Castle (TV Series)

The Human Factor (2013)

Seamus Dever: Kevin Ryan

Quotes 

• Jared Stack : The facial recognition system is scanning footage over the last two hours from all the main departure points.

  Javier Esposito : How accurate is this thing, really?

  Jared Stack : Well, if he passed in front of one of those cameras, it'll spot him.

  Kevin Ryan : Man, talk about Big Brother. There's gotta be a way to beat the system though, right?

  Jared Stack : Wear big sunglasses, let your bangs hang down over your forehead. It totally messes with the software.

  Javier Esposito : What if you don't have bangs?

  Jared Stack : Wear heavy makeup. Paint random colored shapes all over your face.

  Javier Esposito : [chuckles]  Yeah, I'm not doing that.

• Kate Beckett : What's your name?

  Jared Stack : Does it matter? It's not like we're gonna get to know each other.

  Kate Beckett : Who had Dale Tanner killed?

  [no answer] 

  Kate Beckett : Were you a part of it? Or was your job just to clean up the mess?

  Jared Stack : You're tenacious. I respect that.

  Kate Beckett : Was Omar Dixon part of the mess?

  Jared Stack : He went into hiding. By the way, how did you manage to draw him out?

  Kate Beckett : I'll be asking the questions.

  Jared Stack : You just won't be getting the answers.

  Kate Beckett : Well, we'll see. I can keep you for twenty-four hours and I fully intend to do so.

  Jared Stack : You have me for five more seconds. Use them well.

  [Beckett doesn't respond; five seconds later, there is a knock on the door] 

  Kevin Ryan : Beckett? You've got a phone call.

  Jared Stack : Time's up.

• Kevin Ryan : Look, Sean, I know that law enforcement hasn't always been on your guys' side.

  Sean Tanner : Try never.

  Kevin Ryan : But we're not the feds, Sean. We're the guys trying to solve your dad's murder. And no matter what you think, we're not gonna stop until that job is done.

• Kevin Ryan : So, um, CSU sent this over. Based on what little they had, they were able to piece together where the explosion originated.

  Richard Castle : I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the explosion originated in the car.

• [Castle and Beckett driving back from a Fort Drummond meeting gets a call from Esposito that the feds have seized all of the case evidence] 

  Kate Beckett : [on speaker-phone to Esposito]  We've been played. They just met with us to find out where everything was and what we knew. And then they grabbed all the evidence.

  Javier Esposito : [on speaker-phone]  Yeah, and now we have no proof that a drone strike ever happened.

  Richard Castle : And we're no closer to figuring out why it happened... or who did it.

  Kevin Ryan : [approaching Esposito]  Maybe Tanner's partner can tell us.

  Kate Beckett : Do you know who it is?

  Kevin Ryan : Turns out Tanner taught law classes at East Borough College to make ends meet and his colleagues said they remember seeing a former student named Omar Dixon hanging around. I talked to Omar's girlfriend. She said that he did work for Tanner but it was all hush-hush what he did.

  Kate Beckett : And where's Omar now?

  Kevin Ryan : The girlfriend said she has no idea. But Sean Tanner might. He attends East Borough, too. He used to drop by and see his dad. Maybe he knows Omar.

  Richard Castle : Oh, I think he does. Remember what he did when you asked if he knew his dad's partner?

  Kate Beckett : He changed the subject.

  Richard Castle : Boom.

• Kevin Ryan : Why is it so hard to believe? People hack into banks all the time. The Pentagon, NASA.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah, but a drone? Maybe the pilot was just *pretending* that he wasn't flying.

  Kate Beckett : No, no. You can't fake that kind of panic.

  Richard Castle : I agree. He was having a pants-soiling moment. But there is one possibility we are neglecting... The drone itself. It's rise of the machines. Not unlike SkyNet in "The Terminator". The machines have achieved consciousness

  [whispers] 

  Richard Castle : and they are pissed.

• Javier Esposito : Yo, check it. Warburg posted a video just before he went into hiding.

  Simon Warburg : [on video]  People don't understand why I tampered with the drone software.

  Richard Castle : That's Warburg? I was expecting...

  Kevin Ryan : Dr. Evil?

  Richard Castle : Or someone a little less nerdy.