Stana Katic credited as playing...
Kate Beckett
- Richard Castle: [stumped by a question of Alexis'] How do you know when you're in love?
- Kate Beckett: All the songs make sense.
- Kate Beckett: You know, I just don't get how someone could shoot Goldstein, steal his clothes, and then not hang onto his wallet. Just doesn't make any sense.
- Richard Castle: [distracted, checking his phone] Yeah.
- Kate Beckett: Maybe giant moths killed him and then *ate* his clothes.
- Richard Castle: Could be.
- Kate Beckett: [bringing him back to Earth] Hey. Castle... if this case is boring for you, you don't have to stay.
- Richard Castle: No, I'm just checking my e-mail, my texts, see if Alexis called. I can't believe she told my mother she's in love and is holding out on me.
- Kate Beckett: Oh...
- Richard Castle: I'm gonna call her.
- Kate Beckett: [taking his phone] No, no. You have to let her tell you in her own time when she's ready.
- Richard Castle: I'm the cool dad. Why can't she be ready?
- Kate Beckett: Wait. Listen to me. My dad tried to do the same thing when I was her age and I ended up dating a grunge rocker who smelled like wet flannel and clove cigarettes, for seven *months*. You do not mess with a teenage girl and her hormones.
- Richard Castle: You're right. I won't call her.
- [Beckett hands his phone back and they get onto the elevator]
- Richard Castle: Did you say something about a giant moth?
- Kate Beckett: [innocently] No.
- Kate Beckett: Good morning. Got an ID?
- Lanie Parish: Not yet... How come you guys never bring me coffee? I'm here before you, doing all the work.
- Richard Castle: You can have the rest of mine.
- Lanie Parish: Actually, I don't drink coffee, but would it kill you to bring me a bear claw?
- Ivan Podofski: [Beckett plays a threatening message Ivan left on the victim's voicemail] I think some context is in order. I had only just lost $4 million.
- Richard Castle: Yes, and in that context, you threatened to kill Mr. Goldstein and then he was killed.
- Kate Beckett: Where were you last night between 11 and 1?
- Ivan Podofski: Asleep in my bed.
- Kate Beckett: And can anyone vouch for that?
- Ivan Podofski: Me.
- Richard Castle: "Myself" and "I" got your back, too?
- Richard Castle: When Alexis took her first steps, I was there to catch her when she fell. The first time she rode her bike without training wheels, I was the maniac chasing her down the street, screaming for her to watch out for the old lady with the walker. *Even* her first word...
- Kate Beckett: Let me guess? "Daddy"?
- Richard Castle: No, it was "denouement."
- Kate Beckett: Oh.
- Richard Castle: I stressed story structure from an early age. Anyway...