- Javier Esposito: Dude, I see Beckett in her jammies... wine glasses on the table...
- Richard Castle: There's nothing going on with Beckett and me. No more than there was yesterday.
- Kevin Ryan: Dude, you made her pancakes?
- Richard Castle: It's just breakfast!
- Javier Esposito: Pancakes is not just breakfast. It's an edible way of saying, "Thank you *so* much for last night."
- Kevin Ryan: Castle, come on. We're your friends. Details.
- Richard Castle: [looks around and then whispers] All right, come here.
- [forms a huddle with Esposito and Ryan]
- Richard Castle: [loudly] There are no details!
- Javier Esposito: I can't even look at you right now.
- Kevin Ryan: [writing on his notepad] Witness refuses to cooperate.
- Kevin Ryan: So, you had just gotten up, right?
- Kate Beckett: Yeah. Castle just finished making breakfast and he went to the door...
- Kevin Ryan: What kind of breakfast?
- Kate Beckett: Um, I'm sorry?
- Kevin Ryan: What kind of breakfast was he making?
- Kate Beckett: Pancakes.
- Kevin Ryan: Well, isn't that domestic.
- Kate Beckett: [annoyed] Anyway, the paper usually arrives at four, and we were up at seven, so that means the killer had a three-hour window where he could have left the body there unnoticed.
- Kevin Ryan: And exactly what time did you and Mr. Castle go to bed last night?
- Kate Beckett: I think we're done here.
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: So how long have you two been sleeping together?
- Kate Beckett: Um... We're-We're not sleeping together. We... He just observes me.
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: Yeah, I've seen how he observes you.
- Richard Castle: No, she's right. Aside from my second wife, this is the most sexless relationship I've ever been in.
- Richard Castle: [to Alexis] Listen... It's a fact of life... People we love leave us... Unless you chain them to... a radiator, which, for some reason, is illegal.
- [Castle is fiddling with a pair of night vision goggles in the back seat of the FBI's car]
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: What is he doing?
- Kate Beckett: He, um, touches things.
- Richard Castle: Oh, no, I'm not leaving. I'm here to protect you.
- Kate Beckett: What, with your vast arsenal of rapier wit?
- [first lines]
- Richard Castle: [on phone] Yeah, Paula, that sounds perfect.
- [listens]
- Richard Castle: Yeah, close the deal.
- [listens]
- Richard Castle: Thank you, and to you.
- [hangs up, then to Beckett]
- Richard Castle: Hey.
- Kate Beckett: Hey.
- Richard Castle: Ask me why I'm here.
- Kate Beckett: You know, I ask myself that question every day.
- Kevin Ryan: Unis pulled this from a trash bin. Wallet's inside. Vic's name is Michelle Lewis.
- Javier Esposito: According to her business card, she's a dog walker.
- Kate Beckett: There's a print here... and it's... too large to be our victim's. Let's get it to the lab for...
- [Shaw snaps a photo of the purse]
- Kate Beckett: What are you doing?
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: That print is already in the lab and being processed. No muss, no fuss, no black powder on your clothes.
- Richard Castle: [in awed jealousy] Wow, there's an app for that?
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: That's why I joined the FBI, Mr. Castle. For the toys. Really eager to see that body.
- Richard Castle: [as Shaw leaves] Can I take a look at that?
- [Castle moves to follow her, but Beckett stops him]
- Richard Castle: Be a chance to check it later.
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: Nikki Heat, I presume.
- Kate Beckett: It's Beckett. Detective Kate Beckett.
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: Yeah, I read all about you in "Cosmo". And you must be the celebrity writer tag-along, Richard Castle. Special Agent Jordan Shaw.
- Richard Castle: Jordan, Jordan Shaw? The same Jordan Shaw that broke the Hudson Valley Strangler case back in 1991?
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: I also play a mean game of Scrabble. Now that we all know each other, I'd like to see the body.
- Kate Beckett: Agent Shaw, my people have already secured the area. CSU is on the scene, and we are canvassing the park, so as happy as I am to see the cavalry, there's really not much left here for you to do.
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: Detective, the gods in the marble halls have sent me here to catch a killer, which I will do with or without your help. Okay? Now, can I see the body?
- Richard Castle: That is so going in the movie. Can you say that again, but start from "marble halls"?
- [Martha watching video of The Incredible Hulk when Castle comes in]
- Richard Castle: Wow, one of your old wedding videos.
- Martha Rodgers: Are you kidding? This guy's a pushover compared to my ex-husbands.
- Richard Castle: Mother, whatever you decide, I will support you... Same way I have since the last man you lived with stole your life savings.
- [Shaw and Becket discussing Castle while he is in the backseat]
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: [to Beckett] So, if you're not sleeping together, why do you keep him around?
- Richard Castle: You know I can *hear* you.
- [last lines]
- [Castle exits can and is rushing to Beckett's apartment]
- Richard Castle: [frantically trying to call Beckett] Come on, Beckett, pick it. Pick up the phone! Pick it up!
- Kate Beckett: [answering phone] What, Castle?
- Richard Castle: It wasn't Ben Conrad! He's not the killer! The killer's still alive!
- [cut to Beckett's apartment with her on the phone with Castle]
- Richard Castle: [from Beckett's phone] The killer's still alive!
- Man on recording: [a couple of beeps then a recording plays] Goodbye, Nikki. Goodbye, Nikki.
- [Beckett's apartment blows up]
- Donald Salt: So I was on one of those internet barter sites when I was looking... Eh... Doesn't matter what I was looking for, but I came across the ad. "Finger wanted. Will pay top dollar."
- Kate Beckett: So what's the top dollar for pinky finger?
- Donald Salt: Five thousand bucks
- Special Agent Jordan Shaw: Sounds like a real deal.
- Donald Salt: He told me Detective Nikki Heat will be coming for me. And it might get physical. He didn't mention anything about Captain America with the taser gun.