Susan Sullivan credited as playing...
Martha Rodgers
- Martha Rodgers: Did you say 1777 21st Street?
- Richard Castle: Yeah. There was a murder there. Why?
- Martha Rodgers: Oh, I know that address. That's Gemstar Studios. That's there they film "Temptation Lane".
- Richard Castle: The soap opera you used to be on.
- Martha Rodgers: Oh, I hope it's nobody that I know. Maybe I should go with you.
- Richard Castle: [laughs] It's a crime scene, mother. For trained professionals.
- Martha Rodgers: Richard Castle, you are neither trained nor a professional.
- Richard Castle: [awkward pause] I'll text you with updates.
- Richard Castle: [Martha has unexpectedly shown up on the "Temptation Lane" set] What are you doing here?
- Martha Rodgers: Grieving.
- Richard Castle: You didn't even know the victim.
- Martha Rodgers: Darling, a loss for a show like this is a loss for anyone who was ever part of its history. And...
- [whispering]
- Martha Rodgers: I think I can be of help here. I think I could be your inside source. I can get the scoop on what's really going on here.
- [notices someone in the background]
- Martha Rodgers: Oh, ho ho. And what better place to start than Lance Hastings.
- Kate Beckett: You know him?
- Martha Rodgers: He was my love interest thirty years ago, on screen. And off. After my character married his character, Joseph Fox, she was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, uh... kidnapped again, and held hostage in the sewers of Paris.
- Kate Beckett: How long were you on the show?
- Martha Rodgers: Three weeks.
- [last lines]
- [Castle walks into his apartment and finds Martha and Lance embracing on the couch]
- Lance Hastings: After all these years, all the times I could've been holding you in my arms.
- Martha Rodgers: Then let's not waste more time with words, let's just let our lips do the talking.
- Richard Castle: Are you two running lines again?
- Martha Rodgers: [startled] Oh! Well, no, no! We were just, uh... You know, talking.
- Richard Castle: Oh.
- [Lance kisses Martha's fingers]
- Richard Castle: *Oh*! Um... I'm gonna, um... I-I'll just... I'll go to the...
- [turns and leaves with a shudder]