- [discussing Castle's New York Times Bestseller 'Heat Wave']
- Kate Beckett: Wait. There's a sex scene in the book?
- [pause]
- Kate Beckett: Between us?
- Richard Castle: There's a sex scene in the book between Nikki Heat and the roguishly handsome reporter who's helping her.
- Kate Beckett: Oh, good. So he's nothing like you.
- Richard Castle: Funny.
- Kate Beckett: Welcome to parenting a teenage girl. As someone who used to be one, you have my sympathy.
- Richard Castle: It's on page 105, by the way.
- Kate Beckett: What?
- Richard Castle: That sex scene you're looking for. And Agent Gray was right. It's steamy.
- Kate Beckett: Lanie, what do we got?
- Lanie Parish: Victim was shot once in the face with a large-caliber bullet.
- Richard Castle: Ouch.
- Lanie Parish: Oh, I don't think he felt much with a bullet that size.
- Kate Beckett: Face shots usually indicate a deep anger in the shooter. Literally trying to erase what makes the victim a person.
- Richard Castle: So, have you read it?
- Kate Beckett: Read what?
- Richard Castle: The book.
- Kate Beckett: What book?
- [Castle gives her a look]
- Kate Beckett: Oh! Your book. "Heat Wave".
- Richard Castle: Well?
- Kate Beckett: I haven't gotten to it yet.
- Richard Castle: What do you mean you haven't gotten to it yet?
- Kate Beckett: I'm sorry. I've just been so busy with work, I haven't had time.
- Richard Castle: You were all over me to get a copy of that book. Do you have any idea how many hoops I had to jump through, just so my editor wouldn't send an armed guard to watch over you *while* you read it? The least you could do is to...
- [realization dawns on him]
- Richard Castle: Oh.
- [chuckles]
- Richard Castle: Oh! I see what you're doing.
- Kate Beckett: I'm not doing anything.
- Richard Castle: Oh, yes, you are. Yes, you are. You're trying to push my buttons, but it's not gonna work.
- Kate Beckett: Really?
- Richard Castle: Mmm.
- Kate Beckett: 'Cause it seems to be working just great.
- [Castle's mother taking a violin lession from Alexis' male-model-looking instructor, Dylan]
- Alexis Castle: Aren't you worried about Dylan's intentions towards Gram?
- Richard Castle: I'm hoping they involve running away together, but I'm not that lucky.
- [watching a murder caught on tape]
- Richard Castle: That was awesome! I mean, well, obviously it was horrible, but... That's not the Arctic.
- Kate Beckett: That's an apartment, but where?
- Kevin Ryan: You know what I don't get?
- Kate Beckett: Mm-hmm?
- Kevin Ryan: Why go to so much trouble to create such an elaborate scam? Fletcher must have spent *weeks* going through all the prep work.
- Kate Beckett: I can give you 50,000 reasons why.
- Richard Castle: Yeah, but for con men, it's not just about the money. I mean, for them, it's about the game. The... the thrill they get from pulling a con, it's like a drug high.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: [approaching] Con man was on drugs?
- Kate Beckett: No, sir. Castle is just giving us psychological insight based on his extensive experience as a fraud.
- Kate Beckett: It's really a kind of a psychopathy. To be so cold that you can look someone in the eye, tell them that you love them, and then rob them blind without the slightest remorse.
- Richard Castle: Whoa, I just flashed back to the eighth grade. Sherry Ort. Broke my heart, stole my lunch money.
- Kate Beckett: [her phone rings] Beckett.
- Richard Castle: Then she laughed about it with her friends.
- Kate Beckett: Okay, Castle. What was so important that you had to cut my sparring session short?
- Richard Castle: Just that I cracked this case wide open. You know, the thought of you fighting in a ring with another woman... Strangely arousing.
- Kate Beckett: Who says I was sparring with a woman?
- Richard Castle: Oh, your mystery date.
- Kate Beckett: Oh, do I detect some jealousy?
- Richard Castle: Me, jealous? Ha! Double ha.
- Kate Beckett: [teasing] What if I told you that my date... was with your book?
- Richard Castle: Really?
- Kate Beckett: [seriously] No. God, you're easy.
- Elise Finnegan: Steven wasn't a con man.
- Kate Beckett: Elise, we...
- Elise Finnegan: He wasn't. He was in the CIA.
- Richard Castle: [barely able to contain his excitement] This is the best case ever.
- Kate Beckett: Shut up.
- Kate Beckett: Who are you calling?
- Richard Castle: My guy in the CIA.
- Kate Beckett: You have a guy in the CIA?
- Richard Castle: When you gonna learn? I've got a guy *everywhere*.
- [last lines]
- [as Martha is painfully playing the violin]
- Richard Castle: Speaking of running away, how about we have dinner out?
- Alexis Castle: Yes. Please.
- Richard Castle: Thank you.
- Alexis Castle: Okay, come on.
- [first lines]
- Jim Wheeler: Everybody, settle down. Quiet down, please. Come to the front, you know your assigned seats.