Castle (TV Series)

After Hours (2012)

Nathan Fillion: Richard Castle

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• Leo : [after the owner of the cell phone Beckett stole calls, and Castle fails to get her cooperation]  Why'd you let her hang up? We were so close!

  Richard Castle : [sarcastic]  Yes, I let her hang up.

• Richard Castle : And I still think we should've taken the subway. It's kind of dangerous to park up here.

  Kate Beckett : It's gonna be fine.

  [they go up to get Leo and when they get back] 

  Richard Castle : Dude, where's your car?

  Kate Beckett : Where's my car?

  Leo : Where's your car?

  Kate Beckett : It was right here!

  Leo : You parked here? Are you kidding me? Don't you see this neighborhood?

• Mickey Dolan : You play poker?

  Richard Castle : Well, I've cashed in my fair share of chips.

  Mickey Dolan : Me, too. And I find the key is in reading a man's bluff. So let's test your bluffing skills. When we picked you up, you were on your way for help, right? That means Leo and the cop are in a building somewhere laying low. Now, is that building on the north side or the south side of the street?

  Richard Castle : North.

  Mickey Dolan : That means south. We picked you up on the corner of 225th and Lex. So they're within a couple of blocks. Are they on 227th?

  [no answer] 

  Mickey Dolan : 226th?

  [no answer] 

  Mickey Dolan : 224th?

  [Dolan see's something] 

  Mickey Dolan : Ahh. 224th it is.

  [to his enforcer] 

  Mickey Dolan : Go get 'em.

• Leo : How'd you get on to me?

  Mickey Dolan : I wish I could say I figured it out, but Shakespeare over here made the call.

  Richard Castle : [to Beckett]  Once you made that comment about my mom enjoying baseball, I knew we were about six months away from joking about that. Something had to be up.

• Kate Beckett : Time of death?

  Lanie Parish : Between 7 and 10 last night. Likely cause of death, three to the chest.

  Javier Esposito : That's a tight grouping. Killer's a marksman.

  Lanie Parish : Careful, too. He picked up all the spent shell casings.

  Kate Beckett : Security cams?

  Javier Esposito : None of them are pointed at this building.

  Kate Beckett : Well, this looks like the work of a pro.

  Richard Castle : Someone had a priest assassinated? It's like a Vatican conspiracy. Ah! It's "The Da Vinci Code".

• Kate Beckett : Hurry, Castle, the pay phone before they get back.

  Richard Castle : I can't believe they still have these things. All right, does anybody have a

  [outraged] 

  Richard Castle : A dollar? Are you kidding me?

• [trying to unlock a stolen cellphone] 

  Richard Castle : I got it!

  Leo : You got it? How?

  Richard Castle : All I had to do was get inside the mind of the owner of the phone. She drives a Mini, right? Tried that. Nada. Look at the back of the case. Hearts. Tried "love." Still no. But, look at the lock screen.

  [shows the phone's screen with a picture of a cat] 

  Leo : What?

  Kate Beckett : The password's the cat's name.

  Richard Castle : Exactly!

  Leo : So what's the cat's name?

  Kate Beckett : He doesn't know.

  Richard Castle : I don't know. But, as soon as we figure it out, we're golden.

• [Castle, Beckett having dinner with his mother and her father] 

  Martha Rodgers : In celebration of our *finally* getting together for dinner, I have made a very special dessert.

  Kate Beckett : Martha, that looks incredible!

  Martha Rodgers : It's to die for. Literally. I call it "Death by Chocolate."

  Richard Castle : Now, given your baking experience, is that a prediction?

• Martha Rodgers : Oh. Well, I hope you find time to cut loose, Jim, and just do something fun.

  Jim Beckett : Well, of course, I-I try to take in a baseball game every now and again.

  Martha Rodgers : Oh, Lord. Baseball? Isn't that dreadfully dull?

  Jim Beckett : Well, it requires a certain patience.

  Martha Rodgers : [laughing]  A certain lack of *pulse*, you mean.

  Kate Beckett : I think, uh, what my dad responds to is the game's nuance.

  Martha Rodgers : Oh, well, yes, of course. It has its merits.

  Richard Castle : Yeah, I think my mother just means it's not exactly, uh... action-packed.

  Kate Beckett : Right, but that would depend on how you look at it, right?

  Jim Beckett : Yeah, I mean, I suppose it does appeal to the more... serious, more... discerning crowd.

  [Martha gives Castle a look; Castle tries to nonverbally tell her to let it go] 

  Martha Rodgers : Jim... what *exactly* does that mean?

  Jim Beckett : Just that... actors, by their nature, aren't the most serious people in the world, right?

  Martha Rodgers : Oh, is that so? So you think I'm not a serious person?

  Richard Castle : How about if we dive into this dessert?

  [after a long pause] 

  Richard Castle : 'Cause honestly, that whole death thing is sounding pretty good right now.

  Kate Beckett : [checks her phone]  There's been a murder downtown.

  Richard Castle : Close enough.

• Richard Castle : I wanted the dinner to go well. And when it didn't...

  Kate Beckett : You said "different worlds."

  Richard Castle : What?

  Kate Beckett : You said that they're from different worlds, and that we should just expect it. And then I started thinking about *us*. You're, like, this world-famous, best-selling author, and I'm just this cop. And... And we're in this relationship which makes absolutely no sense on paper. And sometimes I just start wondering, are we just kidding ourselves?... What if this bubble bursts? What are we then?

• Mickey Dolan : So I know the chick's a cop. But you don't smell like NYPD. So what's your skin in this game?

  Richard Castle : I'm a... I'm a writer. Work with the police department.

  Mickey Dolan : Oh, yeah? What do you write?

  Richard Castle : Mystery novels.

  Mickey Dolan : Mmm. I don't have patience for books. But when I do read, I tend to skip to the last page.

  Richard Castle : Well, that kind of spoils the fun, don't you think?

  Mickey Dolan : Eh, maybe. But I got damn good at figuring out endings. Like, in the case of our little story... I'm pretty sure it's only gonna end one way. You're gonna tell me where the hell that *cop* has my witness.

  Richard Castle : You know what you're asking? Why would I tell you where they are? I mean, I'm already dead, but I'm gonna let you have them, too.

• [last lines] 

  [learning their parents are in the precinct] 

  Kate Beckett : Well, I guess we can't avoid dealing with them forever.

  Richard Castle : No. But you know what? Who cares if they don't get along? They aren't us. And... so what if we don't make sense on paper? We don't live our lives on paper... And if we did, we'd never be astounded or... surprised

  [they see Jim and Martha actually getting along] 

  Martha Rodgers : [to Jim Beckett]  So, so, no. Anyway, so he says, "Don't touch me. No." Then he said, "Yes."

  Kate Beckett : How did that even happen?

  Richard Castle : I don't know, but let's just, let's just... let's just go with it.

  Kate Beckett : Dad?

  Jim Beckett : Aw.

• Richard Castle : I'm just saying, there have been worse dinners.

  Kate Beckett : Like what?

  Richard Castle : Well, the dining scene from "Alien" comes to mind.

  Kate Beckett : Honestly, a creature bursting out of my dad's chest might have lightened the mood.

  Richard Castle : Guess we should've expected it. They come from such different worlds.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, well, your mom should've been more sensitive to that.

  Richard Castle : Wait, what?

• [Castle and Beckett arrive at the crime scene coming from a dinner party] 

  Javier Esposito : Ooh! You look nice. Lipstick, huh? Date night?

  Richard Castle : No. It was dinner with her dad and my mom.

  Javier Esposito : Wow. Already? How'd that go?

  [awkward silence] 

  Javier Esposito : Okay. Well, speaking of fathers, we have one right over here. Father Joe McMurtry, 52. Real estate lady showed up to show the property...

  Javier Esposito : And found religion instead.

• Richard Castle : What exactly did you mean earlier when you said my mother could be more considerate?

  Kate Beckett : I just, I meant that I wish you would've *asked* her to stop criticizing my dad.

  Richard Castle : She was just expressing an opinion. In much the same way your father was when he basically called my mom flighty and stupid.

  Kate Beckett : My dad never said that, Castle.

  Richard Castle : You know what? Just drop it.

  Kate Beckett : Fine.

• Kate Beckett : Come on, guys. It's not gonna take Dolan's boys long to get through that door.

  Leo : Wait, I'm sorry. Dolan? As in Mickey Dolan, the-the mobster? Oh, God! We're gonna end up floating in the river with cement shoes on!

  Richard Castle : Yes, but, technically, if you have cement shoes, you're not gonna be *floating*.

  Leo : What?

  Kate Beckett : What?

  Richard Castle : You're right. That's not helping.

• [hiding from mobsters] 

  Kate Beckett : Where's the nearest subway?

  Richard Castle : Now she wants to take the subway

  Leo : The C-train, six blocks from here.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, so on weeknights after midnight, it runs every half hour on the hour. What time is it now?

  Leo : Uh... 1:20.

  Kate Beckett : 1:20. Okay, so we're not going to make the 1:30, but we can make the 2:00. We just sit tight for 10 minutes, then we'll make a run for it.

  Richard Castle : The subway's not Amtrak. There is no schedule.

  Kate Beckett : Yes there is.

  Richard Castle : I've lived here all my life. There's no schedule.

  Kate Beckett : I've lived here all my life as well, and there is. You just don't know about it because it doesn't always run on time.

  Richard Castle : Which is the same thing as not having a schedule. So what happens? We go there, the train is late. And then what? We're sitting ducks.

  Kate Beckett : We're sitting ducks now.

  Leo : Okay, I-I'm starting to feel like I might be safer outside.

  Richard Castle : Okay, fine, look, if I can't figure out the code, then we make a break for the subway.

  Kate Beckett : Fine.

  Leo : I am so gonna die.

• Leo : What do they want with me?

  Kate Beckett : That guy you saw holding a gun? Well, he killed somebody. And you're the witness.

  Richard Castle : A witness they wanna get rid of.

  Leo : Okay, this is not good. Not good! How-How do they even know what I saw?

  Kate Beckett : Same way we do. You ran your mouth off at a bar.

  Leo : But it was dark. I-I didn't even really see that much!

  Richard Castle : As far as they're concerned, you saw enough.

• Kate Beckett : Did you find some tape?

  Richard Castle : Yes, I did. I also found... a box of tools and a broken CB radio. But I think I can get it to work.

  Leo : Great. You have an engineering degree or electronics experience?

  Richard Castle : No. But I've seen every episode of "MacGyver".

• Richard Castle : [to himself]  All right. Just be inconspicuous. Just an average white guy walking in the Bronx, middle of the night. What could go wrong?