Castle (TV Series)

A Death in the Family (2009)

Stana Katic: Kate Beckett

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Quotes 

• [entering the victim's plastic surgery office, Castle checks out an attractive woman leaving] 

  Kate Beckett : What is it with men and boobs, anyway?

  Richard Castle : Biological. We can't help it.

  Kate Beckett : But doesn't it bother you that they're so obviously not real?

  Richard Castle : [pause]  Santa's not real. We still love opening his presents.

• Richard Castle : You wanna talk?

  Kate Beckett : There's nothing to talk about. I'm the one who pushed for it, and I'm the one who got Will involved.

  Richard Castle : There's no way you could have known this was gonna happen.

  Kate Beckett : Are you sure about that? Because their vehicle was attacked leaving our meet.

  Richard Castle : So?

  Kate Beckett : So, we were followed. Someone who knew about the investigation found out about the meet. We led them to Moran. So, yeah, I should've known. And if I were a better cop, I would've.

  [Beckett turns and goes to a seat and Castle follows] 

  Richard Castle : You think this is your fault? Yeah, you pushed for it. Not because it's your job, but because you care. Most people come up against a wall, they give up... Not you... You don't let go... You don't back down... That's what makes you extraordinary.

• [about Beckett's mother's murder] 

  Richard Castle : Same reason a recovering alcoholic doesn't drink... You don't think I haven't been down there? You don't think I haven't memorized every line in that file? My first three years on the force, every off-duty moment was spent looking for something someone missed... It took me a year of therapy to realize if I didn't let it go, it was gonna destroy me. And so I let it go.

  Kate Beckett : [as they are getting into the elevator]  Sorry. I didn't know.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, well, now you do.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, well, now you do.

• [Castle asking Beckett about re-opening the case into her Mother's murder] 

  Kate Beckett : Castle, you touch my mom's case and you and I are done. Do you understand?

• [last lines] 

  Kate Beckett : You look awfully serious. Is everything okay?

  Richard Castle : Take a seat.

  Kate Beckett : [chuckling]  What?

  Richard Castle : Sit down.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, what's going on?

  Richard Castle : It's about your mother.

• [Discussing getting information on a mystery operation performed by the victim] 

  Kate Beckett : The hospital must've had some record of the patient.

  Kevin Ryan : Get this. The hospital can't even find the file. It's like it never happened.

  Richard Castle : Who did you talk to?

  Kevin Ryan : Patient Information.

  Richard Castle : Well, that was your first mistake. You want to find someone at a hospital who had a treatment there, there's only one department to go to where nothing *ever* falls through the cracks.

  [even one looks confused] 

  Richard Castle : Billing. Someone had to pay for it, right?

• Kate Beckett : I'm not running a background check on your daughter's date.

  Richard Castle : Oh, come on. She says he's quiet, he keeps to himself, and he lives with his parents. Tell me that doesn't sound like a serial killer to you.