Ruben Santiago-Hudson credited as playing...
Captain Roy Montgomery
- Kate Beckett: Put the gun away, Roy.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Kate, I'm not going to jail for this. I can't put my family through that.
- Kate Beckett: Why?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: I was a rookie when it happened, Kate. McCallister and Raglan were heroes to me. I believed in what we were doing. We were just gonna snatch Pulgatti that night. Bob Armen wasn't even supposed to be there. Armen reached for my gun, that's when I heard the shot. I didn't even know it was my gun that went off until Armen went down. Then McCallister pulled me into the van. I remember him saying "It's okay, kid. It's not your fault. Happens in this town every day." McCallister and Raglan tried to drown it. But not me; I put it all into the job, Kate. I became the best cop I could be. And then when you walked into the 12th, I felt the hand of God. I knew He was giving me another chance, and I thought if I could protect you the way I should have protected her...
- Kate Beckett: Did you kill my mother?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: No, that was years later. But she died because of what we did that night.
- Kate Beckett: Then who killed her?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: I don't know how, but somehow he figured out what we had done. And he could have turned us all in. Instead he demanded the ransom money. He took that money to become what he is. And God forgive me, but that may be my greatest sin.
- Kate Beckett: Give me a name. You owe me that, Roy.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: No, Kate. I give you a name, I know you, you'll run straight at him. I might as well shoot you where you stand.
- Kate Beckett: That's why you brought me here, isn't it? To kill me?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: No, I brought you here to lure them.
- Kate Beckett: You baited them?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: [as a car approaches] And now they're coming. I need you to leave. They're coming to kill you, and I'm not gonna let 'em. I'm gonna end this.
- Kate Beckett: Roy, I am over it. I mean it. I want him gone.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Okay, he's gone.
- Kate Beckett: What?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: You want Castle gone, he's gone.
- Kate Beckett: I... What... what about the mayor?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: [laughs] This is my house, Kate. The mayor doesn't call the shots here, I do. You ought to know that by now.
- Kate Beckett: But, I...
- Captain Roy Montgomery: I could've kicked Castle to the curb years ago, any time I wanted to. The only reason I kept him around this long was 'cause I saw how good he was for you. Kate, you're the best that I've ever trained, maybe the best I've ever seen. But you weren't having any fun before he came along. We speak for the dead. That's the job. We are all they've got once the wicked rob them of their voices. We owe them that. But we don't owe them our lives.
- Kate Beckett: He said that we can't win this.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: He's right. I've spent most of my life walking behind this badge, and I can tell you this for a fact: there are no victories. There's only the battle. And the best that you could hope for is that you find some place where you can make your stand. If this is your spot, I will stand with you.
- Richard Castle: "Continue mission"? If Lockwood isn't going after the third cop, then who's the mission?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: I put a protective detail on her. Plainclothes. These guys are good.
- Richard Castle: Good enough to stop Lockwood? She's not gonna stop. And the next time he sees her, one of them is gonna die. Take her off the case.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Castle, did Beckett ever tell you how we met?
- Richard Castle: No.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: I was working late one night, went down to archives to locate some old reports, and there she was with a flashlight and a Bankers box open on her lap, studying this unsolved. She was a patrol cop then; she wasn't even authorized to be down there. When I asked her what the hell she was doing, she told me this was her mother's case, and she'd found some things that didn't add up. Now, I could've written her up, right then.
- Richard Castle: Why didn't you?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Because I knew it wouldn't stop her. It was there in her eyes, man. And I thought "With this kid's tenacity and some training, I mean, she'd make a hell of a Homicide."
- Richard Castle: That tenacity's gonna get her killed.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: I cannot make Beckett stand down, Castle. I never could. And the way I figure, the only one who can... is you.
- Richard Castle: [about Beckett] How's she doing?
- Captain Roy Montgomery: Lockwood's in the wind. Everything about her mom's case just went to hell in a handbasket. How do you think?