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Kate Beckett : Tell me what happened with Douglas Stevens.
Richard Castle : I appealed to his humanity.
Kate Beckett : I didn't think you had that side to you.
Richard Castle : Well, when it comes to the people I love, I do.
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[Beckett is questioning Stevens, with no luck]
Richard Castle : [to Beckett] I'd like a minute with him.
[Beckett leaves the room; Castle closes and locks the door]
Douglas Stevens : I just said I don't wanna talk, so you can't question me. I have rights. I'm not gonna say anything without a lawyer.
Richard Castle : I'm not a cop.
Douglas Stevens : Then who are you?
Richard Castle : You remember the girl with the red hair?... I'm her father. Please know, I will do whatever it takes to get her back... Those police outside are my friends. My daughter's friends, too... So it's just... you and me.
Douglas Stevens : If you touch me, I'll press charges.
Richard Castle : I don't care... Where are they?
Douglas Stevens : I'm just a driver, I-I don't know anything.
Richard Castle : You know Henson ditched the van for the black Yukon. So where did he go? Where did he take the girls?... I won't ask you again. Where did he take the girls?
[cut to Beckett outside the door hearing Stevens scream]
Douglas Stevens : *Stop*!
[continues screaming]
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[Castle has provided her with a lead]
Kate Beckett : Castle, listen to me...
Richard Castle : Don't... Don't promise me you'll find her unless you can do it. Because... I would never forgive you... any more than I'd ever forgive myself.
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Richard Castle : You know, I still remember. When Alexis was born, they handed me this... tiny person, all bundled up. She just... stared up at me... And when I looked down at her, this feeling hit me... Like I'd been struck by lightning... It was love. That instant... inexplicable love you can only feel for your child... In that moment, I knew... I knew my life had changed forever... And now it's about to change again.
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Richard Castle : Oh, Mother... I'm sorry. I am so sorry.
Martha Rodgers : Richard! This is not your fault.
Richard Castle : I don't know. Maybe if I just...
Martha Rodgers : No ifs. Do not torture yourself with ifs. The only people to blame for this are the ones who took her. *Alexis* is her father's daughter. She is strong, and she is smart, and she is going to get through this.
Richard Castle : Yeah, I know.
Martha Rodgers : No, no, no. I'm not just saying this. She's going to be all right. I feel it in my heart. And my heart is never wrong.
Richard Castle : What about your first marriage?
Martha Rodgers : Well...
Richard Castle : And your second?
Martha Rodgers : Okay, fine, fine, occasionally my heart is wrong. But it is *not* in this case.
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Kate Beckett : You seem to have adopted a real Zen-like attitude about all this, Castle.
Richard Castle : Well, I've realized I've been a little overprotective of Alexis at times.
[gets a look]
Richard Castle : Okay, constantly. But since she's left for Columbia, I've learned to let go. You know, stop checking her video blog. I don't ask to meet her boyfriend anymore. I've come to realize that, like a bird, Alexis needed to leave the nest. So, I let her fly, turned around, and strode away. That's acceptance.
Kate Beckett : Wait, wouldn't acceptance be letting her go, seeing where she flies and then being okay with it?
Richard Castle : Yeah, but I don't wouldn't be okay with that. I don't want to see where she goes. What other birds of prey are out there, or what other nests, or...
Kate Beckett : [interrupts] So is that acceptance? Or denial?
Richard Castle : Well, it was acceptance till you started applying your fiendish logic.
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[discovering Alexis has been abducted, Beckett hugs Castle to comfort him in the precinct]
Richard Castle : Gates will see.
Kate Beckett : I don't care.
Richard Castle : I can't believe this is happening.
Kate Beckett : We're gonna find her, Castle. We will.
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Kate Beckett : There are hopeful signs here, Castle. They've gone out of their way not to harm the girls. They want them alive. That'll give us time to track down whoever's behind this.
Richard Castle : [fighting back tears] How?... Our main suspect is dead, the only thing Stevens knew is where the farmhouse is, and... we have no idea who we're looking for.
Kate Beckett : The FBI is searching the farm for evidence, they're canvassing the area for witnesses that might have seen whoever was on the property.
Richard Castle : All of which is just another way of saying that we're back to square one.
Kate Beckett : It won't be the first time... We're gonna solve this, Castle. We will find a way. "We've done it before, with less to go on." You know who told me that?
Richard Castle : I did. In a fit of irrational optimism.
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Kevin Ryan : Well, Hasim Farouk is a Saudi national, living here as a student.
Richard Castle : Majoring in what? Urban warfare?
Kevin Ryan : Uh, undeclared, actually. Up at Columbia.
[Castle reacts to Columbia]
Kate Beckett : So what was he doing in Lower Manhattan?
Richard Castle : More importantly...
[starts using his phone]
Richard Castle : what is Columbia doing admitting gun-toting lunatics, and are there any more of them?
[notices them watching him]
Richard Castle : For the record, I'm not calling to check on Alexis. I'm just checking my email.
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Kate Beckett : Excuse me, Bram Stoker?
Bram Stoker : Yeah?
Kate Beckett : Detective Kate Beckett, NYPD.
Richard Castle : And might I say how youthful you look.
Bram Stoker : Witty. Never heard that before.
Richard Castle : I've never heard of anyone named Bram Stoker before. Except... Bram Stoker.
Bram Stoker : Apparently he's a distant relative, and both my parents are English scholars. They thought it would be cute. It wasn't.
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Kate Beckett : Do you think that this is really about money?
Richard Castle : Did a web search on El-Masri. He's worth over $300 million.
Kate Beckett : Yeah, but still, who hires an ex-commando to babysit their daughter?
Richard Castle : I've considered it.
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Javier Esposito : Okay, I found three science-related events in Lower Manhattan from last night. First, a sci-fi movie marathon at an art house theater 8 blocks from where Hasim got clocked.
Richard Castle : Though, by definition, science fiction is *not* science.
Javier Esposito : It has the word in it.
Richard Castle : It's- That's an excellent point.
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[first lines]
[entering the kitchen to find Martha making breakfast]
Richard Castle : You're cooking!... This must be a dream. Or, perhaps, a nightmare.
Martha Rodgers : I choose to take the higher ground and ignore that. Breakfast is served.
Richard Castle : These are my patented special pancakes that I make for Alexis.
Martha Rodgers : Well, not so special. I learned how to prepare it for her this past year.
[sets a plate of pancakes in front of him]
Richard Castle : Oh.
[Castle takes a bite and chews]
Richard Castle : So, the student becomes...
[winces from the taste]
Richard Castle : ... a failed student. The drop-out. You fed her this? Mother, you are forever forbidden from practicing the art of Pancake-do.
Martha Rodgers : Where did I go wrong?
Richard Castle : Where do I begin?
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Anwar El-Masri : I will pay them. I will pay whatever they ask.
Lina El-Masri : What if that isn't what they want? You've made enemies, Anwar.
Anwar El-Masri : In Egypt, not here. This is about money. This is always about money.
Richard Castle : It's also about this man. Hasim Farouk. Have you ever seen him?
Anwar El-Masri : Yeah, I tried to reach Hasim when I learned of this. Perhaps he can help us if...
Richard Castle : Wait... you know him?
Anwar El-Masri : Sara would not accept a bodyguard. So I hired Hasim to watch over her discreetly. Wh-Where is he?
Kate Beckett : He died trying to protect her.
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FBI Agent Harris : How are the El-Masris?
Kate Beckett : Scared. Devastated.
FBI Agent Harris : Okay, that's good.
Richard Castle : It is?
FBI Agent Harris : It beats angry or defensive. They want to be helpful and honest, which is important, 'cause at the end of the day, it's the accuracy of our information that can determine whether this ends well or badly.
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Kate Beckett : Look, the guns could fit with terrorism. But the wire-tapping equipment?
Richard Castle : Maybe he's a spy. He's got military training. It says here he was a commando in the Saudi Special Forces.
Kate Beckett : But then there's this. Twenty-five grand wired to him every month from a Swiss bank account. Whatever he was doing, he was well-funded.
Richard Castle : What did his fellow students have to say?
Kate Beckett : Well, I talked to most of the girls on Bram Stoker's list, and none of them noticed Hasim in class or even knew who he was. It's like the guy was invisible.
Richard Castle : He was hiding in plain sight. A foreign agent, in deep cover, on some kind of special reconnaissance mission.
Kate Beckett : So then why would he shoot up a van?
Richard Castle : Maybe Jack Bauer was driving.
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Richard Castle : Hasim was surveilling her apartment *and* he was nearby when she was kidnapped. But why? What was their relationship?
Kevin Ryan : Well, Sara's roommate's coming in, maybe she has an answer. There were no phone calls between them. It's looking more like he was stalking her. Not only did he wire-tap her place, he was also taking two classes that she was in.
Richard Castle : Maybe it's like "The Conversation".
Kevin Ryan : I'm sorry, I don't...
Richard Castle : Francis Ford Coppola.
Kate Beckett : Gene Hackman. Very underrated.
Richard Castle : Thank you. Um, in it, a surveillance expert overhears a plot against the woman he's bugging. Maybe *Hasim* got wind of the kidnapping, tried to thwart it, and paid with his life.
Kate Beckett : But that still doesn't explain the guns in his apartment.
Richard Castle : True, Gene Hackman did not possess an arsenal.
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FBI Agent Harris : These people we're dealing with are sophisticated. There are webcams outside. Our approach was streamed to an anonymous IP address. That same IP accessed your daughter's website.
Richard Castle : And you can't trace it?
FBI Agent Harris : It was routed across four continents. We're not optimistic.
Kate Beckett : What about Roger Henson?
FBI Agent Harris : He was shot to death. After being tortured at length by someone who knew what they were doing.
Kate Beckett : His fingernails were pulled off.
Richard Castle : I don't understand. Henson was working for the kidnappers. Why would they torture him?
FBI Agent Harris : I don't know.
Richard Castle : Well, then what do you *think*? What is your best guess as to what this means for *Alexis*? For the girls?
FBI Agent Harris : It means getting them back may be a little more complicated.
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Lanie Parish : Meet Hasim Farouk. Man versus van, at 1:00 a.m. last night. He was killed *instantly*.
Javier Esposito : Knocked right out of his shoes at the point of impact.
Kate Beckett : So, hit-and-run?
Javier Esposito : Well, that's just the tip of the iceberg. A witness, homeless guy, said that the victim emptied his gun at the van, and just stood in the middle of the street, shooting, right until it hit him.
Richard Castle : Why would he do that?:
Javier Esposito : I don't know, but he definitely knew his way around guns. Jan!
[patrol cop hands over a gun]
Javier Esposito : This is a SIG P220S, with a weight-compensator, target sights, and a custom-molded grip to his hand. This was a serious shooter.
