Susan Sullivan credited as playing...
Martha Rodgers
- [first lines]
- [Castle playing with a Godzilla and a Barbie]
- Richard Castle: [as Godzilla] You are very beautiful, uh, Nikki Heat. It is, uh, too bad that I have to kill you now.
- Richard Castle: [as Barbie] Uglier men than you have tried, Drago.
- [Barbie doll slaps Godzilla]
- Richard Castle: [as Godzilla] You have slapped me. I will not let...
- Martha Rodgers: Playing with dolls, are we?
- Richard Castle: These are action figures.
- [in a deep sleep, Castle is jerked awake by Alexis' shrieks of joy]
- Richard Castle: What happened?
- Alexis Castle: Dad, I got in, I-I got in!
- Richard Castle: Oh. Where?
- Martha Rodgers: Almost everywhere so far.
- Alexis Castle: Oxford, Princeton, Sarah Lawrence.
- Richard Castle: That's great, honey. I-I knew it would work out.
- Alexis Castle: Really?
- Richard Castle: Yeah.
- Alexis Castle: Then why were you hiding the letters from me?
- Richard Castle: What?
- Alexis Castle: Come on, Dad. I can read a postmark. Some of these came last week.
- [she thumps him on the head with the letters]
- Richard Castle: Oh! I just, I'm sorry. Honey, I-I'm just trying to protect you.
- Alexis Castle: I'm eighteen now. You need to trust that I can take care of my...
- [trailing off as she reads one of her acceptance letters]
- Alexis Castle: ...myself.
- Richard Castle: What?
- Alexis Castle: I got into Stanford.
- Martha Rodgers: Yes! Oh, great! That's always been your first choice, right?
- Richard Castle: And yet I sense trouble.
- Alexis Castle: I-I don't know. I should be happy. But after they shot me down for early admission...
- Richard Castle: They rejected you. And you feel betrayed.
- Alexis Castle: How am I supposed to get over that?