Castle (TV Series)

Kick the Ballistics (2011)

Seamus Dever: Kevin Ryan

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• Richard Castle : You know, Ryan, none of this is your fault. The fact that he used your gun...

  Kevin Ryan : That weapon was issued to me by the City of New York. I let it out of my hand, and now a girl is dead. So please do not tell me that it's not my fault.

• Kevin Ryan : When I started in Narcotics, I was so green. I-I didn't know how things got done. One day, there's this major bust; street gang cooking meth. They're stacking up guys in the bullpen, taking their statements one by one. The place is a zoo. I'm answering phones in the squad. Girl on the line, name of Alisha, asking for my lieutenant. So I call out across the bullpen, "Hey, lieu, Alisha's on the phone for you."

  [Beckett laughs] 

  Kevin Ryan : It was her tip that got these guys nailed, and all of them just heard me call out her name. Searched all day and all night, looking for her before the gang could get word back to the street that she was a narc.

  Kate Beckett : Well, did you find her?

  Kevin Ryan : I did. Got her into witness protection, but... that was the stupidest thing I'd ever done as a cop. Until the day Jerry Tyson got the drop on me and stole my weapon.

• Javier Esposito : [Beckett has interrupted an interrogation]  My man Finn, inches from confessing.

  [seeing Beckett in a huff] 

  Javier Esposito : What?

  Kevin Ryan : What's going on?

  Kate Beckett : Ballistics just came in. The bullet that killed Jane Herzfeld is from a gun that's in our system. It's a Glock 17.

  Javier Esposito : Well, th-that's good news.

  Kate Beckett : Ryan, it's a match to your old service weapon.

  Kevin Ryan : That can't be right.

  Kate Beckett : It's not a mistake. The weapon that killed Jane Herzfeld... it's yours.

• Kate Beckett : [after Ryan talked with Ben Lee]  What the hell were you two thinking, going to see Ben Lee when Gates specifically said "Stay away"?

  Javier Esposito : Who's gonna tell her, Beckett? Not me. Ryan, are you planning on telling the Captain what we did?

  Kevin Ryan : Not me. Castle?

  Richard Castle : [taking a picture of their outlandish get-ups with his phone]  Who, me? No way.

  Kate Beckett : Nice, smartass. And what about when Ben Lee talks to his dad and Gates gets a phone call from their lawyer? You two are gonna get benched.

  Kevin Ryan : Ben Lee's not gonna tell his father.

  Kate Beckett : How do you know?

  Kevin Ryan : Because I looked him in the eye, and I saw the pain he's in. Maybe he's not man enough to stand up for himself, but he's not gonna rat me out, either.

• Richard Castle : I was just thinking. If our killer is someone in Lee's organization, then he must have gotten your gun from Jerry Tyson.

  Kevin Ryan : Which means our killer may know Tyson's whereabouts. We nail him, we nail 3XK.

  Kate Beckett : There's nothing in Tyson's background that indicates a connection to the Chinese mob.

  Richard Castle : Maybe the shooter is connected to the Lees. Someone Tyson crossed paths with during his four years in prison. Someone working for the Tong. If I find out who that someone is, maybe we have our shooter.

  Kate Beckett : Wading through four years of prison records, it's a lot of work.

  Richard Castle : I don't mind.

• [pouring whiskey into cups for a small celebration in the precinct] 

  Richard Castle : [softly]  Let's, uh, keep this party a little quiet, though, all right? If the Captain hears, I'm sure she'll blame me.

  Kate Beckett : Who's gonna tell her? Not me, you?

  Javier Esposito : Nope.

  Kate Beckett : What about you, Ryan?

  Kevin Ryan : Mmm-mmm.

  Kate Beckett : Well, then, I think we're good.

• [last lines] 

  Kevin Ryan : I'd like to make a toast... To bravery... and commitment, to love and sacrifice... to Jane.

  Richard Castle , Kate Beckett , Javier Esposito : To Jane.