Joel Polis credited as playing...
John Raglan
- John Raglan: [Beckett has brought Castle to their meet] Lady, what part of "no cops" didn't you understand?
- Kate Beckett: He's not a cop.
- John Raglan: Well, who the hell is he, then?
- Kate Beckett: He's someone I trust.
- [first lines]
- Kate Beckett: [answers phone] Beckett.
- John Raglan: [on phone] Detective Beckett?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah.
- John Raglan: This is John Raglan.
- [pause]
- John Raglan: I was lead investigator on your mother's homicide twelve years ago.
- Kate Beckett: I remember you, Detective Raglan.
- John Raglan: Listen, I... We need to talk, about your mother's case. There's something you don't know. There's a coffee shop at 4th and Main. Meet me there in an hour. Just you. No cops.
- [Beckett and Castle meet Ragland at a coffee shop]
- Kate Beckett: Tell me what I don't know about my mom's murder.
- John Raglan: Everybody drinks their coffee out of cardboard cups these days. Or those plastic travel mugs. But there's... There's something about the way ceramic warms your hands that...
- [laughs]
- John Raglan: It's weird...
- [coninue laughter]
- John Raglan: the things you notice. I just got the long face from the doc. Lymphoma... Six months.
- Kate Beckett: Sorry to hear about that.
- John Raglan: [sighs] Every year around the holidays, they-they run that "Christmas Carol" on local TV. When I was a kid, I remember Jacob Marley scared the *hell* out of me... forced to drag that-that chain around in the next world.
- Richard Castle: "I wore the chain I forged in life."
- John Raglan: "I made it link by link."
- [pause]
- John Raglan: I hid a lot of sins behind my badge... and now I gotta carry 'em. But your mother's case, that one weighs a ton.
- Kate Beckett: Why? Because you wrote it off as random gang violence when you *knew* it wasn't?
- John Raglan: I did what I was told. And I kept quiet... because I was afraid. About a year ago, there was a hostage standoff in your precinct. You killed a hit-man named Dick Coonan. It was a big deal in the papers... People noticed.
- Kate Beckett: Who hired Coonan to kill my mom?
- John Raglan: You need some context here. This thing started about nineteen years ago, back before I ever knew who Johanna Beckett was. Nineteen years ago, I... I made a bad mistake, and that started the dominoes falling. And one of them was your mother.
- [Raglan's shot through his coffee mug]
- Kate Beckett: [to the patrons, yelling] Everybody on the ground, now!
- [sees bullet hole in window]
- Kate Beckett: Back away from the window! Away from the window!
- Richard Castle: You're hit.
- Kate Beckett: I'm fine. It's not my blood.