Castle (TV Series)

The Third Man (2010)

Stana Katic: Kate Beckett

Photos 

Quotes 

• Kate Beckett : Thank you for coming in, Miss Langford.

  Michele Langford : [to Castle]  By the way, that... photo in the paper... did you no justice. You're much better looking in person.

  Kate Beckett : There's a picture of you in the paper?

  Michele Langford : So, are you the detective girlfriend?

  Kate Beckett : I'm sorry, the what?

  Michele Langford : He... is such a catch.

  Kate Beckett : [before Castle can say anything]  Don't. Show me... now.

  [cut to them in the break room] 

  Kate Beckett : [angry]  Romantically involved?

  Richard Castle : *Rumored* to be.

  Kate Beckett : What did you tell them?

  Richard Castle : Nothing! Why would I do that? Do you have any idea what this does to my reputation?

  Kate Beckett : Your reputation? What about *my* reputation?

  Richard Castle : I am just as upset as you are! I'm on your team! This is shoddy journalism, and I am two seconds away from canceling my subscription!

  [realizing something] 

  Richard Castle : My subscription.

• Javier Esposito : Why do you care about some mother-freaking snakes on a mother-freaking plane?

  Richard Castle : Because as a murder mystery novelist, I am highly paid to think like a bad guy. Here are a few fun facts about snakes, they are cold-blooded, they swallow huge amounts, and they digest their food very slowly.

  Kate Beckett : Perfect for smuggling.

• Kevin Ryan : Hey, check this out. Dysons found this in the kitchen. Said it's not theirs.

  [Ryan hands over a cell phone, and Beckett scrolls through stored photographs] 

  Kate Beckett : This is here.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah. Weird, huh?

  Kate Beckett : Why would he take pictures?

  Richard Castle : So he could put everything back the way he found it.

  Kate Beckett : He was hoping nobody would know he was here.

  Richard Castle : Almost as though he was hiding?

  Kate Beckett : [handing the phone to Esposito]  All right, have a tech pull the memory card. See if any of the deleted photos can tell us who he is.

• Richard Castle : What kind of psychopath takes pictures of himself and his murder weapons?

  Kate Beckett : Some killers keep trophies.

  Kevin Ryan : In his defense, he did delete these photos.

  Javier Esposito : .45 with a silencer. Wonder what he had lined up for this.

  Kate Beckett : Nothing good. Has CSU pulled the prints off of the camera and personal effects?

  Javier Esposito : Yeah, they don't match Doug Bishop and they're not in the system.

  Kate Beckett : Which means he doesn't have a record.

  Richard Castle : Well, if Doug wasn't our squatter, what was he doing in the Dysons' apartment?

  Kate Beckett : He had to have known the squatter somehow.

  Kevin Ryan : If this squatter was so meticulous about putting things back, why'd he leave all this for us to find?

  Richard Castle : You're right. It-It makes no sense.

  Kate Beckett : [surprised]  What? No grand theatrical *theory* to spin for us?

  Richard Castle : Honestly, I, uh, got nothing.

• Kate Beckett : Are you sure you don't recognize him?

  Michele Langford : Yeah, I'm positive.

  Kate Beckett : And you don't know the Dysons?

  Michele Langford : No. The only person that knew I was even out of town was my mother. Everyone else thought I was on sick leave. You won't... tell my boss that, will you?

  Richard Castle : Did you notice anything unusual when you returned?

  Michele Langford : [realization dawns on her]  Oh, that totally explains it.

  Kate Beckett , Richard Castle : What?

  Michele Langford : My faucet. For weeks I've been asking my super to fix my leaky faucet, but he never came. And then when I got back, it was fixed, so I just assumed that he finally did it. But then later when I saw him on the stairs, he didn't even know what I was talking about.

  Richard Castle : The squatter fixed your sink?

  Michele Langford : Yeah. And there was this bottle of, um... like, weird strawberry champagne in the fridge. And I just assumed that one of my friends had left it during a dinner party I had before I left. But... none of my friends would have bought such a...

  Richard Castle : Cheap bottle of booze.

  Michele Langford : Exactly.

  Richard Castle : So, he makes repairs, leaves hostess gifts. He's the Gentleman Squatter.

  Kate Beckett : Who killed a man, so don't make him out to be the houseguest of the year.

• Kate Beckett : I have no life.

  Lanie Parish : No, Mr. Bishop has no life. That's why he's on my table.

  Kate Beckett : I need a date.

  Lanie Parish : What?

  Kate Beckett : A date, a... guy, a... man? You're always trying to set me up with people, so here I am. I'm game. What do you got?

  Lanie Parish : Okay... what's gotten into you?

  Kate Beckett : I get so wrapped up in work. All I want to do is go home where it's quiet. And I'm so tired of quiet, I want... loud.

  Lanie Parish : Okay. I have the perfect prescription for you.

  [scribbles down a name and phone number and give it to Beckett] 

  Kate Beckett : [reading the paper]  A bradecker?

  Lanie Parish : No, no, baby. That's Brad Decker. That firefighter I wanted to set you up with.

  Kate Beckett : Is he cute?

  Lanie Parish : He was Mr. July in last year's New York Firefighters calender.

  Kate Beckett : July. Huh.

  Lanie Parish : Mm-hmm.

  Kate Beckett : [smiles]  They always put the really hot ones in the summer months.

  Lanie Parish : Exactly.

• Kate Beckett : So, who's your friend at the paper?

  Richard Castle : Oh, Donna Vincennes? She's the one who wrote the blurb about us.

  Kate Beckett : There is no *us*.

  Richard Castle : I know that.

  Kate Beckett : Did you tell her that?

  Richard Castle : Yes, I did. Which worked out, actually, really well for me. As it turns out, Most Eligible Bachelorette Numero Tres... very interested in meeting me. Once the infotainers get a hold of her with me, they're gonna forget all about you and I.

  Kate Beckett : I can just see the headlines now: "Nine meets Three at dinner for two."

  Richard Castle : [laughs]  Believe it or not, there's a lot of women in this town who like the idea of being romantically linked to me.

• [after questioning a suspect who had a wild story] 

  Richard Castle : I'm just saying it's a really good story. Come on, mysterious bad guys, crescent-shaped scars, hiding in a closet...

  Kate Beckett : It sounds like fiction, because it probably is.

  Richard Castle : Well, that's too bad. He's a nice guy.

  Javier Esposito : So was Jeffrey Dahmer. Didn't stop him from eating people.

• [having come from a fancy restaurant and about to raid a suspect's business] 

  Kate Beckett : Okay, Castle, hold my purse.

• Richard Castle : You know who kills with syringes? Mad doctors and B-movie Nazis. Why don't you just use a gun?

  Kate Beckett : Guns are loud. I've seen squatters in abandoned buildings, but nothing like this.

  Richard Castle : And then someone sneaks in and kills him with a needle. Weird.

• Javier Esposito : I ran background checks on everyone who knew the family was gonna be out of town. So far, everyone's come back clean, but I'm gonna keep digging.

  Kate Beckett : Anything on canvass?

  Kevin Ryan : A whole lot of nothing. No doorman on the building. None of the Dysons' neighbors noticed anything out of the ordinary.

  Javier Esposito : Shocker. I've lived in my spot eight years, I couldn't pick my neighbors out of a lineup.

  Richard Castle : Well, that's Manhattan for you. Nobody notices anything unless it affects them directly.

  Javier Esposito : [teasing him about the Ledger article]  Unless it's in the paper.

• Kate Beckett : What are you doing?

  Richard Castle : Langford said that the only person who knew she was on vacation was her mother, but that's not true. If she was actually pretending to be sick, the last thing she'd want is newspapers piling up at her front door.

  Kate Beckett : She had the papers held.

  Richard Castle : [into his phone]  Yes, your subscription department, please.

  [to Beckett] 

  Richard Castle : Anyone with access to vacation-hold information would know exactly who's out of town, and for exactly how long.

  [Beckett hurries around the table to listen in on the phone call] 

  Richard Castle : [to phone]  Yes. I would like to verify vacation-hold information on two of your subscribers, please. Who am I? I'm... I...

  [to Beckett] 

  Richard Castle : I sometimes forget I'm not actually a cop.

  Kate Beckett : [taking the phone]  I don't.

• Javier Esposito : Place is clear.

  Kevin Ryan : No gun, no ketamine, no mountain climbing equipment. There is nothing here.

  Richard Castle : Yes, there is. An icebox, circa late 1800s. You see, before the invention of modern household refrigeration, people used to keep their perishable items in a box that held ice, hence... an icebox.

  Kate Beckett : It's not an open house, Castle.

  Richard Castle : Oh, the Maitlans were very clever. They converted *this* into a cupboard, meanwhile, it's right next to their fridge.

  [opens the refrigerator and shrieks when a dead body falls out] 

  Richard Castle : [everyone rushes over to check the body] 

  Richard Castle : I did not expect that.

  Kate Beckett : Crescent-shaped scar.

  Richard Castle : Looks like there was some truth to Micky's tale, after all.

• Kevin Ryan : Why go through so much trouble to get in the Maitlans' apartment?

  Kate Beckett : Maybe what they wanted wasn't in the Maitlans' apartment. Maybe they were gonna rob someone else, but just needed access.

  Richard Castle : The audio/visual equipment.

  [Beckett, Ryan, and Espo all look at him blankly] 

  Richard Castle : Access.

  [drawing on the murder board] 

  Richard Castle : The Maitlans live on the second floor. Running perpendicular to them and whatever's below is the old dumbwaiter shaft. In "Gathering Storm", I had Derrick Storm climb up the dumbwaiter shaft to bypass the Czech assassin in order to save the Swiss ambassador's daughter. Maybe our bad guys are using the dumbwaiter to bypass the security of whatever's below them.

  Kate Beckett : Which would explain the ropes and the climbing gear. So what's below the Maitlans' apartment?

• [surprised to see Castle on a date at the same restaurant] 

  Kate Beckett : What are you doing here? You *knew* that I was coming here.

  Richard Castle : I knew you wanted to come here. I didn't think you could get a table last-minute.

  Kate Beckett : You got a table last-minute.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, I've got connections.

  Kate Beckett : So do I. City health inspector.

  Richard Castle : Wow! Nice abuse of power.

• [last lines] 

  Kate Beckett : So, how did your date go?

  Richard Castle : She was kind of boring. Didn't talk much. Mr. July?

  Kate Beckett : A little self-absorbed.

  Richard Castle : Looked it.

  Kate Beckett : Really?

  Richard Castle : I can tell... Some people just don't know to behave on a date.

  Kate Beckett : *Especially* on a first date.

  Richard Castle : Exactly.

• Captain Roy Montgomery : What went wrong?

  Kate Beckett : We don't know. It could have been greed, panic. It looks like our victims might have been betrayed by their partner.

  Captain Roy Montgomery : In the old days, you killed your partners after you got the money.