Stana Katic credited as playing...
Kate Beckett
- Javier Esposito: Victim's name is Sarah Cutler. Looks like she was killed last night and stuffed into a closet on set.
- Kate Beckett: Was she a part of the production?
- Javier Esposito: Yeah.
- Richard Castle: Let me guess, the diva actress that everyone hated?
- Javier Esposito: Actually, Castle, she was a writer.
- Richard Castle: A writer? Why would anyone want to kill a writer?
- Kate Beckett: Oh, so many reasons.
- Kate Beckett: When Lance came here, Sarah told him that someone wasn't who she thought they were. Who do you think that was?
- Richard Castle: How about the woman who makes my mother look like a saint?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, but Sarah already cut Gloria out of her life. Maybe... maybe it was her cheating husband.
- Richard Castle: Except Lance met with Sarah after Mandy Bronson. By the time Mandy showed up, Sarah had already decided what she wanted to do with her marriage.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, but even if Sarah decided that she was gonna get back together with Vince, it doesn't mean that she didn't have doubts.
- Richard Castle: No. No, you're right. Except he has an alibi. Everyone has an alibi.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, well, somebody out there doesn't, and we are gonna find them.
- Richard Castle: [looking at his watch] Ah, maybe we should sleep on it.
- [Beckett gives him a look]
- Richard Castle: Separately!
- [reproachfully]
- Richard Castle: Katherine Beckett, I never...
- 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.
- Kate Beckett: Okay, so Gloria is in the clear. Uniforms showed her photo at the OTB, and a bartender there remembers seeing her at 11:15.
- Richard Castle: You know, I can see why she fell for Gloria's con. Sarah was motherless, childless, she was taking young writers under her wing. She was looking for family.
- Kate Beckett: Wow, Castle, that's a... refreshingly down-to-Earth theory.
- Richard Castle: Just trying to keep you on your toes.
- Vince Powers: I didn't kill my wife.
- Kate Beckett: Well, then, where were you the night that she was killed?
- Vince Powers: I was at the hotel. I went there immediately after we wrapped here.
- Kate Beckett: And can anyone vouch for that?
- [Vince hesitates and doesn't reply]
- Richard Castle: Come on, Vince. Tell us you were alone. It'll make arresting you that much easier.
- Richard Castle: [after interviewing a suspect] I just don't see that girl swinging an ax, let alone leaving her house.
- Kate Beckett: What's the matter? Homicidal fan not soapy enough for you?
- Richard Castle: You know, when you say "soapy," I conjure up images...
- Kate Beckett: Castle, focus.
- Richard Castle: I am.
- Kate Beckett: On our suspect.
- Richard Castle: Oh.
- Vince Powers: Look, I knew if I told you that my marriage was in trouble, that I would be suspect number one.
- Kate Beckett: Maybe. But now that we know that you lied, it makes you look even worse.