from this case as possible. Which means we need to launch Operation Nickel Tour.
Richard Castle : All right... What's that?
Kate Beckett : You're gonna take him sightseeing.
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Kate Beckett : Rita, thank you for meeting with me so quickly.
Rita : [looking around at her and Vikram's hideout] I like it. Although when I ran ops in strip clubs, we were open for business.
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Rita : You really did it. You blew up your marriage and went down the LokSat rabbit hole.
Kate Beckett : Um...
Rita : What?
Kate Beckett : No, nothing. It's just that, um... Well, you've been watching us, and you think that we're broken up.
Rita : But you're not. Ah, I love a little sexual subterfuge. Oh, it makes things so much hotter.
Kate Beckett : So, Castle is playing tour guide to a Russian Diplomatic Security Officer. His name's Vasily...
Rita : Vasily Zhirov?
Kate Beckett : Yeah, do you know him?
Rita : He's a cleaner with Russian Foreign Intelligence.
Kate Beckett : So Diplomatic Security's just a cover?
Rita : Yeah.
Kate Beckett : Then what's his real mission?
Rita : Who knows? But if your husband gets in Vasily's way, he's gonna be collateral damage.
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Richard Castle : So, she's from the State Department?
Kate Beckett : Actually, that's just a cover.
Richard Castle : Cover for what? Who is she?
Kate Beckett : Rita is many things, one of which is... your stepmother... She's been helping me take down LokSat. Um... I wanted to tell you sooner, but...
Richard Castle : But, let me guess, you couldn't because you needed to protect me.
Kate Beckett : I'm so sorry.
Richard Castle : This is getting really old, Beckett.
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Kate Beckett : The report on the Dragunov sniper rifle said that the barrel twist rate was 320 millimeters, but the newer version is 240, right?
Vasiliy Zhirov : Yes, it was changed in the '90s.
Kate Beckett : So then why would our sniper use an older model, when the newer one is so much more powerful and accurate?
Rita : It- It must have been the only thing the assassin had access to. Only who the hell leaves around a Russian sniper rifle from the 1980s lying around?
Vasiliy Zhirov : Molniya.
Kate Beckett : Lightning?
Vasiliy Zhirov : It's an old KGB code name for weapon caches planted in NATO countries to support the agents in the field. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many were abandoned.
Rita : But someone in the field would know where they were.
Kate Beckett : Like Frank, except he's all lawyered up.
Vasiliy Zhirov : Yes, but I too know where these old caches are. We search those caches, we could find our killer.
