- Kate Beckett: I know, it's really starting to piss me off.
- Richard Castle: Yeah, and you get cute when you get angry.
- [Kate looks at Castle]
- Richard Castle: But not when you get angry with me.
- Richard Castle: First, Alexis is interning for Lanie. Thank you. Now my mother is taking over my office. I feel like my whole life is being invaded.
- Kate Beckett: You'll get used to it. I did.
- Richard Castle: It is not the same thing.
- [gets a look]
- Richard Castle: 'Kay, it's similar. Just much less invasive.
- Richard Castle: How does a high-powered lawyer... end up dead in a Red Riding Hood costume?
- [thinks]
- Richard Castle: Amy worked long hours, under high pressure, right? What if she had a secret way of letting off steam that even her sister didn't know about?
- Kate Beckett: Like what?
- Richard Castle: There's this whole... adult role playing subculture *obsessed* with fairy tales.
- [Beckett gives him a look]
- Richard Castle: No, not that kind of adult role playi, although, there is that one, too.
- Kate Beckett: And you know this how?
- Richard Castle: Did a little research.
- [thinks back, laughs slightly]
- Richard Castle: Huh. Bo Peep... Anyway, these people get dressed in the outfits, they play the characters. They even reenact the stories. Maybe that's what Amy was doing when everything went horribly and tragically wrong.
- Kate Beckett: Castle, that is a surprisingly reasonable and grounded theory.
- Richard Castle: Yeah... Frankly, I'm a little disappointed in myself.
- Javier Esposito: [approaching] We all are, bro.
- Martha Rodgers: [to Castle] Oh, Darling, I invited Beckett to the reading tomorrow night. So you two might want to make a date of it.
- Kate Beckett: Do you have an ID?
- Lanie Parish: No wallet or purse, so we don't know who she is.
- Richard Castle: Uh...
- [silently asking for a word, Castle leads Beckett a few feet away]
- Richard Castle: Isn't it obvious? I mean, am I the only one seeing this?
- Kate Beckett: What?
- Richard Castle: Red cloak, in the woods, animal attack.
- [excited]
- Richard Castle: She's Little Red Riding Hood.
- Kate Beckett: Great, Castle. I'll call in an APB for the Big Bad Wolf.
- Richard Castle: Do you have a better theory?
- Javier Esposito: Speaking of fairy tales, turns out that our victim really was Red Riding Hood.
- Kate Beckett: Are you drinking Castle's Kool-Aid now?
- Javier Esposito: No, I mean that she was actually wearing a Red Riding Hood costume. It said so right on the label.
- Kate Beckett: Oh, okay. So then why was she wearing it in the middle of the woods at night?
- Richard Castle: [raising his hand] On her way to grandmother's house?
- [first lines]
- Martha Rodgers: [dictating, dramatically] She screamed as the pain ripped through her. And in between each labored breath she thought, "There is no way in hell I'm having this baby on a subway train in the Bronx."
- [finished, goes over to Marcus]
- Martha Rodgers: Did you get all that?
- Marcus O'Neill: So you actually gave birth to your son on the Metro?
- Richard Castle: No, she didn't. She also didn't run a marathon the week before she had me. Or beat up a mugger while nine months pregnant.
- Martha Rodgers: It's called dramatic license, darling.
- Richard Castle: Actually, it's called wild exaggeration. Dramatic license applies to writing.
- Martha Rodgers: Honey, you know I've always loved younger men. They have so much energy. Enough to keep up with me... Most of the time.
- Richard Castle: I'm gonna... erase that image from my mind with a bottle of scotch.
- Kate Beckett: And like any psychopath, he's a great actor. Oh, speaking of...
- Richard Castle: Psychopaths of actors?
- Kate Beckett: I was thinking about you mom.
- Richard Castle: Oh! So a little of both.
- Richard Castle: Really? So you wanna venture into the dark, scary woods?
- Kate Beckett: Don't worry, Castle. I got a gun. I'll protect you from the Big Bad Wolf.
- Richard Castle: You'd use you gun on my mother?
- [pause]
- Richard Castle: I'm touched. Thank you.