Castle (TV Series)

Kill the Messenger (2009)

Ruben Santiago-Hudson: Captain Roy Montgomery

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Quotes 

• Captain Roy Montgomery : [Esposito and Ryan bring in the corrupt prison guard]  If there's anything I hate, it's a dirtbag in uniform.

• Captain Roy Montgomery : Do we know what was in the package?

  Kate Beckett : The, uh, courier company's looking into it right now. Whatever it was, somebody thought that it was worth killing for.

  Richard Castle : ff the top of my head, I'm gonna go with nuclear launch codes, Dick Cheney's soul on its way to the devil...

• [watching Beckett inform the victim's sister of his death] 

  Richard Castle : How does she do that?

  Captain Roy Montgomery : Better than anyone I know.

  [Castle notices that Montgomery seems to be a little upset] 

  Richard Castle : You okay?

  Captain Roy Montgomery : Her brother died trying to get something to me... No, I'm not okay.

• Kate Beckett : Okay, but we still have the original murder from ten years ago. Everything started there.

  Captain Roy Montgomery : Two fresh bodies, and you wanna look at a murder *ten* years cold?

  Richard Castle : Uh... When I'm writing a story, the beginning is always the hardest. But if you *nail* that, the rest of it can just fall into place.

  Captain Roy Montgomery : Castle, this is not one of your books.

  Richard Castle : No, but it is a mystery. And all mysteries *are* the same. Motive, opportunity, cover-up, conscience. These murders today were to cover up one ten years ago. That's where your leads are gonna be. Come on, Captain, what do you say? Let's take a little trip down memory lane.

• Sara : You want to exhume my niece's body?

  Kate Beckett : We believe that there was evidence overlooked during the autopsy that could lead to her killer.

  Sara : Well, you told me you caught the man. You told me it was over.

  Captain Roy Montgomery : I thought it was. But whoever killed Olivia just murdered two more people. Your niece deserves justice, and so do they.

• Kate Beckett : Um, sir, are you okay? You seem a little distracted.

  Captain Roy Montgomery : No, I'm focused. Focused on the precinct being up for review... and our case closure rate being just under 1PP's new mandated minimum. Which, of course, doesn't take the budget cuts into consideration. Now how the hell am I supposed to catch more bad guys with fewer detectives?

• Kevin Ryan : Prison duty roster. How'd you pull it off, sir?

  Captain Roy Montgomery : They didn't make me captain just because I look good behind a desk.

• Captain Roy Montgomery : Thank you for your offer, however, my detectives will conduct their investigation in any manner they see fit.

  Blake Wellesley : Captain, I can get the commissioner on the phone in under a minute.

  Captain Roy Montgomery : Well, tell him I said hi and I really could use a raise.