Castle (TV Series)

A Dance with Death (2012)

Nathan Fillion: Richard Castle

Quotes 

• Richard Castle : Twin girls are born and put up for adoption. Odette goes to a wealthy, loving family, Barbra, not so lucky. She gets bounced around from one foster home to the next, always knowing, deep inside, that she was meant for something better. Then, one day, the two of them meet on a train bound for Miami. The connection is instantaneous. In two days they learn everything there is to know about each other. And Barbra can't help but think, "If only I had landed in the lap of luxury like Odette, I could have been anything I wanted to be."

  Kate Beckett : Are you suggesting that Barbra purposefully caused the derailment to take over Odette's life? With what? Her crazy Wiccan powers?

  Richard Castle : [excited]  Oh... Wow! That would be an incredible twist! But no. No. The accident happens, Odette is killed, Barbra survives. And in the midst of all the chaos and rubble, she sees her chance. She switches identification with Odette, and she changes her destiny. In one move, Barbra builds herself a better future. A perfect life.

  Kate Beckett : Until she was murdered a year later.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, well, separated twin stories never end happily.

  [pause] 

  Richard Castle : Except 'The Parent Trap'.

• Richard Castle : You know Odette loved to party. Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that all that constant carousing does not come without consequences. Like arrests, community service hours, waking up in a strange hotel room with some girl's panties on your head. That's... Forget that part.

• Richard Castle : You aren't forgetting her blistering review of your performance of Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', are you?

  Martha Rodgers : That was 1983. I think I'm over it.

  Richard Castle : "Martha Rodgers as Maggie the Cat is more of a helpless kitten, mewing and flapping her hands when she doesn't get her way."

  Martha Rodgers : You memorized it?

  Richard Castle : I couldn't help it. You walked around the apartment quoting it for months!

• Lanie Parish : It's just... when I was young, more than anything, I wanted to be a prima ballerina. If I wasn't dancing, I was thinking about dancing.

  Richard Castle : So what happened?

  Lanie Parish : [waving around her chest]  The girls came along when I was 13.

• [last lines] 

  Richard Castle : Exactly what did you promise her without asking me first?

  Martha Rodgers : That you would read her novel.

  Richard Castle : Oh, Mother!

  Martha Rodgers : And critique it, and give it ot your publisher. It is the inspiring story of a young woman's journey from department store clerk to world-renowned Broadway star.

  Richard Castle : Chick Lit? Mother, this is really not my...

  Martha Rodgers : Oh, and darling, when you give her your thoughts, do be kind. Because it's always been her *dream* to be a novelist.

  [turns and leaves] 

  Richard Castle : [to himself]  Be kind... For you, Mother... I can be kind.