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Kate Beckett : Look, I signed up for this when I put that badge on. You didn't. It's *not* your fight.
Richard Castle : The hell it isn't. I don't hang around you just to annoy you. I don't ride out to murder scenes in the middle of the night to satisfy some morbid curiosity. If that's all this was, I-I would've quit a long *time* ago.
Kate Beckett : Well, then, why do you keep coming back, Rick?
[long pause as they both look at each other]
Kate Beckett : Look, I may not have a badge... unless you count the chocolate one Alexis gave me for my birthday... But I'll tell you this, like it or not, I'm your plucky sidekick.
Kate Beckett : Plucky sidekick always gets killed.
Richard Castle : Partner, then.
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[after Castle punched out the man who was about to shoot her]
Kate Beckett : Thank you... for having my back in there.
Richard Castle : Always.
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Kate Beckett : [Castle finishes wiping Raglan's blood off his hands] You good?
Richard Castle : Yeah, I think I got it all off my hands.
Kate Beckett : [seeing his facial expression] It's different when it happens right in front of you. You're close enough to watch the lights go out.
Richard Castle : Yeah. When I saw the blood on your shirt, I thought you'd been shot.
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Kate Beckett : There was, um, a lawyer named Johanna Beckett. Are you familiar with her? She was murdered in the alley about seven years into your incarceration.
Joe Pulgatti : You look just like her, you know. You first walked in here... it was like I was looking at a ghost... The way she talked about you, I should've known you'd become a cop. I-I sent letters... to every lawyer I could find... and your mother was the only one who wrote me back. The only one willing to take a chance on me. She didn't care that I was a thug.
Kate Beckett : [half-smiling, quietly] All she cared about was the truth.
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[last lines]
Kate Beckett : We booked you as John Doe. You sure as hell aren't Hal Lockwood. Who hired you?
[no answer]
Kate Beckett : I put a lot of people in this place... Some of them want to kill me... Others, never been treated so fairly in their lives. So they form this attachment to me. It's like I'm their favorite school teacher... Some of those people might visit you while you're in here... Like the ghosts that visit Scrooge... And after some time with them, you might find yourself a changed man... So I will be back here, week after week, to ask you who hired you... till that miracle occurs.
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Kate Beckett : I'm open to dumb ideas here.
Richard Castle : Good 'cause I got one.
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Kate Beckett : Vulcan Simmons had *nothing* to do with this. But as a former cop, you knew that he fit the part, and so you used him to throw us off. When the truth is that you and Raglan were up to your necks in murder and kidnappings.
Gary McCallister : Listen, it's easy to for you to sit in judgment now, but you weren't there. We did what we thought we had to do.
Kate Beckett : And you did plenty.
Richard Castle : Kidnapping... cover-ups.
Kate Beckett : You killed a Fed and then you pinned it on Pulgatti.
Gary McCallister : You want me to tell you about Joe Pulgatti? About the people he put in the hospital? The ones he put in the river? He and the rest of those jackals fed on the city for *decades*. But you couldn't touch them because they bought *everybody*. And this part, this part I want you to know, 'cause this part I'm not ashamed of, 'cause at least we tried to do something. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't legal, but it was right.
Richard Castle : Kidnapping people for ransom was right?
Gary McCallister : We called it incarceration. Yeah. We'd grab 'em off the street, we'd take 'em somewhere and we'd tune them up. We put the fear of God into 'em, at least for a while. But we knew we couldn't hold them forever. So we set bail. And I'm here to tell you that we set it high. If those bastards wanted back on the street, they were gonna have to pay for their way.
Kate Beckett : When my mom put together that appeal together for Pulgatti, you got worried that she'd get onto you. And so you hired Dick Coonan to kill her.
Gary McCallister : No.
Richard Castle : And then when Raglan grew a conscience, you had him killed, too.
Gary McCallister : McCallister: No, I didn't have anything to do with that. That was... That was somebody else.
Kate Beckett : Who?
Gary McCallister : Somebody you'll never touch.
Kate Beckett : *Who*?
Gary McCallister : You don't understand, Detective... You woke the *dragon*... And this is so much bigger than you realize... And I'm done talking. I want a lawyer.
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John Raglan : [Beckett has brought Castle to their meet] Lady, what part of "no cops" didn't you understand?
Kate Beckett : He's not a cop.
John Raglan : Well, who the hell is he, then?
Kate Beckett : He's someone I trust.
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Captain Roy Montgomery : The hell am I gonna do with you?
Kate Beckett : You're gonna let me work this case.
Captain Roy Montgomery : You're too close to it. It's all over your face. You're thinking "What was Raglan gonna tell me before he died?", when you should be thinking how you're gonna catch the guy that killed him.
Kate Beckett : Sir, Raglan was killed because he was gonna tell me something about my mother's case. Nobody knows it better than I do.
Captain Roy Montgomery : Yeah, but I know you. You're gonna pick up those scissors, run around the house with them. But I'm telling you now, walk don't run. Go where the *evidence* leads, not the other way around.
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Richard Castle : You know, I was thinking on the way over here... All the best cops, Dirty Harry, Cobra, the guy from "Police Academy" who makes the helicopter noises... they all have one thing in common.
Kate Beckett : Plucky sidekick?
Richard Castle : That, and they do their very best work after they've been booted off a case.
Kate Beckett : Is that what you came all the way over here to tell me?
Richard Castle : Montgomery booted us off the Raglan murder, but he didn't say anything about your mother's case, did he? Here's my plan. I sneak back into the station wearing a hat. Montgomery always takes a coffee break fifteen minutes after the hour. I get your mother's file wearing soft shoesl The south entrance says...
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Kate Beckett : [opening door] Hey, Castle.
Richard Castle : Hey... Where's Josh?
Kate Beckett : Oh, he's in Africa, he's saving the world.
Richard Castle : Uh, I brought you some...
[holds up flowers]
Richard Castle : I just thought after everything that... You might wanna... Here.
Kate Beckett : [taking the bouquet] Thank you. That's really sweet
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[first lines]
Kate Beckett : [answers phone] Beckett.
John Raglan : [on phone] Detective Beckett?
Kate Beckett : Yeah.
John Raglan : This is John Raglan.
[pause]
John Raglan : I was lead investigator on your mother's homicide twelve years ago.
Kate Beckett : I remember you, Detective Raglan.
John Raglan : Listen, I... We need to talk, about your mother's case. There's something you don't know. There's a coffee shop at 4th and Main. Meet me there in an hour. Just you. No cops.
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[Beckett and Castle meet Ragland at a coffee shop]
Kate Beckett : Tell me what I don't know about my mom's murder.
John Raglan : Everybody drinks their coffee out of cardboard cups these days. Or those plastic travel mugs. But there's... There's something about the way ceramic warms your hands that...
[laughs]
John Raglan : It's weird...
[coninue laughter]
John Raglan : the things you notice. I just got the long face from the doc. Lymphoma... Six months.
Kate Beckett : Sorry to hear about that.
John Raglan : [sighs] Every year around the holidays, they-they run that "Christmas Carol" on local TV. When I was a kid, I remember Jacob Marley scared the *hell* out of me... forced to drag that-that chain around in the next world.
Richard Castle : "I wore the chain I forged in life."
John Raglan : "I made it link by link."
[pause]
John Raglan : I hid a lot of sins behind my badge... and now I gotta carry 'em. But your mother's case, that one weighs a ton.
Kate Beckett : Why? Because you wrote it off as random gang violence when you *knew* it wasn't?
John Raglan : I did what I was told. And I kept quiet... because I was afraid. About a year ago, there was a hostage standoff in your precinct. You killed a hit-man named Dick Coonan. It was a big deal in the papers... People noticed.
Kate Beckett : Who hired Coonan to kill my mom?
John Raglan : You need some context here. This thing started about nineteen years ago, back before I ever knew who Johanna Beckett was. Nineteen years ago, I... I made a bad mistake, and that started the dominoes falling. And one of them was your mother.
[Raglan's shot through his coffee mug]
Kate Beckett : [to the patrons, yelling] Everybody on the ground, now!
[sees bullet hole in window]
Kate Beckett : Back away from the window! Away from the window!
Richard Castle : You're hit.
Kate Beckett : I'm fine. It's not my blood.
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[as Beckett calls in the shooting, Castle tries to help Ragland]
Kate Beckett : [using radio] One Lincoln 40. I have shots fired on 4th and Main. I need backup and an ambulance.
Dispatcher : [on radio] One Lincoln 40, repeat your last transmission. You were broken. One Lincoln 40, repeat."
Kate Beckett : [quietly] Castle?
Dispatcher : Dispatch to One Lincoln 40, repeat.
[checking Raglan's pulse, Castle shakes his head]
Dispatcher : Dispatch to One Lincoln 40. One Lincoln 40, are you there?
Kate Beckett : One Lincoln 40... Please be advised this is now a homicide.
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Kate Beckett : [quietly] Nineteen years ago.
Richard Castle : What's that?
Kate Beckett : Raglan started telling us about something that happened nineteen years ago. My mom's murder was twelve years ago. It's not making any sense.
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Kate Beckett : [reading Vulcan Simmons' jacket] Assault, attempted murder, extortion, possession with intent, witness intimidation. And then it looks like it just dries up. Nobody's booked him in years.
Richard Castle : So what does that mean? He found religion?
Javier Esposito : It means he got smart. Swimming in deeper waters.
Kevin Ryan : Guess he's come a long way since Washington Heights.
Kate Beckett : Wait, what? You said Washington Heights?
Kevin Ryan : Back in the day, Simmons used to run the drug trade in Washington Heights.
Kate Beckett : [pause while thinking] My mom and a group of her colleagues, they put together this campaign called Take Back The Neighborhood. They were trying to get drug dealers off the streets in Washington Heights.
Kevin Ryan : With Simmons running all the dope in that neighborhood, that campaign would've cost him. That hitman, Coonan, we know he that he was into dope. Maybe that's how Simmons got in contact with him.
Richard Castle : So Simmons hires Coonan to kill them all, including your mother, and pays his old friend Raglan to write off their homicides as random gang violence. There would've been no way to trace the murders back to him.
Kate Beckett : Until Raglan threatens to reveal his role in the conspiracy, and Simmons has him silenced.
Javier Esposito : We'll have him in the box before lunch.
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Kate Beckett : What was he into back then?
Gary McCallister : What was he into? John Raglan was no angel... and New York was a different city back then, and I'm here to tell you kid gloves didn't get it done out there. You police a damn theme park. Looking to start some half-ass truth commission, you can count me out.
Kate Beckett : I'm not trying to tarnish Raglan's memory. I'm trying to find his murderer.
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Vulcan Simmons : You painted since the last time I was here. You'd have been about sixteen. Wrestling some pimply kid in the back of his daddy's wagon, wondering if you were gonna give it to him or not.
Richard Castle : Hey, that's enough.
Vulcan Simmons : He's sweet on you. Makes him brave.
Kate Beckett : What was your association with Detective John Raglan?
Vulcan Simmons : Raglan. Raglan, Raglan, Raglan. Thirsty cop, right? Couldn't pick a winner to save his life. Well, Detective, our association, as you put it, exceeded the statute of limitations many moons ago.
Kate Beckett : There's no statute of limitations on murder, Mr. Simmons.
Vulcan Simmons : And here begins what is known as the initial confrontation. During this phase of the interrogation, the interrogator may invade the suspect's personal space in order to increase his discomfort.
[to Castle]
Vulcan Simmons : You want to invade my personal space?
Kate Beckett : Look... at... me... Twelve years ago, Johanna Beckett led a big Take Back The Neighborhood campaign in Washington Heights.
Richard Castle : And that must have pissed you off.
Kate Beckett : Johanna Beckett was murdered, along with two of her colleagues .They were professional hits carried out on your orders. And you had your pet homicide detective, John Raglan, *bury* them.
[showing Simmons a crime scene photo of her mother]
Kate Beckett : Look at her face. Tell me you don't remember her.
Vulcan Simmons : You know, Detective Beckett, I think I do remember her. Bled out in an alley like the trash she was.
Kate Beckett : [whispering] Mr. Simmons, you'd better watch it.
Vulcan Simmons : Rich bitch from uptown on safari in the Heights... Somebody should have warned her not to feed or tease the animals.
Kate Beckett : [whispering] You...
Vulcan Simmons : If they had, she might not have gotten eaten.
[stands up]
Vulcan Simmons : From what I hear, though, she was pretty tasty.
[in a rage, Beckett grabs Simmons and pushes him up against the one-way mirror]
Richard Castle : Whoa, Beckett!
Kate Beckett : Back off, Castle!
[to Simmons]
Kate Beckett : Remember your old life, Vulcan. *Savor* it. Because I am gonna take it all away.
