Castle (TV Series)

The Way of the Ninja (2014)

Jon Huertas: Javier Esposito

Quotes 

• [leaving a Japanese gentlemen's club they were just thrown out of] 

  Javier Esposito : It cost you 6K *and* we got nothing to show for it.

  Richard Castle : I wouldn't say that.

  Kevin Ryan : You mean, besides lipstick marks on your shirt.

  Richard Castle : I actually got a lead in there that's gonna blow this case wide... Whoa! Wait. Lipstick marks? On my shirt? Where? Beckett'll kill me. *Oh, my God*! I didn't call! You guys, Beckett *is* going to kill me.

  [Castle pulls his phone out of his pocket; before he can dial, a throwing star sticks into the screen] 

  Richard Castle : Ninja attack.

• Kate Beckett : A financier? What's Jade doing trying to get close to a guy like that?

  Javier Esposito : Don't know, but I ran Saito's name though the system. It was flagged by Organized Crime.

  Kate Beckett : Organized crime like Yakuza?

  Javier Esposito : Yep. The rumor is he's high up on the chain in the Izumi clan out of Okinawa. His legitimate businesses are just suspected fronts for money laundering, drug trafficking, and extortion.

  Kate Beckett : So, what's a ballet dancer doing going after a guy like this? What could she possibly want from him?

  Kevin Ryan : Well, odds are whatever it was got her killed.

• Kate Beckett : Do you recognize this woman?

  [show a picture of Jade] 

  Michio Saito : No, I'm afraid not.

  Javier Esposito : You sure? From what we hear, the two of you spent a lot of time together at Miyago's hostess bar.

  Michio Saito : I spend time with a lot of different girls at the club... They're not all very memorable.

  Kate Beckett : We understand that she was at your birthday party the other night.

  Michio Saito : Was she?

  Kate Beckett : Mm-hmm

  Javier Esposito : You saying you don't know?

  Michio Saito : I'm saying there were many people at the party.

  Javier Esposito : Well, witnesses said that the two of you had a fight, that Jade was expelled from your party. You wanna tell us what happened?

  Michio Saito : No one was expelled from the party. If she left, it was by her choice.

  Kate Beckett : And I suppose it was just a coincidence that shortly after she left, she was murdered.

  Michio Saito : I am not responsible for what happens to her out on the street. Isn't that your job, Detective?

• Javier Esposito : Okay, so this Okinawa lead is paying off big time. We did a search for explosions there back in the day. This article is dated one month before Jade landed in that orphanage.

  Richard Castle : Who are those people?

  Javier Esposito : That's the Ozu family. The dad is a building contractor who had a run-in with the local Yakuza. The Yakuza settled it by stabbing his whole family and then blowing up his house. And... this is the murder weapon they found at the scene.

  Kate Beckett : That looks like the knife that was used on Jade.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah.

  Kate Beckett : Was there a suspect in the murders?

  Javier Esposito : No arrest was made, but rumor had it the family was murdered by the Green Dragon.

  Richard Castle : I take it he's not a reptile.

  Javier Esposito : Reptile, no. Monster, yes. The Green Dragon was a secret ninja enforcer of the Yakuza. All of Okinawa was scared of this guy, and for good reason, he's a ruthless killer.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, so what does all of this have to do with Jade?

  Javier Esposito : Well, I think that Jade was this little girl.

  Richard Castle : Um, I thought you said the whole family was murdered by the Green Dragon.

  Javier Esposito : I got a copy of the police report from the Okinawa Prefecture, and I noticed this. The younger daughter, her birthday is the same as Jade's. What if she actually survived that attack?

  Richard Castle : Well, if she was in that explosion, that would explain the shrapnel wounds.

  Kate Beckett : Someone must have found her and wanted to keep her safe. That's why she was treated at the military hospital.

  Richard Castle : Because if she was treated in a local hospital, the Yakuza would know she was still alive.

  Kate Beckett : And that's also why her name was changed when she was put into the orphanage, to hide her from the Yakuza.

• Richard Castle : So, this is a classic revenge story. Jade was hunting down the man that killed her family, the Green Dragon.

  Richard Castle , Kate Beckett : Saito's the Green Dragon!

  Javier Esposito : The timeline fits. He immigrated to this country ten years ago, just after the murders. And when he did, the Green Dragon disappeared from Okinawa.

  Kate Beckett : That's what Jade was doing at the party. She was looking for proof that Saito was the Green Dragon. He got onto her and then he killed her. And then when you got close, he attacked you.