Nathan Fillion credited as playing...
Richard Castle
- Richard Castle: [asking about the abduction of Dean's son] What do they want from you? Are they after ransom?
- Dean Donegal: [laughs] You kidding? I'm 40 grand in debt after my divorce. I'm looking up at broke.
- Richard Castle: You know, I understand ferrets as a pet. Snakes, spiders, even a hairless mole. But a rat?
- Kate Beckett: Probably kids in the city who keep cockroaches as pets.
- Richard Castle: You're probably right. Strangest pet you ever had?
- Kate Beckett: You.
- Kate Beckett: The thing about murderers, Mario, is they tend to not have solid alibis.
- Richard Castle: Generally because they're murdering somebody.
- Richard Castle: When Alexis was four, we went Christmas shopping at some mall in White Plains. I was trying on some... charcoal fedora. I turn around, she is gone. Vanished. I looked... everywhere. So did mall security, so did the police. We searched for an *hour*... You don't have to be a... novelist to think of all the worst-case scenarios.
- Kate Beckett: Where'd you find her?
- Richard Castle: Behind a... rack of winter coats. She got bored. She crawled underneath there and went to sleep.
- [Beckett smiles]
- Richard Castle: To this day, I still dream about that.
- [last lines]
- [while Castle listens, Alexis explains to Ashley that she lost his pet rat]
- Ashley: What's wrong?
- Alexis Castle: It's about Theodore... When I fed him, he must've got out of his cage and... And he's gone.
- Ashley: He's gone?
- Alexis Castle: We looked everywhere. I swear. We turned this whole place upside down.
- Ashley: How'd he get out?
- Alexis Castle: I must not have locked the cage right. Ashley, I'm so sorry. You've every right to hate me.
- Ashley: Come on, Alexis. I, uh... I-I'm upset, but I don't hate you.
- Alexis Castle: You don't?
- Ashley: I mean, well, look at this place. Look at what you did to try to get him back. Who else would do that?
- Alexis Castle: But, you cared about him a lot.
- Ashley: Yeah, but... I care about you more.
- [they lean in to kiss when Martha screams from upstairs]
- Richard Castle: Found him!