Jason Beghe credited as playing...
Mike Royce
- Kate Beckett: Hell are you doing? That's my suspect.
- Mike Royce: Okay, relax, we're on the same team.
- Kate Beckett: Royce?
- Mike Royce: Hey, kid. Long time.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, too long.
- Richard Castle: Nice driving.
- Mike Royce: Well, thanks. Mike Royce, bounty hunter. Boom.
- Richard Castle: Richard Castle, writer.
- Kate Beckett: Royce used to be on the job.
- Mike Royce: On the job? She says that like I'm any cop. I was her training officer when she left the academy.
- Random Pierce: [handcuffed on the ground] Hey, hey, hey. Hey, i-if I'm imposing on your happy reunion, you know, I can just go.
- Kate Beckett: The only place you're going is jail.
- [regaling Castle and Esposito with old stories of Beckett]
- Mike Royce: Oh, no, she's got the cat in one hand, her gun in the other. I'm trying to get the hell out of the way so she can shoot the guy with the speargun...
- Kate Beckett: [approaching] Except Royce has such a giant head that every time I go to pull the trigger, all I could think about is how much paperwork I'll have to do if I accidentally shoot him.
- Mike Royce: Yeah, okay. So you know what she does? She offers to show the guy her boobs if he drops the speargun.
- Javier Esposito: Did he?
- Richard Castle: Did you?
- Kate Beckett: No, 'cause he had the same slack-jawed look that the two of you have.
- Kevin Ryan: So, it looks like your shoplifter isn't our killer, after all. Guard at Book Mart confirms that he caught him trying to steal a copy of "The Da Vinci Code".
- Richard Castle: "The Da Vinci Code". Maybe he thought it could help him decipher the document, thinking it's some kind of, uh, ancient, religious cryptogram, prophesizing the coming zombie apocalypse.
- Mike Royce: Is he always like this?
- Kate Beckett: No, it's usually about CIA conspiracies.
- Richard Castle: I was really close on one of those.
- Mike Royce: So it's actually a treasure map, huh?
- Kate Beckett: Castle's been trying to figure it out all day. I should have been onto Stuckey earlier, though.
- Mike Royce: Nobody's perfect.
- Kate Beckett: You were.
- Mike Royce: You were easy to impress.
- Kate Beckett: No, I wasn't. I was drowning, and... you were dry land. All they ever taught us in the Academy was how to do paperwork. You were the one who taught me how to be a cop.
- Kate Beckett: I caught him, Royce... The man who killed my mom.
- Mike Royce: After all these years... Find out why he did it?
- Kate Beckett: Somebody paid him to do it. But I had to shoot him before I could find out who.
- Mike Royce: That was stupid... You should have just shown him your boobs.
- Kate Beckett: Castle, are you coming?
- Richard Castle: Oh! Actually, I was gonna hang back with Royce, hear some stories about the good old days.
- Kate Beckett: Okay... fine.
- [to Royce]
- Kate Beckett: But if you tell him about the karaoke stakeout, I'm gonna tell him what happened with the monkey.
- Mike Royce: My lips are sealed.