Nathan Fillion: Richard Castle

The Final Nail

Richard Castle

Kate Beckett: What is it about this guy that-that warrants this unshakable faith that you have in him?
Richard Castle: When I was fourteen, my mom sent me to Edgewyck Academy. I... I was homesick, and I didn't have any friends. So I wrote about it. One day, I submitted a story to the literary magazine. Damian Westlake was the editor.
Kate Beckett: And he published it.
Richard Castle: More than that. He called me down to his office, he sat me down, and he said, "Ricky, you have a great talent." No one had ever said anything like that to me before. And Damian, he encouraged me, he critiqued me, he... he always made me dig a little deeper. Without Damian Westlake, I'm a lawyer, I'm a grifter, I'm a rodeo clown, but I am not a writer. Without him, I'm not me.

Richard Castle: I wish the choice I had to make today was so simple. I realize that I have the choice to believe in two terrible things. Either Damian is a killer, or Beckett's arrested an innocent man. Just thinking about it is making my head hurt.
Martha Rodgers: Well, then forget your head. Listen to your heart.

Richard Castle: Hey! Why are you mad at me? I'm just looking out for my friend.
Kate Beckett: You challenged my authority in front of a suspect, Castle.
Richard Castle: Since when is Damian a suspect?
Kate Beckett: Right now everyone is, you know that. That's how I do my job. I will not have you get in the way of an investigation.

Damian Westlake: Detective Beckett thinks I got away with murder once, and now I've done it again, doesn't she?
Richard Castle: Damian, you should have told me. I'm not a cop, I'm your friend.
Damian Westlake: That's right, you are. Remember when you first came to Edgewyck?
Richard Castle: I remember.
Damian Westlake: I was the one that told them to give you a chance. I'm looking for the same chance now.

Alexis Castle: What's in the box?
Richard Castle: This is Philip Westlake's murder file. I told Beckett I'm gonna solve the case.
Martha Rodgers: Oh, Richard...
Richard Castle: What? You're the one who told me to follow my heart.
Martha Rodgers: Yes, but, you know...
Alexis Castle: Dad, that case is older than me.
Richard Castle: This doesn't sound like encouragement.

[last lines]
Kate Beckett: [as Damian is put in the back of a squad car] "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald said that.
Richard Castle: Then it must have been Ernest Hemingway who said "Man, I sure could use a drink right about now."
Kate Beckett: Lead the way. I'm buying.
Richard Castle: [they walk down the sidewalk] It's Valentine's Day. Shouldn't you be in a nice candlelit restaurant, wearing a new dress, ordering surf and turf?
Kate Beckett: I've got a couple of hours. You okay?
Richard Castle: Yeah. I'm fine.
Kate Beckett: Liar.

Kate Beckett: Castle, it's one thing for you to look out for your friend, it's a completely different story when you hide vital information from me.
Richard Castle: I wasn't hiding it! I just didn't think it mattered!
Kate Beckett: You didn't think it mattered that Damian was a suspect in a previous homicide?
Richard Castle: I didn't know he was a suspect. And since he was never arrested, and that case is still unsolved, I'm guessing those cops have a lot of theories and no evidence, like another detective I could name right about now.
Kate Beckett: You know, if this was anybody else, you'd be asking me why I hadn't already slapped the cuffs on him.
Richard Castle: But it isn't anyone else, and I'm telling you you're way off base on this one.

Kate Beckett: We agreed that you would stay out of my way on this.
Richard Castle: Yes, but I did not agree I would stand by and let you railroad my friend.
Kate Beckett: Castle, you are too close to this one. You need to go home. Now.

Richard Castle: All right. So, Ray, what kind of man leaves beautiful Puerto Rico to retire in freezing cold New York?
Ray Salazar: [laughs] The kind of man whose beautiful *wife* is from Long Island.