Castle (TV Series)

Under the Influence (2013)

Jon Huertas: Javier Esposito

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Quotes 

• Richard Castle : In a relationship, if you choose a movie, and you choose very, very poorly, do you lose your turn?

  Javier Esposito : How poorly?

  Kate Beckett : "Valentine's Day".

  Javier Esposito : You should lose two turns.

• Richard Castle : Well, then, if he didn't kill Holly, then who did?

  Javier Esposito : The brains behind this operation, that's who. A kid like Joey goes from smash-and-grabs to stealing a half a mill in jewelry? I don't think so. Someone put him up to this.

  Kevin Ryan : Yeah, it makes sense. Some savvy criminals use minors to do their dirty work.

  Richard Castle : Of course! A Fagin to Joey's Oliver Twist.

  Kevin Ryan : And if Holly's involved, that makes her the Artful Dodger. Or the Artful DJ.

  Richard Castle : Ooh, nicely played.

• [Esposito walks into the precinct handcuffed to Joey] 

  Kevin Ryan : Okay... Care to explain?

  Javier Esposito : What? The handcuffs?

  Kevin Ryan : No, no, the stylish shoes that you're wearing. Yes, the handcuffs.

  Javier Esposito : Well, junior here tried to pull a Houdini on me last night.

  Joey Malone : Who the hell's Houdini?

  Javier Esposito : Shut up.

  Kevin Ryan : Out the window?

  Javier Esposito : Yeah.

  Kevin Ryan : Down the fire escape?

  Javier Esposito : Yeah. And then onto a moving garbage truck. Then on a skateboard for five blocks, which took him all the way to the L-train.

  Kevin Ryan : How'd you keep up?

  Joey Malone : He didn't.

  Javier Esposito : Shut up.

• Barmaid : Hey, sugar. What's your poison?

  [Esposito glances at Winters in a corner of the bar; Winters' thug stands up and walks towards him] 

  Barmaid : Hello? What are you drinking?

  Thug : Mr. Winters is not taking any meetings today.

  Javier Esposito : Can I just get a bag of ice, please?

  Barmaid : What the hell do you want with a bag of ice?

  [walking up to the thug, Esposito kicks him in the groin and he goes down like a rock] 

  Javier Esposito : It's for him.

• Javier Esposito : Yo. Did you just do the hair thing?

  Kevin Ryan : What hair thing?

  Javier Esposito : [scoffs]  Every time you're about to meet a celebrity or a pretty girl, you run your hand through your hair.

  Kevin Ryan : TMZ said that Tyrese was at that party with Josie Lang. He's producing her new album.

  Javier Esposito : Yeah, well, she's no Regina.

  Kevin Ryan : I understand that the image of her as a Girl Scout is seared into your memory, but Josie is a real vocalist.

  Javier Esposito : Whose fan base consists of twelve year old girls... and you.

• Javier Esposito : CSU matched a print on that equipment to one Joey Malone, street name "Monster." He's got a list of priors a mile long. Unis took him down in Washington Heights. He's in the box. Come take a look.

  [Esposito leads Castle and Beckett to the interrogation room] 

  Richard Castle : Monster? Now that sounds like the kind of ganged-up thug that would shoot you dead and leave you in a dumpster someplace. Probably half-man, half-mountain, full of prison tats. Or... is he quietly dangerous? You know, like Javier Bardem in any movie where he's got weird hair.

  [they enter the observation room] 

  Javier Esposito : Just take a look for yourself... Behold... Monster.

  [a fourteen-year-old kid is in the interrogation room] 

  Richard Castle : More like Cookie Monster.

• Javier Esposito : MC Thug, aka Darius Carson. His rap sheet includes assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder. And *that* was just at this year's Hip Hop Music Awards.

• Joey Malone : So, uh, you must be the good cop.

  Javier Esposito : Oh, I don't know about that. But... I could be your ticket out of this.

  Joey Malone : Yeah?

  Javier Esposito : Mm-hmm.

  Joey Malone : How's that work?

  Javier Esposito : We know you didn't kill Holly. All you did was lift a bunch of jewelry.

  Joey Malone : Man, I did...

  Javier Esposito : Just save it. We don't care about the jewelry. We can take those charges off the table. All we want is the guy who put you up to it.

  Joey Malone : I-I don't even know who you're talking about.

  Javier Esposito : Joey, come... I just gave you the winning lottery ticket. Now the right move here is to cash that in, not tear it up.

  Joey Malone : I bet this is the part where you tell me I don't know the seriousness of my situation. How unless I tell you everything I know, you can't help me. And then you'll lean in close, like you care about me, and like you're my friend... and you'll make promises you'll never keep.

  Javier Esposito : I keep all my promises, bro.

  Joey Malone : That's what everybody says.

• Kate Beckett : So, we've got a BOLO out on Shane and his car.

  Javier Esposito : Freaking kids, man. I don't know how you do it, bro.

  Richard Castle : Ooh, no, no. I lucked out with Alexis. At a certain point, you realize you're just... dealing with someone who hasn't been around as long as we have. They have to find their way.

• Javier Esposito : My parents split up when I was five. Man, get your feet off my table... Dad moved to Florida with his new wife. Most I ever got after that was a phone call or a postcard.

  Joey Malone : Postcard?

  Javier Esposito : Yeah.

  Joey Malone : How old are you anyway?

  Javier Esposito : Ancient.

• [last lines] 

  Javier Esposito : If you need, day or night, call me at that number.

  Joey Malone : Okay... You're all right. For a cop.

  Javier Esposito : I know. Now get out of my car.