Castle (TV Series)

Hell to Pay (2016)

Molly C. Quinn: Alexis Castle

Quotes 

• [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.

• 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 : 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.

• [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?

• [first lines] 

  [in Castle's office looking at the rain storm through the window] 

  Alexis Castle : Mmm. No sign of it letting up.

  Hayley Shipton : Just gonna have to be late. Frankly, I'm in no rush to leave *this* party, thanks to your father's excellent taste in Scotch and daughters.

  Alexis Castle : Oh, the man knows his stuff.

• Alexis Castle : So, I pulled the police file and court records for Shaw's prosecution twenty years ago. And according to this, Shaw's attack on the Crowne family was anything but random. He was working as a consultant for a P.I. named Noah Kramer.

  Hayley Shipton : What kind of consultant?

  Alexis Castle : Spiritual. Kramer had been hired to investigate the Crowne family.

  Hayley Shipton : Wait, wait. Why would a P.I. hire a spiritual consultant to help investigate a billionaire philanthropist?

  [looking at the report, Alexis laughs to herself] 

  Hayley Shipton : What? What is it?

  Alexis Castle : I know why Shaw came to this office. Twenty years ago, this was Noah Kramer's office.

• 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.