Castle (TV Series)

Hell to Pay (2016)

Nathan Fillion: Richard Castle

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• [referring to the hidden safe in his office] 

  Richard Castle : If I opened it, I was bound to be disappointed with whatever it was inside. If I *never* opened it, literally anything I imagined could be in there.

  Hayley Shipton : So you chose fantasy over reality.

  Richard Castle : Well, duh.

  Alexis Castle : But we're going to open it now, right?

  Richard Castle : Well, duh.

• [while waiting in the building owned by the wealthy suspect that Castle thinks is the antichrist] 

  Richard Castle : Come on, half the city is blacked out, but this place is lit up like a Christmas tree?

  Javier Esposito : The lights probably run on generators.

  Richard Castle : Sure, a thermoelectric generators. Fueled by the flames of Hell.

• Richard Castle : I saw his eyes. It was a demon.

  Kate Beckett : Or someone with night-vision goggles.

  Richard Castle : Beckett, how much proof do you need before you finally accept the fact that your husband has been marked for death!

• Kevin Ryan : Hey, Castle. How you doing, buddy?

  Richard Castle : Well, boys, I looked into the eyes of the devil, so there's that.

  Javier Esposito : Did they check him for a concussion?

• Javier Esposito : You okay?

  Richard Castle : Yeah. You?

  Javier Esposito : Yeah.

  Richard Castle : Good.

  Kevin Ryan : You okay?

  Richard Castle : Yeah, I'm still good. You?

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah, I'm okay.

  Richard Castle : 'Kay.

  Victor Crowne : Now that we know *you're* all okay, can someone untie me?

• Richard Castle : Ooh, updating the murder board must mean Holmby's alibi checked out.

  Kevin Ryan : That it did.

  Richard Castle : Yes!

  Kevin Ryan : Really?

  Richard Castle : Come on, I'm just excited to get off the whole orderly thing and on to the trail of the true killer, which is most likely a road paved to hell, because we all know that's where demons come from.

  Kevin Ryan : Well, I will be sure to cross-reference Shaw's visitor against the list of fallen angels, okay?

• Richard Castle : Check this out, you guys. Look at this. Billionaire entrepreneur hell-bent on "saving the world" with his water reclamation project? I'm sure.

  Kevin Ryan : Castle, by all accounts, Victor Crowne has helped millions of impoverished people by providing them with clean drinking water.

  Richard Castle : Or is he infecting us with it?

  [seeing a bracelet on Castle, Esposito grabs his wrist] 

  Richard Castle : Ow!

  Rollins : Gentlemen, follow me this way, please.

  Javier Esposito : You stole this from the safe to protect yourself?

  Kevin Ryan : Castle!

  Richard Castle : What? You guys have guns.

• Javier Esposito : Bro, you have to stop watching these horror films.

  Richard Castle : That same slash of light appeared in the crime-scene photos, okay? In the exact same place--right across my neck. Now it's showing up again in the video feed? That's live feed! That cannot be manipulated!

  Kevin Ryan : Castle, all this stuff about omens and the Antichrist...

  Javier Esposito : You being marked for death...

  Javier Esposito , Kevin Ryan : It's all in your head.

  Richard Castle : Guys...

  Javier Esposito , Kevin Ryan : Look out!

  [Ryan and Esposito pull him back as a piece of mechanical equipment falls from above] 

  Richard Castle : You were saying?

• Kate Beckett : It was a frayed cable.

  Richard Castle : Yes. Yes, I agree. If by frayed cable, you mean Satan.

  Kate Beckett : Look, Castle, don't take this the wrong way, but you're starting to sound crazy. And not your usual crazy. I mean, next-level nutter.

• Richard Castle : Beckett, listen to me. I looked into the cold, soulless eyes of Victor Crowne, and let me tell you what I saw... Evil.

  Kate Beckett : Well, I looked into the surveillance tapes from Victor Crowne's building, and let me tell you what I saw. Victor Crowne working all night. He never left the building, Castle. He's not our killer.

  Richard Castle : He's not gonna be bound by Earthly laws, Beckett. That's Demon 101.

• Richard Castle : That sneaky little devil. It was Victor Crowne. He did this.

  Alexis Castle : How do you figure?

  Richard Castle : Well, clearly, he's trying to take possession of any weapon that could be used against him *and* erase any and all evidence of his true identity as the spawn of Satan.

• Richard Castle : Just to be clear, you really aren't the Antichrist, right?

  Victor Crowne : [laughs]  Oh, I love your sense of humor. You saved my life, that means I owe you. So, whatever you want, just ask, it's yours. Okay?

  [shakes Castle's hand] 

  Richard Castle : Okay.

  [Crowne winks and smiles as he walks away] 

  Richard Castle : Did I just *literally* make a deal with the Devil?

• Lanie Parish : He bled to death from a wound in his left side. My guess is whatever he was stabbed with punctured his subclavian artery. After that, he would've had about thirty minutes to an hour, tops.

  Hayley Shipton : [holding an ax]  Mmm. Well, he came in here with this about 9:00 pm. He keeled over shortly thereafter.

  Kate Beckett : So he must've been stabbed between 8:00 and 8:30. There's a... There's a hospital bracelet. Our intruder's name is G. Shaw, and he was a patient at... Peakmore Psychiatric Facility?

  Richard Castle : Yikes.

  Hayley Shipton : You know it?

  Richard Castle : It's a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Our ax-wielding psycho is an escaped mental patient.

• [at Peakmore Psychiatric Facility they hear screams in the distance] 

  Javier Esposito : Yo, I'd try to escape, too, if I lived here. Who knows what they're doing to 'em back there.

  Richard Castle : Can't be anything worse than what we did historically. Many cultures mistook mental illness for a sign of sorcery. Treatments ranged from, well, prayer to drilling holes in the skull to release the demons.

  Kevin Ryan : Definitely a case of the cure being worse than the disease.

• Lanie Parish : When I conducted the autopsy, I found that the wound had been inflicted by some kind of talon or claw.

  Kevin Ryan : Like an animal?

  Lanie Parish : It gets even weirder. There was a strange substance inside the wound.

  Richard Castle : Let me guess--sulfur?

  Lanie Parish : Yeah, how'd you know?

  Richard Castle : Guys, isn't it obvious? Latin prayers, a claw, sulfur--also known... as brimstone?

  Javier Esposito : [scoffs]  Come on, Castle.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, you don't think that...

  Richard Castle : Oh, but I do. We all have our demons. But Gabriel was killed by his.

• Kate Beckett : What did I tell ya? I mean, as soon as the lights go out, bad things happen. You know, at least the precinct is on a backup generator 'cause the rest of the city is gonna have intermittent power. Today's gonna be hell.

  Richard Castle : Well, that's appropriate, since that's the likely place our killer is from. You know, do you think we're gonna need specialized equipment to capture this demon murderer? Something exorcism-esque?

  Kate Beckett : There is nothing supernatural about this case.

  Richard Castle : Our victim was stabbed with a brimstone-covered claw. Or gored by a horn, perhaps. Now what but a demon could do that?

  Kate Beckett : Look, Ryan and Espo are bringing in Dave Holmby, our rogue orderly. And I am sure that they are going to get a very sane and grounded explanation as to why he killed Gabriel Shaw.

  Richard Castle : "Seek the truth and thou shalt be enlightened."

  Kate Beckett : Is that scripture?

  Richard Castle : From the Book of Castle.

• Richard Castle : I know why Shaw came here wielding an ax last night.

  Hayley Shipton : To commit unholy murder on two unbelievably exceptional women?

  Richard Castle : Close, but no.

• Richard Castle : Guys, tell me you're seeing this. A targeted orphan standing to inherit an empire in the center of a religious Armageddon plot? Hello, it's "The Omen"! Shaw believed that Victor Crowne was the Antichrist.

  Alexis Castle : The A... as in...?

  [gestures devil's horns] 

  Richard Castle : As in the personification of the Devil. Yes, dear, yes. It... That's why Shaw went after the Crownes. He... He was going after their son.

  Hayley Shipton : Except that was a film.

  [sees Alexis on her phone] 

  Hayley Shipton : Please don't tell me you're Googling "the Antichrist" right now.

• Kevin Ryan : No, but, uh, we are interested in this man. Was in here last night?

  [Ryan shows him Shaw's picture] 

  Oscar von Eckland : Yeah, around 6:00. Gabriel something. Was looking for my old man.

  Richard Castle : He wanted your father to anoint him with the oil for spiritual battle.

  Oscar von Eckland : How do you know that?

  Javier Esposito : Did you anoint him, Oscar?

  Oscar von Eckland : For fifty bucks, hell yeah I did.

  [sees their expressions] 

  Oscar von Eckland : What? He was desperate. So I grabbed one of Pop's old books and I- I whipped up a batch of the anointing oil. And I, uh, wrote some Bible verses on him. It gave him great peace.

  Kevin Ryan : Well, that peace didn't last. The man's dead.

  Oscar von Eckland : Really? What happened to him?

  Richard Castle : He was murdered... by the spawn of Satan.

  Oscar von Eckland : Is he serious?

  Javier Esposito : Very.

• [acting like she's possessed, Beckett gives him a scare in the middle of the night] 

  Richard Castle : Geez!

  Kate Beckett : [laughing]  Gotcha.

  Richard Castle : Not funny, Beckett! I am being targeted by dark forces. I'm serious. I can feel it.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, fine. Can you just feel it in the morning? 'Cause it's late. Let's go to bed.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, give me a few minutes.

  Kate Beckett : All right.

  [picking up what he dropped, he walks a few steps before running into Beckett again] 

  Kate Beckett : Boo!

  Richard Castle : Geez!

  Kate Beckett : [laughing]  You're so easy.

• Kate Beckett : Castle, this is getting out of hand.

  Richard Castle : I'm... still marked for death.

  Kate Beckett : Oh, well, you'd think that saving the Antichrist would actually give you a pass.

  Richard Castle : You know, you mock. But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone.

  Kate Beckett : You're not going anywhere.

  Richard Castle : How can you be so sure?

  Kate Beckett : Take off your jacket.

  Richard Castle : I really don't think this is the time...

  Kate Beckett : Take off your jacket.

  [he does so] 

  Kate Beckett : Okay, now take another selfie.

  [he does so, and sees the light streak isn't there] 

  Richard Castle : How did...

  Kate Beckett : The zipper on your chest pocket. It was catching the light, causing a flare.

  Richard Castle : I'm not marked for death.

  Kate Beckett : You sound disappointed there.

  Richard Castle : Are you kidding? I'm thrilled. Let's celebrate. Naked Twister.

  Kate Beckett : Actually, I had something else in mind.

• [last lines] 

  Alexis Castle : We really could've done movie night at my place.

  Hayley Shipton : No, no, we need to get rid of some of the bad vibes in here.

  Alexis Castle : So what are we watching? Rom-com? Action? Comedy?

  Hayley Shipton : Horror.

  Alexis Castle : You're kidding.

  Hayley Shipton : No. Oh, come on. We just survived the ax-man. A little Freddy-Jason action will be cathartic.

  Alexis Castle : All right. But if I can't sleep tonight, I'm kicking your ass in the morning.

  Hayley Shipton : In your dreams.

  [Alexis sees the door to the safe creak open] 

  Alexis Castle : Hayley?

  Hayley Shipton : Hmm?

  [she turns to see the door open, then looks back at Alexis] 

  Hayley Shipton : Run.

  Alexis Castle : Yep.

  [as they run out of the room, Beckett and Castle poke their heads out of the safe] 

  Richard Castle : That was genius... Now can we play naked Twister?

• Richard Castle : So, the power is out, the phones are down. You know what that means? No late-night calls from work to interrupt our game of naked Twister. Wait, why are you still dressed?

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, I've got to go to the precinct.

  Richard Castle : What? Now? There's- There's nothing more romantic than a blackout.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, and nothing more deadly. You know as well as I do that as soon as the lights go out, bad things happen.

  [an alarm starts beeping] 

  Kate Beckett : What the hell's that?

  Richard Castle : [typing on phone]  A panic signal from the P.I. office. I had it set up for when Alexis is there by herself.

  [stops typing] 

  Richard Castle : No service.

  Kate Beckett : [on walkie-talkie]  This is Captain Beckett to Central.

• Richard Castle : [answers phone]  Hey.

  Alexis Castle : Dad, Hayley and I did some digging and twenty years ago, Gabriel Shaw worked as a consultant for a P.I. named Noah Kramer who worked out of your office.

  Richard Castle : Then it's possible that Shaw came there with the ax, looking for Kramer.

  Hayley Shipton : Well, it's a nice theory, but Kramer's long dead. He was killed in an accident a year and a half after Shaw was committed to Peakmore.

  Richard Castle : What kind of an accident?

  Alexis Castle : He was impaled by a pipe that fell at a construction site.

  Richard Castle : Okay, that's horrible. But, still, it's possible that Shaw was delusional enough to believe that Kramer was still alive.

  Hayley Shipton : Maybe. You know, Kramer's wife and kids still live in the city. Perhaps they can shed some light on Shaw's motives.

  Richard Castle : Give me an address for them.

  [to Ryan] 

  Richard Castle : Write this down.

  [sees Ryan walk away; to Alexis] 

  Richard Castle : Hang on. Let me get a pen.

• Mrs. Kramer : Noah was *shocked* to think that a man he befriended could have hidden such... evil. Noah thought the work they had done together was a mistake and thought it needed to be buried.

  Kevin Ryan : So do you have anything of Shaw's?

  Mrs. Kramer : Oh, no. No, after my husband died, I just couldn't bear going into his office. So I... I hired a company to sell off the furniture and just dump the rest. I told Shaw all of this before he left.

  Kevin Ryan : What time was that?

  Marshall Kramer : Around 5:00.

  Richard Castle : That's still three and a half hours before he met his murderer.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah. Did he mention anything about where he was going next?

  Mrs. Kramer : No, but he said something in Latin before he walked away.

  Richard Castle : Do you remember what that was? It could be very important.

  Mrs. Kramer : Mmm... Finis omnium... I don't know.

  Marshall Kramer : Nunc est.

  Richard Castle : Finis omnium nunc est.

  Kevin Ryan , Richard Castle : "The end is upon us."

• Richard Castle : If only I knew someone who could crack a safe.

  Hayley Shipton : It's a Jefferson Titanium 500 Vault.

  Richard Castle : Meaning?

  Hayley Shipton : I need 28 minutes and a chocolate milkshake.